Spanish Grand Prix Final Practice: Vettel on Top

Sebastian Vettel topped the third and final practice in the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday. Considering that Vettel only drove for 13laps, it shows ominous signs of Vettel dominating again. Narain Karthikeyan of India who was frustrated yesterday due to lack of track time, finally could drive. He drove 24 laps in his HRT car compared to the 13 laps of his team mate Pedro de la Rosa and was faster than him. This should surely give the much needed confidence to Narain.

Michael Schumacher chose to drive 17 laps and was 17th in the timesheets with a time of 1:24.825. I don't think he would be bothered that his team mate Nico Rosberg drove for 24 laps and scored a faster time of 1:24.070.

Fernando Alonso, who had topped the FP1 times was 6th with a time of 1:23.807 while his team mate Felipe Massa was 11th with a time of 1:24.179.

With Qualifying scheduled in the afternoon, it is to be seen who wins the important qualifying battle.


Time Sheet for Third Practice

	Third Practice
Sl.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1:23.168		13 laps
2	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1:23.336	0.168	19 laps
3	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1:23.350	0.182	19 laps
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1:23.578	0.410	16 laps
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber	1:23.742	0.574	22 laps
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:23.807	0.639	15 laps
7	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:23.833	0.665	14 laps
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:23.909	0.741	13 laps
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus	1:23.936	0.768	16 laps
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:24.070	0.902	24 laps
11	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:24.179	1.011	16 laps
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:24.323	1.155	17 laps
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1:24.3331	1.163	15 laps
14	Bruno Senna	Williams	1:24.409	1.241	18 laps
15	Paul de Resta	Force India	1:24.599	1.431	15 laps
16	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1:24.778	1.610	15 laps
17	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1.24.825	1.657	17 laps
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	1:25.911	2.743	20 laps
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	1:26.587	3.419	20 laps
20	Charles Pic	Marussia	1:27.469	4.301	18 laps
21	Timo Glock	Marussia	1:27.689	4.521	16 laps
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	1:28.207	5.039	24 laps
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	1:28.373	5.205	13 laps
24	Romain Grosjean	Lotus			2 laps