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Webber or Button to win.

Really hope Lewis destroys it though and puts in a world class drive. Also an exciting race would be great with lots of incidents :)

well hopefully my prediction will come true and i’ll win a lotus box set :D

I’d say watch the Kube and Button. End of the race I fully expect Button to be in the hunt closing on everyone

If there’s no safety car, I predict Hamilton will tear away and either or both of the Red Bulls to be under serious pressure from Alonso and Button, perhaps even losing their places. Then Hamilton will be pitted when the softs go off, do a good stint that leaves him half a minute ahead of the rest, but has to stop again from the effort, but still wins because of the gap he pulled out.

If there’s a safety car, I see Hamilton eking out the soft tyre phase and then trying to win on a one-stopper.

If it rains, I’d say a Hamilton win is pretty likely.

That is, if none of the big runners suffer misfortune!

I have no idea!! Somebody will win the race I imagine!

WEB, HAM, ALO

I just posted this on the blog, reposting here since I strongly believe that the Bulls will come out on top because they can run the soft compound later in the race:

The latest weather forecast for Sunday afternoon is 25 degrees, with only a 10% chance of rain. 57% humidity so it should warm the track up more than it has been in the past few days.
With that, those starting on the soft tyre will only be able to run 6-7 laps on it the most. HAM et al are hoping for a safety car in the first 4-5 laps – but even that might not be enough.
There is a chance here that the Red Bulls will only need to stop once – if they can extend the range of the hard compound out to 40-45 laps in the initial stint. The reason is because everybody else will be running the soft tyre on full fuel tanks and on a green track – which will see them wear away very quickly. If the Red Bulls can run the hard tyre out to lap 40-45, there is a very good chance that they could extend the same soft tyres out to a 30-35 lap run because of the lighter fuel load, higher temperature, warmer track and more rubber on the road. At that point of the race, they only have to defend their positions and since the chasing pack are likely to be running leaner fuel mixtures, the bulls will be able to push to soft target times and extend the range of the soft tyres while defending positions.
It might not seem like it – but there is a big difference between running the soft tyre with a heavier car at the beginning of the race on a green track and running the soft tyre at the end of the race on a grippy and warmer track with a much lighter car.

Duplicate topic closed: Red Bull’s tyre gamble to beat Hamilton (Canadian GP pre-race analysis)