CANADIAN GRAND PRIX 2007 Race

The 2007 Canadian Grand Prix was held on June 10, 2007, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal.

Lewis Hamilton led from the start, preventing Fernando Alonso from overtaking at turn one. Alonso ran wide allowing Nick Heidfeld to overtake him and move into second place.

Alonso damaged his car in the process and subsequently ran off the track at turn one. Alonso ran across the grass at turn one again on lap 15. Three laps later he made a similar mistake at the same turn, resulting in him to cross the grass for the third time in the race. Alonso, also made mistakes on laps fourteen and eighteen. He ended up in 7 th place.


Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella left the pit lane while the red light was still on. Both were later disqualified from the race on lap51.

On lap 26, Robert Kubica hit the back of Jarno Trulli's Toyota. The impact launched his car into and along the concrete wall. The BMW flipped back across the track and came to rest against the barrier on the other side of the track. Kubica only suffered a sprained ankle and a concussion.

Austria's Alexander Wurz drove through the field in his Williams from 19th at the start to finish third by taking one pitstop, completing 40 laps on super soft tires.






The race was the first time in the 2007 season where a driver from a team other than Ferrari or McLaren made the podium.

Sato overtook the McLaren-Mercedes of world champion Fernando Alonso on lap 67 (this was met with cheers around the track) , just after overtaking Ralf Schumacher and having overtaken Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen earlier in the race.

Sato was voted "Driver of the Day" on the ITV website over Hamilton's first win.



     SATO in his Super Aguri

                               


                                         



Alonso and also the Ferrari team were disappointed with the outcome of the race. Ferrari lost ground in both the constructors and drivers championship.

Alonso believed Hamilton to have been "very lucky" to win the race and did not congratulate his team-mate after the race.
                                                                                                                                         HAMILTON

Hamilton's performance was felt to have been flaultless and all the more impressive due to four separate deployments of the Safety Car.                                                                                                    

Video ROBERT KUBICA's Violent Crash Canadian Grand Prix 2007