The Canadian Grand Prix - Qualifying

:01:12. > :01:16.zig-zagged across Asia, made a pit stop in the Europe and here we are

:01:16. > :01:24.in North America. It's the sport that never sleeps, the story that

:01:24. > :01:34.never stops. Champions come and go, the years fly by. The circus keeps

:01:34. > :01:35.

:01:35. > :01:45.couldn't be more different. Actually, they share a great deal.

:01:45. > :01:46.

:01:46. > :01:50.You know, that constant quest for perfection. This may be the most

:01:50. > :01:56.unbelievable art form that you could have committed a people who

:01:56. > :02:02.are fans. They see the design of the cars, the manufacture of the

:02:02. > :02:12.cars, how the guy drives the car, what gives Acar the ultimate effect

:02:12. > :02:13.

:02:13. > :02:21.reaching for the stars. Above all else, it's about entertaining

:02:21. > :02:31.people. It's about being the best of what you do. Elegance,

:02:31. > :02:38.

:02:38. > :02:42.storytelling. And that's just have helped entertain the crowd

:02:42. > :02:46.over the years. They've got the cameras out, it must be that shirt.

:02:46. > :02:52.You've got some fond memories. The crowd are always brilliant in

:02:52. > :02:56.Canada. I think Jordan had a really strong relationship with North

:02:56. > :03:00.America. We scored our first points here, it's very important. Of

:03:00. > :03:04.course, fond memories, absolutely. We realised in the last two and-a-

:03:04. > :03:08.half years, you and Eddie have very little in common. But he scored his

:03:08. > :03:12.first points here, the same applies to you. It was my second race in

:03:12. > :03:18.Formula One. I remember not really being ready for the challenge. I

:03:18. > :03:25.lost the feeling in my left foot. I was breaking my memory, rather than

:03:25. > :03:28.feel. We can see this funny building behind us, it's not

:03:28. > :03:32.particularly pristine. It's quite scruffy, but it doesn't matter

:03:32. > :03:36.here? What's very important for Canada, we missed out a race.

:03:36. > :03:41.People felt they could do without Formula One here. This has been the

:03:41. > :03:44.biggest transformation. The atmosphere is electric, the

:03:44. > :03:49.atmosphere with the people here is electric. It's a fabulous return

:03:49. > :03:56.for me and a big success. It seems so much more than even Monaco.

:03:56. > :04:00.Every street you go down, whether it's the old town, more the French-

:04:00. > :04:02.speaking part, or the English speaking part. There are street

:04:02. > :04:07.vendors, everything, I've never seen anything like it.

:04:07. > :04:10.There's only a few of these races a year, people should get behind it.

:04:10. > :04:15.Not just the weather, the clouds are looking more and more ominous.

:04:15. > :04:19.It's going to be a good weekend. Actually, this is a part of the

:04:19. > :04:25.world that has a good history of entertaining. We are standing on

:04:25. > :04:30.the man made Ile Notre-Dame, built from 15 million tonnes of rock

:04:30. > :04:34.moved when the Montreal Metro was dug. It was home to the Olympics

:04:34. > :04:37.and, 25 years on, the crowd still flock here to seek sporting

:04:37. > :04:42.excellence. Motorsport heritage, a passion for racing and a circuit

:04:42. > :04:46.that provides quite a challenge. Only raced on twice here, the grip

:04:46. > :04:51.level is low, the opportunity for air is high. Make a mistake around

:04:51. > :04:55.here and you will pay the price, as a number of drivers have discovered.

:04:55. > :04:59.I'm sure seeing these cars slipping and sliding around brings back some

:04:59. > :05:03.memories for you. The most high- profile casualty is Sebastian

:05:03. > :05:10.Vettel, but it's only apt, he turns up as a champion for the first time

:05:10. > :05:13.and he ends up in the wall of champions? It's the last chicane,

:05:13. > :05:17.it's nicely painted white at the beginning of the weekend, by the

:05:17. > :05:21.end of it is black with a brother. Michael Schumacher was the first

:05:21. > :05:25.one to crash their, driving for Ferrari. Jacques Villeneuve has

:05:25. > :05:29.been there, Damon Hill, and now our current world champion. As in

:05:29. > :05:37.Turkey, he seems to make his mistakes on Friday, when I got

:05:37. > :05:42.plenty of time to recover from it. What do you think happened? Just a

:05:42. > :05:46.small puff of smoke off the front right. It over in a flash. He get

:05:46. > :05:51.slightly out of shape. He's a bit wide, he loses the back end. At

:05:51. > :05:55.this point peas in recovery. There's only one journey he's on, a

:05:55. > :06:00.one-way ticket to the wall. He lost his way on the front end. He slides

:06:00. > :06:09.the rear, get up high on those white sausages, whatever they are

:06:09. > :06:12.called. Let's call them sausages! We don't have them anywhere else. I

:06:13. > :06:17.don't know what we call them. Eddie could probably come up with a good

:06:17. > :06:22.name for them? As always, you've got me. I have no idea. They are

:06:22. > :06:26.horrific. When you go on these, there is no escape. You can see it

:06:26. > :06:36.steering into the corner, the driver, as a passenger, didn't have

:06:36. > :06:39.

:06:39. > :06:44.much chance. We said it was slippery, that is how slippery it

:06:44. > :06:47.is. It's not all bad news, he's still leading the way. Everybody

:06:47. > :06:51.said that Red Bull are struggling. They have now said that they are

:06:51. > :06:58.going to struggle in Canada. Is this just other teams clutching at

:06:58. > :07:01.straws? I think that Straw is getting smaller and smaller, the

:07:01. > :07:05.dominance of Vettel is getting stronger and stronger. He's a

:07:05. > :07:08.supreme champion, not just on the track but outside. He's wonderful

:07:08. > :07:13.to us in the press, always accommodating comedies turning out

:07:13. > :07:16.to be a superb champion. We arrive with Red Bull leading the way and

:07:16. > :07:26.the drivers and constructors standings. But they didn't have it

:07:26. > :07:35.

:07:35. > :07:38.all their own way in Monaco. get up the inside? Once again,

:07:39. > :07:44.Alonso is left off the line and into first place. Look at the lead

:07:44. > :07:49.that Vettel has already. Schumacher is coming up the inside. He's

:07:49. > :07:58.taking Hamilton at the hairpin! Halpin is up the inside, he makes

:07:58. > :08:07.the move. What is this? These are tyres that are not ready to go on.

:08:07. > :08:12.Unusually, a mistake from Red Bull. He's losing a huge amount of time!

:08:12. > :08:20.Out in the pits, the... Up the mechanics weren't ready! What is

:08:20. > :08:25.going on? A very clumsy pass going on as Hamilton gets frustrated and

:08:25. > :08:30.drives into Felipe Massa. They are side by side in the tunnel.

:08:30. > :08:35.Hamilton has passed him in the tunnel. Massa gets out, straight

:08:35. > :08:41.into the barrier. Now the leaders are going to get mixed up in all of

:08:41. > :08:51.this lot as well. There's damage, contact! Safety car for sure.

:08:51. > :08:56.

:08:56. > :09:01.got a red flag, back into a restart surely that is another penalty?

:09:01. > :09:05.Sebastian Vettel finally wins the Monaco Grand Prix. He is the master

:09:05. > :09:15.of Monaco. Behind him, two world champions, Fernando Alonso and

:09:15. > :09:15.

:09:15. > :09:20.You can hear that his team-mate's engine is being revved up. Jenson

:09:20. > :09:23.has said that if they start to dominate qualifying, they can

:09:23. > :09:27.dominate the race is as well? think he's absolutely right. If

:09:27. > :09:37.you've got track position, you got so much more choice over the

:09:37. > :09:54.

:09:54. > :09:58.opposition. The strategy, when to the challenge to Red Bull, they are

:09:58. > :10:07.going to have to do it now. This season will not feature a Bahrain

:10:07. > :10:12.Grand Prix. Eight days ago Formula One was back making headline news.

:10:12. > :10:15.Organisers say the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead later this year,

:10:15. > :10:20.despite the ongoing unrest and violence in the Gulf state. There

:10:20. > :10:24.was more shooting on the streets today. The upheavals of the Arab

:10:24. > :10:29.Spring reached Bahrain in February, shortly before the Formula One

:10:29. > :10:32.series started. There has been brutal suppression, with the aid of

:10:32. > :10:36.troops coming over the border. They have arrested a lot of people from

:10:36. > :10:41.the circuit itself. A lot of the doctors and nurses that treated the

:10:41. > :10:45.injured have been locked up. 21st February, Bahrain's crown

:10:45. > :10:50.prince withdrew the race from its slot as season opener. It was

:10:50. > :10:54.always postponed, rather than cancelled. On 30th May, the FIA

:10:54. > :11:04.sent their vice-president to see if Bahrain was safe enough to

:11:04. > :11:04.

:11:04. > :11:09.reinstate the race. The report is quite clear air. His stable, very

:11:09. > :11:14.quiet situation. I'm afraid the person that he sent, very nice man,

:11:14. > :11:18.he's been with the Spanish Federation for ages. But he speaks

:11:18. > :11:21.no English and he speaks no Arabic. He was taken around by

:11:21. > :11:25.representatives of the Government. He gets the impression that they

:11:25. > :11:30.want to give him. It's not, in any way, a proper look into the

:11:30. > :11:34.situation. Publicly, the team's only objected to the reinstatement

:11:34. > :11:38.on logistical grounds. But their disquiet was enough for Bahrain

:11:38. > :11:43.itself to withdraw from staging a Grand Prix this season. Basically,

:11:43. > :11:48.we took the cultivated decision that we didn't want to cause any

:11:48. > :11:52.more inconvenience to the teams. The schedules that have been said

:11:52. > :12:02.already towards the end of the season. Being a long-term player,

:12:02. > :12:05.

:12:05. > :12:12.we decided to withdraw the pursuit of our race for this year. McLaren

:12:12. > :12:18.is part owned by Bahrain investors. Ferrari, Williams and Toro Rosso

:12:18. > :12:25.also have links with the region. didn't have any pressure from

:12:25. > :12:35.anybody. There was no pressure. Nothing to do with money at all.

:12:35. > :12:44.Nothing in any shape or form. should not be involved with

:12:45. > :12:51.politics. Sport has been seen to consolidate people working and

:12:51. > :12:56.fighting for a good cause. The only driver who made any public comment

:12:56. > :13:01.about racing in Bahrain was Mark Webber. Why do you think you were

:13:01. > :13:05.the only driver that spoke out? don't know, I wasn't looking for

:13:05. > :13:15.any praise or response. People were always asking me about what was

:13:15. > :13:19.

:13:19. > :13:25.going on there. As I say, it didn't end of the day. We are a Formula

:13:25. > :13:35.One team. It's not down to us to have an agenda or a strong opinion

:13:35. > :13:43.in one way or the other. We can't cancel forever our presence in

:13:43. > :13:51.Bahrain. It's not because of some political or ethical big issue

:13:51. > :13:56.happens that weeny and to simply drop them out of existence. -- that

:13:56. > :14:01.we need to simply drop them out of existence. Why was F1 so keen?

:14:01. > :14:06.don't think it was born out of money or greed, it was born out of

:14:06. > :14:09.an enthusiasm for motor racing, a passion to hold a Grand Prix. That

:14:09. > :14:14.clouded the decision-making process, I think. That didn't address

:14:14. > :14:21.whether it was right to go there on principle? Again, we are a sport.

:14:21. > :14:24.You start taking a discussion about what countries have got what level

:14:24. > :14:28.of human rights records, then maybe we've got to address all sorts of

:14:28. > :14:33.things on our Canada. I'm not qualified to do that, I don't think

:14:33. > :14:37.anyone in sport is. It's not our job. Well, we got there eventually.

:14:37. > :14:39.The Ferrari team principal is currently stepping out of the

:14:39. > :14:43.garage to join as, with about half an hour to go until qualifying

:14:43. > :14:48.starts. A question to everybody to start with, whether it is looking

:14:48. > :14:51.totally out of step with public opinion or internally fractious and

:14:51. > :15:01.indecisive, how damaging has the past few weeks been for Formula

:15:01. > :15:08.

:15:08. > :15:11.must do that orate cannot hear you. We must learn to have a better

:15:11. > :15:17.communication, to consider the things that are going around the

:15:17. > :15:23.world but it is fundamental that things are not used for different

:15:23. > :15:29.agendas for different people. That is something we must not forget.

:15:29. > :15:32.you think that is the problem, is that what happened? I don't know.

