F1 Canadian GP: Lewis Hamilton heads Mercedes 1-2, Red Bull off pace in extended FP2
After a bizarre CCTV failure wrecked opening practice session and led to the teams doing almost no meaningful running on Friday morning, an extra half𒀰 an hour was added to FP2.
And it was Hamilton, a seven-time winner in Montreal, who ended up just 0.027s quicker than Russell in their upgraded W14 as the first glimps𓄧e of this weekend’s pecking order was provided.
Howev🅷er, Mercedes’ performance looked to have been aided by track evolution, with Hamilton and Russell completing their soft tyre qualifying simulation runs more than♎ 10 minutes after everyone else.
Carlos Sainz was third and 0.126s off the pace, ahead of ꦬAston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc.
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen was over four tenths adrift of his former title rival in the dominant💖 Red Bull RB19 he has used to win five of the seven 🌼races so far this year.
Valtteri Bottas, who was fastest in the rather meaningless and curtailed FP1, put his Alfa Romeo seve🤪nth, ahead of the other Red Bull of Sergio Perez.
Lance Stroll and Pierre Gasly completed the rest of the top-10 for Aston Martin and Aཧlpine respectively.
FP2 was interrupted by two red flag periods, 🔜the first of which was caused when Nico Hulkenberg suffered a smoky engine fai🃏lure in his Haas.
Minutes after the sess𒀰ion resumed an🧜d the red flags were flying once more when Esteban Ocon stopped as a precaution with a suspected water leak in his Alpine.
All the drivers managed to complete their runs before a heavy downpour hit in the closing staܫges of the sessi🍰on.
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