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Good morning and welcome to Monza. Hard to believe this is the final | :00:07. | :01:17. | |
European Grand Prix of the season. Every reason to believe this could | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
be yet another Mercedes party. Allan McNish, since Spa, all of the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
headlines have been about Mercedes, the clash we saw between Lewis and | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Nico. Have the teams handled it well? Yes. Niki Lauda came out | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
straight away and said it was Nico Rosberg that caused the incident. He | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
put it out on twitter and said, if you were running the team, what | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
would you do, escalating the discussion, if you like. But he came | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
out and publicly apologised. And they have tried to calm it down this | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
weekend so far. You can see from that faces in the press conference, | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
the drivers were not comfortable with each other. After the race in | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Spa, Nico Rosberg was adamant he had nothing to apologise for. Do you | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
think Lewis will get a bit of a buzz and a kick out of this? He seems to | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
be in a good place yesterday, and at the moment he is perceived like the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
good guy, and Nick are is the bad guy. Will that give him confidence? | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
Clearly the team have clipped the wings of Nico a bit. And Lewis feels | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
this is the first time the team have been behind him this year. So it has | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
lifted him up, but he must use the extra energy to leapfrog Nico in the | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
fight for qualifying. Whilst Mercedes reprimanded Rosberg, the | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
stewards did not, they did not see anything wrong with the incident on | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
track. The man to capitalise on all was Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, his | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
third win. What a season he is having. Yes, this time last year he | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
was battling for the Toro Rosso seat vacated by Mark Webber, but he has | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
come out as the team leader, with Sebastian Vettel, a 4 times world | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
champion, struggling to catch up with him. The thing that has | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
impressed me about Daniel Ricciardo, he grabs opportunities | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
with both hands and does not let them sleep. -- slip. The gap at the | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
top has increased since the last race. Nico Rosberg 29 points ahead | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
of Lewis Hamilton. Daniel is just 35 points behind Lewis. Fernando Alonso | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
in fourth, Bottas in an impressive fifth. Sebastian Vettel is yet to | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
lead a race, let alone win one. Mercedes still leading the way with | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
411 points. Since the last race, McLaren have moved ahead of Force | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
India but only by two points, and Marussia are ahead of Caterham and | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
Sauber. Ben Edwards and Tony Dodgers in the commentary box. Incredible to | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
believe this is the last European race of the season, but what a place | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
to finish. Yes. It is 43 years today since Peter Gethin won the closest | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
ever Formula One race by .01 of a second. So many memories here. A | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
fabulous place to come. I remember coming here for the first time in | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
the 80s and I wanted to walk around the track, it was almost dark, but | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
by the time I got to the end of the lab you could sense the history and | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
atmosphere. There is the old banking they last used in 1961. You feel the | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
ghosts almost. A lot to look forward to. We will soon be getting into the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
first 90 minutes session of the weekend. We have had some clues from | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Spa, but what are we expecting here? The man's a bit of a car here? A bit | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
different, but quite similar to Spa -- does it do manned a different | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
car, here? It is all about straight-line speed and traction out | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
of the corners. We are expecting the highest top speeds of any circuit so | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
far this year. Up to perhaps 220 mph. The pit lane is open, and we | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
will head in there and report from you, so let's throw up to Ben and | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Tony. RADIO: Showing as a slight headwind at the moment. Opposite of | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
what we are expecting, but we are expecting it to swap around. Chak | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
temperature 23. COMMENTATOR: Little weather report to start proceedings | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
at Monza. It is a dry track and the forecast is good for most of the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
weekend, which will encourage the likes of Williams in particular. | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Tony, coming into this Grand Prix, all the talk about Mercedes and what | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
happened last time out at Spa. Also quite a lot of chat about whether | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Williams could have a real chance of challenging Mercedes. If it was | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
going to be anywhere, it would probably be Monza. I agree. Last | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
time at Spa we had the second sector which was all about downforce. There | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
were some differences in the setup, whereas everybody here will be in a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
low downforce configuration. Williams has fantastic top speed, | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
and you would expect this to be their best chance. They were a | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
little bit messed up by the rain in qualifying in Spa. Their car not | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
working particularly well on the intermediate. This weekend generally | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
looks as though it will be dry. A quick reminder, I will let people | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
know that we have a few different drivers out in this first session. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
It is the opportunity for teams to put in the development drivers, and | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
a couple are doing that. At Lotus we have Charles Pic driving in place of | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
Romain Grosjean. And the graphic there, just showing us how many | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
elements of the power unit he has used throughout the course of the | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
year so far, engine referring to the V6, the turbochargers, used four of | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
those, MG UK is the unit that generates kinetic energy | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
underbraking. MG you -H sits next to the turbo, generating electric | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
power. And a little graphic showing us all the elements, which shows us | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that many teams are now getting to the limit. -- MGU-H. You are allowed | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
five of those throughout the course of the year, and once you use your | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
sixth of any of those items, whether it is the internal combustion engine | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
or the turbo, at the next race you get a ten Grid Place penalty. We are | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
in that region now where we will see those penalties affecting our grids. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Yes, used five of the internal combustion engine part of it. One of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the key point is when you look at who has used what, Mercedes are in | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
good shape relative to Renault, and Ferrari. So possibly it will not | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
impact at the very top. I agree. Sebastian Vettel is not so well off, | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
not featuring so strongly. Daniel Ricciardo third in the points. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Daniel Ricciardo has been the biggest points scorer of the last | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
six grams pre-, which is amazing. He has had three victories, of course. | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
-- the last three Grands Prix. People were starting to say to him, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
have we reached the stage where you should be prioritised over Sebastian | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Vettel in the team because you have an outside chance? He said if it was | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
the same situation close to the end of the season then yes, but somebody | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
else said, hang on, you are within 35 points of Nico Rosberg, you | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
really have a chance. Surely they should be doing something. He said, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
that sounds good, I will write that down. It is a very good point. | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
Kobayashi back at Caterham but not for this particular session. He is | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
not in overalls because Roberto Merhi is getting his first-ever | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
opportunity to drive a Formula One car. Interesting, he is a | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
23-year-old Spaniard and he has a pretty good CV. Currently racing in | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the Renault 3.5 championship. Looking back over his CV, he has | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
raced against Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas before, they were in | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Formula Renault together in 2008. In the Euro cup, Bottas was champion, | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Ricciardo was second, and Merhi was fourth. It has taken him a bit | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
longer to make the jump. He was the 2011 FIA champion. He was, and that | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
was a good win for him. He was racing Daniel Jonker Deller, who we | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
see for Force India. He had a couple of years that were not so good in | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
the DTM, because he was a Mercedes affiliated driver. He is running | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
second in the Renault 3.5 series, he has won two of the last three races. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
He definitely deserves an opportunity. Lots of green paint all | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
over the back of the Force India, as they try to get an idea of airflow. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Alexander Rossi not driving the Marussia this morning. There was a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
question mark as to whether he would be up this morning, but confirmation | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
that Max Chilton is doing all of the sessions, and according to Max, | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
doing all of the remaining races. So whatever the kitchen contract will | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
proceedings was at Spa, it seems to have been smoothed over -- whatever | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
the glitch in the contract. Ido van der doing another session. I believe | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
he is only doing the first 30 minutes, so Sergio Perez will be | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
taking over during the session, and that is something allowed this year | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
with this slightly different format. RADIO: Getting very hot on my right | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
wrist, a bit unusual. Copy. If you go to brightness seven, we will try | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
the other radio. All of the electronics packed around the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
driver. New run-off on Parabolica. It is something that has been | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
causing a bit of controversy, because drivers love | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
causing a bit of controversy, but if you ran wide coming through | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Parabolica, you were in trouble. Now it looks as though they have a bit | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
of leeway. Yes, those with long memories will recall Derek Warwick | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
having an enormous accident on the outside of Parabolica when he ran | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
wide. It is a safety thing. Purists say we don't want that, we want it | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
to be a test, but I still think it is a test. You have the painted | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
Astroturf on the exit. Just look at this, as he comes through | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Parabolica, a big strip of tarmac on the outside, and the Astroturf, bit | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
of extra Astroturf they have put on the outside. But take a look at last | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
year. Lewis Hamilton actually ran wide in qualifying yesterday, and we | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
can look at where he goes wide. Relatively early, just puts a wheel | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
onto the gravel, and it cost him any chance. As a result he did a little | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
bit of damage to the car and did not get through into the final part of | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