:15:32. > :15:38.We will learn from that and we need to look ahead because this is a

:15:38. > :15:46.very important moment for Formula One. How important is the

:15:46. > :15:52.communication in this? Is there enough Yelling between the partners

:15:52. > :15:56.involved, is that how you are going to go forward? I think so, better

:15:56. > :16:01.communication is the key to the success of Formula One. How would

:16:01. > :16:08.you go about learning the lessons? Is it a case of all sitting around

:16:08. > :16:16.a table, the FIA, FOM and FOTA and appearing to be unified sport that

:16:16. > :16:20.can make a decision when the chips are down? We do not have to be too

:16:20. > :16:24.involved in the macrocosm but we have to give a unified message to

:16:24. > :16:29.the outside world and that is the lesson we need to take and looking

:16:29. > :16:34.ahead. Looking ahead, you almost one in Monaco, you have been

:16:34. > :16:38.looking very strong here in the free practice sessions, where do

:16:38. > :16:45.think Ferrari is set? I think we have seen a good performance

:16:45. > :16:50.yesterday and this morning but as you know, in free practice, some of

:16:50. > :16:59.our competitors are hiding the lot. At least we have seen a car that is

:16:59. > :17:06.quite competitive. Also yesterday, today will have been important to

:17:06. > :17:11.do the maximum. We need to set time straight away and then tomorrow,

:17:11. > :17:15.maybe the race will be a very challenging weekend. Could you have

:17:15. > :17:19.won Monaco? How close were you and if you did not have to change tyres,

:17:19. > :17:29.where would you be in the race? That is a good question. With

:17:29. > :17:34.Monaco we saw Fernando with great pace. Fernando wanted to keep the

:17:34. > :17:40.tyres but Monaco is always difficult. With what am and if

:17:40. > :17:45.maybe but we are second so that is the result. It was a special Monaco

:17:45. > :17:50.Grand Prix. 50 years ago it was equally exciting. On that occasion

:17:50. > :17:55.it was Stirling Moss holding of the Ferraris. It was the best drive of

:17:55. > :17:59.his career. Sterling has announced he is hanging up his helmet because

:17:59. > :18:05.believe it or not, he has been released -- racing competitively

:18:05. > :18:09.until this weekend. An incredible driver from a different era at a

:18:09. > :18:14.man that Formula One fans regard as one of the greatest ever.

:18:14. > :18:20.Absolutely. We cannot take him as a Ferrari driver but it would be

:18:20. > :18:24.great for our guys to watch what he did. That is part of the history of

:18:24. > :18:28.Formula One. It is great to see and to hear that. If he only raced

:18:28. > :18:35.against the Ferraris and not for them because he said he would only

:18:35. > :18:41.sit in a British Formula One car. Those were different days. Good

:18:41. > :18:51.luck for your weekend and your horse race. Also talking about

:18:51. > :18:54.legends of the sport, happy birthday to Jackie steward today.

:18:54. > :18:57.While Bahrain has hogged the headlines over the last couple of

:18:57. > :19:01.years, there has been plenty happening in Formula One which

:19:01. > :19:09.means this weekend could be a pretty special Formula One Grand

:19:09. > :19:13.Prix. He is Ted. There is plenty going on at Red Bull this weekend.

:19:13. > :19:17.Mark Webber appears to be edging closer to committing to drive for

:19:17. > :19:21.the team next season. Mark has made it clear that he wants to stay with

:19:21. > :19:27.the team. I think he is comfortable with the team and he enjoys driving

:19:27. > :19:30.for Red Bull. Things are always straightforward when you deal with

:19:30. > :19:35.Mark. At the appropriate time we will sit down and have a discussion

:19:35. > :19:43.about 2012. While Red Bull are keen to keep him, it seems Webber has

:19:43. > :19:46.not made his mind up yet. Keep thinking. On the other side of the

:19:46. > :19:51.garage, Sebastian Vettel has not confident about extending his

:19:51. > :19:57.winning run here in Canada. Vettel says this is the worst circuit of

:19:57. > :20:00.the season. I think it will be a tough weekend here. I think it is

:20:00. > :20:06.one of the most difficult Grand Prix is to actually finish. There

:20:06. > :20:11.is always a lot of things happening here. We will see. It will be a

:20:11. > :20:18.tough weekend. We have also learned that Red Bull's KERS only runs at

:20:18. > :20:23.two-thirds the power out let -- output. The team admit their 40

:20:23. > :20:27.kilometre power is sub-optimal compared to the 60. It means Vettel

:20:27. > :20:34.and Webber are getting less of a beast than that which is available

:20:34. > :20:38.to the McLarens. Any lap times they lose incurs horsepower, they gain

:20:38. > :20:42.back in a rare performance and wait. I think we have demonstrated we

:20:42. > :20:47.have enough out of the KERS system to keep the cars behind us. We know

:20:47. > :20:51.the Mercedes system is fairly well advanced. They had the benefit of

:20:51. > :20:56.running it through at 2009. We have gone for a different solution. It

:20:56. > :21:00.is quite innovative. After securing the future of the British Grand

:21:00. > :21:05.Prix and overseeing the structure of the new pit building, Damon Hill

:21:05. > :21:12.is standing down as the new -- standing down as president of the

:21:12. > :21:18.British Racing Drivers' Club. Derek Warwick is a possible successor.

:21:18. > :21:21.Virgin have parted company with net worth and his design firm.

:21:21. > :21:25.Certainly, this year the reliability has improved but we

:21:25. > :21:29.need raw pace as well. We are behind target on that one and we

:21:29. > :21:33.need to move forward. If you stand still in Formula One you go

:21:33. > :21:41.backwards. And finally, a driver change at Toro Rosso looks to be on

:21:41. > :21:45.the cards. Daniel Ricciardo says he is ready for an F1 seat after a

:21:45. > :21:51.promising practice. The rumours are he could replace Jaime Alguersuari

:21:51. > :21:58.towards the end of the season. plan was to do the first free

:21:58. > :22:02.practice and try and do what I'm doing and progress and give them

:22:02. > :22:06.something proper to think about at the end of the year. If I can be

:22:06. > :22:11.there next year in a full-time seat, that is where I want to be. We will

:22:11. > :22:15.leave it at that. He might but we will not. David, give us your take

:22:15. > :22:19.at how things are looking down at Toro Rosso. Is there a seat which

:22:19. > :22:23.is vulnerable and it is he the man to Philip? There are very few

:22:23. > :22:27.secure seats out side of the top teams. The smaller teams are always

:22:27. > :22:31.looking to find the next great potential world champion or they

:22:31. > :22:34.are looking for finance to help fund the development of the car. I

:22:34. > :22:38.think Buemi is looking pretty secure because he is the guide who

:22:38. > :22:42.is getting more out of the car right now idea has to be Jaime

:22:42. > :22:45.Alguersuari who is the one who is under the spotlight. There is no

:22:45. > :22:52.question but Daniel Ricciardo is well liked in the Red Bull system.

:22:52. > :22:57.He does a lot of work in the simulator. He won the Monaco's

:22:57. > :23:00.support race there. A big race for him in his career. I would not be

:23:00. > :23:05.surprised if we see him driving for one of the teams by the end of the

:23:05. > :23:10.year. The Toro Rosso is now the team which is the Tyrrell or Jordan

:23:10. > :23:16.team of years gone by. These are the teams which are creating world

:23:16. > :23:22.champions and you can win a race in this car which he, Vettel did, in

:23:22. > :23:28.Monza or a couple of years ago. This is not about car. It is

:23:28. > :23:31.evolving and has some of the concept of what the Red Bull house.

:23:31. > :23:35.This is a proper team, a proper car and he has a great chance to do

:23:35. > :23:40.well. Anybody else feeling a bit like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn right

:23:40. > :23:45.now? Yes, I did notice a lot of people following! They are either

:23:45. > :23:49.following the colours or the smell. Let's hope it is the colours.

:23:49. > :23:54.place yet in Formula One for Daniel Ricciardo but there are four

:23:54. > :23:58.rookies on the grid and two years ago, for one of them this sport was

:23:58. > :24:03.particularly cruel. He had just made it through to the final part

:24:03. > :24:11.of qualifying for Formula One and then suddenly, without warning, the

:24:11. > :24:21.sport bit back. I lost the rear end of the car. The first impact was

:24:21. > :24:26.

:24:26. > :24:36.very big. I thought, the second one you'll be much more. Does it feel

:24:36. > :24:37.

:24:37. > :24:44.like you are watching you? It was a very big shunt. Maybe I was on the

:24:44. > :24:52.wrong side of the circuit. The bump was that there maximum angle. Maybe

:24:52. > :25:01.my tyres, the bad thing is the car went to the side wall, to the wall.

:25:01. > :25:06.It was a big shunt. Jenson has hit their and David Coulthard, do you

:25:06. > :25:12.think it is too dangerous? I just met a driver who crashed in 1994

:25:12. > :25:16.and he was in a coma for a few months. I have to say, I was very

:25:16. > :25:25.lucky. We have to keep working on this. I think Monaco is very

:25:25. > :25:31.dangerous. A mistake, you will end up in the wall. That is why Monaco

:25:31. > :25:38.is so special. It is a place where not everybody goes quick. There is

:25:38. > :25:45.not much we can do to improve or extend the wall, especially the war

:25:45. > :25:54.in the chicane, it is too close and there is not much we can do. We all

:25:54. > :26:00.of Monaco. Perez, what a job he is doing for Sauber. Can we believe

:26:00. > :26:04.it? I thought that was a great move from Perez. Good stuff, very good

:26:04. > :26:09.driving. I think it has been a very good season apart from the accident.

:26:09. > :26:14.I have done a good job so far. I have to keep going and keep

:26:14. > :26:18.improving, of course. I have only done six Grand Prix soap still a

:26:18. > :26:28.long way to go but I'm very happy and very motivated, especially

:26:28. > :26:32.after the accident. I was watching the race on TV. I was in bed and

:26:32. > :26:36.watching the Grand Prix. Now I am very confident and motivated to

:26:36. > :26:41.race again. I imagine there has been a lot of concern and thoughts

:26:41. > :26:46.for you from Mexico. We saw the flags for you today. If there is a

:26:46. > :26:53.lot of support from Mike country. I went to visit the President two

:26:53. > :27:01.days ago. There is a lot of support back home for me. I have some pain

:27:01. > :27:05.in my leg but very little pain and in my neck. But it is muscular pain.

:27:05. > :27:11.It is very important for me to be back. So no excuses for you this

:27:11. > :27:15.weekend? No excuses. As you can see, Sergio Perez was

:27:15. > :27:19.expecting to race this weekend and the organisers were expecting him

:27:19. > :27:24.to race. This was the lovely art work they have commissioned. That

:27:24. > :27:28.interview was done on Thursday. On Friday, Sergio went on to the track

:27:28. > :27:32.for the practice session. By that afternoon, he was bidding farewell

:27:32. > :27:37.to the team for this weekend, saying he did not feel well. What

:27:37. > :27:42.actually happened? The striver, Perez has gone up in the estimation

:27:42. > :27:46.of the team. He came here feeling well, he did everything that was

:27:46. > :27:50.not under full stress but when he was under the stress of driving the

:27:50. > :27:56.car, he felt uneasy and dizzy. He came back and told the team and

:27:56. > :28:00.said he would prefer not to raise. 99 % of the drivers I knew would

:28:00. > :28:05.have fake it and not given it their best. He has gone up in their

:28:05. > :28:09.estimation as a result. And as a fellow driver, does he go up or

:28:09. > :28:13.down in your estimation? I hope I am in the 1% of drivers they Eddie

:28:13. > :28:18.knows he would not have faked that! Here is the only guy behind the

:28:18. > :28:23.wheel, he is the only one who knows how he feels and it is a brave

:28:23. > :28:27.decision for him to admit that he does not feel 100 %. That is his

:28:28. > :28:31.decision and I'm sure we will see him back in the casting. Four

:28:31. > :28:35.hopefully before Valencia. That means there was a big decision for

:28:35. > :28:40.the team to deal with. They are here to pick up points in the race.

:28:40. > :28:49.They reserve driver was not here so suddenly, a familiar face got the

:28:49. > :28:53.call. Pedro de la Rosa. Pedro, nice to see you back. When

:28:54. > :28:59.did you first start talking to Sauber about driving for this race?

:28:59. > :29:03.I knew at 10 minutes to two. This is the reality. However, I had been

:29:03. > :29:08.told there was a very small chance that it Sergio was not feeling

:29:08. > :29:17.right I could have a chance but I thought it was impossible. But 10

:29:18. > :29:22.minutes before the session started, someone came to the McLaren motor

:29:23. > :29:29.home and then after that it was all very fast, making the changes,

:29:29. > :29:34.getting in the car, passing the FIA a test and clearing everything up.

:29:34. > :29:40.I was learning as much as I could from the new steering wheel.

:29:40. > :29:48.you have overall sorry seat? could use my seat from last year

:29:48. > :29:54.which was very important and vital. I went out with my McLaren overalls,

:29:54. > :29:58.boots, helmet, we did a quick fix on the ear piece is to match the

:29:58. > :30:08.radio system from Sauber and the rest was a compromise. That was

:30:08. > :30:10.

