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Previously: What was that? England! Wheel Hamilton wins. This is Formula | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
One. Race 14: Singapore. I have got fired, guys. How do you | :00:20. | :01:37. | |
react when the pressure is on? The chance of victory is almost gone? | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
And fortune stars refuse to shine, when you pull away slowly from the | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
starting line? Hamilton has been swamped. He has some work to do. How | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
do you act when the going gets tough? Do your spirits sag when the | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
brakes are rough? Hamilton crashes. Or is there a new flame that burns | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
brighter, as the battle grows and the championship is tighter? Another | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
brilliant piece of race craft. This is a psychological battle. Hamilton | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
wins the Italian Grand Prix. How long, how hard will you fight? That | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
is what the whole grid wants to know. If you let him past on this | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
lap please. I am not letting him through. He has had the message. He | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
has hit me. Dot-macro darkness and humidity bring excessive heat, | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
building pressure, side-by-side with the man you must beat. Anybody can | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
fight when they are ahead, but an uphill grind is better. Into Turn 1. | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
Rosberg goes fastest. Hamilton has done it. It is pole position. If you | :03:11. | :03:25. | |
wish for success, then tell me a son, how will you react when the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
pressure is on? What would you do indeed? Welcome to Singapore and the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
title race is really hotting up. The pressure is immense. Yesterday | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
during qualifying you could almost feel the weight of expectation. What | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
a treat we have this season. A roller-coaster from the very often, | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
in Australia. Mainly dished out by the protagonists at the front. This | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
is the closest qualifying we have seen in the top ten, around a track | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
with the most corners, it shows the rate of development of all of the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
teams. Incredible battle between Lewis and Nico. This is how well | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
they have been driving this year, look at the different story from | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Lewis Hamilton. You can see the natural born winner, Hamilton. But | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
that is crucial. Where we are seeing the battle hotting up is Rosberg | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
with only one retirement. And as against what David has said, Nico is | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Mr sensible, if he cannot win he is happy to finish second. That adds to | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
the excitement of the battle. That back to front Lewis has had to do | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
three times, coming from retirements, that is to mess with | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
you mentally? He is really mature, when he left McLaren we were worried | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
about how he would get on in a new environment but actually he has | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
grown, he is a lot more rounded and a lot more stable. You can see that | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
coming through in the way he has come back from bad performances. He | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
can still win it. He can, and he has been fighting an uphill battle. He | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
was in front in Barcelona, the pain of not finishing the first race and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
giving such a big lead the Rosberg, that was catch up time. But he never | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
capitalised. After Barcelona it went downhill about so now he is fighting | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
a rearguard action. Four wins in a row at the start of the season, who | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
says he cannot do it again? Qualifying yesterday was a | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
masterclass from Mercedes but it was so tired. Jenson Button costly | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
mistake. He by Ricky Kling Magnusson for the eighth time this season. | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
Ferrari had been looking quick but telemetry problem. Alonso only | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
managed his customary fifth. Sebastian Vettel was disappointed | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
after failing to put a map together. He starts in fourth Daniel | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
Ricciardo narrowly pipped him. So Mercedes battled it out, Rosberg a | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
remarkable finish meant he took his third pole position. It physically, | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
mentally, for the car and because of the temperatures. The tyres are not | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
lasting how many pit stops people do, there are so many things, so | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
much room for mistakes. It will be crucial. -- rekeyed Kevin Magnussen. | :06:44. | :06:56. | |
Finland will be cheering on the fourth row of the grid. Rookies | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
outshone them or expose that lack of their more experienced team-mates. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Tough day for Force India. Marcus Ericsson lines up at the back | :07:10. | :07:28. | |
of the grid. How close do you like it? Mercedes were dominant but less | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
dominant than usual and Red Bull looking sharp, particularly | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Ricciardo. P was an amazing, nobody ever respected him to do that slap, | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
he could have been on pole position. -- to do that lack -- lap. Ricciardo | :07:46. | :08:00. | |
was the star man in qualifying. So many factors in Singapore. As we | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
were speaking I felt some drips on my head but it might just be from | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
the pits. You never know what can happen with the weather, 100% chance | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
of safety car historically, the Red Bulls have everything to gain. Maybe | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
we can expect fireworks at the beginning. An opportunity for Red | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Bull to come through on the charge. All of the talk was about the team | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
radio but no driver coaching about, how will that manifest itself? It is | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
a nonsense, some of the driver said it was a good thing, some said it | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
will not change anything. They will always get the best out of the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
machinery. Having a conversation with the engineer to get some | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
pointers is a nice little extra bit of support but they can work it out | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
on their own anyway. Who will win? I have a soft spot the Sebastian | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Vettel, he is a star around here, but it would be a mighty task for | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
him to do that. Hamilton looks favourite, vet all the outsider. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
This is a look at the championship, there | :09:13. | :09:12. | |
favourite, vet all the outsider. This is a look at the championship, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
there is the 22 points that divide them. If Lewis wins the next three | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
races he could still be a point behind, intense pressure. But six | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
races remaining, still 175 points available including the double | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
points in Abu Dhabi. And don't discount Daniel Ricciardo, he still | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
has a shot. Mathematically, Mercedes could take the constructors' title | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
in Japan. Great battle between Williams and Ferrari the third | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
place. And McLaren and Force India, just a single point between them for | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
the all-important fifth spot on the table, strategy obviously | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
all-important in Singapore. Tom is at the Harare, what have you got? | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
This race will be dominated by the tyres, most likely it will be won by | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
either to stop or three-stop strategy. On paper three stops is | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
ten seconds faster but track position is crucial, it is like | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Monaco, it is very difficult to overtake. If you are a | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
conservationist like Daniel Ricciardo, and you can make to stops | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
work you could then be sitting pretty at the end. But one proviso, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
that is assuming we do not have the safety car that will scupper all of | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
the plans. The likelihood is we will, it's going to the grid with | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
David and Eddie in great company. Great qualifying yesterday, what is | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
your strategy? Hopefully we go for it. The plan is to do that and | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
hopefully we are in a position to do that. Hopefully give a few of these | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
guys are a bit of cheer today. Give us a great afternoon. Starting | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
further back than you have normally, what can you do from here? This race | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
is so long. Normally two hours, and a lot of things happened, anything | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
is possible. We need to go with that mindset, take every opportunity. Our | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
main target today is Ferrari. We have a good battle with them in the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
points. Let's try to beat them. You must be feeling pretty good the way | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
your first season is going? It was good yesterday but today is the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
race, we will do our best, we have to be patient. It will be tricky but | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
it is the same for everyone. Added pressure, at the front of the grid? | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
The cars are much closer to you than before, are you worried about them | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
catching up? Yes, they are catching up, but Nico has a problem with the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
electronics they have changed the steering wheel twice. Does that add | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
to the excitement? Yes, this is another excitement, I hope they can | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
fix it but they are working hard. Let's wait and see. As Nikki louder | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
said, problems and Nico Rosberg, only five minutes to spare. Toto, it | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
looked like a steering wheel problem but among it was an electronic | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
problem, the steering wheel did not function has expected so we changed | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the steering wheel, the electronic started to go against we need to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