qualifying last year. Looking at whether run-off is, it looks as | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
though he probably would have got away with it. Yes, unless the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Astroturf spat him back across to the inside. It all depends how much | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
loading is on the car. We will see when somebody does it for the first | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
time. It will be interesting. So everybody has done their | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
installation lap, one lap that makes sure all the systems are working. As | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
we heard from Rosberg, a little concern about heat in the car, but | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
hopefully that can be sorted. We can look at his power unit elements | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
used. With seven to go, that is pretty good. They will be relatively | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
happy. They can put an engine back in from earlier in the year that | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
they have used, as long as none of the seals have been broken, and they | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
do switch and swap them around a bit. They will want a relatively | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
fresh engine, and quite if you put a fresh engine in force bar, which is | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
carried on to this weekend dash macro quite -- quite a few put in a | :14:04. | :14:15. | |
fresh engine for Spa. We should see Sergio Peres later? Yes, he is | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
sitting on the pit wall at the moment. I did a bit of sign language | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
with him and he says he will be in later in the session. I anticipate | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
it will be after 30 minutes. In that first 30 minutes the drivers get an | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
extra free set of tyres that they have to give back. So it would only | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
lose Sergio Perez 30 minutes of track time as opposed to a set of | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
tyres for the rest of the weekend. He is pretty calm on the pit wall. | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
What is your opinion of the Parabolica, your view that it had | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
been emasculated is a bit different? Anybody going around the | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
corner at 200 mph, floating the car in with minimal downforce, having | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
the surge of adrenaline as you can feel it kicking away from you, they | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
are probably the right people to ask. Anybody who hasn't had the | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
feeling, it's difficult to understand what it's like but in my | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
opinion, it is a safety feature and will not change the dynamic of the | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
circuit, all the corner, or the racing. The important thing is that | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
they have put in some extra margin for error at the middle corner where | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
it is most dangerous but they have put a long curve on the exit and | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
some Astroturf, so you cannot gain a long-term advantage out of it. We | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
will see drivers trying to push the limit as they are designed to do. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Ultimately my first feeling walking around yesterday with Felipe Massa, | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
is opinion is that it was a positive change for safety, not a negative | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
change for racing. We will get some more comment from the drivers as we | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
go through the weekend. A pause in proceedings while the cars are | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
checked over. We have already spoken about the drama at Spa between | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Rosberg and Hamilton, whom he clipped, and coming away from Spa | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
with a 29 points championship advantage. Mercedes bosses were not | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
happy about what went on, very outspoken and they were determined | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
that it won't happen again. Let's see what Toto Wolff said yesterday | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
to James Allen when he was speaking on radio five. You know, when you | :16:38. | :16:49. | |
are managing a team, it is very important to keep it balanced. First | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
of all, the penalties, the sanctions we have been implemented in are | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
likely to stay in the team because it isn't fair towards the drivers to | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
discuss it in public. We have made it very clear that this is an | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
unacceptable scenario for this, for both of them. We don't want this to | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
happen again and the consequences are very easy. If we are not able to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
manage the two of them following the Mercedes-Benz racing spirit, then we | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
need to admit that, and take decisions and consequences, you | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
know, having a different line-up probably. A different line-up, | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
Tony, a very interesting comment, Toto Wolff saying that if they can't | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
behave, they may change the Mercedes line-up. How seriously can we take | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
it? Not very, actually! I think it's a bit strong. I can understand what | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
he's saying. You have to have a nurturing atmosphere possibly | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
towards Lewis in that scenario because he feels wronged, Nico took | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
him out and he gained in the championship, which some people | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
would say is cleanly wrong. Nico has been fortunate that four, five races | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
ago they would have investigated and given him a drive-through penalty, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
but Silverstone, everybody got together and said that we want to be | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
able to race, we want to go for the marginal moves and we don't want | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
everything investigated, so the FIA said OK, we'll stand back and let | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
you get on with it. Prior to that, I'm sure he would have been | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
investigated and probably penalised, but the FIA said you can't have it | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
both ways. So he has been fortunate. He caused the accident. I | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
don't think it was malicious. But I admire Nicky louder and Toto Wolff | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
for saying what they think. They were criticised by Max Mosley who | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
said they should keep out of the team -- Nicky louder. It is such a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
team led sport, I admire them for saying what they think. We have | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
discussed this quite a lot, on the chequered flag pod cast which you | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
can download, Toto Wolff also said that the fans want Mercedes to keep | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
allowing them to race, they don't want team orders assumed, and that's | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
what they are planning to do. It is, it was a risky strategy, putting | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
it out there, in my opinion, something that actually flames the | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
fire little bit. Because ultimately it brought the whole thing back into | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the public eye. It was already there but it heightened it by saying, if | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
you were the team manager, what would you do? Clearly some funny | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
comments came into it. The one that Toto said, they should make Nico | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Rosberg go on a cycling Toto said, they should make Nico | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
him. Toto Wolff fell off his bike and broke four bones in his body. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Having said that, they put it out there, they have to race, but they | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
have two control things because clearly they cannot keep on having | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
the fastest car and losing victories because of two fighting team-mates. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
From the manufacturer 's point of view, they manufactured car wins the | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Grand Prix and after that, which one of the siblings wins the races and | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the championship, that's down to them. If it is detrimental, they may | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
have to put the strong hand onto them. In this situation I can see | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
this bubbling over for the rest of the season, but whether it will | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
bubble over, that remains to be seen. It is all good fun at the | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
moment, causing a lot of gossip in the paddock. We saw Max Chilton | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
getting into a bit of a moment but he is the first man to complete | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
getting into a bit of a moment but flying lap, one | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
getting into a bit of a moment but first time lap of anybody so far. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
Roberto Merhi, he has the abbreviation for a new Formula One | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
driver. The 23-year-old Spanish driver. There he is. He has been | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
racing in the DTM for the last couple of years. This year he is | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
back in the single seat cars, in the Renault series, one of the two | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
levels below Grand Prix racing. You have GP two, just below Formula One. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
All of the cars are identical and that's what he's competing in at the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
moment. In some ways, in relative terms they have more downforce to | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the amount of power they have to the Formula One cars. He has possibly | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
more grip and power, now he has more power than grip, especially with the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
changes this year. Especially here because they have such a low | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
downforce configuration, it's all about being late on the brakes, and | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
this is a difficult track for him to make his Formula One debut. Simply | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
because of the reasons we've explained, you have to have | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
confidence on the brakes. We've said that going forwards, he may get a | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
chance in Singapore. Well, how diametrically opposed can that be? | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Two of the most difficult circuits, for different reasons, so good luck | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
to him! The shortest race of the year, to the longest. And the most | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
physical. Roberto Merhi, so far, so good. Don't forget you can send us | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
your thoughts and questions, you can contact us on Twitter and the BBC | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
sport Facebook page. Great to have your comments coming in. Paul | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
McGuinness asks what is our best memory of Monza, 2006 standing out | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
for him, with Schumacher winning. He has five winners here. Most | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
important from his point of view and in some ways the love affair with | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
the tifosi began with him in 2006, winning for Ferrari here. It was not | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
his first win with the team but it was their first win in seven years | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
here because the previous one had been in 1988, Gerhard Berger. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Michael Schumacher put himself into the hearts of the tifosi that year. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
It helped but I don't think they took to him in the same way they | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
took to Jill Villeneuve. His comeback after the accident in the | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
70s, Lauda, racing with his balaclava caked in blood, they went | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
for that. We have to keep an eye on this, when you have two Mercedes | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
cars on the track sharing the same piece of road, it's very | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
interesting! RADIO: You are pressing the DRS button to early. And you | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
need to be less aggressive on the brake pedal, and also the throttle. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
You have too much wheel spin on the spot. White there you go, too | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
aggressive on the brakes, he is used to more downforce, and he is being | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
too aggressive on the fourth because he's used to more horsepower. We are | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
watching Hamilton and Rosberg. Tell us what Roberto Merhi is having to | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
learn right now. He knows the circuit, he has been here before but | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
he's used to a car that has less torque. With these tyres, it is easy | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
to overload them in the wheel spin situation, and with the extra torque | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
you can like them are pretty easily and that is not good for the life of | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the tyres. Giving him some guidance so he can get that under control, so | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
