Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in a tight second practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
The McLaren driver, who was victorious last time out in Abu Dhabi, posted a lap time of 1 minute 13.392 seconds to top a leaderboard that saw the first eight separated by less than half a second.
World champion Sebastian Vettel, who like Hamilton set his best time on a short run, finished the session in second position, over one-and-a-half tenths adrift.
Both Hamilton and Vettel embarked on long-distance runs in the latter stages of FP2, and it was the Red Bull driver who seemed to have the edge at that time, although the exact fuel loads of each driver were not clear.
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Vettel’s Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber was third, while Fernando Alonso - fresh off an engine change - was just over two tenths behind Hamilton in fourth. SkySports
Four-time Interlagos winner Michael Schumacher also enjoyed an encouraging session for Mercedes as the German outpaced Felipe Massa (Ferrari) and Button to take fifth, as the top seven runners were covered by just under four tenths of a second.
Nico Rosberg was not far back in the second Mercedes while the returning Adrian Sutil was also just 0.752s adrift of Hamilton’s pace for Force India, who continued to have both cars comfortably inside the top 10.
Although the session was short on incident, the pace improvements made by over the break by Ferrari and Mercedes in particular bode well for an exciting end to the season over the remainder of the weekend.
Schumacher twice held the fastest time during the 90 minutes of running, first o the hards and then when he became the first of the front runners to switch to the faster softs, although on both occasions was swiftly moved aside by Hamilton. ITV.com
Vitaly Petrov and local hero Bruno Senna were close-matched at Renault, with 1m 14.856s and 1m 14.931s, and the Saubers were also inseparable with Perez on 1m 14.970s and Kamui Koyabashi on 1m 15.019s.
Sebastien Buemi had no ill effects of having to miss FP1 and was 15th for Toro Rosso on 1m 15.264s ahead of Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 15.338s, and Pastor Maldonado just beat Rubens Barrichello at Williams, 1m 15.679s to 1m 15.903s.
This time Jarno Trulli was Lotus’s lead runner on 1m 16.298s to Heikki Kovalainen’s 1m 16.338s, but closest of the lot were the Virgins, as Jerome D’Ambrosio lapped in 1m 18.031s to Timo Glock’s 1m 18.051s. Finally, Daniel Ricciardo posted 1m 18.367s in his HRT with team mate Tonio Liuzzi close on 1m 18.476s. Formula 1
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