Montreal, Canada (My Sportsbook) - Poland's Robert Kubica captured Sunday's Grand Prix of Canada Formula One race. The victory was Kubica's first in the F1 series. The No.4 BMW Sauber crossed the finish line 16.495 seconds ahead of teammate Nick Heidfeld.

With 30 laps remaining in the race it was clear the battle was between teammates Kubica and Heidfeld. Kubica, needing one more stop, needed to extend his lead to about 22 seconds so he could pit and come back on the track ahead of Heidfeld, who was good to the finish.

Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso's day ended when he had problems in the hairpin on lap 44. He joined points leader Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen, who had an incident earlier, in the garage.

The 23-year-old Kubica impressively increased his margin by at least a second each lap leading up to his final stop. And when he did come down pit road with 21 laps to go he held a very comfortable 25.1-second lead. Kubica had a clean stop that last only 7.5 seconds and came back on the track with a 4.1-second gap over Heidfeld.

It was just a matter of Kubica holding onto the lead and finishing the race without any problems.

With 20 laps to go, Kubica led Heidfeld, Coulthard, Massa and Heikki Kovalainen. Massa and Kovalainen made their last stop with 16 to go. Barrichello and Glock inherited fourth and fifth, respectively.

The No.4 BMW Sauber driver extended his margin to 8.3 seconds with 15 laps left. The only battle going on in the top-five was for the fourth and fifth positions.

It was all but over up front, as Kubica held a 14.4-second lead with five laps to go.

Kubica cruised to the finish line without any problems.

The race got off to a clean start as Hamilton maintained the first position and led the 20-car field around the 2.710-mile, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve road course. Kubica, Raikkonen, Alonso and Nico Rosberg followed behind the leader.

The top-five remained relatively the same early on as the No.22 McLaren Mercedes pulled away to over a three-second margin. Hamilton continued to stretch his gap over Kubica.

Hamilton's lead was erased on lap 18 when the safety car was deployed due to an Adrian Sutil crash on lap 15. When the pits opened the leaders came down pit road for their first stops of the day.

The key moment of the race happened as the drivers exited the pits. Ferrari driver Raikkonen stopped his car at the end of pit road with the red light being shown. Meanwhile, Hamilton was leaving pit road but didn't see Raikkonen stopped and crashed into back of him. Rosberg, following Hamilton out of the pits, made it a three-car crash when he bumped into the back of Hamilton. The crash ended all three driver's day and opened up the race for some drivers who usually don't get a chance to shine.

Once all the drama unfolded it was Heidfeld leading Rubens Barrichello, Kazuki Nakajima, Mark Webber, and Coulthard. The top-nine drivers had yet to make a pit stop. Kubica, who did stop, was running 10th.

On lap 29 Heidfeld and Webber made their first pit stops. Heidfeld took enough fuel to go the entire distance, he wouldn't have to stop again. Even after a long stop, he came out of the pits in front of Kubica for the seventh spot. But Kubica was lighter and faster and got past Heidfeld going into turn one on lap 31. The top-six drivers still had yet to pit.

When they all pitted it left Kubica in a race against his teammate. Kubica drove brilliantly extending his lead until he had a big enough margin to make his final stop and keep the lead.

From there Kubica was perfect and cruised to his first win and the first win for the BMW-Sauber team.

David Coulthard, Timo Glock and Felipe Massa completed the top-five. Kubica now leads the point standings with 42 points. Hamilton and Massa are tied for second with 38 points.

The next race in the series is set for Sunday, June 22nd at the Circuit De Nevers.