Montreal, 8 June

The first practice session took place this morning for the 44th Canadian Grand Prix, the seventh round of the Formula 1 World Championship, with the race taking place this Sunday at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit. Quickest at the end of the session was Lewis Hamilton (1.15.564) in the McLaren, followed by Sebastian Vettel (1.15.682) in the Red Bull and Nico Rosberg (1.15.782) in the Mercedes. Fernando Alonso was fourth for Ferrari in a time of 1.15.842, while in the other F2012, Felipe Massa posted the twelfth fastest time in 1.16.619. The session was stopped for around fifteen minutes when Heikki Kovalainen crashed the Caterham in a session that also featured several appearances by famous Canadian fauna. Scuderia Ferrari had a busy programme, testing updates brought here for the Canadian event: Alonso and Massa ran two different exhaust configurations and used one set of Soft tyres each. In the second half, Felipe worked solely on aero measurements, while both men did some practice starts prior to the end of the session.