Play F1 | FP3 Austria: Williams on top but Mercedes are sandbagging

Valtteri Bottas put Williams atop the timesheets during Saturday morning’s final practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix. The Finn clocked a fastest effort of 1:09.848 to edge out Mercedes driver and Friday pace-setter Lewis Hamilton by half a tenth, while team-mate Felipe Massa completed the top three positions.

Valtteri Bottas becomes only the fourth driver to lead a P3 session this year, after the two Mercedes and Daniel Ricciardo.

Here’s the final order:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap
1	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1:09.848
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:09.898	0.050
3	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1:09.901	0.053
4	26	Daniil Kvyat	STR-Renault	1:09.927	0.079
5	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:09.999	0.151
6	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:10.054	0.206
7	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:10.392	0.544
8	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:10.449	0.601
9	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:10.488	0.640
10	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:10.562	0.714
11	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:10.683	0.835
12	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	1:10.776	0.928
13	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Renault	1:11.043	1.195
14	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:11.103	1.255
15	11	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1:11.235	1.387
16	99	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	1:11.294	1.446
17	21	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:11.558	1.710
18	17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Ferrari	1:11.848	2.000
19	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	1:12.320	2.472
20	9	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	1:12.892	3.044
21	4	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	1:12.915	3.067
22	22	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:14.237	4.389