Prost Stays Cool, Scores Canada Victory

Qualifying:

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Report:

The sun shined brightly on Montréal, perhaps brighter than it had in some people’s lifetimes. The heat was on at the Canadian Grand Prix and it showed on the track with a lot of inspired battles that didn’t even stopped when it came to teammates. It was clear that in these ruthless battles, the driver with the coolest head would prevail and indeed it happened that way.

Qualifying saw the Voeckler/Senna pole duopoly broken, as Alain Prost scored his first pole of the year and his first pole in around two years. He did a brilliant job keeping that lead in the run towards turn one. However, his main nemesis, Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler, proved more than capable of keeping up with Alain and took the lead at the first round of pitstops.

Prost, however, demonstrated his race craft by waiting for the backmarkers to get in the way of the leader as they fought their own wars: Alex Caffi and Riccardo Patrese had a thrilling fight and only reluctantly made room for Voeckler. This gave Alain an opening which he immediately used to get the lead, going on to win the race with a stable performance afterwards.

Behind the two, Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger fought their own battle for the final spot on the podium, having lost touch with the leaders at the second round of pitstops. Berger was able to come out on top, enabling McLaren to limit their losses in the team championship. Nigel Mansell and Brendon Cassidy completed the point scorers.

Race:

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Fastest Lap:

Gerhard Berger – 1:23.577

Infinite Improbability Drive Of The Race:

Guillaume Gauthier – A great tenth place for the Lotus team, this could prove valueable.

Reject Of The Race:

Michele Alboreto – He was, to put it simple, absolutely nowhere.