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underway! Lewis Hamilton wins! He is the master. Jensen Button leads

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

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Sunday afternoon. Welcome to the 2011 European Grand Prix live from

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Valencia. Race number eight in a Trulli special season and it's time

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for this Spanish city to bask in the glory of Formula One and live

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up to the drama in Canada two weeks ago. No pressure, then? Here in

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Montreal, this wet track should make this one of the best races of

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the year. The safety car is in this lap, thank goodness, we will have a

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This is difficult times for McLaren. Look how hard it is raining. It is

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the red flag situation. The race is suspended. That looks like the Red

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shouldered viper to me? And the fans are jumping up, it is a racing

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car, we haven't seen one of those for a while. Fernando Alonso has

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been beached. It just keeps falling into place for Red Bull. Jensen

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Button is in last place, now. Brilliant driving. Schumacher

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driving the best race since his comeback. The cars are all over the

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place. Jensen Button, streaming back. This will be Titanic. Jensen

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Button sales past Mark Webber. Schumacher, Jensen Button goes the

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wrong way round. Button up into second place! This race isn't over.

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What can he do? He can smell victory. Is there enough time left?

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Will be run out of time before Lapps? That is a beautiful drive.

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Six times through the pit, Jensen Button. Into the final lap, bottom!

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Driving for his life. Has he got what it takes to hold him off?

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Jensen Button leads the Grand Prix! Jensen Button, he wins a brilliant

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race. What a victory! Absolutely brilliant. Sebastian Vettel,

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finally cracking. Surely the greatest Formula One victory of his

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career? It really was quite something. It probably was the win

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of his life. One of the races of our lifetime and what did the team

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do? Did they sit back and relax? Not in the sport. Not when you

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train with Red Bull. This is a brand new front wing, a matter how

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quick it was in Canada, they want to go quicker. There was no time in

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the sport for reflecting. Once you have retired you can look back and

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that is why David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan are with me. Apart

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from the drive, what is your standard memory? I am returning

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home. Everybody was euphoric. Everybody was captivated by what

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Jensen Button did and the excitement of the race and Canada,

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for everybody I come across, that was the stand out. If it was a

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great story for Formula One, we had an amazing drive from Jenson Button

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but what I take his McLaren, they were so close to having one of

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those nightmare situations were you were explaining how drivers crashed

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into each other. Like Red Bull in Turkey last year. But with that

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drive from Jensen Button, that was suddenly not the story. All the

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guys, the mechanics and engineers, or watching with big smiles on

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their faces but that is the margin between success and failure. In

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terms of the psychology of the driver, was it worth more than just

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25 points to Jensen Button? That was an incredible drive. What would

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have appeared to Sebastian Vettel as a straight forward drive to the

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line turned out to be under pressure and he put his way out. It

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was a stunning victory and lots of overtaking. And those conditions

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are made for Jensen Button. races that have brought us here and

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those still to come... Hold on, Jensen Button is behind Sebastian

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Vettel but there are still 300 points to fight for. He is still in

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this? He is still in this but he has to be very careful about how he

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accumulates points and in my opinion he has to get his

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qualifying and needs to be further up the grid to challenge. You can

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see what happened in qualifying shortly and the other big story was

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Sebastian Vettel made a slip and that does not happen very often.

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It's very hot and we are gearing up. The drivers arriving. They have

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been on the beach, there are wonderful bars and there are other

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things they could be doing but as give everybody a chance to see this

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beautiful circuit. The track temperature was getting towards 50

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degrees in the evening which is why both of these boys will be finding

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when I bring them out into the sunshine. Let's talk about this

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place, it is very hot but there are plenty of good reasons to be here?

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It's a wonderful city? A lot of money has been spent developing

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this and this whole area was developed for the America's Cup.

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Once they have that facility they thought, what can we do? And they

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created this track. It goes around the port, very clearly displayed.

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And we are looking at one of the streets. It's not actually straight.

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That will make it very interesting with the use of DRS. The cars will

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be moving from one side of the track and taking the racing line.

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It does make a very slippery? does. It is only used once a year

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and a lot of trucks are up here building up the track before the

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grand prix and we have had a number of incidents, this was Kobayashi.

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Turn 25. And then Michael Schumacher, losing the back end.

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That isn't his normal mind. That is an exercise in reverse parking.

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There are some great things, the port, the fish markets, these are

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old fish markets. Some nice things but one overtake in the race in

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2009, 82 in Turkey. This is a real test for the new regulations?

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the new regulations working? If you were looking for a prime place to

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see that, it is here. This is similar to Monaco, street circuit,

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in the centre of the city, it has huge affection to a lot of people,

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me included, I have been won over but we actually have to be certain

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that we can get a proper race. Maybe today is the day. The sun is

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beating down, the heat is on the rest of the pack. You can see, 60

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points between Sebastian Vettel and Jensen Button and few people

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mentioned after Canada that Sebastian Vettel increased his lead

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because Lewis Hamilton was in second. And the constructors... 255

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points for Red Bull. There are some new rules this weekend, there is a

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slight change to the engine mapping system during qualifying which many

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people believe was designed to slow down Red Bull. However, once again,

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one man slightly forgot to read the script. Anyone who came to Valencia

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hoping for a surprise result in qualifying would have left the

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track disappointed. Sebastian Vettel was quickest again, he

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starts on pole position for the 7th time. Down the field, Jarno Trulli

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underlined how tricky this track is with this lazy spend. Conveniently,

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the pits were nearby. Alguersuari's techniques did not work. The driver

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was an early drop out. Today we just went for one goal on the first

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lap and I got traffic, I could not do it. The tyre was gone. Faced

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with a filling fuel pump, Maldonado could not find the hard shoulder

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and instead parked his car in the middle of the track. Into the top

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10, everyone qualifying when they were expected to. Adrian Sutil is

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10th, Heidfeld 9th and then Mercedes with Nico Rosberg having

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an advantage - he saved his fresh set of tyres by just doing one run.

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Michael Schumacher does not predict any fireworks. There is that much

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chance to move forward in the race. It is going to be mostly staying in

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position and driving to the end and take the points. Jensen Button was

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brought back to earth with the pub. Only six on the grid, the rear of

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his car getting away from him, winning Ferrari started head of

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McLaren on the grid. It was a great result for Alonso on home soil.

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know this is our maximum position and Red Bull have been able to

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reach us over the last 13 races. This is Formula One, no magic

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tricks. The real goal was to beat McLaren. We have got one in front

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and one behind. Between now and tomorrow, we can fight. The top

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three, as they were last year. Lewis Hamilton drove a brilliant

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lap and outrode the car's -- Mark Webber was in third place under

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pressure and having already been quickest, Sebastian Vettel cooled

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off his final attempt and retired to the garage to consider his

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genius. The 22 year-old has 20 poor positions, 10th in the all-time

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list and only two behind Nelson Piquet and Niki Lauda. This is a

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fresh start this weekend and I would love to just finish in that

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position. I would be more than happy. We will see how it goes.

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was a good time to peak. My personal best, it was not enough.

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But it was a good lap. We are pretty close. McLaren and Ferrari,

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we would have taken that in the middle of qualifying. It is

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difficult to predict, especially with the races so far. When you

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start from pole, you do not want to finish second. Sebastian Vettel,

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the only driver smiling after qualifying. Mark Webber alongside.

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Lewis Hamilton will look to overtake one Red Bull at the start

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and Ferrari is ready to pounce. Jensen Button in 6th place followed

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by a Rosberg, Schumacher, Heidfeld and Adrian Sutil. Kobayashi, 14.

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Perez, fit to race from 16. And at the back, Team Lotus, Virgin and

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Hispania. It is a real treat to be her, it's a hive of activity. An

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ancestor, the world champion, with his headphones on, gearing himself

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up. Clearly very focused. Can you give us an insight into his

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favourite band? German folk music! It is small, what you buy deep

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purple! He is completely infatuated! -- smoke on the water.

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How many times have we stood here in all of this driver? The later

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stages, they decided that they thought the advantages the car had

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was to do with engine mapping and they changed it, they could not

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change it and so this down. It did not happen, they have got it wrong.

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He does the business once again, it was a really good lap from Mark

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Webber. But those Hamilton is happy, starting third? He will be looking

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to last year's race? He had a great start? He really launched off that

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been sidelined. And he put that to good effect and gets his nose down

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the inside. How he managed to get through that corner without

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touching, I don't know. That massive launch from the grid. This

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is the key area. Been to turn number two, there was a big window

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of opportunity. And he can actually launch himself over that inside. It

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was down to whether the manifold leaves enough space. It'll be

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interesting to see after all this criticism if he gives us such an

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exciting start? There will be no change and if there is, I would be

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one disappointed and toot surprised. He drives with his heart. He does

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make mistakes, tiny ones and for the rules, but I think all that

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noise was a message from Red Bull to get out of the garage. Plenty of

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eyes will be on his car, and plenty focused on Fernando Alonso, who has

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never done particularly well at the their own Grand Prix. However,

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everywhere he goes, he still has fanatics following his every move,

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as you can see right now, and one Well, Fernando, thanks for sparing

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some time, I know it is a busy weekend for you. Some drivers do

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not have one home Grand Prix, you have two. Yes, it is being used for

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May. Obviously, I like to race in Spain, I like to say all the fans

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sharing his love for Formula One. This sport has been my life for the

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last 20 years, and racing in Spain two times is good for them, and to

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watch these cars is something unique, and we need to make the

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best of this year, because we never know when we will have two Grands

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Prix in Spain. Maybe it will be for a few more years, you never know.

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We need to maximise this time. is the Alonso maniac like? Formula

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One has really been helped and given a boost in this country

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because of you. 2004 was the first time Spain saw Formula One live on

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television, and it was my best years, 2005, 2000 a six, so there

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is a lot of passion for Formula One and for myself. -- 2006. Every time

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I go out to the restaurant for the cinema, normal things, they are

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crazy people around me, but it is very nice to feel all that support,

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and hopefully I can pay it back with some good results, especially

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at home. You are meeting some fans now. Is it nice to get up close and

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speak to them? Yes, their eyes shine when I speak to them, I

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noticed that, and it is good, not only here. When you arrive at the

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airport, the hotel, there are fans everywhere. Sometimes also in your

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room, but it is OK! Enjoy your The poor guy has a tin rests each

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weekend, even before the start raising the car. -- aching wrists.

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He is just putting on is the air ahead of putting on his helmet, the

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balaclava furs. Fernando Alonso is busy thinking about this race, not

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the fact that he is 92 points behind Sebastian Vettel. Ferrari

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are more than 100 points behind Red Bull. When did his team start

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turning its attention to next year? If they were a normal team, and

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Ferrari are not, you would already have started. It is too big a gap.

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The pressure on Ferrari in Italy and other parts of the world is

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massive, and they can never give up. They have to keep on the struggle.

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Are much what the love to win here in Spain? And what about Jenson

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Button? He starts from 6th on the grid, so he will have to overtake a

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few people if he is going to do the business. However, that will not

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faze him, he managed to overtake 14 cars in the last five laps in

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Canada, a race that he will be It has been said, it has been

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written, Canada was Jenson Button's greatest ever win. Where does it

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stack up? I would say yes, it is my greatest ever win. To come from

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last to first with everything else going on, it was definitely my best

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victory. Those conditions, you have to really feel your way around.

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Maybe it is from when I was karting, before I started racing, my father

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would not by me wet tyres. I had to go around on slicks. He said he

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wanted me to learn how to do that, to get car control. He says that

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now, but he could not afford to get wet tyres or could not be bothered.

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So he was tight and now he is claiming all the credit for your

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brilliant win. Of course, he is my father! I do not blame them! You

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may have been inside the car, but one of the best seats in the house

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was for the people stayed up to watch the victory. Would you like

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the chance to relive some of the best moments? I would love to, it

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is my first chance. It is not the for four hours, just the

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I do not think this it was a highlight. Highlights and low

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damage, a punch-up. I got a bad exit, moved over to the racing line.

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I looked in my mirrors, I saw an orange or rear wing, but I do not

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know if it was mine all of us. What was he doing? What was he

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doing? Did you feel like he was in the wrong place? At that point in

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time, I did not know how far he was out the inside of the outside, if

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you like. I cannot see a thing behind, I do not know what was

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going on. That was the first reaction, shock, how did that

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happen? It was so lucky that I do not get turned into the pit for.

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And no credence to the rumours that Lewis has come up against you a few

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times and but some cheeky passes on you. It was not you are laying down

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a marker. I do not want to crash! I was lucky to get away with it,

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without damage. I thought I had a puncture, but I did not. To get

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away with no damage was very lucky. I wanted to go on to win the race,

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so I would not do anything like that. Fernando Alonso has beached

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the Ferrari. Hans Jenson Button has got a puncture. But in his in last

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place. I was a long way at the inside, he accelerated into the

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corner, which was very strange, I think he was trying to find his

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feet on the new tyres. Button absolutely flying. How good were

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you feeling now? You were picking up places. Every move you make, it

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feels so good. A lot of people have said, where did your pace come

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from? Everyone was driving slowly, finds another grip. How close was

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this to being a big accident? does not look so bad. I saw the

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oversteer, I had to go on to the wet part of the second. It was just

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floating on the wet surface. That was a big moment, actually. That

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was the real hot feeling, that buzz. The seven-times world champion.

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Schumacher looks in his mayor, Button goes a long way round, and

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into second place. I did not know if I would get has Sebastian in the

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last lap. We can win this race. plan was to get it just right so I

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could get him with the DRS on the back straight. But I pushed him

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into a mistake. Vettel has gone white. Button wins a brilliant

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rays! It was nice to see him crack under pressure, or make a mistake

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and a pressure. A lot of fans wanted to see that. It was good to

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see that. I think we needed as a sport to see that. We are starting

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to think he was not human? No. I don't know. But it was an

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opportunity to see that he can make more this season, with all the

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pressure, we will see more of that and we can take advantage. So when

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you tell us you can win the title, it is not just DRS the. It is

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definitely genuine. -- the aspic. We were so happy that you could

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join us for that race. The pit lane is open. It might be a little bit

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loud for the next few minutes, but it is good for the crowds. Kamui

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Perhaps they will be taking photos of Jenson Button if it rains, but

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the chances are slim. There is something about Jenson, his first

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win came in strange conditions, he does well in wet-dry conditions.

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has a natural talent for that. He is able to find the balance. He

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talks about his father not giving in the tyres. In hindsight, it may

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be the best lesson he had. As far as the moment with his team-mate,

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sometimes we have seen these things produce World War Three, but it

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seems to have been dealt with quite well. They got the dream result,

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they won the Grand Prix. Had that not been the case, it would have

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been the story after the event. They had that to our window with a

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red flag. -- two-hour. Lewis had more speed, but that is in the

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history books now, a great win for Jenson. You know what it is like to

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

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is said after an incident like the gap, he did not break early.

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For the team, that was not good. I went on to finish second, to add

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insult to injury. What can you do? Don't do it again. Did you

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apologise? Of course, it was my fault. Very magnanimous, because I

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know what drivers can be like! Right in the heat of the moment,

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racing drivers do not like to apologise, so I commend you for

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that noble act. I think we should leave the pit lane for just a

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couple of moments, because people have been applauding Jenson

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Button's almost last week but questioning Lewis Hamilton. I

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suppose no one can really know what is going on with lows at the moment,

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but one man as a good idea, Niki Lauda won three titles with Lewis's

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team. He is with Ted Kravitz. of my viewers might have read

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strong comments that you have to say about Lewis Hamilton. What did

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you say? First of all, I want to correct things if they were

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interpreted the wrong way. I think that Hamilton is one of the top

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three guys in Formula One. He is the quickest guy. He is, for me, an

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amazing racing driver. What I criticised him on was, in Montreal,

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attacking his team-mate between the pit wall and Jenson's car, where

:26:43.:26:46.

unfortunately he had to stop. Luckily enough, Jenson could finish

:26:46.:26:51.

the race and even win it. This I criticise, to attack the team-mates

:26:51.:26:54.

so hard. They both might have stopped, and for McLaren nothing

:26:54.:26:59.

would have happened. This was my criticism. I say again, he is the

:26:59.:27:05.

best guide today. If he would ease off a bit and get the points he

:27:05.:27:09.

needs for the championship, this is what I criticise him for. To be

:27:09.:27:13.

world champion, you have to collect points, and for two races he has

:27:13.:27:18.

collected none. Do you think he has the mindset of an overtaking driver

:27:18.:27:22.

who does not think of the long view? I can tell you, between

:27:22.:27:27.

racing drivers, I have been won and I know. Lewis is aggressive, so

:27:27.:27:32.

some guys will be frightened when he turns up in the back, the slower

:27:32.:27:36.

guys. They move over, and this is happening in Formula One. But if

:27:36.:27:40.

you want to make a point as a racing driver, like Jenson has to

:27:40.:27:44.

do, you should not move over, because if he continues to move

:27:44.:27:48.

over, Lewis will be gone and he can never think of winning races again.

:27:48.:27:53.

Between racing drivers, there is very hard work. Some guys he know

:27:53.:27:59.

will move, and Jenson did not. I think Jenson did not even see him.

:27:59.:28:02.

Schumacher was the same thing in the past, still today. When he

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turns up, everybody knows there is no compromise. If you let anything

:28:06.:28:10.

happen, he will drive through the whole field and win, and nobody

:28:11.:28:15.

wants that. Niki Lauda echoing everybody's thoughts, they want to

:28:15.:28:19.

see Lewis Hamilton continued to be as dramatic and brilliant as ever.

:28:19.:28:24.

David, before you go to the commentary box, Lewis Hamilton

:28:24.:28:27.

tends to bounce back from a difficult weekend with good

:28:27.:28:32.

performances. He is a driven young man here. The problem is he has not

:28:32.:28:35.

got a quick enough car. If he was on the front row, he would not have

:28:35.:28:40.

these incidents. He would just drive off into the distance. We are

:28:40.:28:43.

analysing his decisions behind the wheel, but the focus is for McLaren

:28:43.:28:48.

to deliver the fastest car. Funny, that, Vettel is not hitting anybody.

:28:48.:28:52.

Nice to see you, good luck in the commentary box today. I suppose

:28:52.:28:56.

around here people could hang out on the beach, hang out in the city,

:28:56.:29:00.

but the thing to do is to come down to what was once a fish market and

:29:00.:29:03.

what Formula One cars flying around. It is a great place for the fans,

:29:03.:29:13.
:29:13.:29:35.

and the weather is not either. -- onto the grid. When we get there,

:29:35.:29:40.

the first place we will arrive at is between the Force India and the

:29:40.:29:43.

Renault, Nick Heidfeld and Adrian Sutil. Pirelli are not happy,

:29:43.:29:47.

because both of those drivers did not go out for the final part of

:29:48.:29:51.

qualifying yesterday to save tyres. Pirelli and Formula One are

:29:51.:29:56.

concerned that is not good for the show. The rules are there, and

:29:56.:29:59.

people circumvent them to their best advantage. The teams are

:29:59.:30:02.

within their rights to do whatever they can to give them the best

:30:02.:30:07.

chance of picking up points. I do not have any real problem. If they

:30:07.:30:17.
:30:17.:30:22.

want to insert a new rule, then do anything to give the team, sponsors

:30:22.:30:29.

and the people, the best chance. This is a treat. Nico Rosberg...

:30:29.:30:37.

Hello? Thanks a lot! He gave me a little smile. I hope that isn't

:30:37.:30:45.

indicative of today! I will let you fire around and chat to people.

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Nick Heidfeld? May I just have a word? Egress? We have so, it'll be

:30:54.:31:01.

interesting. There could be a chance for us. Can you get back to

:31:01.:31:09.

some of the performances at the beginning of the season? It will be

:31:09.:31:13.

difficult but it will be interesting to see what will happen.

:31:13.:31:17.

Some people think the changes will hurt us but obviously I hope it

:31:17.:31:23.

will not be too bad. Have a great race. There is a man I would love

:31:24.:31:28.

to speak to. This man picked up a couple of European Cups and his

:31:28.:31:33.

time. Trevor Francis, the first million-pound player. What does he

:31:33.:31:39.

think of the current earnings and Formula One? Nice to see you. You

:31:39.:31:42.

were the first million-pound player in British football. What do you

:31:42.:31:47.

think of the current money and the earnings and Formula One? It is a

:31:47.:31:52.

bit absurd, 32 years ago I went for �1 million and that broke the

:31:52.:31:59.

record by about �500,000. Today, it has got out of control. It would be

:31:59.:32:07.

too long before we talk about 100 they pounds. Lionel Messi? Ronaldo?

:32:07.:32:16.

One of the two. I must ask, you want to European Cup medals under

:32:16.:32:20.

Brian Clough, were due place in in the formal on context? How would he

:32:20.:32:26.

do? He could manage any team, he was so good to get success with

:32:26.:32:30.

Derby and Forest, that was unbelievable. He would quite like

:32:30.:32:34.

to be with McLaren, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, that would suit

:32:34.:32:39.

him. How special is this? We have a grandstand on the track, this is

:32:39.:32:46.

like walking out at Old Trafford. am nervous. This is an unbelievable

:32:46.:32:49.

ambience. And a great occasion and I'm really looking forward to the

:32:49.:32:54.

race. You will get lots of e-mails asking where you got that pass

:32:54.:33:02.

from! He is a legend. Over here there has been an upside to the

:33:02.:33:12.
:33:12.:33:14.

Force India team. Adrian Sutil... Can we stake in? No, it's not! Do

:33:14.:33:20.

you remember me? What has happened? The first time in Q 3. Great

:33:20.:33:28.

