Well the third day didn't start well for Force India. Their newly promoted test driver Jules Bianchi wrecked their only VJM05 on an installation lap and to rebuild the damage they had to have a part shipped from Silverstone. Nico Hulkenburg was not impressed as they missed an entire day's worth of running.
Anyway, for the cars that did run it was pretty much a follow on from yesterday, nothing really dramatic or exciting happened really. Fernando Alonso lost out on a few hours running with a hydraulic problem on the new Ferrari but did manage to turn in some long runs in the afternoon session.
The pace setter of the 2012 cars on the first day of the driver switch was once again the Lotus E20, but with Romain Grosjean at the helm instead of the ice man. The E20 completed 117 laps, one shy of the overall session leader Nico Roseberg, with a fastest time of 1:18.419. Vettel and Hamilton occupied the next two places with Vettel setting a time of 1:19.297 in the RB8 and Hamilton less than 2tenths behind in the MP4/27 with a 1:19.464.
The 2011 Mercedes once again topped the time sheets with a 1:17.6 from Nico Rosberg as they continue to evaluate the 2012 P-Zeros from Pirelli.
Just a note about the times from day 2, If you are wondering where the sudden pace has come from for Mclaren, Jenson Button must've been doing aero testing as when you look at the average lap times from the session he is nearly 1 and a half seconds adrift of the RB8 of Mark Webber with Webber averaging a 1:22 dead and Jenson averaging out at a 1:23.49.
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