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championship brings us to the home of the British Grand Prix. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Conditions are going to make life difficult and it could change the | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
way we see cars running throughout the session. What has Hamilton done | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
here? It is fastest at the moment. It looks good for Hamilton. The | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
session is coming to an end. It does not look as if there will be any | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
changes. Hulkenberg has gone fastest estimation! Hamilton is sick! Why | :01:42. | :01:58. | |
did you come in at the end? I do not have much of an answer for you. | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
Lewis Hamilton is going to start in the sixth at Silverstone. If he is | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
going to win the British Grand Prix, it is going to be an amazing race. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Away we go and Hamilton going on the outside. Oh, my goodness. It is | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
Raikkonen. A red flag, the race has been completely stopped. After an | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
hour's delay, Nico Rosberg has launched himself away. Is he going | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
to give him the space? Hamilton takes second place from Jenson | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Button. Ricciardo has to go defensive. What a brilliant move | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
from Fernando Alonso. Rosberg is in trouble and Lewis Hamilton leads the | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
British Grand Prix. Rosberg is out. Bottas is in second place. A massive | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
cheer has gone up all around Silverstone. Hamilton is going to | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
win the British Grand Prix. He wins for the second time. England! I am | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
sorry about yesterday, but I cannot be happier. It is a very special day | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
for a Lewis Hamilton. And a very special day for British | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
bands. This week and it is the German Grand Prix and this year we | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
are in Hockenheim. Hello and welcome to qualifying. This is going to be | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
hot stuff. 38 degrees, is it hot enough for you? More than hot enough | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
for me and for the drivers it will be a huge challenge and they have to | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
control the brake temperatures and from the relative cool of | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Silverstone to the heat here. The tyres need to be chilled. They can | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
operate in these temperatures, the track temperature is below 60, but | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the performance drops off incredibly. To manage how you get | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
the best out of the tyres on one lap is a huge challenge. We alternate | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
this Grand Prix between Nuremberg and Hockenheim, but the track is | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
different now to help it was in 2001. The change is massive. There | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
have been a lots of big changes over the years. The stadium section still | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
remains. It is a great thing. You can see the outline of the old track | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
in amongst the forest. They are giving it back to the forest. To | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
nature. But I think nature enjoyed racing cars going out amongst the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
trees! We have a much shorter, modified race track, but it retains | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
the infield section and hopefully we will have a full grandstand on | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Sunday and it is a great space for the drivers to show their skills and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
to display the cars. It has been a couple of weeks since the last race | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
at Silverstone. Here is the news with Tom Clarkson. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
As weeks ago, the last one has been pretty good for Nico Rosberg. He | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
married his girlfriend, he watched Germany win the World Cup and he | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
signed a new contract for a Mercedes. Which was the most | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
memorable? I have to be careful. Definitely the marriage. That was | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the most emotional experience. There is good news from Kimi Raikkonen who | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
has reported no lasting physical damage from this massive crash at | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Silverstone two weeks ago. According to his team-mate Fernando Alonso, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
there are reasons for them to feel pretty confident. I won three times | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
in Hockenheim and two times in Nuremberg. Every time I come to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Germany is good news. Rarely do we get through a season without a | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
technical controversy and 2014 is no different. The issue in Hockenheim | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
is front and rear interconnected suspension. The FIA has advised | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
teams not to run it. There is a rule called Article and there is a belief | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
now that this system had gone across that line and are overly affecting | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
the aerodynamics, rather than the suspension behaviour. Take a look at | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
these low profile, 18 inch wheels from a rally. They made their debut | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
at the Silverstone test with a view to replacing the 13 inch rims in | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
years to come. There was a discussion and people were talking | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
about 18 or 19 inches and I thought, rather than talk about it, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
show the world what it looks like. It was not a technological | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
discussion, it was making it more relevant to what people see on a | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
road car. The objective is linked with other discussions about what | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Formula One should look like in the future. New management has made | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
it's presence felt at caterer. People have been made redundant, but | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
there is good news on the horizon. We are working hard on a new car. | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
Next week we are running already the new car with upgrades to be planned. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
We are working and pushing very hard. David, no Fricke system this | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
weekend and Red Bull have closed the gap to Mercedes a bit. Is that to do | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
with this technological change? It is impossible to know for sure, but | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the nature of this track lends itself to the Red Bull car. That | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
said, the track temperatures are very different to other venues. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
There are still a few answers to be had. For the drivers it must feel | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
different without that system in place. It is no different to | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
changing compound of tyres. With a super-soft you have got more grip | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
and it degrades, so drivers adapt. Taking this Fricke system of the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
cars, it is a feeling they have to drive with. And Susie Wolff did that | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
on Friday in free practice one and it was more successful than | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Silverstone. At Silverstone she got no running at all. She is a talented | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
racing driver, no question about it. There were murmurings that it was | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
