The Canadian Grand Prix - Practice 2 Formula 1

Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal. The drivers are in the garages, the cars

are about to go out on circuit. This morning Fernando Alonso was fastest,

followed by Lewis Hamilton, the three times winner round this track.

You can get involved using Twitter, and James Allen or Allan McNish

might read your messages. Hello, everybody, a beautiful, sunny

afternoon waiting for us here in Montreal. Lewis Hamilton, who lost

the championship lead to his team-mate and archrival Nico Rosberg

and just being strapped into a silver Mercedes in the pit lane. The

pit lane is open, the green light is on, and Kevin Magnussen is shaping

up to come out on circuit. Bring it up to speed with the events so far a

few words with us this morning. Fernando Alonso setting the fastest

time in the Ferrari ahead of the two Mercedes cars of Hamilton and Ross

Burke. A few problems for Felipe Massa with his energy recovery

system. Magnussen drives onto the circuit. The fans get to

system. Magnussen drives onto the new quiet sound of the turbo engines

for this season. Bianchi had an accident, plotting his copybook

after that finish last time in Monaco. A real breakthrough result

for the Marussia team and Allan McNish, the reprimand for Daniel

Riccardo, that was reported after the session, what you know about

that? It was just as Pastor Maldonado was

coming in to the pit stop but wanted to slow down so he could similar to

the quick entry into it. At the same point Daniel Riccardo wanted to do

the same. Maldonado was in the fast lane which probably shouldn't have

been in. He was in the slowly. He was undercut by Ricciardo, he went

to the left-hand side. And then accelerated Pastor Maldonado.

Circumstances were a little bit strange and he only received a

reprimand. Once you get into the pit area you go into the speed state

limit. Is under quite a dangerous into the

don't. What a lucky to get away with the reprimand?

Maldonado should maybe have moved across a little bit earlier because

he wasn't up to full speed. The thing that probably brought it down

was Riccardo did give it a bit of worry and got wheel spin and that is

not what you need in a crowded pit lane.

Quite a few cars on circuit, Magnussen in the McLaren, Chilton,

Hulkenberg. Watch out for Force India this weekend. Already one

podium finish for Sergio Perez in Bahrain. They have been tipped for a

possible podium contender this weekend. A slippery car in the

streets. -- straights. Slow corners followed by long

straights, needing to be to break well and exonerate well. If you

think back to Bahrain, the last time forced India was extremely strong,

Perez was on the podium. It is not out of the question. Since Bahrain

other teams have moved forward. Ferrari has got a little bit, Red

Bull. I don't think it is as clear cut but that battle for behind the

Mercedes. As always, conditions are critical,

will be cold, hot, the variation between temperatures here can be

enormous. A bit of a tailwind at the pit

straight. The conditions feel a bit better than in the first practice

session. The track temperature has gone up a few degrees. The ambient

has done the same, about 19. Nothing like as warm as it is back home at

the moment. It is a good temperature. We had a sprinkling of

rain just prior to the start of the session but nothing that will affect

the grip on the circuit. Thank you, Tom. Difficult for the

engineers. The variation between the lowest temperature on any given day

here, and the highest can be enormous. It can bes art.

It affects the tyre performance, as we see Kobayashi looking round for

stop --. Locked up going into that hairpin. That is a big factor, there

has been a big change in Tim Butcher from what was expected. The tyres

are a bit harder than last year -- a big change in temperature.

It is a dusty, dirty circuit. It is not used all of the time. Only used

a very sporadically. RADIO: booster fund if you can. -- boost the front.

The critical point is that attack on to the brake pedal. The tyre isn't

gripping with the road. When you hit the brake pedal the pad to the disk

performance is much greater than the tyre to the ground. A lot of people

looking up. Max Chilton getting it a little bit

wrong. Really only the top surface of the tyre had been cut. Warming

these tyres once again as they were in Monaco. We saw the soft I could

take as much as six or seven laps on some cars to come in to the

operating window. Mercedes, another of their advantages, they are able

to bring those tyres in a little bit more quickly. Let's bring in journey

down at the Ferrari garage. There is a bit of work going on to

Kimi Raikonnen's car. They have changed the setup of the car, they

have switched floors. They have got a new floor, they let Fernando

Alonso try it out this morning for stop Kimi Raikonnen trying it out

this afternoon to see what he thinks. I was speaking is a MIDI in

the lunch break and he thinks they have done something clever to

Raikonnen's car. At the moment he is in the car meanwhile on the other

side of the garage Fernando Alonso is looking very relaxed at the back

of the garage. It is interesting they did that this

morning, where they will switch the floors between two cars, but they

also did that in Barcelona. They tried it driver in the morning, and

then in the afternoon session. As if they weren't 100% sure, 100%

committed the results they have got with their test items from the

factory is actually going to give a performance on the track. If you

look a bit further down the pit lane, anything Red Bull seem to

bring to the car for each race seems to stay on the car, right from the

first session. They have got a commitment towards it. It isn't the

case with Ferrari. There is a nervousness, that has

been the case for a few years. Very frustrating for them last season,

things not coming through from the wind tunnel in terms of the

performance, just wasn't happening on the racetrack. It is an area they

had to raise their game. Williams is another team which seems to be able

to bring PCs to the car and it automatically makes a difference. --

bring bits. Bottas is the fastest man. Magnussen second quickest, then

Felipe Massa. Gutierrez is out there, and so is Ericsson and

Kobayashi for stop 16 cars out on circuit at the moment. This morning

Lewis Hamilton made a small mistake towards the end of the session when

he was possibly on a lap that would have given him a time quick enough

to top the time sheet. I didn't see it, I was on the

circuit, but he has got a car underneath him that will produce a

performance. He looked very good, the car looked extremely good as we

come out of the hairpin down towards the final chicane. I was watching

through there, he flicked left and right, absorbed the kerbs. This is

the perfect circuit for the Mercedes, good grip, acceleration,

and fantastic top speed. Being quick around here, you need

good mechanical grip with his very low grip surface. It is only used

for racing once a year. The surface is very smooth. If you run your hand

across the top surface of the asphalt it feels smooth to the

touch, unlike a lot of places. Pastor Maldonado is being pushed

backwards down the pit lane. He was set up to do a practice start

but there has been a problem so the whole team have rushed up, they are

pushing the car passed me now. No sound from it at all. One of the

stewards was making as I like the engine had cut out. They are trying

to not get in the way of any the cars that are due to leave.

