( CNN ) -- McLaren 's Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday to record his first victory of the Formula One season and move top of the drivers ' standings . Frenchman Romain Grosjean in a Lotus produced an impressive drive to finish second , just ahead of Sauber 's Sergio Perez . Red Bull 's Sebastian Vettel finished fourth , with Ferrari 's Fernando Alonso in fifth , which kept the Spaniard just two points behind Hamilton in the title race . `` I never had a doubt in my mind that there would not be a possibility to win , '' said Hamilton , who is the seventh different winner in seven races this season . It was Hamilton 's third Canadian Grand Prix victory in five attempts , and his 18th from 97 races overall , while teammate Jenson Button was out of the points in 16th . Latest F1 standings . While Alonso and world champion Vettel opted for a one-stop strategy , Hamilton made two stops but was able to force his way past the Spanish and German drivers . Hamilton had problems at both pit stops -- almost stalling at the first and then had a difficulty with one of his wheels at the second -- but the British driver recovered to first overtake Vettel on lap 62 and then motor past Alonso three laps later . As Alonso 's tires faded the Ferrari driver slipped down to fifth , but he did manage to hold off Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg . `` Fernando and I took the decision to stay out , '' said Vettel , explaining Red Bull 's race strategy . `` I felt pretty comfortable on the tires and obviously we were hoping to get the place back , but as it turned out it was the right thing to go for the second stop . `` We decided a few laps from the end to do a pit stop -- a stop here is not so long , about 15 seconds -- and in the end it was the right decision . `` Before the stop we were three to four seconds behind Fernando , but we ended up six seconds ahead of him . '' Grosjean also adopted a one-stop strategy but with better success than Alonso as he secured the second podium placing of his career , both coming this season . `` It 's been a great day for the team . It was an incredible race and the one stop strategy worked perfectly for us . It was n't an easy race , but we wanted to be aggressive to achieve a good result , '' he said . His teammate Kimi Raikkonen was eighth , behind Red Bull 's Mark Webber . Sauber had both cars in the points as Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi was ninth , while Ferrari 's Felipe Massa was 10th after recovering from an early spin .
Canadian Grand Prix produces seventh different winner in seventh race of F1 season . McLaren 's Lewis Hamilton wins Montreal race for the third time in his career . Romain Grosjean 's Lotus comes second , with Sauber 's Sergio Perez in third . Hamilton leads drivers ' standings with 88 points , two ahead of Fernando Alonso .