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season is under way! Lewis Hamilton! He is the master! Again,

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 125 seconds

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Sebastian Vettel. pressure these bands put on

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Sebastian Vettel, the biggest amount comes from just one of man -

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- these fans. His harshest critic is himself. Welcome to the 2011

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German Grand Prix wife from a rather chilly Nurburg. Eddie Jordan,

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not great for the suntan here but this kind of weather gives us great

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racing, we have seen it already this year. I cannot recall wearing

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a coat at a Grand Prix before! This is unbelievable! This is global

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cooling at its greatest. And that coat is such a relaxing colour,

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which is rare for you! It feels about 11 degrees cooler than 11

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degrees. Red Bull arrived here having not been beaten at the last

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race, that is inspirational. wants to win this Grand Prix and it

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is his home Grand Prix. He would have come here when he was young

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and is highly motivated to get a victory. The fans have to disappear

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out of the pit lane because before too long, the cars will make their

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way out to the grid. A lot coming your way. A look at the calendar

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and the races that have brought us here and today is not just a chance

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for Ferrari to get back to back wins and four Red Bull to get back

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to winning ways, today is also about the fact that after today, we

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are over halfway through the season. Nine races left including the

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inaugural Indian Grand Prix. But the drivers are only thinking about

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today and getting in here to work, it is in house along with the rest

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of the drivers. As we reach the halfway stage, now is time to look

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at the standings and workout where we are looking ahead to the rest of

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the year. Four race wins for Jason button -- for Jenson Button and

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Lewis Hamilton, what approach to their team need this year? They

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have to be very aggressive. They should go with a tiger policy from

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now, because Sebastian has dominated the first half. They have

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nothing to lose at this stage for McLaren. They have to go for every

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little opportunity. Fernando Alonso is in third, four wins, six per

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Jims in 2010, he now needs a stronger and to 2011 if he wants

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that title. It is confusing why he came on strong towards the middle

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of the year, we saw that last season and offer back at

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Silverstone. What goes on in the winter for the development of the

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car? Eddie is right about the strategy for McLaren, it has to be

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very aggressive to stand a chance of winning this Championship.

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the same applies to Mark Webber, second at the moment. That is good

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news for him and great news for Red Bull that their closest rival is

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one of their own. I said at Silverstone, forget the

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constructors' title, it is over. Look forward to an exciting

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Drivers' Championship because anyone who dreams about Red Bull...

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They have two exceptional drivers, magic set up, are unbeatable!

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is why it Eddie things the Constructors' Championship is over,

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328 points for Red Bull who have had a stunning start to the years.

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That is the title, what about the grid for today? Only three times in

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the past 16 seasons has the ball so to have gone on to take a win here.

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Will that affect qualifying yesterday? Not a bit of it.

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Sebastian Vettel has dominated qualifying this season but could he

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do it in front of his home fans? The other five German drivers were

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also hoping to please their followers but somebody was bound to

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be disappointed. The first German out was Timo Glock who made his

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thoughts clear to his Virgin team while still driving. It is just so

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difficult to drive at the moment. Paul di Resta has at qualified his

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team-mate 7-3 this season but yesterday, Adrian Sutil was too

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quick. Force India have taken a decision and I need to deal with it.

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It has done me damage over the weekend but I need to put my head

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down and go for it in the race. Ferrari and Fernando Alonso had

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been fighting at the front all weekend and looked likely to

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challenge for pole position. But far from being disappointed, Alonso

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said he was where he was expected. I think the practice is practice

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and qualifying is when everyone shows potential. Mixed fortunes for

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McLaren this weekend. Jenson Button had to pull out of his final lap

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and Stott 7th tomorrow. The former World Champion was wondering where

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his speed had gone. Strangely cannot find the grip. Very

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surprising also to be one second behind Lewis, it is not right.

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Lewis had no shortage of speed and despite his concerns at McLaren

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would never be able to challenge Red Bull, he battled hard and ended

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up just off pole position in second place. It was as perfect as I could

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do it, I do not know how I could make it more perfect, it is one of

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the best I have done in the car. Usually by three, your first lap is

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good but to go out again, you go a bit more beyond the limit and go-

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slow on all equal it, but I went four-tenths faster. That left the

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two Red Bulls. One German he would love to win his home Grand Prix and

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on Australian who would not mind spoiling the party. -- An

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Australian. Mark Webber put in an electrifying black, leaving

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Sebastian Vettel having to settle for third place. -- a lecture

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frying lap. I had a tricky day yesterday and was not happy with

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the balance. I was feeling much more comfortable today. Very happy

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with my last blind macro. We made a change. The engineers did a

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sensational job and the call is for them because I would not have got

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it without them. -- the pole position. Mark Webber start at the

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front of the grid for the first -- for the third time this year. The

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Ferraris of fourth and fifth. Vitaly Petrov out-qualified Richard

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place. A difficult day at the office for

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the two men at the back of the grid but what an incredible lap for

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Lewis Hamilton who is on the front row of the grid. We are with the

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Team Principal, where did that speed come from? Was it an

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incredible lap or had she been cheeky all weekend? You did not

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show that in practice. It was incredible from Lewis but he was

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growing in confidence during the weekend. It is about confidence and

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getting the tyres in the right place. What a lap! I am confused

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because you do not do that unless you have a great car below you and

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that first sector, he was mighty. So mechanically, the car clearly

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has a fantastic base. What is the variation from race to race? Again,

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it is clear that in turns of slow speed corners, the car is strong.

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We have lacked a bit in high-speed Connors -- corners compared to Red

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Bull but we have been working hard. Part of this exhaust blowing

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phenomena it is keeping your foot in during the corners and you build

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in confidence. We saw that with Lewis yesterday and I am sure

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Jenson Button will during this race. If ever you were to describe

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perfect conditions for McLaren, you work -- you have them today. Can

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you capitalise on that and win the race? We can win the race and also

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get it horribly wrong! That is the issue in these conditions. We are

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not complaining, I think it will be an exciting race. But we are aware

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it could go wrong, but hopefully we'll get it right. You can maybe

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wicket to your advantage today. What is the weather telling you?

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There is a weather front here so it will be wet during this race. I

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think it will be damp for most of it. If they get on to the auction

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tyres, I do not know, I suspect they will start on the

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intermediates. -- the option tyres. What about a man who will be busy

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in 19th on the grid? He is one of than German contingent and has big

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news. Joining me is Timo Glock, up what

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is your good news? I just made it official today in my home Grand

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Prix I am staying with the team for another couple of years. Working

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for a big project, 2014. So you are signed until the end of 2014?

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can't at comment on that! When we listened to your radio yesterday,

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are you did not sound very happy and said the team have made a life

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difficult. You guys just got it wrong. I had a funny weekend with

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my engineers and said as a joke to my engineers, you are making my

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life difficult! No problem against the team or the car, we just had to

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-- two difficult qualifying races where we found the car difficult to

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drive in heavy wind conditions. That just made me make a joke to my

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engineers. But I am not getting this German summer, I have gone for

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it really a strategy, what is happening? How is the weather in

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England? Not much better. It is really strange. I had a Formula

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Three race in May 2002 here and had to cancel it because it was snowing,

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so you never know up here. I have my fireproof underwear up ready

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because it is too cold! What are we expecting this afternoon, is rain

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forecast? I think that will come, but it will be an on and off

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situation. The main problem will be the temperatures to get the tyres

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working. We have to see what we can do at let's hope for an interesting

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race. Great news, have a great day. Snow in May, that gives you an idea

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of the climate we have here in the Eifel Mountains. It would not

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surprise us if it started snowing. When Timo Glock made his

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announcement on the radio yesterday that his team were making it

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difficult for him, which is difficult to hear as it raced

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engineer, did not sound like a joke, heard it and I was a team boss I

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would say, listen, never, ever say thing like that which is in public

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on the radio. We're a family and we're greater as a unit. Never

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split an opportunity for people to ridicule us. It was a hopeless

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comment. Difficult to argue with that. Would the team say let's

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think of a line to spin. Yes, you can't say things on the radio. I

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remember at McLaren we had several pit stops and I said it was like, I

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can't remember the comment now. Coe stone cops stuff. We kept --

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Keystone Cops stuff. Ron took me in and said you are representing the

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team and it is best to say nothing. Ron Dennis scared him so much, he

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blanked from it his mind. Now a man who has had a difficult start to

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the year but is turning thing around, Fernando Alonso. He led

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more laps in Silverstone than in the entire rest of the season

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combined. Is the greatest magician of them all about to pull a rabbit

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out of hat. Is it nice to be sitting here as the last winner of

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a Grand Prix? It is nice, for the team to recover some of the

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difficult time we had in the Championship. We were out of podium

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in the first couple of races and to win the Silverstone Grand Prix was

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good. Is it something we have to accept that Ferrari get off to a

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slow start? I think this year, last year it was maybe more difficult,

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because it was the first year for me in Ferrari and 2009 was not

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great for the team. So this year it is different. The wind tunnel

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problems that we had at the winter slowed us in the first couple of

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races. But on both occasions we start losing points at the

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beginning of the year. We need to improve that part of the

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Championship. You wouldn't sign for team that started its Championship

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hopes half way through the season? Of course, we want to fight every

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year. We race and the first half of the season is a key part of the

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Championship. So it is something that for sure we will improve in

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the next couple of years. I think in Ferrari sooner or later success

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will come. It is a great team and they have a huge potential to do

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well. Do you think Sebastian Vettel will win it? At the moment it is

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difficult to think that anyone can recover the gap. To be real I tick,

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Sebastian Vettel has had a fantastic first half of season, the

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normal second part of the Championship is easy for him. But

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anything can happen. What are your hopes here? It is part of

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Championship which is important x before the August break we want to

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have the maximum points available in this July. In Silverstone we did

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well and we need maximum points in the next two races. We're

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optimistic, but you never know. Ferrari made some magic in

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Silverstone. I understand you do card tricks. Before you drive in a

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race? Yeah on Sunday morning, if I have a new trick or something I go

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in the garage with the guys and play a bit to make some things

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before the race. Can you show snus We will try. There is only three

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cards. It is too difficult. We have three cards. Very easy. We have ten

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of hearts. And we have one ace of hearts. So the ace is here. If I go

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down with the ace of hearts, it is down. No, it is the 10. All in the

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top or the middle will be the ace. On the top there is a ten. In the

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middle you want to see? Is the 10. So there are too many 10s. Why? It

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is always on the bottom. Because logically in the middle and on the

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top is the two 10s. Be careful because on the top sometimes is the

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aiss and in the middle is the ace. So many aces now. You think I'm

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playing with more than three cards? No, three cards always. One was the

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10, one was the ace. And I gave you the last opportunity. Which one was

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the third one? The 1 of hearts. joker. That is very good. JAKE

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HUMPHREY: He is not just a pretty face. How much would he love to be

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the joker in the pack. Just over half an hour to the start of race.

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Stefano Domenicali has joined us. You won the race from third a

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couple of weeks ago, explain how you're aiming to win this race from

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fourth on the grid with Fer doe? - Fernando. The conditions today are

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tricky. We don't like this kind of temperature. We do. I know. That is

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great for the show. We have seen in Silverstone when there was quite...

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A difficult condition at the beginning, we saw McLaren fast and

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Red Bull did better than us. That is the picture that I had in mind

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in the last race. Here it seems that another shower should come. We

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will see. What sort of time? sure it will be around 2 o'clock,

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as always. Bearing in mind your win in Silverstone, why on earth would

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Ferrari agree to go back to the Valencia set up in the software?

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is not a problem of agreeing. I don't know. It must be agreed.

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don't know, Eddie, no one knows exactly what is the performance

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with that kind of thing. Everyone is guessing from one second to one

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tenths to nothing. And the FAI could in any case enforce what they

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want with a TD and if they have new evidence, that is different. This

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is something behind and something that I don't want to hear anyone

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have in their mind as an excuse. I want the people to work hard and

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for me the best thing that I saw yesterday for example during the

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weekend up to now I see a car that is, was quite good in the fast

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corner. That was really a very difficult point for us that. Means

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we have to improve the level of our performance. Not enough, because

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not that strong. But let's see. What is clear is how relaxed

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Fernando is. The guy's won a couple of Championships and hungry for

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more success. Where does he rate in the overall hierarchy of great

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drivers at Ferrari? To be honest, I see him very motivated. He wants to

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win us with. Because he understands that Ferrari mean something

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different. But you can see that he has the same approach of Michael.

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He is living with the team. He is pushing hard everyone. But in a

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constructive way. That is for ne most important thing. Thank you. We

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can see him climbing in the car. How much would he love to win on

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the 60th anniversary of Ferrari winning on the Nordschleife. Glad

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you're under cover there. Stefano Domenicali is in a nice seat. He

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won't be getting rained on. But the fans will be. But that does not

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bother them one jot. They love their motor sport here. Come on Red

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Bull. OK it may not be range at the moment. But in 2007 it was not

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raining at the start of raist a then it went wild. You were driving

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in this and finished fifth. What was it like driving. You can see

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Lewis Hamilton's vizibilities. can see Jenson Button taking a one

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way ticket to the bar yes. Aquaplaning here is terrible. Lewis

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Hamilton was able to rejoin the race and we had the scary moment

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where we had a car striking the recovery vehicle that was in there

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to move the cars. In is in situation it is undrivable. You can

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see it coming around there, almost taking out the safety car and

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ending next to the tractor. you're wondering whether it is as

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difficult when it is not raining hard, well we can can tell you it

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is. This is a shot from earlier. David Coulthard and Inzamam-ul-Haq.

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What is going on. That is -- and Mika Hakkinen. What is going on

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here. That is why I don't drive any more. Was that team orders? I think

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Ron Dennis had given an instruction. How much caved Coulthard -- David

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cowl that's right could have cost him. We asked Mercedes how much are

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those cars. They said irreplaceable and priceless. You can hear it has

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got loud. The man who was on pole position is Mark Webber. How much

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would he love to create what happened here two years ago. -- re-

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create. It was pole position at the German Grand Prix and now it is

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going to be victory for Mark Webber. His first in Formula One. Yeah! Yes,

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yes, yes, yes! That two years has flown by? Yes to be you know

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remember my first victory here was unique and lots of things have

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happened in that two years. time you have had a pole position

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this year. It has not played out the way you would have hoped.

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That's right. Both times well Fernando got a cracking start in

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bars Bas. I have got the luxury of looking at both their start and

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working out if I could do a better job. The starts were not too bad in

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Barcelona and in Silverstone, it is not like I'm sitting there

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nerveless. I'm relaxed and just want to get into it. But I will

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have other opportunities to get into pole. Poles are tough and you

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have got to be on top of your game. Is there an elements your team mate

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has had a wit of -- bit of luck. Or this a clutching at straws. Well he

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has driven well. But it's... You know you make your own don't you?

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You make your own luck. I think that you know it won't go forever.

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It goes like this. He has had a great start to the season. OK he

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wins 15 races, all of us will say hats off. But you're liing to say

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Fernando and I wouldn't want to see Seb have a retirement. And for that

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we need him to have some misfor chun. But he is a -- misfortune.

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But he is a class acts. You finish two inches off his gear box, that

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is a positive. At Silverstone, we heard quotes from the team saying

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we don't win by playing games like Ferrari. We won the Red Bull way,

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meaning no team orders. Can we take it there has been a change in team

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policy? I don't think. Because we had the cars close to each other at

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the end of the Grand Prix. Mark you need to main feign the gap. That

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for me wasn't good to here and I pushed hard and I was comfortable

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with that. We have had a chat about it. Christian is running the team.

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That is his position. He is paid to run the team in the best way.

