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P3: Hamilton ups the ante

Lewis Hamilton responded to Nico Rosberg's clean-sweep of Friday practice times by setting a storming pace around Melbourne's Albert Park in Practice Three. There was little to choose between the Mercedes championship favourites on the opening day of the season, but on the soft-tyre simulations on Saturday morning the gap between the W06s grew to nearly a second in Hamilton's favour as the world champion uncorked an impressive lap of 1:27.867 to set the pace. Rosberg's earlier effort on the soft tyres had been somewhat less eye-catching and the German actually ended up behind countryman Sebastian Vettel in third place on the timesheet, as Ferrari suggested they could have the pace to...
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