Being pushed backwards down the pit lane for stop the mechanics will try

and figure out what happened there. Renault, this weekend, as his

team-mate Sebastian Gresham heads out, Lotus had some fuel problems

last time. Sebastian Vettel suffering issues. Reliability? For

the team which leaves Sebastian Vettel in a difficult position. He

has only got 45 points on the board, 77 points behind Nico Rosberg

after just six rounds. With the kind of advantage Mercedes have at the

moment it will not be too long before mathematically it might be

still possible but realistically it is looking like a long shot. Let's

get another update from the pit lane and Tom.

Seeing Maldonado being pushed back to his pit immediately made me think

of Bianchi so I made my way up to Marussia. If you cast your mind back

couple of weeks to Monaco, it was because Maldonado wasn't able to

take the start because of a fuel pump problem, that Bianchi ended up

in the wrong grid position which led to a five second penalty which he

then took at the wrong time in the race and was added to his Raith

Stanciu eighth place finish turned into ninth. Still a fantastic

result, the first points for Marussia in five years since that

team was first born. Bianchi hasn't had a smooth day so far. He is

heading out into the pit lane now. This morning he hit the wall, he

kissed the wall, enough to break the right rear suspension on his car,

and that damaged the gay box. He has had a new gearbox between practice

sessions -- damaged big year box. He is the hero of the moment. His team

couldn't speak highly enough of him. That would've been a cold shower and

a reality check. The other link between him and Pastor Maldonado is

they have the same manager in Nicholas Todd, son of Jean Todt.

This is one of his trademarks around here, Hamilton, to be so close to

the walls. We were talking about what makes an quick in Montreal, it

is his ability over the kerb, Ricky has been a huge part of Hamilton's

game. We look at Gutierrez doing a little gardening going across the

grass at the apex of turn four. The first chicane. He has missed the

apex of turn 14 on the same lap. Obviously had a very scruffy lap.

Any other areas that making quicker?

This is the term for incident for interiors where he has commented

quickly and aborted and gone across the grass under was a bumper. You

need to carry speed into the apex, you need to be able to get the car

pivoted, rotated and out of the corner. And that is a style that is

in the DNA of Lewis Hamilton. It is the way he likes to drive. It is

like a little kart circuit and he throws the car around. Nico Rosberg

is very precise and nice and gentle. With the time difference between the

two being less than a tenth of a second, there is nothing to it in

the whole scheme of things. Just a 10th of a second between them. Rose

hasn't got the track record Hamilton has got. Hamilton three times a

winner and three times on pole position. Only two wins from pole

position. There was the famous race he crashed into Kimi Raikkonen in

the pit lane. Hamilton needs to do it. Both of them needs to do it. You

sort per is going slowly down the back straight. He is recharging his

hybrid system to make sure he has the maximum energy before he hit the

throttle to be able to use it on this lap. We have seen it a lot this

morning, where they are this lap. We have seen it a lot this

long, slow, lifting off and letting this lap. We have seen it a lot this

it to recuperate the energy. No sign of any of the Red Bull drivers, they

are in the pit lane. Jenny is there. If you look at Sebastian Vettel's

car, they have done a few tweaks to the rear. It is a skinny rear wing

and there are two slots which make it a low downforce setting. Where

you can see the yellow on the nose, they have changed it this weekend.

There is no old chap. There was a bulge underneath where they yellow

section of the car is. They may have moved the positioning of the front,

a bit like the Mercedes. To help out this Red Bull car. The front wing is

the first thing of a Formula One car that hit the air and the way it

shapes it, particularly down to the floor which is where most of the

downforce comes from, that is the key thing. They always fiddling

round and changing to get the optimum shaping. So out onto the

racetrack goes the reigning world champion, Sebastian Vettel. You can

get in touch with us. Nico Rosberg coming through to complete a lap

now. It is the fastest lap we have had so far this weekend in Montreal

for Nico Rosberg. You can get in touch with us. We have some

questions already. This is one for you, Alan. This is from Tom, are

Ferrari expected to compete with Mercedes this weekend? You have just

pulled a face like you are sucking a lemon? It is unlikely Ferrari will

be competing with Ferrari. They are definitely moving forward. But their

performance where Alonso was quickest is a bit premature. When

you look back, it has been the first practice where Alonso has been able

to get straight up to speed. But then the others have a higher limit

where they can continue to perform and develop. Their thing is to be

the best of the rest, not necessarily to be ahead of Mercedes.

Fernando Alonso exits the final corner. He was weaving vigorously to

get some heat into his soft compound per early tyres. With this move

service, although temperatures are coming up, 21 degrees, the air

temperature. The forecast for the rest of the weekend is in the high

20s. So the conditions now are very different from what is expected for

the rest of the weekend. It adds another level of challenge for the

drivers and the engineers. TEAM RADIO: he was 1.5 tenths slower. My

team-mate, that is an interesting little thing. He did the same thing

in Monaco, it is not the first time Nico Rosberg has called him my

colleague. He who cannot be named. Nico Rosberg is going fastest will

stop that is the take for Alonso's first flying lap. Nico Rosberg comes

across the line. That quiet Mercedes engine whispering past us. We are

looking into the cup pits of the car will stop our commentary position on

the outside, wonderful vantage point. Hamilton is three tenths of a

second slower than his team-mate. Any signs or any indicators from way

the cars are handling, plenty of work on the steering wheel? This is

a team that are struggling. Low speed grip and mechanical grip is

not their best at the moment. It is a circuit where you do need that.

They are not making the tyre generate the temperature so you get

a lot of incidents like this. You have do abort the corner very early

if it goes wrong or you will have trips across the grass. If you

realised early enough, you can get away with it. If not, it can create

some drama. Sebastian Vettel comes out of the final corner.

some drama. Sebastian Vettel comes across the line and he goes into

15th place. No improvement. across the line and he goes into

Ricciardo is out on circuits and has just done the 13th fastest time. He

is on a better lap now. Let's talk to Jenny in the pit lane. Picked

this up Pastor Maldonado in his Lotus. He was being pushed back into

his garage, so it was the wrong map set on his engine. He is taking it

easy at the moment. You can see how in the corner it goes more orange

and red, that is when the temperature gets into the tyre. Has

already cool down significantly and Don Black on the outside. You feel a

change in front grip. What you need is a constant drip. As soon as you

break and turn in you want a situation where you have more grip

from the first moment you hit the brakes. Right now with these harder

Pirelli tyres, that is what the teams were struggling with in Monte

Carlo and they will be struggling here. Watch the towered -- tyres

when he brakes. You can see what we're talking about, the stability

of the tyre and the braking is critical around here. These new

hybrid turbo cars have break by wire system. 5.4 grams, going into that

final corner. The driver's head weighing five times its normal

weight for almost two seconds and pulling on his neck as he brakes for

the final chicane. In a road car, if it is a supercar, you would be under

one. 5.4 is like hitting an emergency stop multiplied by ten. It

is a huge deceleration. When you lock a break you lose 25% of your

braking capacity. It needs to keep rotating to slow the car down and

that is why you missed the apex so quickly on this track. Hamilton has

just set the fastest time. TEAM RADIO: we are looking into it.

