Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

lauantai 11. kesäkuuta 2011

Canadian GP / Qualifying: Sebastian on pole again -against all odds?

When the teams arrived in Canada there was a lot of talk about the Gilles Villeneuve circuit not suiting the Red Bulls as well as some other tracks in the calendar. The Red Bulls are very quick at tracks with many high speed corners but there aren´t many of those at Canada! And the weekend didn´t start in the best possible way for Sebastian Vettel as he crashed into "the wall of champions" already on Friday morning in P1... But I was very confident anyway, I kept thinking that Sebi just wanted to get the crash over with so that he could concentrate on the serious racing... ;)

Q1 and Q2 held no surprises at all. If you don´t count Pedro De La Rosa´s performance. The man replacing Perez in Sauber did actually amazingly well knowing that he was informed only 10 minutes before the P2 got underway that he was expected to drive the other Sauber car! And he had no experience of using the DRS so getting into Q2 can be considered a very reasonable achievement.

Q3 was the most surprising of the three sessions I would say. What has happened to the McLarens? Their pace seemed to have faded away since the Monaco grand prix. Hamilton qualified 5th and Button was 7th behind Rosberg. On the other hand the Ferraris proved to be very competitive indeed! At certain point it seemed that Massa was going to beat his team-mate but in the final standings Alonso qualified 2nd and Massa 3rd. And against all odds, the young German conquered the pole once again! At the track that wasn´t supposed to be Red Bull´s strongest ground... Vettel is just amazing, isn´t he?? I mean his team-mate Webber did an outstanding job finishing 4th, considering that he missed the entire P3 due to a KERS issue and in the qualifying he had to drive without KERS aswell! But Sebastian Vettel... No matter where in the world the man drives, he always manages to get the best out of his car when it matters the most... There´s something absolutely magical about his driving!

I´m sure we´re going to see a thrilling race tomorrow! Rain has been predicted for tomorrow so there´s some extra excitement in the air... The Ferraris´race pace has been very close to Red Bulls´ so far so I´m expecting to see some tight wheel-to-wheel battle!  It´s amazing how Formula 1 racing and especially seeing Sebastian make his magical laps can make your weekend. I´m kind of in the middle of a personal crisis so Formula 1 is the perfect way to escape all my personal problems! In many ways this appears to be a perfect weekend in addition to the Canadian GP: it´s extremely hot summer weather here in Finland (about 30 degrees Celsius) and the beach is near and the water is warm :) But it´s the thrilling Formula 1 action that really makes the weekend perfect! No matter how much worries and stress you have, F1 makes you forget everything else -at least for a couple of hours...!

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