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COOPER: Teammate Talk In Montreal
The Red Bull and McLaren teams are the talk of the Formula One circuit leading into Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal...
Jenson Button (Left) and teammate Lewis Hamilton (Right) battled for the win in Turkey.(Photo: LAT Photographic)
After two years away, it’s good to be back in Montreal, a place that the F1 circus has always loved, and which in turn seems to welcome the sport far more than other major cities such as Melbourne, Barcelona and Budapest.
This year there’s a bit of a shock for those of spending UK pounds, because the exchange rate is horrendous, and everything suddenly seems scarily expensive – and that’s even before all the local taxes are piled onto the sticker price! The days of doing a year’s worth of shopping for clothes, CDs and the like have gone, I fear...
One thing has not changed, and that’s the weather. It was warm enough when I arrived yesterday, but today it has rained incessantly, just as it did on the first day of my maiden visit here for a World Sportscar Championship race 20 years ago.
When the F1 safety and medical cars were out doing their usual Thursday practice runs today, it was clear just how tough this place always is for F1 cars in the wet, and at the first corner in particular there was a huge puddle that even road cars struggled to plough through.
More rain is forecast for the weekend, and it can only add to the drama of what promises to be a cracker. Naturally everyone is waiting to see how things develop at Red Bull, but no less interesting is what might occur at McLaren.
In Turkey, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton put on a great show when they traded the lead, but it subsequently emerged that Lewis thought that Button would not be attempting a pass. That has turned out to be a bit of bad advice from his race engineer, rather than a team order that went awry, so everything seems to be under control again there.
However, the issue of teammates fighting each other is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, and will be the focal point this weekend.
Red Bull and to some extent McLaren received a lot of criticism after Turkey for mishandling things, but at the end of the day it was great to see these guys fighting wheel to wheel, even if it provided some heart stopping moments for the respective team managements.
This year there’s a bit of a shock for those of spending UK pounds, because the exchange rate is horrendous, and everything suddenly seems scarily expensive – and that’s even before all the local taxes are piled onto the sticker price! The days of doing a year’s worth of shopping for clothes, CDs and the like have gone, I fear...
One thing has not changed, and that’s the weather. It was warm enough when I arrived yesterday, but today it has rained incessantly, just as it did on the first day of my maiden visit here for a World Sportscar Championship race 20 years ago.
When the F1 safety and medical cars were out doing their usual Thursday practice runs today, it was clear just how tough this place always is for F1 cars in the wet, and at the first corner in particular there was a huge puddle that even road cars struggled to plough through.
More rain is forecast for the weekend, and it can only add to the drama of what promises to be a cracker. Naturally everyone is waiting to see how things develop at Red Bull, but no less interesting is what might occur at McLaren.
In Turkey, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton put on a great show when they traded the lead, but it subsequently emerged that Lewis thought that Button would not be attempting a pass. That has turned out to be a bit of bad advice from his race engineer, rather than a team order that went awry, so everything seems to be under control again there.
However, the issue of teammates fighting each other is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, and will be the focal point this weekend.
Red Bull and to some extent McLaren received a lot of criticism after Turkey for mishandling things, but at the end of the day it was great to see these guys fighting wheel to wheel, even if it provided some heart stopping moments for the respective team managements.
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