What we learned from Friday at the Canadian Grand Prix
What we learned from Friday at the Canadian Grand Prix
Friday at the Canadian Grand Prix started with a sinking feeling among many Formula 1 fans as a Mercedes-dominated weekend looked on the cards, however, come the end of the day at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, hopes are raised once more of a thriller to come.
After Lewis Hamilton ended FP1 top of the timesheets and a second clear of the third-placed Ferrari of Charles Leclerc, win number seven for the Silver Arrows seemed a cert.
However, the afternoon session ran much differently, with Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel ending on top.
Making matters all the more intriguing was Hamilton losing a chunk of track time after damaging his Mercedes in the wall.
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Ferrari fight back
FP1 is rarely representative, and that is especially the case in Canada as the cars spend much of the opening session cleaning a circuit rarely used over the rest of the year.
However, Hamilton sat a second ahead of Leclerc by the end of the session was enough to leave a lump in throats across F1 fandom.
Ferrari had been expected to be stronger this weekend, and so it proved when conditions were more balanced over the qualifying simulations in FP2.
Leclerc led Vettel by less than a tenth, with Valtteri Bottas also in close quarters, as he had been to Hamilton in FP1.
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