The Indian Grand Prix

:00:13. > :00:19.Sebastian Vettel takes the victory. That was a devastating performance.

:00:19. > :00:29.He has lost the front wing! We have got a belter!

:00:29. > :00:29.

:00:29. > :01:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:01:34. > :01:43.give us a Porsche? How are you doing? They are harder to pedal and

:01:43. > :01:50.they look! Which would you like? Thank you for the right. That is

:01:50. > :01:55.much easier. We want something traditional. He is famous for

:01:55. > :02:01.colourful shirts. What have you got that is beautiful? I want this red

:02:01. > :02:08.one. He looks good! You look beautiful. Will we see that on

:02:08. > :02:17.there? It is it a Sunday show it? What about my discount? The first

:02:17. > :02:27.time I have failed! He has done it! There is one bit of India you have

:02:27. > :02:43.

:02:43. > :02:49.come here without coming here. not believe this! We have seen a

:02:49. > :02:59.lot, but this is incredible. Will you surprise us again? Watch what

:02:59. > :02:59.

:02:59. > :03:57.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:03:57. > :04:07.Indian Grand Prix, are watching the smells, besides, the sounds! I

:04:07. > :04:12.

:04:12. > :04:17.start the Grand Prix weekend! did you find this place?

:04:17. > :04:23.Wonderful. I hope our attempt to do not put you off, but it was

:04:23. > :04:31.infectious. Now for the doubts that really matters, 200 miles per hour

:04:31. > :04:36.around the circuit. Welcome to the first ever Indian Grand Prix. What

:04:36. > :04:41.a welcome from that should! That is the named! A three pound shirt

:04:41. > :04:49.bought from a side street, it is the burst's it is the best he has

:04:49. > :04:58.ever looked! I met a Bollywood star, he wanted a picture of him in the

:04:58. > :05:02.shed! Thank you! Let's talk about coming to this place. This country

:05:02. > :05:09.has 1.2 billion people. Is the aim for Formula One to inspire

:05:09. > :05:14.everybody, or are we here for the high rollers? The dream would be to

:05:14. > :05:19.embrace everybody, but you can never do that first time out. But

:05:19. > :05:24.there is enough media and TV and interest. We were staggered by what

:05:24. > :05:30.went on, to give us a taste that people want to come here in the

:05:30. > :05:36.future. In terms of an intimate knowledge of Formula One, most

:05:36. > :05:46.people would not know all of the drivers, but they know that Formula

:05:46. > :05:46.

:05:46. > :05:52.One is global and they are excited it is here. But also, the Indian

:05:52. > :06:02.drivers, Narain Karthikeyan is a national hero already. When you

:06:02. > :06:03.

:06:03. > :06:08.have a local staff -- local store, people get behind it. There is

:06:08. > :06:14.already a team in Formula One, Force India. A lifelong dream for

:06:14. > :06:20.the owner, and for many motor sport lovers here. It is all about

:06:20. > :06:25.getting it right. We have seen some disappointing crowds in South Korea

:06:25. > :06:34.and China, disastrous crowd in Turkey, what have we learned that

:06:34. > :06:40.we have got to put right here? not want to see -- keep using the

:06:40. > :06:46.word embrace, but you talk about Turkey, the people in Istanbul did

:06:46. > :06:52.not have a clue, so the media could not be penetrated to encourage the

:06:52. > :06:56.people to come. I believe that is different here, the promoter is

:06:56. > :07:02.active, I have seen all sorts of things, just the people they have

:07:02. > :07:07.brought here today, it is staggering. Eddie Jordan is also

:07:07. > :07:11.embracing the Indian Grand Prix! We are here in a province of 200

:07:11. > :07:17.million people. If this were a country, it would be the fifth

:07:17. > :07:27.biggest in the world. The drivers have arrived, let's hope the

:07:27. > :07:50.

:07:50. > :07:56.his photograph taken at! Sebastian Vettel not a fan of his photograph,

:07:56. > :08:01.but Michael Schumacher arrives for his 284 Grand Prix, but your first

:08:01. > :08:06.in India. What are your impressions? It is pretty

:08:06. > :08:10.impressive to see the track. It is a great challenge to us to drive

:08:10. > :08:15.out there, a fantastic character, and a good combination of

:08:15. > :08:25.overtaking spots, a long straight, slow corners and the challenge of

:08:25. > :08:25.

:08:25. > :08:29.the high-speed stuff. Of all the places we go to, like China, do you

:08:29. > :08:34.feel that there is an ambassadorial role for you? It is your name that

:08:34. > :08:38.everybody recalls. I have heard about this before coming here,

:08:38. > :08:45.because I had some interview sessions during earlier races with

:08:45. > :08:51.Indian journalists. He is nice to know, but when you come here, you

:08:51. > :08:54.focus on your real job, and that is doing what I love to do. If people

:08:54. > :08:59.are happy about that and they want to see me as an ambassador, even

:08:59. > :09:05.better. Some of the drivers have said this is the best new circuit

:09:05. > :09:11.that Hermann Tilke has designed. Do you share that view? Were you

:09:11. > :09:18.consulted? It is as a result of a safety group meeting we had some

:09:18. > :09:26.while ago before the trap was finalised in Geneva -- before the

:09:27. > :09:30.track was finalised. The widening and opening for the braking zone is

:09:31. > :09:36.a result, and it is great stuff to have this, because it allows

:09:36. > :09:43.multiple lines and good fighting. We are looking forward to an

:09:44. > :09:49.exciting Grand Prix. As far as the constructors standings are

:09:49. > :09:53.concerned, Mercedes or fourth. You are keen to improve next season.

:09:53. > :10:03.Seven points between you and Nico Rosberg. How keen are you to finish

:10:03. > :10:08.above him? You would want to finish in front of him, but in the

:10:08. > :10:14.rankings, it is not we important who is ahead. I do not care that

:10:14. > :10:20.much. It is more important when things get going and we can fight

:10:20. > :10:26.for the podium. That is when it becomes important. Enjoy the race,

:10:27. > :10:35.and steered clear of Vitaly Petrov. He is behind me, but I guess there

:10:35. > :10:39.will be other obstacles to deal with today! A bit of a challenge

:10:39. > :10:43.for all of the drivers, and 80 huge challenge yesterday to get to grips

:10:44. > :10:48.with this incredibly tasty circuit. But the prize on offer, to be the

:10:48. > :10:53.first man ever on pole position here.

:10:53. > :10:56.The outcome of qualifying would be affected by this moment in practice.

:10:56. > :11:04.Lewis Hamilton kept his foot down when there were marshalled on the

:11:04. > :11:08.track. For that, he was docked three places on the grid. There was

:11:08. > :11:13.a small but enthusiastic crowd for the rest of the first ever

:11:13. > :11:18.qualifying session. Sauber were in big trouble. Kamui Kobayashi and

:11:18. > :11:25.Sergio Perez started down the grid. Paul di Resta missed out on the top

:11:25. > :11:29.10. Disappointed. This morning was quite good, I struggled with

:11:29. > :11:36.understeer, and we could not fix it. The conditions got colder, which

:11:36. > :11:41.did not help. We are in reasonable shape over a long distance, but

:11:41. > :11:46.qualifying was going to be crucial, and we did not maximise it do.

:11:46. > :11:53.top four were within 0.1 seconds following the first run. Jenson

:11:53. > :11:57.Button was not amongst them. On the hard tyre and the soft tyre, I

:11:57. > :12:04.could not get any grip, and I did not have a clear lap, the traffic

:12:04. > :12:10.was terrible. People are trying it and backing out, so there are cars

:12:10. > :12:18.everywhere. Fernando Alonso came third on the grid. It was harder

:12:18. > :12:23.for Felipe Massa. He used all of the road and the curbs on his last

:12:23. > :12:26.run before this misjudgment snapped the suspension. Sebastian Vettel

:12:26. > :12:33.had already passed the Ferrari's accident on his way to pole

:12:33. > :12:40.position. It was interesting. It was a good battle. After the first

:12:40. > :12:46.run, it was close, so I knew I had to do a bit better. I was able to

:12:46. > :12:53.have a clean lap. Lewis Hamilton was second. With the penalty, fifth

:12:53. > :13:01.on the grid. Considering how hard the team have worked, to be there,

:13:01. > :13:07.it would have been nice to be ahead of Red Bull, but it was unfortunate,

:13:07. > :13:13.the penalty. Sebastian Vettel was not troubled, resulting in a new

:13:13. > :13:23.record for the most poor positions of the season for Red Bull. -- most

:13:23. > :13:25.

:13:25. > :13:32.pole positions. Well done. 13 pole positions. Red Bull in control, but

:13:32. > :13:40.they will have to watch out for Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.

:13:40. > :13:48.Felipe Massa has a be built Ferrari. Seventh is the best Mercedes can

:13:48. > :13:54.manage. Toro Rosso are well placed. Pastor Maldonado is the best

:13:54. > :14:00.Williams. Vitaly Petrov has a fireplace penalty for causing an

:14:00. > :14:05.accident in the last race. -- five place penalty.

:14:05. > :14:12.Because of their misdemeanours, 71% of the cars do not start in the

:14:12. > :14:20.places where they qualified, which is rare. Lewis Hamilton was naughty

:14:20. > :14:25.at the start of the weekend, so he drops three places. You cannot get

:14:25. > :14:35.close to this person in India, some people or he rose, this man is like

:14:35. > :14:42.

:14:42. > :14:52.nice to see you. This is a country mad for cricket. Are there any fans

:14:52. > :14:54.

:14:54. > :15:02.left for Formula One? It has not coincided. I am sure there are many

:15:02. > :15:06.Indians who love Formula One. That is what you are born with. I am

:15:06. > :15:16.sure that this will be a mega event, which will be well excepted by

:15:16. > :15:18.

:15:18. > :15:22.you will have the honour of waving the chequered flag at the end. Pele

:15:22. > :15:26.did it in 2002. He missed the winning car coming over the line,

:15:26. > :15:32.have you been practising? I have been very prepared and very

:15:32. > :15:38.informed about that. Yes, that is one thing I need to be careful of.

:15:38. > :15:45.I am so looking forward to this event because way back into 1002

:15:46. > :15:49.when I watched my first F1 race, at Silverstone, the feeling was would

:15:49. > :15:53.it ever come to India and it has happened so I am really excited.

:15:53. > :15:58.know you're batting action is impressive, show us your flag-

:15:58. > :16:02.waving action. It is more like a sword fight. I have to do that for

:16:02. > :16:10.the whole map after the winner has passed. As simple as that.

:16:10. > :16:14.anyone can do it, you can. Thank you very much. Let's join our own

:16:14. > :16:19.heroes the Formula One. Let's make our way down the pit lane. It is

:16:19. > :16:24.good to show people a brand new facility like this. Incredible to

:16:24. > :16:30.get Sachin Tendulkar on his own. big star. Maybe people don't know

:16:30. > :16:34.what he stands for. The magnitude of him because he is just like a

:16:34. > :16:38.god in this country. Quite funny when he was walking down the palate,

:16:38. > :16:43.100 people around him, and Sebastian Vettel walked past with

:16:43. > :16:49.no one interested! Two big records yesterday in qualifying for

:16:49. > :16:55.Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull. is very significant, the 13th pole

:16:55. > :17:00.position this season and it puts him in it -- an exclusive club. He

:17:00. > :17:04.has now matched Fangio for 28 pole positions, which is hugely

:17:04. > :17:12.significant. He has had a great start to his career, he has had

:17:12. > :17:17.good cars. But he has made full use of the vehicle. There's no question

:17:17. > :17:23.he is cementing his status as the man to beat. The thing that catches

:17:23. > :17:27.me is the dominance of the team. Coming from the team's side, 16

:17:27. > :17:31.pole positions of up this is remarkable. Only once has that been

:17:31. > :17:36.eclipsed, and that was by Lewis. If they keep going on for two more

:17:36. > :17:41.races after here, it is staggering the dominance they have had his ear.

:17:41. > :17:46.What else can we say about this Red Bull team? Red Bull very impressive

:17:46. > :17:50.indeed. But yesterday it was Toro Rosso that was celebrating. Not

:17:50. > :17:55.because they had taken pole position, almost like they had won

:17:55. > :18:04.the world title. Ali Mackenzie is with the perfect two men to explain.

:18:04. > :18:08.-- Lee McKenzie. Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari. We are

:18:08. > :18:13.talking about successful Saturdays and yesterday seemed to have

:18:13. > :18:17.surpassed all expectations. Yes, to have both cars into Q3 was a good

:18:17. > :18:22.achievement for us. We don't get any points for that so hopefully

:18:22. > :18:29.today we will have a good race. This car seems to be getting better,

:18:29. > :18:35.how does that relate to you as a driver? They have been improvements

:18:35. > :18:39.because we can demonstrate that we are competitive and it also means

:18:39. > :18:44.Toro Rosso is becoming a big team. For the future of the team it is

:18:44. > :18:47.very important. We are fighting with Sauber, who were in front of

:18:48. > :18:51.us in the Constructors' Championship. Today we have a good

:18:51. > :18:56.position to overtake them in the championship. This means Toro Rosso

:18:56. > :19:00.is becoming big. We saw how much it meant to the guys in the garage, it

:19:00. > :19:05.was like you had both won the race. What was the atmosphere like when

:19:05. > :19:12.you went back? What did they say? It is not very often we get both

:19:12. > :19:17.cars into Q3 so we were really happy. What we updated in Japan

:19:17. > :19:21.seemed to work properly. It is good to see that what we do is making

:19:21. > :19:25.the car better and we can now fight in the top 10. To be in front of

:19:25. > :19:30.one of the Mercedes and both Renaults is definitely good.

:19:30. > :19:36.you give them something to smile about today? I think we can be in

:19:36. > :19:40.the points, definitely. To overtake Sauber in the championship would be

:19:40. > :19:45.amazing. We will see how it will be. I hope your afternoon goes well,

:19:45. > :19:50.thank you. Plenty for the crowd to get excited

:19:50. > :19:55.about when it came to Toro Rosso yesterday and they have opened the

:19:55. > :19:59.grid. The atmosphere is starting to bubble up despite the fact that the

:19:59. > :20:05.pit lane has been empty of the onlookers. A quick chat about the

:20:05. > :20:09.Toro Rosso drivers. Both young drivers. The best finish of his

:20:09. > :20:12.career in South Korea for Jaime Alguersuari. Making the job very

:20:12. > :20:19.difficult for Red Bull to work out who should be in that car next

:20:19. > :20:26.season. It is. The first half of the year it was looking like

:20:26. > :20:33.Alguersuari. It is a great problem for Red Bull. They have five

:20:33. > :20:37.drivers with Daniel Ricciardo as well. They could ultimately put

:20:37. > :20:41.them in the league team in motor racing. It is going to be

:20:41. > :20:45.interesting to see what they will do. They have a whole host of young

:20:46. > :20:48.drivers waiting to get into Formula One. A looking at the midfield

:20:48. > :20:54.battle in the Constructors' Championship, let's have a look at

:20:54. > :20:57.where they stand. Very interesting when you look at their championship

:20:57. > :21:05.positions and their positions on the grid. It has nearly been turned

:21:05. > :21:10.on its head up with the exception of Sutil, who is very strong. Force

:21:10. > :21:15.India can be caught by Sauber. I would be watching over my shoulder

:21:15. > :21:19.for Toro Rosso. What they have achieved, by far the first is cut

:21:19. > :21:23.in South Korea in a straight line and they have both made it into the

:21:23. > :21:28.top 10. It has been the turnaround of the season as far as teams are

:21:28. > :21:32.concerned. Not long until the race, just over half an hour. Keep your

:21:32. > :21:37.eyes on that midfield battle. Some people who will be tuning in with

:21:37. > :21:42.interest are in the United States, in the state of Texas, in the City

:21:42. > :21:52.of Austin. India have managed it with aplomb and now Austen, over to

:21:52. > :22:03.

