Championship leader Sebastian Vettel shrugged off his morning practice "incident", when he visited Canada's infamous Wall of Champions, saying that he was happy with his car and saying he is still aiming for a win on Sunday.
Vettel joined the ever-growing list of champions and non-champions to have crashed at Montreal's tricky final corner, making a mistake early on in FP1 and ending up hitting the wall.But despite missing out on half a session of running, he was back out for FP2 in the afternoon, and ended up with the second fastest time overall behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
"I had an incident this morning," the German shrugged after the practice sessions were over, "I lost the rear, but by the time I hit the wall I had low speed, so the crash was quite mild.
"There wasn't much damage, so we could fix the car and get back out this afternoon."
He added that: "McLaren and Ferrari look strong here, although I haven't seen all the times from practice yet. For us, I'm happy with the car's balance and how it performs, so we will see."
He said that he still believed that his aim would be to win the race on Sunday despite his inability to top the days running, though he admitted that there was still a lot that could happen.
"The target is to win, but it's a long weekend and a lot of things can happen," he mused, "It's important to finish and do your best, whatever that is."
His team mate Mark Webber, meanwhile, ended the day seventh overall and afterwards admitted that the team needed to make the car quicker if they were to fight for victory.
He added that the weather situation, with rain showers predicted throughout Sunday, may well prove to be the decisive factor.
"We were a bit compromised with the red flags at the end of P2, so we could have had a smoother end to the final session, but it wasn't too bad," the Australian driver muttered.
"We tried different fuel loads today and now we just need to chip away and get the car a bit quicker."
He added: "It's a tricky venue here and we might have some different weather conditions thrown into the mix over the next 24 hours."
The Canadian race is seen as something of a bogey track for Red Bull, with the team's last only podium finish at the race being David Coulthard's third place in 2008.
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