The European Grand Prix

:00:17. > :00:27.underway! Lewis Hamilton wins! He is the master. Jensen Button leads

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:00:27. > :01:31.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

:01:31. > :01:36.Sunday afternoon. Welcome to the 2011 European Grand Prix live from

:01:36. > :01:39.Valencia. Race number eight in a Trulli special season and it's time

:01:39. > :01:49.for this Spanish city to bask in the glory of Formula One and live

:01:49. > :01:50.

:01:50. > :01:53.up to the drama in Canada two weeks ago. No pressure, then? Here in

:01:53. > :01:58.Montreal, this wet track should make this one of the best races of

:01:58. > :02:08.the year. The safety car is in this lap, thank goodness, we will have a

:02:08. > :02:25.

:02:25. > :02:32.This is difficult times for McLaren. Look how hard it is raining. It is

:02:32. > :02:39.the red flag situation. The race is suspended. That looks like the Red

:02:39. > :02:43.shouldered viper to me? And the fans are jumping up, it is a racing

:02:43. > :02:50.car, we haven't seen one of those for a while. Fernando Alonso has

:02:50. > :02:55.been beached. It just keeps falling into place for Red Bull. Jensen

:02:55. > :03:02.Button is in last place, now. Brilliant driving. Schumacher

:03:02. > :03:12.driving the best race since his comeback. The cars are all over the

:03:12. > :03:12.

:03:12. > :03:17.place. Jensen Button, streaming back. This will be Titanic. Jensen

:03:17. > :03:23.Button sales past Mark Webber. Schumacher, Jensen Button goes the

:03:23. > :03:30.wrong way round. Button up into second place! This race isn't over.

:03:30. > :03:35.What can he do? He can smell victory. Is there enough time left?

:03:35. > :03:45.Will be run out of time before Lapps? That is a beautiful drive.

:03:45. > :03:45.

:03:45. > :03:54.Six times through the pit, Jensen Button. Into the final lap, bottom!

:03:54. > :03:59.Driving for his life. Has he got what it takes to hold him off?

:03:59. > :04:09.Jensen Button leads the Grand Prix! Jensen Button, he wins a brilliant

:04:09. > :04:11.

:04:11. > :04:18.race. What a victory! Absolutely brilliant. Sebastian Vettel,

:04:18. > :04:25.finally cracking. Surely the greatest Formula One victory of his

:04:26. > :04:30.career? It really was quite something. It probably was the win

:04:30. > :04:36.of his life. One of the races of our lifetime and what did the team

:04:36. > :04:42.do? Did they sit back and relax? Not in the sport. Not when you

:04:42. > :04:46.train with Red Bull. This is a brand new front wing, a matter how

:04:46. > :04:50.quick it was in Canada, they want to go quicker. There was no time in

:04:50. > :04:54.the sport for reflecting. Once you have retired you can look back and

:04:54. > :05:01.that is why David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan are with me. Apart

:05:01. > :05:08.from the drive, what is your standard memory? I am returning

:05:08. > :05:10.home. Everybody was euphoric. Everybody was captivated by what

:05:10. > :05:15.Jensen Button did and the excitement of the race and Canada,

:05:15. > :05:20.for everybody I come across, that was the stand out. If it was a

:05:20. > :05:23.great story for Formula One, we had an amazing drive from Jenson Button

:05:23. > :05:27.but what I take his McLaren, they were so close to having one of

:05:27. > :05:32.those nightmare situations were you were explaining how drivers crashed

:05:32. > :05:37.into each other. Like Red Bull in Turkey last year. But with that

:05:37. > :05:40.drive from Jensen Button, that was suddenly not the story. All the

:05:40. > :05:44.guys, the mechanics and engineers, or watching with big smiles on

:05:44. > :05:50.their faces but that is the margin between success and failure. In

:05:50. > :05:57.terms of the psychology of the driver, was it worth more than just

:05:57. > :06:02.25 points to Jensen Button? That was an incredible drive. What would

:06:02. > :06:06.have appeared to Sebastian Vettel as a straight forward drive to the

:06:06. > :06:10.line turned out to be under pressure and he put his way out. It

:06:10. > :06:14.was a stunning victory and lots of overtaking. And those conditions

:06:14. > :06:20.are made for Jensen Button. races that have brought us here and

:06:20. > :06:24.those still to come... Hold on, Jensen Button is behind Sebastian

:06:24. > :06:30.Vettel but there are still 300 points to fight for. He is still in

:06:30. > :06:33.this? He is still in this but he has to be very careful about how he

:06:33. > :06:37.accumulates points and in my opinion he has to get his

:06:37. > :06:40.qualifying and needs to be further up the grid to challenge. You can

:06:40. > :06:43.see what happened in qualifying shortly and the other big story was

:06:43. > :06:48.Sebastian Vettel made a slip and that does not happen very often.

:06:48. > :06:51.It's very hot and we are gearing up. The drivers arriving. They have

:06:51. > :07:01.been on the beach, there are wonderful bars and there are other

:07:01. > :07:22.

:07:22. > :07:26.things they could be doing but as give everybody a chance to see this

:07:26. > :07:29.beautiful circuit. The track temperature was getting towards 50

:07:29. > :07:33.degrees in the evening which is why both of these boys will be finding

:07:33. > :07:36.when I bring them out into the sunshine. Let's talk about this

:07:36. > :07:42.place, it is very hot but there are plenty of good reasons to be here?

:07:42. > :07:45.It's a wonderful city? A lot of money has been spent developing

:07:45. > :07:49.this and this whole area was developed for the America's Cup.

:07:49. > :07:53.Once they have that facility they thought, what can we do? And they

:07:53. > :07:58.created this track. It goes around the port, very clearly displayed.

:07:58. > :08:02.And we are looking at one of the streets. It's not actually straight.

:08:02. > :08:05.That will make it very interesting with the use of DRS. The cars will

:08:05. > :08:11.be moving from one side of the track and taking the racing line.

:08:11. > :08:15.It does make a very slippery? does. It is only used once a year

:08:15. > :08:19.and a lot of trucks are up here building up the track before the

:08:19. > :08:24.grand prix and we have had a number of incidents, this was Kobayashi.

:08:24. > :08:29.Turn 25. And then Michael Schumacher, losing the back end.

:08:29. > :08:36.That isn't his normal mind. That is an exercise in reverse parking.

:08:36. > :08:41.There are some great things, the port, the fish markets, these are

:08:41. > :08:46.old fish markets. Some nice things but one overtake in the race in

:08:46. > :08:50.2009, 82 in Turkey. This is a real test for the new regulations?

:08:50. > :08:56.the new regulations working? If you were looking for a prime place to

:08:56. > :09:00.see that, it is here. This is similar to Monaco, street circuit,

:09:00. > :09:04.in the centre of the city, it has huge affection to a lot of people,

:09:04. > :09:11.me included, I have been won over but we actually have to be certain

:09:11. > :09:17.that we can get a proper race. Maybe today is the day. The sun is

:09:17. > :09:21.beating down, the heat is on the rest of the pack. You can see, 60

:09:21. > :09:23.points between Sebastian Vettel and Jensen Button and few people

:09:23. > :09:30.mentioned after Canada that Sebastian Vettel increased his lead

:09:30. > :09:36.because Lewis Hamilton was in second. And the constructors... 255

:09:36. > :09:40.points for Red Bull. There are some new rules this weekend, there is a

:09:40. > :09:46.slight change to the engine mapping system during qualifying which many

:09:46. > :09:55.people believe was designed to slow down Red Bull. However, once again,

:09:55. > :09:57.one man slightly forgot to read the script. Anyone who came to Valencia

:09:58. > :10:02.hoping for a surprise result in qualifying would have left the

:10:02. > :10:06.track disappointed. Sebastian Vettel was quickest again, he

:10:06. > :10:11.starts on pole position for the 7th time. Down the field, Jarno Trulli

:10:11. > :10:18.underlined how tricky this track is with this lazy spend. Conveniently,

:10:18. > :10:22.the pits were nearby. Alguersuari's techniques did not work. The driver

:10:22. > :10:29.was an early drop out. Today we just went for one goal on the first

:10:29. > :10:34.lap and I got traffic, I could not do it. The tyre was gone. Faced

:10:34. > :10:39.with a filling fuel pump, Maldonado could not find the hard shoulder

:10:39. > :10:43.and instead parked his car in the middle of the track. Into the top

:10:43. > :10:47.10, everyone qualifying when they were expected to. Adrian Sutil is

:10:47. > :10:52.10th, Heidfeld 9th and then Mercedes with Nico Rosberg having

:10:52. > :10:57.an advantage - he saved his fresh set of tyres by just doing one run.

:10:57. > :11:02.Michael Schumacher does not predict any fireworks. There is that much

:11:02. > :11:07.chance to move forward in the race. It is going to be mostly staying in

:11:07. > :11:11.position and driving to the end and take the points. Jensen Button was

:11:11. > :11:16.brought back to earth with the pub. Only six on the grid, the rear of

:11:16. > :11:22.his car getting away from him, winning Ferrari started head of

:11:22. > :11:29.McLaren on the grid. It was a great result for Alonso on home soil.

:11:29. > :11:33.know this is our maximum position and Red Bull have been able to

:11:33. > :11:40.reach us over the last 13 races. This is Formula One, no magic

:11:40. > :11:50.tricks. The real goal was to beat McLaren. We have got one in front

:11:50. > :11:53.

:11:53. > :11:58.and one behind. Between now and tomorrow, we can fight. The top

:11:58. > :12:02.three, as they were last year. Lewis Hamilton drove a brilliant

:12:02. > :12:05.lap and outrode the car's -- Mark Webber was in third place under

:12:05. > :12:09.pressure and having already been quickest, Sebastian Vettel cooled

:12:09. > :12:14.off his final attempt and retired to the garage to consider his

:12:14. > :12:18.genius. The 22 year-old has 20 poor positions, 10th in the all-time

:12:18. > :12:22.list and only two behind Nelson Piquet and Niki Lauda. This is a

:12:22. > :12:31.fresh start this weekend and I would love to just finish in that

:12:31. > :12:36.position. I would be more than happy. We will see how it goes.

:12:36. > :12:43.was a good time to peak. My personal best, it was not enough.

:12:43. > :12:46.But it was a good lap. We are pretty close. McLaren and Ferrari,

:12:46. > :12:51.we would have taken that in the middle of qualifying. It is

:12:51. > :12:58.difficult to predict, especially with the races so far. When you

:12:58. > :13:03.start from pole, you do not want to finish second. Sebastian Vettel,

:13:03. > :13:06.the only driver smiling after qualifying. Mark Webber alongside.

:13:06. > :13:10.Lewis Hamilton will look to overtake one Red Bull at the start

:13:10. > :13:20.and Ferrari is ready to pounce. Jensen Button in 6th place followed

:13:20. > :13:21.

:13:21. > :13:28.by a Rosberg, Schumacher, Heidfeld and Adrian Sutil. Kobayashi, 14.

:13:28. > :13:37.Perez, fit to race from 16. And at the back, Team Lotus, Virgin and

:13:38. > :13:41.Hispania. It is a real treat to be her, it's a hive of activity. An

:13:41. > :13:47.ancestor, the world champion, with his headphones on, gearing himself

:13:47. > :13:53.up. Clearly very focused. Can you give us an insight into his

:13:53. > :14:00.favourite band? German folk music! It is small, what you buy deep

:14:00. > :14:09.purple! He is completely infatuated! -- smoke on the water.

:14:09. > :14:12.How many times have we stood here in all of this driver? The later

:14:12. > :14:16.stages, they decided that they thought the advantages the car had

:14:16. > :14:21.was to do with engine mapping and they changed it, they could not

:14:21. > :14:25.change it and so this down. It did not happen, they have got it wrong.

:14:25. > :14:30.He does the business once again, it was a really good lap from Mark

:14:30. > :14:40.Webber. But those Hamilton is happy, starting third? He will be looking

:14:40. > :14:41.

:14:41. > :14:47.to last year's race? He had a great start? He really launched off that

:14:47. > :14:52.been sidelined. And he put that to good effect and gets his nose down

:14:52. > :14:59.the inside. How he managed to get through that corner without

:15:00. > :15:05.touching, I don't know. That massive launch from the grid. This

:15:05. > :15:09.is the key area. Been to turn number two, there was a big window

:15:09. > :15:13.of opportunity. And he can actually launch himself over that inside. It

:15:13. > :15:17.was down to whether the manifold leaves enough space. It'll be

:15:17. > :15:23.interesting to see after all this criticism if he gives us such an

:15:23. > :15:28.exciting start? There will be no change and if there is, I would be

:15:28. > :15:38.one disappointed and toot surprised. He drives with his heart. He does

:15:38. > :15:39.

:15:39. > :15:44.make mistakes, tiny ones and for the rules, but I think all that

:15:44. > :15:48.noise was a message from Red Bull to get out of the garage. Plenty of

:15:48. > :15:52.eyes will be on his car, and plenty focused on Fernando Alonso, who has

:15:52. > :15:56.never done particularly well at the their own Grand Prix. However,

:15:56. > :16:06.everywhere he goes, he still has fanatics following his every move,

:16:06. > :16:18.

:16:18. > :16:22.as you can see right now, and one Well, Fernando, thanks for sparing

:16:22. > :16:27.some time, I know it is a busy weekend for you. Some drivers do

:16:27. > :16:35.not have one home Grand Prix, you have two. Yes, it is being used for

:16:35. > :16:39.May. Obviously, I like to race in Spain, I like to say all the fans

:16:39. > :16:43.sharing his love for Formula One. This sport has been my life for the

:16:43. > :16:48.last 20 years, and racing in Spain two times is good for them, and to

:16:48. > :16:54.watch these cars is something unique, and we need to make the

:16:54. > :16:58.best of this year, because we never know when we will have two Grands

:16:58. > :17:05.Prix in Spain. Maybe it will be for a few more years, you never know.

:17:05. > :17:08.We need to maximise this time. is the Alonso maniac like? Formula

:17:08. > :17:16.One has really been helped and given a boost in this country

:17:16. > :17:21.because of you. 2004 was the first time Spain saw Formula One live on

:17:21. > :17:27.television, and it was my best years, 2005, 2000 a six, so there

:17:27. > :17:31.is a lot of passion for Formula One and for myself. -- 2006. Every time

:17:31. > :17:36.I go out to the restaurant for the cinema, normal things, they are

:17:36. > :17:39.crazy people around me, but it is very nice to feel all that support,

:17:39. > :17:44.and hopefully I can pay it back with some good results, especially

:17:44. > :17:49.at home. You are meeting some fans now. Is it nice to get up close and

:17:49. > :17:54.speak to them? Yes, their eyes shine when I speak to them, I

:17:54. > :18:00.noticed that, and it is good, not only here. When you arrive at the

:18:00. > :18:10.airport, the hotel, there are fans everywhere. Sometimes also in your

:18:10. > :18:17.

:18:17. > :18:22.room, but it is OK! Enjoy your The poor guy has a tin rests each

:18:22. > :18:27.weekend, even before the start raising the car. -- aching wrists.

:18:27. > :18:31.He is just putting on is the air ahead of putting on his helmet, the

:18:31. > :18:35.balaclava furs. Fernando Alonso is busy thinking about this race, not

:18:35. > :18:40.the fact that he is 92 points behind Sebastian Vettel. Ferrari

:18:40. > :18:44.are more than 100 points behind Red Bull. When did his team start

:18:44. > :18:49.turning its attention to next year? If they were a normal team, and

:18:49. > :18:53.Ferrari are not, you would already have started. It is too big a gap.

:18:53. > :18:57.The pressure on Ferrari in Italy and other parts of the world is

:18:57. > :19:01.massive, and they can never give up. They have to keep on the struggle.

:19:01. > :19:06.Are much what the love to win here in Spain? And what about Jenson

:19:06. > :19:11.Button? He starts from 6th on the grid, so he will have to overtake a

:19:11. > :19:16.few people if he is going to do the business. However, that will not

:19:16. > :19:26.faze him, he managed to overtake 14 cars in the last five laps in

:19:26. > :19:34.

:19:34. > :19:38.Canada, a race that he will be It has been said, it has been

:19:38. > :19:44.written, Canada was Jenson Button's greatest ever win. Where does it

:19:44. > :19:48.stack up? I would say yes, it is my greatest ever win. To come from

:19:48. > :19:54.last to first with everything else going on, it was definitely my best

:19:54. > :19:58.victory. Those conditions, you have to really feel your way around.

:19:59. > :20:04.Maybe it is from when I was karting, before I started racing, my father

:20:04. > :20:08.would not by me wet tyres. I had to go around on slicks. He said he

:20:08. > :20:12.wanted me to learn how to do that, to get car control. He says that

:20:12. > :20:16.now, but he could not afford to get wet tyres or could not be bothered.

:20:16. > :20:21.So he was tight and now he is claiming all the credit for your

:20:21. > :20:26.brilliant win. Of course, he is my father! I do not blame them! You

:20:26. > :20:29.may have been inside the car, but one of the best seats in the house

:20:29. > :20:32.was for the people stayed up to watch the victory. Would you like

:20:32. > :20:38.the chance to relive some of the best moments? I would love to, it

:20:38. > :20:45.is my first chance. It is not the for four hours, just the

:20:45. > :20:55.I do not think this it was a highlight. Highlights and low

:20:55. > :20:59.damage, a punch-up. I got a bad exit, moved over to the racing line.

:20:59. > :21:05.I looked in my mirrors, I saw an orange or rear wing, but I do not

:21:05. > :21:10.know if it was mine all of us. What was he doing? What was he

:21:10. > :21:14.doing? Did you feel like he was in the wrong place? At that point in

:21:14. > :21:18.time, I did not know how far he was out the inside of the outside, if

:21:18. > :21:23.you like. I cannot see a thing behind, I do not know what was

:21:23. > :21:27.going on. That was the first reaction, shock, how did that

:21:27. > :21:30.happen? It was so lucky that I do not get turned into the pit for.

:21:30. > :21:36.And no credence to the rumours that Lewis has come up against you a few

:21:36. > :21:42.times and but some cheeky passes on you. It was not you are laying down

:21:42. > :21:46.a marker. I do not want to crash! I was lucky to get away with it,

:21:46. > :21:51.without damage. I thought I had a puncture, but I did not. To get

:21:51. > :21:55.away with no damage was very lucky. I wanted to go on to win the race,

:21:55. > :22:01.so I would not do anything like that. Fernando Alonso has beached

:22:01. > :22:06.the Ferrari. Hans Jenson Button has got a puncture. But in his in last

:22:06. > :22:10.place. I was a long way at the inside, he accelerated into the

:22:10. > :22:15.corner, which was very strange, I think he was trying to find his

:22:16. > :22:19.feet on the new tyres. Button absolutely flying. How good were

:22:19. > :22:24.you feeling now? You were picking up places. Every move you make, it

:22:24. > :22:34.feels so good. A lot of people have said, where did your pace come

:22:34. > :22:40.

:22:40. > :22:44.from? Everyone was driving slowly, finds another grip. How close was

:22:44. > :22:48.this to being a big accident? does not look so bad. I saw the

:22:48. > :22:53.oversteer, I had to go on to the wet part of the second. It was just

:22:53. > :22:59.floating on the wet surface. That was a big moment, actually. That

:22:59. > :23:03.was the real hot feeling, that buzz. The seven-times world champion.

:23:03. > :23:08.Schumacher looks in his mayor, Button goes a long way round, and

:23:08. > :23:14.into second place. I did not know if I would get has Sebastian in the

:23:14. > :23:18.last lap. We can win this race. plan was to get it just right so I

:23:18. > :23:24.could get him with the DRS on the back straight. But I pushed him

:23:24. > :23:29.into a mistake. Vettel has gone white. Button wins a brilliant

:23:29. > :23:34.rays! It was nice to see him crack under pressure, or make a mistake

:23:34. > :23:38.and a pressure. A lot of fans wanted to see that. It was good to

:23:38. > :23:43.see that. I think we needed as a sport to see that. We are starting

:23:43. > :23:51.to think he was not human? No. I don't know. But it was an

:23:51. > :23:55.opportunity to see that he can make more this season, with all the

:23:55. > :24:00.pressure, we will see more of that and we can take advantage. So when

:24:00. > :24:06.you tell us you can win the title, it is not just DRS the. It is

:24:06. > :24:11.definitely genuine. -- the aspic. We were so happy that you could

:24:11. > :24:15.join us for that race. The pit lane is open. It might be a little bit

:24:15. > :24:21.loud for the next few minutes, but it is good for the crowds. Kamui

:24:21. > :24:25.Perhaps they will be taking photos of Jenson Button if it rains, but

:24:25. > :24:32.the chances are slim. There is something about Jenson, his first

:24:32. > :24:35.win came in strange conditions, he does well in wet-dry conditions.

:24:35. > :24:40.has a natural talent for that. He is able to find the balance. He

:24:40. > :24:44.talks about his father not giving in the tyres. In hindsight, it may

:24:44. > :24:47.be the best lesson he had. As far as the moment with his team-mate,

:24:47. > :24:52.sometimes we have seen these things produce World War Three, but it

:24:52. > :24:55.seems to have been dealt with quite well. They got the dream result,

:24:55. > :25:00.they won the Grand Prix. Had that not been the case, it would have

:25:00. > :25:08.been the story after the event. They had that to our window with a

:25:08. > :25:12.red flag. -- two-hour. Lewis had more speed, but that is in the

:25:12. > :25:15.history books now, a great win for Jenson. You know what it is like to

:25:15. > :25:25.tap your team-mate, you and Mika Hakkinen did the same thing. What

:25:25. > :25:25.

:25:25. > :25:31.is said after an incident like the gap, he did not break early.

