Monday, 8 June 2015

2015 Canadian Grand Prix Review and thoughts

Review of the seventh round of the 2015 F1 season at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, for the Canadian Grand Prix.

Overall, a dominating race weekend for Mercedes, dominating in practice, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Mercedes driver and current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race, dominate the race to conclude with a race win in this seasons Canadian Grand Prix for his fourth race win of the season.



While, team-mate Nico Rosberg finished second place in the Mercedes to give the team its fourth one-two finish of the season, Rosberg was two seconds behind Hamilton at the end.

Meanwhile, Valtteri Bottas finished in third place in the Williams to complete the podium, Bottas was fourty seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the seventy lap race.

Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (pole and race win)
Nico Rosberg - 8 (finished second)

Red Bull Racing - 6
Daniel Ricciardo - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 7 (finished ninth, lap down)

Williams - 8
Valtteri Bottas - 9 (finished third)
Felipe Massa - 8 (finished sixth)

Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (finished fifth)
Kimi Räikkönen - 8 (finished forth, and fastest lap)

McLaren - 5
Jenson Button - 5 (DNF, Exhaust)
Fernando Alonso - 6 (DNF, Engine)

Force India - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 8 (finished eighth, lap down)
Sergio Pérez - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 5
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Max Verstappen - 5 (finished fifteenth, lap down)

Lotus - 8
Romain Grosjean - 7 (finished tenth, lap down)
Pastor Maldonado - 9 (finished seventh)

Manor - 6
Will Stevens - 6 (finished seventeenth, four laps down)
Roberto Merhi - 6 (DNF, Driveshaft)

Sauber - 5
Marcus Ericsson - 6 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Felipe Nasr - 5 (finished sixteenth, two laps down)


Next stop Red Bull Ring in two weeks time for the Austrian Grand Prix.

End of blog for now, new post soon. Bye.

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