Red Bull champion Sebastian Vettel dominates Indian GP practice
Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel topped both practice sessions at the Indian Grand Prix yesterday as he bids for his fourth win in a row — and a historic third straight drivers title.
Super pace: Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel during the Indian GP practice yesterday. Pic/Getty Images.
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The Red Bull driver, 25, who seized the championship lead at the last race in South Korea and is seeking to become Formula One's youngest triple champion, scorched a fastest lap of one minute and 26.221 seconds in the second session.
He finished ahead of his Australian team-mate Mark Webber with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, the long-time championship leader now supplanted by Vettel, third fastest.
Slow Hamilton
Germany’s Nico Rosberg was fourth in the leading Mercedes car ahead of Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus and the two McLarens of Britons Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
Nico Hulkenberg was eighth for Force India ahead of Frenchman Romain Grosjean in the second Lotus and Brazilian Bruno Senna for Williams.
On a bright, dry day with a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, the conditions were near-perfect as Vettel continued his irresistible form in Asia by topping the first session from Button, and staying ahead of the pack in the second.
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