Jerez Testing: Day 3 with Kimi

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Today's final times:
Pos  Driver              Team            Time                Laps
 1.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari         1m17.879s           85
 2.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes        1m18.766s  +0.887   148
 3.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull        1m19.052s  +1.173   102
 4.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus           1m19.200s  +1.321   40
 5.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso      1m19.247s  +1.368   85
 6.  James Rossiter      Force India     1m19.303s  +1.424   42
 7.  Jenson Button       McLaren         1m19.603s  +1.724   83
 8.  Esteban Gutierrez   Sauber          1m19.934s  +2.055   110
 9.  Max Chilton         Marussia        1m21.269s  +3.390   78
10.  Valtteri  Bottas    Williams        1m21.575s  +3.696   86
11.  Charles Pic         Caterham        1m22.352s  +4.473   57
12.  Paul di Resta       Force India     1m23.729s  +5.850   7


Morning times:

Pos  Driver              Team            Time               Laps
 1.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari         1m17.879s           49
 2.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes        1m19.004s  +1.125   69
 3.  James Rossiter      Force India     1m19.303s  +1.424   32
 4.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus           1m19.539s  +1.660   23
 5.  Jenson Button       McLaren         1m19.603s  +1.724   28
 6.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull        1m19.676s  +1.797   46
 7.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso      1m19.707s  +1.828   46
 8.  Esteban Gutierrez   Sauber          1m19.995s  +2.116   61
 9.  Valtteri  Bottas    Williams        1m21.578s  +3.699   58
10.  Max Chilton         Marussia        1m23.938s  +6.059   27
11.  Charles Pic         Caterham        1m25.365s  +7.486   28

Commentary

BBC Sport:

• Lotus on Twitter: “As everyone keeps asking for him, we’ve interrupted our tea and banter to send Kimi Raikkonen out again.”

• Gary Anderson in Jerez: “Felipe Massa’s Ferrari made its first appearance at the top of the timesheets earlier this morning after two days of data-gathering. The car has actually been setting decent times all through the test but it doesn’t look as consistent as the Lotus. At the moment, the Ferrari has the same problem as the Red Bull – once the front washes away, the driver can’t get it back. Whereas the Lotus is much more pliable. However, it’s clear from the times he was setting and the pattern of his runs that for a lot of his laps on Wednesday, Lotus’s Romain Grosjean did not have a lot of fuel on board, and the fuel load has a dramatic effect on car behaviour.”

Autosport Live:

• 12:00 Kimi Raikkonen is the latest driver to improve just before lunch, as he moves into fourth with a 1m19.539s.

• 11:06 Word from Lotus is that there’s nothing to be alarmed about by Raikkonen’s lack of action – the team is just making small tweaks to get the Finn settled in the E21.