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was that? It's Raikkonen! Felipe Massa is over. This is Formula One. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Race 12, Spa, Belgium. the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa. As I | :00:23. | :01:26. | |
talk to you, the rain starts to fall, of course. That's one of the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
huge things, the weather factor. It has played a huge part in | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
proceedings. We had a summer break, but we are back. Let's look at how | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
it looks. Lewis Hamilton trying to close that 11 point gap to Nico | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
Rosberg. Daniel Ricciardo has led two races and won them both. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
Fernando Alonso is fourth, and Valtteri Bottas is fifth. Mercedes | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
hold the cards in the Constructors' Championship. The challenge for | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
second is on. Red Bull are holding second, but Ferrari and Williams are | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
up for the fight. We'll have all of the race action in a moment. First, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
here is the story of qualifying. Hulkenberg was the first big-name | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
casualties as he went out in Q1. He said he had no confidence in his | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Force India car. Williams said it was their best chance of a race win | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
so far this season. It didn't work out in qualifying. They could have | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
done without the rain. Bottas start in sixth. Ferrari have looked strong | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
all weekend. Fernando Alonso had a slight off at Tim -- Turn 4. Red | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
Bull looked the best of the rest, but Ricciardo made a mistake. He | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
starts fifth. That left Sebastian Vettel to take it to Mercedes, the | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
world champion starts third. Mercedes were two seconds ahead of | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the field. Hamilton was complaining of problems with his car, and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Rosberg had no issues and put together an incredible lap to take | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
his fourth pole position, but his first up this circuit. So, Rosberg | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
has a clear view at the front. Lewis Hamilton has his first front row | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
start since the Canadian Grand Prix. Vergne is third, Alonso is fourth, | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
followed by Ricciardo and Bob asked. Magnussen -- Bottas. | :03:31. | :03:47. | |
Maldonado had his second off in two days. Watch out for a big start from | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Nico Hulkenberg. Esteban Gutierrez had another failure on his | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Southworth. And Andre Lotterer outqualified his team-mate, Marcus | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
Ericsson. Everybody, bar one, using the soft | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
tyre. Sutil has gone for the medium compound. Everybody else has gone | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
soft. That's strange, if we get rain, and they go to medium, they | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
don't need to use the other optional tyre available. There is an offset | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
in performance between the yellow marked one. I am a bit worried, you | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
have to clear the car by a certain time. Ferrari are still working on | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
it, bad news for Fernando Alonso. I'm standing there, they just had to | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
rush out with a spare battery Pack two Fernando Alonso's car, | :04:45. | :04:45. | |
suggesting two Fernando Alonso's car, | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
in time. Forget it now, is going to lose his grid position. That means | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
he will lose fourth place in the grid. It will open up. Bottas. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Fifth. Maybe he will be able to recover? I didn't think he would be | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
able to get away at all. He was away before the last car, so he should be | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
able to reclaim his position. It didn't look like it when he had it | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
up on Drax. Now, he will not have had the chance to go through a | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
normal start procedure. -- Jack's. They will be going back to a default | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
setting for the race start. Huge relief he is able to take up his | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
grid position. A great battle between him and Vettel this | :05:37. | :05:50. | |
afternoon. There is already information coming up on our screens | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
about the investigation into the incident. That the issue, it's the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
safety of the mechanics, they have to be clear of the cars and that is | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
understandable. He may get a drive-through penalty, so still not | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
good news for Fernando Alonso. I you seeing any different activity? Only | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the battery pack being rushed out. Some mechanics are shaking their | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
heads. Fernando will be particularly disappointed. After qualifying, he | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
described he had had a perfect weekend up until qualifying. That | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
was shown by that second round grid position. Looks like it will be a | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
difficult afternoon for him now. I'm looking out of the commentary box | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
and Lewis Hamilton is a full metre forward out of his box. He's | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
reversing back into his position. He will be in a quick procedure now to | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
get himself back in... What is... Is there an issue with the grid? Well, | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
we have seen Alonso being in trouble recently for being out of position. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
We are in position now, for the Belgian Grand Prix. Rosberg | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
We are in position now, for the good start. Lewis Hamilton makes a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
better one! He snatches the lead. Vettel is on the outside of | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Rosberg. And it's moved into second place. Rosberg is down to third. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Alonso is there. Contact in the background. Up, Hamilton leads. | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
Vettel, Rosberg, then Alonso. We do have a yellow flags as the result of | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
an incident at La Source. Here comes Sebastian Vettel, doing what he did | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
last year. He slipped streams and tries to go past Lewis Hamilton. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
This time he fails and has to take a short cut. He will lose a couple of | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
places as a result and he re-emerges in third. He had to have a go. He | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
could not stop the car at the top of a hill. He has rejoined. Although he | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
missed the corner, a hill. He has rejoined. Although he | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
any advantage. a hill. He has rejoined. Although he | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
We are riding with Fernando Alonso, in fifth place. He is being passed | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
by Daniel Ricciardo. Ricciardo has taken the Ferrari. Hamilton is still | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
the man leading this Grand Prix. Hamilton, from Rosberg. No, it is | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
