Japanese Grand Prix 2012

Winner Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull have a good time with second placed Ferrari's Felipe Massa and third placed Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.

            

The Milton Keynes-based squad were the leading force at last weekend's Japanese Grand Prix and they appear like another time being the pacesetters in Yeongam. Sebastian Vettel, just four points at the back Fernando Alonso in the challenge standing, set a time of one microscopic 38.832 seconds to beat team-mate Mark Webber to top spot by just three-hundredths of a second. Third position went to Alonso as Ferrari showed cryptogram that updates to the F2012 will make them a more ready for action proposal here than in recent races, even though he was 0.3 seconds drifting of the Red Bulls. Jenson Button was fourth in the first of the McLarens while Michael Schumacher was fifth on a track where Mercedes are hopeful of a ready for action showing. Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg were next up, to the front of Lewis Hamilton in eighth.Hamilton, who has been unashamedly uncomfortable by his injudicious Twitter rant at Button last Sunday, had been convinced of a sturdy presentation after McLaren fixed a suspension difficulty that caught up him in Japan. But he found himself nearly nine-tenths off Vettel's final pace and suffered an off-track excursion during the final minutes. Nico Hulkenberg was ninth in the strength India with the Lotus pair of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean 10th and 11th. The Enstone company have bring a series of upgrade to Yeongam, including a new tire out system, but they do not come into view set to boost Raikkonen's fading championship hopes. Bruno Senna was 12th for Williams, with Paul Di Resta 13th ahead of the two Saubers. The Swiss team protected a podium in Japan with Kamui Kobayashi, but a repeat looks not likely this weekend as he and team-mate Sergio Perez over and done with 14th and 15th. The Mexican's frustrations were not help when he was compulsory to dispose of his car after it earth to a halt halfway from beginning to end the session. minister Maldonado was a unsatisfactory 18th for Williams, behind the Toro Rossos of Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo, with the Caterhams, Marussias and HRTs substantial out the underneath six places.