Terrible day for Lotus. They were slow. It was a big fault that Kimi's brakes wasn't fixed after he had the same issue on Friday, inexcusable really. Kimi would have lost a lot of time with the brake issue. Brakes are very important around Canada and F1 in general. If you have to brake earlier at every corner you will lose a lot of time, and it would be very difficult to overtake if you cant judge the braking distances. And then there was the fuel issue. And another blotched up pitstop from Lotus.
Overall I thought the race was more on the boring side, the gaps between the cars were to big, and the medium tyres lasted to long. There wasn't enough variation and strategies available.
Lotus might improve a little, but I already saw on Friday that their pace wasn't good. They will properly do better, but I just cant see them being as fast as Ferrari or Red Bull. Even Mercedes has miraculously found their tyre conservation abilities. It will be difficult, Lotus cant just relay on doing one less pitstop. It is properly already to late for Lotus, but if I where them I would have thrown anything I had into getting the WDC, there is no telling if they would ever soon get an opportunity again. But it is most likely to late now.
It is such a great tragedy that a marshal was killed. It has been a while since we have seen a death in F1, I just cant imagine what his family must be feeling.
What I don't get is Boulier's and Permane's comments: the plus side was Grosjean who ended 13th and Kimi (who finished in the points for the 24th time) had a frustrating weekend because he didn't have enough pace? I don't mean to grumble but, what the... " title="huh" />
What about the bad tyre strategy, the lack of brakes and fuel from the start and the crapy pit stop to top it all up! Don't those count? Specially after Permane said this on Friday:
ZitatKimi’s session ended early as we made a precautionary stop related to the rear brakes, but it’s nothing of concern for the rest of the weekend.
I mean, I know we owe Lotus for bringing back Kimi to F1 and giving him some space to really be himself but a big percentage of what Lotus is now is because of Kimi, a little more support in their comments wouldn't hurt. If they are serious about keeping Kimi they should start to get his act toghether.
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About the Marshal, it's a real tragedy... He dropped his radio and when he attempted to get it he stumbled and fell in front of the crane and got runned over by it " title="blink" />
the loss of a human life at a place where safety is supposed to be at a maximum is tragic. we will all forget about the lousy pit stop and the brakes and everything. his family will remember this day forever. and it will never be the same again. i have no words... " title="" />
Just saw this... didn't know the marshal was on the track... and all the people running to get to the podium... " title="blink" />
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Poor Marshal, he was my age and was a die hard F1 fan like us. What a terrible death and a big shock to his family and friends. His birthday was tomorrow " title="sad" /> RIP
Zitat Lotus sure F1 Canadian GP slump won't be repeated at Silverstone By Jonathan Noble Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 08:45 GMT
Lotus is convinced it will be back on the pace at the British Grand Prix after blaming its struggles in the Canadian Grand Prix on track characteristics.
Kimi Raikkonen was lapped by title rival Sebastian Vettel on Sunday, on a weekend when he never appeared to have the pace to fight for victory and finished ninth.
But despite the deficit in performance seen in Montreal, team principal Eric Boullier thinks the situation will be dramatically different at Silverstone because that track will suit the Lotus much better.
"This is a very specific track, and with our car we could just not switch the tyres on," Boullier told AUTOSPORT. "It does not help as well when it is cold and it is wet.
"Our pace was not so bad with Romain [Grosjean] in practice but, if you look at the race, we were 1.5 seconds slower than Red Bull and Mercedes.
"You do not lose 1.5 seconds from one race to another one. It is just that something went wrong.
"We have some good developments coming for Silverstone, so that should help us keep up and close the gap to the leader.
"And with normal tracks we should be able to get the best out of our car."
Boullier does not believe Lotus's recent downturn in results is a sign that it is losing out in the development race.
"We lost positions, so we have to work hard to keep the pace," he said. "But we know the car is competitive, and the team is competitive.
"There is no reason why we should not be back fighting for podiums.
"We didn't have the five podiums in a row since the start of the season just by chance or coincidence. It is because the package is competitive.
"But we may struggle some time on some tracks. We know this and we have to work on this to at least avoid this happening this season at low energy tracks - and next year as well."
But its in Finnish " title="oi" /> This is the translation: "After few laps I lost the brakes totally. We had that same problem Friday and also yesterday. They thought that the problem was fixed, but apparently it wasn't. Brakes came back, but still wasn't good. And in the pit stop they dropped the car for some reason and we lost a lot of time there. Bad weekend and bad race, but we still managed to get something out of it."
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