he can work out what is going to work in the first session for him. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Coming back to Merhi, I watched him in European Formula Three when he | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
won the championship, he is very fast and committed and I think you | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
are going to see him picking up the Caterham and firing it around, maybe | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
a bit too much. They were the first comments from the team, come back | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
and try and be smooth -- throwing it around. Lets hope he | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
and try and be smooth -- throwing it board. Alonso has just gone through. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
He has a great record here with Ferrari, winning in 2010 in his | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
first year with the Ferrari, winning in 2010 in his | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
been on the podium every time he has driven for Ferrari including last | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
year when he finished on the podium taking that great selfie on his | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
camera with the fans below. He has a good relationship with the circuit, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
but Ferrari are always expected to go well here, Tony. The problem is | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
that this year it is going to be difficult for him to get another | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
podium. I think his performance level at Spa was higher than | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
everybody expected. He was saying yesterday, he hopes he might be able | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
to do it but he is acknowledging the fact that Mercedes engined cars, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
with such low downforce, will be difficult to beat here. You can be | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
sure he will go for it, as always. Rumours abound about the Ferrari | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
boss at the moment. We expect him to be here this weekend, but there are | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
some rumours he may be leaving Ferrari, talk that he has a new post | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
elsewhere but it is room at the moment. RADIO: The RS is not | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
working. -- DRS. Looe understood. That is what free practice is all | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
about. Daniel Ricciardo, a three-time race winner. Marcus | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Ericsson having a lock-up, a classic into the first chicane. Just about | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
managing to get around the corner without taking to the escape road. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
We will see plenty more of that. A question from Stewart, if the power | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
units we are talking about, if they are used, to what extent can they be | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
repaired when it is a new unit? Basically they are not allowed to do | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
any internal work on the engines at all. If they take out the engine and | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
lose it later -- use it later in the season, but the engines are sealed | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
and the scrutineers will know if anybody has done any internal work | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
and that will count as a new power unit. Everything has to be as it has | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
been used already, otherwise you straight switch to something else. | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
The limit on the engines, brought in a few years ago. Five entries this | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
year. RADIO: We can see that the DRS is not working. Keep going. A | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
problem for Sebastian Vettel, he has no DRS operating. Interesting with | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
Vettel, as he goes through the Parabolica, a new chassis for him | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
this weekend. He has already had one new chassis and he has gone on to a | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
second new one. Red Bull are slightly flummoxed by his lack of | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
pace I think at Spa, the car was not as quick as Ricciardo's apparently. | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
They said that it was a fairly routine change. Christian Horner | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
keeping an eye on things. Looking at the early speed track figures, 343, | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
already slightly above what we saw here last year but not by a dramatic | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
margin. 340 was the top speed last year. We are still picking up speed | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
and they will be getting into a bit more of a towing situation where | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
they can pick up a few more miles per hour. Jenson Button was | :28:30. | :28:39. | |
predicting 355. In 2005, one Pablo Montoya in the car that year doing | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
372, which is something like 233 mph, with 900 horsepower! Montoya is | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
here this weekend, he was in the paddock over the weekend. Mario | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
Andretti is here, so we had a couple of visitors from the United States. | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
Valtteri Bottas, one to watch this weekend. Williams are hopeful of | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
some good performances and he has been getting on the podium regularly | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
in recent events, the Finnish driver. Our BBC coverage this | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
weekend, you will get to learn more about him. Tom Clarkson when | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
shooting with him last weekend and we will have the coverage for you on | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
the Formula One broadcast over the course of the weekend. Clay pigeon | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
shooting, rather than going hunting anywhere! Clay pigeon shooting has | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
become a bit of a favourite past time for Bottas, something he has | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
taken up over the last few years. On board with Juncadella | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
development driver for Force India. This was a moment ago, into | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
development driver for Force India. little bit too late. Let's see if | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
Kimi Raikkonen did the same. Yet, exactly the same. Coming off the | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
brakes almost instantaneously because these tyres have to last for | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
the entire first session. That's the way the team is like to run it. It | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
is better to go wide, and we can see Alonso doing that, than it is to | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
keep the tyres locked up. Currently Kevin Magnussen is the fastest on | :30:07. | :30:08. | |
the track. Button showing well for McLaren as | :30:09. | :30:22. | |
well. Looking at Alex worked there, still very involved at Williams. | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
Bottas seventh, Alonzo macro eighth, Raikkonen currently ninth, and 10th | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
fastest is Hulkenberg. Jenson Button, Tony, what is going on here? | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
RADIO: You can use Diarra is everywhere now, just use it in the | :30:43. | :30:52. | |
correct places -- you can use DRS. Will Jenson Button still be at | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
McLaren next year? They have been quite vocal in saying they are | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
definitely trying to go after a top driver, may be that all or Alonzo. | :31:01. | :31:10. | |
Romain yesterday was having a bit of mischief and saying he saw Fernando | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
Alonso as key to the drivers market. But only last week in the German | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
media there was a story that Fernando has a release clause, they | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
printed that if he was not within 25 points of the championship lead by | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
September one there was a release clause. Who knows if that is real or | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
not, but people who have seen Fernando's contract say it is very | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
Fernando favourable. Big sideways moment for Hamilton, interesting to | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
watch, he is really on the limit. So if that is the case, it really does | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
through the driver market open. Sebastian Vettel, might he go to | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
Ferrari? The situation he has had this year at Red Bull, with the | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
speed of Ricciardo, if he stays another year and it keeps happening, | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
his market value has gone. So does he need to get out of there now? And | :32:13. | :32:20. | |
then there is this whole question of the finances of some of the back of | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
the grid teams, and if they really are in such bad shape, could we | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
possibly have three cars from the major teams? And if that happens it | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
really does throw it open. A lot is going on that is not obvious. Yes, | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
three-car teams, that is something that has been discussed in the past. | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
As one of your erudite colleagues said to me earlier, imagine a 3 car | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
Mercedes team with Hamilton, Rosberg and Fernando Alonso. That is a bit | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
eye watering as a prospect, isn't it? A fair bit of overseer, that | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
means the back end was moving around quite a lot | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
means the back end was moving around through the Ascari chicane. Alan, in | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
terms of car balance, what do you really want from your car for being | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
fast at Monza? You need consistency. You need that delicate and right | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
balance between a rear that is stable on the high-speed entries, | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
because you are breaking and turning quite a lot of the time, especially | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
into Ascari, Parabolica, but you also need a sharp front-end. Some of | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
those corners are quite long, therefore you need the front | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
steering to be reactive to allow you to pivot the car and get back onto | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
the throttle. It is a delicate balance. You are driving a bit like | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
in the wet when you are on your fingertips all the time, when you | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
hit the brake pedal hard and you have five G pulling into some of | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
them but then after that you are leading off very quickly, much | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
earlier than you would do normally, and trying to tease the steering as | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
you run into the corner. It is a finite balance, one that is tricky, | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
but once you get it it is beautiful round here, you float through the | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
corners. Lovely description, thank you. Hamilton is currently fastest. | :34:11. | :34:18. | |
Those McLaren cars are close behind. And Magnusson is for. McLaren have | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
been working hard to lose some of the track they have got on the car. | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
They know they have been lacking downforce but that should not be a | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
problem here, a lack of downforce is what you want here. Encouraging | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
first few laps for McLaren. Yes, it looks better. They both raced very | :34:38. | :34:45. | |
hard in Spa. You were asking about Jenson, I think the performance | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
level is telling. You have got a very good new rookie coming in, and | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
Jenson with his experience, I don't see a problem with that line-up, | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
favourable aspects to both. That's a good point, it is a strong line-up | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
at the moment. Of course Magnusson lost out on sixth place at Spa. He | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
fought hard with Fernando Alonso. But after the race the penalty was | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
imposed because he squeezed him onto the grass on the way. When I looked | :35:11. | :35:20. | |
at it again after the race, I could feel it was probably right that he | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
got some sort of penalty. Yes, going back to the FIA intervening, that is | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
the stance they take. Something is dangerous, being forced onto the | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
grass at 200 mph, that is different. But what they deemed a racing | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
incident they will leave alone. That is the way we will see them reacting | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
in the future. It is a good point, because the FIA are taking a less | :35:47. | :35:48. | |
active role in those little incidents. It was quite | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
controversial in the case of Rosberg and Hamilton because Hamilton came | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
out so badly in terms of points. But you actually asked the question of | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
Sebastian Vettel yesterday, and let's see what he had to say. We | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
will listen in a second about what Sebastian Vettel had to say but I | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
know he was quite interesting, and quite firm on it. Wait a second and | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
we will listen to what he had to say. We have a slight pause in | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
