Hockenheim, 19 July –Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen finished the final free practice session for the German Grand Prix in third and eighth places respectively. It was already very hot this morning during the hour in which the Spaniard completed eleven laps and the Finn did eight.
They began the session in race trim on Soft tyres, the harder of the two Pirelli compounds available. In the second half the focus shifted to qualifying, with all drivers running the Supersoft.
Fernando’s best laps was a 1.18.384, while Kimi stopped the clocks in 1.18.842. The Finn’s session came to a premature end when a problem was identified with the fuel pump on his F14 T and so the part has been changed for qualifying. Nico Rosberg was fastest with a 1.17.779, just 601 thousandths faster than his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton. In between Alonso and Raikkonen, we find Massa, Bottas, Magnussen and Ricciardo. Qualifying begins at 14h00.