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 RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen	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