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The Canadian Grand Prix was the race in which the Formula 1 title battle finally came alive this year.<\/b><\/p>\n
It was also, however, the race in which it took a potentially decisive turn, putting a huge dent in George Russell’s hopes of beating his 19-year-old Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli to the championship.<\/p>\n
Russell’s retirement from the race came after 30 laps of frenetic battling between the pair which lit up the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on a damp, gloomy day so cold it tempted world champions McLaren into a seemingly inexplicable decision to start the race on a dry track on wet-weather tyres.<\/p>\n
The Briton’s retirement handed the win to Antonelli, his fourth in a row, and the Italian now has a massive 43-point lead.<\/p>\n
Doubtless there are many twists and turns to come in the remaining 17 races. Even so, that will take some recovering.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Russell was stoic but understandably downbeat.<\/p>\n
“Right now it’s his to lose,” he said. “He is so many points ahead. It feels like the gods don’t want me to be in this fight, when I look at the safety-car timing in Japan, breaking down in China Q3, fighting for pole, breaking down from the lead here today.<\/p>\n
“But, you know, the pressure’s off. Go out, enjoy every single race. Try to win every single race. And I’ve got nothing to lose.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to be stood here talking like that. It is, of course, frustrating, but I want to be in that fight. Hopefully, the luck will turn.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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