Sebastian Vettel continued to stay ahead of the pack in the third practice session in Austin, Texas, setting a time that was two-tenths of a second faster than Lewis Hamilton, with Pastor Maldonado third half a second down on Vettel’s best. Fernando Alonso was next ahead of Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa, Mark Webber, Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg and Jenson Button.
Eleventh was Bruno Senna ahead of Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen, Kamui Kobayashi, Daniel Ricciardo, Paul di Resta, Romain Grosjean, Jean-Eric Vergne (who broke down mid-session), Timo Glock, Vitaly Petrov, Heikki Kovalainen, Charles Pic (who had a tangle with Perez) with Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan at the back.
It looks dangerously like it’s about to be all sewn up for this year, I’m sad to say.