work on that. Any worries quit among yes. Thank you, I will let you go. | :12:39. | :12:50. | |
Just 0.007s separating them yesterday, about 30 centimetres of | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
tarmac. But the Bulls behind them are on the charge. This should be | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
some start. David and Ben in the commentary box. | :12:59. | :13:15. | |
RADIO: Intermittent fault, if you have problems, pull away manually, | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
otherwise you will have to start from the pit lane. Real concerns the | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Nico Rosberg, he is actually turning the steering a lot on the grid, what | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
is that about, David? He could be resetting the power steering, it | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
could be the case of zeroing the steering. He is not moving, could be | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
a pit lane start, it surely will be. He cannot get the car running. He is | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
trying to reset, going through the procedure. If you get away before | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
the last car he can take up his position. He is getting false | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
neutrals. I wonder if it is a loose connection, here's hoping there is | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
some connection between the steering wheel and the ECU. He has had the | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
lion share of reliability this year. We saw earlier in the programme how | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
much that has affected Lewis Hamilton. Drama even before the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
start of this Grand Prix. That turns things on their head. Will he get | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
going at all? Huge opportunity to Lewis Hamilton. Interestingly, in a | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
week that saw a referendum making headlines across the world, I did my | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
own opinion poll of the international journalist yesterday | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
to see who they thought would win the championship, 28 out of 60 went | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
far Hamilton, 32 for Rosberg. Even split. 47% from the British driver, | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
they might change their opinion right now. That is familiar from the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
referendum. I am surprised at that. I thought it would have been more if | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the slash 50. No question an underlying feeling that Lewis has | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
that last bit of speed. -- 50-50. Coe by Ashley is going very slowly. | :15:11. | :15:23. | |
And people 's after the side of the circuit. -- Kamui Kobayashi. We said | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
it was going to be a big issue. With the power units being used, and that | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
looks like race over for And of course we do not even know if | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
he will get to drive a car in Japan. Caterham are keeping everyone in the | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
dark. Rosberg is in the pits, can they get it running properly? They | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
may change the steering wheel to see if it can fix the issue. He is | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
pulling away, trying to find his gear. Real drama for Nico Rosberg. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
In the pits trying to keep an eye on things, but this could turn things | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
around, because if Lewis Hamilton wins the race he would score 25 | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
points and he could take the lead in the championship today. You are | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
absolutely right, the moment that Nico Rosberg pulled out of the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
pits, he was complaining that the gearbox and clutch were behaving | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
abnormally which is why they changed the steering wheel of course. I am | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
trying to keep an eye and it but I am halfway up the pit lane so I | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
cannot see exactly what is going on. The problem that Kamui Kobayashi had | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
was that the brakes were not working, the extinguisher has gone | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
all over the car as well, so that is race over four Kamui Kobayashi. He | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
will not start the Grand Prix. We wonder whether Nico Rosberg will | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
now. That leaves a gap on the grid for Sebastian Vettel on the inside, | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
qualifying in fourth, so he will have a clear sight of | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
qualifying in fourth, so he will corner. Daniel Ricciardo is actually | :17:05. | :17:05. | |
slightly ahead of him. We are on board with Ricciardo, nobody to his | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
left because that is when Nico Rosberg would have been. Doing the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
last minute procedure is that the drivers go through. Hamilton on his | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
own in the front row. Watch for Alonso, he starts in fifth, and | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Marseille and six. Kimi Raikkonen seventh, Bottas, Magnusson and Kvyat | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
complete the top ten. Jenson Button starts from 11th place. The last | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
couple of cars go into place but we're missing two cars, 20 cars are | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
ready to start in Singapore. Lights out. Away we go, Hamilton gets off | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
the line and Vettel moves of the inside to battle with Ricciardo. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Alonso gets both Red Bulls but he has took at the chicane. Hamilton is | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
leading the race and Alonso re-emerges in second but I wonder | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
whether he will have to give some of that back. He has made good starts | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
in the past but we will wait to see what happens. He is ahead of | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Ricciardo. Magnusson is battling with the Williams of Bottas. Clean | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
so far, I have not seen any contact. Alonso gives back the place that he | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
gave. He is defending. Button will take advantage of Magnusson in the | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
McLaren. Rosberg has got away. Magnusson has made a mistake. Massa | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
retakes the place. Rosberg is in the race. He has started but what action | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
we have got. Daniil Kvyat locking up. The Toro Rosso is trying to | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
squeeze through. It will be interesting to see how many places | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
Alonso will have two give back at the skipping that corner. Just | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
easing away from the Ferrari. Raikkonen in fifth place, a good | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
start for Kimi Raikkonen and let's not forget Jenson Button is on the | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
new option tyres. One of the few that have the ability to use a | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
brand-new set of tyres. Getting back into the action have to a | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
disappointing qualification. Hamilton leads. Alonso is in third | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
for the moment. RADIO: Check the front wheel. Copy that. Grosjean is | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
in 15th and Rosberg is at the back as he tries to pick up a few places. | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
Hamilton is opening a gap, over three time when a Sebastian Vettel. | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
We have a race on our hands. RADIO: The only thing that is working is | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
the gift shift paddle. Rosberg is severely hampered, he has no | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
information on the --, all he can do is change gear which is the basic | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
thing that he needs to do, but there is no information coming to him. -- | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
the dashboard. Was there not a race in China when he had a similar | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
situation when he was not getting in formation, you can see that the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
dashboard is displaying everything. What they mean is the actual | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
adjustments to the differential. They may be aware of the fact that | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
that is not going to change. Daniel Ricciardo is currently in fourth | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
place and we go on board with the Australian, he is behind his | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
team-mate and also behind Alonso. As you said, they are investigating the | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
incident about Alonso, investigating "track limits". He came up one place | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
and he is currently running in third. There is no question that he | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
was fully over the track limit. RADIO: We have to clear Gutierrez. | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
There is front wing damage. Front wing damage on both Force Indias. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Seeing their rival McLaren 's in fourth and ninth. Not the ideal | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
start to the Singapore Grand Prix when there is only one point | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
separating those two teams. We are looking down at Fernando Alonso. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
What will the stewards decide? No further action warranted. Race | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
control have decided that there is no further action. Alonso has gained | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
one of those places and he is in third. They may feel he was ahead of | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Daniel before reaching the breaking point. I am sure he will voice the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
opinion that if there was a barrier he would never have made it back | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
into the race but there you go. He is putting in a fast lap time as | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Rosberg makes his way through. He has to get past Chilton. Why can he | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
not get past the Marussia? He may be concerned about his fuel usage. DRS | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
is now enabled. He is shifting so early. Look at that. He is in a | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
straight line. The car is not right. It is running but not at full | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
capacity. You can see the initial getaway from Ricciardo, little bit | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
tardy. Ferrari going around the outside with its nose ahead. That is | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
clearly why the stewards have decided no further action. Who else | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
was fast starting down there? Magnusson got a good getaway, I | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
think. I am looking out for Jenson Button. Can we see any of the | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
contact that we heard about from the Force Indias? Certainly not in the | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
first few corners. Pretty good. Let's watch from Alonso's point of | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
view. He short shifted and even then he still got wheel spin, a bit of | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