:30:10. > :30:13.Formula One any more, drivers using the overalls of another team, with

:30:13. > :30:18.another team has at responses on. That challenge has increased,

:30:18. > :30:24.because in the final part of free practice, this happened? He got it

:30:24. > :30:27.widen the second chicane. He loses the rear end and in Monaco there is

:30:27. > :30:32.no room for error. He can be forgiven, given that he doesn't

:30:32. > :30:36.know the car. Up until that point, he was slightly quicker than

:30:36. > :30:40.Kobayashi. But it's very difficult for him to actually achieve a great

:30:40. > :30:44.deal, with one opportunity. It be crash, not too long before

:30:44. > :30:48.qualifying. This was just this morning, the car is being worked on

:30:48. > :30:51.behind us and the team are pretty confident that this car will be

:30:51. > :30:56.qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. It also means we got two men

:30:56. > :31:00.in their 40s racing in Formula One for the first time in over 30 years.

:31:00. > :31:10.Let's talk about his slightly younger driver, passionate, direct,

:31:10. > :31:13.

:31:13. > :31:18.aggressive on the track and, at stewards, out of six races I've

:31:18. > :31:23.been there five times. It's a joke. Hamilton gets frustrated and drives

:31:23. > :31:28.into Felipe Massa. I was quite a lot quicker than Massa. I went on

:31:28. > :31:37.the inside, going so well. Just turned into me. Of course, I get

:31:37. > :31:42.the penalty. That's usual. I went up the inside of Maldonado. Surely

:31:42. > :31:45.that's another penalty? He turned in a good car length too early and

:31:45. > :31:51.crashed into me. It's ridiculous, these drivers are ridiculous.

:31:51. > :31:54.Stupid. The last time we spoke it was at the end of a frustrating

:31:55. > :32:01.weekend for you. You've had a few days to clear your mind. Can you

:32:01. > :32:08.clarify anything you want to now? Yeah, I think for me it was good to

:32:08. > :32:11.be able to pull away. I think everyone will have bad days in the

:32:11. > :32:16.office. That was a bad weekend for me. With the passion and pressure I

:32:16. > :32:20.put on myself to win that weekend, and things didn't go the right way,

:32:20. > :32:24.I think the difference is that when you have a bad day you don't have

:32:24. > :32:28.to generally answer questions. do you think you are so magnetic to

:32:28. > :32:33.the stewards? Maybe it's because I'm black. That's what Ali G says.

:32:33. > :32:39.I don't know. It wasn't funny, it wasn't a real

:32:39. > :32:45.reflection of how I really feel. Again, apologies to anyone that was

:32:45. > :32:49.offended by what I said. Really, I feel I've had some time to redeem...

:32:49. > :32:57.Well, hopefully this weekend I can redeem myself. I've had some time

:32:57. > :33:01.to speak to both the drivers', call them and apologise. Hopefully, I

:33:01. > :33:05.feel that in the past now and I can focus on this weekend, try to get

:33:05. > :33:09.back on top of things. This is the place where he is often on top of

:33:09. > :33:13.things, his first win in Formula One here, three pole positions. Are

:33:13. > :33:16.we of the same opinion that it's nice to see a driver that a bit

:33:16. > :33:20.outspoken and honest, even if one of his comments was perhaps

:33:20. > :33:25.misguided? This is what we always ask for, we want to hear

:33:25. > :33:27.personalities and get used. My view is that if you beat them over the

:33:27. > :33:31.head when they cease to be controversial, they won't say

:33:31. > :33:35.anything. You've got to give them their own personality. He used that

:33:35. > :33:40.word passion, with such feeling. That's why I personally love

:33:40. > :33:42.watching him drive. He gives me that extra buzz. You know he will

:33:43. > :33:49.do something electric. We are getting close to qualifying. You

:33:49. > :33:54.need to be a commentary box quite a long way away. I've got to go out

:33:54. > :33:59.the panic, over the bridge, and back to the grid. You can leave

:33:59. > :34:03.your microphone on the tyres and will speak to you in a bit. Eddie,

:34:03. > :34:07.will make our way this way. He's not even sprinting, he makes out

:34:07. > :34:12.that he's got a long way to go. He's probably jogging at this

:34:12. > :34:16.moment. Actually, he is now, I can confirm that David Coulthard is

:34:16. > :34:24.running. Behind us, Adrian Sutil makes his way into the Force India

:34:24. > :34:32.garage. A quick word about him, he's driving Force India, a young

:34:32. > :34:39.Scotsman near him, driving very well? I thought they did a good

:34:39. > :34:44.race in Monaco. They came away with some points. I think Sutil, despite

:34:44. > :34:47.the problems he has had, he is now emerging back to nearly at his best.

:34:47. > :34:52.We talk about this being a temporary facility, you can see why.

:34:52. > :34:56.It is all tents and things, the rest of the year it is a park. They

:34:56. > :35:02.say this is the quietest part of Montreal for 364 days of the year.

:35:02. > :35:05.The other day, it is the loudest place. We talked about Force India,

:35:05. > :35:10.There are a few opportunities for some teams that are not usually at

:35:10. > :35:14.the front. They will have high hopes? Well, they had a bit of a

:35:14. > :35:18.dismal Monaco. They want to forget that. They had the crash with a

:35:18. > :35:21.Rosberg, initially, the problems going on within the team.

:35:21. > :35:26.Schumacher didn't have what he considered to be a top race. They

:35:26. > :35:34.need to get back. Honestly, this is a team that effectively is out of

:35:34. > :35:38.the ashes of Brawn, world champions, there is no reason why they can't

:35:38. > :35:41.win races. Why does this raise offer opportunities for teams that

:35:41. > :35:45.aren't normally at the front? very different. In the past we

:35:45. > :35:49.always targeted a race like this. You can test on it, you can come

:35:49. > :35:54.and work out your own settings, see what the balance of the car was

:35:54. > :35:59.like initially. It's also a very difficult circuit for brakes. In

:35:59. > :36:02.actual fact, how you set the car that is so important. We've seen

:36:02. > :36:08.accidents already, people jumping over what we called sausages. I

:36:08. > :36:12.wouldn't call them that myself. It's a difficult place to set a

:36:12. > :36:15.carve-up that can go on to win. course, this is the team principal

:36:15. > :36:20.for McLaren, wondering why we are talking about jumping over sausages.

:36:20. > :36:24.I won't even get into it. Lewis Hamilton, we've agreed it is nice

:36:24. > :36:29.to see a driver that his outspoken, honest, passionate about the job he

:36:29. > :36:33.does. Was that the opinion shared internally at McLaren after his

:36:33. > :36:39.comments after Monaco? Firstly, he is passionate. You can see that in

:36:39. > :36:42.the car, when he gets out of the car. Generally, in this modern

:36:42. > :36:46.world, it's good to keep the passion in the car, and when you

:36:46. > :36:50.are out of it you need to be more cautious in letting it boil over.

:36:50. > :36:58.He has been a little bit of trouble this year, four times he had been

:36:58. > :37:03.penalised or reprimanded, he's been in the stewards took five times. Is

:37:03. > :37:09.that indications of how much pressure Vettel is applying to the

:37:09. > :37:12.rest of the pack? If you look back at Ayrton Senna, in his early

:37:13. > :37:16.career, he often ended up in front of the stewards. You have drivers

:37:16. > :37:19.that have that passion and conviction, they believe they can

:37:19. > :37:24.make those over takes. I wouldn't read anything into it. He's trying

:37:24. > :37:27.to race and overtake. If we had a car that was good enough, he was in

:37:27. > :37:30.front, he didn't have to challenge in that way, it would be a

:37:30. > :37:37.different situation. He's there, he wants to win, he's going to

:37:37. > :37:42.overtake. You have to back a driver's kip will -- you have two

:37:42. > :37:48.drivers capable of winning a Grand Prix. How close do you think Button

:37:48. > :37:51.was to winning in Monaco? For a few laps I thought it was very close,

:37:51. > :37:56.but a red flag put paid to that. With the strategy, we thought he

:37:57. > :38:00.would have a good chance. If they hadn't been able to change their

:38:00. > :38:04.tyres at the red flag, which you wouldn't have been able to a few

:38:04. > :38:11.years ago, we would have been in a good position. It didn't work, a

:38:11. > :38:16.great race for Jenson Button, a tough weekend for Lewis. I remember

:38:16. > :38:21.not being able to change the tyres, you weren't allowed to touch the

:38:21. > :38:26.car. Surely it is a farce, a nonsense? I certainly thought so in

:38:27. > :38:32.Monaco. You would! I have a slight a vested interest in that one.

:38:32. > :38:37.Before I shout too much, we were wrestling the rear wing off of

:38:37. > :38:41.Lewis's car. We got to be a bit careful. We'd been told that rain

:38:41. > :38:45.is going to be near by, it's going to be in and about the area just

:38:45. > :38:50.after qualifying today. How do you expect things to pan out on track?

:38:50. > :38:55.I don't mind if it rains. At the moment, oh we don't have the top-

:38:55. > :39:00.end speed that we need here. Sadly, it is going to remain dry for the

:39:00. > :39:04.afternoon, probably. It looks like a 60% probability of rain. One of

:39:04. > :39:11.the dilemmas you got, maybe it isn't for us, do you set your car

:39:11. > :39:18.up expecting a wet race or not? We will probably be more in that

:39:18. > :39:21.direction. In the wet direction? Well, it's simple maths. It is more

:39:22. > :39:26.than 50% probability that it will be a wet race, that is what they're

:39:26. > :39:30.telling you, you've got to react to that. Thank you very much. You'd

:39:30. > :39:33.better get to the pits, qualifying is just about five minutes away.

:39:33. > :39:36.Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will hopefully be doing their bit.

:39:36. > :39:41.We are about to find out, has David Coulthard made his way to the

:39:42. > :39:47.commentary box for the start of commentating? Should lead --

:39:47. > :39:57.shortly we will see teams vying for position. Right now, the aim is to

:39:57. > :40:03.

:40:03. > :40:06.not be in the seven slowest cars. seven of this year's Formula One

:40:06. > :40:12.world championship. Just a few minutes away now. Who can stop

:40:12. > :40:16.Sebastian Vettel claiming pole position number six this season?

:40:16. > :40:19.Team-mate Mark Webber had an absolutely miserable morning, with

:40:19. > :40:22.no lack swat so where their duties and KERS problems. We await to see

:40:22. > :40:28.if they have fixed those successfully. The Ferrari is

:40:28. > :40:30.looking very fast indeed, on the pace in the hands of Fernando

:40:31. > :40:35.Alonso and Felipe Massa. Nico Rosberg from Mercedes will be

:40:35. > :40:41.desperately looking for his first ever pole position. He has been

:40:41. > :40:49.mighty in practice. You can see the track layout. 2.8 miles. The normal

:40:49. > :40:53.three sectors that we have. Five left hand, five right-hand corners.

:40:54. > :40:59.Critically, 6 a very heady braking zones. Not particularly warm.

:40:59. > :41:04.Weather can be quite variable for this race. Extreme weather in

:41:04. > :41:09.Montreal. We are in the summer period and we are expecting a fully

:41:09. > :41:13.dry track for this qualifying. Despite their confidence coming

:41:13. > :41:17.here, McLaren haven't really shown front-running pace yet. David

:41:17. > :41:24.Coulthard has landed. Obviously you didn't get my text saying to bring

:41:24. > :41:29.me a sandwich. But he did look like you were legging it away. Not

:41:29. > :41:33.surprising. How do you see this going? Red Bull, they say, are not

:41:33. > :41:37.good on that track. Can you buy into that? I don't think you can

:41:37. > :41:40.speak historic people stop you got to see how this plays out. It's

:41:40. > :41:43.only the first move in the chess match as to who will be the victor

:41:43. > :41:47.in the Canadian Grand Prix. Some of the challenges we are going to see,

:41:47. > :41:53.typically you want to deliver your maximum pace in qualifying. With

:41:53. > :41:57.its changeable weather, as we look at the commentary box, cloudy

:41:57. > :42:00.overhead, we heard them say they will not stay in the pits, they

:42:00. > :42:07.will get out there nice and early. Top teams are going to show their

:42:07. > :42:12.hand very early. Are they going to do that with a hard tyre, or a soft

:42:12. > :42:15.option and risk having to use two sets straight away? Just to remind

:42:16. > :42:22.you that tyres that are here are exactly the same as in Monaco two

:42:22. > :42:32.weeks ago. Sorry, let's talk about the prime tyre. That is the slower

:42:32. > :42:34.

:42:34. > :42:39.of the two tyres. Slower, Prime tyres. Then there is the super soft

:42:39. > :42:42.tyre, which is surprising, really, it seems a faster race track?

:42:42. > :42:49.top speeds are faster here. Regularly clipping 200 miles an

:42:49. > :42:53.hour. 130 miles an hour more than you would see in Monaco. Energy,

:42:53. > :42:58.into the inside shoulder of the tyre when you are going up at speed.

