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McLaren duo fastest in practice for Aussie GP
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March 27, 2010, Saturday
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LEWIS Hamilton won an all-McLaren battle for early pace ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, pipping world champion teammate Jenson Button for the fastest lap at a rain-affected second practice session in Melbourne yesterday.
After rain forced drivers back to the pits to change tires a few minutes into the session, Briton Hamilton emerged during a break between showers to overtake Button for the fastest lap at Albert Park with a time of one minute 25.801.
Button, slower by under three tenths of a second, attempted to wrest back the pace from his compatriot, but their times stood for the remainder of the session as teams grappled with tire selection.
"I didn't go out when it was wet," Hamilton said.
"(We) still have to make a couple of changes going into P3 (third free practice session) but good running, good feeling off both sets of cars."
With rain easing, Michael Schumacher pushed his Mercedes to the third fastest lap but was deposed shortly after by Australian Red Bull driver Mark Webber.
With traffic causing problems at times on the tight street circuit, the McLaren drivers came close to grief when overtaking BMW Sauber's Pedro de La Rosa late in the session.
Webber's teammate Sebastian Vettel lost control towards the finish, ending up on the gravel in a possible preview of things to come, with rain forecast for part of the weekend.
The German finished 16th, behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and in front of the Spaniard's Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa.
Renault's Vitaly Petrov, Russia's first F1 driver, posted the fifth fastest lap in the session, while Polish teammate Robert Kubica had the 11th fastest after setting the pace in the earlier session.
Hispania's Indian driver Karun Chandhok, whose debut for the new team was in qualifying at Bahrain, was again denied a practice time when his car ground to a halt soon after leaving the pit. Britain's Paul di Resta marked his debut with the 11th fastest lap in the first session, after replacing Force India's German regular Adrian Sutil.
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