Vettel leads very close final practice session

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Sebastian Vettel led a close final practice session at Monza, with Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes covered by a tenth of a second.

The start of the session was delayed by 10 minutes due to track repairs at Parabolica following the major crash at the end of the Formula 3 race. The sausage kerb at the exit of the corner was removed, and several drivers had lap times deleted for straying beyond the track limits.

On a dry track, Vettel lowered the best time of the weekend so far to a 1’20.294. Max Verstappen demonstrated the potential of Honda’s upgraded power unit by lapping just three-hundredths of a second slower, however his power unit change penalty means the Red Bull driver will start the race from the rear of the grid.

Valtteri Bottas made it three different cars in the top three, lapping a tenth of a second off Vettel. Charles Leclerc matched his time to within one thousandth of a second, but was classified fourth as Bottas set his time first.

Both Renaults showed good pace in low downforce trim. Daniel Ricciardo managed to squeeze Lewis Hamilton out of the top five, while Nico Hulkenberg backed him up in seventh. Alexander Albon was eighth for Red Bull.

The top 10 was completed by Antonio Giovinazzi and Daniil Kvyat.

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Pos.	No.	Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1’20.294		14
2	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda	1’20.326	0.032	11
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1’20.403	0.109	23
4	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’20.403	0.109	14
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1’20.564	0.270	11
6	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’20.595	0.301	21
7	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1’20.752	0.458	13
8	23	Alexander Albon	Red Bull-Honda	1’20.827	0.533	17
9	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’20.881	0.587	15
10	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’20.945	0.651	20
11	55	Carlos Sainz Jnr	McLaren-Renault	1’20.949	0.655	21
12	11	Sergio Perez	Racing Point-Mercedes	1’21.003	0.709	15
13	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’21.073	0.779	22
14	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1’21.292	0.998	21
15	7	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’21.325	1.031	19
16	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’21.336	1.042	16
17	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1’21.621	1.327	16
18	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-Mercedes	1’21.639	1.345	17
19	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1’22.374	2.080	22
20	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1’22.758	2.464	21

Third practice visual gaps

Drivers more then ten seconds off the pace omitted.

Pos	Driver	Car	FP1	FP2	FP3	Fri/Sat diff	Total laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1’30.507	1’21.179	1’20.294	-0.885	72
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda	1’30.100	1’21.350	1’20.326	-1.024	51
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1’30.596	1’21.347	1’20.403	-0.944	68
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’27.905	1’20.978	1’20.403	-0.575	71
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1’34.528	1’22.249	1’20.564	-1.685	57
6	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’28.730	1’21.046	1’20.595	-0.451	64
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1’35.133	1’22.338	1’20.752	-1.586	60
8	Alexander Albon	Red Bull-Honda	1’29.025	1’21.589	1’20.827	-0.762	66
9	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’32.848	1’23.065	1’20.881	-2.184	72
10	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’29.960	1’22.260	1’20.945	-1.315	82
11	Carlos Sainz Jnr	McLaren-Renault	1’28.211	1’22.482	1’20.949	-1.533	78
12	Sergio Perez	Racing Point-Mercedes		1’22.882	1’21.003	-1.879	52
13	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’30.695	1’22.124	1’21.073	-1.051	90
14	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1’28.450	1’23.561	1’21.292	-2.269	60
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari		1’22.523	1’21.325	-1.198	58
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’34.715	1’22.511	1’21.336	-1.175	65
17	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1’35.980	1’22.153	1’21.621	-0.532	67
18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-Mercedes	1’33.976	1’22.706	1’21.639	-1.067	58
19	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1’38.421	1’24.313	1’22.374	-1.939	57
20	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1’37.816	1’23.737	1’22.758	-0.979	62

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