The 25-year-old Dutch driver led the race from begin to end, including to his spectacular profession report of 41 wins and becoming a member of the esteemed firm of Brazil’s legendary triple champion, Ayrton Senna.
Fernando Alonso claimed second place for Aston Martin, reaching his sixth podium end in eight races at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. In the meantime, Britain’s seven-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton, secured third place for Mercedes.
The Ferraris adopted carefully behind, with Charles Leclerc ending in fourth place and Carlos Sainz in fifth.
Purple Bull has been dominant this season, profitable each race so far. Verstappen’s victory in Canada marked his sixth triumph of the marketing campaign and his fourth consecutive win.
Regardless of the workforce’s spectacular efficiency, Purple Bull’s workforce principal, Christian Horner, issued a daring assertion after the race, ominously warning that they’ve the potential to emerge victorious in each grand prix this season.
“Right now, to win the 100th grand prix for the workforce that is fairly unimaginable,” mentioned Verstappen, who has now led greater than 200 consecutive laps.
“I by no means anticipated to be in these sorts of numbers myself as effectively, we preserve having fun with, we preserve working onerous however right this moment has been an incredible day.”
Whereas Purple Bull toasted a landmark victory it was not an ideal day for the workforce as Sergio Perez’s worrying run of below-par performances continued with the Mexican failing to get on the rostrum for the third consecutive race.
After a poor qualifying effort that noticed him begin 12th, Perez moved as much as end sixth and take the bonus level for the quickest lap.
Regardless of his current struggles Perez stays second within the drivers standings, however a whopping 69 factors behind Verstappen who leads with 195.
There was additionally some disappointment within the Aston Martin storage with the workforce unable to ship the double podium end result proprietor Lawrence Stroll had requested for at his house race.
Whereas Alonso reached the rostrum, the Canadian billionaire’s son Lance Stroll completed ninth.
“We had been hoping to problem extra the Purple Bulls,” mentioned Alonso. “It was a battle with the Mercedes, we had been pushing all of the race so I did not have one lap the place I might chill out slightly bit, a tremendous battle.
“It was robust, a really demanding race, virtually 70 laps of qualifying.”
Hamilton’s third place offered extra proof that Mercedes are on track because the workforce appears to shut the hole on the rampaging Purple Bulls.
It’s the second consecutive Grand Prix Hamilton has appeared on the rostrum whereas workforce mate George Russell had regarded a risk till spinning into the wall early within the race, damaging his automobile. He didn’t end the race.
For the second straight yr Verstappen gained from pole on the island circuit. He bolted away from pack in the beginning and was by no means below risk however was additionally unable to drag away, ending 9.5 seconds away from Alonso.
Driver of the day honours went to Alex Albon, who completed seventh after an incredible show of defensive driving on effectively worn tyres to present Williams a uncommon factors end.
(With inputs from Reuters)
