McLaren lived up to their billing as pre-race favourites by setting the pace in first practice at the Canadian Grand Prix.
World champion Jenson Button was fastest with a time of one minute 18.127 seconds, to head Mercedes’s Michael Schumacher by 0.158secs.
Lewis Hamilton was third, 0.225secs behind his McLaren team-mate.
Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg was fourth ahead of Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull, the Renault of Robert Kubica and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Vettel’s team-mate, the world championship leader Mark Webber, was 14th fastest.
The list of times does not fully reflect McLaren’s pace - Schumacher set his time on his second run, when the track was quicker. Button and Hamilton were first and second after the drivers had done their first runs. BBC Sport
Tonio Liuzzi made the best of his new Force India chassis with eighth fastest time of 1m 19.097s, and then Nico Hulkenberg and Rubens Barrichello completed the top 10 for Williams with 1m 19.282s and 1m 19.313s respectively.
Adrian Sutil was 11th in the second Force India with 1m 19.373s before spending the rest of the session in the pits, and Felipe Massa did limited running in his Ferrari en route to 1m 19.511s. Renault’s Vitaly Petrov was a late improver to 13th on 1m 19.549s, while Mark Webber was down in 14th in the other Red Bull on 1m 19.609s.
Kamui Kobayashi was the day’s only full spinner, rotating his BMW Sauber at the hairpin before cutting down to 1m 20.186s for 15th ahead of Sebastien Buemi’s Toro Rosso on 1m 20.320s, Pedro de la Rosa in the other BMW Sauber on 1m 20.584s and Jamie Alguersuari on 1m 20.823s in the second Toro Rosso. Formula 1
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