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[Leunam]

So is de la Rosa actually driving in the race? It would be pretty cool if he just came out of nowhere and finished in the points or something.

I'd feel bad for Perez. Scored his first points, crashes out in qualifying, misses a race at a track that he won in GP2, gets hyped up for Canada, waits two weeks, gets an OK from FIA and Monaco examiners, and suddenly he feels like shit after FP1. Poor bastard.

 

[a176]

WALL OF CHAMPIONS

greatest chicane in all of formula one

 

[Edmond Dantès]

WALL OF CHAMPIONS

greatest chicane in all of formula one

So many victims.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRLbE6YejI&feature=fvwrel

 

[Juicy Bob]

So many victims.

Love the top rated comment.

Thinking about it, Schumacher, Alonso, Hamilton, Button, Vettel. I know Alonso hit the Turn 4 wall in 2005 but I can't remember either him or Hamilton falling victim to the Wall of Champions yet? There's still a lot of driving left this weekend, though...

 

[Leunam]

We take a small break from Europe to come to Canada, home of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. A favorite for fans and drivers alike, Canada is one of the fastest tracks on the calendar and this season it hopes to break all previous speed records thanks to the two DRS zones, a first for this year. The infamous Wall of Champions has already claimed a few victims in practice, and we can definitely expect more people to be caught by surprise as the weekend continues.

2010 Race Summary

The race was the first of the season in which all twenty-four cars started on the grid; prior to the Montreal race, at least one car—usually from Virgin, Lotus or Hispania—was forced to start from the pit lane with a mechanical issue of some kind. Mark Webber was demoted from second place on the grid to seventh after Red Bull found iron filings in a sample of oil taken from the gearbox used in Webber's car during qualifying. This finding, which suggested damage to the internals of the gearbox and necessitated a gearbox change under parc ferme conditions, resulted in the five-place grid penalty.

The opening lap saw drama unfold before the field had even cleared the start gantry. While Lewis Hamilton won the drag race to the first corner, in the middle of the pack, Vitaly Petrov jumped the start and was forced onto the grassy verge as he attempted to go around the outside. This resulted in a spin that forced Pedro de la Rosa to take evasive action; Petrov earned two drive-through penalties in the space of one hundred metres for his efforts and spent the rest of the race fighting with the new teams. Felipe Massa and Vitantonio Liuzzi made contact three times in one corner, with the Italian getting spun around in the process and sliding down the order. As Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso established the running order, Kamui Kobayashi and Nico Hülkenberg tangled on the run into the final corners. While the Williams driver cut the chicane to avoid further contact, Kobayashi was not as lucky and he became the Wall of Champions' 2010 victim. He retired a lap later with accident damage. After avoiding the spinning Petrov at the start, Kobayashi's Sauber team-mate Pedro de la Rosa joined him on the sidelines shortly thereafter and gave the team the unenviable record of eleven retirements from sixteen starts.

The predicted early round of stops passed without incident, although Red Bull elected to run their drivers on separate strategies; Mark Webber ran the harder prime compound back-to-back with a finish on the softer options, while Vettel ran the options in his middle stint and picked up the primes for the run to the finish. Every other driver except Robert Kubica had qualified on and subsequently started the race with the softer options. The tyre lottery produced an unlikely winner with Toro Rosso's Sébastien Buemi inheriting the lead for a lap before his stop, the first time a Toro Rosso had led a race since Sébastien Bourdais led three laps at the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix. Elsewhere in the field, Hülkenberg proved to be his own worst enemy when he over-extended himself under brakes while attempting to pass Nico Rosberg at l'Epingle and damaging his front wing in the process. He was then flagged for speeding in the pit lane when he pitted to replace the wing, robbing himself of a potential points place as he was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.

An accident between Michael Schumacher and Robert Kubica was narrowly avoided as Schumacher emerged from the first of his scheduled stops. Schumacher refused to yield on the approach to the fourth corner and the two took a short trip across the grassy verge. The altercation damaged Kubica's undertray while the incident was investigated by the stewards. It was the first of many incidents involving Schumacher, with the Mercedes driver later tangling with Adrian Sutil and Felipe Massa. Massa's race was marked by a perpetual battle with the Force India drivers including several near-misses in the second corner, the scene of his first-lap tangle with Liuzzi. Massa would later force his way past Sutil as the two closed in on the Lotus of Heikki Kovalainen, the cars running three-abreast into turn six. His late altercation with former Ferrari team-mate Schumacher required him to pit for a replacement front wing and, like Hülkenberg before him, the Brazilian driver was cited for speeding in the pit lane. Twenty seconds were added to his time after the race as punishment.