all about because she was a lady, but she did a fantastic job. She is | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
probably not the next Lewis Hamilton, but very few are. What is | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
next for her? It will be difficult to convert that into a full-time | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
race drive, but she is focusing on Formula One and is contributing to | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
the women's team and is delivering. Let's have a look at how the | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
championship looks. That win for a Lewis Hamilton closed the gap at the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
top. The difference is now just four points. | :09:26. | :09:47. | |
Daniela Ricciardo is the only one to win for Red Bull. He is outshining | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
his team-mate Sebastien battle. Sebastien Vettel, the world | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
champion! The new world champion. 2012 world champion. Sebastien | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
battle is the 20 13th world champion. Yes, yes, I lost drive, | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
tell me what to do. His weekend and his season goes from bad to worse. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
It has been a tough start, but how are you feeling? It has been a tough | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
start and a rough season so far, but Formula One can be very nice and | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
fantastic, but it can be also very cruel in a matter of retiring | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
because of technical problems, but that is part of the game. The four | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
times world champion's miserable season continues. How are you | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
feeling in terms of comfort in the car. In qualifying you were the one | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
to fear and over one lap you had speed and you could put it all | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
together. We have not seen that so much this year. Why is that? The | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
four times world champion has failed to get into the top ten. So far | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
things have not come our way yet, but I am confident they will. We are | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
still trying to understand the car and we believe we can improve it, so | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
we are testing things. Some things work and some things do not. To be | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
fair, some laps were good and other laps I was messing up. It is not as | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
constant and as regular as in the past. I have one quote from a very | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
good friend who said, forget the people around you right now, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
remember the little boy that you were racing in go-karts and what you | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
goal. Race for him. I fell in love with the sport and the amount of | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
satisfaction I get from going around in a Formula One car makes me | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
smile. If you had to pick between doing that or doing nothing, even | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
with the bad days, you would choose that. Daniela Ricciardo takes his | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
first ever win. He wins in Canada. There is respect between yourself | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
and Daniel. You were the first to congratulate him. How different is | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
the atmosphere in the garage this year from last year? To be honest | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
there was a lot of talk, but it is true to say we were not best | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
friends. In that regard on a personal basis I have a better | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
relationship to Daniel, but even in the worst times we were talking to | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
each other and pushing the team forward. In that regard nothing has | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
changed. Danny has a different way to do things because he is a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
different height. I respect a lot what he is doing. The highlight was | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Montr?al and there was no point ruining his day saying everything | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
went wrong. I love to win more than anything else, but equally we have | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
to respect what other guys are doing. Do you think the next time | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
you win will see more special because we almost got used to that | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
happening? Winning is always special. Sebastien Vettel equals one | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
of the oldest record in Formula One, nine consecutive Grand Prix wins. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
The level of satisfaction you get when you know you have done a good | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
job, you get the reward with the trophy and a few sips of champagne | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
on the podium and that is one of the best feelings in the world people | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
cheering. In a way I am addicted to that and I want to get that feeling | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
sooner rather than later. A very laid-back Sebastien Vettel talking | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
to Lee McKenzie. What positives would you take from that? How | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
relaxed he is and how he is enjoying the fact even though he is not | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
winning, he has had an amazing four years with back-to-back | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
championships. We have seen frustration come through on his | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
other interviews on track, but at the moment he is reflecting on | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
enjoying the moment and building the team up again. Do you see him | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
winning again? Daniel won in Canada, so Mercedes have fragility in the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
system. In terms of winning on his home turf, that is unlikely. But | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
during the course of the year, if Renault keep developing, why not. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Let's find out what is happening at Ferrari. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
There is a lot less going on now than there was ten minutes ago. It | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
has been frantic. They have been replacing the fuel pump on Kimi | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Raikkonen's tire. They have put a new pump in. Ironically his car is | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
in a better state than Fernando Alonso's which is having the | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
finishing touches put to it. It has been busy since the end of FP three. | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
Eriksson had a hydraulics issue. Max Chilton had an fellow conics problem | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
and that is fixed. Adrian Sutil has had a new battery pack put in and | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
now everybody should be ready for the start. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Nico Rosberg was fastest this morning and it is very important to | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
qualify well. Seven of the last winners have come from the front row | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
of the grid. We can go to the pit lane and David and Ben are your | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
commentators. Here is Q1. Hockenheim. Who will take the mount | :16:02. | :16:30. | |
of this 17 turn circuit to put themselves in pole position for the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
race. What you think will take to make it through? I spoke to the | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
engineers and they are saying it is difficult to to predict the cut-off | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
time. Lotus were unusually slow this morning, down in 15th | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
time. Lotus were unusually slow this tenths. Taking an average of what | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
the engineers told me, we have to get to 1.19.5 to be safe. | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
