Final practice – Alonso pips Rosberg to P1

Fernando Alonso put Ferrari at the top of the timesheets in the last practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday morning, when he used a set of the softer compound Bridgestone tyres to record a lap of 1m 54.099s.

Behind the Spaniard, Nico Rosberg maintained his form with 1m 54.368s in his soft-tyred Mercedes, ahead of Mark Webber’s hard-tyred Red Bull on 1m 54.500s…