:25:31. > :25:35.For the team, that was not good. I went on to finish second, to add

:25:35. > :25:41.insult to injury. What can you do? Don't do it again. Did you

:25:41. > :25:46.apologise? Of course, it was my fault. Very magnanimous, because I

:25:46. > :25:49.know what drivers can be like! Right in the heat of the moment,

:25:49. > :25:54.racing drivers do not like to apologise, so I commend you for

:25:54. > :25:57.that noble act. I think we should leave the pit lane for just a

:25:58. > :26:01.couple of moments, because people have been applauding Jenson

:26:01. > :26:04.Button's almost last week but questioning Lewis Hamilton. I

:26:04. > :26:11.suppose no one can really know what is going on with lows at the moment,

:26:11. > :26:15.but one man as a good idea, Niki Lauda won three titles with Lewis's

:26:15. > :26:18.team. He is with Ted Kravitz. of my viewers might have read

:26:18. > :26:22.strong comments that you have to say about Lewis Hamilton. What did

:26:22. > :26:27.you say? First of all, I want to correct things if they were

:26:27. > :26:31.interpreted the wrong way. I think that Hamilton is one of the top

:26:31. > :26:37.three guys in Formula One. He is the quickest guy. He is, for me, an

:26:37. > :26:43.amazing racing driver. What I criticised him on was, in Montreal,

:26:43. > :26:46.attacking his team-mate between the pit wall and Jenson's car, where

:26:46. > :26:51.unfortunately he had to stop. Luckily enough, Jenson could finish

:26:51. > :26:54.the race and even win it. This I criticise, to attack the team-mates

:26:54. > :26:59.so hard. They both might have stopped, and for McLaren nothing

:26:59. > :27:05.would have happened. This was my criticism. I say again, he is the

:27:05. > :27:09.best guide today. If he would ease off a bit and get the points he

:27:09. > :27:13.needs for the championship, this is what I criticise him for. To be

:27:13. > :27:18.world champion, you have to collect points, and for two races he has

:27:18. > :27:22.collected none. Do you think he has the mindset of an overtaking driver

:27:22. > :27:27.who does not think of the long view? I can tell you, between

:27:27. > :27:32.racing drivers, I have been won and I know. Lewis is aggressive, so

:27:32. > :27:36.some guys will be frightened when he turns up in the back, the slower

:27:36. > :27:40.guys. They move over, and this is happening in Formula One. But if

:27:40. > :27:44.you want to make a point as a racing driver, like Jenson has to

:27:44. > :27:48.do, you should not move over, because if he continues to move

:27:48. > :27:53.over, Lewis will be gone and he can never think of winning races again.

:27:53. > :27:59.Between racing drivers, there is very hard work. Some guys he know

:27:59. > :28:02.will move, and Jenson did not. I think Jenson did not even see him.

:28:02. > :28:06.Schumacher was the same thing in the past, still today. When he

:28:06. > :28:10.turns up, everybody knows there is no compromise. If you let anything

:28:11. > :28:15.happen, he will drive through the whole field and win, and nobody

:28:15. > :28:19.wants that. Niki Lauda echoing everybody's thoughts, they want to

:28:19. > :28:24.see Lewis Hamilton continued to be as dramatic and brilliant as ever.

:28:24. > :28:27.David, before you go to the commentary box, Lewis Hamilton

:28:27. > :28:32.tends to bounce back from a difficult weekend with good

:28:32. > :28:35.performances. He is a driven young man here. The problem is he has not

:28:35. > :28:40.got a quick enough car. If he was on the front row, he would not have

:28:40. > :28:43.these incidents. He would just drive off into the distance. We are

:28:43. > :28:48.analysing his decisions behind the wheel, but the focus is for McLaren

:28:48. > :28:52.to deliver the fastest car. Funny, that, Vettel is not hitting anybody.

:28:52. > :28:56.Nice to see you, good luck in the commentary box today. I suppose

:28:56. > :29:00.around here people could hang out on the beach, hang out in the city,

:29:00. > :29:03.but the thing to do is to come down to what was once a fish market and

:29:03. > :29:13.what Formula One cars flying around. It is a great place for the fans,

:29:13. > :29:35.

:29:35. > :29:40.and the weather is not either. -- onto the grid. When we get there,

:29:40. > :29:43.the first place we will arrive at is between the Force India and the

:29:43. > :29:47.Renault, Nick Heidfeld and Adrian Sutil. Pirelli are not happy,

:29:48. > :29:51.because both of those drivers did not go out for the final part of

:29:51. > :29:56.qualifying yesterday to save tyres. Pirelli and Formula One are

:29:56. > :29:59.concerned that is not good for the show. The rules are there, and

:29:59. > :30:02.people circumvent them to their best advantage. The teams are

:30:02. > :30:07.within their rights to do whatever they can to give them the best

:30:07. > :30:17.chance of picking up points. I do not have any real problem. If they

:30:17. > :30:22.

:30:22. > :30:29.want to insert a new rule, then do anything to give the team, sponsors

:30:29. > :30:37.and the people, the best chance. This is a treat. Nico Rosberg...

:30:37. > :30:45.Hello? Thanks a lot! He gave me a little smile. I hope that isn't

:30:45. > :30:54.indicative of today! I will let you fire around and chat to people.

:30:54. > :31:01.Nick Heidfeld? May I just have a word? Egress? We have so, it'll be

:31:01. > :31:09.interesting. There could be a chance for us. Can you get back to

:31:09. > :31:13.some of the performances at the beginning of the season? It will be

:31:13. > :31:17.difficult but it will be interesting to see what will happen.

:31:17. > :31:23.Some people think the changes will hurt us but obviously I hope it

:31:24. > :31:28.will not be too bad. Have a great race. There is a man I would love

:31:28. > :31:33.to speak to. This man picked up a couple of European Cups and his

:31:33. > :31:39.time. Trevor Francis, the first million-pound player. What does he

:31:39. > :31:42.think of the current earnings and Formula One? Nice to see you. You

:31:42. > :31:47.were the first million-pound player in British football. What do you

:31:47. > :31:52.think of the current money and the earnings and Formula One? It is a

:31:52. > :31:59.bit absurd, 32 years ago I went for �1 million and that broke the

:31:59. > :32:07.record by about �500,000. Today, it has got out of control. It would be

:32:07. > :32:16.too long before we talk about 100 they pounds. Lionel Messi? Ronaldo?

:32:16. > :32:20.One of the two. I must ask, you want to European Cup medals under

:32:20. > :32:26.Brian Clough, were due place in in the formal on context? How would he

:32:26. > :32:30.do? He could manage any team, he was so good to get success with

:32:30. > :32:34.Derby and Forest, that was unbelievable. He would quite like

:32:34. > :32:39.to be with McLaren, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, that would suit

:32:39. > :32:46.him. How special is this? We have a grandstand on the track, this is

:32:46. > :32:49.like walking out at Old Trafford. am nervous. This is an unbelievable

:32:49. > :32:54.ambience. And a great occasion and I'm really looking forward to the

:32:54. > :33:02.race. You will get lots of e-mails asking where you got that pass

:33:02. > :33:12.from! He is a legend. Over here there has been an upside to the

:33:12. > :33:14.

:33:14. > :33:20.Force India team. Adrian Sutil... Can we stake in? No, it's not! Do

:33:20. > :33:28.you remember me? What has happened? The first time in Q 3. Great

:33:28. > :33:33.performance? It was good. I'm really happy. You can see. It is a

:33:33. > :33:38.long race. Let's hope you are happy at the end. It is an important day

:33:38. > :33:41.but I have a good feeling. We have a good strategy. Only Eddie Jordan

:33:41. > :33:50.could start an interview like this and not ask, what are those class

:33:50. > :33:56.is about? Just... Fun! We have interviewed your team-mate, how

:33:56. > :33:59.good is he? Great, we have a good relationship. He is always pushing.

:33:59. > :34:05.We are always close together and it's very good for the team so we

:34:05. > :34:14.both score points, hopefully, and hopefully today. Well done,

:34:14. > :34:16.congratulations. It is worth pointing out that one has

:34:16. > :34:21.qualifying, he deserves congratulations but Paul di Resta

:34:21. > :34:25.is starting and 12, he had a very difficult weekend? The most

:34:25. > :34:28.difficult. They have a policy in this team that the allied the third

:34:28. > :34:33.driver to go out in one of the sessions on the early morning on a

:34:33. > :34:38.Friday and what happened? He crashed. Which curtailed quickly

:34:38. > :34:46.the about of running that Paul di Resta had in the car. Sort of place

:34:46. > :34:53.was a big success. We talk about Jensen Button, sitting in 6th. He

:34:53. > :34:58.would like to see him. He isn't around. If he wants to improve his

:34:58. > :35:02.racing, he must sort out a Saturday? He must sort out

:35:02. > :35:11.qualifying, he is a real contender but not from 6th place. He has to

:35:11. > :35:18.up his game. Time to say hello to your old friend. He is running

:35:18. > :35:25.away! Will we have many more races here in Valencia? I hope so,

:35:25. > :35:29.certainly for a long time. Can you see in the future, two races? Is an

:35:29. > :35:34.occasion for having two races so close to each other, in terms of

:35:34. > :35:38.the calendar? Can Spain sustain this? It's not easy to sort out

:35:38. > :35:42.properly. We have been with Barcelona for a long time but you

:35:42. > :35:47.will see what happens. When you say that, that makes it sounds like you

:35:47. > :35:53.say Barcelona have been with us for long enough? Do you think Barcelona

:35:53. > :36:01.has had its time? I don't think so. We will wait to see how we can work

:36:01. > :36:08.things out. They have been good for us. It's all very new. Your views

:36:08. > :36:18.on Canada? Wonderful. I hope this one is like that. Placid and

:36:18. > :36:20.

:36:20. > :36:26.Domingo is here! Wonderful to see you. A long-term fan? Always, many

:36:26. > :36:33.years. Were you think Fernando Alonso sits among the great

:36:33. > :36:40.drivers? I hope the championship goes better. I hope people like

:36:40. > :36:44.Fernando and other drivers, they start to win races. I know they

:36:44. > :36:49.have taken the power of Red Bull, but let's see. I noticed before the

:36:49. > :36:55.start of the lap earlier, you were with Fernando Alonso. Are you a

:36:55. > :37:01.guest of his? I think he is looking forward so much. He would rather

:37:01. > :37:10.like to be on pole position. But for his place isn't bad and for me,

:37:10. > :37:19.he is a great champion. And I also hope that it is a safe race and a

:37:19. > :37:29.clean race also. Ferrari fan? this month. Do you have fun? No! I

:37:29. > :37:30.

:37:30. > :37:34.don't. But I will... Lovely to chat. He spends a lot of time in his home

:37:34. > :37:42.in America so he would hope for the American Grand Prix. Jensen

:37:42. > :37:47.Button... One second? Can you repeat last week? It is different,

:37:47. > :37:55.the conditions today. I have made it difficult for myself but we can

:37:55. > :37:59.have a good race and with DRS, we can have some good racing. This is

:37:59. > :38:06.the man that really makes a difference to world champions?

:38:06. > :38:15.the microphone to him. Mrs Michael muscles. So called for the obvious

:38:15. > :38:19.reasons... I have to go! There won't be a lot of rain? We talk

:38:19. > :38:23.about in normal circumstances that was very good, but in these

:38:23. > :38:27.conditions, it is just a step too far. Let's turn around and look at

:38:27. > :38:32.the Grid. Right behind Lewis Hamilton, he put on such a show

:38:32. > :38:36.last year, it was a fantastic lap in qualifying yesterday I'm looking

:38:36. > :38:43.towards the start of the grid, the huge grandstand, what do you expect

:38:43. > :38:46.to happen at the start? I hope he does not change. The recent

:38:46. > :38:51.criticism of his driving style, that is why I turn on the telly, I

:38:51. > :38:57.want to see and drive like this. And the sea with Kobayashi another

:38:57. > :39:01.aggressive drivers. Niki Lauda said the same. This is special. We can

:39:01. > :39:05.always be guaranteed something dynamic from this man. It would be

:39:05. > :39:15.lovely to grab hold of Lewis Hamilton. How different are these

:39:15. > :39:17.

:39:17. > :39:22.grades to the times when you were bombing Jordan? -- running Jordan.

:39:22. > :39:25.The teams, they have not got any clue about what is going on. They

:39:25. > :39:31.have got peripheral vision. They're completely focused on what they

:39:31. > :39:37.need to do. Everybody is in one area. How to get the best start and

:39:37. > :39:42.the best result. Nothing else matters. When you consider the

:39:43. > :39:52.speed with which Sebastian Vettel set the pole time, the first man to

:39:52. > :39:57.dip under 1:37. The 3.3 mile circuit, Sebastian Vettel on pole

:39:57. > :40:06.yet again. Let's look at that very slow entry. The stop watch does not

:40:06. > :40:13.begin until he crosses the line. 180 mph. The approach zone. Down to

:40:13. > :40:17.just 60 mph. The apex. Hard on the throttle and very close to the war

:40:17. > :40:27.on the exit. The straight circuit Stan chicane. Pumping across the

:40:27. > :40:34.chicane, running nicely. 190 mph. The sweeping right hand. Turn No. 8,

:40:34. > :40:38.leading into the swing bridge. Heavy braking through the exit.

:40:38. > :40:47.Just trying to step out and eager on to the throttle. Spinning out

:40:47. > :40:53.the rear tyres. This long, sweeping, turn. 195 mph. The long straight.

:40:53. > :41:00.The braking zone. He really maximises the width of the track.

:41:00. > :41:05.Minimising the angle of the corners. Turn 13, 14. 90 mph. Really chasing

:41:05. > :41:12.that throttle well through there. Straight ahead, despite being long

:41:12. > :41:22.and left hand in the approach, 185 mph. The braking son, turns 17.

:41:22. > :41:24.

:41:24. > :41:28.Second gear. Almost a hairpin. Hook up, one corner. Sweeping through at

:41:28. > :41:34.185 mph, the final part of the lap and the easiest part to make a

:41:34. > :41:44.mistake. The last corner. Turn 25. Trying to get away, into the pit

:41:44. > :41:47.

:41:47. > :41:53.straight. Right across the line. And it's another pole position.

:41:54. > :42:01.have made a way out the back of what I call the fish markets, this

:42:01. > :42:11.wonderful architecture. First, let's hear from Christian Horner,

:42:11. > :42:17.

:42:17. > :42:24.who has drivers on 1 and 2. Sadly, just as he wanted to hear from the

:42:24. > :42:31.team bus at Red Bull, we could not. One of the big worries for Red Bull

:42:31. > :42:35.is what we call the double DRS zone. One single activation point. This

:42:35. > :42:40.reduces the drag and makes a can't go faster and in the eyes of

:42:40. > :42:45.Formula One, improves overtaking. This is the detection zone. Over

:42:45. > :42:48.the bridge and then the first and second Activation zone. People say

:42:48. > :42:52.the reason for Sebastian Vettel slipping was that he was our that

:42:52. > :42:56.this was coming up and he did not want Jensen Button to overtake. The

:42:56. > :43:02.problem of having both zones is the first one is to overtake and the

:43:02. > :43:06.second is to pull away. I have a different view. I think he will see

:43:06. > :43:11.Sebastian Vettel, if he makes a decent start, or whoever leads into

:43:11. > :43:15.the first corner, making virtually a qualifying lap because he wants

:43:15. > :43:18.to brake that one second marker and if he can, it will be so much more

:43:18. > :43:23.difficult because he will not be allowed to be into the zone to

:43:23. > :43:28.activate. If I was a driver on pole position, for I would do everything

:43:28. > :43:38.in my power to make that big start. Here we are, Rubens Barrichello, he

:43:38. > :43:38.

:43:38. > :43:41.won here, Petrov starts in the 11th. They have not been as quick and

:43:41. > :43:47.McLaren say they have more downforce and they will look after

:43:47. > :43:51.their tyres better. And they have brought different things, they have

:43:51. > :43:56.a new upgraded rear wing and the front wing. I think McLaren are

:43:56. > :44:02.still in this out. There pushing very hard. Sadly, I don't see the

:44:02. > :44:07.same initiative coming from Ferrari. I wonder what is going through that

:44:07. > :44:11.man's mind? He wants the perfect start. To get in front of his team-

:44:11. > :44:18.mate. Canada was pretty special. Now, time for something completely

:44:18. > :44:23.different. The tight, twists and turns of the sun-drenched city

:44:23. > :44:29.circuit. They say opposites attract, it's time to find out. David

:44:29. > :44:33.Blundell, David Coulthard, time for the 2011 European Grand Prix, live

:44:33. > :44:37.on BBC One and BBC One hitch be. Sebastian Vettel on pole position

:44:37. > :44:47.but there are 23 men right behind him, ready to beaten to the

:44:47. > :44:49.

:44:49. > :44:53.chequered flag. Let's hope this one # So you want to be a rock

:44:53. > :44:55.superstar # And live large, big house, five

:44:55. > :45:03.cars # Coming up in the world

:45:03. > :45:08.# Don't trust # So you want to be a big superstar

:45:08. > :45:18.# And live large, big house, five cars

:45:18. > :45:28.

:45:28. > :45:33.track for round eight of the Formula One world championship.

:45:33. > :45:38.It's the European Grand Prix. The Valencia Street Circuit by name,

:45:38. > :45:44.partly a street circuit by nature, 25 corners, spread out around the

:45:44. > :45:48.port, the Mediterranean sea gently lapping against the nearby beach.

:45:48. > :45:52.That beach would be a very attractive alternative for the

:45:52. > :45:57.drivers this afternoon, instead of four layers of fire proof clothing

:45:58. > :46:02.and cockpit temperatures of well over 50 degrees centigrade. Can you

:46:02. > :46:06.-- you can see the three sectors the lap is split into. We will

:46:06. > :46:13.check those out during the Grand Prix. Look at those temperatures,

:46:13. > :46:16.47 on the track already and 27 air tremure. David, what are the key

:46:16. > :46:19.challenges today? Well, track temperature, air temperature going

:46:19. > :46:23.up. That challenge mean that's everything they learnt through the

:46:23. > :46:27.relatively cool Friday practice and slightly cooler qualifying on

:46:27. > :46:35.Saturday, their predictions on how far the tyres will go, changes. Now

:46:35. > :46:39.the track is a bit more rubbered in than today. GP2 has put down extra

:46:39. > :46:42.Pirelli rubber on the temporary race track. As the temperature goes

:46:42. > :46:46.up it changes the chemical interaction with the tyre and

:46:46. > :46:51.circuit. The predictions going into the event is that a two-stop race

:46:51. > :46:55.is the fastest way to go through, using three sets of tyres. It's

:46:55. > :47:01.quicker by about seven seconds. I suspect that will narrow in and

:47:01. > :47:05.make a three-stop valid. I agree. Mclaren are saying they won't run

:47:05. > :47:09.and hide in front of us, the Red Bulls will not be flying off into

:47:09. > :47:14.the distance and out of site. You have to say, Mclaren could easily

:47:14. > :47:21.have won the last three Grand Prix, they did win in can da. Do you

:47:21. > :47:24.share their confidence? The only thing that matters is the Czechered

:47:24. > :47:28.flag. Mclaren were victors in Canada. Before that it was Red Bull.

:47:28. > :47:32.If we look at the underlying race pace through Friday practice, where

:47:32. > :47:38.the teams tend to run some fuel, heavy fuel and do some race

:47:38. > :47:43.simulations, it was Red Bull, Ferrari, Mclaren, Mercedes and

:47:43. > :47:48.Renault in that order. That was Friday and the only time it really

:47:48. > :47:52.mat serz what happens today. It was critical for Mark Webber to get on

:47:52. > :47:56.the front row alongside Sebastien Vettel, so a Red Bull lockout for

:47:56. > :48:01.the third time this season on the front row. I think this man, Lewis

:48:01. > :48:07.Hamilton, has got to attack in the first lap. He must not, they'll

:48:07. > :48:14.want to stay somewhere within a second when they get into that

:48:14. > :48:18.detection zone for the DRS That starts at end of lap two. Lewis

:48:18. > :48:22.Hamilton, same grid position, leapfroged up and challenged

:48:22. > :48:25.Sebastien Vettel into turn two. hearing there is a big difference

:48:25. > :48:35.between the left and right-hand side of the grid in terms of grid.

:48:35. > :48:35.

:48:35. > :49:24.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

:49:24. > :49:28.Let's see how they line up for the through qualifying, past the 107%

:49:28. > :49:33.barrier. Though that's not always applied any way. So, we have a full

:49:33. > :49:37.grid. Not aware of anybody needing to start from the pit lane at this

:49:37. > :49:41.point, as the mechanics take off the tyre covers. Those that are

:49:41. > :49:46.from 11th on the grid backwards, can run whatever tyre they want.

:49:46. > :49:56.Those that are in the top ten have to use the tyre that they set their

:49:56. > :50:01.fastest time on. With the exception, I'd imagine, of well Heidfeld did

:50:01. > :50:03.do two sectors. I think he has to start on those tyres. Those

:50:03. > :50:10.uncomfortable situation yesterday where two drivers didn't even

:50:10. > :50:16.bother to set a time. That was Sutil and Heidfeld.

:50:16. > :50:22.So we're hearing that Petrov and Perez are starting the race on the

:50:22. > :50:27.harder compound tyre, the prime, as it's known, the medium compound.

:50:27. > :50:32.You'll see the softer tyre with the yellow banding on it on the outside,

:50:32. > :50:40.which enables us to identify those. We know that the key runners at the

:50:40. > :50:45.front will all be on that soft tyre. Spanish flags are waving. Fernando

:50:45. > :50:50.Alonso, never been in the top three on the grid here. Might be his home

:50:50. > :50:54.turf, but it's not been that successful for him. He's a happy

:50:54. > :50:58.boy right now. He's saying the last few Grand Prixs have been the best

:50:58. > :51:01.in his career. That's not in terms of results, but he feels he's

:51:01. > :51:05.getting the maximum oust himself. That's interesting, because I

:51:05. > :51:09.remember in carting, I'd give my scores out of ten in performance,

:51:10. > :51:12.very rarely if I won a race I would give myself ten, but sometimes you

:51:13. > :51:16.would if you had a good battle through the field. It's in the mind

:51:16. > :51:21.of the holder. He's fired up and thinks this championship is still

:51:21. > :51:24.possible. Seems a long shot to me, but they came back last year.

:51:24. > :51:28.bit of sports psychology there from Fernando Alonso, as always. It

:51:28. > :51:34.seemles we have quite a split with some of the midfield team that's

:51:34. > :51:38.are going to try an each-way bet with Renault, Sauber and Williams.

:51:38. > :51:44.These are the detection zones into turn eight. Then the next two long

:51:44. > :51:47.straights where they can be activated. It's a double DRS, drag

:51:47. > :51:53.reduction system, where the rear wings open and the cars gain

:51:53. > :51:57.somewhere around eight miles per hour. I think will be more

:51:57. > :52:01.successful here than in Canada. The second straight is longer than

:52:01. > :52:06.Canada. We know the Canadian pit straight, where the two Mclarens

:52:06. > :52:14.got together, you use all that track. You do. On that run on the

:52:14. > :52:17.second activation point, between turn 14 and 17 it not -- is not a

:52:17. > :52:22.natural straight. It make it's difficult to see whether you're

:52:22. > :52:28.going left or right. It will remain to be seen houp the double

:52:28. > :52:34.activation will work. It's not available to the drivers until the

:52:34. > :52:38.end, well until they're into the third lap. That is why Vettel will

:52:38. > :52:42.particularly be wanting to scamper off at the front and get himself

:52:42. > :52:47.more than a second clear of whoever's per suing him, so that

:52:47. > :52:53.they can't breeze past him in the straights, as they warm up their

:52:53. > :52:57.tyres and head to the grid. Doing their clutch five-point checks.

