Canadian Grand Prix 2007
That’s MUCH better. After the complete and utter BOREDOM that was the Monaco grand prix, the Canadian Grand Prix delivered in spades. I seriously enjoyed this race for more than one reason. I’m a bit disappointed for Nico Rosberg, whom I think is an exceptional little driver and seriously one of the future stars of Formula One. He had it there to be much higher up there, but alas if Mclaren can get it wrong for Alonso, I think I can accept that the Williams team fucked it up for him and caused him to get a 10second stop go penalty.
However good on Wurz for coming out of friggin NOWHERE and claiming third. The guy was 20th on the bloody grid. That is a superb drive all around, no matter how fortunate you get with the safety cars etc. Speaking of safety cars, 4 of them. There was more crashes in this race then I can care to remember. Some of them were seriously lame, others like Robert Kubica’s unbelievable take off into the walls was pretty scary. Crashes on the race track are only acceptable (it’s part of racing at 320km/hr) when the guy in the cockpit gets out shakes the dust off and gets onto a motorcycle back to the paddock. Good to hear that the man got off pretty lightly with just a broken leg. Ralf never really recovered from the crash in America a few years ago.
Tomorrow however you know that all the news will be on Lewis Hamilton’s maiden victory. It’s amazing if you think about it since he’s only driven 6 F1 races in his life, so rather than wait 100 races or whatever he’s had it in the first 6. That’s pretty amazing and probably going to raise all expectations that he could be a world champion this year. The thing is and I know it’s not his fault, but I’m REALLY starting to get pissed off at the ITV coverage. They’ll spend something like 30 minutes before the race concentrating on Lewis and asking the drivers and everyone about him rather than concentrating on other aspects of the sport and other drivers. It’s really over hyping and it’s just getting annoying. Yes he’s having an exceptional debut, yes the story leading up to him getting the drive is great, but honestly how many bloody times do I have to hear it again and again.