Track Torque: Mighty Max magnificent in Montreal

Max Verstappen was in a class of his own, all weekend, at the circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada.
From a wet circuit in practice and qualifying to a dry track on race day, Verstappen in his Red Bull, just did not put a foot wrong, and despite the intervention of the pace car, he still made it to the chequered flag nearly 10 seconds ahead of everybody else.

After the Flying Dutchman came the former double world champion, Fernando Alonso, in his Aston Martin, another 4.5 seconds ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
Alonso and Hamilton both drove with great verve throughout, but the wily Spanish Fox held the unrelenting Englishman at bay in his fast improving Mercedes.
Teammate George Russell was also going well in his three-pointed star before he bounced off the wall and made it back to the pits, only to have to retire a bit later on.

After the podium three, came the Red pair from Maranello, both Ferraris, disappointingly not performing as well as they had done in qualifying, but also improving against the standard benchmark Red Bulls.
Sergio Perez, who started near the back after facing big problems in qualifying, did well under difficult conditions to catch up to sixth place in the end, he also took fastest lap.

A further 10 seconds back came Alexander Albon, after a very solid drive in his Williams Mercedes.
He was followed in close proximity for the positions of seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth places by Esteban Ocon (Alpine Renault), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin Merc) and Valterri Bottas (Alfa Romeo Ferrari) in the final points scoring position.

It had been an exciting race with the ‘men from Mars’ or some other planet, showing off their extraordinary abilities.

In two weeks’ time follows the Austrian Grand Prix, starting the second European sub-group of six races – Austria, Great Britain, Hungary, Belguim, Netherlands and Italy.
It is time for us to head for a racing holiday in Europe.

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