Finally, Lewis Hamilton won the first Grand Prix of his career at a very very eventful Canadian Grand Prix at Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit. Nick Heidfeld took the much deserved second spot for BMW-Sauber followed by an highly elated Alex Wurz for Williams F1.

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In an incident filled Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton, finally, scored his first Grand Prix victory. Followed by Nick Heidfeld of BMW and Alex Wurz for Williams completing the podium finishers. Followed by Heikki Kovalainan of Renault, Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari and Takuma Sato for Super Aguri. Then came Fernando Alonso for McLaren and Ralf Schumacher for Toyota completing the top 8 finishers.

The biggest incident was the big crash of Robert Kubica. Thankfully as per the last reports he has just a broken leg and is in stable condition. More details report to follow later.

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Due to excessive work pressure, I was not able to follow up my Malaysian GP Preview with the Race Summary, and now it’s too late to do that. Therefor I decided to let the images do all the talking this time and spare the readers the agony to read what I write. Enjoy the images …

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And Kimi Raikkonen takes the chequered flag at 2007 ING Australian Grand Prix. Reigning champion Fernando Alonso finished second in his McLaren, followed by the rookie [and Fernando's teammate] Lewis Hamilton walking on the podium in his debut race.

If you thought Formula 1 racing were boring, think again. The race can’t get any more interesting and spectacular, with David Coulthard deciding to take “Aerial Route” literally on Alex Wurz. With Heikki Kovalainen thinking of Albert Park as Park, in literal sense, and driving his Renault in grass quiet a few times. With Takuma Sato finishing ahead of Jenson Button but behind Reubens Barrichello. With Felipe Massa managing to finish at 6th place after starting from 21st place on the grid [and thus proving my predictions for grid positions wrong]. With Williams managing to finish ahead of both of the Toyota’s.

Let’s look at what happened in some details.

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This is the last episode of Road to F1′07: Story in Images. This series has covered many things, from unveiling of cars, to testing rounds, to Red Bull Racing movie shoot, to BMW-Sauber’s ice stint at Moritz to charity tennis event by F1 drivers at Marlboro, and we hope you enjoyed the series as much we toiled getting it together. As always, your comments & suggestions are most welcome. Enjoy the last episode.

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Referring to the lacklustre form of the Japanese giant’s ‘TF107′ contender in winter testing, the German said: “We have had a catastrophic preparation for this season. There is a gap to the front that we must now work hard to close,” Ralf told Auto Bild. “There is no point trying to hide it; in all probability we are going to have a difficult start to the season.” Ralf Schumacher admitted: “I would be looking forward to the season more if we had fewer problems to solve.”

As reported on updatesport

Welcome to the real world Toyota !! This is second outburst from Ralf in 2 weeks. At least this time he did not said that they’re a “young” team.

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“My first impression was good,” the 31-year-old Ralf Schumacher Sport Bild, “and my second (impression) not so (good). We are still a young team so you can’t expect us to be up in the top at the beginning but we are looking forward to the season and to changing that.”

It is understood that the drivers are complaining specifically about a lack of grip and stability in the corners, culminating in an average deficit to the front runners of around one second per lap.

As reported on updateF1

Young Team !! If a team need 10 years to finish in top 10 consistently, then we sincerely doubt their capabilities. That also when Toyota has the advantage of using Bridgestone tyres from last year, they should be ahead of all teams who have had to change their car designs since moving to Bridgestone.

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