The Indian Grand Prix - Highlights Formula 1

Good morning, Luke, Eddie children. Give us a push. You are on. Hello,

how are you doing? They are harder to pedalled than they look. What

about buying some for our friends? Which ones would you like. Nice to

see you, thanks for the ride. It is much easier. We want something

traditional. This man is famous in the UK for colourful shirts. What

have you got? Can I have one like this red one. The looks great.

look absolutely beautiful. Will we see this on air this weekend?

this a Sunday shirt? Is it is a winner. What about my discount.

has done it. The migrate shirt. There is more than India -- model

India that you have not seen yet. How did you do that? We could not

come to Delhi without coming here. Follow me. I do not believe this.

We have seen a lot on our journey, but this is incredible. Are you

going to surprise us again? course I am. Take a look at what

We are in India for the first ever Indian Grand Prix watching

Wild. The energy, the people, the smells, the site, the sounds, I

love it. What a way to start the Grand Prix weekend. I hope our

attempts at getting involved in the dancing did not put you off too

badly, but it was infectious. Thank you for joining us for something

you would have never seen before. The paddock for the Indian Grand

Prix on race day. It is a brand-new race on Formula One. We have

travelled right around the world. We have been to Europe, aes year,

the Middle East, but nowhere like this today. India makes his bow in

Formula One. We have already crowned the drivers and the

constructors champions. It is a All the action from the race in a

moment, but first, what happened in qualifying. A very slippery circuit

and the prize up for grabs to be the first man ever on pole in India.

Here is what happened with Ted Kravitz.

The outcome would be affected by this moment in practice. Lewis

Hamilton kept his foot down. For that indiscretion he was docked

three places on the grade. There was a small but enthusiastic crowd

for the first ever qualifying session. Sauber with a big theme in

big trouble. Kobayashi and Perez started well down the grid. I am

disappointed. This morning was quite good, but I struggled with a

bit of understeer. The conditions were cold a little bit, which did

not help us. We are in a reasonable shape over long distances, but

qualifying was going to be quite crucial and we did not maximise it.

The top four or all within a tenth of a second of each other. Jenson

Button was not amongst them. I did not really get away with either of

my soft tyre runs. People are trying things and backing out, so

there are cards everywhere. Fernando Alonso was third on the

grades. After exchanging this flexing win -- weighing for-one

that did not vibrate so much, then his suspension snap. Sebastian

Vettel had already passed the Ferrari's accident scene. It was an

interesting session. After the first run it was very close. I knew

I had to do a little bit better at. I was able to have a clean lap.

Lewis Hamilton was second. But with his penalty he was 5th on the grid.

I am proud to be out there because the team have worked very hard. It

would be nice to be ahead of their Red Bulls. It was unfortunate, the

penalty, but that is light. Mark Webber had to lift off for the

crash. Sebastian Vettel is on record for having the most polls

this season. RADIO: Ross, 30, today Senna 30. They will have to look

out for the fast starting Alonso. Christian Horner looks on. The back

of the field lines up. No sitting on the front of the Grade. Jenson

Button will be there for half a minute, taking over, just waiting.

This is a very big day for Indian motor sport and for that matter

Formula One. There are two Saqqara Force Indias on the grave. -- grid.

Vettel looks like he has got away Rubens Ballyclare 0 -- Barrichello

are waiting. Webber is under pressure immediately down the

straight. Just Shea, straight line speed. Button just flew past Mark

Webber. Alonso is behind him as well. Hamilton is in sixth place.

