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Alonso Takes Canadian Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher hoped that the Canadian GP will be his chance to close the gap on Fernando Alonso, but the Spanish driver pulled away for another easy victory and this year`s Canadian GP was not Schumacher`s seventh win. Renault celebrated the forth-consecutive win for their leading.

"It is fantastic," he said. "All the victories are nice, but this one after the last two or three years having a chance to win and then mistakes or mechanical problems, this is one of the races we should have [won] in the previous years," Alonso said after the race. Renault`s driver had nothing but trouble in previous Canadian GPs and now, finally, he managed to take the lead.

"It was not easy to keep the concentration while leading the race with such a large gap," he said. "You lose concentration of maybe you relax." Alonso now leads over Schumacher by 25 points. Schumacher finished second, and Raikkonen wound up third. "It`s just a shame there wasn`t 10 more laps, it could have made it interesting," Schumacher said. "We kept the damage as little as possible."