still Alonso in fourth, my mistake. Alonso is in fourth, chasing Vettel. | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
Farce is in sixth. -- Bottas. There was obviously contact at that first | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
corner. Presumably that was the incident we saw in the background, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
coming out of La Source and coming down to Eau Rouge. Look at Rosberg. | :08:53. | :09:04. | |
I wondered if he was going to make a challenge on Hamilton. Hamilton | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
leads as they come around. Hamilton, from Rosberg. A gap to Sebastian | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
Vettel. Alonso is in fourth. Ricardo is in fifth, then Bottas, | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
Raikkonen, Massa and the is in fifth, then Bottas, | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
completed by Jenson Button. Rosberg was coming out of La Source, is he | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
close enough to get a run through Eau Rouge? | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Coming through S1, Hamilton has to go defensive. Rosberg is trying to | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
go through the outside. They touched! It has damaged the front | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
wing of Rosberg's car! And his punctured Hamilton! Hamilton! | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
Hamilton is off, Rosberg has taken advantage from the contact between | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the two cars. Rosberg has to come in for a new front wing, that is the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
worst place possible for Hamilton to get a puncture. He'll be last when | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
he comes in. TEAM RADIO: He hit me! Matt Wells, copy that, mid 12. | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
Rosberg has to be aggressive, he to get the upper hand. He comes out | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
of the slipstream, trying to come around the outside of the turn, to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
position himself on the inside. Hamilton is taking his racing line. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
I don't think he was trying to make the contact. I think he thought he | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
needed to be aggressive. It looked like it was going to affect him. But | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
the big loser in this is Hamilton. Would you put that down as a racing | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
incident? Yes, I don't think he was trying a thing other than to force | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
his car into position. That is what Hamilton has done with some success | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
against Rosberg. In this case, he would have to take responsibility | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
within the team for the first contact. I don't think there should | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
be anything other than that, a racing incident, in terms of what | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the stewards are looking at. Well, Rosberg says he has got problems. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
They say, it looks OK on the data, keep going. But there is some | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
damage, maybe it is more extensive. keep going. But there is some | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Alonso is in third position. But Alonso has been given a five second | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
penalty. He doesn't have to take that until he gets to the pit stop. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Alonso will stay out there for the, his first pit stop will have the | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
five seconds added to it. In the meantime, incomes Lewis Hamilton | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
with that shredded tire. He has damaged the rear of the car as well. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
You can see, in front of the left rear tyre, the floor is broken. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Issues affecting that as well. He will be furious, of course. That's | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
going to be a frosty day. I remember touching Mika Hakkinen at La Source, | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
although there was no damage, he would not talk to me. TEAM RADIO: I | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
lost a lot of front. We would not talk to me. TEAM RADIO: I | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
hang it out Nico. Rosberg is struggling with a loss of You can | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
see that Vettel sees a situation that he can profit from. Alonso is | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
chasing him. We have a couple of cars stopped and out, debris down | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
there. Well, they could have the safety car for that. Is it | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Hamilton's tyre? Yes, it is come on the fastest part of the race track. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
I don't think anybody would criticise the race director if a | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
safety car was sent out. Andre Lotterer, sadly, on his debut, is | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
out. Pastor Maldonado is also out. Jenson Button, with Felipe Massa. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Button is in eighth place. Sergio Perez is behind. Three Mercedes | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
engine powered cars, but a different chassis, of course. Williams, and | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Force India. That smoke from the back of the cars, that is the front | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
of a car hitting the road. The DRS in operation for Ricciardo, passing | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Alonso. The drag reduction has enabled him to pass. We have seen | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
lots of passes between those two. enabled him to pass. We have seen | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
They are looking for third place. Alonso is trying to come back, but | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
he can't do it. Alonso is trying to come back, but | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
conversation going on. TEAM RADIO: Damage, right? I'll have to look at | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
some photos, but thanks for the feedback. Confirming what you said, | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
the floor is damaged. The amount of downforce it creates and therefore | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the great through these high-speed corners. -- grip. DRS it was a great | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
getaway from Lewis Hamilton, have to have | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
getaway from Lewis Hamilton, have to box. -- after having to reverse. I | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
do not think box. -- after having to reverse. I | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
into La Source, the damage to Bianchi happened further down. Let's | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
have a look as a concertina around the corner, there was some contact. | :14:51. | :15:04. | |
Against the rear tyre, of Bianchi. Maldonado in an incident? CHUCKLES | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
Who it was, Maldonado in an incident? CHUCKLES | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
chance. He did, he could not carry the momentum around the clean part | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
of the track, lucky to rejoin in third place. Lewis Hamilton is | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
saying, I am sliding so much the left rear tyre will not last. | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
Another perspective, from Rosberg. Leali'fano keeping it tidy inside | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
the apex. Rosberg, able to out accelerate the Red Bull, nothing he | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
can do in terms they are heavy with fuel, 100 kilograms of fuel on | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
board. Vettel, getting a good launch of the start line, something he has | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
not seen recently. He goes wide, keeping it off the artificial grass | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
on the left-hand side, check the mirrors, Lewis Hamilton defending | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
