Canadian GP: Hamilton claims another 1-2 finish for McLaren

June 13 '10

Lewis Hamilton won the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix, the most exciting race of the season so far. It was Hamilton's second victory in three visits to Montreal.

"It's been a tremendous weekend; it's been fantastic," Hamilton said. "Things have just gone so well throughout the weekend...The team did an exceptional job. I think the race was one of the toughest races so far, but that's what you want, to have the hardest part that these guys did. Jenson did a great job, and it's another one-two finish for us. I'm very happy for the team."

Mark Webber started seventh on the grid after taking a five-place penalty due to a late gearbox change. Red Bulls thought that they had a race advantage by starting on the harder tyres compared to Hamilton who started the race on the softer tyre. But Hamilton's superb drive and McLaren's inabilty to destroy its tyres quickly, lead to a fine victory to Hamilton.

His team mate Jenson Button finished second. It was McLaren?s third 1-2 finish of the season promoting them to the top of the constructor's championship.

Fernando Alonso fought well with the McLarens and seemed like he was going to win the race. But eventually he finished third after Button overtook him for second with 15 laps remaining, when he was slowed down while trying to overtake a lapped car.

Michael Schumacher had an eventful race all the way to the chequered flag. "Michael was looking strong in the first phase of the race and was very well-placed," said Brawn. "Unfortunately the incident with Kubica punctured the right front tyre and coming in for the extra stop meant we were out of phase with where we wanted to be with the tyres.

Schumacher was running eighth until he started to struggle badly for grip late in the race, leaving him helpless to defend his position as he dropped out of the points. Sebastian Buemi overtook him for 8th place with 9 laps to go. Schumacher lost two more places at the end to the two Force Indias.

Vitantonio Liuzzi in his Force India enjoyed the best weekend of the season and had he not been involved in collision with Felipe Massa at the start of the race, he would have had a better result. Nonetheless, Force India scored a double points finish, their second this season.

Race incidents involving few cars are being investigated. Will update once the results are out.

Update:

• The stewards decided not to take any action over the collision between Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa in the closing stages of the race.
• Massa was given a 20-second time penalty for speeding in the pit lane (with a buckled front wing after his collision with Schumi).
• Robert Kubica was reprimanded for weaving past Adrian Sutil at speed on his way into the pits.
• Jaime Alguersuari was reprimanded for a collision with Rubens Barrichello, which caused Barrichello to pit for a new front wing.

Meanwhile, analyze the race lap-by-lap, thanks to Formula 1 broadcaster and journalist, James Allen's tweets below. (Hint : Read the tweets bottom-up!)

Heading to Valencia in two weeks time, Lewis Hamilton now leads the drivers championship with 109 points. His team mate Jenson Button is second in the standings with 106 points and Mark webber who was leading the championship until now drops to third with 103 points.


Canadian Grand Prix Race times

1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 70 laps 1hr 33m 53.456s
2. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes +2.2s
3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari-Ferrari +9.2s
4. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault +37.8s
5. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault +39.2s
6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes-Mercedes +56.0s
7. Robert Kubica Renault-Renault +57.3s
8. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari +1 lap
9. Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes +1 lap
10. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes +1 lap

11. Michael Schumacher Mercedes-Mercedes +1 lap
12. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari +1 lap
13. Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth +1 lap
14. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth +1 lap
15. Felipe Massa Ferrari-Ferrari +1 lap
16. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth +2 laps
17. Vitaly Petrov Renault-Renault +2 laps
18. Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth +4 laps
19. Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth +5 laps

Rtd. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 50 laps completed
Rtd. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 42 laps completed
Rtd. Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 30 laps completed
Rtd. Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 13 laps completed
Rtd. Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1 lap completed


Fastest lap:

Robert Kubica Renault-Renault 1m 16.972s


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