Vettel made his pit stop at the same time as Hamilton but Webber stayed out. As it was, he dropped back behind Hamilton. Alonso drew alongside coming out of the hairpin onto the back straight but instead of going side-by-side into the final chicane, Hamilton ducked into the pits.Īlonso came in two laps later and would have kept the lead if he hadn’t lost time lapping Karun Chandhok’s HRT. Hamilton kept Alonso behind for 15 laps but the pressure from his former team mate grew ever greater. Vettel’s pit stop promoted Sebastien Buemi briefly into the lead, with Alonso and Hamilton breathing down his neck.Īs Buemi made for the pits Hamilton got a run on Alonso and slipstreamed past the Ferrari, jumping up from third to first. That triggered their pit stops, Webber’s coming first as he’d stressed his tyres battling for positions in the opening laps.Īt this point Red Bull split their strategies, Webber sticking with the mediums but Vettel taking the opportunity to get his stint on the super-soft tyres out of the way. The pair, along with Button not far behind them, were soon lapping as quickly as leader Vettel and began catching the Red Bulls. For the second race in a row Hamilton lost a position in the pits, coming out alongside Alonso and having to give way to the Ferrari. Hamilton did the same soon after and Alonso, who had also started on the super-softs, followed him in. Button made his first pit stop to discard the problematic super-soft tyres shortly after that. Sebastian Vettel, who had started on the medium compound, was all over the back of the McLaren.įurther back the same was happening with Button and Webber – the Red Bull driver squeezing past at turn eight. Hamilton led from pole position but quickly ran into trouble on his super-soft tyres. The McLaren driver withstood pressure from Fernando Alonso who was later passed by Jenson Button for second place. Hamilton passed a struggling Mark Webber – who had gambled on a different tyre strategy – to take the lead of the race.

Lewis Hamilton lead McLaren to their third one-two of 2010 in a thrilling Canadian Grand Prix. Hamilton and Button celebrate another McLaren one-two

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