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Vettel keeps his dominance in India

The second practice session of the Indian Grand Prix has started with Sebastian Vettel on top with the medium tyre, but his team mate has beaten his time by less than a tenth of a second and then Nico Rosberg has improved the time of the Australian by a thousandth of a second, but the German has complained about understeer. After the first half an hour, everybody has started to test the soft compound. Sebastian Vettel has pushed hard on his lap, using all the track width he has set the best time of the day, half a second worse than his pole time last year.

On the second half of the session, teams have done some “long” runs, and tyres (mainly the soft compound) have been the main character, a lot of blistering and, on words of Vettel “they are only lasting for 4 or 5 laps”. Pastor Maldonado has had an issue with his front right tyre, it seems that something went wrong in a pit stop, the nut has fallen and the tyre eventually has punctured. Team Lotus has been the team with a longest run on the soft tyre, so they could have a certain advantage on Sunday. With the medium compound, Red Bull has not had any rival in long runs.

P Driver Team Time Dif. Laps
1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:25.722 35
2 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:26.011 0.289 38
3 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:26.220 0.498 36
4 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:26.399 0.677 36
5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:26.430 0.708 39
6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:26.582 0.860 40
7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:26.601 0.879 41
8 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 1:26.632 0.910 32
9 Sergio Pérez McLaren 1:26.857 1.135 40
10 Jenson Button McLaren 1:26.972 1.250 39
11 Daniel Ricciardo STR 1:27.304 1.582 17
12 Adrian Sutil Force India 1:27.375 1.653 36
13 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1:27.429 1.707 31
14 Nico Hulkenberg Sauber 1:27.491 1.769 40
15 Paul di Resta Force India 1:27.608 1.886 38
16 Pastor Maldonado Williams 1:27.720 1.998 23
17 Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber 1:27.949 2.227 34
18 Jean Eric Vergne STR 1:28.431 2.709 30
19 Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1:28.692 2.970 39
20 Jules Bianchi Marussia 1:28.799 3.077 32
21 Charles Pic Caterham 1:29.366 3.644 37
22 Max Chilton Marussia 1:30.164 4.442 27