:42:58. > :43:02.Typically, there will be compromised on cambers. When you

:43:02. > :43:05.have that, you build up more heat on the inside shoulder. We haven't

:43:05. > :43:10.had any talk of blisters this weekend, but let's see how it plays

:43:10. > :43:17.out. The tyres seem to be handling remarkably well. What kind of

:43:17. > :43:21.challenge is its 4th Pedro de la Rosa? He's been in the wall this

:43:21. > :43:29.morning, pretty hard. Would you fancy sitting in his fireproof

:43:29. > :43:36.boots today? I wouldn't want to be sitting in a Sauber, absolutely not.

:43:36. > :43:39.Wouldn't anyone fancy a chance, driving a Ferrari? We've got to

:43:39. > :43:43.keep it in perspective. For sure, it is a huge challenge to get into

:43:43. > :43:46.a car he doesn't know. But let's remind ourselves, we have 19 year-

:43:46. > :43:51.olds and 20 year-old making their debut in Formula One, having raced

:43:51. > :43:59.in nothing like a Formula One car. They handle it. Sebastian Vettel

:43:59. > :44:04.made his debut in an American Grand Prix and scored a point. He has

:44:04. > :44:08.been testing for McLaren, he has been a simulator. Fernando Alonso,

:44:09. > :44:13.second place in Monaco, two weeks ago. He's been flying around this

:44:14. > :44:18.track in free practice. I'm surprised, given that Pires has hit

:44:18. > :44:23.the wall so hard in Monaco, that Sauber didn't have a plan D and

:44:23. > :44:33.were dragging McLaren's as their driver down to the paddock. I saw

:44:33. > :44:40.

:44:40. > :44:43.recently. We didn't get into that before, but I think it's madness

:44:43. > :44:47.not to have a properly qualified reserve driver here when you have

:44:47. > :44:51.just had one of your race drivers hospitalised at the Grand Prix

:44:51. > :44:55.before. The green light is on, the first part of qualifying is under

:44:55. > :44:59.way. We have 20 minutes and we are looking for the seven slowest

:45:00. > :45:07.drivers. We are also keeping an eye on who can get within the 107% rule,

:45:07. > :45:11.they got to be within 7% of the fastest time in qualifying one to

:45:11. > :45:18.automatically qualify for the race. The stewards do have discretion.

:45:18. > :45:25.What is interesting is how fast the cars are going. Last year we saw

:45:25. > :45:28.pole at 1:15.01. We have some sample times that somebody kindly

:45:29. > :45:32.calculated. They are no when the air, they started at one minute and

:45:32. > :45:37.15 seconds. The pace has been immense. The Pirelli tyres are very

:45:37. > :45:42.fast and they are lasting well. They are lasting better than the

:45:42. > :45:52.Bridgestone tyres last year. The Pirellis, as Jenson Button pointed

:45:52. > :45:57.

:45:57. > :46:07.out, they are wearing out rather great job. Just on the performance

:46:07. > :46:11.

:46:11. > :46:17.here, why eight can't it be so quick compared to other circuits?

:46:17. > :46:21.These cars are a bigger percentage when you drop the overall wing

:46:21. > :46:25.downforce. We would have seen in Monaco they were running the

:46:25. > :46:30.maximum drown -- downforce and Benny come hit Montreal where you

:46:30. > :46:38.need a high speed and the rear wing is trimmed out and did take away

:46:38. > :46:43.some of that drag. That is using the exhaust gases when drivers are

:46:43. > :46:48.on and off the throttle to blow hot energised air underneath and a halt

:46:48. > :46:52.the downforce of the car. Think of a Formula One car has an upside

:46:52. > :46:55.down aeroplane where the wings push it down into the racetrack. They

:46:55. > :47:02.triple the way to the car effectively and that is why they

:47:02. > :47:08.can go round corners pulling 5.5 times the force of gravity. They

:47:08. > :47:18.can brake from 250 miles an hour down to 40 in little over 100

:47:18. > :47:24.metres. D'Ambrosio is out on track. We have 11 cars out there at the

:47:24. > :47:28.moment out of 24 runners. These Virgin cars were both outside the

:47:28. > :47:33.107 % gap you were talking about in free practice this morning. That

:47:33. > :47:37.was with the top teams of McLaren and Ferrari out there on super soft

:47:37. > :47:42.so it is presumed they will not do that. It is busy and they will run

:47:42. > :47:47.the harder tyre so that will enable the smaller teams to be within 107

:47:47. > :47:50.%. If Jenson Button said he got within four-tenths of his team-mate

:47:50. > :47:55.here last the and that is the nearest anyone has ever got.

:47:55. > :48:01.Hamilton has been on pole position three times out of his three

:48:01. > :48:06.Canadian Grand Prix and peers normally blisteringly fast around

:48:06. > :48:10.this track. Ted. Hello, just on the hard and soft tyres, it seems more

:48:10. > :48:16.teams will be able to do qualify and one are the heart attack

:48:17. > :48:21.because the difference has not been that much, it is less than a second.

:48:21. > :48:27.Just a quick run-down on Pedro de la Rosa. His car is pretty much

:48:27. > :48:31.fixed. Mark Webber's is fixed. It is interesting what Martin

:48:31. > :48:37.Whitmarsh said about McLaren running wet-weather wings. That was

:48:37. > :48:41.slow them down in a straight line. I had a word with Ross Brawn and he

:48:41. > :48:47.was very surprised that they were doing that. Thank you. We are

:48:47. > :48:53.seeing Vitaly Petrov here for Renault on the LM marked tyres so

:48:53. > :48:59.Prime, slow, yellow is how we will call those to get an idea of what

:48:59. > :49:03.we can expect -- the yellow marked tyres. It is approaching a second

:49:03. > :49:13.lap difference between those and the faster red tyres will see them

:49:13. > :49:18.using later on. We are looking at times comfortably within the 1:15

:49:18. > :49:25.seconds. Heidfeld is out there on a good run. What we have also seen

:49:25. > :49:31.his Petrov glances across the two kerbs. All we can see is they can

:49:31. > :49:37.run quite a long way, going faster and faster. Petrov just failed to

:49:37. > :49:43.get into the fifteens. We have all 24 cars out on to the racetrack. Do

:49:43. > :49:48.you think they are nervous about the weather, David? I think so.

:49:48. > :49:53.There is a big bump up onto the bridge into the second chicane.

:49:53. > :49:59.Alguersuari has not got his tyres or breaks up to temperature. There

:49:59. > :50:02.are only six sets of tyres available for each driver, three

:50:03. > :50:08.sets to reach tyre compound and the last thing you want to do is to

:50:08. > :50:12.make them like 50 pence pieces. I know a lot of you are not in the UK

:50:12. > :50:21.and do not know what one looks like but it is not round, Bath the main

:50:21. > :50:28.part of the stories. You cannot afford to wreck best set of tyres.

:50:29. > :50:31.It will be wild tomorrow. Let's see how they line up on the grid today.

:50:31. > :50:36.Coming back to your question which I did not answer, the reason we

:50:36. > :50:40.have got all of the cars out on track is because we have the

:50:40. > :50:44.uncertainty over the weather and we also have uncertainty if someone

:50:44. > :50:49.puts it in the wall and we get a red flag, you get debris on the

:50:49. > :50:58.track and you cannot get a clean lap. We can see Mercedes, Red Bull

:50:59. > :51:08.and a Ferrari, this should be at a formality. This is more of a

:51:09. > :51:14.

:51:14. > :51:19.question of the bottom cars. Alonso is fast as from Heidfeld. A good

:51:19. > :51:23.point on the red flags. We saw three of them in free practice.

:51:23. > :51:27.Basically, the walls are so close to the side of the track that if

:51:27. > :51:33.you have a major incident, you are guaranteed to bring out the red

:51:33. > :51:37.flags. Safety cars are not used in qualifying. Vettel is on a flying

:51:37. > :51:43.lap. He is up against the wall of champions that he went into

:51:43. > :51:47.yesterday afternoon. He is only a couple of tenths faster than

:51:47. > :51:51.Fernando Alonso. We watch Rubens Barrichello heading towards the

:51:51. > :51:56.finish line which has a long way down the pit straight. Later on I

:51:56. > :52:00.think we will see drivers staying to the right-hand side for the

:52:00. > :52:08.shortest route. I say that every year and very few of them do! You

:52:08. > :52:12.often see Lewis doing that. Vettel going even faster on his second lap.

:52:12. > :52:16.That is something we have seen this weekend, they do not have a problem

:52:16. > :52:20.getting the tyres in, they have to take a couple of laps to build up

:52:20. > :52:24.an even pressure and temperature and then the driver builds

:52:24. > :52:29.confidence. If it is all about having confidence in the braking

:52:29. > :52:35.area. As you would imagine when you are approaching two had an mph.

:52:35. > :52:39.is a nice feeling when you can keep creeping up on the braking zones.

:52:39. > :52:47.Hamilton has got himself a bit of traffic ahead in the form of the

:52:47. > :52:57.Hispania. He takes too much of a bite of the Coeur about on the way

:52:57. > :53:05.

:53:05. > :53:09.in. It is not critical for Hamilton yet to have a lap time from

:53:09. > :53:12.d'Ambrosio in the Virgin, de la Rosa for Sauber and Rosberg for

:53:12. > :53:22.Mercedes who is a man I am very much looking forward to seeing how

:53:22. > :53:22.

:53:22. > :53:26.well he does. That is interesting. Jenson was then he was struggling

:53:27. > :53:32.to slow the car down. This is something we often hear from Jenson

:53:32. > :53:36.that he is right and at the rear wing and not able to start the next

:53:36. > :53:40.lap, or we often hear him giving feedback that at that moment in

:53:40. > :53:44.time there is nothing the engineers can do. I understand and then it in

:53:44. > :53:50.lap because you are preparing them to look at key data but why would

:53:50. > :53:58.he be doing battle on a qualifying lap? And why, as we see Alguersuari

:53:58. > :54:03.going for a grassy trip,, again very wide, he is wild, isn't it?

:54:03. > :54:09.That is a man under pressure. Is he about to be replaced by Daniel

:54:09. > :54:14.Ricciardo? He certainly looks like he is not as tidy as he usually is.

:54:14. > :54:21.He will not go quicker on the grass. Alonso is still chasing down Vettel.

:54:21. > :54:26.They are about a quarter of a second adrift. We have two cars

:54:26. > :54:34.outside the 107 % which is d'Ambrosio and Nico Rosberg who is

:54:34. > :54:38.yet to do a competitive lap time. These cars sounds like a bag of

:54:38. > :54:42.nails in slow corners with the exhaust billowing business going on

:54:42. > :54:46.which I think the FIA will stop short leave. It is interesting

:54:47. > :54:51.because our commentary box is above the last chicane so you can really

:54:51. > :54:57.hear it. The most obvious Norway's is coming from the Renault engines,

:54:57. > :55:04.the way they are choosing to blow their exhaust -- the most obvious

:55:04. > :55:11.nor is. In a Ferrari, you do not hear it at all. Who is in the

:55:12. > :55:19.knockout zone at the moment? Alguersuari, Trulli, Liuzzi, Sutil,

:55:19. > :55:25.Glock, Karthikeyan and d'Ambrosio. Alguersuari looks like the first

:55:25. > :55:35.man under pressure. We have Pedro de la Rosa on the auction red fast

:55:35. > :55:40.

:55:40. > :55:47.tyres. Let's see what he can do. -- the option red fast tyres. He makes

:55:47. > :55:56.contact with the wall, twice for good measure. I was going to say he

:55:57. > :56:04.is not familiar with this car. Accord that curb a sausage earlier.

:56:04. > :56:08.I'm not sure that was the quickest way round. When I spoke to him on

:56:08. > :56:12.Thursday he said Nico Rosberg kept that manoeuvre up his sleeve and

:56:12. > :56:22.Michael could not match it. It looks like he tried to take too

:56:22. > :56:27.

:56:27. > :56:31.much of it.: So is up to the one minute 13s. -- Alonso. Button is up

:56:31. > :56:38.in fourth. Rosberg in sixth and seventh for Mercedes Benz. Let's

:56:38. > :56:48.see how Hamilton text this last chicane. That was sweet. That was

:56:48. > :56:49.

:56:49. > :56:58.beautiful. No movement at will, no correction. 1:14.1 is his lap time.

:56:58. > :57:08.It is a few tenths down on what Alonso could deliver. Alonso pets

:57:08. > :57:28.

:57:28. > :57:33.Karthikeyan and d'Ambrosio outside 10 in every practice session. He

:57:33. > :57:38.really seems to have settled in very quickly to this race track.

:57:38. > :57:43.has had good performance in the past. He has got his eye in here

:57:43. > :57:53.very early. I think in his short career he has gone from strength to

:57:53. > :57:53.

