Canadian Grand Prix: High five for Hamilton in Montreal

Lewis Hamilton scored his fifth victory in Montreal when he claimed victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, dedicating the victory to the late Muhammad Ali.

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. That's for Muhammad Ali," said Hamilton on the team radio on his slow down lap.

Hamilton said on the podium, "I had another really bad start, not sure why - possibly overheated the clutch. Feel very grateful that Nico and I didn't damage our cars. Then I had fun chasing down this guy (Vettel). We got the set-up right. I won my first grand prix here in 2007 and it feels such a blessing."

The reigning F1 world champion also took a large chunk of points out of Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg's championship lead as the German endured several incidents, including a puncture late in the race, which resulted in him finishing fifth.

The first of which was when the two Mercedes drivers rubbed wheels through Turn 1 on the opening lap, with Hamilton sticking to his line and Rosberg wide on to the grass and down the order. He was ninth at the end of the first lap, Hamilton was second at that point.

Rosberg summed up, "I nearly ran out of fuel and that's why I couldn't attack Max at the end. When I did, he defended really well. At the end it went completely pear-shaped but I managed to get it back. Frustrating race."

Sebastian Vettel, made a bullet start off the line and drove around the sluggish Mercedes pair to take the early lead and appeared to have good pace, but once again dubious strategy calls from the Ferrari pit wall may have cost them victory. Kimi Raikkonen was sixth.

Ferrari team chief Maurizio Arrivabene admitted, "We overestimated the degradation of the tyres. That's the reason we brought [Vettel] in and it's the wrong decision."

Vettel said afterwards, "Lewis was a bit too quick, that was the issue. We had a great weekend, a fantastic start. It was very windy today, I maybe struggled with the wind behind."

"We committed fairly early to a different strategy and probably Lewis' tyres lasted better than we expected. It was a really fun race," he added.

Valtteri Bottas was third in the Williams, ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in fourth with Daniel Ricciardo sixth.

Bottas said, "I'm really pleased with today. As a team it was a really strong one from us, a really good strategy and pit stop and I felt on it today. I want to thank Williams - thank you guys, everyone did a really great job."

Nico Hulkenberg was eighth in the Force India, ahead of Carlos Sainz who came home ninth for Toro Rosso and Sergio Perez in the other Force India claiming the final point in tenth

* Provisional results