I’m nowhere in this race,” Hamilton admitted mid-race in Montreal after Ferrari revealed he had been carrying car damage since Lap 13.

Lewis Hamilton’s Canadian Grand Prix unravelled early and the culprit wasn’t a rival car, a pit stop blunder, or the weather. It was a groundhog. Hamilton, who was running well inside the top five, suffered a mysterious loss of pace after Lap 13.

The Ferrari F1 driver feels a minor breakthrough helped him to fifth on the grid for the Canadian GP, and is targeting a podium charge