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Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso get a little too close for comfort.

Fernando Alonso was always the dangerman for Red Bull after qualifying so close to them, and on Sunday afternoon he put Ferrari back in Victory Lane with a beautifully-judged performance that owed a little to a delay during Sebastian Vettel’s second pit stop.

Vettel appeared to settle for second place once it became clear that he could not catch the red car, having lost crucial time in the pits when there was a problem with a rear wheel. He was 16.5s adrift of the Spaniard by the flag, but had team mate Mark Webber on his tail and threatening to pass until team boss Christian Horner instructed them to “maintain the gap,” as they struggled with their tyres in the closing laps. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian round of the 2011 championship was started in torrential rain behind the Safety Car, but as the visibility got worse and the standing water on the circuit began to ‘float’ the cars, the race stewards wisely brought out the red flag and then suspended the race, resulting in a delay of a couple of hours.

Before the race was stopped, Lewis Hamilton was involved in some arguably controversial manoeuvres, first with Mark Webber, who was spun around in the contact, and then with the second McLaren of Jenson Button, which saw Hamilton hit the pit straight wall and damaging his car into retirement.

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