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Bottas surprisingly on top FP3

Saturday morning track conditions improved somewhat after the races support races, but despite the forecast, the weather was cool, so that problems with the heating condition, which many complained on Friday, remained. Team adjusted the settings based on information gathered yesterday and continued to work on the machines to qualifying and the race. 

Button had problems with the brakes, the British drove a few laps and stopped in the pits, handing the car mechanics. Hamilton had to change elements of the front suspension.
Many were wrong in the first and eighth turn, Charlie Whiting again warned drivers, they can not cut the eighth rotation – due to this can be an advantage, therefore, in such a qualification round will not be counted.
At the last minute Kobayashi departed after turning the last corner, but he was able to return. Session passed without major incident.

 

Valtteri Bottas protocol led, driving range in 1:09.848. On a short round results were very tight – qualification will be interesting!

 

Results:

 

Pos. Car Driver Team Nation Laps Time Gap
1 77 Valtteri Bottas Williams – Mercedes FIN 22 1:9,848
2 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes GBR 25 1:9,898 + 0,05
3 19 Felipe Massa Williams – Mercedes BRA 21 1:9,901 + 0,053
4 26 Daniil Kvyat R Toro Rosso – Renault RUS 25 1:9,927 + 0,079
5 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GER 31 1:9,999 + 0,151
6 14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari SPA 17 1:10,054 + 0,206
7 3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing – Renault AUS 19 1:10,392 + 0,544
8 20 Kevin Magnussen R McLaren – Mercedes DAN 23 1:10,449 + 0,601
9 7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari FIN 22 1:10,488 + 0,64
10 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing – Renault GER 21 1:10,562 + 0,714
11 27 Nico Hülkenberg Force India – Mercedes GER 22 1:10,683 + 0,835
12 13 Pastor Maldonado Lotus – Renault VEN 26 1:10,776 + 0,928
13 25 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso – Renault FRA 22 1:11,043 + 1,195
14 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus – Renault FRA 22 1:11,103 + 1,255
15 11 Sergio Pérez Force India – Mercedes MEX 18 1:11,235 + 1,387
16 99 Adrian Sutil Sauber – Ferrari GER 24 1:11,294 + 1,446
17 21 Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber – Ferrari MEX 23 1:11,558 + 1,71
18 17 Jules Bianchi Marussia –  Ferrari FRA 21 1:11,848 + 2
19 10 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham – Renault JAP 23 1:12,32 + 2,472
20 9 Marcus Ericsson R Caterham – Renault SWE 27 1:12,892 + 3,044
21 4 Max Chilton Marussia –  Ferrari GBR 14 1:12,915 + 3,067
22 22 Jenson Button McLaren – Mercedes GBR 4 1:14,237 + 4,389