Can Lewis Hamilton eclipse Michael Schumacher as F1’s Canada king this weekend?
Can Hamilton eclipse Schumacher?
Iꩵt’s crazy to think that Hamilton hasn’t won a F1 grand prix in over 18 months, stretching 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 wouldn’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 at Silverstone and the Hungaroring, w💦hich coincidentally, take place in t﷽he upcoming month or so.
It’s a good run of tracks for Hamilton coming up, Austri🦹a 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 Cana𝔍da this weekend, he’d overtake Schumacher (who also has seven wins) as ꦗthe most successful driver in Montreal.
Mercedes left the lastඣ in Spain as the secon﷽d-fastest team, overtaking Aston Martin and Ferrari.
It remains to be seen whether Mercedes⛦’ improvement of form is genuine o♔r 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 Barcelona.
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 champion te🌠ammate by 53 po💖ints.
While no 🅠one ever expected Perez to remain in title contention for the entire season, this level of meltdown is unprecede🌳nted.
Perez has a car in the RB19 that should be comfortಞably fini🅺shing second every week, even during an off weekend.
As team principal Christian Horner put it, Perez needs to go 🔴back to focusing on each weekend rather than an unrealistic title challenge.
Return to form for Aston Martin and Ferrari?
Aston Martin endured their꧅ wors🦄t 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 Ca🔜nada is full of low-speed traction zones, and it punishes rear tyres, Aston Ma🧸rtin should be back on form.
They are also expected to introduce their first major upgrade of t♋he ౠseason.
Ferrari also struggled inও Spain, with race pace their achille🤪s' heel again.
It’s difficult to know how compet🍌itive 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 ba☂ck on the pace after Ferrari were unable to identify why he struggled so much in Spain.
Threatening rain
For the third race running, rain is threaꦅtening this weekend’s action.
Currently, there’s a 58 per cent chance of rain to h🗹it for FP2 on Friday afternoon.
On Satuꦬrday, there’s a consistent 40-50 per cent chance of rain for final practice on qualifying.
Race da𓆉♑y looks more likely to be dry - as it stands - with the forecast predicting 20 per cent.
With a sharp eye for F1’s controversies and storylines, Connor is the heartb💮eat of our ꦜunbiased reporting.
