Brazilian Grand Prix practice three results: Bottas leads Hamilton ahead of qualifying
VALTTERI BOTTAS had the edge over his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in final practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton talks with Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas
The Finnish driver beat his world champion team-mate by just 0.003s with a time of 1:09.281 round the Interlagos circuit.
The top four were in fact separated by just five-hundredths of a second as the Ferrari’s of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were close behind the Mercedes.
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was a distant fifth place, almost one second behind the fast-paced leaders.
And his team-mate Max Verstappen, who won the last race in Mexico, also struggled to end up in ninth.
Free Practice Three classification
He moaned to his engineers: “It's unbelievable mate, so much understeer.”
Fernando Alonso, Sergio Perez, Esteban Ocon and Carlos Sainz also finished in the top ten.
Lance Stroll failed to set a time after his Williams stopped out on track, causing the Virtual Safety Car to be deployed.