FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2014 RACE **SPOILERS***

Anyone have footage of jenson passing both hulk & Alonso in the last few laps?

 

I beg to differ. All it took for him was to get a split second glance at something coming in hot to realize he has to alter something. We have all done it while driving but not to this extent. Sure, a little luck never hurts

 

Well that was great.

Very nice maiden win for Ricci. He worked for it and deserved it 100%.

Nico kept a failing car together long enough to get a very satisfying result under the circumstances.

Bad ending for Massa, but not his fault and he grabbed fastest lap, I believe. I would love to see Williams get a win this season.

Very good company here on the thread as well.

Cheers!

Jack

 

For all the Vettel haters: the guy put it on the front row, ran a great race with a sloooow engine and finished on the podium.

He was also genuinely happy that his teammate won...do you think Alonso would be as excited for Raikkonen ???

Bill

 

If it were his first win, yes.

If it had been Webber instead of Ricci would Vett have reacted the same?

And Vett was not on the front row.

 

Edited for accuracy hehe...

As great as he is - of which there's no doubt, when did he put in the front row ?

Best, Sammy

 

I don't want to ramp up the Seb bashing guys here, but c'mon... He drove a great race. That pass on Perez through all the clag was awesome. He was sincere in his happiness for Daniel and showed it. Even when things have gone pretty wrong for him this year with broken cars, he's remained a class act. At least you can admit he's matured. Can't say the same for Alonso who I'm starting to like less and less. My buddy posed a funny question when we were talking the aftermath... "What if it's Alonso and Kimi who are the problem and not the car?"

Anyway great race...too bad Merc has to have both cars have problems to make it exciting. Reliability is part of it however. It'll be interesting to see how the Merc problems flesh out. Was it a fluke thing or did the course just consume the cars and find a weak link. If it's the latter... I like that better since the woulda coulda bs doesn't hold up as well.

 

Point taken....I meant he almost put it on front row (ie best of the rest)
No way Alonso would be as happy for Raikkonen
His (Alonso's) post race comments, while true, would not make me feel good to be a Ferrari fan

Agree with itschris post above...Vettel has been a class act while being beaten by his junior teammate. And both are getting better every race, which cannot be said for the scuderia

 

And? Would Vettel have been so happy for a Webber win? That was my point.

 

No offense but your buddy sounds clueless.

How has Alonso not matured? Your post makes zero sense.

 

Alonso would trade his grandmother's soul for a podium.
Kimi would run her over.
Its the car stupid

 

Exciting race, although Zeus Cat begs to differ.
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I actually smiled for ricciardo I'm glad he won he seems like a nice humble kid.

 

As happy as he was for DR? Of course not
Happier for webber than Alonso for Raikkonen..oh yeah

And MY POINT is that Vettel is mature & classy while driving a **** car & being beaten by his junior teammate. Alonso? See his post race comments.....

 

what are Alonsos post race comments?

 

He pulled a Prost and had the audacity to suggest the car wasn't worthy of a top 10 finish, we're it not for the misfortune of others.

 

With all due respect, what in the heck are you talking about?

 

What a classless and immature driver! Telling it like it is!

His horrific post race comments can be found here:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114360

 

As I have said for years Hambone is the fastest driver but hard on equipment.

 

I'm glad all the "perfect season" talk will come to an end; I didn't think that it would happen, and I figured that Montreal would be a likely place for it to end, since this race has always had a history of unexpected winners and podium placers. (Of course, one of those, Jean Alesi, did the post-race interviews!)

I expect that Mercedes will probably lose one or two more and wind up with a season like Ferrari in 2002 (15 wins out of 17) or 2004 (15 wins out of 18). Performance-wise, the field still doesn't seem to be making progress; remember that the two Mercs were leading by nearly half a minute when their electronic gremlins appeared.