:22:03. > :22:07.there is no interest in Formula One in America, but I think we are

:22:08. > :22:17.about find out that is not the case. You know who DEC his? DEC shoe

:22:18. > :22:27.

:22:27. > :22:37.making a go of it. We have had Detroit and Long Beach. I don't

:22:37. > :22:37.

:22:37. > :22:43.know why they haven't made it. watching this awesome F1 car.

:22:43. > :22:50.are passionate about it. I went to the race at India and there were

:22:50. > :22:54.140,000 people there. That, is allowed! And fast. -- of that car

:22:54. > :22:58.is allowed. I have heard rumours about David Coulthard coming to

:22:58. > :23:08.Austin. I have been watching him since I was a little girl with my

:23:08. > :23:40.

:23:40. > :23:47.dad. About how a drive from my home Niki Lauda was racing. I used to

:23:47. > :23:51.watch it as a kid. Buffalo, antelope. We are the home of the

:23:51. > :23:55.antelope. It is a matter of marketing and the wakening people

:23:55. > :24:00.to what it is. It has been around for years and years, but America

:24:00. > :24:05.has grown accustomed to cars going around in a circle. Once that

:24:05. > :24:11.education aspect get out, excitement will follow. Do you know

:24:11. > :24:21.who that is? Who is that? We are waiting for Bernie. If you hear me,

:24:21. > :24:38.

:24:38. > :24:42.incredible facility which is in construction. Everything behind us

:24:43. > :24:47.will be the circuit of America. have to pick a good geographic

:24:47. > :24:50.location. It doesn't matter what kind of event you are doing. We

:24:51. > :24:54.thus been positioned between both coasts in America and between

:24:54. > :25:00.Central America and Canada, it is a great location from a global

:25:00. > :25:06.perspective. This track has not been conceived and designed by

:25:06. > :25:10.consortiums or sovereign wealthy nations. It is by guys who raised

:25:10. > :25:18.their hearts out and know what a good track should be. The cool

:25:18. > :25:22.corners will be this. 40 metres of elevation. Similar to Becketts.

:25:22. > :25:27.This is 1.2 kilometres. Very similar to Istanbul to and eight,

:25:27. > :25:33.except it is quicker and downhill and right handed. You have to build

:25:33. > :25:36.a track from the ground up. You don't modify another institution,

:25:36. > :25:42.you don't modify anything, you don't play football in Yankee

:25:42. > :25:47.Stadium, you play baseball. How far is this through the project? You

:25:47. > :25:54.have got over a year until the Grand Prix. I think we are probably

:25:54. > :25:59.very tight on time. Being perfectly candid. But we will have a Grand

:25:59. > :26:05.Prix next year in November. What we are going to do here... The camera

:26:06. > :26:11.shots don't do the steepness of the hill justice. This is a technical

:26:11. > :26:21.and very scientific experiment to see just how much speed a static

:26:21. > :26:40.

:26:40. > :26:44.tyre can build between now and going to be the first person to

:26:44. > :26:54.drive the circuit of America's. I am not even sure whether we will

:26:54. > :27:09.

:27:09. > :27:19.get to the first turn. Wish me luck. dirt. Feel more like a rally driver

:27:19. > :27:30.

:27:30. > :27:34.will be racing there. If you are wondering what the black armband is

:27:34. > :27:39.about, it is because we lost two great more -- Motors bought men and

:27:39. > :27:43.the last couple of weeks, Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli. There

:27:43. > :27:47.will be a minute's silence before the race. Wonderful to see you Ben

:27:47. > :27:51.Austin. You were watching most of the engineers and mechanics. Plenty

:27:51. > :27:58.of interest in that place. All of the teams enjoy going to these new

:27:58. > :28:02.places. They really get a sense of the country for top the European

:28:02. > :28:07.races, you arrive on a Thursday and leave on a Sunday. These other

:28:07. > :28:13.races, they are going to get a surprise. It is not all J R Ewing

:28:13. > :28:18.and oil rigs, it is a vibrant little town. 80,000 students. It is

:28:18. > :28:26.a very young Fipe. Eddie will love it because there is a lot of live

:28:26. > :28:30.music. I am loving your 1980s J R Ewing reference! Talking about the

:28:30. > :28:35.circuit, we like South Korea, it is a great track, drivers have been

:28:35. > :28:38.impressed here. Have we learn from mistakes in Abu Dhabi and Singapore

:28:38. > :28:45.and Valencia? The circuit is as good to great racing as the

:28:45. > :28:49.circuits and driving. Abu Dhabi built a great facility, but the

:28:49. > :28:52.drivers are enthused about this track. That is what Abu Dhabi got

:28:52. > :28:56.wrong, it was all about the facility rather than the racetrack.

:28:56. > :29:01.You have to start with a great race track and then build the facilities

:29:01. > :29:06.and the enthusiasm will come through. No US raised this year,

:29:06. > :29:11.two US races by 2013. Spoilt for choice. All of the team principals

:29:11. > :29:15.here, even back as far as my day, we were pounding the table with

:29:15. > :29:19.Ernie, get us into America. Indianapolis didn't quite fulfil

:29:19. > :29:28.that. Now with the announcement of the New Jersey race and Austen, it

:29:28. > :29:32.is like a dream come true. Those are places we are going, but right

:29:32. > :29:38.now it is all about India. Lewis Hamilton has just climbed into his

:29:38. > :29:41.car with his Bob Marley helmet. A big day for Lewis Hamilton and a

:29:41. > :29:48.big day for everyone, a particularly big day for a circuit

:29:48. > :29:54.the drivers are already in love with. India is colourful, India is

:29:54. > :29:57.vibrant. India is exciting. That is why we say incredible India.

:29:57. > :30:03.think they have done a really good job with the circuit and it is very,

:30:03. > :30:13.very fast and flowing. Fabulous speed. The high speed is phenomenal,

:30:13. > :30:17.

:30:17. > :30:20.the amount of grip you have. A lot The drivers seem to like it. They

:30:20. > :30:25.will get the chance to enjoy themselves and less than half an

:30:25. > :30:31.hour, because the pit lane is open and Jenson Button is in his car,

:30:31. > :30:34.looking focused. He starts ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button

:30:34. > :30:39.starts in fourth position. He cannot claim he does not know his

:30:39. > :30:46.way around, because we found the perfect mode of transport to

:30:46. > :30:52.introduce him to this course. Thursday morning, 11:15am, this is

:30:52. > :30:58.what the most important drug walks of the season. -- one of the most

:30:58. > :31:07.important trucker walks. On most of them, we will go round, but here,

:31:07. > :31:14.it is important to go on a tut-tut, I feel! Only 16,000 kilometres?

:31:14. > :31:23.That surprises me! It is only one year old. We got you a new one. But

:31:23. > :31:33.it goes up to 80 kilometres an hour. We are off. Smoothed! Where is the

:31:33. > :31:42.KERS button?! You are like the real driver, you use the horn a lot!

:31:42. > :31:49.Perfect! That is an amazing bit of kit. We could learn a few things

:31:49. > :31:56.from this for next year. Tell us what is going through your head

:31:56. > :32:02.when you look at that. Did we get it right in the simulator? We can

:32:02. > :32:08.make sure that they were acquitted to prepare was correct. Looking at

:32:08. > :32:17.the Kurds, we are OK. It does not look as tight in reality. It looks

:32:17. > :32:24.more open. Which is nice. Nicely decorated! I think it is lovely!

:32:24. > :32:32.When you can see the grandstands and things like Waterloo's, or are

:32:32. > :32:41.you looking those? Yes, full distance, rather than, where will I

:32:41. > :32:46.go to the toilet? But little things that are upright are important. It

:32:46. > :32:51.is difficult to find a brick market if they do not put them, so you

:32:51. > :33:01.have to look for something else. That looks amazing. If it were flat,

:33:01. > :33:26.

:33:26. > :33:32.it would not be as exciting. We are what we have learned. The first

:33:32. > :33:37.corner is more open than we thought, the third corner is more open on

:33:37. > :33:45.the entry, and the same on the fourth. This is similar to the

:33:45. > :33:50.simulator. This corner, there is gravel at the apex, but the great

:33:50. > :33:55.thing, from the fifth corner until the 15th corner, it is all pretty

:33:55. > :34:05.fast, with good changes of direction. It will be a lot of fun.

:34:05. > :34:13.

:34:13. > :34:20.learned, the drivers in India are skilled. You thought you were the

:34:20. > :34:27.best, you are wrong! How much as on the meter? One of you has got to

:34:27. > :34:37.foot the bill. Two-wood and 40 rupees. This has come all the way

:34:37. > :34:39.

:34:39. > :34:44.from Delhi. You have signed a juicy contract, so �4, please!

:34:44. > :34:48.Eddie Jordan was feeling generous, and he footed the bill. This is

:34:48. > :34:57.Jenson Button leaving the garage. Let's hope his race engineer also

:34:57. > :35:03.makes it back for the start of the race. This seems to be the trend,

:35:03. > :35:13.to have undulating circuits. Yes, they have created the adulation,

:35:13. > :35:19.because this was a flat land. It gives something extra to the

:35:19. > :35:24.drivers, you have the sensation of being on a roller-coaster. Even the

:35:25. > :35:29.back straight, it has a small rise and dip, and it gives them a great

:35:29. > :35:34.feeling. When the cars came out, the grandstand stood up and clapped

:35:34. > :35:38.and cheered. The excitement is starting to build. They have

:35:38. > :35:46.designed a circuit here to encourage overtaking at, but it is

:35:46. > :35:50.so dirty off-line, it is difficult to do that. You will not see many

:35:50. > :35:56.drivers, and as they have do, they will not take the risk of going off

:35:56. > :36:02.the side. It is safer and wider, but it is a long straight. It is

:36:02. > :36:07.the DRS and everything else with the Kurds. It will make this into a

:36:07. > :36:13.spectacular race. If you are tuning before Andrew Marr, that programme

:36:13. > :36:21.is starting on BBC Two. You can watch him next week, but you can

:36:21. > :36:27.only watch the first Indian Grand Prix on the BBC once! There does

:36:28. > :36:35.not seem to be a clean or dirty line on one side or the other.

:36:35. > :36:40.the final corner, they go diagonally across the starting grid,

:36:40. > :36:45.so they are right between pole position and second on the grid.

:36:45. > :36:54.The cleanest part of the track will be somewhere around 10 or 11 on the

:36:54. > :36:59.grid. Mark Webber has lost more places than any other driver, so it

:36:59. > :37:03.will be interesting. Whether it is watching it from home or

:37:04. > :37:09.introducing him here, I have lost count of the number of crude walks

:37:09. > :37:17.Martin Brundle has done, but he has never done it in India.

:37:17. > :37:22.It is brilliant. The cars have left the pit lane. Some are doing

:37:23. > :37:30.practice starts, which is the noise you can here. I am looking at the

:37:30. > :37:39.amazing truth. -- amazing growth. It is an impressive piece of

:37:39. > :37:47.engineering. The modern Formula One starting the rostrum, but the rest

:37:47. > :37:53.is pure India. Let's see who we can find. The safety car has been out

:37:53. > :37:57.in the last five races on the trot. There is a very good chance we will

:37:57. > :38:02.see that here this afternoon. The photographers are getting the

:38:02. > :38:09.Indian flag held out so they can get some shots for the week. Lots

:38:09. > :38:14.of pretty girls here. Mark Webber, second position, in the Red Bull,

:38:14. > :38:20.after Lewis Hamilton took his penalty. Lewis Hamilton did split

:38:20. > :38:29.the Red Bull cars, but he has to go back. How is the track on the way

:38:30. > :38:35.round? Pretty good. We took the hard tyre round, so I did not fill

:38:35. > :38:40.the car too much. It looks pretty good. You have got half a chance of

:38:40. > :38:45.getting to the first corner first. It looks reasonably even. The proof

:38:45. > :38:52.will be in the pudding. My last few starts have been pretty good, so it

:38:52. > :38:58.will be nice to continue that. heard in the week some stories

:38:58. > :39:04.about maybe Sebastien helping to, but that is not how do you see it?

:39:04. > :39:12.You know what it is light at this level. 17 years, I have never had a

:39:13. > :39:17.position given to me, and I do not what one. Mark Webber is not

:39:17. > :39:26.looking for gifts at the first Indian Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso

:39:26. > :39:33.not yet on the grid. Lewis Hamilton's car is. Can we find it

:39:33. > :39:40.Jenson Button? He is still sitting in the car, adjusting the nearest.

:39:40. > :39:45.-- adjusting the mirrors. It is unusual to see that still being

:39:45. > :39:49.done. But how little space there is for him to get out of the car. It

:39:49. > :39:56.is incredible, they have to take off the headrest before he can

:39:56. > :40:03.begin to get out. If it is on fire, he would be out of there like a

:40:03. > :40:09.shot, but you can see how tight it is for the driver. You heard David

:40:09. > :40:19.talking about a Bollywood star who has done more than 400 movies. It

:40:19. > :40:19.

:40:19. > :40:25.is a big day for motor sport. not want to get run over! You are a

:40:26. > :40:30.Formula One fan anyway? Absolutely, we are so excited that Formula One

:40:30. > :40:33.is in India. We have been talking about this, thinking about this, I

:40:33. > :40:42.have had many conversations with Bernie Ecclestone about bringing

:40:42. > :40:46.Formula One to India, and I am very happy today, hearing from everybody,

:40:46. > :40:51.all of the arrangements and everything have been top class.

:40:51. > :41:01.you show me how you can disconnect your neck and move around? I will

:41:01. > :41:03.

:41:03. > :41:13.do a dance. It is your turn! I have got to see the match over here! --

:41:13. > :41:17.

:41:17. > :41:26.man! Blackadder, we like to call him Rowan Atkinson. Can I get

:41:26. > :41:35.through? Here we are again. Indian Grand Prix. A lot of energy

:41:35. > :41:41.going on here. Degrades get more and more crowded. -- grids. It has

:41:41. > :41:45.been a remarkable achievement, so far. It is not an easy country or

:41:45. > :41:52.an easy society in which to make this kind of thing work. They have

:41:52. > :41:57.done remarkably well. So far, so good. I had some Indian traffic

:41:57. > :42:02.this morning, slightly Indian! It took a couple of hours to get in!

:42:02. > :42:07.But we got here on time, and everybody seems to be optimistic.

:42:07. > :42:17.You are cheering for McLaren? have an instinctive allegiance

:42:17. > :42:21.towards McLaren. I think we are in a pretty good place. I think Lewis

:42:21. > :42:26.Hamilton is in good form, he is in better form than he has been for

:42:26. > :42:33.some months. They are optimistic. We have seen him not looking as

:42:33. > :42:38.happy as he has been. I have spoken to him a bit. I do not claim great

:42:38. > :42:43.intimacy with him. I would describe him as Light reflective, but that

:42:43. > :42:49.is not a bad thing. It is an optimistic reflection, rather than

:42:49. > :42:53.depressives. The future is bright for him. Let's hope the future is

:42:53. > :43:02.bright for the Indian Grand Prix. Let's see if we can find Jenson

:43:02. > :43:12.Button. He has left the grid. We have got Felipe Massa bad hair. --

:43:12. > :43:22.down here. Coming up shortly, we have got a tribute to Dan Wheldon

:43:22. > :43:28.and Marco Simoncelli. Hello, what do you think? It is a bit chaotic.

:43:28. > :43:33.But it is super. The chaos suits Formula One. It is brilliant. Is

:43:33. > :43:41.there anybody famous you can introduce me to? Normally, we

:43:41. > :43:49.organise the chaos, but this is on its own! You are in an entourage?

:43:49. > :43:54.Sachin Tendulkar. You are on the grid, how is it feeling for you?

:43:54. > :44:02.Fantastic. It is a special feeling that Formula One has come to India.

