The pair made contact and Hamilton was out of the race, triggering a Safety Car to remove the McLaren. The official line was that Jenson had no idea Lewis was there. It looked optimistic and, sure enough, Button was having none of it. Lewis soon wanted the place back and after a quicker exit from the final chicane, tried to go by Jenson before the right-hand kink in the pit straight. That became sixth when Michael Schumacher nudged Hamilton wide at the hairpin. Jenson, at this stage, ran seventh, where he qualified. 'I think Lewis thought the chequered flag was at Turn 3.' Webber said. And immediately, Lewis Hamilton continued where he left off in Monte Carlo, assaulting Mark Webber's fourth-placed Red Bull in Turn 2 and spinning the Australian down to 14th place. At least the first decision on tyre selection was removed when the FIA declared that the race would start behind the Safety Car, meaning that wets were mandatory.Īfter four slow laps the official Mercedes pulled in and we went racing. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has close bordering walls and, for the first time since Pirelli became F1's tyre supplier, we had a wet race.įor practically everyone it was a venture into the unknown, with nobody having any substantial experience of the Italian company's intermediate or wet tyres. Montreal had every chance of being chaotic. Somehow, Vettel was beaten by a man who pitted six times and was dead last with 30 laps to go! 'I really don't know what to say.' smiled Jenson Button, and you couldn't blame him. He led every lap apart from the last part of the very last one. Through it all - all four hours, four minutes and thirty-nine seconds of it - Sebastian Vettel was almost wheel perfect.

The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix will go down in history as one of the most amazing races of all time.

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