Webber's tyre strategy initially paid off but, as the race wore on, his tyres began to deteriorate exponentially. Hamilton, running second at the time, quickly reduced the Australian's lead and caught him with twenty laps to go, dragging the Ferrari of Alonso through in the process. Webber eventually pitted, emerging behind team-mate Vettel in fifth place as Vettel struggled with an unspecified but serious problem that he had to nurse to the finish; the team later clarified this as being related to the gearbox. As Hamilton settled back into the lead, reigning World Champion Jenson Button took Alonso by surprise, passing him around the back half of the circuit and positioning McLaren for their second consecutive one-two finish. Button briefly attempted a run at his team-mate, narrowing Hamilton's lead to just two seconds with ten laps to go, but Hamilton responded with a fast lap that dissuaded Button from making further attempts. The top five — Hamilton, Button, Alonso, Vettel and Webber — would remain in place until the very end with Vettel stopping on the circuit just after he crossed the finish line at the end of the race. Nico Rosberg fended off a late surge from Kubica to claim sixth while Buemi finished eighth and a lap down. Liuzzi and Sutil both found their way past Schumacher on the final lap — in Sutil's case this was in the final corner — as the Mercedes driver struggled with tyres that were almost completely out of grip and leaving the seven-time World Champion scoreless in what BBC commentator Martin Brundle later described as the German's "worst weekend of his career". Kovalainen was the best of the new teams, two laps down and fighting off Petrov for the final phase of the race, while Karun Chandhok and Lucas di Grassi were the final cars home, four and five laps down respectively.

The race was notably short of attrition compared to previous races at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, which have seen the safety car deployed so often that teams factor an accident into their strategies. However, the 2010 race was so short of retirements that it boasted the greatest number of finishers in the season to date with nineteen classifed drivers. In addition to the dual retirements for BMW Sauber, Bruno Senna was once again the victim of a gearbox problem while Jarno Trulli stopped in the pit entry on lap forty-seven with terminal brake problems. Timo Glock retired due to a steering rack leak that crippled his VR-01 on lap fifty-five.

The final result meant that Hamilton leapfrogged both Button and Webber in the championship standings with six points covering the top three drivers. With McLaren claiming the lead of the constructors' championship from Red Bull in Turkey, their maximum points score in Montreal placed them a further twenty points clear of the Austrian team.

Circuit Info
[Click map for onboard lap]

Laps

70​

Circuit length

4.361 km (2.709 mi)​

Race length

305.270 km (189.694 mi)​

Most Wins (Drivers)

Michael Schumacher (7)​

Most Wins (Constructors)

Ferrari (13)​

Previous Winners

Videos highlighting the Canadian Grand Prix

Highlights from 2008 Canadian GP

Highlights from 2010 Canadian GP

Highlights from 1986 Canadian GP

Wall of Champions Victims (Thanks Edmond Dantès!)

Drivers Championship

Constructors Championship

Fantasy League Championship

 

[Ark]

God dammit I WILL hit the top 50 this weekend!

For once I want Ferrari to do well.

 

[itsgreen]

Sergio. Your penis is this small.

Michael Schumacher has new personal driver

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Thanks for the preview Leunam, great job as always.

 

[Dead Man]

Thanks for the preview Leunam, great job as always.

Indeed, thanks again!!

 

[Lucius86]

That's because Leunam rocks

 

[itsgreen]

Nico Hulkenberg does his best Adrian Sutil imitation...

 

[DrM]

More rain predicted for tommorow, so we could see a wet, DRS-less race.

 

[DieH@rd]

where are the drs zone in canada?

 

[itsgreen]

where are the drs zone in canada?

Circuit map: DRS zone Montreal
Posted: Thursday June 09th 2011, 17:00 GMT
The FIA has officially unveiled the full details of the Drag Reduction System for the Canadian Grand Prix. For the first time the drivers will be able to use the system two times in a lap. The first time is the long straight after the hairpin, the second is the subsequent start finish straight after the chicane. Normally the DRS stops working after the driver brakes, but now they can reengage the system for the second straight. The detection area is in the middle of the hairpin.