:52:57. > :53:00.Perfect example there. You hear that? It runs into the limiter, as

:53:00. > :53:05.they push a button and it finds the bite point for the clutch. It's

:53:05. > :53:09.just a procedure much the driver presses a button and holds the

:53:09. > :53:14.clutch open apbtd system does the rest to find out how much wear is

:53:14. > :53:18.on the clutch plate to get a great launch. It's a curved grid. Those

:53:18. > :53:22.on the left will find themselves pointing, they need to point

:53:22. > :53:28.towards the first corner. They don't want to take off and have to

:53:28. > :53:34.turn the car immediately. You could easily break traction then at the

:53:34. > :53:38.tail end of the field begin to finally line up. We await the five

:53:38. > :53:43.red lights. We're looking at the back of the field for a man with

:53:43. > :53:47.the green flag. They stayed on for just three seconds in all the other

:53:47. > :53:51.races, we've seen this weekend. They're off! Vettel looked a bit

:53:51. > :53:56.tardy off pole position. Webber is going on the outside. He's close in.

:53:56. > :54:01.The Ferraris are away. Massa with a tremendous start. Massa up the

:54:01. > :54:07.inside then and Webber. He has to yield. Alonso takes that place back.

:54:07. > :54:10.Ferrari then third and fourth. Not a great start for Lewis Hamilton.

:54:10. > :54:14.Alonso maintains that position into the turn four and five chicane.

:54:14. > :54:22.Look at Vettel doing exactly what he needs to do. No contact at the

:54:22. > :54:27.back. Tremendous skill of driving at the back there, David. They've

:54:27. > :54:31.managed, and we have a big lock up there from Paul di Resta. Amazingly

:54:31. > :54:35.they got through the first two turns without any contact. That's

:54:35. > :54:39.unusual for this track. It seems the win threr was Alonso. Hamilton

:54:39. > :54:44.and Button both dropping back. Bad starts from the Mclarens. Nico

:54:44. > :54:49.Rosberg in sixth place. Look at the lead Vettel has got already. It's

:54:49. > :54:55.going to be very interesting now to see what Ferrari can do about Mark

:54:55. > :54:58.Webber. Lewis Hamilton in fifth, Rosberg, Jenson Button, Paul di

:54:58. > :55:03.Resta attack being like crazy. He's also a front wing in the last two

:55:03. > :55:08.races. It doesn't seem to have slowed him down in terms of

:55:08. > :55:17.aggressive overtakes. Exhaust smoke coming out of the front of the

:55:17. > :55:27.Renault. It's just where the inlet for the radiator. It's blowing the

:55:27. > :55:27.

:55:27. > :55:32.dust put down oil to soak up. Around 150 kilograms on board. I

:55:32. > :55:37.love this camera shot you can really see the cars, even at that

:55:37. > :55:47.speed, sliding around. Tremendous camera angle. I hope besee plenty

:55:47. > :56:00.

:56:00. > :56:07.of that through the race. Vettel behind the leader. That's the kind

:56:07. > :56:13.of spread that you get early in a Grand Prix in estably. Kobayashi 13,

:56:13. > :56:20.then Buemi. Petrov had a very poor start. Perez 16th. Alguersuari 17th.

:56:20. > :56:27.Glock up to 18th ahead of both Lotus, they're 19 and 20. 21 is

:56:27. > :56:33.Maldonado. 22, d'Ambrosio. Karthikeyan remains in 2478 place.

:56:33. > :56:38.Webber begins to pull a gap on the Ferraris. Hamilton is hanging onto

:56:38. > :56:42.them. Rosberg absolutely flying off the start again. If the Mercedes is

:56:42. > :56:46.struggling on tyre degradation as we are led to believe, that could

:56:46. > :56:53.be quite a headache for Button today. He has the use of that DRS.

:56:53. > :56:59.We will find out as we see, who is that actually? Glock and Kovalainen

:56:59. > :57:03.getting up close on the run through 12, 13, 14, so that's the corner

:57:03. > :57:07.obviously just after where Mark Webber went flying last year. One

:57:07. > :57:13.of the potential overtaking places. Mercedes have said they have been

:57:13. > :57:17.eating up the rear tyres on a Long Run. Initially the get away for

:57:17. > :57:21.Sebastien Vettel was a bit tardy. It was so much better than what

:57:21. > :57:25.Lewis Hamilton had. He was passed before turn one. A complete

:57:25. > :57:29.reversal of what we saw last year. Massa goes for the inside on Webber,

:57:30. > :57:33.backs out of it. That allows Alonso to go round the outside of his

:57:33. > :57:39.team-mate and retake the place. There you see Rosberg getting round

:57:39. > :57:44.the outside of Button. Rosberg very patient on the inside of turn one.

:57:44. > :57:49.He, -- turn two actually. Watch Massa flick past Alonso. He can't

:57:49. > :57:53.seem to get the starts right. Massa's got himself into third,

:57:53. > :58:00.challenging for second. Alonso, the wiley old fox that he is, goes down

:58:00. > :58:03.the outside and takes third place back. So a great run down to the

:58:03. > :58:07.first corner, tremendous skill. Massa was the man getting the work

:58:07. > :58:12.done there. At the moment Button is fine, but he's around the outside.

:58:12. > :58:18.Rosberg just gets on the throttle early and drives clean past him,

:58:18. > :58:24.somehow. They all make it work. Vettel 1.8 seconds ahead of Webber

:58:24. > :58:27.now. Out of the DRS zone as they enter onto the third lapment

:58:28. > :58:32.Terrible start from Petrov. You were counting off the running order

:58:32. > :58:37.there, he made a terrible start. Renault have in the past, then Toro

:58:37. > :58:44.Rosso on the inside. A man that used to base himself here in

:58:44. > :58:48.Valencia, he call today home for a period of time. There we see in-car

:58:48. > :58:53.with Lewis Hamilton, absolutely boging down as he goes off the line.

:58:53. > :58:56.Massa with a flier. Not really committed. I feel if Massa was

:58:56. > :59:02.Hamilton he probably would have made that pass stick. It's as sweet

:59:02. > :59:08.as you like. When you get the revs, the clutch activation, everything

:59:08. > :59:13.spot on, you just take off. A too few revs and the engine bogs down.

:59:13. > :59:18.Too many and the wheels spin up. The harder you try to fix it, the

:59:18. > :59:23.worse you make it. Vettel does a new fastest lap of the race. 2.2

:59:23. > :59:29.seconds clear of Webber in second place. Then Alonso, Massa, Hamilton,

:59:29. > :59:35.Rosberg, Button, Schumacher, Sutil, Heidfeld. We're on board with

:59:35. > :59:39.Button and looking at the back of Nico Rosberg and he is already

:59:39. > :59:43.nearly nine seconds off the lead as they said into lap four. This is a

:59:44. > :59:50.key moment where he needs to be within one second as they get into

:59:50. > :59:52.the braking zone here. He should be able to open his DRS as they come

:59:52. > :59:57.across bridge, the Swing Bridge, which you mentioned yesterday,

:59:57. > :00:03.opens up every night. It lets the super yachts in and out of the

:00:03. > :00:07.harbour. Let's see if his rear wing pops open. Yes, it is open. It's

:00:07. > :00:17.not getting him very far at the moment. The traction of the

:00:17. > :00:20.

:00:20. > :00:24.Mercedes off turn ten seems to be cherry, end terms of opening that

:00:24. > :00:31.wing. He is again quite late getting that opened on the he has

:00:31. > :00:36.to wait until the activation point. Is that enough? Right now, it's not.

:00:36. > :00:45.Mercedes is good enough. He looks like a sitting duck for later in

:00:45. > :00:51.the race. We can see Jensen pulling that pass. In the McLaren garage

:00:51. > :00:58.the general sense of irritation is with Lewis Hamilton's side. The

:00:58. > :01:03.feeling is the production overheated while sitting on a line.

:01:03. > :01:13.They might have to pet litter and get a few more laps on the tyres. -

:01:13. > :01:15.

:01:15. > :01:20.- pet litter. -- pit later. sense it is only a matter of time

:01:20. > :01:28.and he is now 10 seconds of the leader, Jensen Button. He has won

:01:28. > :01:32.car underneath them and he is faster than Mercedes. It is

:01:32. > :01:36.interesting to see how the her delivering the pace, there is no

:01:36. > :01:41.question that McLaren is quicker. But there are areas were the

:01:41. > :01:45.Mercedes is a little bit quicker. Once again, the Mercedes just

:01:45. > :01:50.drives off to Number 10 and that means at the point where Jensen

:01:50. > :01:58.Button crosses the line to open his DRS, he is too far back. He has not

:01:58. > :02:06.used his Kers system. Does he have a problem? Let us see if he uses

:02:07. > :02:14.that coming out of turn number 14. Maybe he wants to keep that. So

:02:14. > :02:20.that he can use it for DRS. And he does indeed. He wants both toys to

:02:20. > :02:27.play with. Now he has got an extra straight line. The Mercedes topped

:02:27. > :02:33.the speed track yesterday in every session? These cars have got

:02:33. > :02:40.identical engines. The down for us to the drag of the Mercedes engine,

:02:41. > :02:47.as we can see... Coming around the wall. Turnover 24. And into the

:02:47. > :02:52.apex. Much better drive this time. It is that concertina effect, he

:02:52. > :03:01.gets closer and on the gearbox. Much better speed on turn number

:03:01. > :03:05.one. Well! Sir perv! The brakes are so powerful, they stop you at 5.5

:03:05. > :03:10.times the force of gravity and that is the speed differential, if you

:03:10. > :03:15.are on the brakes five metres later, that was incredible footage. Just

:03:15. > :03:20.watch this, what's the difference as Jensen Button brakes later and

:03:20. > :03:25.Nico Rosberg was a little bit surprised, there. Steaming past.

:03:25. > :03:31.And duly did commit to that braking zone. He needed to get that done.

:03:31. > :03:35.He is a dozen seconds off the leader. We will wait to see, let's

:03:35. > :03:43.have a look. That is interesting. Ferrari, the last two laps, they

:03:43. > :03:49.have matched Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber's times. The gap is

:03:49. > :03:56.only two seconds between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. And Alonso

:03:56. > :03:59.is closing fast. Will he get the advantage of the DRS? You must say

:03:59. > :04:03.that the Friday analysis, suggesting Red Bull would be

:04:03. > :04:09.followed by a Ferrari and McLaren, that seems to be playing out. But

:04:09. > :04:11.the big test will be over the next 10 laps, they are wrong this option

:04:12. > :04:19.tyre and the prediction is they will run out of performance after

:04:19. > :04:28.15 laps. Who can make this tyre go there for this? End to that number

:04:28. > :04:32.six. Coming towards the end. Only one 10th faster than Mark Webber

:04:32. > :04:40.and Fernando Alonso. Remember, he has to get within one second of

:04:40. > :04:46.Mark Webber into the braking career to get a double helping of that

:04:46. > :04:55.extra speed in those two, long back straight. He is one 10th of a

:04:55. > :05:02.second shy of that. Felipe Massa, just falling back from Fernando

:05:02. > :05:10.Alonso. Let's have a look at Jensen Button. He actually lost quite a

:05:10. > :05:18.lot of time. Well, he included that overtake in to turn number two. Not

:05:18. > :05:22.a great flat for Jensen Button. -- lap. Let us see if Jensen Button

:05:22. > :05:28.starts to come back towards Lewis Hamilton. Six seconds off the lead.

:05:28. > :05:34.Good work, Mark Webber. You are doing a good job with those tyres.

:05:34. > :05:39.That was a friendly word from his engineer. At times they are nine

:05:39. > :05:43.seconds off pole position. Whether that is the fuel load or keeping

:05:43. > :05:47.the tyres intact. They must be so careful in the traction area. What

:05:48. > :05:52.can we do to protect those rear tyres? It is all about controlling

:05:52. > :05:55.the amount of load and the amount of slip that you put through those

:05:55. > :06:02.retires on the corner. Braking, you want to maximise everything. You

:06:02. > :06:05.brake as late as you can and the grip that the track allows but in a

:06:05. > :06:11.qualifying game might just go full power and except Sun spending of

:06:11. > :06:14.the rear tyres. You don't want to do that you. You need to not

:06:14. > :06:23.believe that black market on the surface. That isn't available on

:06:23. > :06:29.Your tyres any more. Sebastian Vettel has picked up the pace. That

:06:29. > :06:32.looks one day late and $1 short but he gets away with it. Kobayashi on

:06:32. > :06:39.Barrichello. Remember that amazing movie did on Fernando Alonso here

:06:39. > :06:46.last year? That is the battle for 12th and 13th place and it's easy

:06:46. > :06:55.to forget that this textbook racing isn't just at the front. A everyone

:06:55. > :06:58.has watched last year, they know his tricks! That looked just a

:06:59. > :07:04.touch ambitious. Fillipi massive the fastest through the first

:07:04. > :07:09.sector of anyone. Fernando Alonso, he is about to punish Mark Webber

:07:09. > :07:15.for that scruffy lap. Six tenths so when and his team-mate. And this is

:07:15. > :07:20.the result. How much closer here's and they both have got DRS

:07:20. > :07:26.available but Fernando Alonso will have his rear wing open. And nine,

:07:26. > :07:30.Mark Webber is under attack. They reckon that DRS was worth one

:07:30. > :07:35.second in qualifying and diffuse that everywhere during qualifying.

:07:35. > :07:39.During the race, it is only during those designated areas. That is a

:07:39. > :07:44.useful tool for Fernando Alonso, he goes very wide at the exit of

:07:44. > :07:49.turned 20. The artificial grass started to pull away from the

:07:49. > :07:53.circuit. With too many people running wide, that could be an

:07:53. > :07:58.issue later in the race. Once so did the fastest middle sector of

:07:59. > :08:05.the race. That is with his rear wing wide open. He gets plenty of

:08:05. > :08:09.extra strength. Fernando Alonso on the exit of to number 20, opens his

:08:09. > :08:16.steering wheel because he realises he has not got enough grip so he

:08:16. > :08:26.could go off the track. And he recognises earlier that he was too

:08:26. > :08:32.

:08:32. > :08:37.committed to that. Just look after you retire as! -- you're rear tyres.

:08:37. > :08:40.And we have some use... That give Mark Webber precious breathing

:08:40. > :08:44.space because he is getting through those times quicker than Fernando

:08:44. > :08:47.Alonso. That is what they were worried about on the grid, they

:08:47. > :08:51.were telling us they needed to watch out for the Ferrari because

:08:51. > :08:55.they are easier on their tyres and us and we will see if it pushes

:08:55. > :09:03.Mark Webber into the three stops. Strategy Wise, Sebastien Vettel has

:09:03. > :09:12.the luxury of choosing two or three stops. The two-stop strategy his

:09:12. > :09:19.second at -- seven seconds quicker by the end of the race. Hamilton

:09:19. > :09:24.hanging on. So, 6.7 seconds covering the top five at the moment.

:09:24. > :09:29.We have got a race on our hands. It will not be that easy for Mark

:09:29. > :09:34.Webber this afternoon. Ferrari looking handy. I think the man that

:09:34. > :09:37.has the comfort zone is Sebastian Vettel but there's only one point

:09:37. > :09:42.gap on Mark Webber, he is under pressure and he should have the

:09:42. > :09:49.pace to defend. Let us remind ourselves that Felipe Massa is

:09:49. > :09:53.hanging in also. Only two seconds behind Fernando Alonso. Who will

:09:53. > :10:02.blink first? Because the undercut on the pit stop winner, if you get

:10:02. > :10:08.those new option tyres, you will gain a lot of performance. It'll be

:10:08. > :10:14.a hive of activity in the pit lane. That is the significant point.

:10:14. > :10:18.Getting into the pits, get those fresh tyres on. And you will gain

:10:18. > :10:22.several seconds over the next few laps because the Pirelli tyres,

:10:23. > :10:29.they add instant grip and that is a key element. They are designed to

:10:29. > :10:33.degrade as well. Whatever tire you put on, you will go faster,

:10:33. > :10:38.especially with a fresh set of soft tyres. If you blink too early, come

:10:38. > :10:43.into early, you might enjoy some undercut but you'll have to stop

:10:43. > :10:50.want extra time later on. Looking down the running order, Michael

:10:50. > :10:54.Schumacher, he is a full 21 seconds behind Sebastian Vettel.

:10:54. > :10:57.Technically, Sebastian Vettel could make a stop in the next lap and

:10:57. > :11:02.still come out in front of Michael Schumacher. That is part of the

:11:02. > :11:09.strategy they must make. It isn't just about what is quickest from

:11:09. > :11:19.where you are. What were when you come out? -- bought were will you

:11:19. > :11:19.

:11:19. > :11:24.come out? There is a very good fight going on. Between Barrichello,

:11:24. > :11:34.Kobayashi, Alguersuari, for 12, 13th and 14th. And that is the

:11:34. > :11:35.

:11:35. > :11:39.battle. They are lapping the mid- 47. 2.5 seconds off the pace. You

:11:39. > :11:44.cannot look at them and say, there's there were, they are still

:11:44. > :11:50.driving as if their lives depend on it. But this looks like it could be

:11:50. > :11:56.an race that has a long battle. And it's about whoever blinks first and

:11:56. > :12:04.hence into the pit lane. Now, the replay, look up at Ferrari ahead.

:12:04. > :12:10.That is Felipe Massa. Getting way too deep. Turn 17, the hairpin. It

:12:10. > :12:16.looked as if that was a moment for Lewis Hamilton to make that pass.

:12:16. > :12:20.But he just held on. The Wall of Death on the outside. Felipe Massa,

:12:20. > :12:30.he maintains 4th place. But he is pulling away back from his team-

:12:30. > :12:34.mate. Fernando Alonso still within that one second zone for DRS. If he

:12:35. > :12:37.could pass Mark Webber, I wonder what he could do about Sebastian

:12:38. > :12:43.Vettel, there could be four seconds behind the leader. You must presume

:12:43. > :12:46.they could catch him. Certainly, he is in that one second and know

:12:46. > :12:52.where you are losing performance, getting the dirty air from Mark

:12:52. > :12:58.Webber. To get that close tells me that there is no question that

:12:58. > :13:03.Ferrari is a quicker package. career there were two men I never

:13:03. > :13:07.wanted catching me. One was Ayrton Senna and the other was Schumacher.

:13:07. > :13:16.If I was driving out, I think it would be Fernando Alonso I would

:13:16. > :13:26.not want. And probably Kobayashi. Toro Rosso cars, busy fighting each

:13:26. > :13:27.

:13:27. > :13:34.other. He has kept his tyres in better for the exit on turnover 20.

:13:34. > :13:38.And they head towards the port. The old fish market. And we have

:13:38. > :13:42.Heidfeld in the pit lane. Barrichello, also, for Williams.

:13:42. > :13:52.Both Toro Rosso cars staying on the track as they head into her lap

:13:52. > :13:55.

:13:55. > :14:00.number 12. Kobayashi is in as well. That looks clean enough. Heidfeld

:14:00. > :14:07.away. Can he clear the Lotus cars? So close to going over that white

:14:07. > :14:12.line. I wonder if he got between those Lotus cars? Part of the

:14:12. > :14:17.decision you must make at the pit wall is to clear the traffic.

:14:17. > :14:27.Presumably, this was an aborted overtake. This is why Paul Lemmy

:14:27. > :14:27.

:14:27. > :14:32.and Alguersuari ended up fighting. -- Sebastien Buemi. Coming back to

:14:32. > :14:36.Nick Heidfeld in the Lotus, he has come out between the other Lotus

:14:36. > :14:40.team-mate and that will cost him as he tries to clear Heikki Kovalainen.

:14:40. > :14:47.He either misjudged that for he misjudged the time to get in and

:14:47. > :14:53.out of the pit stop. I notice Renault in amongst Team Lotus.

:14:53. > :14:58.McLaren coming out. Getting ready in the pit lane. That is for Lewis

:14:58. > :15:05.Hamilton. They are the first of the front-runners to stop and Hamilton

:15:05. > :15:12.does indeed go to the pits. The soft tyres going on. That is

:15:12. > :15:20.whoever and Fernando Alonso. -- Mark Webber. Let's try another

:15:20. > :15:24.set... The pit stop looked good. When that mean that Felipe Massa

:15:24. > :15:29.must respond? Otherwise the undercut, the fresh boots on that

:15:29. > :15:34.car, will give Hamilton such a lot of grip. And the pit exit and the

:15:34. > :15:40.out lap, as it is called, along with on the way in, it is so easy

:15:40. > :15:50.to lose time? You will analyse those laps. Is there anything else

:15:50. > :15:51.

:15:51. > :15:55.tenths in performance from the car. If the driver doesn't get

:15:55. > :16:01.absolutely his in-lap aced or outlap, when you're trying to find

:16:01. > :16:06.out how the tyres are performing, if he's hesitant you can give away

:16:06. > :16:10.a second. That's crucial later in the race. The clock is always

:16:10. > :16:15.running. It doesn't matter whether you're in the pit lane or doing

:16:15. > :16:19.190mph into this braking zone. Vettel leads Webber by 3.5 seconds

:16:19. > :16:25.now. Alonso third. Massa fourth, Button fifth. Hamilton halls pitted.

:16:25. > :16:31.Michael Schumacher stayed out. Nico Rosberg has also pitted. We have,

:16:31. > :16:39.whoa big oversteer. That's a set of rear tyres beginning to cry enough.

:16:39. > :16:46.Heidfeld passed Sutil. So, Sutil having just pitted, Heidfeld sorts

:16:46. > :16:53.him out. Sorry Martin, Red Bull mechanics are in the pit lane.

:16:54. > :17:00.Looks like Ferrari are poilzed as well. Webber in the pits. 40mph the

:17:00. > :17:04.speed here. Webber then on the soft tyres too. Massa didn't come N I

:17:04. > :17:10.had a feeling Massa was going to come in. He didn't. He hasn't

:17:10. > :17:16.responded to Hamilton. Let's look at Hamilton's times: He's done the

:17:16. > :17:21.fastest final set of the Grand Prix. His out lap was 1.50.3. So

:17:21. > :17:26.including getting up to speed in the pit lane, that could put him

:17:26. > :17:30.amongst the Ferraris. Ferrari have not reacted at this time. I would

:17:30. > :17:36.have thought Mclaren would be pretty pleased with that. They

:17:36. > :17:40.might pay a heavier price later, because the tyres have gone further.

:17:40. > :17:47.Ted? Lewis Hamilton's stop on 14, bang on for a three stop. We'd

:17:47. > :17:50.expect him at 28 and 42. The Mclaren guys are readyying tyres.

