2007 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX FREE PRACTICE
Fernando Alonso MP4-22 08
Lewis Hamilton MP4-22 01
T-car (Fernando) MP4-22 03
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Fernando Alonso set fastest
times in both of Friday’s free practice sessions for
the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal with 1m17.759 in the morning
and 1m16.550 in the afternoon. His team mate Lewis Hamilton
was second fastest in the first practice with 1m17.967 and
third fastest in the second session with 1m17.307. Fernando
did 17 and 37 laps respectively whilst Lewis completed 20
and 36 laps.
Practice Session One:
Fernando: Lewis:
10.04: out / in 10.06: out / in
10.54: 7 laps, best 1:17.759 (1st) 10.39: 6 laps, best 1:18.055
11.19: 9 laps, best 1:18.257 11.05: 7 laps best 1:17.967 (2nd)
11.23: 6 laps, best 1:18.274
Practice Session Two:
Fernando: Lewis:
14.05: 8 laps, best 1:18.902 14.05: 7 laps, best 1:18.696
14.29: 11 laps, best 1:17.329 14.29: 11 laps, best 1:17.613
14.53: 11 laps, best 1:16.550 (1st) 14.55: 11 laps, best 1:17.550
15.22: 7 laps, best 1:17.130 15.19: 7 laps, best 1:17.307
(3rd)
FERNANDO ALONSO
“A good start to our weekend at a challenging circuit.
In the first session we limited our running slightly as the
track was very dirty and only used one set of tyres, but still
emerged fastest. The second session was spent on tyre evaluation
and also looking at the brakes and we have made some good
progress. I don’t think we will dominate like we did
at the last race in Monaco and the track conditions here means
that it’s very hard to estimate where our competition
is, but so far so good.”
LEWIS HAMILTON
“Today was the first time I had the opportunity to drive
at the Montreal circuit and I really enjoyed myself. We had
done a lot of work back in the UK with our simulation programme
and also I have watched a few of the past races here but you
can’t beat the real thing. We worked on set-up, tyre
evaluation and also looking at the brakes as this circuit
is notoriously hard on the brakes. There were no problems
and it looks like we are in good shape.”
RON DENNIS
“A troublefree start to our Canadian Grand Prix weekend.
The team has worked hard since Monaco on finding further improvements
and so far it looks like we could have a competitive weekend.
As always on a Friday both drivers focused on general set-up
work and tyre evaluation but we also did some work with the
brakes as these are a key factor at this particular circuit.”
NORBERT HAUG
“A positive first day which saw us improve step by step.
Fernando was fastest in both sessions whilst Lewis ended up
second and third respectively, so it looks like both drivers
and the technical guys found a good basis for tomorrow’s
qualifying.”
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