Daniel Ricciardo said, can we do anything for the shift? The engineer

saying we will have to look at it. It is a job to be done in the garage

rather than something they can work on remotely. It is almost 2:25pm

local time in Montreal. A few hundred miles north from New York

City over the border into Canada. It is a cloudy day. The Australian is

making his mark on Formula One this season. Daniel Ricciardo at the

wheel of the Red Bull. Hamilton, Ross Barbour, Raikkonen. From one to

ten are in team order. Mercedes, Ferrari, Williams, McLaren and Force

India. Williams is a team that should go pretty well round here.

They have gone well in the other circuits where you have had some

quick accelerations. They feel confident. They need to be able to

do it in qualifying and the race. Where they have struggled is they

have failed to do it in both. Round about half an hour into the session

we tend to see the first drivers putting on the option tyres. It is

Adrian Sutil who has gone out on those super-soft tyres, according to

the data we have. Romain Grosjean who is in the pits in the Lotus,

also has a set of super-soft 's, but he is not out yet. Hamilton leads

the way I almost a 10th from Ross Berk. -- Nico Rosberg. Quite a big

gap. Alonso on his own. Clear of his own team-mate and then it is not us

in fifth. Jean-Eric Vergne, so unlucky in Monaco. If this guy did

not have bad luck, he would have no look at all. Got himself in the top

four row grid slot, looking set for sixth place, then was unsafely

released from his one and only pit stop and was given a penalty. It was

a result he needed because he is under pressure. When you are driving

that Toro Rosso there is always a trapdoor you are standing on. He

really needed that results? But he produced the sort of performance,

even though he did not get the chequered flag at the right point

for him, he produced the sort of performance that says yes, he has

done a good job. I have been impressed with his team-mate. As

Sutil dumbs down this site, you can see the red of the super-soft. That

was unbelievable. I think it was Ericsson in the Caterham who was

cruising round. TEAM RADIO: what has happened now? It wasn't closing to

the correct closed position. We saw it in the data and it wasn't worth

carrying on. That is what the driver likes to hear, if there is a rear

wing problem, the team have noticed it first. That is the DRS. Sutil had

another close moments. One of the cars was starting his lap and was

going very slowly into the next chicane. Sutil recognised it very

late. I think it was Magnusson in the McLaren. The DRS isn't closing

completely on Pastor Maldonado's Lotus and therefore it was jammed on

one side creating an inconsistent rear downforce. That does need to be

fixed. It was a ragged lap from Sutil. Clearly not aware Sutil was

coming. Sutil was aware he was there and he was in the braking zone. What

was Magnusson supposed to do? TEAM RADIO: I don't know what happened

there. Magnusson was hanging back waiting to begin a lap. Sutil had

nowhere to go. Closing speed was enormous. Sutil doing 200 miles an

hour as he hit the brakes. He jumped over the yellow curbing. The team

should tell the driver that is going slow and building his lap where the

approaching car is. It is difficult to see out of these mirrors. You are

meant to know what is around you and you focus on your main sponsor which

is on the rear wing. The team should have been giving him the

information. A couple of hairy moments in that lap the Sutil. He

passed the Caterham with about a foot to spare and almost running

into the back of Magnusson. Ron Dennis, the boss of McLaren is here

and is looking on at his rookie driver. Many great results here for

McLaren down the years. Some awkward ones, I remember being here with

Pablo Montoya who was going to win the race and McLaren made a bad

call. He was absolutely livid. Ron Dennis had to find him in his hotel

room and apologise for costing him the race. 3:30pm almost local time.

Tom is in the pit with some news. I don't think we can draw too many

conclusions on the super-soft tyres, but Max Chilton has just gone past

me on them. As the front runners start going out, I think we will get

lots of positive radio messages. This super-soft tyres is obviously

softer than the soft tyre they have used, but it is designed to perform

at lower temperatures. The soft tyre is designed to perform at higher

temperatures. The track temperature is in the early 30s, it is still

cool in Formula One. In Bahrain it is mid-40s. The super-soft is going

to perform much better for the drivers. Pirelli said their

simulations reckon there will be a lap time difference of about .7

between the two tyres. That is what they aim for. The super-soft will be

the qualifying tyre. Depending on how it lasts, maybe it will be the

favoured tyre for the two stints in the race. Jon In Monaco it did over

40 laps, half the race with Hulkenberg and OK, he was hanging on

at the end of it, but around here you couldn't quite do that.

It suggests that has got a durability. No doubt about it. He

was hanging on a little bit. A gigantic boost to the mercy team.

Here comes the young fellow from Surrey for stop that incident

involving Magnussen and Sutil is being investigated by the stewards.

Chilton goes 14. Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso, Raikkonen. You can get in

touch with us. A question here, Dan says can Marussia school again or

was that Monaco? Lewis for the win, he says. But in podium with

Hulkenberg. Probably a good chance of some of that, not all of it. It

would be unrealistic to think that unless there is a lot of carnage

going on for them to be able to repeat what was a fantastic result

for them, this is a team that hopes that does not happen, catering,

because that is who they are fighting with, but right now in its

like Marussia have got the upper hand on K2 run in every area. RADIO:

there is something in the system. Engine cut out?

Some problem for Max Chilton. Tom Clancy says what do you make of the

cost cuts by dropping FP one on Friday mornings, an option that

affects fans seems wrong and circuit will lose money on Friday

attendance. That is a story on the BBC Sport website about changes

potentially for next season which might see Thursdays being dropped

and the first practice session on Friday morning being dropped, and

cars running on Friday afternoon, later in the evening to encourage

people to come after work. Marshal is coming across to talk to him,

quite a difficult place to get back on, that area.

You would be reversing back onto the sort of racing line to be able to do

it. It is too narrow to loop around safely, a decent chance that if you

tried to do a quick spin round you could catch the front or the rear of

the car. Especially on the tyres to the right. With the car sitting idly

it is not good because there is no airflow going through the radiator

so the temperature will build. It looks like, the marshals are

talking to him. Not wide enough to do a doughnut spin turns they like

to be. It is a risk. They are pushing him behind the barrier.

