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The first 2013 Formula 1 race taking place in the Americas, 4.361-kilometer Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Montreal's Île Notre-Dame is hosting the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend. Sunday's race will be the 50th Canadian Grand Prix held and the 34th visit for Formula 1 to the track named after a famous Canadian driver. Gilles Villeneuve's career was best remembered for his stint on the Ferrari team where he won all six of his grand prix races. The inaugural Canadian Grand Prix held on Île Notre-Dame in 1978 was one of those victories driving a red Ferrari. Nearly 35 years since that feat, practice for the 2013 race has a modern Ferrari organization looking good heading into qualifying and the main event.
In what turned out to be the fastest of the two Friday practices, the afternoon session saw Fernando Alonso post the quickest time on the day. On Pirelli supersoft tires, Alonso piloted his Ferrari F138 around Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 1 minute, 14.818 seconds. The fastest time for the Spaniard was a mere 12/100ths of a second better than the effort of the Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton. Roughly a quarter of a second off the fastest lap of Hamilton was Romain Grosjean's effort in a Lotus-Renault.
Teams and drivers posted their fastest times in the second practice largely due to morning showers that dampened the Montreal race course. Plagued by a wet track, the first practice took place on intermediate treaded Pirelli tires. Despite posting a rather short 10-lap effort through the Friday morning session, Paul di Resta and the Force India team prevailed as the fastest under wet conditions. The 1 minute, 21.020 second time for di Resta was a far cry from the afternoon times posted later in the day. Alonso was fourth fastest in the wetter morning practice for Ferrari. In the afternoon, Paul di Resta's Force India-Mercedes could only muster a 13th quickest time.
A surprise in both practice sessions was the lack of performance from the constructors' championship leading Red Bull Racing squad. Red Bull-Renault race cars driven by Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber had been trailing in the lower half of the top 10 throughout Friday until Mark Webber posted a 1 minute, 15.212 second lap time in the second practice. Ninth fastest in the morning session and seventh-place on the afternoon time chart, Sebastian Vettel reported the day as "tricky".
With Friday presenting drivers and teams one practice in the wet and on a dry circuit, the mix of weather is expected to influence the remainder of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. There's a probability for rain during Saturday afternoon's qualifying and the 70-lap race on Sunday.
2013 Formula 1
Canadian Grand Prix
Friday Practice Session #2
Pos # | Car # | Driver | Team | Engine |
1 | 3 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | Ferrari |
2 | 10 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes AMG | Mercedes-Benz |
3 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | Renault |
4 | 2 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | Renault |
5 | 9 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes AMG | Mercedes-Benz |
6 | 4 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | Ferrari |
7 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | Renault |
8 | 15 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | Mercedes-Benz |
9 | 5 | Jenson Button | McLaren | Mercedes-Benz |
10 | 19 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia Toro Rosso | Ferrari |
11 | 7 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus | Renault |
12 | 6 | Sergio Perez | McLaren | Mercedes-Benz |
13 | 14 | Paul di Resta | Force India | Mercedes-Benz |
14 | 16 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams F1 | Renault |
15 | 18 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Scuderia Toro Rosso | Ferrari |
16 | 17 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams F1 | Renault |
17 | 12 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber | Ferrari |
18 | 11 | Nico Hulkenberg | Sauber | Ferrari |
19 | 22 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | Cosworth |
20 | 20 | Charles Pic | Caterham | Renault |
21 | 23 | Max Chilton | Marussia | Cosworth |
22 | 21 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | Renault |
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