WATCH: Lewis Hamilton hits the barriers in the rain of practice

Lewis Hamilton’s start to the Canadian GP couldn’t have gone any better on the timesheet as the world champion topped both practice sessions – but his Friday certainly wasn’t without incident or mishap on a day of mixed weather in Montreal.

Having already spun at the hairpin during the dry first practice session, Hamilton came a cropper at the same point of the circuit in the second when he aquaplaned off the circuit into the tyre barrier as rain started lashing down onto the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Sending their cars out on intermediate tyres to test their start settings in the wet, Mercedes were caught out as the weather immediately worsened and Hamilton was a passenger as he attempted to slow his W06 down for the hairpin and slewed across the run-off area and into a low-speed impact with the barrier.

Once the Briton had vacated the car, the trackside marshals then made a slightly ham-fisted job of trying to crane the Mercedes away…