:17:50. > :17:54.Ferrari feel they haven't reached the cliff with the soft tyres and

:17:54. > :17:57.they can go for five or six more laps. Thank you. What Lewis

:17:57. > :18:01.Hamilton has reached is the back of Michael Schumacher. He's going to

:18:01. > :18:08.breeze past at the end of the straight. Hamilton absolutely

:18:08. > :18:12.flying and he, on these fresh tyres, unsurprisingly. So maybe Ferrari

:18:12. > :18:17.are going to try and do one less stop. But the sort of pace that

:18:17. > :18:22.Hamilton is putting in out there, may change their tune. I think we

:18:22. > :18:26.can see Sebastien Vettel is coming in for his stop. The Red Bull

:18:26. > :18:32.mechanics, Mclaren and Ferrari, it's a pit stop challenge between

:18:32. > :18:38.the three top teams and to add to that, we have Mercedes as well. All

:18:38. > :18:44.of the four teams are servicing their cars. It will be busy down

:18:44. > :18:49.there. Just one pit crew for each team to service both drivers and

:18:49. > :18:53.they have to scarper out of the way with the Jacks. We watch Ferrari

:18:53. > :19:00.get up to speed. Unsurprisingly they're all putting soft tyres.

:19:00. > :19:06.Hamilton with a new fastest lap of the race. Where exactly is he in

:19:06. > :19:10.relaiction to the Ferraris? He's still behind them. Hamilton hasn't

:19:11. > :19:16.made the difference. He's right, he's just coming out of that

:19:16. > :19:24.chicane. Button then just leaving the pits now. He's a long way, lost

:19:24. > :19:27.a lot of time, didn't he? Behind Rosberg early in the race. So

:19:27. > :19:36.Jenson's not been able to catch that up at the moment. Felipe Massa

:19:36. > :19:40.has yet to stop. He leads the Grand Prix. From Vettel, Alonso, Vettel,

:19:40. > :19:47.Webber, Alonso, Hamilton, Button and then Rosberg as well. Jenson

:19:47. > :19:51.then at the end of the bridge. This is Alguersuari and Rosberg and

:19:51. > :19:55.Schumacher charges up the inside. He has a broken front wing. Michael

:19:55. > :19:59.Schumacher has had contact somewhere. That car will understeer

:19:59. > :20:05.horribly through the corners. I wouldn't be going too high speed.

:20:05. > :20:09.He should be called by his team, you cannot go at 190mph - We saw

:20:09. > :20:15.with Heidfeld in Canada. He drove over his front wing. Michael is

:20:15. > :20:20.brave at this stage, trying to get back to the pits. Remarkably he's

:20:20. > :20:24.overtaking a Force India. I saw him years ago driving faster than I

:20:24. > :20:28.could with no front wing and only three wheels on the wagon. The

:20:28. > :20:33.talent is there. Force India outbraked itself to be fair. This

:20:33. > :20:38.is Rosberg and Alguersuari. Rosberg's pitted. Alguersuari has

:20:38. > :20:44.not. He's chasing Rosberg down. Rosberg got Hamilton another new

:20:44. > :20:49.fastest lap and Felipe Massa has now pitted from the lead. He's 20.7

:20:49. > :20:55.seconds it took him in the pit lane, about what we thought his pit stop

:20:55. > :21:01.just 3.7. Then you can see on the graphic, we saw Mclaren practising

:21:01. > :21:08.the other day doing two second, 2.19 was the best pit stop timement

:21:08. > :21:11.Critically, then, Felipe Massa is and Michael literally wearing his

:21:11. > :21:16.front wing now, into the pit. That would have been scary if it tucked

:21:16. > :21:21.under the front wheels. It has tucked under the front left, as can

:21:21. > :21:26.you see. It's moving around as he pulls into the box. Now they have

:21:26. > :21:35.to lift the front of the car up onto a high stand allowing them to

:21:35. > :21:38.remost old wing and then in with the new nose assembly. That

:21:38. > :21:43.effectively puts him out of a point-scoring chance this afternoon

:21:43. > :21:48.I would say. So, it has worked out for Lewis Hamilton in terms of

:21:48. > :21:54.passing one of the Ferraris. He is now ahead of Felipe Massa on the

:21:54. > :22:00.track, some way ahead of him. We see Schumacher coming out of the -

:22:00. > :22:06.oh, no, that's the replay. Michael exits the pits straight into an

:22:06. > :22:11.accident. It looked like he crossed the white line as well coming out

:22:11. > :22:16.of the pits. If he crossed the exit he will get a penalty as well.

:22:16. > :22:24.Maybe that's what unsettled him, is he ran into turn two. Rosberg

:22:24. > :22:30.trying to go around the outside of Alguersuari there. Look at this,

:22:30. > :22:36.Mark Webber looks now the gap down to 2.4 seconds. Though he just had

:22:36. > :22:42.a difficult la -- lap. It was 3.5 when he started the pit stop phase.

:22:42. > :22:48.Button fastest man in the middle part of the lap, so far and doing a

:22:48. > :22:53.1.44.2. Button then is 20 seconds offer the lead. At the top three

:22:53. > :23:01.are covered by less than four seconds. This might explain the

:23:01. > :23:06.slow lap that Webber just had against Hispana. That's through

:23:06. > :23:12.that section 18, 19, 20. That would have cost him a punch of time,

:23:12. > :23:17.showing his frustration. Always fails to surprise me why we can see

:23:17. > :23:20.the guy waving his hands. That's frustration for you. Mark knew he

:23:20. > :23:24.really did get close to Vettel. It's put him back again and almost

:23:24. > :23:34.in the danger zone again with Alonso in terms of that rear wing.

:23:34. > :23:39.That was a costly tangle. That worked out badly for Felipe Massa.

:23:39. > :23:43.He was passed. It was a result of the privilege system. Alonso was

:23:43. > :23:47.the lead driver on the road. He has the privilege of when he comes into

:23:47. > :23:51.the pits. Felipe Massa can't come in before him. That left him

:23:51. > :23:55.vulnerable to Lewis Hamilton as Alonso said no, no, I want to come

:23:55. > :23:59.in later. There was nothing Massa could have done about it.

:23:59. > :24:03.certainly cost him. I wonder why Massa didn't pit straight away.

:24:03. > :24:09.Hamilton, we talked about it, Hamilton came in, fast straight out

:24:09. > :24:14.of the pits. Ferrari didn't respond. As we watch Nick Heidfeld then

:24:14. > :24:21.against Sergio Perez. We're seeing great racing down oh, and contact

:24:21. > :24:25.there. Heidfeld has track position. That was a great move by Heidfeld.

:24:25. > :24:29.Brave stuff going round the outside, because Perez could have pushed him

:24:29. > :24:35.wide. Is he going to lose a further position running down into turn 25?

:24:35. > :24:40.He's got Barrichello and indeed, Barrichello down the inside. Most

:24:40. > :24:45.experienced man in Formula One, showing he knows what to do.

:24:45. > :24:50.hasn't lost any bravery. Perez drops two places in one lap.

:24:50. > :24:55.Heidfeld tenth, Barrichello 11th. Perez is yet to stop. He's trying

:24:55. > :24:58.to play the trick he used very successfully in Australia. Sadly,

:24:58. > :25:02.before they were disqualified from the race and lost their points.

:25:02. > :25:07.There was contact, but Heidfeld didn't give in. He kept his foot

:25:07. > :25:16.buried in the throttle. Then you have got that turn 19 and 20 joined

:25:16. > :25:20.up corner. Webber has the gap down to 2.2 again now. Vettel has

:25:20. > :25:24.responded. I can't help but sense that Vettel is just doing all he

:25:24. > :25:31.has to and nothing more up front. Let's remind ourselves, they could

:25:31. > :25:35.be running on a slightly more preserving the opportunity to use

:25:35. > :25:41.maximum power for when they need it. I'm not sure I would be entirely

:25:41. > :25:45.comfortable with a 2.2 lead, if you make a small mistake you're a bit

:25:45. > :25:50.in trouble. But Mark Webber seems to be in a spot of bother. He was

:25:50. > :25:54.more comfortable after the pit stop. Once again Alonso has closed the

:25:54. > :26:03.gap. It's down to .8 of a second. Mark could well be challenged in

:26:03. > :26:10.the DRS zones. So, that incident with Michael Schumacher and the

:26:10. > :26:14.Renaults, Alonso with a 43.8 and gets himself up behind Mark Webber,

:26:14. > :26:18.look at this, the crowd enjoying that. They've just heard about that

:26:18. > :26:25.new fastest lap. He was definitely within a second of the detection

:26:25. > :26:30.zone. It was just before these two corners. Schumacher under

:26:30. > :26:34.investigation for that contact into the first corner with the Renault.

:26:34. > :26:41.I think it was the Renault of Vitaly Petrov, two drivers who

:26:41. > :26:45.connected with each other in Istanbul as well. A similarly

:26:45. > :26:52.clumsy move, it has to be said. Webber, the gap's up to 2.4 now.

:26:52. > :26:56.It's Vettel's turn to get a Hispana racing car parked on the apex of

:26:56. > :27:01.where he would dearly like to be. When will Vettel pass that car?

:27:01. > :27:06.Blue flags waving. He's hanging on the racing line. He wasn't going to

:27:06. > :27:11.give up the racing line, was he, there? The leader had to go past on

:27:11. > :27:16.the dirty side. Look how close Fernando Alonso is now. We're into

:27:16. > :27:22.lap 19. Vettel leads from Webber. Sorry Martin, that will cost Webber

:27:22. > :27:28.potentially. He's catching him into this last corner. There's no reason

:27:28. > :27:34.for Vitantonio Liuzzi to get out of the way. He does. Every reason.

:27:34. > :27:37.He's making his own race track up down there now. I think he realised

:27:37. > :27:41.that it gave one of the leaders a bit of a hard time. That's often

:27:41. > :27:46.the case. You're coming up to lap people and you're the one that

:27:46. > :27:51.wakes everybody up. They seem a bit more alert after that. You have to

:27:51. > :27:57.be really careful if you're second place, they don't know two cars are

:27:57. > :28:04.coming up them. I always found it quite easy. Maybe that's because I

:28:04. > :28:09.wasn't leading many of them. Mark Webber with his mirrors full of

:28:09. > :28:15.scarlet Ferrari. The Red Bulls are charging, the prancing horse will

:28:15. > :28:25.not let them get away. Finally Alguersuari pits, his first stop of

:28:25. > :28:38.

:28:38. > :28:42.Massa, who is beginning to get some pace again. Then Button sixth. 20

:28:42. > :28:46.seconds off the lead. Rosberg nine seconds behind him. Sutil eighth,

:28:46. > :28:51.having a good run for Force India. Heidfeld ninth. Barrichello tenth

:28:51. > :28:55.and Webber increasingly coming under pressure. This gets really

:28:55. > :29:01.difficult. Not only is he trying to focus on extracting the maximum

:29:01. > :29:07.from these tyres... Rear temperature creeping up. Try one

:29:07. > :29:11.click rearwards, you need more front on entry. Rear temperature,

:29:11. > :29:17.tyre temperatures or brake temperatures creeping up. He says

:29:17. > :29:19.try one click forward. Yeah, that must be brake temperatures. He is

:29:19. > :29:23.under pressure from Fernando Alonso. He's having to drive slightly

:29:23. > :29:27.defensive. It means that you don't explore the braking point as much

:29:27. > :29:31.as you would when you're running alone with the ability to just

:29:31. > :29:37.search out where is the grip, is this car constantly changes. You

:29:37. > :29:41.have the situation where you're burning off 2.5 kilos of fuel each

:29:41. > :29:45.lap. The performance is getting lighter but you play that off

:29:45. > :29:49.against the degradation of the tyre, which is, well, it's getting tired

:29:49. > :29:54.and losing performance. I thought he said one click

:29:55. > :30:01.rearwards. I wondered if it was the differential. There are sensors on

:30:01. > :30:05.the cars reading the surface of the tyre temperatures, tiny infrared

:30:05. > :30:11.things. The teams know exactly what's going on. Look how close

:30:11. > :30:15.Alonso is now. Up the inside, will Webber yield. He has to. Fantastic

:30:15. > :30:21.from Fernando Alonso there, absolutely opportunist and the

:30:21. > :30:31.crowd enjoyed that one! Fernando Alonso almost from nowhere just

:30:31. > :30:34.

:30:34. > :30:39.pounced. The job was done. Now what Prix. Fernando Alonso, really... I

:30:39. > :30:47.think that is still cement dust shaking up the crude macro behind

:30:47. > :30:52.Webber's car. Webber got a little bit wide, as we get a replay, he

:30:52. > :30:57.gets a massive toe down into what is 2010 12. This is the area where

:30:57. > :31:02.Webber went flying last year. A nice clean manoeuvre. Mark does not

:31:02. > :31:08.find it too much. These cells are made dummy, goes left dance which

:31:08. > :31:12.is right. -- the cells in a dummy, goes left and switchers right.

:31:12. > :31:17.Let's explain why there was such a massive toe. A gear these cars to

:31:17. > :31:22.be on the rev limiter in qualifying, when you are able to use DRS

:31:22. > :31:27.everywhere. That means John top gear is long in race trim. Mark

:31:27. > :31:31.Webber is in a situation where he is underpowered. Suddenly, you have

:31:31. > :31:38.Alonso in the slipstream, able to use DRS, able to extract the

:31:38. > :31:42.maximum power from the engine, and that is the end result. There will

:31:42. > :31:47.be no further action on the content between Schumacher and Petrov, we

:31:47. > :31:51.are told. That will be put down to a racing incident, then. No

:31:51. > :32:01.penalties at this time. We still have 24 runners in the Grand Prix

:32:01. > :32:02.

:32:02. > :32:12.Vettel, and I think some parts will have signed on the pit wall at Red

:32:12. > :32:30.

:32:30. > :32:35.lap you do, but the tyres are degrading faster than that. We

:32:35. > :32:41.still have a tap map temperature of 47 degrees centigrade. -- track

:32:41. > :32:47.temperature. It helps the fuel load, when you start to burn fuel. The

:32:47. > :32:51.fuel weight is approximately 150 kilograms, 25% more weight on top

:32:51. > :32:55.of the weight of the car and passenger. It is like two

:32:55. > :33:01.passengers inside the car with the driver, then trying to accelerate

:33:01. > :33:06.them around the racetrack. Vettel leads Alonso by three seconds.

:33:06. > :33:11.Webber is coming back on him. Hamilton is in 4th, 4.5 seconds

:33:11. > :33:16.down the road. Ted Kravitz. Mark Webber had problems with the brakes

:33:16. > :33:20.in qualifying, so that might have reoccurred in the race. His tyres

:33:20. > :33:24.were only a flat sold when Alonso made that pass. Jenson Button is

:33:24. > :33:27.not happy with the set-up and balance of his car, so they have

:33:27. > :33:32.been making tyre pressure adjustments in the garage. Down the

:33:32. > :33:40.field, it looks like Perez's One Stop is not working for him. His

:33:40. > :33:45.lap Tyne's are looking horrible at the moment. -- times. He is on the

:33:45. > :33:49.medium tyre, he will be quicker at the end of the race on the soft.

:33:49. > :33:54.You are right, Perez is five seconds off the pace at the moment.

:33:54. > :33:58.That looks like a strategy that is not working. You only need to do

:33:58. > :34:04.four laps like that and you have got a free pit-stop to put fresh

:34:04. > :34:09.tyres on. That does not look too handy. He is down in 14th place. He

:34:10. > :34:15.is the only driver who has not pitied during the Grand Prix. 24

:34:15. > :34:20.runners. David, in parc ferme conditions, we used to call the

:34:20. > :34:24.cars apart after every session, go out and do a warm-up, a call them

:34:24. > :34:28.apart again, then go and do the race. We had so much reliability

:34:28. > :34:33.despite that. Now they cannot do any of that, but we have incredible

:34:33. > :34:38.reliability. The technology moves forward. A lot of it has been

:34:38. > :34:43.helped... Lewis, we are doing the same pace. We need to keep going a

:34:43. > :34:47.little bit longer on this set. Interestingly, looking behind

:34:47. > :34:53.instead of forward, I wonder if they are resigned to the fact that

:34:53. > :35:03.Ford may be the best Lewis can get today. At point. Webber has done a

:35:03. > :35:07.1:43.5, Hamilton is doing 1:45.5. Button, 45.6. Lewis is struggling

:35:07. > :35:12.on these tyres. Maybe he put them to heart out of the pits, as we

:35:12. > :35:16.watch Petrov making his way past Kobayashi. The Saubers have

:35:16. > :35:21.struggled this weekend. I think it is the lower downforce required.

:35:21. > :35:26.There are low downforce package, it is all relative, but it is not that

:35:26. > :35:29.effective, it seems to me. It looks like there is a bit of a lull, I

:35:29. > :35:32.will finish the sentence I started earlier and reliability. It has

:35:32. > :35:37.been helped by the fact that you have one gearbox for five races and

:35:37. > :35:42.you are limited in the manner of engines for the season. The rpm is

:35:42. > :35:46.capped at 18,000. We were doing over 20,000 at one point. When you

:35:46. > :35:50.are pushing those boundaries, there is a massive stress, and an

:35:50. > :35:54.liability. For the engine manufacturers to come back to

:35:54. > :35:58.18,000, it gives them such head room. They do not learn what they

:35:58. > :36:04.learned when they had to read it to 20,000. We can see McLaren

:36:04. > :36:11.preparing for Lewis Hamilton. not run out of breaks any more, we

:36:11. > :36:16.do not have clutch failure, drive shaft failure. -- brakes. The cars

:36:16. > :36:21.are pretty bulletproof these days. Look how slow this is going to feel

:36:21. > :36:26.as Hamilton chugs down the pit-lane in the finest racing car in the

:36:26. > :36:29.world, limited to 40 mph. Another set of soft tyres going on for

:36:29. > :36:37.Lewis Hamilton. He will have to stop once more. What was going on

:36:37. > :36:42.there? Away too early, obviously a sign from the chief mechanic there.

:36:42. > :36:45.We will get a replay of that, hopefully. 4.4 for the stop, but

:36:45. > :36:53.they have wonder if that includes the hesitation after it was nearly

:36:53. > :36:59.over. Not a good phase of the Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton. We are on

:36:59. > :37:03.board with Petrov now, who is looking to get past Perez. Erez has

:37:04. > :37:09.not faded, his tyres must be feeling pretty second-hand by now.

:37:09. > :37:15.-- Perez has not pitied. He does not take a run around the outside.

:37:15. > :37:25.He has got Kobayashi chasing him as well. This is over 14th, 15th and

:37:25. > :37:27.

:37:27. > :37:33.through turn one. He must be in dire trouble with these tyres.

:37:33. > :37:40.is still five seconds per lap off the pace. Petrov was not putting

:37:40. > :37:44.his car and the optimum position for an overtake. That is an easy

:37:44. > :37:49.corner, turn one. He would not be expecting Erez to lift out. You

:37:49. > :37:54.could see the Rehan movement of the car as he went through the turn. He

:37:54. > :38:04.did a remarkable job to keep it on the track. And Nick Heidfeld are in

:38:04. > :38:07.

:38:07. > :38:14.Sebastian Vettel on lap 26. He leaves, and easy overtake now for

:38:14. > :38:18.Petrov. He has wasted their lap on that one. He had the help of DRS

:38:18. > :38:28.there. It works for the way through the field, whether you are lapping,

:38:28. > :38:29.

:38:29. > :38:35.being lapdog Justin combat. Vettel leads by 3.2. -- being laughed walk

:38:35. > :38:40.just in combat. Button is beginning... He is in 5th, he is

:38:40. > :38:46.ahead of Hamilton now that Hamilton has made his second stop. Kobayashi

:38:46. > :38:51.passes his team-mate for 15th position. Surely Sauber are

:38:51. > :38:55.thinking, surely the same as we are, this is not working. Every 4th time

:38:56. > :39:00.he goes past the pits, he has wasted a pit-stop. What is the

:39:00. > :39:05.point? Well, I am trying to look down the pit-lane. They are going

:39:05. > :39:09.to bring him in. That was at least a couple of laps too late. They

:39:09. > :39:14.were living in Melbourne mode, when it seemed to work, he only did one

:39:14. > :39:16.stop there. This was the overtake from Petrov. He gets well out of

:39:16. > :39:22.the way, he does not make that difficult at all, the sensible

:39:22. > :39:26.thing. And then Kobayashi doing the same thing with the benefit of DRS.

:39:26. > :39:29.It is all very happy at there in the midfield, waving thank-you to

:39:29. > :39:34.reach other. I would have thought he would have been quite upset with

:39:34. > :39:42.him. Michael Schumacher and Maldonado, wheel-to-wheel. That is

:39:42. > :39:46.for 16th place, which Schumacher takes. Do not find yourself, when

:39:46. > :39:53.you see Michael up close and personal life that, going, is this

:39:53. > :39:57.going to be another contact?! was close. He was a demon in Canada

:39:57. > :40:02.two weeks ago, he was the one doing the double over take out of turn

:40:02. > :40:08.nine, coping with the conditions in the old style. It is just not moist

:40:08. > :40:14.enough for him out there. They are managing to cross all of the water

:40:14. > :40:19.and around the port. Hamilton does the new fastest lap of the race,

:40:19. > :40:22.43.1. Maybe that is not so smart, to take so much life out of the

:40:22. > :40:27.tyres so early. Pirelli say you have to treat them carefully in the

:40:27. > :40:31.beginning. You say that, but it is only six tenths quicker than the

:40:31. > :40:37.previous lap from Vettel. He may well feel, with that extra

:40:37. > :40:41.performance from these fresh tyres, once they hit the wall, they really

:40:41. > :40:47.drop off in performance. If he was at the end of that previous set,

:40:47. > :40:51.maybe he feels he is comfortably doing this lap time. We will find

:40:51. > :40:56.out. He has certainly burned out the fastest, the first of the

:40:56. > :41:00.front-runners to have to pit tries. Ted. Still at McLaren, just a

:41:00. > :41:04.thought. We know that Jenson is trying a different strategy to

:41:04. > :41:09.Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button is going longer to try to make a small

:41:09. > :41:12.third stint. Whether he is doing two of three, we will find out. If

:41:12. > :41:18.Lewis continues like this, he will come up behind his team-mate, and

:41:18. > :41:22.then McLaren will have a little problem. He could well do. The last

:41:22. > :41:27.thing McLaren will want to do is leave Jenson out holding a Lewis if

:41:27. > :41:33.he has fresh tyres. Interesting team decision to be made in about...

:41:33. > :41:38.Let's look at the Gatt, 7.9 seconds between Hamilton and Button. We

:41:38. > :41:43.have a difference of 1.2 seconds per lap. Do you think Ferrari have

:41:43. > :41:48.a chance to win this race? What you think Vettel is just coasting and

:41:48. > :41:51.doing all he needs to do? I am glad you mentioned that, because with

:41:51. > :41:55.only a 3.2 seconds gap, there is a lot of racing to be done. The key

:41:55. > :41:59.thing that Sebastian Vettel has on his side is that Ferrari are very

:41:59. > :42:04.unhappy, or were very unhappy on the prime tyre, the harder tyre.

