Abu Dhabi: Vettel tops Practice 2

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel led the second free practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton has only ever started on the front row in Abu Dhabi and also won last year's race and started on pole for the inaugural event in 2

Jenson Button was third, while Mark Webber was fourth but stepped out of the car late in the session with car problems.

Vettel's chief championship rival Fernando Alonso was only seventh fastest, some 0.8s away from the ultimate pace indicating those new Ferrari upgrades did not work.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m41.751	+0.000s	33
2.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m41.919s	+ 0.168	33
3.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m42.412s	+ 0.661	35
4.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m42.466s	+ 0.715	21
5.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1m42.500s	+ 0.749	33
6.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1m42.532s	+ 0.781	27
7.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m42.587s	+ 0.836	30
8.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m42.823s	+ 1.072	32
9.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1m42.998s	+ 1.247	36
10.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m43.106s	+ 1.355	35
11.	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1m43.191s	+ 1.440	33
12.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m43.200s	+ 1.449	35
13.	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m43.255s	+ 1.504	33
14.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m43.267s	+ 1.516	31
15.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m43.578s	+ 1.827	33
16.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m43.689s	+ 1.938	31
17.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m44.260s	+ 2.509	26
18.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m45.073s	+ 3.322	18
19.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1m45.245s	+ 3.494	35
20.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1m45.782s	+ 4.031	32
21.	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1m46.589s	+ 4.838	34
22.	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1m46.671s	+ 4.920	30
23.	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1m46.707s	+ 4.956	25
24.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m47.406s	+ 5.655	34