Conditions this year done a 180 on last year and the sun was beating down over the track in Montreal, the crowd were ready, the teams were ready and the drivers were ready for what could be a race adding another little bit of history in to the F1 books; a 7th different winner in 7 races.
Sebastian Vettel, who started from pole, got off to good start, building up the gap in the opening laps from Lewis Hamilton.
Felipe Massa had a good start to his race too, over taking Nico Rosberg taking 6th place... a lap later Massa was back to his familiar slip ups (unfortunately) his rear end stepping out of Turn 2, spinning the car around and rejoining down the grid.
Fernando Alonso soon joined the party, having a fierce battle with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel for the win which carried on throughout the race.
Lap 18 Hamilton took the lead from Vettel, however he pitted at the end of the lap but as per usual this season McLaren are lacking in efficient pit stops and once again Hamilton is held up. Lucky for the team he exited in front of Vettel. Meanwhile his teammate Jenson Button had a miserable race, no grip (no joke), not feeling happy with the pace of his car, Button was battling down in the middle of the grid, he finished the race it 16th and said so to Sky reporter Ted Kravitz he's leaving this race 'lost and confused'
The bad luck continued for Michael Schumacher, on his out lap from pitting for new tyres the team told him over the radio that his DRS flap was stuck, therefor he had to return to the pits (otherwise he would have been cautioned) to attempt to fix it... 20 seconds or so of pit crew banging it, the rear flap wouldn't close, Schumacher's race was over.
Jean-Eric Vergne was given a drive through on Lap 49, Toro Rosso's performance was yet again disappointing, JEV finished the race in 15th while Daniel Ricciardo finished in 14th.
A strategic call from McLaren saw Hamilton pit for new tyre's with 20 laps to go in the race. Alonso and Vettel kept going meanwhile the surprises of the race were Romain Grosjean and Sergio Perez, who'd both being looking after their tyre's as well as setting competitive lap times.
It wasn't too long before both Alonso and Vettel were sliding all over the place from work tyres. Hamilton took chunks of time out of Vettel, used the DRS and swiftly passed the German, next up was Alonso, with the grippier tyre's he was able to take time out of the Spaniard and pass him on the back straight.
The McLaren driver wasn't the only one taking advantage of having new tyre's both Grosjean and Perez both passed Alonso and Vettel to make up the remaining two podium spots. After Vettel took a late pit stop in the closing laps of the race he too was able to overtake Alonso for 4th place.
Lewis Hamilton took the win in Canada, a track he's fast at and a track he either crashes or wins, followed by Grosjean and Perez, both getting their second podiums of the year, and all three drivers being graduates of GP2!
RESULTS:
Fastest Lap: Sebastian Vettel: 1:15.752
The Podium:
[1st-Lewis Hamilton, 2nd-Romain Grojean, 3rd-Sergio Perez]
Next up:
This weekend is MotoGP at Silverstone! To those of you going - have a fantastic weekend!
Formula 1 is back in Europe in two weeks time for European Grand Prix in Valencia.
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