The detection area and activation area are only relevant in the race. During the practice and qualifying sessions drivers are free to use DRS. If it rains drivers can't use the system.

http://formula1news.com/article/522/Circuit-map-DRS-zone-Montreal

 

[DieH@rd]

Two zones, nice.

 

[mclaren777]

Nico Hulkenberg does his best Adrian Sutil imitation...

 

[itsgreen]

Two zones, nice.

Yeah but like DrM said, if it rains: no DRS...

 

[AndyD]

Should be an interesting race. Can't wait. Canada is my favorite track of all.

 

[itsgreen]

Should be an interesting race. Can't wait. Canada is my favorite track of all.

Yeah mine too, next to Spa and shortly followed by Melbourne...

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Should be an interesting race. Can't wait. Canada is my favorite track of all.

A glorious weekend of motorsport.

 

[AndyD]

Yeah mine too, next to Spa and shortly followed by Montreal...

Wait, this is in Montreal...

I like Spa, but I have never been there, unlike Canada where I feel a connection with the track. Plus the waterfront location is beautiful, reminds me of Melbourne.

Edit: Ah crap. It's on Fox which means no preshow, a condensed 2 hour race no matter how long it goes and no postshow. Boo... gong to have to download the BBC one once I get back from watching it at the meetup.

 

[Quote]

Anyone know if there will be a stream tomorrow? Usually I'd be able to find practice 1 by now but can't. I'm worried it won't get upped at this point.

I wish Speed had an app and subscription service.

Edit: Just read the post above. Fox it is!

 

[AndyD]

Hamilton plowing... and clear weather. Wish there was some rain.

No crashes today, I guess everyone wants to make sure they can run qualifying.

 

[itsgreen]

Wait, this is in Montreal...

I like Spa, but I have never been there, unlike Canada where I feel a connection with the track. Plus the waterfront location is beautiful, reminds me of Melbourne.

Edit: Ah crap. It's on Fox which means no preshow, a condensed 2 hour race no matter how long it goes and no postshow. Boo... gong to have to download the BBC one once I get back from watching it at the meetup.

Hehe my bad, I meant Melbourne

 

[DrM]

That clouds are not looking very promising...

Mclaren not using DRS at all on FP3 so far

De La Rosa binned it right at the end

 

[TylerD]

Pedro crashed.

 

[Nolan.]

Ha poor Sauber

 

[Ark]

Noooo not DLR

 

[AndyD]

De la Rosa closes it on a low note.

Looking like a good race tomorrow. 3-4 teams really neck in neck.

 

[DrM]

Dunno why Mclaren is not using DRS at all on the longest straights... are they preparing for the wet race?

 

[Dead Man]

Will DLR be able to make it to qualy?

 

[Ark]

Dunno why Mclaren is not using DRS at all on the longest straights... are they preparing for the wet race?

Race sim/sandbagging.

Or wet race prep

 

[DrM]

Will DLR be able to make it to qualy?

They have 2 hours to fix that car...

 

[Dead Man]

They have 2 hours to fix that car...

I can't figure a better set-up than including Sauber in Racemanager, hope they get him back out there for qualy. Should be okay.

 

[itsgreen]

1 S. Vettel Red Bull 1:13.381 21 Season Best¹
2 F. Alonso Ferrari 1:13.701 21
3 N. Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:13.919 29 Season Best
4 F. Massa Ferrari 1:13.956 20
5 J. Button McLaren 1:14.335 18 Season Worst¹
6 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:14.469 16 Season Worst¹
7 M. Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:14.488 23
8 V. Petrov Renault 1:14.917 23
9 A. Sutil Force India 1:15.217 18
10 P. Resta Force India 1:15.243 17 Season Best¹
11 P. Maldonado Williams 1:15.312 19 Season Best
12 N. Heidfeld Renault 1:15.350 22
13 S. Buemi STR 1:16.138 17
14 J. Alguersuari STR 1:16.145 19
15 K. Kobayashi Sauber 1:16.236 21
16 R. Barrichello Williams 1:16.438 21
17 P. Rosa Sauber 1:16.706 22 Season Worst
18 H. Kovalainen Lotus 1:17.093 21 Season Best¹
19 J. Trulli Lotus 1:17.523 24 Season Best¹
20 V. Liuzzi HRT 1:18.910* 20 Season Best
21 T. Glock Virgin 1:19.073* 19
22 N. Karthikeyan HRT 1:19.213* 22 Season Best
23 J. d'Ambrosio Virgin 1:20.475* 19 Season Worst
24 M. Webber Red Bull no time* 0 Season Worst
107% time is 1:18.518, ¹ matches previously best/worst result

HRT's and Virgins not within 107%

http://formula1news.com/article/544/Results-Practice-3-Vettel-takes-back-P1-in-last-practice

 

[AndyD]

They have 2 hours to fix that car...

