Montreal Grand Prix Report: Exciting Race with Controversial Results

And that's where the Canadian GP outshone almost all the race weekends that preceded it this season. After warnings of rain earlier in the week, which would have truly made

Despite winning the pole position in qualifying, Ralph Schumacher in his Williams-BMW couldn't hold off his brother on race day, and settled for second place - at least before the upset. (Photo: BMW Canada)

the race exciting, Williams decided to share its somewhat dormant talent during a scorching hot Saturday qualifying session, where Ralf Schumacher, Michael's often uninspired little brother took pole position. If his brother had parked his scarlet single seater in P2 then race day would have most likely seen MS charging ahead and cutting Ralf off just before the first corner, and then the race would have been more or less over. But such wasn't the case. Instead P2 was taken by F1 darling Jensen Button in his BAR Honda. MS only managed sixth on the grid, hardly a position to rally to the front on such a tight road course, right?

While this might be true for most teams, Ferrari is hotter than sizzling right now and therefore no such rules apply. But the juggling of pit strategies mixed with head to tail racing at the front of the pack made the Montreal event the best weekend of the year; that is right up to when Michael Schumacher took over the lead. Even before this moment anyone

While it is still a mathematical possibility for someone besides Michael Schumacher to win the series championship, don't hold your breath. (Photo: Ferrari North America)

educated in grade school math could figure out brother Ralf in his Williams BMW, who incidentally led most of the race, wasn't going to be the first to see the checkered flag in the end. After all, at a mere 2.8 second gap between the two brothers Ralf was on a three stop strategy while Michael needed to make only two stops to get past the finish line - you do the math.

When the final flag waved Michael Schumacher took his 7th win of the season, having only given up one other due to a controversial shunt in Monaco. While it is still a mathematical possibility for someone else to win the series championship, Michael would pretty well have to suffer a serious accident that hospitalized him for the rest of the season, and even then he would most likely take the title.