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  • F1: Hamilton blunder hands Kubica his breakthough

    Before the Canadian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton teased his father, asking how he could possibly crash a high-performance car at 30mph. He won’t be asking that again.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix, Kimi Raikkonen, Robert Kubica

  • F1: Canadian Grand Prix in six words

    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.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix

  • F1: Canadian Grand Prix live blog

    It’s hot, the track surface is a time bomb waiting to go off, and the grid’s been shaken up a little – it could be an unpredictable afternoon at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve as Lewis Hamilton attempts to win for the second straight year.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix

  • F1: Hamilton stands firm as track crumbles

    Lewis Hamilton made short work of a treacherous, crumbling track to seize a dominant pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Hamilton sets fastest lap in Canada practice

    Lewis Hamilton put down a marker for Canada qualifying by topping the timesheets overall in Friday practice at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, David Coulthard, Formula One, Honda, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Red Bull Racing

  • F1: Canadian Grand Prix preview

    Formula One is heading off to Canada and there’s only one game in town – can Lewis Hamilton maintain his newly-minted lead in the drivers’ championship? The 23-year-old Briton is just three points ahead of arch-rival and reigning champion Kimi Raikkonen following his spectacular victory on the rain-soaked streets of Monaco. And the Finn’s Ferrari…

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, David Coulthard, Formula One, Honda, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Red Bull Racing

  • F1 quotes: those who can…

    We notice that the Top Gear blog is trailing a piece about a limited-edition Scots-designed supercar with the following snarky quote.

    Archive, F1
    David Coulthard, Top Gear

  • F1: Monaco glory for emotional Hamilton

    Lewis Hamilton won a rain-hit Monaco Grand Prix after an early puncture forced his McLaren team to redesign his race strategy – transforming it into exactly the right plan for victory.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Monaco GP in six words

    A rain-soaked, incident-packed race with thrills, spills and some pretty heroic driving – you’d need a lot of words to accurately describe the Monaco Grand Prix, but we’re doing it in just six per driver and team.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Monaco Grand Prix live blog

    Before Monaco qualifying McLaren publicly told its drivers that it expected them to “add to the illustrious history of the team at the Monaco Grand Prix.” And now Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen are smarting after failing to find an answer to Ferrari in qualifying. The red cars beat them to the front row by…

    Archive, F1
    David Coulthard, Formula One, Honda, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Monte Carlo Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing, Ron Dennis

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