Vettel top in final Singapore practice

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Sebastian Vettel was on top once again in the third practice session at Singapore.

He was six-tenths of a second quicker than Fernando Alonso with Lewis Hamilton three tenths further behind.

The other Ferrari of Felipe Massa was fourth ahead of Nico Rosberg, Mark Webber and Nico Hulkenberg.

For the second time this weekend the session began on a damp track which dried throughout the course of practice.

Some parts of the circuit took longer to dry than others and turn five caught out several drivers including Webber, Rosberg, Alonso and Hamilton.

Bruno Senna spun twice during the session, coming to a halt at the Singapore Sling chicane and at turn 18, where Alonso hit trouble yesterday.

His second spin brought out the yellow flags during a hectic end to the session, where traffic meant drivers were already having to abort runs having set quick sector times. Hamilton and both Red Bull drivers had to abandon their efforts to set better times on the super-soft tyres.

Timo Glock, who finished second for Toyota here last year, was the quickest of the new teams’ drivers by eight-tenths of a second.

Pos.CarDriverCarBest lapGapLaps
15Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1’48.02815
28Fernando AlonsoFerrari1’48.6500.62216
32Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1’49.0000.97212
47Felipe MassaFerrari1’49.0230.99518
54Nico RosbergMercedes1’49.0561.02817
66Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1’49.2121.18413
710Nico HulkenbergWilliams-Cosworth1’49.3041.27617
811Robert KubicaRenault1’49.5201.49216
914Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes1’49.9161.88815
1016Sebastien BuemiToro Rosso-Ferrari1’49.9491.92116
1112Vitaly PetrovRenault1’50.0402.01215
129Rubens BarrichelloWilliams-Cosworth1’50.0532.02516
131Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1’50.0602.03212
1417Jaime AlguersuariToro Rosso-Ferrari1’50.0672.03916
153Michael SchumacherMercedes1’50.0672.03914
1615Vitantonio LiuzziForce India-Mercedes1’50.8682.84016
1722Nick HeidfeldSauber-Ferrari1’51.0162.98815
1823Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari1’51.0272.99917
1924Timo GlockVirgin-Cosworth1’52.3404.31214
2019Heikki KovalainenLotus-Cosworth1’53.1465.11815
2125Lucas di GrassiVirgin-Cosworth1’53.2975.26915
2218Jarno TrulliLotus-Cosworth1’53.6815.65317
2320Christian KlienHRT-Cosworth1’54.8266.79816
2421Bruno SennaHRT-Cosworth1’55.3677.33916

Ultimate laps

A driver’s ultimate lap is his best three sector times added together.

Pos.CarDriverCarUltimate lapGapDeficit to best
15Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1’47.5630.465
22Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1’48.3050.7420.695
38Fernando AlonsoFerrari1’48.5610.9980.089
47Felipe MassaFerrari1’48.6101.0470.413
56Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1’48.6301.0670.582
64Nico RosbergMercedes1’48.7501.1870.306
710Nico HulkenbergWilliams-Cosworth1’48.9981.4350.306
811Robert KubicaRenault1’49.0281.4650.492
916Sebastien BuemiToro Rosso-Ferrari1’49.1551.5920.794
101Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1’49.3741.8110.686
113Michael SchumacherMercedes1’49.3931.8300.674
129Rubens BarrichelloWilliams-Cosworth1’49.4031.8400.650
1314Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes1’49.7442.1810.172
1412Vitaly PetrovRenault1’49.8772.3140.163
1517Jaime AlguersuariToro Rosso-Ferrari1’49.9632.4000.104
1615Vitantonio LiuzziForce India-Mercedes1’50.4522.8890.416
1723Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari1’50.5633.0000.464
1822Nick HeidfeldSauber-Ferrari1’50.6543.0910.362
1924Timo GlockVirgin-Cosworth1’51.9684.4050.372
2019Heikki KovalainenLotus-Cosworth1’52.7195.1560.427
2125Lucas di GrassiVirgin-Cosworth1’52.9145.3510.383
2218Jarno TrulliLotus-Cosworth1’53.1065.5430.575
2320Christian KlienHRT-Cosworth1’54.6587.0950.168
2421Bruno SennaHRT-Cosworth1’55.1567.5930.211