fresh air, there was nobody on the left-hand side going through Eau | :16:07. | :16:07. | |
Rouge. Bottoming out. left-hand side going through Eau | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the curve over the top of the hill. Vettel, whatever happens, allowing | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
Ricciardo to get past, makes you wonder whether Vettel has a problem. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Again, Sebastian Vettel not comfortable. This is on board with | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Ricciardo, luck, head, he gets too wide onto the artificial grass. -- | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
look ahead. We are eight out of 44, Rosberg is leading with Ricciardo, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
second, Alonso, under pressure from Valtteri Bottas. Raikkonen, sixth, | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
followed by Magnussen. Lovely through Eau Rouge. Button, AIDS. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
Bottas is making the move on Alonso, Valtteri Bottas using DRS | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
comfortably to overtake and move to fourth position, he started in sixth | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
and he is up to fourth, is there another podium on the cards for | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
Valtteri Bottas? Look how much closer Kimi Raikkonen is to his | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
team-mate. He goes wide and comes for the shallower line, on the exit, | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Raikkonen has been looking stronger this weekend. It is a track where he | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
has won four times in the past. Alonso, having the penalty he will | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
serve later in the Grand Prix, it has | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
serve later in the Grand Prix, it generally. Is this the resurgence of | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Kimi Raikkonen? We know the new team boss has confirmed he will be in the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
car next year. On board with Hamilton, Ricciardo was closer to | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Rosberg, we will watch that as well. With Hamilton, as he comes up | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
towards the corner, is the car behaving strangely? We heard from | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
the engineer, the puncture, they had to adjust the differential. They are | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
going to change the front wing, this opens up the opportunity for Daniel | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Ricciardo, Rosberg comes in. Nico Rosberg into the pit lane, he will | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
change the front wing, which puts Daniel Ricciardo into the lead at | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
the Belgian Grand Prix. Interesting, normally this would be three | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
seconds, this procedure can take up to ten seconds. Let's see how slick | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
the work is. Raikkonen in as well. Relatively early for Raikkonen and | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
was Berg gets going. Total pit lane time normally you would expect | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
around 20 seconds. Looks like a relatively slow stop for Raikkonen, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
and another seven seconds added to the normal stop. That would show | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
some things you cannot speed up much, they have to get the car off | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
the front Jack, when they put the stand over, removing the nose which | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
is part of the crash structure. Putting the new nose on, putting the | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
jack under, removing the stand and releasing the car. A bit of a | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
challenge. Coming up from Massa, from Hulkenburg, in fact here comes | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
matter. It is another place for Hulkenburg. Manual rack Iago. -- | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
incomes Massa. They come through Eau Rouge, this is the right-handed part | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
and over the rise, onto the Camel straight. Nico Rosberg has been told | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
he needs to get pass Raikkonen as soon as. Not easy on the harder | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
tyre. Harder tyres for Felipe Massa. Williams sometimes struggle with | :19:48. | :19:47. | |
tyre degradation. One of the earlier Williams sometimes struggle with | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
stops here, but Sergio Perez has been in, and Force India are | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
normally very good on their tyres. Sergio Perez has gone back out now, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
on a set of the soft tyres. Add another problem for Rosberg. Yes, | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
debris. On the radio, I would have thought he would have pulled that | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
away. Something that you would find inside the tyre, perhaps from the | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
damage from Hamilton or Bianchi. I am surprised, why is he not removing | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
this from flapping around? It could get caught around the steering | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
wheel. Incomes the Red Bull of Vettel. Vettel has come in, from | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
second position. Daniel Ricciardo, continuing to lead, he is staying | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
with the soft tyres, Sebastian Vettel, he has already made a | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
mistake handing in of virginity to his team-mate, Daniel Ricciardo, and | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Ricciardo will take full advantage of that. -- handing the ad vantage. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
Kimi Raikkonen, look at that, did you see the power slide from Vettel? | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Coming up behind Raikkonen, it looks like Rosberg is ahead... We will | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
check. I think he is behind him. Vergne, he will have the slipstream | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
on him. Indeed, he pulls out of the slipstream, easy pass, Raikkonen | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
ahead of him giving him some toe in the distance, that is why he was | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
sideways coming out of the shorter hairpin. Inside La Source, he knew | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
how close it would be with Raikkonen, and the Toro Rosso. Is | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
this where we pick up the debris on Rosberg? Going through Eau Rouge. | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
Yes, it was flipped up, off the Sauber, he tries to get it off, then | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
he decides to concentrate. It is still there, leaning the aerial over | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
and flapping around in his face. Ricciardo taking his stop, let's see | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
where this brings him out, Alonso and Bottas have gone around | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
start-finish. He will come out... Just in front of Raikkonen? Under | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
normal conditions. Kevin Magnussen, Valtteri Bottas now leading the | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
Grand Prix, Ricciardo in front of Raikkonen. Toro Rosso, Jean-Eric | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
Vergne, yet to come into the pits. Lap 12, out of 44. What a change | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
from what we were expecting, no Mercedes domination at the moment. | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
Hamilton. RADIO: Please update me. You are still catching Grosjean, the | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
only car faster than you is Bottas. Alonso and Bottas, in the pit lanes, | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
where will they emerge? We expect Ricciardo to come around. Raikkonen | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
will be in front as well, let's see. A good quick stop from Williams | :23:05. | :23:05. | |
