F1 Grand Prix 2012

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Sebastian Vettel is on pole at the Canadian Grand Prix, ey!

[CambCelt]

By Andrew Benson:

BBC Sport - Lewis Hamilton expecting 'tough' race against Vettel and Alonso

Lewis Hamilton said he expected a "tough" race in Canada trying to keep in touch with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

The McLaren driver has qualified second in Montreal, behind Vettel and ahead of Alonso but said he expected their cars to be faster in the race.

"It's going to be really tough. The Ferrari has the best long-run pace and the Red Bull probably second," he said.

"I think it's Fernando we have to watch out for mostly."

Hamilton heads into the race 13 points behind championship leader Alonso, who is three points ahead of the Red Bull duo of Vettel and Mark Webber, who starts fourth.

His main concern will be tyre life - with which he said that Red Bull and Ferrari had proved to have an advantage in the last race in Monaco.

McLaren have also made changes to their pit-stop procedures in an attempt to prevent the problems that have afflicted them in recent races.

"I'll do everything I can in the race to look after the tyres," Hamilton said, "but I did that in the last race and they went off. It may be different here. I don't know what to expect.

"I'm going to remain in a positive mind, and I know the guys have been working really hard on the pit stops, so I'm sure it's going to be a better race tomorrow."

He added: "Ferrari have incredible degradation. They didn't have a lot of degradation in the last race and they were phenomenally quick and the Red Bull was very quick as well.

"They were able to do something like 40 laps on an option tyre. We're not able to do that yet, I think we need a little bit more downforce for that, but we'll give it our best and hope we can remain in the battle."

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Spoilered for those without Sky.

Spoiler:

Hamilton wins Canadian Grand Prix, Grosjean came 2nd and Perez was 3rd.

[FreeBBC]

all f1 cars should go hybrid

[jools182]

Its a strange circuit in Canada

Seems really narrow, no run offs, and really bumpy

[timey]

It always seems to give us a good race though.

[Alpha]

What a dramatic race that was. Alonso is 1st, i forgot who's second but Michael Schumacher is 3rd.

Fucking' awesome.

[timey]

Gutted at Hammy's exit in the last lap.

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Gutted at Hammy's exit in the last lap.

He was fuming.

Proper pissed-off.

[timey]

Yeah, he threw his steering wheel worth about 50K or whatever on the ground. He'll get into trouble for that.