Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso topped the second practice session at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Friday. And if this was a trailer for the real thing on Sunday the Canadian Grand Prix will be a cracker – or should that be crasher?
The world champion missed a large part of the morning run-out but returned and was second to Alonso in the afternoon – in 2008 Vettel also crashed here in practice and was unable to take part in qualifying.
In the second run Felipe Massa was third, ahead of the McLaren pair of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. It was another frustrating day for Hamilton, who had a puncture in addition to his earlier problems with his steering wheel data. The Guardian
The track was busy in the latter stages of the session as a series of accident broke up the running. First Adrian Sutil ran a touch wide exiting turn seven and touched the wall with his front left tyre, causing the suspension to collapse, although he was able to control the car and cruise to a halt, with just yellow flags required to remove the Force India.
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Kobayashi came very close to the wall on the exit of turn four early in the session, and then later he took too much kerb at the same corner and was launched straight in to the wall on the outside, heavily damaging the whole right hand side of his car and causing the first red flag. The delay was a sizeable one as his car came to rest out of the reach of the crane and had to be picked up by a recovery vehicle.
No sooner had the session restarted then D’Ambrosio had an almost identical accident, although he ran in to the corner too deep and after trying to make the corner ended up hitting the wall more head on. Both drivers were fine, but will have left their respective teams with a late night repairing their cars. ESPN F1
Paul di Resta, was sixth for Force India. Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa, a McLaren reserve driver, was 18th fastest in the Sauber after being drafted in as a replacement for Mexican rookie Sergio Perez who was still feeling the effects of his big Monaco crash. Fox News
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired 1 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:15.1 2 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:15.5 3 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:15.6 4 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:16.0 5 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:16.0 6 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 01:16.1 7 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:16.1 8 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:16.3 9 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 01:16.4 10 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:16.7 11 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:16.9 12 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 01:16.9 13 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:17.1 14 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:17.7 15 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 01:17.8 16 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 01:18.5 17 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 01:18.5 18 17 Pedro de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 01:18.5 19 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 01:18.6 20 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 01:19.2 21 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:19.8 22 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 01:20.3 23 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 01:20.3 24 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 01:20.9
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