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

:33:28.:33:33.

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

:33:33.:33:38.

but I have a good feeling. We have a good strategy. Only Eddie Jordan

:33:38.:33:41.

could start an interview like this and not ask, what are those class

:33:41.:33:50.

is about? Just... Fun! We have interviewed your team-mate, how

:33:50.:33:56.

good is he? Great, we have a good relationship. He is always pushing.

:33:56.:33:59.

We are always close together and it's very good for the team so we

:33:59.:34:05.

both score points, hopefully, and hopefully today. Well done,

:34:05.:34:14.

congratulations. It is worth pointing out that one has

:34:14.:34:16.

qualifying, he deserves congratulations but Paul di Resta

:34:16.:34:21.

is starting and 12, he had a very difficult weekend? The most

:34:21.:34:25.

difficult. They have a policy in this team that the allied the third

:34:25.:34:28.

driver to go out in one of the sessions on the early morning on a

:34:28.:34:33.

Friday and what happened? He crashed. Which curtailed quickly

:34:33.:34:38.

the about of running that Paul di Resta had in the car. Sort of place

:34:38.:34:46.

was a big success. We talk about Jensen Button, sitting in 6th. He

:34:46.:34:53.

would like to see him. He isn't around. If he wants to improve his

:34:53.:34:58.

racing, he must sort out a Saturday? He must sort out

:34:58.:35:02.

qualifying, he is a real contender but not from 6th place. He has to

:35:02.:35:11.

up his game. Time to say hello to your old friend. He is running

:35:11.:35:18.

away! Will we have many more races here in Valencia? I hope so,

:35:18.:35:25.

certainly for a long time. Can you see in the future, two races? Is an

:35:25.:35:29.

occasion for having two races so close to each other, in terms of

:35:29.:35:34.

the calendar? Can Spain sustain this? It's not easy to sort out

:35:34.:35:38.

properly. We have been with Barcelona for a long time but you

:35:38.:35:42.

will see what happens. When you say that, that makes it sounds like you

:35:42.:35:47.

say Barcelona have been with us for long enough? Do you think Barcelona

:35:47.:35:53.

has had its time? I don't think so. We will wait to see how we can work

:35:53.:36:01.

things out. They have been good for us. It's all very new. Your views

:36:01.:36:08.

on Canada? Wonderful. I hope this one is like that. Placid and

:36:08.:36:18.
:36:18.:36:20.

Domingo is here! Wonderful to see you. A long-term fan? Always, many

:36:20.:36:26.

years. Were you think Fernando Alonso sits among the great

:36:26.:36:33.

drivers? I hope the championship goes better. I hope people like

:36:33.:36:40.

Fernando and other drivers, they start to win races. I know they

:36:40.:36:44.

have taken the power of Red Bull, but let's see. I noticed before the

:36:44.:36:49.

start of the lap earlier, you were with Fernando Alonso. Are you a

:36:49.:36:55.

guest of his? I think he is looking forward so much. He would rather

:36:55.:37:01.

like to be on pole position. But for his place isn't bad and for me,

:37:01.:37:10.

he is a great champion. And I also hope that it is a safe race and a

:37:10.:37:19.

clean race also. Ferrari fan? this month. Do you have fun? No! I

:37:19.:37:29.
:37:29.:37:30.

don't. But I will... Lovely to chat. He spends a lot of time in his home

:37:30.:37:34.

in America so he would hope for the American Grand Prix. Jensen

:37:34.:37:42.

Button... One second? Can you repeat last week? It is different,

:37:42.:37:47.

the conditions today. I have made it difficult for myself but we can

:37:47.:37:55.

have a good race and with DRS, we can have some good racing. This is

:37:55.:37:59.

the man that really makes a difference to world champions?

:37:59.:38:06.

the microphone to him. Mrs Michael muscles. So called for the obvious

:38:06.:38:15.

reasons... I have to go! There won't be a lot of rain? We talk

:38:15.:38:19.

about in normal circumstances that was very good, but in these

:38:19.:38:23.

conditions, it is just a step too far. Let's turn around and look at

:38:23.:38:27.

the Grid. Right behind Lewis Hamilton, he put on such a show

:38:27.:38:32.

last year, it was a fantastic lap in qualifying yesterday I'm looking

:38:32.:38:36.

towards the start of the grid, the huge grandstand, what do you expect

:38:36.:38:43.

to happen at the start? I hope he does not change. The recent

:38:43.:38:46.

criticism of his driving style, that is why I turn on the telly, I

:38:46.:38:51.

want to see and drive like this. And the sea with Kobayashi another

:38:51.:38:57.

aggressive drivers. Niki Lauda said the same. This is special. We can

:38:57.:39:01.

always be guaranteed something dynamic from this man. It would be

:39:01.:39:05.

lovely to grab hold of Lewis Hamilton. How different are these

:39:05.:39:15.
:39:15.:39:17.

grades to the times when you were bombing Jordan? -- running Jordan.

:39:17.:39:22.

The teams, they have not got any clue about what is going on. They

:39:22.:39:25.

have got peripheral vision. They're completely focused on what they

:39:25.:39:31.

need to do. Everybody is in one area. How to get the best start and

:39:31.:39:37.

the best result. Nothing else matters. When you consider the

:39:37.:39:42.

speed with which Sebastian Vettel set the pole time, the first man to

:39:43.:39:52.

dip under 1:37. The 3.3 mile circuit, Sebastian Vettel on pole

:39:52.:39:57.

yet again. Let's look at that very slow entry. The stop watch does not

:39:57.:40:06.

begin until he crosses the line. 180 mph. The approach zone. Down to

:40:06.:40:13.

just 60 mph. The apex. Hard on the throttle and very close to the war

:40:13.:40:17.

on the exit. The straight circuit Stan chicane. Pumping across the

:40:17.:40:27.

chicane, running nicely. 190 mph. The sweeping right hand. Turn No. 8,

:40:27.:40:34.

leading into the swing bridge. Heavy braking through the exit.

:40:34.:40:38.

Just trying to step out and eager on to the throttle. Spinning out

:40:38.:40:47.

the rear tyres. This long, sweeping, turn. 195 mph. The long straight.

:40:47.:40:53.

The braking zone. He really maximises the width of the track.

:40:53.:41:00.

Minimising the angle of the corners. Turn 13, 14. 90 mph. Really chasing

:41:00.:41:05.

that throttle well through there. Straight ahead, despite being long

:41:05.:41:12.

and left hand in the approach, 185 mph. The braking son, turns 17.

:41:12.:41:22.
:41:22.:41:24.

Second gear. Almost a hairpin. Hook up, one corner. Sweeping through at

:41:24.:41:28.

185 mph, the final part of the lap and the easiest part to make a

:41:28.:41:34.

mistake. The last corner. Turn 25. Trying to get away, into the pit

:41:34.:41:44.
:41:44.:41:47.

straight. Right across the line. And it's another pole position.

:41:47.:41:53.

have made a way out the back of what I call the fish markets, this

:41:54.:42:01.

wonderful architecture. First, let's hear from Christian Horner,

:42:01.:42:11.
:42:11.:42:17.

who has drivers on 1 and 2. Sadly, just as he wanted to hear from the

:42:17.:42:24.

team bus at Red Bull, we could not. One of the big worries for Red Bull

:42:24.:42:31.

is what we call the double DRS zone. One single activation point. This

:42:31.:42:35.

reduces the drag and makes a can't go faster and in the eyes of

:42:35.:42:40.

Formula One, improves overtaking. This is the detection zone. Over

:42:40.:42:45.

the bridge and then the first and second Activation zone. People say

:42:45.:42:48.

the reason for Sebastian Vettel slipping was that he was our that

:42:48.:42:52.

this was coming up and he did not want Jensen Button to overtake. The

:42:52.:42:56.

problem of having both zones is the first one is to overtake and the

:42:56.:43:02.

second is to pull away. I have a different view. I think he will see

:43:02.:43:06.

Sebastian Vettel, if he makes a decent start, or whoever leads into

:43:06.:43:11.

the first corner, making virtually a qualifying lap because he wants

:43:11.:43:15.

to brake that one second marker and if he can, it will be so much more

:43:15.:43:18.

difficult because he will not be allowed to be into the zone to

:43:18.:43:23.

activate. If I was a driver on pole position, for I would do everything

:43:23.:43:28.

in my power to make that big start. Here we are, Rubens Barrichello, he

:43:28.:43:38.
:43:38.:43:38.

won here, Petrov starts in the 11th. They have not been as quick and

:43:38.:43:41.

McLaren say they have more downforce and they will look after

:43:41.:43:47.

their tyres better. And they have brought different things, they have

:43:47.:43:51.

a new upgraded rear wing and the front wing. I think McLaren are

:43:51.:43:56.

still in this out. There pushing very hard. Sadly, I don't see the

:43:56.:44:02.

same initiative coming from Ferrari. I wonder what is going through that

:44:02.:44:07.

man's mind? He wants the perfect start. To get in front of his team-

:44:07.:44:11.

mate. Canada was pretty special. Now, time for something completely

:44:11.:44:18.

different. The tight, twists and turns of the sun-drenched city

:44:18.:44:23.

circuit. They say opposites attract, it's time to find out. David

:44:23.:44:29.

Blundell, David Coulthard, time for the 2011 European Grand Prix, live

:44:29.:44:33.

on BBC One and BBC One hitch be. Sebastian Vettel on pole position

:44:33.:44:37.

but there are 23 men right behind him, ready to beaten to the

:44:37.:44:47.
:44:47.:44:49.

chequered flag. Let's hope this one # So you want to be a rock

:44:49.:44:53.

superstar # And live large, big house, five

:44:53.:44:55.

cars # Coming up in the world

:44:55.:45:03.

# Don't trust # So you want to be a big superstar

:45:03.:45:08.

# And live large, big house, five cars

:45:08.:45:18.
:45:18.:45:28.

track for round eight of the Formula One world championship.

:45:28.:45:33.

It's the European Grand Prix. The Valencia Street Circuit by name,

:45:33.:45:38.

partly a street circuit by nature, 25 corners, spread out around the

:45:38.:45:44.

port, the Mediterranean sea gently lapping against the nearby beach.

:45:44.:45:48.

That beach would be a very attractive alternative for the

:45:48.:45:52.

drivers this afternoon, instead of four layers of fire proof clothing

:45:52.:45:57.

and cockpit temperatures of well over 50 degrees centigrade. Can you

:45:58.:46:02.

-- you can see the three sectors the lap is split into. We will

:46:02.:46:06.

check those out during the Grand Prix. Look at those temperatures,

:46:06.:46:13.

47 on the track already and 27 air tremure. David, what are the key

:46:13.:46:16.

challenges today? Well, track temperature, air temperature going

:46:16.:46:19.

up. That challenge mean that's everything they learnt through the

:46:19.:46:23.

relatively cool Friday practice and slightly cooler qualifying on

:46:23.:46:27.

Saturday, their predictions on how far the tyres will go, changes. Now

:46:27.:46:35.

the track is a bit more rubbered in than today. GP2 has put down extra

:46:35.:46:39.

Pirelli rubber on the temporary race track. As the temperature goes

:46:39.:46:42.

up it changes the chemical interaction with the tyre and

:46:42.:46:46.

circuit. The predictions going into the event is that a two-stop race

:46:46.:46:51.

is the fastest way to go through, using three sets of tyres. It's

:46:51.:46:55.

quicker by about seven seconds. I suspect that will narrow in and

:46:55.:47:01.

make a three-stop valid. I agree. Mclaren are saying they won't run

:47:01.:47:05.

and hide in front of us, the Red Bulls will not be flying off into

:47:05.:47:09.

the distance and out of site. You have to say, Mclaren could easily

:47:09.:47:14.

have won the last three Grand Prix, they did win in can da. Do you

:47:14.:47:21.

share their confidence? The only thing that matters is the Czechered

:47:21.:47:24.

flag. Mclaren were victors in Canada. Before that it was Red Bull.

:47:24.:47:28.

If we look at the underlying race pace through Friday practice, where

:47:28.:47:32.

the teams tend to run some fuel, heavy fuel and do some race

:47:32.:47:38.

simulations, it was Red Bull, Ferrari, Mclaren, Mercedes and

:47:38.:47:43.

Renault in that order. That was Friday and the only time it really

:47:43.:47:48.

mat serz what happens today. It was critical for Mark Webber to get on

:47:48.:47:52.

the front row alongside Sebastien Vettel, so a Red Bull lockout for

:47:52.:47:56.

the third time this season on the front row. I think this man, Lewis

:47:56.:48:01.

Hamilton, has got to attack in the first lap. He must not, they'll

:48:01.:48:07.

want to stay somewhere within a second when they get into that

:48:07.:48:14.

detection zone for the DRS That starts at end of lap two. Lewis

:48:14.:48:18.

Hamilton, same grid position, leapfroged up and challenged

:48:18.:48:22.

Sebastien Vettel into turn two. hearing there is a big difference

:48:22.:48:25.

between the left and right-hand side of the grid in terms of grid.

:48:25.:48:35.
:48:35.:48:35.

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

:48:35.:49:24.

Let's see how they line up for the through qualifying, past the 107%

:49:24.:49:28.

barrier. Though that's not always applied any way. So, we have a full

:49:28.:49:33.

grid. Not aware of anybody needing to start from the pit lane at this

:49:33.:49:37.

point, as the mechanics take off the tyre covers. Those that are

:49:37.:49:41.

from 11th on the grid backwards, can run whatever tyre they want.

:49:41.:49:46.

Those that are in the top ten have to use the tyre that they set their

:49:46.:49:56.

fastest time on. With the exception, I'd imagine, of well Heidfeld did

:49:56.:50:01.

do two sectors. I think he has to start on those tyres. Those

:50:01.:50:03.

uncomfortable situation yesterday where two drivers didn't even

:50:03.:50:10.

bother to set a time. That was Sutil and Heidfeld.

:50:10.:50:16.

So we're hearing that Petrov and Perez are starting the race on the

:50:16.:50:22.

harder compound tyre, the prime, as it's known, the medium compound.

:50:22.:50:27.

You'll see the softer tyre with the yellow banding on it on the outside,

:50:27.:50:32.

which enables us to identify those. We know that the key runners at the

:50:32.:50:40.

front will all be on that soft tyre. Spanish flags are waving. Fernando

:50:40.:50:45.

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

:50:45.:50:50.

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

:50:50.:50:54.

boy right now. He's saying the last few Grand Prixs have been the best

:50:54.:50:58.

in his career. That's not in terms of results, but he feels he's

:50:58.:51:01.

getting the maximum oust himself. That's interesting, because I

:51:01.:51:05.

remember in carting, I'd give my scores out of ten in performance,

:51:05.:51:09.

very rarely if I won a race I would give myself ten, but sometimes you

:51:10.:51:12.

would if you had a good battle through the field. It's in the mind

:51:13.:51:16.

of the holder. He's fired up and thinks this championship is still

:51:16.:51:21.

possible. Seems a long shot to me, but they came back last year.

:51:21.:51:24.

bit of sports psychology there from Fernando Alonso, as always. It

:51:24.:51:28.

seemles we have quite a split with some of the midfield team that's

:51:28.:51:34.

are going to try an each-way bet with Renault, Sauber and Williams.

:51:34.:51:38.

These are the detection zones into turn eight. Then the next two long

:51:38.:51:44.

straights where they can be activated. It's a double DRS, drag

:51:44.:51:47.

reduction system, where the rear wings open and the cars gain

:51:47.:51:53.

somewhere around eight miles per hour. I think will be more

:51:53.:51:57.

successful here than in Canada. The second straight is longer than

:51:57.:52:01.

Canada. We know the Canadian pit straight, where the two Mclarens

:52:01.:52:06.

got together, you use all that track. You do. On that run on the

:52:06.:52:14.

second activation point, between turn 14 and 17 it not -- is not a

:52:14.:52:17.

natural straight. It make it's difficult to see whether you're

:52:17.:52:22.

going left or right. It will remain to be seen houp the double

:52:22.:52:28.

activation will work. It's not available to the drivers until the

:52:28.:52:34.

end, well until they're into the third lap. That is why Vettel will

:52:34.:52:38.

particularly be wanting to scamper off at the front and get himself

:52:38.:52:42.

more than a second clear of whoever's per suing him, so that

:52:42.:52:47.

they can't breeze past him in the straights, as they warm up their

:52:47.:52:53.

tyres and head to the grid. Doing their clutch five-point checks.

:52:53.:52:57.

Perfect example there. You hear that? It runs into the limiter, as

:52:57.:53:00.

they push a button and it finds the bite point for the clutch. It's

:53:00.:53:05.

just a procedure much the driver presses a button and holds the

:53:05.:53:09.

clutch open apbtd system does the rest to find out how much wear is

:53:09.:53:14.

on the clutch plate to get a great launch. It's a curved grid. Those

:53:14.:53:18.

on the left will find themselves pointing, they need to point

:53:18.:53:22.

towards the first corner. They don't want to take off and have to

:53:22.:53:28.

turn the car immediately. You could easily break traction then at the

:53:28.:53:34.

tail end of the field begin to finally line up. We await the five

:53:34.:53:38.

red lights. We're looking at the back of the field for a man with

:53:38.:53:43.

the green flag. They stayed on for just three seconds in all the other

:53:43.:53:47.

races, we've seen this weekend. They're off! Vettel looked a bit

:53:47.:53:51.

tardy off pole position. Webber is going on the outside. He's close in.

:53:51.:53:56.

The Ferraris are away. Massa with a tremendous start. Massa up the

:53:56.:54:01.

inside then and Webber. He has to yield. Alonso takes that place back.

:54:01.:54:07.

Ferrari then third and fourth. Not a great start for Lewis Hamilton.

:54:07.:54:10.

Alonso maintains that position into the turn four and five chicane.

:54:10.:54:14.

Look at Vettel doing exactly what he needs to do. No contact at the

:54:14.:54:22.

back. Tremendous skill of driving at the back there, David. They've

:54:22.:54:27.

managed, and we have a big lock up there from Paul di Resta. Amazingly

:54:27.:54:31.

they got through the first two turns without any contact. That's

:54:31.:54:35.

unusual for this track. It seems the win threr was Alonso. Hamilton

:54:35.:54:39.

and Button both dropping back. Bad starts from the Mclarens. Nico

:54:39.:54:44.

Rosberg in sixth place. Look at the lead Vettel has got already. It's

:54:44.:54:49.

going to be very interesting now to see what Ferrari can do about Mark

:54:49.:54:55.

Webber. Lewis Hamilton in fifth, Rosberg, Jenson Button, Paul di

:54:55.:54:58.

Resta attack being like crazy. He's also a front wing in the last two

:54:58.:55:03.

races. It doesn't seem to have slowed him down in terms of

:55:03.:55:08.

aggressive overtakes. Exhaust smoke coming out of the front of the

:55:08.:55:17.

Renault. It's just where the inlet for the radiator. It's blowing the

:55:17.:55:27.
:55:27.:55:27.

dust put down oil to soak up. Around 150 kilograms on board. I

:55:27.:55:32.

love this camera shot you can really see the cars, even at that

:55:32.:55:37.

speed, sliding around. Tremendous camera angle. I hope besee plenty

:55:37.:55:47.
:55:47.:56:00.

of that through the race. Vettel behind the leader. That's the kind

:56:00.:56:07.

of spread that you get early in a Grand Prix in estably. Kobayashi 13,

:56:07.:56:13.

then Buemi. Petrov had a very poor start. Perez 16th. Alguersuari 17th.

:56:13.:56:20.

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

:56:20.:56:27.

Maldonado. 22, d'Ambrosio. Karthikeyan remains in 2478 place.

:56:27.:56:33.

Webber begins to pull a gap on the Ferraris. Hamilton is hanging onto

:56:33.:56:38.

them. Rosberg absolutely flying off the start again. If the Mercedes is

:56:38.:56:42.

struggling on tyre degradation as we are led to believe, that could

:56:42.:56:46.

be quite a headache for Button today. He has the use of that DRS.

:56:46.:56:53.

We will find out as we see, who is that actually? Glock and Kovalainen

:56:53.:56:59.

getting up close on the run through 12, 13, 14, so that's the corner

:56:59.:57:03.

obviously just after where Mark Webber went flying last year. One

:57:03.:57:07.

of the potential overtaking places. Mercedes have said they have been

:57:07.:57:13.

eating up the rear tyres on a Long Run. Initially the get away for

:57:13.:57:17.

Sebastien Vettel was a bit tardy. It was so much better than what

:57:17.:57:21.

Lewis Hamilton had. He was passed before turn one. A complete

:57:21.:57:25.

reversal of what we saw last year. Massa goes for the inside on Webber,

:57:25.:57:29.

backs out of it. That allows Alonso to go round the outside of his

:57:30.:57:33.

team-mate and retake the place. There you see Rosberg getting round

:57:33.:57:39.

the outside of Button. Rosberg very patient on the inside of turn one.

:57:39.:57:44.

He, -- turn two actually. Watch Massa flick past Alonso. He can't

:57:44.:57:49.

seem to get the starts right. Massa's got himself into third,

:57:49.:57:53.

challenging for second. Alonso, the wiley old fox that he is, goes down

:57:53.:58:00.

the outside and takes third place back. So a great run down to the

:58:00.:58:03.

first corner, tremendous skill. Massa was the man getting the work

:58:03.:58:07.

done there. At the moment Button is fine, but he's around the outside.

:58:07.:58:12.

