LEWIS HAMILTON admits his crash in yesterday’s opening practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix was the result of “pushing too hard, too early”.

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dominated second practice at Suzuka as Red Bull marked themselves out as the team to beat in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso took full advantage of Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari suffering engine failure to win the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and put him within touching distance of retaining his world title.