torque, that they have these days. He may have flat spotted the tire. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
This is Ricciardo. It did not sound particular bad. He was getting | :23:29. | :23:40. | |
mugged from both sides. Alonso allowed Vettel to get past him. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
RADIO: Attack Magnusson, attack Magnusson. We have two laps to | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
attack Magnusson. Jean-Eric Vergne is being told what his team-mate is | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
up to. He is effectively being told to go into overtaking mode with the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
power unit. Renault power units in the back of the Toro Rosso but | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
against the Mercedes power units in the McLaren. It will be tough to | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
overtake in the early stages. Six laps had been completed at the | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Singapore Grand Prix and we are on Lap 7. Lewis Hamilton leads by 2.3 | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
seconds. Fernando Alonso got a very quick start. He has dropped away | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
from the top two. Magnusson is in a fight for ninth | :24:26. | :24:41. | |
with Kvyat. Nico Rosberg had to start from the pit lane and he is | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
making little progress, down in 20th place, stuck behind the Caterham of | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
Marcus Ericsson. He has been unable to make progress. Looking at the | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
amount of fuel being used, as we have seen before, Hamilton is | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
usually very good on fuel consumption and that seems to be the | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
way again, he has a bit in hand versus Vettel's Red Bull powered | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
car. In many cases he does not need to start the race with as much fuel | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
on board and of course weight is performance, and it gives | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
performance ability. The reason that drivers can make the difference and | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
the driving style and how they come off the throttle, how early they | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
come off the throttle, and the brake application. RADIO: What are we | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
waiting for? He is losing ground. Jean-Eric Vergne goes past Daniil | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Kvyat. Whether that was a response to his message to the team, but he | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
has now got Pascal Kvyat. He will now chase magazine. -- got past him. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
We knew that he could have a go at the car in front but he did not | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
manage it, he drops back. This is much better around turn 23. DRS in | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
activation. A straightforward pass. A bitter team orders going on? That | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
is within the rules. -- Abe bit Rosberg has still not got past | :26:14. | :26:26. | |
Eriksson. He has no place in the car whatsoever. Whether the electronic | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
problem is having that huge effect, it seems to be. We're watching the | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
telemetry as well. We're not getting any clues. He is short shifting and | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
there does not seem to be any acceleration. Going straight from | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
third into fifth gear. Let's see if he does it again. Maybe not on this | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
section. It is a bit of a chicane. In third gear presumably. Coming in | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
to turn 13 and presumably he has the same issue, trying to avoid using | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
fourth gear. Another set of super-soft tyres. This could be an | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
aggressive strategy. He is trying to get into the points, outside the | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
points, and he had a problem with his car last time. He comes out with | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
Max Chilton sunny drops right to the back. He is in front of Sutil of | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
course making a pit stop a few moments ago, you would have expected | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
that. He goes straight to the inside and passed Max Chilton, making much | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
easier work than Rosberg did earlier. That is crucial, you do not | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
want to be running in a dirty area being trapped by another car. You | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
can see what is happening. RADIO: Pit lane limits will not work, in | :27:50. | :27:59. | |
first gear, hold it at 6500 rpm. He will have to do his own speed limit | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
checks in the pit lane. He has a major electronics issue. A light | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
normally comes on when you select the different circumference of tyre. | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
They have to make sure that the Thai collisions are correct and they make | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
an adjustment on the steering wheel. Currently I would suggest that the | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
car thinks it is running in the rain. That is probably why there is | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
a gear shift issue. Meanwhile Felipe Massa has made his way to the pits, | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
he was in sixth position. Let's see when he comes back out. He was ahead | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
of Jenson Button, Button stays out for the moment and we will see how | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
that results in a fume laps. -- in a few laps. This would indicate a | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
three-stop race for Felipe Massa. Maybe it is a split strategy, let's | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
wait and find out. Bottas is out on the circuit. One Toro Rosso and one | :28:55. | :29:05. | |
motors comes into the pits. Jules Bianchi goes over the start finish | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
line. Hamilton is still leading the race. Hulkenberg gets past Eriksson | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
but Rosberg still has not done anything. Rosberg is still limping | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
along. There he is. Daniil Kvyat has made his pit stop and he comes out | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
behind the Mercedes. Kvyat made short work of it. The championship | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
leader is being passed by a 20-year-old Russian in one corner. | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
He knows that he has a major issue. Just trying to work out, with 50 | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
laps left to go, why they would leave the car out there, hoping for | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
it to reset itself? Let's take a look the Williams pit stop for | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
Felipe Massa. That is quite normal when your garage and mechanics is on | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
the left, when you turn in, you tend to turn earlier to make sure you do | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
not hit anyone. I do not know what that reaction from the mechanic was | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
about. It was not a great stop and the car bounces down a bit wrongly. | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
Look how close it is between him, and Valtteri Bottas makes his pit | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
stop. This could be interesting to see how it works out of course. | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
Bottas was a bit further down the order. Massa has just gone through | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
having made his pit stop earlier. That is important. Massa is still in | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
front of the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen. | :30:36. | :30:43. | |
Not much to choose between them. I am in the pit lane near Harare and | :30:44. | :30:53. | |
you are right it was a bit slow, but the front right caught my attention. | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
RADIO: We will be changing steering wheel and take you on to the jacks | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
because the clutch will not work. The front right of Kimi Raikkonen, a | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
lot of grain, the rain last night might be causing a few issues. That | :31:12. | :31:20. | |
is interesting, the track completely cleaned up. Hulkenberg now in the | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
14th position. Picking up on the engineer. RADIO: We stick to the | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
plan, target plus one. We will find out soon enough as Vettel is in. | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
Hamilton's closes the challenger in this race. Alonso following him in | :31:41. | :31:50. | |
and Ricciardo, Red Bull stopping on the same lap. You are absolutely | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
right, interesting they do that on the same lap as Alonso. Shows the | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
confidence they have enough time, going back out in the same order. | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
Are they all on the same compound? I believe they are now on the super | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
soft. No difference in strategy. Daniel Ricciardo we are watching as | :32:16. | :32:23. | |
he rejoins. Ahead of Massa, coming through, not far behind is | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
Raikkonen. Sandwiching Gutierrez, currently in ninth place but not for | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
much longer because Kimi Raikkonen sweeps past in the Ferrari. We have | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
not seen Gutierrez into the pits. Seems to be going for a longer first | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
stint. It'll be interesting when Rosberg comes in, they will have to | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
change the tyres, the clutch not working. Box box, box box. He will | :32:49. | :32:57. | |
change the tyres, the clutch not have to spin up the rear axle before | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
they drop the car down. He will have to be on the radio asking how does | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
he know what 6500 rpm is, using the red lights. They do not have a red | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
counter, not something you normally ever need, they have the audio | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
signal, and lights as a visual reference. You will not under cut | :33:22. | :33:30. | |
Hamilton, stand down, save tyres and fuel. Hamilton in, clean stop for | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
the race leader in Singapore. He will be out in clear air by the | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
looks of things when he rejoins the track. This has worked out extremely | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
well for him. This has brought Jenson Button into second place, by | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
the way. He will be the closest to him. They have been timing this | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
beautifully, there is button in the background but Hamilton has come out | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
in front of his former team-mate. I wonder if he will go the two stops | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
this afternoon. His race engineer said it would be strategy plus one. | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
His team-mate with a great stop. That could suggest, they have had to | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
get rid of the super soft, taking so much energy out of it earlier with | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
the heavy fuel. Jean-Eric Vergne with a surprise fastest lap. Little | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
bits of traffic here, we believe Rosberg will be coming in pretty | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
soon. Watching out for that. In fact he is in now. Vergne under | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
