Posted on 26th July 2015
In the final practice session at Hungary this afternoon, Lewis Hamilton remained top of the timesheets once again ahead of his team mate Nico Rosberg and Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel.
We saw in the session Sergio Perez spinning his Force India into Turn 1, luckily Perez didn't make contact with the barrier and was able to continue running in the session. His team mate Nico Hulkenberg in the first twenty minutes of the session saw in his mirrors a rainlight cover come off his car; but he was able to continue running in the session.
At the end of the session, we saw Nico Rosberg stopping at the end of the pitlane due to his engine stalling which saw him being pushed back by the marshals into the pitlane after trying to practice his start procedure for tomorrow.
But it was Lewis Hamilton who topped the timesheets with a lap time of 1.22.997 ahead of his team mate Nico Rosberg in second place who was 0.098 seconds behind him but was ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel in third place who was 0.889 seconds behind the Mercedes of Hamilton.
Daniil Kvyat finished the session in fourth place ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr in fifth place, Nico Hulkenberg in sixth place and Max Verstappen in seventh place. Fernando Alonso in eighth place and he was ahead of Daniel Ricciardo in ninth place and Romain Grosjean who rounded off the top ten finishers of the session.
Pastor Maldonado ended the session in eleventh place ahead of Felipe Massa in twelfth place, Jenson Button in thirteenth place, Valtteri Bottas in fourteenth place and Sergio Perez in fifteenth place. As we head into the latter stages of the grid, Kimi Raikkonen finished the session in sixteenth place after suffering a water leak in the session but he was ahead of Felipe Nasr in seventeenth place and was ahead of his team mate Marcus Ericsson in eighteenth place and ahead of the two Manor F1 drivers of Will Stevens and Roberto Merhi.
The classification of FP3 for the Hungarian GP is as follows
1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1.22.997
2. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 0.098s
3. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, 0.889s
4. Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull Renault, 1.218s
5. Carlos Sainz Jr, Toro Rosso, 1.329s
6. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India-Mercedes, 1.486s
7. Max Verstappen, Toro Rosso, 1.681s
8. Fernando Alonso, McLaren-Honda, 1.849s
9. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull-Renault, 1.936s
10. Romain Grosjean, Lotus-Mercedes, 1.944s
11. Pastor Maldonado, Lotus-Mercedes, 1.956s
12. Felipe Massa, Williams-Mercedes, 2.097s
13. Jenson Button, McLaren-Honda, 2.252s
14. Valtteri Bottas, Williams-Mercedes, 2.341s
15. Sergio Perez, Force India-Mercedes, 2.396s
16. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 2.664s
17. Felipe Nasr, Sauber-Ferrari, 3.063s
18. Marcus Ericsson, Sauber-Ferrari, 3.098s
19. Roberto Merhi, Manor, 5.760s
20. Will Stevens, Manor, 5.911s
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