It suggests his session is over. The team has offices there is not

much we can do for you there and he has lost an hour of running, viable

running for the rookie driver on his first Formula One experience here in

Montreal for the this is a confident circuit, not necessarily to the same

extent as Monaco, where rookies need to build up their confidence, but it

is still a place with the walls lining most of the corners where you

need to build yourself up. You have got low downforce. Monaco

you have a very high downforce so security in the aerodynamic grip,

hey you do not have that because of the length of the straights. You

have got to build up your confidence with the car. Coming in very light,

the rear, just always a little bit on the edge. You have got these

walls to the left and right. It is as much of a confident circuit as

Monaco but in a different way. He has just lost an hour of the

session, climbing out of the car now. That is it for Marcus Ericsson

for practice too. Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso. The top six hasn't changed

for about 20 minutes. None of them have put the super soft tyre on.

Adrian Sutil has done a run on them, so has Max Chilton and we have 53

minutes remaining. The incident involving Magnussen and

Adrian Sutil work Magnussen will score quickly in the last chicane,

then had to take avoiding action, there is no further action. The

stewards have looked at it, deemed it wasn't any problem. Then released

it. The question from a regular

correspondent, how does a track layout like this one in Montreal

affect energy recovery, heavy braking zones, there are seven of

them here, should make it easier to store kinetic energy or harvest

kinetic energy? Yes, it does but you do have a limit. There is a maximum

you are allowed to stall. From that point of view if you go over that it

doesn't store any more. You have got that situation where it is easier,

it is easy because you can also do big liftoff is on the straights

which is the most efficient ways to save fuel but instead of the actual

energy recovery being the critical point around here, it is the fuel.

That is going to be a factor on Sunday in terms of being able to do

this race with 100 kilograms of fuel.

OK, so Nico Rosberg is on a lap now, just beginning at, on the super soft

tyre. He comes round 31, you let the car

floating, the important thing is to get a clean exit, now into ten

three. You let it float out to the wall. This is just holding on,

breaking in a straight line. Just kicking a little bit. Using the

kerbs as much as you can. A clean exit. Now you are onto one of those

bigger and longer straights, break just about that bridge, down the

gears, hit the kerb if you can coming through here. Be careful,

another wall in the exit. You can see the fans shaking. -- fence. This

is an important braking area, you have got to do it when the car is

straight, the load on both the wheels balanced so you can run a

little white but the key thing is getting that exhilarating. This is a

deal RSN. You have got the last corner, stealing yourself for it. 30

seconds, a bit of debris, crosses the line.

The middle sector was great, because of that overshoot on the hairpin. He

has dropped a little time to Hamilton in the middle section. He

was the fastest man of anybody in sector one and three. The margin is

five thousandths of a second. There is a piece of carbon fibre bodywork

lying on the grid close to the pit wall side. Five metres out from the

pit wall for. Not a great danger to anybody but they need to know it is

therefore top it might be from Kobayashi's car. We are looking at

the replay on our monitors. He just does a few pirouettes and triple

Salchow 's and comes to arrest on the grid area for top --. Hamilton

has been blisteringly quick. 326, it is now. Beautifully precise.

Hamilton thunders into the final corner, applause from the fans and

the grandstand. That was a great lap from Lewis Hamilton. The quickest

lap we have seen so far this weekend. That could well end up

being the fastest time of the day and ice was Burke has another go. --

unless was Burke. Alonso is third, it yet to use the super soft tyres.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the teams decided to try and do a

second lap on these super-soft tyres or maybe a cooldown lap and then go

again. With the time it was taken to get the soft tyres up to speed and

get the grip out of them suggests maybe you will be able to do more

than just one lap on them. A bit of debris coming of Bottas's

car. He is on the super-soft tyre as well. As is Felipe Massa. Sergio

Perez is having a go on the quicker tyre now. Ben Gutierrez, Ricciardo,

and Chilton. We are into that phase of the session, approaching the

halfway stage. People are going up to set the fastest times of the day

and after they will come back into the pits, but some fuel in the car

and do some race simulations and we will get an idea of how competitive

they will be on race day. As the Williams crosses the line Bottas is

they will be on race day. As the the fastest driver in all the speed

traps. Hamilton, the fastest in terms of time but in pure speed

traps Bottas is the quickest. As Massa starts his lap you get an idea

they have got good aerodynamic force.

A lot of smiles around the Williams garage so far this weekend. They

haven't necessarily quite translated the performance of this car which

was clearly the second best car in pre-season testing into points

finishes. Tired at the moment with McLaren on 52 points in the

Constructors' Championship, behind Force India, Ferrari, Red Bull and

Mercedes. That is not exactly what Williams hoped to be given the

problems they came into the season with. Not with the performance they

had in Melbourne either. The reality is up at the front the Red Bull

cars, Mercedes, the ones which have a bit more resources but in

comparison to 2013 this is like winning the world championship for

them where they had a dreadful season. Lewis Hamilton has just gone

quickest in the middle sector, not the best first tech debate quickest

in the middle. 16.157. Equalling his bravest fastest time.

Felipe Massa just three engine 28 kilometres per hour onto the final

chicane. -- 328. Felipe Massa is only just behind

Rosberg. Four tenths off in the first sector than any dropped

another three tenths integral on arrest of a lap. They have got a low

downforce setup for straight-line speed which is their race strategy

side of things. It just proves that they are performing pretty well.

Rosberg took your advice and has taken a breather lap and gone for it

again. Quite a script as West Ham round. He has just clocked 16.293.

Hamilton, was Burke, Massa, Bottas round. He has just clocked 16.293.

goes for fastest. Alonso has just gone out now on a set of the

super-soft tyres upset the quickest time in free practice in the

Ferrari. Here is the annual Ricciardo.

That was close. He is on a similar time to Bottas will stop practices

sector of the circuit I would expect the Red Bull to be better. This is

the area with a big long acceleration areas. This is the

point where this team is struggling. This is probably their nightmare for

2014. For Mercedes it is their best rank in terms of what this circuit,

the characteristics of a car, for Ricciardo and Red Bull, probably the

worst. A lot of speed to be giving away.

You will have a closing difference of over 24 kilometres an hour

between the two, more than enough to make and overtake. Red Bull are

struggling. Felipe Massa is improving on this lap, his first

sector is the best he has done so far. He is having a second go on the

second lap on the super-soft tyres. Ricciardo very close to the at that.

