F1 23 Canada GP OUTCOMES: Max Verstappen wins for 100th Red Bull success with Lewis Hamilton on podium

“It’s been an amazing journey, my dream as a kid was to be an engineer in motor racing. First job and first salary was the big moment, everything else is a bonus.

“All the wins are special. First win in Mexico stands out. The ones where the championship has gone down to the wire. Very often Abu Dhabi, with Sebastian against Fernando, and then Max against Lewis.

“I’m lucky enough to be doing what I’ve always wanted to do, loved it. My career can’t go on forever. As long as the team wants me and I keep enjoying it I’ll keep going, but realistically it’s on a countdown!”

In his recently revamped Mercedes device, Hamilton declared his 2nd podium in succession, a fortnight after he completed runner-up to Verstappen at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

“It is quite an honour to be up there with two world champions,” said Hamilton. “I was really excited to be third, and just trying to be in that mix.”

The Dutchman led every lap at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve to draw level with Senna and extend his champion lead.

Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso completed runner-up, with Lewis Hamilton 3rd for Mercedes. Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell retired on lap 55 of 70 following an earlier prang with the wall.

“To get a century of victories is an incredible achievement. 100 races is a lot – but 100 wins. That’s 24% of the races we’ve entered.

“We take it one step at a time. So many things can go wrong. There’s so many variables in this game. Max is driving out of his skin at the moment. Collectively, the group is doing a tremendous job.”

The normal mix of the Dutch and Austrian nationwide anthem in Montreal!

“We suck in the lower-speed corners. You [Verstappen] destroy me there. In pretty much all the corners.

“Your rear-end is insane; and so is yours [Alonso].”

“It’s been a great weekend for us, we’ve been slowly chipping away. Aston were ahead this weekend with the upgrades.

“Quite an honour to be up there with two world champions, excited to be third and in that mix. We didn’t have the pace today. We knew this wouldn’t be our strongest circuit, we struggle in the slower-speed corners.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do to add rear-downforce to the car. I do believe we’ll get there at some stage.”

“We were hoping to challenge the Red Bull but we lost a position to Lewis. But I couldn’t rest, the Mercedes was pushing. It was tough, very demanding race. 70 laps of qualifying today.”

“Very happy. It was not a very straightforward race, the tyres were not getting in their window. We made it work – to win the 100th grand prix for the team is incredible.”

On No 100: “It’s amazing. I didn’t expect to be on those sort of numbers myself!”