Should be doable. Unless there is severe suspension damage or anything more central. But it looked like a light hit.

Good thing is that they have had very competitive lap times so he should be allowed to race even if he can't qualify.

 

[a176]

the sky looked exactly like this last year, lol, didnt rain then, hopefully it wont rain now. atleast, within the next ~3 hours

 

[DrM]

Rain would be godsend, because it looks like RBR is still way ahead. Mclaren nowhere near first places in any practice, but they could be preparing for wet race or just playing around RBR style...

Montreal GAF, how is weather looking?

 

[mclaren777]

 

[itsgreen]

Massa and Alonso play hide and seek together... both hide...

 

[itsgreen]

Results: All practice sessions combined
Posted: Saturday June 11th 2011, 15:31 GMT
We have combined the results of all practice sessions. Everybody who was on track today improved their fastest time. Nico Rosberg drove the most laps of all drivers: 99. Nico Hulkenberg drove the least laps but he was only active in the first free practice session. From the drivers who drove all sessions Vettel did the least laps. The German drove 58 laps this weekend.

P Driver Team Time Laps Note
1 S. Vettel Red Bull 1:13.381 58 Practice 3
2 F. Alonso Ferrari 1:13.701 82 Practice 3
3 N. Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:13.919 99 Practice 3
4 F. Massa Ferrari 1:13.956 79 Practice 3
5 J. Button McLaren 1:14.335 63 Practice 3
6 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:14.469 61 Practice 3
7 M. Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:14.488 81 Practice 3
8 V. Petrov Renault 1:14.917 70 Practice 3
9 A. Sutil Force India 1:15.217 34 Practice 3
10 P. Resta Force India 1:15.243 77 Practice 3
11 P. Maldonado Williams 1:15.312 78 Practice 3
12 N. Heidfeld Renault 1:15.350 82 Practice 3
13 M. Webber Red Bull 1:16.102 58 Practice 2
14 S. Buemi STR 1:16.138 49 Practice 3
15 J. Alguersuari STR 1:16.145 84 Practice 3
16 K. Kobayashi Sauber 1:16.236 67 Practice 3
17 R. Barrichello Williams 1:16.438 77 Practice 3
18 P. Rosa Sauber 1:16.706 36 Practice 3
19 H. Kovalainen Lotus 1:17.093 89 Practice 3
20 J. Trulli Lotus 1:17.523 86 Practice 3
21 N. Hulkenberg Force India 1:17.549 20 Practice 1
22 S. Perez Sauber 1:17.662 27 Practice 1
23 D. Ricciardo STR 1:18.648 35 Practice 1
24 V. Liuzzi HRT 1:18.910 74 Practice 3
25 T. Glock Virgin 1:19.073 65 Practice 3
26 N. Karthikeyan HRT 1:19.213 87 Practice 3
27 J. d'Ambrosio Virgin 1:19.838 76 Practice 1

http://formula1news.com/article/545/Results-All-practice-sessions-combined

 

[Kifimbo]

Hamilton plowing... and clear weather. Wish there was some rain.

No crashes today, I guess everyone wants to make sure they can run qualifying.

Shouldn't rain today. Will probably rain tomorrow.

 

[Lucius86]

BBC coverage starting now.

 

[Ark]

BBC coverage starting now.

Oh what the hell. I got the Le Mans start wrong and I got the F1 start wrong

 

[AcridMeat]

I've got myself a big upgrade for racemanager finally after sitting the last 3 races. Let's gather on the steam chat and watch this bitch fellas.

I love this circuit so much.

 

[Wes]

Lee McKenzie huzzah

 

[itsgreen]

Lee McKenzie huzzah

Yeah definitely

 

[Ark]

Lee McKenzie huzzah

I want to see her hosting a race again, I thought she did a good job at Suzuka last year.

 

[itsgreen]

I want to see her hosting a race again, I thought she did a good job at Suzuka last year.

Well if wishes are granted and we want things.. I know what I want, and it isn't that she's hosting...

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

vettel has got this pole in the bag if he doesn't crash.