:57:53. > :57:59.strength. Let's take stock with seven minutes remaining. Kovalainen

:57:59. > :58:05.is now head of Alguersuari doing a fine job for Lotus. He is a tenth

:58:05. > :58:15.behind Kobayashi and Maldonado as well. That is a great lap from

:58:15. > :58:15.

:58:15. > :58:21.Heikki Kovalainen in the Lotus. Alguersuari is down to 19th. The

:58:21. > :58:26.107 % rule applies only to qualify and one, this 20 minutes. Two of

:58:26. > :58:31.them are outside this at the moment. Ted has some news. We are hearing

:58:31. > :58:36.from the team radio is Alguersuari's problem is too much

:58:36. > :58:41.understeer, particularly in the middle of the corners and his

:58:41. > :58:46.suffering from braking. Amazingly, I have seen Pedro de la Rosa coming

:58:46. > :58:52.out again. His steering columns were not affected by him hitting

:58:52. > :58:59.the wall. He is out again in the Sauber. Good timing, we were just

:58:59. > :59:05.replaying that as you were talking about it. Is it safe to throw a

:59:05. > :59:10.driver out made Grand Prix weekend on a track like this? I don't think

:59:10. > :59:15.there is an exact answer. You have to take a calculated guess as to

:59:15. > :59:20.where the you think the guy has the experience and is capable of

:59:20. > :59:25.learning all the systems. There is no question about the amount of

:59:25. > :59:31.controls the driver has on the steering wheel, there is a lot more

:59:31. > :59:35.workload and the drivers were complaining about this pre-season

:59:35. > :59:39.saying they had too many things to do. Maybe this is a perfect example.

:59:39. > :59:43.There is no question that Pedro nose had to drive a racing car and

:59:43. > :59:53.if he could just concentrate on braking, steering and getting on

:59:53. > :00:00.

:00:00. > :00:04.the power, we could Pacini presume getting close to the record, which

:00:04. > :00:08.was set with three-litre engines? If you go back in time, you had

:00:08. > :00:11.turbo engines with over 1000 was power. But the cars didn't like

:00:11. > :00:15.going around corners. What we see in Formula One, despite the

:00:15. > :00:19.regulations been changed to try to control top speeds, it highlights

:00:19. > :00:23.how clever the designers and engineers are. They always find new

:00:23. > :00:27.ways to exploit it... Well, they created new technology. That's

:00:27. > :00:30.played out on the racetrack. This is a great example of why Formula

:00:31. > :00:35.One is such a great development and proving ground. It looks like we

:00:35. > :00:40.could have a mighty fast race, the tide of grip that the tyres are

:00:40. > :00:43.giving up? The track temperature is 25 degrees. Free practice yesterday

:00:43. > :00:48.was 40 degrees. It's a be mini to try to explain, the challenge that

:00:48. > :00:52.means for the engineers and drivers, it significantly changes the way

:00:52. > :00:57.that the car feels on the track. When the track is warm, it feels

:00:57. > :01:00.greasy. These are perfect conditions for record times. It's

:01:00. > :01:06.confusing when the tyres are running at 100 degrees centigrade,

:01:06. > :01:12.what difference should it make that the track as ten degrees hotter?

:01:12. > :01:22.But he is the emulsion, the oil on top of the track itself. Three-and-

:01:22. > :01:23.

:01:23. > :01:30.a-half minutes remaining. No great surprise in the top 10. The left

:01:30. > :01:37.front, as you turn into the corner, the suspension pushers and your

:01:37. > :01:42.tyre. He's complained of understeer, but if you are relying on your

:01:42. > :01:46.outer wheels, you are going to understeer. For a wheel to turn,

:01:46. > :01:52.into a corner, it's also got to be spinning around to give you the

:01:52. > :01:56.grip that you need. Let's have a look a little bit further down.

:01:56. > :02:06.Mark Webber put in a few good laps, but he still only sixth plays. He

:02:06. > :02:12.

:02:12. > :02:22.did not run this morning, these are seventh place. Kobayashi is in the

:02:22. > :02:26.

:02:26. > :02:36.dangers and. Behind his team-mate, middle sector, Pedrosa. Overall,

:02:36. > :02:41.

:02:41. > :02:45.he's improved, he Kobayashi is on a hot clap himself. Aga saga has done

:02:45. > :02:55.two personal bests. He's fighting back, the young Spaniard, for Toro

:02:55. > :03:03.

:03:03. > :03:07.qualified by his then team-mate, Pedro de la Rosa. He was on a good

:03:08. > :03:12.lap, but his drop some time in the middle sectors. He's really under

:03:12. > :03:15.pressure. Can he get round to do another lap? Let's look at the

:03:15. > :03:20.Circuit Guide to see where he is. He's just committed the last

:03:20. > :03:25.chicane. This will be his one and only lap to get him out of that

:03:25. > :03:30.drop zone. He's a man we speak very highly of, Kamui Kobayashi. He had

:03:30. > :03:35.a big shunt yesterday and looks a bit out of sorts on its racetrack,

:03:35. > :03:44.as you reminded us, de la Rosa qualified last year. We have a

:03:44. > :03:47.spinner. That is the HRT of Vitantonio Liuzzi. If you don't

:03:47. > :03:53.have all of your wheels on the tarmac, you're not going to get a

:03:53. > :03:56.good turn. He's the head of Timo Glock, on a better lap. That yellow

:03:56. > :04:00.flags around that zone, so drivers have to back off. They are not

:04:00. > :04:10.allowed to do their fastest sectors passing the marshals and passing

:04:10. > :04:18.

:04:18. > :04:28.We are watching Kobayashi as well. Meanwhile, Jarno Trulli crosses the

:04:28. > :04:28.

:04:28. > :04:33.line. That is a slower lap. He will start the race in 20th Place. This

:04:33. > :04:36.is the Sauber of Kobayashi. This needs to be very special. Stays

:04:36. > :04:43.slightly to the right, for the shortest route to the line. He

:04:43. > :04:48.doesn't do that. I never understand... And his in. 14th

:04:48. > :04:54.place for Kobayashi. Kovalainen, personal best in the middle sector,

:04:54. > :05:00.has his final effort. He stays 19th, he does not go faster. Alguersuari

:05:00. > :05:10.is out at the moment. He's out in the pits, the first big Forlan of

:05:10. > :05:25.

:05:25. > :05:33.out. 18.5 is his best lap. Just fractionally behind Timo Glock.

:05:33. > :05:37.D'Ambrosio is outside the won by 7% rule for Virgin Racing. Trulli is

:05:37. > :05:43.still going for it. Half a second behind his team-mate, not any

:05:43. > :05:53.longer, just in front of him. Jarno Trulli is out-qualifying Kovalainen

:05:53. > :06:00.for the first time this year. Race seven. He will start 19th. We had a

:06:00. > :06:10.replay of Liuzzi spinning. He starts 21st. He had qualified Timo

:06:10. > :06:16.

:06:16. > :06:21.he is trying to replace, Jaime Alguersuari. He will take no

:06:21. > :06:31.further part in today's qualifying. Michael Schumacher was 11th.

:06:31. > :06:33.

:06:33. > :06:43.Rosberg was 9th. Alonso remained the fastest. Alguersuari is out.

:06:43. > :06:44.

:06:44. > :06:46.Dock, d'Ambrosio, they all become the cut-and-thrust, it's about

:06:46. > :06:52.scoring points over your team-mate and having a good place to start at

:06:52. > :06:57.the back. It looks like that man is not going to be starting at all,

:06:57. > :07:03.Jerome d'Ambrosio, the of December Central that exists to make sure

:07:03. > :07:06.that cars that are too slow down take part. D'Ambrosio doesn't take

:07:06. > :07:11.part. The stewards have the option to put the drive into the race.

:07:11. > :07:15.What do you expect to happen? rules are the rules. We go out to

:07:15. > :07:19.race on the rules that we know about. I don't see the stewards

:07:19. > :07:23.making an exception. I certainly don't see it here. Unless there is

:07:23. > :07:26.a compelling argument, and I'm not aware of that. As talk about the

:07:26. > :07:34.stories at the back of the grid, they are just as important are the

:07:34. > :07:40.teams at the back. Alguersuari, he went out in Monaco, the same

:07:40. > :07:45.happens to him here, how much longer would you keep him in that

:07:45. > :07:52.car if he was driving for you? had his chance, he's got talent,

:07:52. > :07:56.he's a very good talent. He's he quick enough? Could you see him as

:07:56. > :08:02.a replacement for that four? At the idea of that placement. You'd have

:08:02. > :08:07.to say that is unlikely. Even given the dire chants, he's taken a good

:08:07. > :08:13.racing career, -- you have given Pagai a chance, but it's not been

:08:13. > :08:16.good enough. They need to find someone to replace Mark Webber.

:08:16. > :08:21.came into Formula One, having never tested an F1 car before. He's a

:08:21. > :08:26.young guy. But this is not a business where sympathy plays any

:08:26. > :08:30.role. You've got to deliver. The pressures and the stress are very

:08:30. > :08:34.evident for everyone to save. It's no different in this particular

:08:34. > :08:38.case. Alguersuari is not enough in that car at the moment. He's under

:08:38. > :08:42.pressure. So, he goes out in the first part of qualifying. At the

:08:42. > :08:47.other end of the age spectrum, we mentioned two drivers in their 40s

:08:47. > :08:50.taking part in Formula One for the first time in over 30 years. One of

:08:50. > :08:55.those is Pedro de la Rosa. The last thing he wanted was to slip off the

:08:55. > :09:00.track again. He was a bit lucky? Well, let's not get me on two

:09:00. > :09:04.things about drivers over 40. I think that Pedro shouldn't be here.

:09:04. > :09:08.He's a good guy and everybody loves him, but at 40 years of age, please

:09:08. > :09:11.tell me what is happening with Sauber? Were they not be better

:09:11. > :09:14.served putting a young driver in the car that could give them a

:09:14. > :09:18.better chance or at least look at somebody for the future? This was a

:09:18. > :09:23.mistake, he shouldn't have glanced off the wall. He knew that the team

:09:23. > :09:26.needed continuity, it needed to be on the track. It doesn't need to be

:09:26. > :09:30.preparing wishbones, uprights and wheels. He should have allowed that

:09:31. > :09:34.to happen. Peter Sauber loves young drivers, he loves giving them a

:09:34. > :09:39.chance. It got Gutierrez. He sent a tweet yesterday saying he was ready

:09:39. > :09:43.but he had no idea this was going to happen. Surely, in Formula One,

:09:43. > :09:47.the number-one motor sport in the world, you come prepared, you have

:09:47. > :09:52.your reserve driver, particularly two weeks after a rookie has had a

:09:52. > :09:57.big accident? I went to the team and I spoke at length about how

:09:57. > :10:01.this can have happened, of all the times, the most opportune position

:10:01. > :10:06.that Gutierrez should have had, to be here. Why he is not here is

:10:06. > :10:10.beyond me. If I was his manager, or if I was Peter Sauber, I would have

:10:10. > :10:14.insisted we had proper ballot -- buck up. We talked about Pedro,

:10:14. > :10:18.saying it wasn't his seat, it was different pedals. Gutierrez would

:10:18. > :10:22.have had all of that, with the team. I think it was an oversight. I

:10:22. > :10:26.think you've seen that it was a mistake. Another one of your former

:10:26. > :10:30.drivers, Jarno Trulli, out- qualifying Kovalainen, his team-

:10:30. > :10:36.mate, for the first time this year. Not a big story in the grand scheme

:10:36. > :10:40.of things, but it's a big deal for him? He needed to. He has a

:10:40. > :10:43.qualifying lap that's better than anybody else. We've seen it so many

:10:43. > :10:48.times in the past. In recent years, his lost that. He will be pleased

:10:49. > :10:53.to make sure he is actually at qualifying his team-mate. But

:10:53. > :11:03.another one under pressure, I think. The wind is picking up. I suppose

:11:03. > :11:04.

:11:04. > :11:08.we can have a look at the island. The umbrellas aren't up, but they

:11:08. > :11:16.may be before long. Pretty over cast at the moment. Look at a huge

:11:16. > :11:19.grandstand. Let's go back to David Coulthard. There is a big

:11:19. > :11:23.opportunity for the likes of Renault, Force India, to get

:11:23. > :11:30.themselves a good spot in qualifying? The midfield is very

:11:30. > :11:36.competitive. Many of those will fancy being in the top 10 should

:11:36. > :11:41.out. Can Michael Schumacher hang on? Another driver over 40 years

:11:41. > :11:51.old, but he's a man who must surely fancy his chances of still being in

:11:51. > :11:56.

