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The start of the
opening hour & a half practice session for the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix
would see a rush of drivers take to the circuit to complete their
installation lap. For the AT&T Williams team Kazuki Nakajima would replace
Nico Rosberg. With ten minutes of the session run Alex had yet to take
to the track. Alex was joined by both Ferrari's. Kazuki would set the first
time of the session, a 1m:25.544. Kazuki would improve his times ending with
a 1m:21.131. In second was Scott Speed, 1m:21.873, followed by Sato and
Trulli.
 Ralf Schumacher would go fastest with a 1m:20.691. The second Torro Ross of
Liuzzi was slowest with a 1m:22.757. Trulli would join Ralf at the top,
moving into second with a 1m:21.030. Kazuki had pitted while Alex had yet to
make an appearance with an hour and five minutes left in the session. Liuzzi
would improve with a 1m:21.430 to move ahead of Speed and into fifth. Sato
was now second, 1m:21.020, but Trulli would take this place off the Honda
driver. Trulli would improve moving into the 1m:19 second, 1m:19.697, but
Ralf would go faster, 1m:19.603. Liuzzi was now third, 1m:20.611. Kazuki was
now slowest of the six who had set a time.
Alex would take to the track for the first time, joined by Button and
Davidson. Ralf would improve with a 1m:19.577. Button's first timed lap was
a 1m:22.162 while Davidson set a time of 1m:22.618. They were in seventh and
eighth. Speed was now third, 1m:20.418. Raikkonen and Kazuki were both out
on the circuit. Button was now in fifth, 1m:20.882. Alex was in ninth with a
slow lap of 1m:26.664. Kazuki was in seventh, 1m:21.131. Barrichello would
join Button out on the track. Raikkonen's first timed lap was a 1m:20.323,
which would see him third. Button was now fourth, 1m:20.392. Team-mate
Barrichello was slowest behind Alex who had improved his time with a
1m:21.192. Raikkonen would put in a really quick lap, 1m:18.846, to go fastest by 0.4 seconds from Ralf.
Heidfeld, Fisichella, and Massa had all left the pit lane. Kimi would
improve with a 1m:18.136, to now be fastest by a massive 1.182 seconds.
Massa's first alp would see him in second, 1m:19.295. Kazuki and Alex were
in ninth and tenth, 1m:20.697 and 1m:20.839. But Heidfeld would split the
Williams drivers moving into tenth, 1m:20.834. Both Spyker drivers were out
on the circuit, joined by Coulthard. Massa would improve his time with a 1m:18.407 but remained second
fastest. Fisichella was in sixth, 1m:20.377. Both Alex and Kazuki had
pitted. They were in eleventh and twelfth. Kimi would pit while Fisichella
improved to be fourth, 1m:19.420.
Heidfeld would move ahead of the Italian and into third, 1m:19.264. With
just under fifty minutes remaining the order was Raikkonen from Massa,
Heidfeld, Schumacher, Fisichella, Trulli, Button, Speed, Liuzzi, and in
tenth Davidson. Coulthard would move into seventh, 1m:20.370. Hamilton was
out on the track but team-mate Alonso was still in his pit. Hamilton was down in
sixteenth with a 1m:21.633 but he would quickly move to the top of the times
with a 1m:19.104 which would see him in third. Kazuki and Alex were in
fourteenth and fifteenth. Hamilton would improve with a 1m:18.413 but
remained in third.
But Hamilton's next lap would see him fastest with a 1m:18.055. The only
time drivers to set a time were Kubica and Alonso. Webber was now in ninth,
1m:19.890. Most of the front runners had pitted. Button was in eighth,
1m:19.700, but Weber would take this spot, 1m:19.699. It was reported that
Kubica had a small fire on his BMW Sauber. Webber was now seventh,
1m:19.673. Kovalainen was in eleventh followed by Barrichello. Both Kazuki
and Alex were back out on the circuit. Alex was now sixteenth, 1m:20.579,
with forty minutes left in the session. He would improve again to be
thirteenth, 1m:20.285, but was still 2.2 seconds slower than the quickest
time. There was only a handful of drivers circulating around the track.
Trulli was in sixth, 1m:19.333. Team-mate Ralf was in fifth. Alonso was to
finally make an appearance. Both Alex and Kazuki had pitted while Alonso
moved into ninth on his first lap, 1m:19.671. But his next lap would see him
move into second, 1m:18.129, to be just 0.074 behind Hamilton. Heidfeld had
returned to the track, while Ralf continued a longer run. Alonso would
improve slightly with a 1m:18.096 to now be just 0.041 behind Hamilton. There was thirty minutes
left in the session. But Fernando would put in a flyer to move ahead of his
team-mate with a 1m:17.987. Raikkonen was back out on the circuit. He was
joined by several other drivers including Barrichello, Button, Kovalainen,
and Davidson.
Massa was also back out as Ralf finally pitted. Alex was currently in
fourteenth and Kazuki eighteenth. Alonso would improve his time with a
1m:17.759 prior to pitting, joined by Heidfeld. Davidson would move ahead of
Alex, 1m:20.079. Davidson would improve to now be in tenth, 1m:19.632.
Hamilton would leave the pit lane, joined by Kazuki. Coulthard would have a
moment at Turn one taking to the grass but would continue. Most drivers were on the harder of the two
Bridgestone tyres. Kimi would pit, joined by Massa. They were still third
and fourth. Massa would quickly return to the circuit. Hamilton would
improve his time with a 1m:17.967, but remained in second. Kazuki would also
improve to move ahead of Alex with a 1m:20.211, to be fifteenth fastest.
Alex was back out on the circuit as Kazuki pitted.
Both Williams drivers wee struggling to show any signs of speed from their
FW29's, but it was early days. Both Toyota's were out on the track with Ralf
sixth and Trulli seventh. Alonso and Raikkonen would return to the track as
Hamilton pitted. Alex would improve to be in fifteenth, 1m:20.162. He
would pit leaving just a handful of drivers out on the circuit. Fisichella
would improve to be fifth, 1m:18.639. Massa was also back out on the circuit
with six minutes remaining. Kazuki was also back out. The second Renault of
Kovalainen was now seventh, 1m:19.309. Hamilton was back out seeing all top
eight drivers out on the circuit. Speed was now seventh, 1m:19.234. Both
Alex and Kazuki weer back out for their final laps.
Kazuki was now in fifteenth, 1m:19.807, while Alex was on a quick lap.
Several drivers were on the super soft tyre. Kubica had yet to set a time.
Alex's lap would see him move into the top ten with a 1m:19.189. Alex's time
was set on the softer tyre. Kazuki was in thirteenth, 1m:19.273. As other
drivers improve Alex would drop to thirteenth and Kazuki sixteenth. Kazuki
would pit as the session came to a close. Webber had put in a final quick lap jumping into fifth,
1m:18.301. So with the end of the session the order was Alonso followed by
Hamilton, Raikkonen, Massa, Webber, Fisichella, Heidfeld, Schumacher,
Coulthard, and in tenth Davidson. Alex was in fifteenth and Kazuki
seventeenth. |
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