| 12.30 | Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of the 70-lap Canadian Grand Prix. The race gets underway in just over 30 minutes. |
| 12.32 | Lewis Hamilton has claimed his eighth career pole position in Montreal as he looks to repeat his 2007 result at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The McLaren driver took the pole by a massive six-tenths of a second from Robert Kubica and starts the race as firm favourite for victory. |
| 12.34 | Kubica’s run to the front row was an excellent result, as BMW Sauber chase their first Grand Prix win. While Nick Heidfeld has not made the best of the car, Kubica is pushing on at a circuit that saw him exit so dramatically last year.. |
| 12.36 | Kim Raikkonen starts third in the leading Ferrari as the team blamed the breakup of the track surface at turn ten for his relatively poor qualifying pace. The Finn was over eight-tenths off the pace of Hamilton yesterday and if that is repeated again today, Raikkonen will be chasing points rather than the win. |
| 12.38 | The track surface has been worked on overnight following the breakup of the tarmac at turns seven and ten yesterday. The organisers hope that the fixes or parches will be enough to last the full scheduled 70 laps this afternoon. |
| 12.40 | Fernando Alonso starts an excellent fourth for Renault. The former champion really pushed hard in qualifying and the second row start is more down to his skill than the car he has at his disposal. Alonso however may be a little light on fuel. |
| 12.42 | Nico Rosberg starts fifth in the Williams Toyota and will be targeting a good result this afternoon. Last time out at Monaco the German was in a similar position but ran into the back of Alonso on lap one and that effectively ruined his race. Rosberg will be hoping for better in Montreal. |
| 12.44 | Felipe Massa starts sixth in the second Ferrari and will be seeking points for his championship aspirations as will Heikki Kovalainen who was off the pace yesterday in the second McLaren, lapping 1.2 second slower than team-mate Hamilton. |
| 12.46 | Nick Heidfeld continues his qualifying struggle, but is normally a safe bet in the race itself. He may not have Kubica’s pace, but it is rare for him to make mistakes on race day. |
| 12.48 | Rubens Barrichello starts an excellent ninth in his Honda as he chases points in his second straight race. Starting on the penultimate row team-mate Jenson Button has simply to hope o0thers hit trouble and he can be there at the chequered flag. |
| 12.50 | Mark Webber should have qualified better than tenth in his Red Bull Renault, but a spin and contact with the wall at the end of Q2 curtailed his day yesterday. Look for Webber to move up the order and battle with Rosberg and Heidfeld. |
| 12.52 | Toyota had a poor day on Saturday with Timo Glock qualifying 11th and Jarno Trulli 14th. Glock ran reasonably well but Trulli has looked lost all weekend as he cannot find the balance on his TF108. Points would be a nice bonus for the team this weekend. |
| 12.54 | Kazuki Nakajima starts 12th in the second Williams ahead of David Coulthard, Trulli and Nelson Piquet who really does need a result in Montreal. |
| 12.56 | With others taking penalties, Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella line up 16th and 17th for Force India ahead of Jenson Button and Sebastien Bourdais who drops back courtesy of a gearbox change penalty. Sebastian Vettel starts from the pit lane in the spare Toro Rosso, but can still show well as the STR3 has been pretty good at this circuit. |
| 12.58 | It is a sunny but windy afternoon in Montreal. The drivers are on the grid as the countdown to the Canadian Grand Prix continues. Apparently work has only just finished on certain parts of the circuit so the drivers really are heading into the unknown. |
| 12.59 | The engines fire up and the grid is being cleared. Button is joining Vettel in starting from the pit lane. |
| 13.00 | The parade lap is now underway. Hamilton is on soft tyres, the rest on hard tyres. |
| 13.00 | Rosberg is also on the soft tyre. |
| 13.02 | Hamilton lines his McLaren up on the pole position with Kubica, Raikkonen, Alonso, Rosberg, Massa and the rest taking up position. |
| Lap 1 | The Canadian Grand Prix is underway. |
| Lap 1 | A clean start through turns one and two. |