:44:02. > :44:07.The people have waited for a long time. The boot -- it has turned

:44:07. > :44:14.into a reality, it is exciting. This is a special feeling for all

:44:14. > :44:19.of us. It is time to hand back to Jake Humphrey. The drivers are

:44:19. > :44:23.moving towards the front of the grit.

:44:23. > :44:33.-- grid. We are about to remember two lost

:44:33. > :44:33.

:44:33. > :46:12.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:46:12. > :46:17.champions, Dan Wheldon and Marco India in honour of two men who

:46:17. > :46:21.recently lost their lives, Marco Simoncelli and Dan Wheldon. That

:46:21. > :46:25.was a remarkably difficult thing to watch before a Grand Prix because

:46:25. > :46:30.in this modern era, death is not something that is particularly

:46:30. > :46:34.common place any more. Indeed. It is absolutely fitting that Formula

:46:34. > :46:41.One pays its respects to two other forms of motor sport, in the car

:46:41. > :46:43.racing and MotoGP. The drivers wanted to be part of that. It is a

:46:44. > :46:47.reflective moment just before starting a Grand Prix but

:46:47. > :46:53.nonetheless they wanted to pay their respects. It sends a very

:46:53. > :46:58.positive message that at certain moments Formula One can be united.

:46:58. > :47:03.Tributes are very important, but so is learning from these problems.

:47:03. > :47:07.Formula One sets a benchmark for safety, it is important that

:47:07. > :47:11.motorsport doesn't slip too far behind. It is a tragic reminder,

:47:11. > :47:16.but nevertheless, Formula One has been the pinnacle of safety for

:47:16. > :47:20.quite some time. It started with Max Mosley and has carried on with

:47:20. > :47:25.Jean Todt. They are really resilient, they will not give up on

:47:25. > :47:28.this. Everything they can possibly do. The great news is it gets

:47:28. > :47:33.transferred into the automobile industry and the people on the

:47:33. > :47:38.streets, they are the real beneficiaries of up fingers crossed,

:47:38. > :47:44.never stop the search for safety. Our thoughts with the families of

:47:44. > :47:49.Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli. Thank you for joining us, David,

:47:49. > :47:55.but let's turn our attention to what we hope will be a race that is

:47:55. > :48:00.a fitting tribute. Let's speak to Paul di Resta.

:48:00. > :48:03.There seems to be about 2000 people inside your garage, a lot of

:48:04. > :48:08.excitement at Force India. A lot of excitement, but the biggest thing

:48:08. > :48:16.is we have new partners, the Sahara group have come to their first

:48:16. > :48:21.Grand Prix, enjoying the experience. It is an important day and

:48:21. > :48:23.hopefully we can score some points and keep the mood very happy.

:48:24. > :48:29.were not that comfortable with the car yesterday, will there be

:48:29. > :48:32.different today in the long run? think so, we have optimised the

:48:32. > :48:38.long-run performance over qualifying. It was always going to

:48:38. > :48:42.be tricky in qualifying. But you have to think ahead and stay

:48:42. > :48:47.positive. Hopefully be aggressive. Thank you.

:48:48. > :48:50.That is what we want to hear, Paul di Resta saying he will be

:48:50. > :48:55.aggressive after a difficult qualifying session. Fernando Alonso

:48:55. > :49:02.has said he can fight for victory from third place on the grid, but

:49:02. > :49:06.they might be energy with the car. Let's speak to Ted. There is a

:49:06. > :49:11.problem with the car. A problem with the front wing. Specifically

:49:11. > :49:15.the right hand side. Let's see if we can have a look. I have just

:49:15. > :49:19.spoken to Stefania Dearman jelly and he was not aware there was a

:49:19. > :49:23.problem until we pointed it out. The mechanics said there seems to

:49:23. > :49:28.be a problem with where the actual flap of the front wing meets the

:49:28. > :49:35.end plate. Some very controlled activity. One of the mechanic's

:49:35. > :49:39.hands is shaking. The flap itself is completely detached. It is like

:49:39. > :49:44.microsurgery trying to fix this. They will get it done because they

:49:44. > :49:47.have another 10 minutes, but some fevered activity at Fernando

:49:47. > :49:54.Alonso's car. Who knows whether there will be further problems with

:49:54. > :49:59.the front wings. We have seen that happen before this season, Lewis

:49:59. > :50:04.Hamilton was sitting in the garage until the last moment in China. A

:50:04. > :50:10.last-minute rescue job. There have been problems with this new front

:50:10. > :50:14.wing. Ferrari fighting hard to make sure they cut his quick next season.

:50:14. > :50:19.There is something not right about the front wing. This looks like a

:50:19. > :50:22.card directly out of a comic strip. It is like two Ready shovels

:50:22. > :50:31.sitting on the end of a plank. It is horrible, it doesn't even look

:50:31. > :50:37.right. A design disaster for -- a design disaster. You know those

:50:37. > :50:40.when you see them! Thank you! Fernando Alonso starts third, just

:50:40. > :50:44.in front Mark Webber. He hasn't taken a place off the start of a

:50:44. > :50:47.race since April. If he does it today, he will take the lead and

:50:47. > :50:52.that would mean a lot for a man desperate to be second in the

:50:52. > :51:00.Drivers' Championship. He couldn't pick a better time. He happens to

:51:01. > :51:05.have a decent run at the beginning. I actually think he could go

:51:05. > :51:09.straight into the lead because he has already talked about it and

:51:09. > :51:13.traditionally, Sebastian Vettel doesn't always make great start.

:51:13. > :51:17.Vettel is on pole position for this race. He has matched the great

:51:17. > :51:21.Fangio's record of 28 pole positions. How much would he loved

:51:21. > :51:26.to pick up a win? If he is naughty, Johnny Herbert will have his eyes

:51:26. > :51:31.on him because he is the race to it. How do you take pole position at

:51:31. > :51:35.India? -- and he is the race steward.

:51:35. > :51:40.The drivers are enjoying this Buddh International Circuit. Sebastian

:51:40. > :51:47.Vettel is on pole position for the 13th time for Red Bull. Diagonal on

:51:48. > :51:54.the pit straight, cleaning up some of the potatoes lots. 180 miles per

:51:54. > :51:58.hour down the straight. A sweeping left, climbing the hill at the apex

:51:58. > :52:01.of three is right on the crest. Such an unusual layout. Short shift

:52:01. > :52:05.Such an unusual layout. Short shift up to third gear to get best

:52:05. > :52:12.acceleration, best traction. 1060 metres down the back straight.

:52:12. > :52:18.Listen to that Renault engine. Just under 200 mph as we head into the

:52:18. > :52:24.braking zone of turn four. Plenty of action there in the race, no

:52:25. > :52:28.doubt. This is where the track gets really interesting. Fifth gear

:52:28. > :52:35.through the left-hander, playing with the throttle, carrying

:52:35. > :52:39.tremendous speed in the Red Bull. Balancing the power beautifully. A

:52:39. > :52:44.long-term 10, the front of the car wanders to the outside, a bit of

:52:44. > :52:49.grip on the kerb. Hard on the throttle, using the artificial

:52:49. > :52:54.grass. Fifth gear for that -- through that first part of to and

:52:54. > :52:59.13. Absolutely flying. Look at the speed he takes into to and 15. It

:52:59. > :53:04.must be brilliant to drive his Red Bull. A very wide entry into the

:53:04. > :53:14.final corner. Touch is the apex perfectly and straightens the car.

:53:14. > :53:18.

:53:18. > :53:21.Over the line, Vettel red hot in has now started 35% of all of his

:53:21. > :53:25.races in Formula One from pole position. We're getting close,

:53:25. > :53:28.Eddie is dressed for it, you're ready for it, what about Lewis

:53:28. > :53:32.Hamilton? He said he wanted to remove all of the distractions.

:53:32. > :53:36.Good to see him sharing an embrace with his dad. We have not seen much

:53:36. > :53:41.of that in the past 12 months. think he needs it more now than in

:53:41. > :53:46.it -- than ever, sometimes family bonds know when love is required

:53:46. > :53:52.and it has never been more required than it is now. I am emotional

:53:52. > :53:55.about seeing him doing it. On the front of that Force India, you can

:53:55. > :54:00.see one of the biggest Bollywood stars. Can Formula One match the

:54:00. > :54:04.kind of thing India is already in love with? The first ever Grand

:54:04. > :54:10.Prix, time for Formula One to impress. What will happen? I think

:54:10. > :54:16.it will be impressive. I just hope we don't have a Vettel gift, going

:54:16. > :54:19.into the distance. I want to see the fight taken to him. We also

:54:19. > :54:24.have a double Diarrar stone, that could spice things up. The crowd of

:54:24. > :54:28.very much up for it. It has been a tough few days for motor sport, but

:54:28. > :54:32.now we turn our attention to what we do best, delivering exciting and

:54:32. > :54:42.dramatic raising. As ever, the aim for the drivers is simple. To win

:54:42. > :54:42.

:54:42. > :55:23.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:55:23. > :55:31.the race. To be the first to see advertising says, and without doubt

:55:31. > :55:35.it has been a spectacular race so far. A country of 1.2 billion

:55:35. > :55:39.people, 200 million of those on in this northern province, which

:55:39. > :55:46.includes Delhi. India has more motor rating history then you might

:55:46. > :55:50.imagine. The first road race was in 1904 from Delhi to Mumbai. In 1969

:55:50. > :55:55.they formed a motorsport body and in 1980 it was their first

:55:55. > :56:01.Himalayan Rally. Today it is the inaugural Grand Prix of India. A 60

:56:01. > :56:05.lap race at his new Buddh International Circuit. Lots of

:56:05. > :56:10.emotion on the grid, lots of excitement. And then there tribute,

:56:10. > :56:15.the minutes silence for Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli. The Indian

:56:15. > :56:21.national anthem was played, which translates as vow what the ruler of

:56:21. > :56:25.minds. Whose mind do you think is on the game today? We had a very

:56:25. > :56:29.impressive qualifying from Sebastian Vettel. Getting his

:56:29. > :56:32.timing absolutely to perfection. He was able to get those tyres

:56:32. > :56:36.switched on in a single lap, which many of the other drivers were

:56:36. > :56:41.struggling to do. Based on the qualifying performance, he has

:56:41. > :56:46.found a sweet spot and I fear that if he converts pole position into a

:56:46. > :56:49.leading at the first corner, he might not be seen this afternoon.

:56:49. > :56:56.Lewis Hamilton unfortunately got his penalty for a yellow flag

:56:56. > :57:00.infringement on Friday practice. But he is totally focused. McLaren

:57:00. > :57:04.started great this year. Alonso in Monza it was able to lead that

:57:04. > :57:10.raised into the first corner, much to the delight of the Italian fans,

:57:10. > :57:15.so look out for him at the start. Gods of racing are welcome. We have

:57:15. > :57:20.seen the Bollywood stars, the cricketing stars, now it is time

:57:20. > :57:25.for the Formula One stars to show what they can do. Jenson Button

:57:25. > :57:32.inherited fourth on the grid after Hamilton's penalty. Both McLaren

:57:32. > :57:40.drivers with a fast race car underneath them. Still the dancing

:57:40. > :57:45.goes on outside in the paddock. Wall-to-wall action here. Meanwhile,

:57:45. > :57:54.the drivers, as you say, David, Lewis Hamilton with that 1,000

:57:54. > :58:00.yards there on the grid. -- 1,000 Yard stare. The back straight is

:58:00. > :58:05.1060 metres. Let's talk about Massa's front wing. It is fixed.

:58:05. > :58:10.Not too many people around it. He must be slightly concerned. The

:58:10. > :58:14.last think... Alonso's wing. The last thing you want is for your

:58:14. > :58:20.front wing to be coming underneath your front tyres. It is indeed! You

:58:20. > :58:30.want your front wing to stay where it should be. Let's take a look at

:58:30. > :58:30.

:58:30. > :59:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:59:27. > :59:34.qualifying. Only two Indian trouble -- drivers have ever been in

:59:34. > :59:44.Formula One, Chandhok and Karthikeyan. They have fired up the

:59:44. > :59:53.

:59:53. > :59:59.tyres they did their fastest lap on. Four chose not to do any laps. We

:59:59. > :00:09.will see who is running what. Soft airs on Sutil's car, marked with

:00:09. > :00:23.

:00:23. > :00:31.That is the first time they get a proper start away from their grit

:00:31. > :00:38.box. Furious calculations going on about how to set the clutch bite

:00:38. > :00:47.point for their getaway. It is very wide. I expect to see plenty of

:00:47. > :00:56.dust being thrown up as the cars leave the grid. They have been

:00:56. > :01:06.cleaning up the right side of the track. DRS zones, two of them on

:01:06. > :01:23.

:01:23. > :01:28.soft tyres Maldonado and Schumacher. That is to let Paul di Resta know

:01:28. > :01:38.that the three cars in front of him and the one behind him have soft

:01:38. > :01:39.

:01:40. > :01:44.tyres on. Kobayashi has hard tyres on the Sauber. What do you think

:01:44. > :01:54.about that? I think given the gap between the tiers, it is a bit

:01:54. > :01:56.

:01:56. > :02:01.strange. He is clearly having a punt at the One Stop race this

:02:01. > :02:09.afternoon. There is not much difference in time. I think what

:02:09. > :02:14.that will do is give the other teams a sight as to what is the gap

:02:14. > :02:19.today. They have no historical information on how this track will

:02:19. > :02:23.be in a Grand Prix. I asked Mark Webber how the track was and he

:02:23. > :02:32.said he did not know because he was on the hard tyres. It will be

:02:32. > :02:36.interesting to see how Kobayashi copes with those. It looks like

:02:36. > :02:42.Vettel is joyriding and having fun. He is doing a very prescribed

:02:42. > :02:48.number of heat cycles into those tyres. He will slot as late as he

:02:48. > :02:52.can into his grid position. The yellow line is where you're right

:02:52. > :03:02.front tyre should be. Christian Horner looks on with the boss of a

:03:02. > :03:09.

:03:09. > :03:14.Nissan Renault as the back of the outside the gates of Silverstone.

:03:14. > :03:24.This is a very big day for Indian motor sport and for that matter,

:03:24. > :03:43.

:03:43. > :03:51.it well, behind him is Webber. Where they are thinking about going

:03:51. > :03:56.up the inside. Alonso has gone very deep. Rubens Barrichello and

:03:56. > :04:03.Kobayashi, I think was in there, too. One of the Virgin Racing cars

:04:03. > :04:09.having to take avoiding action. And more contact at the back of the

:04:09. > :04:15.field of Jarno Trulli with an HRT. Yellow flags are waving. Webber

:04:15. > :04:25.under pressure immediately down the straight. No DRS involved there for

:04:25. > :04:27.

:04:27. > :04:35.the first two laps. Button just flew past Mark Webber. Hamilton

:04:35. > :04:40.down in sixth place. Michael Schumacher or yet again making a

:04:40. > :04:45.flying start, getting himself up into eighth position behind his

:04:45. > :04:55.team-mate Paul to rest there -- behind his team-mate. Paul di Resta

:04:55. > :05:10.

:05:10. > :05:14.man Mark Webber. He would have been frustrated that the McLaren just

:05:14. > :05:19.cruised past him. All year long we have seen it, Red Bull have gone

:05:19. > :05:24.for grip in the corners and they have given up on straight line

:05:24. > :05:34.speed and that has hurt them badly, David. Indeed, there are other

:05:34. > :05:36.

:05:36. > :05:46.factors as well. Perez coming in. A bit of locking up action there.

:05:46. > :05:46.

:05:46. > :05:53.Massa still being hunted down by Hamilton. It is Kobayashi who has

:05:53. > :05:58.stopped, we think. We saw him in trouble in the first corner.

