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Canadian Grand Prix: Vettel tops red flagged final F1 practice

Sebastian Vettel set the pace in final Formula 1 practice for the Canadian Grand Prix in a session that ended early when Kevin Magnussen crashed

The Ferrari driver clocked a 1m13.919s on the ultra-softs to finish 0.239s clear of Max Verstappen, who also did his lap time on the purple-sidewall tyres.

Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, who dominated Friday practice, failed to get a qualifying-simulation in before light rain fell with 20 minutes to go.

The Briton locked up and ran wide at Turn 1, just as the rain started to fall, and ended the session fifth quickest.

His Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen were only a fraction quicker in third and fourth respectively.

The session was red-flagged with 13 minutes to go when Magnussen hit the wall on the exit of Turn 7, with damage to the wall being reported afterwards.

Replays showed the Dane wasn't pushing but the rear-end snapped as he got on throttle, pitching him into the wall.

Renault now faces a race against time to rebuild the car, which suffered significant damage, in time for qualifying later on Saturday.

With the teams' weather radars predicting rain late in the session, there was a flurry of activity early on.

Most did their initial running on the ultra-softs but Red Bull chose to run the super-softs and set the early pace.

Then Vettel moved to the top of the timesheets with a 1m14.139s on the ultra-softs with his second lap of that run just 0.071s slower.

Ricciardo was sixth quickest ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr and Fernando Alonso, the latter of which was the only driver in the top 10 to do his best lap on the super-soft.

Sergio Perez and Felipe Massa closed out the top 10.

Jenson Button continued with the Monaco-spec internal combustion engine that he moved to on Friday after an oil leak in practice because Honda was still investigating the problem.

FP3 RESULTS

Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps
1 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m13.919s - 21
2 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m14.158s 0.239s 19
3 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m14.316s 0.397s 22
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m14.332s 0.413s 21
5 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m14.334s 0.415s 19
6 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m14.487s 0.568s 22
7 Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m14.655s 0.736s 21
8 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1m14.801s 0.882s 19
9 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m14.886s 0.967s 21
10 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m14.890s 0.971s 18
11 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m14.918s 0.999s 20
12 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m14.985s 1.066s 20
13 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m15.023s 1.104s 17
14 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m15.199s 1.280s 20
15 Esteban Gutierrez Haas/Ferrari 1m15.444s 1.525s 16
16 Jolyon Palmer Renault 1m15.656s 1.737s 19
17 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m15.704s 1.785s 14
18 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m16.078s 2.159s 24
19 Kevin Magnussen Renault 1m16.085s 2.166s 17
20 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m16.326s 2.407s 24
21 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 1m16.622s 2.703s 18
22 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 1m16.901s 2.982s 15

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