Mark Webber returned Red Bull to the top of the times in the final practice session for the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix.
The Australian made full use of a drying track to set a laptime of 1:46.106, just over a tenth of a second ahead of the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton.
However, it was not all plain sailing for the Milton Keynes-based team when Sebastian Vettel suffered an airbox issue, whilst entering the pits, and was forced to switch his engine off. Despite this, the German still managed to finish the session in third.
Jenson Button was fourth in the sister McLaren with Robert Kubica continued to shine for Renault in sixth.
The Ferrari duo of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa could repeat the pace shown in Friday’s two practice sessions and had to settle for sixth and seventh respectively.
Force India remain very much the dark horse for this weekend, with Adrian Sutil once again setting competitive times. The German driver was eighth in the session, with Nico Hulkenberg (Williams) and Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) rounding off the top ten.
Although the drivers had the luxury of a drying track for the majority of the session, weather predictably worsened with around a quarter of an hour to go – preventing anymore competitive running for the day.
Overall, the session passed with little incident, with Fernando Alonso losing the back end of his F10 at Pouhon early in the session, and both Lewis Hamilton and the Lotus of Jarno Trulli going wide at Bus stop, as the rain began to fall.
Michael Schumacher was one of only a handful of drivers to emerge on track in the wet conditions – but lost time when he slid off at Eau Rouge.
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:46.106 10 2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:46.223 +0.117 17 3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:46.396 +0.290 12 4. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:46.397 +0.291 17 5. Kubica Renault 1:46.492 +0.386 17 6. Alonso Ferrari 1:46.627 +0.521 11 7. Massa Ferrari 1:46.962 +0.856 10 8. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:47.064 +0.958 15 9. Hülkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:47.160 +1.054 16 10. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:47.296 +1.190 17 11. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:47.388 +1.282 15 12. Petrov Renault 1:47.406 +1.300 15 13. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:47.512 +1.406 14 14. Schumacher Mercedes 1:47.695 +1.589 16 15. Rosberg Mercedes 1:47.837 +1.731 9 16. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.905 +1.799 20 17. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.981 +1.875 18 18. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:48.692 +2.586 8 19. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:50.600 +4.494 14 20. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:51.133 +5.027 9 21. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:51.384 +5.278 14 22. Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:51.517 +5.411 13 23. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:51.669 +5.563 10 24. Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 1:52.001 +5.895 13
