Practice One – first blood to Vettel

Sebastian Vettel pushed Red Bull to the fore as the opening practice for this weekend’s British Grand Prix got underway on Friday morning at the new Silverstone circuit.

Proving that lap times in team simulators have not been overly optimistic at 1m 31s, Vettel lapped his RB6 in 1m 32.280s to head late-improving Lewis Hamilton by 0.334s after the 2008 world champion took his revised McLaren round in 1m 32.614s…