F1 practice LIVE: Canadian Grand Prix updates and times as Max Verstappen goes fastest in FP1
Follow the first practice at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as the build-up to the Canadian Grand Prix continues
Follow live F1 coverage as the Canadian Grand Prix weekend kicks off with free practice sessions one and two in Montreal.
The big news of the week is the FIA’s decision to “reduce or eliminate” porpoising on the advice of its medical team - just days after Lewis Hamilton suffered with severe back pain in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Hamilton required assistance to get out of his Mercedes after his car bounced up and down at high speed throughout last Sunday’s race.
Mercedes ran their machines close to the ground in Baku to produce lower downforce. But the move exaggerated the bouncing, and under the FIA’s new technical directive, Mercedes might be required to raise the ride height of their cars which could further slow them down.
At the front of the grid, Max Verstappen will be hoping to extend his lead over chief title rival Charles Leclerc after he took full advantage of the Ferrari driver retiring last weekend with the race victory.
Follow all the latest updates as we build towards this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix:
Q1: 1 minute to go!
Hamilton has just gone second, you can relax British fans.
Ricciardo, meanwhile, can only put himself 13th with his second-last lap. Nicholas Latifi meanwhile - the only driver who hasn’t made Q2 this season - goes 10th!
Current bottom-five: Tsunoda, Vettel, Schumacher, Gasly, Stroll.
Q1: 4 minutes to go
All the big-hitters relatively safe at the moment - Hamilton is down in ninth, slightly precarious. Some cars are also pitting for new inters including Daniel Ricciardo, who continues to struggle in the McLaren.
The current bottom five: Latifi, Gasly, Stroll, Ricciardo, Schumacher. But change is inevitable as conditions change in the next few minutes...
Q1: 8 minutes to go
The rain is still falling heavily across Silverstone but is sweeping sideways with a heavy wind.
Every car is now out on track, with the times between first and 15th a massive four seconds given the constantly changing condition of the circuit...
Currently the bottom five: Magnussen, Schumacher, Gasly, Ocon and Vettel.
Q1: 12 minutes to go
Verstappen, Leclerc, Hamilton and Russell the top-four at the moment but, meanwhile, the Alpines of Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso are still in the pits - do they know something we don’t?!
A reminder: only the bottom five cars in Q1 are eliminated from qualifying...
Q1 is underway!
About half the cars were waiting for at least a minute or two before 3:00 - and it’s the Williams of Nicholas Latifi who leads the pack out! Every car is on the intermediate tyre.
Don’t go anywhere!
It wouldn’t be the Great British summer without a downpour!
It’s pretty torrential out there now, with fans in the grandstands getting a drenching at the moment!
Opportunities aplenty across the pit wall now, how long will the queue be at the front of the pit lane? Intermediates to start with, before the track is full wet...
The rain has most definitely arrived!
Heavy rain expected around 2:55 at Silverstone, five minutes before the start of Q1...
There may well be a big rush coming out of the pit lane at 3:00 if the track is still at all dry. Cue drama. Stay tuned to keep track of all of it!
15 minutes until qualifying!
We’re getting reports that rain is expected prior to Q1 here at Silverstone. It is very murky overhead. Time for some fun...
Two weeks ago, in the wet in Montreal, Fernando Alonso was the surprise name on the front row for Alpine - who could spring a surprise in potentially similar conditions this afternoon?
A nice moment prior to FP3!
Lewis Hamilton’s younger brother, seven years his junior, Nicholas is in the paddock this weekend, as is his father Anthony.
Nicholas has been at Lewis’ races throughout his Formula 1 career, including in Sao Paolo when he won his first world title back in 2008...
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