Rosberg Fastest in FP3

Nico Rosberg gave Mercedes a turn at the top of the times when he dominated the end of FP3 in Sepang this afternoon. The young German was the only runner below 1m 37s with a lap of 1m 36.877s which was 0.443s clear of Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull.

There was a 12 minute hiatus at the start of the session as teams waited for Turn 9 in particular to dry out after a brief rain shower, and there was the usual toing and froing on the hard Pirellis before the times really started to fall in the final quarter hour as drivers switched to the mediums. 

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap	Laps
1	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:36.877		16
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:37.320	0.443	15
3	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:37.338	0.461	12
4	9	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:37.356	0.479	13
5	10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:37.382	0.505	13
6	3	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.404	0.527	12
7	18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:37.455	0.578	13
8	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:37.663	0.786	15
9	4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.776	0.899	8
10	14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.977	1.100	17
11	19	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1:38.091	1.214	20
12	15	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:38.178	1.301	15
13	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:38.246	1.369	17
14	12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.285	1.408	16
15	16	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	1:38.423	1.546	13
16	17	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Ferrari	1:38.640	1.763	11
17	11	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.794	1.917	18
18	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:39.209	2.332	16
19	21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1:39.704	2.827	15
20	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1:40.189	3.312	14
21	25	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1:41.901	5.024	14
22	24	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1:42.007	5.130	14
23	22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.464	5.587	14
24	23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.378	6.501	17