F1 Canadian Grand Prix: What time, how to watch, and Max Verstappen flirts with race ban
Formula 1 is back in North America for round 10 of the championship, with Oscar Piastri leading the standings and the defending world champion facing a suspension.
Just 10 points separate Piastri and McLaren teammate Lando Norris in the battle for the world championship, while Max Verstappen's quest for five championships in a row appears to be on life support.
Here is everything you need to know about the 2025 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.
The Canadian Grand Prix will be held this weekend, from Saturday, June 14, to Monday, June 16.
The grand prix will begin on Monday at 4am AEST.
ABC Sport will have a live blog of the F1 Canadian Grand Prix from 2am AEST.
Here are the session times for this weekend:
*all times in AEST
Fox Sports, and its streaming platform Kayo, will be broadcasting the Canadian Grand Prix.
Those watching on Foxtel can watch the race on Fox Sports, channel 506.
You can follow all the action with the ABC Sport live blog, from pre-race drama to the post-race synopsis.
World champion Max Verstappen will need to be on his best behaviour this month or risk a suspension from Formula 1.
Verstappen has accrued 11 penalty points in the previous calendar year for incidents on track.
An automatic one-race ban is enforced for any driver who has 12 points in a calendar year.
Verstappen will have two points taken away at the end of the month, meaning he needs to stay out of trouble at the Canadian Grand Prix on Monday, AEST, and the Austrian Grand Prix on June 29.
Verstappen collected three penalty points for a collision with Mercedes driver George Russell, which the Red Bull ace admitted 'was not right and shouldn't have happened".
Verstappen's penalty after hitting Russell dropped him from fifth to 10th at the Spanish Grand Prix, and leaves him 49 points adrift of Piastri in the championship fight.
With McLaren's dominance so far this season, it is hard to see Verstappen overcoming the deficit to Piastri, or the 39-point gap he currently has to Norris in second. A race ban will all but end his title quest.
The Dutchman will have two points removed from his licence at the end of the month. Those points came from last year's Austrian Grand Prix where he and Lando Norris collided while battling for the lead late in the race.
Norris finished last, Verstappen had a punctured tyre but was able to pit and finish fifth.
Verstappen will then have another two points removed on October 27, one year since he forced Norris off track at the Mexico City Grand Prix.
The last driver to be banned for penalty points was Kevin Magnussen, who missed last year's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve is a mix of heavy-breaking zones and free-flowing straights.
There are plenty of overtaking opportunities into chicanes and the massive hairpin at turn 10.
The Wall of Champions is a hazard located at the end of the final turn, renowned for ending the races of several drivers after they crash into it.
The Wall of Champions was coined following the 1999 edition of the grand prix, where over the course of the weekend, three world champions — Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher — crashed into it.
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