Rosberg comfortably ahead as practice ends

2014 German Grand Prix third practice

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Nico Rosberg ended the final practice session for the German Grand Prix with a comfortable margin of six-tenths of a second over his team mate and closest rival.

Rosberg set a best time of 1’17.779 using super-soft tyres at the end of the session while Lewis Hamilton, who reported a vibration from the rubber on his final run, could only manage a 1’18.380.

That was just four-thousandths of a second faster than Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari. But once again there were problems at the other side of that garage.

Ferrari diagnosed a fuel system problem on Kimi Raikkonen’s car halfway through the session and quickly summoned him back into the pits. He was out moments later to do a quick run on the super-softs, then returned to the pits for the rest of the session.

A clutch of Mercedes-powered cars followed Alonso on the times sheets. The Williams pair were next, Valtteri Bottas trailling his team mate after a scruffy lap.

Kevin Magnussen was next for McLaren but team mate Jenson Button languished in 13th place, complaining about poor balance and ineffective brakes as the session came to an end.

Pos.No.DriverCarBest lapGapLaps
16Nico RosbergMercedes1’17.779
244Lewis HamiltonMercedes1’18.3800.601
314Fernando AlonsoFerrari1’18.3840.605
419Felipe MassaWilliams-Mercedes1’18.5750.796
577Valtteri BottasWilliams-Mercedes1’18.6110.832
620Kevin MagnussenMcLaren-Mercedes1’18.7560.977
73Daniel RicciardoRed Bull-Renault1’18.7690.990
87Kimi RaikkonenFerrari1’18.8421.063
91Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1’18.8901.111
1027Nico HulkenbergForce India-Mercedes1’19.1271.348
1126Daniil KvyatToro Rosso-Renault1’19.1311.352
1225Jean-Eric VergneToro Rosso-Renault1’19.4701.691
1322Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1’19.4891.710
1411Sergio PerezForce India-Mercedes1’19.5051.726
1521Esteban GutierrezSauber-Ferrari1’19.6011.822
168Romain GrosjeanLotus-Renault1’20.0782.299
1717Jules BianchiMarussia-Ferrari1’20.1992.420
1813Pastor MaldonadoLotus-Renault1’20.4662.687
1999Adrian SutilSauber-Ferrari1’20.8443.065
2010Kamui KobayashiCaterham-Renault1’21.0183.239
219Marcus EricssonCaterham-Renault1’23.0775.298
224Max ChiltonMarussia-Ferrari1’23.4495.670

Combined practice times

PosDriverCarFP1FP2FP3Fri/Sat diffTotal laps
1Nico RosbergMercedes1’19.1311’18.3651’17.779-0.58668
2Lewis HamiltonMercedes1’19.1961’18.3411’18.380+0.03963
3Fernando AlonsoFerrari1’19.4231’19.3291’18.384-0.94553
4Daniel RicciardoRed Bull-Renault1’19.6971’18.4431’18.769+0.32662
5Felipe MassaWilliams-Mercedes1’20.5421’19.0241’18.575-0.44955
6Valtteri BottasWilliams-Mercedes1’19.3851’18.611-0.77434
7Kevin MagnussenMcLaren-Mercedes1’20.1051’18.9601’18.756-0.20472
8Kimi RaikkonenFerrari1’20.2101’18.8871’18.842-0.04559
9Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1’20.0971’19.2481’18.890-0.35863
10Nico HulkenbergForce India-Mercedes1’20.5921’19.5931’19.127-0.46654
11Daniil KvyatToro Rosso-Renault1’20.3371’19.4521’19.131-0.32155
12Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1’19.8331’19.2211’19.489+0.26864
13Adrian SutilSauber-Ferrari1’20.5051’19.4171’20.844+1.42759
14Jean-Eric VergneToro Rosso-Renault1’20.5861’19.7601’19.470-0.2955
15Sergio PerezForce India-Mercedes1’20.5981’19.5811’19.505-0.07652
16Esteban GutierrezSauber-Ferrari1’20.5041’19.601-0.90340
17Romain GrosjeanLotus-Renault1’21.6031’20.3581’20.078-0.2855
18Pastor MaldonadoLotus-Renault1’21.8541’20.1581’20.466+0.30865
19Jules BianchiMarussia-Ferrari1’22.9821’21.3281’20.199-1.12955
20Susie WolffWilliams-Mercedes1’20.76922
21Giedo van der GardeSauber-Ferrari1’20.78223
22Kamui KobayashiCaterham-Renault1’22.5721’23.7281’21.018-1.55443
23Marcus EricssonCaterham-Renault1’23.2561’21.8701’23.077+1.20756
24Max ChiltonMarussia-Ferrari1’23.2991’21.8981’23.449+1.55150

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