Alain Prost and son Nicolas at Magny-Cours Nicolas Prost, son of four-times F1 champion Alain Prost , imitated his father by driving a Renault F1 car at Magny-Cours this weekend.

The Michelin runners disappeared into their garages as the race started On this day in 2005 F1 plunged itself into controversy as only six cars took the start for the United States Grand Prix. Fourteen cars withdrew on the formation lap after tyre supplier Michelin discovered a problem with its product, and attempts to find a compromise solution failed.

This year’s new teams are faring better than Super Aguri did Fernando Alonso may have come to terms with missing out on a win in Canada but Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo isn’t quite so sanguine. And he’s taken aim at his favourite target – the new teams – telling La Gazetta dello Sport: Cars who perform at GP2-level should not be allowed to participate in F1 races because they are supposed to race on Sunday mornings.

Zing Zang’s podium predictions was spot-on Zing Zang won round eight of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship – coming out on top of a three-way tie on points with two other players. The ‘guess the pole time’ tie-breaker decided the ultimate winner and Zing Zang’s guess was 0.005 seconds closer than runner-up Choltz.

Hamilton leads at the start while Petrov exits stage left Find all the F1 Fanatic Canadian Grand Prix coverage in one place below – from Friday practice to the post-race review and our live comments on every session.

Button caught and passed Alonso in traffic late in the race Ferrari’s criticism of the new teams took a twist at the Canadian Grand Prix when Fernando Alonso blamed Karun Chandhok for losing him the race. But Felipe Massa took advantage of the lapped cars to pull off one of the best passes of the race. It proved one of few highlights in a frustrating race for Massa.

Hamilton led McLaren’s first back-to-back one-two in ten years An exciting race in Canada also gave us a bumper crop of F1 stats and facts. Three champions stood on the podium for the first time since 1991, McLaren scored back-to-back one-twos for the first time since 2000 – and Rubens Barrichello logged his 15,000th racing lap

Liuzzi and Massa tangle on the first lap The Force India duo had an eventful race, swapping positions twice on-track without coming to blow. Having started fifth and ninth the team clearly hoped for a better finish than ninth and tenth. But after Vitantonio Liuzzi’s tangle with Felipe Massa at the start, and Adrian Sutil’s puncture, they can count themselves fortunate to have brought home any points.

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McLaren didn’t put enough fuel in Hamilton’s car in qualifying Several readers have asked in the comments whether Hamilton’s pole position for today’s Canadian Grand Prix was achieved solely because he had less fuel in his car than his rivals. Having taken a look at the numbers it seems very unlikely.