Chinese GP: Mercedes romp in practice 3

Using his superior Mercedes car and engine, Lewis Hamilton beat Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg on Saturday morning to make it a clean sweep of all three Chinese Grand Prix Formula 1 practice sessions.

Hamilton was three tenths up on medium tires and 0.23 seconds after the qualifying simulations on softs.

Ferrari was again Mercedes' closest rival. Sebastian Vettel got within a tenth of Rosberg on mediums but on softs the gap to Hamilton's pacesetting time grew to 0.7s.

Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari was fourth, behind Vettel.

Fernando Alonso was only able to do half a lap in the session as his McLaren-Honda stopped with an apparent engine problem.

Results

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Behind	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m37.615s	0.000s	14
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m37.841s	0.226s	16
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m38.313s	0.698s	17
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m38.512s	0.897s	16
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m39.020s	1.405s	8
6	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m39.106s	1.491s	14
7	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m39.113s	1.498s	17
8	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m39.243s	1.628s	15
9	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m39.274s	1.659s	19
10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m39.405s	1.790s	14
11	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m39.410s	1.795s	17
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m39.513s	1.898s	14
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m39.559s	1.944s	18
14	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m39.591s	1.976s	19
15	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m39.694s	2.079s	16
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m39.766s	2.151s	16
17	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m39.781s	2.166s	17
18	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m42.928s	5.313s	15
19	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m44.956s	7.341s	9
–	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	–	–	1