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F1 Grand Prix practice results: Verstappen fastest in Canadian GP on Friday
Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen was fastest during Canadian Grand Prix practice on Friday, the ninth round of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Jun 18, 2022, 12:00 AM
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Verstappen was fastest in both FP1 and FP2 in Montreal, with his Ferrari rivals Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc taking it in turns to be second. Leclerc ended the day 0.081s slower in FP2.
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Canadian Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Sainz
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 27 1'15.158 208.887 2 Carlos Sainz
Ferrari 34 1'15.404 0.246 0.246 208.206 3 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 31 1'15.531 0.373 0.127 207.856 4 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 32 1'15.619 0.461 0.088 207.614 5 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 30 1'15.666 0.508 0.047 207.485 6 George Russell
Mercedes 29 1'15.822 0.664 0.156 207.058 7 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 32 1'15.877 0.719 0.055 206.908 8 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 27 1'15.877 0.719 0.000 206.908 9 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 33 1'16.041 0.883 0.164 206.462 10 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 29 1'16.083 0.925 0.042 206.348 11 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 29 1'16.165 1.007 0.082 206.126 12 Lando Norris
McLaren 17 1'16.211 1.053 0.046 206.001 13 Alex Albon
Williams 29 1'16.308 1.150 0.097 205.739 14 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 33 1'16.322 1.164 0.014 205.702 15 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 26 1'16.421 1.263 0.099 205.435 16 Valtteri Bottas
Alfa Romeo 27 1'16.426 1.268 0.005 205.422 17 Zhou Guanyu
Alfa Romeo 30 1'17.152 1.994 0.726 203.489 18 Mick Schumacher
Haas 25 1'17.223 2.065 0.071 203.302 19 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 33 1'17.241 2.083 0.018 203.254 20 Kevin Magnussen
Haas 31 1'17.555 2.397 0.314 202.431 View full results
What happened in Canadian GP Free Practice 1?
Verstappen set the early pace during a long run on medium tyres – starting off at 1m17.991s and working down to 1m15.703s after 13 minutes. Perez just topped him by 0.043s with 1m15.660s.
Sainz was third at this point, 0.74s down on mediums, with Leclerc fourth, 0.84s off on softs.
Neither Perez nor Verstappen improved on softs at first – Max not helped by a rogue setup issue that sent him straight back into the pits. Sainz jumped to the top with 1m15.441s, and Perez responded with 1m15.619s to go P2.
Verstappen’s first proper go on the softs produced 1m15.158s with 20 minutes remaining. Sainz improved to get within a quarter of a second of the pace but then had a very near miss with a groundhog.
Alpine’s Fernando Alonso got to within 0.373s of the fastest time to take third on medium tyres, ahead of Perez and Leclerc – everyone else setting their best times on softs. George Russell ended the session in sixth for Mercedes, ahead of local hero Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Sebastian Vettel (Aston) and Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren).
There were no late improvements as teams were keen to run high fuel loads due to the threat of rain in FP2.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was delayed by a front-right brake issue, after its duct injected a paper towel.
Canadian Grand Prix FP2 results: Verstappen fastest from Leclerc
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 33 1'14.127 211.793 2 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 32 1'14.208 0.081 0.081 211.562 3 Carlos Sainz
Ferrari 32 1'14.352 0.225 0.144 211.152 4 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 35 1'14.442 0.315 0.090 210.897 5 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 24 1'14.543 0.416 0.101 210.611 6 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 34 1'14.879 0.752 0.336 209.666 7 George Russell
Mercedes 31 1'14.971 0.844 0.092 209.408 8 Lando Norris
McLaren 30 1'14.987 0.860 0.016 209.364 9 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 31 1'15.033 0.906 0.046 209.235 10 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 32 1'15.119 0.992 0.086 208.996 11 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 29 1'15.167 1.040 0.048 208.862 12 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 34 1'15.396 1.269 0.229 208.228 13 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 25 1'15.421 1.294 0.025 208.159 14 Kevin Magnussen
Haas 34 1'15.499 1.372 0.078 207.944 15 Mick Schumacher
Haas 35 1'15.516 1.389 0.017 207.897 16 Zhou Guanyu
Alfa Romeo 31 1'15.526 1.399 0.010 207.870 17 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 37 1'15.567 1.440 0.041 207.757 18 Alex Albon
Williams 30 1'16.171 2.044 0.604 206.109 19 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 27 1'16.509 2.382 0.338 205.199 20 Valtteri Bottas
Alfa Romeo 3 View full results
What happened in Canadian GP Free Practice 2?
Verstappen set the bar on mediums at 1m15.618s, 0.77s up on Perez, and then improved to 1m15.096s, two tenths up on Leclerc, who had risen to P2.
Verstappen dipped into the 1m14s bracket with a 1m14.792s, then went faster again with 1m14.532s – still on mediums – versus Leclerc’s 14.830s on softs. Sainz – who was suffering major bouncing issues – improved to third on mediums, 0.455s off the pace.
Verstappen’s first soft run produced 1m14.127s, to which Leclerc responded with a 1m14.208s, 0.081s down. Sainz again moved up to third, albeit 0.225s down.
Vettel was an impressive fourth, three tenths off the pace, a tenth ahead of Alonso and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly. Russell was seventh, ahead of Lando Norris (McLaren), Ricciardo and Ocon.
Perez was a lacklustre 11th in this session, over a second off the pace.
Valtteri Bottas suffered an apparent transmission issue that forced him into the pits, while a virtual safety car was briefly required for a marshal to retrieve a beer can from the track.
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