Lewis Hamilton set the pace in the final practice session at Monza, putting his low-downforce package to good use.
Practice Three for the Italian Grand Prix quickly proved to be a battle of the McLarens in an interesting tussle between Hamilton’s low-downforce package and Jenson Button’s f-duct, with the two trading blows as the Red Bulls and Ferraris also got involved in the fight.
In the end, though, it was Hamilton who emerged quickest of all, beating the late-charging Sebastian Vettel by 0.047s. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were next in line, ahead of Button and Nico Rosberg.
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Mark Webber would undoubtedly have been up there with them but ended up seventh on 1m 23.082s after his Red Bull stooped for the second day in succession, this time after the first chicane.
Right behind him was Nico Hulkenberg in the leading Williams with 1m 23.129s, Robert Kubica on 1m 23.209s for Renault, Adrian Sutil’s Force India on 1m 23.303s, Rubens Barrichello in the second Williams on 1m 23.450s, Sebastien Buemi with a big improvement for Toro Rosso on 1m 23.673s, a disappointed Michael Schumacher on 1m 23.896s for Mercedes, the very closely matched Kamui Kobayashi and Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 23.908s and 1m 23.909s for BMW Sauber and Toro Rosso respectively, and Vitaly Petrov in the second Renault on 1m 23.967s. Formula 1
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