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14 April 2012| last updated at 12:23PM

F1: Hamilton quickest in Shanghai practice



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SHANGHAI: McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was fastest on Saturday in the third and final practice for the Chinese Grand Prix, edging out team-mate and fellow Briton Jenson Button.

Hamilton, whose highest possible grid position for Sunday’s race is sixth  after he incurred a penalty for a gearbox change, set the best time of the week  when he clocked 1min 35.940sec in the last five minutes.

The 2008 world champion also posted the quickest time in the first practice.

Button was 0.123sec behind Hamilton, with the Mercedes pairing of Nico  Rosberg and Michael Schumacher, who set the fastest time on Friday, the next  quickest.

Mark Webber, in a Red Bull, was fifth-fastest, more than half a second shy  of Hamilton, followed by Williams’s Pastor Maldonado.

Reigning two-time world champion Sebastian Vettel was down in ninth, a  second off the top time, while championship leader Fernando Alonso could only  muster the 15th-fastest mark. - AFP

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