Canada-EL3: Vettel dominates in Montreal

We were expecting rain this Saturday in Canada, it did make a small appearance on the Gilles Villeneuve route in Montreal. Nothing to stop though Sebastian Vettel to place his Ferrari SF16-H at the top of the hierarchy in the last free practice session before qualifying scheduled for 19 p.m.

The Ferrari driver dominated the session with a time set on ultra-soft tires in 1'13 "919, the only driver to have gone below the 1'14 per lap mark. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) are the closest pursuers of the leader at 0″239 and 0″397 respectively.

Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) seems to have increased the pace today and is in fourth position just ahead of the reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes). Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) finished sixth ahead Carlos Sainz Jr. (Toro Rosso), Fernando Alonso (McLaren), Sergio Pérez (Force India) and Felipe Massa (Williams).

Romain Grosjean (Haas) only took 17th place, ahead of more than two tenths by his teammate Esteban Gutiérrez. In the clan Renault, Kevin Magnussen caused the session to end prematurely by making a mistake in the wall at turn 7 less than a quarter of an hour from the checkered flag. The Dane's R.S.16 was largely damaged on the left side, which will force the Losange mechanics to work hard to restore the car. car yellow.

EL3 results