Abu Dhabi GP 2009

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Practice 3 Report - Button fastest

Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi GP 2009
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Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton set the fastest times of the third practice session in Abu Dhabi. The pair were two tenths of a second ahead of Rubens Barrichello and Sebastien Buemi. There was then an appreciable gap back to Nick Heidfeld's BMW and the McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen. Jarno Trulli was seventh for Toyota ahead of the BMW of Robert Kubica, the Force India of Adrian Sutil and Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari.

Sebastian Vettel was 11th from Nico Rosberg, Kamui Kobayashi, Tonio Liuzzi, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso, Kazuki Nakajima, Romain Grosjean and Giancarlo Fisichella.

Jaime Alguersuari was not seen in the session because of mechanical troubles.