Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Canadian GP: Circuit Preview

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As the drivers relax after a long weekend in Monaco, it's also time for them to prepare for the Canadian GP & time for us to go over the circuit!

"Circuit Gilles Villeneuve" is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and first opened back in 1978. It's not the oldest circuit on the calendar, but not the newest either. It runs Clockwise and has 13 turns. It is also 2.71 Miles in length. It's capacity is 100,000 & The race will consist of 70 laps.

in 2014, Nico Rosberg took pole but didn't quite get the win. Instead it was Australia's Daniel Ricciardo while Rosberg finished Second and Sebastian Vettel snapped up Third to complete the podium.

Retirements included: Jules Bianchi (Collision), Max Chilton (Collision), Marcus Ericsson (Oil Leak), Pastor Maldonado (Power Unit), Kamui Kobayashi (Suspension Failure), Lewis Hamilton (Brake Failure), Daniil Kvyat (Driveshaft), Romain Grosjean (Rear-Wing Damage), Esteban Gutierrez (Power Unit), Sergio Perez (Collision) & Felipe Massa (Collision)

While Gutierrez, Perez & Massa all retired, they were classified as finished as they had completed at least 90% of the race.

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