2025 Canadian Grand Prix - Montreal, June 13 - 15

[SiLo]

No they don't. Toto has already confirmed he's sticking with the current lineup.

Things can change there quickly though, yes I would say almost certainly George and Kimi will be their 2 drivers next year too but stranger things have happened; Thought Toto last week with the Max/George incident was interesting almost refused to really criticise Max, the reporters pushed him he took the smallest of bites even during the week he somewhat defended Max, saying somthing like Champions been to feel like they are fighting adversity, it does feel like Toto is just keeping that door open just incase.

Highly doubt Toto is keeping the door open. Given the rumors about the Mercedes engine in 2026 and the switch to the in-wash based design (That Mercedes was previously dominant with), there is a possibility that George will probably have 2 or 3 WDC under his belt before Max is ever available in 2027-2028. But, who knows, we'll see how it unfolds.

Mercedes have never been dominant with in-wash design. We haven't had in-wash since 2008, before the team even existed.

[chrisc90]

Nope. Far as I’m aware the lights were still illuminated on the safety car

The instruction was that the safety car was going into the pits and for drivers to head over the finish line, therefore defacto Russell safety car.

Having reviewed the video, the lights on the safety car did not go off before it peeled off into the pitlane.
The first time I have ever seen that happen.

That's operational error on the part of the safety car as per their lights off mandate to alert everyone it's going into the pits.

Edit from Merc thread:(Adam Cooper)

I've heard that @redbullracing has withdrawn the protest about RUS being too far behind the safety car. In fact he was complying with another rule regarding a yellow flag delta, and in effect he wasn't able to keep up with the safety car.

It’s not the final 300m to the finish line to take the chequered flag. It was when Russell collected the safety car.

Also, if you look at the video. The safety car allows 2 cars to pass at the hairpin on the lap it first come out. That’s a strange scenario too.