Hungarian GP: Williams Martini struggles in FP3

Team Summary:
With close to thirty minutes of the Saturday practice session neither of the Williams
drivers had set a time and had only completed a medium tyre installation lap. But both drivers would go out and Valtteri Bottas would move into fifth while team-mate Felipe Massa was ninth. At this time Hamilton was quickest with a 1m:24.747 also on the medium tyre. But on the soft tyre Hulkenberg would set a 1m:24.483 to be quickest. Both Williams drivers continued their runs on the medium tyre as more drivers came out on the soft tyre.

With fifteen minutes remaining Valtteri and Felipe were eighth and thirteenth as they waited to come out for their soft tyre runs. Rosberg would go quickest on the soft tyre with a 1m:23.095. But Hamilton would move ahead with a 1m:22.997. Rosberg was second followed by Sainz. Vettel was now third while as the final minutes counted down Valtteri and Felipe had dropped to thirteenth and fifteenth. After their soft tyre runs neither Williams driver was able to set a competitive time finishing the session in twelfth and fourteenth with Felipe ahead of Valtteri. This was not the result the team would have been hoping for as they prepared for qualifying.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe's first timed lap was a 1m:25.882 to be ninth. Felipe would drop to eleventh and would pit briefly having completed six laps. Felipe would pit again and would go down the order to be thirteenth. With about seven minutes remaining Felipe would return to the track now on the soft tyre. After two laps on the soft tyre Felipe would be on quick lap and would set a 1m:25.094 having lost time in the final sector. He would move up to twelfth.

Valtteri Bottas:
Valtteri was still running with the new front wing and his first timed lap was a 1m:25.631 to be fifth. As the session progressed he would drop to seventh and then eighth as others went quicker. Valtteri would also pit with twenty minutes remaining. Valtteri would follow Felipe out on his soft tyres but like his team-mate he would take a few laps before he could attempt to set a quicker time. But he was not able and with the end of the session was down in fourteenth.

Pos  Driver         	Team		     Gap      Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	     1m22.997s	12
2  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes	     0.098s	20
3  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari		     0.889s	19
4  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull/Renault     1.218s	17
5  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso/Renault   1.329s	22
6  Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes 1.486s	30
7  Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault   1.681s	22
8  Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	     1.849s	16
9  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault     1.932s	12
10 Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	     1.944s	22
11 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	     1.956s	16
12 Felipe Massa		Williams/Mercedes    2.097s	13
13 Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	     2.232s	16
14 Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes    2.348s	17
15 Sergio Perez		Force India/Mercedes 2.396s	25
16 Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari		     2.664s	12
17 Felipe Nasr		Sauber/Ferrari	     3.063s	20
18 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	     3.098s	20
19 Will Stevens		Marussia/Ferrari     5.760s	19
20 Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari     5.911s	20