The fast, long straights, the hairpins and the chicanes of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve positively encourage passing.

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Both men started badly, but Montoya recovered quicker and began pressuring Schumacher at the first of two chicanes on the run down to Tosa.

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It took a series of high-speed accidents--including Wolfgang von Trips killing himself and 11 spectators in a 1961 crash-- before officials added a few chicanes and barriers to slow things down, albeit reluctantly.

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Glock had finished bottom in the morning, with the German involved in the only major incident of the day, spinning prior to bouncing heavily over the newly re-moulded and far higher kerbs that now dominate the three chicanes around the track.

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