:05:58. > :06:06.Somebody has lost their wing on the way in. Barrichello's front wing

:06:06. > :06:10.got lost on the way to the pits. Perez, block and Barrichello pitted,

:06:10. > :06:18.Kobayashi stopped on the track and Trulli appears to have got running

:06:18. > :06:23.again. A long pit stop for Barrichello. Lots of colours on his

:06:23. > :06:28.crash helmet this weekend. Let's hear from Ted. Rubens Barrichello

:06:28. > :06:33.came in to change the front wing. Timo Glock also came in. Perez has

:06:33. > :06:39.come in to get rid of the hard tyres. He can run the soft, quicker

:06:39. > :06:49.tyres now for the rest of the race. Sebastian Vettel's lead at the end

:06:49. > :06:51.

:06:51. > :06:56.of the first lap was... Alonso was a bit too hard on the brakes. That

:06:56. > :07:06.is what released Jenson Button up into third. Kobayashi was rather

:07:06. > :07:12.

:07:12. > :07:18.careless. Fernando Alonso will get a good view of the Red Bulls.

:07:18. > :07:28.think he was a bit caught out. Mark was quite early on the brakes. He

:07:28. > :07:32.went left and was not able to use mark as a reference for the braking.

:07:32. > :07:38.Sutil lock his wheels. There is Barrichello. I think he hit the

:07:38. > :07:47.back of his team mate. I think there was some contact with Rosberg

:07:47. > :07:53.as well. Maybe we will get another replay of that. Another replay. Now

:07:53. > :08:03.we will see that Jarno Trulli gets spun out in the Lotus. He has

:08:03. > :08:03.

:08:03. > :08:09.pitted. This is a replay of his pit stop. The right rear puncture. So

:08:09. > :08:13.much contact. You have got these really wide turn in points and it

:08:13. > :08:19.is tempting to have a go but then they all concertina into one point

:08:19. > :08:24.on the inside of the corner. Look at the lead that Vettel has. He

:08:24. > :08:34.leads by 2.7 seconds over Button who is half a second clear of Mark

:08:34. > :08:49.

:08:49. > :08:57.Webber. Sen up in to tenth place Timo Glock retiring from the Grand

:08:57. > :09:03.Prix. We have two cars out at the moment. We have the DRS available.

:09:03. > :09:13.Despite having a port straight-line speed on that Red Bull, he now has

:09:13. > :09:24.

:09:24. > :09:28.the DRS are available down the back were seeing hide degradation, I

:09:28. > :09:33.would say this was Jenson looking after his tyres but we are not

:09:33. > :09:43.seeing baton these tyres. They are projecting a can get 35 laps or

:09:43. > :09:47.

:09:47. > :09:52.more out of the set of tyres this afternoon. Just as we saw two weeks

:09:52. > :09:57.ago in Korea, Mark Webber struggling to get past the McLaren,

:09:57. > :10:03.even with the DRS available. I spoke Adrian Newey about that this

:10:03. > :10:08.morning. He said, that is how we run it. We like the grip of the

:10:08. > :10:16.corners. He also said he thinks the engine is a bit peaky. Button Locks

:10:16. > :10:26.his wheel. Why was he so far on the right? Webber was not that close to

:10:26. > :10:26.

:10:26. > :10:33.him. Still, it is not enough with the DRS Open. Now he is in the

:10:33. > :10:37.slipstream. Jenson goes defensive. Mark also -- ought to have a chance

:10:37. > :10:40.of getting round but Jenson is having none of that. You cannot

:10:41. > :10:47.force another driver of the road that you are entitled to drive your

:10:47. > :10:55.racing line. I think there was a bit of rubbing tyres on the exit of

:10:55. > :11:04.that corner. Mark takes a decision to go on the clean site. He should

:11:04. > :11:09.have given it up at the apex. Jenson quite rightly takes his line.

:11:09. > :11:16.But he is a man under pressure. It looks like he has opened up a bit

:11:16. > :11:22.of a gap now as they come to turn 15. If Mark is going to get a pass,

:11:22. > :11:27.he will have to make it stick. Jenson will have to find his form

:11:27. > :11:37.with the balance of the car. While they are squabbling for second and

:11:37. > :11:37.

:11:37. > :11:47.third place, the gap goes up to 4.2 seconds as they move into lap six.

:11:47. > :11:52.Vettel will soon be saying, come on, guys, give me a race.

:11:52. > :11:58.Jenson seems to be wanting to clean that line-up for himself. It could

:11:58. > :12:05.be something to do with the set-up of McLaren. BC the DRS and the KERS

:12:05. > :12:12.all getting used DUP. You can see the red icon on the side of the

:12:12. > :12:16.screen. He will have to get himself a lot closer when he ends that lap.

:12:16. > :12:20.McLaren has great straight-line speed. DRS will give mark another

:12:21. > :12:25.10 or 15 kilometres an hour in top speed, so I think it shows what a

:12:26. > :12:33.slippery car but McLaren is. It is the level of downforce they choose

:12:33. > :12:37.to use. In terms of the want the extra downforce in the corners. It

:12:37. > :12:44.is a balance. There are two relatively long straights in the

:12:44. > :12:53.first part of the lap and then it is all corners. And the corners the

:12:53. > :12:59.drivers laugh. -- love it. The car feels alive when you are above 100

:12:59. > :13:09.mph or with downforce. It is so precise. You can position the car.

:13:09. > :13:16.

:13:16. > :13:23.That is why the guys are raving you can do it.

:13:23. > :13:28.They were referring to Bruno Senna. They probably think they race

:13:28. > :13:34.strategy is being compromised heavily. Bruno Senna made a great

:13:34. > :13:44.start. He was 40 per on the grid, he is tenth at the moment. -- 14th

:13:44. > :13:44.

:13:44. > :13:50.on the grid. Vettel is cruising away at the front. A bit of

:13:50. > :14:00.oversteer on entry. That could be due to the settings he has to

:14:00. > :14:00.

:14:00. > :14:05.harvest the energy for his KERS system. I think it is interesting

:14:05. > :14:09.just listening to the engineer for Jaime Alguersuari. Sometimes it

:14:09. > :14:14.sounds like they are stating the obvious, you have to pass him. He

:14:14. > :14:20.probably could have worked that one out for himself! Let's see what Ted

:14:20. > :14:24.has found out. Jenson Button has done the hard work keeping Mark

:14:24. > :14:28.Webber behind him. McLaren believe now the Red Bull tyres will start

:14:28. > :14:35.to fade and Mark Webber will not have as much of an advantage as he

:14:35. > :14:39.had earlier. Lewis Hamilton was crowded out by Felipe Massa. They

:14:39. > :14:48.feel they are quicker than the Ferrari so they will start to turn

:14:48. > :14:54.Lewis -- they will start to tell Lewis to turn it up now.

:14:54. > :15:04.The gap is 4.7. A big cloud of dust on the right hand side of the track.

:15:04. > :15:07.

:15:07. > :15:17.I do not know what is going on there. I will have a look. Lewis

:15:17. > :15:22.

:15:22. > :15:26.Hamilton is not really hanging on tyres. We expect them to do two

:15:26. > :15:32.stops, but Lewis after the penalties, you see Ferrari losing

:15:32. > :15:40.its back in the little bit, but this does seem strange. Hamilton

:15:40. > :15:44.did a 32.2 on the last lap, Button did a 31.8. There was nothing to

:15:44. > :15:50.suggest through free practice and qualifying that there was an offset

:15:50. > :15:55.between the McLaren drivers. Strategy could be playing a part.

:15:55. > :16:05.Fernando Alonso running fourth at the moment. Unusual to him -- for

:16:05. > :16:06.

:16:06. > :16:16.him to drop spots off the grid. Vettel with a new fastest lap.

:16:16. > :16:21.

:16:21. > :16:25.1:31.3. Button just about matches lead in sixth place. That was a

:16:25. > :16:30.relieved slow lap for Lewis Hamilton. Certainly not because of

:16:30. > :16:35.any traffic, he is running in clean air. Alonso is managing to keep the

:16:35. > :16:45.gap at just over a second, which is the crucial window for Massa if he

:16:45. > :16:51.

:16:51. > :16:57.of the race at the first corner, we don't know how hard tyres are

:16:57. > :17:03.performing. Senna under pressure. That Toro Rosso has been mighty in

:17:03. > :17:09.a straight line. They love those long straights. Job done for

:17:09. > :17:14.Alguersuari. But Senna is coming back at him. It is very much one,

:17:14. > :17:21.at a time through here. They have been finding it hard enough to keep

:17:21. > :17:28.on the track by themselves through that section. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and

:17:28. > :17:36.then the long right hander. A unique corner that could only be

:17:36. > :17:45.the Indian Grand Prix. 12 is the left-hander, this is 13. It is a

:17:45. > :17:50.mighty chicane, effectively. We are already on lap 10. Vettel is 4.8

:17:50. > :17:55.seconds in the lead. We have a fairly static race at the moment.

:17:55. > :18:00.Let's look down the field and see who is getting the job done. Sutil

:18:00. > :18:10.remains 9th. Alguersuari went up into 10th. And now Senna under

:18:10. > :18:10.

:18:10. > :18:14.pressure from Buemi. Another DRS zone. Senna has no answer to the

:18:14. > :18:20.straight-line speed of the Toro Rossos. That is such an unusual

:18:20. > :18:25.corner. You climb the hill to turn three and it is absolutely

:18:25. > :18:31.unsighted, even when you are walking, your head is at walking

:18:31. > :18:34.height, let alone when you are sitting on the ground. The first-

:18:34. > :18:41.lap incidents have been investigated and no further action

:18:41. > :18:51.will be taken. No penalties applied in this race or a grid drop for

:18:51. > :18:53.

:18:53. > :18:58.Kobayashi, for example. I have no KERS. Fail 0. No KERS any more.

:18:58. > :19:02.That is to reset that system. Try to get it kicked back into the life.

:19:02. > :19:07.If that doesn't work, that will cost him about three-tenths of a

:19:07. > :19:12.second per lap, not having KERS available. Pastor Maldonado is the

:19:12. > :19:17.next man up, looking at the back of Senna. Paul di Resta coming back

:19:18. > :19:22.through the field. He has had one stop. But the inside of him is

:19:22. > :19:29.Sergio Perez, who has also stopped once. They are making their way

:19:29. > :19:34.back through the field. Petrov is in 19th place. Ted? I can tell you

:19:34. > :19:40.wide di Resta needed to do that. He has pitted to get them hard tyres

:19:40. > :19:44.out of the way. He will fight his way back through the field. He

:19:44. > :19:49.doesn't have to run the slower time any more. Di Resta had to make that

:19:49. > :19:56.move to make the strategy work. Jenson Button has just done the

:19:56. > :20:06.fastest lap of the Grand Prix. The gap remains 4.8 seconds. Vettel is

:20:06. > :20:12.just coasting at this stage. The others are coming on. We are on

:20:12. > :20:22.board with Maldonado. He is looking at the back of Bruno Senna. Senna

:20:22. > :20:29.has lost his KERS. We need to attack Senna. Use KERS, DRS. Kerr

:20:29. > :20:35.has an DRS. KERS is for 6.7 seconds per lap. You have an extra 80

:20:35. > :20:42.horsepower with no extra weight to carry. Pure power. A bit of extra

:20:42. > :20:47.drag. It is like a small family three-door hatchback, they would

:20:47. > :20:52.have 80 horsepower. You know how much metal you drag along with that.

:20:52. > :20:56.It is pure performance and a reasonable kick up the back, only

:20:56. > :21:02.available for 6.7 seconds every lap and it is reset on the start line.

:21:02. > :21:08.You can use it to attack or defend. Button does another new fastest lap

:21:08. > :21:13.on a 31.0. The gap is down to 4.5 seconds. He is dropping Webber as

:21:13. > :21:20.well. Webber was six-tenths slow on the last lap. It looks like he is

:21:20. > :21:26.dropping out of the zone. He will not get any DRS benefit now, 1.6

:21:26. > :21:33.seconds behind Button. The first nine out of the race was Kobayashi.

:21:33. > :21:43.-- first man. Tell us what happened. Someone hit me from the back. A

:21:43. > :21:50.span. Then I got a puncture. I saw some smoke from the gearbox. I had

:21:50. > :21:54.to stop the car. Somebody knocked me out of the race, I still think

:21:54. > :22:02.he could have come back on the track somewhat better than he did.

:22:02. > :22:07.That was his real problem. As we were hearing from him, we saw Perez

:22:07. > :22:14.passing di Resta and then being passed again. Bruno Senna fending

:22:15. > :22:20.off Pastor Maldonado. The gap is down to 4.2 seconds for Button. Six

:22:20. > :22:24.seconds covers the top three. 10 seconds covers the top five. That

:22:24. > :22:34.is the excellent actor and 14. Slightly blocked by that

:22:34. > :22:37.

:22:37. > :22:43.advertising board. Maldonado again. Useful KERS. -- used full KERS.

:22:43. > :22:47.What would be the alternative to full KERS? He will get the full

:22:47. > :22:52.benefit, the full 6.7 seconds. There's always diminishing returns

:22:52. > :23:02.as you get further and further off the corner. You want to start

:23:02. > :23:10.

:23:10. > :23:15.deploy incurs as soon as you are that extra 80 horsepower. Let's

:23:15. > :23:20.explain traction limited. These Pirelli tyres, the construction and

:23:20. > :23:24.the compound, they are very sensitive to wheel slip. You always

:23:24. > :23:32.have a differential between the rear wheel and the front wheel but

:23:32. > :23:38.you don't want to go beyond about 10% on retire slip. -- rear tyre

:23:38. > :23:45.slip. You can overheat the surface of the tyre and you lose grip. That

:23:45. > :23:51.is Maldonado. He will not be using any KERS now. That will not help.

:23:51. > :24:00.Is that on the back straight? like a service road. A lot of

:24:00. > :24:06.marshals hear from Bahrain. He is well out of the way. Not in any

:24:06. > :24:11.trouble. Technical problems for Maldonado. He was running in 13th

:24:11. > :24:21.place. That moves Heikki Kovalainen up to 14th place. It looks like the

:24:21. > :24:21.

:24:21. > :24:27.rear axle. It would suggest he did not have any injured at that point.

:24:27. > :24:36.-- any engine. It sounds like he has broken the drive when he did

:24:36. > :24:43.the gearshift. Yes, gearbox. We have lost Maldonado, he makes the

:24:43. > :24:50.third retirement as Adrian Sutil and Alguersuari come through very

:24:50. > :24:55.nicely. Buemi hunting him down now as well. Toro Rosso a little bit

:24:55. > :25:00.tidy off the start, but both inside the top 10 in qualifying and now

:25:00. > :25:07.they are showing tremendous race pace. The yellow flag is waving for

:25:07. > :25:12.Maldonado's car. Three retirements. Kobayashi and Maldonado and Timo

:25:12. > :25:18.Glock. He is with Lee McKenzie. difficult day yesterday and it

:25:18. > :25:25.doesn't seem to have got any better, what happened? Unlucky. Down to

:25:25. > :25:28.turn one, I had a very good start. I saw bits flying. It looked like

:25:28. > :25:33.Kobayashi span off and came back onto the track right in front of me

:25:33. > :25:38.and I had no chance to avoid a crash. I damaged my front wing and

:25:38. > :25:44.I had to come back to the pits and change tyres. I then had a problem

:25:44. > :25:49.on the front right. Then I came back into the pits and retired.

:25:49. > :25:59.luck. Look at this for a run of times Jenson Button is putting

:25:59. > :26:03.

:26:03. > :26:10.Then he spoiled it by doing a 1:30.9. Tremendous consistency from

:26:10. > :26:16.Button. Vettel slightly faster on that lap. Now 4.3 off the lead.

:26:16. > :26:26.Buemi lines up on Sutil. That should be easily done. He has got

:26:26. > :26:28.

:26:28. > :26:38.so much more speed. And the use of the DRS. That gives you 68 mph. --

:26:38. > :26:43.

:26:43. > :26:49.tenth where they started. This is a great little scrap. Di Resta,

:26:49. > :26:59.pariahs, Petrov. Pariahs looking like he is putting di Resta under

:26:59. > :27:02.

