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Lewis Hamilton said in his column earlier this week that he is after the perfect weekend in Monaco, well he clearly was not 100% happy with how final practice went.

"Something not right with the car," he complained over team radio after the chequered flag.

1) Sebastian Vettel 2) Nico Rosberg 3) Lewis Hamilton 4) Daniel Ricciardo 5) Carlos Sainz 6) Kimi Raikkonen 7) Daniil Kvyat 8) Jenson Button 9) Max Verstappen 10) Romain Grosjean

11) Sergio Perez 12) Pastor Maldonado 13) Nico Hulkenberg 14) Fernando Alonso 15) Valtteri Bottas 16) Felipe Massa 17) Felipe Nasr 18) Marcus Ericsson 19) Will Stevens 20) Roberto Merhi

SEBASTIAN VETTEL FINISHES FASTEST IN FINAL PRACTICE FOR THE MONACO GRAND PRIX.

Pastor Maldonado is straight onto the escape road after missing his braking point at Turn One, while traffic on a busy circuit is causing one or two problems as Sergio Perez almost hits the back of Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari as it enters the pits. Perez does well, though, to avoid contact with both Vettel and the barriers.

Seconds remaining and Sebastian Vettel leads ahead of Nico Rosberg, with Lewis Hamilton third fastest.

Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live analyst

"I believe Mercedes have a little bit in hand that they will drop on to table in qualifying this afternoon."

Sebastian Vettel is out for there final few minutes and he's purple-purple-purple through the three sectors. Perfect lap and he jumps into P1 with 1:16.143.

Nico Rosberg responds by posting his fastest time, but not as quick as Vettel's, two tenths slower in fact.

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Nico Rosberg puts down a 1:16.770, just 0.065 off Lewis Hamilton's benchmark. The world champion is purple through sector two but the rest of his lap lets him down. "Lost a lot of grip," he says over team radio.

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Just Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen and Max Verstappen not out on the circuit at the moment. Everyone else is out there on supersofts with eight minutes left.

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Force India: Nico heads back in; the crew now working on the cars to prepare for the final run of FP3

"Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton are having a fresh set of supersoft tyres put on, in fact Rosberg is just having the tyre warmers taken off and he is about to head back out.

"This is about to be the first proper qualy spec run of the weekend. How hard do you push? It is only practice and I remember Fernando Alonso shunted in FP3 a few years back and was not able to take part in qualifying."

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There's not too many cars out on track at the moment, so before it does get busy how about a cheeky trip down memory lane?

This is quite the hair raising shot as David Coulthard finds himself facing a throng of F1 cars hurtling towards him after he crashed at the start of the 1995 Monaco Grand Prix.

Coulthard's Williams was sent spinning after being clipped by the Ferraris of Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger behind him. Unsurprisingly it led to a red flag stopping the race before Michael Schumacher went on to win after the restart.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

"I've just come back from watching out on track at the Tabac-Swimming Pool area. This has been changed for this year's race, with the outside barrier moved inwards by 1.5m. This has slowed Tabac but made the first Swimming Pool chicane - the best corner on the track - faster.

It feels edgier, too, now there is a barrier on the first apex - taking it closer to when there used to be a concrete wall there, rather than a stand-alone kerb as there has been for the last few years. I stood for a while with former F1 driver Alexander Wurz, who was speculating that the changes might have made Swimming Pool One flat.

'I'll have to ask the drivers,' Wurz said, 'but if so, it's not as much of a challenge - before there was a lift, which destabilises the car and makes it harder.' He paused, then with a twinkle: 'Still cool, though.' It is indeed an epic piece of race track, through which you really get a sense of the incredible speed of an F1 car and the other-worldly abilities of the drivers."

Most drivers are back in the pits at the moment as we head into the final 15 minutes of this session. Daniel Ricciardo takes advantage of the clear circuit to leap up from 14th to fifth 1:17.571.

Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter in Monaco

"I would say Max has done a Pastor Maldonado, if you remember from Spain when the end plate of the rear wing came off and was hanging down."

Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live analyst in Monaco

"Max lost the rear as he turned the corner, quite slow into the barriers but it took off the rear wing section on the left but it looks like minimum damage. This is when people really push with 20 minutes until the end. You throw caution to the wind."

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One last timed lap from Nico Rosberg on the soft tyre as he is asked to come back in to pop on the supersoft for qualifying sims. Rosberg is currently third fastest, with Sebastian Vettel splitting the Mercedes.

A spin for Max Verstappen at the final corner, the rear of his Toro Rosso hitting the barrier. He had just gone fifth fastest, pushing a bit too hard?

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Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter in Monaco

"I am down at McLaren at the moment and Fernando Alonso is not 100% happy, he thinks he can get more out of the car."