the engineers told me, we have to are confident that they can get out | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
during Q1. I have just had a text message saying still pushing, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
hopeful to be out before the end of Q1. Max | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
hopeful to be out before the end of done on his car from this | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
hopeful to be out before the end of session. Lewis Hamilton is on a fast | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
lap. We think Mercedes could stick with these tyres and said that | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
super-soft tyres for later. -- and save. What kind of lap time is | :17:34. | :17:45. | |
this? Lewis Hamilton goes fastest. 1.18.6. He was on those softer tyres | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
this morning. That could well be enough. Felipe Massa now coming | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
across the line. He may well have done enough to get through this | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
first part of qualifying and not have to resort to the softer tyres. | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
Nico Rosberg now, pretty much replicating what Jean-Eric Vergne | :18:14. | :18:25. | |
did. TEAM RADIO: slowdown next lap. | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
Well both cars have gone out on the super-soft tyres. About a second | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
difference her lap. They do not have a chance of getting out on the soft. | :18:42. | :18:53. | |
Valtteri Bottas has just gone fastest. The track is not to | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
dissimilar from the layout of the track in Austria. | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
It is a good initial gambit from Valtteri Bottas. Quite a lot more | :19:09. | :19:21. | |
turns on this lap down in Austria. Sebastian Vettel was like fastest | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
this morning. Winner of the German Grand Prix last year of course. And | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
in the past he has had all position here. He goes fifth for the moment. | :19:32. | :19:43. | |
Encouraging. Fastest of all on that last sector. We know that Red Bull | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
have difficulties with their power unit. Maldonado running wide on that | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
turn. There is not an issue with on loading and inside Google, just a | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
question of the drivers being as greedy as they can on the brakes. A | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
question of the drivers being as replay now of Nico Rosberg. Having | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
all sorts of trouble. Goes wide but no penalties for that. That will | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
cost him time. Overtaken by Ferrari. That was not his quick lap. Hamilton | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
currently fastest and Nico Rosberg has not established a lap time at | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
all. He needs to address this. Earlier on today in the third | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
practice session he put in a beautiful lap. | :20:44. | :20:56. | |
The forecast was for rain appearing on Sunday. But that forecast is | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
changing and it may not arrive until Sunday night. In towards Sachskurve. | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
Currently fourth fastest already, Alonso. We can just watch him | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
complete the lap. His sector times are looking slower and he stays | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
fourth for the moment. It is all about getting into the top 16. | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
This was Alonso a moment ago. A little bit wide. But nothing too | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
critical. little bit wide. But nothing | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
The circuit goes slightly left before you go to that high-speed | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
corner. I do not think that would cost him too much time. Hamilton | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
crashes! Hamilton has crashed in qualifying at Hockenheim! And what | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
an unusual sight that is. He just sat fastest first sector. If he has | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
a wheel on the white line of the crass, that would explain that. Very | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
unusual. That accident started to happen as soon as he was braking for | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
that corner. He's second-fastest at the moment. There will be changes of | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
course to that order. He may have got through to the next sector of | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
qualifying. But the car badly damaged. So this could have a | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
massive impact on his qualifying. TEAM RADIO: Lewis, let us know | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
you're OK. I'm OK. The brakes failed. | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
One of the scariest things that can happen in a racing car. Indeed. | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
Clearly shaken. Let us just try to see what | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
happened. That is him coming through at incredibly high speed. Keep it | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
tidy. Took his hands of before. The front | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
left had locked up. There might have been an issue with the recovery | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
system. He pitched into a spin early. You can see a puff of smoke | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
from the brakes. He throws the car in. There is retardation on the | :23:54. | :24:07. | |
front axle. It did lock up when he got on the brakes. If you have | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
pressure in the brake line then a possible cause could be the way that | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
they charge the batteries. Of course using the motor generator unit. That | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
creates a sensation of engine braking effectively. If he had an | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
issue with that that would not give him the retardation that he was | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
expecting. Five consecutive qualifying | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
sessions. Something has gone wrong for Lewis Hamilton. He has been | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
beaten by Nico Rosberg. TEAM RADIO: OK. Three times. | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
The session is about to restart after that accident. Any updates, | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Tom? A couple. Lewis Hamilton just drove past me in the medical car. He | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
was sacked in the back. He did not even glance at his team as he drove | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
past them. And this stoppage was past them. And this stoppage was | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
good for Caterham. I just had a word with them. They're hoping to get | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
Marcus Ericsson out before the end of Q1. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
Nico Rosberg first out. He set a very slow lap time. He is not in | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
that top group. He has gone out on the super-soft tyres. Mercedes would | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
have preferred not to use that but they decided not worth taking a | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
gamble. Just get in a decent lap. It is all about getting into the top | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
16. And at the moment Valtteri Bottas is on the top of the timing | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
sheets. Hamilton, his plan for earlier still has him second. | :26:09. | :26:25. | |
I think Nico Rosberg should get out of the drop zone fairly soon. | :26:26. | :26:37. | |
If the engineers had information on some kind of failure in the car, | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
given we are halfway through the season, then you have got the | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
confidence to say that it is an isolated event. From time to time | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
things can fail and isolated event. From time to time | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
fact of life. There would be no reason for them not to send out Nico | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Rosberg. Lewis Hamilton is in the medical | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
centre. They are checking his knees. There is a limited amount of space | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
