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While there was anger and dismay over at Ferrari, Red Bull were celebrating a one-two finish for their drivers.

Securing a front-row spot on a Saturday doesn't seem to matter for Max Verstappen right now, as the world champion claimed his third win in the last four races at the expense of polesitter Charles Leclerc.

"It was a challenging weekend for us here in Baku," tweeted Verstappen, who now leads the title race by 21 points. "So to win this one feels absolutely great."

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Carlos Sainz was the first driver we had to wave goodbye to in Azerbaijan, as the Spaniard's hydraulic failure set in motion Ferrari's dreadful showing in round eight.

Sainz had qualified in fourth place for the race but his early withdrawal has now left him trailing further adrift of fourth-placed George Russell in the championship.

"We are very strong and we will recover," Sainz tweeted. "There's still a lot!"

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From holding a 34-point lead in the drivers' world championship - and a 46-point advantage over rival Max Verstappen after the Australian Grand Prix - Charles Leclerc now finds himself 34 points adrift of the Dutchman after last week's grand prix.

Leclerc has only pocketed 30 points from his position on the front row since the inaugural race in Miami at the beginning of May.

Miami

Pole - second place (18 points)

Spain

Pole - DNF (engine failure)

Monaco

Pole - fourth place (12 points)

Azerbaijan

Pole - DNF (engine failure)

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer in Montreal

An update from Ferrari: "Investigation confirmed Charles Leclerc's Baku power-unit is beyond repair. One possible cause of the failure is it occurred as a consequence of the problem in Spain. We are now working on countermeasures to strengthen the package and the situation is under control"

Charles Leclerc says the team are still discussing whether he will need to take a grid penalty (the inevitable consequence of a new power-unit for him) in Canada this weekend.

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A fourth consecutive pole position couldn't be converted into a race win for Charles Leclerc yet again after the Monegasque driver suffered an engine failure at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

To add to the disappointment in Baku, the Ferrari driver has now dropped to third behind Red Bull's Sergio Perez in the championship standings.

"It feels bad, it hurts," Leclerc said. "It is more than significant. I don't really have the words. It is just a huge disappointment and I hope we can jump back from it and be on top of those things."

So, what was the outcome of Leclerc's power-unit problem?

Jennie is roaming the paddock for us this weekend.

Daniel Ricciardo also added his thoughts on Hamilton's discomfort into the ring, saying the idea the Mercedes driver was laying it on thick after he cautiously lifted himself out of his car was false.

The McLaren man told PA news agency: "There was talk about Lewis after the race. I saw some of his on-boards, I saw pictures of him getting out of the car and stretching his back, and he wasn't exaggerating. It really was uncomfortable.

"The good thing is that it is very visible. If you have the car's audio, you can hear it jumping and bouncing, and from the images, you can see the helmet is moving around, too. It is not normal or comfortable."

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer in Montreal

There are two related but separate issues - "porpoising", an aerodynamic phenomenon caused by underbody airflow disruption, which leads to a high-frequency vertical oscillation; and "bouncing", caused when the cars' floors hit the track.

Some teams are suffering worse than others with , but drivers from all teams are believed to have expressed their concerns on the issue.

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll was forced to retire from last weekend's race in Azerbaijan because of the severity of the problem, the first time this has happened to a driver this season.

The Canadian said: "It has been very bad and both porpoising and the stiffness is something the FIA needs to address because it's not sustainable."

His team-mate Sebastian Vettel added: "It can't be that us drivers should suffer injury short or long term, or possibly for the rest of our lives, every sport to the extreme is not healthy.

"But it cannot go on for another four or five years like that so it is good the FIA is looking into it."

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Lewis Hamilton isn't the only driver to feel the effects of a not-so-smooth ride in the new generation of cars.

Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton's old Mercedes team-mate, told BBC Sport this week that the F1 could see injuries to drivers if the issue of 'porpoising' isn't dealt with soon.

"I've seen how sore some of the drivers are after the race," said the Alfa Romeo driver." Some of the certain speeds and corners… the cars are less under control because of it."

"It is definitely a topic and it's getting quite serious."

Read the full interview with Bottas here

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer in Montreal

The FIA has introduced a technical directive saying that it considers "high levels of grounding or excessive aerodynamic oscillations a 'dangerous construction'."

It pointed out that the stewards "can disqualify cars deemed to be dangerous".

And it has set out a series of steps with which it plans to address the problems over coming races.

These include:

• Analysing the wear and skid patterns on the cars' underfloors
• Defining a metric to "provide an objective criterion" for these oscillations which will lead to the establishment of an "acceptable" level
• Over a period of races, this will lead to teams having to submit an aerodynamic configuration for their cars after final practice that can then not be changed other than under a few pre-defined areas.

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Formula 1's governing body the FIA says it is taking steps on safety grounds to reduce the high-speed bouncing that has affected drivers this season.

In a statement, the governing body said it decided to intervene following "consultation with its doctors in the interests of safety of the drivers".

It added: "In a sport where the competitors are routinely driving at speeds in excess of 300km/h, it is considered that all of a driver's concentration needs to be focused on that task and that excessive fatigue or pain experienced by a driver could have significant consequences should it result in a loss of concentration.

"In addition, the FIA has concerns in relation to the immediate physical impact on the health of the drivers, a number of whom have reported back pain following recent events."

You can read the FIA's full statement here , external

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Last weekend we saw Lewis Hamilton climb out of his car very slowly and then rub his back after an uncomfortable 51-lap race in Azerbaijan.

The seven-time world champion finished fourth after starting seventh but the aggressive bouncing the Mercedes suffered left Hamilton to declare the grand prix in Baku "the most painful I've experienced".

After the grand prix, Hamilton wrote that the 'porpoising' feels just as bad as it looks but the recovery was underway to be fit for Canada.

So, have the FIA took notice of the struggles some drivers have faced this season?

Yes, they have...

Greetings, folks. Some evening Formula 1 action ahead if you're following along in the UK. Nice, sensible times, perhaps, if you're joining us from elsewhere in the world.

We're back in Montreal over the next three days as Canada returns to the calendar for the first time since 2019, but conditions could be soggy for the first half of the weekend.

First practice gets going at 19:00 BST.

Second practice goes green at 22:00 BST.

Some important news for us to look at first...

Welcome back, Canadian Grand Prix.

Can Ferrari recover from their Baku torment this weekend? Or will the Red Bull charge continue at pace?

The weather in Montreal over the past 24 hours has been more wellies and waders than buckets, spades and sun tan lotion.

But for now, at least, it's dry.

For now...