Reality bit on Friday afternoon in Italy when Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was in a class of his own as the only runner to dip beneath the 1m 25s mark during second practice.As the world champion lapped Monza in an impressive 1m 24.453s, team-mate Mark Webber was a close second on 1m 25.076s from the Lotus team-mates Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. Confusingly for the Enstone team, the pair shared exactly the same lap time of 1m 25.116s though the Finn was using the longer wheelbase E21, the Frenchman the standard configuration.For a while the times had been close as everyone ran the hard Pirelli tyres, but on the medium compound the Red Bulls – or Vettel’s, at least...
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