:42:04. > :42:10.They're going well at the moment on the option, matching Red Bull,

:42:10. > :42:14.slightly quicker on that previous lap. Lewis, you have set a purple

:42:14. > :42:18.lap, you are the fastest car. Please look after these tyres and

:42:18. > :42:25.manage your pace. The engineers thinking exactly the same that we

:42:25. > :42:31.were thinking up here. You can take the grip early on, but it is not

:42:31. > :42:36.going to be there later when you really need it. Andy Latham there

:42:36. > :42:41.telling Lewis, OK, just can't let a little bit. We love your attacking

:42:41. > :42:46.style, but you might be taking a bit too much out of those tyres.

:42:46. > :42:51.Five. To stop there for Heidfeld. In the pits, we have just had

:42:51. > :42:57.Heidfeld, Di Resta, Petrov. That was their second stop. Most of them

:42:57. > :43:03.will be doing a three-stop race this afternoon. And Webber, then,

:43:03. > :43:07.goes into the pit lane. He was getting very close behind Alonso,

:43:07. > :43:12.so Webber pits first. Will this give in he and a cat? That could

:43:13. > :43:18.put a lot of pressure on Ferrari, and it would take the pressure off

:43:18. > :43:22.Vettel up front. This is a key pit stop for Red Bull. Holding the rest

:43:22. > :43:29.evenly so the car does not rock on the jacks, otherwise they cannot

:43:30. > :43:37.get the guns nicely on to the spin of. 3.7, for Red Bull. Now Ferrari

:43:37. > :43:41.have got a decision to make. Are they go into have to? Definitely a

:43:41. > :43:45.three-stop for Webber. They went into qualifying with three sets of

:43:45. > :43:49.each of the tyre compounds. In a dry race, they must use both of

:43:49. > :43:54.them. If you are new to Formula One, we will remind you about that. It

:43:54. > :44:01.is a question are having to get out on both tyres at some point. They

:44:01. > :44:07.want to use these lower tyre, up to two seconds per lap slower,

:44:07. > :44:13.depending on which team you are talking to. Alonso looks so steady.

:44:13. > :44:18.In fact, that looks very steady to me. Let's have a look at his sector

:44:18. > :44:23.times. First sector was OK, struggling for grip. He will have

:44:23. > :44:28.to pit, surely, the will have to respond. There is a bunch of

:44:29. > :44:33.traffic, Vettel coming up behind Petrov, Karthikeyan. Is that

:44:33. > :44:38.Maldonado there as well? A bunch of traffic which Alonso does not want

:44:38. > :44:43.to lose time in. The Ferrari mechanics are in the pit lane.

:44:43. > :44:48.Options are being brought out for Fernando Alonso. Some over steering

:44:48. > :44:51.into the pit lane, he has got no real grip left. He has hit the

:44:51. > :44:56.cliff that we have heard the drivers talking about. It is an

:44:56. > :45:02.early warning system. You have run out of rubber compound on your rear

:45:02. > :45:07.tyres, and Alonso was really struggling on at in lap. Where is

:45:07. > :45:13.Webber? Massa goes through. It is going to be close. He is going to

:45:13. > :45:18.pass him. That is the undercut for you. He pitted one lap earlier, had

:45:18. > :45:28.the extra grip. He was just over one second behind him as we got to

:45:28. > :45:35.

:45:35. > :45:39.Maldonado preparing to come from They've blinked first and got it

:45:39. > :45:43.right at the moment. Great stuff from Red Bull strategy. Now

:45:43. > :45:47.Fernando Alonso has got to do it all again. That turns the tables.

:45:47. > :45:51.That puts Red Bull back in charge for now. It does. One thing I think

:45:51. > :45:58.I didn't finish earlier was saying that Ferrari have been struggling

:45:58. > :46:06.on the harder tyres. Once they have to put that on, they might...

:46:06. > :46:11.rear tyre temperatures are very hot. I can't go any slower. Understood.

:46:11. > :46:16.I can't go any slower! We both know that's not the case. He can park it

:46:16. > :46:20.up if he fancies. Thlz a clear message to his engineer. Please

:46:20. > :46:24.stop talking to me. I'm frustrated, I'm trying to drive this car

:46:24. > :46:30.quickly and I can't make the tyres last. That could be an indication

:46:30. > :46:34.of a lack of downforce, cars sliding around. Massa ahead of

:46:34. > :46:38.Webber and Alonso at the moment. Vettel pits. Red Bull don't have a

:46:38. > :46:42.luxury this afternoon of coasting in when it suits them. They have to

:46:42. > :46:47.keep reacting to Ferrari. Jenson is in the pits as well. Another set of

:46:47. > :46:52.the soft tyres going on, to confirm they will stop again. Both Red Bull

:46:52. > :46:59.and at least Alonso have to stop. So Massa leads the Grand Prix, but

:46:59. > :47:03.he's yet to do his second stop. Massa didn't quite lead the Grand

:47:03. > :47:09.Prix. He didn't get through. What's going to be interesting,

:47:09. > :47:13.Massa could come into play with Webber, if Ferrari want to play

:47:13. > :47:18.strategic, they would leave Massa out for another lap. OK he's going

:47:18. > :47:22.to be fourth, let's use him to back Webber into Alonso. Well, you've

:47:22. > :47:32.got to be cruel to be kind to the team, I guess. You have Webber in

:47:32. > :47:36.the 1.42. Alonso is flying as well out there. They like the new tyres.

:47:36. > :47:41.Button finishes his second stop, gets back up to speed. Rosberg has

:47:41. > :47:47.been in too. He looks as if he can keep the Mercedes inside the top

:47:47. > :47:51.ten. We do have a race on our hands. Vettel leads from Massa, Webber,

:47:51. > :47:55.Alonso. Massa yet to stop. He's kind of 20 seconds out of bed there

:47:55. > :47:59.really in that respect. But you're right, David, he can really spoil

:47:59. > :48:04.it. He's now struggling for rear grip as well. I don't think Webber

:48:04. > :48:10.will be behind him very long. has his DRS open. It will be a key

:48:10. > :48:15.moment to pop it down the inside to turn 17. Massa goes defensive. He

:48:15. > :48:24.was so much slower on the brakes, Webber with a fantastic pass. Now

:48:24. > :48:29.Massa is holding up Fernando Alonso. He is indeed. Look at the gap

:48:29. > :48:33.that's giving Webber up front. Oh, has he seen him? How do they find

:48:33. > :48:38.time to make hand signals when they're trying not to have 180mph

:48:38. > :48:42.accident? Massa pits. He had to then. He had run out of rear tyre

:48:42. > :48:49.grip. Candy from a baby as Webber drove clean around the outside of

:48:49. > :48:55.him. Vettel then, the top three are covered now by 3.1 seconds, a set

:48:55. > :49:04.of used soft tyres and a very long pit stop indeed. Left rear didn't

:49:04. > :49:07.go on properly. So that does, look at that, 8.6 seconds for Felipe

:49:07. > :49:12.Massa. Could be very good news for Jenson Button who's just coming

:49:12. > :49:18.into the background there. So Button much closer to Massa now.

:49:18. > :49:22.But he's finished his second stop. He's 29 seconds off the lead Jenson.

:49:22. > :49:25.He was around 20. But he doesn't have the pace at the moment.

:49:25. > :49:33.Hamilton 13 seconds off the lead in fourth place. Mclaren are burning

:49:33. > :49:42.up their tyres faster than Red Bull and Ferrari. There then is the

:49:42. > :49:47.guilty wheelgun. Good drive from Mark Webber. He's coming back. He

:49:48. > :49:52.was struggling at the beginning of the Grand Prix. Typical that you

:49:52. > :49:55.don't give up. He's going to get himself into a comfortable position

:49:55. > :50:00.against Sebastien Vettel. This is what he needs to do if he's going

:50:00. > :50:04.to lead the first lap this season. Remarkably he's not led one. He

:50:04. > :50:07.needs to win a Grand Prix soon if he's going to come back into this

:50:07. > :50:13.challenge. They're having to be so careful on the throttle. You can

:50:13. > :50:16.hear that. Compared to qualifying they're doing seven, eight seconds

:50:16. > :50:21.slower. They're coaxing the throttle into play, aren't they?

:50:21. > :50:27.Track temperatures 47 degrees, the chemical reaction that's going on,

:50:27. > :50:31.Jenson Button locking up, running wide in turn 17. Then into this

:50:31. > :50:36.fantastic sequence through 18, 19, 20, should be flat through the last

:50:36. > :50:43.part there. Then this run down through 22, 23 and into the last

:50:43. > :50:49.section. Completely flat, uses all the kerb and then straightens it up

:50:49. > :50:53.KERS is not working. Something about KERS, wasn't it?

:50:53. > :50:57.KERS is not working. That's not going to help his lap time that.

:50:57. > :51:03.Will cost him three, four tenths. The winner two weeks ago is really

:51:03. > :51:08.struggling today. He's in sixth at the moment. Just 1.7 seconds behind

:51:08. > :51:14.Felipe Massa. Now he's carrying 40 kilos of gubins an it's not giving

:51:14. > :51:18.him extra power. The powers are ballasted up to weigh the same.

:51:18. > :51:24.It's not ideal weight. Put it lower if you could and spread it around

:51:24. > :51:31.the car, he's carrying the system and it's not giving him any

:51:31. > :51:35.powerment Simply put he's minus 80 horse power. Vettel leads on lap 33

:51:35. > :51:39.on 1.8 seconds. Here's a replay of that tardy pit stop for the Ferrari

:51:39. > :51:44.team. They're looking for another gun.

:51:44. > :51:50.They had to get the spare gun in on the action. A shake of the head

:51:50. > :51:54.from Felipe Massa. Look at that, the wheel nut struggling get that

:51:54. > :52:00.out. They're fearsome things. We did a competition with Jenson and

:52:00. > :52:04.Lewis, the guns feel like they'll break your risk. Top three in the

:52:04. > :52:13.short pit straight. They've lapped Michael Schumacher. Of course he

:52:13. > :52:17.came in are with -- with a broken front wing earlier. He's not had

:52:17. > :52:20.great pace. Mercedes struggling with rear tyre degradation. Rosberg

:52:20. > :52:24.in eighth place. But Michael Schumacher is in 17th and Ted has

:52:25. > :52:29.news on that. Everything is overheating down here in Valencia.

:52:29. > :52:33.Certainly Red Bull's looking good, but Button's KERS has overheated.

:52:33. > :52:38.Red Bull's tyres are the only one that's seem to be in good shape in

:52:38. > :52:41.the hands of Sebastien Vettel. He's the only one in good shape. With

:52:41. > :52:46.the hotter track temperatures, tyre degradation has been much higher

:52:46. > :52:50.than the engineers expected. What this means is that this race will

:52:50. > :52:53.be won by whoever can make the harder tyre work best in the final

:52:53. > :52:57.stint. A quick one on Michael Schumacher. He's made a third pit

:52:57. > :53:01.stop. He's run out of soft tyres. He's on the harder tyre. Thanks for

:53:01. > :53:05.that, Ted. Alguersuari is doing a great job in seventh place.

:53:05. > :53:10.Remember, when he was fighting with Rosberg and Rosberg was on fresh

:53:10. > :53:15.tyres. Now he's ahead of Rosberg by 2.9 seconds. He's only stopped once.

:53:15. > :53:19.He's in the 1.44. That's looking very handy indeed for Alguersuari

:53:19. > :53:23.in the Toro Rosso. It seems as if he's found a sweet spot in his set

:53:23. > :53:27.up. He needed to. He's been under pressure in Toro Rosso. He's not

:53:27. > :53:31.been extracting as much from the car as Buemi. He's responding here

:53:31. > :53:39.to the home crowd. He lives in Barcelona. He considers this almost

:53:39. > :53:46.a home race. This is aee-haw section. I love it. -- yee-haw

:53:46. > :53:51.section. I love it. That last corner is tremendous. It gets your

:53:51. > :53:58.adrenaline pumping, skimming the walls at 195mph. Vettel, 142.4. The

:53:58. > :54:02.gap is two seconds to Webber. He's 1.5 ahead of Alonso. 3.6 seconds

:54:02. > :54:09.covers the top three then a 14- second wait for Lewis Hamilton,

:54:09. > :54:14.make that nearly 16 seconds now. Ted's at Mclaren. Something is up.

:54:15. > :54:17.All the mechanics are coming into the garage. They're getting out

:54:17. > :54:22.their marigolds. They've been warned that Jenson Button has a

:54:22. > :54:25.problem with his KERS. If he needs to retire, the mechanics have been

:54:25. > :54:28.told get out your electric protection gloves because there's

:54:28. > :54:33.something wrong. I hope they don't have to retire Jenson Button, but

:54:33. > :54:37.it doesn't look good. The KERS could be overheating or shorting

:54:37. > :54:41.out somewhere presumably. Normally it's a very reliable system. It's

:54:41. > :54:47.one of the best out there. It was developed with Mercedes-Benz.

:54:48. > :54:51.Hamilton doing 1.44. Button has just done his fastest lap of the

:54:51. > :54:56.Grand Prix. Whatever the problem is doesn't need gloves, spanners,

:54:56. > :54:59.hammers or anything at the momentment -- moment. There's

:54:59. > :55:04.Vettel, Webber, Alonso, the front runners.

:55:04. > :55:07.Alonso won't give up, as ever. We've seen him running wide and

:55:07. > :55:13.struggling to keep the Ferrari exactly where he wants it on track.

:55:13. > :55:21.But he's keeping the Red Bulls very honest indeed. They come into the

:55:21. > :55:30.back of the buildings there. Let's look at the gap now.

:55:30. > :55:38.Vettel crosses the line, into lap 36. He is 2.1 clear of Webber,

:55:38. > :55:42.who's 1.6 clear of Alonso. It's Hamilton again struggling.

:55:42. > :55:47.that's reasonable pace, reasonable pace. We're about a second faster

:55:47. > :55:55.than Hamilton at this point, a second faster than Hamilton. Lewis

:55:55. > :56:00.has just done a 145.2 now. Again those rear tyres... They've given

:56:00. > :56:04.up. Yeah he's gone off the wall. What a fantastic battle. The top

:56:04. > :56:08.three separated by less than a tenth on the last lap. This is a

:56:08. > :56:13.real battle of the pressure they have to deliver consistent lap

:56:13. > :56:17.times on a track where your car is constantly changing. Your fuel

:56:17. > :56:22.levels are getting down to sensible levels. The tyres are desperately

:56:22. > :56:26.losing their performance. You go on board with Felipe Massa, I have a

:56:26. > :56:29.feeling that Ferrari will be the last to pit here. If the rumour is

:56:29. > :56:34.true that they can make the prime work, they're not going to get any

:56:34. > :56:37.better than third place if they come in first, for the pit stop

:56:37. > :56:41.that is. They were at sea when those tyres were going off. They

:56:41. > :56:46.were losing so much time. They could barely keep the thing on the

:56:46. > :56:50.track coming into the pit lane. This is all about who can make that

:56:50. > :56:54.medium tyre, that they've now all got to run, to the end of the Grand

:56:54. > :56:57.Prix, at the next pit stop. It's the first time that tyre has run.

:56:57. > :57:01.It's in the a different construction. It's just a different

:57:01. > :57:04.compound. First time this year. It's a question of who can make

:57:04. > :57:08.that work best amongst these three as to who will win the Grand Prix.

:57:08. > :57:14.Red Bull looked as if they were making it work better than Ferrari

:57:14. > :57:18.in terms of switching the tyre on. Explain what switching those medium

:57:18. > :57:21.tyres on means. Typically, it's been that the slower tyre of the

:57:21. > :57:25.two tyres they've got here. I prefer to call them prime and

:57:25. > :57:29.option because I think it gets confusing when we get into the

:57:29. > :57:34.compounds. But the prime tyre, the harder of the two tyres, has been

:57:34. > :57:36.over a second a lap slower from new than the option. They've had more

:57:36. > :57:40.difficulty getting that performance out of it on the first timed laps.

:57:40. > :57:46.It's been taking two, three laps to deliver. Typically, there's going

:57:46. > :57:49.to be a crossover point probably lap 15, 16, when the option tyre

:57:49. > :57:54.suddenly starts to lose performance and they'll be doing the same lap

:57:54. > :57:58.time as a new prime. That becomes a strategic decision for the driver

:57:58. > :58:01.and team to decide how many more laps to do on the option. I should

:58:01. > :58:09.correct myself, Ferrari could still get the advantage from doing the

:58:09. > :58:14.undercut by coming in early, but they would have then be on the

:58:14. > :58:20.harder tyre. Let's hope they do that. We could see an almighty race

:58:20. > :58:24.then as Red Bull respond. Michael Schumacher. Six more lap was this

:58:24. > :58:31.tyre. Keep pushing like this. Unusual amount of information to

:58:31. > :58:36.give away there on the radios. He's fighting with Rosberg in eighth. 24

:58:36. > :58:40.seconds behind Jenson Button, so Alguersuari in seventh. He's got a

:58:40. > :58:44.fight on his hands with Rosberg, Sutil, Heidfeld and Di Resta. Di

:58:44. > :58:54.Resta threatening to get in the points as well. He's in 11th at the

:58:54. > :59:01.

:59:01. > :59:06.moment, as Alonso seems to get ever now only 1.3 behind Webber. It's

:59:06. > :59:10.really a question of who puts those tyres on first and how they operate

:59:10. > :59:14.when they get them on. That's terrible driving from the HRT there,

:59:14. > :59:17.waiting until the car was almost on top of it before allowing it to

:59:18. > :59:22.pass. Look at the Ferrari as well. I'd be surprised if the stewards

:59:22. > :59:32.don't talk to him. You're being lapped, you have to get out of the

:59:32. > :59:35.

:59:35. > :59:39.way. Yeah, that was Liuzzi again, wasn't it? It was Liuzzi, yeah.

:59:39. > :59:44.Vettel then, just hanging on somehow. It's good to see the

:59:44. > :59:49.Ferraris have kept Red Bull very honest indeed this afternoon. Will

:59:49. > :59:55.we get surprises before the end of the Grand Prix? Top ten remain,

:59:55. > :00:05.Vettel, Webber, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Button, Alguersuari, Rosberg,

:00:05. > :00:10.

:00:10. > :00:14.times on his two-stop strategy. Let's see if that works out for

:00:14. > :00:18.more points. Two weeks ago in Canada, he started from the pit

:00:18. > :00:22.lane and came through to V8. It is interesting to note that Red Bull

:00:22. > :00:31.have only had one race where they got a one-two finish, back in

:00:31. > :00:35.Turkey. But Vettel has led, before this race started, 80% of every

:00:35. > :00:40.race in lap this year. Of course, that percentage just goes up and up

:00:40. > :00:45.and up as he charges around here. Mark set in Canada, you make your

:00:45. > :00:51.own luck, but he is being hard in insult. He has been unlucky with

:00:51. > :00:54.reliability issues. We joined the battle with Rosberg. Rosberg is

:00:54. > :01:00.homing in on Alguersuari, whose tyres must be feeling pretty

:01:00. > :01:08.second-hand by now. Rosberg and usually have thing to make an

:01:08. > :01:12.additional downshift on the apex of turn 14. -- and usually. He lost

:01:12. > :01:17.some of the gains that he had made. I did 17 laps and a Formula One car

:01:17. > :01:21.last week for a feature on the Pirelli tyres, and these engines

:01:21. > :01:25.have no talk. You have to keep coming down the gears. They would

:01:25. > :01:30.not pull the skin of a rice pudding. They are good at the top end, near

:01:30. > :01:35.18,000 revs, but once you fall out of that band, they just will not

:01:35. > :01:40.pull. It is all relative, they still get up and go a bit, but it

:01:40. > :01:45.felt pretty gutless, I thought. horses available, around that

:01:46. > :01:52.amount. But it was underwhelming to drive the 2.4 V8 at the end of my

:01:52. > :01:57.career, no talk. Compared to the braking, which is mind-blowing the

:01:57. > :02:01.good, I have to say. Ted has news. The Red Bull carriage is looking

:02:01. > :02:06.very happy. It has underlined how miserable they look at McLaren.

:02:06. > :02:09.Jenson Button's car looks OK. They are all wearing the electrical

:02:09. > :02:13.protection rubber gloves because he still has to make a pit stop, and

:02:13. > :02:18.they are not sure whether the car has residual life and it is the

:02:18. > :02:21.attached to it. That is why they are wearing them. But they are not

:02:21. > :02:26.looking at retiring him. They will be more concerned that Lewis

:02:26. > :02:36.Hamilton is 26 seconds off the pace. Yes, it has not been a great

:02:36. > :02:43.

:02:43. > :02:48.young Spaniard, driving beautifully in front of them. 85,000 in the

:02:48. > :02:52.crowd. Has Rosberg got it now? Can you hang on around the outside?

:02:52. > :03:00.Alguersuari managing to get another attraction as they charge side-by-

:03:00. > :03:06.side into the braking zone. Job done for Nico Rosberg in to turn 17,

:03:06. > :03:12.the hairpin. So Rosberg up to seventh place, then, with that.

:03:12. > :03:17.Presumably, Alguersuari is running out of tyres. Vettel has done a

:03:17. > :03:21.1:41.9. I cannot help but feel he is just plain games at the front.

:03:21. > :03:25.As we said earlier, he could be running in a more conservative

:03:25. > :03:30.engine mode, controlling the gap. I daresay he is more comfortable,

:03:30. > :03:36.having his team-mate behind him, and if that were Fernando Alonso.

:03:36. > :03:39.It was looking good for Mark for a while. He was able to close up to

:03:39. > :03:44.Sebastian, but he has got his mirrors full of Fernando Alonso, as

:03:44. > :03:54.we go on board with Hamilton. need to try to up our pace again

:03:54. > :03:57.

:03:58. > :04:01.for the next few laps. This is as but now the tyres have degraded

:04:01. > :04:06.more, he cannot go any faster. And the reason why they are getting

:04:06. > :04:11.jumpy about that is because Felipe Massa is closing in at over one

:04:11. > :04:15.second per lap on them now, aiming at fourth place. This is intriguing.

:04:15. > :04:20.What has happened to the McLaren Res pace? They were looking like

:04:20. > :04:24.the nearest challenger to Red Bull. In terms of underline pace, they

:04:24. > :04:28.were quicker is that the last three Grands Prix. There are eight

:04:28. > :04:32.traction zones at the second. Those high-speed corners, you're not

:04:32. > :04:36.pulling a lot of lateral, you are not sliding across the track at

:04:36. > :04:41.high speeds, so it is all about keeping the rear tyres end, I would

:04:41. > :04:45.say. That is the big difference. Silverstone is going to pose a new

:04:45. > :04:49.challenge, a lot of high-speed corners, possibly one of the

:04:49. > :04:53.fastest sections of any Grand Prix track at Becketts. I recommend

:04:53. > :04:59.anyone who goes, go and hang out and watch the cars at high speed.

:04:59. > :05:04.It is very much a case of point and squirt around this street circuit.

:05:04. > :05:10.Felipe Massa still catching Button at over one second by lap. We are

:05:10. > :05:20.on board with Button now. Can we see any dramas? Yes, this pace is

:05:20. > :05:22.

