Lewis Hamilton headed the times in final practice at Sochi Autodrom despite spinning off towards the end of the session.
The Mercedes driver lost control of his car under braking for the penultimate corner and spun off. The W05 didn’t hit anything, and Hamilton was able to drive back into the pits.
Nico Rosberg closed within three tenths of a second of his team mate’s time with his final flying lap of the session, which moved him narrowly ahead of the Williams of Valtteri Bottas.
Daniel Ricciardo was fourth-fastest ahead of the second Williams of Felipe Massa. Sebastian Vettel was only tenth in the other Red Bull after running wide several times in the session, including at turn two, where new kerbs had been added overnight.
McLaren endured a difficult session. Kevin Magnussen came to a stop on his fourth lap after a lurid moment at turn three. That brought the red flags out so his car could be recovered from turn five.
The team later told Jenson Button they had identified the cause of Magnussen’s stoppage, but he was having problems of his own, describing the MP4-29’s balance as “awful” on the radio.
Pastor Maldonado was unable to set a time after a failure on his car’s ERS, which left him having to carefully climb from his car to avoid getting an electric shock.
Pos. | No. | Driver | Car | Best lap | Gap | Laps |
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1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1’38.728 | 15 | |
2 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1’39.016 | 0.288 | 25 |
3 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 1’39.098 | 0.370 | 20 |
4 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull-Renault | 1’39.755 | 1.027 | 16 |
5 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1’39.954 | 1.226 | 22 |
6 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’40.009 | 1.281 | 27 |
7 | 7 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1’40.011 | 1.283 | 20 |
8 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1’40.151 | 1.423 | 15 |
9 | 25 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’40.205 | 1.477 | 26 |
10 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | 1’40.338 | 1.610 | 21 |
11 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’40.355 | 1.627 | 19 |
12 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1’40.669 | 1.941 | 23 |
13 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 1’40.699 | 1.971 | 26 |
14 | 99 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’41.146 | 2.418 | 21 |
15 | 21 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’41.520 | 2.792 | 20 |
16 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1’41.915 | 3.187 | 22 |
17 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’42.436 | 3.708 | 4 |
18 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 1’43.109 | 4.381 | 11 |
19 | 10 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 1’43.975 | 5.247 | 12 |
20 | 4 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 1’44.737 | 6.009 | 9 |
Combined practice times
Pos | Driver | Car | FP1 | FP2 | FP3 | Fri/Sat diff | Total laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1’42.376 | 1’39.630 | 1’38.728 | -0.902 | 67 |
2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1’42.311 | 1’40.542 | 1’39.016 | -1.526 | 84 |
3 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 1’43.542 | 1’40.573 | 1’39.098 | -1.475 | 62 |
4 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull-Renault | 1’43.821 | 1’42.061 | 1’39.755 | -2.306 | 66 |
5 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1’43.741 | 1’40.731 | 1’39.954 | -0.777 | 74 |
6 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’43.164 | 1’41.108 | 1’40.009 | -1.099 | 88 |
7 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1’43.212 | 1’41.630 | 1’40.011 | -1.619 | 67 |
8 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1’42.720 | 1’40.504 | 1’40.151 | -0.353 | 74 |
9 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’43.327 | 1’41.531 | 1’40.205 | -1.326 | 83 |
10 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | 1’44.506 | 1’41.396 | 1’40.338 | -1.058 | 81 |
11 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’42.507 | 1’40.718 | 1’40.355 | -0.363 | 79 |
12 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’43.026 | 1’40.494 | 1’42.436 | +1.942 | 64 |
13 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1’43.976 | 1’41.677 | 1’40.669 | -1.008 | 71 |
14 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 1’43.129 | 1’42.090 | 1’40.699 | -1.391 | 81 |
15 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’44.625 | 1’42.233 | 1’41.146 | -1.087 | 78 |
16 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’43.055 | 1’41.520 | -1.535 | 53 | |
17 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1’45.190 | 1’42.892 | 1’41.915 | -0.977 | 77 |
18 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | 1’44.876 | 1’42.905 | 61 | ||
19 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 1’46.922 | 1’44.135 | 1’43.109 | -1.026 | 51 |
20 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 1’44.952 | 1’43.975 | -0.977 | 39 | |
21 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 1’47.284 | 1’44.530 | 1’44.737 | +0.207 | 64 |
22 | Sergey Sirotkin | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’45.032 | 22 | |||
23 | Roberto Merhi | Caterham-Renault | 1’46.782 | 18 |
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Uzair Syed (@ultimateuzair)
11th October 2014, 10:10
Hamilton looks fast, but Rosberg doesn’t look good this weekend. I hope that doesn’t spoil the race. I want to see a battle!
BasCB (@bascb)
11th October 2014, 10:13
Exactly!
Calum (@calum)
11th October 2014, 10:16
Would love to see a proper 44 vs. 6 on track battle.
Gigantor (@kbdavies)
11th October 2014, 12:42
But i assume you have sen that several times this season…no?
Patrick (@paeschli)
11th October 2014, 10:11
Williams seems to be doing well.
Osvaldas31 (@osvaldas31)
11th October 2014, 10:34
I hope Williams make another big step over the winter so that they can compete with Mercedes works team. Of course, they are customers, so they might not be getting the best out of the engines, but it’d be refreshing to see not only manufacturer teams fighting for the lead.
Skett (@skett)
11th October 2014, 11:36
Well then the rumours that Williams are interested in the Honda engines would almost certainly come to fruition! (assuming they’re competitive of course)
Darryn Smith (@darryn)
11th October 2014, 11:46
What the hell is that thing on Vijay Malya’s head? I saw it a few weeks ago, but didn’t get a good look and maybe tried to block it out.
Gigantor (@kbdavies)
11th October 2014, 12:41
Did anyone see Lewis driving with Nico’s number (No.6) on his car on his fastest lap? This is not the first time i have seen this. What is that about?? Does Merc let the drivers drive with each other’s number; or each others car? Or am i missing something.
Mark
11th October 2014, 13:24
You sure it wasn’t the Petronas ‘P’ logo that were seeing?
pastaman (@)
11th October 2014, 17:24
As Mark said, it was probably the Petronas logo. Best way to tell the difference is to look at the helmets, or the camera T-bar.
SauberS1 (@saubers1)
11th October 2014, 23:37
Is there any video about this case?