Canadian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton leads Mercedes one-two in Friday practice

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton has won the Canadian Grand Prix a record-equalling 7 times

Lewis Hamilton led George Russell to a Mercedes one-two successful Friday signifier astatine the Canadian Grand Prix.

Hamilton was 0.027 seconds quicker than Russell.

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso was fourth, up of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Red Bull's Max Verstappen, 0.424secs slower than Hamilton.

The time was disrupted by 3 abstracted red-flag stoppages implicit 2 sessions, and the archetypal league was wrecked by a method occupation with the way closed-circuit tv system, which is portion of F1's information apparatus.

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The CCTV occupation meant the archetypal league was stopped aft lone 12 drivers had acceptable conscionable 1 flying thigh and officials decided to widen the 2nd league by fractional an hr to 90 minutes truthful teams could marque up immoderate of the mislaid way time.

The revised docket meant teams ran programmes that differed from each different much than would beryllium accustomed successful 2nd practice.

Mercedes chose to bash their race-simulation runs aboriginal successful the league and their qualifying-style laps later, an unconventional approach.

Red Bull seemed to bash their accelerated laps astatine the commencement of the session, erstwhile the way was astatine its slowest, portion Ferrari ran medium-compound tyres astatine the commencement of the league earlier moving brushed tyres next.

That led to an unexpected order, with Verstappen slower than his accustomed gait and Mercedes faster.

Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas was seventh fastest, with the 2nd Red Bull of Sergio Perez, Aston Martin's Lance Stroll and Alpine's Pierre Gasly completing the apical 10.

The champion examination of gait was provided by the Ferrari and Red Bull drivers, who did their contention runs astatine the aforesaid clip connected the mean tyres.

They provided encouraging numbers for Ferrari - Leclerc was little than 0.1secs slower than Verstappen implicit a tally of much than 10 laps. Sainz and Perez were not a lucifer for their team-mates.

It was a hard time for Alpine. Gasly initiated the reddish emblem successful the archetypal league erstwhile helium stopped connected way with a deficiency of drive. The officials past noticed the occupation with the CCTV.

And successful the 2nd session, his team-mate Esteban Ocon pulled implicit with a nonaccomplishment of h2o unit successful his engine.

The different reddish emblem was caused by Nico Hulkenberg's Haas, which suffered an motor nonaccomplishment connected the pit straight.

Rain that had been expected for some sessions held disconnected for astir of the time earlier yet a torrential downpour hit, initially astatine the hairpin towards the extremity of the lap, with 5 minutes to go.

It is expected to beryllium a harbinger of events connected Saturday, erstwhile the forecast is for dense rain.

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