Canada was Ferrari’s best conversion race of this sequence: Hamilton turned a P5 qualifying baseline and P4 opening lap into P2, Leclerc turned a P8 qualifying baseline and P6 opening lap into.
MontrealCircuit Gilles VilleneuveStop-go street circuit
Ferrari score37 pts
Best FerrariP5 Sprint / P2 Race
Strategy readGOOD
ReferenceGeorge Russell
The decisive scene
L33-L61 medium-stint podium chase and recovery
Ferrari held the one-stop medium run, with Hamilton P3 and Leclerc moving from P5 to P4 on Lap 39.
Strategy read
GOOD
Best Ferrari
P5 Sprint / P2 Race
Pace reference
George Russell
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What the data supports
Pace reference: George Russell
Hamilton medium stint average over representative laps 75.321s, fastest 74.646s, tyre wear -0.025s per lap.
Option available at the timeKeep track position unless rival data proved a cheap attacking stop, because Hamilton was close to Verstappen and Leclerc lacked podium pace.
02
Next question
What this race carries forward
What were the exact stop losses and stationary times for Hamilton and Leclerc on Lap 31?
Evidence at a glance
Representative-lap pace gapReference: George Russell
LEC+0.880s
HAM+0.592s
This shows whether Ferrari's race story starts from pace or from pit-wall timing.
Evidence limitHamilton’s medium pace was strong, but without rival gaps it is unclear whether strategy, traffic, or rival events prevented an earlier P2 move.
The proof
One curve, read in context
representative laps
Lap-Time Evolution
How the race pace moved through the stints
lower is faster
This curve is the first evidence layer under the story: Leclerc is the solid red line, Hamilton is the dashed ivory line, and event shading marks laps that should not carry the clean-pace read.
C. Leclerc L32L. Hamilton L32
Ref 76.189sRepresentative laps 1-68Excluded pit or race-control laps below
Hamilton medium stint average over representative laps 75.321s, fastest 74.646s, tyre wear -0.025s per lap.
What Open can prove
One decision, one curve, and the official finish.
Open publishes the decisive scene, one supporting curve, the official Ferrari finish, and the limit on what can be proved. The complete decision set and race reconstruction belong to the Full Monday Debrief.
Official finish
Ferrari in the classification
official result
P2Lewis Hamilton+10.768s
P4Charles Leclerc+44.151s
Proof status
Official F1 locked
high
Weekend checks
5 of 5
Result layer
Official classification
Analysis layer
Values calculated from lap timing
Canada Grand Prix has official race, pit-stop, and fastest-lap raw pages collected.
See the source and method boundary
Formula1.com official results
Official classification and Ferrari result context
Pit-stop timing summaries and public session result pages
Lap-by-lap position changes calculated from session timing
Tyre sequence, length of each tyre run, traffic, pit-exit order, rival pressure, and race-control context
Full Monday Debrief
Keep the decision room in one Monday read.
The email keeps the actual call, plausible alternative, proof limit, and next Ferrari question together without repeating the public story.