of course in the cockpit. He does have leg pads on to stop his knees | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
flapping around. That takes some of the stress of the group. And if you | :27:18. | :27:29. | |
have a crash, then it stops your legs | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
have a crash, then it stops your Rosberg has set the fastest first | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
sector of anyone in this session to date. Coming | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
sector of anyone in this session to up earlier. And all much more | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
controlled up earlier. And all much more | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
He really waits to get onto the power but when he does he get on it | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
solidly and cleanly. This is going to be a very fast lap. | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Not fastest in that middle sector, surprisingly. That place to the | :28:07. | :28:14. | |
strength of the Mercedes normally. Valtteri Bottas highlighting just | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
how good a lap that was. He has the fastest little sector. But Nico | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
Rosberg goes fastest with a very quick final sector. And now we have | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
some idea of the true pace of the Mercedes. But that is on the | :28:30. | :28:37. | |
super-soft tyres. Sergio Perez now. He could do with a faster lap to | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
make him safe. It has been a quiet weekend so far | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
for Force India through the practice sessions. You sense that this track | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
is just not suiting them. They're somewhat stalled in the development | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
of the car. Cornforth with that lap. -- gone | :29:03. | :29:14. | |
forth. Jensen Button has rarely been | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
outqualified by a team-mate here at Hockenheim. But right now Marcus | :29:21. | :29:36. | |
Ericsson is tense. -- tense. Pretty evenly matched there. Kimi | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
Raikkonen just crossing the line and he is now fifth behind Jenson | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
Button. Plenty more improvements coming through. | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
I was surprised to see so many going out on the super-soft tyres, | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
especially Nico Rosberg. There is no need for him to do that. I can only | :30:01. | :30:11. | |
assume they're trying to save the soft for the race. | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
Seems a bit strange, but there we are. Nico Rosberg safely through. | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
McLaren happy with that lap time on the super-soft tyres. Amongst the | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
front runners it is only Valtteri Bottas who has set the time on the | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
harder compound tyres and sat with that, not done any more. Adrian | :30:35. | :30:48. | |
Sutil with the Sauber. Daniel Ricciardo just a fraction | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
slower. Sebastian Vettel in the first sector, around half a second | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
down on the best sector time of Valtteri Bottas in the middle | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
sector. The Red Bull continuing to lose in certain areas. | :31:10. | :31:19. | |
Nice early drive, short shift. Red Bull second and third. Daniel | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
Brickyard with an edge over his team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Alonso | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
in a bit of danger down in 15th place. This is Romain Grosjean. Has | :31:32. | :31:53. | |
the Lotus got the pace to do it? They have been struggling this | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
weekend. He is 13th, he does it. Good effort by him. Lotus needed | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
something special. He seems to have delivered and it has pushed Adrian | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
Sutil out of the top 16. His team-mate Maldonado is down in 19th, | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
but a very slow first sector. Well over a second and a half down. | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
Because of that mistake in the first sector he will remain in 19th place. | :32:24. | :32:36. | |
Bianchi is 18. The fastest of the Marussias and the Cajuns at this | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
point. Let's see what Kobayashi does. He is not on the pace of | :32:43. | :32:53. | |
Bianchi. Maldonado was not able to do anything. He has seen the | :32:54. | :33:00. | |
chequered flag. These are the ones who have not made it through into | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
the second part of qualifying. But Gutierrez is through. Max Chilton at | :33:06. | :33:23. | |
21. Ericsson failing to get out in the end. | :33:24. | :33:25. | |
Lady luck deserted Lewis Hamilton. These are shots of him coming back | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
into the paddock. He looks fairly shocked by that incident and he is | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
walking slightly gingerly. We now know he is OK. Let's have another | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
look at the incident. You need to look at the front right of the car. | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
He said it felt like a brake failure. We now know the team | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
confirmed a right front disk failure. | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
First and foremost, how are you feeling? I am OK, I am a bit | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
bruised, but OK. What was the damage from the car? Will you be able to | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
start from the grid? I have a feeling it is a pit lane. I will try | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
my hardest to catch up. It is going to be a hard slog from dead last and | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
more, but we will do everything. The second part of qualifying is about | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
to get under way. That is the green light at the end of this pit lane | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
for this 15 minute session. We have now got our 16 runners and we have | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
to narrow them down to top ten. But we know Lewis Hamilton will not be | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
starting in this session, so he will automatically qualify in 16th | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
position. The top 16 are featuring most of the other front runners. The | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
two Williams drivers are looking competitive so far. The cut-off time | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
proved to be pretty accurate, Tom. We knew it was going to be difficult | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
to judge. Have we any way of judging what it will be to get into the top | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
ten? Everyone has revealed their hands a little bit. We saw a lot | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
more super-soft running than we normally do. Let's assume they are | :35:18. | :35:30. | |
running a bit heavy, low 18 for Q3. That is Nico Rosberg's are being | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
prepared to come out. He is going straight back out on a new set of | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
super-soft tyres. With a flying lap on the super-soft he could have | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
considered that. They will be left under the blankets and going through | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
a curing process which will harden the rubber once you have taken them | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
out on the racetrack. This is Hulkenberg where we saw Hamilton go | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
off a little bit earlier on. He has got a double right-hander to finish | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
the lap and he needs a good except to accelerate across the line. We | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
have got the rotating camera on board his car as well so we can | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
enjoy a different view. That was perfectly timed. You can see the | :36:24. | :36:34. | |
tell-tale signs of smoke as he locked the inside right. This is the | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
longest section of locked the inside right. This is the | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
can get up to well over 200 miles an hour as you approach the hairpin. | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
The TRS is shut as a safety feature. Through five absolutely | :36:50. | :36:59. | |