He touched it with the left front, I think. He was very close if he

didn't. It wasn't close enough for him to

start to lift. It was as close as you would ever want to get. He is

hanging it all out, Daniel Ricciardo. Eighth fastest in the Red

Bull. Alonso in the Ferrari. Because this morning. What has he done in

this lap? Personal best. About a 10th down on the Mercedes of

Hamilton. That is pretty good. We don't know the amount of fuel they

have in the car which can dictate performance. He is the best of the

rest in that first sector. The Achilles heel in the Ferrari over

the years has been the corners. They always bring an upgrade package to

this race. They have got something to give them more power. Fernando

Alonso comes in the best of the rest. Squeezing in in front of

Williams. Magnusson is seventh in the McLaren. It is Hamilton, Nico

Rosberg, Alonso. Punching above his weight in six, Magnusson seventh,

Grosjean, suspension. Ricciardo goes back

reasonably for grandstand for a Friday in Montreal. Coming into the

last chicane. I was standing on the right-hand side. The front of the

Red Bull was soaked size. When he turned the steering wheel at you

millimetres, the front wheels reacted. You need that round here

but you also need the straight-line speed balance. No more speed for

Ricciardo. What do you make up the young Australian and the job he has

done so far at the wheel the Red Bull? I asked the question last

year, would he still be smiling at the end of 2014 Allwood Sebastian

Vettel crash his team-mate like he did with Mark Webber almost. But he

is the one who has taken over, I would have said when times got

difficult when Vettel had a technical problem or what ever. He

has produced the performances. In difficult conditions in Melbourne,

he has done an excellent job. Ricciardo is fourth in the drivers

World Championship with 54 points. Seven behind Fernando Alonso, who

manages to keep himself in the Lace. But some weight adrift of the two

Mercedes. The gaps are growing. Mercedes on a run of six consecutive

one, two finishes. It is impressive. Lewis Hamilton was on pole position

for the first round Imam Alton -- Melbourne but as soon as the lights

turn to green coming had a problem. They are the dominant team. They

have something unique, I would have said in my career lifetime in

motorsport to have that strength and depth. To have the performance

advantage over everybody else. Here is Sebastian Vettel. His team-mate,

Ricciardo. Vettel hits the brakes and gets the 5.4 deceleration on his

body that makes his innards want to fly forward into his rib cage, which

is harnessed into the car. What are you looking at? He is still on the

soft tyre, not the super-soft. They have gone for a different strategy

in the way they are running. They still have 40 minutes to go in this

session and we are eating into some of the long runs here. Lots of brake

dust of the Jenson Button, but his engineer does not seem too

concerned. Raikkonen has just done a decent lap and we will see what he

can do now. Maybe this was the reason he wasn't quite so quick. The

car got out of the way. It was more of a replay of how close we got to

the wall. He slips past. Coming back to Jenson Button's comments. When he

had a break, there was a tremendous amount of brake dust. The driver can

see it. It is a hard braking circuit. High speed, slow corners

and historically it has been a problem for the temperature of

brakes and the feeling and feed back for the driver. And I think we will

hear a few comments about brakes as the race progresses on Sunday. To

break into the hairpin, 291 kilometres an hour down to 57

kilometres. 2.7 seconds of deceleration. The other thing is,

apart ROM along straight that connects the hairpin, there aren't

too many other places where the brakes get a chance to cool down?

Every braking is big round here. They are cooling down on the

straights but then we have a highly intense of energy and then they cool

down, then another highly intense of energy. That is why they were out a

lot. Romain Grosjean getting cross. Into turn one. There is Felipe

Massa, in fifth place. Williams looking competitive. Massa's best

result so far is a pair of seventh places. Not had the results his

performances would have suggested. 37 minutes remaining on the clock in

this freedom clap this two session run the Canadian Grand Prix in

Montreal. Now more news from Tom. Two I am standing in front of Danny

Kaya's car. Nobody will tell me what the problem is. It suggests it is

terminal. -- Daniil Kvyat. I think the guys are taking the floor of the

car. He is 19th fastest. It is a big ask for him, it is a real confidence

track and he has never been here before. He will now miss out on some

vital milage this up and noon. What is interesting is, they have taken

his seat out and everybody is so obsessed with the weight of the cars

this year which of 50 kilos more than last year. On the back of his

seat, it says his seat at ways to .3 kilos. So a nice little exclusive.

Massa has just got out of his car and walked into the back of the

garage. Can you find out what is going on with Jules Bianchi? 36

minutes remaining. Two Mercedes, two Ferraris and then Magnusson is still

ahead of Button. 10th place, the Lotus of Romain Grosjean. You can

get in touch with us. We have a few more of your questions and

observations. David bash away from the action, what is your best

Canadian Grand Prix? Mine is the one you mention, when Pablo Montoya was

black flagged. This wasn't the best circuit for the Toyota. We struggled

with the mechanical grip, we did not get round the corners very well. The

thing about it, I am trying to think of the best race. This has produced

a lot of good races. We have just seen Kobayashi, bouncing across.

Grosjean aborted the corner early. One of the things about here is pole

position is not the defining fact as to whether you win this race or not.

Some cars have won it from further back than the third rail on the

grid. There have been some memorable ones as we look at a replay from

Kobayashi. And very memorable one was Nigel Mansell when he switched

the Williams. Raikkonen spinning around. Not getting any rear grip

with Ferrari. Spinning round on the exit. It is unusual? It is. Not many

times you see people spinning coming out of a corner. Not often it is

when you hit the throttle. No harm done, maybe a little flat spot on

the tyre. Another memorable Grand Prix was the one and only victory of

Laci. A driver with so much promise and sign the contract to race for

Williams but Ferrari came and offered

Williams but Ferrari came and Sicilian he had to drive a Ferrari.

Bought himself out of his contract. Ferrari gave Williams Formula One

car and some money as well. He walked away, and it became the

dominant carpal Nigel Mansell. I think that was in 1995. Skill in the

decision making process and skill in the cup with did not tie up with

that one. Some drivers have had tremendous amount of talent behind

the wheel but not in their decision-making. Henry Kelsall says,

what do you think has been the main reason Kimi Raikkonen has struggled

compared to Fernando Alonso? Is it a combination of things? It is always

a combination but there is one factor I believe has caused him to

struggle more and that is the brakes. It is the braking area. It

is something he is very much driver response, feed back and feel. The

break by wire systems is more digital and their is less feed back

into the foot of the driver. It is an area where Fernando Alonso has a

better balance on the way up to the apex. Kimi Raikkonen has struggled.

Looking this morning, he looked to be on and off, it wasn't aggressive

and smooth. It was like he was sitting on top of the car and not

interact ring with it in the way that he really needs to. In the last

couple of races he has been more competitive. But so far you have a

lawn are sitting in fourth. You have got to drop down a little bit,

Raikkonen is now in third. Approaching the hour mark in

Montreal. We were mentioning Jules Bianchi had only done three laps in

the Marussia. Bianchi had only done three laps in

hero the Marussia last time out. Jenny, can you tell us why? No more

action the Bianchi. Just three laps in this session. 15 in the last. He

ran into a wall of champions and needed a new gearbox. That could be

in indicator as to what the problem is. The team are a little bit cagey

about it but say it is a Ferrari issue and Y will not be getting back

in the car. -- Bianchi. Max Chilton is popping in and just a second as

well. A forlorn looking Jules Bianchi. That is sport for years.

