Can Lewis Hamilton eclipse Michael Schumacher as F1’s Canada king this weekend?
Can Hamilton eclipse Schumacher?
It’s crazy ওto think that Hamilton hasn’t won a F1 grand prix in over 18 months, stretchiဣng back to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
If he is to end his long - by his lofty standards - win drought in F1 2023, doing it at Canada would🐲n’t be too surprising given his incredible record in Montreal.
Hamilton has seven victories at the Circuit Gilles Villenueve, making it his third most successful venue on the F1 calendar - he only has more wins at൲ Silverstone and the Hungaroring, which coincidentally, take place in the upcoming month or so.
It’s a good run of tracks for Hamilton coming up, Austria aside, so it could be the perfect chance for him to return to 🔜the top step of the podium.
If he was to do it in Canada this weekend, he’d overtake Schumacher (who also has seven wins) as the most 🧸successful driver in M🅺ontreal.
Mercedes left🐎 the last in Spain as the second-fastest team, overtaking Aston Mℱartin and Ferrari.
It remai💦ns to be seen whether Mercedes’🦂 improvement of form is genuine or it was track dependent.
Will Checo stop the rut?
It’s been a tough run of races for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and his title ambitions.
Perez has failed to make Q3 in the last two races after crashing in Monaco, while he lacked space in Barcelo🐼na.
After being just six points behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, he now trails his world c💫ham🍸pion teammate by 53 points.
While no one ever expected Perez to remain in title contention for the entire season, this leve🔥l of meltdown is unprecedented.
Perez has a car in the RB19 that shoul🐭d be comfortably finishing second every week, even during an off weekend.
As team principal Chri🌱stian Horner put it, Perez needs to go back to focusing on each weekend rather than an unreal🔜istic title challenge.
Return to form for Aston Martin and Ferrari?
Aston Martin endu🥃red their worst weekend of the year last time out in Barcelona.
The high-speed nature of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya didn’t seem to suit them, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso had a rare off weekend.
Given Canada is full of low-speed traction zones, and it punishes rear tyres, Aston Marti🐎n should be back on form.
They are also expected to introduce their first major upg🍌rade of the season.
Ferrari also stru✤ggled in Spain, with race pace their achilles' heel 🌠again.
It’s difficult to know how competitive Ferrari will be given how much their🎃 pace yo-yos.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc will be hoping to be back on the pace after Ferrari were unable to identify why 💧he struggled so muc🦂h in Spain.
Threatening rain
For the💙 third race running, rain is threatening this weekend’s action.
Currently, there’s a 58 per cent chance of rain to hit for FP2 on Friday afternoo🧸♉n.
On Saturday, th🥃ere’s a consistent 40-50 per cent chance of r🌳ain for final practice on qualifying.
Race day l🐽ooks more likely to be dry - as it stands - wi🍌th the forecast predicting 20 per cent.
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