proceedings because we have done the first half-hour, and those tyres | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
they used in the first half-hour must be taken off the cards. | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
Fernando Alonso looking at the power units used, they are in pretty good | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
shape, free on most sections. Reliability has been a strong factor | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
for Ferrari, even if their pace has been down. So, you asked Sebastian | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
Vettel whether the FIA should have intervened, let's see what he had to | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
say. No, actually I'm very happy that there was not any action taken. | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
Like I said, in my point of view, maybe I am not talented enough to | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
time perfectly right to punch somebody, it is something I need to | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
learn. But might point of view is that you get it wrong more often | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
than you get it right -- puncture. I am not too interested in expanding | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
my talent in that direction. I think it is good they did not take any | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
decision. I think it was then funny to see that the team decided to take | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
some decisions in terms of penalties and so on. So yeah, I think it is | :37:25. | :37:32. | |
good to let others race. If we get it completely wrong we need to be | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
penalised, because there needs to be a clear line that you draw. But in | :37:37. | :37:45. | |
that case, from Lewis's point of view, obviously he did not finish, | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
so, yeah, sorry. We managed to blank out a little word that he used in | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
that. Interesting comments from Sebastien, and he felt the FIA were | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
right not to intervene. Looking at the banked track, it has actually | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
been resurfaced. They don't use it except for a rally, I believe. It is | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
not used for racing as such. In fact it was only ever used for times for | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
Grand Prix racing. Everybody gets very excited about the banking but | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
it was not used the huge amount. There was a banked section prewar | :38:24. | :38:25. | |
but it was not used all There was a banked section prewar | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
cards. It was a real car breaker. You can see how steep the banking | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
is, really incredibly steep. It destroyed suspensions, didn't it? It | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
did. There was also a problem if somebody dropped any oil, and you | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
got out of shape on the oil, two guys went straight through and into | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
the trees. That was an issue. I preferred it when the weeds were | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
growing up through it and it all looked a bit historic. Makes you | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
think of Brooklands in the UK. There are just little chunks to show us | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
what it was like. Fascinating place, but a very different era. Alan, you | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
have done it huge amount of testing here over the years, and you told me | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
yesterday that you add one point tested for Audi and you did not use | :39:18. | :39:25. | |
the first chicane. You took it flat out, that must have been something? | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
I thought you were going to say I was old enough to have raced on the | :39:30. | :39:39. | |
banking. For the tyres, speed, and centrifugal force, we came here, and | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
went straight down past the start finish, instead of going through the | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
first year chicane, we kept going in to curve the ground at about 340 K | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
pH. I can tell you what your focus is, it focuses your attention. It | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
really did focus the attention as you were coming through that corner. | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
But the place itself is so evocative, with the old banking. | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
Even when you are testing here on your own, quite a few people come | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
into the grandstands, cheering. Such an enthusiastic city for motorsport, | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
never mind the actual park itself. It is a fascinating place. Looking | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
at the rear wheel of the Ferrari. Some interesting shaping on the rear | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
flap. Delighted to say that joining us from the pit wall is the team | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
principal for Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner. Good morning. | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
Great to have you with us. Lots to talk about. Many congratulations for | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
the victory at Spa. Daniel Ricciardo now top points scorer in the last | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
six races. You have won races at Montreal and Spa, which are no Tory | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
is power circuits. How has that all come about? It just goes to show how | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
little we know, really. Theoretically they are the circuits | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
that should be weakest -- notorious power circuits. It has been quite | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
remarkable. Obviously it has delayed a little bit to a certain extent on | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
Mercedes not having perfect weekend and we managed to capitalise. So | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
tell us what the situation is coming into Monza, another notorious power | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
track, do you see an opportunity to challenge again? If I was a logical | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
person I would say no, because if you look at our straight line | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
speeds, there is at least a ten to 12 kilometre delta. The Mercedes | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
powered cars theoretically will be very quick. But as we have seen this | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
year, anything can happen, and we want to make sure we are in a | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
position to capitalise if it does. Fernando Alonso quite high on the | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
speed figures, have Ferrari found more speed from somewhere? It is | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
interesting, every Friday morning we turn up and they look competitive | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
but then they fade away in the rest of the weekend. They are looking | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
pretty racy and some of the speed traps. So it is going to be | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
interesting, they will be pushing hard on their home race. I am the | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
high, if you turn around. You different front wings on both cars | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
-- I am a hind you. Other revisions you have made this | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
weekend to combat the straight line speed? Just looking at different | :42:35. | :42:43. | |
options, different wings setups than we had in Spa, although we were | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
pretty low in downforce. Barring taking them off, we cannot go much | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
lower. I thought you were pretty skinny in Spa, but I am sure you | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
will try to do something. You seem to develop aerodynamics through the | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
course of the weekend. Very much so. In the first half hour we put some | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
telemetry on the cars to have a look at what is going on with the flow | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
patterns. We are constantly developing, that is Formula One. We | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
will keep pushing the boundaries. Wanted to ask you quickly, we | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
believe Sebastian Vettel has a new chassis this weekend, is that | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
correct? It is a different one, not brand-new, but a different one that | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
has been circulated. He is in that this weekend. Was that for any | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
particular reason, were you concerned about the performance at | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
Spa? We were concerned, obviously the race pace for him just wasn't | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
normal. We just wanted to eradicate all variables, and introduce another | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
chassis for this weekend. Got to get a quick comment from you, you have | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
dealt with some difficult situations with two topline drivers in the | :43:51. | :43:57. | |
past, what are your thoughts on the situation with Hamilton and Rosberg? | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
It is interesting. Obviously it is their business, not ours. But it is | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
amazing how much fuss can be generated over what looked like a | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
pretty innocent racing incident. Obviously as we get into was the | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
business end of the championship, emotions will be running high. | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
Probably whatever the team says the drivers will not listen to anyway. | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
We shall watch with interest. Thank you for joining us. | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
Interesting comment from Fernando Alonso yesterday, talking about | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
Alonso and Hamilton, saying it's a good problem to have because | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
fighting for the championship is where anybody wants to B. If it | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
means a bit of grief, you want to be in the situation. It is something | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
you would like to be doing because he hasn't won a championship since | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
2006. The rates and self as the best, or Lewis Hamilton as the best | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
-- insult. He said it again last weekend. He does not appreciate that | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
Sebastien came in and steam-roll of the last few years. The public | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
perception is that he is the man and that annoys Fernando and he does not | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
miss a chance to get the knife in, saying he thinks that Hamilton is | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
the best and interesting that he should say that. He said it is for | :45:20. | :45:22. | |
other people to change their opinion. It is all good stuff. | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
Looking at Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull Garrard, still with a big | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
smile on his face, very laid back. He started the press conference | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
yesterday, he started singing and chanting to the press guys, he is so | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
laid back. And you get the feeling everybody at home is getting behind | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
Daniel Ricciardo because he is so refreshing. Absolutely, what's | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
interesting to me, something that Christian said at the end of Spa, | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
there is no pressure on him. I thought hang on, go back to the | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
start of the season, this young guy coming in against the former world | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
champion and having not performed, that would have been the end for | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
him. What greater pressure can you get than that? Now he is | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
happy-go-lucky and everybody considers him the greatest thing | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
since sliced bread. Doing a fantastic job and third in the | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
championship. He lost 18 points in Australia when Red Bull were done | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
for their fuel flow situation being above the tolerance. With those 18 | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
points, he would only be 17 behind Hamilton right now, so that has to | :46:32. | :46:39. | |
be painful. Yes, apologies, I said he was 35 points behind Nico, when | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
it is 35 behind Lewis. He was asked how much he would like those 18 | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
points and he said it isn't a big deal at the moment but if he gets to | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
Abu Dhabi and he loses by 17 it will be a big drama. It would be. 64 | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
points behind Nico Rosberg. You cannot count against anything. 35 | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
points for a win today. A couple more comments coming in, one person | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
asking with Red Bull becoming a works team now, interesting comment | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
that several beatable of Red Bull confirming that effectively Red Bull | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
is the works team now. We now have a chance to hear from Daniel | :47:21. | :47:22. | |
Juncadella who was in the Force India a few moments ago. He has | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
jumped out of the Force India. That was probably a tough job, half an | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
hour, you do the hard work and now you are talking to us. Was it fun? | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
Yes, it's also interesting, I am the first rider to do it, so that is | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
special and I hope to take the positives. Yes, I wouldn't say that | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
it is a sad feeling, it is always really nice to drive a Formula One | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
car, especially a track like monster, always special. How quick | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
