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The dust has settled on a tense Monaco Grand Prix, with the Formula One world now descending on Montreal for the Canada Grand Prix. Join The Roar for live pre-race coverage from 3:30am AEST.
Nico Rosberg walked away from Monte Carlo having regained the championship lead that he held over Lewis Hamilton until the Spanish Grand Prix.
In typical Formula One fashion, the victory came in a controversial manner after the outcome of qualifying and the aftermath of Lewis Hamilton’s initial reaction to the results coming under much scrutiny.
One team looking to continue on with results from Monaco would be Marussia. The team finally earned not only their first point but also their second, with Jules Bianchi’s eighth place finish later becoming ninth place after applying time penalties from during the race.
This put them into ninth place on the Constructors’ standings, above Sauber, while Bianchi’s teammate Max Chilton continuing his streak of classified finishes in the principality.
Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo earned another podium finish for Red Bull in Monaco, while Sebastian Vettel retired with turbo problems early on in the race and will be looking to bounce back in Montreal this weekend.
Vettel has had the upper hand in the Red Bull battle early on in practice sessions, with Ricciardo close to a second behind the German in free practice on Friday.
Renault has come out and said that their power unit is now finally up to scratch. With only a second separating the top 10 during practice on Friday, the Canadian GP may be one of the season’s closest yet.
Ferrari will be looking to move up the grid from Monaco, where Fernando Alonso finished fourth, while Kimi Raikkonen failed to finish in the points due to a puncture suffered during a safety-car period while in third.
The Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve is one of the quicker circuits on the calendar, mostly filled up with straights linked up by quick chicanes. It generally throws up some exciting moments over the 70 laps of the Grand Prix.
This also means that the brakes will be one of the most hard-worked parts of the car during the race, with 17 per cent of the lap spent on the brakes over seven braking zones.
DRS zones are featured twice on the circuit – on the pit straight and the straight preceding it – which generally allows for some good battles to start and finish the lap.
Many remember the lengthened 2011 race, where Jenson Button pounced on a rare Sebastian Vettel mistake on the final lap to take victory after taking to the pitlane six times throughout the race.
Pirelli will be bringing the same tyres as they did in Monaco, the Supersoft (Red) and Soft (Yellow) compound tyres.
Sebastian Vettel utilised a two-stop strategy on his way to victory last year, although this was using the Supersoft and Medium compounds.
This year’s tyre compound has been made slightly harder, and it could be expected to see similar strategies played out in Canada this morning.
There is a 56 per cent chance of a safety car period based on previous races, and as we saw in 2011, rain can always make things that little bit more exciting.
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