Alonso heads Gasly in wet final Canadian GP practice session

Alpine’s Fernando Alonso set the fastest time during a rain-hit final practice session for Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix.

Conditions remained gloomy and wet throughout the course of the one-hour session, following steady rain through the morning, along with cold air temperature of around 12c.

Drivers used Wet tyres for the majority of the session before switching to Intermediates during the final 15 minutes.

Alonso set a time of 1:33.836s to finish 0.053s up on AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly, with Sebastian Vettel third for Aston Martin.

Esteban Ocon was fourth for Alpine, in front of McLaren duo of Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris.

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Sergio Perez was the quickest of the usual front-runners in eighth position.

Max Verstappen was a low-key ninth and had several off-track excursions during the session.

Verstappen went wide at Turn 10, ran across the grass at the Turn 4 chicane, and spun through Turn 2, though avoided damage on each occasion.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz finished at the foot of the top 10 while team-mate Charles Leclerc completed only five installation laps and did not set a time.

Mercedes finished with George Russell seventh and Lewis Hamilton in 15th place.

Saturday’s qualifying session is scheduled for 16:00 local time.

	Position		Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
	1		Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1:33.836		15
	2		Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:33.889	0.053	18
	3		Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:33.891	0.055	18
	4		Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:34.003	0.167	16
	5		Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:34.110	0.274	14
	6		Lando Norris	McLaren	1:34.248	0.412	13
	7		George Russell	Mercedes	1:34.259	0.423	11
	8		Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1:34.498	0.662	10
	9		Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:34.616	0.780	10
	10		Carlos Sainz Jr	Ferrari	1:34.778	0.942	18
	11		Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:35.016	1.180	15
	12		Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:35.213	1.377	15
	13		Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:35.531	1.695	23
	14		Kevin Magnussen	Haas	1:35.643	1.807	17
	15		Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:35.692	1.856	12
	16		Alex Albon	Williams	1:35.761	1.925	17
	17		Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:36.261	2.425	27
	18		Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:37.388	3.552	18
	19		Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:38.394	4.558	11
	20		Charles Leclerc	Ferrari			5