MONTREAL — Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets while world champion Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton propped them up in Saturday's final Canadian Grand Prix practice. Hamilton, who will be chasing his sixth pole position in seven Formula One races this season, failed to get in a clean lap in a scrappy session twice red-flagged due to incidents. Rosberg's best lap of one minute 15.660 seconds was 0.573 quicker than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in second place. Hamilton, who ended Friday's rainswept second practice session in the tire wall but fastest, was slowest of all with an unrepresentative time of 1:21.492 after managing just nine laps of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The Briton leads Rosberg by 10 points, arriving in Canada determined to bounce back from disappointment in Monaco where a needless late pitstop while leading cost him victory and handed it to his teammate. After Friday's washout, the Saturday session started under clear blue skies but the drivers were still hampered by interruptions. The first red flag came out when Brazilian Felipe Nasr's Sauber speared into the wall as he was weaving on the straight to heat up the tires. After a 10 minute suspension, with Nasr taken to the medical center for checks and the wreckage removed, the action resumed but was again halted when Jenson Button's McLaren stopped on track and had to be recovered. "I had a massive loss of power. We've got a bigger problem here," Button said over the radio. McLaren said the Briton, who scored the misfiring team's first points of the season in Monaco two weeks ago, would not be able to take part in qualifying as a result of a failure in the energy recovery system. "Our engineers are looking at data, but sadly his car won't be ready for quali," the team said on Twitter. Button's Spanish teammate Fernando Alonso managed only three laps after sitting out most of the morning as mechanics installed a new power unit in his car. McLaren's partners Honda have upgraded their power unit for this race at a fast circuit which takes a heavy toll on engines and brakes. — Reuters
