Canada 2019: Vettel is punished and loses victory to Hamilton

Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari missed out on a first win of the 2019 Formula One season after a five-second penalty gave Lewis Hamilton first place at the Canadian Grand Prix.

Vettel led most of the race in Montreal, but dropped to second after receiving a penalty for escaping at the first chicane and nearly colliding with Hamilton as he returned to the track.

This gave Hamilton his fifth win of the season and maintained Mercedes' hegemony after seven rounds. Vettel had enough of a lead to retain second place, with his teammate Charles Leclerc completing the podium.

The controversial incident occurred on lap 48. Under heavy pressure from Hamilton, Vettel went into the grass at the first chicane after taking a slight rear-end slip at the entrance.

The German got back on track just as Hamilton tried to get into the gap between the Ferrari and the wall at the exit of the corner. The Briton took his foot off to avoid a collision and Vettel kept the lead, but was punished after a lengthy investigation by the stewards.

Vettel never came close to building a big enough gap to cancel the penalty and complained that the stewards were "stealing the race" from Ferrari. Hamilton took the checkered flag 1.4s behind, which turned into a 3.6s lead.

Leclerc was one second behind Vettel in the official result, with Ferrari's first double podium of the season being scant consolation for the Italian team.

Valtteri Bottas finished in a distant fourth place, the first time a Mercedes driver has been off the podium in 2019. He scored the bonus point for fastest lap after opening up enough of a gap to make an extra pit-stop without losing any positions at the end.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen moved up from ninth on the grid to fifth, having run a long first stint on the hard tires and passing the Renaults of Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg after putting on the mediums at the end.

Ricciardo withstood pressure from Hulkenberg in the final laps to finish sixth, while Pierre Gasly (Red Bull) was only eighth after starting fifth.

Lance Stroll (Racing Point) scored two points in his home race with ninth, despite using an older spec engine due to a breakdown in TL3. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) completed the top 10.

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