Saturday, 8 September 2012

Hamilton fastest as Di Resta receives penalty

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton started this morning as he finished yesterday by topping the time sheets in FP3. The Brit finished the session just 0.001s ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, who put his technical issues from yesterday behind him to set the second fastest time. Force India's Paul Di Resta was third however the Scot will receive a five place grid penalty for changing his gearbox.

Felipe Massa was fourth in the second Ferrari while Nico Rosberg put his Mercedes in 6th. It was another trouble free run for Lotus and Kimi Raikkonen as he finished the session in 8th place. It is going to be an extremely interesting and I believe a very close qualifying hour.

Sebastian Vettel and RedBull endured a difficult session as the reigning world champion stopped out on track with a suspected technical issue and finished the session in 12th place, his team mate Mark Webber didn't much better as he finishef just ahead of Vettel in 11th.

The qualifying session gets underway at 1PM Irish time and will bring you an update on all the action later today.

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