:27:02. > :27:12.championship 0.6 times this season, but we haven't seen him in too much

:27:12. > :27:25.

:27:25. > :27:31.wheel-to-wheel action. -- running, they are in the mid- to

:27:32. > :27:36.low 33s and Kovalainen doing a fantastic job in 13th, he has just

:27:36. > :27:43.done a 33.1. The Lotus has found some pace. Kovalainen is 13th at

:27:43. > :27:46.the moment. As you rightly say, lapping faster than those three.

:27:46. > :27:50.Kovalainen again, and it has been a feature of the last couple of

:27:50. > :27:56.phrases, where Lotus have had tremendous race pace, Kovalainen

:27:56. > :28:06.running a solid 13. He might be 12th after Sutil pitted. That is

:28:06. > :28:06.

:28:06. > :28:16.the fight between di Resta, Perez and Petrov. Button is now 3.3 clear

:28:16. > :28:18.

:28:18. > :28:25.of Webber. 31.04 Button. Mark Webber will be coming into the pits.

:28:25. > :28:30.The McLaren mechanics of down there. There is Mark Webber. End of lap 16.

:28:30. > :28:34.How close was that? The Ferrari goes down, a dusty pit lane. Only

:28:34. > :28:40.just finished the racetrack and certain elements have a lot of

:28:40. > :28:46.construction debt. The left side of the pit lane is concrete, must be

:28:46. > :28:53.something to do with if they've spilled fuel. Michael Schumacher is

:28:53. > :28:57.getting round the outside of the Ferrari. Alonso has dropped a place

:28:57. > :29:02.to Schumacher. He will be keen to get a move on and get past him. He

:29:02. > :29:06.has fresher tyres. He will be in the DRS zone. Michael has the

:29:06. > :29:12.advantage of the slipstream of the Lotus. Alonso needs to be getting

:29:12. > :29:16.on with it. Webber is clear that in front. Michael Schumacher, who has

:29:16. > :29:20.not pitted yet, is in the middle of them. Fernando Alonso needs to be

:29:20. > :29:24.getting on with that, but he seems to be ever closer to Webber than he

:29:24. > :29:28.was before that pit-stop. It has worked very well for him, except

:29:28. > :29:33.the traffic. Schumacher doesn't have to get out of the way because

:29:33. > :29:37.it is not a blue flag situation. Look at how close Schumacher was

:29:37. > :29:41.running to have Webber. It looks like they are taking a little bit

:29:41. > :29:46.of time to get them up to speed. Mark seems to have got them

:29:46. > :29:55.switched on and is opening a gap, but this is costing Alonso Dilley.

:29:55. > :30:02.Alonso will surely be passed the Mercedes any minute now. Felipe

:30:02. > :30:08.Massa hits from third place. There is that front wing. Much spoken

:30:08. > :30:13.about. They had two of the new ones that were strengthened. One of them

:30:13. > :30:19.met its match against the wall in qualifying. Felipe Massa it comes

:30:19. > :30:24.out just behind his team-mate, does he? Or just in front? So close.

:30:24. > :30:28.Still Fernando Alonso haven't made his way past Michael Schumacher. He

:30:28. > :30:38.will get the DRS down the straight. Let's see how Mercedes shapes up

:30:38. > :30:48.

:30:49. > :30:54.looks like job done to me. Alonso is on his way. Now it is Felipe

:30:54. > :31:00.Massa's turned have a go at that. Nico Rosberg pitted for Mercedes-

:31:00. > :31:04.Benz. Ted has something to tell us. McLaren reacting, I wondered how

:31:04. > :31:09.long they would leave Jenson Button out because Mark Webber was doing

:31:09. > :31:19.some quick times. The answer is, they are bringing Button in.

:31:19. > :31:32.

:31:32. > :31:41.Hamilton was not able to pass Massa out of the blankets around 100

:31:41. > :31:51.degrees centigrade. They tried to heat the wheels us well. There was

:31:51. > :31:51.

:31:51. > :31:57.3.5 seconds for the McLaren boys to get Button on his way. Rosberg has

:31:57. > :32:04.also just pitted very nicely. Schumacher has decided he fancies a

:32:04. > :32:08.set of those tyres that Alonso just whistled past him on. Michael

:32:08. > :32:13.Schumacher pits. Once again, we have a rather clumsy pit exit.

:32:13. > :32:18.just don't get it! Why, when they design is fantastic facilities, do

:32:18. > :32:24.they come up with what looks like an afterthought of a picked out. It

:32:24. > :32:29.was the same situation in Korea. Perhaps I will have to ask Charlie

:32:29. > :32:38.Whiting. There must be some kind of Fi it a region why the pit lane has

:32:38. > :32:42.to join before the first corner. -- and FIA reason. Hamilton was

:32:42. > :32:50.struggling, it has to be said on that first set of tyres. He has now

:32:50. > :32:56.been matching our race leader. Great camera angle, there. The

:32:56. > :33:05.world champion away nicely. It did not seen super-fast but it was

:33:05. > :33:10.plenty fast enough at 3.2. Look at that, a comfortable lead. He was

:33:10. > :33:16.exactly five ahead before the pit stop. We will have a look to see

:33:16. > :33:21.how that has all transpired. Webber had just done a new fastest lap of

:33:21. > :33:29.the race. That has been pipped by Felipe Massa who is in fifth.

:33:29. > :33:34.Hamilton is in sixth. Buemi has pitted as well for Toro Rosso. We

:33:34. > :33:39.heard they might do as many as 25 laps on those tyres but this must

:33:39. > :33:44.mean they are two stopping. They could do a three-stop from there. I

:33:44. > :33:50.think the aim is to do a two-stop as long as they can on the softer

:33:50. > :33:55.tyres and then just do a short stint. We were hearing rumours that

:33:55. > :34:00.a hard tyre was so slow they would be looking to do similar to what we

:34:00. > :34:04.saw in Nurburgring and pitting one lap from the end to get those tyres

:34:04. > :34:13.on. That will not really be necessary if they are running as

:34:13. > :34:16.wide apart as we are seeing now. Fastest lap of the race. Ron sped

:34:16. > :34:26.clear their coaxing his driver long as we have often heard -- one

:34:26. > :34:27.

:34:27. > :34:30.Smedley. Felipe, you are faster than anybody else, right now. The

:34:30. > :34:39.race has not quite unfolded for Lewis as I thought it might. I

:34:39. > :34:45.thought it would have more pace than that. Button got on those

:34:45. > :34:52.tyres as Schumacher goes up the inside of Bruno Senna. That is for

:34:53. > :34:56.eighth place. Senna has not pitted yet. I thought we were going to

:34:56. > :35:06.hear some radio from Ross Brawn. Paul di Resta has pitted for the

:35:06. > :35:07.

:35:07. > :35:12.second time. Lewis is 15 seconds off the lead. I thought he might be

:35:12. > :35:15.all over the back of the Ferraris. He will -- he qualified in second

:35:15. > :35:21.and was out of place on the grid but has not looked that fast in the

:35:21. > :35:31.race. No, but he is getting into his rhythm now. He is matching the

:35:31. > :35:39.

:35:39. > :35:44.that first set of tyres that he was not comfortable with. They have to

:35:44. > :35:47.start the race on the tyres where they set the fastest lap in

:35:47. > :35:51.qualifying. Qualifying is about extracting every last bit of

:35:51. > :35:57.performance out of those tyres. He seems much happier now on the

:35:57. > :36:05.options. He abandoned his second attempt at a lap. Those tyres have

:36:05. > :36:09.probably done an lap less and taken less abuse in that respect. Vettel

:36:09. > :36:19.has done a new fastest lap of the race that nobody else can get near

:36:19. > :36:21.

:36:21. > :36:26.or at the moment. Vettel has put the hammer down. Lewis Hamilton is

:36:27. > :36:30.lapping Rubens Barrichello who we know already had to pit for a new

:36:30. > :36:37.nose after running into his team mate in the first corner. We have

:36:37. > :36:41.since lost Pastor Maldonado as well. I wonder if his gearbox issue was a

:36:41. > :36:46.problem through getting hit in the first corner. Let's try and find

:36:46. > :36:56.out. He is talking to Lee McKenzie. A pretty sudden end to your race,

:36:56. > :36:59.

:36:59. > :37:06.what happened? We don't know 100 % and the need to have a look and the

:37:06. > :37:16.data will stop. 0 really disappointing moment because I was

:37:16. > :37:17.

:37:17. > :37:27.going OK. Disappointing for that. Three men out of the race,

:37:27. > :37:46.

:37:46. > :37:52.Maldonado, Glock and Kobayashi. 21 hanging on to Vettel. Vettel leads

:37:52. > :37:59.Button from Webber third, Alonso, Massa, Hamilton six. Then Rosberg

:37:59. > :38:05.and Schumacher in the two Mercedes. Then Senna still yet to pit in

:38:05. > :38:15.ninth. We are on board with Lewis Hamilton who is getting close now

:38:15. > :38:33.

:38:33. > :38:38.very excited about those. If it was not so dirty, it would work better.

:38:38. > :38:45.Plenty of the KERS going on for Lewis. This was the section I was

:38:45. > :38:49.telling you about early on, side by side through there will not work.

:38:49. > :38:54.There is a tribute to Bob Marley on top of his crash helmet which you

:38:54. > :39:04.can see for a reason I am not aware of. He is a big fan. I just made

:39:04. > :39:14.that up! Senna has finally pitted. Karthikeyan has pitted. A local boy

:39:14. > :39:15.

:39:15. > :39:23.still in the race. D'Ambrosio picks as well. Webber was fastest of the

:39:23. > :39:32.top four last time around. Look at this, Felipe Massa running wide.

:39:32. > :39:35.That is why we saw Lewis Hamilton so close to him. I would love to

:39:35. > :39:40.show you a different camera angle to that because it looks like you

:39:41. > :39:45.are heading for the sky and all of a sudden, there is a hairpin.

:39:45. > :39:49.do not actually see the corner when they start braking. They know it is

:39:49. > :39:54.there. They have driven this track over the last couple of days but

:39:54. > :40:02.you start heading uphill, hit the brakes and some time thereafter,

:40:02. > :40:08.the corner appears. McLaren are getting closer with the DRS. He has

:40:08. > :40:15.gone up the inside this time. That is interesting! The problem is he

:40:15. > :40:19.could not see him in his blind spot. He legitimately had his car

:40:19. > :40:23.positioned to be able to go to the pass but it was in that horrible

:40:23. > :40:27.area where you have a massive blind spot where you have to get your

:40:27. > :40:37.wheel alongside the sidepod of the car you are trying to overtake so

:40:37. > :40:49.

:40:49. > :40:57.me go, I had the line. Massa will say, I had the racing line, I was

:40:57. > :41:04.ahead, I was entitled to turn in there. I think we saw on the

:41:04. > :41:11.graphic before that incident came together that Lewis still had some

:41:11. > :41:17.KERS left over. He was close to Massa on the previous lap so he had

:41:17. > :41:20.an extra boost of KERS and committed to it. Unfortunately, you

:41:20. > :41:25.needed another compliant racer to make that work in that situation.

:41:25. > :41:29.Massa could not just jump out of the way, what could he do they? Him

:41:29. > :41:32.if he did not turn in there, he would be on the sand and in the

:41:32. > :41:37.barriers. Lewis did not make a completely clean pass and that is

:41:37. > :41:42.why we have seen an incident. Lewis were lucky he had his car on the

:41:43. > :41:46.inside which was a fact. Massa will say you are not far enough for the

:41:46. > :41:55.corner to be yours and racing etiquette will decide the guy in

:41:55. > :42:01.front has got the line. Now Massa has gone wide Internet seven. -- in

:42:01. > :42:06.turn seven. I wonder if he has got any suspension damage. Felipe Massa

:42:06. > :42:15.is still showing up in sixth place. Here is Lewis Hamilton back on the

:42:15. > :42:22.track. It looks pretty slippery through there. Yes, they had to

:42:22. > :42:28.drop an extra gear. And that looks like a steaming Toro Rosso. That is

:42:29. > :42:37.unusual. Ferrari engine. Ferrari did have a problem with Alonso's

:42:37. > :42:43.engine on Friday practice. That is not an easy car to recover. Contact

:42:43. > :42:53.involving Hamilton and Massa is under investigation as we watch

:42:53. > :43:09.

:43:09. > :43:13.them try to give the mechanics a did not give me any space. Turned

:43:13. > :43:20.in on me, did not give me any space. That would be my opinion if I was

:43:20. > :43:25.behind the wheel of that car. Massa will be said, what was he doing

:43:25. > :43:30.there? It is a fast entry to the corner. Let's get off the fence,

:43:30. > :43:37.what do you think will happen when the stewards look at that? I am

:43:37. > :43:43.sitting on the fence, Martin! I think, because of the history this

:43:43. > :43:45.season that those two guys have together, they could be a penalty

:43:45. > :43:50.applied. I think racing his racing and sometimes you have incidents

:43:50. > :43:54.and I would put that down as a racing incident. I do not think

:43:54. > :44:00.there was any malicious intent. He was trying to strategically get his

:44:00. > :44:06.car in front. What do you think? think it is very close to being a

:44:06. > :44:11.racing incident. I have a feeling he will get a drive-through for it.

:44:11. > :44:16.That is he being Lewis Hamilton. Let's hope not. Let's see if he can

:44:16. > :44:26.come back through the field. He is still in ninth place, despite that

:44:26. > :44:36.

:44:36. > :44:43.nicely, well done to the marshals. They have done it under waved

:44:43. > :44:47.yellow flags. That means slow down, be prepared to stop, even. That is

:44:48. > :44:52.how serious waved yellows are. That means you must respect the marshals.

:44:52. > :44:58.They put their lives at risk. If there were no marshals, we could

:44:58. > :45:04.not go motor racing. We have to respect them. Ted has more news.

:45:04. > :45:10.have been keeping an eye on the Ferrari pit wall. They were trying

:45:10. > :45:15.to calm Felipe down. He was steaming with rage inside the

:45:15. > :45:19.cockpit. There is superficial damage to both cars that no signs

:45:19. > :45:23.of Ferrari pit in Felipe Massa at the moment. Quickly about Paul di

:45:23. > :45:27.Resta, we believe he will go to the end of the race on these tyres. He

:45:27. > :45:37.has used all of them in terms of hard and soft compound and they

:45:37. > :45:58.

:45:58. > :46:04.Problem with the gearshift -- gearbox on the down shift. Never

:46:04. > :46:09.rains but it pours. Contact with Hamilton. Now potential gearshift

:46:09. > :46:14.problem. Sometimes they sort themselves out and they go on to

:46:14. > :46:20.secondary censors or do a reset. All sorts of clever pieces of

:46:20. > :46:27.electronics in the backs of these cars. This is Lewis Hamilton coming

:46:27. > :46:31.upon Ogasawarar. Lewis still have a chance of solid world championship

:46:31. > :46:37.points. That has surely taking him away from any kind of podium

:46:37. > :46:42.opportunities. Vettel does another fastest lap of the race. Matched by

:46:42. > :46:52.Jenson Button. Lewis thinking better that time of going up the

:46:52. > :46:58.

:46:58. > :47:02.so it will be interesting to see whether Hamilton will be in the one

:47:02. > :47:07.second window for the DRS, but will he have enough speed? New fastest

:47:07. > :47:11.lap of the race from Fernando Alonso, where did that come from?

:47:11. > :47:15.The stewards are considering that information. We often talk about

:47:15. > :47:20.penalties and it can be getting boring, but it is like having a

:47:20. > :47:27.football or rugby match with no referee. It would just be anarchy.

:47:27. > :47:31.If you don't apply the rules, speed through the pit lane, jump through

:47:31. > :47:37.the start, as many tyres as you like. Rules are rules and they have

:47:37. > :47:42.to be applied. Otherwise it would be anarchy. The stewards are

:47:42. > :47:52.looking into that. Johnny Herbert, a former law ones when an Formula

:47:52. > :47:55.

