Sunday 9th June 2013

Sebastian Vettel won in Montreal, Canada for the first time in his career, comfortably ahead of Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes. Those two put on an amazing show, playing a game of DRS chicken as Hamilton attempted to defend from Alonso in the closing stages, neither wanting to give the other the advantage down the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve’s long straights.
Valtteri Bottas had been the star of a wet qualifying when he put his uncompetitive Williams third on the grid, but the team’s gamble on a wet setup didn’t pay off when the race stayed dry and he slipped to 13th by the finish. There was tragedy after the race when a recovery vehicle which was moving Esteban Gutierrez’s stranded Sauber ran over a marshal, Mark Robinson, who later died in hospital.