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you understand if you had hit each other that would have cost you

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point and you're still second and Seb has increased his lead. So it

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was the perfect team result? Yes it was. But I think that is the only

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down side of having two drivers like we saw last year. Because in

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Turkey we made kagt and one car survived and the other didn't. Once

0:28:260:28:30

every 30 race if two cars hit each other, maybe it is racing. Would

0:28:300:28:36

you prefer it that way? Yes. Do you think what we saw in Silverstone

0:28:360:28:41

and your desire to not necessarily follow team orders to prove you can

0:28:410:28:45

win, does that strengthen your position to stay with Red Bull?

0:28:450:28:50

still talking to the team about next year. There is a huge chance

0:28:500:28:54

that I continue in Formula One and if I continue in Formula One, it

0:28:540:28:59

looks, I'm not talking to anyoneers. What is to be discussed -- no

0:28:590:29:04

anyone else. What is to discuss, they know you're the best driver.

0:29:040:29:09

Surely it is just where do I sign? Yeah. Two wins in two races here

0:29:090:29:17

that would be nice. Oh a few points mate, yeah, see how we go. Thanks.

0:29:170:29:22

A big day for Mark Webber. It is rather loud down here. Nick

0:29:220:29:28

Heidfeld is there rung through pit lane. When you have had four pole

0:29:280:29:33

position and not a single win, what part of your race do you need to

0:29:330:29:37

look at? I know that Mark has looked at the start performance and

0:29:370:29:41

he has not made particularly bad starts. There is nothing in

0:29:410:29:46

whatless doing that is influencing that. You have to rely on different

0:29:460:29:50

aspects of the pull away from the engine, the software and clutch.

0:29:500:29:54

And it is a shorter run this year than in 2009 and they have halfed

0:29:540:29:59

the distance too the run to first corner. So in theory that should

0:29:590:30:04

mean there is less opportunity if he did make a bad start for the

0:30:040:30:14
0:30:140:30:20

today? -- is Fernando. This is not ideal conditions for Ferrari. I

0:30:200:30:24

think Hamilton is the biggest threat, he is always aggressive and

0:30:240:30:29

very quick and he makes the car work in these conditions. I think

0:30:290:30:36

he could possibly win this race. That is Nick Heidfeld, he start

0:30:360:30:42

11th in this race and he kicked his team-mate out of qualifying. -- he

0:30:420:30:47

starts. Should Mercedes be making their way to the grid? They have

0:30:470:30:52

time and have waited for information. The rain is starting

0:30:520:30:59

to fall so last-minute opportunity to check this car over. That is

0:30:590:31:07

Nico Rosberg, his best ever Grix slot, he start sixth in Mercedes. -

0:31:070:31:10

- Grix slot. They call themselves the national German team, don't

0:31:110:31:16

they? He has for me demonstrated again he is quicker than Michael

0:31:160:31:20

even though they keep talking about who is quicker in that team. But he

0:31:200:31:25

needs to finish on the podium and this is an ideal opportunity

0:31:250:31:29

because from what we are told, it will be variable conditions. Nico

0:31:290:31:35

Rosberg has to grab hold of this and be aggressive in his driving

0:31:350:31:40

and his style. Nico Rosberg has finally decided he is able to

0:31:400:31:46

braved the rain. David, you can now head off to the commentary box. I

0:31:460:31:51

am sure it will be exciting because the rain is now starting to fall as

0:31:510:31:57

the cars make their way to the grid. And Martin is that the great, you

0:31:570:32:04

must recognise the view! This is pole position as it used to

0:32:040:32:09

be. They have moved the grid 240 metres forward. They have halved

0:32:090:32:15

the distance down to the first corner. The cars used to start in

0:32:150:32:20

front of this fresh-air and now that magnificent new grandstand can

0:32:200:32:25

now see what is going on at the start of the race. Cars are coming

0:32:250:32:28

onto the back of the grid and they are doing their final checks here

0:32:280:32:34

and getting ready for the start. We are in the thick of the action, it

0:32:340:32:39

is brilliant! I am going to do this again. I wanted to talk to some of

0:32:390:32:46

the drivers on the back of the grid, up we have not been here for a

0:32:460:32:49

while. Sebastien Buemi, they found an alleged guilt -- and

0:32:490:32:53

irregularity with his fuel after qualifying so he has been penalised

0:32:530:32:59

with a back of the grid start. In the past, cars have been thrown out

0:32:590:33:08

and sent home, it was a small discrepancy of the parameters they

0:33:080:33:12

check, the cars are checked ruthlessly by the FIA after the

0:33:120:33:17

race. We have mechanics from different teams because the drivers

0:33:170:33:23

switch off their engines when they get here. Then they are pushed

0:33:230:33:30

through the pack, a deal set up. A drive it used to be called the

0:33:300:33:36

Whisperer because he would coast through with no engine noise

0:33:360:33:41

terrifying everybody. Felipe Massa is making his way through. It has

0:33:410:33:48

been announced there is a change of climatic conditions from qualifying.

0:33:480:33:53

They are allowed to changed little on the cars. What are they allowed

0:33:530:34:02

to change? I will look in this car here, which is Sebastien Buemi's

0:34:020:34:12
0:34:120:34:13

Toro Rosso. Where those fans are, this car is only cooled going

0:34:130:34:17

through the air and there are no fans other than what is put on when

0:34:170:34:25

the car is stationary. They can blank off the boil and radiators.

0:34:250:34:32

De gear wing, they cannot put any other features in that, they have

0:34:320:34:36

to use what they used in qualifying yesterday -- the very real wing.

0:34:370:34:43

The problem is how much fuel do they put in for this race? What is

0:34:430:34:51

the race pace going to be? They do not want 10 kilograms of fuel

0:34:510:34:55

because it will cost them seconds per lap to carry that for the 60

0:34:550:35:01

lap race. We have got Sergio Perez making his way down the grid. Can

0:35:010:35:07

we find a driver to talk to? I had no idea it was so exciting back

0:35:070:35:14

here! Who have we got here? Daniel Ricciardo, we will see if we can

0:35:140:35:23

talk to him in a moment. The Australian. This is the Red Bull

0:35:230:35:29

man giving him a message. He is a young Red Bull driver and they have

0:35:290:35:35

decided to put him in this car. We heard Mark Webber saying, it is the

0:35:350:35:39

fastest car and I am a great driver but it does not mean I have signed

0:35:390:35:46

up with them yet. Which I found very interesting. Let's talk to

0:35:470:35:55

Karun Chandhok. You have 30 seconds, can you hold on? They put you in

0:35:550:36:01

the cart off Jarno Trulli and you have used his joker on his gearbox,

0:36:020:36:07

he will love you for that! How are you feeling? When did you last

0:36:070:36:14

start a Grand Prix? Exactly one year ago. How it is the track?

0:36:140:36:20

has just started to rain on the reconnaissance lap. It is 20

0:36:200:36:25

degrees cooler than qualifying so it is pretty hideous. It is 50

0:36:250:36:32

Diouf -- 15 degrees, it would you rather not be dry and warm? I would

0:36:320:36:37

like a nice clean and dry race. The longest I have done is ten laps so

0:36:370:36:43

it would have been nice to do a normal race. But once again, I have

0:36:430:36:51

been given to key cards to play with! Good luck. -- difficult cards

0:36:510:36:59

to play with. Coming past us his Rubens Barrichello as. And we can

0:36:590:37:09

talk to Timo Glock, who has re- signed. How is it? It is cold,

0:37:090:37:13

getting very difficult to get up the temperatures, especially on the

0:37:130:37:19

fuel now. We may see something special, if you never know. So you

0:37:190:37:24

have just signed a new contract for two or three years -- or three

0:37:240:37:29

years, and you must be feeling pretty confident. It is great to

0:37:290:37:39
0:37:390:37:41

announce it here at my home race. It is positive news and now it is

0:37:410:37:47

down to us for next year. There are a lot of GP 2 drivers coming gone

0:37:470:37:50

and junk guys so I guess you are looking over your shoulder and

0:37:500:37:56

looking ahead? -- young guys. happy with the team and happy to

0:37:560:38:02

stay with them. And now it is starting to rain! So this is an

0:38:020:38:07

opportunity rather than a threat? You have to stay on the track, no

0:38:070:38:12

mistakes and had the others make mistakes and gain from that. -- and

0:38:120:38:20

you have to hope the others. game is changing very quickly! This

0:38:200:38:30
0:38:300:38:31

is definitely the cart off Kamui Kobayashi. -- the Karloff. And we

0:38:310:38:37

can talk to the Toro Rosso drivers are mine and this is the driver's

0:38:370:38:46

Stewart, eight times a winner. -- the drivers Stewart. Any dramas?

0:38:460:38:51

Everybody has to prepare themselves very well in this weather. A new

0:38:510:38:59

broadcasting on that? No, -- are you broadcasting on that phone? No,

0:38:590:39:07

but my wife keeps me up-to-date! Have you got a quick word for the

0:39:070:39:11

BBC? How was it for you on the formation lap, did you learn

0:39:110:39:16

anything? It is difficult to get front tyre temperature because it

0:39:160:39:22

is very cold and starting to rain, we will see what we will do. From

0:39:220:39:26

these kind of positions, a you keep steaming through into the top 10

0:39:260:39:33

comedy must fancy more of that today? It is a pity -- into the

0:39:330:39:38

top-ten, yet you must fancy more of that today? I feared it is one of

0:39:380:39:42

those races you have to stay on the track because the conditions are

0:39:420:39:47

difficult -- I think it is. What is in your mind now, what are you

0:39:470:39:52

thinking? It will be for intermediates if it keeps raining.

0:39:520:39:57

We will see how the race gets on with the weather. Nobody really

0:39:570:40:03

knows. They do not seem as perturbed by the rain as I thought

0:40:040:40:10

they would, to be honest. I do not know if Sergio Perez is anyway to

0:40:100:40:17

be seen. I imagine he has gone. We are always talking to the drivers

0:40:170:40:22

at the front, at Rubens Barrichello has decided to stay in his car, he

0:40:220:40:30

does not fancy getting wet. It tinted visor, a bit surprised by

0:40:300:40:36

that -- and that is a tinted visor. How is it going, everything could?

0:40:360:40:45

Good luck! -- everything good. He has decided he does not want to get

0:40:450:40:50

wet. And those seats are tailor- made, it is very comfortable.

0:40:500:40:57

Although they do not -- although they do make a bit -- although they

0:40:570:41:04

do hurt a bit when you sit down. Or the tyres are being prepared, so

0:41:040:41:07

many available on the grid because they do not know what they will

0:41:070:41:17
0:41:170:41:21

need. Underneath, 60 degrees. They bake those. It is such a critical

0:41:220:41:26

decision as to what they decide to put on the car for the start of the

0:41:260:41:33

Grand Prix. That is Kamui Kobayashis. We have already talked

0:41:330:41:39

to the Lotus driver. Most of the drivers are off the grid, it is

0:41:390:41:43

bizarre, I thought we might find every driver back here patiently

0:41:440:41:49

waiting. Jake, it is a good time to go back to you so that I can get up

0:41:490:41:54

to the commentary box. Which is very important! Martin

0:41:540:42:02

braving get on the grid. -- braving it. If we go back through a few

0:42:020:42:06

years of Formula One history, there is a great example at the circuit

0:42:060:42:12

of what you can get right and wrong. In 2006, we had rain in the air but

0:42:120:42:17

not at the start of the race and they made a decision to start on a

0:42:170:42:22

wet tyres and they ended up leading a Grand Prix. That could happen

0:42:220:42:28

today. Absolutely, anything is possible. Of those guys at the back

0:42:280:42:32

of the grid, this is their dream come true because this gives them

0:42:320:42:35

an opportunity where anything can happen and they can come through

0:42:350:42:41

and win. Lewis Hamilton knows he is not far off the pace of the Red

0:42:410:42:44

Bull and maybe has the making of Mark Webber at the start, how will

0:42:440:42:51

he be feeling? He is liking this because still Red Bull of the class

0:42:510:42:57

act and he needs all the little changes he can get. And for me,

0:42:570:43:01

Lewis will love this, he is the master of these conditions and has

0:43:010:43:06

great control, that is why I think he will try and win this. Mercedes

0:43:060:43:11

might be struggling for pace but McLaren who used Mercedes engines

0:43:120:43:17

are not and we are talking to the boss of a Mercedes engines. And

0:43:170:43:23

talking of being on the front row, with less than a tenth of a second

0:43:230:43:27

between Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton, where did that time go?

0:43:280:43:32

You will find this fascinating, it is incredible! This is what

0:43:320:43:42
0:43:420:43:43

happened in qualifying. It was an epic battle for pole

0:43:430:43:48

position. Mark Webber on the left and Lewis Hamilton on the right.

0:43:480:43:55

The only interchangeable parts were the tyres, but they were five

0:43:550:44:05
0:44:050:44:05

hundredths of a second behind Mark Webber. The front grip of the

0:44:050:44:13

McLaren is better, we can see. Mark Webber locks his left front and

0:44:130:44:19

Lewis Hamilton is still ahead. Tone four, a slight lift on the throttle

0:44:190:44:25

and a straight, 170 mph up to the last sector and Lewis Hamilton is a

0:44:250:44:30

tenth of a second faster. Mark Webber gets to work on the middle

0:44:300:44:36

part of the lap and he heads down the hill at 180 miles per hour. He

0:44:360:44:40

breaks later in Two Tone seven and the hairpin and suddenly he's a few

0:44:400:44:50

metres ahead he brakes later. Into turn seven. And he climbs towards

0:44:500:44:55

eight and nine at 160 mph and he stretches the lead by a metre or

0:44:550:45:00

two. A tremendous speed through the exit, moving to the right above the

0:45:000:45:05

breaking speed into the high-speed chicane at her and 10 Anne turn

0:45:050:45:12

leva. This is the end of the second sector, Mark Webber is clearly

0:45:120:45:17

ahead but Lewis Hamilton refuses to give up. 190 miles per hour towards

0:45:170:45:25

the end of the lap into to and 13 and 14, slow chicane. Hamilton is

0:45:250:45:32

faster and it is neck and neck with one corner to go. Moved towards the

0:45:320:45:36

outside of the corner, early on the throttle and as the finish line

0:45:360:45:42

comes up, Mark Webber is fractionally ahead. A technically

0:45:420:45:46

brilliant flak from Lewis Hamilton, what a line-up at the front of the

0:45:460:45:56
0:45:560:45:58

Alonso the best he could get was fourth on the grid. In that middle

0:45:580:46:03

sector, Lewis Hamilton was the fourth fastest car. Now the latest

0:46:030:46:10

from the front rung team. Red Bull and the weather. Lee is with

0:46:100:46:20

Christian Horner. Lee? We're used to see a Red Bull at the front

0:46:200:46:24

ashes slaigtly different one. How is Mark feeling? Good it is going

0:46:240:46:29

to be a fantastic race. With a bit of rain in the area as well that

0:46:290:46:34

will only make life more tense. But it is set to be an exciting rate

0:46:340:46:41

race. This might be the test for us at home to see if Mark is leading

0:46:410:46:47

and seb Sebian is hunting him down, will he be told to maintain the gap.

0:46:480:46:52

They may end up in a situation that could take points from the team.

0:46:520:46:57

But they're free to race. They know that. The objective is to make sure

0:46:570:47:03

we beat Lewis Hamilton and Fernando. It is not just about our guys.

0:47:030:47:08

were not impressed with the German summer. What will happen today with

0:47:080:47:13

the weather? They say the weather is in England is like this. But I

0:47:130:47:17

understand it is a nice day there. But I think we have got spotters

0:47:170:47:21

around the track and we send them into the wind to keep an eye on the

0:47:210:47:25

weather. It is so local here. We're high and the weather can change

0:47:250:47:29

quickly. Rain this afternoon? sure at some point. It is a

0:47:290:47:33

question of when. You can't rely on the radar. You have to look at the

0:47:330:47:40

cloud and see what is going on. Thank you. JAKE HUMPHREY: Rain this

0:47:400:47:45

afternoon, try right now. It is actually raining now. There is Mark

0:47:450:47:51

Webber. We spoke a lot about Mark and have hardly spoken about

0:47:510:47:55

Sebastian Vettel. Not on the front row for the first time in 14 races.

