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Lewis Hamilton tops practice in an unusual Friday of cancelled sessions and late torrential rain.
Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and George Russell have topped the mostly dry second practice at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Dark clouds descended on Montreal, but rain held off until the final five minutes of the 90-minute session, allowing teams to complete dry qualifying and race simulations uninterrupted.
The track was declared wet in the final 10 minutes in anticipation of the thunderstorm crawling towards the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, leading to the bizarre scenes of most of the field fitting intermediate tires but lapping a still-dry track.
Continue reading on RACERFirst practice at the Canadian Grand Prix has been called off after less than five minutes of running due to a local closed-circuit television failure.
The CCTV system is used by race control for safety and stewarding purposes but failed shortly after the start of FP1. The failure coincided with a red flag caused by Pierre Gasly stopping on track between Turns 7 and 8 with a clutch problem that left him without drive.
The Frenchman’s stopped car was recovered quickly (pictured above), but the session resumption was delayed and subsequently abandoned due to the TV failure.
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