Sebastian Vettel takes a scare in Japan after accident

German Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), who just needs one point to win the title of Formula One world champion, had an accident without serious consequences during the first day of free practice for the Japanese Grand Prix, in which the best was the only driver with a mathematical chance to stop him, Jenson Button (McLaren), ahead of Spanish Fernando Alonso (Ferrari). See full world championship rankings

In its latest attempt to seize the best time in the first contact with the historic circuit of Suzuka, Vettel suffered a scare when he went off the runway and crashed Degner One protections Degner Two.

It was a major accident, but Vettel took it as a warning that should keep one hundred percent concentration for this weekend made the point that it takes to become the youngest driver in history to score his second world title.

Jenson Button, that to prevent the coronation of Vettel to win all five remaining races and that the Germans did not add a single point, was fastest in both the morning session and in the evening. The British have nothing to lose and Suzuka has been proposed to do everything possible to pressure the German.

Button improved markedly in the second session the time he had obtained in the first.The British gave his best lap in 1:33.634 in the morning but by afternoon, with one track at a time in better conditions, lowered to 1:31.901.

Fernando Alonso, who was fourth in the morning, then squeezed the most of your Ferrari 150 º Italy to get finished in second place, having led the timesheets for much of the second series. He finished at 174 thousandths of a world champion in 2009.

Vettel was third in both sessions. He overcame the shock he had in the morning and evening also finished in third place. The Germans were not sent this time on the timesheets, but the pace on soft tires at the long runs allows it to be very optimistic views of the rest of the weekend.

After Sebastian Vettel finished their team-mate Mark Webber and Brazilian Felipe Massa (Ferrari), while Britain's Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) was eighth, behind the two pilots MercedesGP, Michael Schumacher and the Germans Nico Rosberg.

The Spanish Alguersuari (Toro Rosso-Ferrari) won the eleventh fastest time, one behind teammate, Sebastien Swiss Bernie, and two ahead of Sergio Perez Mexican (Sauber-Ferrari). The Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado (Williams) was arrested with a mechanical problem in the absence of half an hour to the end of the second session.

During the afternoon session, Rubens Barrichello (Williams) had an accident without consequences for the driver, but when the racing car was badly damaged. Were on the verge of ending Japan's Kamui Kobayashi as (Sauber-Ferrari) and fellow Brazilian Bruno Senna (Renault).