Free Practice 2 results - Belgium 2013 - Vettel heads to the top, but also suffers a tyre failure

Published 23 August 2013 by Christine

Second practice saw the sun come out, allowing some meaningful running on the Spa track. Vettel found himself having to avoid two very slow Caterhams, who both ran themselves off track and rejoined right in the way of the German. Caterham had more trouble when Giedo van der Garde span off and hit the wall. Vettel also had more trouble, later suffering a right rear puncture, which saw him crawl slowly back to the pits. It didn't stop him leading the times though, ahead of teammate Mark Webber and then Romain Grosjean.

Position	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Infiniti Red Bull Racing	1:49.331	22
2	Mark Webber	Infiniti Red Bull Racing	1:49.390	34
3	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	1:50.149	34
4	Felipe Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:50.164	27
5	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:50.253	28
6	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus F1 Team	1:50.318	33
7	Fernando Alonso	Scuderia Ferrari	1:50.510	21
8	Sergio Pérez	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	1:50.536	27
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1:50.601	33
10	Paul di Resta	Sahara Force India F1 Team	1:50.611	27
11	Adrian Sutil	Sahara Force India F1 Team	1:50.629	30
12	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1:50.751	27
13	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber F1 Team	1:50.972	33
14	Pastor Maldonado	Williams F1 Team	1:50.991	28
15	Jenson Button	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	1:51.195	28
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:51.447	26
17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams F1 Team	1:51.568	28
18	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber F1 Team	1:51.644	26
19	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham F1 Team	1:53.157	21
20	Charles Pic	Caterham F1 Team	1:53.251	29
21	Jules Bianchi	Marussia F1 Team	1:53.482	28
22	Max Chilton	Marussia F1 Team	1:54.418	12