investigation. That might explain the fastest lap. Massa has gained a | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
position. Nico Rosberg coming in. Look how slowly he is going. Trying | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
to find neutral. Hats off to the team the trying everything. Rear | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
axle app in the air. Steering wheel change. Watching from the pit wall, | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
this is something they will not have practised. They are resetting | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
everything they have switched the car off, it is going through its | :35:14. | :35:23. | |
reboot, Ctrl-Alt-Del. They must feel the clutch will be there now. Now | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
they are looking for the gear, no response at all. Still in neutral. | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
That is the bad news he does not want. No points this afternoon if he | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
cannot get going. It means that if Lewis Hamilton stays where he is he | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
will take over the championship lead. We are only at one quarter | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
distance, long way to go. Frustration. Reliability has not | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
been good for Mercedes this year. Let's park it up. Stop, stop. It is | :35:58. | :36:05. | |
all over the Nico Rosberg, the World Championship leader is not going to | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
score any points at all and that is a huge opportunity now the Lewis | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
Hamilton to take the championship lead for the second time this year. | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
Valtteri Bottas making a move on Sergio Perez meanwhile, in the | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
seventh position. But Lewis Hamilton is leading the Grand Prix, Sebastian | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
Vettel in the second because Jenson Button has just made a pit stop. | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
That has brought button back out in ninth position. Is going for the | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
past into five. Kevin Magnussen on the inside of Esteban Gutierrez. | :36:39. | :36:48. | |
Into 11th place, behind Nico Hulkenberg, -- Nico Hulkenberg | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
bearing down on them. Up to one third distance in this Singapore | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
Grand Prix, in the night-time, under the floodlights around the streets | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
track, providing us with this stunning location, stunning view. Of | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
course it was the first night-time race, but we have another with | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
Bahrain. One of the most exciting races of the year but this time we | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
have lost that opportunity of a wheel-to-wheel dice between Hamilton | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
and Rosberg but some good racing going on. Button and Vergne, the | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
eighth position. Kevin Magnussen behind them but out of the entry, | :37:23. | :37:29. | |
Esteban Gutierrez, Sauber's woeful season continues. Another to add to | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
the list of retirements. Kobayashi did not even make the start, Rosberg | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
has gone and now Gutierrez as well. Frustration there, at the back of | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
the garage. I sympathise with the season he is having but that will | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
not help at all. It has to be vented somehow or other I suppose. Three | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
retirements in the first 20 laps of this Grand Prix, that is more than | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
we have seen at some of the circuits and nobody has even hit a wall yet. | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
You imagine somebody might do that before the end. As fatigue fits in, | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
as we get more wheel-to-wheel action, that is a chance to make | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
mistakes. It is bumpy in all of the braking zones. As the body | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
dehydrates and the blues two or three kilograms of body weight, the | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
severe dehydration can affect the decision-making capabilities. Alonso | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
has an amazing record here. RADIO: Come in, Max, front right puncture. | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
That is interesting, bit of debris? We have not seen any carbon fibre | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
Ron track. Is that the front right? Presumably he would have felt that | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
but the team get that information from the telemetry. Relatively new | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
set of tyres. He was the last to it, whether it was something to do with | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
the pit stop? Is it just purely a change. They cannot get it under, of | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
course, the jack. Finally they get it in the year and put a soft tyre | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
on, does not look to be any damage to the front suspension, he is on | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
his way. He is now the final runner at this stage. On Lap 22 out of 61. | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
Over the one third distance mark now. We have lost three cars from | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
this Grand Prix already. Most notably of course Nico Rosberg. The | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
championship leader. He will not score any points at all this | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
weekend. Lee is talking to him. I think we all feel we have been | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
denied a great battle out there, if it carries on like this you could | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
also lose the lead in a chapel chip. Can you describe your emotions? Yes, | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
bit of a roller-coaster ride. Not even a roller-coaster, it just went | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
down. Very frustrating. To be driving behind the catering all the | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
time and sit on the grid. At that is the way it is. I was stuck without | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
hybrid power, so I do not have any electronic power, I could not use | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
the RS, nothing was working. The gear shift was shifting me to days | :40:18. | :40:25. | |
instead of one. You were trying everything, -- two gears. When did | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
you know there was a problem? When we change steering wheel and had the | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
same problem that is when I knew it was very serious. RADIO: It is | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
looking better than the first stint, but we might have picked up since | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
debris in the front wing, you might have lost some balance. It is OK, | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
still. Copy that, we will not panic. That was a problem last year, they | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
picked up some robber in the slotted gaps at the front wing and it cost | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
him some time. They can clean out out at the pit stop, using a warm | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
spatula. They can run it through that gap to knock out any debris. | :41:08. | :41:15. | |
They will not panic! I am sure he is delighted to hear that. Felipe Massa | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
heading in for a second stop, relatively early stop, certainly the | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
aggressive three stops strategy from Williams. Onto a soft set of tyres | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
and he will need one more stop to compete this Grand Prix. -- | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
complete. We are onto lab 23 now, we would expect to see another pit stop | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
around Lap 40, something like that. RADIO: Push now, pushed now. We stay | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
out and push as much as we can. Raikkonen in fifth position right, | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
currently 12.9 seconds behind Ricciardo. But ask coming into the | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
pits, Williams solidly on this three stop tragedy for both cars. -- | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
Valtteri Bottas. Kimi Raikkonen having a much better weekend, just | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
.1 seconds slower than Hamilton on the last lap. Quicker than his | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
team-mate Alonso. Great pit stop by Williams, 2.5 seconds you can tell | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
how long the pit lane is, you announced the car is in the pits | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
with still plenty of time to see it come to a stop. 27 seconds in total | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
lost from coming into the pits, getting the tyres changed and back | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
on your way. One of the slower pigs lanes, he has rejoined in 11th | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
place. Effectively he will be behind his team-mate, Felipe Massa, a bit | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
further up the road. He is currently behind Max Chilton running in last | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
and is now true but ask them to go pass straightaway? It will not take | :42:52. | :42:58. | |
him very long. Some indecision,. He now lets in three. Not taking any | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
chances, realising the importance of bringing both cars home. Don't know | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
if Chilton, we did not see that puncture of course, that is why he | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
dropped back. Maldonado, what happened here? The real gun was | :43:17. | :43:26. | |
still attached. Is the wheel nut secure? How could the car be | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
released early? Alonso in, crucial stop the Ferrari, onto the | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
super-soft tyres, on his way once again. Definitely making another pit | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
stop this afternoon. He is going to come out behind his team-mate, Kimi | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
Raikkonen flashes through. Trying to do undercut. Getting a fresh set of | :43:50. | :43:59. | |
tyres on, giving it all beans now. Everything on this out loud, trying | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
easy it can take advantage. We will see them respond? Normally the | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
trigger point, Massa getting past Hulkenberg. Normally the activation | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
for the lights to tell the driver it is safe to release only comes into | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
play when the wheel gun is removed. Whether it is super-sensitive, that | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
is what allowed Maldonado to go or whether he is super frustrated, | :44:29. | :44:35. | |
going past there. That has brought Massa into a position now, | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
Hulkenberg was running in ninth. Valtteri Bottas currently in 10th | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
place. Sebastian Vettel into the pits, that is what we would expect | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
to see as he tries to respond to Fernando Alonso. Unless they try | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
something very different in terms of strategy. He either has not a lot of | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
grit or he is taking it very carefully. RADIO: It will kick off | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
soon. We go with strategy three. Hamilton worried about reliability. | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
Incomes Vettel, Sebastian Vettel, from second place but Alonso has | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
made the earlier stop and is hoping that the so-called undercut, the | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
