The Canadian Grand Prix has become one of the most popular races on the calendar since becoming part of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1967.

The event was first staged at Mosport Park in Ontario as a sports car event in 1961, alternating between Mosport and Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Quebec after F1 took over the event.

Safety concerns led to the Grand Prix moving permanently to Mosport from 1971 and then, in 1978, similar safety concerns with Mosport meant the Canadian race moved to a new home on the Île Notre-Dame in Montreal, where it has remained since.

In 2014, the organizers announced they had agreed to a 10-year extension to keep the Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve through 2024.

Canadian Prix, Round Seven of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Circuit Île Notre-Dame / Gilles Villeneuve

Race Laps: 70

Circuit Length: 4.361 km (2.709 mi)

Race Length: 305.270 km (189.694 mi)

Number of corners: 14 (8 Right, 6 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (Zone 1 Between Turn 12 and 13, zone 2 Between 14 turn  and 1 at the Start/Finish Line)

Circuit Direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes 1:12.812

Race Track Record: Rubens Barrichello 1:13.622 – Ferrari 2004

Absolute Lap Record: 1:12.275 Ralf Schumacher – Williams. Q2, 2004

Distance from Pole to T1 Apex 362.1 m

Pole Position Side Left

Pit Lane Length under Speed Limit Control 401.1 m

Drive-Through Time at 80 km/h 18.05 s      

Delta FP1 to Q3 1.943 s

Delta Q1 to Q3 0.902 s

Lap Time at Full Throttle 60 %

Lap Distance at Full Throttle 72 %     

Gear Changes per Lap 50  

Braking Events (>2G) 7

Heavy Braking Events (<0.4s @ >4G) 6

Fuel Consumption High

Maximum Lateral G-Force 3.7 @ T5

Maximum Speed 327 km/h

Track Evolution (P1 – Qualifying) High       

Key Overtaking Opportunities T1/T10/T12       

Gilles Villeneuve International Circuit

 

 

Pirelli used compounds

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Purple Ultra-Soft

Teams/Drivers compounds choice

Driver	Soft	Super-Soft	Ultra-Soft
Lewis Hamilton	1	4	8
Valtteri Bottas	2	3	8
Daniel Ricciardo	1	5	7
Max Verstappen	1	5	7
Sebastian Vettel	1	3	9
Kimi Raikkonen	1	3	9
Sergio Perez	2	3	8
Esteban Ocon	2	3	8
Lance Stroll	1	5	7
Felipe Massa	2	4	7
Stoffel Vandoorne	2	1	10
Jenson Button	1	2	10
Daniil Kvyat	2	3	8
Carlos Sainz	2	3	8
Romain Grosjean	1	5	7
Kevin Magnussen	2	4	7
Nico Hulkenberg	2	4	7
Jolyon Palmer	2	4	7
Marcus Ericsson	2	4	7
Pascal Wehrlein	3	3	7

 

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“Montreal has many unique features, but with its smooth surface, it actually contains some similarities to Sochi. Last year the winner did one stop, while the second-placed driver made two stops using all three compounds, which just goes to show the very wide variety of strategies that are possible. Finding the right set-up, with the correct aerodynamic and mechanical balance, is never easy in Montreal: this is one of the key factors to making the tyres work effectively there. It’s also important to take an open-minded approach to strategy, given the variable weather and safety cars that are historically possible.”

 

MONTREAL MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

MONTREAL EOS - CAMBER LIMIT

Canadian Grand Prix Winners 1966 – 2016

Year	Driver	Constructor	Location
2016	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
2015	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
2014	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault
2013	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
2012	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2011	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes
2010	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2009	Not held
2008	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
2007	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2006	Fernando Alonso	Renault
2005	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes
2004	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2003	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2002	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2001	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW
2000	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1999	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1998	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1997	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1996	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
1995	Jean Alesi	Ferrari
1994	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford
1993	Alain Prost	Williams-Renault
1992	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda
1991	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford
1990	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1989	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault
1988	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1987	Not held
1986	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
1985	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari
1984	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW
1983	René Arnoux	Ferrari
1982	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW
1981	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra	Circuit Île Notre-Dame
1980	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford
1979	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford
1978	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari
1977	Jody Scheckter	Wolf-Ford	Mosport Park
1976	James Hunt	McLaren-Ford
1975	Not held
1974	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	Mosport Park
1973	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford
1972	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford
1971	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford
1970	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	Mont-Tremblant
1969	Jacky Ickx	Brabham-Ford	Mosport Park
1968	Denny Hulme	McLaren-Ford	Mont-Tremblant
1967	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Repco	Mosport Park
1966	Mark Donohue	Lola-Chevrolet	Mosport Park