will be in front as well, let's see. a slow stop because Alonso had the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
five second penalty applied to the pit stop, dropping him down the | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
order. Bottas getting out, Alonso, side-by-side with | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
order. Bottas getting out, Alonso, coming up behind Rosberg. He will | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
get the run on the fresh tyres through Eau Rouge. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
get the run on the fresh tyres get himself into position to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
overtake Perez. Here he comes with DRS, has he got enough momentum? He | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
does not go for it, trying to keep it tidy. Looking for another | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
opportunity, but that could be difficult for Alonso. To make | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
headway. It could be a difficult card to overtake, the Mercedes power | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
unit. Trying through the outside, lovely move down the inside! That | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
was magic stuff from Alonso. Brilliant. That is why he is often | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
picked as the drivers driver. He sniffs the opportunity and he is in | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
there. So important because he could have been stuck behind him for a | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
long time otherwise. We have a change around, Jenson Button is | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
leading the Grand Prix because he's not been into the pit stop. Daniel | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Ricciardo, effective leader because he has made a pit stop, currently in | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
second on the road. Raikkonen, third, Vettel, fourth, Rosberg, then | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Bottas. Ricciardo has got himself stuck behind the other McLaren. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
Magnussen is in. That was Button coming into the pits. Magnussen. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Magnussen is in. That was Button Will there be any contact coming | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
through the last chicane? Vergne, battling with him, for the seventh | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
place. Vergne, having a look into the La Source. He will have the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
benefit of the DRS over the hill, through Eau Rouge. Looks like | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Magnussen has had a great drive, he has broken the toe. This is an | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
opportunity for Nico Rosberg. Will he go for the inside, he locks up | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
and goes down the outside. Almost overdid it. He might lose his place | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
to Bottas, he just managed to save it, he's having a go. And Bottas now | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
has an opportunity. As they go towards La Source, Rosberg has to be | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
defensive, no way through but towards La Source, Rosberg has to be | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
will still have to go through Eau Rouge. Nico Rosberg is not quite so | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
settled in wheel-to-wheel combat. Hamilton, Alonso, Daniel Ricciardo, | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
we have seen, more often than not they take the advantage. | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
we have seen, more often than not in a position, he will have to | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
defend, DRS. He has done it, that is the consequence of not getting it | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
right on the chicane. It has cost Rosberg another position and a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
polite round of applause from the British team, Williams. Valtteri | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Bottas has moved past Nico Rosberg and into fourth place. Just take | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
another look at how it came about. This was the attempted move by Nico | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Rosberg. Vettel defence. By the time Rosberg realises he has to go to the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
outside, he locks up and does not make the pass, could be some damage | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
to the tyre. The approach speed will be 200 mph to the braking zone. You | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
can imagine the amount of energy which goes into the hotspot on the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
tyres, he gets away with it it has to be said. Letting the car roll. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Hamilton coming into the pits on Lap 18. His second pit stop of the day, | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
the first one for the punctured tyre after contact with Rosberg. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Interesting to see there has been no investigation into the incident, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
nothing has appeared in screen. In recent races we have heard the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
stewards will be more relaxed about racing incident, not investigating | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
every single incident and there is no sign of any penalty. RADIO: Check | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
the vibration on the front tyre. It is on the limit, OK? That is | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
interesting, they have the vibration sensor. You remember a few years | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
ago, when we had Kimi Raikkonen driving for McLaren. No burgling -- | :27:33. | :27:41. | |
in Germany, the frequency of the vibration saw the suspension | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
exploding, past the braking zone, in Turn 1, these cars are designed for | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
tolerance but they don't have a lot of extra weight in the suspension. | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
Vettel did a great job of defending against Bottas. Williams, this was | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
expected to be an opportunity, OK, still early days, as we see Rosberg | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
coming for the pits. They have decided the vibration is too much, | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
well. Shorter stint than I expected. It looks like the wrong | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
well. Shorter stint than I expected. has spotted it. What issue do they | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
have with this option? It is strange, and Hamilton is back out on | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
the option. It's over half distance still to do, that would be a long | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
way even on the medium compound tyre. Its performance would go away | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
hugely to the end of the Grand Prix. TEAM RADIO: It is being discussed, | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
but your pace is good. We never know what is going to happen with safety | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
cars. Let's keep plugging away and we will keep discussing it. It | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
sounds like Hamilton is mentally putting up the white flag. 17th | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
place. He is seven tenths quicker than the race leader, Daniel | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
Ricciardo. But he is a good 73 seconds behind the race leader. So, | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
from Daniil Kvyat, he's got about 70 seconds to make up. What he's | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
referring to is the limited number of engines they are using, why put | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
extra mileage on an engineer going to be racing for the rest of the | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
season if there is no chance of getting any points? His team are | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
saying, well, let's wait and see what happens, there may still be | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
opportunities. Down into the chicane, the inside of the Toro | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