flat out. Get the car as straight as possible for a heavy braking into | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
six. A beautiful apex through there to pull the car back across to the | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
left. This is where it starts to get tricky if you come back to the old | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
circuit. It gets narrow. This is where Lewis Hamilton crashed at the | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
hairpin. A small lock-up as he dropped it down into the apex and up | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
over the rise and he drops down into the second last corner. It is | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
difficult to make a pit entry during the Grand Prix. You have got to keep | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
turning right. A tricky one for the drivers. 18.2. Kimi Raikkonen has | :37:38. | :37:46. | |
been looking a bit more comfortable today. Let's see if he can continue | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
that. Not all the drivers try and tuck into the apex. | :37:53. | :38:01. | |
that. Not all the drivers try and it in for best attraction | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
town. Felipe Massa has gone fastest. Now Bottas goes quickest. It is | :38:11. | :38:25. | |
three tenths faster than Rosberg. Hulkenberg is happy with lap. There | :38:26. | :38:36. | |
is not a big difference between them. Alonso is currently fourth. | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
Followed by Hulkenberg, them. Alonso is currently fourth. | :38:45. | :38:46. | |
and Gutierrez. It is about them. Alonso is currently fourth. | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
ten. We are waiting for a number of cars to set their first lap. Daniel | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
Ricciardo got quite close to the Mercedes, but has not looked quite | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
so competitive against them today so far. Keeping it as tidy as possible. | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
Rosberg moves over to the right. far. Keeping it as tidy as possible. | :39:07. | :39:17. | |
Traffic through the kink at five. Grosjean in the Lotus keeps it tidy | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
at five and six. It is surprising the drop-down force we have seen | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
this season, the amount of lift the drivers are having to do as they go | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
through the kink at seven. They are using all the road. He gets wide | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
over the back of the kerb. An excellent hairpin. Sector wise he is | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
not the fastest. Red Bull are losing out in the middle sector as we have | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
seen already. He is fifth fastest with that behind Alonso. Red Bull | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
and Ferrari have both been very close to each other. Button is | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
sixth. Let's see what Sebastien Vettel is doing. This lap is quicker | :40:03. | :40:11. | |
than Daniel Ricciardo. Let's see whether he finishes it off that way. | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
Is he going to be Alonso? Yes, you goes third and splits the two | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
Williams. That is a quick lap by Sebastien Vettel. The fastest man of | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
all in that last sector. There is a feeling that Red Bull had their | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
handle on that performance yesterday, but they lost it in the | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
cooler conditions this morning. But any changes they have made, they | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
have dialled it back in again. Jenson Button is struggling in | :40:44. | :40:56. | |
eighth place. Gutierrez is in 12th. JENSON Button: Traffic with the | :40:57. | :41:14. | |
Lotus. RADIO: We saw that. Trying to get solidly in the top ten, | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
Hulkenberg. He needs a bit more of a timing improvement. It is very close | :41:21. | :41:30. | |
between Jenson Button, him and Daniil Kvyat. There is not much of | :41:31. | :41:40. | |
the drivers can do in sector two. It is pretty much a straight line. This | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
is called the Mercedes Stadium. But the real place of influence is Turn | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
1 and where we are right now, coming into the last sector. We saw a | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
lock-up, but we saw that before with Hulkenberg. Nice control and through | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
the left. A small lift into the last time. He is up on his own personal | :42:05. | :42:13. | |
time, so this should improve. He is up into eighth, but he is in that | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
tight group. That is his qualifying finish. Now he has to wait and see | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
and hear from his engineer as to whether it will be enough. Others | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
will be looking for improvement to get into the top ten to get both | :42:31. | :42:39. | |
Ferraris in there. There is track improvement. We need to do the lap. | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
Ferrari have picked up that the track is doing better lap times. | :42:45. | :42:54. | |
Felipe Massa is third, within two tenths of a second of Rosberg's | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
time. On board with Kimi Raikkonen. Down to the hairpin. That is a bit | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
of a lock-up. Sometimes you cannot lose too much by missing the apex, | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
but he braked a bit too deeply there. He was not able to turn the | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
car into the corner as early as he would have liked to. He has not | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
looked comfortable at all on the brakes this year, especially in the | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
Ferrari. He does not seem to be getting into the field he is looking | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
for. Up ahead of him is Daniil Kvyat. A little bit wide through the | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
hairpin which results on him getting higher on the kerb. RADIO: We are | :43:41. | :43:54. | |
getting downgraded. It is not enough Raikkonen. He is 11 and he has got | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
nothing left. Kimi Raikkonen crossed the line before the flag but the | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
tyres will not be up for it. Daniel Ricciardo is sixth, so he does not | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
improve much. Sebastien Vettel has qualified him this occasion. Jenson | :44:14. | :44:21. | |
Button on the bubble in 10th. The back end of the car is sliding | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
around. A clear sign of lack of downforce. There is no change. He is | :44:27. | :44:34. | |
in danger territory. Jean-Eric Vergne is on a pretty good lap. He | :44:35. | :44:44. | |
does not do it. Jenson Button is safe for the moment. Perez might be | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
able to do it. It is his only lap because he had not already | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
established a lap time. He does it! He pushes Button out at the | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
last-gasp. Eating his former team-mate, Jenson Button, and it is | :45:02. | :45:09. | |
just enough for him. Daniil Kvyat is night, in the top ten and he has | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
beaten his team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne. In terms of rookie honours | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
you have to say he is doing a fine job. But Magnussen has also very | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
easily got into the top ten and crashed his team-mate Jenson Button. | :45:25. | :45:34. | |
Disappointment for Jenson Button. Two world champions not through to | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
Q3, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button. | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
You were pipped at the post by Sergio Perez or knock you out, you | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
were so close. Did you think you would go through? Not really after | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
my laps. I have struggled all week, which is a shame because I like it | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
here. But I struggled to find the right balance this weekend. What | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
will you do tomorrow to improve on that? It should be cooler tomorrow, | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
so it should be good for us. In the hot conditions yesterday we | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
