F1 | GP Canada, the famous "Wall of Champions" was born in '99

Entrance to the pit lane on the left, turn 13 to the right and then immediately left with a double curb to be taken at speed after almost 1200 meters of straight. This is perhaps the most crucial part of the Montreal track, the last corner where many drivers have had to deal with “Wall of Champions”, the famous wall that was decisive for many Canadian GPs. Jenson Button in 2005 with BAR (after starting from pole) and Sebastian Vettel in 2011 with Red Bull during free practice, to name a few.

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Ma it was undoubtedly the 1999 edition of the Canadian GP that gave birth to the expression “Wall of Champions”. In the race they crashed into us Ricardo Zonta with the BAR, then Damon Hill with Jordan, later Michael Schumacher with Ferrari and finally Jacques Villeneuve always with BAR (a team that evidently had a particularly adverse fate with that point of the track).

Excellent retirements, given that the last three drivers mentioned can boast the conquest of the World title on their CVs: Damon Hill (world champion '96), Michael Schumacher (champion '94 and '95) and Jacques Villeneuve (champion '97). Proof that even experience and talent were of no avail with the Wall of Champions. Is always Villeneuve will hit that wall again in 2006, when a few laps from the end his BMW Sauber was forced to retire due to a brake problem.

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'99 was one of the most unpredictable races of the season, with Schumacher's pole neutralized by the accident and Mika Hakkinen good and lucky to take advantage of it by launching himself towards winning the World Championship, also thanks to the well-known injury that occurred to the German of the Red team three races later at Silverstone and which kept him away from the track for six GPs .