Canadian GP Friday practice
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By: Geoff Creighton
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Here's the full report from that session. Keep an eye on Autosport and motorsport.com for all the post-session news and reaction, plus EDD STRAW's in-depth analysis of what today's times mean for weekend form. Our F1 live coverage resumes at 4pm UK time tomorrow with practice three, and before then there's live updates from the World Rally Championship in Italy from 7.30am UK: 
Tail end: 11 Leclerc; 12 Hartley; 13 Magnussen; 14 Hulkenberg; 15 Ericsson; 16 Vandoorne; 17 Sainz; 18 Gasly; 19 Stroll; 20 Sirotkin
Frontrunners: 1 Verstappen; 2 Raikkonen; 3 Ricciardo; 4 Hamilton; 5 Vettel; 6 Bottas; 7 Grosjean; 8 Ocon; 9 Perez; 10 Alonso
Into the final minute, unless someone does something physics-defying on high fuel, the order will remain like this...
Teams in trouble today: Renault and Williams. Hulkenberg is 14th after his gearbox-induced late start and Sainz is 17th after crashing. No crashes for Williams this afternoon, but it's right at the back still.
Force India has both cars in the top 10, Alonso hasn't quite replicated his morning form but 10th is still promising, and then Leclerc in 11th is worth a nod again - as is the under-pressure Hartley's 12th place.
Ricciardo's late progress means the top six is now filled by the usual Red Bull/Ferrari/Mercedes suspects, but Grosjean should be pleased with seventh for Haas after his run of woes lately.
That lap takes Ricciardo ahead of Hamilton - who hasn't used hypersofts - to take third, 0.405s off Verstappen.
Not bad from Ricciardo - he goes fourth, 0.782s off the lap that put his team-mate Verstappen top earlier.
But now here is Ricciardo with a set of hypersofts. Traffic jams of high-fuel, long-running cars have hampered him since his car's been repaired, can he show what he can do on a qualifying simulation now?
A hard session to read, this one. Verstappen and Raikkonen may be the pacesetters, but they're the only frontrunners who've had a proper go on hypersofts. Neither Mercedes is running the pink tyres today, Vettel had a delayed start to the session and a messy hypersoft run, and Ricciardo is yet to appear on them.
"I've lost power. Quite a lot," Ericsson reports. "Everything looks OK," he's told. Further investigation suggests the Sauber's battery needs to charge more.
Ricciardo starts making some progress, getting up to 14th place. Will he try hypersofts in the remaining 13 minutes of the session?
A replay of Hartley's Turn 1 excursion shows he basically arrived in the braking area sideways like a Marc Marquez outbraking move.
Ricciardo is having the traffic nightmare his engineer predicted, and is yet to get above 20th. He's using supersofts.
Hulkenberg is on seven-lap-old ultrasofts but says he's "not comfortable on this tyre" now and wants to come in.
Ricciardo gets going, but is warned "this is going to be a difficult run in terms of traffic. Everyone's out there on high fuel. We'll do the best we can."
Though Ricciardo has been back in the Red Bull for a while, there's still no sign of him heading out of the garage.
Vettel only goes fourth, 0.814s away from pacesetter Verstappen and just under seven tenths down on team-mate Raikkonen in second.
Mercedes is sticking with ultrasofts for today and not trying hypersofts till tomorrow. So it looks like Hamilton and Bottas won't improve on their current third and fourth places - but they were very quick when everyone was on ultrasofts.
Odd session for Vettel - he's only now taking the hypersoft after his delayed start to the afternoon. And now he reports: "traffic, traffic".
Order: 1 Verstappen; 2 Raikkonen; 3 Hamilton; 4 Bottas; 5 Grosjean; 6 Ocon; 7 Perez; 8 Alonso; 9 Leclerc; 10 Hartley; 11 Magnussen; 12 Hulkenberg; 13 Vettel; 14 Ericsson; 15 Vandoorne; 16 Sainz; 17 Gasly; 18 Stroll; 19 Sirotkin; 20 Ricciardo
The Mercedes and Toro Rossos are among a group of cars who've decided to head out anyway even though it's still VSC conditions while Vandoorne's McLaren is craned clear.
But good news for Red Bull: Ricciardo is back in the car with that problem seemingly repaired. Looks like he'll be out when the session resumes properly.
Unsurprisingly everyone pitted while the VSC was out. Alonso had hoped to continue his run, but McLaren advised it would take too long for his team-mate's car to be cleared away. The session remains under VSC now.
Vandoorne picked up that damage by running slightly wide out of the Turn 6/7 chicane on the far side of the circuit. He banged the wall with both right-side tyres and that was enough to end his Friday.
Vandoorne is told to pull over by McLaren as "that tyre is going to damage the floor." He does, parking on the grass after the hairpin.
Vandoorne is moving slowly with a dramatic puncture. "I touched the wall and broke the suspension," he reports.
Perez moves up to seventh on hypersofts, right behind Force India team-mate Ocon - with Grosjean's Haas ahead of both of them.
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