Canadian GP: Disrupted FP3 for Williams Martini

Team Summary:
On a sunny day the Williams Martini team would commence their Saturday practice. First quickest time would be a 1m:20.409 from Raikkonen. Vettel would move ahead with a 1m:20.092 but Raikkonen would set a 1m:18.521. He would improve with a 1m:17.879 followed by Kvyat and Ricciardo. Ten minutes into the session and neither Williams driver had set a time. Vettel would set a 1m:17.543 with Raikkonen now second. For the Williams drivers after their opening laps Felipe would be third and Valtteri would drop to eighth with forty minutes remaining. Both Williams drivers would improve moving into second and third. Quickest at this time was Rosberg with a 1m:16.783. The Williams pair were within 0.3 seconds of Rosberg.

Both Williams drivers continued to put in a long run on the soft tyres while the soft of the top drivers to change to the super soft tyre was Kvyat who would set a 1m:17.404 to be fifth. With twenty six minutes remaining both Williams drivers would pit. Kvyat would move to second with a 1m:17.021 still on the option tyre. Valtteri and Felipe were now third and fourth. Raikkonen was again fastest with a 1m:16.761 running on a used soft tyre. Valtteri and Felipe would drop to fifth and sixth.

The session would be red flagged as a result of Nasr hitting the wall heavily. Nasr was weaving to warm his tyres and would lose control of his car with the car turning and hitting the wall nose on causing a big amount of damage. As the track was cleared it was eating into the teams super soft tyre time. With the restart of the session both Williams drivers would come out on the super soft tyre, joined by the majority of the field. Rosberg would set a 1m:15.660 to go quickest followed by Raikkonen and Grosjean. Both Williams drivers would pit after a handful of laps after a second red flag. The session would not be re-started leaving quite a few questions in the lead-up to qualifying.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be first out on his installation lap running on the soft tyre. With just under forty five minutes remaining Felipe would return to the track setting a time to be tenth but his next lap was a 1m:17.608 to be third. He would drop to fifth but his next lap he would set a 1m:17.122 to again be third. Felipe would drop to fifth while he was in his pit having completed twelve laps on his first run. Felipe would come out for his super soft tyre run following Rosberg out of the pit lane. Felipe would get Turn thirteen wrong nearly going into the wall of Champions. After his first run Felipe was down in seventh.

Valtteri Bottas:
Valtteri was also on the soft tyre for his installation lap. Valtteri would follow Felipe out for his first timed run. Valtteri's first time would see him sixth with a 1m:18.413. He would drop to eighth but would find a lot of time setting a 1m:17.053 to be second. Valtteri would complete eleven laps on his first run. Valtteri was out on the super soft tyre and after his run would pit currently in fourth.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m15.660s 17
2  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m16.233s 20
3  Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Mercedes		1m16.772s 14
4  Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m16.914s 17
5  Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m16.993s 16
6  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-Renault	1m17.021s 19
7  Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m17.122s 18
8  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m17.197s 18
9  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Renault	1m17.396s 25
10 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Mercedes		1m17.573s 12
11 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m17.578s 21
12 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m17.876s 14
13 Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1m17.892s 18
14 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m18.446s 12
15 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m18.473s 18
16 Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	1m18.492s 18
17 Will Stevens		Marussia-Ferrari	1m19.822s 16
18 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m19.874s 3
19 Roberto Merhi	Marussia-Ferrari	1m20.231s 16
20 Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m21.492s 9