To Formula 1 personnel, Montreal is a leafy place, bathed in summer sunshine. The long winters, with snow piled metres high and temperatures not passing zero for days on end are impossible to imagine – unless you venture down into the metro system, and glimpse the vast underground city to which the populace retreats when the mercury drops. There’s a lot going on beneath the surface in downtown Montreal – which is an apt metaphor for our weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

To Formula 1 personnel, Montreal is a leafy place, bathed in summer sunshine. The long winters, with snow piled metres high and temperatures not passing zero for days on end are impossible to imagine – unless you venture down into the metro system, and glimpse the vast underground city to which the populace retreats when the mercury drops. There’s a lot going on beneath the surface in downtown Montreal – which is an apt metaphor for our weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.