Lewis Hamilton completes opening practice day fastest in Montreal

After going quickest in the morning, Hamilton barely let anyone else have a look in at the head of the order in the afternoon, moving to the front for the first time after 14 minutes with a 1m15.895s lap.

That time then came down and down - the Briton eventually reaching a best of 1m15.439s on soft tyres.

He then went slightly faster still at the start of a long super soft run just before the session's halfway point, lapping in 1m15.259s, a time that would stand as the best of the day.

Fernando Alonso came closest to deposing Hamilton. The Ferrari driver had a wild spin through the Turn 8/9 chicane early on, visited the grass there again shortly after, but avoided damage and eventually got to within 0.054 seconds of taking the top spot. His team-mate Felipe Massa was less than a tenth slower in third.

Sebastian Vettel took fourth in the leading Red Bull, ahead of an impressive performance from Force India's Paul di Resta in fifth. Kamui Kobayashi's Sauber was sixth.

Mercedes duo Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg lined up seventh and 10th, sandwiching the second Force India of Nico Hulkenberg and Jenson Button's McLaren. The latter only made it out for the final 18 minutes of the session as his car required a gearbox change following its morning oil leak.

Like the morning session, practice two also featured a single red flag just after the mid-point. This time it was Bruno Senna in the wars, as he spun his Williams backwards into the wall at the final chicane -shattering one of the team's funky new rear wings among other things.

Caterham managed to repair Heikki Kovalainen's car after the Finn's practice one crash and he was able to join the action half an hour in, eventually taking 16th place.


Pos  Driver                Team                    Time              Laps
 1.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes        1m15.259s            43
 2.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                 1m15.313s  + 0.054   36
 3.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari                 1m15.410s  + 0.151   39
 4.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault        1m15.531s  + 0.272   44
 5.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes    1m15.544s  + 0.285   32
 6.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari          1m15.651s  + 0.392   37
 7.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes                1m15.697s  + 0.438   32
 8.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes    1m15.799s  + 0.540   39
 9.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1m15.812s  + 0.553   14
10.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes                1m15.878s  + 0.619   40
11.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari          1m15.898s  + 0.639   38
12.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault        1m15.907s  + 0.648   41
13.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault        1m15.987s  + 0.728   39
14.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault           1m16.360s  + 1.101   29
15.  Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault           1m16.562s  + 1.303   33
16.  Heikki Kovalainen     Caterham-Renault        1m16.981s  + 1.722   24
17.  Bruno Senna           Williams-Renault        1m17.022s  + 1.763   22
18.  Vitaly Petrov         Caterham-Renault        1m17.075s  + 1.816   41
19.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m17.124s  + 1.865   41
20.  Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m17.716s  + 2.457   34
21.  Pedro de la Rosa      HRT-Cosworth            1m18.908s  + 3.649   27
22.  Timo Glock            Marussia-Cosworth       1m19.084s  + 3.825   40
23.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth            1m19.378s  + 4.119   21
24.  Charles Pic           Marussia-Cosworth       1m19.902s  + 4.643   18


All Timing Unofficial