Abu Dhabi: Sebastian Vettel clocked the fastest time ahead of Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber in second free practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix here on Friday.
Vettel’s fastest lap time of one minute and 41.335 seconds lifted him one-tenth of a second clear of Webber.
Lewis Hamilton was third fastest for Mercedes ahead of Kimi Raikkonen in the leading Lotus, Nico Rosberg in the second Mercedes and Sergio Perez of McLaren.
Vettel said, “It’s difficult to say today how we compare to the others, we know the Lotus is quick here, but we also had decent pace today. It’s not always so easy at this circuit with the conditions changing throughout the day; we start in the sun and finish at night and the track temperature changes during that time. But, no big issues, so I’m pretty happy.”
Meanwhile, Webber said , “The second session today was more representative of the
race and qualifying than the first, due to the time of day and temperatures. It was a lot about the tyres today; I think the soft tyre will hold out better here than it did last week. It wasn’t a bad feeling for the first day, we got the information we needed, so let’s see how we get on tomorrow. We’ll go through everything tonight and try to understand the car on both tyre compounds.”
