McLaren sunk to a new low in Canada when their record of 64 consecutive points-scoring races ended despite both cars reaching the finish – so with 12 races to go is there still time to save their season?

After being lapped by race winner Sebastian Vettel and finishing 12^th behind team-mate Sergio Perez, Jenson Button admitted he had “never been so pleased to get out of a car”. He said it was like he had been racing “in a different category.”

McLaren are ruing their decision to go for a completely new pull-rod suspension concept on their 2013 car when their rivals simply continued to develop

The Canadian Grand Prix saw fierce tyre critics Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel take a dominant victory – and it may just have proven precisely why they should now be considered this year’s title favourites.

Red Bull have been complaining about tyre wear since the very first race of the year, claiming that the new Pirellis do not allow them to get the best out of their car – despite Vettel taking three wins and two further podiums from the seven races so far.

The theory is that they would dominate every race if they were on rubber more akin to the 2012 Pirellis. And that’s what they like to do.

The F1 silly season has started with Kimi Raikkonen being tipped as a possible team-mate to Sebastian Vettel next year – but is Red Bull the right place for the flying Finn?

Not long ago Raikkonen’s F1 career was in danger of being remembered more for the inferred insolence of him munching on an ice cream in the pits during the Malaysian Grand Prix in his final year at Ferrari than for the natural talent and raw on-track energy he showed competing on the limit at the very front of the field for many years.

But then along came Lotus.

The unceremonious ejection by Ferrari in 2009 and two years

This weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix offers teams a chance to finally make the most of the developments they introduced in Barcelona – so can McLaren and Sauber get back in the game?

McLaren won here with Lewis Hamilton and Sauber finished on the podium with Sergio Perez last year but this season both teams find themselves floundering in midfield after making major changes to their cars and struggling to get them to work.

Both introduced major upgrades in Barcelona last month but were left underwhelmed and have since been sifting through the data to work out how to find the performance gains

Kimi Raikkonen didn’t hold back in criticism of Sergio Perez last weekend when he suggested the Mexican needed some sense knocking into him – but is his criticism of the McLaren driver fair or over the top?

After two years settling into F1 at Sauber, Perez has been parachuted into one of the sport’s biggest teams as a replacement for departing former champion Lewis Hamilton.

That’s tough enough - they are big boots to fill - but alongside him, he now has another former champion, Jenson Button, trying to establish himself as the team’s leader and the man to front their new Honda-partnered era

Mercedes is in hot water after running a private tyre test following the Spanish Grand Prix – but what rules did they break, what did they gain and could it lead to a re-introduction of in-season testing?

Testing was once a crucial part of F1 but as teams increased the amount they ran during the season the escalating costs were deemed ridiculous – with teams like Ferrari sometimes running up to three different programmes in different locations on the same day.

To avoid a spending war, restrictions were introduced, with a 15,000km limit imposed in 2009 followed by a complete ban in 2010.

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Lewis Hamilton rounds Fairmont Hairpin

Racing in Monaco demands a very different engineering approach to almost every area compared to the typical tracks – so what are its challenges and which teams are best placed to take advantage?

Getting the optimum set up on a racing car is always a matter of compromise but Monaco takes that to an entirely new level, with teams having to take a complete re-think on everything from aerodynamic parts to steering set-up.

The narrow streets offer such limited overtaking opportunities that the focus is all about qualifying – and the chances are the winning team will be the one that produces the

The heated debate over a radical mid-season change to this year’s tyres has left a sour taste in the F1 paddock – but will minor modifications set for the Canadian Grand Prix end the arguments?

Red Bull has been criticising Pirelli’s high-wearing 2013 tyres since the start of the year, claiming they are restricting all-out racing and turning Grands Prix into tyre-limited lotteries with too many pit stops and not enough real on-track competition.

Ferrari’s four-stop charge to victory with Fernando Alonso in Barcelona at the last race added fuel to the fire and presented the perfect pivot to