:11:56. > :12:00.qualifying. 15 minutes. Then it starts to get serious. They will

:12:00. > :12:04.have to really be careful, exactly when they get their laps in, which

:12:04. > :12:11.tyres they are on. Errors will be heavily punished. It's a relatively

:12:11. > :12:18.short lap, 74 seconds. Every 10th will count, especially in that very

:12:18. > :12:23.competitive midfield. Around six, even down to 17, actually,

:12:23. > :12:29.Schumacher, with a brand new shiny set of the super soft option tyres

:12:29. > :12:36.that we know to be about one second per lap faster, depending on the

:12:36. > :12:39.car. BRS, you can use it for well over the lap in qualifying. Derek

:12:39. > :12:43.two places you can use it in the race. We'll talk about that

:12:43. > :12:47.tomorrow. They say the Mercedes version is more effective? They do.

:12:47. > :12:53.They say a lot of things in Formula One. We are going to find out

:12:53. > :12:57.tomorrow. They do have that double activation point. In qualifying,

:12:57. > :13:02.you are able to use it everywhere that the driver feels brave enough

:13:02. > :13:06.to handle that aero balance shift that inevitably happens when you

:13:06. > :13:10.open the rear wing. You can see it on the Sauber. That is in the

:13:10. > :13:16.closed position. It is watching accelerating. Here is the white

:13:16. > :13:19.line, the activation, sorry, the detection point. The second white

:13:19. > :13:22.line is the activation. Accra during racing conditions.

:13:22. > :13:26.Qualifying, they can run it everywhere that the driver wants,

:13:26. > :13:31.to get his finger on that button and get the benefit of the extra

:13:31. > :13:35.top speed. A good example, Maldonado, in the Williams. Had it

:13:35. > :13:40.open in the way into that first chicane. He will use all of the

:13:40. > :13:48.downforce and then he will poppet open at letterbox, as you have been

:13:48. > :13:58.referring to it, a big slide. In the case of Moll de Niro, he got

:13:58. > :14:06.out of it daily. -- Maldonado. saw the Tim Mercedes Benz go out

:14:06. > :14:11.with the option tyre. The faster option. Out there, doing good

:14:11. > :14:17.sector times at the moment. Ted has got some news. Just on tyres, just

:14:17. > :14:23.to confirm that you have Maldonado on the softer options. Also,

:14:23. > :14:26.Barrichello. Williams are doing something different, maybe they are

:14:26. > :14:33.saving the soft tyres for the raise? Looks at the moment that

:14:33. > :14:39.it's not helping Maldonado who find his confidence. He is getting

:14:39. > :14:44.temperature into those tyres. This isn't done to help his confidence.

:14:44. > :14:50.Inevitably, he will need to put a set of super softs on to secure his

:14:50. > :14:55.place in the final test. That is slow, even despite the tyres. He

:14:55. > :15:03.didn't trouble the apex too much around back lap. He does look quite

:15:03. > :15:08.a often out of control to me, but the stopwatch says defiantly.

:15:08. > :15:17.That wasn't particularly fast them. Let's see what he is able to

:15:17. > :15:24.deliver on the next lap. Sutil crosses the line. Petrov his

:15:24. > :15:28.fastest from Heidfeld. The two Renaults the fastest by a country

:15:28. > :15:33.mile. 17 cars on the racetrack. The track temperature has dropped down

:15:33. > :15:43.slightly to 24. Sebastian Vettel is the man on the move, we are on

:15:43. > :15:43.

:15:43. > :15:52.board with Mark Webber, who has the faster tyres as well. He is about

:15:52. > :15:57.510ths of a lap slower than better. He's marginally ahead of petrol.

:15:57. > :16:00.There is Jenson Button on the faster tyre. He's gone fastest on a

:16:00. > :16:05.14.2. They are still not anywhere near the times that we saw earlier.

:16:05. > :16:12.Now they are beginning to build some pace. Button, from Webber.

:16:12. > :16:22.That oar has gone fast, he's on 13.690. That's the fastest lap we

:16:22. > :16:25.

:16:25. > :16:35.pole position with that. Unfortunately, a trip across the

:16:35. > :16:39.

:16:39. > :16:44.he does not get a penalty for that. He was trying to stay out of the

:16:44. > :16:53.way but not hard enough, in my view. It was interesting. Michael back

:16:53. > :17:01.fired out of it. Michael is very cunning. Mark Webber finishes his

:17:01. > :17:07.lap. He goes fastest. He did not get the benefit of practice this

:17:07. > :17:14.morning but he is finding his form now. Hamilton on a better lap. He

:17:14. > :17:24.goes before about one. He is three- tenths of fastest. Alonso has now

:17:24. > :17:34.

:17:34. > :17:40.and a top 10 and Kobayashi. Ted. has come backing for the super soft

:17:40. > :17:46.tyres. Martin, have I got time to realise what Michael realised with

:17:46. > :17:51.Alonso? He is clever enough to realise that if Massa was given a

:17:51. > :17:55.penalty for impeding him there, he will lose his fastest time. Michael

:17:55. > :18:00.as fast -- smart enough to know that might give him a better grid

:18:00. > :18:05.position. At 200 miles an hour, you think he is thinking about that,

:18:05. > :18:12.are you sure? The guy won seven world championships, he knows how

:18:12. > :18:18.to have a clear head in a race car. NASA will still loitering with

:18:18. > :18:25.intent to do what? This is one of the areas of run-off, the last

:18:25. > :18:29.chicane. You have the benefit of seeing Jenson slotting it through

:18:29. > :18:36.there. Not quite as tidy as we saw with Lewis Hamilton but he does

:18:36. > :18:42.keep well to the right. He has delivered P6. Only three-tenths

:18:42. > :18:47.away from the fastest man at the moment, Mark Webber. We have three-

:18:47. > :18:57.tenths of a second covering the top six drivers as Vettel has another

:18:57. > :19:20.

:19:20. > :19:30.bests. He drops in. We have seven drivers within three-tenths of a

:19:30. > :19:36.

:19:37. > :19:41.second, Littlemore than a flicker regroup and rethink. Massa is

:19:41. > :19:46.staying out and going faster than anybody in the first sector. He

:19:46. > :19:51.wants to have another bite of getting right in there. Heading

:19:51. > :19:57.down towards the chicane of turn 8 and 9. It is always bumpy on the

:19:57. > :20:01.braking zone there. This is a circuit which is part road and Park

:20:01. > :20:06.racetrack. There is a 60 degree variation in the weather in

:20:06. > :20:10.Montreal so the pavements and roads take quite a pounding and Massa is

:20:10. > :20:15.flying. He looks more comfortable here than he has for some time. He

:20:15. > :20:19.says this was the best preparation they have had all season so far,

:20:20. > :20:23.here in Montreal. He was very happy last night. If he gets this chicane

:20:23. > :20:30.right, I think he will be very happy at the end of this straight

:20:30. > :20:37.as well. Massa crosses the line and it does the fastest time sofa,

:20:37. > :20:43.1:13.4. This is not for the top 10 on the grid, it is to choose the

:20:43. > :20:53.top 10 who will go forward into the shoot-out. We are now sorting at 11

:20:53. > :21:02.

:21:02. > :21:09.lap Badsworth talking about just yet. He is struggling that he has

:21:09. > :21:15.got plenty of time left. I used seeing any surprises, David?

:21:15. > :21:22.think I was expecting Mercedes to be among the mix for the fastest

:21:22. > :21:27.time. They did show a little bit more pace through practice as you

:21:27. > :21:30.rightly say. This is not about delivering the absolutely fastest

:21:30. > :21:37.lap that you are capable of doing, they hope to get through the next

:21:37. > :21:43.part of qualifying. A free look at Rubens here, he is coming to the

:21:43. > :21:50.biggest braking point on the track, he slows the car down and then gets

:21:50. > :21:55.all the drive he possibly can on but turn. Opens the D ers, uses the

:21:55. > :21:59.KERS, but of the buttons and then he tries to do the line of least

:21:59. > :22:09.resistance and picking his braking point into the last chicane. He

:22:09. > :22:19.looked a bit cautious. It did not look like a man committed. His 16th.

:22:19. > :22:30.

:22:30. > :22:36.racing in Montreal. He has had a difficult weekend, Peter Sauber. He

:22:36. > :22:40.has won driver gone home poorly, both cars in the war that some

:22:40. > :22:45.point. De la Rosa has been in the wall a couple of times. He had to

:22:45. > :22:53.rehire the guy he fired last year. Peter Sauber is having the weekend

:22:53. > :22:58.from hell. Did you see di Resta going through turn two? That Force

:22:58. > :23:04.India has massive low-speed grip. It is it because it has a lot of

:23:04. > :23:08.role or is it raw grip? To lift the front wheel you have to be

:23:08. > :23:12.collapsing the rear so there may be soft on the rear spring.

:23:12. > :23:20.Nonetheless, it looks like he has got good performance. He has

:23:20. > :23:30.delivered his fastest first sector. He is currently in 12th place. He

:23:30. > :23:37.has lost a bit of time. This will maybe not be enough to get him

:23:37. > :23:42.throw-in to the top 10. Allan McNish, the man who was one of the

:23:42. > :23:52.stewards in Monaco, had to penalise and give Paul a drive through be

:23:52. > :24:01.you have to give -- you have put those things to one side. 11th

:24:01. > :24:05.place. Frustrating for Paul di Resta. Ted has more news.

:24:05. > :24:08.McLaren and their gamble to run more rear wing downforce because

:24:08. > :24:17.they are expecting wet conditions tomorrow, it is not hurting them

:24:17. > :24:27.too bad. They are only a couple of feet Kay's of the fastest but that

:24:27. > :24:31.

:24:31. > :24:39.does have -- they can use the rear wing... The cars Aaron parc ferme

:24:39. > :24:47.conditions -- the cars are in parc ferme conditions. They have to cope

:24:48. > :24:53.with low fuel, the wing Wide Open and then tomorrow, he was well out

:24:53. > :25:03.of shape in the braking zone. That was a bit too brave for kerb by

:25:03. > :25:14.

:25:14. > :25:23.Ashley. -- Kobayashi. It could be the way they have got their KERS in.

:25:23. > :25:30.The KERS system, the way it recovers the energy two I am just

:25:30. > :25:34.watching out of the commentary box. The way it is recovering the energy

:25:34. > :25:40.is in the braking phase. They have to run a much more forward to brake

:25:40. > :25:46.balance when they have got the kerbs in its most powerful mode.

:25:46. > :25:53.Maybe in this case he had on the wrong setting. The way it looks to

:25:53. > :26:03.me, the top nine are not bothering to go out again. Heidfeld has got

:26:03. > :26:04.

:26:04. > :26:14.himself into tenth. Di Resta is going again. They all rather. --

:26:14. > :26:15.

:26:15. > :26:25.they are all out there, desperately fighting. Here is de la Rosa. He

:26:25. > :26:30.

:26:30. > :26:40.stays 17th. He will start the Grand Prix. He stays slightly right. Di

:26:40. > :26:40.

:26:40. > :26:50.Resta remains in 11th place. Maldonado is 15 per at the moment.

:26:50. > :26:50.

:26:50. > :26:57.Two personal best so far. He goes up to 12th. Kobayashi remains in

:26:57. > :27:07.30th place. Sutil wants to out- qualified di Resta for the second

:27:07. > :27:28.

:27:28. > :27:33.time this year. Sutil stays in 14th. and getting it all out of shape. I

:27:33. > :27:39.guess you have got to push that hard, you cannot leave any time on

:27:39. > :27:43.the table and that means... They beautiful power slide from

:27:44. > :27:50.Kobayashi. He is sliding towards the wall but he has still got his

:27:50. > :28:00.foot in. That is why the fans love can Marie Kobayashi, he gives it

:28:00. > :28:11.

:28:11. > :28:21.his best. It is 13th only on the without a surplus of tyres is Nick

:28:21. > :28:25.

:28:25. > :28:35.Heidfeld. Both Renaults RN. -- are in. We look forward to when it

:28:35. > :28:39.

:28:39. > :28:43.really counts, the top 10 shoot-out preparing in the Formula One

:28:43. > :28:49.Ferrari garage. The grandstands are full as ever. The fans are enjoying

:28:49. > :28:55.the session. Timo Glock from Virgin Racing is with us. You start 22nd

:28:55. > :29:00.on the grid for this Grand Prix. The chat you had with Eddie was

:29:00. > :29:05.about the top speed of their car. Is that the most important factor?

:29:05. > :29:13.We gambler bit because on Thursday, Friday, it was clear it would be

:29:13. > :29:16.wet over the weekend. We had nothing to lose. We put the maximum

:29:16. > :29:22.downforce on the car. When we came in this morning, the weather

:29:22. > :29:26.changed a bit and it looked like it would be dry. That cost us a lot of

:29:26. > :29:33.top speed. We are struggling to get the best out of the car. It was

:29:33. > :29:43.quite close with HRT. I managed to get a good lap out of it and like I

:29:43. > :29:47.

