One of the great injustices of Formula One in the 21st century has to be the fact that Robert Kubitsa only won one Grand Prix in his career.

But that one race, which also gave BMW its only F1 winner as team owner, was certainly memorable, as Kubitsa combined his superb

speed with a clumsy assist from Lewis Hamilton to lead home teammate Nick Hydefeld for a

one-two that was supposed to be the launch pad for BMW becoming a major front-running force in Formula One.

Those of you who know the timelines involved here will have noticed that

for this episode of Bring Back V10s, we've drifted into the V8 era, as this race we're looking

back on is the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix. And joining me, Glenn Freeman, for our latest venture

into the years when F1's engines had lost a couple of cylinders on Mark Hughes and

Ed Straw. Mark, you were in Canada for this race. So for you, what's the first thing that comes to

mind when you think back to that weekend in Montreal? The big incident in the red lights, the

rear ending of Kimmy Rikin and by Lewis Hamilton,

they dominated the whole weekend, you know, those two were,

looked to be set to be going to be fighting out the destiny of the race,

although when a safety car came in in the top six old pit a day,

Kimmy was only third, but it looked like he was about to leapfrog Kubitsa,

and it looked like it was going to be a straight Kibitzer, and it looked like it was going

to be a straight Hamilton versus Rikin and fight, and then just all in a blink of an eye, it

completely changed the complexion of the race in a very controversial way, not a way that

you would ever seen before. So, yeah that that dominates that, you know,

Kibitsa's win and that incident in the pit lane is all I think of when I think of that race.

Yeah, we'll spend plenty of time on that incident and the fallout from it. Now, Ed, this was the

last race before you deserted me on the Autosport Newsdesk to become a

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