Rosberg just gets on the throttle early and drives clean past him,

:58:12.:58:18.

somehow. They all make it work. Vettel 1.8 seconds ahead of Webber

:58:18.:58:24.

now. Out of the DRS zone as they enter onto the third lapment

:58:24.:58:27.

Terrible start from Petrov. You were counting off the running order

:58:28.:58:32.

there, he made a terrible start. Renault have in the past, then Toro

:58:32.:58:37.

Rosso on the inside. A man that used to base himself here in

:58:37.:58:44.

Valencia, he call today home for a period of time. There we see in-car

:58:44.:58:48.

with Lewis Hamilton, absolutely boging down as he goes off the line.

:58:48.:58:53.

Massa with a flier. Not really committed. I feel if Massa was

:58:53.:58:56.

Hamilton he probably would have made that pass stick. It's as sweet

:58:56.:59:02.

as you like. When you get the revs, the clutch activation, everything

:59:02.:59:08.

spot on, you just take off. A too few revs and the engine bogs down.

:59:08.:59:13.

Too many and the wheels spin up. The harder you try to fix it, the

:59:13.:59:18.

worse you make it. Vettel does a new fastest lap of the race. 2.2

:59:18.:59:23.

seconds clear of Webber in second place. Then Alonso, Massa, Hamilton,

:59:23.:59:29.

Rosberg, Button, Schumacher, Sutil, Heidfeld. We're on board with

:59:29.:59:35.

Button and looking at the back of Nico Rosberg and he is already

:59:35.:59:39.

nearly nine seconds off the lead as they said into lap four. This is a

:59:39.:59:43.

key moment where he needs to be within one second as they get into

:59:44.:59:50.

the braking zone here. He should be able to open his DRS as they come

:59:50.:59:52.

across bridge, the Swing Bridge, which you mentioned yesterday,

:59:52.:59:57.

opens up every night. It lets the super yachts in and out of the

:59:57.:00:03.

harbour. Let's see if his rear wing pops open. Yes, it is open. It's

:00:03.:00:07.

not getting him very far at the moment. The traction of the

:00:07.:00:17.
:00:17.:00:20.

Mercedes off turn ten seems to be cherry, end terms of opening that

:00:20.:00:24.

wing. He is again quite late getting that opened on the he has

:00:24.:00:31.

to wait until the activation point. Is that enough? Right now, it's not.

:00:31.:00:36.

Mercedes is good enough. He looks like a sitting duck for later in

:00:36.:00:45.

the race. We can see Jensen pulling that pass. In the McLaren garage

:00:45.:00:51.

the general sense of irritation is with Lewis Hamilton's side. The

:00:51.:00:58.

feeling is the production overheated while sitting on a line.

:00:58.:01:03.

They might have to pet litter and get a few more laps on the tyres. -

:01:03.:01:13.
:01:13.:01:15.

- pet litter. -- pit later. sense it is only a matter of time

:01:15.:01:20.

and he is now 10 seconds of the leader, Jensen Button. He has won

:01:20.:01:28.

car underneath them and he is faster than Mercedes. It is

:01:28.:01:32.

interesting to see how the her delivering the pace, there is no

:01:32.:01:36.

question that McLaren is quicker. But there are areas were the

:01:36.:01:41.

Mercedes is a little bit quicker. Once again, the Mercedes just

:01:41.:01:45.

drives off to Number 10 and that means at the point where Jensen

:01:45.:01:50.

Button crosses the line to open his DRS, he is too far back. He has not

:01:50.:01:58.

used his Kers system. Does he have a problem? Let us see if he uses

:01:58.:02:06.

that coming out of turn number 14. Maybe he wants to keep that. So

:02:07.:02:14.

that he can use it for DRS. And he does indeed. He wants both toys to

:02:14.:02:20.

play with. Now he has got an extra straight line. The Mercedes topped

:02:20.:02:27.

the speed track yesterday in every session? These cars have got

:02:27.:02:33.

identical engines. The down for us to the drag of the Mercedes engine,

:02:33.:02:40.

as we can see... Coming around the wall. Turnover 24. And into the

:02:41.:02:47.

apex. Much better drive this time. It is that concertina effect, he

:02:47.:02:52.

gets closer and on the gearbox. Much better speed on turn number

:02:52.:03:01.

one. Well! Sir perv! The brakes are so powerful, they stop you at 5.5

:03:01.:03:05.

times the force of gravity and that is the speed differential, if you

:03:05.:03:10.

are on the brakes five metres later, that was incredible footage. Just

:03:10.:03:15.

watch this, what's the difference as Jensen Button brakes later and

:03:15.:03:20.

Nico Rosberg was a little bit surprised, there. Steaming past.

:03:20.:03:25.

And duly did commit to that braking zone. He needed to get that done.

:03:25.:03:31.

He is a dozen seconds off the leader. We will wait to see, let's

:03:31.:03:35.

have a look. That is interesting. Ferrari, the last two laps, they

:03:35.:03:43.

have matched Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber's times. The gap is

:03:43.:03:49.

only two seconds between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. And Alonso

:03:49.:03:56.

is closing fast. Will he get the advantage of the DRS? You must say

:03:56.:03:59.

that the Friday analysis, suggesting Red Bull would be

:03:59.:04:03.

followed by a Ferrari and McLaren, that seems to be playing out. But

:04:03.:04:09.

the big test will be over the next 10 laps, they are wrong this option

:04:09.:04:11.

tyre and the prediction is they will run out of performance after

:04:12.:04:19.

15 laps. Who can make this tyre go there for this? End to that number

:04:19.:04:28.

six. Coming towards the end. Only one 10th faster than Mark Webber

:04:28.:04:32.

and Fernando Alonso. Remember, he has to get within one second of

:04:32.:04:40.

Mark Webber into the braking career to get a double helping of that

:04:40.:04:46.

extra speed in those two, long back straight. He is one 10th of a

:04:46.:04:55.

second shy of that. Felipe Massa, just falling back from Fernando

:04:55.:05:02.

Alonso. Let's have a look at Jensen Button. He actually lost quite a

:05:02.:05:10.

lot of time. Well, he included that overtake in to turn number two. Not

:05:10.:05:18.

a great flat for Jensen Button. -- lap. Let us see if Jensen Button

:05:18.:05:22.

starts to come back towards Lewis Hamilton. Six seconds off the lead.

:05:22.:05:28.

Good work, Mark Webber. You are doing a good job with those tyres.

:05:28.:05:34.

That was a friendly word from his engineer. At times they are nine

:05:34.:05:39.

seconds off pole position. Whether that is the fuel load or keeping

:05:39.:05:43.

the tyres intact. They must be so careful in the traction area. What

:05:43.:05:47.

can we do to protect those rear tyres? It is all about controlling

:05:48.:05:52.

the amount of load and the amount of slip that you put through those

:05:52.:05:55.

retires on the corner. Braking, you want to maximise everything. You

:05:55.:06:02.

brake as late as you can and the grip that the track allows but in a

:06:02.:06:05.

qualifying game might just go full power and except Sun spending of

:06:05.:06:11.

the rear tyres. You don't want to do that you. You need to not

:06:11.:06:14.

believe that black market on the surface. That isn't available on

:06:14.:06:23.

Your tyres any more. Sebastian Vettel has picked up the pace. That

:06:23.:06:29.

looks one day late and $1 short but he gets away with it. Kobayashi on

:06:29.:06:32.

Barrichello. Remember that amazing movie did on Fernando Alonso here

:06:32.:06:39.

last year? That is the battle for 12th and 13th place and it's easy

:06:39.:06:46.

to forget that this textbook racing isn't just at the front. A everyone

:06:46.:06:55.

has watched last year, they know his tricks! That looked just a

:06:55.:06:58.

touch ambitious. Fillipi massive the fastest through the first

:06:59.:07:04.

sector of anyone. Fernando Alonso, he is about to punish Mark Webber

:07:04.:07:09.

for that scruffy lap. Six tenths so when and his team-mate. And this is

:07:09.:07:15.

the result. How much closer here's and they both have got DRS

:07:15.:07:20.

available but Fernando Alonso will have his rear wing open. And nine,

:07:20.:07:26.

Mark Webber is under attack. They reckon that DRS was worth one

:07:26.:07:30.

second in qualifying and diffuse that everywhere during qualifying.

:07:30.:07:35.

During the race, it is only during those designated areas. That is a

:07:35.:07:39.

useful tool for Fernando Alonso, he goes very wide at the exit of

:07:39.:07:44.

turned 20. The artificial grass started to pull away from the

:07:44.:07:49.

circuit. With too many people running wide, that could be an

:07:49.:07:53.

issue later in the race. Once so did the fastest middle sector of

:07:53.:07:58.

the race. That is with his rear wing wide open. He gets plenty of

:07:59.:08:05.

extra strength. Fernando Alonso on the exit of to number 20, opens his

:08:05.:08:09.

steering wheel because he realises he has not got enough grip so he

:08:09.:08:16.

could go off the track. And he recognises earlier that he was too

:08:16.:08:26.
:08:26.:08:32.

committed to that. Just look after you retire as! -- you're rear tyres.

:08:32.:08:37.

And we have some use... That give Mark Webber precious breathing

:08:37.:08:40.

space because he is getting through those times quicker than Fernando

:08:40.:08:44.

Alonso. That is what they were worried about on the grid, they

:08:44.:08:47.

were telling us they needed to watch out for the Ferrari because

:08:47.:08:51.

they are easier on their tyres and us and we will see if it pushes

:08:51.:08:55.

Mark Webber into the three stops. Strategy Wise, Sebastien Vettel has

:08:55.:09:03.

the luxury of choosing two or three stops. The two-stop strategy his

:09:03.:09:12.

second at -- seven seconds quicker by the end of the race. Hamilton

:09:12.:09:19.

hanging on. So, 6.7 seconds covering the top five at the moment.

:09:19.:09:24.

We have got a race on our hands. It will not be that easy for Mark

:09:24.:09:29.

Webber this afternoon. Ferrari looking handy. I think the man that

:09:29.:09:34.

has the comfort zone is Sebastian Vettel but there's only one point

:09:34.:09:37.

gap on Mark Webber, he is under pressure and he should have the

:09:37.:09:42.

pace to defend. Let us remind ourselves that Felipe Massa is

:09:42.:09:49.

hanging in also. Only two seconds behind Fernando Alonso. Who will

:09:49.:09:53.

blink first? Because the undercut on the pit stop winner, if you get

:09:53.:10:02.

those new option tyres, you will gain a lot of performance. It'll be

:10:02.:10:08.

a hive of activity in the pit lane. That is the significant point.

:10:08.:10:14.

Getting into the pits, get those fresh tyres on. And you will gain

:10:14.:10:18.

several seconds over the next few laps because the Pirelli tyres,

:10:18.:10:22.

they add instant grip and that is a key element. They are designed to

:10:23.:10:29.

degrade as well. Whatever tire you put on, you will go faster,

:10:29.:10:33.

especially with a fresh set of soft tyres. If you blink too early, come

:10:33.:10:38.

into early, you might enjoy some undercut but you'll have to stop

:10:38.:10:43.

want extra time later on. Looking down the running order, Michael

:10:43.:10:50.

Schumacher, he is a full 21 seconds behind Sebastian Vettel.

:10:50.:10:54.

Technically, Sebastian Vettel could make a stop in the next lap and

:10:54.:10:57.

still come out in front of Michael Schumacher. That is part of the

:10:57.:11:02.

strategy they must make. It isn't just about what is quickest from

:11:02.:11:09.

where you are. What were when you come out? -- bought were will you

:11:09.:11:19.
:11:19.:11:19.

come out? There is a very good fight going on. Between Barrichello,

:11:19.:11:24.

Kobayashi, Alguersuari, for 12, 13th and 14th. And that is the

:11:24.:11:34.
:11:34.:11:35.

battle. They are lapping the mid- 47. 2.5 seconds off the pace. You

:11:35.:11:39.

cannot look at them and say, there's there were, they are still

:11:39.:11:44.

driving as if their lives depend on it. But this looks like it could be

:11:44.:11:50.

an race that has a long battle. And it's about whoever blinks first and

:11:50.:11:56.

hence into the pit lane. Now, the replay, look up at Ferrari ahead.

:11:56.:12:04.

That is Felipe Massa. Getting way too deep. Turn 17, the hairpin. It

:12:04.:12:10.

looked as if that was a moment for Lewis Hamilton to make that pass.

:12:10.:12:16.

But he just held on. The Wall of Death on the outside. Felipe Massa,

:12:16.:12:20.

he maintains 4th place. But he is pulling away back from his team-

:12:20.:12:30.

mate. Fernando Alonso still within that one second zone for DRS. If he

:12:30.:12:34.

could pass Mark Webber, I wonder what he could do about Sebastian

:12:35.:12:37.

Vettel, there could be four seconds behind the leader. You must presume

:12:38.:12:43.

they could catch him. Certainly, he is in that one second and know

:12:43.:12:46.

where you are losing performance, getting the dirty air from Mark

:12:46.:12:52.

Webber. To get that close tells me that there is no question that

:12:52.:12:58.

Ferrari is a quicker package. career there were two men I never

:12:58.:13:03.

wanted catching me. One was Ayrton Senna and the other was Schumacher.

:13:03.:13:07.

If I was driving out, I think it would be Fernando Alonso I would

:13:07.:13:16.

not want. And probably Kobayashi. Toro Rosso cars, busy fighting each

:13:16.:13:26.
:13:26.:13:27.

other. He has kept his tyres in better for the exit on turnover 20.

:13:27.:13:34.

And they head towards the port. The old fish market. And we have

:13:34.:13:38.

Heidfeld in the pit lane. Barrichello, also, for Williams.

:13:38.:13:42.

Both Toro Rosso cars staying on the track as they head into her lap

:13:42.:13:52.
:13:52.:13:55.

number 12. Kobayashi is in as well. That looks clean enough. Heidfeld

:13:55.:14:00.

away. Can he clear the Lotus cars? So close to going over that white

:14:00.:14:07.

line. I wonder if he got between those Lotus cars? Part of the

:14:07.:14:12.

decision you must make at the pit wall is to clear the traffic.

:14:12.:14:17.

Presumably, this was an aborted overtake. This is why Paul Lemmy

:14:17.:14:27.
:14:27.:14:27.

and Alguersuari ended up fighting. -- Sebastien Buemi. Coming back to

:14:27.:14:32.

Nick Heidfeld in the Lotus, he has come out between the other Lotus

:14:32.:14:36.

team-mate and that will cost him as he tries to clear Heikki Kovalainen.

:14:36.:14:40.

He either misjudged that for he misjudged the time to get in and

:14:40.:14:47.

out of the pit stop. I notice Renault in amongst Team Lotus.

:14:47.:14:53.

McLaren coming out. Getting ready in the pit lane. That is for Lewis

:14:53.:14:58.

Hamilton. They are the first of the front-runners to stop and Hamilton

:14:58.:15:05.

does indeed go to the pits. The soft tyres going on. That is

:15:05.:15:12.

whoever and Fernando Alonso. -- Mark Webber. Let's try another

:15:12.:15:20.

set... The pit stop looked good. When that mean that Felipe Massa

:15:20.:15:24.

must respond? Otherwise the undercut, the fresh boots on that

:15:24.:15:29.

car, will give Hamilton such a lot of grip. And the pit exit and the

:15:29.:15:34.

out lap, as it is called, along with on the way in, it is so easy

:15:34.:15:40.

to lose time? You will analyse those laps. Is there anything else

:15:40.:15:50.
:15:50.:15:51.

tenths in performance from the car. If the driver doesn't get

:15:51.:15:55.

absolutely his in-lap aced or outlap, when you're trying to find

:15:55.:16:01.

out how the tyres are performing, if he's hesitant you can give away

:16:01.:16:06.

a second. That's crucial later in the race. The clock is always

:16:06.:16:10.

running. It doesn't matter whether you're in the pit lane or doing

:16:10.:16:15.

190mph into this braking zone. Vettel leads Webber by 3.5 seconds

:16:15.:16:19.

now. Alonso third. Massa fourth, Button fifth. Hamilton halls pitted.

:16:19.:16:25.

Michael Schumacher stayed out. Nico Rosberg has also pitted. We have,

:16:25.:16:31.

whoa big oversteer. That's a set of rear tyres beginning to cry enough.

:16:31.:16:39.

Heidfeld passed Sutil. So, Sutil having just pitted, Heidfeld sorts

:16:39.:16:46.

him out. Sorry Martin, Red Bull mechanics are in the pit lane.

:16:46.:16:53.

Looks like Ferrari are poilzed as well. Webber in the pits. 40mph the

:16:54.:17:00.

speed here. Webber then on the soft tyres too. Massa didn't come N I

:17:00.:17:04.

had a feeling Massa was going to come in. He didn't. He hasn't

:17:04.:17:10.

responded to Hamilton. Let's look at Hamilton's times: He's done the

:17:10.:17:16.

fastest final set of the Grand Prix. His out lap was 1.50.3. So

:17:16.:17:21.

including getting up to speed in the pit lane, that could put him

:17:21.:17:26.

amongst the Ferraris. Ferrari have not reacted at this time. I would

:17:26.:17:30.

have thought Mclaren would be pretty pleased with that. They

:17:30.:17:36.

might pay a heavier price later, because the tyres have gone further.

:17:36.:17:40.

Ted? Lewis Hamilton's stop on 14, bang on for a three stop. We'd

:17:40.:17:47.

expect him at 28 and 42. The Mclaren guys are readyying tyres.

:17:47.:17:50.

Ferrari feel they haven't reached the cliff with the soft tyres and

:17:50.:17:54.

they can go for five or six more laps. Thank you. What Lewis

:17:54.:17:57.

Hamilton has reached is the back of Michael Schumacher. He's going to

:17:57.:18:01.

breeze past at the end of the straight. Hamilton absolutely

:18:01.:18:08.

flying and he, on these fresh tyres, unsurprisingly. So maybe Ferrari

:18:08.:18:12.

are going to try and do one less stop. But the sort of pace that

:18:12.:18:17.

Hamilton is putting in out there, may change their tune. I think we

:18:17.:18:22.

can see Sebastien Vettel is coming in for his stop. The Red Bull

:18:22.:18:26.

mechanics, Mclaren and Ferrari, it's a pit stop challenge between

:18:26.:18:32.

the three top teams and to add to that, we have Mercedes as well. All

:18:32.:18:38.

of the four teams are servicing their cars. It will be busy down

:18:38.:18:44.

there. Just one pit crew for each team to service both drivers and

:18:44.:18:49.

they have to scarper out of the way with the Jacks. We watch Ferrari

:18:49.:18:53.

get up to speed. Unsurprisingly they're all putting soft tyres.

:18:53.:19:00.

Hamilton with a new fastest lap of the race. Where exactly is he in

:19:00.:19:06.

relaiction to the Ferraris? He's still behind them. Hamilton hasn't

:19:06.:19:10.

made the difference. He's right, he's just coming out of that

:19:11.:19:16.

chicane. Button then just leaving the pits now. He's a long way, lost

:19:16.:19:24.

a lot of time, didn't he? Behind Rosberg early in the race. So

:19:24.:19:27.

Jenson's not been able to catch that up at the moment. Felipe Massa

:19:27.:19:36.

has yet to stop. He leads the Grand Prix. From Vettel, Alonso, Vettel,

:19:36.:19:40.

Webber, Alonso, Hamilton, Button and then Rosberg as well. Jenson

:19:40.:19:47.

then at the end of the bridge. This is Alguersuari and Rosberg and

:19:47.:19:51.

Schumacher charges up the inside. He has a broken front wing. Michael

:19:51.:19:55.

Schumacher has had contact somewhere. That car will understeer

:19:55.:19:59.

horribly through the corners. I wouldn't be going too high speed.

:19:59.:20:05.

He should be called by his team, you cannot go at 190mph - We saw

:20:05.:20:09.

with Heidfeld in Canada. He drove over his front wing. Michael is

:20:09.:20:15.

brave at this stage, trying to get back to the pits. Remarkably he's

:20:15.:20:20.

overtaking a Force India. I saw him years ago driving faster than I

:20:20.:20:24.

could with no front wing and only three wheels on the wagon. The

:20:24.:20:28.

talent is there. Force India outbraked itself to be fair. This

:20:28.:20:33.

is Rosberg and Alguersuari. Rosberg's pitted. Alguersuari has

:20:33.:20:38.

not. He's chasing Rosberg down. Rosberg got Hamilton another new

:20:38.:20:44.

fastest lap and Felipe Massa has now pitted from the lead. He's 20.7

:20:44.:20:49.

seconds it took him in the pit lane, about what we thought his pit stop

:20:49.:20:55.

just 3.7. Then you can see on the graphic, we saw Mclaren practising

:20:55.:21:01.

the other day doing two second, 2.19 was the best pit stop timement

:21:01.:21:08.

Critically, then, Felipe Massa is and Michael literally wearing his

:21:08.:21:11.

front wing now, into the pit. That would have been scary if it tucked

:21:11.:21:16.

under the front wheels. It has tucked under the front left, as can

:21:16.:21:21.

you see. It's moving around as he pulls into the box. Now they have

:21:21.:21:26.

to lift the front of the car up onto a high stand allowing them to

:21:26.:21:35.

remost old wing and then in with the new nose assembly. That

:21:35.:21:38.

effectively puts him out of a point-scoring chance this afternoon

:21:38.:21:43.