:05:22. > :05:25.OK. Without KERS, we need to stay tyre, they expect that gap to be

:05:25. > :05:30.over one second in performance. Although they will start to get

:05:30. > :05:34.high degradation on the option tyres, it still seems to be that

:05:34. > :05:38.you are going to get a faster lap time the longer you can stay on

:05:38. > :05:42.these. Once they are on the prime tyre at the end of the Grand Prix,

:05:42. > :05:50.they are not going to go any quicker. Schumacher is not doing

:05:50. > :05:55.too bad a job. He is on those tyres now. He is doing a 1:45.2, Rosberg

:05:55. > :06:05.is 43.9, so about the 1.3 that we were told they are slow. A lot of

:06:05. > :06:06.

:06:06. > :06:13.marbles of the outside of the key dejected Lewis Hamilton in there,

:06:13. > :06:19.especially if Felipe Massa catches him. The gap was 5.2 seconds. It is

:06:19. > :06:23.now 4.8 that he is ahead of fifth- placed Felipe Massa. Vettel just

:06:23. > :06:28.picking up his pace. What can Vettel do in that cockpit that the

:06:28. > :06:31.others can't? How can he go that fast and not use his tyres up?

:06:31. > :06:36.is the one million dollar question. It is down to the difference in

:06:36. > :06:40.preference between drivers. For whatever reason, Mark Webber's

:06:40. > :06:43.style, if you do a direct comparison, the only comparison you

:06:43. > :06:47.can really make is between the team-mates striving nominally the

:06:47. > :06:52.same cars, and he just seems to be able to position the weight of the

:06:53. > :06:57.car equally between the four tyres. The others seem to be taking that

:06:57. > :07:01.bit more out of the rear tyres. Once you start to lose the rear

:07:01. > :07:07.axle, it affects your braking, traction, and lap time goes down

:07:08. > :07:12.accordingly. Vettel was one of the smartest drivers have there, and I

:07:12. > :07:17.think his stint management on each of the tyres is as good as

:07:17. > :07:22.anybody's now. He knows how to apply the throttle and the steering

:07:22. > :07:26.over a full stint, as Mark Webber comes in, then. Now we are going to

:07:26. > :07:33.see the final phase of pit stops. My Clarence out as well, Martin.

:07:33. > :07:36.They are in the pit lane as well. - - McLaren. Lewis Hamilton in on

:07:36. > :07:41.this lap, we are hearing. An important stop, that looked good

:07:41. > :07:48.enough. Now we will see how these medium compound works. A bit of

:07:48. > :07:52.traffic for Webber. 3.6, the stop, not too bad. It is all about

:07:52. > :08:02.getting on it on the out lap. Webber exits the pits as Lewis

:08:02. > :08:04.

:08:04. > :08:09.they saved from qualifying is going to go on that car. There we go.

:08:09. > :08:13.figures come back to Webber, he has come out behind Petrov and

:08:13. > :08:18.Barrichello... And Barrichello, who are battling for position. That

:08:18. > :08:23.could be costly, if he is not able to run a clean lap and extract the

:08:23. > :08:28.maximum from those prime tyres. could put Alonso on him, you might

:08:28. > :08:34.be right. That is Hamilton's Third Stock of the afternoon. He is

:08:34. > :08:38.fighting Massa for 4th and 5th. Let's keeps a close eye on his

:08:38. > :08:43.sector times. This is the traffic you were talking about. Mark uses a

:08:43. > :08:49.lot less of the racetrack than Sebastian Vettel. That was Webber

:08:49. > :08:53.getting out of shape heading for the pit lane. They knew he was in

:08:53. > :08:58.her Formula One that lap, but the really got wound up through there.

:08:58. > :09:01.We were talking about that earlier. You have got to maximise your in

:09:01. > :09:05.lap and your out lap. You cannot leave anything behind, because it

:09:05. > :09:10.will be critical when you rejoin the track. Alonso is now in clean

:09:10. > :09:15.air, and he has done his fastest middle sector. He is only two

:09:15. > :09:20.tenths slower than Sebastian Vettel's last lap. It is key to see

:09:20. > :09:27.what he can deliver now. Webber has not done a personal best to either

:09:27. > :09:31.of of the first two sectors of the out lap. Webber, then, does a 54.5,

:09:31. > :09:36.including the pit stop. He is dropping back. The traffic is not

:09:36. > :09:42.holding him up at all. He looks to have a problem. He was close to

:09:42. > :09:47.them when he left the pit lane, but look at the gap now. His first

:09:47. > :09:51.sector time, we won and get a complete flying lap from in to save.

:09:51. > :09:55.The other drivers have got the advantage. It is a nervy wait to

:09:55. > :09:59.see whether he will undercut them, or whether they can actually hold

:09:59. > :10:05.on a little bit longer. If he cannot get those working, dialled

:10:05. > :10:09.into the race track, 27.2 for the first sector, three tenths slower

:10:09. > :10:13.than his team-mate. That is telling you that they do not need to pit in

:10:13. > :10:18.yet. It looks like he is struggling with front-end grip. It looks like

:10:18. > :10:21.the front tyres are not coming up to temperature. This is valuable

:10:21. > :10:25.information for the battle between Vettel and Alonso. They will be

:10:25. > :10:32.like, OK, we will hang on a bit longer on the option tyres.

:10:32. > :10:36.noise you can hear is the front exhaust exist on a Renault. -- exit.

:10:36. > :10:39.All sorts of stuff going on with the throttles, much of it will be

:10:39. > :10:43.switched off in two weeks' time at Silverstone. We will hear less of

:10:43. > :10:53.that, but the Renault will since sound strange because of the front

:10:53. > :10:55.

:10:55. > :10:59.of anyone in the Grand Prix. -- Vettel does. They will not be

:11:00. > :11:05.rushing in to get their next set of tyres. Webber has not touched a

:11:05. > :11:09.personal best time on this time either. He is not matching even the

:11:09. > :11:13.use its tyres. We saw Ferrari getting ready. I think they were

:11:13. > :11:19.throwing a dummy. They went back in to wrap up the tyres. You are not

:11:19. > :11:25.allowed to hang out in the pit-lane and the inner workings own, so that

:11:25. > :11:31.was a genuine, we are coming in, oh, no, we are not, or it was to force

:11:31. > :11:39.Red Bull that they needed to cover it. Their car and Kobayashi for

:11:39. > :11:42.15th place. We still have 24 runners from 24 starters. That is

:11:42. > :11:46.why these drivers are fighting like crazy. He would normally expect to

:11:46. > :11:50.see them knocking on the door of the top 10. Kobayashi has regularly

:11:50. > :11:55.been in the points, as has Petrov, but they are currently fighting

:11:55. > :12:00.over 15. Kobayashi has stopped twice, Petrov three times. We are

:12:00. > :12:03.moving into the final stages of the Grand Prix. With 24 runners on the

:12:03. > :12:10.track, traffic is a bigger problem than we have seen of late, isn't

:12:10. > :12:17.it? It is, and it looks like we have some traffic for Vettel. Paul

:12:17. > :12:22.di Resta and Buemi are between him and Alonso. That gap has opened out,

:12:22. > :12:26.hasn't it? It is at 6.4 seconds between the race leader and the

:12:26. > :12:30.second man, Alonso. Ferrari are out into the pit lane again, the tyres

:12:30. > :12:37.and at this time, so we have to presume this is for Alonso. And he

:12:37. > :12:42.is in the pit. I am a bit surprised that they did not leave him out a

:12:42. > :12:45.bit longer, because the tyres... think it was the traffic, they

:12:45. > :12:52.would have lost too much time trying to get past the guys in

:12:53. > :12:59.between. Webber has got horrible traffic in front of him. So where

:12:59. > :13:04.is he? It is not enough. Look at that, it worked out perfectly for

:13:04. > :13:13.Alonso. He just manages to get past Petrov, and so does Webber, but

:13:13. > :13:17.still lots of traffic ahead. That, then, is going to be... Yes, Di

:13:17. > :13:27.Resta or, Glock is in there, Barrichello, or trying to get out

:13:27. > :13:28.

:13:28. > :13:31.of the way. And that is for from his second stop. Barrichello

:13:31. > :13:37.is right behind him. Alonso is getting caught up in that, so Mark

:13:37. > :13:42.Webber is right behind him now. Unusual to see so many cars

:13:42. > :13:47.fighting all the way down the field, no retirements. That is giving

:13:47. > :13:51.extra problems for the strategists to work out just how they can feed

:13:51. > :13:56.their drivers back into clean air. Maybe Mark will have the advantage

:13:56. > :14:01.now he has the chance to bring these prime tyres in. He struggled

:14:01. > :14:06.in the first two laps, so Alonso may have difficulty. This is Mark's

:14:06. > :14:10.moments, he has to try to get past the Ferrari now. He has more

:14:10. > :14:20.knowledge on these tyres as well. He has got to do a Kobayashi, just

:14:20. > :14:21.

:14:22. > :14:26.out of the way of that battle as we see them run down through the last

:14:26. > :14:31.sector, the section you love so much. Paul The Wrestler moved out

:14:31. > :14:41.of the way for them. -- Paul di Resta. All sorts of action going on

:14:41. > :14:44.

:14:44. > :14:49.that is for position. He has just made a pit stop. They are side by

:14:49. > :14:53.side down into turn one just as they meet the Toro Rosso coming out

:14:53. > :14:59.of the pit lane, four cars heading into the braking zone. Sebastien

:14:59. > :15:04.Buemi just came out in front of them. He is painfully slow through

:15:04. > :15:14.the exit, backing everybody up. Buemi, Kobayashi, Di Resta, Petrov,

:15:14. > :15:18.

:15:18. > :15:23.those two. Alonso and Webber are just catching Barrichello, and then

:15:23. > :15:28.they have got some clear air, but still Vettel stays out. He is still

:15:28. > :15:35.pumping in low 1:42s. He is the fastest man out there. Hamilton

:15:35. > :15:45.happy on those tyres, I'm doing 1:42s as well. Di Resta are still

:15:45. > :15:49.

:15:49. > :15:58.fighting like crazy with Kamui good racing all the way down the

:15:58. > :16:04.field. So and Vettel pits then. The leader pits. Ten laps to go. And

:16:04. > :16:08.Sebastien Vettel finally will come in for those medium compound tyres.

:16:08. > :16:14.He obviously just felt the rears beginning to go off or something.

:16:14. > :16:18.He's gone right to the edge of them and decided that now's a good time

:16:18. > :16:21.and how's traffic going to work for him? I think they'll have to get

:16:21. > :16:25.out of the way pretty quickly as well because they're lapped

:16:25. > :16:34.effectively, as the leader comes through, they'll be getting the

:16:34. > :16:39.blue flags. Karthikeyan is in the pit lane. He's running 24th. At the

:16:39. > :16:48.moment Kobayashi is winning the team Lotus battle. Let's run down

:16:48. > :16:52.the field heading into the closing stages. Vettel leads from Alonso.

:16:53. > :16:58.To Webber, Massa, Button, fifth, yet to make his third stop.

:16:58. > :17:03.Hamilton sixth. He has stopped three times. Then Rosberg,

:17:04. > :17:11.Alguersuari eighth. Sutil ninth. Heidfeld tenth. Perez one stopping,

:17:11. > :17:17.up in 11th at the moment. Barrichello 12th. Buemi 13th, Di

:17:17. > :17:25.Resta 14th, Kobayashi 15th, Petrov 16th. Mark Webber is in the DRS

:17:25. > :17:31.zone. His wing was open. Down into, what's that 17? Down into turn 12.

:17:31. > :17:36.So he'll get another blast of that. I wonder whether he's missed his

:17:36. > :17:42.moment with Alonso though. There are a few laps yet. Second place

:17:42. > :17:49.would be a bit better than third, obviously. So, Fernando Alonso pops

:17:49. > :17:53.in the fastest middle secondor of the race, 46.0. He's responding.

:17:53. > :17:56.He's a good straight behind though. It's certainly worked out very well

:17:56. > :18:01.for Vettel in terms of track position and distance ahead of

:18:01. > :18:04.Alonso. Ted? It's worked out well for Vettel in every sense. That was

:18:05. > :18:09.a lovely stop by Red Bull. Vettel seems to be the only driver who's

:18:09. > :18:16.had everything under control today. He's continuing very happily at the

:18:16. > :18:20.front. Lewis Hamilton's pace has picked up on the harder tyre, on

:18:20. > :18:25.1.426789 Mclaren are coming out now for Jenson Button. This will be

:18:25. > :18:30.interesting to see if there's KERS left. Paul di Resta was looking for

:18:30. > :18:34.10th place, now he's involved with Nick Heidfeld and Barrichello it

:18:34. > :18:39.could be it for Paul di Resta. Felipe Massa pits for the third

:18:39. > :18:44.time. We're expecting Button as well. He

:18:44. > :18:49.is in the pit lane. There he is. They're going to give him a tweak

:18:49. > :18:53.of front wing adjustment as well. That will change the balance

:18:53. > :18:56.presumably because of the medium compound tyre. They want an

:18:56. > :19:02.automatic aerobalance change. put a bit more front wing in with

:19:02. > :19:06.that tyre. Especially with the difficulty getting the front to

:19:06. > :19:11.bite to leave the pits on the first couple of laps. He'll have the

:19:11. > :19:16.benefit of some feed back from Lewis, presumably. There's only

:19:16. > :19:23.been three races in history where we've had no retirements in a Grand

:19:23. > :19:29.Prix, 1961, Dutch Grand Prix, American Grand Prix and Italian

:19:29. > :19:35.Grand Prix in 2005. Only six cars started in 2005 in America, when

:19:35. > :19:41.the Michelin tyres weren't used. So we have a remarkable situation, if

:19:41. > :19:45.they all get to the end. Commentators' curse there I imagine.

:19:45. > :19:51.The most finishers ever in a Grand Prix of 23. That was in the Chinese

:19:51. > :19:55.Grand Prix earlier this year. That's reliability, it's impressive.

:19:55. > :20:01.It's giving us lots of good racing and giving the leaders plenty of

:20:01. > :20:07.headaches as well. Now it's all shaken out from the final stops,

:20:07. > :20:14.Vettel's lead is 8.7 seconds. Over Fernando Alonso, who is just 2.5

:20:14. > :20:19.ahead of Mark Webber. Then 28.7 seconds clear of fourth place Lewis

:20:19. > :20:23.Hamilton, who I think could well have Felipe Massa closing in on

:20:23. > :20:28.Massa, lost a lot of time in the pit stop. Let's see what the gap is

:20:29. > :20:33.now. Massa and Button have finished, so

:20:33. > :20:37.Massa is 7.4 behind Hamilton. We wait for Button to go over the line

:20:37. > :20:43.as well to see if he's anywhere near chasing the down the Ferrari.

:20:43. > :20:51.The tail end of the top ten, the biggest fight is Adrian Sutil is

:20:51. > :20:55.only 2.4 seconds behind the two stopping Alguersuari for Toro Rosso.

:20:55. > :21:03.Button 12.4 behind Felipe Massa. The top three now covered by 11.3

:21:03. > :21:09.seconds. It's Red Bull from Ferrari from Red Bull and Mclaren, Ferrari,

:21:09. > :21:17.Mclaren, fourth, fifth and sixth. So those three teams looking out

:21:17. > :21:22.the top six, best of the rest. Nico Rosberg in seventh. We watch Petrov

:21:22. > :21:27.and Kobayashi still fighting hard over 15th place. No points or

:21:27. > :21:32.prizes or driver bonuses for that, I would imagine. But they like to

:21:32. > :21:37.have a go. Kobayashi has impressed in his short career with his

:21:37. > :21:43.overtaking skills. Petrov has come on so much since his first year in

:21:43. > :21:47.Formula One. He's in the DRS zone, throws it down the inside, realises

:21:47. > :21:52.he's overcooked it and sensibly drives it straight, regains control.

:21:52. > :21:56.He'll think, right, I'll make that stick the next lack. He threw the

:21:56. > :22:04.anchor out a bit too late there. Kobayashi lucky not to knock the

:22:04. > :22:09.front wing off. Well, I criticised Perez's strategy, and I was so

:22:09. > :22:17.correct on that. He's running 11th at the moment, knocking on the door

:22:17. > :22:20.of some points if anybody has a problem. He's got Barrichello is 11

:22:20. > :22:24.seconds adrift. They're all busy fighting each other, Perez's one

:22:24. > :22:28.stop has got him up there. It's so difficult to judge what's going on

:22:28. > :22:32.with these tyres at any given point. You're dealing with the changing

:22:32. > :22:38.fuel loads. They might be in difficulty at one point with the

:22:38. > :22:45.tyres, but then it can come back to them as well. Good performances

:22:45. > :22:49.from Alguersuari and Sutil. Eighth and ninth place. Disappointing for

:22:49. > :22:55.Heidfeld, I could have difficulty with my pronunciations, we don't

:22:55. > :22:59.have many of those names in Scotland! So Alonso hasn't got

:22:59. > :23:06.anything to take the fight to Vettel. He's eight seconds adrift.

:23:06. > :23:12.And Webber holding station. They're all doing, the last lap they all

:23:12. > :23:19.did 42.5. This lap is 42.2 for Vettel. There's Webber, third place

:23:19. > :23:23.man. Now 9.4 back to Alonso and 2.4 back to Webber. The story here then

:23:23. > :23:31.is can Mark Webber catch Fernando Alonso and put Red Bull back into

:23:31. > :23:40.the one, two situation? Half a minute clear of Hamilton in fourth.

:23:40. > :23:43.Paul di Resta in 14th. There's still a race to have here mate.

:23:43. > :23:51.Barrichello we could have Buemi and Barrichello.

:23:51. > :23:55.It might be possible, but they're all doing 1.44 that whole pack.

:23:55. > :24:00.He's got a couple of seconds to find to the back of Buemi. You

:24:00. > :24:05.never know, he might steal a point even from there with last lap

:24:05. > :24:10.dramas. Vettel was tardy initially off the line, but held first place

:24:10. > :24:15.into the first corner. The two Ferraris were fighting like crazy.

:24:15. > :24:20.Initially it was Massa ahead then Alonso, retook that. It was Red

:24:20. > :24:24.Bull one and two, Ferrari three and four. Fernando Alonso on the soft

:24:24. > :24:30.tyres looked as if he had enough pace to keep the Red Bulls honest

:24:30. > :24:38.all afternoon and he has done that. They haven't been comfortable or

:24:38. > :24:43.had any free air at all to make pit stops when it suited them. They had

:24:44. > :24:50.to stay on the strategy and pace of Ferrari. Alonso has got himself in

:24:50. > :24:55.between the two Red Bulls. He will not give up, will not let them go.

:24:55. > :25:00.Mclaren consistently then fell away, pace-wise, they're fourth and sixth

:25:00. > :25:05.at the moment, Hamilton and Button. Best of the rest then, Nico Rosberg

:25:05. > :25:10.in seventh. The leaders have chosen a three-stop strategy, as the

:25:10. > :25:14.fastest way to do this race, the first two stopper is Alguersuari

:25:14. > :25:19.for Toro Rosso, currently in eighth place. Struggling on lap times

:25:19. > :25:27.though. He's doing a 47.0 at the moment. He's about to have a lot of

:25:27. > :25:31.company. There's Sutil, Heidfeld, Perez and possibly even Rubens

:25:31. > :25:37.Barrichello. So that's for the tail end of the point scorers.

:25:37. > :25:40.Alguersuari has not got this sorted at the moment. 1.47.0, means he's

:25:40. > :25:49.two, three seconds off the pace as his tyres begin to fade in the

:25:49. > :25:52.closing stages of this European Grand Prix. Vettel, a new fastest

:25:52. > :25:57.first sector. He's having a laugh up front there, David. It seems to

:25:57. > :26:02.be the case. Just when we thought we had a battle going on in the

:26:02. > :26:08.first couple of stints, right at the end of the harder tyre, the one

:26:08. > :26:11.that they've left right to the last moments to race on, he's put in the

:26:11. > :26:16.fastest first sector. Remarkably the lap times, if we consider what

:26:16. > :26:21.the fastest lap was last year, different racing conditions, but

:26:21. > :26:25.38.7 was the fastest last year and we're doing 41.4, when you contrast

:26:25. > :26:28.that with qualifying, which was a faster pace with the use of DRS and

:26:28. > :26:32.KERS, it shows how the face of Formula One, the competitive

:26:32. > :26:42.conditions in which they race has changed. Faster opportunities for

:26:42. > :26:45.qualifying and slower opportunities for raigs. -- racing. 41 .852 the

:26:45. > :26:49.fastest lab. Mark we have a gearbox problem. Short shift in the low

:26:49. > :26:53.gears. Short shift in the low gears, we

:26:53. > :26:59.were saying earlier, it is the case. We've said it before with Mark

:26:59. > :27:02.Webber. If he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all.

:27:02. > :27:06.They've detected something in the software telling them to reduce the

:27:06. > :27:12.torque on the low gears. That's why he will short shift. Second, third,

:27:12. > :27:18.fourth, he's got enough of a window a 31-second window to Hamilton

:27:18. > :27:23.behind, but what that means is any hopes in the last three laps of

:27:24. > :27:27.securing second place have gone out of the window. Bar a mechanical

:27:27. > :27:33.issue for Alonso or Vettel it will be third place for Mark Webber this

:27:33. > :27:37.afternoon. That's where the major torque is in the shorter gears,

:27:37. > :27:41.where you pump the torque of the engine into the gearbox. They're

:27:41. > :27:45.saying gearbox is hot. Saying just get out of the gears as early as

:27:45. > :27:50.you can. That's the confirmation of the fastest lap that Vettel D

:27:50. > :27:54.there's another story unfolding, because Felipe Massa is catching

:27:54. > :28:04.Lewis Hamilton as well. They're in fourth and fifth places. Button did

:28:04. > :28:12.

:28:12. > :28:17.his personal best lap of the race. We watch this battle between Sutil

:28:17. > :28:24.and Alguersuari. Alguersuari must have had a bad lap. He got himself

:28:24. > :28:29.into the 43s, now 43.5. That 47.0uals a scruffy lap or very bad

:28:30. > :28:33.traffic. Sutil then six tenths behind and within the DRS zone, if

:28:33. > :28:37.he can hold that, down to turn eight. Heidfeld and Perez not

:28:37. > :28:42.catching them. I expect some action here. There's

:28:42. > :28:47.a big result for either of these guys to take eighth place. That

:28:47. > :28:51.would be well deserved by either of them. Great performance this

:28:51. > :28:56.afternoon. That's within a second, there's the detection zone. Two

:28:56. > :29:00.long back straights, he'll have another eight or nine miles now,

:29:00. > :29:05.plus you can see, both desperately trying to get the power down, stop

:29:05. > :29:09.the rear wheels from spinning. Now we'll see presumably, we should

:29:09. > :29:16.start homing in on the Toro Rosso towards the end of the straight.