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

# of wins	Driver	Years
7	Michael Schumacher	1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004
6	Lewis Hamilton	2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016
3	Nelson Piquet	1982, 1984, 1991
2	Jacky Ickx	1969, 1970
	Jackie Stewart	1971, 1972
	Alan Jones	1979, 1980
	Ayrton Senna	1988, 1990

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

 

# of wins	Constructor	Years
13	Ferrari	1963, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004
	McLaren	1968, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
7	Williams	1979, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2001
4	Brabham	1967, 1969, 1982, 1984
2	Lotus	1961, 1962
	Tyrrell	1971, 1972
	Benetton	1991, 1994
	Red Bull	2013, 2014
	Mercedes	2015, 2016

 

Numbers and Facts

Most wins (driver) 7 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 97 – 98 – 2000 – 02 – 03 – 04

Most wins (constructor) 13 McLaren (most recent 2012 and wins here = 9 which is bettered by Ferrari at CGV [10])

Wins from pole position 21, 1969 – 71 – 74 – 76 – 79 – 83 – 84 – 86 – 88 – 90 – 93 – 94 – 96 – 97 – 2000 – 06 – 07 – 10 – 13 – 15 – 16

Lowest grid for past winner 10 Jacques Laffite – 1981

Most recent 1-2 finish 2015 Mercedes (Lewis Hamilton-Nico Rosberg)

Most emphatic win 1 lap 1968 – Denny Hulme-Bruce McLaren (at Ile Notre Dame = 42.029s 1983 – Rene Arnoux-Eddie Cheever)

Closest winning margin 0.174s 2000 – Michael Schumacher-Rubens Barrichello

Rain-affected races 6, 1971 – 73 – 81 – 89 – 90 – 2000 – 2011

Safety Car-affected races 13 1973 – 97 – 98 – 99 – 2001 – 02 – 05 – 06 – 07 – 08 – 11 – 12 – 16

Red Flag (and result declared) races 0

2-hour rule shortened races 2 1981 – 89

Fastest race 2004 70 L @ 1:28’24.803

Slowest race 1967 90 L @ 2:40’40.0 (Mosport). Note: 2011 accumulated race time was 70 L @ 4:04’39.537

Most pole positions (driver) 6 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 95 – 97 – 99 – 2000 – 01

Most pole positions (constructor) 11 McLaren 1972 – 74 – 76 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 92 – 98 – 2007 – 08 – 10

What Happened last race here?

Hamilton  won the 2016 Canadian Grand prix after he leapfrogged a fast-starting Sebastian Vettel when Ferrari opted to keep the latter on a two-stop pit strategy to Hamilton’s one, but in the last laps Vettel was unable to catch Hamilton who took a fifth victory in Montreal.

Valtteri Bottas took the final podium position, with Max Verstappen fourth.

Nico Rosberg finished fifth after he collided with Hamilton at the first corner, the pair tangling as they followed Vettel into the first corner.

2016 Race Classification

Pos.	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:31:05.296	1
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	+5.011	3
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	+46.422	7
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+53.02	5
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+1:02.093	2
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	+1:03.017	6
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+1:03.634	4
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	+1 Lap	9
9	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1 Lap	20
10	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	+1 Lap	11
11	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	+1 Lap	10
12	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1 Lap	15
13	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas-Ferrari	+2 Laps	13
14	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	+2 Laps	14
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	+2 Laps	21
16	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+2 Laps	22
17	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	+2 Laps	17
18	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	+2 Laps	18
19	Rio Haryanto	MRT-Mercedes	+2 Laps	19
Ret	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	Overheating	8
Ret	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	Water leak	16
Ret	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	Engine	12

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

✪ Sebastian Vettel Vettel has not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in

Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

✪ Vettel and Lewis Hamilton are now the only drivers to have finished in the points in all races so far this season

