Don’t expect an announcement of a new Mercedes contract in the wake of George Russell’s Canadian GP win, as Toto Wolff says an extension is not dependent on his results. After all, Mercedes already know that the four-time Grand Prix winner can get the job done.

In the closing stages of Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, contact between McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri left Norris without a front wing on his MCL39, bringing out the Safety Car. In the laps that followed another incident occurred,