AUSTRALIAN GP – FINAL PRACTICE RESULTS

PRACTICE THREE

Report – Sebastian Vettel was second fastest in the third free practice for the Australian Grand Prix, the final session before the all-important qualifying. Vettel posted a 1.28.563 to split the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton (1.27.867) and Nico Rosberg (1.28.821.) In the other SF15-T, Kimi Raikkonen was sixth with a 1.29.017, as he and his team-mated worked on a qualifying set-up. Both Ferrari men completed 13 laps, running two sets of Medium tyres and one set of Softs.

FP3 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m27.867s	–	11
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m28.563s	0.696s	13
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m28.821s	0.954s	14
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m28.912s	1.045s	14
5	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m28.988s	1.121s	18
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m29.017s	1.150s	13
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m29.481s	1.614s	12
8	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m29.864s	1.997s	15
9	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m29.869s	2.002s	19
10	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m29.934s	2.067s	24
11	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m29.952s	2.085s	16
12	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m30.613s	2.746s	21
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m30.741s	2.874s	14
14	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m30.993s	3.126s	17
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m31.185s	3.318s	10
16	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren/Honda	1m31.391s	3.524s	14
17	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m31.666s	3.799s	13
18	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m32.830s	4.963s	6