The final practice session provided some drama in the Mercedes team with a rare off from Lewis Hamilton causing serious damage to his car. The team will relentlessly work to repair his car for qualifying but it did leave his teammate, and main rival, Nico Rosberg leading the way.
The lap in which Hamilton crashed may have provided a better since of his real pace but unfortunately we didn’t get to see that materialize.
1 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1m33.228s | – | 14 |
2 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1m34.210s | 0.982s | 10 |
3 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1m34.439s | 1.211s | 12 |
4 | Felipe Massa | Williams/Mercedes | 1m34.564s | 1.336s | 12 |
5 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams/Mercedes | 1m35.061s | 1.833s | 16 |
6 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull/Renault | 1m35.086s | 1.858s | 13 |
7 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren/Mercedes | 1m35.251s | 2.023s | 16 |
8 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso/Renault | 1m35.494s | 2.266s | 8 |
9 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso/Renault | 1m35.538s | 2.310s | 17 |
10 | Jenson Button | McLaren/Mercedes | 1m35.549s | 2.321s | 16 |
11 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India/Mercedes | 1m35.732s | 2.504s | 15 |
12 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1m35.995s | 2.767s | 5 |
13 | Sergio Perez | Force India/Mercedes | 1m36.365s | 3.137s | 8 |
14 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber/Ferrari | 1m36.407s | 3.179s | 22 |
15 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull/Renault | 1m36.460s | 3.232s | 6 |
16 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus/Renault | 1m36.558s | 3.330s | 19 |
17 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus/Renault | 1m36.617s | 3.389s | 12 |
18 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber/Ferrari | 1m36.626s | 3.398s | 20 |
19 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham/Renault | 1m37.367s | 4.139s | 12 |
20 | Max Chilton | Marussia/Ferrari | 1m37.883s | 4.655s | 17 |
21 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia/Ferrari | 1m38.102s | 4.874s | 15 |
22 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham/Renault | 1m38.784s | 5.556s | 12 |