F1: Canadian Grand Prix in six words
By Andy Darley
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
We don’t know what sort of words were exchanged between Hamiltons senior and junior when Lewis made it back to the McLaren garage after his accident – and we’ll probably never find out. So, instead, here are our six-word summaries of how all the teams and drivers performed.
Overall race report
Lacked only Dick Dastardly and Muttley
The drivers
- 1st: Robert Kubica
- Opens F1 account with memorable win
- 2nd: Nick Heidfeld
- His podium trip was tragic disappointment
- 3rd: David Coulthard
- Is this good enough for naysayers?
- 4th: Timo Glock
- Trulli suffered for his only error
- 5th: Felipe Massa
- Must be due team-orders karma
- 6th: Jarno Trulli
- Never recovered from wrong qualifying setup
- 7th: Rubens Barrichello
- Much skilful defensive driving protected points
- 8th: Sebastian Vettel
- More could not have been expected
- 9th: Heikki Kovavlainen
- Wasted opportunity to kick-start season
- 10th: Nico Rosberg
- Another victim of pit lane rashness
- 11th: Jenson Button
- Why couldn’t he match Barrichello’s impact?
- 12th: Mark Webber
- Vanished from contention after pit stop
- 13th: Sebastien Bourdais
- Well, at least he hit nothing
- DNF: Giancarlo Fisichella
- Nothing went right, made no impact
- DNF: Kazuki Nakajima
- Developing well, but not there yet
- DNF: Fernando Alonso
- Team advised ignoring brake problems… mistake!
- DNF: Nelson Piquet
- Reversed across track – stupid, dangerous move
- DNF: Lewis Hamilton
- Who’s laughing at Dad now, sonny?
- DNF: Kimi Raikkonen
- Now he feels Adrian Sutil’s pain…
- DNF: Adrian Sutil
- Gearbox problem rude awakening after Monaco
The teams
- Ferrari
- Massa red hot, strategy stone cold
- BMW
- And about time too, we say
- McLaren
- Theirs to lose – and they lost
- Red Bull
- One day, both drivers will shine…
- Toyota
- They’re dancing in the boardroom tonight
- Williams
- Something not quite gelling for them
- Renault
- Lost their heads – and their opportunity
- Honda
- Led race, but no big breakthrough
- Toro Rosso
- Made successful raid on points positions
- Force India
- Looked like back-of-grid team
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