CANADIAN GRAND PRIX
Lewis Hamilton chases victory in happy hunting ground
Montreal — Lewis Hamilton returns to his happiest stomping ground this weekend when he seeks to extend his world championship lead with a record-equalling seventh triumph at the Canadian Grand Prix. The defending four-time champion, who leads nearest rival and fellow four-time champion Sebastian Vettel by 14 points after six races, claimed his maiden Formula One win at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2007. Since then Hamilton has added five more wins, including a hat-trick of Mercedes triumphs in 2015, 2016 and 2017, to move within reach of becoming the first man to secure four straight pole positions — he converted pole in each of those years — and four consecutive wins. Hamilton’s pole success in 2017 enabled him to equal three-time champion Ayrton Senna’s record of 65 pole positions, a feat that saw him presented by the Senna family with a helmet worn by the great Brazilian. That display of emotion confirmed Hamilton’s supremacy in Montreal, but he faces a lot more difficult cha...
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