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Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dominated the opening two practice sessions for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.
Vettel was quickest in both sessions, with championship leader Webber right behind his team-mate and Robert Kubica third quickest in his Renault on both occasions.
Ferrari were off the pace in the first session, but Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa improved for P2, coming in fourth and fifth fastest respectively.
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Formula 1: Japanese Grand Prix - Second Practice Results
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McLaren’s defending world champion Jenson Button was sixth quickest in the second session, but team-mate Lewis Hamilton endured a tough day. Sport.co.uk
Button’s teammate Lewis Hamilton, who crashed heavily in morning practice, was forced to sit out all but the last 10 minutes of the session as the team hastily repaired his car.
He completed just eight laps, and finished the session in 13th place, more than two seconds off Vettel’s pace.
Hamilton’s accident was the latest in a string of shunts by the 25-year-old, who was forced to retire from the last two Grand Prix with accident damage. Alonso headed the session after 15 of the 90 minutes, but Red Bull soon showed their true pace when Webber and then Vettel beat the Spaniard’s time by more than half a second after the first half-hour had elapsed. AFP
Between the two McLarens, Vitaly Petrov was on good form for Renault with 1m 32.703s for seventh ahead of Michael Schumacher, who continued to show Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg the way this time with 1m 32.831s. Adrian Sutil managed 1m 32.842s in his Force India, with Nico Hulkenberg 10th on 1m 32.851s in the leading Williams. Rosberg was right behind him with 1m 32.880s.
Kamui Kobayashi spent most of the session trailing BMW Sauber team mate Nick Heidfeld, but banged in a 1m 33.471s lap to show the German the way. Heidfeld was 15th on 1m 33.697s, separated from his partner by Hamilton and Rubens Barrichello in the other Williams, on 1m 33.564s.
Sebastian Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari proved very evenly matched in their Toro Rossos on 1m 34.005s and 1m 34.055s respectively, while Tonio Liuzzi had problems with his Force India and failed to better 1m 34.310s for 18th. Formula 1
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