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McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time Friday in opening practice for the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix.
Hamilton’s best time of one minute, 48.599 seconds was four-tenths of a second faster than championship leader Sebastian Vettel around the Marina Bay circuit.
Vettel’s Red Bull teammate Mark Webber was third fastest despite losing his front wing early in the session in a collision with Virgin’s Timo Glock. Ferrari pair Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were fourth and sixth fastest respectively, either side of McLaren’s Jenson Button.
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Force India pair Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta were seventh and ninth, while Mercedes teammates Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg were eighth and tenth. TSN
In his first appearance since Nurburgring practice in July, Narain Karthikeyan was 23rd fastest, ahead of HRT team-mate Daniel Ricciardo. The Indian was given Tonio Liuzzi’s car for this session as a warm-up for his racing return at his inaugural home grand prix next month.
In addition to the kerb issues, there was another a brief red flag interruption at the session’s halfway point when Heikki Kovalainen’s Lotus came to a halt with its front brakes on fire. Unlike last year, when the Finn famously had to put out a blaze on his Lotus himself in the race, Kovalainen was able to summon marshals to extinguish the fires, though he still assisted with pushing the car off the circuit.
The session’s other main incident was a collision between Webber and Timo Glock. Contact was made as the Red Bull tried to pass the Virgin into the penultimate corner, smashing a chunk from Webber’s front wing and leaving Glock with a puncture. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired 1 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:48.6 2 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:49.0 3 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:50.1 4 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:50.6 5 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:51.0 6 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:52.0 7 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:52.3 8 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 01:52.4 9 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 01:52.4 10 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 01:52.8 11 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:53.0 12 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:53.1 13 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 01:53.4 14 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 01:53.7 15 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 01:53.7 16 9 Bruno Senna Renault 01:53.8 17 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:53.8 18 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:54.7 19 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 01:54.8 20 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 01:56.2 21 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 01:57.8 22 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:58.8 23 22 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 01:59.2 24 23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 01:59.2
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