While the rest of the specialist media obsesses about Lewis Hamilton, or Robert Kubica’s miraculous Montreal escape, a corner of the Canadian press is concerned with a much more pedantic detail.
Anthony Davidson told reporters after Sunday’s race that a now very deceased beaver had damaged the front wing of his Super Aguri and his chance of a podium finish.
A journalist for Canada’s National Post, however, says the Briton committed a “wildlife identification error” — Davidson’s road-kill was a groundhog, not a beaver.
“A beaver? Give me a break. I think the last time there was a beaver in Montreal was 1649,” said grand prix spokesman Normand Prieur.
“This is all because of (British journalists) who have probably never seen a beaver in their lives.”
Prier said officials captured many groundhogs – but clearly not all of them – in the vicinity of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in the weeks before the event.