advantage of making the earlier stop will be to his benefit. | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
A different strategy to Alonso. He is heading up to the last couple of | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
corners. Flashing past the commentary box. Alonso is heading | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
down the straight now. It will be close. Alonso has gained the | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
advantage, taking the place from Sebastian Vettel. He goes on to the | :45:47. | :45:55. | |
soft tyre. At this point, Lap 25/26, that was when he got to the end of | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
the race on that set of tyres but the teams are saying that the tyres | :46:00. | :46:05. | |
are softer this year. Alonso has gone for it on the second and third | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
sector, he had to go on it on that will to make sure he had the | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
advantage over Vettel. -- he had to go for it. We are seeing a severe | :46:18. | :46:27. | |
drop-off in the tyres. It is as though he hit the cliff, dropping | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
off the edge of the cliff. He has two really be gentle to bring the | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
car home into the pit stop. Lewis Hamilton is comfortably out in front | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
in this Grand Prix. Beginning to pick off some of the cars towards | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
the back and he is going to go up the order comprehensively, I would | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
think. Lewis Hamilton, the race leader with a comfortable advantage | :46:55. | :46:56. | |
at this stage, he goes into the pits. Which tyre will he go for? | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
Hamilton makes his second pit stop of the day. We think he will make | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
three stops. The management looks on. He is watching to see how the | :47:07. | :47:15. | |
pit stop goes. Back on the super-soft tyres. I was a slow | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
start, 4.7 seconds. That did not quite go according to plan. Plenty | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
of margin, 11 seconds of the road from Daniel Ricciardo. -- up the | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
road. Daniel Ricciardo is now the race leader but he has only made one | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
stop so far in the Grand Prix. We know that he is very impressive on | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
tyre use. Three times a race winner already this year but does he really | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
have an opportunity here today? Hamilton is the next car to come | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
around behind. He is still running in second. Magnusson has pitted from | :47:53. | :47:59. | |
eighth place. Let's see what happens to Hamilton. He was a bit long when | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
he stops. They are trying to clean something out of the front flap, | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
just getting Rob out of the gaps. Not taking any chances. You can see | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
the mechanics with their hands, trying to clean it out. He has got | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
the time in hand, so they might as well do that. Fernando Alonso is in | :48:20. | :48:26. | |
third place. Ricciardo comes in. I do not think there is any chance in | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
the end. He did 14 laps on the super-soft tyres. Let's see what he | :48:31. | :48:39. | |
goes for. The soft tyre goes on, it is asking an awful lot to do half of | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
the race distance on those tyres. We saw it last year but last year it | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
was the medium tyres. A bit more resistance perhaps. Nobody is | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
showing great stint length on the softer tyres. Alonso has just done | :48:55. | :49:03. | |
the fastest lap of the race. The gap was 3.9 seconds to Hamilton last | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
time. Alonso is flying, keep your eyes on the Ferrari. He has been | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
impressive so far this weekend in the Ferrari. RADIO: INAUDIBLE | :49:13. | :49:27. | |
I understand, we can see the issue. Is there a power issue? Bad news for | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
Daniel Ricciardo. Daniel Ricciardo seems to be having difficulties out | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
there in the Red Bull. What a disappointing opening it would be | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
for Ricciardo, he has been the star of the season for so many people, if | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
he can't continue his challenge. We will keep an eye on that in a | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
moment, but for the moment we are keeping an eye on what Grosjean and | :49:53. | :49:54. | |
Peres are doing with Kvyat in behind. RADIO: We saw it on TV, come | :49:55. | :50:06. | |
on them. Not very fair from Peres. -- then. He comes from a long way | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
back, he does not run over the circuit. Actually I think that is | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
just racing. Peres did not try to close the door on him. Far back, | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
look how far back he came from. It was on the exit of the corner. He | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
crucially did not run over the kerb which is there to give a bit of | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
space before the concrete wall. That is just racing. It is not an | :50:36. | :50:43. | |
incident, just a bit of racing. What he thinks is not fair is that he has | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
not just moved over and given him the place. The front wing of Peres | :50:48. | :50:56. | |
has come off. It has just shared from Peres' car. He has notified the | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
team earlier that he thought he had damage. It is amazing he can still | :51:01. | :51:10. | |
drive it like that. A safety car has been called. What is this going to | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
do for everyone? Will people can infer the final stop? There is still | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
a long way to go in the Grand Prix. And of course they have to drive at | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
a measured pace, the safety car is on the circuit. There is not the old | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
opportunity of dashing into the pits and making up a lot of time but | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
there are sometimes opportunities under the safety car. Let's see what | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
happens to Peres. This is down and turned seven. He tries to cut back | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
and get a straight exit as they run down towards the gate. Well, Sutil | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
was not aware that he was there and he goes to take his racing line and | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
squeezes him against the wall to catch his front wing. -- turn eight. | :51:52. | :52:02. | |
The front wing dismantles itself under the car. There is loads of | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
debris. Charlie Whiting says that when you have the carbon fibre on | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
the circuit you have to be on the safe side particularly before turn | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
ten. Nana the front runners yet coming into the pits. Lewis is | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
coming in. We gather that Hamilton is just coming around. I am not sure | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
that he is, actually. RADIO: Look for debris. That was a bit late, I | :52:30. | :52:40. | |
went over a lot of stuff. I got the message as I was going over the | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
stuff. Hamilton is concerned but he is staying out. Alonso is coming | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
from second place. They have gone for another pit stop and he comes | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
out on the soft tyre, hoping to get to the end of the Grand Prix. That | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
is his third start of the day. Ricciardo stays out there. He is | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
trying to get to the end, a safety car could really help him because if | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
they can look after the tyres, cool down a bit, that will give him more | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
opportunity. Alonso did this last year on his way to a strong podium | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
finish, making a stop at bit earlier than this in fact to go all the way | :53:17. | :53:19. | |
to the end of the Grand Prix. I wonder how this will work out. | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
Hamilton has not made a pit stop yet but he still could do it next time. | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
Jenson Button comes in on the soft tyre. That is his second stop. It | :53:28. | :53:38. | |
was looking like he was targeting a two-stop strategy this afternoon. | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
This may well change his strategy, it depends how long the safety car | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
stays out. The Toro Rosso, there, that is a bit naughty. Lewis | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
Hamilton gets ready for the restart here, the safety car is heading | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
towards the pits and Hamilton has to go for it now, as he is being chased | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
by the Red Bulls. We still have some distance to go in the Singapore | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
Grand Prix. The race restarts. Hamilton opens up the gap over | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
Sebastian Vettel in second and Ricciardo in third. Watch out for | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
Alonso because he is on the freshest tyres, and he knows that he needs to | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
clear the Red Bulls as quickly as possible if he will have a chance of | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
beating Hamilton to the Grand Prix win. All of them are looking at | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
maybe an opportunity to do something here. Just look at the tire debris | :54:28. | :54:43. | |
running off-line. It makes it increasingly difficult to effect a | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
pass because there are marbles on the surface of your tired before the | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
braking zone. Often we see accidents occurring because the cars | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
are so close to one another but so far, so good. -- your tyres. Right | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
behind Jean-Eric Vergne is Kevin Magnussen, and he has a look down | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
the inside but he cannot do that. It is too tight into the chicane but | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
Ricciardo has been told, go crazy, it might be a long stint. But it | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
only might be, because they are not clear they can make it to the end on | :55:25. | :55:26. | |
this set of tyres. That is the? Lewis Hamilton is due another pit | :55:27. | :55:40. | |
stop. In the the moment in seventh place. Magnusson is due another pit | :55:41. | :55:48. | |
stop. You can see how close they are at this stage. Raikkonen flashes | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
through in eighth position. He had a reliability problem in qualifying | :55:54. | :55:55. | |
and it cost him dear at that he was matching Alonso for pace through Q1 | :55:56. | :56:03. | |
and through Q2. How much are they dropping to Hamilton? They are | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
losing massively to Lewis Hamilton upfront. He is on schedule, then, to | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
be able to pull out the gap. And do exactly what Vettel did last year, | :56:15. | :56:23. | |
making up a sufficient lead so as not to have to worry about it. | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
Daniil Kvyat. He has Hulkenberg behind it. RADIO: The only way to | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
make it work now is to get the tyre to the end. We want to try to take | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
