Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

maanantai 13. kesäkuuta 2011

Canadian GP: Phenomenal victory for Button at a rain-hit race!

What an eventful race we saw at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve yesterday! It was legendary in many ways: I guess never before has a Formula 1 race lasted over 4 hours! And there was a new record of most laps driven behind safety car during a race... And crashes! Phenomenal driving by some drivers and mistakes that cost dearly by some others... So hugely entertaining race indeed!

Excitement was missing from the start because the drivers started behind the safety car due to wet conditions. Many laps driven without a possibility to race or overtake your rivals... And Hamilton managed to crash himself out of the race on the lap7 when he collided with his team-mate Button! Hard to call who was at fault in the incident but Button said after the race that he just wasn´t able to see Hamilton next to him... Sounds reasonable, I mean the amount of water on the track was quite unbelievable at that point of the race! So no points for Hamilton in Canada which was bad news for the McLaren driver considering the championship battle. It certainly seems that Hamilton´s chances for the world title this year are slipping through his fingers... He´s continuously over-trying and being way too aggressive! If he can´t change this he´ll difinitely lose his chances to win the title!

After 24 laps there was red flag because of the heavy rain that took a bit over 2 hours to stop!! Must have been very frustrating for the drivers as well as the spectators watching the race live! But luckily the rain finally stopped and the race got underway. Also Alonso got out of the race after colliding with Jenson Button so a very disappointing result for the Ferrari driver, too. After the safety car was out of the way we saw an absolutely thrilling and mindblowing rest of the race!! As a former Michael Schumacher fan I was absolutely delighted to see him fight for the podium finish! Schumi did a fantastic job although he finally couldn´t hold back either Button or Webber and finished 4th. But the best race for him for a looong time!

Where did Jenson Button come from?? By the closing laps he had already pitted 6 times! He had collided with his team-mate and had to come to the pits to get the nose changed and he had also got a drive through penalty due to speeding behind the safety car... He had been back in 21st and somehow he made his way through to 2nd after overtaking both Webber and Schumi! And he was closing the gap to Vettel who was leading -and that happened frightenly fast... Vettel had been leading throughout the whole race and then there was the final lap when he made a small mistake that cost him the victory!

I have to say Button totally deserved to win. He drove a phenomenal race and managed to grab the win despite all the difficulties. Vettel looked very disappointed at the press conference after the race although it was a good day for Red Bull aswell Vettel taking the 2nd place and his team-mate Webber finishing 3rd. But the way the victory slipped through Vettel´s fingers on the very last lap because of his own mistake... I have to admit I was disappointed, too. Of course my common sense keeps telling me that not even Sebastian Vettel can win every race but still... It was so close! He was leading all the other laps except the crucial one!

But if I have to find something positive about the result I would say this keeps Vettel´s feet even more firmly on the ground and this will help him maintain his down-to-Earth attitude towards the championship battle. It´s only human to make mistakes and Vettel knows that he can´t take victories for granted. And I´m sure he´ll turn these mistakes into success when he gets to Valencia next week...! And what we mustn´t forget is that Vettel still has a 60-point lead and Button just made himself the number one contender in the championship battle!

P.S. My 10-year-old son said to me this morning:" Mom, I could hear you screaming at half past 11 at night!" Poor boy ;) Luckily the Formula 1 races don´t usually last this long, otherwise my three sons wouldn´t be able to sleep well enough ;D Childish or not I tend to live the Formula 1 races -and especially Vettel´s performance- with my whole heart!

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