Australian GP: Williams drivers finish in top ten in FP3

Team Summary:
After a day of wet conditions the Williams Martini team would see a cloudy but dry day for the final practice session. With the start of the session both Williams drivers would come out on the super soft tyre. After their first runs Valtteri and felipe were ninth and tenth. Quickest at this time was Kvyat with a 1m:28.510. Ricciardo was now quickest with a 1m:27.733, followed by Kvyat and Vettel. Both Williams cars were still out doing a very long run on the supersoft tyre. After fifteen laps both Williams drivers would pit. After a lot of running by all the teams it would be Rosberg who would set a 1m:26.149 to be quickest, running on the soft tyre.

Felipe and Valtteri would come out for their second runs and would move up to sixth and tenth, but would drop to seventh and eleventh as Hamilton went into second. Both Williams cars would pit briefly currently in ninth and tenth. On the supersoft tyre Vettel would go quickest with a 1m:25.852. Both Williams cars would pit with thirteen minutes remaining in the session. ON the supersoft tyre Rosberg would set a 1m:25.800 to go quickest but Hamilton would set a 1m:25.624 to go even quicker.

Both Williams cars would come back out again on the supersoft tyre. Felipe would move up to seventh and Valtteri fifth. This was more representative of where they are relative to the likes of Red Bull. Both Williams cars would pit briefly with Valtteri having dropped to seventh and Felipe ninth with the Torro Rosso cars now in fourth and sixth. But both Williams drivers would pit just prior to the end of the session. Their session had seen them only run on the supersoft tyre.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would take to the track first with the start of the session. His first lap time was a 1m:32.718. A 1m:32.346 was a slight improvement but Felipe was down in twentieth. After fifteen laps Felipe would pit down in twenty first. Felipe would complain that his fort tyres were a big problem with images showing the front tyres looking very badly worn.

Felipe would return to the track continuing to run on the supersoft tyre. He would set a 1m:27.777 to be sixth. He would improve with a 1m:27.684 to now be seventh. Felipe would complete his run currently in ninth. On his next run Felipe would set a 1m:27.151 to be seventh, dropping to eighth courtesy of his team-mate. He would finish the session in ninth.

Valtteri Bottas:
Like Felipe Valtteri was out early in the session and would set a 1m:31.960. He would improve with a 1m:31.726, currently in thirteenth. Valtteri would also pit after his long run on the supersoft tyre. Valtteri was also back out on a new set of supersoft tyres for his next run. He would set a 1m:28.153 to be tenth. Valtteri's next lap was a 1m:27.800 to see him eighth one place behind his team-mate. Valtteri had also come in currently in tenth. Valtteri's next run would see him again on the supersoft tyre and would set a 1m:26.730 to be sixth. This was 1.1 seconds off the quickest time. Valtteri would complete the session in seventh.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m25.624s  24
2  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m25.800s  25
3  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m25.852s  25
4  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m26.257s  28
5  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m26.435s  23
6  Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m26.701s  26
7  Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m26.730s  28
8  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1m26.768s  22
9  Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m27.151s  28
10 Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m27.242s  22
11 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m27.263s  20
12 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m27.341s  20
13 Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1m27.430s  22
14 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m27.659s  26
15 Kevin Magnussen	Renault			1m27.871s  24
16 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m27.988s  22
17 Jolyon Palmer	Renault			1m28.117s  24
18 Esteban Gutierrez	Haas-Ferrari		1m28.284s  21
19 Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari		1m28.292s  11
20 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m28.293s  26
21 Pascal Wehrlein	Manor-Mercedes		1m29.046s  18
22 Rio Haryanto		Manor-Mercedes		1m29.272s  23