Ferrari seized the upper hand in FP3 for the Chinese Grand Prix, resuming its momentum from the start of the season.
After yesterday’s wash-out and the cancellation of FP2, teams took full advantage of the dry conditions to accumulate as much mileage as possible.
Vettel put himself at the top of the timesheet with a 1’33.336 on the supersoft compound after 45 minutes, with team mate Kimi Raikkonen following suit just a tenth of a second behind.
Valtteri Bottas, who lost his T-wing early in the session, was the fastest Mercedes runner, but four tenths off Vettel’s pace while Lewis Hamilton ended the session fourth, half a second away from the Ferraris.
Williams’s Felipe Massa displayed a good form in fifth position while team mate Lance Stroll enjoyed a good session whihc he finsihed eighth.
The Williams pair sandwiched the Red Bull drivers who were more than one-and-a-half-seconds of the pace of the leaders, with Verstappen sixth and Ricciardo seventh.
Despite a spin, Jolyon Palmer enjoyed a trouble-free session, edging out his team mate for ninth while Hulkenberg was eleventh.
McLaren duo Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne were predictably slow, closing the ranks alongside Sauber, with a massive gap of over two-and-a-half-seconds from the top of the field.
FP3 results
1
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:33.336s
20
2
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
1:33.389s
+ 0.053s
19
3
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
1:33.707s
+ 0.371s
26
4
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:33.879s
+ 0.543s
25
5
Felipe Massa
Williams
1:34.773s
+ 1.437s
23
6
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:34.946s
+ 1.610s
20
7
Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull
1:35.092s
+ 1.756s
23
8
Lance Stroll
Williams
1:35.182s
+ 1.846s
24
9
Jolyon Palmer
Renault
1:35.192s
+ 1.856s
21
10
Carlos Sainz
Toro Rosso
1:35.223s
+ 1.887s
24
11
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:35.449s
+ 2.113s
22
12
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
1:35.521s
+ 2.185s
22
13
Sergio Pérez
Force India
1:35.626s
+ 2.290s
20
14
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:35.680s
+ 2.344s
22
15
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:35.804s
+ 2.468s
23
16
Esteban Ocon
Force India
1:35.811s
+ 2.475s
24
17
Fernando Alonso
McLaren
1:35.912s
+ 2.576s
17
18
Marcus Ericsson
Sauber
1:36.063s
+ 2.727s
25
19
Stoffel Vandoorne
McLaren
1:36.221s
+ 2.885s
21
20
Antonio Giovinazzi
Sauber
1:36.705s
+ 3.369s
24
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