Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel had the best times during both 90-minute practice sessions for the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday.

In the morning session Vettel outpaced teammate Mark Webber of Australia, while in the afternoon laps the German driver repeated his dominant performance and was quicker than Ferrari's Fernando Alonso by 0.49 seconds.

Red Bull and Ferrari alternated the other top places in the afternoon, with Webber third ahead of Ferrari's Felipe Massa — back at the scene where he suffered near-fatal skull fractures in a qualifying crash last year.

"It was just normal to go back on the track," Massa said. "It was nice to be back after what happened last year but I didn't think about it when I was in the car."

Alonso said today's sessions — a third practice and qualifying — would show more clearly the teams' strengths and weaknesses than these initial laps around the Hungaroring's twisting and relatively slow design.

Alonso said Ferrari's main objective this weekend was to finish ahead of McLaren, which leads the team and the drivers' championships.

In other afternoon placings, Renault's Vitaly Petrov of Russia headed off Hamilton for fifth, while the other Renault of Poland's Robert Kubica was seventh. Button was ninth.