Rosso, Toro Rosso not making it too difficult for him. Sebastian | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
Vettel, onto the harder compound tyre. We have got 21 laps remaining, | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
it is possible he could do the rest of the Grand Prix on those tires, | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
you would think. That is presumably what Red Bull will be trying to do. | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
Well, a gap of 14 seconds to Bottas last time around. Doing an | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
exceptional job. All of the pressure coming into this, it was all about | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
damage limitation and maybe we will be back again for an opportunity to | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
go for the win. You are right about Button getting closer. He is dicing | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
with Rosberg. In fact, Rosberg has got past him. He's on hunt. He's on | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
a fresh set of tyres and he's got past Button and is bearing down on | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
Alonso. Raikkonen on is just behind him as well. We have a tasty battle | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
between the champion elects, three guys that have picked up World | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
Championships in their career so far. Raikkonen has made his second | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
pit stop. He's now at the back of this group. He will not want to lose | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
too much time. Daniel Ricciardo is leading this Grand Prix, only having | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
too much time. Daniel Ricciardo is made one stop so far. Is there a | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
problem for Rosberg? Any idea if he had to give the position back? He | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
just let Button through. Yes, just like he was being allowed through. | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
That is quite possibly the case. We might have a look at that. Rosberg | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
slightly slowed, enough to allow Jenson Button to pass, as if he was | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
letting him through. Toto Wolff is not sure. We gather it might be | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
about track limits at Eau Rouge. Now he's coming back at Button again. | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
Kevin Magnussen in for McLaren. His second and presumably final pit stop | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
of the day. Daniel Ricciardo is still out there leading by 14.6 | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
seconds over Valtteri Bottas, yet to make his second stop. He doesn't get | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
a great pass-through La Source. But he must be thinking, I've got to see | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
if I can get pulled up alongside him. Slow the Ferrari was in the | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
rundown to Eau Rouge. Easy pass, Button doesn't even try to defend. | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
Raikkonen incredibly slow in a straight line. Is it like when the | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
team said, you have got to go quicker, and he said, you have to | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
give me more power. Our Ferrari fuel Ltd? This is where Rosberg pulls | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
over on the Exeter of Pouhon, allows Jenson Button on the left. He | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
retakes position. This is where he didn't allow them to gain an | :32:41. | :32:56. | |
advantage. But they are fuel Ltd. Raikkonen has managed to get in | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
front of Jenson Button, on fresh tyres. An important move to get | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
through. Behind them, closing up in the background, you concede a Red | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
Bull of Sebastian Vettel. I wonder if there might be a chance for him | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
to join in the fun and games. This is going to be a chance for Rosberg | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
to pass the Ferrari. He had a quick run through Eau Rouge. Massive extra | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
speed. Look at the figures on screen. 331, against 307 for | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
Fernando Alonso. There was never any doubt that he was going to get past. | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
That puts him into third place. I wonder if he used DRS as a handicap | :33:37. | :33:43. | |
system, whether you should be allowed to use it? It's a good way | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
of helping those that don't have the aerial efficiency, DRS to bring you | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
back into it. Still a race between Rosberg and Ricciardo. TEAM RADIO: | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
back into it. Still a race between Was that pass OK? I will ask. | :34:02. | :34:02. | |
getting worried about every little thing. A race full of incident. He | :34:03. | :34:13. | |
lost the streamer that was on the car. But after contact with his | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
team-mate, damage to the front wing, it is all happening for Nico | :34:19. | :34:20. | |
Rosberg. But he's not out of this it is all happening for Nico | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
race. He is around 25 seconds behind Daniel Ricciardo. He's still got to | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
make a pit stop. That would bring the gap down to five or six | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
seconds. Rosberg, presumably with a faster car. But, as we have seen, | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
the Red Bull is in good shape, better-than-expected. Indeed, seeing | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
a Red Bull catching a McLaren is not something you are used to seeing. We | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
have Vettel going round the outside of the braking zone. He turned | :34:49. | :35:01. | |
right, into one of the McLarens. Well, what they thought was a | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
compromise, Alonso comes in for his stop. Lets see where he comes out. | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
He's on the harder tyre, he'll be in better shape at the end. He'll be | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
behind Magnussen, in front of Perez. They have descended down towards Eau | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
Rouge. TEAM RADIO: Box this lap, box. Where will they rejoin? It will | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
certainly release Daniel Ricciardo. It will keep them in clear air as he | :35:32. | :35:38. | |
tries to open up the gap. Incomes Valtteri Bottas. Ricciardo is | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
leading the Grand Prix once again. Nico Rosberg is going on the chase. | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
The gap between Ricciardo and Rosberg, as they come across the | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
line, is exactly three seconds, is it? Three seconds, is | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
line, is exactly three seconds, is seconds. You were pretty close with | :35:53. | :35:53. | |
your assessment, David. seconds. You were pretty close with | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
a quick stop to see where he comes out in relation to the likes of | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
Raikkonen and Vettel. Rosberg is two seconds away, that will get him into | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
that area where he is close to DRS. Vettel has gone through and he | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
rejoins, head of Button. But he still has to make another pit stop. | :36:16. | :36:22. | |
Bottas on a fresh set of tyres. He is on the medium compound, the | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
harder compound. Most of them around him are on the same type of tyre. | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
Jenson him are on the same type of tyre. | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
stint on the soft tyre. We will see him fairly soon, over the next | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
stint on the soft tyre. We will see or two. Here we are with Daniel | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
Ricciardo. TEAM RADIO: What tyres does Rosberg have? He is on ten lap, | :36:42. | :36:57. | |
