Jordan's Timo Glock would be the first car out onto the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, followed by the Minardi of Gimmi Bruni. With the mixture of high speed straights and very slow corners this circuit places a heavy burden on the cars braking.

The Minardi of Bas Lenders would go off the circuit early in the session. other drivers including Anthony Davidson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ralf Schumacher, Jarno Trulli, David Coulthard and Fernando Alonso would all quickly complete their installation laps. Davidson would pull into the pits just prior to starting what would have been a quick lap.

Glock would set the first lap time, a 1m:21.870, but he would be quickly passed by Toyota's Ricardo Zonta. The Brazilian would set a time of 1m:17.620. Davidson and team-mate Jenson Button would take to the track. Davidson would set a time of 1m:18.834 to move into second, 1.2 seconds behind Zonta. But Anthony would put in a very quick lap, a 1m:16.217, to go fastest. With twenty minutes passed only five cars have set a time.

Michael Schumacher would come out of his garage. Michael would quickly move into second with a 1m:16.641. Just as quickly he would move to the top of the times with a 1m:15.014 with Davidson some 1.2 seconds behind. Michael was able to very easily set this very fast times. WilliamsF1's Juan Pablo Montoya would move into third with a 1m:16.539, but this was 1.5 seconds off the quickest time. Juan Pablo would be joined by Ralf who would go second fastest with a 1m:15.948. Juan Pablo would improve with a 1m:16.029. The FW26 seemed to not be taking the kerbs well.

Jaguar's Christian Klein would set a time of 1m:19.760 as he tries to learn what is a new circuit for him. Toyota's Cristiano Da Matta, Renault's Jarno Trulli and Rubens Barrichello would take to the track. Da Matta would move up to fifth position with a 1m:17.115, while Rubens would move in to second with a 1m:15.918 but Trulli would snatch this away from him moments later with a 1m:15.428.

Toyota's Olivier Panis would go fifth fastest while team-mate da Matta had dropped to tenth. But Michael again would put out an amazing lap with a time of 1m:14.158 to be 1.2 seconds ahead of second placed Trulli. But Trulli would go down the order one place when Zonta would set a time good enough for second, a 1m:14.952. With Davidson moving into fourth Ralf and Juan Pablo were now fifth and seventh. Ralf was a massive 1.841 seconds behind his brother Michael.

Michael would again lower his time with a lap of 1m:14.077. Is anyone going to get near him this weekend? Rubens would improve to go fifth with a 1m:15.514. Rubens would just as quickly set a time of 1m:14.418 to be second. The Ferrari team certainly have found their ideal setup for this circuit such is their superiority. Button would move into sixth. Rubens would have the fastest car with a top speed of 341kph. Juan Pablo and Ralf were 337 and 336 kph respectively. Gone are the days when BMW could boast about the power of the V10 engine as other engines certainly must be producing similar figures.

With ten minutes left in the session Renault's Fernando Alonso would be sixth with a time of 1m:15.606. Davidson would continue to impress with a time of 1m:14.519 to be third. The McLaren's of Raikkonen and Coulthard were down in thirteenth and fifteenth. Michael would continue to show his overwhelming superiority by again lowering his time to a 1m:14.062, quickly followed by a 1m:14.013. Rubens would also set a quicker time, a lap of 1m:14.291.

Juan Pablo was able to set a time of 1m:15.298 to move just ahead of team-mate Ralf, but the WilliamsF1 pair were down in eighth and ninth positions. With the session closed the results indicate that this may again be a Ferrari weekend.