Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in Saturday’s final practice session ahead of qualifying and Sunday’s Formula One Indian Grand Prix.
On his final lap of the session, the world champion posted a lap of 1 minute, 24.824 seconds around the Buddh International Circuit, putting him a third of a second ahead of McLaren’s Jenson Button, with Red Bull’s Mark Webber third fastest.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was fourth fastest, with that top four covered by less than half a second. The Ferrari pair of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were fifth and sixth respectively.
Vettel’s performance indicated he had the pace to challenge for a 13th pole position of the season later Saturday.
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The all-time record is 14, set by Nigel Mansell in 1992. Times of India
Then there was another gap as Paul di Resta continued his impressive season with 1m 26.785s to take seventh for Force India, ahead of Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes on 1m 26.873s and Adrian Sutil on 1m 26.958s in the second Force India.
Sebastien Buemi continued to look like a top 10 contender for qualifying, with 1m 27.146s in his Toro Rosso, ahead of Michael Schumacher on 1m 27.217s in the other Mercedes, Bruno Senna on 1m 27.235s for Renault despite a few off-track excursions, Kamui Kobayashi on 1m 27.262s in the lead Sauber, Vitaly Petrov on 1m 27.280s in the second Renault, Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 27.387s in the other Toro Rosso, Sergio Perez on 1m 27.749s in the second Sauber, and the Williamses of Pastor Maldonado and Rubens Barrichello on 1m 27.793s and 1m 27.875s respectively.
Jarno Trulli continued to rule the Lotus roost with 1m 29.355s to Heikki Kovalainen’s 1m 29.750s, and Timo Glock was similarly in charge at Virgin with 1m 30.683s for 21st, but local hero Narain Karthikeyan continued his impressive weekend by shadowing him with 1m 30.900s for HRT. Their respective team mates had less happy sessions; Jerome D’Ambrosio couldn’t get below 1m 32.851s in his Virgin, while Daniel Ricciardo had a troubled time with gearbox trouble for HRT en route to 1m 33.246s. Formula 1
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