:29:16. > :29:22.We're on the limiter, he has the DRS open but his seventh gear is so

:29:22. > :29:31.short that it's not really. He's bouncing off the 18,000-rev limit

:29:31. > :29:34.in Top Gear. So the DRS is not giving him the benefit it should.

:29:34. > :29:40.That's Felipe Massa getting up behind Glock in the Virgin. That

:29:40. > :29:44.should be fairly straightforward across the Swing Bridge. It's just

:29:44. > :29:48.4.7 behind Hamilton now. He's catching him at about three

:29:48. > :29:52.quarters of a second on the reefious lap. Button I think is

:29:53. > :29:57.solidly down there in sixth, same for Rosberg in seventh. It's

:29:57. > :30:01.Alguersuari and Sutil now we're looking at, plenty of fights going

:30:01. > :30:06.on between Buemi, Di Resta, Kobayashi.

:30:06. > :30:09.Ted? Come back into Mclaren, I was asking their man Simon Roberts why

:30:09. > :30:13.they weren't particularly quick today. He said it's nothing that we

:30:13. > :30:17.expected. The feeling down here is that when they get to a hot race

:30:17. > :30:22.like this, where tyres are critical, they slip back behind Ferrari.

:30:22. > :30:27.Ferrari will have an advantage when tyres are the issue. Team radio.

:30:27. > :30:30.Lewis you're doing a great job. Still five seconds gap.

:30:30. > :30:34.Encouraging Lewis Hamilton to close on Mark Webber with the gearbox

:30:34. > :30:39.problem. That's a good call. What about the next race Martin? I know

:30:39. > :30:42.Mark Webber hasn't taken his gearbox choker yet. If he needs a

:30:42. > :30:47.new gearbox before Silverstone we wouldn't expect him to get a

:30:47. > :30:51.penalty. That's right. You get one free change of gearbox. Have you to

:30:51. > :30:55.make them last five races, otherwise you take a five place

:30:55. > :31:01.grid drop. This is the five. You can hear him bouncing on the

:31:01. > :31:06.limiter. That will keep him behind the Toro Rosso. Unless he can

:31:06. > :31:10.surprise in the braking zone. That choice of seventh gear, is locked

:31:10. > :31:14.off once you get into qualifying, in fact it's locked off two hours

:31:15. > :31:24.after free practice two. When you go into Saturday, you're stuck with

:31:25. > :31:40.

:31:40. > :31:44.it. He gets closer, but he's not race, he will be the first man ever

:31:44. > :31:54.to never finished out of the top two in the first eight races of any

:31:54. > :31:54.

:31:55. > :31:59.grand prix season. Carelessly at the front. Using his head. And

:31:59. > :32:05.using his tyres better than anybody, keeping them intact, not taking

:32:05. > :32:10.that instant grip when available. Playing belong game. Keeping the

:32:10. > :32:20.car in a good track position. So calm behind the wheel of this Red

:32:20. > :32:21.

:32:21. > :32:30.Bull Renault. He has only follow the back markers, he led from the

:32:30. > :32:40.lights going out. Other than during the pit stop. This has been a study

:32:40. > :32:42.

:32:42. > :32:48.in dominance for Sebastian Vettel. The pit stops were great. We have

:32:48. > :32:52.not seen him put any wheel wrong. Other than possibly just

:32:52. > :32:57.fractionally slower off the start line. That is the only thing you

:32:57. > :33:04.could look at and say was not perfect this afternoon. As he heads

:33:04. > :33:11.towards the end of the 57th and final lap. The European Grand Prix,

:33:11. > :33:20.here in Valencia. Sebastian Vettel. He will take his 6th win in eight

:33:20. > :33:25.races. An utterly dominant performance. Yet again, Sebastian

:33:25. > :33:30.Vettel, Red Bull will not get one, too, because this man in the back

:33:30. > :33:35.of the picture, Fernando Alonso, at least has kept Red Bull on us this

:33:35. > :33:40.afternoon with a very strong second place. Mark Webber protecting his

:33:40. > :33:47.gearbox and has fallen behind. And is yet to cross the line. There he

:33:47. > :33:51.is. For the final step on the podium. Sebastian Vettel, Fernando

:33:51. > :33:58.Alonso, Mark Webber and then 20 seconds, Lewis Hamilton coming

:33:58. > :34:04.through that final section. He is also relatively calm and coasting.

:34:04. > :34:09.Not under pressure. 4.5 seconds adrift. He salvages 4th place, that

:34:09. > :34:15.is the only way it can be described this afternoon. 46 seconds behind

:34:15. > :34:21.the winner. Michael Schumacher in 17th place. He has been lapped.

:34:21. > :34:27.Felipe Massa takes 70s. The bus of Red Bull sees his cars when it

:34:27. > :34:33.again. Taking on the might of Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes Benz

:34:33. > :34:43.and they keep on winning. Fantastic drive, Sir. Brilliant. Brilliant

:34:43. > :34:45.

:34:45. > :34:51.afternoon, well done. Yes! Yes! Fantastic, boys! Better than

:34:51. > :34:57.anything you could imagine. That was such a nice race. I wonder what

:34:57. > :35:02.he thinks is better than the other five he has won this season? His

:35:02. > :35:06.16th Grand Prix victory. It might be because there was speculation

:35:06. > :35:09.that some of the engine software changes being made, people were

:35:09. > :35:16.hoping that this would be the demise of their dominance. Not

:35:16. > :35:20.today. And a well earned the eighth place for Alguersuari, to pit stops,

:35:21. > :35:30.he fought hard. Kept the car in the right part of the track to keep

:35:31. > :35:33.

:35:33. > :35:42.Adrian Sutil behind him in 9th place and Heidfeld in 10th. Perez,

:35:42. > :35:48.he did finish 11th. But he does not get any points. Then Barrichello,

:35:48. > :35:56.polemic, Paul di Resta, Kobayashi, 16. Schumacher, Maldonado. That was

:35:56. > :36:02.a very good drive. You just lost out. He bumped into traffic. And we

:36:02. > :36:11.did indeed have 24 finishes in the Grand Prix. Who is your driver of

:36:11. > :36:15.the day, to that? -- David? Excluding the obvious candidates,

:36:15. > :36:20.Alguersuari, the Toro Rosso has done a good job under pressure. His

:36:20. > :36:25.best result of the season. Beyond that, there wasn't a great deal of

:36:25. > :36:32.wheel to wheel action, it was an exercise in controlled, disciplined

:36:32. > :36:36.driving. Difficult to see anybody putting a foot wrong. Interesting,

:36:36. > :36:46.the other races have been wild. We really had to hold on to follow

:36:46. > :36:48.

:36:48. > :36:58.them. 24 finishes. Paul di Resta in 14. Maldonado has not really shone

:36:58. > :37:03.

:37:03. > :37:07.for Williams. Liuzzi beats Karthikeyan. Why do you think it

:37:08. > :37:12.has not been one of those wild races that we have seen, even in

:37:12. > :37:18.Barcelona? We're getting to that stage in the season, despite

:37:18. > :37:23.Pirelli bringing the different tyres, strategies are now being

:37:23. > :37:27.understood, the performances are being analysed from Friday practice.

:37:28. > :37:32.What we had based on Friday information was Red Bull were

:37:32. > :37:38.fastest from Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault and that has played out in

:37:38. > :37:41.the results. We are starting to get enough information so no matter

:37:41. > :37:47.what fuel levels people run, we are starting to see what will be the

:37:47. > :37:51.best strategy. Unless someone has tripping over traffic or has bad

:37:51. > :37:56.weather conditions, we should not be surprised that the fastest man

:37:56. > :38:02.in qualifying is going off at the front of the race. Strong

:38:02. > :38:05.performance from Ferrari. Fernando Alonso will be delighted at

:38:05. > :38:12.continuing his friend of telling us this has been the best season he

:38:12. > :38:16.has had in terms of driving and is on performance. As we see, once

:38:16. > :38:20.again, the one thing that his rivals fear is that a number one

:38:20. > :38:29.finger being pointed at the camera. We are beginning to misinterpret

:38:29. > :38:39.which finger he is showing! There you go. That finger. He was hugging

:38:39. > :38:39.

:38:39. > :38:43.Ian Morgan, the chief engineer. That was a rather limp hog with

:38:43. > :38:48.Fernando Alonso! When you go for that case and you are not sure if

:38:48. > :38:55.it is left or right, it is like that when winning �3,000 worth of

:38:55. > :39:00.carbon fibre. It isn't good. Mark Webber, with his eyes are closed,

:39:00. > :39:05.no one is in a rush to get their helmet off. No sweat. That confirms

:39:05. > :39:08.that the fastest lap was three seconds slower than last year and

:39:08. > :39:18.physically, the challenge is reducing in Formula One for these

:39:18. > :39:25.guys. The actual challenge of driving on the limit... And that

:39:25. > :39:35.was the case! He isn't bothering to take his helmet off. Keeping his

:39:35. > :39:39.

:39:39. > :39:49.head warm. Everything comes off, now. The radio, earplugs, close,

:39:49. > :39:53.

:39:53. > :40:00.balaclava. The way in. The old- fashioned system of writing it down

:40:00. > :40:05.on a notebook. His weight will be added to that of the car. As long

:40:05. > :40:12.as it is over 640 kilograms, they will not be thrown out of the Grand

:40:12. > :40:16.Prix! Fernando Alonso, probably about to wish Sebastian Vettel a

:40:16. > :40:20.happy birthday for the coming week, when he will be 24 years old.

:40:20. > :40:27.Pretty ominous, what he is doing now. He could be around for another

:40:27. > :40:32.dozen years, easily, at the front. You would still say that a driver's

:40:32. > :40:42.Prime is around 30. I think they might need to do with that with

:40:42. > :40:52.

:40:52. > :40:57.Sebastian Vettel. -- low were that. -- lower that. He has led Sebastian

:40:57. > :41:01.Vettel on four laps this year. How does he keep his chin up?

:41:01. > :41:06.Straightforward, qualifying in front of him! Get that track

:41:07. > :41:16.position and then handle it from there. He drove very well. Gearbox

:41:17. > :41:17.

:41:17. > :43:22.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

:43:22. > :43:26.and second in all of the first eight grand prix is of the season,

:43:26. > :43:33.definitely this man. Sebastian Vettel. Rewriting the record books

:43:33. > :43:43.already, as he lifts the winner's trophy. He has only dropped 14

:43:43. > :43:50.points this season so far. Placido Domingo. Ian Morgan takes a

:43:50. > :43:57.constructors trophy. We will hear the Austrian and then for the team.

:43:57. > :44:03.-- anthem. And the matador, here in Spain. He drove as hard as he could

:44:03. > :44:07.but it was not good enough on the day. Two world champions up on the

:44:07. > :44:17.podium. The first time Fernando Alonso has been on the podium here

:44:17. > :44:19.

:44:19. > :44:23.in Valencia. Mark Webber is handed his third-place trophy. Another

:44:23. > :44:28.podium for him, he looks happier than some of them, it has to be

:44:28. > :44:34.said. Relieved to get to the end of the Grand Prix. The first man with

:44:34. > :44:41.the champagne, save some for the mechanics! And maybe some for later

:44:41. > :44:47.on. Why they contemplate higher on earth they are going to match the

:44:47. > :44:57.speed and the brains of the World Championship leader by 77 points.

:44:57. > :44:58.

:44:58. > :45:03.Almost a servitude celebration, but I suppose Sebastian Vettel is

:45:03. > :45:08.getting used to it. -- servitude. They will be thinking, I can do

:45:09. > :45:12.with a drink! That it will take away the fact that Sebastian Vettel

:45:12. > :45:18.has won six of the eight races. He can stay at home for the next three

:45:18. > :45:23.races and still the leading. 77 points ahead of his nearest rival.

:45:23. > :45:27.What a drive from him. Really, it is unassailable in my view, at this

:45:27. > :45:33.stage. I cannot possibly see where the real competition against him is

:45:33. > :45:38.going to come. We hope that McLaren would make a big impact, but they

:45:38. > :45:42.were very poor today. Ferrari may be, but there is how long way ahead.

:45:42. > :45:47.We have to hope there will be some exciting races and fan. Sebastian

:45:47. > :45:51.Vettel is looking excited, milking the podium, showing off his trophy

:45:51. > :45:56.and his champagne, a great sight to his team principal, Christian

:45:56. > :46:00.Horner. Well done, Christian Horner. That was interesting on the team

:46:00. > :46:04.radio. He said, this is better than you can imagine. Was that because

:46:04. > :46:08.people were questioning whether he lost his nerve after Canada?

:46:08. > :46:12.think he does really enjoyed his afternoon. It was a fantastic race

:46:12. > :46:18.for him. Yes, he just got it right from start to finish, a great

:46:18. > :46:24.afternoon. Did Canada hurt? Was this the tonic he needed? I think

:46:24. > :46:28.so. It was a great performance. It was a very controlled race. It was

:46:28. > :46:34.tight with Alonso, a tough afternoon. It was not as easy as it

:46:34. > :46:40.looked. There was less action with the DRS than we expected. Unlucky

:46:40. > :46:45.for Mark not to keep the two. But it was close. A tough weekend for

:46:45. > :46:49.Mark Webber. David Coulthard, no driver has ever started the first

:46:49. > :46:54.eight races of the season finishing in the top two every time, almost a

:46:54. > :46:58.record-breaking dash down from the commentary box! Wherever we go,

:46:58. > :47:02.when other drivers are struggling with pace, reliability or with

:47:02. > :47:08.their rivals, Sebastian looks serene at the front. Yes, excuse me,

:47:08. > :47:13.I will take my ears out, talk back issues! He was faultless at the

:47:13. > :47:16.front. He gave us hope that we had a race on our hands, he only had a

:47:16. > :47:21.two-second gap to Mark Webber and then the same to Fernando Alonso.

:47:21. > :47:26.But he seems to be open at Ayr when he needs to control the race and go

:47:26. > :47:30.for his fastest lap at the end. He likes his statistics, and although

:47:30. > :47:35.it makes the team nervous, he tears up the engine and delivers a quick

:47:35. > :47:40.lap. Rob marshal, the chief designer, is with us. Either you

:47:40. > :47:46.are making so that in Look driver, or he is making you look like a

:47:46. > :47:50.clever man. He is a very good driver, to be honest! Such a talent.

:47:50. > :47:55.You work on the car, the dedication that you and Adrian put into it,

:47:55. > :48:00.when you see someone driving it that well. It was fantastic. Yet

:48:00. > :48:05.again, he has not put a foot wrong. Awesome performance from start to

:48:05. > :48:12.finish. Spectacular performance, really. If you were the manager of

:48:12. > :48:17.the other teams, what would you try to do to beat him? Copy us! That is

:48:17. > :48:21.never a good excuse, but maybe it is the only one. Can I just ask you,

:48:21. > :48:25.maybe the viewers would like to try to understand, why are we seeing

:48:25. > :48:29.this switch behind with Ferrari and McLaren at different circuits?

:48:29. > :48:34.Forget your guys, can you explain that to the viewers? This one is a

:48:34. > :48:37.different sort of circuit. I think it has been a bit of a struggle for

:48:37. > :48:42.most of the drivers to get on top of the tyres this weekend. It is an

:48:42. > :48:47.unusual circuit, lots of 90 degree corners. Not many fast corners. We

:48:47. > :48:51.have not been to a circuit like that. The track temperature is very

:48:51. > :48:55.hard. It has been a steep learning curve for everyone. We hear Ferrari

:48:55. > :48:58.are interested in your skills and abilities. Use of about Red Bull,

:48:58. > :49:03.time to help someone else that Mark they have not spoken to me about

:49:04. > :49:11.it! I am sure you are very expensive! Enjoy the celebrations.

:49:11. > :49:15.Thank you very much indeed. some reason, McLaren's race pace,

:49:15. > :49:19.which they had been boasting about all weekend, they tell us, wait

:49:19. > :49:25.until Sunday, well, we did, and they could not do much. We can hear

:49:25. > :49:29.from Martin Whitmarsh. Martin, some good points, but explain why

:49:29. > :49:34.Ferrari seemed to have been quicker than you today. Is it that when we

:49:34. > :49:38.get to a circuit wet tyres are key, they seem to be easier on them?

:49:38. > :49:43.think we were probably overheating the tyres. They have a stronger DRS

:49:43. > :49:48.system. This is a DRS-strong circuit. As you may know, Jenson

:49:48. > :49:53.had a KERS failure halfway through the race, so he was closing half a

:49:53. > :49:56.second per lap as a consequence. He was easier on the tyres. I think

:49:56. > :50:03.Lewis did a good job after the start that we had, but very

:50:03. > :50:07.difficult to get back on terms. We have had three races with very

:50:07. > :50:12.quick cars. It was not the quickest race car today. I think we were

:50:12. > :50:17.quite close to the Ferrari pace, not as fast as Red Bull in the race,

:50:17. > :50:20.but we will see what we can do in two weeks' time. The British from

:50:20. > :50:25.free, so important for McLaren. Would you have the quickest race

:50:25. > :50:30.car there? Well, surprisingly, that is what we are going to be working

:50:30. > :50:34.on! But you never know, every circuit is different. We will have

:50:34. > :50:38.some developments. That is the interesting thing about this season.

:50:38. > :50:42.The last two years have been quite intriguing. Obviously, Red Bull is

:50:42. > :50:48.very, very strong. Disappointing that we do not have their race pace

:50:48. > :50:52.at this event. You know, after the disappointing start, it is quite

:50:52. > :50:56.difficult to recover in traffic. You damage the tyres pretty quickly.

:50:56. > :51:00.That has clearly made it difficult to do the lengthy stint that we

:51:00. > :51:03.wanted. We lost a bit too much time. On the other hand, we are a long

:51:03. > :51:08.way ahead of the others behind us, but we need to be in front of Red

:51:08. > :51:12.Bull. A clear message from Martin Whitmarsh, we were not as quick as

:51:12. > :51:16.we hoped to be here, but we will be quick at Silverstone. That is where

:51:16. > :51:18.Jenson Button will be arriving joint second in the Constructors'

:51:18. > :51:25.Championship and Drivers' Championship, despite today

:51:25. > :51:35.finishing in a lowly six. Jenson, Lewis and Paul Black Rod going to

:51:35. > :51:53.

:51:53. > :51:57.Britain in a couple of weeks... -- I tell you what, we would not mind

:51:57. > :52:02.this weather in a couple of weeks, Eddie. I think we would be frazzled,

:52:02. > :52:06.shrivelled up into nothing, this is just so warm. It is the real start

:52:06. > :52:11.of the summer, I suppose. Frazzled and do nothing, not a picture I

:52:11. > :52:15.want in my mind! Talk to me about McLaren. They did not have the race

:52:15. > :52:19.pace. Martin Whitmarsh was at a loss to explain it, maybe the heat

:52:19. > :52:23.had something to do that. That is why I ask why the others were

:52:23. > :52:27.struggling. It is so difficult to explain why you do not have the

:52:27. > :52:31.pace. In my experience, when you are winning races, everyone goes,

:52:31. > :52:35.of course we are, we are better than everyone else. When you are

:52:35. > :52:39.not winning, oh, well, we think we are working on something. Nobody

:52:39. > :52:41.really understands. There are so many black arts in Formula One to

:52:41. > :52:45.extract every last bit of performance to give drivers

:52:45. > :52:49.confidence. The man with the most confident right now is Sebastian

:52:49. > :52:55.Vettel. He is in the drivers' press conference as race winner of the

:52:55. > :52:58.sixth time this season, sitting in the middle. Sebastian, another win.

:52:58. > :53:03.He described it on the team radio as better than anything you can

:53:03. > :53:07.imagine. Why the rate this win so highly? Why we are feeling so high

:53:07. > :53:10.after victory? Maybe from the outside, you know, I do not know

:53:10. > :53:17.how much was happening in the Grand Prix, but maybe for myself, it

:53:17. > :53:20.looked like a boring race. But I will tell you, I enjoyed it so much.

:53:20. > :53:24.Between you and the car every single lap, I did have pressure

:53:24. > :53:27.from behind at times, because the strategy was different from Mark

:53:27. > :53:32.and Fernando, so it sometimes they were pitting earlier, sometimes

:53:32. > :53:38.later. Even though I had a gap before the stop, I came out and

:53:38. > :53:42.they were quite close again. Again, pushing hard, judging the tyres,

:53:42. > :53:46.trying to imagine what the end of the stint could be like, trying to

:53:46. > :53:51.foresee the strategy. Every single lap between you and the car, as I

:53:51. > :53:55.said. For some reason, I enjoy this track. Last year I had a smooth

:53:55. > :53:59.weekend, again this year. Fantastic, the team has done a phenomenal job

:53:59. > :54:04.preparing the car. You know, even though we come every year and say,

:54:04. > :54:09.this might be tricky, because the track is not made for us 100%, with

:54:09. > :54:14.no real fast corners, but we managed to put everything together.

:54:14. > :54:21.For us this weekend, I am very happy with the result, obviously. -

:54:22. > :54:25.- Fernando, for some laps it was just you and your Ferrari, that you

:54:25. > :54:29.and Mark were very close and the track, a great battle.

:54:29. > :54:34.interesting race for the fans and the people on TV to see the fight

:54:34. > :54:38.with Webber. All the race through, I think. At the beginning of the

:54:38. > :54:43.race, I was behind him, trying to be not too far and trying to have

:54:43. > :54:47.the benefit in the pit stop, have the opportunity to overtake him.

:54:47. > :54:53.The opportunity came later in the middle of the race, but on the

:54:53. > :54:58.track, not in the pits. I overtake them on the braking zone for turn

:54:58. > :55:04.12. On the pits, they did a good job and overtook us. On the Last

:55:04. > :55:09.Star, the team did a good strategy, keeping the car out longer than the

:55:09. > :55:15.Red Bull. -- on the last stop. The car performed well, and we overtook

:55:15. > :55:20.him finally. Changing positions between Mark and me, at the end,

:55:20. > :55:23.second place was the maximum we can have in these days. Been here

:55:23. > :55:28.between the Red Bull cars is a great achievement from the team.

:55:28. > :55:31.Monaco was very good performance for weekend, we finished second.

:55:31. > :55:37.Canada was very good performance, we do not score any points. Here,

:55:37. > :55:39.again, very good weekend, potential performance, both cars in the top

:55:39. > :55:43.five is a great team result. Definitely moving in the right

:55:43. > :55:49.direction. We need to keep working and get closer to the skies in the

:55:49. > :55:52.next one, hopefully. Mark, Fernando mentioned the changing positions.