I would say. So, it has worked out for Lewis Hamilton in terms of

:21:43.:21:48.

passing one of the Ferraris. He is now ahead of Felipe Massa on the

:21:48.:21:54.

track, some way ahead of him. We see Schumacher coming out of the -

:21:54.:22:00.

oh, no, that's the replay. Michael exits the pits straight into an

:22:00.:22:06.

accident. It looked like he crossed the white line as well coming out

:22:06.:22:11.

of the pits. If he crossed the exit he will get a penalty as well.

:22:11.:22:16.

Maybe that's what unsettled him, is he ran into turn two. Rosberg

:22:16.:22:24.

trying to go around the outside of Alguersuari there. Look at this,

:22:24.:22:30.

Mark Webber looks now the gap down to 2.4 seconds. Though he just had

:22:30.:22:36.

a difficult la -- lap. It was 3.5 when he started the pit stop phase.

:22:36.:22:42.

Button fastest man in the middle part of the lap, so far and doing a

:22:42.:22:48.

1.44.2. Button then is 20 seconds offer the lead. At the top three

:22:48.:22:53.

are covered by less than four seconds. This might explain the

:22:53.:23:01.

slow lap that Webber just had against Hispana. That's through

:23:01.:23:06.

that section 18, 19, 20. That would have cost him a punch of time,

:23:06.:23:12.

showing his frustration. Always fails to surprise me why we can see

:23:12.:23:17.

the guy waving his hands. That's frustration for you. Mark knew he

:23:17.:23:20.

really did get close to Vettel. It's put him back again and almost

:23:20.:23:24.

in the danger zone again with Alonso in terms of that rear wing.

:23:24.:23:34.

That was a costly tangle. That worked out badly for Felipe Massa.

:23:34.:23:39.

He was passed. It was a result of the privilege system. Alonso was

:23:39.:23:43.

the lead driver on the road. He has the privilege of when he comes into

:23:43.:23:47.

the pits. Felipe Massa can't come in before him. That left him

:23:47.:23:51.

vulnerable to Lewis Hamilton as Alonso said no, no, I want to come

:23:51.:23:55.

in later. There was nothing Massa could have done about it.

:23:55.:23:59.

certainly cost him. I wonder why Massa didn't pit straight away.

:23:59.:24:03.

Hamilton, we talked about it, Hamilton came in, fast straight out

:24:03.:24:09.

of the pits. Ferrari didn't respond. As we watch Nick Heidfeld then

:24:09.:24:14.

against Sergio Perez. We're seeing great racing down oh, and contact

:24:14.:24:21.

there. Heidfeld has track position. That was a great move by Heidfeld.

:24:21.:24:25.

Brave stuff going round the outside, because Perez could have pushed him

:24:25.:24:29.

wide. Is he going to lose a further position running down into turn 25?

:24:29.:24:35.

He's got Barrichello and indeed, Barrichello down the inside. Most

:24:35.:24:40.

experienced man in Formula One, showing he knows what to do.

:24:40.:24:45.

hasn't lost any bravery. Perez drops two places in one lap.

:24:45.:24:50.

Heidfeld tenth, Barrichello 11th. Perez is yet to stop. He's trying

:24:50.:24:55.

to play the trick he used very successfully in Australia. Sadly,

:24:55.:24:58.

before they were disqualified from the race and lost their points.

:24:58.:25:02.

There was contact, but Heidfeld didn't give in. He kept his foot

:25:02.:25:07.

buried in the throttle. Then you have got that turn 19 and 20 joined

:25:07.:25:16.

up corner. Webber has the gap down to 2.2 again now. Vettel has

:25:16.:25:20.

responded. I can't help but sense that Vettel is just doing all he

:25:20.:25:24.

has to and nothing more up front. Let's remind ourselves, they could

:25:24.:25:31.

be running on a slightly more preserving the opportunity to use

:25:31.:25:35.

maximum power for when they need it. I'm not sure I would be entirely

:25:35.:25:41.

comfortable with a 2.2 lead, if you make a small mistake you're a bit

:25:41.:25:45.

in trouble. But Mark Webber seems to be in a spot of bother. He was

:25:45.:25:50.

more comfortable after the pit stop. Once again Alonso has closed the

:25:50.:25:54.

gap. It's down to .8 of a second. Mark could well be challenged in

:25:54.:26:03.

the DRS zones. So, that incident with Michael Schumacher and the

:26:03.:26:10.

Renaults, Alonso with a 43.8 and gets himself up behind Mark Webber,

:26:10.:26:14.

look at this, the crowd enjoying that. They've just heard about that

:26:14.:26:18.

new fastest lap. He was definitely within a second of the detection

:26:18.:26:25.

zone. It was just before these two corners. Schumacher under

:26:25.:26:30.

investigation for that contact into the first corner with the Renault.

:26:30.:26:34.

I think it was the Renault of Vitaly Petrov, two drivers who

:26:34.:26:41.

connected with each other in Istanbul as well. A similarly

:26:41.:26:45.

clumsy move, it has to be said. Webber, the gap's up to 2.4 now.

:26:45.:26:52.

It's Vettel's turn to get a Hispana racing car parked on the apex of

:26:52.:26:56.

where he would dearly like to be. When will Vettel pass that car?

:26:56.:27:01.

Blue flags waving. He's hanging on the racing line. He wasn't going to

:27:01.:27:06.

give up the racing line, was he, there? The leader had to go past on

:27:06.:27:11.

the dirty side. Look how close Fernando Alonso is now. We're into

:27:11.:27:16.

lap 19. Vettel leads from Webber. Sorry Martin, that will cost Webber

:27:16.:27:22.

potentially. He's catching him into this last corner. There's no reason

:27:22.:27:28.

for Vitantonio Liuzzi to get out of the way. He does. Every reason.

:27:28.:27:34.

He's making his own race track up down there now. I think he realised

:27:34.:27:37.

that it gave one of the leaders a bit of a hard time. That's often

:27:37.:27:41.

the case. You're coming up to lap people and you're the one that

:27:41.:27:46.

wakes everybody up. They seem a bit more alert after that. You have to

:27:46.:27:51.

be really careful if you're second place, they don't know two cars are

:27:51.:27:57.

coming up them. I always found it quite easy. Maybe that's because I

:27:57.:28:04.

wasn't leading many of them. Mark Webber with his mirrors full of

:28:04.:28:09.

scarlet Ferrari. The Red Bulls are charging, the prancing horse will

:28:09.:28:15.

not let them get away. Finally Alguersuari pits, his first stop of

:28:15.:28:25.
:28:25.:28:38.

Massa, who is beginning to get some pace again. Then Button sixth. 20

:28:38.:28:42.

seconds off the lead. Rosberg nine seconds behind him. Sutil eighth,

:28:42.:28:46.

having a good run for Force India. Heidfeld ninth. Barrichello tenth

:28:46.:28:51.

and Webber increasingly coming under pressure. This gets really

:28:51.:28:55.

difficult. Not only is he trying to focus on extracting the maximum

:28:55.:29:01.

from these tyres... Rear temperature creeping up. Try one

:29:01.:29:07.

click rearwards, you need more front on entry. Rear temperature,

:29:07.:29:11.

tyre temperatures or brake temperatures creeping up. He says

:29:11.:29:17.

try one click forward. Yeah, that must be brake temperatures. He is

:29:17.:29:19.

under pressure from Fernando Alonso. He's having to drive slightly

:29:19.:29:23.

defensive. It means that you don't explore the braking point as much

:29:23.:29:27.

as you would when you're running alone with the ability to just

:29:27.:29:31.

search out where is the grip, is this car constantly changes. You

:29:31.:29:37.

have the situation where you're burning off 2.5 kilos of fuel each

:29:37.:29:41.

lap. The performance is getting lighter but you play that off

:29:41.:29:45.

against the degradation of the tyre, which is, well, it's getting tired

:29:45.:29:49.

and losing performance. I thought he said one click

:29:49.:29:54.

rearwards. I wondered if it was the differential. There are sensors on

:29:55.:30:01.

the cars reading the surface of the tyre temperatures, tiny infrared

:30:01.:30:05.

things. The teams know exactly what's going on. Look how close

:30:05.:30:11.

Alonso is now. Up the inside, will Webber yield. He has to. Fantastic

:30:11.:30:15.

from Fernando Alonso there, absolutely opportunist and the

:30:15.:30:21.

crowd enjoyed that one! Fernando Alonso almost from nowhere just

:30:21.:30:31.
:30:31.:30:34.

pounced. The job was done. Now what Prix. Fernando Alonso, really... I

:30:34.:30:39.

think that is still cement dust shaking up the crude macro behind

:30:39.:30:47.

Webber's car. Webber got a little bit wide, as we get a replay, he

:30:47.:30:52.

gets a massive toe down into what is 2010 12. This is the area where

:30:52.:30:57.

Webber went flying last year. A nice clean manoeuvre. Mark does not

:30:57.:31:02.

find it too much. These cells are made dummy, goes left dance which

:31:02.:31:08.

is right. -- the cells in a dummy, goes left and switchers right.

:31:08.:31:12.

Let's explain why there was such a massive toe. A gear these cars to

:31:12.:31:17.

be on the rev limiter in qualifying, when you are able to use DRS

:31:17.:31:22.

everywhere. That means John top gear is long in race trim. Mark

:31:22.:31:27.

Webber is in a situation where he is underpowered. Suddenly, you have

:31:27.:31:31.

Alonso in the slipstream, able to use DRS, able to extract the

:31:31.:31:38.

maximum power from the engine, and that is the end result. There will

:31:38.:31:42.

be no further action on the content between Schumacher and Petrov, we

:31:42.:31:47.

are told. That will be put down to a racing incident, then. No

:31:47.:31:51.

penalties at this time. We still have 24 runners in the Grand Prix

:31:51.:32:01.
:32:01.:32:02.

Vettel, and I think some parts will have signed on the pit wall at Red

:32:02.:32:12.
:32:12.:32:30.

lap you do, but the tyres are degrading faster than that. We

:32:30.:32:35.

still have a tap map temperature of 47 degrees centigrade. -- track

:32:35.:32:41.

temperature. It helps the fuel load, when you start to burn fuel. The

:32:41.:32:47.

fuel weight is approximately 150 kilograms, 25% more weight on top

:32:47.:32:51.

of the weight of the car and passenger. It is like two

:32:51.:32:55.

passengers inside the car with the driver, then trying to accelerate

:32:55.:33:01.

them around the racetrack. Vettel leads Alonso by three seconds.

:33:01.:33:06.

Webber is coming back on him. Hamilton is in 4th, 4.5 seconds

:33:06.:33:11.

down the road. Ted Kravitz. Mark Webber had problems with the brakes

:33:11.:33:16.

in qualifying, so that might have reoccurred in the race. His tyres

:33:16.:33:20.

were only a flat sold when Alonso made that pass. Jenson Button is

:33:20.:33:24.

not happy with the set-up and balance of his car, so they have

:33:24.:33:27.

been making tyre pressure adjustments in the garage. Down the

:33:27.:33:32.

field, it looks like Perez's One Stop is not working for him. His

:33:32.:33:40.

lap Tyne's are looking horrible at the moment. -- times. He is on the

:33:40.:33:45.

medium tyre, he will be quicker at the end of the race on the soft.

:33:45.:33:49.

You are right, Perez is five seconds off the pace at the moment.

:33:49.:33:54.

That looks like a strategy that is not working. You only need to do

:33:54.:33:58.

four laps like that and you have got a free pit-stop to put fresh

:33:58.:34:04.

tyres on. That does not look too handy. He is down in 14th place. He

:34:04.:34:09.

is the only driver who has not pitied during the Grand Prix. 24

:34:10.:34:15.

runners. David, in parc ferme conditions, we used to call the

:34:15.:34:20.

cars apart after every session, go out and do a warm-up, a call them

:34:20.:34:24.

apart again, then go and do the race. We had so much reliability

:34:24.:34:28.

despite that. Now they cannot do any of that, but we have incredible

:34:28.:34:33.

reliability. The technology moves forward. A lot of it has been

:34:33.:34:38.

helped... Lewis, we are doing the same pace. We need to keep going a

:34:38.:34:43.

little bit longer on this set. Interestingly, looking behind

:34:43.:34:47.

instead of forward, I wonder if they are resigned to the fact that

:34:47.:34:53.

Ford may be the best Lewis can get today. At point. Webber has done a

:34:53.:35:03.

1:43.5, Hamilton is doing 1:45.5. Button, 45.6. Lewis is struggling

:35:03.:35:07.

on these tyres. Maybe he put them to heart out of the pits, as we

:35:07.:35:12.

watch Petrov making his way past Kobayashi. The Saubers have

:35:12.:35:16.

struggled this weekend. I think it is the lower downforce required.

:35:16.:35:21.

There are low downforce package, it is all relative, but it is not that

:35:21.:35:26.

effective, it seems to me. It looks like there is a bit of a lull, I

:35:26.:35:29.

will finish the sentence I started earlier and reliability. It has

:35:29.:35:32.

been helped by the fact that you have one gearbox for five races and

:35:32.:35:37.

you are limited in the manner of engines for the season. The rpm is

:35:37.:35:42.

capped at 18,000. We were doing over 20,000 at one point. When you

:35:42.:35:46.

are pushing those boundaries, there is a massive stress, and an

:35:46.:35:50.

liability. For the engine manufacturers to come back to

:35:50.:35:54.

18,000, it gives them such head room. They do not learn what they

:35:54.:35:58.

learned when they had to read it to 20,000. We can see McLaren

:35:58.:36:04.

preparing for Lewis Hamilton. not run out of breaks any more, we

:36:04.:36:11.

do not have clutch failure, drive shaft failure. -- brakes. The cars

:36:11.:36:16.

are pretty bulletproof these days. Look how slow this is going to feel

:36:16.:36:21.

as Hamilton chugs down the pit-lane in the finest racing car in the

:36:21.:36:26.

world, limited to 40 mph. Another set of soft tyres going on for

:36:26.:36:29.

Lewis Hamilton. He will have to stop once more. What was going on

:36:29.:36:37.

there? Away too early, obviously a sign from the chief mechanic there.

:36:37.:36:42.

We will get a replay of that, hopefully. 4.4 for the stop, but

:36:42.:36:45.

they have wonder if that includes the hesitation after it was nearly

:36:45.:36:53.

over. Not a good phase of the Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton. We are on

:36:53.:36:59.

board with Petrov now, who is looking to get past Perez. Erez has

:36:59.:37:03.

not faded, his tyres must be feeling pretty second-hand by now.

:37:04.:37:09.

-- Perez has not pitied. He does not take a run around the outside.

:37:09.:37:15.

He has got Kobayashi chasing him as well. This is over 14th, 15th and

:37:15.:37:25.
:37:25.:37:27.

through turn one. He must be in dire trouble with these tyres.

:37:27.:37:33.

is still five seconds per lap off the pace. Petrov was not putting

:37:33.:37:40.

his car and the optimum position for an overtake. That is an easy

:37:40.:37:44.

corner, turn one. He would not be expecting Erez to lift out. You

:37:44.:37:49.

could see the Rehan movement of the car as he went through the turn. He

:37:49.:37:54.

did a remarkable job to keep it on the track. And Nick Heidfeld are in

:37:54.:38:04.
:38:04.:38:07.

Sebastian Vettel on lap 26. He leaves, and easy overtake now for

:38:07.:38:14.

Petrov. He has wasted their lap on that one. He had the help of DRS

:38:14.:38:18.

there. It works for the way through the field, whether you are lapping,

:38:18.:38:28.
:38:28.:38:29.

being lapdog Justin combat. Vettel leads by 3.2. -- being laughed walk

:38:29.:38:35.

just in combat. Button is beginning... He is in 5th, he is

:38:35.:38:40.

ahead of Hamilton now that Hamilton has made his second stop. Kobayashi

:38:40.:38:46.

passes his team-mate for 15th position. Surely Sauber are

:38:46.:38:51.

thinking, surely the same as we are, this is not working. Every 4th time

:38:51.:38:55.

he goes past the pits, he has wasted a pit-stop. What is the

:38:56.:39:00.

point? Well, I am trying to look down the pit-lane. They are going

:39:00.:39:05.

to bring him in. That was at least a couple of laps too late. They

:39:05.:39:09.

were living in Melbourne mode, when it seemed to work, he only did one

:39:09.:39:14.

stop there. This was the overtake from Petrov. He gets well out of

:39:14.:39:16.

the way, he does not make that difficult at all, the sensible

:39:16.:39:22.

thing. And then Kobayashi doing the same thing with the benefit of DRS.

:39:22.:39:26.

It is all very happy at there in the midfield, waving thank-you to

:39:26.:39:29.

reach other. I would have thought he would have been quite upset with

:39:29.:39:34.

him. Michael Schumacher and Maldonado, wheel-to-wheel. That is

:39:34.:39:42.

for 16th place, which Schumacher takes. Do not find yourself, when

:39:42.:39:46.

you see Michael up close and personal life that, going, is this

:39:46.:39:53.

going to be another contact?! was close. He was a demon in Canada

:39:53.:39:57.

two weeks ago, he was the one doing the double over take out of turn

:39:57.:40:02.

nine, coping with the conditions in the old style. It is just not moist

:40:02.:40:08.

enough for him out there. They are managing to cross all of the water

:40:08.:40:14.

and around the port. Hamilton does the new fastest lap of the race,

:40:14.:40:19.

43.1. Maybe that is not so smart, to take so much life out of the

:40:19.:40:22.

tyres so early. Pirelli say you have to treat them carefully in the

:40:22.:40:27.

beginning. You say that, but it is only six tenths quicker than the

:40:27.:40:31.

previous lap from Vettel. He may well feel, with that extra

:40:31.:40:37.

performance from these fresh tyres, once they hit the wall, they really

:40:37.:40:41.

drop off in performance. If he was at the end of that previous set,

:40:41.:40:47.

maybe he feels he is comfortably doing this lap time. We will find

:40:47.:40:51.

out. He has certainly burned out the fastest, the first of the

:40:51.:40:56.

front-runners to have to pit tries. Ted. Still at McLaren, just a

:40:56.:41:00.

thought. We know that Jenson is trying a different strategy to

:41:00.:41:04.

Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button is going longer to try to make a small

:41:04.:41:09.

third stint. Whether he is doing two of three, we will find out. If

:41:09.:41:12.

Lewis continues like this, he will come up behind his team-mate, and

:41:12.:41:18.

then McLaren will have a little problem. He could well do. The last

:41:18.:41:22.

thing McLaren will want to do is leave Jenson out holding a Lewis if

:41:22.:41:27.

he has fresh tyres. Interesting team decision to be made in about...

:41:27.:41:33.

Let's look at the Gatt, 7.9 seconds between Hamilton and Button. We

:41:33.:41:38.

have a difference of 1.2 seconds per lap. Do you think Ferrari have

:41:38.:41:43.

a chance to win this race? What you think Vettel is just coasting and

:41:43.:41:48.

doing all he needs to do? I am glad you mentioned that, because with

:41:48.:41:51.

only a 3.2 seconds gap, there is a lot of racing to be done. The key

:41:51.:41:55.

thing that Sebastian Vettel has on his side is that Ferrari are very

:41:55.:41:59.

unhappy, or were very unhappy on the prime tyre, the harder tyre.

:41:59.:42:04.

They're going well at the moment on the option, matching Red Bull,

:42:04.:42:10.

slightly quicker on that previous lap. Lewis, you have set a purple

:42:10.:42:14.

lap, you are the fastest car. Please look after these tyres and

:42:14.:42:18.

manage your pace. The engineers thinking exactly the same that we

:42:18.:42:25.

were thinking up here. You can take the grip early on, but it is not

:42:25.:42:31.

going to be there later when you really need it. Andy Latham there

:42:31.:42:36.

telling Lewis, OK, just can't let a little bit. We love your attacking

:42:36.:42:41.

style, but you might be taking a bit too much out of those tyres.

:42:41.:42:46.

Five. To stop there for Heidfeld. In the pits, we have just had

:42:46.:42:51.

Heidfeld, Di Resta, Petrov. That was their second stop. Most of them

:42:51.:42:57.

will be doing a three-stop race this afternoon. And Webber, then,

:42:57.:43:03.

goes into the pit lane. He was getting very close behind Alonso,

:43:03.:43:07.

so Webber pits first. Will this give in he and a cat? That could

:43:07.:43:12.

put a lot of pressure on Ferrari, and it would take the pressure off

:43:13.:43:18.

Vettel up front. This is a key pit stop for Red Bull. Holding the rest

:43:18.:43:22.

evenly so the car does not rock on the jacks, otherwise they cannot

:43:22.:43:29.

get the guns nicely on to the spin of. 3.7, for Red Bull. Now Ferrari

:43:30.:43:37.

have got a decision to make. Are they go into have to? Definitely a

:43:37.:43:41.

three-stop for Webber. They went into qualifying with three sets of

:43:41.:43:45.

each of the tyre compounds. In a dry race, they must use both of

:43:45.:43:49.

them. If you are new to Formula One, we will remind you about that. It

:43:49.:43:54.

is a question are having to get out on both tyres at some point. They

:43:54.:44:01.

want to use these lower tyre, up to two seconds per lap slower,

:44:01.:44:07.

depending on which team you are talking to. Alonso looks so steady.

:44:07.:44:13.

In fact, that looks very steady to me. Let's have a look at his sector

:44:13.:44:18.

times. First sector was OK, struggling for grip. He will have

:44:18.:44:23.

to pit, surely, the will have to respond. There is a bunch of

:44:23.:44:28.

traffic, Vettel coming up behind Petrov, Karthikeyan. Is that

:44:29.:44:33.

Maldonado there as well? A bunch of traffic which Alonso does not want

:44:33.:44:38.

to lose time in. The Ferrari mechanics are in the pit lane.