the car is, always special -- Monza. WWE tell us about this idea | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
where you do the first half because presumably the team had to change | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
the seat. Would it be better to let either of you do the full session? | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
Probably that's the easiest way, but this season we have two sets of | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
tyres and some teams want to give the reserve drivers a chance, maybe | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
just 30 minutes and it possible to make the change. That is also | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
something we are learning, is it possible, is there enough time. We | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
will now see if he is available to do the full hour. I think it is | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
something positive as well. Every chance I get, even 30 minutes, I | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
have to be happy with it. Always positive for the future. A good | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
performance from you, not too far behind Nico Hulkenberg. We will -- | :48:50. | :48:57. | |
will we see behind the wheel again this year? There will definitely be | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
more chances. I have to focus on the DTM season, to finish it and then we | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
will come back here and hopefully I will have more chances, that's the | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
plan. What about next season, is Formula One still be goal and are | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
you talking to the team 's? It is my goal, I am not really speaking to | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
the teams. Right now I am at Force India and that is my chance. We will | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
see what's coming. We will see what is in place for me. I am pushing for | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
it. I think my chance is coming now, I'm ready for the real drive and if | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
not, I will stay with DTM, which is also a great championship and I'm | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
enjoying it a lot. Interesting to hear that because there is some talk | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
with Sergio Perez about whether he will stay at Force India, whether | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
Daniel Juncadella will take his seat. Here they are, sharing the | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
seat in one session. As we heard from him, although this has been | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
allowed all year, the first time a development pro has done the first | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
30 minutes. What does it involve in terms of the work for the team to | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
switch between two driver 's? Quite a lot, it is more than pulling out | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
the seat and putting another one. The pedals have been taken out of | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
the car, Juncadella 's medals have been removed. -- pedals. They will | :50:21. | :50:28. | |
change the seat belt and finally the seat will go in. He has been out of | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
the car for 14 minutes and there are 45 minutes of the session to go. I | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
would anticipate that they will be 15 more minutes of work to go before | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
you see Sergio Perez doing the last 30 minutes of the session. By | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
contrast on the other side of the garage, Nico Hulkenberg is out of | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
his car anyway and they are changing the floor. Perez maybe won't lose | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
very much time in comparison to his team-mate. Without a doubt it is not | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
ideal for the driver preparation when you have to give up your car at | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
the beginning of the weekend. White no, but clearly Force India feeling | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
it is important that they do that. Roberto Merhi is back out again, the | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
caterer and development driver for this morning only. Kobayashi will go | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
out afterwards. Kobayashi seems to be on a short notice period at the | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
moment as to what is going on at Caterham. He got the call pretty | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
late this weekend. Sergio Perez, just watching to see the team | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
getting his car ready so he can get a few laps in over the last part of | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
morning practice. Hamilton is fastest, Rosberg inset and -- in | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
second, then Button. Adrian Sutil is not driving this | :51:44. | :51:53. | |
morning because Giedo van der Garde is in his car. Peter Sauber himself | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
is here this weekend. Interesting to see that he has turned up to see | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
what is going on. Sauber has yet to score any points this weekend. Kimi | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
Raikkonen, after his best result of the season, fourth place at Spa. | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
Here at Monza he has had mixed results. He has never won the | :52:12. | :52:17. | |
Italian Grand Prix. The reverse of what we had at Spa where Alonso had | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
never won but Kimi had a brilliant record. Raikkonen has never won | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
year, second placed on Michael Schumacher in 2006. Three podiums at | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
this track including his last ever podium with Ferrari in 2009. Let's | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
go down to the pit lane because we can talk to Nico Hulkenberg. It is | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
getting a little bit noisy. You are not out on the track, it looks like | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
they are changing the floor. Is it a damage, or a different style of | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
floor? It is intentional, we are doing some aerodynamic tests. You | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
had such a good weekend here last year, qualifying in third, fifth in | :53:00. | :53:02. | |
the Grand Prix. Is this a circuit you like to come to? Yes, not just | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
the track, everything, Monza has the whole package, the tifosi, | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
everything is good about this place, apart from the weather. I like | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
coming here. Usually I have good races here so hopefully we can make | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
it another good one. What about the battle between McLaren and Force | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
India? McLaren were ahead by two points at Spa but do you think the | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
team can fight until the end? It is going to be tricky. I think they | :53:34. | :53:40. | |
have overtaken us in terms of the pure car pace, so we have two update | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
the car, otherwise it will be difficult. Will you be at Force | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
India next year, or are you talking to the other teams? We have to ask? | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
I am here. You are going to stay? I hope so. How long to leave go out? I | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
think another 15 minutes. Hulkenberg looking very relaxed and chilled | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
out. He had a good run here last year driving for Sauber, third place | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
on the grid, finishing in fifth place. Just ahead of Nico Rosberg, | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
who couldn't get past him in the closing stages of the Grand Prix. | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
Rosberg has never even had a podium finish here at Monza, whereas | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
Hamilton won in 2012, pole position in 2009. He has a pretty good | :54:28. | :54:35. | |
record, second to Alonso in 2007. Seeing what Merhi did, going over | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
the kerb on the Ascari chicane but no damage done. Going back to the | :54:41. | :54:49. | |
question, simply with Red Bull becoming a Renault works team, do we | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
think that there could be enough improvement in 2015 from Renault to | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
challenge Mercedes? That's the big question, Tony. Renault and Ferrari | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
have been quoted in the press as saying they would love to see a | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
reduction in the freeze, they are restricted in what they can change | :55:07. | :55:09. | |
on the engines. They cannot do anything to them in the | :55:10. | :55:11. | |
on the engines. They cannot do next season they can change about | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
half of the engine but it is not complete freedom. Unsurprisingly | :55:16. | :55:23. | |
they would like more freedom. It is a complex points system, changing | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
something means so many points and you can total up so many points, | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
changing your engine in certain ways. Obviously having been caught | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
on the hop this year, they would like more freedom. I hear that | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
Mercedes have taken steps as well. I don't think it's going to be easy to | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
catch them. Honda coming next year, making some bullish comments about | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
how strong they are going to be. They say that they can challenge | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
Mercedes and they feel that they can win some races. They will be joining | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
the McLaren team exclusively in 2015. Maybe some different teams | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
after that, but very bullish remarks. Fascinating to see what | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
they come up with. They are a company who have racing in the | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
blood. You cannot imagine them doing a poor job, but it is difficult | :56:14. | :56:21. | |
technology. Technology isn't easy. You know, it's fascinating, it | :56:22. | :56:24. | |
really is, to see where they arrive. That's part of what is | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
causing so much fun in the driver market because Honda are a big | :56:29. | :56:32. | |
player and drivers like Alonso and Vettel, they know that it could be | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
beneficial to get to grips with them. Maldonado making a mistake at | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
the first chicane. Pastor Maldonado, followed us, a tough season so far, | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
yet to score any points in the World Championship at all. Always happy to | :56:48. | :56:54. | |
race. When he came over from Venezuelan, he was karting initially | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
in Italy and then the Italian Formula Renault championship. He | :57:00. | :57:02. | |
feels at home here. But that wasn't the way to take the first chicane. A | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
quick comment, we have spoken about the history at Monza and what an | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
important circuit it is. Hulkenberg was saying how much he loves coming | :57:14. | :57:16. | |
here. There were some comments earlier this year, worrying comments | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
about whether Monza would continue their contract in Formula One. What | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
do we know about the existing contract and what will happen? They | :57:26. | :57:38. | |
have a deal as far as 2016. I spoke to Ivan Campelli yesterday. He is a | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
former Ferrari driver. He is president of the company with a 70% | :57:45. | :57:52. | |
stake. He owns it with... RADIO: My head rest has come off. Look at | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
that. OK, we will look in the pit lane. The area around the driver 's | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
head has come loose and is being pulled up by the airstream. That | :58:04. | :58:08. | |
looks like a Ferrari. Like the Schumacher Ferrari with the bulky | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
head rest, as he comes back into the pit. Ivan working in collaboration | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
with the president of the company who directly manages the circuit. | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
They are jointly responsible over the next few months to come up with | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
a new deal, proposing it to Bernie Ecclestone. He said to me, there are | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
concerns. You can't just rely on the fact that the history of the place | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
will guarantee another deal. He is not taking the threats likely. I | :58:42. | :58:54. | |
asked him about Mugello. He said he is not sure. He says he does not see | :58:55. | :59:02. | |
it as a viable threat. He says that 70,000 people arriving on a bike is | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
one thing, in a car is another. He says that he can propose another | :59:07. | :59:09. | |
deal and continue the tradition here. He said it is about getting | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
the money together and getting a better deal. I said, a better deal | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
for you, and the gave me a look to say don't be so naive. That is the | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
key to it. Lets hope they do a deal with Bernie Ecclestone and Ivan | :59:25. | :59:27. | |
Campelli. The Italian Grand Prix is a fundamental part of the | :59:28. | :59:34. | |
championship. Daniel is keeping the heat on the tyres by weaving | :59:35. | :59:36. | |
around, which sometimes you see here on the out lap. They will do a bit | :59:37. | :59:43. | |
of weaving to generate higher temperatures, so they can be ready | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
to do the quick lap. Hamilton is the fastest with 35 minutes to go. | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
Rosberg is second fastest. A Mercedes 1-2, nothing new in that | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
but McLaren are pretty quick, Button is in third, so McLaren are looking | :59:58. | :00:03. | |
stronger. Then the two Ferrari 's. As Christian Horner said you have to | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
watch the pace of the Ferrari cars on Friday with a touch of salt | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
