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Button wins Grand Prix completely crazy!

From now on Guideautoweb, you will find each day of the week a new sports car, review that we begin today with a return to the Grand Prix du Canada a little crazy that we have just experienced. It must be said that the races at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve have always been exciting, often providing a record number of exceedances throughout the Formula 1 season. But last weekend, heavy rain that hit of Montreal has transformed the event into a sometimes confusing race, but incredibly dramatic head when the car should not enter the track after a incident.

Overtake at the cost of the champion world champion Sebastian Vettel in the last lap, the Englishman Jenson Button and McLaren-Mercedes came out winner of the ordeal before Vettel remains solid championship leader, and his teammate at Red Bull-Renault, Mark Webber.

Button's race, however, has not been an easy one, clashes he lived with his teammate Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, both forced to retire due to this, are to testify. In the case of Alonso, it put an end to premature excellent performance Ferrari driver who started the second starting position behind Vettel.

On the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, in addition to Formula 1, completed four series support the program for the happiness of 300,000 spectators who have masses in this year still stands. If Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with Cup, Ferrari Challenge Series and the Historic Grand Prix were especially arguments by American drivers, Formula Tour 1600 Championship quebecois met on a great range of local competitors. A female pilot took the opportunity to mark the history puisqu'Isabelle Tremblay, his first starting a life in a car race cars, has clinched victory in the Master class during the test of Saturday. Motorsport is not only reserve to male stars, female pilots are more and more numerous.

Other races ...

Last weekend was particularly packed in timeliness motorsport. In addition to the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, won by an Audi turbodiesel prototype, which we will come back tomorrow, Alexandre Tagliani was him on the track oval of Texas Motor Speedway, as part of a doubleheader in the series of tests IndyCar. Two races in one weekend, it was a first in IndyCar for nearly thirty years. Once again qualifies on pole position, two weeks after having succeeded the same feat at the Indianapolis 500, Alex has had some problems in the first race (fourteenth). He is back in the second to unhook a nice fourth place in the championship very argument, regarded as the American Formula 1. The Scot Dario Franchitti and Australian Will Power have shared victories.

NASCAR finally, the star series, Sprint Cup, had a race on the oval Pocono Pennsylvania. The victory went to California Jeff Gordon (Chevrolet).

- Philippe Brasseur.

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