:44:38.:44:43.

Options are being brought out for Fernando Alonso. Some over steering

:44:43.:44:48.

into the pit lane, he has got no real grip left. He has hit the

:44:48.:44:51.

cliff that we have heard the drivers talking about. It is an

:44:51.:44:56.

early warning system. You have run out of rubber compound on your rear

:44:56.:45:02.

tyres, and Alonso was really struggling on at in lap. Where is

:45:02.:45:07.

Webber? Massa goes through. It is going to be close. He is going to

:45:07.:45:13.

pass him. That is the undercut for you. He pitted one lap earlier, had

:45:13.:45:18.

the extra grip. He was just over one second behind him as we got to

:45:18.:45:28.
:45:28.:45:35.

Maldonado preparing to come from They've blinked first and got it

:45:35.:45:39.

right at the moment. Great stuff from Red Bull strategy. Now

:45:39.:45:43.

Fernando Alonso has got to do it all again. That turns the tables.

:45:43.:45:47.

That puts Red Bull back in charge for now. It does. One thing I think

:45:47.:45:51.

I didn't finish earlier was saying that Ferrari have been struggling

:45:51.:45:58.

on the harder tyres. Once they have to put that on, they might...

:45:58.:46:06.

rear tyre temperatures are very hot. I can't go any slower. Understood.

:46:06.:46:11.

I can't go any slower! We both know that's not the case. He can park it

:46:11.:46:16.

up if he fancies. Thlz a clear message to his engineer. Please

:46:16.:46:20.

stop talking to me. I'm frustrated, I'm trying to drive this car

:46:20.:46:24.

quickly and I can't make the tyres last. That could be an indication

:46:24.:46:30.

of a lack of downforce, cars sliding around. Massa ahead of

:46:30.:46:34.

Webber and Alonso at the moment. Vettel pits. Red Bull don't have a

:46:34.:46:38.

luxury this afternoon of coasting in when it suits them. They have to

:46:38.:46:42.

keep reacting to Ferrari. Jenson is in the pits as well. Another set of

:46:42.:46:47.

the soft tyres going on, to confirm they will stop again. Both Red Bull

:46:47.:46:52.

and at least Alonso have to stop. So Massa leads the Grand Prix, but

:46:52.:46:59.

he's yet to do his second stop. Massa didn't quite lead the Grand

:46:59.:47:03.

Prix. He didn't get through. What's going to be interesting,

:47:03.:47:09.

Massa could come into play with Webber, if Ferrari want to play

:47:09.:47:13.

strategic, they would leave Massa out for another lap. OK he's going

:47:13.:47:18.

to be fourth, let's use him to back Webber into Alonso. Well, you've

:47:18.:47:22.

got to be cruel to be kind to the team, I guess. You have Webber in

:47:22.:47:32.

the 1.42. Alonso is flying as well out there. They like the new tyres.

:47:32.:47:36.

Button finishes his second stop, gets back up to speed. Rosberg has

:47:36.:47:41.

been in too. He looks as if he can keep the Mercedes inside the top

:47:41.:47:47.

ten. We do have a race on our hands. Vettel leads from Massa, Webber,

:47:47.:47:51.

Alonso. Massa yet to stop. He's kind of 20 seconds out of bed there

:47:51.:47:55.

really in that respect. But you're right, David, he can really spoil

:47:55.:47:59.

it. He's now struggling for rear grip as well. I don't think Webber

:47:59.:48:04.

will be behind him very long. has his DRS open. It will be a key

:48:04.:48:10.

moment to pop it down the inside to turn 17. Massa goes defensive. He

:48:10.:48:15.

was so much slower on the brakes, Webber with a fantastic pass. Now

:48:15.:48:24.

Massa is holding up Fernando Alonso. He is indeed. Look at the gap

:48:24.:48:29.

that's giving Webber up front. Oh, has he seen him? How do they find

:48:29.:48:33.

time to make hand signals when they're trying not to have 180mph

:48:33.:48:38.

accident? Massa pits. He had to then. He had run out of rear tyre

:48:38.:48:42.

grip. Candy from a baby as Webber drove clean around the outside of

:48:42.:48:49.

him. Vettel then, the top three are covered now by 3.1 seconds, a set

:48:49.:48:55.

of used soft tyres and a very long pit stop indeed. Left rear didn't

:48:55.:49:04.

go on properly. So that does, look at that, 8.6 seconds for Felipe

:49:04.:49:07.

Massa. Could be very good news for Jenson Button who's just coming

:49:07.:49:12.

into the background there. So Button much closer to Massa now.

:49:12.:49:18.

But he's finished his second stop. He's 29 seconds off the lead Jenson.

:49:18.:49:22.

He was around 20. But he doesn't have the pace at the moment.

:49:22.:49:25.

Hamilton 13 seconds off the lead in fourth place. Mclaren are burning

:49:25.:49:33.

up their tyres faster than Red Bull and Ferrari. There then is the

:49:33.:49:42.

guilty wheelgun. Good drive from Mark Webber. He's coming back. He

:49:42.:49:47.

was struggling at the beginning of the Grand Prix. Typical that you

:49:48.:49:52.

don't give up. He's going to get himself into a comfortable position

:49:52.:49:55.

against Sebastien Vettel. This is what he needs to do if he's going

:49:55.:50:00.

to lead the first lap this season. Remarkably he's not led one. He

:50:00.:50:04.

needs to win a Grand Prix soon if he's going to come back into this

:50:04.:50:07.

challenge. They're having to be so careful on the throttle. You can

:50:07.:50:13.

hear that. Compared to qualifying they're doing seven, eight seconds

:50:13.:50:16.

slower. They're coaxing the throttle into play, aren't they?

:50:16.:50:21.

Track temperatures 47 degrees, the chemical reaction that's going on,

:50:21.:50:27.

Jenson Button locking up, running wide in turn 17. Then into this

:50:27.:50:31.

fantastic sequence through 18, 19, 20, should be flat through the last

:50:31.:50:36.

part there. Then this run down through 22, 23 and into the last

:50:36.:50:43.

section. Completely flat, uses all the kerb and then straightens it up

:50:43.:50:49.

KERS is not working. Something about KERS, wasn't it?

:50:49.:50:53.

KERS is not working. That's not going to help his lap time that.

:50:53.:50:57.

Will cost him three, four tenths. The winner two weeks ago is really

:50:57.:51:03.

struggling today. He's in sixth at the moment. Just 1.7 seconds behind

:51:03.:51:08.

Felipe Massa. Now he's carrying 40 kilos of gubins an it's not giving

:51:08.:51:14.

him extra power. The powers are ballasted up to weigh the same.

:51:14.:51:18.

It's not ideal weight. Put it lower if you could and spread it around

:51:18.:51:24.

the car, he's carrying the system and it's not giving him any

:51:24.:51:31.

powerment Simply put he's minus 80 horse power. Vettel leads on lap 33

:51:31.:51:35.

on 1.8 seconds. Here's a replay of that tardy pit stop for the Ferrari

:51:35.:51:39.

team. They're looking for another gun.

:51:39.:51:44.

They had to get the spare gun in on the action. A shake of the head

:51:44.:51:50.

from Felipe Massa. Look at that, the wheel nut struggling get that

:51:50.:51:54.

out. They're fearsome things. We did a competition with Jenson and

:51:54.:52:00.

Lewis, the guns feel like they'll break your risk. Top three in the

:52:00.:52:04.

short pit straight. They've lapped Michael Schumacher. Of course he

:52:04.:52:13.

came in are with -- with a broken front wing earlier. He's not had

:52:13.:52:17.

great pace. Mercedes struggling with rear tyre degradation. Rosberg

:52:17.:52:20.

in eighth place. But Michael Schumacher is in 17th and Ted has

:52:20.:52:24.

news on that. Everything is overheating down here in Valencia.

:52:25.:52:29.

Certainly Red Bull's looking good, but Button's KERS has overheated.

:52:29.:52:33.

Red Bull's tyres are the only one that's seem to be in good shape in

:52:33.:52:38.

the hands of Sebastien Vettel. He's the only one in good shape. With

:52:38.:52:41.

the hotter track temperatures, tyre degradation has been much higher

:52:41.:52:46.

than the engineers expected. What this means is that this race will

:52:46.:52:50.

be won by whoever can make the harder tyre work best in the final

:52:50.:52:53.

stint. A quick one on Michael Schumacher. He's made a third pit

:52:53.:52:57.

stop. He's run out of soft tyres. He's on the harder tyre. Thanks for

:52:57.:53:01.

that, Ted. Alguersuari is doing a great job in seventh place.

:53:01.:53:05.

Remember, when he was fighting with Rosberg and Rosberg was on fresh

:53:05.:53:10.

tyres. Now he's ahead of Rosberg by 2.9 seconds. He's only stopped once.

:53:10.:53:15.

He's in the 1.44. That's looking very handy indeed for Alguersuari

:53:15.:53:19.

in the Toro Rosso. It seems as if he's found a sweet spot in his set

:53:19.:53:23.

up. He needed to. He's been under pressure in Toro Rosso. He's not

:53:23.:53:27.

been extracting as much from the car as Buemi. He's responding here

:53:27.:53:31.

to the home crowd. He lives in Barcelona. He considers this almost

:53:31.:53:39.

a home race. This is aee-haw section. I love it. -- yee-haw

:53:39.:53:46.

section. I love it. That last corner is tremendous. It gets your

:53:46.:53:51.

adrenaline pumping, skimming the walls at 195mph. Vettel, 142.4. The

:53:51.:53:58.

gap is two seconds to Webber. He's 1.5 ahead of Alonso. 3.6 seconds

:53:58.:54:02.

covers the top three then a 14- second wait for Lewis Hamilton,

:54:02.:54:09.

make that nearly 16 seconds now. Ted's at Mclaren. Something is up.

:54:09.:54:14.

All the mechanics are coming into the garage. They're getting out

:54:15.:54:17.

their marigolds. They've been warned that Jenson Button has a

:54:17.:54:22.

problem with his KERS. If he needs to retire, the mechanics have been

:54:22.:54:25.

told get out your electric protection gloves because there's

:54:25.:54:28.

something wrong. I hope they don't have to retire Jenson Button, but

:54:28.:54:33.

it doesn't look good. The KERS could be overheating or shorting

:54:33.:54:37.

out somewhere presumably. Normally it's a very reliable system. It's

:54:37.:54:41.

one of the best out there. It was developed with Mercedes-Benz.

:54:41.:54:47.

Hamilton doing 1.44. Button has just done his fastest lap of the

:54:48.:54:51.

Grand Prix. Whatever the problem is doesn't need gloves, spanners,

:54:51.:54:56.

hammers or anything at the momentment -- moment. There's

:54:56.:54:59.

Vettel, Webber, Alonso, the front runners.

:54:59.:55:04.

Alonso won't give up, as ever. We've seen him running wide and

:55:04.:55:07.

struggling to keep the Ferrari exactly where he wants it on track.

:55:07.:55:13.

But he's keeping the Red Bulls very honest indeed. They come into the

:55:13.:55:21.

back of the buildings there. Let's look at the gap now.

:55:21.:55:30.

Vettel crosses the line, into lap 36. He is 2.1 clear of Webber,

:55:30.:55:38.

who's 1.6 clear of Alonso. It's Hamilton again struggling.

:55:38.:55:42.

that's reasonable pace, reasonable pace. We're about a second faster

:55:42.:55:47.

than Hamilton at this point, a second faster than Hamilton. Lewis

:55:47.:55:55.

has just done a 145.2 now. Again those rear tyres... They've given

:55:55.:56:00.

up. Yeah he's gone off the wall. What a fantastic battle. The top

:56:00.:56:04.

three separated by less than a tenth on the last lap. This is a

:56:04.:56:08.

real battle of the pressure they have to deliver consistent lap

:56:08.:56:13.

times on a track where your car is constantly changing. Your fuel

:56:13.:56:17.

levels are getting down to sensible levels. The tyres are desperately

:56:17.:56:22.

losing their performance. You go on board with Felipe Massa, I have a

:56:22.:56:26.

feeling that Ferrari will be the last to pit here. If the rumour is

:56:26.:56:29.

true that they can make the prime work, they're not going to get any

:56:29.:56:34.

better than third place if they come in first, for the pit stop

:56:34.:56:37.

that is. They were at sea when those tyres were going off. They

:56:37.:56:41.

were losing so much time. They could barely keep the thing on the

:56:41.:56:46.

track coming into the pit lane. This is all about who can make that

:56:46.:56:50.

medium tyre, that they've now all got to run, to the end of the Grand

:56:50.:56:54.

Prix, at the next pit stop. It's the first time that tyre has run.

:56:54.:56:57.

It's in the a different construction. It's just a different

:56:57.:57:01.

compound. First time this year. It's a question of who can make

:57:01.:57:04.

that work best amongst these three as to who will win the Grand Prix.

:57:04.:57:08.

Red Bull looked as if they were making it work better than Ferrari

:57:08.:57:14.

in terms of switching the tyre on. Explain what switching those medium

:57:14.:57:18.

tyres on means. Typically, it's been that the slower tyre of the

:57:18.:57:21.

two tyres they've got here. I prefer to call them prime and

:57:21.:57:25.

option because I think it gets confusing when we get into the

:57:25.:57:29.

compounds. But the prime tyre, the harder of the two tyres, has been

:57:29.:57:34.

over a second a lap slower from new than the option. They've had more

:57:34.:57:36.

difficulty getting that performance out of it on the first timed laps.

:57:36.:57:40.

It's been taking two, three laps to deliver. Typically, there's going

:57:40.:57:46.

to be a crossover point probably lap 15, 16, when the option tyre

:57:46.:57:49.

suddenly starts to lose performance and they'll be doing the same lap

:57:49.:57:54.

time as a new prime. That becomes a strategic decision for the driver

:57:54.:57:58.

and team to decide how many more laps to do on the option. I should

:57:58.:58:01.

correct myself, Ferrari could still get the advantage from doing the

:58:01.:58:09.

undercut by coming in early, but they would have then be on the

:58:09.:58:14.

harder tyre. Let's hope they do that. We could see an almighty race

:58:14.:58:20.

then as Red Bull respond. Michael Schumacher. Six more lap was this

:58:20.:58:24.

tyre. Keep pushing like this. Unusual amount of information to

:58:24.:58:31.

give away there on the radios. He's fighting with Rosberg in eighth. 24

:58:31.:58:36.

seconds behind Jenson Button, so Alguersuari in seventh. He's got a

:58:36.:58:40.

fight on his hands with Rosberg, Sutil, Heidfeld and Di Resta. Di

:58:40.:58:44.

Resta threatening to get in the points as well. He's in 11th at the

:58:44.:58:54.
:58:54.:59:01.

moment, as Alonso seems to get ever now only 1.3 behind Webber. It's

:59:01.:59:06.

really a question of who puts those tyres on first and how they operate

:59:06.:59:10.

when they get them on. That's terrible driving from the HRT there,

:59:10.:59:14.

waiting until the car was almost on top of it before allowing it to

:59:14.:59:17.

pass. Look at the Ferrari as well. I'd be surprised if the stewards

:59:18.:59:22.

don't talk to him. You're being lapped, you have to get out of the

:59:22.:59:32.
:59:32.:59:35.

way. Yeah, that was Liuzzi again, wasn't it? It was Liuzzi, yeah.

:59:35.:59:39.

Vettel then, just hanging on somehow. It's good to see the

:59:39.:59:44.

Ferraris have kept Red Bull very honest indeed this afternoon. Will

:59:44.:59:49.

we get surprises before the end of the Grand Prix? Top ten remain,

:59:49.:59:55.

Vettel, Webber, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Button, Alguersuari, Rosberg,

:59:55.:00:05.
:00:05.:00:10.

times on his two-stop strategy. Let's see if that works out for

:00:10.:00:14.

more points. Two weeks ago in Canada, he started from the pit

:00:14.:00:18.

lane and came through to V8. It is interesting to note that Red Bull

:00:18.:00:22.

have only had one race where they got a one-two finish, back in

:00:22.:00:31.

Turkey. But Vettel has led, before this race started, 80% of every

:00:31.:00:35.

race in lap this year. Of course, that percentage just goes up and up

:00:35.:00:40.

and up as he charges around here. Mark set in Canada, you make your

:00:40.:00:45.

own luck, but he is being hard in insult. He has been unlucky with

:00:45.:00:51.

reliability issues. We joined the battle with Rosberg. Rosberg is

:00:51.:00:54.

homing in on Alguersuari, whose tyres must be feeling pretty

:00:54.:01:00.

second-hand by now. Rosberg and usually have thing to make an

:01:00.:01:08.

additional downshift on the apex of turn 14. -- and usually. He lost

:01:08.:01:12.

some of the gains that he had made. I did 17 laps and a Formula One car

:01:12.:01:17.

last week for a feature on the Pirelli tyres, and these engines

:01:17.:01:21.

have no talk. You have to keep coming down the gears. They would

:01:21.:01:25.

not pull the skin of a rice pudding. They are good at the top end, near

:01:25.:01:30.

18,000 revs, but once you fall out of that band, they just will not

:01:30.:01:35.

pull. It is all relative, they still get up and go a bit, but it

:01:35.:01:40.

felt pretty gutless, I thought. horses available, around that

:01:40.:01:45.

amount. But it was underwhelming to drive the 2.4 V8 at the end of my

:01:46.:01:52.

career, no talk. Compared to the braking, which is mind-blowing the

:01:52.:01:57.

good, I have to say. Ted has news. The Red Bull carriage is looking

:01:57.:02:01.

very happy. It has underlined how miserable they look at McLaren.

:02:01.:02:06.

Jenson Button's car looks OK. They are all wearing the electrical

:02:06.:02:09.

protection rubber gloves because he still has to make a pit stop, and

:02:09.:02:13.

they are not sure whether the car has residual life and it is the

:02:13.:02:18.

attached to it. That is why they are wearing them. But they are not

:02:18.:02:21.

looking at retiring him. They will be more concerned that Lewis

:02:21.:02:26.

Hamilton is 26 seconds off the pace. Yes, it has not been a great

:02:26.:02:36.
:02:36.:02:43.

young Spaniard, driving beautifully in front of them. 85,000 in the

:02:43.:02:48.

crowd. Has Rosberg got it now? Can you hang on around the outside?

:02:48.:02:52.

Alguersuari managing to get another attraction as they charge side-by-

:02:52.:03:00.

side into the braking zone. Job done for Nico Rosberg in to turn 17,

:03:00.:03:06.

the hairpin. So Rosberg up to seventh place, then, with that.

:03:06.:03:12.

Presumably, Alguersuari is running out of tyres. Vettel has done a

:03:12.:03:17.

1:41.9. I cannot help but feel he is just plain games at the front.

:03:17.:03:21.

As we said earlier, he could be running in a more conservative

:03:21.:03:25.

engine mode, controlling the gap. I daresay he is more comfortable,

:03:25.:03:30.

having his team-mate behind him, and if that were Fernando Alonso.

:03:30.:03:36.

It was looking good for Mark for a while. He was able to close up to

:03:36.:03:39.

Sebastian, but he has got his mirrors full of Fernando Alonso, as

:03:39.:03:44.

we go on board with Hamilton. need to try to up our pace again

:03:44.:03:54.
:03:54.:03:57.

for the next few laps. This is as but now the tyres have degraded

:03:58.:04:01.

more, he cannot go any faster. And the reason why they are getting

:04:01.:04:06.

jumpy about that is because Felipe Massa is closing in at over one

:04:06.:04:11.

second per lap on them now, aiming at fourth place. This is intriguing.

:04:11.:04:15.

What has happened to the McLaren Res pace? They were looking like

:04:15.:04:20.

the nearest challenger to Red Bull. In terms of underline pace, they

:04:20.:04:24.

were quicker is that the last three Grands Prix. There are eight

:04:24.:04:28.

traction zones at the second. Those high-speed corners, you're not

:04:28.:04:32.

pulling a lot of lateral, you are not sliding across the track at

:04:32.:04:36.

high speeds, so it is all about keeping the rear tyres end, I would

:04:36.:04:41.

say. That is the big difference. Silverstone is going to pose a new

:04:41.:04:45.

challenge, a lot of high-speed corners, possibly one of the

:04:45.:04:49.

fastest sections of any Grand Prix track at Becketts. I recommend

:04:49.:04:53.

anyone who goes, go and hang out and watch the cars at high speed.

:04:53.:04:59.

It is very much a case of point and squirt around this street circuit.

:04:59.:05:04.

Felipe Massa still catching Button at over one second by lap. We are

:05:04.:05:10.

on board with Button now. Can we see any dramas? Yes, this pace is

:05:10.:05:20.
:05:20.:05:22.

OK. Without KERS, we need to stay tyre, they expect that gap to be

:05:22.:05:25.

over one second in performance. Although they will start to get

:05:25.:05:30.

high degradation on the option tyres, it still seems to be that

:05:30.:05:34.

you are going to get a faster lap time the longer you can stay on

:05:34.:05:38.

these. Once they are on the prime tyre at the end of the Grand Prix,

:05:38.:05:42.

they are not going to go any quicker. Schumacher is not doing

:05:42.:05:50.

too bad a job. He is on those tyres now. He is doing a 1:45.2, Rosberg

:05:50.:05:55.

is 43.9, so about the 1.3 that we were told they are slow. A lot of

:05:55.:06:05.
:06:05.:06:06.

marbles of the outside of the key dejected Lewis Hamilton in there,

:06:06.:06:13.

especially if Felipe Massa catches him. The gap was 5.2 seconds. It is

:06:13.:06:19.

now 4.8 that he is ahead of fifth- placed Felipe Massa. Vettel just

:06:19.:06:23.

picking up his pace. What can Vettel do in that cockpit that the

:06:23.:06:28.

others can't? How can he go that fast and not use his tyres up?

