This session has finished. No further updates will be posted.
That concludes our coverage of second practice. Here’s our report
FP2 has finished and George Russell is fastest. Report to follow.
Alexander Albon does the fastest middle sector time on his way to fourth.
Norris is up to second and now fastest of the drivers on softs, 0.028s off Russell.
Gasly complaining about “very bad traffic”. The stewards noted that incident between his team mate and Lawson.
Norris finds a substantial improvement on his next run to go third, and second of those on softs. Russell fastest on mediums ahead of Antonelli.
Liam Lawson has a near-miss with one of the Alpines at turn six.
Lando Norris only goes eighth on the soft tyres, Oscar Piastri 13th. It’s not at all like them to be off the pace on a Friday this year.
Pierre Gasly switches to the soft compound and improves by half a second compared to his lap time on mediums. He’s sixth.
Franco Colapinto has spun at turn two as he did in first practice. He’s left pointing the wrong way and as he tried to rejoin he meets his team mate leaving the pits.
Verstappen: “The car is jumping like crazy on the rear. The ride is terrible.”
George Russell takes over at the top with a 1’12.887 putting him 0.248s ahead of Alexander Albon.
Stroll’s race engineer tried to tell him to stop the car which he is required to do under the rules. Looks like Stroll tried to drive it back in which case he can expect to hear from the stewards.
Lance Stroll has hit a wall – he drives down to turn 10 and pulls off behind a barrier. The front-left wheel is hanging off his car.
The track quickly fills up. Lewis Hamilton, who will have to conduct Ferrari’s entire workload, is out on a set of mediums. Most drivers are on the same except Albon on softs and the Sauber drivers on hards.
Max Verstappen headed the first practice session but Charles Leclerc suffered a major setback in his Ferrari. He crashed at turn three a quarter of an hour into the session and the team has confirmed he damaged his car’s survival cell which means he will not be able to participate in second practice.
The teams overwhelmingly preferred the soft tyres in the first practice session. No one ran the hards and only Sauber and Racing Bulls used the mediums, suggesting some teams may be considering the latter for qualifying. The soft tyre this weekend is the C6, which on its previous appearances at Imola and Monaco performed better over a single flying lap than the C5 (this weekend’s medium) for some teams.
Second practice for the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix is coming up next.
2025 Canadian Grand Prix
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