The first rush of getting Marussia's points in Monaco, then

losing so much track time in Montreal. It sounds like a power

related problem, a Ferrari problem in the back of that Marussia. Lewis

Hamilton seeking to regain the lead of the World Championship. He says

he is not bothered about that at the moment, he just wants to be the top

of the championship in the last round in Abu Dhabi. He wants to

recapture the momentum, he was on a roll. For consecutive wins going

into Monaco. Nico Rosberg knew he had to bring that went to an end and

he did it? Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton struggling a little bit

just to get that edge. He thought he might have been able

to do it in qualifying, we would never know now. Certainly in the

race was Burke at the control. It is a difficult battle for the two of

them. If you take every single session, the difference between Nico

Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton has been an average of just over one tenth of

a second per lap. They are so tightly matched, so much faster than

anybody else. Immediately although talking about is what is my

team-mates doing, how was mighty me getting on. There is no focus on any

other car in the whole grid. This normally should be a circuit that

favours Lewis Hamilton little bit more. He does have to make sure he

gets it nailed in qualifying tomorrow, and that will allow him to

have the best chance of getting into the first corner first in control.

Adrian Sutil is doing his wrong or at the moment on the soft tyre. 19

laps is the age of the set of tyres, although this particular stint isn't

a 19 lap stint he has used them before. He had problems on his

super-soft tyre, he came across Magnussen right here in the final

chicane, as well as a little lock-up earlier in the lap. He is doing his

long runs on that. The two Mercedes cars of lapping very consistently.

That looks like quite a pace they are setting. Perras -- Perras is

lapping well. -- Sergio Perez. The last of the late breakers into

the hairpin, a little bit too late. The problem that you can quite

easily say yes he should break earlier, which in some respects you

should do, you have got to know whether limit of your car is, the

limit the grid. Struggling so much to build the tyre temperature. It is

like a knife edge. You either have it or you don't stop the difference

between it is such a marginal amount. So tricky, limited downforce

and grip. Daniel Ricciardo's lap times, he is running on the

super-soft tyre, the settee used to set his simulation lap. He is a

second slower than the Mercedes Hamilton. Very consistent pace from

Hamilton. Rosberg has upped the ante a little bit. He has increased his

pace a little bit. He is into 1:19s, looks like a crushing

performance was again from the Mercedes team. They tend to

replicate the same kind of pattern, but we don't know the exact fuel

load. You have got to Satan says have been

quick in every session, in every Grand Prix this year, it is unlikely

they are going to be slow in this one. You can see just a little bit

of a dark line on these left rear tyres, loading the tyrant, you see

the darker section which is about four or five inches wide in the

centre. That is when the tyre is losing its grip. That was on the

soft tyre. The harder of the two possibilities this weekend. That

will gain a little bit as the race circuit develops grip. It is not an

ideal situation. That tyre has only done 15 maps. According to our data.

-- 15 laps. You have some in a long hairpin

bends, if you look at it out of here, turn to, along, loaded corner.

Three times when the rear left is taking a hell of a hit. That is a

problem for the tyre, one of the areas the Red Bull, the Mercedes and

the Ferrari cars they have been pretty good at through the course of

the session. Good crowd here for the Friday,

looking down, enjoying us, it is not reined in the session. A bit of

sunshine in the air. Blue sky around will mean look at the thermal image

camera of great Jon. -- wrote Jon. Plenty of people have gone off

there. You can see the tyre is lighting up like a Christmas tree.

You can see what Alan was talking about, the leading on the outside

tyre taking that extra load when you exit the corners. Hamilton,

Rosberg. One and two at the moment, Raikkonen third, Alonso, Master,

Bottas, the top six. Not too many people doing long runs. Some

starting to go out and do it now. Consistent lap times from Hamilton.

One: 19.1 from Rosberg. A little bit less consistent from him.

One: 19.1 from Rosberg. A little bit Ricciardo, last lap, just picking up

his pace. We will study this after the session and see who looks in

good shape for the race. Yet to see what the Force Indias country.

-- can do. Williams is going strong, but its characteristic has gone

extremely well here in Monza. Here we haven't had the results will stop

there are forms and results haven't quite linked up. They are not quite

up to where I expect them to be full stop-it expect him to be much faster

tomorrow .

Sebastian Vettel comes down, slows down to just over 90 mph full top

flicks the company first. Three the final chicane, gives the Wall of

Champions wide berth about six inches. Goes through in the sixth

fastest time. The fastest he has managed in all three sectors. Is

that all Red Bull have got this weekend? Beaten by the two Ferrari

cars under Williams for. Christian Horner told us this morning he

thought fifth-place would be what they might aspire to. They won this

Grand Prix last year. We were just saying so far Force India have been

keeping their powder dry, 13th and 14th for Hulkenberg and Sergio

Perez. Keeping their powder dry is not

exactly how I would rate it. Hulkenberg has been out of the car

for the last 15 minutes. There is Hulkenberg has been out of the car

issue at the back of the car. Initially I thought is there a

terminal power unit problem last remark they have just tried to fire

the Kara. It would suggest they think they have found a solution.

Hulkenberg has come back into the garage. Expect to see him out

shortly. Can we have a look at the front wings at the front of the car?

There are three of them, they are 80 grand each, that is about the

average house price in the UK you are looking up there. Those three

wings put together. If we come this way, it is interesting to compare

the Sauber friend went and the Force India front wing. Just to see how

much more intricate Force India front wing is. You have got these

three turning veins, a lot more going on on the Force India front

wing than the Sauber friend went which is more basic. -- Sauber front

wing. Good luck getting a mortgage to buy those. 240 ground for three

front wings. They can get taken off in an instant at the start line.

A replay of Nico Rosberg locking up the right front. He aborted and took

down the escape route. Lewis Hamilton coming down to the last

chicane, this is where they were very good this morning. They may

come through that, the car absorbed it, the wheels slipped up. They can

get straight back onto the throttle.

Hamilton has done a laps on the set of tyres, Sebastian Vettel comes

through. Third fastest for him. Second fly on lap -- flying lap on

the super-soft tyre. That was a sharp lap from the reigning

champion. The defending Canadian Grand Prix winner. Sebastian Vettel

Grossberg. RADIO: we need to do a better job, stage two.

