Lewis Hamilton went quickest in the first free practice of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend in an incident-packed first session that ended under red flags when a loose drain cover damaged the cars of Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button. Mercedes were early adopters of the new ultrasoft tyre in the session and Hamilton quickly took charge of the timesheet on the purple-banded tyre and he eventually worked his way down to a best time of 1:15.537 halfway through the session. Rosberg got to a tenth off that pace but in the closing minutes of the session, as he exited Ste Devote, he ran over a drain cover on the exit of the corner with the piece of metal puncturing his rear left tyre. The cover was...
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