Italian GP: Free Practice #3 - RE-CAP & TIMES

ITALIAN GP - FREE PRACTICE #3 - RE-CAP & TIMES

    Sebastian Vettel topped the final free practice in front of Ferrari’s home crowds at Monza.

    Despite a small mistake early in the session sending him up the escape road, Vettel enjoyed a solid FP3 to finish fastest with a lap time of 1m20.509s.

    Lewis Hamilton was top of the timings mid-way through the hour long session, but quickly dropped down the order after the Ferraris turned up the engine.

    Vettel led Kimi Raikkonen, initially by just 0.082s before Vettel set his fastest time of the session to go more than half a second quicker than his team-mate.

    Mercedes followed Ferrari by turning up the wick late in the session, allowing Hamilton to jump up to second quickest, where he finished, 0.081s slower than Vettel.

    Raikkonen ended the session third, nearly two tenths of a second behind Vettel, with Valtteri Bottas fourth.

    Max Verstappen was the quickest of the Red Bulls in fifth quickest, ahead of Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, and Daniel Ricciardo, who was focused on race set up rather than qualifying.

    Charles Leclerc and Romain Grosjean completed the top 10.

    After Marcus Ericsson’s violent crash in FP2, Sauber started the session by testing its DRS. Both cars avoided dramas in the final practice, with Ericsson managing to set the 16th quickest time after completing more laps than any other driver in the session.

    This time, Renault was the team to suffer a DRS issue, with Nico Hulkenberg’s rear wing flap becoming stuck open midway through the hour, bringing his FP3 to an early end. He finished 19th quickest, ahead only of the Toro Rosso of Brendon Hartley.

    Sergio Perez finished just outside the top 10 in P11, ahead of Pierre Gasly, Carlos Sainz Jnr, Sergey Sirotkin, and Lance Stroll.

    The McLaren duo of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne took 17th and 18th quickest.

TIMES:

1. Sebastian Vettel - 1:20.509 / Ferrari-Ferrari / Germany
2. Lewis Hamilton - 1:20.590 / Mercedes-Mercedes / Great Britain
3. Kimi Raikkonen - 1:20.682 / Ferrari-Ferrari / Finland
4. Valtteri Bottas - 1:21.112 / Mercedes-Mercedes / Finland
5. Max Verstappen - 1:21.388 / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Netherlands
6. Kevin Magnussen - 1:22.011 / Haas-Ferrari / Denmark
7. Esteban Ocon - 1:22.055 / Racing Point Force India-Mercedes / France
8. Daniel Ricciardo - 1:22.310 / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Australia
9. Charles Leclerc - 1:22.313 / Sauber-Ferrari / Monaco
10. Romain Grosjean - 1:22.357 / Haas-Ferrari / France
11. Sergio Perez - 1:22.486 / Racing Point Force India-Mercedes / Mexico
12. Pierre Gasly - 1:22.631 / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / France
13. Carlos Sainz - 1:22.737 / Renault-Renault / Spain
14. Sergey Sirotkin - 1:22.778 / Williams-Mercedes / Russia
15. Lance Stroll - 1:22.860 / Williams-Mercedes / Canada
16. Marcus Ericsson - 1:22.882 / Sauber-Ferrari / Sweden
17. Fernando Alonso - 1:22.892 / McLaren-Renault / Spain
18. Stoffel Vandoorne - 1:22.987 / McLaren-Renault / Belgium
19. Nico Hulkenberg - 1:23.149 / Renault-Renault / Germany
20. Brendon Hartley - 1:23.164 / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / New Zealand

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