2018 Canadian Grand Prix

The tyre compounds provided for this race were the hypersoft, ultrasoft and supersoft.[4]

Max Verstappen was fastest across all three practice sessions, improving his time in each successive session.[5] In FP2, Grosjean hit a groundhog that was on the track, damaging his front wing, and reducing the Haas team's spare parts.

Romain Grosjean's car had a major engine failure as it left the pitlane in Q1 meaning he failed to set a lap time, and raced at the stewards' discretion. In Q2, when Sebastian Vettel was completing his final flying lap, he aborted the lap because Carlos Sainz, Nico Hülkenberg and a number of other cars were driving slowly along the back straight, leading him to pull into the pits. In Q3, Vettel took pole with a new track record however his teammate made a mistake in Turn 2, meaning he would qualify in P5.

The grid got away largely without incident from the line, but in turn 5, Brendon Hartley and local driver Lance Stroll collided, forcing their immediate retirement and the deployment of the safety car. At the restart, Sergio Pérez touched Sainz, forcing Pérez off the track, losing positions. On Lap 18, Daniel Ricciardo overcut Lewis Hamilton for the fourth position. On lap 46, Fernando Alonso retired from the race with an exhaust issue.

Race officials erroneously directed model Winnie Harlow to wave the chequered flag before race leader Vettel completed lap 69 (the scheduled penultimate lap) and therefore the results were taken from lap 68, according to the Formula 1 sporting regulations article 43.2.[6][7] This meant that Ricciardo's successively faster fastest laps on laps 69 and 70 were voided, and Sergio Pérez's overtake on Kevin Magnussen for 13th did not stand.[8][9]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times			Final grid
				Q1	Q2	Q3
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:11.710	1:11.524	1:10.764	1
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:11.950	1:11.514	1:10.857	2
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:12.008	1:11.472	1:10.937	3
4	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:11.835	1:11.740	1:10.996	4
5	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:11.725	1:11.620	1:11.095	5
6	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:12.459	1:11.434	1:11.116	6
7	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:12.795	1:11.916	1:11.973	7
8	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1:12.577	1:12.141	1:12.084	8
9	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Renault	1:12.689	1:12.097	1:12.168	9
10	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	1:12.702	1:12.395	1:12.671	10
11	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:12.680	1:12.606		11
12	28	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:12.587	1:12.635		12
13	16	Charles Leclerc	Sauber-Ferrari	1:12.945	1:12.661		13
14	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Renault	1:12.979	1:12.856		14
15	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Renault	1:12.998	1:12.865		15
16	10	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:13.047			191
17	18	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1:13.590			16
18	35	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams-Mercedes	1:13.643			17
19	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	1:14.593			18
107% time: 1:16.729
—	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	No time			202
Source:[10]

Notes

• ^1  – Pierre Gasly received a ten-place grid penalty for his power unit change.
• ^2  – Romain Grosjean failed to set a lap time during qualifying. He was allowed to race at the stewards' discretion.[10]

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 1 Sebastian Vettel 121 1 2 Lewis Hamilton 120 1 3 Valtteri Bottas 86 1 4 Daniel Ricciardo 84 5 Kimi Räikkönen 68 Source:[13]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 206 2 Ferrari 189 3 Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 134 4 Renault 56 5 McLaren-Renault 40 Source:[13]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.