2013 Indian Grand Prix: Red Bulls dominate yet again
After a delayed start due to poor visibility, the final practice was shortened to 40-minute session. Both the Red Bull drivers topped the sheets with Vettel ahead of Webber by more than half a second. Webber and the Ferraris were initially on top but Vettel was the first to go out on soft tyres. The difference in lap time was close to 2 seconds as the German driver went on to clock a record 1m25.332s lap time. Webber beat the Ferraris eventually and finished second (1m 25.892s).
Sebastian Vettel makes a clean sweep of all three practice sessions at the BIC
All other drivers couldn't get into 1m 25s with the closest time being Alonso's 1m 26.105s followed by a good drive by Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg finishing fourth (1m 26.306s, his best finish in practice so far). Romain Grosjean ended in 5th position while Massa in 6th. Force India driver Paul di Resta who didn't drive in the previous session yesterday, was quicker than Mercedes driver Rosberg, the lap times being 1m 26.438s and 1m 26.441s. Hamilton was slower to his team mate unlike the previous outing. Kimi again didn't make it to the top 10 and finished in 11th (1m 26.635). Maldonado finished behind the Finn while Perez and Force India's Adrian Sutil (1m 26.737s and 1m 26.847s). Vergne and Bottas were 14th and 15th respectively.
The second Toro Rosso of Daniel Ricciardo had a few problems and was 17th fastest while Caterham driver, Charles Pic gained a position, finishing in 18th. The rest of the field in order were Esteban Gutierrez (1m 28.019s), Giedo van der Garde (1m 28.498s), and the Marussias of Max Chiton (1m 29.094s) and Jules Bianchi (Im 29.169s).
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