Zoom Raikkonen eliminated by Hamilton in Canada

It was one to forget for Ferrari in Montreal as Kimi Raikkonen was eliminated in a pit lane incident with championship rival Lewis Hamilton after the team made the jump on the McLaren driver during the safety car period in the Canadian Grand Prix.

Raikkonen, the innocent victim, leaves the Canadian shored with no points and has drops to fourth in the championship table, seven points behind eventual race winner Robert Kubica.

For Felipe Massa, his race was also without problems as a refuelling problem forced the Brazilian back into the pits just as the race restarted. Fighting his way from the back of the pack he took the chequered flag in fifth position after a great late race duel with the Toyota drivers. Massa is joint second in the standings with Hamilton, while the team retain the lead in the constructors' standings, three points ahead of BMW Sauber.

Kimi Raikkonen
“There’s not much I can say. My race was ruined by Hamilton’s mistake. Obviously, anyone can make mistakes, as I did two weeks ago in Monaco, but it’s one thing to make a mistake at two hundred per hour but another to hit a car stopped at a red light. I am not angry because that doesn’t achieve anything and does not change my result! I am unhappy, because I had a great chance of winning. Once the graining had gone from the tyres, the car was going very well. I have failed to score in these last two races and now it’s time to start winning again. There is still a long way to go in the championship and it is still very close and we have everything we need to regain the ground we have lost.”

Felipe Massa
“It’s hard to express my feelings after a race like this. On the one hand, I am disappointed because, without my refuelling problem, I could have been fighting for a place on the podium. On the other hand, I am happy to have brought home four points at the end of a very difficult race run on a track surface that was in really poor condition. Once I found myself at the back, I tried to climb back up again, but in the end, when I was behind Glock, I could not get past him and also I didn’t want to run the risk of ending up off the track after all the trouble I’d been (through) to get that far. I would like to congratulate Kubica and BMW: they worked really well and deserved this success. They are very strong, but I think we are working in the right direction, as could be seen from our performance level every day here.”