Hungarian GP: Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull stay ahead in practice two

The German and the Australian had topped the morning session and they repeated the feat when drivers used the softer Pirelli tyres in the afternoon.

Vettel led the way once more with a time of 1m21.264s as the top five drivers were covered by less than three tenths of a second.

Lotus's Romain Grosjean was the fastest of the non-Red Bull drivers ahead of the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.

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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg were sixth and seventh respectively as Mercedes did not show the kind of one-lap pace that has secured it the last two pole positions.

Kimi Raikkonen, Jenson Button and Adrian Sutil completed the top 10 in a trouble-free session.

Vettel needed just a few minutes to move to the top of the times with the fastest lap of the weekend so far, the Red Bull driver posting a 1m22.484s 10 minutes into the running.

Although Webber managed to reduce gap as the session progressed, Vettel raised the bar at the 30-minute mark and went a full 1.2 seconds quicker with Pirelli's soft tyres.

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The Australian reacted right away, however, and - also using the softs - move to within 0.044s of Vettel's time.

Rosberg's first run on softs elevated him to third place, albeit over seven tenths of a second behind the pacesetter.

Hamilton outpaced his team-mate with the yellow-marked rubber, although he too was far from Vettel's time despite Mercedes' single-lap pace.

Ferrari drivers Alonso and Massa relegated the Mercedes duo at the halfway point, with the Spaniard moving into third ahead of his Brazilian team-mate. Both men were running with the soft tyres.

Grosjean then got even closer to the Red Bulls - just 0.153s behind - and jumped to third place in the Lotus.

Pos Driver                Team                    Time      Gap       Laps
 1. Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault        1m21.264s             34
 2. Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault        1m21.308s  +0.044s	42
 3. Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault           1m21.417s  +0.153s	40
 4. Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                 1m21.426s  +0.162s	34
 5. Felipe Massa          Ferrari                 1m21.544s  +0.280s	37
 6. Lewis Hamilton        Mercedes                1m21.802s  +0.538s	42
 7. Nico Rosberg          Mercedes                1m21.991s  +0.727s	40
 8. Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault           1m22.011s  +0.747s	32
 9. Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1m22.180s  +0.916s	41
10. Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1m22.304s  +1.040s	41
11. Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes    1m22.526s  +1.262s	39
12. Sergio Perez          McLaren-Mercedes        1m22.529s  +1.265s	37
13. Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault        1m22.781s  +1.517s	36
14. Esteban Gutierrez     Sauber-Ferrari          1m22.837s  +1.573s	42
15. Nico Hulkenberg       Sauber-Ferrari          1m22.841s  +1.577s	39
16. Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m23.369s  +2.105s	34
17. Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m23.411s  +2.147s	41
18. Valtteri Bottas       Williams-Renault        1m23.646s  +2.382s	34
19. Charles Pic           Caterham-Renault        1m24.325s  +3.061s	38
20. Giedo van der Garde   Caterham-Renault        1m25.065s  +3.801s	36
21. Jules Bianchi         Marussia-Cosworth       1m25.143s  +3.879s	39
22. Max Chilton           Marussia-Cosworth       1m26.647s  +5.383s	33