{"id":699496,"date":"2026-05-28T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:53:13","slug":"round-up-russells-battery-suffered-catastrophic-failure-in-canadian-gp-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699496\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up: Russell\u2019s battery suffered \u201ccatastrophic failure\u201d in Canadian GP, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Thursday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Social media and links<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cw-Cfi9jCA8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Allison reacts to our Canadian GP (Mercedes)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;George&#8217;s PU failure (&#8230;) was an engine kill caused by a failure in the battery, which just suffered a catastrophic failure third of the way into the race and brought George&#8217;s race to an end there. We could see enough at the end of the race that the battery was fairly unhappy, some heat damage there, and we&#8217;ll have to figure out in the coming days and weeks exactly what caused that and put it right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinef1.com\/news\/gucci-enters-formula-one-with-alpine-becoming-its-title-partner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gucci enters Formula 1 with Alpine (Alpine)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Alpine will race under the banner of \u2018Gucci Racing Alpine Formula One Team\u2019 from the start of the 2027 season&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/formula-1\/2026\/05\/25\/lewis-hamilton-ferrari-revival-trusting-his-instincts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Hamilton proved his critics wrong (The Telegraph)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Although they do move, the simulators do not create G-force in the same way and to the same extent as a real F1 car on a track. It does not give the driver a true feel about how the car performs. I think Hamilton is right to take a step back and just go by his gut feeling with the SF-26, as opposed to trying to address the theoretical world. It certainly seems to be working, at least for him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2026\/05\/24\/le-succes-de-la-f1-annonce-un-ete-record-a-montreal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Le succ\u00e8s du Grand Prix annonce un \u00e9t\u00e9 record \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (Le Journal du Montreal &#8211; French)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;According to him, &#8216;for restaurants, it\u2019s definitely better when it\u2019s still in June,&#8217; because the weather is milder then. &#8216;It\u2019s colder now, which isn\u2019t ideal for the grand prix,&#8217; he commented, while admitting that restaurants are &#8216;still full&#8217; and &#8216;sales are good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/Latest\/neB9SrU30Cqcc4FdFlnZB\/montoya-montreal-fightback-a-credit-to-premas-hard-work-behind-the-scenes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Montoya: \u2018Montreal fightback a credit to Prema&#8217;s hard work behind the scenes\u2019 (Formula 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a very, very difficult race. I think it was really easy to make mistakes, and I was just doing what I could. On options, we struggled quite a lot. And the main thing there was just to survive. We had a pretty terrible start but then after that, we just did what we could. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>RaceFans always endeavours to credit original sources. Want to share a relevant motorsport link with us? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contact\/contact-racefans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Send it in via the contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>No RaceFans reader birthdays today<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2006\/05\/28\/monaco-grand-prix-2006-review\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-454150 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/racefansdotnet-21-05-27-16-44-23-1.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Pablo Montoya, Fernando Alonso, David Coulthard, Monaco, 2006\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-454150\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/fernando-alonso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> won, Juan Pablo Montoya took his final podium and Red Bull their first today in 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Thursday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. 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