0:47:550:48:01

People say he struggles to overtake a good test of his skills? EDDIE

0:48:010:48:06

JORDAN: He is an outstanding driver and I believe he can overtake. It

0:48:060:48:10

is a big test for Mark, he has not capitalised on the pole positions

0:48:100:48:15

he has had. So it is a big test. I can't wait to she what will happen.

0:48:150:48:19

Into the first corner it will be probably Lewis Hamilton and who

0:48:190:48:23

knows after that. He has a different helmet every week,

0:48:230:48:28

Sebastian Vettel. Good luck to him. That is his special German Grand

0:48:280:48:33

Prix helmet. The fans are ready to shout and wail as he goes buy.

0:48:330:48:37

Every where you go, plenty of Ferrari outfits on show. But more

0:48:370:48:44

Red Bull each year. Eddie, who will win? I think Lewis Hamilton has to

0:48:440:48:49

be and will be massively aggressive. Red Bull less so 5 I'm sure Lewis

0:48:490:48:56

Hamilton will win. Jenson Button starts she Athletic -- starts

0:48:560:49:02

seventh. But he has too big a mountain to climb. Vesh is on pole

0:49:020:49:06

position position -- Mark Webber is on pole position and the rain is

0:49:060:49:10

starting to fall. Isn't this just perfect? It might be worth

0:49:100:49:17

switching to the HD Channel if you have it. In the company of Martin

0:49:170:49:23

Brundle and David cowl that's right. Time for the Nurburgring to live up

0:49:230:49:33
0:49:330:50:12

the World Championship and the Nurburgring has played host to

0:50:120:50:17

three different events, the Grand Prix of Europe and Luxembourg and

0:50:170:50:22

this, the German Grand Prix. This track alternates with Hockenheim

0:50:220:50:27

for the German Grand Prix. The last race was in 2009 and it was

0:50:270:50:33

dominated by Mark Webber. There is the track layout. 15 turns, 3.2

0:50:330:50:39

miles. And the three sectors that we monitor through the race and the

0:50:400:50:43

lap record still held by Michael Schumacher. But back in the day

0:50:430:50:50

when they had bigger engines. Track temperature just 15 Celsius. Air

0:50:500:50:55

temperature 13 degrees. We're looking at a puddle outside the

0:50:550:51:00

window and it is definitely raining hard now. Challenging times for the

0:51:000:51:06

drivers to say the least. Hero to zero stuff I would imagine on tyre

0:51:060:51:12

choice and pit stop strategy. Mark Webber's victory, David, back in

0:51:120:51:18

2009 was delivered in different track conditions than today. What

0:51:180:51:23

is inside the drivers' helmets at this moment as they face this

0:51:230:51:28

unknown? It is interesting, you have Mark Webber thinking I have

0:51:280:51:33

got a clean run o' the first corner x but remarkably of the last nine

0:51:330:51:39

Grand Prixs he has lost positions in the first five, or in fave of

0:51:390:51:44

those. So he has it all to lose. If you go down to Jenson Button in

0:51:440:51:49

seventh, where he started in the Canadian Grand Prix. He will say

0:51:490:51:53

this is my opportunity. Something different and changeable and the

0:51:530:51:58

McLaren gets heat in the tyres early and Jenson Button can find

0:51:580:52:02

grip seemingly where others can't and as we speak, the rain is coming

0:52:020:52:06

down heavily. Everyone will have committed to going on the start

0:52:060:52:10

with their, the tyre they have qualified on. Because it is not wet

0:52:100:52:15

enough on track to put others on. But we could see a situation where

0:52:150:52:19

you come around to grid we could see people pulling into the -- into

0:52:190:52:25

the pit lane rather than going to start grid. They may set off in on

0:52:250:52:30

dry tyres. The DRS has been disabled. The drag reduction system,

0:52:300:52:35

that letterbox on the rear wing to go kilometres an hour faster down

0:52:350:52:41

the straights and it is the back straight where it is operated. So

0:52:410:52:45

the FIA think the track is with the enough not to allow that system at

0:52:450:52:51

the moment. It is not aloud any way in the first two laps -- allowed

0:52:510:52:56

any way in the first two laps. We will see whether they decide to

0:52:560:53:01

enable that at the end of the second flying lap of the Grand Prix.

0:53:010:53:09

There then is Mark Webber. Let's look at the entire grid for this

0:53:090:53:13

afternoon's tkwree. -- Grand Prix. 24 starters. Mark Webber on the

0:53:130:53:20

front row with Lewis Hamilton after that sensational lap. Vet have the

0:53:200:53:28

is -- Sebastian Vettel is third. Jenson Button was disappointing in

0:53:280:53:34

seventh. Petrov again in the top ten. Michael Schumacher rounds off

0:53:340:53:44
0:53:440:54:06

the top ten. Mad mald is 13th. -- Trulli. Lut is 23rd because of a

0:54:060:54:12

gear box change and luem luem on the back of grid because his --

0:54:120:54:16

Sebastien Buemi on the back of the grid, because of a problem with his

0:54:160:54:20

fuel. They have to say this is the mixture of our fuel and then with

0:54:200:54:26

analysis and clever stuff, they check it through the year. Peering

0:54:260:54:31

out the window here, the puddle look like it has got less rain

0:54:310:54:34

falling on it. So to correct the potential of people coming in at

0:54:340:54:39

the end of the lap, it doesn't look like will be enough rain before the

0:54:390:54:43

start of the Grand Prix. But it is going to be interesting to see how

0:54:430:54:50

brave the drivers are on the run to the first corner. 150 kilos of fuel

0:54:500:55:00

on board, on a damp track in cold conditions. It is a shorter run.

0:55:000:55:06

140 metres from pole to to -- the first corner, because of the moved

0:55:060:55:11

position. But its unknown where you will press the predal. We will see

0:55:110:55:16

those who need to make up ground sail down the outside. The apex of

0:55:160:55:22

first corner is cricky -- tricky. Yes it drops into the apex and you

0:55:220:55:27

want to take a wide line of course, like on any corner, to minimise the

0:55:270:55:35

amount of drag on the car. But in doing so you risk locking the

0:55:350:55:39

inside wheel. These cars are so stiff that that is something that

0:55:390:55:44

would cost you a potential for problems with the tyre. They will

0:55:440:55:49

be working hard to get heat into the tyres. These tyres are not

0:55:490:55:52

designed to run in temperatures this cold. It is a Championship

0:55:520:56:00

that tries to follow the sunshine. But somebody said to me, Mark

0:56:000:56:08

Webber only ever watches Sebastian Vettel on the start, think bars Bas,

0:56:080:56:13

-- Barcelona, and that maybe a chance for Lewis Hamilton. No, I

0:56:130:56:17

think vesh watches whatever the nearest car -- Mark Webber watches

0:56:170:56:21

whatever the nearest car to him is and that is usually Sebastian

0:56:210:56:31
0:56:310:56:32

Vettel. There is another fight going on between Mercedes and Lotus.

0:56:320:56:38

Renault are just three points apart. In the constructors' World

0:56:380:56:45

Championship. So only Three times in 16 races has the pole sitter

0:56:450:56:49

gone to win the race here and Mark Webber is one of those. Why is

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that? I don't have... I don't have a good answer for that. It doesn't

0:56:570:57:00

make sense that the quickest car in qualifying is not converting that

0:57:000:57:07

into a victory. It is not hard on the car or as difficult for driver

0:57:070:57:10

as somewhere like Monte Carlo where one mistake you're in the wall. So

0:57:100:57:20
0:57:200:57:21

that is unusual. Answers on a post card! There was Christian Horner,

0:57:210:57:26

of course team principal in Red Bull. Ron Dennis of the McLaren

0:57:260:57:31

team. As they line up on the front of grid and Lewis Hamilton is

0:57:310:57:36

pointing his car towards Mark Webber. Adrian Newey the man who

0:57:360:57:40

always seemed to make a Championship winning car sooner

0:57:400:57:44

than later. As the cars come to grid. Stefano Domenicali of Ferrari

0:57:440:57:49

team, they're fourth and fifth on the grid. Six German drivers. A

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quarter of the grid, all hoping for home tkphrory. 18 others intent on

0:57:560:57:59

gate crashing their party. The lights have been on for three and a

0:57:590:58:04

laugh sect seconds for the support -- and a half seconds for the

0:58:050:58:09

support race. Five red laigts we're waiting for and there they are.

0:58:090:58:15

Four, five, one, two three and a laugh go! The German Grand Prix is

0:58:150:58:22

under way. And it is neck and neck. But Lewis Hamilton in the second

0:58:220:58:28

face takes the lead. Mark Webber in a Ferrari sandwich. It is so tight

0:58:280:58:32

and Fernando Alonso is ahead of Mark Webber. Lewis Hamilton leads

0:58:320:58:37

from Sebastian Vettel. Lewis Hamilton leads from Mark Webber and

0:58:370:58:41

then Sebastian Vettel. Rosberg is right in there as well. Fernando

0:58:410:58:48

Alonso will not yield. There is a spinner on the back. That is at

0:58:480:58:54

turn three. Who was that? A lot going on. Maybe some contact. But

0:58:540:59:01

Jenson Button is up the inside of Michael Schumacher. Another poor

0:59:010:59:07

getaway for Jenson Button. Lewis Hamilton leads from Mark Webber,

0:59:070:59:14

Fernando Alonso. It may have been Paul di Resta that had the spin.

0:59:140:59:18

There may have been contact. Right at the back. Michael Schumacher in

0:59:180:59:24

the thick of the traffic. And so we think that Fernando Alonso is

0:59:240:59:28

between the two Red Bulls still. Lewis Hamilton from Mark Webber,

0:59:280:59:33

Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel. As we're watching the midfield.

0:59:330:59:39

There is Rubens Barrichello in front of Kobayashi for 11th and

0:59:390:59:46

12th. Look at the lead Lewis Hamilton has from Mark Webber and

0:59:460:59:56
0:59:560:59:56

Sebastian Vettel. Lewis Hamilton will lead at the end of the first

0:59:561:00:06
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still running but as he said, David, Heidfeld and di Resta or at the

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back of the field, they must have been contact between them. There is

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Alonso of the race track. He has obviously gone out on the kerb on

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the long term two and lost the back end but thankfully, lots of Tarmac

1:00:311:00:36

for him to regain position. There will be some choice Spanish words

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inside that cockpit because he has released the Vettel now. Rosberg is

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writing their as well splitting the Ferraris. Schumacher has passed

1:00:491:00:53

Petrov on this up who is now in front of Barrichello. Hopefully we

1:00:531:01:03
1:01:031:01:03

will get a replay of that. Button is down three places from the start,

1:01:041:01:07

Hamilton up one. Schumacher up two, he has often been a mighty starter

1:01:071:01:13

this year, Schumacher. Button is still down in tenth place. Hamilton

1:01:131:01:17

was mighty in that first sector yesterday qualifying and in this

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early stage of the race, he is half a second quicker in the first

1:01:221:01:29

sector than Mark Webber. He is romping away at the front. We often

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see but McLaren have a better race pace than Red Bull and that is

1:01:331:01:38

showing up again here. There is a question about how quickly they can

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bring the tyres fully up to temperature. Alonso right behind

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the red bowl of Vettel but we are not in the D ers activation point

1:01:471:01:57
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yet. -- the Red Bull of Vettel. is still disabled, as far as I know.

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1:02:111:02:12

We need a message. It is unable now. -- it is enabled now. Hamilton is

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outside that zone. Here is a replay of the start. He starts to drop his

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rpm. That was a terrible start. revs just faded away. I wonder if

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the clutch was starting to bite. We go on board with Alonso with a nice

1:02:401:02:49

view of Hamilton. Hamilton absolutely flew. We see Vettel

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1:02:591:02:59

loping -- locking up. Brave stuff from Alonso. He could have easily

1:02:591:03:09
1:03:091:03:09

lost his nose with that one. Massa had a flying start. So close

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therefore Vettel who was in the place. Now it is Vettel who has

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done the fastest lap. Again and on so gets white. He is dealing with a

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lot of understeer in the Ferrari. He could be struggling with tyre

1:03:431:03:53
1:03:531:03:56

temperature. Let's look at the times. Once again, Hamilton banging

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in these first sectors, again four- tenths quicker than best the Red

1:04:011:04:07

Bulls. He has such oaks could front-end on the McLaren. The first

1:04:071:04:14

sector of the lap is about grip. Let's get past him as soon as we

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can, unless he will run an hour race. That does not sound like an

1:04:221:04:27

option, it sounded like a firm request from one Smedley to fully

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pay Massa, your afternoon is read if you do not clear this Mercedes

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They did not put on the pit straight here because there is

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often a lot of over taking any way down into the heavy braking zone of

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turn one. Just looking down the grid, icy Kobayashi has been one of

1:05:031:05:08

the biggest benefactors of the start. He has gone from 17th to

1:05:081:05:15

11th place. We end up five. Hamilton leads by 1.8 seconds from

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Mark Webber. Vettel third, Alonso fourth, Rosberg Fifth, Massa sixth,

1:05:221:05:28

Sutil seventh, Michael Schumacher eighth, now 10 seconds behind the

1:05:281:05:38
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leader. Then Petrov, butter and still tenth. -- Button stilt tenth.

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Kobayashi at the 11th, Barrichello the moment. The fastest man on the

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previous lap was Mark Webber. as I said, you are much quicker, if

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you don't need to be KERS for the rest of the circuit, you can stay

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with it... He will not be penalised for missing the corner if he did

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not gain an advantage but I wonder if he showed his hand too early.

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Nico Rosberg was defending the inside line. Ers will give you 20

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kilometres an hour in top speed. It can surely be a matter of time

1:06:421:06:49

where is he Alonso giving him a run in turn tan. The big gap now is

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down to 1.2 seconds. Alonso was quicker than the leader in fourth

1:06:581:07:06

place. The incident at the start of the race between di Resta and

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Heidfeld is being investigated. At the moment, the two men on the

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march of Webber in second and Alonso in fourth. We have a bit of

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a yo-yo effect around the track. Hamilton is definitely the man in

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the first sector. He is a couple of tenths quicker than Webber. Mark

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has the upper hand on Sebastian all weekend in all conditions so not

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only is Sebastian trying to close the gap, he is having to keep a

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watchful eye on Fernando Alonso and it will not be lost on him that if

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he gets one tiny opportunity, he will take it. Mark Webber still has

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not led an app this season after that difficult pole start. Maybe

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his primary clutch was dragging because the engine revs faded when

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he knew -- least needed them to. The reigning world champion

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Sebastian Vettel is fending off exactly one second behind. Alonso,

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the top four are covered by 3.6 seconds and still Massa has not

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passed Rosberg. Just explain to us Rob Smedley's instruction about

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using his KERS correctly. He is telling him to use all his KERS on

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the run out of turn 11 where the DRS activations owners as well to

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get a double whammy. And then the seven seconds of KERS and the 20

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seconds -- 20 k you will gain with the DRS. Crucially, the McLaren was

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10 kilometres an hour faster through this speed trap on

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qualifying. If we are saying that DRS Gibbs 20 Kay, marked only has a

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10 K advantage. You have too much real locking. Normally just adjust

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your brake bias but KERS interferes with that horribly. That is it. We

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see again Rosberg defending from massive. I cannot feel that Massa

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is showing his hand too early. He has to be smarter than that. There

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is no sign of the threatened rain. I heard it was 80 to 90 % certain.

1:09:571:10:05

Look at this! Alonso in to turn one. He has made it work. That is a pure

1:10:051:10:09

overtake. Fernando Alonso takes third place. Sebastian Vettel Kimi

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has been wearing a heavy demeanour, and unhappy face all weekend. He

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has not looked as perky and confident as he has all season.