:29:47. > :29:51.progress you would expect in a second season of racing here in

:29:51. > :29:55.Virgin does not seem to be there? It's not frustrating. You know, we

:29:55. > :29:59.are where we are at the moment and we have to get the best out of it.

:29:59. > :30:06.It doesn't make sense to be disappointed if and whatever,

:30:06. > :30:08.negative. We just have to make the best out of now. I think we made

:30:08. > :30:12.some serious changes for the future which should give us a positive

:30:12. > :30:18.direction. But it's still a long way to go for us. I think we

:30:18. > :30:24.learned out of our mistakes and we'll do it right in the future.

:30:24. > :30:28.Timo Glock starts in 22nd. It looks like his team-mate will not start

:30:28. > :30:34.at all. We'll wait to see what the stewards say, but we don't expect

:30:34. > :30:39.there to be two Virgins on the grid. These guys love motor racing, a

:30:39. > :30:43.love coming and watching on the monitors. You enjoyed Kobayashi

:30:43. > :30:47.keeping his foot on the power, spinning it around, as he got

:30:47. > :30:50.closer to the wall? It looked like he wanted to get close as he could

:30:51. > :30:54.to the wall, for sure he didn't do it on purpose. He just wanted to

:30:54. > :31:01.squeeze everything out of the car. I think everyone was very close

:31:01. > :31:07.already to the wall. We had a lovely chuckle. Honestly, that is

:31:07. > :31:13.what people, not just the fans, but those guys here, me included, that

:31:13. > :31:18.was spectacular. That is why we like Kobayashi. As much a Formula

:31:18. > :31:22.One fan as you are a driver, you have to love it? Yes, as I said, we

:31:22. > :31:26.are where we are, but I still love what I am doing and it is the same

:31:26. > :31:28.for the rest. When you stick around and talk to us about what you

:31:28. > :31:33.expect to happen in the rest of qualifying in a minute? Have you

:31:33. > :31:37.got time for that? I think Sebastian will be pulling out a lap

:31:37. > :31:41.again like he did in the past, the engine on full power and whatever.

:31:41. > :31:45.Super quick. We'll talk about that in a moment. Let's hear from Jarno

:31:45. > :31:49.Trulli, who, for the first time this season, has out-qualified his

:31:49. > :31:52.team-mate. Well done. A good day for yourself

:31:52. > :32:00.and do manage to out-qualified or to make for the first time. You

:32:01. > :32:06.must be pleased? -- out-qualify your team-mate. Great, especially

:32:06. > :32:09.with the steering, it means I can get my best out of the car. I was a

:32:09. > :32:13.little bit concerned. Yesterday I felt very comfortable in the car,

:32:13. > :32:19.with the brakes and everything. Since this morning, I was

:32:19. > :32:24.struggling a lot with the brakes. I had to change them at the very last

:32:25. > :32:28.minute, all of the spec. It wasn't an easy thing to do on qualifying.

:32:28. > :32:32.But I'm happy for the team because we are getting closer. Well, he's

:32:32. > :32:36.got a smile on his face for the first time in qualifying. Time for

:32:36. > :32:41.the top 10 pole position should out. Explain to us what you need on your

:32:41. > :32:46.car to fly here. What sort of car thrives around this Canadian track?

:32:46. > :32:54.For sure, it has to be quick on the straights, good over the kerbs.

:32:54. > :32:57.Very consistent. It looks like Red Bull and Vettel have a set-up that

:32:57. > :33:01.they run a pretty much everywhere, and they have the confidence for

:33:01. > :33:05.him to squeeze that extra out in every run that he is doing. Maybe

:33:05. > :33:15.that's the reason he's ahead of everyone at the moment. He tips

:33:15. > :33:17.

:33:17. > :33:22.Sebastian Vettel to be the man on of the boys on Q2. But you could

:33:22. > :33:27.still be out there? Maybe the tyre choice, we opted to save a set for

:33:27. > :33:33.tomorrow. Maybe if I had put that together as I was supposed to,

:33:33. > :33:38.there was a small mistake, being connected to the second chicane.

:33:38. > :33:41.Certainly there was not much left. Probably on a better position,

:33:41. > :33:45.starting on a clean set of the track, having an extra set tomorrow.

:33:45. > :33:48.It's a track which suits a brave car and driver, it seemed to be

:33:48. > :33:52.seeking you well? So once we started at the weekend, the car has

:33:52. > :33:59.been working well. The package seems to work, lower downforce. The

:33:59. > :34:03.track is all about commitment. It seems to have built a pretty

:34:03. > :34:08.quickly. The long runs looked good, it's quite promising for the race

:34:08. > :34:11.to go forward. It was tough for Paul. He was so

:34:11. > :34:16.close to making it into the top 10. This is it, the pole position

:34:16. > :34:20.should out. It's all about these things. Do you save a set of tyres,

:34:21. > :34:24.do you go for position on the grid, what are we going to say? It's very

:34:24. > :34:27.clear, position on the grid. These things might not come into play,

:34:27. > :34:32.the forecasts are looking like wet. Qualifying is the most important

:34:32. > :34:38.factor. Give me the man that will be on pole position. It's very hard,

:34:38. > :34:42.top six are split by a couple of 10ths. Any man could be there, but

:34:42. > :34:46.you've got to go for that oar. of that talk and you still go for

:34:46. > :34:51.better. Let's find out he will be on pole for the 2011 Canadian Grand

:34:51. > :34:58.Prix. Under way already, 10 minutes to

:34:58. > :35:08.see who is hot, who is not, who has got a lot of speed. A 2.7 mile

:35:08. > :35:14.

:35:14. > :35:19.circuit. Will we say a lap in this 72 point-something seconds? How do

:35:19. > :35:21.you see it going? You've got to get as high up the grade as possible.

:35:21. > :35:26.Even if you've got changeable conditions tomorrow, historically

:35:26. > :35:31.we've seen a lot of incidents in that first 10. With the way that

:35:31. > :35:35.tyres are appearing to last, like we saw in Monaco, I don't see why

:35:35. > :35:39.you would do anything other than run your fastest car in qualifying.

:35:39. > :35:44.No saving tyres, get as far up the grid as possible. So it's not like

:35:44. > :35:50.the races we have had in recent times, way you think about how grid

:35:50. > :35:54.position doesn't happen, even with double DRS tomorrow, you say that

:35:54. > :35:58.tyres are fine for the race Sub Focus 100% of qualifying? I believe

:35:58. > :36:03.that is what we are going to see right now. Referring back to what

:36:04. > :36:07.Ted mentioned, the only thing that is a compromise is that if McLaren

:36:07. > :36:12.have put on a little bit more wind, expecting it to be wet, then that

:36:12. > :36:16.might have compromised their pace. But that's a strategy that teams

:36:17. > :36:19.have got to make. Whatever decision they have made, you have to throw

:36:20. > :36:25.everything at getting the best grid position possible. They're not too

:36:25. > :36:31.many incidents, too many Sirte cars to risk it. It's going to be all

:36:31. > :36:36.about who is bravest into the final chicane. Ted has got some news?

:36:36. > :36:42.of the top guys, everybody in the session I can see, is out on the

:36:42. > :36:46.super soft tyre. There was a shot on the feed in the break of three

:36:46. > :36:51.fans cooling the KERS and the engine of Mark Webber's Red Bull.

:36:51. > :36:58.That was significant. So, Ted telling us that the drivers have

:36:58. > :37:03.gone out with the idea of doing four laps in total. The fact that

:37:03. > :37:07.we've got eight of the 10 on track at the moment, the two who are not,

:37:07. > :37:12.Mercedes Benz, it looks like they will go on a one runs. Rosberg

:37:12. > :37:17.leaves the pit. Surely the rest of them are, as you suggested, heading

:37:17. > :37:22.for a couple of runs? Jenson Button, there, for McLaren. He's looked

:37:22. > :37:26.like he is just about in touch. But can he threaten the front row of

:37:26. > :37:34.the grid? Sebastian Vettel has never been higher than third place,

:37:34. > :37:42.as we are watching Nick Heidfeld underneath us, running wide. A

:37:42. > :37:48.short cut in the final chicane, actually. Webber, with Heidfeld.

:37:48. > :37:53.Webber has only done a 15.2. Hamilton does a 13.9, coming down

:37:53. > :38:03.the right hand side of the track. Normally you only do that on your

:38:03. > :38:05.

:38:05. > :38:09.final part of the run, but he's anywhere. It is that oar that is

:38:09. > :38:14.stealing the fastest sectors, there's a surprise. Felipe Massa

:38:14. > :38:19.crosses the line with a 13.8, going ahead of Hamilton. Hamilton is on a

:38:19. > :38:23.better lap. It's the second lap that's going to matter. Better goes

:38:23. > :38:33.around the outside of Nico Rosberg's Mercedes. There we go,

:38:33. > :38:33.

:38:33. > :38:38.just flicking across those curves. Vettel, a 13.0! Not quite into the

:38:38. > :38:43.one minute 12s, but presumably they have cranked the engine up? This is

:38:43. > :38:48.everything they've got, the fastest lap that he's done around this

:38:48. > :38:53.track this weekend. His best was 13.3. We are on board with Mark

:38:53. > :39:02.Webber. He's going to be some way short, I would say. Vettel has done

:39:02. > :39:09.quickest again in his first sector. Hamilton's second lap get some that

:39:09. > :39:15.two-thirds, a second behind second- placed Webber. Massa 4th, Alonso,

:39:15. > :39:21.we are on board with him. On the total, in the middle of the chicane.

:39:21. > :39:27.Keeping it to the right, for the shortest route. Alonso go second on

:39:27. > :39:33.a 13.4. Massa follows him up with a 13.292 and goes second. Red Bull

:39:33. > :39:36.from Ferrari, Ferrari, Red Bull, then McLaren, McLaren. Surely,

:39:36. > :39:39.McLaren have got something better than that to show us this

:39:39. > :39:43.afternoon? They came here full of confidence, especially in

:39:44. > :39:48.qualifying. They could have wood the last two races. They are saying,

:39:48. > :39:51.we are going to be stronger in qualifying. That is what is going

:39:51. > :39:57.to make the difference. Unfortunately, not the case? They

:39:57. > :40:00.have looked mighty on the brakes in pre-practice. But something is not

:40:00. > :40:05.delivering on the performance. It can only be the amount of time they

:40:05. > :40:13.are spending in the turn. Great performance from Felipe Massa. No

:40:13. > :40:23.mean feat. Massa need a strong performance. No doubt about it.

:40:23. > :40:24.

:40:24. > :40:29.Nico Rosberg is a couple of 10ths shy in that second sector. In the

:40:29. > :40:35.shadow of the bridge. We saw the most terrifying accident there once,

:40:35. > :40:39.where a manhole cover came up and ripped through a fuel tank, tore

:40:39. > :40:43.the car in half. Luckily, the F1 S That couldn't go on that side of

:40:43. > :40:53.the road. He's nearly half a second shy by the time he gets down to the

:40:53. > :40:54.

:40:54. > :40:58.turn. Very quick down the straights, we think the DRS rear wing is about

:40:58. > :41:01.four miles an hour more efficient than some of them down there.

:41:01. > :41:07.Rosberg, a man who shone in the early practice sessions. His 9th at

:41:07. > :41:17.the moment. He gets himself only as high as sixth. That will be a

:41:17. > :41:20.

:41:20. > :41:24.surprise. That will be a surprise affecting Mercedes the most.

:41:24. > :41:28.Michael Schumacher, doing what is presumably going to be his only run

:41:28. > :41:32.of the session. It will be interesting to see exactly where he

:41:32. > :41:35.slots in. He's coming down the last sector, maybe we will stay with him.

:41:35. > :41:40.It would be nice to get an image of him coming through the last chicane.

:41:40. > :41:47.Here we are, thank you, Mr Director! That looks very steady,

:41:48. > :41:52.in fact. Didn't look very committed to that last term. Pedestrian was

:41:52. > :41:57.the word I was going to come up with. Presumably he made a mistake

:41:57. > :42:00.out there. Just wanted to bring us tyres in a little bit more slowly.

:42:00. > :42:04.McLaren comes into his field of vision, but not in his way. We not

:42:04. > :42:07.heard anything about him getting held up by Massa earlier on,

:42:07. > :42:11.nothing on the computer screen about that. Schumacher is under

:42:11. > :42:18.pressure. Interestingly, he didn't even use all of the road on the

:42:18. > :42:23.exit of turn... What was it, turn four. What is he doing? He is

:42:23. > :42:27.leaving himself only one flying lap. Is currently 10th, he can't get any

:42:27. > :42:31.more than that. But he is weaving, he wants to bring his tyres in, it

:42:31. > :42:34.seems. He's going to surprise us in a minute, that is what he's going

:42:34. > :42:37.to do a. At the moment, he's coasting around. Unless he has a

:42:37. > :42:47.rabbit in the cockpit, I don't think we are going to be that

:42:47. > :42:48.

