The 2025 Canadian Grand Prix ended under Safety Car conditions following an explosive battle between the McLaren drivers, but only after it had already generated a plethora of fascinating figures for us to digest. Here’s our round-up of the highlights…
• The Canadian Grand Prix previously finished under the Safety Car in 1999 and 2014.
• Today’s win was Russell’s fourth Grand Prix victory.
• Russell is the fourth different Grand Prix race winner in the 2025 season.
• It was Mercedes’ fifth Montreal victory, but the first for them by any driver other than Lewis Hamilton.
• Russell has now finished on the podium more times this season (five) than in all of last season (four).
• Russell is the ninth consecutive Canadian Grand Prix winner from the front row of the grid.
• Max Verstappen’s P2 result for Red Bull ended his streak of three consecutive Canadian Grand Prix wins.
• Verstappen has reduced his championship deficit to Oscar Piastri down to 43 points.
• Red Bull are now four races short of Ferrari’s all-time record of 81 consecutive points finishes.
• Russell and Verstappen finished one-two for the third time, but it is the first time Russell has been the winner (after Belgium 2021 and Netherlands 2022).
• With P3 for Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli – at 18 years and 294 days old – becomes the third-youngest podium finisher of all-time behind Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll.
• Antonelli is the first Italian to finish on the podium since Jarno Trulli at the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix.
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• Mercedes move into second in the Teams’ Championship, after losing that spot to Ferrari in Spain.
• Oscar Piastri’s P4 for McLaren marks the end of an eight-race podium finishing streak (one short of McLaren’s all-time record set by Lewis Hamilton in 2007).
• Piastri extends his championship lead to 22 points over team mate Lando Norris.
• The Piastri-Norris collision was a replay of the one between then-McLaren team mates Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button in the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix.
• Charles Leclerc took P5 for Ferrari and has beaten team mate Lewis Hamilton in nine of the 10 Grands Prix this season.
• Hamilton finished in P6 and has thus failed to score a podium finish in the opening 10 races of a season for the first time in his 19 seasons of Formula 1.
• Fernando Alonso’s P7 for Aston Martin means he has scored in consecutive races after being pointless in the first eight Grands Prix of 2025.
• Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg finished in the top eight for the third time this season.
• Hulkenberg is the first Sauber driver to score in consecutive races since Valtteri Bottas (Mexico/Sao Paulo 2022).
• With P9, Esteban Ocon scored Haas’ best-ever Montreal race finish in the team’s 200th Grand Prix.
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• It was Ocon’s fourth Grand Prix points finish of the season.
• With P10 for Williams, Carlos Sainz scored points for the fifth time in the last six Grands Prix.
• Norris failed to reach the chequered flag for the first time since Austria last season.
• Liam Lawson’s retirement was his third of the season for Racing Bulls.
• Williams’ Alex Albon failed to finish, meaning consecutive retirements for him in Spain and Canada.