Sutil has dropped down to nine. Michael Schumacher are making a

flying start, getting himself into a position behind his team-mate

new, front wing. We are on board with Mark Webber. He will have been

frustrated that the McLaren cruised past him. All belong Red Bull have

gone for grip in the corners. That hurt him badly, David. It did

indeed, but there are other factors that play in, of course. That is

Perez coming in. A bit of locking up action in the background. Mazda

is still being hunted down by Lewis Hamilton. He was involved in the

incident at the start. Kobayashi has stopped. We saw him in trouble

on the first corner. Somebody has lost their wing. Barrichello's

front wing got lost on the way into the pit. Perez, Timo Glock and

Barrichello have pitied. That was a long pit-stop for Rubens

Barrichello. Sebastien's Vettel's League was 1.43 seconds. Webber was

looking pretty strong in second. Alonso a bit too brave on the

brakes. That released a Jenson Button into third. Co by Ashley was

rather careless. He will get a very good view of the two Red Bulls.

think he was a little bit caught out. Mark was quite early on the

brakes, so he went left. He could not use mark as a reference. With

the slipstream there are not going to stay with it. Sutil has locked

his wheels. He hit the back of Maldonado. I think there was

contact with Nico Rosberg as well. We will get another replay of that.

Now we see Jarno Trulli gets spun out in the Lotus. But he has pitted.

This is a replay of his pit stop. He has a right, rear puncture. So

much contact. We have got these really wide turn in points and it

is tempting to have a go and they all concertinaed into one point.

Look at the lead that Sebastian Vettel has. It is lack of four. He

leads by 2.7 seconds over Jenson Button. Hamilton is still in sixth

place. Senna is in tenth place. That confirms that good start for

him. Petrov is in the pit. He pitied really early. We have Timo

Glock retiring from the Grand Prix. But unlocked his wheel. He is

locked out. Why is he so far on the right? Webber was not that close to

him. Still it is not enough. Now he is in the slipstream. Jenson goes

defensive. But Jenson is having none of that. He ran sent out of

road. You cannot force another tyres in the exit of that corner.

Trying to run the speed round the outside. He should have given it up

at the apex. Petrov leads over Jenson Button and Mark Webber are

getting closer again. Lewis Hamilton not really hanging on his

feet? I am not sure if he is just trying to save his tyres. Maybe

they are trying to get away with only one stop this afternoon. We

would expect them to do two. It seems strange, looking at the times.

There is nothing to suggest through free practice and qualifying there

was on offset between the two drivers but strategy could be

playing a part at this stage. Fernando Alonso is 4th at the

moment. He is normally struggling in qualifying but then ending up

making his way through. Jenson Button just about at matches Alonso.

Hamilton is 11.4 seconds off the lead. It is a very slow lap for

Lewis Hamilton, it is not because of any traffic. Alonso is managing

to keep the gap at just over a second, which is a crucial window

for Massa if he is going to get it into the DRS zones. With Kobayashi

taking himself out of the race at the first corner, we don't know how

the hard tyres will be performing. been finding it hard enough

themselves to stay on the track. This is a unique cornerback could

only be the Indian Grand Prix. This is 13 which is a mighty chicane,

effectively. We are already on the tenth lap. We have a static race at

the moment. Let's look down the field to see who is getting the job

done. The Bruno Senna or under pressure from Buemi. This is

another DRS zone although Bruno Senna has no answer to the straight

line speed of the Toro Rosso. You climb the hill to turned three, and

it is absolutely totally unsighted. Even when you are walking it, let

alone when you are sitting on the No KERS any more. They have to

reset the system. Try and get it to kick back into life and if that

does not work, it will cost him three-tenths of a second not having

are making their way back through the field. Ted Kravitz? He has

pitted to get the hard tyres out the way along with Petrov. Force

India mirroring what it Renault are like a service road, and a lot of

marshals from Bahrain, helping out. He is well out of the way.

Technical problems for Maldonado. He was in 13th. That moves at

Kovalainen up the field. Looking at the grass, it looks like he has

locked up his rear axle. It looks like he has broken the drive when

he has done the gear shift. Mark Webber in the pit lane we believe.

There is Mark Webber. End of laps 16. How close was that! Ferrari

goes down, it is a dusty pit lane. The left side of the pit lane is

concrete. Must be something to do if they spilled fuel. Michael

Schumacher getting round the outside of the Ferrari. Alonso has

dropped a place to Michael Schumacher. He will be keen to get

a move on and try to get past him. He will be in the DRS zone on the

back straight. Alonso needs to be getting on with this. Mark Webber

is clear of that in front. Michael Schumacher has not pitied yet.