struggled on the long runs, so hopefully with cooler conditions we | :46:13. | :46:22. | |
will be better. Was that the best you could have done under the | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
circumstances? I just could not get the lap. I was sliding into corners | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
and lost a lot of time. What can you do for the race tomorrow? We will | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
have to see. The third session of qualifying gets | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
underway here at Hockenheim. Who is going to end up on pole position? | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
Nico Rosberg very much favourite. Fastest in both Q1 and Q2. Lewis | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
Hamilton no longer a part of the equation as a result of that brake | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
problem which sent him down into the barrier. And no British drivers | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
fighting in this top ten. It is a long time since we have had a | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
British driver in the top ten shoot out. I think there have been 18 | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
occasions in the past where a British driver has taken pole | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
position in a German Grand Prix but it is not going to happen today. | :47:29. | :47:40. | |
Tom, what news from the pit lane? Well it is very calm. All the | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
drivers just getting their thoughts together for the Q3 session. I was | :47:45. | :47:51. | |
looking at Nico Rosberg earlier and wondering what the absence of Lewis | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
Hamilton, how that will affect his attitude to the session. He might | :47:57. | :48:07. | |
just be going for bankers now. While the pressure is off. That team | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
battle is there irrespective of whether you are at the back or front | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
of the grid. One of those two is going to be world champion and | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
normal conditions. To have such a lead in the points. So it does take | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
pressure off. It will be interesting to see that affects his focus. In | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
many cases you just have that absolute focus and the pressure that | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
goes with it. And you're not consciously aware of | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
goes with it. And you're not doing. It is subconscious decisions | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
and reactions. A bit like a tennis player when you have got an easy | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
smash. Sometimes be missed the ball because they have had too long to | :48:55. | :49:12. | |
think about it. -- they miss. Another great races from Sergio | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
Perez. He looked after his tyres and came through the order. He has been | :49:21. | :49:28. | |
able to do that this year. You can hear that big lift which we | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
are not really used to. Just shows that the cars are | :49:36. | :49:46. | |
struggling with the downforce. Fastest time three seconds slower | :49:47. | :49:58. | |
than before. He goes fastest for the moment. I'm | :49:59. | :50:06. | |
used set of super-soft tyres. Not able to show exactly what he can | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
do. I believe that Nico Rosberg is on a brand new set of the super-soft | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
tyres so he goes for it straightaway. | :50:17. | :50:24. | |
A lot of time to think about your braking point down into the | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
hairpin. He comes out of that hairpin. The Williams cars are also | :50:31. | :50:40. | |
on a map. Can they compare to Nico Rosberg? This is where he looked | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
pretty good this morning. Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas almost | :50:47. | :50:53. | |
exactly matched. All nice and tidy so far for Nico | :50:54. | :51:02. | |
Rosberg. He pulls that card to the left before braking down into the | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
second last corner. And that's lap time is quick. | :51:11. | :51:19. | |
1.16.5. Just taking a look at the replay. He used a lot of track but | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
we are not seeing any penalties for that today. Anti-establishes a very | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
tough time to beat. He really attacked that first | :51:37. | :51:44. | |
corner. -- and he establishes. What about Felipe Massa, can he get | :51:45. | :51:51. | |
any faster? This is good for Valtteri Bottas, his credibility | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
rising quickly in Formula one. Still some opportunity for a Felipe Massa. | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
And Daniel Brickyard has put in some brilliant qualifying laps this year. | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
At the moment he's forced behind the Williams. -- fourth. | :52:12. | :52:27. | |
That is a sizeable step forward in performance. | :52:28. | :52:35. | |
Alonso are used set of tyres. Rosberg did use a new set of tyres. | :52:36. | :52:44. | |
When we get to the second run we might see some improvements. | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
Magnusson fourth fastest in the McLaren. | :52:52. | :53:11. | |
Rosberg looking a second off. TEAM RADIO: OK, you just lost time | :53:12. | :53:20. | |
on that lap. Sebastian Vettel comes across the | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
line. He is fast than Daniel Brickyard al. -- faster. | :53:27. | :53:34. | |
line. He is fast than Daniel has just come out on a final new set | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
of tyres. And those team-mates will be trying to outdo each other. | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
Hulkenberg has got the advantage in qualifying this year in terms of who | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
has been ahead of the other in the different qualifying sessions. They | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
both love this circuit and they know it well. | :53:56. | :53:56. | |
different qualifying sessions. They both love this Sergio Perez started | :53:57. | :54:04. | |
his racing career here in Europe. Both of them have done thousands of | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
laps of this Hockenheim circuit. And this is Perez were watching first. | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
-- we are watching. Force India putting the power down | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
reasonably well. Sebastian Vettel comes out of the garage now. It is | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
going to start to get busy out on circuit. Nico Rosberg has just come | :54:29. | :54:43. | |
back out. All out on the new tyres. The top ten have an extra | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
opportunity now with a new set of tyres. | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
We will see quite a few changes I think in the closing moments. | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
A study of concentration in the Williams garage. | :54:59. | :55:07. | |
Williams have had success here at Hockenheim in the past. Can they do | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
anything on this occasion? Felipe Massa goes on to a lap. He qualified | :55:15. | :55:24. | |
second back in 2008. He has never been a winner here at Hockenheim. He | :55:25. | :55:31. | |
finished second in 2006. And also in 2010. That famous radio message | :55:32. | :55:49. | |
about Fernando Alonso. And now relishing the environment at | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
Williams. I think he is the right man for Williams as they are | :55:53. | :56:07. | |
restructuring. The single lap pace is one of his | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
specialities. He has been unlucky, suffering a crash in crack is. And | :56:14. | :56:23. | |
then he had that crash in Canada. In between times he got a good fourth | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
place in Austria. Is this an improvement for Felipe Massa? He is | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
up to third but still behind his team-mate who is on a good lap. The | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
fastest middle sector of anyone in this session so far, Valtteri | :56:38. | :56:47. | |
Bottas. The chequered flag is out. And he stays second. But a great | :56:48. | :56:56. | |
effort. Nico Rosberg still on a lap himself. He was down a little in the | :56:57. | :57:06. | |
first sector. Two tenths slower than his previous best. Just as well he | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
got that lap in earlier. Magnusson is fourth, an excellent effort from | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
the Danish driver. Proving that McLaren have made progress. It is | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
