Historic win for Robert Kubica

I was sad to know that two 0f my favourites Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen were out as they crashed into each other.

StarSports reported that Robert Kubica won the Canadian Grand Prix from BMW team-mate Nick Heidfeld as Formula One history was made after Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen had to retire over a bizarre pit lane crash.

The first career win for a Kubica and for BMW-Sauber as an independent team in the sport came 12 months after the first Polish driver in the sport miraculously escaped a horror crash on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve all but unharmed.

Kubica's win over Heidfeld came just minutes ahead of another German-Polish duel, on the football pitch at Euro 2008 in Austria.

If the victory wasn't good enough, Kubica also claimed the world championship lead from fourth place before the race with 42 points. Hamilton and Ferrari's Felipe Massa have 38 each and Raikkonen 35.

“It is sensational,” said BMW motorsport chief Mario Theissen. It was the first win for BMW-Sauber, while Ralf Schumacher won in 2001 for a BMW-powered Williams on the same course. Read More

Kubica ‘thanks’ Hamilton after first Grand Prix win

Lewis takes pole position in Canadian Grand Prix

Starsports report


MONTREAL: Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position with a scintillating Canadian Grand Prix qualifying performance yesterday.

The world championship leader took his first ever pole in Montreal last year and he was even more impressive this time around, clocking a time over six-tenths of a second faster than that of his nearest rival.

It took some last-gasp dramatics though. Hamilton pulled out all the stops on his final lap to push BMW’s Pole Robert Kubica back into second place.

In bright sunshine and poor track conditions, Kubica just could not quite do enough to deny the 23-year-old Briton his eighth career pole position and his second this season.

Hamilton won from the front in Canada last year and after his electric final qualifying lap of 1:17.886, he will be confident of a repeat come today’s race on the tricky, high-speed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Fernando Alonso will start third on the grid for Renault and will be joined on the second row by Ferrari’s Finnish world champion Kimi Raikkonen.

Nico Rosberg achieved an excellent fifth for Williams with Brazilian Felipe Massa having to settle for sixth in the second Ferrari.Read more