\t\t\t\t\t2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix – Free Practice results<\/p>\n
Kimi Antonelli topped the only free practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix, beating Mercedes team-mate George Russell by over a tenth of a second at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton rounded out the top three in Montreal in a thrice-disrupted \u2014 and extended \u2014 hour of running, following three red flags.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
First, Liam Lawson’s Racing Bulls ground to a halt with a hydraulics issue, which saw four minutes added to the session.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Then, Alex Albon unfortunately struck a marmot. Replays suggest that the Williams driver crashed whilst trying to avoid the rodent, which is native to North America (as well as Europe and Asia).\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
That incident caused the FIA to add 15 more minutes onto the running, for a combined total of 19 minutes.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson was subsequently called to the stewards for a post-session investigation into why his CDS (clutch disengagement system) did not work in his VCARB 03.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Esteban Ocon triggered the third and final stoppage after he ripped the nose off his Haas with only a matter of minutes to go.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Check out the full results from practice at the Canadian Grand Prix below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix – Free Practice results Kimi Antonelli topped the only free practice session at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-440721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}