because they tend to start well and they do not always deliver is | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
Saturday qualifying. Kvyat has just gone seventh, | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
Goodlatte from him. Let's see Sebastian Vettel go across the line, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
still eighth -- a good lap. We quite often see Williams languishing a bit | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
on day one, they tend to run with a bit more fuel. They heavier car | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
meaning they cannot complete such a rapid lap. A new head rest going | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
into Kevin Magnussen pars car, so something must have failed in the | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
fitting mechanism, presumably, on the previous one. Max | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
fitting mechanism, presumably, on 17th ahead of Maldonado, and Charles | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Pic, who is driving the Lotus this morning. He has driven for Morrissey | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
and cater in the last couple of years, but is the development driver | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
for Lotus now -- he has driven for Marussia and cater. -- Caterham. | :01:21. | :01:37. | |
Such a shame, he did not do a lap, he broke down on the second lap at | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Spa. That was a shame. I read a comment that he was only interested | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
in racing here if he could do all the sessions. I can understand that, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
getting your eye in at Monza is a different thing, the speeds they are | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
covering here. Fernando Alonso with some sparks coming from the back of | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
the Ferrari as he goes past the Caterham into Parabolica, runs the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
car right out to the edge. It looks to me like this run-off will not | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
make a big difference in terms of the line they take. Alan, I think | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
you have wandered down to that area, what are you seeing? Yes, they are | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
running right out to the white line and there are a couple of trademarks | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
onto the green. -- tread marks. If they go wide there is less grip and | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
they have two comeback anyway, at the end of the corner when you try | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
to open up the steering angle and released the speed, there is a curb, | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
where the Marussia is running past now. The Astroturf is behind it. To | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
continue with any momentum at the apex point, they would have to | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
continue outside the white line all the way through, and that is not | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
possible. I do think right now, as the Red Bull is blasting past, the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
limit will be the white line which previously was the edge of the grass | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
and the gravel. I don't think it will make any difference in reality. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
We will leave you there to make more observations and see what you can | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
see. Currently still the Mercedes that are top of the times here. Van | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
der Garde coming down towards the second chicane, mashes the brake | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
pedal, drops down to third gear, picks up the throttle quite | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
gradually, trying to avoid getting any wheel spin. Les | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
. Crucial corner, here. Again, he had to play with the throttle a bit, | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
try to get on the power as quick as possible. This is a Diarra zone, one | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
of the high-speed sections, beneath the bridge -- this is a DRS zone. | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
Does he take eighth? Yes he does, before getting onto the breaks into | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Parabolica. Van der Garde coming past you now. Yes, just coming to | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
the apex now. Not so quick on the throttle, but he has a clean run | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
behind him, Jenson Button type into the slipstream. Ultimately the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Sauber struggling for grip round here, as it has been everywhere | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
else. Yes, been a tough year for them. Jenson Button slotting in | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
behind. He has gone fastest with that lap. He has done a 1:26 .810. | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
Was that effective? Presumably he was losing a bit of downforce | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
through Parabolica? A touch, but not too much, he was able to hook in | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
half a car which and therefore able to get some air onto the front | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
-- half a car width. He would have been a touchdown from Ascari down | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
towards Parabolica, and remember here, five times per lap they are | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
over 200 mph. If you gain one or two miles per hour, it actually does | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
help you, and catapults you all the way down the straights. Fernando | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Alonso has improved as well and gone for fastest with that time. 1:20 | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
7.1, within a 10th of Rosberg's fastest time. The boss at Ferrari | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
has lot of pressure on his shoulders this weekend. Let's find out whether | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
his position is going to change. There are rumours it may even be an | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
upward move rather than a sideways move. Daniel Ricciardo being pushed | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
back into the pits, down in 13th position. Van der Garde has gone up | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
to 16th. Looking at the speed trap figures from the official speed trap | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
down towards the first chicane, the highest speed of anywhere on this | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
track, Felipe Massa has 346 K pH. That's three K pH faster than Daniel | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
Juncadella. Kvyat up there. Must be very low downforce on the Toro Rosso | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
cars. It is of course they have got the Renault engine. We know that is | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
slightly down in terms of maximum power to the Mercedes. Button going | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
quickly again, he has just set the fastest first sector of anybody. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Magnusson on a lap that could improve. McLaren looking in decent | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
shape. It looks better for them. That's interesting, used a bit of | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
extra road. He made a mistake on the way in. Did you get a chance to see | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
that? We will come back to that in a second. Definitely using the new bit | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
of run-off on the outside. Yes Magnusson did use a bit, you got two | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
wheels onto it. Remember it is a regulation that you have to have all | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
four wheels over the white line that there is any penalty that could even | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
be thought to be applied, so he was a metre and a half within it. The | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
more people do that, the more they will put rubber down. Button is | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
coming past you, how does he look? He slowed down, but he is just | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
crossing the line now, but I think it will be a fast lap. He had | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
fastest in the first sector and second, but he lost a couple of | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
tenths in the last sector so he did not improve his lap time in the end. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
The tyres are a little older remember as well. He did a fast lap | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
which put him quickest and then slowed down to get a gap to the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
Sauber, and then he went again. Towards the end of the lab you have | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the exit of Ascari, and into Parabolica. You need to tie a grip | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
on entry to float the rear in, and you need the front grip to get on | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the throttle. He pinched it a bit more on the exit, may be lost a | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
fraction. We saw him pick up a tow a couple of laps ago, this is one of | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the few circuits where sometimes team-mates tried to tell each other | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
to a qualifying time. Normally it is too much hassle to bother with, but | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
sometimes they think it is worth going for. Anything you have | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
experience of? Mostly it is Ferrari, and it is about trying to gain | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
something on home turf. Because the tifosi expect a good position. In my | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
experience, it has been more in Formula Ford when you would try to | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
do these things. Once you get into it you lose so much time and all | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
your focus is on getting the toe exactly right. If you do get it | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
right, it is perfect, but the chances are very small. And your | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
team-mate loses out massively. I would expect Ferrari to try it but I | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
don't think many teams will. Would you expect Mercedes to help each | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
other? Good question. Ferrari did ask last year, but it got shirty on | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the radio and there was a bit of controversy over what he said to the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
team afterwards. That's right, was he being cocky? He called them | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
genius or something, but it was sarcastic. Ferrari don't like | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
anything like that coming out in public. But yes, Ferrari have tried | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
it several times in the past few years. So, Button on top of the | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
times at the moment, and the Mercedes have gone back out, but not | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
really doing anything particularly dramatic in terms of pace. Button on | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
top, Hamilton second, Rosberg third, Alonso fourth. Getting in between | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
those Mercedes engined cars, and then the next one to get in amongst | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
the Mercedes is Sebastian Vettel, who is now in sixth position with | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
his Renault powered Red Bull. Raikkonen is seven, Kvyat eighth, | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
Gutierrez in ninth, and Bottas still down in 10th. Ericsson still a | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
fraction slower than his team-mate from their earlier runs. Roberto | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Merhi put in a good first lap. Looks as though he may have a bit more | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
fuel on, and the tyres have done some work, so it might be hard to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
improve on that. But he has done only 13 laps. Merhi made the point | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
yesterday when we were talking to him, you don't actually get 90 | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
minutes, you effectively get half an hour. And you have got to get on | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
with it. Interesting to see that radiocommunication very early in the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
session. Really stamping on the throttle, wheel spinning, he was | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
going for it straightaway. Absolutely right. Interesting to see | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
that. There is not time to learn in Formula One, you have got to be on | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
it straightaway. 24 minutes to go in this session. Button is over a | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
second down on what we saw in first practice last year when Lewis | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Hamilton was quickest. And there he is. In this same session Lewis | :11:13. | :11:25. | |
Hamilton did a 1:20 5.5. I guess the difference is slightly less than we | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
have seen some tracks. What is being lost through the corners, which are | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
not such a big part, is more than being made up by the straight-line | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
speed here. Absolutely. This is the thermal camera again. We had some | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
shots from the other thermal camera. You can see the left front really | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
heating right across the tread width, but the right front does not | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
do an awful lot of work so it cools down. He has to turn into a | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
left-hander in a moment, so the right-hand Taia will heat up. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Through Ascari, both front tyres doing plenty of work. Hulkenberg | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
just ahead of him, that is the black blob you can see. And there the | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
tyres are working pretty hard. Very early on the power, that was nice. A | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
good lap, it might be quicker. Yes, you goes fastest, one: 26.5. | :12:25. | :12:34. | |
He is now top of the tree, Button second and Rosberg third. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Interesting to see the thermal images. Important to keep heat in | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
