Formula 1 in Canada was interesting and McLaren gets another 1-2 win with Lewis Hamilton taking 1st after starting on pole position (his second win of the season) and Jenson Button taking 2nd place. Fernando Alonso driving the Ferrari rounded up the top three by coming in 3rd place. This also makes McLaren taking the lead in the manufacturers championship too. The race was thrilling as even at the start, we get to see Formula 1 race cars bumping into each other as we got to see Liuzzi of Toro Rosso Ferrari taking up to three bumps at the start.

By lap 2 Kobayashi hit the wall and limped back to the pits joined by Felipe Massa of Ferrari. Before that Liuzzi of Force India and Pedro de La Rosa entered the pits for the starting scraps. Laps 4 to 13 was really happening as everyone was overtaking or trying to overtake someone. In lap 13 Michael Schumacher driving the Petronas Mercedes pits from third place and comes out in seventh place and is dicing with Robert Kubica of Renault. The two are fighting collide, not heavily, bouncing across the kerbs. Kubica's front wing appears to be damaged and pits. It is still bumper car like in the start.

The reason for this is that the tire choices and tire change strategy seem to be assisting some better than the other. Some chose to run the softer compound earlier and this seems to be the best choice, as shown by Schumacher in the earlier part of the race (of course he later seemed to have suffered from tire wear right at the end).

Lap 40 was also fun to watch at Liuzzi and Massa were dicing it out and Massa came out the loser and was forced wide. Lap 44 and 45 was also fun as Mark Webber had to fight it out to gain a few positions by Hulkenberg and Sutil, which were having their own tussle. Even the final 10 laps were interesting, as everyone in the top 12 were fighting for position. And ultimately, a big loser in this was Michael Schumacher as he had defended, and lost positions to Buemi, Liuzzi and Sutil. The latter two taking the final points positions of 9th and 10th. It could be very bad tire wear making Schumacher's car uncontrollable right at the end.

The actual final results, though, will only be confirmed after the stewards investigate an incident between Robert Kubica and Adrian Sutil and another between Schumacher and Felipe Massa for all those bumper car maneuvers and other overtaking encounters. And that will only be done after the race. As I write this, nothing has been confirmed as yet but it shouldn't change the top three positions anyway.

So many events had happened during this race in Canada and this from a track that was dropped from the Formula 1 Grand Prix last year. Somehow for 2010 it was brought back. And it seems it was worth it as there were lots of thrills, overtaking and spills.

The next race is European Grand Prix at Valencia in two weeks time

Results

01. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1h33:53.456

02. Button McLaren-Mercedes + 2.254

03. Alonso Ferrari + 9.214

04. Vettel Red Bull-Renault + 37.817

05. Webber Red Bull-Renault + 39.29

06. Rosberg Mercedes + 56.084

07. Kubica Renault + 57.300

08. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1 lap

09. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes + 1 lap

10. Sutil Force India-Mercedes + 1 lap

11. Schumacher Mercedes + 1 lap

12. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1 lap

13. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth + 1 lap

14. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth + 1 lap

15. Massa Ferrari + 1 lap

16. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth + 2 laps

17. Petrov Renault + 2 laps

18. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth + 4 laps

19. Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth + 5 laps

Did Not Finish

Glock Virgin-Cosworth 50

Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 43

De la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 31

Senna HRT-Cosworth 14

Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 2