Lewis Hamilton continued his domination of the Italian Grand Prix weekend by setting a stunning pace to top the final practice session.
Hamilton set an amazing 1m 22.008 time on his Monza qualifying simulation run, which was close to four tenths quicker than Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg's mark set moments earlier. Hamilton's time also was some 1.39 seconds faster than his pole time here last season, albeit then the supersoft tyre was not available.
Hamilton topped the times after the initial runs too, in his case set on the soft tyre, and was close to half a second faster than Rosberg also on the softs, who was pipped indeed at that stage by Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari. Rosberg had however been blocked by Max Verstappen at the second chicane on what was likely his quickest lap in that run.
Ferrari and Vettel continued to be best of the rest, although Vettel's 1m 22.946 was close to a second over Hamilton's pace. His team mate Kimi Raikkonen ws next up, a couple of tenths off Vettel with a 1m 23.149.
The Williams pair had a strong session and were next up in the order. Valtteri Bottas finished up fifth with a 1m 23.500 and Felipe Massa sixth with a 1m 23.647 mark.
After them it was the Red Bull pair who again appeared to struggle for lap time – Daniel Ricciardo in P7 and Verstappen in P8 had best laps more than 1.7 seconds off the pace.
Sergio Perez in the Force India and Esteban Gutierrez in the Haas completed the top ten. The session was a short one for Gutierrez's team mate Romain Grosjean however, who spun early in the hour at the Ascari chicane having completed only four laps. His best time still was good enough for P14.
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