prime. You are safe, P2. But is that enough, is he going for victory? Can | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
prime. You are safe, P2. But is that Bottas slip stream past Sebastian | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
Vettel? Bottas to the outside. 's is late on the brakes, and he's | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
through! He did just enough. Vettel did enough, and a big round of | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
applause cars Bottas shows what he can do among the best in the world. | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
Kept his calm. He is a calm, collected driver. Growing in | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
confidence, doing a great job with Williams and putting Massa under | :37:33. | :37:42. | |
pressure. TEAM RADIO: Box, box. Prime tyre. In the constructors | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
race, this is crucial. Is he on his way again? Problem with the | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
engagement of the gear. That surprises me, I thought they would | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
have stayed in first gear. Looking at Bottas, he's got the gap into two | :38:03. | :38:10. | |
seconds. Raikkonen responding. Not wanting to give up the chance to get | :38:11. | :38:17. | |
a podium this afternoon. Crucially, Daniel Ricciardo is maintaining that | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
gap of about 3.5 seconds to Rosberg. Just over 40 miles away from what | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
could be the winner of all wins, around the mighty Spa. He has been | :38:28. | :38:35. | |
pulling off the wins of all wins all season. He's doing it again, but | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
we've still got a while to go. Ten laps of Spa is with 20 laps of most | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
other tracks. Still a way to go. Grosjean has come into the pits and | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
is heading for retirement. It will be only the third of the Grand Prix. | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
The Frenchman pulls the loaders into the pit garage, all over for both | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
cars. We lost Maldonado early on and now Grosjean is out as well. It's | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
been a tough season for Romain Grosjean. Into the pits has come | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
Rosberg. Those tyres are not going to be good and to get into the end. | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
This makes life interesting. He's going to drop behind Kimi Raikkonen, | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
I believe. Raikkonen is going around La Source. You saw the Ferrari come | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
through. So, where is Bottas? So, long stints required. That medium | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
compound tyre not delivering quite the length of stint that they were | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
hoping for. Bottas has got a chance with Rosberg. Can he make it work? | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
He moves to the outside. Kimi Raikkonen is outside. He's got the | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
additional speed. Rosberg is right out of the pits. Will he stay there? | :39:46. | :39:55. | |
Will he respond to that? Normally he would hit it and gain an advantage. | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
Those tyres, new because we had wet qualifying, he's being held behind | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
Bottas. He will not be able to exploit the performance, full engine | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
mode, brand-new set of boots and put him under pressure. That is being | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
neutered by the fact he lost the place to Bottas. Grosjean looking | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
around the car. His engineer giving an explanation of what was going on. | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
There is Rosberg. He's up to speed properly. Just trying to get back on | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
terms with Bottas. Bottas locking up. What an opportunity this is for | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
several teams to put Mercedes in their place for once, not just Red | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
Bull. Williams, under pressure. He is going to slide through, | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
straightaway, on the inside of Blanchimont. He has so much more | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
grip available on those soft tyres, those brand-new soft tyres. There is | :40:52. | :41:01. | |
nothing that Botass could do. Slower than the lap before. | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
Will the team feel they can he get out to the end? Or are | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Will the team feel they can he get confident that he has the shine | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
taken of that performance. We know how slow the Ferrari has been even | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
in the rundown to Eau Rouge. Expect to have them out of the slipstream | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
even before they go through the DRS section. If you want visible | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
reference for how slow it is in a straight line, there you have it. | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
Kimi Raikkonen trying to keep in the slipstream to get along the straight | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
faster, he's already given a place up. Rosberg flying on these new | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
tyres. We knew that he was 3.5 seconds behind Ricciardo before the | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
stop. There he is, he's going to have to stop and he needs to respond | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
to have any chance. This is where the analysis and the work going on | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
both at Red Bull and the pit wall will count. Do they bring Ricciardo | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
in? If they are going to do it, they have to do it quickly. Otherwise | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
they leave him out there and hope he can hold on. This is a very simple | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
move, in the end, for ago Rosberg to draft past Kimi Raikkonen and that | :42:18. | :42:26. | |
has put him back into second. TEAM RADIO: OK, Lewis, we are seeing | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
degradation in the data, it looks like we may have something coming | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
adrift on the car. We need to box at the end of the lap, cool the car. | :42:34. | :42:44. | |
Hamilton finally gets what he asks for and will retire the car. A | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
miserable afternoon, it centred around the | :42:49. | :42:50. | |
miserable afternoon, it centred Rosberg tried to get past him. He | :42:51. | :42:52. | |
had taken the lead, he tried to sleep around the outside of him and | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
there was slight contact between different of Rosberg's car and the | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
rear tire of Hamilton's car. It punctured his tyre and then he has | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
been out of the game. Rosberg is still in the game, despite a nose | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
cone change. These two are fighting for the podium. Incomes Hamilton. | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
Looks like his race is done? Rosberg is on schedule to take another | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
couple of seconds off the lead. That will get it down to about 13 | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
seconds. For Mercedes, it gives them two opportunities. The car is | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
damaged, unless there is a downpour or something it is unlikely he will | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
score a point. But it gets a chance to get Lewis Hamilton in the | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
score a point. But it gets a chance and they will be able to have a word | :43:40. | :43:41. | |
with him before he goes anywhere near the media. When these guys | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
finish on the podium, the team can't get to them, they go straight to the | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
podium and the press conference and it becomes the PR man's worst | :43:50. | :43:52. | |
nightmare, when they don't have a chance to brief them. It's great for | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
