Formula One 2010

[Farmer Reil]

Oh boooo, Schumacher's a fucking dick. Twatting your former protege out of the race for no reason. Well, out of any hope of getting a decent finish anyway.

At least he's landed himself his second stewards' investigation of the race... For his sake I hope Emerson Fittipaldi is his best friend or something. ¬_¬

Edited June 13, 2010 by Farmer Reil

[Fry_4000]

Shumi again being dirty

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Awesome race, probably the best of the season. Another fantastic drive from Lewis tops it all off

[Farmer Reil]

Ahahha, Schumacher fucking everything up in the last two laps and not even scoring a point makes it an even more awesome race.

[Fry_4000]

Race of the year imo. Shumi failing to score makes it even better

[Katsuya]

So Michael managed to hit/run three cars off the road. Splendid. Looked like he nearly whacked Sutil around the last corner too.

Also, allow me to say: YES HEIKKI!

[Rich]

Ahahha, Schumacher fucking everything up in the last two laps and not even scoring a point makes it an even more awesome race.

Race of the year imo. Shumi failing to score makes it even better

These, and Vettel seeing his arse behind the Mclarens and a Ferrari makes me a happy bunny right now

Only race this interesting was the wet race at China

[Lineker]

Easily the best race of the year. Action-packed from beginning to end.

The BBC F1 Drinking Game NEW RULE: One shot of Jägermeister every time Michael Schumacher tries to ram somebody off the road

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[Katsuya]

Seriously, if this doesn't secure the future of this race for years and years to come, it's a travesty. I can't remember the last boring Canadian GP.

[Fry_4000]

And no safter car which is unusal for canada

[Lineker]

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS


The Canadian Grand Prix

Montreal, Canada;

70 laps; 309.396km;

Weather: Sunny.


Classified:


Pos  Driver        Team                       Time

 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           1h33:53.456

 2.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           +     2.254

 3.  Alonso        Ferrari                    +     9.214

 4.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           +    37.817

 5.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           +    39.291

 6.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +    56.084

 7.  Kubica        Renault                    +    57.300

 8.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     1 lap

 9.  Liuzzi        Force India-Mercedes       +     1 lap

10.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes       +     1 lap

11.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +     1 lap

12.  Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     1 lap

13.  Hulkenberg    Williams-Cosworth          +     1 lap

14.  Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth          +     1 lap

15.  Massa         Ferrari                    +     1 lap

16.  Kovalainen    Lotus-Cosworth             +    2 laps

17.  Petrov        Renault                    +    2 laps

18.  Chandhok      HRT-Cosworth               +    4 laps

19.  Di Grassi     Virgin-Cosworth            +    5 laps


Fastest lap: Kubica, 1:16.972


Not classified/retirements:


Driver        Team                         On lap

Glock         Virgin-Cosworth              50

Trulli        Lotus-Cosworth               43

De la Rosa    Sauber-Ferrari               31

Senna         HRT-Cosworth                 14

Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari               2



World Championship standings, round 8:                


Drivers:                    Constructors:             

 1.  Hamilton     109        1.  McLaren-Mercedes          215

 2.  Button       106        2.  Red Bull-Renault          193

 3.  Webber       103        3.  Ferrari                   161

 4.  Alonso        94        4.  Mercedes                  108

 5.  Vettel        90        5.  Renault                    79

 6.  Rosberg       74        6.  Force India-Mercedes       35

 7.  Kubica        73        7.  Williams-Cosworth           8

 8.  Massa         67        8.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari          8

 9.  Schumacher    34        9.  Sauber-Ferrari              1

10.  Sutil         23       

11.  Liuzzi        12       

12.  Barrichello    7       

13.  Petrov         6       

14.  Buemi          5       

15.  Alguersuari    3       

16.  Hulkenberg     1       

17.  Kobayashi      1       


All timing unofficial[/code]


McLaren took its second successive one-two finish as Lewis Hamilton led home Jenson Button in an action-packed Canadian Grand Prix in which high tyre wear played a pivotal role.


Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finished third, but would rue a potential lost victory, as he had been passed by both McLarens at different moments when wrong-footed by others cars.


Red Bull had to settle for fourth and fifth - Sebastian Vettel nursing a car problem for much of the distance, and Mark Webber losing the lead when his strategy of leaving the super soft tyres until the final laps failed to pay off.


It was immediately clear that the softer tyres were going to be very fragile, for while Hamilton held the lead off the start, within a few laps Vettel - on the harder rubber - was all over the back of him. Alonso ran just behind them, with fourth-placed Button fending off an equally menacing Webber until the Red Bull dived past into Turn 8 on lap five, just before Button pitted.


Webber then swiftly caught the Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso train at the front, lining up a move on the Ferrari just as it came in for harder tyres on lap seven. Hamilton pitted from the lead at the same moment, falling behind Alonso in the stop and coming off second best as they charged down the exit road side by side.


That moved Red Bull into one-two formation, but it was clear that even the medium compound tyre was not faring too well, as Alonso, Hamilton and Button started catching the lead duo at up to one second per lap on their fresh rubber.