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would not be surprised if Fernando has used all his KERS in their run-

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down to the first corner. He would have been working that out for the

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last couple of laps. That was extraordinary, how far behind he

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was in the middle of the pit straight. Maybe he gave it a full

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punch of KERS but he was still darting around. It was a bold move

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from Fernando there and probably caught Sebastian Vettel out. Jenson

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Button is still mired down in tenth place between Vitaly Petrov and

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Camilla Kobayashi. Jenson's weekend is kind of going from bad to worse,

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it has to be said -- Kamui Kobayashi. They are running eight

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seconds a lap slower than qualifying. That is a world apart

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from the confidence they felt. Maybe Alonso has spent more time on

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Friday practice with full tanks getting his eye on where he needs

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to brake on turn one. Hamilton Leeds. Where there is definitely

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Vettel. There is a big gap behind him down to Nico Rosberg in fifth

1:11:541:11:59

who has still got Felipe Massa in close company. Sutil hanging on

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well in seventh. Perez has fitted - - pitted for Sauber. He is normally

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the man who never wants to come into the pits and he runs all day

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on the same set of tyres. He is so cheap to run and it seems to pay

1:12:181:12:26

dividends but it has not scored 10 points. Let's see if we can get a

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visual. Anyway, or were Don Jenson Button, apparently from McLaren,

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there are no issues with his car. We are going to see a replay here

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of the Perez incident. That is Paul di Resta getting down the inside of

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Kovalainen. It was a straight forward pass like taking candy from

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1:12:591:13:03

a kid. I think we saw with Perez there was a horrible flat spot. The

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reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel has been off and he has lost

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seven seconds in the middle sector. Surely Rosberg must be all over him.

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There is Vettel. Having Rosberg for company along with Felipe Massa.

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Rosberg is having a look up the inside. Vettel has made an error at

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turn ten, that is the chicane at the top of the hill. What is going

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wrong with the man who could make no mistakes, who was unbeatable in

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terms of pace and consistency? think we are about to find out. He

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gets on the white line. That is an uncharacteristic mistake from

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Sebastian. The one rule is do not touch the white lines. Alonso gets

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away with it but gets on to the artificial grass. He will be

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struggling with his braking points with the amount of vibration he

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will have. That was reminiscent of how Jenson Button lost the Canadian

1:14:091:14:12

Grand Prix by turning to wide. It was fully on the carpet which is

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full of water as well. It was not one of those 190 mile an hour push

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it down the racetrack, or was it? wonder if it will force his hand

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into a three-stop racetrack so we will probably expect to see him in

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on lap 15. Remember a few years ago, we had Kimi Raikkonen in the

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McLaren, he had such bad flat spots it broke his suspension. That was

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back in 2005 where you were obliged to run one set of tyres for the

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race. Hamilton Leeds on lap 11 by having passed Sebastian Vettel is

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homing in and we have hide felt off the road. Mr Reliable has crashed

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sm he finishes race after race after race, somewhere near the

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points. That is clearly contact with with somebody else. That is

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like an incident I had with Fernando Alonso here several years

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ago. Who was he racing? It is Sebastien Buemi. That was a nasty

1:15:311:15:35

incident. That is a case of Sebastien Buemi not being aware of

1:15:351:15:40

where the other car was. Hide felt was entitled to put his car there.

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There was a gap. A right rear puncture for Sebastien Buemi as

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well. That almost look like it us fast forward. That is a scary

1:15:541:15:59

incident. Sebastien Buemi was looking left in his mirror and he

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couldn't see Heidfeld he didn't realise he was to the right. The

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yellow flags are out, unsurprisingly. It is a long way

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off the track. Lied feld has been given a -- Heidfeld has been given

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a drive-through penalty for causing collision with Paul di Resta at the

1:16:211:16:26

start of race. Burr he won't be serving that. He will be - o' but

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he won't be serving that. He will be suspended from a tractor soon.

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Felipe Massa is in position to get passed Rosberg. He will deploy his

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KERS and Rosberg will do the same. This is battle of drag and

1:16:421:16:47

horsepower and in the end, Felipe Massa says I have got it this time.

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Rob Smedley will be on the radio, saying, well done son! So the

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collision between Heidfeld, Heidfeld is now under... Under two

1:17:011:17:06

incidents being considered, investigated. But here is a replay

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of Massa. He got himself into right position and would not be

1:17:111:17:15

intimidated. I don't know if they quite touch. But Massa takes that

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position. And it will be interesting to see if he can start

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getting closer to Sebastian Vettel, who is 13 seconds off the lead in

1:17:241:17:28

fourth. But this is shaping up nicely. Mark Webber half a second

1:17:281:17:34

behind Lewis Hamilton. Your pace basis still good. The gap is not

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opening up quickly behind us. We're going to need to extend this. Keep

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looking after the tyres. Keep looking after the tyres. He has

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gone too deep. Mark Webber will be through. Any KERS left he will

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deploy it. I don't see how Lewis Hamilton can defend that. Mark

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getting out of shape and Lewis is back in the slip stream and comes

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up the inside. That is not DRS. That is just pure speed and

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Fernando Alonso watching closely too. He must be loving seeing that

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go on. Top three lying astern and Lewis Hamilton back in the lead. He

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never wants to give up. Just like in Istanbul and him and Jenson

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Button were trading places. Lewis Hamilton, hen he has been overtaken,

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he sees that as another opportunity to re-overtake. I was thinking he

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was too late at the last corner, he was using that as an opportunity to

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pass. I wondered that. He went so deep into the chicane, I wondered,

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although they're normally delayed those transmissions, but he is on

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the edge of what that car will do. We get a replay here. Lewis

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Hamilton gets a bit wide on the first apex, allowing Mark Webber

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the clean run into turn 15. And this is the crucial thing, Lewis

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Hamilton stays wide, cuts inside and then gets the slip stream and

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uses the 10 kilometre an hour advantage that the McLaren has over

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the Red Bull. DRS not available there, but that driving again by

1:19:211:19:25

Lewis Hamilton. But still Mark Webber's on top of him. Vesh will

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have to watch out for the -- vesh will have to watch out for the --

1:19:301:19:35

Mark Webber will have to watch out for the Ferrari. Those two both

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have that advantage and you can't help but feel they have more raw

1:19:401:19:44

pace than Lewis Hamilton. But it is only by a little bit and Fernando

1:19:441:19:51

Alonso up the inside. Mark Webber blocks his right front. He can

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cutback and take a better line into turp two. But now Fernando Alonso

1:19:561:20:05

will have better accuse Cemration - - acceleration. It is a guaranteed

1:20:051:20:09

contact. But Fernando Alonso must be thinking can I win. He is seeing

1:20:091:20:11

Mark Webber has been battling with Lewis Hamilton and he has been

1:20:111:20:17

right in that one second window, overheating his tyres and losing

1:20:171:20:20

performance. Mark Webber oversteering the car, drifting into

1:20:201:20:30
1:20:301:20:31

turn seven. Tyres soon. Tyres soon, I think he said. Now Felipe Massa

1:20:311:20:36

has passed Rosberg. He is the fastest man on the track. Felipe

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Massa will be catching Sebastian Vettel. That is another great fight.

1:20:401:20:45

Sebastian Vettel holding off the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa.

1:20:451:20:52

This is the top three of the Grand Prix on lap 14. They have both got

1:20:521:20:59

their wings open. But they're not that close to Lewis Hamilton. It is

1:20:591:21:06

a difficult brake zone. If you brake too early you give up two

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tenths of a second. Brake too late and you sail off the track. So

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1:21:211:21:21

tyres, the soft tyre. Prepared for one of the Red Bull drivers.

1:21:211:21:29

Sebastian Vettel. Yes Mark Webber has pitted. And there we go. No new

1:21:291:21:33

tyres. No new soft tyre available. Can he get out in front of the

1:21:331:21:37

Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa fight? No he can't. But it will p

1:21:371:21:42

crucial to get out in front of Adrian Sutil and Rosberg. Rosberg

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has pitted. So has Michael Schumacher. Mark Webber is now in

1:21:451:21:53

traffic. That has not worked at all well. Let's see if he can clear

1:21:531:21:58

Adrian Sutil to put himself back into play. He has gone for undercut

1:21:581:22:06

to get full use of the new tyres. But he is in traffic. Button still

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trying to make his way passed Petrov. Jenson Button is 23 and a

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half seconds off the lead. He may be able to sail around the outside

1:22:171:22:21

of five. I have seen a few drivers in the support races go around the

1:22:211:22:26

outside of that corner and make some ground up. Jenson Button

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getting frustrated I would imagine in tenth. 2.7 seconds clear of

1:22:331:22:41

Kobayashi, but they're miles off the pace. With Mark Webber pitting

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it should be Fernando Alonso close behind Lewis Hamilton. And we have

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then got Felipe Massa ever closer behind Sebastian Vettel. We have

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Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso doing like for like. First and

1:22:541:23:02

second sectors. They're down past the start/finish straight. A 38.1

1:23:021:23:06

for Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button going for the outside into the

1:23:061:23:11

chicane. Locking up the outside right. That was good defensive

1:23:111:23:17

driving from Petrov. If you want to pass me, you're going the long way

1:23:171:23:22

round, son. And unless you're, how can you be 10% better on the

1:23:221:23:26

brakes? You aren't going to be. With world class drivers and

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similar cars. An opportunity for Jenson Button, but Vitaly defending

1:23:311:23:38

the inside line. Jensen looking to get the cutback. It is too long a

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corner. Another opportunity in turn three. This I where I threw the old

1:23:431:23:49

timer down the inside of Mika Hakkinen earlier. I did a pirouette,

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but these guys are a bit more skilled. That is the white line

1:23:531:23:59

that cost you the Grand Prix victory in 2004. You went sailing

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off. I was commentating on it aye took as much pain. -- and I took as

1:24:081:24:12

much pain. Mark Webber taking advantage of the fresh tyres.

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has passed Adrian Sutil. He has got some clear air now. 3.6 seconds

1:24:181:24:23

before he catches Felipe Massa. Mark Webber is flying. If he can do

1:24:231:24:28

that he will get track position. McLaren are in the pit lane. This

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will be for Lewis Hamilton. This is Felipe Massa on Sebastian Vettel.

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He makes it. He still makes a second apex too. Felipe Massa and

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look at that, Mark Webber has gone down the outside, Sebastian Vettel

1:24:421:24:47

comes into the pits. It is a half- hearted Sebastian Vettel. Lewis

1:24:471:24:52

Hamilton has done his pit stop. It will be a race out of pit lane with

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McLaren. Fernando Alonso and eleven e we have got. Felipe Massa and

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Mark Webber. Three abreast into the first corner. Felipe Massa leads,

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but Mark Webber has made his pit stop. He needs to make sure he does

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not damage his car. He has track position on Lewis Hamilton and

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Fernando Alonso. So we still, this is the top four. But Felipe Massa

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yet to make his pit stop. But he is in the thick of the action and he

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can play a role here. The undercut worked for Mark Webber. He found

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clear air and passed Adrian Sutil. He used the grip of the frish tyre,

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pumped in a 1.37.003 and found himself some extra track space. He

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now runs in second place. But Felipe Massa's yet to pit. Yes,

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Felipe Massa could be used to help Fernando Alonso. I don't see the

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Ferrari team out yet. They only need a 15 second warning. So it

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would be some way down the back straight. Probably around turn 12.

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So just follow them here in turn 10. Mark Webber is in the DRS

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activation zone and he has fresher tyres. He should be able to deploy.

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I think he is too far back. I don't see any Ferrari mechanics in the

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pit lane. Felipe Massa will stay out another lap. Now Mark Webber

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play get a better drive out of sli cane. Felipe Massa pits. Mark

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Webber will lead a lap of this Grand Prix and several more I

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suspect. He had good pace before the stop. This will be fascinating

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now to see if Mark Webber can begin to pull away and create a lead

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while these two are fighting. Look at the confidence Fernando Alonso

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has under brake. It is starting to rain again. Incredibly confidence

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in the Ferrari mechanics. They didn't come out until Fernando

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Alonso had entered the beginning of pit lane. We didn't see any sign of

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that. But they copied, or followed in Lewis Hamilton. And look at this,

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Mark Webber is edging a bit of fresh air between him and Lewis

1:27:041:27:08

Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. We're on lap 18. That is the top three,

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Mark Webber from Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso. Felipe Massa has

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pitted, he was fourth. Adrian Sutil has yet to pit. He will move into

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fourth and we see Sebastian Vettel coming back on to the track. He is

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behind... Felipe Massa. He is behind Felipe Massa. Felipe Massa

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has just come out of pit so Sebastian Vettel has lost track

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position to Felipe Massa. So it is and Felipe Massa locks up a wheel.

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So they have both pitted and it goes from bad to worse for the

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World Championship leader. He is now in fifth place effectively.

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Albeit there are other cars that are yet to pit that. Is Adrian

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Sutil, Jenson Button and Kobayashi. Rosberg has pitted. Michael

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Schumacher has pitted. The next man in 12th, Jaime Alguersuari has not.

1:28:041:28:14
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Paul di Resta is up to 13th. have had Mark Webber setting the

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fastest lap. Lewis Hamilton is quicker than Fernando Alonso. The

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top three are covered by 1.7 seconds. Adrian Sutil continues to

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run fourth. Jenson Button is fifth. Just done a 1.38.5. His best lap of

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the Grand Prix. They don't like being pushed down the track. And

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there we see a replay of how it kicked off at the front after the

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pit stop. Mark Webber has already stopped. Felipe Massa has not made

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his stop. Lewis Hamilton slots into second place effectively. And this

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is how it looked from. You're not allowed to come across the line

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when you come out of pit. But you can cross the line into the pit

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lane when you're on the race track. They nearly pit there. Four drivers,

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two coming in on a at different speeds and luckily they were

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skilful enough not to have an air plane-style crash as they all aimed

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at the same piece of track at the same time. Lewis Hamilton is flying

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on this lap. He is three tenth quicker in the first sector. Reset

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your rotary. Position seven. That won't be a for a cup of tea. That

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will be for? I was going the ask you that, you have drirch these car

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and know about the Red Bull. -- driven these cars and know about

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the Red Bull. I wouldn't want to embarrass you. Let's work out what

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it could be. It is the not the magic paddle. Was that Sebastian

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Vettel? Who is that? It was Rett vet -- Sebastian Vettel right out

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on to the artificial grass. He is running the risk of what we saw

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1:30:241:30:32

seconds covers the top three at the moment and then there are 6.5

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seconds clear of Sutil. Massa is on much fresher tyres. Vettel fancies

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1:30:501:30:52

following him through. Let's hope we get some footage of KERS and DRS

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with Sebastian Vettel. Maybe he does not have KERS available at

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this stage in the race. Road treaty, a lot of switches on the steering

1:31:101:31:20
1:31:201:31:21

wheel are Rotary, it could be fuel, a differential of KERS. The teams

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know we hear the messages. A sweet turn in turn five for Massa and

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Vettel. Kobayashi has not stopped for tyres and is beginning to

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struggle for pace. The next target for Massa is Vitaly Petrov who also

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has not stopped. So it'll his fourth and Button Fifth. Button is

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catching Adrian so too will. His race is beginning to come alive. I

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want to get inside Vettel's head. We have seen two errors at least.

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One Alonso past 10 in turn one, he was pretty submissive. What is

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going on there, it do you reckon? He is not at one with his car. We

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have seen some stunning performances at the start of this

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year. Massa having a sniff at Petrov but Petrov has shown he is

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not an easy pass. This might be an opportunity for Vettel to get back

1:32:261:32:30

into this but he does not seem settled at all. With that, the

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confidence goes and that does the magic ingredient between the good

1:32:331:32:38

drivers and the great drivers, the confidence. And maybe your tyre

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pressures and if you're not quite on it, it all starts falling away.

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Remember those famous Renault advert with the car which has a?

