There is talk that Michael Schumacher was running heavy in qualifying, let's hope there's a grain of truth to this. For if there isn't, we can expect another Renault-fest today, with the guys in blue, and yellow, putting the title(s) a little further out of reach.

We've been told that both Renault drivers are free to race one another, but that doesn't make much of a difference because its hardly likely that Giancarlo is really going to come close to giving Fernando a hard time, no matter how much Alan Permane, or anyone else for that matter, screams and shouts over the radio.

Sadly, our only hope, for we don't believe for one minute that Toyota has finally come good, is that the McLaren revival has begun, and that Kimi can finally get his championship bid back on track.

Over the years Montreal circuit has thrown up a few surprises, and not for nothing is it compared to Monaco, for it is an unforgiving track which punishes the slightest mistake. We saw Fernando make two mistakes in free practice, and we all remember last year's little moment, which eliminated the Spaniard from the race. In fact, in four appearance here, Fernando has only finished once (fourth in 2003), hence some regard the 'Circuit Gilles Villeneuve' as his bogey track. Today the Spaniard has the opportunity to prove them wrong.

For the last couple of weeks the media has been obsessed with the goings on in Germany, and the tedium that was the British Grand Prix did little to help matters. Let's hope that for just over ninety minutes, Formula One can give the world an alternative to soccer - even if it's only an all-out fight between the two Renault drivers.

Over the past twenty-four hours, there's been a major kerfuffle - part of an ongoing kerfuffle really - about the legality of the wing on the BMW, with Honda threatening to protest the German team should it should either of its drivers finish ahead of its own drivers - not too difficult in light of some of the Japanese team's recent results. The FIA has since looked into the situation and has declared the wing to conform.

For much of the season there has been murmuring about the legality of wings, much of it driven by a section of the media. Initially the FIA insisted that the wings in question were legal, but then recently advised team to fit separators which prevent the problem.

The bottom line, if this whispering campaign is to end, is for the FIA to act, and act now.

Ahead of today's race, the air temperature is 29 degrees C, while the track temperature is 47 degrees. It's bright and sunny.

The big news is that David Coulthard will start from the back of the grid, following a late decision to change his engine. The Scot would have started from sixteenth on the grid, alongside Toro Rosso's Tonio Liuzzi.

On the grid, Speed asks his crew to tell him the temperature of his engine because; "if I find out later that Tonio's engine was five degrees cooler, someone's head's gonna roll!"

The field head off on the parade lap, the drivers generating as much heat into their tyres as possible. Michael Schumacher takes forever taking his place, holding up all the cars behind him. Bad news for those at the front of the grid, the Renaults.

Fisichella appears to jump the start as Alonso and Raikkonen get away cleanly, further back, Michael loses out to Rosberg then Montoya.