The Finn from Williams has set the fastest time in a session where the Mercedes didn’t show all their pace.


 

The session began with the track still wet from the rain that had fallen during the night. As a consequence, the drivers did the outlap to test the intermediates and full wet, but halfway through the session only Bianchi, Chilton and Lotterer had set a timed lap.

Most drivers didn’t start testing for qualifying until there were 25 minutes left. Times were being improved more and more with the hard tyres, with Lewis Hamilton setting the fastest time just 0,001s ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. Alonso, who was the 3rd fastest, was 1s off.

Finally, times were improved hugely with the soft compound, except the Mercedes, who have saved something for qualifying. Bottas was fastest followed by Ricciardo’s Red Bull, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Hamilton and Alonso.

Result:

Pos. Car Driver Team Laps Time Gap
1 77 Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams – Mercedes 12 1:49,465
2 3 Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull Racing – Renault 9 1:49,733 + 0,268
3 6 Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes 13 1:49,739 + 0,274
4 7 Kimi Räikkönen FIN Ferrari 9 1:49,817 + 0,352
5 44 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 13 1:49,817 + 0,352
6 14 Fernando Alonso SPA Ferrari 9 1:49,890 + 0,425
7 26 Daniil Kvyat (R) RUS Toro Rosso – Renault 11 1:49,893 + 0,428
8 22 Jenson Button GBR McLaren – Mercedes 11 1:50,203 + 0,738
9 19 Felipe Massa BRA Williams – Mercedes 11 1:50,423 + 0,958
10 25 Jean-Eric Vergne FRA Toro Rosso – Renault 10 1:50,535 + 1,070
11 11 Sergio Pérez MEX Force India – Mercedes 12 1:50,592 + 1,127
12 20 Kevin Magnussen (R) DAN McLaren – Mercedes 11 1:50,748 + 1,283
13 1 Sebastian Vettel GER Red Bull Racing – Renault 10 1:50,814 + 1,349
14 27 Nico Hülkenberg GER Force India – Mercedes 11 1:50,866 + 1,401
15 99 Adrian Sutil GER Sauber – Ferrari 12 1:50,962 + 1,497
16 8 Romain Grosjean FRA Lotus – Renault 9 1:51,509 + 2,044
17 13 Pastor Maldonado VEN Lotus – Renault 10 1:51,610 + 2,145
18 21 Esteban Gutiérrez MEX Sauber – Ferrari 15 1:51,898 + 2,433
19 17 Jules Bianchi FRA Marussia –  Ferrari 14 1:52,457 + 2,992
20 4 Max Chilton GBR Marussia –  Ferrari 14 1:52,984 + 3,519
21 9 Marcus Ericsson (R) SWE Caterham – Renault 11 1:54,294 + 4,829
22 45 André Lotterer (R) GER Caterham – Renault 13 1:55,008 + 5,543