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Next up on the Formula 1 2018 calendar is the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and this track has at least one surprise in store.
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is of course named after Jacques Villeneuve's father who raced in F1 between 1977 and 1982.
Gilles' life was sadly shortened when he was involved in an accident in qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit Zolder.
15 years after his death, Gilles' son Jacques won the F1 world championship in Jerez by beating his title rival Michael Schumacher.
Jacques is the only Canadian to have ever won the driver's championship.
The Canadian circuit has been on the F1 calendar since 1996 and has hosted some classic races and memorable moments in the 22 year gap.
But one of the most exciting features is the 'wall of champions'.
Its existence was born in 1999 when three world champions had crashed into the same wall on the last corner of the circuit.
And since that day on June 13 of 1999, we hold our breath every time a driver approaches the last chicane wondering if they'll make it out of the last corner.
Here are five infamous crashes from the wall of champions.
#5 Jenson Button - 2005
Back in the days when Jenson Button was still chasing for his first ever F1 victory.
The 2005 Canadian Grand Prix was half and half for the Honda driver, back then, as on the Saturday he achieved pole position.
But then the weekend would become a bit of a nightmare for the Briton.
While Button was third during the race and trying to stay ahead of Michael Schumacher, Button did what Schumacher did six years prior and that was smashing his car into the wall of champions.
Button's first ever podium was put on hold and Kimi Raikkonen would go onto win for McLaren-Mercedes.
Schumacher and Barrichello would finish in second and third to fill up the podium spots.
#4 Damon Hill - 1999
The 1999 Canadian Grand Prix will go down as a race to remember, not because of Mika Hakkinen's win which would help the Fin secure a second world championship later on that season.
But because of the number of wall of champions clashes we had on that sunny Sunday in Montreal.
Damon Hill was one of those world champions who got it all wrong on the final turn that day.
The 1996 world champion lost control of his Jordan and the rear end of his car would collide into the wall of champions.
The accident left Hill with a kaput right rear wheel and left him out of the race after just 14 laps.
Hill said on Sky Sports F1 years after his accident: "I remember just getting close to the wall and then for some reason I remember feeling like I was being sucked into it."
#3 Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Villeneuve doesn't even get a special home soil treatment from the wall of champions.
In the same race as Hill's accident, Villeneuve would go on and do the same mistake.
20 laps after Hill to be precise.
The Canadian originally crashed into the wall of champions in 1997 while racing for Williams when he spun and faced the opposite direction.
Villeneuve got out of the car in frustration realising the amount of points he had lost.
1997 was of course the year Villeneuve won the world championship, the last time Williams had their very own world champion.
In 1999, Villeneuve was driving for BAR-Supertec and had never won the Canadian Grand Prix and his hopes were shattered when he drove straight into the wall of champions.
#2 Sebastian Vettel - 2011
The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix will arguably go down as the greatest Formula 1 race of all time.
But before the race even took place on Sunday, Vettel's first problem of the Grand Prix weekend began in Free Practise 1 on a Friday morning.
The German did the usual mistake by spinning the car on the exit of the chicane and bang!
There he went into the wall of champions, losing the front wing and his Red Bull's front right wheel.
Two days later, Vettel was just a few turns away from winning a wet Montreal race but a remarkable drive from Jenson Button was on the Red Bull's tail.
Vettel slipped off the racing line on the last lap giving Button the gap to overtake and win a classic Canadian Grand Prix.
#1 Michael Schumacher - 1999
You know the wall of champions is not to be messed with when Michael Schumacher has fallen to it.
In the same Canadian Grand Prix in 1999 where fellow world champions Hill and Villeneuve lost to the wall of champions, so did the seven-time world champion himself.
On the 29th lap, Schumacher thought for a moment he had escaped the chicane with no problems.
But the last gasp slip saw the German lose control of his Ferrari and rammed right into the wall of champions.
The tone of commentary from Murray Walker just shows what a surprise it was when Schumacher couldn't avoid the car shattering wall.
Schumacher said after the race: "Well it was very clearly a mistake by myself. I seem to make one a year and I hope that is the last one that I make this year (1999)."
Hakkinen must have thought it was his birthday that day with some of his championship rivals missing out on points.
It for sure helped the Finn go on and win a second consecutive world championship later on that season.
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So could Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen or Fernando Alonso be the next to fall short to the wall of champions? Sound off in the comments section below!
