The top FP2 times in Montreal were close to last year’s pole position time, despite a track that was initially dirtier than usual, causing a high degree of track evolution throughout the day. The FP1 times were just under a second faster than last year’s equivalent in the morning; by FP2 in the afternoon this margin had increased to around 1.3 seconds. All three nominated compounds (soft, supersoft and ultrasoft) were used today, with the drivers assessing the behaviour of each compound on both short and long runs with varying fuel loads. After a cool and cloudy start, which threatened rain, conditions remained dry all day with ambient temperatures reaching 26 degrees centigrade. Dry weather is expected for the rest of the weekend as well.

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“Free practice today went as expected, with the soft tyre also proving to be very close in performance to the supersoft, making the soft a viable alternative from what we can see so far. As far as we can tell at the moment, the supersoft is slower of less than a second compared to the ultrasoft and the soft is slower of more than a second compared to the ultrasoft.

There has been an even higher degree of track evolution than usual during FP1 in Montreal due to a particularly dirty track. This is a circuit that is normally known for graining, but we’ve not seen any of that with the latest 2017 tyres – as has also been the case at all the other circuits this season.”

FREE PRACTICE 1 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER 	    TIME 	COMPOUND 
Hamilton    1m13.809s 	ULTRASOFT NEW
Vettel	    1m14.007s	ULTRASOFT NEW 
Bottas 	    1m14.046s   ULTRASOFT NEW

FREE PRACTICE 2 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER 	    TIME 	COMPOUND
Raikkonen   1m12.935s 	ULTRASOFT NEW
Hamilton    1m13.150s	ULTRASOFT NEW
Vettel 	    1m13.200s 	ULTRASOFT NEW

FP1 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND    DRIVER 	TIME
SOFT 	    Perez 	1m 15.943s
SUPERSOFT   Verstappen	1m 14.861s
ULTRASOFT   Hamilton 	1m 13.809s

FP2 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND    DRIVER 	TIME
SOFT 	    Bottas 	1m 14.079s
SUPERSOFT   Hamilton	1m 13.955s
ULTRASOFT   Raikkonen 	1m 12.935s

MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND    DRIVER 	LAPS
SOFT 	    Wehrlein 	20
SUPERSOFT   Vettel	29
ULTRASOFT   Massa 	29

TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
			SOFT	SUPERSOFT  ULTRA SOFT
Kms driven* 		640 	2350 	   2232
Sets used overall**	17	35	   30

* The above number gives the total amount of kilometres
driven in FP1 and FP2 today, all drivers combined.
** Per compound, all drivers combined.