Canada 2012 - Free Practice 1 results - Lewis Hamilton gets off to a good start, as Kovalainen hits the wall

Published 8 June 2012 by Christine

The first practice session in Montreal was interrupted by a lengthy red flag period after Heikki Kovalainen hit the wall and sprayed bits of Caterham all over the track. Before the session was halted, the Lotus teammates found pace and battled for number one, before Lewis Hamilton topped the times. Nico Rosberg was the only drive who could trouble him but it was the McLaren driver on top. Jenson Button, meanwhile, was left with little running after an oil leak saw him complete only 12 laps.

Position	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	1:15.564	30
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:15.682	29
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1:15.782	30
4	Fernando Alonso	Scuderia Ferrari	1:15.842	34
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:15.897	28
6	Nico Hülkenberg	Sahara Force India F1 Team	1:15.986	29
7	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber F1 Team	1:16.000	31
8	Sergio Pérez	Sauber F1 Team	1:16.249	32
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1:16.264	28
10	Jenson Button	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	1:16.347	12
11	Paul di Resta	Sahara Force India F1 Team	1:16.460	32
12	Felipe Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:16.619	17
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams F1 Team	1:16.859	26
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	1:16.890	36
15	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus F1 Team	1:17.014	42
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:17.352	28
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:17.580	31
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham F1 Team	1:17.935	23
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham F1 Team	1:18.177	16
20	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT Formula 1 Team	1:18.182	26
21	Bruno Senna	Williams F1 Team	1:18.762	36
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT Formula 1 Team	1:19.354	23
23	Timo Glock	Marussia F1 Team	1:20.004	21
24	Charles Pic	Marussia F1 Team	1:20.067	23