the tyres, we saw Ascari, you have to get it through quickly, because | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
you have a long run all the way down to Parabolica. Your speed through | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Ascari is important. That's one of the places this year... That's | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
exactly where we are talking about. One of the places where people were | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
predicting that it was going to be difficult for the drivers to keep | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
hold of the car, because of the extra torque. If you try to get | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
through quickly, you might have lost some heat, and by the time you get | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
there, you have to get it through and get out. They already looked a | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
bit lairy last year on the exit. It is an iffy part of the track. So far | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
we are seeing some lovely shots, that was Bottas getting a bit | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
sideways in Parabolica as well. Esteban Gutierrez going a bit slowly | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
here, not quite sure why. He has set a good pace in the first sector, but | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
backed off in the middle sector. He may be lining up for another clear | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
lap. In fact I think he is coming in. I can tell you that Sergio Perez | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
is out on track with Force India, having seen another driver in it | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
is out on track with Force India, earlier, Peres is in the car. He has | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
done the first couple of sectors. On board with Bottas, coming up to | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
Ascari. Let's watch him. A lot of work going on there, my goodness. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Even in the middle he was working the steering quite hard. Let's watch | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
him up to Parabolica, or will he back it off and bring it back in? | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
The Williams having quite a low drag, low downforce set up on that | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
car. Just experimenting a bit there with what it is like using a bit of | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
extra road, maybe playing with the line into the pit lane as well. They | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
are all is trying to find places where they can gain, and the pit | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
entry is somewhere you can gain a few hundredths of a second. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Previously drivers have been weaving from Lesmo down to Ascari just to | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
keep your tyres hot. On board with Lewis Hamilton, let's look at him | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
going through Ascari. That looks a lot more planted than Bottas, or | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Hamilton early on. Going to the Parabolica. The G-force halfway | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
through the corner will certainly fire up. Makes it look very easy. A | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
real balancing act, as Alan was telling us. And going faster again, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
one point 26.1. Close to the time last year, very good performance. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Down towards the first corner. Alan, I think you have moved, what can you | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
see? I am at the entry to Parabolica. You spoke about | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Hamilton, he was breaking after the 50 meter board. Most people are | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
braking a little bit earlier. You are going down from 200 mph but he | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
was just after the 50 metre board and the car seemed to stop on itself | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
and then he ran it and the car seemed to stop on itself | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
and tidy. Kimi Raikkonen trying to do the same thing but the Ferrari | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
does not have the stability that Hamilton did. That was a clean run | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
into Parabolica, fast lap. Raikkonen's lap isn't as good, | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
1.27.4. He is the seventh quickest of the grouping. We have Hamilton on | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
top, then Button, Alonso, Magnussen in fifth place. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
A bit of work going on for DM van der Garde, the development driver at | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Sauber. Sutil waiting to get in the car. His | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
best ever Formula One result was here, qualifying second in 2009, | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
finishing in fourth place. Sutil is still to get to the podium despite | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
many races, 121, the most anybody has gone without getting a single | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
podium. There is Hamilton going in. The usual techniques, blowers going | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
card to get some air going through the radiators and on the brakes as | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
well. Things are going well for Hamilton at the moment, fastest in | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
the session but we haven't seen Rosberg going out for a while. We'll | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
wait to see what he does. Very chilled yesterday, Hamilton. He is | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
determined to put everything that has gone on at Spa behind him and | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
start fresh ear. He still has every chance of doing that if he can have | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
a good weekend -- fresh here. He has had a lot of trouble but if you can | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
go well here it can set up a sequence of good results. He is | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
overdue one. He feels he can go on a roll like you did at the start of | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
the season when he had four back-to-back wins -- like he did. He | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
was feeling confident and happy yesterday. But he is an emotional | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
guy, it is difficult for him to disguise how he feels. A lot of the | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
reasoning behind Mercedes coming out and saying what they did is to give | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
him a warm feeling because you don't want him to feel that, you know, | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Rosberg is a German in a German team. He hasn't been too badly | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
affected by that. I really think... For the remainder of the season he | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
will be formidable. Let's have a little listen to how he felt | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
yesterday. Coming into the weekend he seems more relaxed and chilled | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
than we have seen him previously. He is normally pretty relaxed on the | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Thursday before the Grand Prix weekend begins and he has reset from | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
the previous week. Let's see what he says as he spoke to us yesterday. I | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
am in a really happy place. I'll tell you the reason. I had a really | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
good week. Of course the first couple of nights after the weekend | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
are tough, I am groggy and it is difficult to get up, but I had a lot | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
of support from my fans and family and friends. And then I have had a | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
positive week. I think after all these years, the difficult times, I | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
can move past things and I'm excited about this coming race. I had a | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
couple of days off last weekend with some friends, which was hilarious. I | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
can't remember the last time I laughed so much. Seven races ahead, | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
a lot of points. I feel good, I'm feeling fit and ready and I know I | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
have a good car. A good attitude from Lewis Hamilton coming into the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
event. Yellow Yap, I think it's a very important race for | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
. It brings out the best in him. One of the moves he did here in 2007, | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
the move on Kimi Raikkonen at the first chicane told you everything | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
you need to know about his talent. He put it in there like a go-kart | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
and when you watch it back you can probably look it up on the Internet, | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
2007, Hamilton and Raikkonen, the amazing thing is that Raikkonen's | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
left front is locked, it is not like he was braking early, but Lewis came | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
down the inside of him like he was driving a go-kart. He got away. I | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
think Raikkonen was stunned by that. On the brakes, Hamilton has always | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
been astonishing. The difficulty at Monza, it is a bigger challenge | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
because there is so little downforce, the car is much less | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
stable and it moves around more. That is what he thrives on. To do it | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
without any help, it is tremendous. That is why Alonso says what he | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
says. That is real skill, and white Hamilton will be confident but every | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
time we think he's in a situation where he is confident, Rosberg can | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
deliver a lap -- and while Hamilton will be confident. We thought | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Hamilton was going to be on pole previously, but Rosberg did it and | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Hamilton made a mistake. You have to give credit to Rosberg for putting | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
him under pressure. Nico, it is tense and hundredths, and that flips | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
a switch in the brain of Hamilton and it helps in to make mistakes. | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Allen, what are your thoughts? Should this suit Lewis Hamilton this | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
weekend? In theory you are right, especially about being on the brakes | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
because he is fantastically good can throw the car around. The corners | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
here for the chicanes, they are quite short and you have to have | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
controlled aggression. I think this race between those two is going to | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
be won in the head and it Hamilton has his head in the right gear, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
focused on the job, I think he'll be very tough to beat. But we've seen | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
that Nico Rosberg is a pretty hard-headed character as well and he | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
has had his wings clipped, as we said before, the situation in Spa. | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
This race is going to be won in the head, not just on the track. We can | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
see the caterer coming through, the green light flashing on the back of | :22:33. | :22:51. | |
the car. -- the Qatar -- Caterham. He does not have a full licence to | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
raise the Grand Prix yet. He earned one by winning the 2011 Formula | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Renault championship but there is some talk that it has expired | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
anyway. That has two years currency, so effectively he has to | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
qualify again. In terms of his ability and what he has done in | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
other championships, it shouldn't be a problem. That's right, Merhi is | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
doing a good job so far. Faster than his team-mate from the lap he did | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
earlier, 1.30.7, against 1.30.9, Ericsson. -- Ericssen. They did not | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
race at Monza in that year, but they were raising the big tracks like | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Spa. Bottas beating Ricciardo to the title by three points. It's funny | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
when you look back at the junior formula years and how they work | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
together and now Bottas and Ricciardo are the stars of 2014. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
It's something you have to do, it is the only championship where they | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
have the same judging criteria for the car. It doesn't happen in | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Formula One very often. Daniel Ricciardo started his European | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
career here in Italy because he raced out in Australia, of course. | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
He has Italian heritage, his father was born in Sicily and his mother is | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
from an Italian family, but he was born and raised in Australia. He has | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
an Italian name, which is why his father stopped the Italian | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
pronunciation, wanting the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation. He | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
started his overseas racing here, Italian Formula Renault, and doing | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
that is where Red Bull spotted him. He did a test and he picked up their | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
backing. From Ricciardo, racing in Italy and at Monza, I bet it has | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
some good memories. It will have, he is a very happy character, | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