:42:48. > :42:53.surprised. They do get ground hogs trying not to hit somebody in turn

:42:53. > :42:58.5. They figured out that you need to stay out longer, do as many laps

:42:58. > :43:01.as you can to get heat into the tyres. That is where the lap time

:43:01. > :43:05.is coming. Ferrari are the only team to do with a racing pit-stop

:43:05. > :43:10.and put on soft tyres, everybody else wheeled them back. Ferrari

:43:10. > :43:14.have a great chance, they have another lap to get their tyres womb.

:43:14. > :43:20.Michael Schumacher has done a lot of five seconds of the pits.

:43:20. > :43:30.Presumably we will now see what he's got to offer us. Everybody

:43:30. > :43:34.else has committed to two runs. Here is Alonso, trying to spot the

:43:34. > :43:40.turning point format tricky final chicane. Alonso, down the pit

:43:40. > :43:46.straight. What is this going to yield for him? He stays third.

:43:46. > :43:51.Felipe Massa does a 13.4 and remain second. Michael Schumacher is now

:43:51. > :44:01.getting on with some hot laps. Mark Webber, two personal best so far.

:44:01. > :44:05.

:44:06. > :44:13.wants fourth. He stays forth. Quite a long way to estimate. Michael

:44:13. > :44:19.Schumacher is now hard on the pace. His about six or 710ths child pole

:44:19. > :44:24.position. That wasn't pedestrian. Behind him is Lewis Hamilton.

:44:24. > :44:28.Hamilton goes over the line. He is only 5th with that effort. Michael

:44:28. > :44:36.Schumacher is down in eighth. Sebastian Vettel is lucky to secure

:44:36. > :44:40.pole position from Felipe Massa. He's the fastest man through there.

:44:40. > :44:45.Sebastian Vettel comes up to the line. Has he done it? He has

:44:45. > :44:49.remained on pole position. He did not go faster. Massa and Alonso are

:44:49. > :44:56.still out there. Alonso is in the background. So, Alonso goes over

:44:56. > :45:04.the line, goes second. 13.1. Massa's answer comes immediately.

:45:04. > :45:09.He remains in third place. Vettel, Alonso, Massa, Red Bull 4th,

:45:09. > :45:14.Ferrari, Red Bull. Hamilton is still trying hard, so is Button.

:45:14. > :45:20.Both Renaults come through. They remain ninth and tenth. Jenson

:45:20. > :45:23.Button is a third of a second down on pole position. A so-so middle

:45:23. > :45:33.sector, he's down in seventh place at the moment. I think he would be

:45:33. > :45:46.

:45:46. > :45:53.thoroughly disappointed with that. faster but remains in seventh place.

:45:53. > :46:00.That is the action all over. Vettel, yet again, who can stop this boy

:46:00. > :46:10.from taking pole position? His sixth pole position in seventh

:46:10. > :46:23.

:46:23. > :46:26.races. Pole position forced DUP in the wall. I stuffed it in the

:46:26. > :46:33.wall, they always learned their English in a Formula One

:46:33. > :46:39.environment. That is what we are talking about. That is what he

:46:39. > :46:43.usually says, what we are talking about is another pole position.

:46:43. > :46:50.What is pleasing for me is that Ferrari seem right there, as they

:46:50. > :46:57.did through practice. You have to feel for Felipe Massa. He was

:46:57. > :47:01.certainly setting the pace. In the end, he has been pipped by Fernando

:47:01. > :47:08.Alonso. What is interesting coming down the grid a bit, we have in

:47:08. > :47:16.sixth, seventh and eighth, we have Rosberg, Button and Schumacher on a

:47:16. > :47:22.13.8. We have it all geared up for a very close Grand Prix. Both

:47:22. > :47:31.Renaults did fetch lead and for called times as well. -- virtually

:47:31. > :47:37.identical times as well. Paul di Resta is a man I think will end up

:47:37. > :47:47.in a very front running car sooner rather than later. Hamilton in fig.

:47:47. > :48:04.

:48:04. > :48:07.I think he will be surprised and all used to dance and programmes on

:48:07. > :48:12.Saturday night on the BBC and I tell you you will not find a more

:48:12. > :48:18.beautiful dance than that. Those are the 23 cars which will make up

:48:18. > :48:25.the grid for the Grand Prix. The Virgin of d'Ambrosio was not fast

:48:25. > :48:30.enough. The drivers did not let us down. I think Sebastian was worried

:48:30. > :48:35.at times? He may have been. That was the first time he has been on

:48:35. > :48:40.pole position here. Didn't he do well. A lot of pressure. Ferrari

:48:40. > :48:44.seemed to have the game plan. Well done to Ferrari for upping their

:48:44. > :48:51.game. They will probably leave their very happy. Traditionally,

:48:51. > :48:55.Red Bull have not been able to dominate in the rest - a race as

:48:55. > :49:00.they do in the qualifying. This could be a turning point. We will

:49:00. > :49:03.see the good point of the weekend for Sebastian. The way it started

:49:03. > :49:09.was not particularly good. To come back from this which happened on

:49:09. > :49:15.Friday, to the following day taking pole position makes for better luck

:49:15. > :49:19.for Sebastian. Here is a man who is so full of confidence, his ability

:49:19. > :49:24.to come back from serious problems and this was a problem. He

:49:24. > :49:28.understeer it into the corner. He had a mind set to be able to be

:49:28. > :49:34.sure that he had inside him and a belief in the team that he could

:49:34. > :49:39.get pole position. It was a remarkable job that he did. Let's

:49:39. > :49:47.take a look at the pole lap. This man is starting to dominate the

:49:47. > :49:53.season, isn't it? It is interesting. We spoke to Timo Glock and without

:49:53. > :49:56.hesitation he said, this guide, Vettel, will be on pole position.

:49:56. > :50:02.It was never in any other mindset that this was the guy on top of his

:50:02. > :50:07.game, he would dominate. People said around Monaco Red Bull would

:50:07. > :50:10.be weak. They have said around Canada Red Bull would be weak. Take

:50:10. > :50:15.a look that Sebastian going into the chicane and tell me if you

:50:15. > :50:19.think this car looks weak at all. You have to look at his hands. He

:50:20. > :50:22.has barely moving the steering wheel. I have a car which is well

:50:22. > :50:28.balanced and you have a confident that the car will do what you

:50:28. > :50:32.expect it to do, you can drive it like this. He is the epitome of

:50:32. > :50:38.that. It looks serene. It looks as if he is playing at home with a

:50:38. > :50:44.steering wheel but he is doing 200 mph. This is Sebastian Vettel's

:50:44. > :50:51.very first pole position here in the Canada. Lewis Hamilton has

:50:51. > :51:01.taken three before. This man goes over the line and he takes another

:51:01. > :51:04.

:51:04. > :51:09.pole position this season. There you go, he has his finger in the

:51:09. > :51:14.air. You can see him standing with the Ferrari guys. You can mention

:51:14. > :51:20.Felipe Massa. He was ahead of his team mate, he has not finished the

:51:20. > :51:23.last two Grand Prix, big day for fully pay. He has a lot of fans.

:51:23. > :51:29.Traditionally the Brazilian fans come up here to Montreal to watch

:51:29. > :51:38.the race. He has responded magnificently. I feel for him. He

:51:38. > :51:43.had Tim -- he had it in his grasp. Massa would have loved to have

:51:43. > :51:50.pipped him. Another pole position for Sebastian Vettel, another pole

:51:50. > :51:54.position for Red Bull. Ted is with Christian Horner. I just teddy say

:51:54. > :51:58.that McLaren gambled on a wet wing level, have you got some

:51:58. > :52:04.information that they do not? knows, unless they are better

:52:04. > :52:09.connected upstairs than we are. We have got a set-up that we hope

:52:09. > :52:14.covers both eventualities. We did not expect to get the pole here so

:52:14. > :52:19.it is a phenomenal result on arguably one of our weaker circuits.

:52:19. > :52:27.A fantastic performance from set and mark without the KERS has done

:52:27. > :52:32.a superb recovery after missing P3. It failed, did it? He did not have

:52:32. > :52:39.the use of it during the session. Hopefully we can rectify tonight

:52:39. > :52:44.within the regulations. A thanks. Delight for Christian Horner. We

:52:44. > :52:49.had him talking about Mark Webber. He was half a second try of his

:52:49. > :52:54.team make that he did not have the benefit of KERS. When will the KERS

:52:54. > :52:58.issue be fixed for Mark Webber? Let's find out if he is frustrated.

:52:59. > :53:05.He is with Lee McKenzie. After be give warning -- morning, how was

:53:05. > :53:12.your afternoon? I was happy with how we recovered. I did not have

:53:12. > :53:16.any KERS for qualifying. It would have been nice to have had that for

:53:16. > :53:22.this session but in the end the guys did everything they could to

:53:22. > :53:27.get it ready. That is where we are. Fourth is towards the front. It is

:53:27. > :53:32.a mixed-race here. The will be an interesting race tomorrow. When you

:53:32. > :53:38.went into qualifying, did you know that you did not have KERS? Yes, we

:53:38. > :53:44.were pretty confident we did what we could to get it fixed and then

:53:44. > :53:49.on the formation lap going out, it pitched so we were trying to

:53:49. > :53:54.recover it for Keith three for the all-important laps, but in the end

:53:54. > :54:01.it did not come back into life. Will you have kerb as for tomorrow?

:54:01. > :54:07.Again, we will try and find out tonight. The guy's idea what they

:54:07. > :54:17.can out here. We are not in the middle of the factory so they are

:54:17. > :54:24.doing what they can. Mark Webber, last time he did not have KERS. You

:54:24. > :54:30.are a sitting duck. They need to get it sorted. It is staggering to

:54:30. > :54:35.think this team has so many talented people inside that team.

:54:35. > :54:39.It is in front of the media and the press, not to be able to sort out

:54:39. > :54:44.KERS when every other team is able to do so, it is disappointing that

:54:44. > :54:51.Red Bull find themselves in that position. Jenson Button did not

:54:51. > :54:56.have his greatest qualifying here. How is he feeling? Jenson, how was

:54:56. > :55:02.that for you today? It is always frustrating when you are not quick.

:55:02. > :55:09.We did not have the pace that we thought we would. We are surprised

:55:09. > :55:14.to be where we are, yes. Why last one was looking pretty good but I

:55:14. > :55:22.over pushed, over drove, started locking up and lost some time. I

:55:22. > :55:27.was very close to pipping Nico at the end but it did not happen. I'm

:55:27. > :55:32.starting seventh. Sixth is not much better. A lot can happen here. This

:55:32. > :55:35.is a circuit you can overtake so we hope our race pace will be better

:55:36. > :55:43.than qualifying. I used set-up with wet weather conditions for

:55:43. > :55:47.tomorrow? No, not specifically. Formula One cars these days you do

:55:47. > :55:51.not set them up differently because we are used to it raining during

:55:51. > :55:55.the race. We have an optimised set- up which will working pretty much

:55:55. > :56:01.every condition. Do you think you will have better race pace

:56:01. > :56:07.tomorrow? I hope so. Our consistency yesterday on the soft

:56:07. > :56:11.tyre and hard tie looked pretty good. Personally, I do not think we

:56:11. > :56:15.are as quick as we hoped to be which is disappointing. The Red

:56:15. > :56:20.Bulls are very quick again as always and the Ferraris are very

:56:20. > :56:25.close to them. It is a pity we could not get amongst that. We will

:56:25. > :56:31.do the best job we can tomorrow. We now a race is good. It will be a

:56:31. > :56:35.fun race. Frustration for Jenson, he could have won in Monaco a

:56:35. > :56:39.couple of weeks ago. Raindrops are starting to fall now. They will

:56:39. > :56:44.hope for this kind of weather tomorrow at McLaren. They will have

:56:44. > :56:49.to pray for it because everybody has thrown idea about strategy. If

:56:49. > :56:54.I was a team manager there, I would not have gambled to such an extent

:56:54. > :56:58.on the wet weather. You never know what will happen. If you analyse

:56:58. > :57:04.statistics, invariably it will be dry. I will probably regret what I

:57:04. > :57:08.have to say, they will probably run. We will find out what will happen

:57:08. > :57:16.tomorrow with the weather. There is more motorsport coming your way

:57:17. > :57:22.this weekend right here on the BBC. Earlier than previously advertised,

:57:22. > :57:27.it is the final of Queen's. Andy Murray, look at bat. The perfect

:57:27. > :57:32.preparation for him for Wimbledon. We will be here with the Canadian

:57:32. > :57:42.Grand Prix tomorrow from 5:00pm on BBC One and BBC One HD with all

:57:42. > :57:53.

:57:53. > :58:01.Keep your feet down! Would you mind if I get to drive a little bit.

:58:01. > :58:07.OK. You can co-pilot. I will not argue! Very nice. Michael