:47:55. > :48:05.One driver. -- former Le Mal winner. He fined BA wants 5,000. -- he

:48:05. > :48:19.

:48:19. > :48:24.penalty. Vettel with another fastest lap of the race. Alonso

:48:24. > :48:30.just about hanging on to Webber. And now with that contact, Massa 17

:48:30. > :48:39.seconds adrift. Despite all of the carnage and action for Massa, he is

:48:39. > :48:49.still comfortably ahead of the two Mercedes. Alguersuari eighth place.

:48:49. > :49:02.

:49:02. > :49:10.Paul di Resta, who is 15th and coming back. Drive-through penalty

:49:10. > :49:14.for car No. 6. That is causing a collision and that is Felipe Massa.

:49:14. > :49:23.They have penalised Massa for turning in on Hamilton. Exactly as

:49:23. > :49:29.we predicted. It is. Exactly the opposite to what we predicted!

:49:29. > :49:33.Felipe Massa has the penalty for that one. Lewis sweeps to the

:49:33. > :49:43.outside and tries to cut back underneath. He will get a much

:49:43. > :49:45.

:49:45. > :49:52.better drive out of the corner. Not this time. Vettel, Button, Webber,

:49:52. > :50:01.one-two-three. By the time Massa does his drive through, it will

:50:01. > :50:09.cost him about... About 17 seconds. He will drop out around the place

:50:09. > :50:13.where Hamilton is running out. Massa has been given a penalty.

:50:13. > :50:17.What I was trying to get to his he could find himself on the same

:50:17. > :50:27.piece of tarmac as Lewis Hamilton again. We will find out shortly, he

:50:27. > :50:27.

:50:27. > :50:35.is serving that penalty. No, he is a long way ahead. Felipe Massa has

:50:35. > :50:45.Barrichello around him. Hamilton gets the job done. He is up into

:50:45. > :50:57.

:50:57. > :51:06.Back markers ahead. -- 1060. The next man up the road is Michael

:51:06. > :51:10.Schumacher. Schumacher or is ahead of Felipe Massa having done his

:51:10. > :51:19.drive through. That makes Massa the next man up the road in terms of

:51:19. > :51:26.position. We will see what that gap is surely. Massa is nursing a

:51:26. > :51:36.gearbox issue. Alonso is the fastest man in fourth place. 14.5

:51:36. > :51:46.

:51:46. > :51:51.seconds covers the top four. Massa pits. When you do we drive through,

:51:51. > :52:00.you're not allowed to stop for tyres or repairs. It has to be a

:52:00. > :52:08.pure penalty. Now be to serve his time. -- now BT's service time.

:52:08. > :52:18.Looks like they're changing the nose as well. Much slower tyres. A

:52:18. > :52:27.

:52:27. > :52:34.gone. He is out behind Perez. We watch a replay. Look at that. A

:52:34. > :52:44.famous resonating front wing. It is a new front wing, it is very

:52:44. > :52:52.

:52:52. > :52:58.similar to the Red Bull front wing. all of that dust, comes across. We

:52:58. > :53:05.saw that through free practice. Hits the end of the Kirk Andy Goode

:53:05. > :53:12.catch, but tires will become impregnated with sand. -- end of

:53:12. > :53:18.the colour and a good catch. bendy front wing strikes at Ferrari.

:53:18. > :53:27.It seems that when the fuel comes off and the car gets even faster,

:53:27. > :53:31.it starts to have flexed and oscillate. Ferrari, as soon as they

:53:31. > :53:38.saw that, they knew they had to change it on safety grounds for the

:53:38. > :53:48.FIA might get involved. They would make them change the wing. The

:53:48. > :53:54.

:53:54. > :53:57.women now is two races old. -- comfortable. Sebastian Vettel

:53:57. > :54:05.taking it very easy. They tell me Mark Webber doesn't have any

:54:05. > :54:08.problems. But he can't get the gap down to Button. But he has found a

:54:08. > :54:13.second also in the last couple of laps. We might see some action from

:54:13. > :54:19.Mark Webber now. He is still a couple of tenths shy of Button on

:54:19. > :54:24.that lap. But more importantly, Fernando Alonso is homing in on

:54:24. > :54:30.Mark Webber's third place. Let's talk about that Massa Hamilton

:54:30. > :54:35.thing again. The stewards get G Ps traces of previous laps, a lot of

:54:35. > :54:39.other camera angles. Far more information than you at home or we

:54:40. > :54:47.in the commentary box do. They have seen something, but I don't know

:54:47. > :54:55.what Massa could have done. I don't get it. He has got his front left

:54:55. > :55:00.suspension damage. Whether that is the hard tyres... We saw him break

:55:00. > :55:04.the suspension in qualifying when he struck a kerb. Surely that is

:55:04. > :55:13.the contact with the McLaren? didn't hit the front wheel.

:55:13. > :55:21.thought he did. Broken suspension again. It remains to be seen

:55:21. > :55:26.whether that was over the concrete secondary kerbs. They loved to

:55:26. > :55:34.square that fire extinguisher staff and mechanics hate that. -- squirt.

:55:34. > :55:41.I don't know if it was on a kerb. Or whether it was through contact.

:55:41. > :55:48.It was on a kerb. It is the push rod, the second time that has

:55:48. > :55:57.happened. It happened before on the right hand side. It is not due to

:55:57. > :56:02.contact with anybody else, it is due to hitting the kerb. You were

:56:02. > :56:10.calling it a baguette yesterday it. I hoped we would come up for --

:56:10. > :56:20.come up with a bigger name for those big Kirk's! -- better name

:56:20. > :56:33.

:56:33. > :56:40.leads by over five seconds. We have yellow flags as they clear a way

:56:40. > :56:44.Felipe Massa's car. They have no answer to this boy, have they?

:56:44. > :56:50.Absolutely no answer whatsoever. Traffic wasn't being kind for

:56:50. > :56:57.Jenson. Gap is 5.2 seconds. I expect he has lost a further three-

:56:57. > :57:02.tenths in that middle sector. Jenson is the only man recently

:57:02. > :57:07.that has really been able to hold a candle to Vettel in terms of race

:57:07. > :57:17.pace. The only guy that can keep him honest, or at least keep him

:57:17. > :57:17.

:57:17. > :57:25.engaged in the race. The gap is 5.8 seconds now. Rosberg is in fifth

:57:25. > :57:30.place. He has had various troubles with Hamilton and Massa. We are

:57:30. > :57:39.watching Petrov having another adventure. I asked him what his

:57:39. > :57:49.name was because I hear all sorts of pronunciations. Perez goes a

:57:49. > :58:01.

:58:01. > :58:08.metre past. You can unsettle your place. 3.3... Michael, pace is very

:58:08. > :58:15.good, Nico 30.4, Michael 29.6. Massa, from suspension failure so

:58:15. > :58:20.be careful on the Orange curbs. Good, clear information for Michael

:58:20. > :58:24.Schumacher. A man we know it is one of the very best at absorbing

:58:24. > :58:34.information while driving a Grand Prix car, it is wide he has won so

:58:34. > :58:38.

:58:38. > :58:42.many races and titles. -- it is and then catching the pair of them

:58:42. > :58:46.is Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton still has a great chance. He has just

:58:47. > :58:56.done a fastest first sector. A great chance of fifth place in this

:58:57. > :59:13.

:59:13. > :59:18.what looked like an engine problem. We have lost four cars. High

:59:18. > :59:25.attrition rate here compared to recent races. Petrov passes

:59:25. > :59:33.Kovalainen for 12th place. Looked rather easy. We have lost Buemi,

:59:33. > :59:41.Maldonado, Timo Glock and Kuboya sheep. -- Kobayashi. Let's see what

:59:41. > :59:46.Alonso does with that left kerb. Doesn't go anywhere near. What do

:59:46. > :59:56.you want to call them? We will go with the information from Michael.

:59:56. > :00:05.

:00:05. > :00:11.Orange Kirk. That is what it hears. will be Webber coming in. He was

:00:11. > :00:21.losing a lot of time. Indeed he was and it was a hard tyre. That will

:00:21. > :00:27.

:00:27. > :00:31.be horrible for Mark Webber. He around the rear. Mark Webber

:00:31. > :00:36.punishing his tyres. This heart tyre, a second a lap slower and he

:00:36. > :00:44.has got to run them until the end of the race. Interestingly it

:00:44. > :00:47.looked like he sectors were not too bad on the hard tyres for Massa and

:00:47. > :00:55.this hard tie is not looking a second down so we will keep an eye

:00:55. > :01:02.on that. As the fuel loads go down, we have always seeing the Pirelli

:01:02. > :01:12.tyres performing better than expected. There is Mark Webber all

:01:12. > :01:25.

:01:25. > :01:31.on his lonesome down the back place at the moment but it really

:01:31. > :01:35.depends on what kind of adventure he finds on these tyres. We saw

:01:36. > :01:41.this -- we thought this hard tyre had been pensioned off but Pirelli,

:01:41. > :01:44.because this is a totally unknown track and surface, Pirelli came and

:01:44. > :01:50.they were intentionally conservative with this tyre, as

:01:50. > :02:00.they put it. They wanted something that would hang on. There are some

:02:00. > :02:05.pretty fast corners. We have a two compound spread. The tyres which

:02:05. > :02:09.are available are hard, medium, soft and super soft. Here we have

:02:09. > :02:17.hard and soft. There is such a big difference between the performance

:02:17. > :02:25.of the tyres. And four compounds have to cope with the entire year,

:02:25. > :02:32.all the different tracks, street circuits like Monaco, the four

:02:32. > :02:41.compounds have to cover the entire race season. Vettel still leads.

:02:41. > :02:47.Mark Webber is running fourth at the moment. I think he could

:02:47. > :02:56.probably run from Delhi to Mumbai on those tyres. The projected where

:02:56. > :03:01.was not an issue. I have been following Mark's sectors. He

:03:01. > :03:08.matched Alonso in the middle sector Forster Webber has done his

:03:08. > :03:11.personal best in the first sector. The indications are being hard tyre

:03:11. > :03:18.is performing a lot better. This is valuable information for the other

:03:18. > :03:25.teams. A Alonso pits from third place. I know Ted is down bat.

:03:25. > :03:31.Ferrari had to react. They saw that the hard tyres were working and

:03:31. > :03:37.they knew that Mark Webber would be able to jump Fernando Alonso so

:03:37. > :03:47.that his belt and braces stuff with Ferrari. Plenty of racing still to

:03:47. > :03:59.

:03:59. > :04:03.go.: So ahead of Webber comes out loses out. Started second, slipped

:04:03. > :04:10.to third when Button breezed past him on the first lap. Now three

:04:10. > :04:20.pit-stop strategy finds himself in fourth place. He has got his tyres

:04:20. > :04:23.

:04:23. > :04:33.up to speed. Alonso finds his feet on his hard

:04:33. > :04:34.

:04:34. > :04:41.tyres. Mark has got to make his move. The tyres are not cold.

:04:41. > :04:46.a figure of speech. There is a man who has kept his helmet on a long

:04:46. > :04:51.time, that is a clear sign to the media, don't bother asking me a

:04:51. > :04:55.question. That was his younger brother walking alongside him. They

:04:55. > :05:01.do look remarkably similar unless one is wearing a crash helmet, of

:05:01. > :05:11.course. Jenson Button set the fastest lap of the entire Grand

:05:11. > :05:22.

:05:22. > :05:26.on Alonso's lap. Now he has gone super deep into the blind turn

:05:26. > :05:34.three. Some frustration there. Be lost time on the way in and on the

:05:34. > :05:41.way out. In fairness to mark, he must wonder what has happened this

:05:41. > :05:45.season. Statistically, if you start at the front you cannot gain many

:05:45. > :05:51.places but he has lost more places of the start of the start line than

:05:51. > :05:57.any other driver this year. He started second and the way things

:05:57. > :06:02.have worked out so far, he has gone backwards to fourth. His team mate

:06:02. > :06:06.looks seemingly invincible in the sister Red Bull car. Mark must be

:06:06. > :06:16.sitting there thinking, what do I have to did to get a break and get

:06:16. > :06:24.a win? He might have taken a little bit of pleasure seeing Alonso

:06:24. > :06:31.really taking -- fighting the Ferrari. This is the battle for

:06:31. > :06:41.third. Vettel leads by five seconds. Button fastest again on the

:06:41. > :07:00.

:07:00. > :07:10.previous lap. The gap was up to 6.7 the harder tyre. The Ferrari begins

:07:10. > :07:12.

:07:12. > :07:22.to disappear into the distance. We are on board with Perez. He is

:07:22. > :07:44.

:07:44. > :07:50.over two kilos of fuel, cost them about the tenth. As the fuel burns

:07:50. > :07:55.off, you get the car going faster and faster. We thought going into

:07:55. > :08:05.this race that the softer tyre had a degradation of one-tenth of a

:08:05. > :08:05.

:08:05. > :08:12.second so it cancels itself out. watch Barrichello passing

:08:12. > :08:18.Karthikeyan for position. Karthikeyan is now 16th. Rubens has

:08:18. > :08:28.had two pit stops, including low at having lost his nose in the first

:08:28. > :08:31.

:08:31. > :08:39.Michael Schumacher is in such immense condition. He has a lot of

:08:39. > :08:43.muscle. You were studying Michael's muscles! You could not help pit.

:08:43. > :08:53.Vettel looks like a stick insect but somehow does not bother, it has

:08:53. > :08:53.

:08:53. > :08:59.never been a problem for him. He rests his head because he has those

:08:59. > :09:05.big headrests. Bristly was not a muscly guy but he would not want to

:09:05. > :09:15.take a punch from in -- Bruce Lee. I have a feeling a pit stop is on

:09:15. > :09:28.

:09:28. > :09:31.the way and I think it is for Lewis Jenson Button? They might be being

:09:31. > :09:36.conservative and bringing him in but they are ready for somebody at

:09:36. > :09:44.McLaren. Once again, we are seeing Lewis

:09:44. > :09:52.really struggling. He is about a second of a lap slower than butter

:09:52. > :09:57.and -- than Button. He is not able to maintain the pace. He is not

:09:57. > :10:03.making much headway into the battle for fifth and sixth between Rosberg

:10:04. > :10:08.and Schumacher which I think will be a tasty battle later. Michael is

:10:08. > :10:13.running slightly quicker than his team mate. We will see an Inter

:10:13. > :10:19.team battle with the Mercedes drivers.

:10:19. > :10:24.Vettel leads by five seconds from Button. Vettel has just broken

:10:24. > :10:34.another record, it is for the most lapsed lead in a season, beating

:10:34. > :10:58.

:10:59. > :11:04.Nigel Mansell's 1992 record. He is desire is here. He said he will not

:11:04. > :11:11.be happy unless he wins the first Indian Grand Prix. If he keeps this

:11:11. > :11:21.pace up, we might have a race on our hands. Talking of races, it has

:11:21. > :11:21.

:11:21. > :11:27.not generated quite the action we expected. Here is some to savour.

:11:27. > :11:37.That was lapping a back marker, it was not overtaking. He is getting a

:11:37. > :11:38.

:11:38. > :11:46.G about it. He has got Petrov catching him. Some GP2 winners and

:11:46. > :11:51.champions ahead of him. Just looking at a pace of Alonso, he is

:11:51. > :11:55.now match and the pace of Vettel and Button. I think that sends a

:11:55. > :12:03.message to McLaren and Red Bull that it is safe to pit for the

:12:03. > :12:08.harder tyres, don't be scared of them. Once again, the tyres have

:12:08. > :12:14.not been a problem we thought. Alonso has just done the fastest

:12:14. > :12:18.middle sector which is all corners, basically. That is the signal now

:12:18. > :12:28.for Vettel and Button to start thinking about throwing those on to

:12:28. > :12:29.