this tyre set to the end. On board with Sebastian Vettel. We have three | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
tyres and we are trying to make it to the end. I do not think that is | :56:46. | :56:55. | |
possible. We think if you pits here it will take too many cars. Bunching | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
up behind the safety car means that you have a lot of cars, it is not | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
like normally at this stage of the race, there would be gaps that you | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
could get into. It could be a double long finish for cyber. Sutil has | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
been in the wars and in the end they did not take any one action for that | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
penalty, the incident with Sergio Perez. Both sour buts are out of the | :57:20. | :57:28. | |
Grand Prix. -- Saubers. We are targeting seven laps on this tyre. | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
That sounds risky weather safety car. We will be straight in in that | :57:36. | :57:46. | |
case. If there was a safety car, they would be straight in. -- with | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
at safety car. Not a bad stop. Just a fraction slower. 4.3 seconds, | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
definitely not the best. Matter is in fifth and Bottas in -- Massa is | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
in fifth place. Bottas is in sixth. They could not take advantage. | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
Jenson Button is currently running in seventh but he could move up to | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
fifth if the Williams have to make a pit stop to change onto another set | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
of tyres. In comes the other Toro Rosso Jean-Eric Vergne. That is all | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
OK. We will see where this brings him out but it has dropped them out | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
of the points. Sergio Perez comes in in the Force India. They will be on | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
fresh tyres. Perhaps more so than those around them when they we join | :58:36. | :58:38. | |
the race. Let's see what they can do. Sergio Perez afternoon Williams. | :58:39. | :58:45. | |
They felt they needed to get another set of tyres. You do wonder how on | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
earth Williams are going to get to the end. Let's wait and find out. | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
Plenty of time to go. There is still half an hour remaining. We still | :58:56. | :59:01. | |
have 16 laps to go. It looks as though we will just make the time. | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
The gaps upfront are interesting, now Alonso is beginning to close up | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
to Daniel Ricciardo. We wondered if Alonso was biding his time, | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
definitely over the past few laps you can see that he has been gaining | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
on Ricardo, nine tenths, and only a 10th on the last lap, Ricciardo | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
responding to that. Not quite within BRS range but beginning to apply | :59:25. | :59:33. | |
pressure now. -- DRS. Through one of the chicanes. Hamilton needs another | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
few laps do have enough time to clear Alonso so that is why he is | :59:38. | :59:40. | |
still being left out there, Hamilton needs to get in the quick laps but | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
he is doing it. Two seconds faster than Vettel. Hamilton has a 17 | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
second lead. Over the second placed man since the safety car came out, | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
that is astonishing pace from Hamilton. Delivering what he needed | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
to. The team gave him the information and he completely | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
understood. Magnusson makes a pit stop, he has had the fastest pit | :00:06. | :00:06. | |
stop out of the last Grands Prix. Kevin Magnussen will be behind Vira, | :00:07. | :00:27. | |
I think. Marcus Ericsson has been lapped, of course. Though | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
effectively there is still a race going on, he is in front of Kvyat. | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
They were together at the start on the fifth row and now pretty close | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
together in the closing stages. On board with Lewis Hamilton, expecting | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
the pit stop? RADIO: You need to stop me soon, my tyres are going | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
off. I told you. In the mode five, you are still pulling the gap. They | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
have to be careful. Probably better to play safe, get him in. He would | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
have such an advantage if he has 2 overtake. One thing to be behind two | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
Red Bull 's, but that is the issue. Currently Alonso on the cusp at 28 | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
seconds. If they can get that stop done, out in front, they will be on | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
the back of them. I do not think Alonso can respond. Still very | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
close, this group. Hulkenberg in ninth, bit of a gap back behind. | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
Grosjean currently in 11th place. Ricciardo 27 seconds behind, | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
presuming they do a perfect pit stop they might get there. He must be | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
nervous, remember the famous Chinese Grand Prix when they left him out a | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
long time and he ended up going off. I know the conditions were very | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
different but that might be running through his mind. You do not want to | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
be running too much risk, running through the tread pattern. That was | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
an intermediate, he went into the gravel. Much to the frustration of | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
everybody he sat their beached. He does not want to repeat that kind of | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
performance. Meanwhile, Ricciardo just 2.7 seconds behind. This group | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
dicing the sixth place. Believe the lights in Singapore. Hamilton has | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
that gap to 25 seconds, 28 seconds, Ricciardo. The pressure on the team | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
to make perfect stops. RADIO: Great lap, if you do 53.5 next lap, we | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
will take it. My right rear is getting seriously worn. I am not | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
sure if these things are going to explode. He is worried. I am not | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
laughing because I think it is not accurate but his voice is so calm | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
when he says that. I would have more nervousness in my voice if I thought | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
that was going to happen. Anything to stop him just coming in any way? | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Of course he could but you trust in your team as an interaction. That is | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
why I think the radio calls is an intrinsic part of modern racing. | :04:01. | :04:13. | |
Should be enough, he has made it this far. But assuming the pit stop | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
goes to plan he will come out in front of Alonso. Will he beat the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Red Bulls out, that will be more marginal? Now then, is it enough to | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
get out in front of Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo? There he is in | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
the background. Is it going to be" Mike still has to come through the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
exit, into the lead of the race goes Sebastian Vettel? But has he done | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
enough to stay in front of Ricciardo? On a fresh set of tyres, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
such an advantage now. Lewis Hamilton into second place, but on a | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
fresh set of tyres. Chasing after the three-time winner here in | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Singapore, Sebastien Bassong. Does he have anything left to fight with | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
on his tyres, they have done some 27 laps already. -- Sebastian Vettel. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Difficult to imagine he has, he does not have the speed advantage in a | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
straight line or the grip. We know the Red Bull has been performing | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
well in the tighter sections but his tyres are well worn. Still a great | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
race going on the second and third place. Red Bull trying to make it a | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
double podium this year. They have not done that this season. They are | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
being caught by Alonso. Alonso will fight to the very last lap. Three | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
manufacturers running this close, this late. They have all had the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
opportunity to make their decisions, this is where they have ended up at | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
the end of this Grand Prix. Grand Strand finished, you can see the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
reaction from the grandstands as they know they have a real race on | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
their hands. Hamilton closing so quickly, an brand-new tyres. Sizing | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
him up. In the mirrors. The racing driver equivalent of going "Boo! " | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
The response from the crowd as they see this developing. Hamilton with | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
the advantage. Into the pits, presumably, this is Ricciardo? Yes. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Maybe doing the dummy. They did not bring in in, thinking about it. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Still Hamilton on the charge. Surely he will be passing that pretty | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
quickly. Into seven, I do not know how he will be able to defend. He | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
just does not have the straight line speed. RADIO: Shut down, shut down. | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
We are looking at it, Jensen. Hamilton has got past Sebastian | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Vettel, he tried to make life difficult but there was no way to | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
prevent the Mercedes coming through. Jenson Button is out. Writes down | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
the order, Button. He was on for some useful points. He is at the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
side of the track. Will they be able to recover that without the safety | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
car? Holder as long as he is in neutral they will be able to pull it | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
back. Let's watch this, coming through 13. Excuse me, 11 and 12, | :07:36. | :07:47. | |
just a complete electrical failure, over the bridge. Down towards 13. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Reset said, the dashboard comes back to life. Let's see what happened | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
on-board Jean-Eric Vergne. That is in the turn seven. Being | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
investigated the track limits. He has gone beyond, being given a 5 | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
second stop-go penalty, so Maldonado is brought back onto the cusp. Will | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
he be able to scrape a point? He still needs to get one more person. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Peres has moved past Maldonado now in the 11th position. Alonso | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
catching up. Red Bull have to think about this. Just under six minutes | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