:55:52. > :55:57.He received an apology on the team radio. Was that because you should

:55:57. > :56:01.have finished second today? I think we should have, but in the end we

:56:01. > :56:05.did not. It was a good race with Fernando. It was probably my best

:56:05. > :56:09.race of the year up until the last pit stop. It was quite close with

:56:09. > :56:13.all three of us. Obviously, we are trying to go as fast as possible,

:56:13. > :56:17.manage the tyres. It is always the same these days. I was very happy

:56:17. > :56:22.with how the race was going until the last stop, and it was my fault,

:56:22. > :56:27.not the team's. I elected to... I was right about Fernando coming in

:56:27. > :56:30.beneath me, and it was not really knowing how the medium tyre would

:56:30. > :56:35.perform on the out lap. For sure, it is not as good as the soft, but

:56:36. > :56:41.is it better than an old sock? I took that risk, and I lost out. Ben

:56:41. > :56:45.Ando stayed out for a few more laps, I came out into traffic. --

:56:45. > :56:49.Fernando. I miss second today, Fernando drove a good race. We were

:56:49. > :56:54.all nip and tuck all the way to the end. At the end, the gearbox was

:56:54. > :57:00.playing up. We had to back right off. We had a massive gap to

:57:00. > :57:10.McLaren, they were one sector behind at least, if not two.

:57:10. > :57:11.

:57:11. > :57:14.deflated Mark Webber. What did not in Valencia. Lewis Hamilton will be

:57:14. > :57:19.another frustrated driver. We will have a look at the start of the

:57:19. > :57:23.race from his point of view in a moment. Nico Rosberg, Jaime

:57:23. > :57:30.Alguersuari, his best-ever finish in Formula One. Nick Heidfeld Franz

:57:30. > :57:33.off the top 10. Sergio Perez disappearing into 11th place. He

:57:33. > :57:40.stopped just once during the Grand Prix. Is lap times may have been

:57:40. > :57:45.slow, but it helps not stopping too much. Michael Schumacher lost his

:57:45. > :57:49.front wing and ended up 17th. The new teams at the very back. 24 cars

:57:49. > :57:52.finished this race. We saw how busy it was on track as the front-

:57:52. > :58:02.runners were trying to get past. Sadly, they could not. This is what

:58:02. > :58:09.

:58:09. > :58:13.it means for the Drivers' the teams want, this is the one

:58:14. > :58:18.that the money attached, and it is first for Red Bull, McLaren, and

:58:18. > :58:23.then Ferrari. Renault are behind Mercedes at the moment. Back to the

:58:23. > :58:26.very start of the race now. We saw the start from 2010 in that build

:58:26. > :58:30.up, an incredible start from Lewis Hamilton, but if we look at this

:58:30. > :58:37.weekend, the great start was from Felipe Massa. But he could not make

:58:37. > :58:40.it stick. Difficult conditions on the grid with 150 kilograms of fuel.

:58:40. > :58:43.Felipe Massa right around the outside of the McLaren. He has

:58:43. > :58:48.another look at Mark Webber. The bails out and allows Fernando

:58:48. > :58:53.Alonso to get around the outside. Then they ran in that order on the

:58:53. > :59:03.way down to the second chicane. In all that incident, we would get an

:59:03. > :59:06.

:59:06. > :59:12.overview here. Rosberg managed to Alonso and Hamilton. It looks safe

:59:12. > :59:16.macro at his point, but having a snip at Webber was very costly. The

:59:16. > :59:22.next corner is a left-hander, so he assumes the position. Just behind

:59:22. > :59:27.that, Rosberg slipped in front of Button. Sorry, Eddie, I can see are

:59:27. > :59:32.trying to get in. Button was very wide in turn one, so we would have

:59:32. > :59:36.had dusty tyres on a run into turn 2. None the less, a clean start

:59:37. > :59:46.from all the cars. The thing that impresses me more than anything was

:59:47. > :59:47.

:59:47. > :59:51.the clear running of Vettel. Now we he gets the place back against

:59:51. > :59:55.Massa. I would have to say it was a very strong raised by Alonso today,

:59:55. > :00:02.and it showed a slight resurgence of performance from Ferrari. We

:00:02. > :00:12.have not seen that much in recent times. However, Lewis again. For me,

:00:12. > :00:17.

:00:17. > :00:20.and then Fernando Alonso, his nemesis, going around the outside.

:00:20. > :00:25.At this point Lewis Hamilton was hot under the collar and his

:00:25. > :00:30.frustrations grew. He did keep them controlled. Bearing in mind the

:00:30. > :00:34.last couple of races he has had and I thought there were times at the

:00:34. > :00:39.car let him down. What is interesting is Fernando Alonso has

:00:39. > :00:45.been delighted with his last two races, very happy to be second. And

:00:45. > :00:49.Lewis Hamilton, frustrated. Just not happy. The car isn't giving him

:00:49. > :00:54.the opportunity to win championships and you can sense in

:00:54. > :00:59.all the radio communication, at one point he said he couldn't go any

:00:59. > :01:07.slower and the next, he could not go any faster! Some frustration for

:01:07. > :01:13.Lewis Hamilton, he always finished second here but not today. How

:01:13. > :01:18.would you sum up today? Could result compared to the last race!

:01:18. > :01:22.Nice to see the chequered flag but it did sound frustrating that there.

:01:22. > :01:28.At some points you are being told to slow down and that others, to

:01:28. > :01:35.get more. How difficult is it to get on with your job? It was not

:01:35. > :01:39.frustrating. We had a very poor start. And we lost out to Ferrari.

:01:39. > :01:48.But we were not as quick. Even if I was ahead, I would really have

:01:48. > :01:52.struggled. And the guys were just asking me to stay out longer. This

:01:52. > :01:58.is all I can do. I was pushing all the way but I was really struggling

:01:58. > :02:02.with my tyres. It seems like we have taken one step backwards this

:02:02. > :02:09.weekend. In terms of performance. Or the others have taken one step

:02:09. > :02:16.forward. To be able to finish in 4th place, still some good points.

:02:16. > :02:25.I cannot complain. Where do you think your car is lacking? Were

:02:25. > :02:29.when you ask for improvements at Silverstone? Downforce. We have had

:02:29. > :02:33.upgrades in the front wing, for example, but we have been

:02:33. > :02:40.struggling with rear downforce. In the next race we will be really

:02:41. > :02:46.struggling. Once we lose the engine map. We might see some differences.

:02:46. > :02:50.You are quite interested by what you said? My hearing isn't as good

:02:50. > :02:59.as it used to be but did he say he thinks he might lose out further in

:02:59. > :03:03.the next race? The system is cold blowing. Contrary to what people

:03:03. > :03:07.thought, it would be disappointing to see McClaren drop back even

:03:07. > :03:16.further at Silverstone. This circuit is all about straight lines

:03:16. > :03:21.and maximum speed. Clearly, the car was not working with that. Engine

:03:21. > :03:27.mapping? What is he talking about? That has been the focal point of

:03:27. > :03:33.this weekend, they are not allowed to change that in the qualifying.

:03:33. > :03:39.Actually, the people that know the regulations believed that the big

:03:39. > :03:43.game that Red Bull had... What is engine mapping?! Making the engine

:03:43. > :03:48.fluctuate up and down in a given situation. The nice thing about

:03:49. > :03:56.Lewis Hamilton, it was a tough couple of weeks but he is still not

:03:56. > :04:02.scared to have a go, particularly against the world champion. He has

:04:02. > :04:07.been criticised, we heard the somewhat effort of an apology by

:04:07. > :04:11.Niki Lauda. But nobody wants to see him change. That was so swift, so

:04:11. > :04:15.clean. Emphatic. Never any question he was not going to go past and

:04:15. > :04:23.that is what I want to see. There was more overtaking than we have

:04:23. > :04:27.seen here in the past but it was not exciting? I think we have to

:04:27. > :04:31.take note of what a great start to the grand prix season we had and it

:04:31. > :04:34.was inevitable that one of them would not be quite as exciting.

:04:34. > :04:40.Especially with all other cars going out after normal qualifying.

:04:40. > :04:45.And the fastest car at the front. Ers did help with some but it did

:04:45. > :04:49.not seem to be as clear at creating opportunities. We have been spoiled

:04:49. > :04:53.so far. And a couple of books ago in Canada, Jensen Button was the

:04:53. > :04:58.centre of attention but it was not the race he hoped for today. He

:04:58. > :05:04.lost it right from the start. have heard about the start that

:05:04. > :05:14.they made. This is another one. He is battling from the back foot

:05:14. > :05:20.straight away. He loses out, Rosberg coming round. What can that

:05:20. > :05:24.be? Have they got fundamentally less grip available? It isn't

:05:24. > :05:28.downforce of the line. Maybe something else? It is compromising

:05:28. > :05:33.the way that they use their tyres. That was surprising. In the past,

:05:33. > :05:39.McLaren have made good starts. Jensen Button finishes in 6th

:05:39. > :05:45.place... Word you think you struggled most? With the Kers

:05:45. > :05:50.system or the start? At the start it was not perfect. In the way it

:05:50. > :05:56.was the only fun part, getting past him to turn number two. Apart from

:05:56. > :06:02.that, it was not the most exciting race, was it? From your point of

:06:02. > :06:06.view? I did not see another car for the whole race. I did not have a

:06:06. > :06:10.very good balance. I had a lot of Winston, which I was struggling

:06:10. > :06:18.with throughout. And then I had because cistern filling halfway

:06:18. > :06:24.through, which is a lot of lap time for us, we have a good system. --

:06:24. > :06:30.of the Kers system. Even so, the pace was not there. To finish with

:06:30. > :06:34.those issues was not so bad. But we need good upgrades. We need to get

:06:34. > :06:40.our heads down and improve the car, the package, aerodynamics, we need

:06:40. > :06:44.to improve for Silverstone. We are not moving forward. That is what we

:06:44. > :06:52.need to concentrate on. Lewis Hamilton echoed that. For

:06:52. > :06:58.aerodynamics? I think so. We need to take risks. Behind us, there is

:06:58. > :07:03.a big gap. In this race, anyway, to the Mercedes and Ferrari, they are

:07:03. > :07:10.in front and Red Bull is miles away. We need a lot of lap time and I do

:07:10. > :07:16.not think these new regulation changes in terms of the diffuser

:07:16. > :07:21.bulls will have a lot of impact. Hopefully we will gain more than

:07:21. > :07:25.Red Bull but I don't know. Thank you. And that is the idea of just

:07:25. > :07:29.how complicated it can be, not even the drivers know if the new changes

:07:29. > :07:33.will help or hinder. There is a clear message from Lewis Hamilton

:07:33. > :07:40.and Jenson Button to their team. Bring is more aerodynamics, bring

:07:40. > :07:43.us a faster car. McLaren are one of the teams from pre-season testing

:07:43. > :07:47.until what they delivered in the first race, they made a massive

:07:47. > :07:50.step forward and they are trying to unleash that next step forward. To

:07:50. > :07:56.be in a position where they can qualify in the front row and

:07:56. > :07:59.challenge. At the moment, they seem to be lagging behind. The big

:07:59. > :08:04.problem with McLaren is they came here full of expectations, the

:08:04. > :08:08.front wing and the rear wing, and they have to go away from here and

:08:08. > :08:13.rethink and rework this. It did not give them any advantage, it lost in

:08:13. > :08:18.time. The rear wing helped slightly when Jensen Button was having a go

:08:18. > :08:26.at Nico Rosberg. He finished in front of him. This was incredible,

:08:26. > :08:32.there was no DRS. He had massive speed. He was very lucky, it looked

:08:33. > :08:37.like Rosberg went early on to the brakes. He sets up for the shot and

:08:37. > :08:40.then Rosberg was so early on the brakes that Jensen Button's cat-

:08:40. > :08:44.like reactions not only got him down the inside but he fully passed

:08:44. > :08:49.them by the time we got to the apex. There has to be a question-mark

:08:49. > :08:54.over the way he handled that corner, he left to big of a gap and he did

:08:54. > :08:58.not make any effort to stop them. I would criticise my driver if he did

:08:58. > :09:03.that, to be honest. I did not think it was strong enough defence.

:09:03. > :09:09.Jensen Button brave on the brakes or was Nico Rosberg being nervous?

:09:09. > :09:13.He was early. Jensen Button went for the inside. It did look like

:09:13. > :09:17.Nico Rosberg was early on the brakes, he was able to be on the

:09:17. > :09:20.dirty line and still make the corner without locking up. You

:09:20. > :09:26.would take a driver away after the race and talk to them about what

:09:26. > :09:30.happened? He gave up one point, he could have fought harder for that,

:09:30. > :09:36.the system is so tight after Red Bull that you must say, Mercedes

:09:36. > :09:41.needs as bigger shot in the arm as anybody and if Nico Rosberg can up

:09:41. > :09:46.their game... If drivers are going to defend so clumsily, like that,

:09:46. > :09:49.then you would have to talk to him and say, come on, we are in this

:09:49. > :09:54.together, surely you could have put a better fight up against that

:09:54. > :10:00.corner? I bet you wish you had driven for Eddie Jordan? There was

:10:00. > :10:04.nothing wrong with what I said! is your point of view. It is

:10:04. > :10:09.absolutely fine for individuals to go at it. I'm just glad I have

:10:09. > :10:12.never driven for you! You were a tough bus and one man who did start

:10:12. > :10:18.his career with Eddie Jordan was Michael Schumacher and he isn't

:10:18. > :10:23.scared to go for overtakes. It all got tasty. As he said, every time

:10:23. > :10:29.you see the replay, you are worried about what you will see next?

:10:29. > :10:37.a contrast to Canada. Brilliant driving, right on the white line. I

:10:37. > :10:40.have to see that again. It was a little bit clumsy. He is on the

:10:40. > :10:44.inside, he is entitled to be there but there was always going to be

:10:44. > :10:48.that closing gap and you have to either get off the brakes and put

:10:48. > :10:52.yourself into the position... Watch this, he is over the white line.

:10:52. > :10:56.Tactically, that could have been looked at. I just be to refresh my

:10:56. > :11:00.memory as to whether the wheel has to be completely over or if it is

:11:00. > :11:04.just touching. The Beagle, the gap is closing, Michael is regretting

:11:04. > :11:14.that he is on the inside and he tries to get on the brakes and he

:11:14. > :11:19.to have a chat with Michael Schumacher, that was probably worse

:11:19. > :11:26.than Nico Rosberg! I reckon he is just about... That would not be

:11:26. > :11:34.given as a goal, I am saying that. Although I would have him out, what

:11:34. > :11:38.do you think? I am not show Show! Let's hear from Michael Schumacher.

:11:38. > :11:46.My car, some are pure race for us. After the front wing, we did not

:11:46. > :11:51.see so much of the on television. No? What a surprise! I'm not of my

:11:51. > :11:57.front wing, that was my own problem. I tried to keep my position with

:11:57. > :12:01.Petrov, I wanted to stay in front of them, but I simply could not

:12:01. > :12:06.stop at one point any more. I lock the front tyres and slide it into

:12:06. > :12:11.them and lost my front wing. Then the race was pretty much done. I

:12:11. > :12:15.gaze the pace would have been OK for 7th or 8th. That would have

:12:15. > :12:19.been the maximum we could have got. When you are driving around, what

:12:19. > :12:25.are you thinking? Are you just try to keep out of people's ways, using

:12:25. > :12:29.it as a test? What goes on? First of all, you just go maximum and try

:12:29. > :12:35.to recuperate as much as you can. You never know what will happen.

:12:35. > :12:40.Our speed was not too bad to catch up quite a few Mike Barker's --

:12:41. > :12:44.quite a few back markers. But the problem was that the guys were

:12:44. > :12:49.starting on prime tyres, so that meant they had the option tyres

:12:49. > :12:53.when I was approaching them. The difference of the tyres was to be

:12:53. > :12:57.to make any further move forward. Thanks, Michael. You are welcome.

:12:57. > :13:03.It must be so frustrating for the drivers. Just when they are feeling

:13:03. > :13:08.good, like Michael after Canada, you pay the price if you do not get

:13:08. > :13:12.it right in the lap one. This is an exercise in getting every corner of

:13:13. > :13:17.every lap perfect. I think that is what we saw from Sebastian Vettel

:13:17. > :13:22.up front. We do not see many mistakes from Fernando Alonso. Mark

:13:22. > :13:27.made one little mistake, running wide on Pittendrigh. Otherwise,

:13:27. > :13:30.they are all taking the boxes around the racetrack. You're always

:13:30. > :13:35.going to be on the back foot if you have to come in for another pit-

:13:35. > :13:39.stop. It is a bit unfair on Pirelli to blame them. What was the

:13:39. > :13:44.downfall of Michael today was track position. He should have given way

:13:44. > :13:49.to the faster car. For me, I think it was just silly. You should not

:13:49. > :13:53.have lost his front wing, and he will recognise that. Is it an easy

:13:53. > :14:00.excuse for the driver's first Mark blame the tyres. He is a racing

:14:00. > :14:04.driver, you should ask him. They have a gift for finding the best

:14:05. > :14:09.excuses at any given time. All racing drivers are the same, they

:14:09. > :14:12.love excuses, it is never them, always something else. Michael

:14:12. > :14:18.Schumacher made a mistake in that corner. They are entitled to make a

:14:18. > :14:22.mistake, but do not blame the tyres. One man who was not making any

:14:22. > :14:25.excuses is Alguersuari. We spoke to him yesterday ahead of qualifying.

:14:25. > :14:31.He had a great qualifying session. He struggled in qualifying, I

:14:31. > :14:36.should say, but had a great race. This is his best result in Formula

:14:36. > :14:41.One, A. Yes, a timely result. He seemed pretty chilled when you

:14:41. > :14:49.spoke to them about his season. None the less, the drivers in that

:14:49. > :14:53.team are under pressure. There are teams -- drivers being lined up as

:14:53. > :14:59.the next Red Bull young drivers. One of the skies will be popping

:14:59. > :15:03.out of the system. It was a big result for Alguersuari. We spoke to

:15:03. > :15:09.his father here, he is active and involved. He is doing a good PR job

:15:09. > :15:14.for his son. It was what happens on the track that matters. This was a

:15:14. > :15:17.strong result. It was not easy to go and do the laps that he did. He

:15:17. > :15:23.is the young driver with a huge amount of talent, and he has got a

:15:23. > :15:26.lot to offer Formula One. We can hear from him now. He has fallen

:15:26. > :15:31.out in the first part of qualifying previously but finished in the

:15:31. > :15:36.Points For the last two races. He will be smiling. A great result in

:15:36. > :15:40.front of your home fans. How are you feeling? Very good, really good,

:15:40. > :15:44.because Valencia is my second home town, and I could not do it in

:15:44. > :15:52.Barcelona. We did a good race, but the consistency was not key. Here

:15:52. > :15:55.it was. The brakes that we had in the car were very important. To

:15:55. > :15:59.show this race performance and consistency was very good. There

:15:59. > :16:04.has been speculation about you and your seat. You feel you are having

:16:04. > :16:08.to fight to show your talents? Absolutely, I am here because I

:16:08. > :16:14.enjoy Formula One, I enjoy driving. I think I'm doing a good job, I

:16:14. > :16:17.think I am learning a lot, and there is still to come. I do not

:16:17. > :16:23.think my future is under question. I don't care. To be honest, I want

:16:23. > :16:28.to enjoy the present a Formula One. I do my very best job race after

:16:28. > :16:33.race, and I think we will have some points. In life, problems exist,

:16:33. > :16:38.and problems are always in life, so you are always needing to push to

:16:38. > :16:42.recover the problems, needing to push to evaluate yourself and go

:16:42. > :16:45.one with a progression. I think we are doing a good job, because we

:16:45. > :16:50.are covering the pace that we did not have at the beginning of the

:16:50. > :16:54.year. We are progressing. It is not just about the results today. You

:16:54. > :16:59.understand the car, the tyres. The engineers know and understand

:16:59. > :17:04.better the car and help you improve your performance. It is Formula One,

:17:04. > :17:06.it takes time. It is work and work and work. You might enjoy your

:17:06. > :17:13.third home race at Silverstone, because he went to school in

:17:13. > :17:16.England. I was in Ipswich at school, and it was a good experience for me.

:17:16. > :17:22.Hopefully we'll get some points at Silverstone, and I will be very

:17:22. > :17:26.happy. Enjoy it, thanks. impressive young man, fast and

:17:26. > :17:33.philosophical. Points for Jaime Alguersuari, but no such luck for

:17:33. > :17:38.Paul di Resta, who was locked in a battle. If you were at the front of

:17:38. > :17:42.it, you picked up a point for tenth place. Four finished in 14th.

:17:42. > :17:49.might not have been the position you wanted, but what a fantastic

:17:49. > :17:54.battle at the end. It was, quite a few cars there! We were definitely

:17:54. > :17:58.compromised by strategy. Those five laps, the tyres, two laps in the

:17:58. > :18:02.first stint, three laps on the third stint. When the tyres are

:18:02. > :18:06.like that, you are losing 2.5 seconds per lap, and that

:18:06. > :18:11.compromised the race. There was a bit of confusion. When we were due

:18:11. > :18:16.to come in, Adrian came in. We had to let Sebastian come by when he

:18:16. > :18:21.was lapping us. I am not sure we would have quite finished... May

:18:21. > :18:25.the 10th, probably 11th. You get difficult races, but it was all

:18:25. > :18:30.very tight, and that is what made a small difference to getting at

:18:30. > :18:34.there. The first race that you have been trying to get past people but

:18:34. > :18:39.constantly looking in your mirrors because 24 cars finished here, and

:18:39. > :18:42.traffic is a big problem at this circuit. It was a big problem. DRS

:18:42. > :18:48.did not seem as effective as I thought it would be. A few times I

:18:48. > :18:52.got in his own but nothing really. -- in the zone. I did not get

:18:52. > :18:56.overtaken, so I suppose it is positive from that. It was a

:18:56. > :19:01.difficult weekend, losing Friday. That is crucial, to make the car

:19:01. > :19:07.right. I think I was slightly off Adrian's pace but could match it at

:19:07. > :19:11.some point. Unlucky, Paul. If you want more motor sports, MotoGP is

:19:11. > :19:21.on BBC Two. Press red to join as for the forum. This is what you

:19:21. > :19:25.

:19:25. > :19:32.not going in at four. That is the race winner, Sebastian Vettel, the

:19:32. > :19:42.champagne is prey in already! Eddie, this is your moment. I think he is

:19:42. > :19:48.

:19:48. > :19:52.Listen, I have done and enough swimming for a lifetime! He is in

:19:52. > :20:02.again! I do not think there is anything we can do to save you,

:20:02. > :20:03.

:20:03. > :20:06.David! This is the kind of stuff We did well to stay dry. Press red

:20:06. > :20:10.right now for the forum. I do not want to worry you, but to my right

:20:10. > :20:15.is a very big harbour indeed. Thank you for joining us for the European

:20:15. > :20:18.Grand Prix. After the Canadian Grand Prix, the drivers were soaked.

:20:18. > :20:23.Actually, they were just as drenched here, but it was Canadian

:20:23. > :20:33.rain two weeks ago and the Spanish sun this time. Apart from one man,

:20:33. > :21:00.