F1 Canadian Grand Prix: Start time, TV channel, how to stream 2019 race

The F1 2019 schedule reaches its seventh race of the season Sunday, the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. For the first time this season, ABC, not ESPN or ESPN2, will be the TV channel that will broadcast this weekend's Formula 1 race, with a start time of 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. The Canadian Grand Prix also can be live streamed via the ESPN app.

The Canadian Grand Prix will run at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, a 14-turn, 4.361-kilometer course located on the man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River. Sunday's race is scheduled for 70 laps and a total distance of 305.27 kilometers.

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Shocker: A Mercedes driver, either Lewis Hamilton or Valtteri Bottas, will be considered the favorite to win the Canadian Grand Prix considering one or the other has won each of the first six F1 races in 2019. If Hamilton were to win, he would tie Michael Schumacher as the driver with the most victories (seven) on the circuit. The Canadian Grand Prix also would become the race where Hamilton has collected the most wins in his career.

The Canadian Grand Prix has also been good to Bottas, who has reached the podium in the last four races in Montreal.

As for the teams trying to keep up with Mercedes in the F1 standings, Ferrari (Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc) and Red Bull (Max Verstappen), the Canadian Grand Prix offers an opportunity, but still a steep challenge. Ferrari is one win away from equaling McLaren (13) as the team to have won the most Canadian GPs. The last F1 fastest lap set by Verstappen was in last year's Canadian Grand Prix.

Below is all you need to know about the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix, including how to watch and live stream the race.

F1 2019 Canadian Grand Prix start time, how to watch

• Date: Sunday, June 9
• Time: 1:30 p.m. ET
• TV channel: ABC
• Live stream: ESPN app

F1 TV schedule, live stream for Canadian Grand Prix

As it has in years past, in the United States, ESPN (and in this case, ABC) will broadcast Sky Sports' presentation of 2019 F1 races.

Below is the TV and live streaming schedule for Canadian Grand Prix qualifying and race presentations on ESPN platforms Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday, June 7

Saturday, June 8

Sunday, June 9

Canadian Grand Prix qualifying results, starting lineup

F1 qualifying for the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix too place Saturday, June 8 at 1:55 p.m. ET and was shown live on ESPNEWS with a live stream available on the ESPN app.

Fun fact: The driver starting on pole position has won each of the last four Canadian Grand Prix races (Hamilton three times; Vettel), the best such run in this GP. The next driver to secure a maiden career pole position will be the 100th different driver to do so in F1 history.

The F1 qualifying results and starting grid for the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix is below.

Canadian Grand Prix facts, notes

F1 Opta facts:

• Jenson Button won the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix in what broke the record for the longest race in F1 history (4 hours, 4 minutes).
• If Hamilton wins this Canadian Grand Prix, he will equal Michael Schumacher as the driver with the most victories (seven) at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit.
• Hamilton (six) and Vettel (four) have won the pole for 10 of the last 11 Canadian GPs; Nico Rosberg (2014) is the only other driver to claim it in that time.
• The driver starting on pole position has won each of the last four Canadian Grand Prix races (Hamilton three times; Vettel), the best such run in this GP.
• Ferrari (12) is one win away from equaling McLaren (13) as the team to have won the most Canadian GPs.
• The two Mercedes drivers have finished on the podium in each of the opening six F1 races this season.
• Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have set the fastest laps in the opening six F1 in 2019 on aggregate (two for each team).
• The next driver to secure a maiden career pole position will be the 100th different driver to do so in F1 history.
• If Hamilton wins this Canadian GP, it would become the race where the Brit has collected the most wins in his career (currently six, equal with China, U.S. and Hungary).
• Only Jim Clark (eight) has notched more Grand Chelems than Hamilton in F1 (five, alongside Alberto Alberti and Schumacher).
• Bottas is one win away from securing as many race wins in 2019 as in the rest of his F1 career combined (three, all in 2017).
• Bottas has reached the podium in the last four races at Montreal, the Grand Prix at which he has managed this feat the most often in his career (four times); finishing third in 2015 and 2016 for Williams and second in 2017 and 2018 for Mercedes.
• Vettel has gone 14 finished F1 races in a row without winning, the worst run without retirements in his F1 career.
• If Leclerc wins in Montreal, he will become the third-youngest driver to win an F1 race (21 years, seven months and 24 days) after Verstappen and Vettel.
• The last F1 fastest lap set by Verstappen was in the Canadian GP last year.
• Since the beginning of the season and excluding retirements, Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly hasn’t finished lower than his position from the previous race; 11th in Australia, eighth in Bahrein, sixth in China and Spain, and fifth in Monaco.
• If Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo (994) finishes seventh or better in Canada, then the Aussie will reach 1,000 points in F1, becoming the second Australian to reach this milestone after Mark Webber (1,047.5 points).
• McLaren’s Carlos Sainz has the chance to record the 100th F1 podium for Spanish drivers (Fernando Alonso with 97, plus Pedro Martínez de la Rosa and Alfonso de Portago).
• HAAS’ Romain Grosjean will race his 150th GP in F1; he has collected the second most points (383) of any French driver in F1 behind Alain Prost (798.5).
• Racing Point’s Lance Stroll is two points away from equaling Jacques Villenueve (six) for the second most points by a Canadian at the Canadian GP; only Gilles Villenueve has more (21).

Canadian Grand Prix: Live updates

F1 Canadian Grand Prix live updates