McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen won the Canadian Grand Prix and slashed Fernando Alonso’s championship lead on a bleak Sunday for Renault.On a humid afternoon full of drama, with McLaren deprived of a likely one-two by the exclusion of Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, the Formula One title race was blasted wide open by Spaniard Alonso’s first retirement of the year.Raikkonen’s third win in four races left him 22 points adrift of the 23-year-old Renault driver with 11 races remaining. Ferrari’s seven times world champion Michael Schumacher, winner a record seven times in the past in Canada, took second place with Brazilian team mate Rubens Barrichello third in the struggling champions’ best race of the year so far.There was cruel luck for BAR after Jenson Button sent their hopes soaring with pole position.The Briton retired after hitting the wall on the final corner before the pit straight on lap 48, an accident that briefly brought out the safety car.Honda-powered BAR, runners-up to Ferrari last season, have yet to score a point with Japan’s Takuma Sato also retiring.Brazilian Felipe Massa was fourth in a Sauber, with Australian Mark Webber fifth for Williams and Ralf Schumacher sixth for Toyota.Briton David Coulthard seized two points for Red Bull with Austrian team mate Christian Klien taking another in eighth place on his return after four races as reserve. The big losers were Renault, whose drivers made a storming start from the second row, Italian Giancarlo Fisichella whistling past Schumacher and Button on one side while Alonso punched through on the other. (Reuters)Canada dry for Narain Narain Karthikeyan’s bad run in Formula One continued when he was forced to retire in the 29th lap with suspension problems after losing control and brushing the wall.
