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Canadian Grand Prix
Canadian Grand Prix
Canadian Grand Prix (Grand Prix du Canada) Mosport Park 1961-1977 Mont-Tremblant 1968-1970 Circuit Île Notre-Dame 1978-1981 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (1982-2008)
Race information Laps Circuit length Race length Number of times held First held Last held Most wins (drivers) Most wins (constructors) Last race (2008): Pole position Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.886 1. Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1h 36m 24.447s (189.987 km/h) 2. Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber +16.495s 3. David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault +23.352s Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:17.387 70 4.361 km (2.709 mi) 305.270 km (189.694 mi) 46 1961 2008 Michael Schumacher (7) Ferrari (13)
Formula One World Championship since 1967. It was first staged at Mosport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario as a sports car event before it alternated between Mosport and Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Quebec after Formula One took over the event. After 1971 safety concerns led to the Grand Prix moving permanently to Mosport. In 1978 the Canadian Grand Prix moved to its current home on Île Notre-Dame in Montreal. In 2005, the Canadian Grand Prix was the most watched Formula One GP in the world. The race was also the third most watched sporting event on the planet, behind the first place Super Bowl XXXIX and the UEFA Champions League Final.[2] On October 7, 2008, it was announced by the FIA that the Grand Prix would be dropped from the Formula One calendar for 2009, having been previously included in the Provisional Calendar.[3]
History
The early Canadian Grand Prix was one of the premier events of the new Canadian Sports Car Championship, a series which had been created alongside the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport in 1961. Several international sports car as well as Formula One drivers participated in the event. For the first five years, the event would be won by drivers with either prior Formula One experience, or would enter the championship after winning the Canadian Grand Prix. In 1966 the Canadian-American Challenge Cup ran the event, with American Mark Donohue winning.[1] Formula One took over the following year, although the CSCC and Can-Am series continued to compete at Mosport in their own events. The first winner in Montreal was Quebec native Gilles Villeneuve who died in 1982 on the final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix. A few weeks after his death, the race course in Montreal was named Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after him. Gilles Villeneuve was one of the first inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, and the only Canadian winner at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Podium
Fastest lap
The Canadian Grand Prix (known in French as the Grand Prix du Canada), abbreviated as gpc, was an annual auto race held in Canada starting in 1961.[1] It has been part of the
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The 1982 Canadian Grand Prix, in the shadow of the death of Villeneuve a month earlier, saw another accident when Villeneuve’s teammate Didier Pironi stalled on the grid. Raul Boesel struck the stationary vehicle, and Riccardo Paletti then struck the rear of Pironi’s Ferrari. Pironi and F1 doctor Sid Watkins came to Paletti’s aid to try to extract him from his car, which briefly caught fire. After a half hour, Paletti was extracted and flown to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. In 1987, the race was not held due to sponsorship dispute between two local breweries, Labatt and Molson. During the break the track was modified, and starting line moved to its current position. Ferrari’s Jean Alesi won the 1995 edition, which occurred on his 31st birthday and which would be the only win of his career. Alesi had inherited the lead when Michael Schumacher pitted with electrical problems and Damon Hill’s hydraulics failed. the victory was a popular one for Alesi, particularly after several unrewarded drives the year before, namely in Italy. Alesi’s win at Montreal was voted the most popular race victory of the season by many, as it was the number 27 Ferrari - once belonging to the famous Gilles Villeneuve at his much loved home Grand Prix. Schumacher gave Alesi a lift back to the pits after Alesi’s car ran out of fuel just before the Pits Hairpin. The 1997 Canadian Grand Prix was stopped early due to a crash involving Olivier Panis. He was sidelined for nine races and some see it as a turning point in the career of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix winner. In 1999, the final corner of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve became well-known for crashes involving former World Champions. Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed into the same wall which had the slogan Bienvenue au Québec (Welcome to Quebec in English) on it. The wall became ironically known as the "Wall of Champions". The wall also was involved in a crash with Ricardo Zonta, who was, at the time, the reigning FIA GT sports car champion. In recent years, GP2 Champion Nico Rosberg and CART Champion Juan Pablo Montoya have also fallen victim to the wall. In 2001, there was the first sibling 1-2 finish in the history of Formula 1, as Ralf and Michael Schumacher topped the podium. The Schumacher brothers would finish 1-2 in the
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2003 edition as well. 2001 was also noted for Jean Alesi achieving Prost’s best finish of the season; he celebrated his fifth place by doing several donuts in his vehicle, and throwing his helmet into the crowd. The 2007 race was the site of rookie Lewis Hamilton’s first win. On lap 67, Takuma Sato overtook the McLaren-Mercedes’s Fernando Alonso, to cheers around the circuit, just after overtaking Ralf Schumacher and having overtaken Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen earlier in the race.[1][2] The race saw Sato move from the middle of the grid to the back of the pack and to a high of fifth before a pit-stop error caused him to move back to eleventh. Sato he fought up 5 places in the field in the last 15 laps to finish sixth. Sato was voted "Driver of the Day" on the ITV website over Lewis Hamilton’s first win. The race also saw a horrific incident involving Robert Kubica (who went on to win the race the following season). In the weeks leading up the Grand Prix, city officials trap as many groundhogs as they can in and around the race course, and transport the animals to nearby Ile SteHelene.[3] Nonetheless, in 2007, a groundhog disrupted the practice session of Ralf Schumacher. On race day itself, Anthony Davidson had been running in third until he struck a groundhog, initially thought to be a beaver, which forced him to pit and repair the damage to his front wing. In 2008, a groundhog crossed the track at the hairpin in the 2nd practice session but luckily did not disrupt the session.
