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FP3, Nico Rosberg wants third pole in a row

On the first mid of the session, Sebastian Vettel scored the fastest time of the day with soft tyres (1:15.261), just 20 thousand of a second ahead of Nico Rosberg, and three tenths ahead of Lewis Hamilton. The first 30 minutes of practice have not been very interesting in terms of extracting conclusions about the pace of best teams, because everybody has been testing different things and settings on the cars.

The second mid of the session was full of incidents. Felipe Massa had a very strange accident in turn one, hitting the left wall after blocking front tyre, and then going into the barrier of Ste Devote. It looked like a problem in the car, although Felipe Massa said that he just blocked his tyres. The session was red flagged for a few minutes and, when it was restarted, Adrian Sutil also had an accident, the german driver crashed into the wall of Massenet, after blocking rear tyres on the braking. After this, we have seen a lot of little mistakes for a lot of drivers, like Nico Rosberg, who almost hit the wall on his fastest lap. The only drivers who seem to have completed a full lap almost perfect with supersoft are Nico Rosberg and Romain Grosjean, who had an accident on St Devote again, when there were two minutes remaining for the end. This accident caused a red flag and the session was over, so the qualifying session is now unpredictable.

P Driver Team Time Laps
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:14.378 22
2 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:15.039 13
3 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:15.261 17
4 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:15.286 17
5 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:15.311 20
6 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 1:15.380 19
7 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:15.550 20
8 Paul di Resta Force India 1:15.594 17
9 Pastor Maldonado Williams 1:15.861 15
10 Nico Hulkneberg Force India 1:15.926 25
11 Sergio Pérez McLaren 1:15.958 23
12 Jenson Button McLaren 1:15.976 19
13 Jean Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1:15.976 21
14 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1:16.060 16
15 Adrian Sutil Force India 1:16.068 12
16 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:16.105 8
17 Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber 1:16.427 26
18 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1:16.933 17
19 Charles Pic Caterham 1:17.902 20
20 Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1:18.102 20
21 Jules Bianchi Marussia 1:18.706 22
22 Max Chilton Marussia 1:19.228 22