Canadian Grand Prix driver ratings

44 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 1st
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 10

Mercedes used the ultra-soft tyre much better here, particularly on Hamilton's car, and the result was a mega qualifying lap - a 10/10 effort with no mistakes and worthy of equalling Ayrton Senna's career tally.

Hamilton was briefly threatened by Verstappen, but otherwise his race was straightforward amid Vettel's setback. After the travails of Monaco, it was a brilliant recovery on a track he loves.

77 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 3rd
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/soft)

Rating: 7

Though Bottas has a great record in Canada, he lacked confidence at full speed on the ultra-soft tyre he'd coped so well with in Russia and Monaco. Differences in tyre pressures explained only part of the 0.718-second gap to Hamilton in Q3.

Verstappen's retirement handed Bottas second in the race, where a stint on the slowest compound exaggerated the final 19.783s deficit to Hamilton.

3 Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 6th
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Considering he lost Friday's second practice session to an engine problem, Ricciardo was pleased to end up only 0.154s behind team-mate Verstappen in qualifying.

His race was less spectacular than Verstappen's cameo, but Ricciardo took full advantage of Raikkonen's poor start and Vettel and Verstappen's misfortune to bag a podium. The final stint on the slower tyre under sustained pressure was expertly managed.

33 Max Verstappen
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 5th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 10

Red Bull is improving, but the Renault engine is still a knife in a gunfight in Q3, so fifth was the maximum realistically possible.

Verstappen only did 10 laps in the race, but they were brilliant. He was lucky to avoid a puncture in his audacious first-corner pass of Vettel, but deserved that break and was cruelly robbed of a probable podium by battery failure.

5 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 2nd
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 2 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 9

Vettel and Hamilton were on a different level in qualifying, but Vettel loses half a mark for dropping two tenths at Turn 2 on his final run. The start wasn't great either, which cost him two places and led to contact with Verstappen. He loses another half-mark for that.

But Vettel was excellent thereafter, particularly in his committed late pass of Ocon as he limited the points damage Hamilton's win caused.

7 Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 4th
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 2 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 6

Raikkonen was faster than Vettel initially in Q3, but couldn't match him through sectors two or three at the death and "paid the price" for messing up at Turn 2, which meant Bottas squeaked ahead.

He fell behind both Red Bulls at the start and lost another place to Perez after almost crashing on lap four. But after that, with Vettel on the back foot, Raikkonen led Ferrari's late charge until his brakes failed.

11 Sergio Perez
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 8th
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 8

Practice was a bit messy for Perez, but he pulled things together when it mattered and maintained a narrow edge over Ocon through qualifying.

In the race he spent 40 laps waiting for a mistake from Ricciardo that never came, and was under serious pressure from Ocon at the end. His determination to thwart Ocon allowed Vettel to disrupt the Force India battle and Ricciardo to escape.

31 Esteban Ocon
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 9th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

Montreal newcomer Ocon was seriously impressive - faster than Perez in practice and pushing him hard in qualifying, falling just a tenth short of getting ahead in Q3.

Ocon ultimately needed Perez's co-operation to threaten Ricciardo's podium finish. That Perez had to get his elbows out while placing Force India into a team orders quarrel shows how rapidly Ocon is progressing.

18 Lance Stroll
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 17th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Stroll is marked down for getting nowhere near the potential of the Williams in practice or qualifying, but he drove a very accomplished race to score his first points in F1.

He worked his way methodically through the field, but more impressively wasn't far off the pace of Ricciardo, the Force Indias and Hulkenberg in the final stint. The rookie needs to build on this.

19 Felipe Massa
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 7th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 7

Williams had the fastest midfield car in Canada and Massa was the only midfielder to lap below 1m13s in qualifying, but it's difficult to judge how well he's really doing when his team-mate's Saturday form is so poor.

He fell behind the Force Indias and Hulkenberg at Turn 2 after the start, but was an innocent victim of Sainz's crash at Turn 3.