:06:28.:06:31.

is the one million dollar question. It is down to the difference in

:06:31.:06:36.

preference between drivers. For whatever reason, Mark Webber's

:06:36.:06:40.

style, if you do a direct comparison, the only comparison you

:06:40.:06:43.

can really make is between the team-mates striving nominally the

:06:43.:06:47.

same cars, and he just seems to be able to position the weight of the

:06:47.:06:52.

car equally between the four tyres. The others seem to be taking that

:06:53.:06:57.

bit more out of the rear tyres. Once you start to lose the rear

:06:57.:07:01.

axle, it affects your braking, traction, and lap time goes down

:07:01.:07:07.

accordingly. Vettel was one of the smartest drivers have there, and I

:07:08.:07:12.

think his stint management on each of the tyres is as good as

:07:12.:07:17.

anybody's now. He knows how to apply the throttle and the steering

:07:17.:07:22.

over a full stint, as Mark Webber comes in, then. Now we are going to

:07:22.:07:26.

see the final phase of pit stops. My Clarence out as well, Martin.

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They are in the pit lane as well. - - McLaren. Lewis Hamilton in on

:07:33.:07:36.

this lap, we are hearing. An important stop, that looked good

:07:36.:07:41.

enough. Now we will see how these medium compound works. A bit of

:07:41.:07:48.

traffic for Webber. 3.6, the stop, not too bad. It is all about

:07:48.:07:52.

getting on it on the out lap. Webber exits the pits as Lewis

:07:52.:08:02.
:08:02.:08:04.

they saved from qualifying is going to go on that car. There we go.

:08:04.:08:09.

figures come back to Webber, he has come out behind Petrov and

:08:09.:08:13.

Barrichello... And Barrichello, who are battling for position. That

:08:13.:08:18.

could be costly, if he is not able to run a clean lap and extract the

:08:18.:08:23.

maximum from those prime tyres. could put Alonso on him, you might

:08:23.:08:28.

be right. That is Hamilton's Third Stock of the afternoon. He is

:08:28.:08:34.

fighting Massa for 4th and 5th. Let's keeps a close eye on his

:08:34.:08:38.

sector times. This is the traffic you were talking about. Mark uses a

:08:38.:08:43.

lot less of the racetrack than Sebastian Vettel. That was Webber

:08:43.:08:49.

getting out of shape heading for the pit lane. They knew he was in

:08:49.:08:53.

her Formula One that lap, but the really got wound up through there.

:08:53.:08:58.

We were talking about that earlier. You have got to maximise your in

:08:58.:09:01.

lap and your out lap. You cannot leave anything behind, because it

:09:01.:09:05.

will be critical when you rejoin the track. Alonso is now in clean

:09:05.:09:10.

air, and he has done his fastest middle sector. He is only two

:09:10.:09:15.

tenths slower than Sebastian Vettel's last lap. It is key to see

:09:15.:09:20.

what he can deliver now. Webber has not done a personal best to either

:09:20.:09:27.

of of the first two sectors of the out lap. Webber, then, does a 54.5,

:09:27.:09:31.

including the pit stop. He is dropping back. The traffic is not

:09:31.:09:36.

holding him up at all. He looks to have a problem. He was close to

:09:36.:09:42.

them when he left the pit lane, but look at the gap now. His first

:09:42.:09:47.

sector time, we won and get a complete flying lap from in to save.

:09:47.:09:51.

The other drivers have got the advantage. It is a nervy wait to

:09:51.:09:55.

see whether he will undercut them, or whether they can actually hold

:09:55.:09:59.

on a little bit longer. If he cannot get those working, dialled

:09:59.:10:05.

into the race track, 27.2 for the first sector, three tenths slower

:10:05.:10:09.

than his team-mate. That is telling you that they do not need to pit in

:10:09.:10:13.

yet. It looks like he is struggling with front-end grip. It looks like

:10:13.:10:18.

the front tyres are not coming up to temperature. This is valuable

:10:18.:10:21.

information for the battle between Vettel and Alonso. They will be

:10:21.:10:25.

like, OK, we will hang on a bit longer on the option tyres.

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noise you can hear is the front exhaust exist on a Renault. -- exit.

:10:32.:10:36.

All sorts of stuff going on with the throttles, much of it will be

:10:36.:10:39.

switched off in two weeks' time at Silverstone. We will hear less of

:10:39.:10:43.

that, but the Renault will since sound strange because of the front

:10:43.:10:53.
:10:53.:10:55.

of anyone in the Grand Prix. -- Vettel does. They will not be

:10:55.:10:59.

rushing in to get their next set of tyres. Webber has not touched a

:11:00.:11:05.

personal best time on this time either. He is not matching even the

:11:05.:11:09.

use its tyres. We saw Ferrari getting ready. I think they were

:11:09.:11:13.

throwing a dummy. They went back in to wrap up the tyres. You are not

:11:13.:11:19.

allowed to hang out in the pit-lane and the inner workings own, so that

:11:19.:11:25.

was a genuine, we are coming in, oh, no, we are not, or it was to force

:11:25.:11:31.

Red Bull that they needed to cover it. Their car and Kobayashi for

:11:31.:11:39.

15th place. We still have 24 runners from 24 starters. That is

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why these drivers are fighting like crazy. He would normally expect to

:11:42.:11:46.

see them knocking on the door of the top 10. Kobayashi has regularly

:11:46.:11:50.

been in the points, as has Petrov, but they are currently fighting

:11:50.:11:55.

over 15. Kobayashi has stopped twice, Petrov three times. We are

:11:55.:12:00.

moving into the final stages of the Grand Prix. With 24 runners on the

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track, traffic is a bigger problem than we have seen of late, isn't

:12:03.:12:10.

it? It is, and it looks like we have some traffic for Vettel. Paul

:12:10.:12:17.

di Resta and Buemi are between him and Alonso. That gap has opened out,

:12:17.:12:22.

hasn't it? It is at 6.4 seconds between the race leader and the

:12:22.:12:26.

second man, Alonso. Ferrari are out into the pit lane again, the tyres

:12:26.:12:30.

and at this time, so we have to presume this is for Alonso. And he

:12:30.:12:37.

is in the pit. I am a bit surprised that they did not leave him out a

:12:37.:12:42.

bit longer, because the tyres... think it was the traffic, they

:12:42.:12:45.

would have lost too much time trying to get past the guys in

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between. Webber has got horrible traffic in front of him. So where

:12:53.:12:59.

is he? It is not enough. Look at that, it worked out perfectly for

:12:59.:13:04.

Alonso. He just manages to get past Petrov, and so does Webber, but

:13:04.:13:13.

still lots of traffic ahead. That, then, is going to be... Yes, Di

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Resta or, Glock is in there, Barrichello, or trying to get out

:13:17.:13:27.
:13:27.:13:28.

of the way. And that is for from his second stop. Barrichello

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is right behind him. Alonso is getting caught up in that, so Mark

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Webber is right behind him now. Unusual to see so many cars

:13:37.:13:42.

fighting all the way down the field, no retirements. That is giving

:13:42.:13:47.

extra problems for the strategists to work out just how they can feed

:13:47.:13:51.

their drivers back into clean air. Maybe Mark will have the advantage

:13:51.:13:56.

now he has the chance to bring these prime tyres in. He struggled

:13:56.:14:01.

in the first two laps, so Alonso may have difficulty. This is Mark's

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moments, he has to try to get past the Ferrari now. He has more

:14:06.:14:10.

knowledge on these tyres as well. He has got to do a Kobayashi, just

:14:10.:14:20.
:14:20.:14:21.

out of the way of that battle as we see them run down through the last

:14:22.:14:26.

sector, the section you love so much. Paul The Wrestler moved out

:14:26.:14:31.

of the way for them. -- Paul di Resta. All sorts of action going on

:14:31.:14:41.
:14:41.:14:44.

that is for position. He has just made a pit stop. They are side by

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side down into turn one just as they meet the Toro Rosso coming out

:14:49.:14:53.

of the pit lane, four cars heading into the braking zone. Sebastien

:14:53.:14:59.

Buemi just came out in front of them. He is painfully slow through

:14:59.:15:04.

the exit, backing everybody up. Buemi, Kobayashi, Di Resta, Petrov,

:15:04.:15:14.
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those two. Alonso and Webber are just catching Barrichello, and then

:15:18.:15:23.

they have got some clear air, but still Vettel stays out. He is still

:15:23.:15:28.

pumping in low 1:42s. He is the fastest man out there. Hamilton

:15:28.:15:35.

happy on those tyres, I'm doing 1:42s as well. Di Resta are still

:15:35.:15:45.
:15:45.:15:49.

fighting like crazy with Kamui good racing all the way down the

:15:49.:15:58.

field. So and Vettel pits then. The leader pits. Ten laps to go. And

:15:58.:16:04.

Sebastien Vettel finally will come in for those medium compound tyres.

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He obviously just felt the rears beginning to go off or something.

:16:08.:16:14.

He's gone right to the edge of them and decided that now's a good time

:16:14.:16:18.

and how's traffic going to work for him? I think they'll have to get

:16:18.:16:21.

out of the way pretty quickly as well because they're lapped

:16:21.:16:25.

effectively, as the leader comes through, they'll be getting the

:16:25.:16:34.

blue flags. Karthikeyan is in the pit lane. He's running 24th. At the

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moment Kobayashi is winning the team Lotus battle. Let's run down

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the field heading into the closing stages. Vettel leads from Alonso.

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To Webber, Massa, Button, fifth, yet to make his third stop.

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Hamilton sixth. He has stopped three times. Then Rosberg,

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Alguersuari eighth. Sutil ninth. Heidfeld tenth. Perez one stopping,

:17:04.:17:11.

up in 11th at the moment. Barrichello 12th. Buemi 13th, Di

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Resta 14th, Kobayashi 15th, Petrov 16th. Mark Webber is in the DRS

:17:17.:17:25.

zone. His wing was open. Down into, what's that 17? Down into turn 12.

:17:25.:17:31.

So he'll get another blast of that. I wonder whether he's missed his

:17:31.:17:36.

moment with Alonso though. There are a few laps yet. Second place

:17:36.:17:42.

would be a bit better than third, obviously. So, Fernando Alonso pops

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in the fastest middle secondor of the race, 46.0. He's responding.

:17:49.:17:53.

He's a good straight behind though. It's certainly worked out very well

:17:53.:17:56.

for Vettel in terms of track position and distance ahead of

:17:56.:18:01.

Alonso. Ted? It's worked out well for Vettel in every sense. That was

:18:01.:18:04.

a lovely stop by Red Bull. Vettel seems to be the only driver who's

:18:05.:18:09.

had everything under control today. He's continuing very happily at the

:18:09.:18:16.

front. Lewis Hamilton's pace has picked up on the harder tyre, on

:18:16.:18:20.

1.426789 Mclaren are coming out now for Jenson Button. This will be

:18:20.:18:25.

interesting to see if there's KERS left. Paul di Resta was looking for

:18:25.:18:30.

10th place, now he's involved with Nick Heidfeld and Barrichello it

:18:30.:18:34.

could be it for Paul di Resta. Felipe Massa pits for the third

:18:34.:18:39.

time. We're expecting Button as well. He

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is in the pit lane. There he is. They're going to give him a tweak

:18:44.:18:49.

of front wing adjustment as well. That will change the balance

:18:49.:18:53.

presumably because of the medium compound tyre. They want an

:18:53.:18:56.

automatic aerobalance change. put a bit more front wing in with

:18:56.:19:02.

that tyre. Especially with the difficulty getting the front to

:19:02.:19:06.

bite to leave the pits on the first couple of laps. He'll have the

:19:06.:19:11.

benefit of some feed back from Lewis, presumably. There's only

:19:11.:19:16.

been three races in history where we've had no retirements in a Grand

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Prix, 1961, Dutch Grand Prix, American Grand Prix and Italian

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Grand Prix in 2005. Only six cars started in 2005 in America, when

:19:29.:19:35.

the Michelin tyres weren't used. So we have a remarkable situation, if

:19:35.:19:41.

they all get to the end. Commentators' curse there I imagine.

:19:41.:19:45.

The most finishers ever in a Grand Prix of 23. That was in the Chinese

:19:45.:19:51.

Grand Prix earlier this year. That's reliability, it's impressive.

:19:51.:19:55.

It's giving us lots of good racing and giving the leaders plenty of

:19:55.:20:01.

headaches as well. Now it's all shaken out from the final stops,

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Vettel's lead is 8.7 seconds. Over Fernando Alonso, who is just 2.5

:20:07.:20:14.

ahead of Mark Webber. Then 28.7 seconds clear of fourth place Lewis

:20:14.:20:19.

Hamilton, who I think could well have Felipe Massa closing in on

:20:19.:20:23.

Massa, lost a lot of time in the pit stop. Let's see what the gap is

:20:23.:20:28.

now. Massa and Button have finished, so

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Massa is 7.4 behind Hamilton. We wait for Button to go over the line

:20:33.:20:37.

as well to see if he's anywhere near chasing the down the Ferrari.

:20:37.:20:43.

The tail end of the top ten, the biggest fight is Adrian Sutil is

:20:43.:20:51.

only 2.4 seconds behind the two stopping Alguersuari for Toro Rosso.

:20:51.:20:55.

Button 12.4 behind Felipe Massa. The top three now covered by 11.3

:20:55.:21:03.

seconds. It's Red Bull from Ferrari from Red Bull and Mclaren, Ferrari,

:21:03.:21:09.

Mclaren, fourth, fifth and sixth. So those three teams looking out

:21:09.:21:17.

the top six, best of the rest. Nico Rosberg in seventh. We watch Petrov

:21:17.:21:22.

and Kobayashi still fighting hard over 15th place. No points or

:21:22.:21:27.

prizes or driver bonuses for that, I would imagine. But they like to

:21:27.:21:32.

have a go. Kobayashi has impressed in his short career with his

:21:32.:21:37.

overtaking skills. Petrov has come on so much since his first year in

:21:37.:21:43.

Formula One. He's in the DRS zone, throws it down the inside, realises

:21:43.:21:47.

he's overcooked it and sensibly drives it straight, regains control.

:21:47.:21:52.

He'll think, right, I'll make that stick the next lack. He threw the

:21:52.:21:56.

anchor out a bit too late there. Kobayashi lucky not to knock the

:21:56.:22:04.

front wing off. Well, I criticised Perez's strategy, and I was so

:22:04.:22:09.

correct on that. He's running 11th at the moment, knocking on the door

:22:09.:22:17.

of some points if anybody has a problem. He's got Barrichello is 11

:22:17.:22:20.

seconds adrift. They're all busy fighting each other, Perez's one

:22:20.:22:24.

stop has got him up there. It's so difficult to judge what's going on

:22:24.:22:28.

with these tyres at any given point. You're dealing with the changing

:22:28.:22:32.

fuel loads. They might be in difficulty at one point with the

:22:32.:22:38.

tyres, but then it can come back to them as well. Good performances

:22:38.:22:45.

from Alguersuari and Sutil. Eighth and ninth place. Disappointing for

:22:45.:22:49.

Heidfeld, I could have difficulty with my pronunciations, we don't

:22:49.:22:55.

have many of those names in Scotland! So Alonso hasn't got

:22:55.:22:59.

anything to take the fight to Vettel. He's eight seconds adrift.

:22:59.:23:06.

And Webber holding station. They're all doing, the last lap they all

:23:06.:23:12.

did 42.5. This lap is 42.2 for Vettel. There's Webber, third place

:23:12.:23:19.

man. Now 9.4 back to Alonso and 2.4 back to Webber. The story here then

:23:19.:23:23.

is can Mark Webber catch Fernando Alonso and put Red Bull back into

:23:23.:23:31.

the one, two situation? Half a minute clear of Hamilton in fourth.

:23:31.:23:40.

Paul di Resta in 14th. There's still a race to have here mate.

:23:40.:23:43.

Barrichello we could have Buemi and Barrichello.

:23:43.:23:51.

It might be possible, but they're all doing 1.44 that whole pack.

:23:51.:23:55.

He's got a couple of seconds to find to the back of Buemi. You

:23:55.:24:00.

never know, he might steal a point even from there with last lap

:24:00.:24:05.

dramas. Vettel was tardy initially off the line, but held first place

:24:05.:24:10.

into the first corner. The two Ferraris were fighting like crazy.

:24:10.:24:15.

Initially it was Massa ahead then Alonso, retook that. It was Red

:24:15.:24:20.

Bull one and two, Ferrari three and four. Fernando Alonso on the soft

:24:20.:24:24.

tyres looked as if he had enough pace to keep the Red Bulls honest

:24:24.:24:30.

all afternoon and he has done that. They haven't been comfortable or

:24:30.:24:38.

had any free air at all to make pit stops when it suited them. They had

:24:38.:24:43.

to stay on the strategy and pace of Ferrari. Alonso has got himself in

:24:44.:24:50.

between the two Red Bulls. He will not give up, will not let them go.

:24:50.:24:55.

Mclaren consistently then fell away, pace-wise, they're fourth and sixth

:24:55.:25:00.

at the moment, Hamilton and Button. Best of the rest then, Nico Rosberg

:25:00.:25:05.

in seventh. The leaders have chosen a three-stop strategy, as the

:25:05.:25:10.

fastest way to do this race, the first two stopper is Alguersuari

:25:10.:25:14.

for Toro Rosso, currently in eighth place. Struggling on lap times

:25:14.:25:19.

though. He's doing a 47.0 at the moment. He's about to have a lot of

:25:19.:25:27.

company. There's Sutil, Heidfeld, Perez and possibly even Rubens

:25:27.:25:31.

Barrichello. So that's for the tail end of the point scorers.

:25:31.:25:37.

Alguersuari has not got this sorted at the moment. 1.47.0, means he's

:25:37.:25:40.

two, three seconds off the pace as his tyres begin to fade in the

:25:40.:25:49.

closing stages of this European Grand Prix. Vettel, a new fastest

:25:49.:25:52.

first sector. He's having a laugh up front there, David. It seems to

:25:52.:25:57.

be the case. Just when we thought we had a battle going on in the

:25:57.:26:02.

first couple of stints, right at the end of the harder tyre, the one

:26:02.:26:08.

that they've left right to the last moments to race on, he's put in the

:26:08.:26:11.

fastest first sector. Remarkably the lap times, if we consider what

:26:11.:26:16.

the fastest lap was last year, different racing conditions, but

:26:16.:26:21.

38.7 was the fastest last year and we're doing 41.4, when you contrast

:26:21.:26:25.

that with qualifying, which was a faster pace with the use of DRS and

:26:25.:26:28.

KERS, it shows how the face of Formula One, the competitive

:26:28.:26:32.

conditions in which they race has changed. Faster opportunities for

:26:32.:26:42.

qualifying and slower opportunities for raigs. -- racing. 41 .852 the

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fastest lab. Mark we have a gearbox problem. Short shift in the low

:26:45.:26:49.

gears. Short shift in the low gears, we

:26:49.:26:53.

were saying earlier, it is the case. We've said it before with Mark

:26:53.:26:59.

Webber. If he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all.

:26:59.:27:02.

They've detected something in the software telling them to reduce the

:27:02.:27:06.

torque on the low gears. That's why he will short shift. Second, third,

:27:06.:27:12.

fourth, he's got enough of a window a 31-second window to Hamilton

:27:12.:27:18.

behind, but what that means is any hopes in the last three laps of

:27:18.:27:23.

securing second place have gone out of the window. Bar a mechanical

:27:24.:27:27.

issue for Alonso or Vettel it will be third place for Mark Webber this

:27:27.:27:33.

afternoon. That's where the major torque is in the shorter gears,

:27:33.:27:37.

where you pump the torque of the engine into the gearbox. They're

:27:37.:27:41.

saying gearbox is hot. Saying just get out of the gears as early as

:27:41.:27:45.

you can. That's the confirmation of the fastest lap that Vettel D

:27:45.:27:50.

there's another story unfolding, because Felipe Massa is catching

:27:50.:27:54.

Lewis Hamilton as well. They're in fourth and fifth places. Button did

:27:54.:28:04.
:28:04.:28:12.

his personal best lap of the race. We watch this battle between Sutil

:28:12.:28:17.

and Alguersuari. Alguersuari must have had a bad lap. He got himself

:28:17.:28:24.

into the 43s, now 43.5. That 47.0uals a scruffy lap or very bad

:28:24.:28:29.

traffic. Sutil then six tenths behind and within the DRS zone, if

:28:30.:28:33.

he can hold that, down to turn eight. Heidfeld and Perez not

:28:33.:28:37.

catching them. I expect some action here. There's

:28:37.:28:42.

a big result for either of these guys to take eighth place. That

:28:42.:28:47.

would be well deserved by either of them. Great performance this

:28:47.:28:51.

afternoon. That's within a second, there's the detection zone. Two

:28:51.:28:56.

long back straights, he'll have another eight or nine miles now,

:28:56.:29:00.

plus you can see, both desperately trying to get the power down, stop

:29:00.:29:05.

the rear wheels from spinning. Now we'll see presumably, we should

:29:05.:29:09.

start homing in on the Toro Rosso towards the end of the straight.

:29:09.:29:16.