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Wide ray end, shall we say, that car -- the car which has a wide

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rear end, but that car is not as wide as this Renault. Massa has so

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much more speed and brick -- grape then he will coast into the braking

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zone. The man leading the world championship by 80 points when this

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race started, Sebastian Vettel, but he has not sailed through this race.

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The next target up the road is Jenson Button, seven seconds in

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front of Massa as they start to home in. There is no sign of any

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spots of rain at the moment. What is going on down the field? That is

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Rosberg on Petrov. That is the position as well. Does not make it

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stick. Right behind Rosberg is Michael Schumacher. Petrov showed

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his skill at keeping Alonso behind in Abu Dhabi last year so he is not

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at all fazed by racing his home Grand Prix while defending position.

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That was a brave move by Nico Rosberg. A tricky corner but well-

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defended and driven by both of them. That is true. The trouble is, when

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you start defending back hard, you all lose time. We will see a replay

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of Felipe Massa with his DRS wide- open at the back. There is no

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defending against a Ferrari with more speed and more grip. Sebastian

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Vettel following through into lap position and steals thataway. Now,

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Rosberg is up the inside and so is Michael Schumacher. Petrov knows he

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is there. Rosberg is having to attack and defend all at the same

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time. Schumacher is looking pretty feisty against his younger team-

1:34:531:34:59

mate. They both passed the Renault of Petrov. Talking of Renaults,

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Nick Heidfeld in the sister car has been investigated for two incidents

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today, before tripping over Sebastien Buemi who did not see him

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coming. We have found Nick Heidfeld to hear his side of the story.

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a disappointing end to your home Grand Prix, tell us about it.

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definitely. Already on the start it was not so good. I lost a position

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when I collided with Paul into turn three. I tried hard to make up

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positions and behind it Buemi. He was blocking me which was OK on the

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left side, on the long straight before the chicane but then I was

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next to him on the right and he moved over and there was no wet ago.

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He pushed me onto the grass and there was an accident which could

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not be avoided. You were given a drive through with what happened

1:35:541:35:58

with Paul di Resta but we did not see that. It was a sandwich into

1:35:581:36:02

the second corner and in the third, Paul was on the outside. I locked

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up the front wheels and tried to avoid him but slid into him. That

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is Nick Heidfeld, the man who was eighth in the world Chan the ship.

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Michael Schumacher has spun the car on the exit to turn three. Isn't it

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1:36:281:36:29

at the top of the hill? That is where we saw Vettel. Schumacher,

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that is a shame because he was having a good run behind Nico

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Rosberg and now he has di Resta, Maldonado and Kobayashi right

1:36:371:36:46

behind him. Michael is back to 11th. That has released Alguersuari and

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Petrov past Tim. Racing is going on all the way through the field. I

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mentioned at the start of the race, the big fight going on between

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Mercedes-Benz and Renault. Mercedes-Benz were doing very

1:36:571:37:06

nicely indeed. We have one Renault out of the race. Michael slips a

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place or two with an error. I wonder if he dipped his wheel? He

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did. He did a Vettel. They do call Sebastian Vettel the baby

1:37:211:37:24

Schumacher. He does not have to copy the great man, he does it

1:37:241:37:31

before him. I never did that but I have seen it happen so many times.

1:37:311:37:37

You are looking left into the apex but that is probably a metre of the

1:37:371:37:43

racetrack. A man of Schumacher and Vettel's skills, why would they end

1:37:431:37:50

up a metre wide? My experience is, when I have made mistakes and we

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see the McLaren mechanics coming out into the pit lane in front of

1:37:551:38:05
1:38:051:38:07

our commentary box. The track surface is slippery. Button tries

1:38:071:38:12

to slow the car down to 100 kilometres an hour. There are the

1:38:121:38:17

mechanics. The last time he pitted in a Grand Prix, the right front

1:38:171:38:24

did not really go on. Away goes Jenson Button. Let's see if he can

1:38:241:38:28

recover his afternoon having lost so much time behind Petrov early

1:38:281:38:38

on? He will pit miles ahead of Petrov and Co. Michael Schumacher

1:38:381:38:45

is leading that train with Kobayashi, Maldonado, Pet trove and

1:38:451:38:55
1:38:551:39:06

prayers behind him. -- Perez and first lap. Heidfeld was punished

1:39:061:39:11

for that but he crashed before he served the punishment. Paul di

1:39:111:39:21
1:39:211:39:26

Resta is up to 60. -- 16th. We have 22 runners. Chandhok is 22nd at the

1:39:261:39:31

moment. We have lost Barrichello and Nick Heidfeld. Barrichello

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retired from the race. We will try and find out why that was. And Nick

1:39:361:39:40

Heidfeld had the contact with Sebastien Buemi who did not have

1:39:401:39:46

suspension damage, just a puncture. D'Ambrosio has just pitted. Alonso

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has done a new fastest lap of the Grand Prix. The top three are

1:39:501:40:00
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covered by just 2.8 seconds. We are moving towards lap 30, the halfway

1:40:011:40:10

point of this race and this Formula One season. Webber leads by 1.4.

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The top three are lapping within a tenth or two. And they all have a

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pit-stop in hand over fourth-placed Massa. So it is a three-horse race,

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you are saying? RADIO: Sebastian, we might have a problem with the

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rear brakes. That will be brake wear. I cannot imagine what else

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they have issues with. They may have put too much brake take on.

1:40:421:40:51

They can take that off with a Stanley knife. It is the easiest

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stuff to get off if you have to. That might just explain why

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Sebastian Vettel looks very much out of sorts today. He is running

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fifth, 28 seconds off the lead, lapping about half a second per lap

1:41:061:41:16

slower. The top three, Webber, Hamilton and Alonso. Red Bull,

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McLaren, Ferrari. They are 22.5 seconds clear of Felipe Massa. 20

1:41:231:41:28

seconds, including a stop, will give you a pit stops so they have

1:41:281:41:35

that comfort zone. Vettel is carrying a problem, surely. I think

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you are right. A little birdie said Michael Schumacher had exactly the

1:41:401:41:50
1:41:501:41:56

same spin at the same corner in like that when I followed him home

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in Monaco in second place but it did not work out like that back in

1:42:001:42:06

the day with Michael. Heidfeld is out with an accident and let's find

1:42:061:42:10

out what happened to Rubens Barrichello. Conditions were not

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easy out there today but I think it was your car that let you down?

1:42:161:42:21

we were running quite well. We had such a lovely start. I was running

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with a pace which was quite comfortable to do a two-stop. They

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told me to stop because I had an engine failure. Even there I tried

1:42:301:42:38

to continue, they said there was no way. I could not afford to go

1:42:381:42:42

against the whole team telling me to stop so I had to stop.

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slippy is the track out there? is a slippy but it is more to do

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with the fact that it is cold than wear it. Be little drizzling that

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we saw is not affecting it. It is affecting the temperature into the

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tyres? Yes, you can see Kobayashi, for example, he is holding the

1:43:021:43:06

tyres pretty well. At the front there will be that fight. At the

1:43:061:43:11

back, you need to manage the tyres a little bit more. Thank you.

1:43:111:43:17

Interesting to hear Rubens' side of the story. Clearly, the track is

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1:43:271:43:28

not yielding the sort of grip they were hoping for. The air is just 13

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degrees. How DC the strategy unfolding as we head towards mid-

1:43:341:43:42

race? Strategy, who will be the first to blink? We saw Mark Webber

1:43:421:43:50

make good use of the undercut, the fresh set of tyres. In the

1:43:501:43:54

commentary box we are in front of the Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari

1:43:541:43:58

pit boxes and these guys are so evenly matched that whoever will

1:43:581:44:08
1:44:081:44:21

will get the strategy right this Alonso quicker that time but it is

1:44:211:44:27

just a tenth or two, there is nothing between them. What is

1:44:271:44:32

fantastic to see is the difference in performance in the car driver

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combination. McLaren is incredible through that first sector. Red Bull

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dominates the last sector and the Ferrari is sit somewhere between

1:44:401:44:44

the two of them. If you wear to mix all these cars together, you would

1:44:441:44:48

get a car which would get half a second quicker. Absolutely right.

1:44:481:44:54

Let's not forget, a totally dry race where they do not use the

1:44:541:44:57

intermediate tyre, there have to use the other medium compound tyre

1:44:581:45:02

mark up with white paint. That could be a second aspect to who

1:45:021:45:07

could really cut it towards the end of the Grand Prix. Talking with the

1:45:071:45:11

strategists beforehand, it is a question about how late you will

1:45:111:45:16

come in for the last stop on the prime tyre. There is as much as two

1:45:161:45:22

seconds a lap time difference in qualifying. We expect that to be

1:45:221:45:26

half in race trim but one second a lap difference is huge. We have to

1:45:261:45:32

keep one eye on the weather. Mike Gascoyne has tweeted that he thinks

1:45:321:45:42
1:45:421:45:50

off the tyres. I think we can start closing now. How casual is that? If

1:45:501:46:00
1:46:001:46:01

it is OK with you, let's start closing the gap. If you would just

1:46:011:46:05

get on with it, we would be appreciative. We have a plane to

1:46:051:46:10

catch. This is the second half of the Formula One season at the end

1:46:101:46:14

of this lap and Fernando Alonso just 1.6 seconds off the lead in

1:46:141:46:21

third place. This is shaping up to be another classic. We're on board

1:46:211:46:27

with Jenson Button. The last time I looked he was 7.3 seconds behaind

1:46:271:46:35

Adrian Sutil now he is 0.5 behind him. Up the road is rest Berg in

1:46:351:46:43

sixth. So Jenson Button maybe able to salvage something from today.

1:46:431:46:50

And there is confirmation of the new fastest lap. Still slow. They

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have still got half tanks of fuel. But it is not a quick race. We have

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still got cool track attempts. There will with an -- be an element

1:47:031:47:08

of managing the tyre. They have got to make the option tyre go the

1:47:081:47:14

distance. In we from Pirelli you can do more than a Grand Prix

1:47:141:47:18

distance in term of wear. But performance is the key. If he fall

1:47:181:47:23

off the cliff not only will he lose time. You Daid good job on brakes,

1:47:231:47:29

come rear wards if you need. Two clicks rear ward on the brakes.

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Mark Webber has pitted. Mark Webber pits from the lead. So Ferrari were

1:47:371:47:43

rate. That left rear just about on in time. Ferrari were rigt. I hope

1:47:431:47:50

that left rear did go on. They stand these tyres up and I'm

1:47:501:47:57

hearing that use lotless camber and lean in at the top less than I'm

1:47:571:48:04

used to see. It is to protect the Pirellis from overheating on the

1:48:041:48:11

inside shoulder. And we see Karun Chandhock spinning in the fast

1:48:111:48:17

chicane. The Michael Schumacher chicane. And not for the first time.

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A gravel track you drive out is a rubbish gravel track. They're not

1:48:241:48:30

designed to hold cars in there, but to slow you down. The reason I call

1:48:301:48:35

it the Michael Schumacher chicane it is actually called the

1:48:351:48:40

Schumacher S. Good stuff and then chicane there is the one that he

1:48:401:48:43

designed and people said it is because he suited him in his

1:48:431:48:47

Ferrari back in the day. That is the chicane now and Lewis Hamilton

1:48:471:48:53

leads from Fernando Alonso. There is 0.6 of a second between. Lewis

1:48:531:48:57

Hamilton will duck inside that orange bollard that they have to go

1:48:571:49:02

inside into the pit lane. Fernando Alonso the winner at Silverstone,

1:49:021:49:07

will come through and lead this Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton pits.

1:49:071:49:12

So it will be interesting now. Mark Webber's got Heikki Kovalinan in

1:49:121:49:18

front of him. He has got the fresher tyres. I haven't seen the

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green sectors come up for Mark Webber. I think Lewis Hamilton will

1:49:221:49:26

do it. Mark Webber crosss the finish line and look at that. Where

1:49:261:49:30

is Mark Webber? He has done him. Lewis Hamilton is back in the lead.

1:49:301:49:34

With traffic and a not spectacular outlap, it has helped and Mark

1:49:341:49:40

Webber, can he go around the vout side and reclaim the lead? I can't

1:49:401:49:47

see Lewis Hamilton yielding that. A shove to say no way, get out of my

1:49:471:49:55

way and blue smoke coming out of back of McLaren -- of the McLaren.

1:49:551:50:01

What does not look healthy. I hope that is not the first signs of a

1:50:011:50:09

problem for Lewis Hamilton. We're used now to these cars being

1:50:091:50:12

bullet-proof reliability-wise. Let's hope that was just some oil

1:50:121:50:17

from sitting in the pits. We have Ferrari coming out for Fernando

1:50:171:50:24

Alonso. This is Jenson Button going down the inside of Adrian Sutil.

1:50:241:50:28

That is for seventh place. This is Mark Webber as he sees Lewis

1:50:281:50:33

Hamilton coming out. He ducks under neath and you go around the outside

1:50:331:50:40

of turn two, normally, except the atro turf is full of water today.

1:50:401:50:44

That was a little love kiss from Lewis Hamilton on Mark Webber. Just

1:50:441:50:51

a warning. Then we saw the right bank of that car of Lewis Hamilton

1:50:511:50:54

putting out some blue smoke as Fernando Alonso pits for the second

1:50:541:50:58

time this afternoon. This will be very close. Lewis Hamilton leads

1:50:581:51:02

Mark Webber over the line and there they are in the background and

1:51:021:51:06

Fernando Alonso gets up to speed. What is going on? How does that

1:51:061:51:10

work? Normally you get the undercut with the fresh new tyre. We have

1:51:101:51:15

seen it not working twice. Lewis Hamilton then fancies. He is going

1:51:151:51:20

to make this one stick. Fernando Alonso was caught napping

1:51:201:51:25

completely. Lewis Hamilton drives around the outsaid. The thing he

1:51:251:51:29

stopped Mark Webber doing and steals that lead back. Another

1:51:291:51:32

brilliant move from Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso just didn't

1:51:321:51:36

cover it off. Lewis Hamilton is in permanent attack mode. Like

1:51:361:51:41

Fernando Alonso was yes, I have got the lead, well done boys and then

1:51:411:51:44

forgot that Lewis Hamilton could carry that fresh heat that he has

1:51:441:51:49

got in his new tyres. Carry the confidence around the outside of

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turn two. Put yourself in Mark Webber's place. He came in with a

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lead and he is now down into third and doesn't appear to have done

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anything wrong. I don't think it was the fastest pit stop in the

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world. Maybe that is the answer. The pit stops haven't been as sharp

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as they might have been. The one explanation for why the undercut is

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not working is the new tyres are not getting up to temperature. In

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qualifying they were doing two or three laps before delivering the

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fastest timement it worked for Mark at the start. We may have to

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analyse this later. Well there is the in and the out laps and the

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Stitt stop time and how long it takes the mechanics. Lewis Hamilton

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does the new fastest lap. We are going to see a replay of that

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sensational move. Fernando Alonso has gone wide in turn one and

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doesn't cover off the outside of two. And that was the point where

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Lewis Hamilton was slapping Mark Webber off the race track and

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Fernando Alonso didn't try anything of sort and the McLaren boys were

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enjoying that. As you know, it is tremendously embarrassing to be

1:53:031:53:06

overtaken with someone around the outside. How much extra does that

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hurt when it is Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. There noise love

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lost between those two. -- there is no love lost between those two.

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Three different engineser three different drivers. And just two and

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a half seconds cover them as we're on lap 34 of the Grand Prix. We

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have seen some magnificent driving. Very little contact with these

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front runners. They're driving supremely well. And it looked like

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Mark Webber had been freed up to go and take this Grand Prix. Lewis

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Hamilton does another new fastest first. I hope h he doesn't do what

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we have seen him do, of taking too much life out of tyre too early. I

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as Pirelli Morphing the tyres. Webber loses a back end. He won't

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get a penalty, because he has gain nod advantage. As Pirelli making

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tyres more durable, if the advantage of having a car that is

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light on its tyres is going and whether the game is changing of you

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can't get tyre temperature rather than you need to protect it. Jenson

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Button tries to go down the outside of Rosberg for sixth place. Rosberg

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parks his car well. But can he get on the KERS and get up the inside?

