{"id":11330,"date":"2012-11-03T06:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11330"},"modified":"2012-11-03T06:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:18:36","slug":"abu-dhabi-gp-vettel-fastest-in-2nd-practice-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11330","title":{"rendered":"Vettel fastest in second practice session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11219\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastian-vettel\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel.jpg 259w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Abu Dhabi:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the second practice followed by Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday. Vettel clocked 1 minute, 41.751 seconds for Red Bull on the 5.6-kilometer (3.5-mile) Yas Marina circuit, .168 seconds quicker than Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren teammate Jenson Button was third followed by Vettel&#8217;s teammate Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all three Sahara Force India drivers were in action today during free practice at Yas Marina ahead of this weekend\u2019s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Speaking about the practice sessions, Nico Hulkenberg&nbsp; said, \u201cI think it\u2019s still difficult to know where our performance level is right now, but we probably need to raise our game and improve a bit overnight if we want to challenge for points. The balance is not perfect just yet so we need to work tonight to get the car closer to the sweet spot. Apart from that we got through the programme, collected all the tyre data and so it was a fairly normal Friday.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Paul Di Resta, who didn\u2019t take part in the first practice session said, \u201cI think we learned quite a lot this evening, but there\u2019s a lot of work ahead of us to understand where we stand and where we can improve. This track is all about grip in the low and medium speed corners and that\u2019s where we need to focus tonight. In terms of tyres we collected a lot of data today so we will be working hard to make sure we get them in the right operating window for qualifying and the race.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Jules Bianchi, who participated in the first practice session said,&nbsp; \u201cIt think this was probably my best free practice session so far. I\u2019ve done lots of testing here before so I know the track really well and felt very comfortable. The programme was quite simple with three runs, lots of laps and we improved the car with each run. The track improved a lot during the session, but the tyres went off quite quickly so it was difficult to improve my times at the end of the session.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11219\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastian-vettel\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel.jpg 259w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Abu Dhabi:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the second practice followed by Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday. Vettel clocked 1 minute, 41.751 seconds for Red Bull on the 5.6-kilometer (3.5-mile) Yas Marina circuit, .168 seconds quicker than Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren teammate Jenson Button was third followed by Vettel&#8217;s teammate Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all three Sahara Force India drivers were in action today during free practice at Yas Marina ahead of this weekend\u2019s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[7152,1982,1502,1694],"class_list":["post-11330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing-racing","tag-abu-dhabi-grand-prix","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vettel fastest in second practice session - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11330\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vettel fastest in second practice session - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abu Dhabi: Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the second practice followed by Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday. 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