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Ha, nice one klicks!
Anyways, what a race in Montreal! Tremendous action even with the four deployments of the safety car. Perhaps the newest superstar in the world Lewis Hamilton driving for McLaren Mercedes dominated the entire day, sitting at P1 on the grid and coming home for his first F1 race victory. This guy has the potential to become the biggest sporting story in 2007. Great job Lewis.
Other interesting stuff, BMW driver Robert Kubica was involved in a horrendous accident which saw his car launch and then crash into the wall before the hairpin curve then violently tumble to s stop. Seeing that my heart was in my throat, thankfully by all accounts it seems Robert will be released from the hospital with only some minor scrapes.
Two drivers were black-flagged on Sunday for leaving the pit area under a red light, Fillipe Massa of Ferrari and Giancarlo Fisichella of Renault were the two who got the black flags. A shot of Massa in the pit area after he had to park his car showed him giving the thumbs-down, to which the commentators said "read the rule book, dude."
One driver didn't even make it off the starting grid. Jenson Button in the factory Honda had his car fail to get into gear while sitting on the starting grid ending his day very early.
But perhaps the best moment came near the end of the race when Takuma Sato overtook Fernando Alonso. Sato driving for Super Aguri, the youngest and smallest team in F1, boldly overtook Alonso, who was having a rough day, for a 6th place finish. Sato's move had me jumping up and down and howling with excitement, thanks for that Takuma.
Here are the finals results from Montreal;
Pos Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 70 1:44:11.292 1 10
2 Nick Heidfeld BMW 70 +4.3 secs 3 8
3 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 70 +5.3 secs 19 6
4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 70 +6.7 secs 22 5
5 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 70 +13.0 secs 4 4
6 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 70 +16.6 secs 11 3
7 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 70 +21.9 secs 2 2
8 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 70 +22.8 secs 18 1
9 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 70 +22.9 secs 6
10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 70 +23.9 secs 7
11 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 70 +24.3 secs 17
12 Rubens Barrichello Honda 70 +30.4 secs 13
Ret Jarno Trulli Toyota 58 Accident 10
Ret Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 54 Accident 12
Ret Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 47 Accident 21
Ret David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 36 Gearbox 14
Ret Robert Kubica BMW 26 Accident 8
Ret Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 21 Accident 20
Ret Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 8 Accident 16
Ret Jenson Button Honda 0 Gearbox 15
DSQ Felipe Massa Ferrari 51 Black flagged 5
DSQ Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 51 Black flagged 9
See you next weekend in Indianapolis for the United States Grand Prix!
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