Fernando Alonso, as you say possibly getting on with that. He

seems to be closer to Mark Webber than he was before the pit stop. It

has worked very well for them except for the traffic. Michael

Schumacher does not have to get out of the way. Look how close Mark

she'll was to Mark Webber. He has fresher tyres but it looks like he

is taking more time to get them up to speed. This is costing Alonso

Dili. Alonso surely will be pass is the front wing that has been

much spoken about. They have to have the new ones that was

strengthened. One of them met its match against a wall in qualifying.

Still, at a LAN Alonso has not made his way past Michael Schumacher,

who will get the DRS down the less Schumacher goes round the

outside on the Brake. -- brake. Ted Kravitz? Ferrari reacted to Massa.

Mark Webber who is doing some quick times, they are bringing Jenson

Button in. Hamilton was not able to pass a Mergulho in those stops.

There is Jenson Button pitting as you predicted. He was five seconds

behind at the end of the previous complete lap. A way he goes. Tyres

have come out of the blankets around 100 degrees centigrade. They

tried to heat the wheels as well. They peaked at over 1000 degrees

centigrade towards the end of a breaking his own. 3.5 seconds for

McLaren to get Jenson Button on his way. Nico Rosberg, who is also just

pitting. Schumacher decides he fancies a set of those tyres that

Alonso just whistled past him on. Michael Schumacher or pits. We have

a clumsy pit exit? I don't get it. Why, when they Design these

fantastic facilities they come up with what looks like an

afterthought to exit the pit. Maybe I will have to ask Charlie Whiting.

There must be some FIA I reasoned why the pit lane exit has to join

before the first corner. Looking at the times, this pit stop his

Sebastian Vettel, coming in for his set of option tyres. Hamilton was

struggling on those first set of tyres, now he has been matching the

race leader with his fresh options. Great camera angle on the world

champion. Away nicely. We have seen a few 2.8, two point nine this year.

We will see how it works out. He was exactly five ahead before the

pit stop phase. We will have a look at the end of this lack. Mark

Webber has just done a fastest lap which has been beaten by Massa. We

are on board with Lewis Hamilton who is getting close to Massa.

very excited about those wide corners. If it wasn't so dirty I

think it would work better. Plenty of Cannes going on for Lewis

Hamilton. -- KERS. The attributes to Bob Marley on the top of his

crash helmet. Do you know the reason, David? I think he is a fan!

And I just make that up. -- made saw at Cern three a little while

ago, Lewis Hamilton so close to him. Lewis right out there on the dirt.

-- turned three. I would love to show you a different camera angle

to that. It looks like you are heading for the sky, then there is

a hairpin. You don't actually see the corner when you are breaking.

You start heading up hill, hit the brakes, and then the corner appears

to. He has gone up the inside! That is interesting! The problem is,

Massa could not see him in his blind spot. He legitimately had his

car positions to be able to go for the past. It was just in that

horrible area way you have a massive blind spot where you have

to get your wheel along side the side parts of the car you are

trying to overtake so he can see you there. That is why I talked

about a Lewis Hamilton knowing better than me. Let's have a look

at it. Lewis Hamilton comes up the inside this time. He will say, you

should have let me go because I have a line. Mergulho will say he

was entitled to turn in. Let's look at this David. What is your view?

We saw on the graphic before this incident, Lewis Hamilton still had

some KERS left over. I wonder if he planned that. He won't use all of

his KERS in the obvious DRS zones. He had a little extra boost and was

committed to it. Unfortunately you needed a compliance other racer to

make that work in that situation. Massa could not just jump out of

the way? He would have been in the sand and on the barriers anyway.