Singapore practice combined lap times

PosDriverCarFP1FP2FP3Total laps
1Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1’55.1371’46.6601’48.02856
2Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1’54.5891’47.2871’49.21250
3Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1’55.3331’47.6901’50.06052
4Fernando AlonsoFerrari1’56.0901’47.7181’48.65048
5Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1’56.8841’47.8181’49.00049
6Rubens BarrichelloWilliams-Cosworth1’56.6151’48.3021’50.05364
7Felipe MassaFerrari1’57.7601’48.3411’49.02368
8Nico RosbergMercedes1’56.5981’48.6791’49.05651
9Robert KubicaRenault1’55.6721’48.8551’49.52042
10Michael SchumacherMercedes1’54.7081’48.8891’50.06769
11Nico HulkenbergWilliams-Cosworth1’56.8401’49.1531’49.30463
12Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari1’56.3391’49.4381’51.02769
13Nick HeidfeldSauber-Ferrari1’56.4581’49.5581’51.01659
14Vitaly PetrovRenault1’55.9141’49.6081’50.04065
15Vitantonio LiuzziForce India-Mercedes1’55.5101’49.8961’50.86859
16Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes1’54.8271’49.9841’49.91641
17Sebastien BuemiToro Rosso-Ferrari1’55.5231’50.8961’49.94966
18Jaime AlguersuariToro Rosso-Ferrari1’55.1601’50.1911’50.06767
19Heikki KovalainenLotus-Cosworth1’56.6031’51.8781’53.14657
20Timo GlockVirgin-Cosworth1’59.0341’52.1501’52.34055
21Lucas di GrassiVirgin-Cosworth1’53.4311’53.29740
22Jarno TrulliLotus-Cosworth1’53.5261’53.68144
23Bruno SennaHRT-Cosworth1’59.7831’54.7251’55.36766
24Christian KlienHRT-Cosworth2’03.4241’55.5421’54.82658
25Jerome d’AmbrosioVirgin-Cosworth1’59.27516
26Fairuz FauzyLotus-Cosworth2’05.69411

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    13 comments on “Vettel top in final Singapore practice”

    1. the gap is not that big! It’s caused by the fact that Senna caused a yellow flag and the end of the session. However, I think Seb is going to start from pole – but I think Lewis will be very strong in the race.

      1. anyway Vettel is the favourite, i saw the new mclaren front wing thursday and its very beautiful but is it efficient?anyway under this light or under the sunshine mclaren is an very ugly car .Ferrari is the main threath for both redbull or mclaen cause they have always the second best car on any track but germany and italyy they were the best mcalren is the 3rd best team they have been 3rd fastest every track but canada and redbull are and will be the fastest and mclaren and fia cant ruin that

    2. So again Schumacher a second behind Rosberg, almost as bad as Luizzi compared to Sutil. Interesting that Huelkenberg is now seemingly consistently faster than Barrichello, and Petrov ‘only’ half a second behind Kubica – Heidfeld and Kobayashi are very close, I guess there car really is that bad here.

      Glock is impressively .7 faster than Kovalainen (although still over a second away from the Saubers). HRT is still in a class all of its own, way behind. Senna half a second short on Klien, not sure if that is good or bad for him. Does show up Yamamoto again.

      1. Oh, yeah at the top, Vettel, not such a surprise, but I think they are less far ahead than they might have hoped, especially considering they had help from Senna’s spin as Formel1-GP mentions above.

        Alonso and Hamilton probably able to take fight to Vettel in the race if they don’t get stuck fighting over a safety car or something silly.

        1. But how much can we really read into the ultimate gap since the track was getting faster all the time?

    3. Hamilton – 1’49.000 that’s a nice rounded time! Not in terms of speed or any relevance to qualifying or the race, just the looks of it lol

    4. I feel a Rebull 1 – 2 in qualifying ! I hope Lewis does well , but I`m very skeptical about Mclaren this weekend.

    5. Is it just me that thinks the mclarens are actually going to do quite well this weekend?

      1. I think they’ll be very close time-wise, but all things being equal, if they’re even 1/100th of the pace they’ll be 4th and 6th – and there’s no way they’re as fast as Red Bull or Alonso.

        Of course… circuit like Singapore, damp track, Red Bull’s starts.. etc… all things won’t be equal ;p Aside from Vettel winning (assuming smooth pit-stops and no safety car bad-luck) I think the next 6 places are totally up for grabs, with Rosberg and maybe Kubica contending also.

    6. Looks pretty tight up front. Ferrari might be quick, Red Bull is quick but not miles in front and Hamilton looks to be there as well. If Button gets a good lap out he might be close as well.

      Looks good for qualifying.
      Sauber look to be the ones to drop out at Q1 end, but it migh also be Liuzzi or one of the STR cars again. And Schumacher actually has a fair chance to get into Q3, if this session was anything to judge by.

      I am wondering, weather Renault have kept something back for Qualifying. Kubica was out with his fast time a lot earlier than the guys making the top of the time sheet, so i would not rule him out for a top 5 position as well.

    7. Jenson is comfortably more than a second behind his team mate and that worries me a lot since the two red-cars are far above him. Just hoping he improves in Quali :-(

    8. Mclaren doesnt look too bad thsi weekend. I m not sure why people are saying that Mclaren r going to struggle in Singaporoe. Ham wa on a faster lap when Senna stopped on the track causing a yellow flag.

    9. Inb4 Vettel gets pole and fails to convert it into a win yet again.

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