Montreal 2012.

Watched the race last night, or early this morning, rather.

A bit frustrating for Ferrari fans, really, so I'm not very keen on writing about it. But I have an obligation to myself to do so, so here we are.

So let's see, what do I recall?

The only thing I enjoyed about the outcome of the race (not the process itself, mind you, because I like racing for racing's sake) was that now the record is seven different winners in seven races. Quite unthinkable, yes, but it's happened. It means so far in the season, nobody's won a race twice.

I absolutely love how close everything is. I've said this before, but I feel the need to say it again. During qualifying, the top fifteen were covered within a second in Q2. Crazy. And the fact that everyone's so on par with everyone else results in completely awesome racing.

Things were going well for Massa until he spun, which was a really costly mistake. The rest of his race was compromised, right when we thought he was back as a racing driver and would be able to keep hold of his F1 career. So disappointing.

Then things were going well for Alonso until his tyres starting giving out really badly and Hamilton, Grosjean, Perez and Vettel overtook him in quick succession over the last few laps.

Schumi had to retire because his rear wing wouldn't budge. Button was stuck down the order because his car wasn't responding as he liked.

Sigh.

The race was a total gamble. Some paid off, and some resulted in complete disaster (refer to Alonso fiasco above).

The top three (during the course of the race, i.e. Vettel, Hamilton and Alonso) took huge gambles, with Vettel and Alonso opting to stay out on a one-stop and Hamilton trusting his engineers in thinking the other two would do a two-stop. So Hamilton stopped, Alonso stayed ahead of Vettel, Hamilton dropped behind, but then totally flew because of better tyres and then overtook everyone and won the race.

Perez and Kimi followed a one-stop strategy too, and Perez ended up on the podium behind Grosjean. As a side note, I've realised Grosjean's name is very nice to hear and say. "Romain Grosjean". Ah.

I like Lotus.

Interestingly, nobody heavily collided into the Wall of Champions. A few brushes here and there, but no victims this race.

All right, going off now.

Hopefully next race will be less disappointing.