Canadian GP: Encouraging FP1 for Williams Martini

Team Summary:
Felipe Massa would be first out for his installation lap. The first lap time was a 1m:23.011 from Rosberg. Hamilton would improve on this with a 1m:20.287. As the session continued Hamilton would set a 1m:17.734 followed by Rosberg with a 1m:19.389. After their first runs Felipe and Valtteri were third and fourth behind the Mercedes pair. Rosberg was now fastest with a 1m:17.105 but Hamilton would lower this with a 1m:16.608. Vettel was now third with Felipe fourth. After their first runs Felipe and Valtteri were fifth and ninth. Both drivers had pitted to return their extra set of Pirelli tyres. Valtteri's next run would see him improve to be seventh with Felipe still fifth.

Grosjean was now third with a 1m:17.721. Felipe and Valtteri were now seventh and eighth with just over thirty minutes remaining. Rosberg would set a 1m:16.627 to be closer to Hamilton. With twenty two minutes remaining Felipe and Valtteri had dropped to be eighth and tenth. A 1m:16.212 from Hamilton to extend his gap over Rosberg. Both Felipe and Valtteri would return to the track with twenty minutes remaining. Felipe would improve to be sixth. Valtteri was on a long run completing twenty seven laps as the session ended. Felipe would complete fifteen. Both drivers were asked to lay some rubber in their pit boxes prior to returning to their garages.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would follow Raikkonen on his installation lap running on the soft tyre prior to pitting after one lap. With an hour and fifteen minutes remaining Felipe would come back out and would set a 1m:19.740 to be third. He would drop to fourth to be behind Grosjean. After his next lap Felipe would set a 1m:18.908 to be fifth behind Maldonado. Having dropped down the order Felipe would improve to be fourth having set a 1m:18.115. Felipe would complete a pit lane drive through with a stop in his pit box prior to returning to the track. Felipe would also pit having completed ten laps. Felipe was out on the pit wall watching Valtteri circulate. Felipe was still fifth with just under forty minutes remaining. On his first lap having finally returned to the track he would set a 1m:17.985 to be sixth. Felipe would complete fifteen laps as the session finished.

Valtteri Bottas:
Prior to going out Valtteri would be told that he would be seeing a head wind as he brakes for Turn thirteen. Valtteri would complete his installation lap pitting after one lap. Valtteri was also out on the track joining Felipe setting a 1m:22.144 to be third. Valtteri would improve with a 1m:20.083 to be behind Felipe in fourth. Valtteri would drop to fifth but was on a better lap. Valtteri would set a 1m:18.669 to now be third. He would drop fourth to be behind Raikkonen dropping to ninth. Valtteri would miss the corner at the final chicane. Valtteri would pit after his first run of nine laps. Valtteri would say that the track was getting better lap by lap. With just over forty five minutes remaining Valtteri would return to the track on a new set of soft tyres. Valtteri would improve with a 1m:18.325 to be seventh, dropping to eighth.

Valtteri had spun at the second chicane but was able to continue but he indicated that he felt the rear of the car was a bit unstable. Valtteri would pit but would return completing a long run on the soft tyre. With seven minutes remaining he had completed twenty two laps on this set of soft tyres. As the session drew to a close Valtteri continued to put in laps but would drop to eleventh behind Verstappen.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m16.212s 34
2  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m16.627s 38
3  Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Mercedes		1m17.721s 35
4  Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m17.871s 34
5  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m17.905s 25
6  Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m17.985s 28
7  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-Renault	1m18.021s 30
8  Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Mercedes		1m18.026s 41
9  Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m18.128s 34
10 Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	1m18.257s 24
11 Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m18.325s 40
12 Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m18.439s 26
13 Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m18.503s 28
14 Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1m18.775s 24
15 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m18.786s 25
16 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m18.948s 30
17 Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Renault	1m19.065s 23
18 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m19.165s 32
19 Roberto Merhi	Marussia-Ferrari	1m20.616s 33
20 Will Stevens		Marussia-Ferrari	1m20.624s 27