Red Bull lead the way in second practice | 2012 Korean Grand Prix second practice result

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Sebastian Vettel led the second practice session in which Red Bull consistently had the quickest car.

The reigning world champion edged team mate Mark Webber by three hundredths of a second around the Korea International Circuit.

Fernando Alonso was third-quickest for Ferrari, three tenths of a second off the RB8s, followed by the McLaren of Jenson Button.

Red Bull led the way at the beginning of the session while the drivers were running on softs. But Vettel was one of several drivers who found difficulty extracting a good time out of the super-soft tyres.

He ran wide at turn one on his first effort and made a similar, smaller mistake the next time around. Webber briefly took over at the top of the times but Vettel finally got a clear run in to set the quickest lap.

Other drivers were having trouble in traffic. Michael Schumacher slowed and gesticulated angrily at Pedro de la Rosa after the HRT driver held him up at turn three. Alonso also cut it fine, dodging around the other HRT of Narain Karthikeyan as he began a lap.

Sergio Perez’s problems were more serious. He lost DRS as he began his first flying lap, then the C31 let him down completely, coming to a stop on the track. The car was returned to the pits before the end of the session but the team were not able to get Perez back on the track.

Having been quickest in the first session there was little sign of the same pace from Lewis Hamilton in the second. He ended up eighth, half a second off his team mate’s time.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’38.832
2	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’38.864	0.032
3	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’39.160	0.328
4	3	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’39.219	0.387
5	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’39.330	0.498
6	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’39.422	0.590
7	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’39.584	0.752
8	4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’39.717	0.885
9	12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1’39.739	0.907
10	9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1’39.839	1.007
11	10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1’39.957	1.125
12	19	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1’40.089	1.257
13	11	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1’40.112	1.280
14	14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’40.445	1.613
15	15	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1’40.745	1.913
16	17	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’40.789	1.957
17	16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’40.997	2.165
18	18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1’41.200	2.368
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1’41.602	2.770
20	24	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1’42.596	3.764
21	25	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1’43.066	4.234
22	21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1’43.067	4.235
23	23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1’43.869	5.037
24	22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1’44.533	5.701

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