2 Stoffel Vandoorne
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: 16th
Finish: 14th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 5

Vandoorne seemed to revert to his disappointing pre-Monaco self, as Alonso returned to the team from IndyCar. Vandoorne struggled to get the tyres working, struggled for confidence in his car, and dropped out in Q1 again.

He started the race well, but coped less well than Alonso with Honda's lack of fuel efficiency and grunt and lost out to Ericsson's Sauber too.

14 Fernando Alonso
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: 12th
Finish: Retired (classified 16th)
Strategy: (ultra-soft/super-soft/retired)

Rating: 9

Alonso monstered the McLaren-Honda into the top 12 in Q2, despite its lack of power and driveability - and a "totally wasted Friday". He is, as McLaren puts it, a "machine", which he showed yet again in the race.

He just about dodged the Turn 3 chaos, coped admirably with Honda's "dangerous" speed deficit, and deserved the point that a late engine failure cruelly denied him.

26 Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 11th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/soft/retired)

Rating: 7

Kvyat felt 11th was the STR12's limit in qualifying, and didn't reckon smacking the wall on cold tyres in Q2 after being held at the weighbridge cost him a realistic Q3 shot.

He started illegally from his grid spot after a clutch problem stranded him on the formation lap grid, but shouldn't have been penalised twice for it. Kvyat still had a sniff of a point until a wheelnut problem stranded him in the pits.

55 Carlos Sainz Jr
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 13th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 5

A difficult weekend for Sainz, who took time to build confidence after losing practice one to an engine problem. He felt yellow flags in Q2 cost him a 1m13.5s lap that would have beaten Kvyat to 11th.

Sainz gets marked down severely for squeezing Grosjean off the track exiting Turn 2 after the start and triggering a massive shunt, which earned him a grid penalty.

8 Romain Grosjean
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 14th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Once a faulty brake system stopped sending him spinning in second practice, Grosjean hit his stride and was consistently faster than Magnussen, though he was puzzled to get "no grip at all" in Q2.

He somehow escaped the lap-one Sainz collision with only front wing damage, completed the rest of the race on one set of tyres and bagged the final point when Alonso stopped. A solid job.

20 Kevin Magnussen
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 18th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 6

Magnussen was unhappy that traffic cost him again in qualifying, where he was way off Grosjean and out in Q1. Haas plans to use spotters to prevent another repeat.

He started the race well, defended position hard, but was penalised for passing Vandoorne under the VSC. Magnussen eventually beat the McLaren-Honda, and overtook Ericsson's Sauber too, but points proved beyond reach.

27 Nico Hulkenberg
Renault RS17

Start: 10th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

The Renault wasn't a brilliant car here in low-downforce configuration, but Hulkenberg hustled it into the top 10 in qualifying with a lap he rated "9-9.5 out of 10".

He drove a strong race too. An early pitstop sucked him back into Stroll's territory, but the race came back to Hulkenberg later on, and he wasn't too far off beating Raikkonen's hobbled Ferrari.

30 Jolyon Palmer
Renault RS17

Start: 15th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 5

Palmer lapped within two tenths of Hulkenberg in Q1, but an unexplained loss of grip and a gearbox glitch worth two tenths ballooned that gap to almost a second in Q2.

He lost a couple of places amid lap one's chaos and basically spent his whole race struggling and failing to overcome Grosjean's Haas. Palmer desperately needs to qualify better.

9 Marcus Ericsson
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: 19th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 8

After an encouraging display in Spain, for some reason Sauber's full update package is not translating to lap time gain on smoother tracks and the ultra-soft tyre.

Still, Ericsson wasn't too far away from picking off Magnussen in Q1 and was well ahead of Wehrlein. He raced well too - miles clear of Wehrlein, he lapped quickly enough to pick off Vandoorne's McLaren.

94 Pascal Wehrlein
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: Pits
Finish: 15th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/ultra-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 5

Wehrlein apologised to Sauber's mechanics after stuffing his car into the Turn 1 wall in Q1 - overdriving trying to make up the yawning gap to the teams ahead, and ending up only with his own yawning gap to team-mate Ericsson.

That continued in the race, where Wehrlein used an older-spec replacement rear wing, lacked pace and struggled to manage his tyres.