| Lap 1 | Trulli passes Glock. Rosberg is up to fourth. |
| Lap 1 | Hamilton leads Kubica, Raikkone, Rosberg, Alonso, Massa. |
| Lap 2 | Kovalainen is seventh ahead of Barrichello, Heidfeld, Nakajima, Webber, Voulthard, Trulli. Glock. |
| Lap 3 | Rosberg made the the pass on Alonso at turn two on lap one. |
| Lap 3 | Nakajima is under pressure from Webber for tenth position. |
| Lap 4 | Heidfeld also lost a position at the start and now runs behind Barrichello. |
| Lap 4 | Heidfeld almost runs into the back of Barrichello into the hairpin but just avoids contact. |
| Lap 5 | Hamilton pulled a second on Kibica on that last lap. |
| Lap 5 | Heidfeld passes Barrichello into turn ten with a good clean pass. |
| Lap 6 | Hamilton leads Kubica, Raikkonen, Rosberg and Alonso. |
| Lap 7 | Vettel is now ahead of Bourdais in the STR battle over P18. |
| Lap 8 | Kubica is now keeping pace with Hamilton and the gap remains about three seconds. |
| Lap 8 | Massa is looking to find a way ahead of of Alonso. |
| Lap 10 | A good lap fom Hamilton and he extends his cushion over Kubica by another second. |
| Lap 10 | Piquet passes Glock as he got a good run off the final turn. |
| Lap 11 | Piquet now all over the back of Trulli and looking for another position. |
| Lap 12 | Kovalainen is five second behind Massa now in seventh position. |
| Lap 13 | A nice pass fromn Piquet as he passes Trulli into the hairpin, turn ten. Some slight contact but that is fine. |
| Lap 13 | So Piquet has passed both Toyota racers. Kovalainen now under pressure form Heidfeld. |
| Lap 15 | Adrian Sutil stopped on track. Sutil was 16th in his Force India. |
| Lap 15 | There are yellow flags for Sutil's car. No sign of contact so a mechanical problem |
| Lap 16 | Raikkonen is now putting pressure on Kubica for second position. Sutil's car is now having a little fire on the brakes. |
| Lap 17 | The safety car is on track so they can remove Sutil's car. |
| Lap 18 | Button pits from the back. |
| Lap 18 | This is a silly safety car as it is three laps after all the drivers first saw the car stopped. |
| Lap 19 | Button pitted while the pits were close and will therefore have a drive through penalty. The pits are now open. |
| Lap 19 | Most are pitting. The top seven all pit with Piquet, Vettel |
| Lap 20 | Hamilton has hit the back of Raikkonebn in the pits. Hamilton has damage. |
| Lap 20 | So Hamilton and Raikkonen out. So we have Rosberg also involved. Basically Kubica and Raikkonen beat Hamilton in the stops and stopped at the red light at the end of the pit lane. Hamilton just rammed Raikkonen as he did not see the light and then Rosberg hit the back of Hamilton. |
| Lap 20 | Rosberg is back in the pit for a new front wing. |
| Lap 21 | So Heidfeld leads Barrichello, Nakajima, Webber, Coulthard, Trulli, Glock, Fisichella, Vettel. They have not pitted. |
| Lap 21 | Kubica is the first of those who have pitted in P10. |
| Lap 22 | The race is back underway and Massa has pitted. |
| Lap 22 | So Massa drops from 12th to the back. A bad day for Ferrari so far. |
| Lap 24 | So all change. Those who did not pit are probably on a one stop race anyway so this is now a real race what Heidfeld is leading. |
| Lap 24 | Alonso and Piquet run together in 11th and 12th. |
| Lap 25 | Heidfeld has pulled out seven seconds on Barrichello who is holding up those behind him. |
| Lap 26 | Massa runs in 17th and is 11 seconds behind Bourdais. He stopped twice for some reason. Must have been a fuel problem. |
| Lap 28 | Piquet spins the Renault at turn three and is lucky not to hit the wall. His Renault seems to be putting out a lot of brake dust. Piquet was 12th |
| Lap 29 | Piquet drops to 17th and last. |
| Lap 29 | Nick Heidfeld pits his BMW Sauber from the lead. Webber also pits. |
| Lap 30 | Heidfeld exits right in front of Kubica. |
| Lap 31 | Kubica passes Heidfeld into turn two. A good pass for seventh. Fisichella pits. BArrichello now leads Nakajima, Coulthard, Trulli, Glock, Bettel and Kubica. |
| Lap 32 | Actually Heidfeld allowed Kubica to pass with ease. He is heavy on fuel on a one stop. Kubica is on a two stop. |
| Lap 33 | Heidfeld is on the soft tyre which he has to be and is holing off Alonso. A long way to go on the super soft tyre. |
