Verstappen needs to stay out of trouble at Canadian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen will have to keep out of trouble as he chases an unprecedented fourth Canadian Grand Prix win in a row this weekend, with only a penalty point between the Formula One champion and a race ban.

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The Red Bull driver has won for the last three years in Montreal, the last time after starting alongside Mercedes’ pole-sitter George Russell -- the same rival he clashed with two weekends ago -- in a qualifying draw.

How Verstappen will respond is an open question but others are sure to want to take whatever advantage they can of the situation at a track famed also for changeable weather.

“He mustn't do anything wrong over the next two race weekends, and of course he will be told not to do anything rash,” Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko wrote in a column for www.speed-week.com post-Spain.

“It would be a catastrophe if he couldn’t start in Austria (the race after Canada).”