us that they speak from the hip, but there we go. Senior management, | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
standing there, waiting to say, can we have a word with you? There will | :44:01. | :44:08. | |
be simply briefing going on, if they finish where they are, Rosberg would | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
be moving ahead, Hamilton would remain on 191 points, and the speed | :44:14. | :44:23. | |
advantage now showing for the Williams. Kimi Raikkonen, heading | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
for his first podium finish, for Ferrari, nothing he could do about | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
that. But he is still on for his best result of the season, Alonso in | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
sixth, at least Raikkonen has a chance to score reasonable points. A | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
changing of the guard there, among Finnish superheroes. Raikkonen, the | :44:41. | :44:43. | |
world champion, but Bottas, Finnish superheroes. Raikkonen, the | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
coming man. Hamilton, having a quick word with Toto Wolff and this to the | :44:48. | :44:55. | |
back of the Garrard. -- the back of the garage. So, Bottas, getting | :44:56. | :45:05. | |
himself into another podium position. Bianchi, out of the Grand | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
Prix, he joins the list of retirements, 17 left running. | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
Ericcson, and Chilton, lapped by this group. Ericcson, indicate to | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
him. He's being lapped at a good place, because he will not lose | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
time, there is a fight, Alonso on the grass, Button taking advantage, | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
Alonso comes back between the McLaren cars. And Alonso is still on | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
the inside. Button, sweeping past. Now he has a go at his team-mate. | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
Trying to go around the outside. Vettel. The McLaren is almost | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
touching. Buttons wheezed out, and Alonso takes the place. Vettel is | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
hunting behind them. Brilliant action, Alonso is still having | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
hunting behind them. Brilliant Ericcson, and Chilton, I know it is | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
last place, but look how close they are, even though | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
last place, but look how close they at stake. Vettel, diving down the | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
inside Button, taking seventh place. It was great defensive driving from | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
Magnussen, Vettel will not see it that way. Up front, I do not think | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
Rosberg is doing enough with two laps to go. He gained only 1.5 | :46:25. | :46:33. | |
seconds on the last lap. He still pushing obviously, Rosberg. But the | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
gap is not reducing as much as he needs to take victory at Spa. Daniel | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
Ricciardo once again, heading the victory it seems, on board | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
Ricciardo once again, heading the team-mate, Sebastian Vettel. Vettel | :46:49. | :46:51. | |
will try to get past Fernando Alonso. It is all happening in this | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
group. Kevin Magnussen probably driving the best we have seen this | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
year, apart from his stunning debut in Australia. This is for fifth | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
place, in Australia. This is for fifth | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
the Ferrari is going very good in a straight line. You can expect to see | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
Vettel, at Eau Rouge, getting into DRS. Alonso will have DRS on the | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
McLaren of Magnussen. Vettel, closing up, Alonso picking up the | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
slipstream. Helping to neutralise the speed difference, looking to go | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
around the outside. Vettel will try to take advantage. Alonso was | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
around the outside. Vettel will try of that, trying to cut back, as they | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
go through the corner, down to the hairpin. Will he try to go around | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
the outside, we have seen Magnussen pushing Button wide, he did the same | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
with Alonso and Vettel has gone through. He has done the right | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
thing, he had the right to do that, he had the rising line, most drivers | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
would do the same. Jenson Button trying to line up Fernando Alonso | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
now. Alonso has used that line a few times, but Kevin Magnussen aware of | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
it and he was not going to give him space. Magnussen, looking for fifth | :48:07. | :48:14. | |
place. This could be a defining drive for his future career. It is | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
between Magnussen and Alonso, the incident will be investigated after | :48:21. | :48:23. | |
the race, they've not been looking at too many, this is the first one | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
we have seen. They are saying turn five, not at the hairpin, something | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
else we have not spotted which was happening at turn five. Possibly, | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
Vettel on Magnussen, tries the outside. He made a move earlier but | :48:40. | :48:47. | |
it didn't work this time. Vettel, has got good tyres and good | :48:48. | :48:49. | |
traction, he might have the move done. Squeezes, squeezes Magnussen, | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
not giving it up easily. Allowing Alonso, and Jenson Button to get | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
closer. Vettel all the way, much more traction, he has moved himself | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
into fifth position. Magnussen will have DRS. Yellow flag, this could be | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
the saving grace for Vettel, the fact he has Magnussen behind him. | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
That incident in turn five with Magnussen and Alonso could be the | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
incident we saw with Alonso pushed onto the grass and the approach on | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
to turn five. Yellow flag, denying the opportunity for Alonso to have a | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
go on the other McLaren of Jenson Button. Alonso, is he slowing? Has | :49:37. | :49:43. | |
he broken the front, the tea tray, the section under the front of the | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
car. Could have been damaged when he went on to the grass. Daniel | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
Ricciardo coming through, he wins the Belgian Grand Prix, Nico Rosberg | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
finishes in second place. Back-to-back | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
finishes in second place. Ricciardo. Rosberg threw everything | :50:02. | :50:03. | |
at it but he could not get passed in the end. The McLarens are still | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
fighting for position. In the last lap of the Grand Prix, will it be | :50:08. | :50:09. | |
Magnussen or button Alonso, still struggling in the | :50:10. | :50:19. | |
background, we will keep an eye on that. For the moment, Magnussen has | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
the edge over Jenson Button. Sebastian Vettel will finish ahead, | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
Bottas has come in, third position. Kimi Raikkonen finishing in fourth | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
position, crossing the line. But who is going to be the first of the | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
McLarens? It will be Kevin Magnussen surely, he has done an. They will | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
cross the line is virtually together. That she has done. | :50:43. | :50:50. | |
Magnussen takes six. Button, seven, Fernando Alonso, we are waiting for | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
