While it's early days, the second practice always reveals some performance levels as drivers do race stint simulations to analyse the behaviour of the tyres in light of race strategy decisions. At a moment where it is crucial for Fernando Alonso to start to close the gap to Championship leader Sebastian Vettel, the German led the field in FP2 by 6 tenths over his teammate, confirming that Red Bull and himself are out to win and seal the title as soon as they can. The competition is wary of the Red Bulls, and doubt they can be caught, even though the car setups are far from finalised. Hamilton and Alonso for instance were quite outspoken of the pace, even though they're far from unhappy with...
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