F1 Canadian GP: Hamilton leads final practice from Verstappen, Russell

The weekend's first wholly dry session produced a clamour to log mileage on the medium tyre, where Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly logged the first benchmarks before an unwelcome hiatus in the running emerged.

Zhou Guanyu produced the second red flag of the weekend with a spin at Turn 2, losing the rear on the exit of the first corner to tuck his Sauber into the grass backwards.

On the restart, Max Verstappen put his Red Bull top with a 1m15.495s and then grabbed a 1m14.983s, although this was subsequently beaten by Fernando Alonso's 1m14.870s - the Spaniard bucking the trend by running on the hard tyre.

The Aston Martin driver took his effort down to a 1m14.445s to bring the medium runs to an end, as the attention subsequently switched to soft-tyre runs in preparation for qualifying.

Logan Sargeant kicked the C5 runs off with a 1m14.355s, but the Williams driver was chiselled out of his rare appearance at the top end of the timesheets by George Russell. Alex Albon then took the benchmark below the 74-second mark as further improvements emerged - Charles Leclerc took a turn at the top of the order before being displaced by Lewis Hamilton.

The Briton stayed at the top for a healthy chunk of the session, briefly overlapped by team-mate Russell, but reclaimed his advantage with an impressive 1m12.549s - 0.725s clear of his team-mate's best effort.

Hamilton's time remained top of the order for the rest of the session, but few could get close until the session moved towards its climax; Russell got to within half a second before being beaten by Verstappen - who touched the Turn 14 wall before setting a 1m12.923s, still 0.374s away from Hamilton's headliner.

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Lance Stroll claimed fourth in the times, the only other driver within half a second of Hamilton, while Oscar Piastri was fifth ahead of compatriot Daniel Ricciardo.

Lando Norris and Alonso followed, ahead of Perez and Charles Leclerc among the top 10 - Leclerc finding that his Ferrari was "slow" in the opening corners, and was told he was losing 0.3s in the left-right complex.

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Cla	Driver	#		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h
1	L. Hamilton Mercedes	44		Mercedes	Mercedes	31	1'12.549		216.399
2	M. Verstappen Red Bull Racing	1		Red Bull	Red Bull	32	+0.374 1'12.923	0.374	215.290
3	G. Russell Mercedes	63		Mercedes	Mercedes	33	+0.408 1'12.957	0.034	215.189
4	L. Stroll Aston Martin Racing	18		Aston Martin	Mercedes	27	+0.477 1'13.026	0.069	214.986
5	O. Piastri McLaren	81		McLaren	Mercedes	32	+0.717 1'13.266	0.240	214.282
6	D. Ricciardo RB	3		RB	Red Bull	34	+0.730 1'13.279	0.013	214.244
7	L. Norris McLaren	4		McLaren	Mercedes	32	+0.744 1'13.293	0.014	214.203
8	F. Alonso Aston Martin Racing	14		Aston Martin	Mercedes	30	+0.791 1'13.340	0.047	214.065
9	S. Perez Red Bull Racing	11		Red Bull	Red Bull	29	+0.793 1'13.342	0.002	214.060
10	C. Leclerc Ferrari	16		Ferrari	Ferrari	28	+0.800 1'13.349	0.007	214.039
11	K. Magnussen Haas F1 Team	20		Haas	Ferrari	30	+0.890 1'13.439	0.090	213.777
12	C. Sainz Ferrari	55		Ferrari	Ferrari	33	+1.021 1'13.570	0.131	213.396
13	V. Bottas Sauber	77		Sauber	Ferrari	32	+1.093 1'13.642	0.072	213.188
14	L. Sargeant Williams	2		Williams	Mercedes	31	+1.114 1'13.663	0.021	213.127
15	Y. Tsunoda RB	22		RB	Red Bull	31	+1.167 1'13.716	0.053	212.974
16	P. Gasly Alpine	10		Alpine	Renault	29	+1.188 1'13.737	0.021	212.913
17	N. Hulkenberg Haas F1 Team	27		Haas	Ferrari	27	+1.228 1'13.777	0.040	212.798
18	A. Albon Williams	23		Williams	Mercedes	22	+1.331 1'13.880	0.103	212.501
19	E. Ocon Alpine	31		Alpine	Renault	31	+1.526 1'14.075	0.195	211.941
20	Z. Guanyu Sauber	24		Sauber	Ferrari	4	+6.107 1'18.656	4.581	199.598
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