World champion elect Sebastian Vettel narrowly topped the times from his closest pursuer Fernando Alonso in second practice in Singapore.
Vettel, who can potentially clinch his second straight title on Sunday, was the early pace-setter on the prime tyres (softs), and again once drivers switched to the super-soft option compound.
However on the high-fuel race simulation runs towards the end of the session, Alonso was quicker by a substantial margin – indicating that Ferrari were either running lighter than Red Bull, or are in particularly strong shape to challenge for victory on the tight Marina Bay street circuit.
Vettel’s best effort on light fuel was 1m46.374s, putting him 0.2s clear of Alonso and three-quarters of a second ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton in third and Felipe Massa (Ferrari) in fourth.
Mark Webber was fifth fastest in the second Red Bull ahead of Michael Schumacher, the German continuing his strong recent form for Mercedes.
Adrian Sutil was next up in the Force India, followed by Sauber duo Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi.
Jenson Button was mired in 10th place after missing the majority of the session following an apparently minor ‘off’ well before the halfway mark.
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