By Alan Baldwin MONTREAL (Reuters) -Formula One stewards rejected a Red Bull protest of George Russell's Canadian Grand Prix victory for Mercedes on Sunday. The stewards said in a lengthy statement issued five and a half hours after the end of the race that the protest was not founded.

Red Bull have lodged a protest against George Russell's Canadian Grand Prix victory. Russell won the race under the safety car, meaning he crossed the line at a crawl ahead of Max Verstappen. Although the stewards' summons made no mention of what the appeal was about,

Red Bull had claimed George Russell had contravened safety car rules with Max Verstappen finishing second in Montreal