Nico Rosberg who seems to have taken pole position. And Williams have | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
taken second and third on the grid. Another excellent performance from | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
the team. At Nico Rosberg has taken pole position for his other home | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
Grand Prix. His list of the season. They were tied coming into this | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
event at four apiece and now Nico Rosberg has taken the fourth pole | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
and proves himself ahead in that Trophy race. His first ever pole | :57:51. | :57:57. | |
position in Germany and the fifth consecutive time that he has | :57:58. | :58:06. | |
outqualified Lewis Hamilton. TEAM RADIO:. OK, good effort in those | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
circumstances. Starting up front in this Grand Prix | :58:18. | :58:23. | |
is definitely the place to be. It has always been one from the front | :58:24. | :58:37. | |
row since 2002. -- won. We think Lewis Hamilton will line up on the | :58:38. | :58:49. | |
grid in 15th place. And he will have a tall order to win the race from | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
there. Especially with his team-mate Nico Rosberg grabbing the top spot | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
in qualifying once again here today. He | :59:00. | :59:02. | |
in qualifying once again here today. duo and also Kevin Magnussen and the | :59:03. | :59:11. | |
Red Bull cars. Ferrari, promising a lot over the weekend but failed | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
Red Bull cars. Ferrari, promising a deliver. The top ten rounded out by | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
Red Bull cars. Ferrari, promising a Sergio Perez. And it is pretty much | :59:21. | :59:21. | |
team by team. We lost the other Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton. | :59:22. | :59:43. | |
Jenson Button down in 11th place. Hulkenberg just ahead of Perez. And | :59:44. | :59:51. | |
Jensen Button in 11th place. Poor old Marcus Ericsson never got | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
Jensen Button in 11th place. Poor all so will start at the back of the | :59:57. | :59:57. | |
grid. The three top all so will start at the back of the | :59:58. | :00:06. | |
together for that photo opportunity. Nico Rosberg gaming pole position | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
for the German Grand Prix. His mind in his career. -- ninth. | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
Congratulations to Nico Rosberg. What a week it has been for you. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Congratulations to Nico Rosberg. Only a little annoyed that it was | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
not an open fight with Lewis Hamilton today? Of course I'm happy. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
It has been a great day and great to be first in front of the home crowd. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Of course I'm not ecstatic. I would have been if it had been an open | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
fight with Lewis Hamilton. That is the best when we do have those in | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
qualifying. You had a difficult start to the qualifying session but | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
when you got into the lap it was really clean. Talk us through what | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
you're thinking at this moment? I nailed that one! | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
I thought you said what I was thinking at that moment! It was | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
awesome. It is hard to get that first turn right because it is a | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
narrow a Pax and you only have one shot at it. -- Apex. Then coming | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
into turn six, a little bit wide on the Apex but it does not cost lap | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
time. I know I I have made the most of it in braking. Overheating the | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
tyres on the exit so that was a bit difficult. And now coming into the | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
stadium section. Really fast into that corner. And then this is the | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
most difficult corner on the track. A small lock-up. That is actually | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
the fastest way to do it for me. It gives me some understeer so I just | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
stuck with that and it worked well. S what do you think about the race | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
tomorrow? Could you turn it into the most perfect week of your life ever? | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Starting from pole position is best placed to be. I need to keep an eye | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
on the Williams and the people behind me, but I have the best car | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
and for the race tomorrow it should be good if I get a good start. It is | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
an important part. I will also keep an eye on Lewis because with the car | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
we have and the way he is driving there is a chance he will make it. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
The Williams made it from 18 to second at Silverstone, so there is | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
no reason why he cannot come through as well. Nico Rosberg, thank you. A | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
great lap for you today. Could you squeeze any more out of that car? I | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
think that was all there was. It felt like a really good lap. I think | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
today managing the tyres and getting them to the perfect temperature and | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
getting a good sector today has been important and I think I got a good | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
compromise from the tire for the track. What was impressive was the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
consistency nailing the sectors. Is this one of the strongest | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
performances you have put in this year? It must be, I felt really | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
confident today in the car. We have been working really hard since | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
yesterday with this new suspension. There was an effect with how the car | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
was behaving and we got it better today. I got used to the track. In | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
qualifying it felt nice and consistent and I was able to do it | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
lap by lap. When you say there was a better effect, did that manifested | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
itself in terms of the aerodynamics? There is a bit of a difference to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
how the balance of the car is changing and on the bumps, how the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
car is behaving differently. In practice three I still was not | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
completely happy and we made changes and it got better. Does it feel more | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
like you have gone back to a disconnected suspension system? Kind | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
of. It feels more natural about what a car should do in a corner. I do | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
not mind. In the end, once we have already improved a lot I am sure we | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
will still go forward. For as it was another big hit with the rules. We | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
wish you all the best tomorrow. It seems to be coming together. | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
Felipe Massa, congratulations, just beaten by your team-mate. I you | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
happy? Yes, for sure. You always want to be in front, but he did a | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
great lap and we need to concentrate on doing a great race tomorrow. It | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
is a difficult weekend because the temperature is very high and | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
everything can happen in the race, even in the rain. We need to be | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
ready for everything and I hope we can put everything together and we | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
have a good card tomorrow as well. Great to see Kevin Magnussen who | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
will be going from the second road tomorrow. Has the upgrade helped | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
you? Yes, it has. For me the car has been working really well this | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