The Red Bulls came in on laps 12 and 13 and split their strategies - Vettel taking the super soft tyres for his next stint while Webber postponed that task and stuck with mediums.


Fellow medium runner Sebastien Buemi, who had advanced up the order as those ahead stopped, then found himself leading for Toro Rosso for a lap, with the battling Alonso and Hamilton on his tail.


On that lap, Alonso's failed attempt to pass Buemi down the outside into the hairpin gave Hamilton a chance to draft the Ferrari on the next straight - moving the McLaren from third to first in the space of a few yards as Buemi immediately pitted.


Alonso stayed with Hamilton though, and as their next set of tyres started to wilt, he became ever more threatening. The Ferrari was just lining up a move for the lead on lap 26 when Hamilton decided to stop again, diving straight in to get another set of hard tyres. Alonso, Vettel and Button followed suit in quick succession, while Webber stayed out, assumed the lead and trying to keep his medium tyres intact as long as possible to shorten his stint on the fragile super softs.


At first the plan worked well, Webber pulling out a 10s lead over Hamilton, Alonso, Button and Vettel as they ran in fairly close company in second to fifth positions.


But by lap 39 Webber's tyres were going off too, and heavy traffic made life even tougher for him. Before long Hamilton was right back on his tail, taking the lead on lap 49 and encouraging Webber to pit next time around to finally take on super softs, dropping him to fifth.


Vettel was unable to keep pace with the McLarens and Alonso, the team speaking over the radio of a 'problem being managed', so it became a three-way battle for the lead going into the closing stages as the track rubbered in at last and the tyres gained durability.


Button made it a McLaren one-two with 15 laps to go when Alonso was trapped behind Karun Chandhok's Hispania and lost momentum. The champion set off after Hamilton and started to chip away at the leader's advantage, though a new fastest lap by Hamilton nine laps from the end sent a clear message to his team-mate. The top three then spread out, with McLaren cruising to another one-two and Alonso at least getting back on the podium after two tough races.


Nico Rosberg recovered from being pushed back into the midfield during a messy first lap to take sixth for Mercedes, ahead of Renault's Robert Kubica, who had a wheel-banging battle with Michael Schumacher in the early stages that saw both take to the grass.


Schumacher's tyre troubles were worse than most - the Mercedes pitting three times and still lapping 4s off the pace in the final stint. Buemi passed him for seventh, and he was then caught by Felipe Massa. The Brazilian and Tonio Liuzzi managed to tangle twice during the first two corners of the race, damaging both cars. After pitting for repairs, they charged back towards the points, only for Massa to lose his front wing when Schumacher sternly defended his position with six laps to go.


Liuzzi then took up the challenge of trying to overtake Schumacher, who slid over the final chicane and banged wheels with the Italian more than once as he fought mightily to at least hang on to ninth. He could not though, with a bruising last lap seeing the seven-time champion tumble to 11th behind both Liuzzi and his Force India team-mate Adrian Sutil.


Other drivers hitting trouble on the first lap were both Saubers and Vitaly Petrov. The Renault took to the grass on the run towards the first corner and ended up spinning into Pedro de la Rosa, damaging both cars, with Petrov also receiving a jump-start penalty. The second Sauber was soon heading for the pits too - Kamui Kobayashi sliding into the wall at the final chicane as he jousted with Nico Hulkenberg's Williams.


Massa was given a 20-second penalty but it did not affect his final position. Schumacher escaped punishment. Kubica was reprimanded for his cockish move cutting up Sutil. Oh, and the latest on the tyre front is that the Pirelli deal is 'close'

[Farmer Reil]

Schumacher escaped punishment, for BOTH incidents? I can only assume that's because he finished out of the points in the first place, otherwise... fuck Schumacher.

[Rich]

The Massa one was naughty and he should have been punished, but the Kubica one was 50/50 as it was for position and they were both trying to push each other off the track >_<

[Lineker]

Yeah the stewards spoke to Massa and Schumacher and decided not to take any action.

No doubt what Kubica did was dangerous though. He was going to lose the position by pitting anyway!

[Lineker]

Red Bull plans to wait until after practice in Valencia this weekend before deciding if its F-duct system is ready to race, despite giving the green light to test it once again. Cosworth are already preparing their engines for next year's return of the KERS systems. And Ferrari has confirmed that Pat Fry will join the Italian squad at the start of next month after his exit from McLaren after 18 years.

I for one am just relieved to be going back to a place where the race is on at a normal time of the day!

[Gazz]

FUCK ME!

[Adam]

Fucking hell. Thank God Mark Webber is ok...that was very scary. Gutted that he's out, his title challenge has taken a hit...but at least he's alright. Jesus.

[EddieG]

Yeah, that was seriously scary, glad he's okay.

[Rich]

His title challenge may have taken a hit, but it'll only take one or two good finishes for him to be back in the mix fully again.

But the most important thing is that Mark Webber is safe, geez, that was almost as scary as the Kubica crash in Montreal a few years ago.

[Twist]

Jesus, my heart dropped there. Same as everyone else, just glad he is okay.