Britons on top in Abu Dhabi

Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton produced another best-of-British performance in final practice for tomorrow’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Last year’s world champion Hamilton narrowly had the upper hand yesterday over the man who has this season deposed him from his throne.

In today’s hour-long run ahead of qualifying, the British duo again dominated, and they could barely have been closer as Button held a two-thousandths-of-a-second advantage.

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.

Behind the front-running duo was Rubens Barrichello and 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.