weekend. We got a new rear wing which came early, so a good job to | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
the guys in the factory for pushing that through. And also to the guys | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
in the garage for getting the most out of it this weekend. We could see | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
your confidence in the car. It was the complete opposite of Jenson | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Button who was sliding around a lot. Very tidy laps. Talk us around it. I | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
did not think I would be able to improve on Q2, but I am sure the | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
track improved a little bit. I went for it. I had two sets of tyres. The | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
first lap was really good. I tried to give it everything and it worked | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
out. Over 200 miles an hour as you hit the breaking point in to Turn 4. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
You had a very tight apex. A lot of cars missed that corner. Was that | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
part of your strategy? You want to break late, but if you miss the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
apex, it costs a lot of time. If you nailed it, there is a lot of time to | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
be gained. This is the old part of the race track and it narrows as you | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
come in here. Yes, this part is the best part of the track. You can | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
really break late and you do not really need to hit the apex. Break a | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
bit too late and you will still be all right. The last bit you need to | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
get power early and it is a really good track. It is a fit lap. There | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
is an incredible amount of Danish support. It must almost be like a | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
home race. Denmark is not far away from here, 900 kilometres, but it is | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
great to see these guys. I know a lot of them. You have given them | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
something to cheer about today. Thank you very much. At sixth place | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
how do you feel after that session? Better than this morning. It was a | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
bit tough, the final round did not come together, but it was a good | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
session. We know that Renault are trying to give you a bit more power. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Have they managed to do that? Not as much as we were hoping for. What do | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
you have to do tomorrow to please much as we were hoping for. What do | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
your home fans? Drive a good race. That is always the target. We are | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
not quite sure about the weather tomorrow so it could be anything. We | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
are starting in a reasonable position to do well. Not as relaxed | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
as he was at the start of the show, but frustrated. Not getting as much | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
power as he would have liked. They were promised a few percent increase | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
in power and that is not reflecting in the performance of the car, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
especially in the middle sector. How frustrating must that be for him | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
halfway through the season? We saw a bit more of Sebastien Vettel at | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Silverstone with great overtaking. But we need to see more of that. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Silverstone was a great performance was two world champions going | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
wheel-to-wheel. Here the card does not seem to be comfortable. He is | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
frustrated with form generally over the course of the year. Although the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
championship is statistically still possible, he knows this year is | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
about recovering will stop let's get the thoughts of Daniel Ricciardo. It | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
looked like you were happy in that car. Yes, I do not want to get too | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
excited at the fifth. It is not a disaster, but we would love to be in | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
excited at the fifth. It is not a the top three. The lap itself was | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
not too bad. Kevin just pipped me, but the step I made from Q2 up to Q3 | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
was good and I do not know what else we could have done. The competition | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
between McLaren and Williams is pretty hot if you take Mercedes out | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
of the running? It is and it is exciting. We | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
of the running? It is and it is are just behind Mercedes, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
of the running? It is and it is Williams seemed to have done it | :10:16. | :10:15. | |
again today. Williams seemed to have done it | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
interesting. If not the weather, the tyres. Everyone will | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
interesting. If not the weather, the so. Let's have a look at the grid. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Nico Rosberg will start from pole position for Mercedes head of the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
similarly powered Williams of Valterri Bottas. | :10:36. | :11:22. | |
That is the grid for tomorrow's race. Alan has joined as now. | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
Standout performances? Williams maintained that momentum. Valterri | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Bottas had an excellent run. I was surprised they were so close to | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Mercedes, but it proves they are going to be strong through the rest | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
of the season. But for me in qualifying, Kevin Magnussen. To pull | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
it into fourth position, and it is not the best card, but he dragged it | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
into his best qualifying performance of the year. That was one of the | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
strong points. Do you agree? You seem to get his confidence back. As | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
his confidence was growing and he was delivering the lap time the | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
opposite was happening to Jenson and he was drifting that carbon like a | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
rally style. The combination of the upgrade and may be taking of the | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
FRIC suspension has played into his hands. Is that because they have | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
been practising different things? I am surprised they gave the upgrades | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
to Kevin Magnussen and not to Jenson Button. He is maybe a bit behind on | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
that. But on this occasion Magnussen grabbed the car, through it around | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
and got it into fourth. More bad luck for a Lewis Hamilton. What are | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
his chances tomorrow? Can he get through? Absolutely, he has got a | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
chance of getting a podium. Williams came from 18th to be second in | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Silverstone. Why can he not do that here? It will be a bit tough. It | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
will be hard to get up to that position, but they have the straight | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
line speed. I will think that where will play a part and they will | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
decide tonight whether they start on 16th or in the pit lane with all the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
benefits of being able to change their setup. It feels a bit cooler | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
now. You can listen on radio five live. Thank you very much for | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
watching. Nico Rosberg is in pole position. | :13:33. | :13:51. | |
Hamilton crashes! Hamilton has crashed in qualifying here! | :13:52. | :14:03. |