European GP: Button tops Practice 3

Jenson Button

Jenson Button, using his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton's setup, beat him and all others with a lap of 1m38.562s to top the final practice session in Valencia, Spain ahead of qualifying for the European GP in a few hours.

Romain Grosjean was second for Lotus ahead of his teammate Kimi Raikkonen. Nico Rosberg was fourth for Force India.

Paul di Resta was fifth in the second Force India, with Sergio Perez sixth for Sauber, Michael Schumacher seventh for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton eighth, Felipe Massa in ninth spot for Ferrari and Pastor Maldonado 10th for Williams.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m38.562	+0.000s	17
2.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1m38.655s	+0.093	18
3.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1m38.759s	+0.197	18
4.	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m38.819s	+0.257	17
5.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m38.892s	+0.330	17
6.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m39.084s	+0.522	20
7.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m39.141s	+0.579	15
8.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m39.178s	+0.616	17
9.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m39.318s	+0.756	15
10.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1m39.357s	+0.795	18
11.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m39.358s	+0.796	19
12.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m39.395s	+0.833	15
13.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m39.434s	+0.872	13
14.	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1m39.543s	+0.981	13
15.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m39.946s	+1.384	20
16.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m40.037s	+1.475	17
17.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m40.134s	+1.572	20
18.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1m40.681s	+2.119	15
19.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m41.282s	+2.720	4
20.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1m41.931s	+3.369	15
21.	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1m42.758s	+4.196	14
22.	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1m42.815s	+4.253	16
23.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m42.943s	+4.381	14
24.	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1m43.124s	+4.562	16