F1: Red Bull flying away with the lead
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F1: Red Bull flying away with the lead

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Charles Leclerc won two of the first three races this year and had a 46-point lead over reigning champion Max Verstappen. The Ferrari was quick and reliable while the Red Bull was overweight, fragile and slightly slower in qualifying with Verstappen failing to finish in two of the first three and winning the other one. But come to the end of the Canadian Grand Prix — six races later — the roles have been completely reversed with the Ferrari now facing woeful reliability issues and the Red Bull by far the fastest car on a Sunday. The last two races have been races from hell for Ferrari and Leclerc as they lost ground drastically to Red Bull and Verstappen. In a reverse of what happened in Baku, it was Verstappen who stopped early for his first pitstop under Virtual Safety Car — cars have to stick to a set lap time and hold the gap to drivers around them — and gave up track position initially before Sainz had his stop under another VSC.

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