After he took his best-ever grand prix result with Ferrari, it felt like a weight had fallen off Lewis Hamilton's shoulders. Hamilton took second at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after an entertaining, race-long battle with Red Bull's Max Verstappen, hounding the Dutchman for laps before making the pass into Turn 1 on lap 62.
But beyond the headline result, what was even more satisfying– and important for the long-term picture of this season – is that the seven-time world champion finally is appearing to mesh with the squad after a character-building first season in 2025 which prompted an off-season reset, both for Hamilton personally and within Maranello.
