F1 2012: Lewis Hamilton Wins Canadian Grand Prix, but Again Pirelli Claims MVP

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Published: June 11, 2012

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The 2012 Canadian Grand Prix continued the remarkable streak of unpredictable results, delivering the seventh different winner of the season, this time in the form of Lewis Hamilton.

While Hamilton’s comfortable victory finally rewarded the season’s most consistent performer with a long overdue visit to the top step of the podium, it added more fuel to the fire of those who are critical of the ever changing nature of the season so far.

While the fans love the excitement of these seemingly random performances, it does beg the question as to whether this really is the best look for the pinnacle of motorsport.

Formula One is supposed to be all about the best cars winning. That's what has seen the sport endure since 1950 and continue to go from strength to strength.

If the fans wanted truly unpredictable racing, they could have embraced the much-vaunted A1GP series. It lasted four years.

F1 is about technology, innovation and pushing design rules to the very limit. Introducing a random variable into this—such as the tyres—defeats the purpose.

It must be incredibly frustrating for the teams of engineers who spend countless hours making design changes to shave a 10th of a second off a lap time, only to have their work undone by tyres that can change character in half a lap and lose multiple seconds per lap.

Throughout the season, we have seen races undone by the self-destructing Pirelli tyres that have “fallen off a cliff” in performance terms in sight of the finishing line.



Witness Kimi Raikkonen’s heartbreaking march backwards through the field in Chine when he went from second to 14th over the closing stages of the race thanks to tyre performance drop-off.

 

 

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