Recent developments
On October 7, 2008, the Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from the 2009 Formula One calendar, which left the Montreal race off the list for the first time since 1987.[4] In the provisional 2009 schedule released in June 2008, the Canadian Grand Prix was to have been held on June 7, a date taken by the 2009 Turkish Grand Prix in the revised schedule.[5] Since the US Grand Prix was last held in 2007, this means that no Formula One race will be held in North America for the first time since 1958. [6] (The American Indianapolis 500 formed part of the FIA World Drivers’ Championship from 1950 to 1960, but was not run to Formula One regulations and only very rarely entered by regular championship competitors.)
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Number of wins 7 3 2 Driver Michael Schumacher Nelson Piquet Jacky Ickx Jackie Stewart Alan Jones Ayrton Senna During the Australian Grand Prix, reports surfaced that the Canadian Grand Prix could return during the 2009 season in the event that the race circuit in Abu Dhabi is not ready in time. [7] On April 26, 2009, Speed reported Bernie Ecclestone as saying the FIA was negotiating a return of the Canadian Grand Prix for the 2010 season. Years
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1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 1982, 1984, 1991 1969, 1970 1971, 1972 1979, 1980 1988, 1990
Sponsors
• Pepsi Cola Canadian Grand Prix 1961-1966 • Player’s Canadian Grand Prix 1967-1971 • Labatt’s Canadian Grand Prix 1972-1977 • Grand Prix Labatt du Canada 1980-1986 • Grand Prix Molson du Canada 1988-1996 • Grand Prix Player’s du Canada 1997-1998 • Grand Prix Air Canada 1999-2003 Because of tobacco legislation which prohibited further such sponsorship, new venues, and a maximum of 17 races on the schedule, the Canadian Grand Prix was initially removed from the 2004 F1 schedule. However, Canadian officials were able to raise enough money to keep a Grand Prix race, with the FIA allowing expansion to an 18 race schedule.[4][5] G. Fisichella, M. Schumacher and E. Irvine on the podium of the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix
Winners of the Canadian Grand Prix
Repeat winners
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Fans fill up the area every year.
Notes
[1] ^ "Canadian Grand Prix". Motor Racing Circuits Database. http://theracingline.net/racingcircuits/ racingcircuits/Canada/_gp.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. [2] Most watched TV sporting events of 2005 - A special report from Initiative [3] "FIA issue revised 2009 calendar". http://www.formula1.com/news/ headlines/2008/10/8483.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-07.
Year by year
A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship.
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Year 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 Driver Robert Kubica Lewis Hamilton Fernando Alonso Kimi Räikkönen Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher Ralf Schumacher Michael Schumacher Mika Häkkinen Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher Damon Hill Jean Alesi Michael Schumacher Alain Prost Gerhard Berger Nelson Piquet Ayrton Senna Thierry Boutsen Ayrton Senna Nigel Mansell Michele Alboreto Nelson Piquet René Arnoux Nelson Piquet Jacques Laffite Alan Jones Alan Jones Gilles Villeneuve Jody Scheckter James Hunt Emerson Fittipaldi Peter Revson Jackie Stewart Jackie Stewart Jacky Ickx Constructor BMW Sauber McLaren-Mercedes Renault McLaren-Mercedes Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari Williams-BMW Ferrari McLaren-Mercedes Ferrari Ferrari Williams-Renault Ferrari Benetton-Ford Williams-Renault McLaren-Honda Benetton-Ford McLaren-Honda Williams-Renault McLaren-Honda Williams-Honda Ferrari Brabham-BMW Ferrari Brabham-BMW Ligier-Matra Williams-Ford Williams-Ford Ferrari Wolf-Ford McLaren-Ford McLaren-Ford McLaren-Ford Tyrrell-Ford Tyrrell-Ford Ferrari Location
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1987 Not held
1975 Not held
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1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 Jacky Ickx Denny Hulme Jack Brabham Mark Donohue Jim Hall Pedro Rodríguez Pedro Rodríguez Masten Gregory Peter Ryan Brabham-Ford McLaren-Ford Brabham-Repco Lola-Chevrolet Chaparral-Chevrolet Ferrari Ferrari Lotus-Climax Lotus-Climax
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[4] "Canada missing from Formula 1 calendar in 2009". grandprix.com. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ ns20840.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. [5] Daily Mail, Canadian Grand Prix axed as Abu Dhabi gears up to take its place, Sportsmail Reporter, 3:03 PM on 07th October 2008 (accessed 10-October-2008) [6] PitPass.com Canada GP organizers surprised by FIA decision 08/10/2008 [7] (http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/ ?id=273079)
External links
• Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame • Satellite Photo • Canadian Grand Prix at The Canadian Encyclopedia
See also
• French Grand Prix, also cancelled in 2009 Coordinates: 45°30′14″N 73°31′37″W / 45.504°N 73.527°W / 45.504; -73.527
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