That is Sergio Perez being told he needs to do a better job on fuel

saving, stage two, lift and coastal top left earlier and coast a bit

more, save a bit more fuel. Around here you can do that with not

as big a time loss as may be other circuits, reduced aerodynamics, the

carp floats through a bit better. When you are coming up to the next

one, you can lift off 150 metres and lose just a little bit. The gain on

the fuel is significant. That is something they will be coaching the

drivers through the course of the session, doing the long runs in

operation for Sunday afternoon. This circuit is very heavy on fuel. It

will be quite critical. There will be a lot of discussions on the radio

on Sunday about better fuel mileage. In the days of the V8 engines around

here they used EU 's 2.38 kilos of fuel per lap -- they used to use.

30% has been taken away, now it is 1.43 kilos per lap. That is what you

need with these hybrid turbo cars. You can see the saving in terms of

the fuel economy of these cars in comparison thanks to this

the fuel economy of these cars in improved energy recovery system

which gives 160 horsepower back into the system harvested from breaking

and teach energy from the turbo. -- heat energy for stop the maths don't

add up so it will be quite tight with 100 kilos to do the race

without having to do so it will be quite tight with 100 kilos to do the

race without having to decent fuel saving.

You have to decent fuel saving. -- do some. The rear tyres again, the

left rear tyre got that dark band. The left rear, we will see it on the

way out of the corner, right in the middle, that dark band whether

graining is happening. When you get that, you have got little grip.

Let's get down to the pits. You had the pleasure of going out

this morning, the first time, in the Castle. You have done a lot of work

with the team so far. Tell us what is your main observation of the 2014

car. The biggest difference is the breaking. That is what surprised me

for I went into the session not knowing what to expect, a simulator

can only do so much. There were some things that caught me off guard and

some things were better than expected, but the one big thing that

took getting used to was the breaking. Very different, a break by

wire system for stop powder that translate to a driver, what you feel

is different? You don't have control on the rear brakes, so the technique

that has been ingrained has to go out the window a little bit.

that has been ingrained has to go makes things a little bit difficult,

a hard habit to break. At the end of the day, after my 25 laps I felt I

was getting on top of it. Disappointing for me to have the

other cargo quicker, but at the end of the day it was successful. Talk

to me about how much you are having to do. You have to do a lot more in

one aspect, but others you aren't. You're changing the carp a lot but

on the actual lap you are trying to get the lap time out of the car, you

are not doing anything, you are doing less than you are used to

because the KERS isn't all that it now. -- is alter Matic now. -- is

automatic now. What other like ammo? This circuit doesn't get used very

often. Very slippery this morning, tyre warm up was a big issue. That

will be a feature of the weekend. Similar to a track like Monica, it

might as well be a straight circuit was in every session is getting

exponentially better for stop hopefully tyre warm up issues will

not be as bad as the weekend goes on. Kobayashi is out at the moment

but Marcus Ericsson added transmission problem, he doesn't get

any running. What is the mood like in the team, a pretty rough race

last time with Marussia managing to get two points, what does it feel

like knitting? -- what does it feel like in the team? Identikit will

hurt them too much. Obviously Sunday night in Monaco everybody was

disappointed. Everybody is as motivated as they have

disappointed. Everybody is as pushing forward and do the best they

can to be in the right position and capitalise if the opportunity

presents itself again. The development driver for

Caterham. He is a big guy, a tall driver, the same mould as Mark

Webber and Nico Hulkenberg. A lot of promise. We will see if he gets a

chance to race a Formula One car rather than just testing practice.

Romans grow from, a second and a half of the pace of Mercedes who

have been super consistent stop Lewis Hamilton has done 14 laps on

the set of tyres. He is still lapping at a great pace. Rosberg is

even quicker. lapping at a great pace. Rosberg is

even He has done 15 laps. Certainly no problems with the Mercedes tuning

up their tyres. Getting the temperatures into the tyre, keeping

their performance going for a long. Not looking bad at all. You have hit

the nail on the head. They are working the tyre in the correct

working window. The others are struggling to do that. The key will

be able to keep the rear tyre. This year they never seem to have a

problem with it. The tyres have got a little bit harder, which has

helped. It is rush hour in Montreal. Not out on the streets, it

is only 3:15pm in the afternoon on Friday. I am talking about on the

track. We have all but four cars out on the circuit will stop Vettel is

in the pits, Daniil Kvyat is in trouble, as we heard before and has

the floor off his car. There is a problem with Jules Bianchi and the

power unit. He has only done three laps. Ericsson stopped on the

circuit in the caterer about half an hour into this session and losing

circuit in the caterer about half an lot of track time. An expensive

mistake for the young Swedish driver will stop the sun is now out. The

grey clouds that were hanging over us at the beginning have finally

gone. A few in the distance but it is a beautiful sunny afternoon in

Montreal and gives a flavour of the kind of

is a beautiful sunny afternoon in Montreal and gives a flavour of the

kind of colour we will have over the weekend. The forecast for tomorrow

and Sunday is temperatures are in the high 20s and it will be set for

a good-looking spectacle with a sunny Vista and the track surrounded

by water here in Montreal. Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Vettel in the top

three. I don't wink we will see anybody else setting any quicker

times in terms of simulations, but we are looking at the race pace.

Williams isn't looking too bad in the hands of Felipe Massa. One of

the Lotus cars has dragged a lot of dirt onto the track? He lost the

rear coming into the first apex. Grosjean went across. It is a tea

tray that is underneath the driver. It is like a shovel when you are

going across the grass. You will see this commonly tomorrow morning and

possibly into qualifying as well. People will have little laughs and

lose the rear grip and decide to abort the corner. A conversation

going on with Daniil Kvyat who is now in his team uniform talking to

the engineers. Joining us from the Red Bull pit wall is a team

principal, Christian Horner. Good afternoon. A good run for Sebastian

Vettel. We saw on board at the end of the lap, Parenti of position and

energy at the steering wheel, you must be pleased? It was very good.

Working on setup and put a decent run together. The pace of the

Mercedes looks worrying. But I guess it is no surprise to you, but they

look strong on the single lap and the long runs? It looks a bit

depressing! But it is supposed to get warmer on Sunday, compared to

today so it will probably have an influence. What we are seeing now

might not be relevant to Sunday. How is the tyre degradation on the

super-soft tyre? It is not too bad. It is about Alan 's. It is about

getting a reasonable balance from the outside and it will have a

reasonable longevity. It depends how sensitive to temperature it will be

on Sunday. It is about getting the tyres into that window which

Mercedes seem to do. Are you finding it easy to get into the window on

your car? We are probably running a lot less downforce from Mercedes so

it is hard to generate the temperature. Hopefully as the

temperature comes up on the track it should let helpers in the weekend.