him. Alonso, will he make it, he comes through in eighth position. | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
The race winner, Daniel Ricardo, he has done it again, his third Grand | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
Prix victory of the season, the 50th ever win for Red Bull. What a season | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
this guy is having. He has won three, his team-mate Sebastian | :51:13. | :51:14. | |
Vettel has yet to win a race this year. Yet to leader Grand Prix this | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
year. The superstar continues -- lead a Grand Prix. Smiling all the | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
way as he takes another victory. STUDIO: This is the result of | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
today's race. Kevin Magnussen has been demoted to 12 plays with the 20 | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
second penalty after the incident with Alonso. | :51:38. | :51:52. | |
Mercedes have control of the Constructors' Championship, but | :51:53. | :52:14. | |
McLaren jump ahead of Force India, to take fifth place. Let's say from | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
the main players in today's race. The only driver out there who has | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
managed to beat a Mercedes driver, every opportunity, you are taking | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
and you must be on cloud nine. It could not have gone better really. | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
Considering everything, particularly considering preseason. It has been | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
awesome, I have enjoyed every moment. I am happy to keep it up, to | :52:41. | :52:48. | |
let it continue. Monza will be challenging. We have got Singapore, | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
which should be fun. We will keep going. If they slip up, we will be | :52:51. | :52:58. | |
there to capitalise. When the incident happened, do you regret | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
that, you think you should have played the long game? I regret that | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
we touched, definitely, because it cost me the win. It was avoidable. | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
Essentially you are leading the championship by a greater number of | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
points which must make you smile. Not at the moment, it is early days, | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
I wanted to win and I could not win. I am not very excited at the moment. | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
Yet another strong performance, you must be delighted? Yes, I'm happy, | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
and we should be happy as a team. Good amount of points. A bit of an | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
unlucky situation with the other car. Yes, from my side, the race was | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
interesting. The podium did not come easily. I am gutted for the team, | :53:47. | :53:54. | |
they have worked so hard on the car, we had a difficult time this year, | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
we got a good start and looking positive and I felt good. I took the | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
corner as I normally do, it was my line. I do not know why he hit me. I | :54:05. | :54:06. | |
am sure he will leave here happy. line. I do not know why he hit me. I | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
What will it take for you to win the World Championship? A lot of things | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
are going on in my mind, you get to thinking maybe it is not my year. I | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
cannot let that overtake everything, we still have seven races and I will | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
push, we have a great car and a great team. I believe in them. Who | :54:28. | :54:35. | |
knows whether some fortune will come my way, I will give it everything I | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
can for the next few races. Much controversy at the Belgian Grand | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
Prix, Nico Rosberg tried to take Lewis Hamilton with this manoeuvre | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
that resulted in winning the race for Hamilton, here is Toto Wolff. | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
The incident between the two of them? Absolutely unacceptable, lap | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
number two of a long race, the crash between two team-mates, we have | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
often discussed the situation, it happened today. Can you apportion | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
blame? It happened today. Can you apportion | :55:14. | :55:21. | |
happened. You do not try to overtake with a knife between your teeth, is | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
that how you say, the second lap. Damaging both cars. Is this a | :55:25. | :55:33. | |
watershed moment in the battle between them and their relationship? | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
It is a decisive moment for the battle between the two of them and | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
the team. What did Lewis Hamilton say to you after the race? He was | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
upset, we kept him out there for a long time with a damaged car, he | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
will recover quickly but not very happy. How will you handled this | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
situation now? It is going to be handled. That was certainly a | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
controversial race to say the least. It was fantastic, the | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
unexpected, Red Bull, winning around the circuit where they thought they | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
would be lucky the controversy of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, | :56:16. | :56:17. | |
fighting over the chance to score points. Very strong position, the | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
management, Mercedes are taking against Rosberg it would seem, | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
between the dryness, how they will work on the strategy, to allow them | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
the chance to fight for the championship -- between the drivers. | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
The driver is done -- the damage is done, Lewis Hamilton has it all to | :56:40. | :56:40. | |
do. could happen. There is a long way to | :56:41. | :56:48. | |
go, approaching the back-end of the season, Lewis Hamilton has not | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
the same fortune as Nico Rosberg. What we saw at the beginning of the | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
year, madness, how could we have a season close of four double points, | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
it could be the saving grace -- how could we have a season close with | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
double points. There is a lot to play for, and it is not in the | :57:09. | :57:10. | |
nature of Lewis Hamilton to throw it in, he will be back. What did you | :57:11. | :57:20. | |
make of Daniel Ricciardo today? It was a really mature drive, managing | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
the strategy, under the pressure of knowing he has Nico Rosberg on the | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
three-stop strategy, much quicker car hunting him down. Very mature. | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
three-stop strategy, much quicker Still smiling. If he felt he got | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
lucky the first time, if he felt he was lucky the second time, this was | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
a really good drive, maturity, he's a champion elect, it is a question | :57:43. | :57:51. | |
of when he gets the opportunity. A quick comment on Valtteri Bottas, he | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
waited for his chance and he took it. Supercool, it is good to see him | :57:55. | :58:02. | |
racing with and against Kimi Raikkonen, every move he made was | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
really assured. He has gone from strength to strength, and he is now | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
the team leader in William. Another incredible race in the 2014 season. | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
We will be back in a fortnight for Monza, we will be live all we Daley | :58:16. | :58:34. | |
-- we will be live all weekend. ROCK MUSIC | :58:35. | :58:42. |