Austrian GP – Practice 3 – Results

Valtteri Bottas set the pace in final practice for the Austrian GP of 2014.

The Finn narrowly beat Lewis Hamilton in the free practice three, he was just 0.05secs quicker than Hamilton, who was in turn just 0.053secs clear of the second Williams of Felipe Massa.

The surprise of the session was Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat who took fourth, ahead of Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.

The field was tightly packed around the short lap at the challenging Red Bull Ring, with just 0.079secs covering the first four and 0.2secs the top six, the fastest Red Bull was just seventh on the team’s home circuit, in the hands of Daniel Ricciardo, who was 0.17secs quicker than his four-time world champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel in 10th.

Kevin Magnussen was eighth for McLaren, with team-mate Jenson Button missing most of the session after he experienced some brake problems. Kimi Raikkonen was ninth, again struggling compared to team-mate Alonso, 0.434secs adrift of the Spaniard.

Pos.	Drivers	Teams	Time	Laps
01.	77 – Valtteri Bottas	Williams Martini Racing	1:09.848	22
02.	44 – Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas	1:09.898	25
03.	19 – Felipe Massa	Williams Martini Racing	1:09.901	21
04.	26 – Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:09.927	25
05.	06 – Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas	1:09.999	31
06.	14 – Fernando Alonso	Scuderia Ferrari	1:10.054	17
07.	03 – Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:10.392	19
08.	20 – Kevin Magnussen	McLaren F1	1:10.449	23
09.	07 – Kimi Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:10.488	22
10.	01 – Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:10.562	21
11.	27 – Nico Hulkenberg	Sahara Force India	1:10.683	22
12.	13 – Pastor Maldonado	Lotus F1 Team	1:10.776	26
13.	25 – Jean-Eric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:11.043	22
14.	11 – Sergio Perez	Sahara Force India	1:11.103	22
15.	08 – Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	1:11.235	18
16.	99 – Adrian Sutil	Sauber F1 Team	1:11.294	24
17.	21 – Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber F1 Team	1:11.558	23
18.	17 – Jules Bianchi	Marussia F1 Team	1:11.848	21
19.	10 – Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham F1 Team	1:12.320	23
20.	09 – Marcus Ericsson	Caterham F1 Team	1:12.892	27
21.	04 – Max Chilton	Marussia F1 Team	1:12.915	14
22.	22 – Jenson Button	McLaren F1	1:14.237	4