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Circuit information:
| Round Number: |
8 |
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| Race Date: |
10-06-2001 |
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| Country: |
Canada |
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| City: |
Montreal (click for location map) |
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| Circuit Name: |
Gilles Villeneuve |
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| Circuit Length: |
4421 m. |
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| Number of Laps: |
69 |
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| Race Length: |
305.049 m |
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| 2000 Pole Position: |
Michael Schumacher |
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| 2000 Winner: |
Michael Schumacher |
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| 2000 Fastest Lap: |
Mika Hδkkinen |
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GAMBARAN SIRKUIT |
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Gambaran
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Circuit
Description, History, Facts and
Figures
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The Canadian Grand Prix can trace its history
back to 1967, the first of eight times it was held
at Mosport Park in Toronto. Two races ran at Mont
Tremblant, a ski resort up country from Montreal,
before the growing popularity of the late Gilles
Villeneuve saw the grand prix relocate to its
current venue, just a short metro ride from the
centre of Francophone Montreal in 1978. This
cosmopolitan city loves to party in summer, with
jazz, dance and comedy festivals, but the Mutha of
them all was "Expo 67," a gigantic world fair,
celebrating "The Peoples of the Earth." "It was
the summer of love and the summer of Expo," wrote
a local hippy poet.
While making love
remained popular, making Expo fizzled out, the
facilities being used for the 1968 Olympic Games,
before the roads on the Ile Notre Dame site were
transformed into a race track. Today, all that
remains is the geodesic dome which was the USA
Pavilion and the Olympic Rowing Basin, which used
to host an impromptu raft race between the F1
teams. These days, mechanics fill their few spare
moments fishing in it, or feeding the squawking
sea- gulls which flap over from the Saint Lawrence
Seaway which runs alongside the track.
Ask
F1 aficionados to name any Canadian grand prix
drivers and once they get past Villeneuve "pere et
fils," you can hear a pin drop in the ensuing
silence. By our reckoning, there were at least
nine others; most of them only drove in their home
event and all were singularly unsuccessful! First
off came Peter Ryan who came 9th in his only race,
the 1961 US GP. Eppie Wietzes ran a Lotus in the
67 and 74 Canadian events; Bill Brack tried his
hand in 68, 69 and 72, failing to qualify on
two occasions.
George Eaton drove in 69
and did a whole season with BRM in 1970, finishing
tenth at home. John Cordts retired from the
Canadian race in 69, his only F1 drive and is now
living in a log cabin somewhere! Al Pease deserves
an award for tenacity, persevering with an ex-Dan
Gurney Eagle in three Canadian GPs from 67 to
69. He was 46 when he made his F1 debut. Peter
Broeker ventured far from home to take part in the
USA GP in 63 at the wheel of a Stebro, while
Hollywood-born Mike Fisher tried two races in the
Lotus Jim Clark used to dominate the 1965
championship, but sadly the magic did not rub off.
In more recent times, Alan Berg tried his hand. He
had shown well in the British F3 championship in
the year that Martin Brundle and Ayrton Senna
dominated the category. Berg drove the 86 season
for Osella; enough to put anyone off the sport.
He now races successfully down Mexico way.
And of course there was Jacques Villeneuve. No,
not the 1997 World Champion, currently driving for
BAR, but his 46 year old uncle. Considering the
boy was named after him, Jacques the elder could
have chosen his words more carefully when he used
the local Montreal press to slag off his nephew's
achievements a few years back. The older man
failed to qualify at his three attempts at grand
prix stardom, although he did win one Indycar
race.
No record of Canadian drivers is
complete without Gilles Villeneuve. 67 grands prix
and six wins does not begin to convey the
excitement of watching the French Canadian in
action. He came to motor racing via snowmobiles
and drag racing. His natural talent led to a
one-off drive for McLaren in the 1977 British GP
where he spun - a lot. Ferrari snaffled him up and
he never left the Scuderia. In fairy tale style,
his first win came in 1978 at this circuit, which
now bears his name.
Two moments stand out:
an unbelievable battle with Rene Arnoux in a
Renault in the 1979 French GP at Dijon, when the
two men raced side by side, banging wheels for a
couple of laps and the time when he out-qualified
team-mate Jody Scheckter in the wet for the USA GP
by a staggering eleven seconds. "Too fast to live,
too young to die," has never been more apt and 18
years after his death during practice for the 1982
Belgian GP, the tifosi from Monza to Montreal
still hang out banners with "Gilles Villeneuve,
Ferrari" and his legendary Number
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