:12:29. > :12:39.get to the end of the Grand Prix. 15 to go. Perez catching Sutil very

:12:39. > :12:57.

:12:57. > :13:07.tyres. This stop is crucial for his battle with Schumacher.

:13:07. > :13:19.

:13:19. > :13:28.Hamilton hits for the hard tyre as which is the race leader coming

:13:29. > :13:36.down there? Button pits for McLaren as well. Lewis with his various

:13:36. > :13:46.dramas is in danger of being lapped. I think Vettel will be called in

:13:46. > :13:55.

:13:55. > :14:00.one. And important for him as he could not yield there. Otherwise he

:14:00. > :14:05.would have other traffic to pass as well. Bruno Senna is now up in to

:14:05. > :14:15.ninth place and driving another fine race. Ted was watching the

:14:15. > :14:18.

:14:18. > :14:25.stops. Yes, they must have given Hamilton some kind of code and the

:14:25. > :14:29.idea is to jump Michael Schumacher on this and see if it works. Bruno

:14:29. > :14:33.unhappy with Narain Karthikeyan but my experience is, you just need to

:14:34. > :14:39.concentrate on going forwards, there is no point in wasting time

:14:39. > :14:43.gesticulating. It will not change anything. He goes very wide on the

:14:43. > :14:53.entry to the pit lane there. Just as well there was a tarmac run-off

:14:53. > :14:53.

:14:53. > :15:36.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:15:36. > :15:46.coming into the final time. -- gained a bit in the pit stop phase.

:15:46. > :15:53.

:15:53. > :16:02.It is the fourth longest straight at the end of this lap. It looks

:16:02. > :16:09.like it is slightly less to May. -- to me. Lewis Hamilton is behind

:16:09. > :16:16.Jaime Alguersuari, though Jaime Alguersuari has pitted. Michael

:16:16. > :16:22.Schumacher is ahead of Nico Rosberg. He has got one more stop to go.

:16:22. > :16:27.Crucially, he is running one second per lap faster. He was only 2.5

:16:27. > :16:32.behind when Nico Rosberg pitted. Yes, he has gained one second on

:16:32. > :16:39.that lap alone. Michael Schumacher has a great chance of maintaining

:16:39. > :16:45.his position ahead of Nico Rosberg. Jaime Alguersuari has come back out

:16:45. > :16:53.in eighth place. He should be looking good. That is Pastor

:16:53. > :16:59.Maldonado, one of the five retirements. Just 19 runners. It is

:16:59. > :17:05.quite unusual. We have seen races where we have had total completion

:17:06. > :17:15.of the race by all of the runners. I think the curbs have played a

:17:16. > :17:16.

:17:16. > :17:23.role. It has been a bit harder on the cards and other tracks. Jenson

:17:23. > :17:31.Button, 2.8 behind. He gained a lot in that pit stop phase. Adrian

:17:31. > :17:41.Sutil still fending off Sergio Perez. RADIO: Stay at, these times

:17:41. > :17:47.are good. Nico Rosberg, 29.7, last lap. That confirms that Mercedes

:17:47. > :17:53.are free to race each other. Michael will come out in front of

:17:53. > :18:01.Nico Rosberg if he retains this pace. Mark Webber went very wide.

:18:01. > :18:10.He had got the gap down to 1.3. He did not lose too much there. A lot

:18:10. > :18:16.of that of his tyres. -- lot of dirt. Michael Schumacher is running

:18:16. > :18:21.behind Jerome d'Ambrosio. This could be crucial. If he loses time,

:18:21. > :18:30.it will affect his battle with Nico Rosberg. He is 23 seconds up the

:18:30. > :18:39.road. The total time in the pit lane, 21 seconds. Michael

:18:39. > :18:43.Schumacher continues onto the pitch straight. He lost 29.4. He lost

:18:43. > :18:53.about one second passing Jerome d'Ambrosio. Mark Webber still

:18:53. > :19:14.

:19:14. > :19:18.About Jenson Button, they were giving it a go, they wanted to make

:19:18. > :19:22.Sebastian Vettel's life as hard as possible, so they tried the

:19:22. > :19:28.undercut. It went OK, they gained a couple of seconds. They just wanted

:19:28. > :19:34.to make them work and to force Red Bull into a pit stop, and forced

:19:34. > :19:42.some pressure on them. That was the thinking as to when a -- as to why

:19:42. > :19:46.they pitted Jenson Button. Narain Karthikeyan might be very popular,

:19:46. > :19:56.but he does not seem popular as they try to pass him around the

:19:56. > :20:03.circuit. Michael Schumacher is lapping at a pace... He is taking

:20:03. > :20:13.the pit-lane entry. I do not know why he did not go a bit further.

:20:13. > :20:19.

:20:19. > :20:26.Maybe they think they have got the Rosberg is not even in the last

:20:26. > :20:36.corner, so he will be comfortably ahead of him. From a 2.5 second

:20:36. > :20:37.

:20:37. > :20:43.deficit, it looks to be for five seconds. -- four or five seconds.

:20:43. > :20:49.Nico Rosberg has seen his team mate emerge... It is a family show, so I

:20:49. > :20:56.will not say what I think he has just said! He will wonder, why was

:20:56. > :21:02.I pitted? Maybe he was screaming on the radio that he needed to pick.

:21:03. > :21:12.If that was not the case, from a strategy point of view, why was he

:21:12. > :21:21.brought in first? That is the question he will be asking. Michael

:21:21. > :21:28.gets up to speed. Nico Rosberg is closing very quickly indeed. He was

:21:28. > :21:38.visibly faster through there. Michael is getting used to the

:21:38. > :21:41.

:21:41. > :21:44.heart tyres. -- hard tyres. thing that Michael has been

:21:44. > :21:50.describing, he has been well outqualified by Nico Rosberg, and

:21:50. > :21:54.he has not been able to understand the tyres. This could be another

:21:54. > :21:59.example, he has not been able to extract the performance as well as

:21:59. > :22:04.some of the other drivers. But now he has found his feet, he should

:22:05. > :22:14.not be under any pressure. He was running similar times prior to the

:22:15. > :22:21.

:22:21. > :22:27.pit stop, and now he has track He has responded to Jenson Button

:22:27. > :22:32.closing. RADIO: You have got nine laps remaining, Nico Rosberg 1.5

:22:32. > :22:41.seconds behind, you are free to raise, but keep it clean! I love

:22:41. > :22:47.that! Are a reminder from the engineer, keep it clean! He is

:22:47. > :22:52.thinking, that is if he gets anywhere near make! Jenson Button,

:22:52. > :22:57.17 seconds clear of Fernando Alonso in third. Mark Webber, two seconds

:22:57. > :23:05.behind. Then, this battle, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg. Lewis

:23:05. > :23:09.Hamilton seventh, 16 seconds adrift. He has had three stops, including

:23:09. > :23:19.one for a new nose. Michael Schumacher stretching their legs of

:23:19. > :23:21.

:23:21. > :23:27.the Mercedes. Teetering a bit around the edge. He is a lot faster.

:23:27. > :23:33.Jaime Alguersuari, eighth. 12 seconds clear of Bruno Senna. It

:23:33. > :23:43.has only made one stop. He is five seconds clear of Adrian Sutil, the

:23:43. > :23:53.last points scorer. Sergio Perez matching Adrian Sutil for pace.

:23:53. > :23:59.

:24:00. > :24:05.from 16th. Jerome d'Ambrosio will overtake him. Narain Karthikeyan

:24:05. > :24:12.will slot in ahead of Daniel Ricciardo. Jarno Trulli brings up

:24:12. > :24:21.the field a 19th. Ted Kravitz? Bruno Senna is on the soft tyre. He

:24:21. > :24:26.has only made one stop. We do believe he has to stop again.

:24:26. > :24:29.will be soft, soft, and as little time as possible on a hot tyres.

:24:29. > :24:39.Sebastian Vettel has done the fastest lap of the race on the hot

:24:39. > :24:44.

:24:44. > :24:53.tyre. -- hard tyre. The cars are light, the track has Robert M. --

:24:53. > :25:02.rubbered in. The fastest potential will be on the rack -- on the last

:25:02. > :25:09.lap. I like that shot. That is the Grand Prix circuit, Forshaw.

:25:09. > :25:19.Nothing else looks like that. The cutaways and the angle of the

:25:19. > :25:32.

:25:32. > :25:40.seconds behind Sergio Perez. They came through GP to, these boys.

:25:40. > :25:46.Pastor Maldonado is another one. Heikki Kovalainen as well. It has

:25:46. > :25:51.filtered out some good grand-prix drivers of the future. Still some

:25:51. > :25:55.talk that Kimi Raikkonen might signed for Williams. It is not a

:25:55. > :26:04.fantasy, there is a chance that Kimi Raikkonen will come back and

:26:04. > :26:12.drive for Williams next year. Force India have also said... Adrian

:26:13. > :26:17.Sutil has to get away -- out of the way. Force India have decided to

:26:17. > :26:24.print their decision forward in the next couple of weeks. They are

:26:25. > :26:28.spoilt for choice, aged unsubtle, Paul di Resta, Nico Hulkenberg. --

:26:28. > :26:33.Adrian Sutil. You'd have got to presume that Nico Hulkenberg has

:26:33. > :26:39.only gone there as a reserve driver for this season, with a promise of

:26:39. > :26:48.racing next year. It is very likely that Adrian Sutil might be going

:26:48. > :26:52.elsewhere. Sebastian Vettel is collecting tokens, towards being

:26:52. > :27:02.the greatest Formula One driver of all time. B has just done another

:27:02. > :27:07.

:27:07. > :27:17.Sutil gets out of the way of Mark Webber. Adrian Sutil, five seconds

:27:17. > :27:42.

:27:42. > :27:46.but it is still 0.5 slower than the Hamilton. He might have got damage

:27:46. > :27:54.in the contact with Felipe Massa. We will find out. He was asking on

:27:54. > :28:00.the radio. He felt as if he had not got much grip. That is a perfect

:28:00. > :28:10.shot of the wide turn end. It would be an overtaking fast if it was

:28:10. > :28:11.

:28:11. > :28:18.clearer. It is impossible to defend. But because it is so dirty Tom Mapp

:28:18. > :28:23.may be next year they can do something about that. Third,

:28:23. > :28:30.Fernando Alonso, fourth, Mark Webber. A tough Grand Prix,

:28:30. > :28:38.physically? A Mark Webber was leaning his neck. It is the

:28:38. > :28:43.duration of the G-force that saps your strengths. The rest of the

:28:43. > :28:53.track is not too bad, but that sequence is working V-neck very

:28:53. > :28:54.

:28:54. > :29:02.hard. -- working the neck. It is relatively cold out there. It is

:29:02. > :29:08.4:30pm local time, so the sun is starting to set. The sun is

:29:08. > :29:18.starting to set on Mark Webber's chance of a podium. Sebastian

:29:18. > :29:18.

:29:18. > :29:21.Vettel his way out en front. They are 25 seconds away from him. He is

:29:21. > :29:31.still 0.2 quicker than Fernando Alonso, but he is running out of

:29:31. > :29:39.

:29:39. > :29:48.time. This is Vitaly Petrov against him. Vitaly Petrov having a look at

:29:48. > :29:53.11th place. You could hear the exhaust going on, energising the

:29:53. > :30:03.underneath of the car, giving more grip. Thankfully, that is gone next

:30:03. > :30:13.

:30:13. > :30:19.year. They have to exit the exhaust more. Bruno Senna has to put the

:30:19. > :30:29.heart tyres on. He moves out of ninth place, and that will cost him

:30:29. > :30:35.

:30:35. > :30:42.but behind the Sutil Perez fight. That has cost Renault some points.

:30:42. > :30:50.Petrov moves up into 11th. Ted has more news. Just an update on Lewis

:30:50. > :30:58.Hamilton. We heard him complaining about the car. The news is it has

:30:58. > :31:01.stabilised now. So have his lap times stabilised. I just wonder

:31:01. > :31:06.Maarten what do you think about Lewis's mood. It felt he turned a

:31:06. > :31:12.corner a little after the last race when he was well in the front by

:31:12. > :31:18.Jenson Button, now he has beaten -- been beaten again. Obviously he had

:31:18. > :31:24.the incident in the middle as well. For once, he wasn't penalised and

:31:24. > :31:29.the other driver was. Seventh place is not what Lewis Hamilton fancied

:31:29. > :31:33.this afternoon. Sebastian Vettel got off the grid and went straight

:31:33. > :31:41.into the lead. Mark Webber was passed by Jenson Button on the

:31:41. > :31:48.first lap. Button stopped earlier and every time he stopped he seemed

:31:48. > :31:53.to close the gap. On lap 24 Lewis Hamilton was trying to go up the

:31:53. > :31:57.inside of Felipe Massa or and they collected each other. Webber has

:31:57. > :32:07.now done a new fastest lap of the race as he has a final go at

:32:07. > :32:20.

:32:20. > :32:30.Hamilton recovered from wing change. He has had ferried it will pay

:32:30. > :33:00.

:33:00. > :33:07.since he put the heart tyres on and advantage over Alonso and a 19.

:33:07. > :33:11.Over Webber for the fight for the rest of the best. They say they

:33:11. > :33:21.just want race victories but Sebastian Vettel will not give them

:33:21. > :33:24.

:33:24. > :33:28.a race victory. Ricciardo is putting on the last lap. This is

:33:28. > :33:36.the fight for third place between Webber and Alonso, this is the main

:33:36. > :33:44.story now. The DRS kicks in halfway down the straight. RADIO: You have

:33:45. > :33:54.the fastest lap, you are straight home now. They are trying to stop

:33:54. > :34:01.Vettel doing a hot lap as he comes to the line again. There are not

:34:01. > :34:05.too many places to pass until the end of the lap. Sebastian Vettel as

:34:06. > :34:09.he falls down the hill to the final corner is about to add another it

:34:09. > :34:16.to his collection of bragging rights. Sebastian Vettel becomes

:34:16. > :34:21.the first ever winner of the Indian Grand Prix. He has led the most

:34:21. > :34:29.laps over in a season. We look for Jenson Button, another fine second

:34:29. > :34:36.place for him, 8.5 seconds behind in the end. Vettel had it covered -

:34:37. > :34:46.-. Alonso beats Webber for third place and the final slot on the

:34:47. > :34:58.

:34:58. > :35:03.seventh car is Lewis Hamilton. Was that summer motion from Adrian you

:35:04. > :35:10.eat? His head was down, he was either writing something down in

:35:10. > :35:20.his note pad. RADIO: Fantastic, you have won the first ever Indian

:35:20. > :35:30.Grand Prix. Yes, boys! Yes, we did it! First Indian Grand Prix, proud

:35:30. > :35:32.

:35:32. > :35:39.of you. We did it. Good job, Sebastian, you lead every single

:35:39. > :35:43.lap. Not bad indeed, despite the

:35:43. > :35:53.instruction from his Engineer, he did go for fastest lap on the last

:35:53. > :36:02.

:36:02. > :36:08.lap and he achieved it. Schumacher ahead of Williams again by 15

:36:08. > :36:18.seconds. Barrichello, of course, having that new nose at the end of

:36:18. > :36:23.

:36:23. > :36:30.the first lap. Jarno Trulli was 19th out of 19 finishers. RADIO:

:36:30. > :36:40.And Lucky, mate. Pace was good up until the crash. -- unlucky, mate.

:36:40. > :36:47.

:36:47. > :36:51.was there some a motion from Adrian? He is grinning from ear to

:36:51. > :37:01.ear. An incredible run of success that he has had as a designer for

:37:01. > :37:35.

:37:35. > :37:41.Formula One. He has worked with Grand Prix, good for him.

:37:41. > :37:46.Karthikeyan has done a solid job this weekend. A decent effort, I

:37:46. > :37:52.would say. Yes, he has done a good job. To be out of the car for such

:37:52. > :38:02.a long time and then jumping and be expected to perform. It has been

:38:02. > :38:07.said that he is considered to be the fastest of the Indian drivers.