| Lap 34 | Massa passes Webber into turn ten but then runs wide and Webber regains the position. |
| Lap 34 | Nakajima has pitted, he was second. |
| Lap 36 | Kubica still rins in sixth position as Rosberg pits again. Kubica has pulled ninw seconds on Heidfeld already. |
| Lap 37 | Barrichello pits from the lead. Coultahrd now leads Trulli, Glock, Vettel, Kubica. |
| Lap 37 | Coulthard pits from the lead. Massa has passed Webber and is now Aall over Nakajima. |
| Lap 38 | Coulthard and Vettel pit. |
| Lap 38 | Coulthard exits ahead of Heidfeld. |
| Lap 38 | So now Trulli leads Glock, Kubica. Heidfeld is fourth, I was wrong, ahead of Alonso and Coulthard. |
| Lap 39 | Trulli now pits from the lead. |
| Lap 40 | Nakajima loses speed pit of the final turn as be battles with Button and Massa punces into turn one. |
| Lap 41 | Glock now leads Kubica who is challenging to pass. |
| Lap 41 | Glock is fending off Kubica. |
| Lap 42 | Piquet is retiring the Renault. His car is covered in brake dust so clearly the brakes have worn out. |
| Lap 42 | Glock pits from the lead and now Kubica needs to really fly to get the gap out from 11s to at least 25. |
| Lap[ 43 | So the BMW Sauber team are now looking good for a one two result. Kubica needs to extend the gap as he has to pit again. |
| Lap 44 | Bourdais has a problem in the pits. The fuel man had a problem getting the hose off. Alonso runs wide at turn ten trying to pass Heidfeld. |
| Lap 45 | Alonso looks much faster than Heidfeld as they fight over P2. |
| Lap 45 | Alonso has hit the wall at turn seven. He was in third and challenging Heidfeld for position. |
| Lap 46 | Minor damage to the R28 but that is his day done. Two renaults already out. |
| Lap 47 | Kubica is lapping over two seconds a lap faster than team-mate Heidfeld and will be able to get the gap to what he needs. |
| Lap 48 | Nakajima hits the back of Button (8th)and breaks his wing. He makes it back to the pit and the wing goes under the car and he his the wall in the pit... |
| Lap 49 | Kubica pits from the lead with a 25s lead over Heidfeld. |
| Lap 49 | Kubica exits ahead of Heidfeld. |
| Lap 51 | Barrichello still runs fourth in the Honda with Kovalainen and Massa right behind but unable to make the pass |
| Lap 52 | A great pass. Kovalainen passes Barrichello and Massa goes down the inside at turn ten and passes the both of them! |
| Lap 52 | Great driving from Massa there. |
| Lap 53 | Barrichello is now sixth with Button right behind. |
| Lap 53 | Coulthard still run third. |
| Lap 53 | Fisichella has crashed exiting turn four. He backs. the FI into th barriers. |
| Lap 54 | Massa, Kovalainen, Button and Webber all out. |
| Lap 54 | There is no safety car, just local yellows. |
| Lap 55 | Fisichella was in 14th and his car has been cleared. |
| Lap 56 | Barrichello now has Glock and Trulli right behind him as he is back in fourth with Massa and Kovalainen pitting again. |
| Lap 59 | Coulthard runs wide at turn seven but is able to continue. |
| Lap 59 | Coulthard is all set for his first points of the season as he runs third. |
| Lap 59 | Glock runs in fifth and could be on for his first points as well. |
| Lap 60 | Barrichello takes to the grass and loses fourth position to both Glock and Trulli. |
| Lap 61 | Vettel runs P8 and defending from Rosberg who then loses speed out of the final turn and Kovalainen takes the position. |
| Lap 61 | Turn seven is getting very slippery. Massa passes Barrichello with ease on the back straight. |
| Lap 61 | Kubica is on target for BMW Sauber's first Formule One win. |
| Lap 65 | Vettel has now caught Barrichello and has Kovalainen right behind him. |
| Lap 66 | Massa has caught Trulli. Plenty of action still! |
| Lap 67 | Barrichello is holding off Vettel who is holding off Kovalainen. |
| Lap 67 | Vettel runs across the final chicane and continues. |
| Lap 68 | Trulli slow out of trun two and Massa passes. |
| Lap 69 | Massa is now right with Glock and wants fourth. |
| Lap 69 | A spin for Webber. |
| Lap 70 | Robert Kubica wins the Canadian Grand Prix, the first for BMW Sauber. |
| Lap 70 | Kubica also takes the championship lead... Nick Heidfeld is second making it a one-two result. |
| Lap 70 | A much needed third for Coulthard ahead of Glock who holds off Massa. Trulli is sixth ahead of Barrichello and Vettel. |
