As Sauber’s own press release put it: “In what was a thrilling Canadian Grand Prix with great motor racing. Kamui Kobayashi and Pedro de la Rosa played a rather insignificant role.”
| Pedro de la Rosa | Kamui Kobayashi | |
| Qualifying position | 17 | 18 |
| Qualifying time comparison (Q1) | 1’17.611 (-0.408) | 1’18.019 |
| Race position | ||
| Average race lap | 1’24.440 (-22.768) | 1’47.208 |
| Laps | 30/70 | 1/70 |
| Pit stops | 1 | 0 |
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Pedro de la Rosa
Didn’t even make it to the first corner before he’d been taken out by an out-of-control Vitaly Petrov.
Pitted for a new front wing and was running 14th when his engine died on lap 31.
Compare Pedro de la Rosa’s form against his team mate in 2010
Kamui Kobayashi
Kobayashi made great progress on the super-soft tyres at the start, moving up from 18th to tenth as he dodged the various collisions.
He passed Nico Hulkenberg on the approach to the final chicane, putting him ninth, but both out-braked themselves. While Hulkenberg took to the escape road Kobayashi bounced across the kerbs and into the wall.
He said:
This should not have happened. I had made a very good start from 18th and on the first lap was fighting with Nico Hulkenberg down the back straight for ninth. In front of us was Michael Schumacher, apparently having some troubles with braking before the chicane. All three of us were braking late and then I suddenly had nowhere to go. I hit the kerb, the car jumped and I had damaged it so badly that I had to stop.
Kamui Kobayashi
Compare Kamui Kobayashi’s form against his team mate in 2010
2010 Canadian Grand Prix
Dan Selby
14th June 2010, 15:04
I’d love to see this on-board first lap with Kobayashi.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
14th June 2010, 15:40
After the second corner there’s not a huge amount to see. He got a run at Hülkenberg because Schumacher was slow around L’Epingle.
He should have made the move stick and from ninth, likely to be on the ‘correct’ strategy, he could have had a very good race.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
14th June 2010, 20:59
Yep. Massively disappointing after gaining 9 places at the start. That’s impressive. I think the lesson is that Kobayashi needs to keep his distance from Hülkenberg in the opening stages of races.
PJA
14th June 2010, 15:56
On the BBC F1 Forum Coulthard said that after his experience in a Championship winning team with McLaren when he went to Red Bull he immediately saw areas which needed improving he asked De La Rosa what were the main problems at Sauber and he said they didn’t have a simulator which considering the team used to be BMW I found quite surprising.
Did I misunderstand and he just meant Sauber just don’t have as good a simulator as Mclaren, or do they not have one at all?
Also De La Rosa said the engine failure was even more worrying as it had been a new engine on Saturday.
Sush Meerkat
14th June 2010, 16:12
I don’t think they have a simulator, Kamui mentioned in quali build up that he had to learn the track just from FP.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
14th June 2010, 21:07
I cracked up watching the race on SPEED, and senile old David Hobbs said something to the effect of “engine failure, this is very unusual.” I could be wrong, but it didn’t seem that he was being sarcastic, and I couldn’t figure out what F1 season he’s been watching this year. So far those Ferrari engines have been nothing but trouble, especially for Sauber. STR seem to be the only Ferrari engined team that hasn’t had major issues so far.
Renell
14th June 2010, 23:26
well Ferrari aren’t having any problems with their own engine, neither has STR with customer-spec. It really is baffling what Sauber are doing wrong, because they’re the only one doing it (and so spectacularly at that)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
14th June 2010, 23:36
Not any more, at least – they had a double change at Bahrain, Alonso’s blew in the race at Sepang and he lost another in practice at Shanghai.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
15th June 2010, 3:10
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Alonso engine-wise at the end of the season if he’s still in the hunt for the championship given those early season failures. Red Bull will have that to worry about as well. It certainly could end up being a huge advantage to McLaren with the best engine in F1 in their car.
Charles Carroll
15th June 2010, 23:34
My wife and I love watching races that Hobbs does, because you never know what he’ll say.
“That Vitaly Petrov has ENORMOUS attachments”
and
“Passing ol’ Bobby Kubica is a ‘whole ‘nuther kettle o’ fish”
and
“Ol’ M. Schumacher is looking as fit as a butcher’s dog”
I love that guy!