We're on the limiter, he has the DRS open but his seventh gear is so

:29:16.:29:22.

short that it's not really. He's bouncing off the 18,000-rev limit

:29:22.:29:31.

in Top Gear. So the DRS is not giving him the benefit it should.

:29:31.:29:34.

That's Felipe Massa getting up behind Glock in the Virgin. That

:29:34.:29:40.

should be fairly straightforward across the Swing Bridge. It's just

:29:40.:29:44.

4.7 behind Hamilton now. He's catching him at about three

:29:44.:29:48.

quarters of a second on the reefious lap. Button I think is

:29:48.:29:52.

solidly down there in sixth, same for Rosberg in seventh. It's

:29:53.:29:57.

Alguersuari and Sutil now we're looking at, plenty of fights going

:29:57.:30:01.

on between Buemi, Di Resta, Kobayashi.

:30:01.:30:06.

Ted? Come back into Mclaren, I was asking their man Simon Roberts why

:30:06.:30:09.

they weren't particularly quick today. He said it's nothing that we

:30:09.:30:13.

expected. The feeling down here is that when they get to a hot race

:30:13.:30:17.

like this, where tyres are critical, they slip back behind Ferrari.

:30:17.:30:22.

Ferrari will have an advantage when tyres are the issue. Team radio.

:30:22.:30:27.

Lewis you're doing a great job. Still five seconds gap.

:30:27.:30:30.

Encouraging Lewis Hamilton to close on Mark Webber with the gearbox

:30:30.:30:34.

problem. That's a good call. What about the next race Martin? I know

:30:34.:30:39.

Mark Webber hasn't taken his gearbox choker yet. If he needs a

:30:39.:30:42.

new gearbox before Silverstone we wouldn't expect him to get a

:30:42.:30:47.

penalty. That's right. You get one free change of gearbox. Have you to

:30:47.:30:51.

make them last five races, otherwise you take a five place

:30:51.:30:55.

grid drop. This is the five. You can hear him bouncing on the

:30:55.:31:01.

limiter. That will keep him behind the Toro Rosso. Unless he can

:31:01.:31:06.

surprise in the braking zone. That choice of seventh gear, is locked

:31:06.:31:10.

off once you get into qualifying, in fact it's locked off two hours

:31:10.:31:14.

after free practice two. When you go into Saturday, you're stuck with

:31:15.:31:24.
:31:25.:31:40.

it. He gets closer, but he's not race, he will be the first man ever

:31:40.:31:44.

to never finished out of the top two in the first eight races of any

:31:44.:31:54.
:31:54.:31:54.

grand prix season. Carelessly at the front. Using his head. And

:31:55.:31:59.

using his tyres better than anybody, keeping them intact, not taking

:31:59.:32:05.

that instant grip when available. Playing belong game. Keeping the

:32:05.:32:10.

car in a good track position. So calm behind the wheel of this Red

:32:10.:32:20.
:32:20.:32:21.

Bull Renault. He has only follow the back markers, he led from the

:32:21.:32:30.

lights going out. Other than during the pit stop. This has been a study

:32:30.:32:40.
:32:40.:32:42.

in dominance for Sebastian Vettel. The pit stops were great. We have

:32:42.:32:48.

not seen him put any wheel wrong. Other than possibly just

:32:48.:32:52.

fractionally slower off the start line. That is the only thing you

:32:52.:32:57.

could look at and say was not perfect this afternoon. As he heads

:32:57.:33:04.

towards the end of the 57th and final lap. The European Grand Prix,

:33:04.:33:11.

here in Valencia. Sebastian Vettel. He will take his 6th win in eight

:33:11.:33:20.

races. An utterly dominant performance. Yet again, Sebastian

:33:20.:33:25.

Vettel, Red Bull will not get one, too, because this man in the back

:33:25.:33:30.

of the picture, Fernando Alonso, at least has kept Red Bull on us this

:33:30.:33:35.

afternoon with a very strong second place. Mark Webber protecting his

:33:35.:33:40.

gearbox and has fallen behind. And is yet to cross the line. There he

:33:40.:33:47.

is. For the final step on the podium. Sebastian Vettel, Fernando

:33:47.:33:51.

Alonso, Mark Webber and then 20 seconds, Lewis Hamilton coming

:33:51.:33:58.

through that final section. He is also relatively calm and coasting.

:33:58.:34:04.

Not under pressure. 4.5 seconds adrift. He salvages 4th place, that

:34:04.:34:09.

is the only way it can be described this afternoon. 46 seconds behind

:34:09.:34:15.

the winner. Michael Schumacher in 17th place. He has been lapped.

:34:15.:34:21.

Felipe Massa takes 70s. The bus of Red Bull sees his cars when it

:34:21.:34:27.

again. Taking on the might of Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes Benz

:34:27.:34:33.

and they keep on winning. Fantastic drive, Sir. Brilliant. Brilliant

:34:33.:34:43.
:34:43.:34:45.

afternoon, well done. Yes! Yes! Fantastic, boys! Better than

:34:45.:34:51.

anything you could imagine. That was such a nice race. I wonder what

:34:51.:34:57.

he thinks is better than the other five he has won this season? His

:34:57.:35:02.

16th Grand Prix victory. It might be because there was speculation

:35:02.:35:06.

that some of the engine software changes being made, people were

:35:06.:35:09.

hoping that this would be the demise of their dominance. Not

:35:09.:35:16.

today. And a well earned the eighth place for Alguersuari, to pit stops,

:35:16.:35:20.

he fought hard. Kept the car in the right part of the track to keep

:35:21.:35:30.
:35:31.:35:33.

Adrian Sutil behind him in 9th place and Heidfeld in 10th. Perez,

:35:33.:35:42.

he did finish 11th. But he does not get any points. Then Barrichello,

:35:42.:35:48.

polemic, Paul di Resta, Kobayashi, 16. Schumacher, Maldonado. That was

:35:48.:35:56.

a very good drive. You just lost out. He bumped into traffic. And we

:35:56.:36:02.

did indeed have 24 finishes in the Grand Prix. Who is your driver of

:36:02.:36:11.

the day, to that? -- David? Excluding the obvious candidates,

:36:11.:36:15.

Alguersuari, the Toro Rosso has done a good job under pressure. His

:36:15.:36:20.

best result of the season. Beyond that, there wasn't a great deal of

:36:20.:36:25.

wheel to wheel action, it was an exercise in controlled, disciplined

:36:25.:36:32.

driving. Difficult to see anybody putting a foot wrong. Interesting,

:36:32.:36:36.

the other races have been wild. We really had to hold on to follow

:36:36.:36:46.
:36:46.:36:48.

them. 24 finishes. Paul di Resta in 14. Maldonado has not really shone

:36:48.:36:58.
:36:58.:37:03.

for Williams. Liuzzi beats Karthikeyan. Why do you think it

:37:03.:37:07.

has not been one of those wild races that we have seen, even in

:37:08.:37:12.

Barcelona? We're getting to that stage in the season, despite

:37:12.:37:18.

Pirelli bringing the different tyres, strategies are now being

:37:18.:37:23.

understood, the performances are being analysed from Friday practice.

:37:23.:37:27.

What we had based on Friday information was Red Bull were

:37:28.:37:32.

fastest from Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault and that has played out in

:37:32.:37:38.

the results. We are starting to get enough information so no matter

:37:38.:37:41.

what fuel levels people run, we are starting to see what will be the

:37:41.:37:47.

best strategy. Unless someone has tripping over traffic or has bad

:37:47.:37:51.

weather conditions, we should not be surprised that the fastest man

:37:51.:37:56.

in qualifying is going off at the front of the race. Strong

:37:56.:38:02.

performance from Ferrari. Fernando Alonso will be delighted at

:38:02.:38:05.

continuing his friend of telling us this has been the best season he

:38:05.:38:12.

has had in terms of driving and is on performance. As we see, once

:38:12.:38:16.

again, the one thing that his rivals fear is that a number one

:38:16.:38:20.

finger being pointed at the camera. We are beginning to misinterpret

:38:20.:38:29.

which finger he is showing! There you go. That finger. He was hugging

:38:29.:38:39.
:38:39.:38:39.

Ian Morgan, the chief engineer. That was a rather limp hog with

:38:39.:38:43.

Fernando Alonso! When you go for that case and you are not sure if

:38:43.:38:48.

it is left or right, it is like that when winning �3,000 worth of

:38:48.:38:55.

carbon fibre. It isn't good. Mark Webber, with his eyes are closed,

:38:55.:39:00.

no one is in a rush to get their helmet off. No sweat. That confirms

:39:00.:39:05.

that the fastest lap was three seconds slower than last year and

:39:05.:39:08.

physically, the challenge is reducing in Formula One for these

:39:08.:39:18.

guys. The actual challenge of driving on the limit... And that

:39:18.:39:25.

was the case! He isn't bothering to take his helmet off. Keeping his

:39:25.:39:35.
:39:35.:39:39.

head warm. Everything comes off, now. The radio, earplugs, close,

:39:39.:39:49.
:39:49.:39:53.

balaclava. The way in. The old- fashioned system of writing it down

:39:53.:40:00.

on a notebook. His weight will be added to that of the car. As long

:40:00.:40:05.

as it is over 640 kilograms, they will not be thrown out of the Grand

:40:05.:40:12.

Prix! Fernando Alonso, probably about to wish Sebastian Vettel a

:40:12.:40:16.

happy birthday for the coming week, when he will be 24 years old.

:40:16.:40:20.

Pretty ominous, what he is doing now. He could be around for another

:40:20.:40:27.

dozen years, easily, at the front. You would still say that a driver's

:40:27.:40:32.

Prime is around 30. I think they might need to do with that with

:40:32.:40:42.
:40:42.:40:52.

Sebastian Vettel. -- low were that. -- lower that. He has led Sebastian

:40:52.:40:57.

Vettel on four laps this year. How does he keep his chin up?

:40:57.:41:01.

Straightforward, qualifying in front of him! Get that track

:41:01.:41:06.

position and then handle it from there. He drove very well. Gearbox

:41:07.:41:16.
:41:17.:41:17.

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds

:41:17.:43:22.

and second in all of the first eight grand prix is of the season,

:43:22.:43:26.

definitely this man. Sebastian Vettel. Rewriting the record books

:43:26.:43:33.

already, as he lifts the winner's trophy. He has only dropped 14

:43:33.:43:43.

points this season so far. Placido Domingo. Ian Morgan takes a

:43:43.:43:50.

constructors trophy. We will hear the Austrian and then for the team.

:43:50.:43:57.

-- anthem. And the matador, here in Spain. He drove as hard as he could

:43:57.:44:03.

but it was not good enough on the day. Two world champions up on the

:44:03.:44:07.

podium. The first time Fernando Alonso has been on the podium here

:44:07.:44:17.
:44:17.:44:19.

in Valencia. Mark Webber is handed his third-place trophy. Another

:44:19.:44:23.

podium for him, he looks happier than some of them, it has to be

:44:23.:44:28.

said. Relieved to get to the end of the Grand Prix. The first man with

:44:28.:44:34.

the champagne, save some for the mechanics! And maybe some for later

:44:34.:44:41.

on. Why they contemplate higher on earth they are going to match the

:44:41.:44:47.

speed and the brains of the World Championship leader by 77 points.

:44:47.:44:57.
:44:57.:44:58.

Almost a servitude celebration, but I suppose Sebastian Vettel is

:44:58.:45:03.

getting used to it. -- servitude. They will be thinking, I can do

:45:03.:45:08.

with a drink! That it will take away the fact that Sebastian Vettel

:45:09.:45:12.

has won six of the eight races. He can stay at home for the next three

:45:12.:45:18.

races and still the leading. 77 points ahead of his nearest rival.

:45:18.:45:23.

What a drive from him. Really, it is unassailable in my view, at this

:45:23.:45:27.

stage. I cannot possibly see where the real competition against him is

:45:27.:45:33.

going to come. We hope that McLaren would make a big impact, but they

:45:33.:45:38.

were very poor today. Ferrari may be, but there is how long way ahead.

:45:38.:45:42.

We have to hope there will be some exciting races and fan. Sebastian

:45:42.:45:47.

Vettel is looking excited, milking the podium, showing off his trophy

:45:47.:45:51.

and his champagne, a great sight to his team principal, Christian

:45:51.:45:56.

Horner. Well done, Christian Horner. That was interesting on the team

:45:56.:46:00.

radio. He said, this is better than you can imagine. Was that because

:46:00.:46:04.

people were questioning whether he lost his nerve after Canada?

:46:04.:46:08.

think he does really enjoyed his afternoon. It was a fantastic race

:46:08.:46:12.

for him. Yes, he just got it right from start to finish, a great

:46:12.:46:18.

afternoon. Did Canada hurt? Was this the tonic he needed? I think

:46:18.:46:24.

so. It was a great performance. It was a very controlled race. It was

:46:24.:46:28.

tight with Alonso, a tough afternoon. It was not as easy as it

:46:28.:46:34.

looked. There was less action with the DRS than we expected. Unlucky

:46:34.:46:40.

for Mark not to keep the two. But it was close. A tough weekend for

:46:40.:46:45.

Mark Webber. David Coulthard, no driver has ever started the first

:46:45.:46:49.

eight races of the season finishing in the top two every time, almost a

:46:49.:46:54.

record-breaking dash down from the commentary box! Wherever we go,

:46:54.:46:58.

when other drivers are struggling with pace, reliability or with

:46:58.:47:02.

their rivals, Sebastian looks serene at the front. Yes, excuse me,

:47:02.:47:08.

I will take my ears out, talk back issues! He was faultless at the

:47:08.:47:13.

front. He gave us hope that we had a race on our hands, he only had a

:47:13.:47:16.

two-second gap to Mark Webber and then the same to Fernando Alonso.

:47:16.:47:21.

But he seems to be open at Ayr when he needs to control the race and go

:47:21.:47:26.

for his fastest lap at the end. He likes his statistics, and although

:47:26.:47:30.

it makes the team nervous, he tears up the engine and delivers a quick

:47:30.:47:35.

lap. Rob marshal, the chief designer, is with us. Either you

:47:35.:47:40.

are making so that in Look driver, or he is making you look like a

:47:40.:47:46.

clever man. He is a very good driver, to be honest! Such a talent.

:47:46.:47:50.

You work on the car, the dedication that you and Adrian put into it,

:47:50.:47:55.

when you see someone driving it that well. It was fantastic. Yet

:47:55.:48:00.

again, he has not put a foot wrong. Awesome performance from start to

:48:00.:48:05.

finish. Spectacular performance, really. If you were the manager of

:48:05.:48:12.

the other teams, what would you try to do to beat him? Copy us! That is

:48:12.:48:17.

never a good excuse, but maybe it is the only one. Can I just ask you,

:48:17.:48:21.

maybe the viewers would like to try to understand, why are we seeing

:48:21.:48:25.

this switch behind with Ferrari and McLaren at different circuits?

:48:25.:48:29.

Forget your guys, can you explain that to the viewers? This one is a

:48:29.:48:34.

different sort of circuit. I think it has been a bit of a struggle for

:48:34.:48:37.

most of the drivers to get on top of the tyres this weekend. It is an

:48:37.:48:42.

unusual circuit, lots of 90 degree corners. Not many fast corners. We

:48:42.:48:47.

have not been to a circuit like that. The track temperature is very

:48:47.:48:51.

hard. It has been a steep learning curve for everyone. We hear Ferrari

:48:51.:48:55.

are interested in your skills and abilities. Use of about Red Bull,

:48:55.:48:58.

time to help someone else that Mark they have not spoken to me about

:48:58.:49:03.

it! I am sure you are very expensive! Enjoy the celebrations.

:49:04.:49:11.

Thank you very much indeed. some reason, McLaren's race pace,

:49:11.:49:15.

which they had been boasting about all weekend, they tell us, wait

:49:15.:49:19.

until Sunday, well, we did, and they could not do much. We can hear

:49:19.:49:25.

from Martin Whitmarsh. Martin, some good points, but explain why

:49:25.:49:29.

Ferrari seemed to have been quicker than you today. Is it that when we

:49:29.:49:34.

get to a circuit wet tyres are key, they seem to be easier on them?

:49:34.:49:38.

think we were probably overheating the tyres. They have a stronger DRS

:49:38.:49:43.

system. This is a DRS-strong circuit. As you may know, Jenson

:49:43.:49:48.

had a KERS failure halfway through the race, so he was closing half a

:49:48.:49:53.

second per lap as a consequence. He was easier on the tyres. I think

:49:53.:49:56.

Lewis did a good job after the start that we had, but very

:49:56.:50:03.

difficult to get back on terms. We have had three races with very

:50:03.:50:07.

quick cars. It was not the quickest race car today. I think we were

:50:07.:50:12.

quite close to the Ferrari pace, not as fast as Red Bull in the race,

:50:12.:50:17.

but we will see what we can do in two weeks' time. The British from

:50:17.:50:20.

free, so important for McLaren. Would you have the quickest race

:50:20.:50:25.

car there? Well, surprisingly, that is what we are going to be working

:50:25.:50:30.

on! But you never know, every circuit is different. We will have

:50:30.:50:34.

some developments. That is the interesting thing about this season.

:50:34.:50:38.

The last two years have been quite intriguing. Obviously, Red Bull is

:50:38.:50:42.

very, very strong. Disappointing that we do not have their race pace

:50:42.:50:48.

at this event. You know, after the disappointing start, it is quite

:50:48.:50:52.

difficult to recover in traffic. You damage the tyres pretty quickly.

:50:52.:50:56.

That has clearly made it difficult to do the lengthy stint that we

:50:56.:51:00.

wanted. We lost a bit too much time. On the other hand, we are a long

:51:00.:51:03.

way ahead of the others behind us, but we need to be in front of Red

:51:03.:51:08.

Bull. A clear message from Martin Whitmarsh, we were not as quick as

:51:08.:51:12.

we hoped to be here, but we will be quick at Silverstone. That is where

:51:12.:51:16.

Jenson Button will be arriving joint second in the Constructors'

:51:16.:51:18.

Championship and Drivers' Championship, despite today

:51:18.:51:25.

finishing in a lowly six. Jenson, Lewis and Paul Black Rod going to

:51:25.:51:35.
:51:35.:51:53.

Britain in a couple of weeks... -- I tell you what, we would not mind

:51:53.:51:57.

this weather in a couple of weeks, Eddie. I think we would be frazzled,

:51:57.:52:02.

shrivelled up into nothing, this is just so warm. It is the real start

:52:02.:52:06.

of the summer, I suppose. Frazzled and do nothing, not a picture I

:52:06.:52:11.

want in my mind! Talk to me about McLaren. They did not have the race

:52:11.:52:15.

pace. Martin Whitmarsh was at a loss to explain it, maybe the heat

:52:15.:52:19.

had something to do that. That is why I ask why the others were

:52:19.:52:23.

struggling. It is so difficult to explain why you do not have the

:52:23.:52:27.

pace. In my experience, when you are winning races, everyone goes,

:52:27.:52:31.

of course we are, we are better than everyone else. When you are

:52:31.:52:35.

not winning, oh, well, we think we are working on something. Nobody

:52:35.:52:39.

really understands. There are so many black arts in Formula One to

:52:39.:52:41.

extract every last bit of performance to give drivers

:52:41.:52:45.

confidence. The man with the most confident right now is Sebastian

:52:45.:52:49.

Vettel. He is in the drivers' press conference as race winner of the

:52:49.:52:55.

sixth time this season, sitting in the middle. Sebastian, another win.

:52:55.:52:58.

He described it on the team radio as better than anything you can

:52:58.:53:03.

imagine. Why the rate this win so highly? Why we are feeling so high

:53:03.:53:07.

after victory? Maybe from the outside, you know, I do not know

:53:07.:53:10.

how much was happening in the Grand Prix, but maybe for myself, it

:53:10.:53:17.

looked like a boring race. But I will tell you, I enjoyed it so much.

:53:17.:53:20.

Between you and the car every single lap, I did have pressure

:53:20.:53:24.

from behind at times, because the strategy was different from Mark

:53:24.:53:27.

and Fernando, so it sometimes they were pitting earlier, sometimes

:53:27.:53:32.

later. Even though I had a gap before the stop, I came out and

:53:32.:53:38.

they were quite close again. Again, pushing hard, judging the tyres,

:53:38.:53:42.

trying to imagine what the end of the stint could be like, trying to

:53:42.:53:46.

foresee the strategy. Every single lap between you and the car, as I

:53:46.:53:51.

said. For some reason, I enjoy this track. Last year I had a smooth

:53:51.:53:55.

weekend, again this year. Fantastic, the team has done a phenomenal job

:53:55.:53:59.

preparing the car. You know, even though we come every year and say,

:53:59.:54:04.

this might be tricky, because the track is not made for us 100%, with

:54:04.:54:09.

no real fast corners, but we managed to put everything together.

:54:09.:54:14.

For us this weekend, I am very happy with the result, obviously. -

:54:14.:54:21.

- Fernando, for some laps it was just you and your Ferrari, that you

:54:22.:54:25.

and Mark were very close and the track, a great battle.

:54:25.:54:29.

interesting race for the fans and the people on TV to see the fight

:54:29.:54:34.

with Webber. All the race through, I think. At the beginning of the

:54:34.:54:38.

race, I was behind him, trying to be not too far and trying to have

:54:38.:54:43.

the benefit in the pit stop, have the opportunity to overtake him.

:54:43.:54:47.

The opportunity came later in the middle of the race, but on the

:54:47.:54:53.

track, not in the pits. I overtake them on the braking zone for turn

:54:53.:54:58.

