Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has described Red Bull's protests at the Canadian Grand Prix as "petty" and "embarrassing". 

George Russell sealed his first win of the season with a composed drive in Montreal, leading from reigning world champion Max Verstappen and team-mate Kimi Antonelli. 

Indeed, Russell won his fourth Formula One race, and his first since the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2024, as he consolidated fourth place in the drivers' championship. 

It rounded off a strong weekend from the Briton, who also secured pole position and the fastest lap, which was the first hat-trick of his career. 

But Red Bull challenged his victory, alleging Russell had broken regulations for driving erratically and committing unsportsmanlike conduct behind the safety car. 

It is not the first time Red Bull have protested against Russell this season. They also alleged that he had failed to sufficiently slow under the yellow flags at the Miami Grand Prix. 

"First of all, it took team Red Bull two hours before they launched the protest, so that was their doing. You know, honestly, it's so petty and so small," Wolff told Sky Sports. 

"They've done it in Miami. Now they launched two protests. They took one back because it was ridiculous.

"They come up with some weird clauses, what they call clauses. I guess the FIA needs to look at that because it's so farfetched it was rejected.

"You know, you race, you win and you lose on track. That was a fair victory for us, like so many they had in the past. And it's just embarrassing."

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Russell's triumph was also Mercedes' first of the season, while also bridging the gap between themselves and Red Bull to 37 points in the constructors' championship. 

Antontelli clinched the first podium of his F1 career, becoming the third-youngest podium finisher in the history of the competition at 18 years, nine months and 21 days old. 

Asked if Red Bull's protests should have been dismissed quicker, Wolff said: "One of them they pulled as a protest, they didn't even follow through because it was nonsense.

"The second one took us five hours because I don't even know what you refer to as 'unsportsmanlike behaviour' or something. What is it all about? Who decides it?

"Because I'm 100 per cent sure it's not Max, he's a racer. He would never go for a protest on such a trivial thing."

However, Wolff's counterpart, Christian Horner, insisted that Red Bull had "no regrets" about their actions to challenge the decision. 

"No, absolutely not [no regrets]. I mean, it's a team's right to do so. You know, we saw something we didn't think was quite right," Horner also told Sky Sports. 

"You have the ability to put it in front of the stewards and so that's what we chose to do. Absolutely no regrets in that."

Asked about Verstappen's chances of adding a fifth world title this season, Horner added there is a long way to go yet.

The Dutchman sits third in the driver's standings, behind McLaren pair Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

"We're not even halfway. We had a good weekend in Barcelona. We won obviously in Imola a few races ago, and as Sunday proved, anything can happen," he said. 

"You have just got to hang in there. It's a long championship. We don't give up on anything, keep fighting till the very end.

"If one person's going to do that, it's definitely going to be Max."