European GP - FP3 - Vettel captures the top slot again

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Saturday Practice Session - 3, European Grand Prix , Valencia Street Circuit, Spain

Ferrari enjoyed their dominance in Valencia, but in the end Sebastian Vettel had the last laugh. In the dying moments of the final practice session, he put the fastest time with 1min 37.258sec. As the chequered flag waved, he challenged his own time but had to slow down as Kamui Kobayashi spun and hit the wall in the final corner.

Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa dominated most of the session. Alonso was in 2nd position, beating his own best time of FP2 nearly by 2tenth of a second. Felipe was the only other driver to cross the line in 1min 37sec.

Mark Webber was 4th followed by Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg. Lewis struggled and find it difficult to pass in the traffic to end up in 7th. He seemed to be testing on heavy load. Michael had a poor third session with only 8th fastest time. The 7time world champion also spun his Mercedes in the final few minutes.

Competition soars in the final practice with Red Bull, Ferrari, Mclaren and Mercedes covering the top 8 position followed by the two Renaults. Force India continues their promising weekend with Adrian Sutil again following the top 5 teams and ended his session in 11th followed by Sergio Perez.

Paul Di Resta who had only done 7laps until today finished his session in 13th. He was having some difficulties during his run. Kobayashi in the second Sauber was 14th. He spun his car in the final corner in his final lap after the chequered flag waved in. He kissed the wall that leaved his car with broken front wing. The car will be most probably ready for the Qualifying session.

Sebastien Buemi in the leading Toro Rosso was 15th on the time sheet followed by Rubens Barrichello in Williams.

For the fact, Williams have always scored points in Valencia since it inaugural run in 2008.

Maldonado followed his teammate.

Jaime Alguersuari who did not get a run in FP2 following a mechanical problem in his car finished 18th on the timesheet. Toro Rosso is struggling to get the pace out of their car.

At the back, it was as usually a fruitful day for Team Lotus being way ahead of newcomers, but this time they were not close enough to compete with Toro Rosso ahead of them.

HRT driver Vitantonio Liuzzi separated the two Virgin's at the back. Narain Karthikeyan continue to trail at the back in 24th.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1min 37.258sec		15
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 37.678sec	0.420	16
3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 37.840sec	0.582	17
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 38.068sec	0.810	13
5	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 38.326sec	1.068	13
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1min 38.580sec	1.322	15
7	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 38.741sec	1.483	13
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 38.799sec	1.541	14
9	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 38.822sec	1.564	17
10	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 39.113sec	1.855	15
11	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 39.411sec	2.153	19
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 39.778sec	2.520	18
13	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 39.823sec	2.565	18
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 39.848sec	2.590	18
15	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 39.888sec	2.630	17
16	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 39.987sec	2.729	18
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 40.004sec	2.746	16
18	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 40.239	2.981	20
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 41.267sec	4.009	15
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 41.690sec	4.432	18
21	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 42.557sec	5.299	18
22	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 43.243sec	5.985	17
23	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 43.309sec	6.051	18
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 44.630sec	7.372	19