Hamilton did not make a clean pass and that is why we have seen an

incident. He will say I had my car up the inside. Massa will say you

were not far enough alongside for seven. I wonder if he has got any

suspension damage with that? Felipe Massa still in sixth place. This is

Lewis Hamilton back on the track. This is the corner where he

connected. It looks pretty slippery. He had to drop an extra gear. That

looks like a steaming Toro Rosso. That is unusual. Ferrari did have a

problem with Fernando Alonso's engine on Friday practice. That is

not an easy car to recover. The incident involving Hamilton and

Felipe Massa is under investigation. OK, referee, what do you think is

going to happen? You probably would have to blow your whistle. What do

you think the stewards are going to say? It is definitely a racing

incident. RADIO: He just turned in on me, he did not give me any space.

That would have been my opinion if I was behind the wheel of that car.

Felipe Massa would be saying, what was he doing there? What do you

think is going to happen? I am sitting on the fence. I will slowly

stepped off. Because of the history this season those two eyes have

together, there could be a penalty applied. Raising his racing and

sometimes you have incidents and I would put that down as a racing

incident. I do not think there was any malicious intent. He was trying

to strategically get his car in front. What do you think? I think

it is very close to being a racing incident? I have got a feeling he

will get a penalty for it. A drive- through penalty. A drive-through

penalty for car six. It is for causing a collision. That is Felipe

Massa. They have penalised Felipe Massa for turning in on Lewis

Hamilton. Exactly as we predicted. Exactly the opposite to what we

predicted would happen!. Barely pay has got the penalty for that one.

He will get a much better drive out of the corner. -- Felipe Massa has

got the panel did. Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Webber are the

first three. He is going to drop out around the place where Hamilton

is right now. RADIO: Felipe Massa has been given a penalty. He could

well find himself on the same pace of tarmac as Lewis Hamilton again.

He is serving that penalty. He is a long way ahead. Felipe Massa has

got Rubens Barrichello around him. Hamilton gets the job done down

into Turn One. He is up into eighth place. There he is, cresting, turn

three per. There are black markers ahead. The next man up the road for

Lewis Hamilton is Michael Schumacher. He is ahead of Felipe

Massa, who has now done his drive through. Felipe Massa is the next

man up the road in terms opposition. Felipe Massa is nursing a bit of a

gearbox issued. Fernando Alonso is the fastest man out there. He is in

fourth place. Felipe Massa must have slotted back in in seventh

place from his drive through. We are expecting a Ferrari in the pits.

When you do a drive-through you are not allowed to stop for a tyres or

repairs. It has to be a pure penalty, and now it is served his

time. They are changing the nose as well. Hard tyres are going on. They

are much slower tyres. Your heart would St seeing the white markers

on that. A long way to go. 28 laps to go. -- your heart would sink.

Look at that. The famous resonating front wing. It is a new front wing.

It is very similar to the Red Bull front wing. Petrov. He is out of

trouble. He picked up all that does. We saw it in practice. -- dust.

Let's talk about the Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton think again. The

stewards get far more information than you at home or are we in the

commentary box do. They have clearly seen something. What will

Felipe Massa have done? I do not get it personally. His front left

his damaged. Whether that is the hard tyres, we won't need a replay

to see what is going on. We saw him break the suspension in qualifying.

