F1 GP Monaco, Free Practice 3 for Vettel

The third free practice session started with a great alternation at the top of the standings with Mercedes e Ferrari to compete for the best position.

However, about half an hour before the end they were there Red Bull to jump to the front, confirming Barcelona's important steps forward. Daniel Ricciardo with a 1'14'807 was at the top for a long time followed by the winner of the Montmelo Verstappen only to then give up the leadership to Vettel's Ferrari who with his 1'14"650 was also unapproachable for the Stuttgart duo who climbed back into the closing stages with Hamilton second and Rosberg third.

Good performance Toro Rosso by Daniil Kvayt and Carlos Sainz, sixth and seventh. However, Kimi Raikkonen's time was disappointing, finishing ninth with a time of 1'15"555.

Nico Hulkenberg closes the top ten Force India. McLaren is still far from the important positions with Alonso eleventh and Button thirteenth.

Below expectations, at least so far, the Williams, eleventh with Massa and fourteenth with Bottas.

Haas is being studied, fifteenth with Gutierrez and seventeenth with Grosjean. At the back of the grid were the usual Renaults, who had shown some good signs at the start of the session, Sauber and Manor.

F1 GP Monaco – Times, results and laps Free Practice 3
1 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m14.650s – 25
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m14.668s 0.018s 24
3 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m14.772s 0.122s 29
4 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m14.807s 0.157s 22
5 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m15.081s 0.431s 17
6 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m15.259s 0.609s 23
7 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m15.324s 0.674s 26
8 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m15.368s 0.718s 21
9 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m15.555s 0.905s 22
10 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m15.666s 1.016s 20
11 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m16.068s 1.418s 29
12 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1m16.257s 1.607s 24
13 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m16.298s 1.648s 23
14 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m16.347s 1.697s 21
15 Esteban Gutierrez Haas/Ferrari 1m16.406s 1.756s 23
16 Kevin Magnussen Renault 1m16.412s 1.762s 13
17 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m16.527s 1.877s 27
18 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m16.867s 2.217s 23
19 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m17.038s 2.388s 32
20 Jolyon Palmer Renault 1m17.482s 2.832s 17
21 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 1m17.595s 2.945s 32
22 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 1m18.180s 3.530s 34

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