Button tops opening practice in Japan

Jenson Button

Jenson Button led a McLaren one-two in opening practice for the Japanese Grand Prix, while soon to be world champion for a 2nd time Sebastian Vettel crashed.

Vettel was third fastest in the session and was trying to go faster when he ran wide at Degner One and hit the barriers, but the car did not sustain too much damage.

Button was quickest for much of the session and set his best time on his final lap with a 1m33.634s.

He beat his teammate Lewis Hamilton by 0.091s in front of Vettel, with Fernando Alonso fourth and Mark Webber fifth quickest.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m33.634s	+0.000s	20
2.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m33.725s	+0.091	18
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m34.090s	+0.456	22
4.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m34.372s	+0.738	24
5.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m34.426s	+0.792	25
6.	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m34.937s	+1.303	23
7.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m35.585s	+1.951	27
8.	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m35.590s	+1.956	25
9.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m36.033s	+2.399	22
10.	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1m36.370s	+2.736	18
11.	Bruno Senna	Renault	1m36.487s	+2.853	18
12.	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m36.700s	+3.066	21
13.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m36.948s	+3.314	24
14.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m36.949s	+3.315	22
15.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m37.103s	+3.469	29
16.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m38.197s	+4.563	18
17.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m38.331s	+4.697	11
18.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m38.446s	+4.812	8
19.	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1m39.168s	+5.534	10
20.	Karun Chandhok	Lotus-Renault	1m39.946s	+6.312	22
21.	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m40.872s	+7.238	13
22.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m41.019s	+7.385	24
23.	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1m41.106s	+7.472	25
24.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m41.775s	+8.141	25