Canada: McLaren's Montreal woes bite Daniel hard

Daniel qualifies inside the top 10 but finishes just outside of the points after a frustrating afternoon for the entire team in Canada.

Race data
Canada (Round 9 of 22), 19 June 2022
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, 70 laps, 4.361km
Qualified: 9th
Finished: 11th
Laps per position: 15 laps (9th), 11 laps (10th), 18 laps (11th), 26 laps (12th)
Pit stops/tyres: Lap 19 (medium/hard), Lap 49 (hard/hard)
Fastest lap: 1:17.932 (13th, lap 59)
Points this event: 0
Points this season: 15 (13th in world championship)

Daniel's download
"That wasn't the best Sunday for us, not by a long shot. First off, we didn't have the pace, and then we were managing things as well during the race, just a little bit of temperature stuff, so we weren't able to push and attack. It just put us out of contention for the battle for points with both cars, so it was a tough one. We definitely had higher hopes after Friday in the dry had been quite promising.

"Pushing at 100 per cent we could just hang on to the top 10, but once we started to manage temperatures and things like this, it put us out of the fight. I would have loved to have had a better race but we simply just weren't quick enough.

"We've got to have a look, see where we can go better, and then just clean a few things up. We've got a week off before the next one, and it's a home race for the team at Silverstone – so we're hoping we can be better there."

How Daniel's race unfolded
* Qualified 9th, ended first lap in ninth place.
* Passed by Zhou/Alfa Romeo on lap 4, dropped to 10th.
* Reclaimed ninth when Perez/Red Bull retired on lap 8.
* Pitted on lap 19 under virtual safety car for Schumacher/Haas retirement, dropped to 12th.
* Overtook Tsunoda/AlphaTauri for 11th on lap 46.
* Inherited 10th when Stroll/Aston Martin pitted on lap 47.
* Pitted under safety car for Tsunoda retirement on lap 49, fell to 11th.
* Passed Vettel/Aston Martin for 10th on lap 59.
* Overtaken by Stroll/Aston Martin to fall to 11th on lap 63.
* Finished in 11th place after 70 laps, 43.047secs behind race winner Verstappen/Red Bull, 4.7secs behind Stroll in 10th and 1.2secs ahead of Vettel in 12th.

Next race
Round 10: Great Britain (Silverstone), 3 July
Last race (2021): qualified 6th, finished 5th
Career: 12 races, 79 points, 1 podium, 8 points finishes
Best finish: 3rd (2014)
Silverstone highlights: Took his fourth podium in a five-race span when he finished third in 2014 for Red Bull Racing. Has five other top-five finishes in 12 total starts, the most F1 races he's competed in at a single circuit. Has made Q3 on his past five appearances at Silverstone. Made his F1 debut at the British Grand Prix in 2011 for HRT (finished 19th).