Germany's Nico Rosberg was fastest in Saturday's final free practice for the Canadian Grand Prix after late crashes interrupted the session.
With warmer temperatures heating up the track and most of the teams working on their fuel strategies for Sunday's race, the times were slower than Friday. The Williams driver, son of Finland's 1982 world champion Keke, lapped the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one minute 16.555 seconds., a long way off defending race champion Lewis Hamilton's fast lap of 1:15.732 on the opening day of practice.
World champion Kimi Raikkonen was close behind at 1:16.589 in his Ferrari, followed by current championship leader and last year's Canadian GP winner Lewis Hamilton of McLaren third at 1:16.725, Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari at 1:16.787 and Kazuki Nakajima at 1:16.898 in the second Williams.
It was a messy hour. Renault's Nelson Piquet hit the wall and spun twice. And both Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers — Sebastian Vettel and Sebastien Bourdais — also hit walls as several other drivers bounced off the concrete barriers that line the 12-turn Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The session was halted after Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel crashed into the barrier at the exit of turn nine and his Ferrari-powered car had to be towed away, leaving plenty of debris to be cleared.
The session resumed with just six minutes remaining, the drivers switching to their softer tyres but having little chance to give them a real workout.
The session was again interrupted after the other Toro Rosso driver, Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais, clipped the wall on turn five and brought out the yellow warning flags preventing any further flying laps.
With warmer temperatures heating up the track and most of the teams working on their fuel strategies for Sunday's race, the times were slower than Friday. The Williams driver, son of Finland's 1982 world champion Keke, lapped the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one minute 16.555 seconds., a long way off defending race champion Lewis Hamilton's fast lap of 1:15.732 on the opening day of practice.
World champion Kimi Raikkonen was close behind at 1:16.589 in his Ferrari, followed by current championship leader and last year's Canadian GP winner Lewis Hamilton of McLaren third at 1:16.725, Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari at 1:16.787 and Kazuki Nakajima at 1:16.898 in the second Williams.
It was a messy hour. Renault's Nelson Piquet hit the wall and spun twice. And both Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers — Sebastian Vettel and Sebastien Bourdais — also hit walls as several other drivers bounced off the concrete barriers that line the 12-turn Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The session was halted after Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel crashed into the barrier at the exit of turn nine and his Ferrari-powered car had to be towed away, leaving plenty of debris to be cleared.
The session resumed with just six minutes remaining, the drivers switching to their softer tyres but having little chance to give them a real workout.
The session was again interrupted after the other Toro Rosso driver, Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais, clipped the wall on turn five and brought out the yellow warning flags preventing any further flying laps.
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