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He can't, but he should get a nice slip stream down the pit straight.

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We know the McLaren is fast. They have both got Mercedes engines.

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Rosberg parks it on the inside. Look at the speed of the Mercedes.

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Mercedes versus the McLaren. He has gone too deep, button takes the

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position and he is up to sixth. Next target is Sebastian Vettel who

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is still lapping some 1.2 off the pace. He might be meat for Jenson

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Button to chase after. Lewis Hamilton then leads by 2.4 now.

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Four seconds covers the top three. They're 7.1 ahead of Felipe Massa.

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Nico Rosberg just on the inside, the dustier line. Lobs up that

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inside front and you -- locks up that inside front. It was just no

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option for him but to try and reduce. You see the onboard of Mark

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Webber and the braking phase. Just getting a bit messy. We know he has

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taken a ppblty for losing time. He won't have gained any penalty for

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missing the corner. Lewis Hamilton out front has done another Fasest -

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- fastest lap. Is that Jenson Button has missed a chicane stkph

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he has got a problem. O' -? He has got a problem. Jensen we need to

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box this lap. Twofr retire the car. We have a hydraulics -- we have to

1:56:181:56:24

retire the car. We have a hydraulics problem. The hydraulics

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work many things on the car. What a shame. It was a great come back for

1:56:301:56:35

Jenson Button. An awful start again. He has got to the start sorted out.

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But he was driving nicely. I wonder why we're seeing so much

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reliability, so many reliability problems today. Do you think

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leaping across the kufbs on the chicanes? These cars have been

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bullet-proof. But Three retirements now. And there is the race leader,

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who leads by 2.7 second over Fernando Alonso and he is half a

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second up on this current lap as well. It is coming towards Lewis

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Hamilton then. They have to pit again to put on the medium compound

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tyre. It is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 seconds slower. Lewis

1:57:251:57:31

Hamilton again a 35.0. Another new fastest lap. Fernando Alonso 3.1

1:57:311:57:39

adrift and poor old Jenson Button is reduced to spectating. Mark

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Webber has done his personal best. But it cities eight tenths slower

1:57:431:57:53

than the leader. -- but it is still eight tenths slower than the leader.

1:57:531:57:57

Adrian Sutil is released into sixth place. That was a good example of

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where you can lose time in your track position. Rosberg got deep

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into the turn 13 chicane and lost time. He will be in again, won't

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he? He puts another set of soft tyre on. Rosberg, that his his

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second stop. He will have to stop again, otherwise he will take

1:58:241:58:27

personality. Michael Schumacher is yet to stop for the second time. He

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has had various spins and adventures. Kobayashi sweeps passed

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Rosberg as well. Kobayashi then ninth. That will be eighth now he

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has passed Rosberg. Crucially, as we get into the latter stages, any

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attempts at undercut go out of the window. You want to go as long as

1:58:551:59:00

you can on these option tyres. Because even a badly worn option

1:59:001:59:09

will still be faster than a very new and fresh prime. OK information

1:59:091:59:15

to help with the next pit stop we need your left hand clutch paddle

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further away from you. Is that a primary clutch he holds down while

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he is waiting to to launch away from the pit stop? For me that will

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be the secondary clutch. If he is saying have the right hand clutch

1:59:301:59:34

further away. That is closer to the front of the car. The left hand

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clutch will be fully depressed against the back of the steering

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wheel. In orders, you have got to - - in other words you have to be

1:59:431:59:47

careful as you launch out of pit stop. Michael Schumacher pits for

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the second time. Kobayashi there will now take up seventh place then

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as Michael Schumacher pits. Kobayashi has only pitted once as

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pit again later in the Grand Prix. He should get some points from

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their Co -- though, Michael Schumacher. Rosberg has Record Co

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by Ashley. -- Rosberg has recalled Kobayashi. Mark Webber does not

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have the pace that he had. You do get a variation on different sets

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of tyres. He is significantly slower. The car is a lot lighter at

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this stage of the race. You have fuel effect, the track temperature

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has remained pretty consistent. He could have a KERS issue. We do not

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get all of the transitions played in a. It does seem strange that he

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has lost some pace. Kobayashi will be a sitting duck from Rosberg if

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he is in the DRS zone which he is. But Rosberg has used up his KERS.

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He is relying only on the DRS. amazed Kobayashi stayed on the

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racetrack, on that one. You lose at least a quarter of your stopping

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capacity when the front wheel is turning because the tie needs to be

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rotating to give you retardation. Rosberg sweeping down the outside

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this time of Kobayashi. He can turn in and claim the position and

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Rosberg runs out of racetrack. It almost seems as if Kobayashi was

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ready to yield and then got on the throttle and closed him clean off

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the racetrack. Rosberg is beginning to come alive. Was he just

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protecting those tyres? We have a Hispania Racing coach sitting down

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the pit straight. -- coasting down the pit straight. He is just

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creeping, hopefully we will get an image on our screen. It is scary to

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cross the pit lane when a driver is flooring the throttle. Nico Rosberg

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is still trying to pass Kobayashi. They are on a different strategy

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and it is costing Rosberg a lot of time. He is under slightly less

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pressure now there are sadly Jenson Button has dropped out of the race.

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That is the end of a 14 race finishing straight for Button. It

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continues his bad luck and poor form here. He has had one podium

2:02:552:03:00

finish in 10 starts here at the Nurburgring. It is not a great

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place for Button. He was the third retirement of the day which

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includes Barrichello and Heidfeld. With 20 laps to go, how late can

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they stop for the harder prime tyres? Do you 3 -- do you think we

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might see them coming in with one or two laps to go? Kobayashi left a

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gap for Rosberg. Rosberg just about kept on the track and he is through

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to seventh place. Let's not forget what a great job Adrian Sutil is

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doing for Force Indias. He has stopped only once and he is in

2:03:352:03:40

sixth place. He is behind Vettel who is beginning to close in on

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Felipe Massa. Mrs Rosberg, the better of a dummy really. He looked

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like he was going left and put it down the right-hand side. There was

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the drop away into the turn one apex. Great driving from the cave.

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He has been very assertive when it comes to mixing with traffic. We

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see Vitantonio look see walking back. His car has been parked at

2:04:062:04:16
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the end of the pit lane. I thought he had stalled. He has also put the

2:04:212:04:31
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soft tyre on. He should be able to Claire. It was 3.1 seconds, it was

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a good stop. A don't think Kovalainen will want to attack him

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too hard. Kovalainen his 16th. Liuzzi has now retired. Michael

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Schumacher is trying not to lose another front wing. He is at

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against the Toro Rosso, writing to the final corner. Let's see what

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Schumacher can do down the pit straight. Alguersuari is watching

2:05:062:05:11

him closely. Schumacher does a dummy dive and into what is a nice,

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white piece of track. And with equal grip across it, it is a great

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overtaking place, turn one at the Nurburgring. Feisty driving, yet

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again from Michael. It is a pity he had that spin because he was

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writing their with Rosberg who is now in seventh place. Here is

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second stop of the afternoon. He was in fourth place. And there we

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have Sebastian in the background. It was a 3.2 stop but don't look it

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up into 101. What was going on there? Vettel was very close behind

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corners. He can't afford, even a fifth place for battle would be

2:06:312:06:34

better than losing a friend corn and - dropping out of the Grand

2:06:342:06:44
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He is 3.4 ahead of Alonso. Hamilton is still pumping the laps in and

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8.7 ahead of Webber. Hamilton has been so much faster in this phase

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of the Grand Prix. They are 20 seconds ahead of master and the

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Vettel. They have. Once up to it mistakes from Sebastian Vettel?

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Maybe in his first year when he was a Toro Rosso new boy. Maybe he has

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some other issue that he definitely seems all at sea this afternoon.

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were talking about the tyres and how they might only run a harder

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time at the end of the race. RADIO: The prime tyres 1.5 seconds slower,

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we need to make sure we take this tyre as long as possible. That

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confirms what we have been talking about. Eddie Jordan has been down

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to Pirelli to try to find out more. In the Dow have. They have

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confirmed to me, the soft tyres all the same as it has been all season

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long. They believe the difference in track temperature, 18 degrees

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today, five degrees colder, is the main difference. That is the

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culprit in making the undercut not work like it has in the past.

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just track temperature. That is 17 degrees at the moment. That is

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Vettel remaining in fifth place behind Felipe Massa. RADIO: Brakes

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are OK. It must have been a temperature issue. Did you see

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anyone pulling take off at the stop? You thought there was an

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issue. Maybe they were removing the tape. I thought he did not get away

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very quickly. It may have been the audio dropping out briefly. Massa

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and Vettel have both done their personal best. They are on the

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leaders'' race -- pace now. RADIO: We were two tenth faster. They are

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trying to prolong in this extent. It is pretty obvious, I would have

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thought. We are not hearing anything revolutionary there. Who

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wants to put a set of tyres on which are at least a second or 1.5

2:09:472:09:53

seconds slower than an old set you are taking off? Not me. And clearly,

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not them. That is what we were asking the question, with 16 laps

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to go, how late what they leave it? One or two laps before the end? The

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last lap? We saw Vettel did that once, literally picked on the last

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lap. If these tyres are hanging on, why not leave it until the last

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lap? It was monster 2010 that we had Sebastian Vettel doing that and

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what a great comeback so we could see a lot of activity with one lap

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to go in the pit lane -- in Monza. Four we have lost the Vitantonio

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Liuzzi, Nick Heidfeld,... Massa does not bother with the second

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part of the chicane, he was so late on the brakes there. He has to be

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careful that he has not gone fast on this sector than the previous

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lap otherwise the stewards will say he has gained an advantage. He did

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not, he will get away with that one. They are fighting over fourth and

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fifth places in this Grand Prix. They are second -- seven seconds

2:11:092:11:14

behind Mark Webber. Another retirement was Jenson Button.

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so disappointing to talk to you during races, tell us what

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happened? The first lap, I had a terrible first lap. Then I couldn't

2:11:232:11:28

get past Petrov. I eventually did and then I got past the next two

2:11:282:11:35

guys. The pace was good. Compared to Massa and Vettel. It was all

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looking exciting and then we had a hydraulics issue and we had to

2:11:402:11:43

retire the car on safety grounds. You never know what will happen

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with hydraulics because obviously, the steering is hydraulic and the

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gearshift. We had to retire the car. You had been chipping away and you

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had just got past Rosberg as well, did you think you could have caught

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the guys in front? What are the conditions like? It is pretty low

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grip. The first three, no chance but the next two were looking

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pretty good. Adrian Sutil who were passed before I passed Rosberg is

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catching Massa and Vettel now. We would have had a good race in the

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end. Would not have been top three but fourth was possible. I was

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enjoying myself as well. What will you do now? I will get warm, it is

2:12:262:12:33

absolutely freezing out here. I had some spicy sausage pastor in

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McCarron before I came out, I do not feel cold at all. Maybe that is

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what Jenson needs. Don't say it, DC! Hamilton is leading. Michael

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Schumacher up the inside of Vitaly Petrov and they both failed to make

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the chicane although Petrov does get through. What will the stewards

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they? Petrov will have to let Mike will take the place back because he

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has gained an advantage by not taking the corner. I agree with you.

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Whether he does is another matter. I think it is irrelevant anyway

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because Schumacher takes the place. Webber is the fastest man in the

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middle sector. Hamilton's gap is believed -- beginning to come down

2:13:332:13:41

now. Alonso is getting on the charge. Michael has track a

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position now. Petrov tries to turn in but there is a Mercedes in the

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way. They have come together couple of times this year and that looked

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like it had the potential to be a third time. Michael will not do his

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tyre any good battle there. Michael did well to complete the course in

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the required weight. That means he is now a pin to ninth place.

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Seventh and ninth for Mercedes. Sutil who has had one stop so far

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remains sixth and presumably, will want to go as far as he can before

2:14:202:14:30
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he puts the other compound tyres on, who won early on Ince -- in China.

2:14:522:14:57

There is Petrov. Which tyres will they put on? If they are not white,

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he will have to pit again. They are so he can go to the end. Here is

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some unusual information for everybody, not least those sitting

2:15:082:15:18
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on the pit wall and looking at the team-mate Nick Heidfeld it is just

2:15:262:15:35

inspector 80. Looking at the top six -- is just a spectator. And

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looking at the top six, it is interesting. Nick Heidfeld it is

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looking at the television, we should show him his accident!

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Because he went so far off the track, pay attention! A one-handed

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spinner. That is Sebastian Vettel, fastest man in the first sector,

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normally the territory of Lewis Hamilton. Sebastian Vettel has just

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come alive. It pretty impressive lap time he has just done. -- a

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pretty impressive. Sebastian Vettel, fastest lap of the race. 0.9

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seconds behind now. What purpose does that have to tell Felipe Massa

2:16:452:16:55
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or that? -- that. He is telling him that for a reason, but what is it?

2:16:552:17:03

What can he do? Nothing, it is just a turn of phrase. Massa has just

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responded with the fastest middle second -- middle sector. It is a

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long-winded way to say, get a move on! And if he can do that time, he

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should do it every middle sector. 0.7 seconds between these two now.

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The fastest man on the track. Adrian Sutil pits now so he would

2:17:322:17:36

presumably put on the medium compound. Sebastian Vettel done his

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personal best first sector of the race on those tyres so it is not

2:17:412:17:51
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slowing him down a lot. Fuel loads are down and the soft tyres are

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wearing down. Mark Webber has just done a new fastest middle sector of

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the lack. They are finding determination from somewhere.

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The track surface is obviously clearing up. The track conditions,

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this was the worst the track has been all weekend. So maybe that gap

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is reducing. Hamilton leading the Grand Prix. 11 to go, including

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this. And Vettel looks like he France's fourth place. He has only

2:18:452:18:52

once gone slightly backwards in his Championship crusade. And he locks

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that right front and Vettel can do nothing about it. And he will start

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to lose grip. You lose a bit of front grip on the left-handers,

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especially if you burn it up like that. Vettel slightly backwards in

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his Championship crusade. Back in the Chinese Grand Prix, he was down

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to a 21 point lead having gone in with a lead of 24. He has and 80

2:19:262:19:30

point advantage over Mark Webber going into this and it looks like

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it will go backwards for the second time this season. Mark Webber has

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responded with the fastest middle sector of the race and his tyres

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are older than those of Sebastian Vettel. A bit of track devolution

2:19:482:19:57

is going on. It is turning on his head. Mark Webber is quicker now

2:19:572:20:04

than Hamilton. It is like, and now I can just take everything out of

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these tyres! And they might have had the news that behind them, 44

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seconds behind them, who is that in the pit lane? Behind them, it

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drivers are going -- the drivers are going faster. Adrian Sutil came

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out in seventh place after his second stop, 10 seconds of Michael

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Schumacher who has yet to pit, so it is looking good for Adrian Sutil.

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That was a clumsy downshift, wasn't it? I wonder if that was a mistake.

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Tyre ands starting to go off. McLaren on in the pit lane and

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Hamilton is going in. -- our remit. For he is the first in. And these

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are the medium compound slow work tyres they are obliged to use or

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they will get a 0.5 second penalty -- slower tyres. None of the key

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runners had to new soft tyres. It is now getting out and an ailing

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the lack for Hamilton -- and name link. He had a seven second lead

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when he came in. A distinctive colour change on the tyres. And now

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we are in the critical phase of the lap. We know which three will be on

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the podium. It seems as if Ferrari will respond immediately to that

2:22:022:22:08

move by Lewis Hamilton. He said his tyres needed to go and McLaren

2:22:082:22:17

reacted instantly. It will be fascinating to see how this plays

2:22:172:22:25

out. Paul di Resta is in ninth place and has to stop again for a

2:22:252:22:32

new set of tyres. Fernando Alonso leads the Grand Prix for the second

2:22:322:22:38

time this afternoon. What can he do? Does he picked? He is happy

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with his tyres. -- does he pit? Ferrari mechanics of going back

2:22:462:22:56
2:22:562:22:57

into the garage as if there have been communication issues. Do you

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think they are gauging the sector by sector? Mark Webber is flying.

