2012 Canadian GP - Gilles Villeneuve

[Vasco]

Great to see 3 world champions fighting it out...the cars are close in quali and race pace and I am sure we'll see more of this later in the year.

Horrible luck for Schumi...he really deserves a race win.

[Unc1e_M0nty]

Great race, especially after the annual borefest that was Monaco, fantastic way to get the season get back on track.

Just loved seeing the 3 champs slug it out over the race, the cooler temps deffo suited the Macca, Lewis was unstopable on his first set of softs.

I think on another "hotter" day we'd have seen a different result, Lewis would have come home a distant 3rd or maybe worse, I don't think it's right that tyre temp windows should make the difference they do.

[Mr Alcatraz]

Is this correct?
WDC standings :
Alonso 88
Hamilton 88
Vettel 85

[FrukostScones]

did someone notice that during Lewis 2nd pitstop rear right change was not good again.

no 88HAM
86ALO
85VET

[mx_tifoso]

Alcatraz, for the standings refer to the home page. They are now up to date.

[marcush.]

wow perez again with a brilliant race ,his driving is really awesome ,how he made a micky of Rosberg was just stunning. =D>
Schumacher ..what can you say .DRS fail as predicted...come on Mercedes you might find another posssible dnf reason in time for Valencia...bring it on.
On a side note:Schumacher was at pains to protect his guys who work on prototypes we should not forget ... brave face as always. this man ´s attitude deserves respect. I think he will quit .

both stops for hamilton were less than perfect -right rear was sooo slow....and it was a close call on exit as well as webbo was entering his pit slot ....it could have gone wrong there.

[beelsebob]

Hmm, could it be that Ferrari's tyre degradation has something to do with the new exhaust configuration?

Before, Ferrari seemed to have better degradation than Red Bull and much much better than Mclaren, and somewhere in the middle between Sauber. Today it seemed they had just 2-3 laps better tyre management than their direct competitors and much worse compared to the Sauber.

Could it be the exhaust plume acting on the tyres?

I'm not sure... it's possible; but I think it has more to do with McLaren having figured out the tyres more – they seemed to manage to make them work over a full 10°C range this weekend. Bear in mind too, the Ferrari's tyres didn't go off until about 10 laps after Hamilton's pit stop, so they're still doing better than McLaren. Also, they went two laps longer in the first stint than Vettel while still putting in the fast laps, and kept it up better in their "second" stint.

So really, combination of two things 1) McLaren sorted out their tyres better than in the past 2) Ferrari still had the properties you're talking about, it just was rather masked by a disastrous strategy call.

[nacho]

Button totally lost, weird things happening.

[beelsebob]

Button totally lost, weird things happening.

Bear in mind, he had one quarter of the time everyone else had to set his car up, and a 5 place grid drop.

[Shrieker]

Good win by Lewis. But it's shocking to see what Jenson's up to. It can be expected that he isn't ahead of Lewis in qualifying, but he'd always be there or thereabouts in the race. How many races now he's scored no points ?!?

[marcush.]

according to whitmarsh Jenson had chosen a differnt rear suspension geometry to Hamilton which abused the rears more .He also had this problem with front lockup....I think they just blew the setup big time this weekend .

[beelsebob]

according to whitmarsh Jenson had chosen a differnt rear suspension geometry to Hamilton which abused the rears more .He also had this problem with front lockup....I think they just blew the setup big time this weekend .

As I said above, not much blowing to do – he only had a quarter as long as everyone else to figure out how to get it set up.

[ajdavison2]

Button totally lost, weird things happening.

Bear in mind, he had one quarter of the time everyone else had to set his car up, and a 5 place grid drop.

Button didn't have a penalty, Maldonaldo did if you're getting confused between the 2? In the post race interview he plainly admitted that he didn't have the pace, couldn't keep the tires together and that he had no explanation.

[PlatinumZealot]

paddy Lowe said the cars are exactly the same.... Only difference is setup.

[ringo]

FIA need to look into the DRS.
It should have a relief valve, to prevent hydraulics from locking. Remeber it was designed to flap down to resting position naturally. That's why it was hinged at the top.
It can't do this if the hydraulics dont allow. A redundant relief valve needs to be in place for these situations.


As for Button, there are no words to describe....
He got Massacred; pun intended.