Friday 8 June 2012

7 minutes in heaven

Here we are. Six races in and we have seen six different winners. Can you believe it? I know I can't. From the season we had last year where it was Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel dominating, now we have such an unpredictable start to the season, it's quite hard to get your head around things.

Fernando Alonso leads the championship, and the win for Mark Webber last time out in Monaco bumps him up to joint second with his team mate Sebastian Vettel.

What better way to continue this unpredictable season than with a trip to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend. Last years race will probably go down in history for one of the best races in a season, so I wonder what the race will have install for us on Sunday? Anything can happen with the weather. Rain or shine. This race is going to be jam packed with action.

With its long straights and slow corners, this track, on paper, looks like it will suit Mercedes and Lotus. Can Kimi Raikkonen get his first win after returning to Formula 1? Or can his team mate Romain Grosjean deliver the goods? Nico Rosberg won back in China but seven times world champion is still yet to achieve this. Can it all change this weekend?

Free practice 1 and 2 gets underway soon with rain threatening both sessions. I wonder who can manage their tyres in the cooler conditions and get in the times before the rain comes. Tyres have been a major talking point throughout the season and will play an even bigger part this weekend than they have done in previous races. I wonder who will be able to benefit from these cooler conditions and who can keep their tyres from 'falling off the cliff'.
As race strategy is becoming more and more important now, qualifying isn't the same because drivers want to save as many sets of tyres as they can.

Are we being robbed from some great racing action because of tyres? This weekend will surely be the test of that.


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