2:23:012:23:05

Will they punish McLaren have for that early stop or was it a smart

2:23:052:23:11

move that will make the difference? We do not know and we are about to

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find out. We have to watch it corner by corner, Wycherley. There

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is enough Crich in Sector One but not in the middle part of a lack. -

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2:23:332:23:38

- enough quick. -- grip. Crucially for Alonso, he got the advantage of

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seeing what Lewis Hamilton was able to do. They were just bring out the

2:23:452:23:50

next set of tyres during the pit stop. -- and they will just. Good

2:23:502:23:57

thinking! And there is no need to pit, and the same for Mark Webber.

2:23:572:24:07

Hamilton first sector was 0.5 seconds faster than Fernando Alonso.

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He lost to Mark Webber in that middle set to. And Alonso is going

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to pit, and that plays into the hands of Lewis Hamilton. I wondered

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if Alonso might stay a bit longer. But Mark Webber carries on. So we

2:24:302:24:36

wait for Hamilton to deliver his first full flying lap. And he is in

2:24:362:24:42

the background. There is only one McLaren in this race and it is

2:24:422:24:50

Lewis Hamilton, and he comfortably regained the positioned. And Alonso

2:24:502:24:59

has got to find out... And now it is about Mark Webber. And Lewis

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Hamilton has done his fastest of the Grand Prix on these tyres.

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Surely Mark Webber has to pick? Unless he thinks he has more speed.

2:25:122:25:19

-- to be picked. Not even one-tenth of a second between them. Mark

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Webber has to respond in this flat. -- in this lap. Be soft tyres are

2:25:282:25:36

wearing down. -- the soft tyres. That moment has arrived, Mark

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Webber has Karun Chandhok in front of him and he needs to clear. And

2:25:412:25:51

these two are yet to come in. is it, Mark, pushed out! -- push

2:25:512:25:58

out. It delayed message, I would have expected that a couple of laps

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2:26:082:26:08

ago. Mark Webber crosses the line, it is too slow. He has more traffic,

2:26:082:26:15

Nico Rosberg. Nico Rosberg just gets out of the way, it is not

2:26:152:26:20

working. Red Bull have nothing to lose, they were third of free and

2:26:202:26:24

they thought they might go and a different route but it has not

2:26:242:26:33

worked out -- a third of three. And other personal best for Hamilton.

2:26:332:26:43
2:26:432:26:43

But the fastest of the race is still Sebastian Vettel. It looks

2:26:432:26:46

like Lewis Hamilton has used the cool conditions absolutely

2:26:462:26:53

perfectly this afternoon. McLaren, they took a bit of pain in

2:26:532:26:59

a few races with their strategy this year, but they got it right.

2:26:592:27:07

And Vettel still keeps attacking Massa. Mark Webber leads but he has

2:27:072:27:12

to pit again, that is for certain. He has not put on immediate

2:27:122:27:22
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compound tyre yet. -- tyres. So Mark Webber is now consigned to

2:27:292:27:39
2:27:392:27:42

third place. He will come out three or four Macro seconds behind Alonso.

2:27:422:27:50

-- four seconds. And there is a fight for fourth and fifth place.

2:27:502:28:00
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Five to go. This is the 25th Grand Prix held here at the Nurburgring.

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And Vettel seems to have no answer to the speed and positioning of

2:28:122:28:21

Felipe Massa or's car. -- car. Do you think he will risk a crazy

2:28:212:28:28

overtake? This is his radio. patient, be smart. That is the

2:28:282:28:38
2:28:382:28:39

answer! The clear calming influence of his engineers. But Sebastien it

2:28:392:28:43

must want to do a little something for the home crowd. People have

2:28:432:28:48

questioned if he can race, he has only ever raced at the front, they

2:28:482:28:57

say. Can he catch Felipe Massa with four laps to go? Michael Schumacher

2:28:572:29:03

now up into seventh place ahead of Nico Rosberg. Michael Schumacher

2:29:032:29:10

has only stopped twice and he has to stop again. But he is catching

2:29:102:29:20
2:29:202:29:23

Adrian Sutil quite quickly. Mark Webber is now going to pick from

2:29:232:29:31

the lead. Four to go including this. Hamilton takes over the lead, 2.9

2:29:312:29:41
2:29:412:29:46

seconds clear. We can tell you that Mark Webber is comfortably behind

2:29:462:29:52

Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. Nobody else on track apart from

2:29:522:29:58

Jerome d'Ambrosio that he needs to clear. The top three are still

2:29:582:30:08
2:30:082:30:15

will be very frustrated, having led the race, after the first pit stop

2:30:152:30:19

he came back out into third place having done really nothing wrong.

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It was all about traffic and stop times. RADIO: U r three seconds

2:30:252:30:32

clear of Alonso, you are the fastest car on the circuit. That

2:30:322:30:42
2:30:422:30:42

will be music to his ears. As if he needed a reminder. He said his

2:30:422:30:48

qualifying lap was the best he can remember. How could well this

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victory be? It is his 81st Grand Prix start. It would put him back

2:30:542:31:00

on level terms with Vettel if he can get through these last few laps.

2:31:002:31:05

Three, to be precise. Lewis Hamilton, after a sensational

2:31:052:31:12

qualifying performance. There is a final stop of Schumacher's. Now he

2:31:122:31:22
2:31:222:31:37

has got his hands full. Hamilton again at the end of the race to put

2:31:372:31:44

the medium tyres on. Sutil his sixth. He is about a dozen seconds

2:31:442:31:49

clear of Nico Rosberg. Adrian Sutil looks as if he is in for a great

2:31:502:31:54

chance for a result here for Force Indias. I wonder if we are seeing

2:31:542:31:58

some showmanship there. We had the Red Bull mechanics come out into

2:31:582:32:02

the pit lane and then they went back in again. They look like they

2:32:022:32:08

were going to do a stop. I wonder if it was to force Ferrari's hand?

2:32:082:32:13

If the race was to finish now, Hamilton would be a clear third in

2:32:132:32:17

the race championship, five points behind Mark Webber. Vettel still

2:32:172:32:27
2:32:272:32:28

way out in front. This is all about fourth place. He was going to blink

2:32:282:32:34

first? Massa and Vettel. They both have to pit again before the end of

2:32:342:32:43

the Grand Prix. You have the Ferrari mechanics lingering around

2:32:432:32:46

their pit stop box say you cannot tell when they are coming out and

2:32:462:32:55

they are coming out now. Q RADIO: If he pits, stay out of, did the

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2:33:052:33:05

opposite of massive. -- did the opposite of Massa. What Rocky was

2:33:052:33:11

saying is if he goes in, stay out that he did not. They will probably

2:33:112:33:17

follow each other in. You do pass the finish line to come into the

2:33:172:33:22

pits. We saw Michael Schumacher do that in Silverstone in the 1990s.

2:33:222:33:27

The way the pit lane is set out here, Ferrari are further down the

2:33:272:33:31

pit lane so technically, if they do like for like stocks, Ferrari have

2:33:312:33:41

the advantage. They are unlikely to be hit with an unsafe release.

2:33:412:33:46

Massa needs to get his car out in front of Sebastian Vettel. It is a

2:33:462:33:52

pit stop race. It looks terribly calm and there. They both have to

2:33:522:33:57

pit. They are both driving the wheels of those things. The tyres

2:33:572:34:02

have yellow markings. They need a shiny new said with white markings

2:34:022:34:08

on them to finish the Grand Prix, to avoid a penalty. They have got

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to do it at the end of this lap. Vettel, by not following that

2:34:152:34:19

instruction, took away his best chance of doing that. Hamilton

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dozen new fastest lap of the race to build his lead. They will file

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into the pit lane, line astern. Either Vettel did not understand

2:34:282:34:33

the message, did not receive it or chose to ignore it because it is a

2:34:332:34:39

pit stop race now. He nearly ran into the back of him! Massa was

2:34:402:34:45

quicker on the brakes to get a car down to the speed limit. Here we go.

2:34:452:34:51

Who has got out first? Look at that! He is ahead of fame. Ferrari

2:34:512:34:57

were too slow. Massa was too slow into the pit lane, Ferrari were too

2:34:572:35:01

slow on the stock and Vettel takes the position going into the final

2:35:012:35:04

lap. Maldonado is coming through but he is out of the picture

2:35:042:35:09

because he has been lap. Vettel crucially takes fourth place away

2:35:092:35:15

from Felipe Massa or on a final mad - pit stop in order to comply with

2:35:152:35:24

the regulations. This man has won sweeping right-hander. He was

2:35:242:35:28

immense in qualifying to put himself on the front row of the

2:35:282:35:32

grid and one long, easy right hander into a short bit of straight

2:35:322:35:41

to take his 60th victory. -- 16th victory. Lewis Hamilton wins the

2:35:412:35:47

German Grand Prix at Nurburgring, beating Fernando Alonso by 3.9

2:35:472:35:54

seconds. In the background, third place man, Mark Webber complete the

2:35:542:35:59

podium, 9.7 seconds behind. They are one ahead of Vettel and Massa.

2:35:592:36:05

A wonderful drive from Lewis Hamilton. Here is fourth-placed man

2:36:052:36:10

and still championship leader Sebastian Vettel. You have to say,

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whereas Felipe Massa in that picture? Presumably he is still

2:36:172:36:22

there, he is behind Maldonado who is coasting along. He helplessly

2:36:232:36:28

watched as Vettel passed a while they were both in the pit lane. Red

2:36:282:36:31

Bull won the Battle of the pit stops and gained crucial points for

2:36:312:36:40

Sebastian Vettel. Over the line goes Maldonado to secure 14th.

2:36:402:36:45

Fifth for Massa. Sutil, the last man UN lap and here he is, will

2:36:462:36:55

take a well deserved sixth place on a two-stopper. He started inside

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the top 10, kept his head, kept in touch with the leading pack and he

2:37:012:37:06

will now coast over everybody else. Their positions are locked in place

2:37:062:37:16
2:37:162:37:20

because they were lap. Sutil takes six place,. RADIO: Well done, Lewis,

2:37:202:37:29

fantastic job. That is fantastic, great job. Great job, guys! Great

2:37:292:37:36

job! That was amazing! These are the kind of results we can get.

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Thank you so much for pushing so hard. Great pit stops. BKA also

2:37:432:37:53
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nice to drive. -- the car was so nice to drive. The car looked

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completely on rails, in the groove. Lewis, his head has been in the

2:37:582:38:05

right place this weekend and so has his car set-up. He made it count.

2:38:052:38:11

One of Webber's stops was a second longer and that crucially lost him

2:38:112:38:15

track position. I think there will be a lot of head scratching going

2:38:152:38:20

on at Red Bull as to how they only managed third and fourth in the

2:38:202:38:25

Grand Prix. Alonso still there in second place. Here is confirmation

2:38:252:38:35
2:38:352:39:09

Heidfeld all retired. This is Mark Webber. Picking up Fernando Alonso.

2:39:092:39:14

I don't want to spoil everyone's fun. This was a classic image of

2:39:142:39:20

Senna hitching a lift with Nigel Mansell 15 or 16 years ago, but

2:39:212:39:25

this is technically, you're not allowed to do this. I hope the

2:39:252:39:31

stewards take a sympathetic view to it. Both drivers might get a little

2:39:312:39:37

call up for that one. I have sat beside the engine cover a couple of

2:39:372:39:41

times. But felt slightly more comfortable tinny but it did not

2:39:412:39:46

half looking -- look fast even going 30 or 40 miles an hour. Lewis

2:39:472:39:50

Hamilton does not care about that although he is probably wondering

2:39:502:39:57

where they are. There is nobody in his way to jump off the car. A

2:39:572:40:05

supreme performance there in his 81st Grand Prix. Hamilton, the man

2:40:052:40:10

on the day. He is not supposed to go out of the pen. There are a lot

2:40:102:40:17

of little rules being broken here. We are this far at -- we are

2:40:182:40:22

disqualified in the top three, are we? I am just reminding the

2:40:222:40:25

audience of rules and regulations. Isn't there another regulation that

2:40:252:40:30

you have to have a certain amount of fuel in your car for a few will

2:40:302:40:37

test? It Alonso's car has run out of fuel, you have to give a sample

2:40:372:40:42

to the FIA say they can check that out. Finally, Alonso arrives,

2:40:422:40:48

courtesy of Mark Webber and Red Bull. Attacks the fee applied. He

2:40:482:40:58
2:40:582:41:08

is not registered to carry drivers in a race for them let's

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listen to this. -- 6 German drivers. RADIO: Stop the car, we have

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 125 seconds

2:41:242:42:23

finished the fuel, stop the car. not keep up with the from the

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Mercedes team to accept the constructors winning Tracey. --

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 125 seconds

2:43:202:44:29

winning trophy. Lewis Hamilton the trophy from the C E O of Santander,

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2:44:392:44:50

the sponsor of the event. Another Fernando Alonso. Mark Webber

2:44:512:44:57

started on pole. It is the last five pole positions where he has

2:44:572:45:07
2:45:072:45:13

not gone on to win the race. And mistakes in this race. Every corner

2:45:132:45:19

had to be absolutely right on the money. They had to deliver great in

2:45:192:45:25

and out laps. And the mechanics played their role and it affected

2:45:252:45:30

the line-up of the podium. And it was Lewis Hamilton and McLaren who

2:45:302:45:36

did the best job on the day. They got the strategy right. They were

2:45:362:45:41

first in for the final stop and that was absolutely right. And that

2:45:412:45:46

is why he is standing, yet again for the 16th time, on the top step

2:45:462:45:53

of the podium. And look at the joy from the team underneath him.

2:45:532:45:58

Second best on Saturday, top step on Sunday. These celebrations and

2:45:582:46:04

the dampened, Eddie, by the fact Sebastian Vettel has to weed in the

2:46:042:46:09

Championship by 77 points. But that man holding that trophy will not be

2:46:092:46:16

thinking about that. Supreme! I did not think he could achieve this. I

2:46:162:46:21

fancied him for the race because these are perfect conditions. But

2:46:212:46:26

it was crucial to pass Fernando Alonso on the outside of turn two

2:46:262:46:32

and that is why he is on the podium. We talked about where McLaren have

2:46:322:46:37

struggled and the one issue is the strategy calls they have made.

2:46:372:46:40

Today, one pit stop did not do the business but the other did and the

2:46:402:46:46

team were on the money today. Everybody went for the three pit

2:46:462:46:51

stops and it was no big surprise. It was clear cut. If they had got

2:46:512:46:55

it wrong in the strategy, there would have been a lot being gassed

2:46:552:47:01

but they did not and they did a brilliant job. -- being asked. And

2:47:012:47:05

after yesterday's debate with McLaren, who knows, maybe the

2:47:052:47:10

motivation came from other people. Well done to Martin. We are not

2:47:102:47:17

embarrassed, we are delighted for your! And particularly for Lewis.

2:47:172:47:21

We talked about the importance of the pit stops but also because of

2:47:212:47:26

his aggressive driving, that helped him. What a fantastic race, three

2:47:262:47:31

teams, three drivers battling it out and the pit stops had to be

2:47:312:47:35

right and at the right time and consistent. And the drivers have to

2:47:352:47:44

get straight on it. Lewis does a fantastic race. How nervous we do?

