Lewis Hamilton is the best in Canada practice

Lewis Hamilton is the best in Canada practice

Lewis Hamilton LED Valtteri Bottas as Mercedes dominated 1st follow at the Canadian auto race.

Hamilton was zero.147 seconds before his team-mate whereas Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in third was an enormous zero.953 seconds behind.

And Leclerc's team-mate Sebastian Vettel had a spin at the pin on his thanks to fifth quickest, 1.138secs off the pace.

Red Bull's scoop Verstappen split the Ferraris, whereas Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi crashed at flip 9 as drivers battled with a dust-covered and slippery track.

A number of drivers had 'moments' through the session on a track that's little-used through the season and runs through what's commonly a public park on the picturesque Ile Notre Dame within the St Lawrence ship route beside the town of metropolis.

Haas driver Romain Grosjean was another to spin, whereas Red Bull's state capital Gasly and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat had off-track moments.

Bottas' session complete a number of minutes early once he was force into the pits with an absence of fuel pressure, a rare show of vulnerability during this season within which Mercedes have up to now swept  all before them.

The silver cars have won all six races up to now, Hamilton taking four victories and Bottas 2 and therefore the Briton is leading the European by seventeen points within the championship, with Vettel forty five points behind.

On the face of it, Mercedes once more look sturdy favourites for the weekend, despite this being a track that ought to suit the Ferraris, that are fast on tracks with similar characteristics of long straights and slow corners this season.

Mercedes have introduced associate upgraded "phase two" engine into their manufacturing plant and client cars this season. Ferrari have fitted new turbochargers and MGU-Hs to the cars of Leclerc and Vettel. The MGU-H is that the a part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo.

Alfa Romeo's Kimi Raikkonen was sixth fastest, with McLaren's Ilich Sanchez Sainz, Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, athletics Point's Sergio Perez and Haas' Kevin Magnussen finishing the highest ten.