Beaver not guilty in Davidson F1 crash

Davidson's nemesis no beaver, it was groundhog day. Photo / Reuters

Super Aguri driver Anthony Davidson's unfortunate coming together with a small furry animal during the Canadian GP was wrongly blamed on a beaver, according to Colin Galinski.

"The animal killed in the Montreal Grand Prix was not a beaver, but a different furry mammal - the groundhog (aka Marmot)," Galinski writes from Toronto.

"As a Canadian it is bothersome that foreign press assume anything remotely small and wobbly on our soil is a beaver."

Anthony Davidson was robbed of his first-ever Formula One points when he hit the animal. A pitstop to replace the Super Aguri's front wing left the Brit in 11th place.

"It's such a shame about the beaver," Davidson said following the race, "it had it in for me for sure."

- NZ HERALD STAFF