2:47:442:47:50

We said the crucial phase would be eight or nine laps from the end

2:47:502:47:56

when those new tyres went on, were you nervous? All the way through I

2:47:562:48:03

was nervous! I think Vitaly Petrov was already going green on the

2:48:032:48:13
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Prime S Bleu. -- on the Primes. So that inspired us. Lewis got

2:48:152:48:19

straight on to the Prime and as soon as he got greens we knew he

2:48:192:48:29
2:48:292:48:30

had the race won. I think he did a fantastic job. I thought the

2:48:302:48:36

telling factor of the race was Lewis and his outrageously brave

2:48:362:48:41

move on Alonso on turn 3. That was spectacular and perhaps the reason

2:48:412:48:47

he won the race. If you have a great champion Mike Lewis, when

2:48:472:48:52

these drivers get a sniff of a win, you get something extraordinary --

2:48:522:48:58

like the Felipe Massa -- like Lewis. It is what you expect and it was an

2:48:582:49:06

extraordinary race. You noticed something bright red, Lewis knows

2:49:062:49:10

what it is like to have Ferrari behind him! Fernando was pushing

2:49:102:49:17

like crazy as well, wasn't he? was a great race and we were happy

2:49:172:49:21

for Martin because I saw a lot of pressure not typical from England,

2:49:222:49:27

I would say. Very typical from Italy, so I am very happy for you!

2:49:272:49:32

You know what it is like to be under pressure! I thought it was a

2:49:322:49:37

great race. We would like to posture -- to push as much as we

2:49:372:49:43

can but we struggled with the tyres with these temperatures. Lewis did

2:49:432:49:48

a fantastic race. Fernando was close but if we see this kind of

2:49:482:49:52

performance, we can have a difficult -- a different second

2:49:522:49:55

half of the season to challenge Red Bull who are still leading and

2:49:552:50:02

still very strong. So now it is my go! Do you take it in turns now?

2:50:022:50:09

have that arrangement these days, I might go back on it next week!

2:50:092:50:14

were very concerned and we were, we know how the Ferrari is susceptible

2:50:142:50:18

to the tyre temperatures and now going into some very warm tracks,

2:50:182:50:26

if you looked really strong. think race by race... If you

2:50:262:50:32

remember last year, in Germany we were strong and in Hungary we will

2:50:322:50:37

one-second away from the Red Bull pace. The only signal that his

2:50:372:50:41

great is that in certain conditions, the car has improved, but let's

2:50:412:50:46

wait and see. Thank you both, and they are clearly getting on well at

2:50:462:50:51

the moment so perhaps working together is the only way to beat

2:50:512:50:55

Red Bull at the moment. We will wait for the rest of the season.

2:50:552:51:01

But today it was Lewis Hamilton's Chase for the flag that was a

2:51:012:51:07

success. Much to deal -- much to the delight of the British fans who

2:51:072:51:12

saw Lewis Hamilton win the race. Congratulations, it your second win

2:51:122:51:19

the season and I think it meant more than your first. Everyone is

2:51:192:51:27

special but the emotion and the energy that the team put into the

2:51:272:51:32

car and the effort, and when we do not see results like this, it

2:51:322:51:39

builds up so when you finally do hit the sweet spot and get it, it

2:51:392:51:45

is just better. I could not feel any better. We did not expect to

2:51:452:51:50

come here this weekend and be so fast. We were hindered in the last

2:51:502:51:58

race a bit but the guys did a fantastic job, pushing very hard.

2:51:582:52:05

And the engine was great. I just feel great. One of the best races I

2:52:052:52:11

think I have ever done. Fernando, the top three finishers you were

2:52:112:52:16

all finishing hard, maybe too hard in your case because she ran out of

2:52:162:52:21

fuel at the end, did that compromise your fight with Lewis? -

2:52:212:52:29

- you ran out. Mack not really, -- not really. We were not too quick,

2:52:292:52:36

so we just controlled the car and secured second place. For us, it

2:52:362:52:44

was a fantastic race, a fantastic Sunday again. We were 4th yesterday.

2:52:442:52:49

The car today showed a great pace so we can keep the pace of the

2:52:492:52:59
2:52:592:53:00

leaders. It was great to have second place after winning in

2:53:002:53:04

Silverstone and second place in Valencia. A good moment of the

2:53:042:53:09

Championship for us and we have another opportunity next week.

2:53:092:53:12

describe your emotions after another pole position that sadly

2:53:122:53:18

for you you could not convert into a win. We were not quick enough to

2:53:182:53:22

days. I was happy with how I drove, these guys just had that extra

2:53:222:53:28

margin that they needed, especially at the back part. A little bit more

2:53:282:53:34

range and that made us a bit exposed on strategy. We know what

2:53:342:53:39

we have to improve on and I could not have got much more than what we

2:53:392:53:44

have today. Disappointed not to win, of course, but all three of us had

2:53:442:53:50

his move day. A good fight round the stops, so mixed emotions.

2:53:502:53:57

Another good result. You need to perform at a high level, but we

2:53:572:54:02

will keep learning and the progress has been decent, but we need to

2:54:022:54:08

improve. So serious disappointment for Mark

2:54:082:54:13

Webber. He could do the business on Saturday but seemingly not on

2:54:132:54:18

Sunday for the 5th consecutive race, he does not turn pole position into

2:54:182:54:22

we win. And it is the first time for Sebastian Vettel he has not

2:54:222:54:26

been on the podium this season. And Michael Schumacher, another

2:54:262:54:34

adventurous and exciting race for him today. All the rest are right

2:54:342:54:44
2:54:442:54:44

at the back very early on. Heikki Kovalainen finishes at the front of

2:54:442:54:52

the new teams in 16th place. And for the new boys, Daniel Ricciardo

2:54:522:54:58

in his first race and Karun Chandhok in his second. And a

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dramatic disappearance off the track for Nick Heidfeld, who

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finishes at the back. Some Sebastian Vettel still leads the

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Championship with more than three race wins. 28.S for a win, remember.

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-- 28 points for a win, remember. And Vitaly Petrov is impressing for

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Renault at the moment. We have just walked through a rather over-

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excited McLaren garage, they are gathered around the car of Jenson

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Button but they were not commiserating, at they were

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drinking champagne next to his car! It is only a week now until we are

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in Hungary for the next race, but we can talk to David. Lewis said,

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one of my best ever wins, how would you write that? Unquestionably. And

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as Eddie mentioned, that pass around the outside in turn two,

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Fernando Alonso who would not give him any space was caught napping.

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That was the key element in winning this Grand Prix. It was great to

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watch the first three in the race and you could not call it for a lot

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of the race. -- we just had a remarkably strong grace and for the

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first time, Sebastian was not there. These guys, wheel-to-wheel, I

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enjoyed that it is so fast but yet they can look after other car and

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bring it home. The reliability is phenomenal with Formula One what is

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going on, and that is down to the engineers and the teams. I am going

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home and cheap -- at home a vote for joy it because this was a great

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race. -- I am going home are overjoyed. There were a lot of

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uncharacteristic errors for Sebastian Vettel. This is on turn

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10. He gets beyond the white line on to the artificial grass and the

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water goes up and water and tyres do not mix and it was inevitable

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you would get a spin. And this is the last sector, he locks up the

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front and got too close to Felipe Massa and lost the downforce and

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have to go down the escape route. You would not take that risk in

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Monaco because there is. I would like your opinion on this, David. I

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thought he drove badly today and do you think it is because he has such

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a lead in the Championship or, at which is my fault, that he is just

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ridiculously quick but not very good in traffic? -- which is my

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fault. I hoped he would put that opinion to rest but he had to rely

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on the pit crew at the last stop. And remarkably. He almost relied on

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ignoring the pit crew! Is that a fair assessment of Sebastien that

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when he is at the front he is brilliant and does not make

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mistakes, when he is in traffic he does not look like the same driver?

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The jury is still out. When he has been up close and personal with

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other drivers, he has had incidents but has been Supreme out front.

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Would you take away that pace to make him a better race a? Probably

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not, you want him to run at the front. This will be slightly

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disappointing for Red Bull. They know you cannot win them all up but

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in these cold conditions, it looks like the Ferrari and McLaren on

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making better use of the tyres. is certainly a better driver and

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two out of the three of us! We can hear from Sebastian Vettel.

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And exciting end to your race, what does it feel like getting pass that

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Ferrari in the pit lane? It felt good. I entered my pit box first

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and when I got out, you'd obviously cannot wait to leave the box -- you

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obviously. It was not nice to see the face -- to see the Ferrari was

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still stationery. They did a very good job and we were pushing very

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hard all the race, trying to push Felipe Massa into a mistake. We

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were both at a limit, the cars were nervous and generally I think 4th

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was probably our maximum today, which is not satisfying. But we

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have to accept it. Next week is the next race and it looks as though

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McLaren and Ferrari are getting quicker and quicker. So we need to

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work harder on our car are trying to improve it in order to be back

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on the podium and maybe soon on the using every mm of the track, how

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difficult work conditions out that at the start? It actually was not

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so bad and I felt more comfortable than the cars around may at that

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stage. Unfortunately, I had a good start but I was right in the sand

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wedge of the Ferraris. I could not attack on the braking because I had

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fully paid on my outside and Fernando on the insight -- Fernando

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on the inside. There was not much space. It was quite tricky and I

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had to accept that I lost the position. From there, I came back.

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Fernando obviously had a mistake. I got past but I did not have the

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pace. As easy as that. Obviously, the mistake I did then and I lost

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the rear into turn ten did not help and it put me behind filly pay and

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I struggled to get past. -- Felipe Massa. Not the result he wanted in

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front of your home crowd but do you leave here disappointed? It is not

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satisfying but we have to accept that other people were quicker than

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us. As I said, I am not happy, not satisfied so I want to come back

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next time, but for now, I think, they have been working Reinhard,

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improved their car, we need to make sure that we come back and I did

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not feel very good will weekend. I never got to the pace that Mark had

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in the car. Are struggled to keep up with the top two or three cars.

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The those are the thoughts of the world champion, let's get the

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thoughts of his team principal. If you thought that building a car

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which was leading the others over 77 points is enough, it obviously

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isn't. Sebastian said he was not happy all weekend, what is the

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problem? He has not found a balance with the car he is happy with. It

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is similar to 2009. He had the spin and flat spotted the tyres. His

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pace picked up dramatically in the second half. Ultimately, his race

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came down to a pit stop against Massa at the end. As always, there

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is work to do it. Christian, we heard Sebastian's engineer saying

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there were good points to pick up, just be cautious, is that your plan

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for the rest of the season? We have to attack every weekend and

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Sebastian's mentality is he has not looking at the leaderboard. He is

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conscious of it. In a weekend where he has not been the stand at

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quickest driver, obviously, pick up fourth place on a bad day is not

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too bad. Something David noticed was Mark's start in particular. We

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can ride with him at the start. We missed the beginning of the start.

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It sounded that a car dropped down. You can see he did not get off the

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line particularly cleanly and Lewis had a great start. We need to speak

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to him and understand. Obviously, getting the revs and the clutch

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engagement right is a tricky procedure. Every run that from the

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top, we can listen to the car and perhaps you can explain how it does

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sound and how it should sound because you picked upon this.

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starting procedure for the drivers is you will have two clutch paddles.

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Just before he releases the clutch, it sounded like the engine rpm was

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tailing off slightly so I wondered if it was starting to drag the

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clutch. It definitely bogged down a lot and then there was a juddering

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noise. That was enough to lose momentum. I think all the starts

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around him look better. They all looked stronger. It is a fine line

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finding the engagement on the clutch, not getting real --

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wheelspin. It is not an easy thing to do it. Let's get ourselves into

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the race and have a look at a couple of the pit stops which were

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all important today. Getting your strategy right today was absolutely

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essential, wasn't it? Absolutely. What was fascinating was at the

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first stop we managed to leap mark into the lead by taking the and the

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cut but in the second one it did not work. I don't think we could

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generate a tyre temperature that McLaren did. It was very tight and

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obviously, they got pretty close on the kerb there. We are on board

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here with Mark. I expect we will see Lewis coming out of the pit

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lane here. This is our worst nightmare for the driver. He gets a

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great run of turn one, goes to the outside but that was always going

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to be a big ask, nothing untoward there. Lewis held his line and

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ultimately, Mark had to give up his position. Did it catch you guys by

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surprise by realising what did work did not? It worked at the first

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stop and then we had the same situation here with Alonso. You see

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Lewis gets that drive, goes to the outside and manages to have enough

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space to work and get round there. It was almost a reverse effect

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which happened at the first stop which got Mark into the lead.

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Christian, I'm fascinated by not this particular piece, but as we

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come later on when we see your car coming in, your engineer clearly

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telling Sebastian to come in and he did not, what happened there?

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of gamesmanship with Ferrari. but he did not honour the court he

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was given. For everybody is watching each other and we threw a

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dummy, they did not go for it, they threw us a dummy and we did not go

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for it and then they both had to stop and it was a straight fight.

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You see our guys did a phenomenal job. They turned the cars around so

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quickly. It was the best start of the day under huge pressure which

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Ferrari have been looking to put us under. I was watching from the

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commentary box. Ferrari were out in the pit lane 30 seconds before the

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car came in for so you went for a different seige are with your

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drivers coming out and they were staying with the same drill.

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they practise this day in, day out, every day of the week. They have

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done a phenomenal job under huge pressure. One lap to go. They see

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the Ferrari coming in and Sebastian is coming and. That is the kind of

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performance that helps when you race, helps when you're

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championships and they have done a great job for both drivers today.

3:07:333:07:37

Two what could be very valuable points for Sebastian Vettel in the

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back. Thank you for joining us. It was not a win but you cannot have

3:07:413:07:46

them all the time. Absolutely and on a miserable day in Germany third

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and fourth is not too bad. We are looking forward to going somewhere

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hotter next weekend. Maybe we should go back to the start of the

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race and have a look from a perspective of a number of drivers.

3:07:583:08:02

Lewis Hamilton was looking to be aggressive from the start. Michael

3:08:023:08:08

Schumacher had a great start but big disappointment for Mark Webber.

3:08:083:08:11

This, pole position, fantastic job on Saturday but he is not able to

3:08:113:08:16

get a clean run off the line. All the drivers doing a fantastic job

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to keep out of each other's, you know, rubbing body weight. Knowing

3:08:233:08:28

what these cars are like with fuel on board, cold tyres, cold track

3:08:283:08:33

temperatures and we saw in the background, the spin with Nick

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Heidfeld and Paul di Resta. Fernando Alonso are really fighting.

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It was great to see you. It was great to see. Fernando has come of

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age. The updates they have brought to fills -- Silverstone are

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beginning to work. We all feel for Ferrari. They do not like these

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conditions, they do not like it so cold. They will be going home

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extremely happy because they have probably got their two worst races

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out of the way. On the flipside, just after the moment we saw there,

3:09:093:09:14

Paul di Resta ended up in the gravel. He ended up last. He could

3:09:143:09:20

not pick up points. Let's hear from him. After a pretty disappointing

3:09:203:09:24

start, you did your best to work back, tell us about the incident

3:09:243:09:30

with Heidfeld. I am not really too short. I got a reasonable start. I

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was next to Michael, racing him and I got a hit from the back. It was

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Heidfeld because he was the one who stopped when I spun round. I think

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he got a drive through a later in the race. It was out of my control,

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he hit me from behind and spun. just explain how you are feeling

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because I know you were really keen to get some good points here, it

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has been another testing weekend for year? It has. Our pace has been

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really good. Adrian, luckily won a lot of points for the team

3:10:053:10:09

finishing sixth. I think our strategy was quite good. We managed

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to go till six laps until the end before changing for the Prime.

3:10:193:10:23

Paul di Resta heads to hungry desperately hoping he can pick up

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points again. The German Grand Prix can be re-lived if you like on BBC

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Sunday to get on with. We will see you in seven days' time. So, it was

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-- he was moody in Monaco, struggled in Silverstone, crashed

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in Canada but he nailed it at Nurburgring. Lewis Hamilton is back

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in again. Goodbye. Hamilton takes the lead in the

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Grand Prix! It is shaping up to be another

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classic. Webber is going to be through here. Hamilton back in the

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