Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Montreal 2012Lewis Hamilton remained on
top for McLaren as the rain held off in the second Canadian
Grand Prix practice session in Montreal on Friday.  After going
quickest in the morning, Hamilton barely let anyone else have a
look in at the head of the order in the afternoon, moving to the
front for the first time after 14 minutes with a 1m15.895s lap.
That time then came down and down – the Briton eventually
reaching a best of 1m15.439s on soft tires.  He then went
slightly faster still at the start of a long super soft run just
before the session's halfway point, lapping in 1m15.259s, a time
that would stand as the best of the day.  Fernando Alonso came
closest to deposing Hamilton. The Ferrari driver had a wild spin
through the Turn 8/9 chicane early on, visited the grass there
again shortly after, but avoided damage and eventually got to
within 0.054sec of taking the top spot. His team-mate Felipe
Massa was less than a tenth slower in third.  Sebastian Vettel
took fourth in the