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Mark Webber put Red Bull to the top of the timesheets after the second practice session in Suzuka on Friday afternoon, lapping his RB8 in 1m32.493 to head McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by 0.214s after the 2008 champion recorded 1m32.707.
An action-packed session was halted for six minutes early on when Paul di Resta lost his Force India on the entry to the Spoon Curve after getting the right-rear wheel in the dirt. The Scot was not hurt.
Later Michael Schumacher had exactly the same accident there in his Mercedes AMG. The German was not injured.
There were also incidents for Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen, Sauber teammates Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez, Marussia's Timo Glock, Williams' Pastor Maldonado, HRT's Narain Karthikeyan, Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen, while Vitaly Petrov spun in the first corner in the closing minutes after his Caterham shed its rear wing.
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| Lewis Hamilton, McLaren. (Photo: WRi2) |
An action-packed session was halted for six minutes early on when Paul di Resta lost his Force India on the entry to the Spoon Curve after getting the right-rear wheel in the dirt. The Scot was not hurt.
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| Mercedes AMG's triple DRS. (Photo: WRi2) |
Later Michael Schumacher had exactly the same accident there in his Mercedes AMG. The German was not injured.
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| Ferrari using flow-viz pain in the front wings. (Photo: WRi2) |
There were also incidents for Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen, Sauber teammates Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez, Marussia's Timo Glock, Williams' Pastor Maldonado, HRT's Narain Karthikeyan, Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen, while Vitaly Petrov spun in the first corner in the closing minutes after his Caterham shed its rear wing.
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| A rack of Pitot tubes installed on the diffuser of the Mclaren. (Photo: WRi2) |
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| Female mechanic at work at HRT. (Photo: WRi2) |