Italian GP: Vettel tops final practice

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel led the final free practice session ahead of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Saturday morning with a lap of 1m23.170s. He topped Red Bull teammate Mark Webber by 0.364s.

Closest challenger to the Red Bulls was Felipe Massa's Ferrari (1:23.688), ahead of the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton (1:23.741) and Jenson Button (1:23.787).

Nico Rosberg (1:23.875), who missed much of practice 2 on Friday with a KERS issue, was the first Mercedes, sixth quickest ahead of teammate Michael Schumacher (1:24.114).

Fernando Alonso (1:24.133) was one second off the pace in 8th, but suspected to be sandbagging.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m23.170s	+0.000s	18
2.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m23.534s	+0.364	19
3.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m23.668s	+0.498	14
4.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m23.741s	+0.571	17
5.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m23.787s	+0.617	16
6.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m23.875s	+0.705	22
7.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m24.114s	+0.944	20
8.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m24.133s	+0.963	14
9.	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m24.543s	+1.373	21
10.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m24.581s	+1.411	22
11.	Bruno Senna	Renault	1m24.853s	+1.683	20
12.	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1m24.889s	+1.719	19
13.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m24.948s	+1.778	22
14.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m25.261s	+2.091	21
15.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m24.319s	+2.149	19
16.	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m25.426s	+2.256	19
17.	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m25.439s	+2.269	22
18.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m25.539s	+2.369	19
19.	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1m27.328s	+4.158	19
20.	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1m27.491s	+4.321	21
21.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m28.186s	+5.016	23
22.	Tonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1m28.441s	+5.271	22
23.	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m28.962s	+5.792	17
24.	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1m30.316s	+7.146	16