Vettel over Hamilton in final Baku practice
Sebastian Vettel |
Sebastian Vettel has made himself and Ferrari one of the favorites to win the pole for the Azerbaijan GP by easily topping the third and final practice Saturday morning. Vettel's time of 1m43.091s was 0.361sec faster than the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton.
Kimi Raikkonen was third quick in the 2nd Ferrari 0.402s behind his Ferrari teammate.
Max Verstappen in the Red Bull and Valtteri Bottas in the 2nd Mercedes rounded out the top-5.
The Red Bulls focused on long runs for most of the session after being quickest on Friday and actually were faster than Vettel's time this morning.
FP3 Results
POS | NO | DRIVER | CAR | TIME | GAP | LAPS |
1 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:43.091 | +0.000s | 17 |
2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:43.452 | +0.361s | 16 |
3 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:43.493 | +0.402s | 17 |
4 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing Renault | 1:43.519 | +0.428s | 17 |
5 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:43.569 | +0.478s | 20 |
6 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Force India Mercedes | 1:43.936 | +0.845s | 9 |
7 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas Ferrari | 1:43.958 | +0.867s | 11 |
8 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Williams Mercedes | 1:44.123 | +1.032s | 8 |
9 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Force India Mercedes | 1:44.220 | +1.129s | 11 |
10 | 35 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams Mercedes | 1:44.534 | +1.443s | 9 |
11 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren Renault | 1:44.763 | +1.672s | 12 |
12 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing Renault | 1:44.861 | +1.770s | 17 |
13 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso Honda | 1:44.905 | +1.814s | 16 |
14 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber Ferrari | 1:45.218 | +2.127s | 15 |
15 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas Ferrari | 1:45.261 | +2.170s | 12 |
16 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 1:45.432 | +2.341s | 15 |
17 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | 1:45.456 | +2.365s | 11 |
18 | 2 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren Renault | 1:45.505 | +2.414s | 13 |
19 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber Ferrari | 1:45.910 | +2.819s | 17 |
20 | 28 | Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso Honda | 1:46.186 | +3.095s | 11 |