2012 Canadian GP - Gilles Villeneuve

[stefan_]

Great performance for Grosjean and Perez, very good job, really happy for the guys. Kimi had a bad strategy again.

[GrizzleBoy]

You have to remember that it wasn't the tyres that were the problem in this race, it was Alonso and Vettel trying for a one stop race. Others managed to make it work, but they (Alonso and Vettel) were pushing the tyres harder earlier in the stint.

I think Alonso and Vettel switched to one-stop strategies after Hamilton's poor stops. It was clearly the wrong move for both.

Lewis was doing fastest laps and going a second faster than both of them after just one lap on his new tyres.

They seemed to have counted him out after seeing his times dropping rapidly and focused on each other.

[bhall]

Let's see if Buxton can keep himself from verbally fellating Hamilton in the post-race press conference.

EDIT: So-so.

[McMrocks]

I think Button is never 1sec slower than Hamilton.

[Fil]

Yep, just checked the stats..


Canada 2012 is officially the changing of the guard.

The first race in Formula One with an all-GP2-graduate podium. =D>

[Ray]

I'm not being insulting or anything, but holy cow does Grosjean look like a sick man compared to Lewis and Sergio. He looks horrible sitting there. His skin looks bad and severely flushed, and he looks like he has no eyebrows. Does he look like that after every race? If I saw a man looking like that in public I would think he was very sick and in need of attention.

[TheGkbrk]

Both RBR and Ferrari had a lot more tyre degradation than expected. Grosjean pitted only a lap later than Alonso but was still on 1.17s on last laps. RBR had no chance to push the car to the limit and Ferrari had only 5 laps or so. Maybe both Ferrari and RBR had unnecessarily more downforce?

[kemalcan]

Suffering to watch Fernando in last laps... Pushing till the end always better to watch even if you don't gain places, it's better then watching something miserable like this. Ferrari should have called Fernando right after Mclaren messed Lewis' pit stop... Anyway great drive by Lewis, Romain and Sergio and perfect calls by their teams.

[zyphro]

Both RBR and Ferrari had a lot more tyre degradation than expected. Grosjean pitted only a lap later than Alonso but was still on 1.17s on last laps. RBR had no chance to push the car to the limit and Ferrari had only 5 laps or so. Maybe both Ferrari and RBR had unnecessarily more downforce?

RBR skinny wing, perhaps made their deg worse?

[beelsebob]

I think the key interesting thing for this race to me is that McLaren may have understood the tyres better than everyone now. Lotus & Sauber can make them work in the hot (race); Merc can make them work in the cool, RBR and Ferrari somewhere in between – McLaren managed to make them (just about) work at both extremes. I can see McLaren beginning to stretch their legs a bit if the other teams don't figure it out soon.

[stefan_]

I think the moment of the race was the Mercedes guy almost standing on Schumacher's RW to close the DRS.

[FrukostScones]

so who will shine in 30*C Valencia?

[Poleman]

so who will shine in 30*C Valencia?

Valencia has some fast sweeping tuns,i can see Macca keeping the momentum and being strong there as well...Ferrari and RBR up there too,but thats as far it goes for pure car performance...The key will be how each car will work on the Pirellis (again),so i expect surprises...

[chepoi]

so who will shine in 30*C Valencia?

Valencia has some fast sweeping tuns,i can see Macca keeping the momentum and being strong there as well...Ferrari and RBR up there too,but thats as far it goes for pure car performance...The key will be how each car will work on the Pirellis (again),so i expect surprises...

the 8th winner will be Kimi? of Grosjean? or Massa? or Kamui? or Schumi?

[beelsebob]

so who will shine in 30*C Valencia?

To be honest, while McLaren have got more on top of the warm temps, I can see that being a Renault race.