Red Bull Racings Sebastian Vettel, who topped the FP2 timesheet at the Korea International Circuit.Red Bull Racing charged to the top of the timesheets in the second practice session ahead of this weekends Korean Grand Prix.
Having taken third and fifth places respectively in the opening session, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel found more pace in the afternoon, with Vettel moving to the top of the standings and Webber finishing just three hundredths of a second behind his team-mate in second place. Indeed, after Mercedes Michael Schumacher and Ferraris Felipe Massa had briefly both held top spot in the early part of the session, the Red Bull pair seized control and were never headed again. Webber and Vettel regularly traded positions but it was the defending champion who claimed the honours late on. Closest to the Red Bulls was Ferraris Fernando Alonso, the Ferrari ending the afternoon three tenths shy of Vettels time. Fourth place was taken by Jenson Button who recorded a time 0.387 adrift of the Red Bull man and Michael Schumacher finished fifth. There were few problems during the session, with only Saubers Sergio Prezs hitting trouble. The Mexican driver pulled over halfway through the session with an actuator problem that ended his days work. Car 2, Mark Webber We had a pretty good program for today and I think both of us managed to get the most out of it. Well have a look where we can improve tonight in different areas; its always a compromise on a track like this with a bit of top speed in the first sector, then the last sector is pretty twisty in terms of rhythm its a bit like Budapest, so you need a bit of downforce there. So far so good, we have good information and the guys will now get on with the job tonight.Car 1, Sebastian VettelAll in all we can be quite happy, but I think it looks extremely tight. Im not happy with every run we had today, but I think the track was changing quite a lot this morning, it was better than we expected. This afternoon it was quite slippery to start with, but then I think it got a little bit better so, all in all the car felt alright and now we see what we can do for tomorrow. I think we have to improve ourselves to match the others.STATISTICS MARK WEBBERFirst Practice SessionPosition: 3, Best Time: 1:39.575, Laps: 21Second Practice Session Position: 2, Best Time: 1:38.864, Laps: 33SEBASTIAN VETTELFirst Practice SessionPosition: 5, Best Time: 1:40.088, Laps: 21Second Practice Session Position: 1, Best Time: 1:38.832, Laps: 33
RED BULL RACING REVEALED Racing in Formula One is truly a team effort and as such our championship challenge bears the signature of every department of Red Bull Racing, from reception to race track. This race we look at the work of the R&D Projects Department, which looks after, well, quite a lot of different things THIS RACE: R&D PROJECTS DEPARTMENT People think: They do something important although were not quite sure what. It could be something to do with gearboxes, or maybe engines. Were pretty sure theyre science guys though. What they actually do is: Bring vast brain power on a wide range of engineering disciplines to sort almost any problem thats sent their way. We do a lot of different things, which extends from having a couple of guys looking at how the car is working at races, to developing the KERS system and running that, says head of department Rob Gray. We do a lot of problem solving, from brakes to gearbox development. We get involved in a very broad range of areas. To an extent it is a case of people asking us to have a think about something and offer a solution. [Chief Designer] Rob Marshall is our boss and he feeds us with ideas and requests. Its a problem-solving exercise. You can be looking at one thing in the morning and something completely different in the afternoon. There is a lot of variety and thats part of the attraction. Much of the work of the department is focused on the long view. Were very heavily involved with the 2014 engine and thats taking more and more of our time, Rob adds. Were talking a lot with Renault and were busy developing what we need for the team, be that the gearbox, batteries or intercoolers because, of course, its a turbo engine. Not everything is developed in-house, but a lot is. There is also plenty of work going on for 2013 as well. The great thing about R&D Projects is that it has mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and software engineers, so it brings every discipline together to build something like KERS and thats very interesting.
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m38.832s 2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m38.864s 3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m39.160s 4. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m39.219s 5. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m39.330s 6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m39.422s 7. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m39.584s 8. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m39.717s 9. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m39.739s 10 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m39.839s 11 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m39.957s 12 Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m40.089s 13 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m40.112s 14 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m40.445s 15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m40.745s 16 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.789s 17 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.997s 18 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m41.200s 19 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m41.602s 20 Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m42.596s 21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m43.067s 23 Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m43.636s 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m43.869s 24 Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m44.533s
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