We saw in Monaco the two Mercedes drivers having a battle, what is the

atmosphere like between your two? Ricciardo is giving Vettel a bit of

a challenge? It is a bit of a challenge. They get on well, are of

a similar age. There is rivalry on track, but it is a healthy rivalry

and does not spill over to ask track. They are both focused on

making the cargo quicker. The quicker you go, the more fuel you

use, how will that run-out are you guys on Sunday at noon with a 100

kilograms limit? We should be OK, it is about strategically plotting your

way through. There are a few pace cars here as well. That then

obviously takes any pressure off fuel. Do you expect one to be on

Sunday, is that in your mind when you are doing your programming? It

depends how risky you want to go. No risk, no fun. How risky are you

going to be? You should know by now, we love risk. You have nothing to

lose. Renault said they would give you 100% of the power finally, is

that what is coming through and making a difference? I am not sure,

we have the same amount of power we had last week. We are looking

forward to 100% at the weekend. From what you are seeing so far, the race

on Sunday, is two stop going to be faster? It is difficult to call at

the moment, it will depend on the weather. If it is hot, that could

swing it towards two stop. Somebody will try to make a one stop working

for them. There is always the safety car here at Montreal. Thanks your

time. Hamilton from Nico Rosberg will stop Ricciardo is in 12th.

It has been two x two team order apart from Vettel and Raikkonen.

Once again, keeping company with the big boys in the top ten in the Toro

Rosso. If we go down to the other end, we have Maldonado, whereas,

Sutil on 79 and had to raise. Marussia is a bit closer again to

the Marussia. Hamilton is now on a set of soft tyres. Having done a few

laps on the super-soft. Christian Horner was saying a slightly

depressing long run pace from Mercedes. I don't think anybody

thought Mercedes with come here and do anything else would drive off

into the distance. A betting man would look at the record here of

Hamilton with three wins and three pole positions. You put your hard

earned cash on the man from Stevenage to do it this weekend. One

of the reasons why Hamilton wanted to very behold disgruntlement with

Nico Rosberg by putting out a tweet, saying he reached out on the phone

to Nico Rosberg, called him up, they are friends again. And oversteer

problem to Jenson Button in the McLaren. Do you buy that story?

Hamilton wants to go into this weekend and not think about Nico

Rosberg, wants to drive his fastest race. Do you buy the thing they have

buried the hatchet? There are two parts to this. Maldonado has just

locked up big style. One part is, do I buy the fact Hamilton needs and

wants to put Monaco behind him? Yes, he needs to clear his head, come to

this grand prix. He has got to get back on track. Do I buy they are

friends? No, I don't. They live close to each other, they work in

the same environment. But Nico Rosberg said it best. Where is my

team-mate, was his radio call early on. Where can I improve. It is not

very cordial. Nico Rosberg said their relationship is more

difficult. There has to be. You cannot go through these situations

without there being a little bit of friction. There has to be a

separation of that friendship, the mental separation that you would

treat your team-mate, the other side of the garage exactly the way you

would do as any other person on the grid. It is built in. You cannot

have it any other way. One of them is almost certainly going to be the

Formula One world Champion. Will it be Hamilton of the second time or

Nico Rosberg for the first time. I am sure later in life, just in

earlier in life, their friendship will be strong and they will be able

to laugh about this time over a glass of brandy around the

fireplace. There is no time for friendship at the moment between

them. They stand in each other's way. Remember Ayrton Senna and Alan

Frost, they ended up, once Alan Frost had retired, baby came friends

and spoke regularly in the weeks and months or Ayrton Senna's death in

1994. Into the closing stages then. Just under three minutes remaining.

This has revealed the same picture we expected. Mercedes quickest on a

single lap. Hamilton faster than Sebastian Vettel in the qualifying

simulations. Mercedes very strong on the long runs with strong pace and

consistent pace. Looking like they are getting these super-soft tyres

to last where other teams seem to be struggling. Changes and upgrades on

the Ferrari have made a difference. They might be surprised to see

Vettel in front of them after the qualifying simulations. The two

Williams, sixth and seventh. McLaren is a and ninth. We have not seen the

best of Force India, 13th and 14th, Hulkenberg and Perez. They should be

a contender for a top three grid start. They have done well here in

the past in terms of speed. I expect them to be sick that the can leave

further up. They will have to be a them to be sick that the can leave

with Williams. It is where they look in terms of the long runs, they are

pretty quick. Massa is going round in a 19.81. It is not as used as

some of the other people about him, but it is still quick. Those

Mercedes have put in the homework this afternoon. Lewis Hamilton is

competing -- completing his 42nd lap. Has spent almost no time in the

pits and has done a long run on the super-soft. Now he is on the soft

and dangling in the laps one after the other. He has got a good sense

of what the race is going to be like for him? He is trying to follow the

track evolution with the tyre. It is putting rubber down and the tyre

will have an easier time. They are following the track progression is

that it will evolve today and tomorrow. We have a Toro Rosso down

the escape road. The same escape road Jean-Eric Vergne went down. He

is reversing onto the racing line. Now onto the breaking point. You can

see the tyre on turning right. He managed to get going. That is what

Ericsson could not do earlier on. Neatly done from Jean Eric Berne.

Counting down and the chequered flag comes out at the end of this free

practice session. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, one on two. Sebastian

Vettel, second flying lap on the super-soft tyre. He is in third.

Raikkonen ahead of Alonso. Williams doing well in sixth and seventh,

Massa ahead of Bottas. Riccardo rounding up the top 12. Alan, what

are your thoughts? The Mercedes are in a strong position. Ferrari are

quicker, their upgrades have helped. Williams are looking strong, expect

Force India to leapfrog up there as well tomorrow. The temperature is

set to be hotter. 21 degrees this up on in. Beautiful sunshine

set to be hotter. 21 degrees this up on in. Beautiful here in Montreal.

We have seen lots of action. Lewis Hamilton has been doing his

homework. He knows what lies ahead of him this weekend in qualifying.

He sets the fastest time here this afternoon 1.16 point 118. Sends out

a clear message to the rest of the Formula One paddock. Come and get

me. Another Mercedes one, two. Lewis Hamilton will be delighted as he

takes momentum into Saturday. He is so strong here. It is his team-mate,

friend, rival, Nico Rosberg who leads the championship will stop we

live tomorrow. BBC Two for the final one hour of practice before the car

is going to qualifying. Q2 is live on BBC One at five p.m.. Thanks for

watching. Goodbye. CAR HORN BLARES

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