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Canada Result

Lewis Hamilton ended his race at the first pit stops by running his car into the rear of Kimi’s Ferrari when he did not notice the red light at the pit exit.

However with the two title contenders out the race turned into a good one.

The Race track was quickly repaired before the race, and this caused a fair few issues for some drivers.

The News of the day though is that BMW-Sauber get not only their first win, but a one-two, with Heidfeld finishing second behind the first Polish race winner Robert Kubica.

David Coulthard drove a great race in his Red Bull to get third behind the two BMW’s.

The Toyota of Timo Glock finished in the fourth spot, with Massa and Trulli following in fifth and six.

Barrichello managed to bring the Honda in in the seventh spot and Sebastien Vettel get’s the last point for Toro Rosso.

Full race roundup later.

Canada Qualifying

Lewis Hamilton has taken his second pole position in Canada with a simply stunning lap at the end of Qualifying 3.

Lewis set a laptime 6 tenths of a second faster than Robert Kubica in the BMW-Sauber, and nearly a second faster than Kimi in the Ferrari.

Fernando Alonso had a good set of laps in the Renault to take a spot on the second row of the grid, and Felipe and Heikki are sat on the third row.

Rubens Barrichello got the Honda into the Q3 session, with Button’s car failing with a third gear issue in Q1.

Mark Webber had a good Q2, but was trying to better his time at the end of the session, unfortunately the track surface was starting to break up at the hairpin, and on the exit of turn 7, this caught him out and he bumped the nose into barrier, ending his qualifying session. He starts in tenth position as he could not participate in Q3

Monaco run through

The rain soaked Monaco GP threw up a few surprises, and a few incidents. So let’s have a look at how the teams and drivers got on in the Principality.

The race started with the teams having to make a difficult choice over which tyres to have on the cars before the three minute warning, something Ferrari messed up, as they fitted Kimi’s wet tyres after the three minute siren, causing him to perform a drive through penalty.

All the teams made the same choice though, and they all started the race on the wet Bridgstone tyres. Heikki’s race weekend was ruined when a software glitch in the gear selection program stalled the McLaren on the dummy grid, and had to start from the pit lane.

Lewis got a great launch off the clean side of the track, beating Kimi’s Ferrari into the first corner, slotting in behind Massa to take the second place.

Malaysia a full runthrough

It was not quite the race that McLaren and Lewis were hoping for after their domination in Australia. It was however an interesting race, as it showed that the season is not going to be the two horse race that we have had in recent seasons.

Ferrari shone all weekend, and where pretty much unbeatable, Felipe was looking fast, as was Kimi, and the Ferrari with it’s minor changes to improve cooling looked strong.

The race started under a little cloud, the McLaren team had been penalised five grid spots for both of their cars, this was because Lewis and Heikki had impeded Heidfeld and Alonso’s fast laps at the end of the Q3 session.

This put the two lower fueled McLarens into eight and ninth place, in and around heavier fueld cars. This did however show us that both the McLaren and Lewis are quick away from the line, the Brit lined up ninth on the grid, and finished the first set of corners in fifth, Mark Webber did well getting the Red Bull into fourth as well.

Kubica Crash on YouTube

The Robert Kubica crash has been stopped by the FIM from uploading the official F1 TV footage.

However a couple of people have uploaded their personal footage.

A good breakdown of the crash is up on ITV-F1.com as well.

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