Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli led a Mercedes 1-2 amid three red flags in the sole practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix.Mercedes is debuting its first major upgrade of 2026 this weekend in Montreal and it kicked off with some blinding pace in the first and only practice session ahead of sprint qualifying on Friday evening.Points leader Antonelli traded places with team-mate George Russell at the top of the times throughout the session – with Antonelli ending up on top with a 1m13.402s. That was 0.142s quicker than Russell’s best effort and over seven tenths clear of the fastest non-Mercedes car – the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton. But it was a session dominated by session-stopping incidents with three separate stoppages. Liam Lawson’s Racing Bulls caused the first red flag of the session as he had to pull to the side of the circuit on the run to the Turn 3/4 chicane. Lawson c …
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Author: Josh Suttill
