Red Bull's Max Verstappen made it a clean sweep of practice sessions in Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix as he led the way during Saturday morning's final running.
The Dutchman is looking to answer his critics following a string of crashes and so far this weekend he's done just that, as he remained the driver to beat during FP3, pipping Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by 0.049s with a lap of 1:11.599.
The two Ferrari drivers were split by just 0.002 as Kimi Raikkonen went third fastest, ahead of Mercedes Lewis Hamilton, a tenth off Verstappen's time, as the reigning champion ran Pirelli's Hypersoft tyres for the first time all weekend.
Daniel Ricciardo completed the top five, some distance off his team-mate, with the pair split by more than half a second.
Best of the rest was Force India's Sergio Perez in seventh, a place behind the second Mercedes car of Valtteri Bottas, with the gap to the top three teams sitting at roughly 0.650s. Nico Hulkenberg was eighth, ahead of Romain Grosjean.
McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne completed the top 10; The Belgian had a brief off when he locked-up and ran down the run-off at Turn 3 but a seven-point turn got Vandoorne back on track. He was just under two-tenths quicker than team-mate Fernando Alonso, who held 13th.
Esteban Ocon and Brendon Hartley were 11th and 12th respectively.
Local driver Lance Stroll brought up the rear in last for Williams, just over a tenth off his team-mate and more than two seconds down on Verstappen.
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