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2023 FIA Formula One World Championship
2023 Canadian Grand Prix
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Montreal, Canada
Sunday, 18 June 2023
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is confident of closing the gap to Red Bull at the
Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday, June 18 after upgrades last month gave them a solid platform to build upon.
The former seven-time World Champion secured his second podium of 2023 with a P2 at the Spanish Grand Prix, where team-mate George Russell claimed P3 to hand the Silver Arrows their best result yet in seven races.
Hamilton had previously finished second at the Australian Grand Prix and his performance at Montmelo saw the gap to Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso (3rd) reduced to 12 points in the driver's standings.
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Mercedes also moved up to second in the Constructors' Championship, 18 points ahead of Aston Martin, and the 38-year-old declared his team as the strongest in F1 due to their consistency this season.
Hamilton is tied with the great Michael Schumacher for most wins in Canada with seven and will be hoping to at least match the P3 he achieved on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve last year.
Upgrades were introduced to the W14 cars at the Monaco Grand Prix, although the full effects were on display the following weekend in Spain.
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Asked if he thought the Silver Arrows a firm base on which to make further improvements, the Brit Sky Sports F1: "Definitely - as long as I have been racing, if you are quick [in Spain], you should be quick elsewhere.
"But the way these cars work, they have a bit of a narrow working window, so there will be tracks where it's not so great, maybe, but I am hoping that's not the case.
"We have gone into second in the Constructors' Championship and I think we have the strongest team, particularly the drivers - George and I are punching out great results weekend in and weekend out.
"Now we just need to pick up the performance a little but more, which I know everyone is working hard to do and hopefully, we can catch these Red Bulls at some stage."
2023 Spanish Grand Prix results:
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing
Second Place: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
Third Place: George Russell - Mercedes
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