F1 Canada GP: McClaren Back In Business!

If the Canadian Grand Prix was anything to go by then this years formula one season is definitately getting more and more heated up and interesting. With McClaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button standing 1-2 on the podium, the McClaren team is quickly climbing up the ladder of winning the constructors title. And Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) standing third.

Jenson Button ran a near perfect race and finished behind teammate Lewis Hamilton

The Red Bull team must be sweating it out as they are in for a real challenge. Just when it seemed like they were the team to defeat this year, tables turned around and they’re being threatened to hold on to their reputation as they were defeated fair and square in the Canadian Grand Prix by the McClaren and Ferrari.

For a while it seemed that McLaren’s adventurous strategy in qualifying on the option tyres had blown up in their faces as Hamilton and Button both pitted before the eighth lap. But both were in contention thereafter. Alonso on the final straight, after he’d lost second place to the Spaniard in the drag race as they exited the pits on lap seven.

Thereafter, he was able to pace himself, stop once more, and lead Button home by 2.2s to take over the lead of the world championship. Button had preserved his tyres as much he dared, eased away from a hungry Vettel in mid-race traffic, then jumped Alonso when the Spaniard was delayed lapping Chandhok on the 56th (70 laps) lap. Thereafter the two silver cars reeled off the finishng laps to take home victory.

Team Points 1 McLaren-Mercedes 215 2 RBR-Renault 193 3 Ferrari 161

Drivers Point 1 Lewis Hamilton (McClaren) 109 2 Jenson Button (McClaren) 106 3 Mark Webber (Red Bull) 103