The 2013 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2013) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 9 June 2013 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The race was the seventh round of the 2013 season, and marked the 50th running of the Canadian Grand Prix.

After taking pole position, Sebastian Vettel took his and Red Bull's first victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, just over 14 seconds ahead of second-placed Fernando Alonso.

The event was marred by the death of track marshal Mark Robinson, who was run over by a recovery vehicle. The accident happened while marshals were removing the Sauber of Esteban Gutiérrez after the Mexican had spun off during the closing stages of the race. Robinson died later in hospital, and became the first trackside death in Formula One since that of marshal Graham Beveridge at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix.

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Background Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded supersoft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre, as opposed to the previous year where soft and supersoft selection were provided.

Qualifying The three qualifying sessions were held on 8 June. All qualifying was rain-affected.

Q1 Force India's Paul di Resta, Caterham's Charles Pic, Lotus's Romain Grosjean, Marussia's Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton, and Caterham's Giedo van der Garde were all knocked out in Q1.

Q2 Sauber's Nico Hülkenberg, McLaren's Sergio Pérez, Williams' Pastor Maldonado, McLaren's Jenson Button, Sauber's Esteban Gutiérrez, and Ferrari's Felipe Massa were all eliminated in Q2. Massa caused a red flag after crashing into the barriers in turn 3. Williams' Valtteri Bottas became the first rookie driver in 2013 to make it into Q3.

Q3 Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix with a time of 1:25.425, beating Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton by 0.087 seconds. Williams' Valtteri Bottas was a surprise third. At the time, Williams hadn't scored a single point in their 2013 season.

Kimi Räikkönen and Daniel Ricciardo were given two-place penalties for not lining up in the designated 'fast lane' at the pit exit in the rush to get out after the Q2 red flag. Räikkönen would start from 10th and Ricciardo 11th on the grid.

Race Vettel led away at the start with Hamilton trailing in his wake, in turn Hamilton held off his teammate Nico Rosberg, behind them was Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso. At the first round of pit stops Mercedes chose to fit super-softs to Lewis Hamilton while Webber and Alonso fitted the more durable medium tyres and they soon caught and passed Hamilton. However, Webber then damaged his car when lapping the Caterham of Giedo van der Garde, the latter was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty, Webber continued but was then passed by Alonso. After the second round of pit stops Alonso was again behind Lewis Hamilton but on Lap 63 he passed the Mercedes driver to claim 2nd behind a dominant Vettel, Hamilton held onto 3rd place. Near the end of the race Esteban Gutiérrez spun off and track worker Mark Robinson, who had fallen over trying to pick up a radio he dropped, was run over by the recovery vehicle. He later died from his injuries in hospital, several drivers led tributes to the track worker on Twitter.

Classification

Qualifying Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 1 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:22.318 1:28.166 1:25.425 1 2 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:23.801 1:27.649 1:25.512 2 3 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:23.446 1:28.419 1:25.897 3 4 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:23.840 1:28.420 1:26.008 4 5 2 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:23.247 1:28.145 1:26.208 5 6 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:23.224 1:28.788 1:26.504 6 7 18 Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:24.159 1:28.527 1:26.543 7 8 15 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:24.551 1:28.799 1:27.348 8 9 7 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:24.451 1:28.667 1:27.432 10 10 19 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:24.770 1:29.359 1:27.946 11 11 11 Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1:23.899 1:29.435 9 12 6 Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 1:24.176 1:29.761 12 13 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:24.776 1:29.917 13 14 5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:24.021 1:30.068 14 15 12 Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 1:24.408 1:30.315 15 16 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:23.735 1:30.354 16 17 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:24.908 17 18 20 Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1:25.626 18 19 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:25.716 22 20 22 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1:26.508 19 21 23 Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1:27.062 20 22 21 Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1:27.110 21 107% time:1:28.080 Source:  — Kimi Räikkönen and Daniel Ricciardo were each given a two-place grid penalty for failing to queue in the fast lane at the resumption on the second qualifying session.  — Romain Grosjean was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident in the previous race.

Race Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 11 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 70 1:32:09.143 1 25 2 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 70 +14.408 6 18 3 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 70 +15.942 2 15 4 2 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 70 +25.731 5 12 5 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 70 +1:09.725 4 10 6 18 Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 7 8 7 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 17 6 8 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 69 +1 lap 16 4 9 7 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 69 +1 lap 10 2 10 15 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 8 1 11 6 Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 12 12 5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 14 13 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 69 +1 lap 22 14 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 69 +1 lap 3 15 19 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 68 +2 laps 11 16 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 68 +2 laps 13 17 22 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 68 +2 laps 19 18 20 Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 67 +3 laps 18 19 23 Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 67 +3 laps 20 20 12 Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 63 Accident 15 11 Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 45 Collision damage 9 21 Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 43 Collision damage 21 Source:  — Esteban Gutiérrez was classified despite retiring as he had completed 90% of the race distance.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Sebastian Vettel 132 1 2 Fernando Alonso 96 1 3 Kimi Räikkönen 88 4 Lewis Hamilton 77 5 Mark Webber 69Source:

Constructors' Championship standings Constructor Points 1 Red Bull-Renault 201 2 Ferrari 145 1 3 Mercedes 134 1 4 Lotus-Renault 114 5 Force India-Mercedes 51Source:

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