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Hamilton, winner for four years at Silverstone, started the day by leading a two-seater Mercedes at the sunny opening session.
Vettel, who leads the Briton by one point of the championship after nine races, He closed the session in a time of one minute 27.552 seconds to end the session 0.187 faster than his other quadruple world champion.
It was even slower than Hamilton's morning in 1: 27.487, with Vettel in third position.
Valtteri Bottas, the Finnish teammate from Hamilton, with a new engine in his car after the mechanical retirement of last weekend in Austria, was respectively second and third fastest of the two sessions
Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Räikkönen traded fourth and fifth places while Max Verstappen, winner in Austria for Red Bull, was sixth in the morning but crashed after lunch without setting a time.
The 20-year-old Dutchman finished the first session early after being told
Romain Grosjean de Haas had a big accident at the first quick turn, slamming into the tire barriers after failing to close the reduction system of the drag (DRS) in the morning and did not take part in practice two.
"The car is destroyed," said the Frenchman, unscathed from the impact, on the radio. "I'm very, very sorry guys, I think it was the bump. I missed the button (DRS)."
Guenther team leader Steiner said that the team needed to rebuild the chbadis.
Kevin Magnussen, teammate Grosjean and Fernando Alonso of McLaren were called to see commissioners for a "potentially dangerous maneuver" after an incident between them early but the commissioners ruled that there had been no other action necessary.
"Magnussen tried to hit me twice – in one and three," Alonso reported on the radio. "Very dangerous."
(Report by Alan Baldwin, edited by Ed Osmond)
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