| 2013 Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 7 of 19 in the2013 Formula One World Championship
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.svg) Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 9 June 2013 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1Grand Prix du Canada 2013[1] | ||||
| Location | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec,Canada | ||||
| Course | Street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 4.361 km (2.710 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 70 laps, 305.270 km (189.686 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures approaching 23 °C (73 °F); wind speeds up to 15 kilometres per hour (9.3 mph)[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||||
| Time | 1:25.425 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault | |||
| Time | 1:16.182 on lap 69 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Red Bull-Renault | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2013 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2013)[1] was aFormula Onemotor race that took place on 9 June 2013 at theCircuit Gilles Villeneuve inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] The race was the seventh round of the2013 season, and marked the 50th running of theCanadian Grand Prix.
After taking pole position,Sebastian Vettel took his andRed Bull's first victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, just over 14 seconds ahead of second-placedFernando Alonso.[4]
The event was marred by the death of track marshal Mark Robinson,[5][6] who was run over by a recovery vehicle. The accident happened while marshals were removing theSauber ofEsteban Gutiérrez after the Mexican had spun off during the closing stages of the race. Robinson died later in hospital,[7] and became the first trackside death in Formula One since that of marshal Graham Beveridge at the2001 Australian Grand Prix.[8]
Tyre supplierPirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded supersoft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre, as opposed to the previous year where soft and supersoft selection were provided.
The three qualifying sessions were held on 8 June. All qualifying was rain-affected.
Force India'sPaul di Resta,Caterham'sCharles Pic, Lotus'sRomain Grosjean,Marussia'sJules Bianchi andMax Chilton, andCaterham'sGiedo van der Garde were all knocked out in Q1.
Sauber'sNico Hülkenberg, McLaren'sSergio Pérez, Williams'Pastor Maldonado, McLaren'sJenson Button, Sauber'sEsteban Gutiérrez, and Ferrari'sFelipe Massa were all eliminated in Q2. Massa caused a red flag after crashing into the barriers in turn 3. Williams' Valtteri Bottas became the first rookie driver in 2013 to make it into Q3.
Red Bull'sSebastian Vettel took pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix with a time of 1:25.425, beating Mercedes'Lewis Hamilton by 0.087 seconds. Williams'Valtteri Bottas was a surprise third. At the time, Williams hadn't scored a single point in their 2013 season.
Kimi Räikkönen andDaniel Ricciardo were given two-place penalties for not lining up in the designated 'fast lane' at the pit exit in the rush to get out after the Q2 red flag. Räikkönen would start from 10th and Ricciardo 11th on the grid.[9]
Vettel led away at the start with Hamilton trailing in his wake, in turn Hamilton held off his teammateNico Rosberg, behind them wasMark Webber andFernando Alonso. At the first round of pit stops Mercedes chose to fit super-softs to Lewis Hamilton while Webber and Alonso fitted the more durable medium tyres and they soon caught and passed Hamilton. However, Webber then damaged his car when lapping theCaterham ofGiedo van der Garde, the latter was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty, Webber continued but was then passed by Alonso. After the second round of pit stops Alonso was again behind Lewis Hamilton but on Lap 63 he passed the Mercedes driver to claim 2nd behind a dominant Vettel, Hamilton held onto 3rd place. Near the end of the raceEsteban Gutiérrez spun off and track worker Mark Robinson, who had fallen over trying to pick up a radio he dropped, was run over by the recovery vehicle. He later died from his injuries in hospital, several drivers led tributes to the track worker on Twitter.[10]
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