Canadian GP: Raikkonen leads FP2 as Red Bulls hit trouble

The Finn clocked a 1m12.935s at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal to finish 0.215 seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes.

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas were third and fourth respectively with the top four separated by 0.375s.

The supersoft was the tyre of choice for the early running, before teams turned their attention to the ultrasofts for qualifying simulations.

Vettel was among the first to do his low-fuel run and promptly went quickest, with teammate Raikkonen slotting into second.

Raikkonen then improved to go quickest, with Hamilton moving up into second and Vettel demoted to third.

Max Verstappen was the leading Red Bull in fifth, 0.453s off the pace, but his session was curtailed 20 minutes early when he stopped out on track.

The session was red-flagged while the teenager's car was recovered from the side of the track between Turns 7 and 8.

It compounded a frustrating afternoon for the team, with Daniel Ricciardo most of the session in the garage after reporting a loss of power early on.

Felipe Massa was sixth, but he was nearly seven tenths further back in the Williams, with Fernando Alonso in seventh ahead of Esteban Ocon.

Alonso's start to the session was delayed while the team worked on a hydraulic leak sustained in FP1, the Spaniard only running in the last 30 minutes.

Daniil Kvyat and Sergio Perez completed the top 10 ahead of Romain Grosjean.

Grosjean endured a frustrating session, spinning twice at Turn 6 before a third spin between Turns 1 and 2.

The Frenchman said on team radio: "What the hell is going on? I'm starting to feel a bit fed up."

He was just one of a series of drivers, that included Vettel, Bottas, Kvyat and Perez, who spun during the session.

Carlos Sainz recovered from failing to set a timed lap in FP1 to rack up more than 40 laps in the Toro Rosso.

Alonso's McLaren teammate Stoffel Vandoorne, who had a floor change, was down in 19th.

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	Ferrari	41	1'12.935
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Mercedes	41	1'13.150	0.215
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Ferrari	41	1'13.200	0.265
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	Mercedes	42	1'13.310	0.375
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	TAG	25	1'13.388	0.453
6	Felipe Massa	Williams	Mercedes	38	1'14.063	1.128
7	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	Honda	19	1'14.245	1.310
8	Esteban Ocon	Force India	Mercedes	46	1'14.299	1.364
9	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	Renault	38	1'14.461	1.526
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	Mercedes	41	1'14.501	1.566
11	Romain Grosjean	Haas	Ferrari	33	1'14.566	1.631
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	Renault	38	1'14.604	1.669
13	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso	Renault	43	1'14.621	1.686
14	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	Ferrari	35	1'14.676	1.741
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	TAG	8	1'15.072	2.137
16	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	Renault	40	1'15.127	2.192
17	Lance Stroll	Williams	Mercedes	40	1'15.240	2.305
18	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	Ferrari	31	1'15.611	2.676
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	Honda	20	1'15.624	2.689
20	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber	Ferrari	31	1'16.308	3.373