Officially, Nico Hulkenberg left Montreal with a smile on his face following Renault's double-points finish in Canada, but behind the happy façade lingered a bothered feeling, according to team boss Cyril Abiteboul. In the early stage of Sunday's race, Hulkenberg had stopped eight laps later than team mate Daniel Ricciardo to take on his set of hard tyres. With fresher rubber, the German quickly bridged the gap to the Aussie, and the pair ran pretty much nose to tail thereafter, with Ricciardo edging Hulkenberg by just 0.4s at the checkered flag. However, after the race Abiteboul revealed that the Renault pit wall had stepped in to freeze the drivers' position, much to Hulkenberg's...
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