2011 Canadian Grand Prix

2011 Canadian Grand Prix
Race 7 of 19 in the 2011 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Race details[1]
Date	12 June 2011 (2011-06-12)
Official name	Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2011
Location	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Course	Street circuit
Course length	4.361 km (2.710 miles)
Distance	70 laps, 305.270 km (189.686 miles)
Weather	Wet at start, very heavy rain later, after rain stops, track drying towards the end. Temperatures up to 27 °C (81 °F); wind speeds up to 12 kilometres per hour (7.5 mph)[2]
Pole position
Driver	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault
Time	1:13.014
Fastest lap
Driver	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes
Time	1:16.956 on lap 69
Podium
First	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes
Second	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault
Third	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault
Lap leaders

The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2011) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 June 2011 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the seventh race of the 2011 Formula One World Championship and the 48th Canadian Grand Prix. McLaren driver Jenson Button won the 70-lap race starting from seventh position. Sebastian Vettel, who started from pole position, finished second in a Red Bull Racing with teammate Mark Webber finishing third.

The race began behind the safety car, and once it returned to the pits Vettel built a lead over Fernando Alonso. A second safety car deployment caused by the collision of Button and teammate Lewis Hamilton closed the time gaps between cars, but Vettel retained the lead. By lap 26, increasingly heavy rain led to the race's suspension, before it was restarted over two hours later. Button was involved in another collision on lap 37, which led to Alonso's retirement and Button falling to last place. Over the remainder of the race, he moved from twenty-first place to first, passing Webber and Michael Schumacher, who had started fourth and eighth respectively, for second place on lap 65, and Vettel on the final lap. Williams driver Rubens Barrichello finished in 9th place, scoring his final F1 points.

The victory was Button's first of the season, and put him into second place in the World Drivers' Championship, sixty points behind leader Vettel, who had extended his lead despite finishing second. Webber remained in third, and Hamilton's retirement meant he slipped to fourth. In the World Constructors' Championship Red Bull extended their lead to 65 points from McLaren, with Ferrari a further 85 points behind. At over four hours (including a red flag period) the race set the record as the longest in Formula One history.