interesting to see what the fans are like in Melbourne next year. | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
Absolutely and I wonder if the Italians are going to take him to | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
heart a little bit. There are no Italian Formula One drivers, he is | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the closest they get. I guess that they may adopt him. It is justified, | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
it is fair to have that. In 2008 when Sebastian Vettel scored his | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
first Grand Prix victory here, in the wet, fantastic pole position in | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
the Toro Rosso, they adopted him, didn't they because it was Toro | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Rosso and their first success. That was very popular and I'm sure Daniel | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
will be as well. It is all about Ferrari, the tifosi, but Ferrari may | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
struggle to deliver the kind of result they would like to see. With | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
under ten minutes to go, first practice at Monza, as expected | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Mercedes are on top but McLaren seem to be closer here than we have seen | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
at some of the other tracks. Maybe this track is going to sue them | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
quite well. But in his second fastest, splitting the Mercedes. | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
Rosberg has done 22 laps, but he has not done another quick lap like he | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
did earlier, whereas Hamilton has. Magnussen is in fifth place. Looking | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
at the speed trap figures, Massa is on top, then Perez, and Juncadella. | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
Jean-Eric Vergne and banal Kvyat, fourth and fifth in the speed trap | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
with Renault power - Daniil Kvyat. It shows they are using eight very | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
downforce setup, which will make the car very skittish in the corners. | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Interesting to see even Jean-Eric Vergne and Kvyat managed to hold | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
onto those cars. Not a bad compromise, clearly. Looking at | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Kevin Magnussen, going through Parabolica. Interesting to see if he | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
runs wide here. Just a touch, perfectly within bounds. Nowhere | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
near all four wheels over the white line, but definitely running a | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
little bit over the edge of the tarmac into the new piece of road. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Further down the order, Max Chilton is a fraction faster than Bianchi in | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
the two Marussia cars. Caterham, generally they have out-qualified | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Marussia here at Monza in the past. In the middle, Charles Pic, Lotus. A | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
little bit off Maldonado's time. It's going to be a tough weekend for | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Lotus and I don't see them getting much out of it. RADIO: The careful | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
of the high surface temperatures, exit five, carrying into six and | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
seven. So, high surface to bridges, talking about the temperature of the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
tyres, on the exit of the second chicane here. -- surface | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
temperatures. We spoke about keeping the tyres hard going through Ascari. | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
You do not want to make them unusable. The medium and hard | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
compound tyres being used this weekend. On board with Bottas, using | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
a lot of the road. Using the kerb out of the second Lesmo, which is | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
typical, although you have to be careful because it is easy for the | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
car to swap ends and we have seen some big accidents. Your old Matt | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
John Watson left half of his car there in 1981. Splitting the McLaren | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
as he hit the barrier. We've seen other accidents in the past -- your | :28:42. | :28:51. | |
old mate. We will see a lot of that in the weekend, especially | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
qualifying. They lock-up going into Parabolica which is unusual because | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
it's a delicate balance of braking hard but not upsetting the car, but | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
he locked the front nearside. Running a little bit wide. You | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
wonder if he needed to do that. Valtteri Bottas, the 12th quickest | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
at this stage, Massa is in 13th, so they are well matched but a little | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
bit off the pace. Not a surprise, Friday is always a conservative | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
session from Williams. You saw the little puff of smoke from the | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
inside, running wide as a result probably. Clearly Williams are | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
experimenting with their setup but they are not chasing the outright | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
lap time in the same way that some others are. He seems to be | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
struggling to get that through there. Not as good as he may have | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
expected, maybe getting some more balance on the car. That's what | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
Friday is all about, the practice sessions. Friday night is normally a | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
long night, the engineers and mechanics get out of here very late | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
having done the data. A lot of simulations going on overnight to | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
work out the best running and then they can come in on Saturday morning | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
and put on the best bits to the car and go into qualifying, to deliver | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
that kind of result. Just watching Sebastian Vettel here, | :30:19. | :30:27. | |
up through Parabolica. The scene, of course, of his first-ever victory in | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Formula One, here at Monza, in 2008, in appalling conditions. I think | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
that was the last time we had a wet race here. Of course Sebastian | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
Vettel went on to win for Toro Rosso, his first-ever Grand Prix | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
win. At the time Toro Rosso was very much a sister team to Red Bull, it | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
was kind of a Red Bull designed car. One race before the senior team, | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
didn't he? Amazing, really. Certainly put himself on the map. | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
Rosberg locking up on the second chicane. They have to stay outside | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
the underlying if they do that, and we join. That is something they have | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
been told in the team managers meeting. He quickly bailed out of | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
potentially damaging the front tyre any further. Runs through the | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
chicane and back out again safely. Watching Sergio Perez, who did not | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
do the first part Watching Sergio Perez, who did not | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
he has now left up to eighth as a result of the time he has done | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
later. Faster than Hulkenberg. Great race here for Sauber a couple of | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
years ago. Road, over the speed humps. -- he | :31:40. | :31:55. | |
had to go through the escape. He will be trying to get that first | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
podium that he has been chasing this year, and the like has counted | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
against him. Need to get it together, because they are involved | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
in the battle with Ferrari for third place in the Constructors' | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
Championship. They need to guys scoring points. Bottas has been on | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
the podium many times, but they need both up there. RADIO: What time | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
should I be doing? Looks like the tyres need three laps, mid-29. And | :32:22. | :32:29. | |
he has just done a 1:20 9.4, perfect. Teams are assessing and as | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
the mating what the drivers should be able to lap at. -- and | :32:38. | :32:46. | |
estimating. Sergio Perez has almost got to the 350 mark in terms of | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
kilometres per hour. Big twitch into Ascari. Looked as though it was a | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
mistake, instability underbraking is what we have been talking about. | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
Light downforce on these cards, they get harder on the brakes. Looked | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
like it started to get wrong on the way into the corner. Weaving as | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
though he thinks he does not have enough tyre temperature. Could well | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
be that. Once they lose temper Japan it is very hard to get it back. | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
Looked as though the rear grab a little bit underbraking, and he | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
spent the next few metres trying to sort it all out. Let's watch the | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
on-board. Looks relatively undramatic. But when you are going | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
to under them here with the back end slipping all over the place it must | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
be very interesting -- when you are going 200 mph. Didn't have a wheel | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
off or anything. Maybe it was something to do with the brake | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
balance or energy recovery system. Because it works on the rear wheels. | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
This was earlier. Just had to short cut the chicane. So it he is having | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
an exciting time of it, but he is eighth fastest, which is encouraging | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
for Force India in the battle with McLaren. But McLaren looking | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
particularly strong this weekend, it will be hard for Force India to get | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
back on terms with them. Perhaps an opportunity to further stretch out | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
the little advantage they have in the constructors points. Just two | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
points between them at the moment. Back with Lewis Hamilton, still | :34:25. | :34:26. | |
lacking in the mid-1:20 nines. Now he is coming down beneath the | :34:27. | :34:48. | |
bridge, under the old banking. What Ascari. | :34:49. | :35:01. | |
Very neat and tidy through Parabolica, there, and a clean lap. | :35:02. | :35:26. | |
1:20 9.2. So he has ended up the session | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
fastest. Lewis Hamilton quickest in first practice at Monza, you will be | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
happy with that. Button splits the two. -- he will be happy. Fairly | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
trouble-free session for everybody. Ricciardo all the way down in 16th | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
place, bit of work to be done. Good debut from Roberto Merhi, who was 20 | :35:53. | :35:59. | |
second, faster than his team mate in the end. Rosberg will be watching | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
closely for the second session later. | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Eight few of us at home might have put money on Lewis Hamilton topping | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
practice one. Impressive performance by McLaren. They have great top | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
speed. It has been a continuous development this year. They know it | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
is a troubled car, but they have improved in the last few races. It | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
is not really the true picture. We would expect the Williams to be a | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
lot quicker when it comes to the race, they are historically slow on | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
Friday morning. And we would expect Sergio Perez to be quick as well. He | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
was fast at the end of the session. Pretty fast on all sections of the | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
track, on and off. It was a heart stopping moment. Yes, just as you | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
come up there, there is a bump and you are rising up. You go on the | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
brakes and the rear wheels become light, and they locked very | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
slightly. So he darted from one way to the other. You can have a very | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
big accident there, if you try to control it, so he came off the | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
brakes and had a fast run across the gravel. That will have done some | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
damage to the underfloor of the car. Not necessarily been the ideal | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
session for Sergio Perez, but his car has some raw speed. Ferrari | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
under immense amounts of pressure here at Monza. We need to whisper, | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
we are standing just outside. There are too many of them around and | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
about. But they will expect a result. And the tifosi will expect a | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
result. The car did not look stable into Parabolica, and coming out, so | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
their problems will continue. But Fernando Alonso, if anybody can drag | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
out a result, he can. He will be hoping to in free practice at 1pm. | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
We will see you in just over a couple of hours. | :37:59. | :38:03. |