The benchmark will probably remain McLaren's 1988 season: 15 wins out of 16, and they almost certainly would have had the 16th had Senna not gotten a bit impatient at Monza. But that year was a bit of an aberration: in the last year of the first turbo era, McLaren and Honda had been the only turbo team to have produced an entirely new car and engine, so they had a qualitative advantage over everyone else.

 

Please have another look at the videos, frame by frame.

Vettel clearly jinked to the right just before Massa careened past his bow. Vettel saw him coming and corrected his corner trajectory, quite possibly saving his race by doing so.

 

Can't argue with anything either driver said; and I've been very critical of Alonso;

"We got some lucky extra points with the DNFs at the end," Alonso said, when asked by AUTOSPORT if he felt lucky to come away with a top-six finish.

"Without the DNFs our positions were probably ninth and 14th.

"In the first part of the race I was uncomfortable with the balance and we were too slow.

"In the second part it improved and I was more competitive and I managed to reach the group of front cars, but we were too slow on the straights - that was a little frustrating - I couldn't pass."

Alonso came into the weekend hoping to fight Red Bull and said he encountered no real issues with his car in the race, but reckoned it was just too slow to have finished any higher.

"Today I had no problems, everything was perfectly OK in the race," Alonso added.

"We had some issues with the battery and the KERS - we had to turn it up and down again - but this was just something we will need to fix.

"It only happened in this race, never before, so I don't think we should be too worried.

"Even when we turned it up, everything worked OK, but we're just too slow in the straights."

DIFFICULT RACE FOR RAIKKONEN

Alonso's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen endured another frustrating race, only making the top 10 thanks to the late crash between Perez and Massa.


The 2007 world champion ran behind his team-mate in the first stint, but lost ground after his first pitstop and then suffered a spin at the hairpin shortly after half distance that cost him more time.

"It was a difficult race," Raikkonen admitted.

"We were stuck behind people and had some brake issues in the beginning.

"Then I spun. The same happened in practice one. For some reason we seemed to get a kick suddenly [from the engine] and I spun.

"Every time I came out of a pitstop there always seemed to be people in front of me.

"In the end the car felt a bit better and was fast. But it was just difficult."

 

ah ha, yeah that certainly doesn't help. Bravo Checo

 

Felipe Massa has branded Formula 1 rival Sergio Perez "dangerous" after the crash that took them both out on the final lap of the Canadian Grand Prix.

Massa was trying to pass Perez for fourth heading into Turn 1 when the two cars collided and speared into the barriers.

Both drivers walked away from the crash, but the impacts registered a high enough g-force to require each of them to receive precautionary check-ups in hospital.

The stewards slapped Perez with a five-place grid penalty for the next race for causing the collision, and Massa said he hoped the Mexican would learn from the incident.

"I talked to him at the medical centre. I was so disappointed with him," Massa said.

"I said that he needs to learn. I wanted him to put himself in my place, because I had a huge crash and honestly I thought it was going to hurt.

"It's not the first time that he turned into somebody under braking. He did this many times. He didn't say anything, he just turned and left. I hope he learns.

"We are doing around 300km/h there. With another car in front it could have been a very serious accident.

"We've had the rules for a few years that when one car is up the side the other cannot move anymore. He just move and we touched.

"It's dangerous. For me five places is not enough. He was dangerous. We could have crashed into [Sebastian] Vettel."

Perez said he was suffering an electrical problem with his car in the closing stages, and also complained of rear brake issues when the accident happened.

"On the final lap I was defending my position going into Turn 1 when I suddenly got hit from behind," he said.

"It was not easy in the final laps and I was pushing hard to try and get ahead of Nico [Rosberg] for the lead.

"Daniel [Ricciardo] managed to get ahead of me when I had an electrical issue with my car, but I managed to reset the system for the final couple of laps.

"The podium was possible today and I'm just very disappointed for the points we have lost."

 

Yeah, he told it like it is.

The car was too slow, is it due to too much downforce even with DRS? Are they trying to control a twitchy chassis with too much downforce?