Lewis Hamilton issues mea culpa but tensions with Nico Rosberg remain | Paul Weaver

The Guardian

The Mercedes drivers agree entente cordiale in Montreal but how long will it last at the Canadian Grand Prix?

There is a blanched grandeur, an old glory about Montreal that is redolent of Vienna. But there is a freshness and animation about the debates and they go on deep into the party-filled nights as the city celebrates Formula One weekend as no other place does.

This culturally diverse, highly energised and politicised city, this two-tongued home for Francophones and Anglophones, would make an appropriate stage for Monty Pythons famous sketch The Argument Clinic. Down the rue Saint-Denis, east of boulevard Saint-Laurent, the contretemps are mainly in French; on the west side of this island city the lively dissensions are mostly conducted in English.

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