✪ Hamilton is just 4 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken pole 38 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (38/ 81 = 46.9%). He is also just 1 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of 65 pole

positions. Clearly he could equal Senna’s total on Saturday

✪ Hamilton has scored 12 F1 ‘hat-tricks’ (pole, win and fastest lap in the same event). Only Michael Schumacher with 22 F1 hat-tricks has now scored more

✪ Hamilton has won (55) 28.4% of all GP he’s started (194) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares: -1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.4%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%, 9. Vettel 24.5% (45/ 184), 10. S. Moss 24.2%

✪ Hamilton has now led 103 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

✪ WARNING. Mercedes might celebrate Valtteri Bottas’s 100th Grand Prix in Canada. Canada will be the 100th time he will have been present in the entry list for a F1

World Championship Grand Prix event but, to date he has ‘only’ made 83 race starts. Of the other 16, 15 are accounted for by Free Practice appearances for Williams in

2012 and 1 late withdrawal from the event due to a back injury picked up in qualifying, in Australia 2015

✪ The next podium of Bottas’s F1 career will be his 13th and will equal Gilles Villeneuve (and Jochen Rindt, Francois Cevert, Didier Pironi and Nick Heidfeld too)

✪ Kimi Raikkonen’s next win if ever it comes will be the 21st of his F1 career and will also be the most by a Finnish driver in F1. Currently he shares the record of 20 wins

by a Finn with Mika Hakkinen

✪ The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second

while still a teenager. (20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could

still become the only teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix

from P2 in his Ferrari when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the

2016 Belgian Grand Prix where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently = with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Mercedes in Monaco ended a 21-race run on the podium

✪ Mercedes in Canada will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

✪ Mercedes’s fastest lap of the race in Spain courtesy of Lewis Hamilton was the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 101 different F1 Grand Prix

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will

be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor

running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone

in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for

Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter

Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

✪ Force India is the only constructors to have finished both cars in each of the 6 Grand Prix so far this season

CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

✪ The Montreal circuit is dedicated to the memory of Gilles Villeneuve. 2017 is the 40th anniversary of Villeneuve’s F1 Grand Prix debut, for McLaren at Silverstone in 1977

✪ Lewis Hamilton is looking for a 6th Canadian Grand Prix win. The record is 7 by Michael Schumacher. Between the pair they have won over 25% of all F1 World

Championship-qualifying Canadian Grand Prix and nearly 1/3rd of all Grand Prix on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (12 of 47 and 12 of 37)

✪ It is 10 years since Hamilton won his first Grand Prix, here in 2007

✪ Hamilton is chasing a 3rd Canadian Grand Prix win in a row. His last 2 wins here were both from pole and in all of his 5 wins here to date he has started the race from

the front row. To date only Michael Schumacher has won this race 3 times consecutively (2002 – 2004) and he wasn’t on pole for any of them so could Hamilton become the first to win 3 in-a-row from pole?

Driver’s Championship standing

POS	DRIVER	POINTS
1	Sebastian Vettel	129
2	Lewis Hamilton	104
3	Valtteri Bottas	75
4	Kimi Raikkonen	67
5	Daniel Ricciardo	52
6	Max Verstappen	45
7	Sergio Perez	34
8	Carlos Sainz	25
9	Felipe Massa	20
10	Esteban Ocon	19
11	Nico Hulkenberg	14
12	Romain Grosjean	9
13	Kevin Magnussen	5
14	Pascal Wehrlein	4
15	Daniil Kvyat	4
16	Jolyon Palmer	0
17	Marcus Ericsson	0
18	Lance Stroll	0
19	Fernando Alonso	0
20	Antonio Giovinazzi	0
21	Stoffel Vandoorne	0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

POS	CONSTRUCTOR	POINTS
1	Ferrari	196
2	Mercedes	179
3	Red Bull/Renault	97
4	Force India/Mercedes	53
5	Toro Rosso/Renault	29
6	Williams/Mercedes	20
7	Renault	14
8	Haas/Ferrari	14
9	Sauber/Ferrari	4
10	McLaren/Honda	0

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Jolyon Palmer	7
Sebastian Vettel	6
Carlos Sainz	5
Kevin Magnussen	5
Sergio Perez	5
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Esteban Ocon	4
Daniil Kvyat	3
Romain Grosjean	3
Stoffel Vandoorne	3
Pascal Wehrlein	2
Kimi Raikkonen	2
Felipe Massa	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Jenson Button	2
Max Verstappen	1