2010 F1 Canadian Grand Prix
4.361 km/2.710 mi, 70 laps, 305.270 km/189.686 mi total
Lap record : 1m13s622 (Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari, 2004)
TIMETABLE
Fri 10 June 2010
Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30 (You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function)
Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30 (You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function)
Sat 11 June 2010
Practice 3 10:00 - 11:00 (You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function)
Qualifying 13:00 (+You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function)
Sun 12 June 2010
Race 13:00 (You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function)
All times EDT
Previous winners
2005 Kimi Räikkönen - McLaren Mercedes
2006 Fernando Alonso - Renault
2007 Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes
2008 Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber
2010 Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes
Current Driver standings
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01 Sebastian Vettel 143
02 Lewis Hamilton 85
03 Mark Webber 79
04 Jenson Button 76
05 Fernando Alonso 69
06 Nick Heidfeld 29
07 Nico Rosberg 26
08 Felipe Massa 24
09 Vitaly Petrov 21
10 Kamui Kobayashi 19
Current Constructor standings
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01 RBR-Renault 222
02 McLaren-Mercedes 161
03 Ferrari 93
04 Renault 50
05 Mercedes 40
06 Sauber-Ferrari 21
07 Force India-Mercedes 10
08 STR-Ferrari 7
09 Williams-Cosworth 2
10 Lotus-Renault 0
Race History :
[spoiler]The early Canadian Grand Prix was one of the premier events of the new Canadian Sports Car Championship, a series which had been created alongside the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport in 1961. Several international sports car as well as Formula One drivers participated in the event. For the first five years, the event would be won by drivers with either prior Formula One experience, or would enter the championship after winning the Canadian Grand Prix. In 1966 the Canadian-American Challenge Cup ran the event, with American Mark Donohue winning.[1] Formula One took over the following year, although the CSCC and Can-Am series continued to compete at Mosport in their own events.
The first winner in Montreal was Quebec native Gilles Villeneuve who died in 1982 on the final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix. A few weeks after his death, the race course in Montreal was named Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after him. Gilles Villeneuve was one of the first inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, and the only Canadian winner at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The 1982 Canadian Grand Prix, in the shadow of the death of Villeneuve a month earlier, saw another accident when Villeneuve's teammate Didier Pironi stalled on the grid. Raul Boesel struck the stationary vehicle, and Riccardo Paletti then struck the rear of Pironi's Ferrari. Pironi and F1 doctor Sid Watkins came to Paletti's aid to try to extract him from his car, which briefly caught fire. After a half hour, Paletti was extracted and flown to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
In 1987, the race was not held due to sponsorship dispute between two local breweries, Labatt and Molson. During the break the track was modified, and starting line moved to its current position.
Ferrari's Jean Alesi won the 1995 edition, which occurred on his 31st birthday and which would be the only win of his career. Alesi had inherited the lead when Michael Schumacher pitted with electrical problems and Damon Hill's hydraulics failed. the victory was a popular one for Alesi, particularly after several unrewarded drives the year before, namely in Italy. Alesi's win at Montreal was voted the most popular race victory of the season by many, as it was the number 27 Ferrari—once belonging to the famous Gilles Villeneuve at his much loved home Grand Prix. Schumacher gave Alesi a lift back to the pits after Alesi's car ran out of fuel just before the Pits Hairpin.
The 1997 Canadian Grand Prix was stopped early due to a crash involving Olivier Panis. He was sidelined for nine races and some see it as a turning point in the career of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix winner.
In 1999, the final corner of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve became well-known for crashes involving former World Champions. Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed into the same wall which had the slogan Bienvenue au Québec (Welcome to Quebec in English) on it. The wall became ironically known as the "Wall of Champions". The wall also was involved in a crash with Ricardo Zonta, who was, at the time, the reigning FIA GT sports car champion. In recent years, GP2 Champion Nico Rosberg and CART Champion Juan Pablo Montoya have also fallen victim to the wall.
In 2001, there was the first sibling 1–2 finish in the history of Formula 1, as Ralf and Michael Schumacher topped the podium. The Schumacher brothers would finish 1–2 in the 2003 edition as well. 2001 was also noted for Jean Alesi achieving Prost's best finish of the season; he celebrated his fifth place by doing several donuts in his vehicle, and throwing his helmet into the crowd.
The 2007 race was the site of rookie Lewis Hamilton's first win. On lap 67, Takuma Sato overtook the McLaren-Mercedes's Fernando Alonso, to cheers around the circuit, just after overtaking Ralf Schumacher and having overtaken Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen earlier in the race.[5] The race saw Sato move from the middle of the grid to the back of the pack and to a high of fifth before a pit-stop error caused him to move back to eleventh. Sato fought up 5 places in the field in the last 15 laps to finish sixth. Sato was voted "Driver of the Day" on the ITV website over Lewis Hamilton's first win. The race also saw a horrific incident involving Robert Kubica (who went on to win the race the following season).
In the weeks leading up the Grand Prix, city officials trap as many groundhogs as they can in and around the race course, and transport the animals to nearby Ile Ste-Helene. Nonetheless, in 2007, a groundhog disrupted the practice session of Ralf Schumacher. On race day itself, Anthony Davidson had been running in third until he struck a groundhog, initially thought to be a beaver, which forced him to pit and repair the damage to his front wing. In 2008, a groundhog crossed the track at the hairpin in the 2nd practice session but luckily did not disrupt the session.[/spoiler]
Onboard lap and highlights :[spoiler][youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md-aowPfbgw[/youtubeidiot][youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFUiK8y6zfI[/youtubeidiot][/spoiler]
Full Schedule :
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THURSDAY JUNE 9 2011
09:00 12:00 OPEN HOUSE
FRIDAY JUNE 10 2011
07:00 TRACK OPENS
08:10 08:40 FORMULE 1600 QUALIFYING SESSION
08:50 09:10 FERRARI CHALLENGE PRACTICE SESSION
10:00 11:30 FORMULA 1 1ST PRACTICE SESSION
11:55 12:25 HISTORIC GRAND PRIX PRACTICE SESSION
14:00 15:30 FORMULA 1 2ND PRACTICE SESSION
15:55 16:15 FERRARI CHALLENGE 2ND PRACTICE SESSION
16:25 17:10 PORSCHE IMSA GT3 CUP PRACTICE SESSION
17:30 18:00 HISTORIC GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING SESSION
SATURDAY JUNE 11 2011
07:00 TRACK OPENS
08:45 09:15 FERRARI CHALLENGE QUALIFYING SESSION
10:00 11:00 FORMULA 1 3RD PRACTICE SESSION
11:15 11:45 PORSCHE IMSA GT3 CUP QUALIFYING SESSION
13:00 14:00 FORMULE 1 QUALIFYING SESSION
14:30 15:15 HISTORIC GRAND PRIX RACE
15:20 16:05 FORMULE 1600 FIRST RACE
16:20 17:05 FERRARI CHALLENGE FIRST RACE
SUNDAY JUNE 12 2011
07:00 TRACK OPENS
08:15 09:00 FORMULE 1600 SECOND RACE
09:05 09:50 PORSCHE IMSA GT3 CUP RACE
10:05 10:50 FERRARI CHALLENGE SECOND RACE
11:30 FORMULA 1 DRIVERS PARADE
12:30 12:45 FORMULA 1 STARTING GRID PRESENTATION
13:00 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA (71 LAPS INCLUDING FORMATION LAP)
*TIMETABLE IS SUBJECT TO AMENDMENTS
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