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  • Mercedes dominate and Hamilton sets the pace in FP3

    Mercedes dominate and Hamilton sets the pace in FP3

    Mercedes continued to show their excellent form during the final practice session ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

    Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets a tenth of a second ahead of team mate Nico Rosberg, with Checo Perez in the third spot for Force India, a half-second country mile behind them.

    Despite spending the first half of the session in the Williams garage, Valterri Bottas and Felipe Massa managed to secure the 4th and 5th spots for the Williams team, showing a good improvement in their performance.

    Jenson Button managed 6th place for the McLaren team and Fernando Alonso secured 7th in the first non-Mercedes powered car, for Ferrari. The Ferrari drivers seemed to be struggling a great deal with rear grip around the track. While many drivers were caught out by the tail wind around T11, the Ferrari drivers seemed to be getting to know the outskirts a little too well around there.

    Rounding out the Top 10 were Nico Hulkenberg for Force India, Toro Rosso’s Daniel Kvyat and Kevin Magnussen for McLaren.

    Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel ended his session early – without the opportunity to head out on soft tyres, after spinning off at the exit of Turn 2 and stalling his car in the gravel trap.

    Conditions during the third practice session were far from those we can expect during qualifying and the race tomorrow now that Bahrain has joined the elite night race hosts. Temperatures drop considerably in the evenings at the desert circuit so expect a few surprises from qualifying later this afternoon.

    Who can catch the Mercedes drivers to steal the pole position for tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix? Right now, it would seem absolutely nobody can!

    Time sheets and full tyre info below. Please join us later on @F1_Madness for live commentary and chats during qualifying for the Bahrain GP.

    FP3 Timesheet:

    Bahrain_FP3

    Tyre info:

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  • Vettel quickest again in shortened third practice session

    Vettel quickest again in shortened third practice session

    Just as he was last year, Sebastian Vettel was quickest again in all three practice sessions in India.

    The start of the practice session was delayed by 20 mins due to visibility issues caused by the heavy smog in India. It meant that the medical helicopter would not be able to take off if there were an emergency. The session was also shortened to 40 minutes instead of the full hour’s running.

    Vettel set the fastest time of the session with a 1.25.332, thereafter spending most of his session testing longer runs on the soft tyres.

    Teams are concerned about the longevity of the soft tyres and this saw quite a few them doing long run soft tyre testing.

    Over half a second slower than his team mate, Webber ensured that Red Bull had yet another 1-2 at the end of the session.

    Here is the full third practice timesheet.

    third practice results

  • Vettel stays on top as Grosjean ups his pace in FP3

    Vettel stays on top as Grosjean ups his pace in FP3

    Sebastian Vettel remained fastest in Singapore this morning, improving on his time from yesterday by a tenth of a second but his rivals are closing the gap.

    Romain Grosjean finished the third practice session in second place, less than two tenths away from Vettel’s time.

    Nico Rosberg finished in third place at the end of the session but his time was half a second slower than Vettel.

    As was the case in yesterday’s FP2 session, drivers found that the supersoft tyres were over two seconds per lap faster than the medium tyres – quite a considerable difference.

    Mark Webber who finished fourth today, was the fastest man on track before the switch to supersofts so that will certainly be something to look out for during the race.

    Lewis Hamilton brought the other Mercedes home in fifth ahead of Fernando Alonso who finished 6th on the time sheets today in his Ferrari which is clearly lacking pace around this circuit.

    Kimi Raikkonen managed only 12th this session, not setting a representative time on the supersofts.

    Here is the full time sheet for the session. Follow us on Twitter (@F1_Madness) for live updates throughout qualifying later today and the race tomorrow.

    fp3-results-singapore

     

  • Mark Webber fastest in a 30 minute FP3 in Canada

    Mark Webber fastest in a 30 minute FP3 in Canada

    The third practice session in Canada was delayed for half an hour before getting started due to barrier repairs that needed to be completed before the session could begin. Due to the fact that there needs to be a 2 hour gap between FP3 and Qualifying, the practice session was shortened and drivers only had 30 mins to run.

