2014 Canadian Grand Prix - Montreal

[CHT]

Big win for Rosberg and Ricciardo. Merc pace is still untouchable for the rest of the field.

Interesting to see both Merc suffering the same problem around the same time.

[grouch]

Massa and Perez got popped.

[bdr529]

Question re Lewis, did he have to retire? Or did he not give it long enough and it may have come back to him like it did for Rosberg?

He was done there was smoke coming out of his right rear

[ringo]

Question re Lewis, did he have to retire? Or did he not give it long enough and it may have come back to him like it did for Rosberg?

Remember the team didn't know what was happening until his brakes failed. So the team could not have known how to solve the issue had one of the cars not failed. Unfortunately it was Hamilton's first, as he was suffering longer than rosberg with low power.
Rosgerg savior was from Lewis failure.
So yes he had to retire, either him or Rosberg.

I don't think Rosberg's car came, back, Mercedes just went down to the other cars' performance level. So their secret is basically that their ERS.

I'm just hearing from Paddy Lowe that Lewis failure was a brake failure. Rosberg had no KERS.

[MercedesAMGSpy]

Oh Lewis, you must be happy with Abu Double.

[henra]

My guess: Vettel won't like it that Ricci beat him to Red Bull's first win. Especially since Ricci had to pass Vettel to do it.

He wasn't happy with his Team's stategy already during the race when he was stuck behind Hulk and the timing of their respective pit stops brought Ric in front of him.
Anyway Ricciardo is doing a great Job.

It was a very interesting Race where in the last 10 laps we had 5 candidates for the win. Haven't had thad for a very long time. Pitty for Hamilton, though.

[siskue2005]

Interesting to see both Merc suffering the same problem around the same time.

yea that was suprising

[Sevach]

Perez turned in too late imo.

[markn93]

MERCEDES AMG F1 ‏@MercedesAMGF1 11s
OFFICIAL: High-voltage control electronics failure lead to permanent loss of MGU-K drive on both cars in today's race #F1 #CanadianGP

So there we have it.

[turbof1]

Massa also looks like caught by Perez breaking that early.

[the user]

Question re Lewis, did he have to retire? Or did he not give it long enough and it may have come back to him like it did for Rosberg?

Remember the team didn't know what was happening until his brakes failed. So the team could not have known how to solve the issue had one of the cars not failed. Unfortunately it was Hamilton's first, as he was suffering longer than rosberg with low power.
Rosgerg savior was from Lewis failure.
So yes he had to retire, either him or Rosberg.

I don't think Rosberg's car came, back, Mercedes just went down to the other cars' performance level. So their secret is basically that their ERS.

I'm just hearing from Paddy Lowe that Lewis failure was a brake failure. Rosberg had no KERS.

He said both had the same KERS problem. And that it might have contributed to Hamilton's brake failure. Good job on Rosberg's part nursing the car home with only the ICE and forward brake bias.

[johnsonwax]

My guess is that Mercedes is putting a lot more load on their ERS for engine braking, and on such a high braking track it simply overloaded it. With them running nose to tail, they both blew up the ERS at the same time.

[beelsebob]

Merc had better fix that issue before Monza, it'll be just as hot and fast there.

[JDC123]

I think it was ridiculous they let the gates open for spectators to get on the track near the first two corners after the race had finished when the marshals were busy trying to recover the cars of massa and perez. I've seen pictures from someone in the grandstand showing the marshals having to push/fight spectators back from trying to steal debris from the cars, all whilst there were recovery truck moving about. Have the track organizers forgot about the marshal killed last year and the amazing job they do, so we can enjoy races like this!!!!!

[Shrieker]

Oh Lewis, you must be happy with Abu Double.

He closed 25 before and got ahead. This time it's 22. He won't need the double.