to go, four laps to go, which will come first? We will wait and see. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
Alonso running out of time. Is Rick Yardy, I would love to know what the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
messages are to the drivers. Is Ricciardo being told to defend? | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Don't go after your team-mate? He would have every reason to be upset | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
about that when he is the man leading their challenge in the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
championship for the drivers. Interesting times. Maybe Red Bull | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
staying quiet and letting them get on with it. As much as Daniel has | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
the chance for the Drivers' Championship, Sebastian has had his | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
fair share of problems and I would be very surprised if there was any | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
team orders on this. They have to go and earn this position. Alonso not | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
showing the chance to get through just yet. They are all in the RS -- | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
DRS zone. Massa has done an amazing 35 laps on this soft tyre. Still a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
couple more to go, can he hold it together? Pace holding up reasonably | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
well. He has 2 stay ahead of this group. Massa, sorry, not this group. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Massa 12 seconds ahead of his team-mate. Fighting over the podium | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
finishes. Little lock-up from Sebastian Vettel. Gathered its | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
together nicely. Of course it only puts a bit more way through a tyre | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
that has already done a lot of mileage. -- wearing. Blue lights and | :10:17. | :10:28. | |
blue flags being held out the Chilton, I think. They are about to | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
catch him in the Marussia. Bianchi is 0.7 behind Marcus Ericsson. | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
Caterham beating Marussia by 0.7 seconds. They will not be catching | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
the leaders. That is the 15th position, Marcus Ericsson with a | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
good race so far. The nice sound of the turbo as they break the Turn 1. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
The graphics say three lamps but I can tell you it will be less than | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
that. -- brake. Three minutes before the two-hour mark, we will see the | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
chequered flag just before the designated turn. Did Vergne get past | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
Hulkenberg? I think he did, good, aggressive racing, but he has a 5 | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
second penalty so he will not actually finish ahead of Vergne when | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the sorting out is done. Five seconds stop- go, he has to come | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
into the pits. It is not time added on or am I getting it wrong question | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
mark it will be added afterwards, I think. Chilton getting out of the | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
way. You stop and go if you have a pit stop otherwise you get it added | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
on afterwards. Kevin Magnussen on the points. Only half a second | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
behind Hulkenberg, we might see, that is different. We will take | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
another look at that in a minute. Now, Vergne, down the inside, of | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
Kimi Raikkonen. Great pass. On a charge on these tyres fresher than | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
those around him. Five second penalty but if he can go up the road | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
and get five seconds over Valtteri Bottas, then Raikkonen looking for | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
the chance to come through Azore. Great result for their macro if he | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
can get five seconds ahead of that we got us. He could be in sixth | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
placed to match his best result. Force Indias coming together | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
virtually. Where is Kevin Magnussen? He has dropped back a little bit. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Has he got a problem? He has been passed by Peres. Both McLarens in | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
trouble, not likely to score today but Force India will, unless they | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
take each other off? We have seen them make contact once already this | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
week in Hungary. They do not need that again now, really. Down the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
inside, an different tyres, Hulkenberg has to give way. Peres on | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the super-soft tyres, he Hulkenberg has to give way. Peres on | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
laps, but the points are crucial for the team. Peres into ninth place. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
Looking at the clock. Counting down. Come to a time to raise, it will be | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
chequered flag next time round. Hamilton leading this Grand Prix. -- | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
timed race. Not able to do anything about the Red Bull. On the last lap, | :13:36. | :13:47. | |
move for surgery -- Sergio Perez question my Raikkonen had to defend, | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
there will be an opportunity. Almost squeezed out of the way by Kimi | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Raikkonen. That was absolutely crucial, he just went too early, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
that gave Raikkonen the chance to close the door. Sergio Perez still | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
hunting after that great run in Italy last time, beating Button. Can | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
he find a way past Kimi Raikkonen. Raikkonen struggling for grip. Lewis | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Hamilton meanwhile in the last part of the Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
comes through the final corners in Singapore, back-to-back victories, | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Hamilton wins the Singapore Grand Prix, the fireworks go off and he | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
has taken his second ever when in Singapore. What a result for him on | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
a day that he now takes the World Championship lead as well. Second | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
place goes to Sebastian Vettel, three times a winner in the last | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
three years and now takes second. Ricciardo in third. Sergio Perez | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
gaining another place. He got past Raikkonen and voucher got past | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Raikkonen and vowed to has lost massively, holding on for so long | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
but now dropping down the order. -- Bottas. The tyres have gone. They | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
asked the too much, Williams. Isa has finished in fifth place, so he | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
has driven brilliantly, 38 laps, while the soft in a mass, one of the | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
drives of the day, sixth placed the Jean-Eric Vergne. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
Peres recovers. Jean-Eric Vergne is more than five seconds ahead. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
Magnusson takes the final point in 10th. Lewis Hamilton takes his 29th | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
career win. What a way to do it. RADIO: Nice work, Lewis. Great | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
stuff. Keep the revs up. Fantastic job this weekend, guys, thank you so | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
much for your hard work, it is starting to pay off. It is his | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
seventh win this year versus Quattro now for Rosberg. It puts him into a | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
3-point World Championship lead. -- four now. Well done, nice job, you | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
made that stint well. Good job, obviously. We got the maximum there | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
was any way. I did not have any tyres left but I did everything I | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
could. It is nice to see Vettel coming across to congratulate | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Hamilton. These are the results of the Singapore Grand Prix. A double | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
podium for Red Bull Racing. They did it in Canada. A great drive from | :16:51. | :17:02. | |
Sergio Perez towards the end. Maldonado again fails to score | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
points and so does his team-mate, Grosjean, in the Lotus. Ericsson | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
beats the Marussias here. The Swedish driver will be delighted | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
with that. It is time to enjoy the moment for | :17:14. | :18:13. | |
Lewis Hamilton. Celebrating victory and celebrating a championship lead. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
And looking forward to one of his favourite tracks on the calendar, | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Japan. He has never won there, he has won at Fuji. He goes there as | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
the World Championship leader. Victory in Japan would be very sweet | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
indeed. What a hugely successful Singapore weekend. | :18:33. | :18:44. | |
Well, Lewis Hamilton championship leader, what a wonderful drive | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
today. You sounded quite nervous towards the end, were you worried | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
that it was a big gamble? I was just not quite aware of what was going | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
on, I could see the guys behind me. And there was a safety car and I was | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
on the option tyres. I knew that there was 12 laps to go, I was | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
thinking this is the time to pit. If the safety car comes out it could | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
have caught me out. The guys had it under control and we got the tyres, | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
and I had to do out with a bit of fighting. The pit stop was crucial, | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
you knew that it would be close, what was on your mind? I was pretty | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
relaxed, to be honest. I think the guys... I had great confidence in | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
the guys. We had great pit stops and today I was focusing on stopping in | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
the perfect spot, not too long, not too short. I saw Vettel coming past | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
when I came out which was surprising because I had so much pace today. I | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
should have always come out ahead but there was a safety car. I did | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
not even see Daniel and all of a sudden he was in my mirrors. If you | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
watch really closely, I just went for it. This felt really tight. That | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
was close to the wall! I was concerned when you missed the window | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
of stopping in the safety car, did it ever come into your mind to do | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the tyre stop because you had to change towards the end of the race? | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
I was thinking that, but you really have to have one with a buzzing | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
confidence in your team and we have a great strategy. I really believe | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
in them. When they tell me one thing, they have a much better | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