    The track was also damp, so the first slicks only made an appearance with just over 5 mins to go in the session. Finally with 2 minutes left of the session, all drivers were out on track.

    It was Mark Webber who went fastest in third practice after the final dash with a time of 1.17.895 followed closely by Adrian Sutil and Lewis Hamilton.

    Here is the results timesheet after FP3 in Canada:

    FP3 results in Canada

     

  • Spanish F1 Grand Prix FP3 Results Timesheet

    Felipe Massa went fastest during the final practice session in Barcelona this morning. He inched just 0.006 seconds ahead of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen.

    The biggest losers this session were certainly McLaren who seem to really be struggling despite all the upgrades they brought along to Barcelona so it really seems like it’s back to the drawing board for them.

    Here is the full Spanish F1 Grand Prix FP3 Results Timesheet:

    spanish-gp-fp3-results

  • Bahrain GP: Alonso tops the time sheets in final practice

    Bahrain GP: Alonso tops the time sheets in final practice

    Fernando Alonso put the Ferrari on top of the timesheets ahead of Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull.

    Alonso set a time of 1.33.247 on the softer medium tyres 7 mins before the end of the session, and it proved to be an unbeatable time.

    Here are the timesheets for the final practice session in Bahrain.

    Alonso had a wild spin out of Turn 2 earlier in the session while he was still on the hard tyre but managed to save himself from the gravel trap and was able to continue.

    Sebastian Vettel looked set to beat Alonso’s time in the end and waited til the final seconds of the session before heading out on his medium tyres but he came across some traffic. Though it must be added that his times were already not on par with Alonso’s before he encoutered Pic’s Caterham on the track.

    His second timed lap was scruffy and he failed to beat Alonso’s time and came in second, with Mark Webber just behind him.

    Lewis Hamilton suffered was seemed like a left rear tyre failure on his slowing-down lap, which looks to have broken his suspension.

    Here are the official timesheets for the session.

    Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap Laps

     1.  Fernando Alonso      Ferrari               1m33.247s            12
 2.  Sebastian Vettel     Red Bull-Renault      1m33.348s  + 0.101s  15
 3.  Mark Webber          Red Bull-Renault      1m33.380s  + 0.133s  19
 4.  Kimi Raikkonen       Lotus-Renault         1m33.446s  + 0.199s  21
 5.  Lewis Hamilton       Mercedes              1m33.455s  + 0.208s  19
 6.  Romain Grosjean      Lotus-Renault         1m33.464s  + 0.217s  19
 7.  Adrian Sutil         Force India-Mercedes  1m33.596s  + 0.349s  17
 8.  Paul di Resta        Force India-Mercedes  1m33.700s  + 0.453s  15
 9.  Nico Rosberg         Mercedes              1m33.764s  + 0.517s  19
10.  Nico Hulkenberg      Sauber-Ferrari        1m33.922s  + 0.675s  17
11.  Felipe Massa         Ferrari               1m33.949s  + 0.702s  20
12.  Jenson Button        McLaren-Mercedes      1m34.117s  + 0.870s  17
13.  Sergio Perez         McLaren-Mercedes      1m34.282s  + 1.035s  18
14.  Daniel Ricciardo     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m34.577s  + 1.330s  16
15.  Valtteri Bottas      Williams-Renault      1m34.611s  + 1.364s  17
16.  Jean-Eric Vergne     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m34.678s  + 1.431s  16
17.  Pastor Maldonado     Williams-Renault      1m34.833s  + 1.586s  17
18.  Charles Pic          Caterham-Renault      1m35.816s  + 2.569s  16
19.  Jules Bianchi        Marussia-Cosworth     1m36.731s  + 3.484s  17
20.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham-Renault      1m36.939s  + 3.692s  16
21.  Max Chilton          Marussia-Cosworth     1m37.630s  + 4.383s  7
22.  Esteban Gutierrez    Sauber-Ferrari        1m39.592s  + 6.345s  28