{"id":57227,"date":"2026-05-23T04:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/57227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:12:38","slug":"2026-f1-canadian-grand-prix-free-practice-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/57227\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice results<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>First, Liam Lawson&#8217;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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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 &#8211; Free Practice results Kimi Antonelli topped the only free practice session at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,22339,22342,22340,22343,22341,22338,1817,22336,19531,22337,22335],"class_list":["post-57227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","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-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}