Surely that is the contact with the McLaren? He did not hit the front

wheel. I thought he did. It remains to be seen whether that was over

the concrete secondary curbs. The mechanics hate that. It takes them

ages to clean it up. We do not know if it was on a kerb, or whether it

was through contact. It looks like a kerb. It is the pushrod. That is

the second time it has happened. That is not due to contact with

anybody else. That is due to hitting its and it cannot take that

instant load. We have got a name for those big, orange curbs. That

is Petrov that has just come out after a pit stop. Will he look in

his mirror to make sure that Petrov is not going to try and pass him

again in the braking zone? Michael Schumacher is 6th. RADIO: Michael,

pace is very good. Felipe Massa, front suspension failure, so be

careful of the Orange curbs. Good, clear information for Michael

Schumacher will stop he is one of the very best at absorbing

information whilst driving a Grand Prix car. Vettel is amusing himself

out front. Schumacher is 3.3 behind Rosberg. Catching the pair of them

is Lewis Hamilton. He has got a great chance. He has got a great

chance of fifth-place. Alguersuari is Number eight. Buemi is

unfortunately out through what looked like an engine problem. We

have lost a four cars, a high attrition rate here compared to

recent races, it must be said. Petrov passes Kovalainen for 12th

place. It looked rather easy, didn't it? We have lost Timo Glock,

Buemi and Kobayashi. Let's see what Alonso does with that left kerb. He

does not go anywhere near the Orange, secondary sausages. What do

you want to call them? We will go with the information from Michael's

engineer and call it the Orange kerb. That is Mark Webber we are

seeing just in front. Using a bit too much of the kerb. The Red Bull

mechanics are out and this will be Mark Webber coming in. He was using

a lot of time. And it is a hard tyre, said that is going to be

horrible for Mark Webber. I can see a ring of tyre wear. There is hard

tyre is one second a lap slower and he has got them for the rest of the

race. Before we lost Felipe Massa, it looks like his sectors were not

too hard. I wonder if the Webber team are going with that

information. Let's keep an eye on that, Ted. This is Alonso pitting.

He is pitting from third place. Ted is down there. Ferraris had to

react. Base saw that the hard tyres were working. They knew if Mark

Webber was able to stay within 22 seconds, he could jump Alonso.

Alonso is ahead of Webber and he comes out of the pits, ahead of

Mark Webber. Running that little bit longer on those tyres. It has

given him track position. Now we will see something. Webber loses

out. But then breezed down past him on be straight in the first lap and

he now finds himself in fourth place. He has got his tyres up to

speed. He knows where he is on these hard tyres. Whilst Alonso

finds his feet on these hard tyres, Mark has got to make his move.

are not cold. It is not that they are cold, they have got a brand-new

tyres. There is a man who has kept his helmet on a long time and that

is a clear sign to the media, do not asked me a question. Jenson

Button has just broken another record. Sebastian Vettel has just

broken up Nigel Mansell's 1992 record. He keeps knocking those

records down and he is just 24 years old. 15 to go. Perez is

catching Adrain Sutil. Perez is dragging Petrov along with them.

Rosberg pits to go on to the hard tyres. There they are. This is

crucial for his battle with Schumacher. Hamilton pits for the

hard tyre as well. A clean release. It looked a better pit stop for

Hamilton. Now it is a straight fight towards the end of the Grand

Prix. Can he get out ahead of the traffic? That was the race leader

coming down there. Button pits for McLaren as well. Lewis with his

various dramas is in danger of being lapped. Surely they have got

to come in and covered that one up? Jenson Button are claiming the apex

of turn one. It was important for him. He could not yield there,

otherwise he would have had other traffic as well. Bruno Senna is now

the final terms. Vettel will have a clean run into the first turn.

Alonso still ahead of Mark Webber. It looks to me as if Jenson Button

has gained a little from the pit stop phase. This is the 4th longest

straight in Formula One. We will find out what Vettel's League is at

the end of this lap. It looks like it is slightly less to meet. --

lead is. Michael Schumacher is ahead of Nico Rosberg, I believe.

That's because he has won more stock to go. He is running a second

a lap faster. If he keeps this up, he would jump him at the stop.

has gained a second on that lap alone. Michael Schumacher in with a

great chance of maintaining his position ahead of Nico Rosberg.

Alguersuari has come back out in eighth place. There is Maldonado.

Mark Webber, 1.3 - he went very wide berth through the exit of 11.

He did not lose too much there did get himself ahead of his younger

team-mates? On go the hard tyres. Rosberg will come to become out in

front of him. From a 2.5 second deficit, you can see Rosberg in the

background, looks to me about 45 seconds. Michael locked up as he

entered the first corner. -- four on. He moves out of ninth place. It

will cost in three places. He will come out ahead of di Resta. That

has cost Renault some points. Senna dig dropping to 12 place. Di Resta,

advantage to be second in the World place between Mark Webber and

Fernando Alonso. Critically, will Mark Webber it gets the DRS?

