Abu Dhabi GP: Rosberg tops final practice

Rosberg heads out for his fast lap

Nico Rosberg comfortably beat Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in final practice for the Abu Dhabi GP.

The German set the fastest time of the weekend so far in the final practice session with a 1m41.424s, 0.7s faster than Hamilton's Friday fastest lap and, although Hamilton also improved, he fell short of Rosberg's best by 0.369s.

It was a Mercedes 1-2-3 again with the Mercedes powered Williams of Felipe Massa who was third ahead of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull and the McLaren of Jenson Button. Vettel's teammate Daniel Ricciardo was seventh fastest overall in his Red Bull ahead of Valtteri Bottas in the second Williams.

The field filling Caterhams were dead last as expected.

Results

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Behind	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m41.424s	0.000s	19
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m41.793s	0.369s	17
3	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m42.429s	1.005s	18
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m42.653s	1.229s	8
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull/Renault	1m42.679s	1.255s	19
6	Jenson Button	McLaren/Mercedes	1m42.768s	1.344s	20
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m42.773s	1.349s	14
8	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m42.794s	1.370s	19
9	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m42.809s	1.385s	20
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m43.038s	1.614s	14
11	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren/Mercedes	1m43.112s	1.688s	13
12	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m43.352s	1.928s	20
13	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m43.360s	1.936s	19
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m43.501s	2.077s	18
15	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber/Ferrari	1m43.643s	2.219s	24
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Renault	1m43.718s	2.294s	17
17	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Renault	1m43.778s	2.354s	18
18	Adrian Sutil	Sauber/Ferrari	1m44.022s	2.598s	22
19	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham/Renault	1m45.044s	3.620s	16
20	Will Stevens	Caterham/Renault	1m45.959s	4.535s	21