12. On the pits, they did a good job and overtook us. On the Last

:54:58.:55:04.

Star, the team did a good strategy, keeping the car out longer than the

:55:04.:55:09.

Red Bull. -- on the last stop. The car performed well, and we overtook

:55:09.:55:15.

him finally. Changing positions between Mark and me, at the end,

:55:15.:55:20.

second place was the maximum we can have in these days. Been here

:55:20.:55:23.

between the Red Bull cars is a great achievement from the team.

:55:23.:55:28.

Monaco was very good performance for weekend, we finished second.

:55:28.:55:31.

Canada was very good performance, we do not score any points. Here,

:55:31.:55:37.

again, very good weekend, potential performance, both cars in the top

:55:37.:55:39.

five is a great team result. Definitely moving in the right

:55:39.:55:43.

direction. We need to keep working and get closer to the skies in the

:55:43.:55:49.

next one, hopefully. Mark, Fernando mentioned the changing positions.

:55:49.:55:52.

He received an apology on the team radio. Was that because you should

:55:52.:55:57.

have finished second today? I think we should have, but in the end we

:55:57.:56:01.

did not. It was a good race with Fernando. It was probably my best

:56:01.:56:05.

race of the year up until the last pit stop. It was quite close with

:56:05.:56:09.

all three of us. Obviously, we are trying to go as fast as possible,

:56:09.:56:13.

manage the tyres. It is always the same these days. I was very happy

:56:13.:56:17.

with how the race was going until the last stop, and it was my fault,

:56:17.:56:22.

not the team's. I elected to... I was right about Fernando coming in

:56:22.:56:27.

beneath me, and it was not really knowing how the medium tyre would

:56:27.:56:30.

perform on the out lap. For sure, it is not as good as the soft, but

:56:30.:56:35.

is it better than an old sock? I took that risk, and I lost out. Ben

:56:36.:56:41.

Ando stayed out for a few more laps, I came out into traffic. --

:56:41.:56:45.

Fernando. I miss second today, Fernando drove a good race. We were

:56:45.:56:49.

all nip and tuck all the way to the end. At the end, the gearbox was

:56:49.:56:54.

playing up. We had to back right off. We had a massive gap to

:56:54.:57:00.

McLaren, they were one sector behind at least, if not two.

:57:00.:57:10.
:57:10.:57:11.

deflated Mark Webber. What did not in Valencia. Lewis Hamilton will be

:57:11.:57:14.

another frustrated driver. We will have a look at the start of the

:57:14.:57:19.

race from his point of view in a moment. Nico Rosberg, Jaime

:57:19.:57:23.

Alguersuari, his best-ever finish in Formula One. Nick Heidfeld Franz

:57:23.:57:30.

off the top 10. Sergio Perez disappearing into 11th place. He

:57:30.:57:33.

stopped just once during the Grand Prix. Is lap times may have been

:57:33.:57:40.

slow, but it helps not stopping too much. Michael Schumacher lost his

:57:40.:57:45.

front wing and ended up 17th. The new teams at the very back. 24 cars

:57:45.:57:49.

finished this race. We saw how busy it was on track as the front-

:57:49.:57:52.

runners were trying to get past. Sadly, they could not. This is what

:57:52.:58:02.
:58:02.:58:09.

it means for the Drivers' the teams want, this is the one

:58:09.:58:13.

that the money attached, and it is first for Red Bull, McLaren, and

:58:14.:58:18.

then Ferrari. Renault are behind Mercedes at the moment. Back to the

:58:18.:58:23.

very start of the race now. We saw the start from 2010 in that build

:58:23.:58:26.

up, an incredible start from Lewis Hamilton, but if we look at this

:58:26.:58:30.

weekend, the great start was from Felipe Massa. But he could not make

:58:30.:58:37.

it stick. Difficult conditions on the grid with 150 kilograms of fuel.

:58:37.:58:40.

Felipe Massa right around the outside of the McLaren. He has

:58:40.:58:43.

another look at Mark Webber. The bails out and allows Fernando

:58:43.:58:48.

Alonso to get around the outside. Then they ran in that order on the

:58:48.:58:53.

way down to the second chicane. In all that incident, we would get an

:58:53.:59:03.
:59:03.:59:06.

overview here. Rosberg managed to Alonso and Hamilton. It looks safe

:59:06.:59:12.

macro at his point, but having a snip at Webber was very costly. The

:59:12.:59:16.

next corner is a left-hander, so he assumes the position. Just behind

:59:16.:59:22.

that, Rosberg slipped in front of Button. Sorry, Eddie, I can see are

:59:22.:59:27.

trying to get in. Button was very wide in turn one, so we would have

:59:27.:59:32.

had dusty tyres on a run into turn 2. None the less, a clean start

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from all the cars. The thing that impresses me more than anything was

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the clear running of Vettel. Now we he gets the place back against

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Massa. I would have to say it was a very strong raised by Alonso today,

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and it showed a slight resurgence of performance from Ferrari. We

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have not seen that much in recent times. However, Lewis again. For me,

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and then Fernando Alonso, his nemesis, going around the outside.

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At this point Lewis Hamilton was hot under the collar and his

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frustrations grew. He did keep them controlled. Bearing in mind the

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last couple of races he has had and I thought there were times at the

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car let him down. What is interesting is Fernando Alonso has

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been delighted with his last two races, very happy to be second. And

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Lewis Hamilton, frustrated. Just not happy. The car isn't giving him

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the opportunity to win championships and you can sense in

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all the radio communication, at one point he said he couldn't go any

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slower and the next, he could not go any faster! Some frustration for

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Lewis Hamilton, he always finished second here but not today. How

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would you sum up today? Could result compared to the last race!

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Nice to see the chequered flag but it did sound frustrating that there.

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At some points you are being told to slow down and that others, to

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get more. How difficult is it to get on with your job? It was not

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frustrating. We had a very poor start. And we lost out to Ferrari.

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But we were not as quick. Even if I was ahead, I would really have

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struggled. And the guys were just asking me to stay out longer. This

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is all I can do. I was pushing all the way but I was really struggling

:01:52.:01:58.

with my tyres. It seems like we have taken one step backwards this

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weekend. In terms of performance. Or the others have taken one step

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forward. To be able to finish in 4th place, still some good points.

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I cannot complain. Where do you think your car is lacking? Were

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when you ask for improvements at Silverstone? Downforce. We have had

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upgrades in the front wing, for example, but we have been

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struggling with rear downforce. In the next race we will be really

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struggling. Once we lose the engine map. We might see some differences.

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You are quite interested by what you said? My hearing isn't as good

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as it used to be but did he say he thinks he might lose out further in

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the next race? The system is cold blowing. Contrary to what people

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thought, it would be disappointing to see McClaren drop back even

:03:03.:03:07.

further at Silverstone. This circuit is all about straight lines

:03:07.:03:16.

and maximum speed. Clearly, the car was not working with that. Engine

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mapping? What is he talking about? That has been the focal point of

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this weekend, they are not allowed to change that in the qualifying.

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Actually, the people that know the regulations believed that the big

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game that Red Bull had... What is engine mapping?! Making the engine

:03:39.:03:43.

fluctuate up and down in a given situation. The nice thing about

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Lewis Hamilton, it was a tough couple of weeks but he is still not

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scared to have a go, particularly against the world champion. He has

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been criticised, we heard the somewhat effort of an apology by

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Niki Lauda. But nobody wants to see him change. That was so swift, so

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clean. Emphatic. Never any question he was not going to go past and

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that is what I want to see. There was more overtaking than we have

:04:15.:04:23.

seen here in the past but it was not exciting? I think we have to

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take note of what a great start to the grand prix season we had and it

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was inevitable that one of them would not be quite as exciting.

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Especially with all other cars going out after normal qualifying.

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And the fastest car at the front. Ers did help with some but it did

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not seem to be as clear at creating opportunities. We have been spoiled

:04:45.:04:49.

so far. And a couple of books ago in Canada, Jensen Button was the

:04:49.:04:53.

centre of attention but it was not the race he hoped for today. He

:04:53.:04:58.

lost it right from the start. have heard about the start that

:04:58.:05:04.

they made. This is another one. He is battling from the back foot

:05:04.:05:14.

straight away. He loses out, Rosberg coming round. What can that

:05:14.:05:20.

be? Have they got fundamentally less grip available? It isn't

:05:20.:05:24.

downforce of the line. Maybe something else? It is compromising

:05:24.:05:28.

the way that they use their tyres. That was surprising. In the past,

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McLaren have made good starts. Jensen Button finishes in 6th

:05:33.:05:39.

place... Word you think you struggled most? With the Kers

:05:39.:05:45.

system or the start? At the start it was not perfect. In the way it

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was the only fun part, getting past him to turn number two. Apart from

:05:50.:05:56.

that, it was not the most exciting race, was it? From your point of

:05:56.:06:02.

view? I did not see another car for the whole race. I did not have a

:06:02.:06:06.

very good balance. I had a lot of Winston, which I was struggling

:06:06.:06:10.

with throughout. And then I had because cistern filling halfway

:06:10.:06:18.

through, which is a lot of lap time for us, we have a good system. --

:06:18.:06:24.

of the Kers system. Even so, the pace was not there. To finish with

:06:24.:06:30.

those issues was not so bad. But we need good upgrades. We need to get

:06:30.:06:34.

our heads down and improve the car, the package, aerodynamics, we need

:06:34.:06:40.

to improve for Silverstone. We are not moving forward. That is what we

:06:40.:06:44.

need to concentrate on. Lewis Hamilton echoed that. For

:06:44.:06:52.

aerodynamics? I think so. We need to take risks. Behind us, there is

:06:52.:06:58.

a big gap. In this race, anyway, to the Mercedes and Ferrari, they are

:06:58.:07:03.

in front and Red Bull is miles away. We need a lot of lap time and I do

:07:03.:07:10.

not think these new regulation changes in terms of the diffuser

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bulls will have a lot of impact. Hopefully we will gain more than

:07:16.:07:21.

Red Bull but I don't know. Thank you. And that is the idea of just

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how complicated it can be, not even the drivers know if the new changes

:07:25.:07:29.

will help or hinder. There is a clear message from Lewis Hamilton

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and Jenson Button to their team. Bring is more aerodynamics, bring

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us a faster car. McLaren are one of the teams from pre-season testing

:07:40.:07:43.

until what they delivered in the first race, they made a massive

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step forward and they are trying to unleash that next step forward. To

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be in a position where they can qualify in the front row and

:07:50.:07:56.

challenge. At the moment, they seem to be lagging behind. The big

:07:56.:07:59.

problem with McLaren is they came here full of expectations, the

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front wing and the rear wing, and they have to go away from here and

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rethink and rework this. It did not give them any advantage, it lost in

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time. The rear wing helped slightly when Jensen Button was having a go

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at Nico Rosberg. He finished in front of him. This was incredible,

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there was no DRS. He had massive speed. He was very lucky, it looked

:08:26.:08:32.

like Rosberg went early on to the brakes. He sets up for the shot and

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then Rosberg was so early on the brakes that Jensen Button's cat-

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like reactions not only got him down the inside but he fully passed

:08:40.:08:44.

them by the time we got to the apex. There has to be a question-mark

:08:44.:08:49.

over the way he handled that corner, he left to big of a gap and he did

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not make any effort to stop them. I would criticise my driver if he did

:08:54.:08:58.

that, to be honest. I did not think it was strong enough defence.

:08:58.:09:03.

Jensen Button brave on the brakes or was Nico Rosberg being nervous?

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He was early. Jensen Button went for the inside. It did look like

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Nico Rosberg was early on the brakes, he was able to be on the

:09:13.:09:17.

dirty line and still make the corner without locking up. You

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would take a driver away after the race and talk to them about what

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happened? He gave up one point, he could have fought harder for that,

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the system is so tight after Red Bull that you must say, Mercedes

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needs as bigger shot in the arm as anybody and if Nico Rosberg can up

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their game... If drivers are going to defend so clumsily, like that,

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then you would have to talk to him and say, come on, we are in this

:09:46.:09:49.

together, surely you could have put a better fight up against that

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corner? I bet you wish you had driven for Eddie Jordan? There was

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nothing wrong with what I said! is your point of view. It is

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absolutely fine for individuals to go at it. I'm just glad I have

:10:04.:10:09.

never driven for you! You were a tough bus and one man who did start

:10:09.:10:12.

his career with Eddie Jordan was Michael Schumacher and he isn't

:10:12.:10:18.

scared to go for overtakes. It all got tasty. As he said, every time

:10:18.:10:23.

you see the replay, you are worried about what you will see next?

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a contrast to Canada. Brilliant driving, right on the white line. I

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have to see that again. It was a little bit clumsy. He is on the

:10:37.:10:40.

inside, he is entitled to be there but there was always going to be

:10:40.:10:44.

that closing gap and you have to either get off the brakes and put

:10:44.:10:48.

yourself into the position... Watch this, he is over the white line.

:10:48.:10:52.

Tactically, that could have been looked at. I just be to refresh my

:10:52.:10:56.

memory as to whether the wheel has to be completely over or if it is

:10:56.:11:00.

just touching. The Beagle, the gap is closing, Michael is regretting

:11:00.:11:04.

that he is on the inside and he tries to get on the brakes and he

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to have a chat with Michael Schumacher, that was probably worse

:11:14.:11:19.

than Nico Rosberg! I reckon he is just about... That would not be

:11:19.:11:26.

given as a goal, I am saying that. Although I would have him out, what

:11:26.:11:34.

do you think? I am not show Show! Let's hear from Michael Schumacher.

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My car, some are pure race for us. After the front wing, we did not

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see so much of the on television. No? What a surprise! I'm not of my

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front wing, that was my own problem. I tried to keep my position with

:11:51.:11:57.

Petrov, I wanted to stay in front of them, but I simply could not

:11:57.:12:01.

stop at one point any more. I lock the front tyres and slide it into

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them and lost my front wing. Then the race was pretty much done. I

:12:06.:12:11.

gaze the pace would have been OK for 7th or 8th. That would have

:12:11.:12:15.

been the maximum we could have got. When you are driving around, what

:12:15.:12:19.

are you thinking? Are you just try to keep out of people's ways, using

:12:19.:12:25.

it as a test? What goes on? First of all, you just go maximum and try

:12:25.:12:29.

to recuperate as much as you can. You never know what will happen.

:12:29.:12:35.

Our speed was not too bad to catch up quite a few Mike Barker's --

:12:35.:12:40.

quite a few back markers. But the problem was that the guys were

:12:41.:12:44.

starting on prime tyres, so that meant they had the option tyres

:12:44.:12:49.

when I was approaching them. The difference of the tyres was to be

:12:49.:12:53.

to make any further move forward. Thanks, Michael. You are welcome.

:12:53.:12:57.

It must be so frustrating for the drivers. Just when they are feeling

:12:57.:13:03.

good, like Michael after Canada, you pay the price if you do not get

:13:03.:13:08.

it right in the lap one. This is an exercise in getting every corner of

:13:08.:13:12.

every lap perfect. I think that is what we saw from Sebastian Vettel

:13:13.:13:17.

up front. We do not see many mistakes from Fernando Alonso. Mark

:13:17.:13:22.

made one little mistake, running wide on Pittendrigh. Otherwise,

:13:22.:13:27.

they are all taking the boxes around the racetrack. You're always

:13:27.:13:30.

going to be on the back foot if you have to come in for another pit-

:13:30.:13:35.

stop. It is a bit unfair on Pirelli to blame them. What was the

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downfall of Michael today was track position. He should have given way

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to the faster car. For me, I think it was just silly. You should not

:13:44.:13:49.

have lost his front wing, and he will recognise that. Is it an easy

:13:49.:13:53.

excuse for the driver's first Mark blame the tyres. He is a racing

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driver, you should ask him. They have a gift for finding the best

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excuses at any given time. All racing drivers are the same, they

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love excuses, it is never them, always something else. Michael

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Schumacher made a mistake in that corner. They are entitled to make a

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mistake, but do not blame the tyres. One man who was not making any

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excuses is Alguersuari. We spoke to him yesterday ahead of qualifying.

:14:22.:14:25.

He had a great qualifying session. He struggled in qualifying, I

:14:25.:14:31.

should say, but had a great race. This is his best result in Formula

:14:31.:14:36.

One, A. Yes, a timely result. He seemed pretty chilled when you

:14:36.:14:41.

spoke to them about his season. None the less, the drivers in that

:14:41.:14:49.

team are under pressure. There are teams -- drivers being lined up as

:14:49.:14:53.

the next Red Bull young drivers. One of the skies will be popping

:14:53.:14:59.

out of the system. It was a big result for Alguersuari. We spoke to

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his father here, he is active and involved. He is doing a good PR job

:15:03.:15:09.

for his son. It was what happens on the track that matters. This was a

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strong result. It was not easy to go and do the laps that he did. He

:15:14.:15:17.

is the young driver with a huge amount of talent, and he has got a

:15:17.:15:23.

lot to offer Formula One. We can hear from him now. He has fallen

:15:23.:15:26.

out in the first part of qualifying previously but finished in the

:15:26.:15:31.

Points For the last two races. He will be smiling. A great result in

:15:31.:15:36.

front of your home fans. How are you feeling? Very good, really good,

:15:36.:15:40.

because Valencia is my second home town, and I could not do it in

:15:40.:15:44.

Barcelona. We did a good race, but the consistency was not key. Here

:15:44.:15:52.

it was. The brakes that we had in the car were very important. To

:15:52.:15:55.

show this race performance and consistency was very good. There

:15:55.:15:59.

has been speculation about you and your seat. You feel you are having

:15:59.:16:04.

to fight to show your talents? Absolutely, I am here because I

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enjoy Formula One, I enjoy driving. I think I'm doing a good job, I

:16:08.:16:14.

think I am learning a lot, and there is still to come. I do not

:16:14.:16:17.

think my future is under question. I don't care. To be honest, I want

:16:17.:16:23.

to enjoy the present a Formula One. I do my very best job race after

:16:23.:16:28.

race, and I think we will have some points. In life, problems exist,

:16:28.:16:33.

and problems are always in life, so you are always needing to push to

:16:33.:16:38.

recover the problems, needing to push to evaluate yourself and go

:16:38.:16:42.

one with a progression. I think we are doing a good job, because we

:16:42.:16:45.

are covering the pace that we did not have at the beginning of the

:16:45.:16:50.

year. We are progressing. It is not just about the results today. You

:16:50.:16:54.

understand the car, the tyres. The engineers know and understand

:16:54.:16:59.

better the car and help you improve your performance. It is Formula One,

:16:59.:17:04.

it takes time. It is work and work and work. You might enjoy your

:17:04.:17:06.

third home race at Silverstone, because he went to school in

:17:06.:17:13.

England. I was in Ipswich at school, and it was a good experience for me.

:17:13.:17:16.

Hopefully we'll get some points at Silverstone, and I will be very

:17:16.:17:22.

happy. Enjoy it, thanks. impressive young man, fast and

:17:22.:17:26.

philosophical. Points for Jaime Alguersuari, but no such luck for

:17:26.:17:33.

Paul di Resta, who was locked in a battle. If you were at the front of

:17:33.:17:38.

it, you picked up a point for tenth place. Four finished in 14th.

:17:38.:17:42.

might not have been the position you wanted, but what a fantastic

:17:42.:17:49.

battle at the end. It was, quite a few cars there! We were definitely

:17:49.:17:54.

compromised by strategy. Those five laps, the tyres, two laps in the

:17:54.:17:58.

first stint, three laps on the third stint. When the tyres are

:17:58.:18:02.

like that, you are losing 2.5 seconds per lap, and that

:18:02.:18:06.

compromised the race. There was a bit of confusion. When we were due

:18:06.:18:11.

to come in, Adrian came in. We had to let Sebastian come by when he

:18:11.:18:16.

was lapping us. I am not sure we would have quite finished... May

:18:16.:18:21.

the 10th, probably 11th. You get difficult races, but it was all

:18:21.:18:25.

very tight, and that is what made a small difference to getting at

:18:25.:18:30.

there. The first race that you have been trying to get past people but

:18:30.:18:34.

constantly looking in your mirrors because 24 cars finished here, and

:18:34.:18:39.

traffic is a big problem at this circuit. It was a big problem. DRS

:18:39.:18:42.

did not seem as effective as I thought it would be. A few times I

:18:42.:18:48.

got in his own but nothing really. -- in the zone. I did not get

:18:48.:18:52.

overtaken, so I suppose it is positive from that. It was a

:18:52.:18:56.

difficult weekend, losing Friday. That is crucial, to make the car

:18:56.:19:01.

right. I think I was slightly off Adrian's pace but could match it at

:19:01.:19:07.

some point. Unlucky, Paul. If you want more motor sports, MotoGP is

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on BBC Two. Press red to join as for the forum. This is what you

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not going in at four. That is the race winner, Sebastian Vettel, the

:19:25.:19:32.

champagne is prey in already! Eddie, this is your moment. I think he is

:19:32.:19:42.
:19:42.:19:48.

Listen, I have done and enough swimming for a lifetime! He is in

:19:48.:19:52.

again! I do not think there is anything we can do to save you,

:19:52.:20:02.
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David! This is the kind of stuff We did well to stay dry. Press red

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right now for the forum. I do not want to worry you, but to my right

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is a very big harbour indeed. Thank you for joining us for the European

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Grand Prix. After the Canadian Grand Prix, the drivers were soaked.

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Actually, they were just as drenched here, but it was Canadian

:20:18.:20:23.

rain two weeks ago and the Spanish sun this time. Apart from one man,

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