History making day F1 racing

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http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=6&id=2899757

MONTREAL -- Rookie Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday, the first victory for a black driver in Formula One.

In a race filled with caution flags, the 22-year-old Englishman won in his sixth F1 start and now has six consecutive top-three finishes.

"I'm just having a fantastic day," Hamilton said. "This is history."

The only one to give the Mercedes McLaren driver any competition during the 70-lap race on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's 2.71-mile road course was BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld. He chased Hamilton all day without catching him. Hamilton beat Heidfeld to the finish by 4.3 seconds.

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1. Schumacher's retirement is the best thing to happen to F1. Finally, some excitement.

[Dude_CalmDown]

2. He would have smoked Schumacher anyway

Hamilton's just flat out great. Plus the McLaren is just a faster car than the Ferrari this year (this race at least).

[3waygeek]

3. We may get a chance to find out...

rumor has it that Schumi may step in to replace the less-than-stellar Kimi Raikkonen.

[WinkyDink]

4. NO WAY will MS un-retire! Hamilton is a phenom driver, and Schumi would be a fool

to test his age, reputation, and Ferrari against him.
M-M is the better team this year, and will win both the driver and manufacturer titles.
Alonso might be a tad p.o'ed, though. Heh.

And next year, Lewis will know all the tracks. :)

[tyedyeto]

5. Another first:

First race to be televised by Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire.

:grr:

[magellan]

6. Also the worst crash in quite some time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbXDha9MH68

Kubica smacked that wall at 180+mph and escaped with only a concussion and sprained ankle. Word is he'll be out of hospital tomorrow and might even be fit to race at Indianapolis next weekend (hubby and I will be there, it's our first F1 in person). Are those cars amazingly well built or is Kubica one lucky lad? Little of both?

Kudos to LH on the win!

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7. When I saw that, I knew that either he was dead in the car, or the HANS device is a miracle-worker.

I was so relieved to find that it was the latter.

And very happy for Lewis Hamilton on his win. He's going to be fun to watch.