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Canadian GP: Leclerc quickest in FP2 as Hamilton crashes
Charles Leclerc led a Ferrari one-two in second Canadian Grand Prix practice in Montreal, while Formula 1 world championship leader Lewis Hamilton crashed.
Matt Beer
Edited: Jun 7, 2019, 7:48 PM
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Morning pacesetter Hamilton had been quickest using medium tyres during the early runs, but when he changed to softs he lost the rear of his car mid-way through the Turn 8/9 chicane.
The Mercedes slewed sideways and smacked the wall with its right rear wheel, leaving Hamilton limping back to the pits with a puncture.
That was only part of the damage, and Hamilton missed the rest of the session as Mercedes set to work on replacing the rear end of his car.
The champion team had been nearly a second clear of its rivals in the morning, but Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas was outpaced by both Ferraris in the afternoon soft tyre runs.
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Ferrari had gone out earlier than Mercedes for its opening laps, with Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel swapping the top spot on mediums before the Mercedes again came through nearly a second quicker.
Bottas was using hard tyres at that point, and was within three tenths of a second of Hamilton's medium tyre pace initially before improving to just 0.142s behind.
Though the Ferraris closed to just under seven tenths away from Hamilton on mediums, the session seemed set to be a repeat of the earlier Mercedes domination.
Then just as Hamilton crashed, Bottas's 1m12.311s soft-tyre effort was beaten by first a 1m12.251s from Vettel and then a 1m12.177s from Leclerc.
That left a top three covered by just 0.134s and headed by two Ferraris.
Max Verstappen had used hards to get between the Mercedes and the Ferraris as the early runs finished, but his soft tyre effort was spoiled when he came upon Red Bull teammate Pierre Gasly moving slowly at the final chicane.
Verstappen understeered wide and slapped the wall. Although he managed to get back to the pits, his session was effectively over and he ended up 13th - only rejoining for a brief run at the end of the day.
With Hamilton and Verstappen sidelined, and Gasly only going fast enough for 12th, McLaren found itself in fourth place with Carlos Sainz - who lapped just 0.376s off the pace.
Kevin Magnussen put Haas into the top five in fifth, with Hamilton's medium tyre time holding up for sixth place.
A Racing Point/Renault quartet completed the top 10 - Sergio Perez leading Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg and Lance Stroll.
Home favourite Stroll and Romain Grosjean will be investigated after the session for a late incident in which Stroll banged wheels with the Haas as he passed it into the final chicane.
Grosjean was 12 places adrift of teammate Magnussen in 17th, but a little under seven tenths of a second slower.
Antonio Giovinazzi missed almost an hour of the session while Alfa Romeo carried out a precautionary gearbox change following his practice one crash.
He took 18th place once on track, two positions behind teammate Kimi Raikkonen.
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 39 1'12.177 2
Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 38 1'12.251 0.074 3
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 46 1'12.311 0.134 4
Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren 45 1'12.553 0.376 5
Kevin Magnussen Haas 41 1'12.935 0.758 6
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 8 1'12.938 0.761 7
Sergio Perez Racing Point 39 1'13.003 0.826 8
Daniel Ricciardo Renault 40 1'13.016 0.839 9
Nico Hulkenberg Renault 42 1'13.168 0.991 10
Lance Stroll Racing Point 37 1'13.171 0.994 11
Lando Norris McLaren 38 1'13.249 1.072 12
Pierre Gasly Red Bull 38 1'13.345 1.168 13
Max Verstappen Red Bull 22 1'13.388 1.211 14
Alex Albon Toro Rosso 45 1'13.436 1.259 15
Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 40 1'13.521 1.344 16
Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo 41 1'13.542 1.365 17
Romain Grosjean Haas 39 1'13.598 1.421 18
Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo 16 1'14.870 2.693 19
George Russell Williams 36 1'15.036 2.859 20
Robert Kubica Williams 44 1'15.287 3.110 View full results
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