1310758Button and Hamilton among quickest in Dubai5Deleted02009-10-31T00:00:00.0000000-00:002009-10-31T11:55:34.9870000-00:002009-10-31T00:00:00.0000000-00:00dubai4falsefalse-1WEBMAN\colebSportSport NewsMotorsportFormula 1IrelandButton and Hamilton among quickest in DubaiEnglish drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton produced another top drawer performance in final practice for tomorrow's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<p>English drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton produced another top drawer performance in final practice for tomorrow's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.</p>
<p>Last year's world champion Hamilton narrowly had the upper hand yesterday over the man who has this season deposed him from his throne.</p>
<p>In first practice around the new £800million Yas Marina circuit, Hamilton was quickest, edging out Button by just 0.096secs.</p>
<p>Then in the second session, when they were again poised to finish one and two, Hamilton's McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen popped in a hot lap to relegate them to second and third fastest.<br/></p>
<p>In today's hour-long run ahead of qualifying, the English duo again dominated, and they could barely have been closer as Button held a two-thousandths-of-a-second advantage.</p>
<p>In his Brawn GP, the 29-year-old produced the fastest lap of the weekend so far for the 5.55km circuit of one minute 40.625secs.</p>
<p>Behind the front-running duo was Rubens Barrichello, who still has designs on finishing second to his team-mate Button in the championship as he trails Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel by two points.</p>
<p>The Brazilian, almost certainly in his last race for Brawn, was 0.282secs down on Button, with Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi in close attendance, a further 0.027secs adrift.<br/></p>
<p>It was a session of stark contrasts for Toro Rosso, though, as Buemi's team-mate Jaime Alguersuari sat out the entire 60 minutes due to a hydraulic issue with his car.<br/></p>
<p>Behind Buemi was BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld and Kovalainen, with Toyota's Jarno Trulli sixth, the trio all just over six-tenths-of -a-second down.<br/></p>
<p>The second BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica was eighth, with Adrian Sutil in his Force India ninth and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen 10th. Vettel was down in 11th.</p>/sport/motorsport/2009/1031/dubai10002520c0002520c.jpg