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Canadian Grand Prix: Quotes of the weekend

F1i looks back at some of the best quotes from the Canadian Grand Prix weekend as Daniel Ricciardo gets graphic and Kimi Raikkonen gets annoyed

“I’m focusing on Canada right now and maybe you should review the race from last year and see what happened there.”

Max Verstappen takes a dig at Felipe Massa in the driver press conference following criticism from the Brazilian regarding his crash in Monaco.

“What is it to do with this? Nothing. I answered those questions last year so find that somewhere on the web.”

Kimi Raikkonen doesn’t take well to a question from Autosport’s Ben Anderson about the upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed, an event he attended in 2014.

Engineer: “OK, P16, P16.”

Vettel: “F***ing engine.”

Sebastian Vettel on finding out he was out in Q1 during qualifying.

“If you could picture, let’s say a saggy ball sack, and if you’ve been training for a long time there’s a lot of chaffing, there’s a bit of sort of sweat building up, it’s just not pretty. That is pretty much our qualifying.”

Daniel Ricciardo just has a way with words, doesn’t he?

“Exactly the same happened as last year!”

Raikkonen spins straight after a pit stop, again.

“At this pace, Raikkonen will catch us just after the race.”

Valtteri Bottas’ engineer being very thorough. Or maybe Bottas is trying to avoid his fellow Finn.

“When you are fighting and you get to a group of cars or some people catch you and they are 35km/h quicker on the straight, it’s like a different category. When everyone passes you so easy like that you look like an amateur driver and obviously that is not good.”

Fernando Alonso suggests the honeymoon is over at McLaren-Honda after retiring from the race.

“The reality is it was a very dark day. Dull, let’s say dull … There’s some water over there, do you have some bricks?”

Ricciardo again when summing up his frustrations to NBC’s Will Buxton post-race.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.