It's 11 am in Shanghaï and 5 am in France. The practice 3 begin under the sun. There are 27°C in the air and 27°C on the track. The rate of humidity approaches the 52 %. The wind speed decreased (1,5 m.s).

Nick Heidfeld signs the best time at two minutes of the end (1'36"061). German outstrips Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubiça. Heikki Kovalainen completes the top 4. Ferrari misses in the call. Felipe Massa and Kimi Räikkönen are twelfth and thirteenth. Jarno Trulli occupies the fifth rank. Nico Rosberg is sixth. It's very encouraging for the qualifying !… Sebastien Bourdais is classified in seventh position. He's the fastest of Red Bull's clan. David Coulthard is eighth. Kazuki Nakajima appears to the ninth place. Nelsinho Piquet is tenth. Rubens Barrichello is eleventh. Sebastian Vettel is a disappointing fourteenth. Let us hope that he'll succeed in raising himself in "Q3" this afternoon !… He's followed by Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. Spanish prepared the race and didn't try to make a stopwatch. Timo Glock is seventeenth. Mark Webber, eighteenth, broke his engine during this session. He's going to have to change it. The Australian will thus be demoted by ten places on the starting grid. Force India close the walking.