After having already been the fastest in the second session held on Friday afternoon, the Scuderia driver lowered his time to 1 minute, 11 seconds and 632 thousandths.
Leclerc preceded Britain’s George Russell’s Mercedes by just 66 thousandths and Dutchman Verstappen’s Red Bull by 161.
Third best team this year, Mercedes placed Lewis Hamilton in fifth place in this third test session, behind the other Ferrari, the one driven by Carlos Sainz (4th), but ahead of Sergio Pérez’s Red Bull, sixth.
The qualifications now await the pilots, at 3:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT).
In his country, “Mad Max” had taken pole last year, in the return of the Dutch GP to the F1 calendar, a performance that he hopes to renew this year, before his “Orange army”, who wants to support from the stands to the world champion.
Before this fifteenth race, of 22, at the Zandvoort track, Verstappen has a 93-point advantage over Pérez and 98 over Leclerc.
The two Mercedes had been the fastest in the first session on Friday, before being dethroned in the afternoon by the two Ferraris.
– Third session of free rehearsals:
Charles Leclerc (MON/Ferrari) 1:11.632
George Russell (GBR/Mercedes) 1:11.698
Max Verstappen (NED/Red Bull) 1:11.793
Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/Ferrari) 1:11.971
Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1:12.156
Sergio Perez (MEX/Red Bull) 1:12.176
Fernando Alonso (ESP/Alpine-Renault) 1:12.327
Sebastian Vettel (GER/Aston Martin-Mercedes) 1:12.491
Mick Schumacher (GER/Haas-Ferrari) 1:12.558
Lando Norris (GBR/McLaren-Mercedes) 1:12.591
Kevin Magnussen (DEN/Haas-Ferrari) 1:12.606
Lance Stroll (CAN/Aston Martin-Mercedes) 1:12.773
Alexander Albon (THA/Williams-Mercedes) 1:12.775
Esteban Ocon (FRA/Alpine-Renault) 1:13.003
Pierre Gasly (FRA/AlphaTauri-Red Bull) 1:13.046
Yuki Tsunoda (JPN/AlphaTauri-Red Bull) 1:13.256
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/McLaren-Mercedes) 1:13.299
Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Alfa Romeo) 1:13.359
Zhou Guanyu (CHN/Alfa Romeo) 1:13.421
Nicholas Latifi (CAN/Williams-Mercedes) 1:13.625