RADIO: You have the fastest lap, bring it home. They are trying to

stop Vettel from doing a hot lap as he comes to the line again. Mark

Webber did get the advantage of the DRS but it has only put him in with

a reasonable range for places to pass before the end of the lap.

Sebastian Vettel is heading towards the final corner, to add another to

his collection. The Sebastian Vettel becomes the first ever

winner of the Indian Grand Prix. He has led the most laps ever in a

season. Jenson Button, another second place for him. 8.5 seconds

behind in the end. Vettel had it covered. Alonso beat Mark Webber

for third place. And the final shot on the podium for Ferrari. Mark

Webber comes home 40 seconds behind. It is Abu Dhabi next in two weeks'

It is Abu Dhabi next in two weeks' time. But for now, we will savour

the sights, sounds and colours of India. Sebastian Vettel, the first

winner of the Grand Prix of India. winner of the Grand Prix of India.

He remains the man to beat. It wasn't a classic, but we have

introduced India to Formula One. And we have also introduce them to

Sebastian Vettel. 25 points for him. Jenson Button is in form, another

podium for him. Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber fighting it out for

third place. Lewis Hamilton and Philippe a mass or enjoying each

other's company again this Championship, Sebastian Vettel with

374 points in the Championship. What a great result for Jenson

Button, a good time to finish in distant fifth place. In a

constructors battle we can confirm McLaren have finished in second

place. Look at the congested midfield looking tight and close.

Let's now hear from the boys at Yesterday and wrote a message to my

friend. Normally when I look back I get 100 text messages. Nowadays I

get only four. But it is still something special because it should

be. It could be the last one, it could be the last race win. It was

impossible to close him down. After the pit stops, the car felt good.

Before Vettel settled into a pace I managed to get the gap down to 2.8.

But it wasn't enough. Tell us about the incidents are with Massa, he

obviously got a drive through. has not spoken to me for a long

time. I made an effort and put my arm around him and said good luck

with the race. In the race, I tried to overtake. I tried to come out of

it because it look like he wouldn't give me any space and we collided.

I am sorry for my team. I think we might be underestimating it. Start

on the hard tyres, it was always the plan to come in. With the help

of the safety car, it was probably a risk. But one worth taking

because if it had worked out you would have gained a pit stop and on

the race on three sets of soft tyres, which was the quickest way.

The sun has set and the Grand Prix and Eddie Jordan's codes as he

embraces Indian culture. The grandstand behind us, do you think

India grab hold of Formula One this weekend? I have no doubt. They

supported it, not just with dancing stars and the cricket stars, but a

whole grandstand was swamped. When they see the fall-out of everything

that goes on from the media globally, they put it into context

and value it all out, they would say it has been a huge success.

Just to drive home to everybody what the national game is, it was

their most famous cricketer who wave the chequered flag. This is

what Formula One is all about. We have shown India what the sport is

all about in 2011? It was a little bit downbeat, I would like to have

seen a much more exciting race. We are not going to get that for the

remainder of this year in my views. Sebastian Vettel is in a different

zone, mentally he is miles ahead of anyone else. There is nothing he

fears any more. He has won almost any accolade you can get, whether

it is pole positions or the numbers of laps led in a Grand Prix. He is

at a different level and it will take an almighty job for anyone to

catch him. The only man almost on his level this year has been Jenson

Button. We know he has a slower car a time at the time he has been

close. He made kind of the race out of this? He made a very honest job

of it. His car he is driving, Jenson Button that is, is much more

than two seconds away from an entire race. A match point of view

I'd been Jenson Button and performed in this particular car. I

have this little thing in the back of my mind, it Jenson Button get

within striking distance of Sebastian Vettel, we saw what

happened in Canada. I have a thing in my mind of all the drivers that

Sebastian Vettel at least the -- least wants to see on his tail is

Jenson Button. It is a very frustrating weekend Lewis Hamilton

he finished off the podium but he did pick up some valuable

Championship points. Thanks for joining us for the first Indian