Hello and welcome to out live coverage of the day's action from Shanghai, kicking off with the third and final practice session ahead of Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.

We'll be back for what promises to be an interesting qualifying session in two hours. Make sure you join us again then.

So, Hamilton tops the session, ahead of Button, Rosberg, Schumacher, Webber, Maldonado, Perez, Kobayashi, Vettel and Raikkonen rounding off the top 10.

Di Resta has a moment and he flies across the grass before continuing.

Vettel improves on his time, but it's not enough to improve on his ninth place.

The chequered flag is out!

Vettel gets held up and has to abort his effort but he will get one last chance to put down a decent lap.

Alonso might just squeeze in a timed lap after a long time spent in the garages.

Just Vergne in the pits as this session draws to a close.

Hamilton locks up slightly near the end of his flying lap but it doesn't hamper him too much as he goes top of the time sheets with a 1:35.940.

Mercedes on Twitter: "Another set of options for Michael as he goes out with just under ten minutes of the session remaining"

Button betters his own leading time to 1:.36.063. Hamilton will now try to beat that.

Why is McLaren's race radio so much clearer than any other team's?

Button looks quick through the middle sector on his softs. And the McLaren man goes top with a 1.36.262.

Button hits the track on soft tyres and it's time for a quick recap - Rosberg leads, ahead of Schumacher, Webber, Vettel, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Maldonado, Kobayashi, Button and Vergne.

Hamilton heads back into the pit lane after putting his harder tyres to the test.

There's a haze over the track now and the sun has gone in for the time being. Still, better than yesterday's cold and wet conditions.

Schumacher looks quick in the first sector and he goes top - but only for a matter of seconds as his Mercedes team-mate Rosberg betters him with a 1:36.389.

Lotus on Twitter: "Both cars head out, Kimi on new mediums, @RGrosjean on scrubs"

Rosberg, Schumacher and Ricciardo follow suit on the softs.

Vergne becomes the first to try out a set of soft tyres and he goes ninth.