perspective of what is going on in the race, so that was my thought | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
process, I was like, these guys will lead me to the win. Ultimate trust | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
in the team that you showed on the team radio, and you are now leading | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
the team championship by three points. How does it feel? I am not | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
really thinking about it, to be honest. I feel like I am still | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
hunting, still catching up. We have had quite a few DNFs. And today has | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
shown that we still have some areas to improve. We have an incredible | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
group of guys at the factory who I know we'll be working hard to make | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
sure this does not happen again. What happened to Niko's car. All I | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
can do is repeat what I did this last weekend, we are just putting in | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
the best time is possible and doing our best. Dad was looking very proud | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
on the podium, have you spoken to him? I just saw him for a second. It | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
was great to have him and my stepmum here, and the support from my family | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
is amazing. Generally just having positive energy around me has been | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
incredible, and thanks to a lot of the British fans in the grandstand, | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
with the British flag, that is awesome. You are going to Japan | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
next? I have not won there. You have one at Fuji. I have a serious target | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
there. Jenson Button won there one year, so I had the car to win and I | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
did not. I have another tune itty next week. -- I have an opportunity. | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
Daniel Ricciardo, congratulations, back on the podium. What a race. It | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
seems like you had problems all the way through. Yes, I do not want to | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
tell you a sad story but we had a few issues. We had a bit going on | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
and unfortunately we could not clear it. For example in Budapest we had | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
issues in the middle of the race with losing power. Two or three laps | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
we were able to clear it and fix it. Today it stayed with us for most of | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
the race. It made life a bit tricky, losing time on the straights and | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
then having to work for it on the corners, which was fine until the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
tyres obviously go and then you are taking more energy from it. Let's go | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
live to the start because that is where it started to go wrong! You | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
will not be able to hear the sound but it sounds as though you are | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
bogged down slightly. It felt like that. It stopped pulling and we lost | :23:32. | :23:43. | |
a bit of power. It was, obviously, I would have loved to get a good start | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
but it was not to be today. What about Alonso, he did not break the | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
first corner? Should he have given you the place? Let's have a look. It | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
is questionable, isn't it? He was pretty racy. Very gentleman like. I | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
cannot remember anyone being so polite as you. Would you go to the | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
stewards and ask them to give you their understanding of what is going | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
on. If that was Monaco he would have gone into the wall, so I guess it is | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
in issue with all of these safety run-offs. The pros are that they | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
work well for safety and we are all for that, but it allows errors and | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
certain questionable things to step into play. It is a tough one. I | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
personally am not a massive fan of all of the big run-offs, but for | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
safety reasons it is worthwhile. What you have done today is close | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
the gap to the front man Lewis Hamilton. That wash or aim. It was a | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
good day at the office. -- that was your aim. Let's hear now Sebastien. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
We got it wrong when Fernando undercut us. We tried to mirror him | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
from their with the risk of the safety car which came. It is not | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
great. Nice to be back on the podium and tasting champagne again? | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Definitely, after such a long race it is nice to have some champagne. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Congratulations Jean-Eric Vergne, a great drive. It looked like you were | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
driving your heart out against the odds. Thanks. It was a really good | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
race and I am happy for everyone in the team and myself, yesterday in | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
qualifying I made a mistake and that is not where I should have started | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
today so I apologise to the team and I said I would make it up today in | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the race and they gave me a great car the whole weekend. So here we | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
are. We have had two penalties, the first one was a bit of a mistake. | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
The second one, we did not get any room. Anyway, that gave me more | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
hunger to go and get the points at the end. Talk us three where you | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
were at in your mind. The first one here was down into Turn 1. -- talk | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
us through it. I went to pass him and I had cold tyres and I could | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
not... This is the incident with Maldonado. He did not leave me any | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
room, basically. I do not understand the penalty. Would you talk to the | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
stewards about that? I will talk to them because they gave us the right | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
to fight and by always giving penalties this way, there is no way | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
we can fight so it is a shame. A great comeback in the end. You would | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
have loved the racing element. This was epic for us watching, we saw all | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
of these lunges that you are making, trying to figure out how you could | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
pull it off. The first one was Peres or Hulkenberg. That gave me the | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
confidence. This is the classic thing for me. The last one was with | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
Bottas in the middle of the track. This was a bit unexpected. I just | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
saw some room and I wanted to go down the inside. I got through. We | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
know that you will not be with Toro Rosso next year, how timely is the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
result in terms of moving forward in Formula One? It is rarely important, | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
I have done well in this type of race before, but when you are | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
fighting for a certain position and you have your team-mate in front of | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
you finishing in sixth position with guys like Raikkonen, it gives a bit | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
more credit to you as a driver obviously. I know that I can do it. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
When you look at my former team-mate and what he is dating at Red Bull, | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
it is amazing. -- what he is doing. I just need to show people in races | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
like this that they can trust me to give me a drive next year because I | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
can win races and that is my target. I will do everything at the end of | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
the season to show my performances this way and hopefully that will | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
lead to something good next year. That was a great pitch and so watch | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
your result today. We wish you the best in the future. Thank you for | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
joining us. Thank you very much. Let's check on the results from | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
today's race. Lewis Hamilton takes the full 25 points. Fernando Alonso | :28:27. | :28:38. | |
just off the podium. In terms of the championship there are some movers | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
at the top. Lewis Hamilton now leads the Drivers' Championship by three | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
points. Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel move up to fourth | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
and fifth respectively. Sergio Perez pops up into 10th. Just one move, | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
Force India and McLaren switch places. Williams are still leading | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
Ferrari, but the gap has now closed to just nine points. Lewis is | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
leading the way now. We talked about him at the start of the programme | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
clawing his way back and he has done it in one race, what does it mean | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
moving forward with five to go? It puts him in a hugely strong position | :29:20. | :29:21. | |
and he will wake up tomorrow morning and it will fall into place for him. | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
At the moment he does not know when he is. He is talking about all sorts | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
of scenarios but this was huge for him. His nearest rival has not | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
scored any points and he will wake up a very happy boy tomorrow. It | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
shows you what a knife edge we are on in Formula One. Re-gaining the | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
lead here. Reliability as we said earlier in the season, it will | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
always come down to reliability. Nico has two DNFs and the chase is | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
getting more exciting. It is almost like a blank sheet of paper, we are | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
starting again. That is exactly what the situation is at the moment, no | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
one can take their foot off the throttle because it is full speed | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
ahead. It is. And only two weeks until the next race. We live in a | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
fortnight and because of the time difference it will be very early but | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
we will show you all of the race later in the day if that is too | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
early for you. Via works tonight in Asia. It was a Singapore staying for | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
Nico Rosberg. Hamilton took his chances and he is back on top. Game | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
on. Thanks for watching. -- Singapore Sting. . | :30:35. | :30:40. |