Sebastian Vettel ensured the pole position in the Montreal qualification again. Even though he hit the wall in the Friday practice nothing happened to him. Behind him there were both cars of Scuderia Ferrari, where we can see a major improvement. The most dramatic element of this year's Canadian GP was the rain, for which the race was interupted. The wet start didn't happen until the lap 4 when the Safety Car went in. However, the weather was going from bad to worse. Hamilton made a big mistake, hitting Button from behind, who, however, continued the race but fell through to the fourteenth position. Hamilton damaged his rear suspension and retired from the race. The standings: Vettel, Alonso, Massa, Rosberg, M.Schumacher, Kobayashi, Heidfeld. Safety Car is deployed again and Button gets a penalty for misbehaving behind it and fells through again. On lap 17 the rain gets heavier, the tires of choice seem to be the intermediates, which shows not to be a lucky pick, as it turns out later. On the lap 20 the Safety Car is out again, the drivers line up behind it, it is raining really bad. During the Safety Car break the tires are changed back to the wet ones. Lap 25 and the GP is interupted. Restart comes after about ninety minutes, Button closes Alonso up, who gets trapped on the edge of the track and quits, Safety Car again, restart on the lap 40. Starting grid of GP Canada:
| S.Vettel |
F.Alonso |
| F.Massa |
M.Webber |
| L.Hamilton |
N.Rosberg |
| J.Button |
M.Schumacher |
| N.Heidfeld |
V.Petrov |
| P.di Resta |
P.Maldonado |
| K.Kobajaši |
A.Sutil |
| S.Buemi |
R.Barrichello |
| P.de la Rosa |
J.Alguersuari |
| J.Truli |
H.Kovalainen |
| V.Liuzzi |
T.Glock |
| N.Kartykejan |
J.D´Ambrosio |
On the lap 45 the gap behind Vettel is 4.5 s to then second Kobayashi, F.Massa is the third, behind him M.Schumacher, Heidfeld, Webber... 53rd lap collision of F.Massa - he needs a new nosecone and falls through. 54th lap - S.Vettel is in the lead, M.Schumacher on the second position behind him, M.Webber third. On the lap 56 Heidfeld retires after a crash with Kobayashi who had been before him, Heidfeld didn't manage to slow down enough and retires. Safety Car out again, the remains of the Heidfeld's car are being cleared away and the show goes on. Lap 60 - restart, S.Vettel leads before M.Schumacher and M.Webber. After them there are J.Button, Petrov, Kobayashi... On the lap 64 M.Schumacher is overtaken by M.Webber, who makes a mistake and is overtook by J.Button, who gets to the second position thus and commences his chase for Vettel. On the last lap S.Vettel makes his only mistake, skids and loses his first position, that is immediately filled with Button and that is how the race finishes after a while.
GP : 1.J.Button, 2.S.Vettel, 3. M.Webber
Felipe Massa |
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Fernando Alonso |
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Kamui Kobayashi |
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Kamui Kobayashi |
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Michael Schumacher |
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Sebastian Vettel |
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