2010 Canadian Grand Prix ***SPOILERS***

So, F1 returns to Canada on the back of the controversy at Turkey.

How will Vettel and Webber bounce back? Will Mclaren and their F-Duct become dominant here?



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Last Race (2008):

Pole position
Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
1:17.886

Podium
1.Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1h 36m 24.447s (189.987 km/h)
2.Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber +16.495s
3.David Coulthard RedBull-Renault+23.352s

Fastest lap
Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:17.387

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Also 5Live's commentary team this weekend sounds quite interesting, they have Patrick Head in for FP1, Gary Paffett in for FP2, Nick Heidfeld in for FP3 and for Qualifying and the race they have Paul di Resta. They will all be alongside David Croft and Maurice Hamilton

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Canada's always a great race, so I'm looking forward to what it throws up this year!

This should be the best chance so far for one of the new teams to sneak in for a point or two - especially if it rains.

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X (@ed24f1)

Whatever happens in the race, reckon vettel and webber will get out of their cars and run off together to watch Germany play Australia in the world cup straight after? Awesome night of no sleep for me

MikaHalpinen Wrote:
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> Whatever happens in the race, reckon vettel and
> webber will get out of their cars and run off
> together to watch Germany play Australia in the
> world cup straight after? Awesome night of no
> sleep for me

A great weekend all-round, with Le Mans before the race as well.

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X (@ed24f1)

Alonso will pull a 2007 performance and be overtaken by Bruno Senna, à la Takuma Sato!

Yeah, the way the Ferrari has been going lately, Matt's sigpic could be re-enacted.

Can't wait for this one. An epic track which almost always produces epic races! So glad it's back.

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not directly to this but

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has questioned whether Formula 1 races need to take place on Sunday afternoons, and whether they are too long. "Do we need to race at two in the afternoon when everyone is at the sea?" he said. "Could we have two races per meeting? Do races need to last so long?"

interesting point he makes i think.

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rapid_f1 Wrote:
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> not directly to this but
>
> Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has
> questioned whether Formula 1 races need to take
> place on Sunday afternoons, and whether they are
> too long. "Do we need to race at two in the
> afternoon when everyone is at the sea?" he said.
> "Could we have two races per meeting? Do races
> need to last so long?"
>
> interesting point he makes i think.

ahahah damn true for mehis point about the starting time is interesting.I don't agree on the one about the two races.Decresing the race lenght to 300km to 250km(for example) would be good for me.

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I disagree completely with his points.

Its realistically impossible to hold a race at a time when everyone is free. Hosting a race at night would be too expensive, and would also be bad for the Asian market. Bernie wouldn't allow them to host morning races because of the drop in TV ratings. Twilight races are possible, but would also mean that the races move out of primetime in Asia - which again, Bernie wouldn't want.

Making races shorter would also be a step backwards. While making them shorter could potentially limit the impact of bad races, this would only be a band-aid solution, at best. The real solution is to be found by continued work on car and track design to improve racing. Changes to the race format would only dilute the sport even further.

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X (@ed24f1)

Stop @#$%& about and address the core issues: the cars and these @#$%& new tracks (the vast majority anyway).

Will drivers use "World Cup" themed helmets, like in 2006?

In my opinion the drivers most likely to have special helmets are Button, Vettel, Massa, Barrichello and Trulli.

gav Wrote:
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> Stop @#$%& about and address the core issues: the
> cars and these @#$%& new tracks (the vast majority
> anyway).


When will you learn Gav that this is F1, the sport that defies all logic!

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

from the what i read here. Renault f-duct i think Renault will use the f-duct and thats gonna be a good help here in canada.

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alexf1man Wrote:
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> Will drivers use "World Cup" themed helmets, like
> in 2006?
>
> In my opinion the drivers most likely to have
> special helmets are Button, Vettel, Massa,
> Barrichello and Trulli.

The ironic thing is that, when they mentioned the world cup in the Thursday press conference in Turkey, Trulli said he wasn't much of a soccer fan - and yet still jumped on the bandwagon and changed his helmet in 2006

Webber could also do it - he's already an ambassador for Australia's World Cup bid in 2018/22, so he does have some connection. The Australia/Germany match just after the race on Sunday will be fun for Red Bull to watch, I'm sure

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X (@ed24f1)

Emerson Fittipaldi is the driver-steward for this race!

SchueyFan Wrote:
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> alexf1man Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Will drivers use "World Cup" themed helmets,
> like
> > in 2006?
> >
> > In my opinion the drivers most likely to have
> > special helmets are Button, Vettel, Massa,
> > Barrichello and Trulli.
>
> The ironic thing is that, when they mentioned the
> world cup in the Thursday press conference in
> Turkey, Trulli said he wasn't much of a soccer fan
> - and yet still jumped on the bandwagon and
> changed his helmet in 2006
>
> Webber could also do it - he's already an
> ambassador for Australia's World Cup bid in
> 2018/22, so he does have some connection. The
> Australia/Germany match just after the race on
> Sunday will be fun for Red Bull to watch, I'm sure
>


Schumi loves football, so i hope we see him supporting Germany somehow, special Helmet maybe

alonso0506 Wrote:
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> from the what i read here. Renault f-duct i think
> Renault will use the f-duct and thats gonna be a
> good help here in canada.

well i hope they have something to use.... some of the teams can't get it to work properly and end up droping it until "further tunning"

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That summarizes my day fairly well :D

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