F1 Canadian Grand Prix RESULT: Race standings as Max Verstappen wins in Montreal

“It’s been an amazing journey, my dream as a kid was to be an engineer in motor racing. First job and first salary was the big moment, everything else is a bonus.

“All the wins are special. First win in Mexico stands out. The ones where the championship has gone down to the wire. Very often Abu Dhabi, with Sebastian against Fernando, and then Max against Lewis.

“I’m lucky enough to be doing what I’ve always wanted to do, loved it. My career can’t go on forever. As long as the team wants me and I keep enjoying it I’ll keep going, but realistically it’s on a countdown!”

Lewis Hamilton said he was honoured to be fighting two world champions after finishing behind Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso at the Canadian Grand Prix.

In his newly revamped Mercedes machine, Hamilton claimed his second podium in succession, a fortnight after he finished runner-up to Verstappen at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

“It is quite an honour to be up there with two world champions,” said Hamilton. “I was really excited to be third, and just trying to be in that mix.”

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RACE REPORT

Max Verstappen completed another crushing performance to win the Canadian Grand Prix and match Ayrton Senna’s tally of 41 victories.

The Dutchman led every lap at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve to draw level with Senna and extend his championship lead.

Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso finished runner-up, with Lewis Hamilton third for Mercedes. Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell retired on lap 55 of 70 following an earlier prang with the wall.

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“To get a century of victories is an incredible achievement. 100 races is a lot - but 100 wins. That’s 24% of the races we’ve entered.

“We take it one step at a time. So many things can go wrong. There’s so many variables in this game. Max is driving out of his skin at the moment. Collectively, the group is doing a tremendous job.”

The usual combination of the Dutch and Austrian national anthem in Montreal!

“We suck in the lower-speed corners. You [Verstappen] destroy me there. In pretty much all the corners.

“Your rear-end is insane; and so is yours [Alonso].”

“It’s been a great weekend for us, we’ve been slowly chipping away. Aston were ahead this weekend with the upgrades.

“Quite an honour to be up there with two world champions, excited to be third and in that mix. We didn’t have the pace today. We knew this wouldn’t be our strongest circuit, we struggle in the slower-speed corners.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do to add rear-downforce to the car. I do believe we’ll get there at some stage.”

“We were hoping to challenge the Red Bull but we lost a position to Lewis. But I couldn’t rest, the Mercedes was pushing. It was tough, very demanding race. 70 laps of qualifying today.”

“Very happy. It was not a very straightforward race, the tyres were not getting in their window. We made it work - to win the 100th grand prix for the team is incredible.”

On No 100: “It’s amazing. I didn’t expect to be on those sort of numbers myself!”