Aston Martin bought the early drama with an unsafe release for Alonso and a wheel rim falling off for Stroll. There were a lot of sloppy laps from the drivers in the first session and out went Ocon, Albon, Alonso, Perez, Stroll and Bottas. Yet again it was not looking like to would be Stroll's year to win at home. Antonelli was the fastest ahead of the two McLarens. His team mate was in eighth and we assumed sandbagging.
The action in the second session was at the top of the time sheet: Hadjar took the quickest lap right at the end with a ramshackle smattering of top runners behind him. The bottom six were Hulkenberg, Lawson, Bortoleto, Gasly, Sainz and Bearman. It wasn't a great showing for Williams despite having shown promise recently. The Alpines and Audis really seem to be making progress.
Russell came quite close to the wall of champions in the final session but not close enough to be a champion. There were lots of quick laps in the last minute. It was very close between the two Mercedes with Russell getting it on the last lap set. The top ten were Russell, Antonelli, Norris, Piastri, Hamilton, Verstappen, Hadjar, Leclerc, Linblad and Colapinto. Linblad is really outshining Lawson this weekend and Leclerc cannot shine as brightly as Hamilton, who, as we are always told, loves Canada.
Take a close look at Antonelli in the interviews; he looks like his figure has been added in in the edit and has been sized too small.
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