Fernando Alonso issued a statement of intent by hauling Ferrari to the top of the timesheets in first practice in Canada on Friday morning, above the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.It had been Hamilton who had set the pace early on when teams were looking for lap times, but Alonso surged ahead with a 1m 17.238s - little more than one hundredth of a second faster than the Briton.Hamilton responded by setting new outright bests in the first and second sectors, but had a massive lock-up at the Turn 10 hairpin and abandoned his lap, pulling straight into the pits at the same time as Alonso.With the field switching focus to long runs in the final minutes, Alonso therefore ended...
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