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Vettel laments practice spin

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Sebastian Vettel failed to set a quick time in second practice © Getty Images
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Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel put his poor performance in Friday practice at Albert Park down to a mistake in the closing stages.

In the dying moments of the second session Vettel lost the rear of his car at turn three and beached it in the gravel, preventing him setting a quick lap when the track was at its quickest. He ended up 16th fastest, splitting the two Ferraris, but said he was still confident about the RB6's pace.

"I had a drift off track at the end of the second session; obviously it wasn't ideal, but it happens - that's what practice is for," he said. "It was my mistake; I was a bit too far to the left when hitting the brakes. It meant I missed the most important time on the track at the end of P2, but the car feels good and Mark [Webber] showed that we are right there. It looks very close between the top cars."

His team-mate Mark Webber was third quickest behind the McLarens but said the inclement weather had been frustrating while trying to find a set-up for the car.

"It wasn't too bad today," he said. "Everyone's programmes were disrupted in P2 with the intermittent weather. It's pretty much the team's worst nightmare when the weather's just on the edge like that; you can't commit to learning too much in the wet and it's quite tricky in the dry as well. We had a couple of windows where we got some information though, so we have good data to go through tonight."

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