1978 was one of them, when local Gilles Villeneuve excelled in very tricky wet conditions to take the win and wowed all the on-lookers. This race is still one remembered vividly today.
In 1995 Jean Alesi took his only F1 victory. Everyone remembers Schumacher giving him a lift back to the pits as he ran out of fuel on the parade lap after the race. It was also a race with high attrition, a very common them in Canada. This allowed Jordan to get their best finish at the time with a 2-3 for Irvine and Barrichello.
The 1998 race was very crazy. At the start Wurz was squeezed by other cars and forced into a barrel roll; he rolled 3 times. Trulli and Wurz were also all involved in the incident and the red flag was forced to come out. At the restart there was more trouble to come.
Ralf Schumacher pushed too hard, went across the grass, and spun in the middle of the track as Trulli’s car mounted on Alesi’s car. Five cars retired from the race at this point. On lap 13 Diniz brought dirt onto the track and the SC came out. After that, Salo and Herbert had an incident and brought the SC out again.
Coulthard, who was leading then, had a transmission failure. Schumacher pitted, came out of the pits, rushed across to the other side of the track, and barged Frentzen off the track and out of the race. Schumacher was given a 10 second penalty for this. He then had to overtake Hill and regained the lead when Fisichella pitted. Schumacher put in some storming laps and managed to stay ahead when he pitted for the last time. This was a very memorable race.
There have been other memorable races since then.
1999 was the race where three former champions all hit the same wall. Hakkinen won the race while Fisichella came 2nd for the second year running. Bizarrely, this race finished behind the SC as Frentzen had a big accident with four laps to go.
The 2001 race will always be remembered mainly due to the first even sibling 1-2, involving the two Schumachers. It was a great battle but it was Michael’s brother Ralf who came out on top.
This feat was repeated in the 2003 Canadian GP. This was another extremely close battle, with the top three drivers separated by just 1.3 seconds. However it was Michael’s clever tactics that thwarted everyone.
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