Vettel keeps rolling in Shanghai

     SHANGHAI, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Sebastian Vettel remained atop at second free practice of the the Chinese Grand Prix Formula One here on Friday.

    After leading Friday's opening practice round in China, the reigning¹ World Champion(冠军) and Formula One points leader remained atop the heap in second round.

    "We had a good day today, but it's only Friday and so it's early in the race weekend," said Vettel after the second practice.

    Vettel, who dominated the first two Grand Prix in Melbourne and Malaysia and aiming this weekend to make it three wins in as many starts for the 2011 season, showed a perfect run with a lap of one hour 37.688 minutes in his heralded² Red Bull RB7.

    "We found a good rhythm and we are happy with the car. There's still a lot to do and I think it will be tight tomorrow and on Sunday, so we'll look where we can improve. But, today we had no big issues," said Vettel.

    Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber ranked second in the first practice but only got 10th after the second with a time of 1:39.327.

    "I din't have the best P2, particularly on the short run with the new tyres, but the long run on the option tyre was good. Generally it was a good Friday, we learned a lot and the car was reliable," said Webber.

    McLaren teammates Lewis Hamilton, who clocked 1:37:854 and Jenson Button (1:37:935) held the second and third positions respectively.

    Mercedes mates Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher rounded out the top five.(本文由在线英语听力室资料编辑)

1 reigning   

adj.统治的，起支配作用的

参考例句：

• The sky was dark, stars were twinkling high above, night was reigning, and everything was sunk in silken silence. 天很黑，星很繁，夜阑人静。
• Led by Huang Chao, they brought down the reigning house after 300 years' rule. 在黄巢的带领下，他们推翻了统治了三百年的王朝。

2 heralded   

v.预示( herald的过去式和过去分词 )；宣布（好或重要）

参考例句：

• The singing of the birds heralded in the day. 鸟鸣报晓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King. 嘹亮的小号声宣告了国王驾到。 来自《简明英汉词典》