Australian GP - Practice Session 3 - Red Bull Dominance continues

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Saturday Practice Session - 3, Qantas Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia

The third and the final practice session of the season opener Australian GP ends with flying Red Bull.

It was again the Red Bull duo on top. Sebastian Vettel was a no match even for his team mate Mark Webber. He breached 1min 24 barrier with following Mark Webber was almost 1sec behind him.

Mclaren plays a catch up to Red Bull with 3rd and 4th quickest time. There recent upgrades to exhaust system has paid them well and brought them back in competition with the front runners.

Vitaly Petrov stroms its way up to field with 5th quickest time for the session followed by Two time World Champion Fernando Alonso in 6th.

Sauber is looking strong team as they posted 7th, 8th and 9th quickest times in practice sessions. The timeline predicts they can be a strong mid-fielder giving competition to Williams and Force India.

Nico and Michael could only score 8th and 10th quickest time for the session.

The other half of Red Bull Toro Rosso were showing a strong sign of competitiveness in the midfield with 11th and 13th on the time sheet.

Felipe Massa poor performance continues as he was only 12th quickest with a gap of 2.5sec from the quickest man Vettel.

Force India's poor performance also continues as they have shown no sign of 6th team in the constructors. In all the three session their cars were slower than their competitors Williams, Toro Rosso, Sauber. They were ahead of only new teams Lotus, Virgin and HRT.

Team Lotus shows a good sign as their times are just in contention to give competition to midfielders but nothing can be predicted until 3-4races in the season.

HRT woes continues as Vitantonio Liuzzi F111 come to halt on the very first lap while Narain only managing to run his F111 for 5 laps and managing only 1min41.554sec.

As all the team have geared up and pull up their pants, They will be getting ready for their final run in qualifying to secure the pole position. Some will try to make their mark and some will try to qualify 107percent rule. It is for sure all will try to outpace their competitors.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 24.507sec		15
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 25.364sec	0.857	14
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.553sec	1.046	15
4	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.567sec	1.060	16
5	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 25.906sec	1.399	18
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 26.121sec	1.614	16
7	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 26.417sec	1.910	17
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 26.520sec	2.013	17
9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 26.746sec	2.239	17
10	Michael Schmacher	Mercedes GP	1min 26.856sec	2.349	15
11	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.008sec	2.501	17
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 27.011sec	2.504	15
13	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.066sec	2.559	14
14	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 27.087sec	2.580	15
15	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 27.180sec	2.673	15
16	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 28.068sec	3.561	7
17	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 28.077sec	3.570	9
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 29.772sec	5.265	17
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 30.003sec	5.496	18
20	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 30.261sec	5.754	15
21	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 30.496sec	5.989	5
22	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 30.704sec	6.197	18
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 41.554sec	17.047	5
24	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	No Time		1