How to watch the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix, F1's return to North America
Race 10 of the 2025 Formula One season brings the grid to Montreal for the highly anticipated Pirelli Canadian Grand Prix. McLaren retains the lead, with Oscar Piastri riding high after a Spanish GP win. Piastri now leads teammate Lando Norris by 10 points.
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve almost guarantees high drama: tight chicanes, long straights and the infamous Wall of Champions. Overtaking remains difficult, but possible — watch the run from the hairpin to Turn 13.
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The GP is set for Sunday, but eager fans can catch practices and qualifying with the start of Grand Prix weekend this Friday.
Venue: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve — Montreal, Quebec
Dates: June 13-15
Race coverage can also be streamed on ESPN+.
A fifth title for Red Bull's Max Verstappen, hampered all season by the underwhelming pace of the RB21, is virtually impossible. Still, with three consecutive wins in Montreal, Verstappen has shown he knows how to tame this low-downforce circuit, but he's also one penalty point away from a race ban after a controversial clash with George Russell in Spain.
The 2025 season has given fans plenty of track-to-track intrigue with various teams threatening McLaren: Mercedes in Miami, Red Bull in Imola and Ferrari in Monaco. Last time out in Spain, Red Bull kept the pressure on with a surprising three-stop strategy, but Canada tends to favor Mercedes thanks to cooler temps and a stop-start layout. Add a chance of rain, air quality warnings due to wildfires in Quebec, and the high likelihood of Safety Cars — there've been five here since 2014 — and fans are likely in for an unpredictable weekend.
For more before the lights go green on Sunday, read the latest from The Athletic's motorsports team.
'On Monday morning, Verstappen posted on Instagram that the collision with Russell was 'not right' and 'shouldn't have happened,' citing the tire choice and other driver moves on-track as having 'fuelled my frustration.' But it was not an outright apology for what happened.
'That still stood out for being the closest Verstappen has come to acknowledging his responsibility in an incident through his F1 career, a sign of his evolution from a young upstart in F1 to a four-time world champion. A huge change that brings with it added expectations. But at no point has that blunted Verstappen's hard, no-holds-barred stance against rivals on the track in pretty much every season he has competed at the front of the pack.'
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'Whether a routine stop or a double stack, pit stops are choreographed dances. They begin the moment activity buzzes in the garage as more than 20 team members hurry out to their positions in the pitlane, waiting for the drivers to pull into the box. As Jonathan Wheatley, Red Bull's Sporting Director, said, 'Your perfect pitstop involves everyone having that perfect two seconds.'
'It's a game of millimeters and milliseconds. Here's how it goes down.'
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