:38:07. > :38:11.He has done his reputation no harm at all this afternoon. Coasting

:38:11. > :38:18.back into parc ferme. These cars will be very carefully checked

:38:18. > :38:25.before they are released. It is quite a long time before they are

:38:25. > :38:35.allowed out of there, actually. The FIA have a raft of cheques that

:38:35. > :38:35.

:38:35. > :38:42.they did. Very comprehensive and impressive. They have to make sure

:38:42. > :38:45.that everybody is legal, decent and honest and that it is a fair

:38:45. > :38:49.competition. What is not a fair competition is when somebody puts

:38:49. > :38:54.Sebastian Vettel and the car at the moment because they cannot see

:38:54. > :38:58.which way when he has it all covered. He does not fluff the

:38:58. > :39:05.starts, does not make mistakes, does not repay over traffic. He

:39:05. > :39:10.does not fall off the front of his car. He is a blueprint for the

:39:10. > :39:16.young drivers, for aspiring Formula One drivers. He spends hours

:39:16. > :39:21.working with the team. He is one of the earliest to the track and one

:39:21. > :39:27.of the last to leave. That is not by action -- it is not by accident

:39:27. > :39:34.that he is achieving that high level of success. He went to see

:39:34. > :39:38.the Taj Mahal and rode on elephants and was absorbing India and now

:39:38. > :39:48.India has absorb him in terms of a thoroughly dominant performance

:39:48. > :39:51.

:39:51. > :39:56.again. That's what we're talking about. Not even sweating. Adrian

:39:56. > :40:03.Newey has won nine titles in the 21 years he has been in Formula One.

:40:03. > :40:09.These two men do seem to have something special. McLaren are

:40:09. > :40:19.second in the Constructors' Championship with that performance.

:40:19. > :40:19.

:40:19. > :44:22.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 64 seconds

:44:22. > :44:32.whether it is appropriate to spray pretty handy when rate. Over a

:44:32. > :44:49.

:44:49. > :44:55.quarter of the races he has ever Nine World Championships in 21

:44:55. > :45:05.years his cars have won. Second place drive their Jenson Button,

:45:05. > :45:20.

:45:20. > :45:29.of the motor sport governing body here. I have enjoyed the event, I

:45:29. > :45:33.will be happy to get out of this, to box! I will be sad to leave

:45:33. > :45:38.India, it has been a last minute affair in some places, but it has

:45:38. > :45:44.been tremendous, all round. I am sure they will improve what they

:45:44. > :45:51.need to next year. The first Indian Grand Prix has been very enjoyable,

:45:51. > :45:59.and a great success. For Indian motor sport and Formula One. A

:45:59. > :46:04.slightly subdued champagnes brink. -- champagne sprint. They want to

:46:04. > :46:09.remember Marco Simoncelli and Dan Wheldon. There was an emotional

:46:09. > :46:17.ceremony on the grid before the start of the race. Sharing the

:46:18. > :46:26.spoils of glory, Sebastian Vettel. Sharing his champagne as well. It

:46:26. > :46:33.is Abu Dhabi next, in two weeks. For now, we will savour the sights,

:46:34. > :46:39.sounds and colours of India, and the podium. The champions of today,

:46:39. > :46:46.the three fastest drivers, and the quickest man who ever designed a

:46:46. > :46:52.Formula One car, but knowledge and the enthusiastic crowd. --

:46:52. > :46:57.acknowledging. Sebastian Vettel, the first winner of the Grand Prix

:46:57. > :47:05.of India, and well deserved. They all have been this year. He remains

:47:05. > :47:09.the man to beat. Today, he was the man that nobody

:47:09. > :47:13.could beat. It may have been last minute, but for the first minute,

:47:13. > :47:19.he has been the fastest man. Those are the men that helped him get

:47:19. > :47:24.there. It was a podium of world champions, but it was the current

:47:24. > :47:31.world champion standing on the top step, standing alongside the most

:47:31. > :47:35.successful and talented man up there, Adrian Newey. He will be

:47:35. > :47:40.delighted with that result. Formula One comes to India, and it is only

:47:40. > :47:44.right we explain to the local fans what Formula One is all about.

:47:44. > :47:49.Sebastian Vettel had the pole position, the fastest lap and the

:47:49. > :47:54.wind. Whether you like it or not, that is the case, he has dominated

:47:54. > :48:00.the championship. He took over from last year. Some people said he was

:48:00. > :48:05.lucky, but he made it count. This year has been remarkable. One of

:48:05. > :48:09.the best demonstrations of dominance. We talked about chaos.

:48:09. > :48:13.It is worth looking at the pit lane, because they decided to bring all

:48:13. > :48:20.of the crew cast down, and it is full of the marshals and all of the

:48:20. > :48:24.men who have made sure the Grand Prix could happen. They first spoke

:48:24. > :48:30.about a Formula One race here 15 years ago, and finally, the dream

:48:30. > :48:35.has become a reality. You can see what it means to people. All of the

:48:35. > :48:40.marshals are Indian, they have been trained up. Look at the grandstand

:48:40. > :48:45.behind, packed to the rafters, a great turn out, and a real sense of

:48:45. > :48:51.celebration. The real celebrations belonged to Christian Horner and

:48:51. > :48:56.Red Bull. It has been a special weekend. It has been tremendous.

:48:56. > :49:03.The reaction has been incredible, the enthusiasm, the amount of

:49:03. > :49:11.potential drivers on the roads! It has been a wonderful venue, it has

:49:11. > :49:15.been a great first Grand Prix. have not really given enough credit

:49:15. > :49:20.to the head of Force India, he has been banking on the drum for so

:49:20. > :49:24.long about bringing an Indian Grand Prix. We were not sure it would

:49:24. > :49:29.ever happen. I am sure he has a tear in the back of his eye,

:49:29. > :49:34.because this is a dream fulfilled, a fantastic event, a great

:49:34. > :49:39.foundation, and full marks to everyone responsible. He needs a

:49:39. > :49:44.fair accreditation. We have shown the people of India what Formula

:49:44. > :49:51.One is about, Sebastian Vettel. Do you think it is about time somebody

:49:52. > :49:58.gave him a race? That was quite intense on the pit wall. It looked

:49:58. > :50:02.comfortable, but with the DRS and the hard tyre, it was all about

:50:02. > :50:10.managing the gaps and getting the pit stops at the right time. He has

:50:10. > :50:14.been so good at that all year. He was inch-perfect. We have gone on

:50:14. > :50:21.with enough superlatives about him. All but like to ask, what is the

:50:21. > :50:28.matter with Mark Webber? Why is he not closer? He was on the front row,

:50:28. > :50:32.he still has not passed a car at the start of their race. That is

:50:32. > :50:41.not a great memory to finish this season with. He needs to appease

:50:41. > :50:46.game. -- he needs to up his game. He lost out around the second pit

:50:46. > :50:52.stop. It was frustrating, we could not keeping second. He dropped his

:50:52. > :50:56.place to Jenson Button, and it was impossible to keep him ahead. He is

:50:56. > :51:03.aware of that, and he will bounce back strongly in Abu Dhabi and

:51:03. > :51:08.Brazil. One of the remarks I heard, Jackie Stewart said, even Michael

:51:08. > :51:18.Schumacher could not win in a Red Bull. What did he mean? I have got

:51:18. > :51:18.

:51:18. > :51:23.no idea! You had better ask him! refuses to expand on that! Before

:51:23. > :51:29.you disappear, you have enjoyed Eddie Jordan's clothes, what do you

:51:29. > :51:37.think? He has taken it to a new level. What is it? He is embracing

:51:37. > :51:45.India. I would hate to see you in this! Your legs are looking

:51:45. > :51:54.strange! This is the green of India! The shoes? Rock and roll

:51:54. > :52:00.boots. You can bid for bishop for Children In Need. -- bid for the

:52:00. > :52:06.show it. You can go and celebrate now. Celebrations for Red Bull, a

:52:06. > :52:10.fantastic result again. Again, Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa

:52:10. > :52:20.coming together. They could not work out why there was a penalty

:52:20. > :52:28.

:52:28. > :52:36.for Felipe Massa. Look carefully at that Lewis Hamilton is there. That

:52:37. > :52:44.is what the judges have seen. He looked over, Forshaw, he knew that

:52:44. > :52:50.Hamilton was there. He looks a few times. This penalised Lewis

:52:50. > :53:00.Hamilton. Would that have had a bearing upon the stewards'

:53:00. > :53:02.

:53:02. > :53:12.decision? I do not know. They just needed to demonstrate for once,

:53:12. > :53:12.

:53:12. > :53:18.Lewis Hamilton has been on the hard end orbit, -- hard end of it, but

:53:18. > :53:26.under normal circumstances, people would say it was down to Lewis

:53:26. > :53:30.Hamilton, it was his fault, but in this case, it is different, I

:53:30. > :53:36.believe that Felipe Massa knew he was there and he had no right to do

:53:36. > :53:40.that. As the celebrations continue, let's hear from Lewis Hamilton. For

:53:40. > :53:47.almost the first time, involved in an incident and not penalised

:53:47. > :53:55.himself. When you woke up this morning,

:53:55. > :54:03.seventh place was not on your radio. Give us your thoughts. There is not

:54:03. > :54:10.much to say. A disappointing day, very sorry for my team. They worked

:54:10. > :54:15.hard all weekend. They deserved a better result. Congratulations to

:54:15. > :54:19.Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel, but I do not know what else to say.

:54:19. > :54:26.Tell us about the incident with Felipe Massa. He got a drive-

:54:26. > :54:32.through penalty. I do not know. We had the one minute's silence before

:54:32. > :54:38.the start of the race, and we were standing next to each other. He has

:54:38. > :54:45.not spoken to me since a long long time. I put my arm around him, and

:54:45. > :54:49.I said, could look for the race. But in the race, I tried to

:54:49. > :54:55.overtake, and I tried to come out of it, because it did not look like

:54:55. > :55:04.he would give me any space, and we collided. But again, really sorry

:55:04. > :55:12.for my team. I heard you asking about damage to the car. I had some

:55:13. > :55:17.vibrations, on all of the five -- on or off the right-hand turns. I

:55:17. > :55:22.had a very poor performance. I was pushing as hard as I could, I just

:55:22. > :55:27.did not have the pace. But the car looks fine, maybe it was just me.

:55:27. > :55:37.You were hoping for a strong weekend, what do you do now between

:55:37. > :55:37.

:55:37. > :55:44.Abu Dhabi and leaving here? I fly back and I try to get my head back

:55:44. > :55:48.in the game. The Indians did a fantastic job this weekend, the

:55:48. > :55:53.track was great, and we have been treated so well, we have been

:55:53. > :55:58.treated like kings. Lewis Hamilton has been well looked

:55:58. > :56:04.after, it looks like he wants to go home. He said he will remove all of

:56:04. > :56:12.the distractions next season. He is not happy, but he cannot take full

:56:12. > :56:18.responsibility for the way his race turned out. Leave today to one side,

:56:18. > :56:23.this is a culmination of several races. There is animosity between

:56:23. > :56:30.those drivers, they are not talking to each other. I do not like to see

:56:30. > :56:35.that, particularly apt but -- when you are competing. You must not

:56:35. > :56:45.lose focus on the bond that we all have. I am disappointed to hear

:56:45. > :56:49.that is going on. For me, I have said it for some time, we saw a hug

:56:49. > :56:53.between Lewis Hamilton and his father, we need to see more of that,

:56:53. > :56:58.more passion and relationship. If he is talking about reviving what

:56:58. > :57:04.he got before, he needs to think about what was there before, and

:57:04. > :57:09.that was somebody close to him that he could confide in, talk to, to

:57:09. > :57:13.relax when he needed to relax, and be prepared to come and race to win.

:57:13. > :57:19.It is good to know that he was doing his best to make amends with

:57:19. > :57:25.Felipe Massa. It is worth having a look at what is happening, they

:57:25. > :57:30.have created a circle. We said that the important thing is to make sure

:57:30. > :57:36.that we feel a sense of India, passion, and excitement, and we

:57:36. > :57:40.have had that. This is an unbelievable Foundation, when you

:57:41. > :57:46.consider what is happening. Now we understand what cricket is like in

:57:46. > :57:51.India, it just takes over. This is a further example. If we could

:57:51. > :57:59.emulate what happens with cricket, and we got on the way to doing that,

:57:59. > :58:03.this was a great success... We need to see what the audience was like,

:58:04. > :58:08.but for a first race, I have to say, the foundation blocks are well

:58:08. > :58:12.implanted, it has been a real success. After a difficult couple

:58:12. > :58:18.of weeks, it is nice that the national flag stands for courage

:58:18. > :58:24.and sacrifice. We can see one Indian flight, but a Bahrain flight

:58:24. > :58:30.as well, because they did not have a Grand Prix this year. Plenty of

:58:30. > :58:34.the marshals have come over here to help out. Drama from start to

:58:34. > :58:40.finish, the drivers were encouraged to have fun. Let's hear from the

:58:40. > :58:43.fastest men. Pole position, you lead every lap,

:58:43. > :58:50.you set the fastest lap. Was this the most perfect winner of the

:58:50. > :58:58.season? It was a good race, I enjoyed the time in the lead very

:58:58. > :59:04.much. I had a fight with Jenson Button. He kept closing in around

:59:04. > :59:10.the pit stops. I was pushing very hard, but we seemed to lose a

:59:10. > :59:17.little bit. But it was crucial to manage the tyres, to make sure

:59:17. > :59:22.there was enough left at the end. All in all, very smooth, the car

:59:22. > :59:26.was well balanced. I felt more confident on the hard tyres at the

:59:26. > :59:32.end. A fantastic performance, thanks to the whole team and to

:59:32. > :59:37.Renault, a fantastic job so far, without any problems. Mixed

:59:37. > :59:42.emotions. On the one hand, I am very happy, the first Grand Prix in

:59:42. > :59:49.India, and I am proud to be the first winner, but on the other hand,

:59:49. > :59:54.looking back at last weekend, we lost two mates. I did not know Dan

:59:54. > :00:01.Wheldon, but it was a big name in motor sport. I got to know this

:00:01. > :00:07.year Marco Simoncelli, and our thoughts are with them. Yes, we are

:00:07. > :00:11.ready to take certain risks, but we pray that nothing happens every

:00:11. > :00:21.time. Sometimes you get reminded. That is the last thing we want to

:00:21. > :00:26.see. Mixed emotions, and our Jenson, your engineer said we can

:00:26. > :00:31.raise Vettel, but I guess it was too difficult. Yes, it was. In the

:00:31. > :00:36.last race I really struggled on the first lap, I lost a lot of places.

:00:36. > :00:41.I wanted to redeem myself here. I got a good start and we got up to

:00:41. > :00:46.second. And then it was just basically trying to hang on to

:00:46. > :00:49.Sebastien. His pace was very good, he didn't make any mistakes or top

:00:49. > :00:55.every time through the pit stops we gained a little bit, I don't know

:00:55. > :01:00.whether it was the stop itself. When I came out of the box, I felt

:01:00. > :01:06.very good and very competitive. But as soon as he got into a rhythm, I

:01:06. > :01:10.could do nothing about it. But all in all, for the team, we have done

:01:10. > :01:14.a perfect job today. We could not have done anything else. Yesterday

:01:14. > :01:22.was a disaster for me in qualifying, but we put it right here. A good

:01:22. > :01:30.race. But a tough weekend for everyone in motor sport, the last

:01:30. > :01:33.two weekends have been very, very difficult. It is very difficult,

:01:33. > :01:42.especially with Dan. I knew him from a very early age, he was the

:01:42. > :01:48.guy we always had to beat. Very sad day. We should dedicate this first

:01:48. > :01:54.Indian race to Dan and Marco. Another super talented youngster

:01:54. > :02:00.who was the most amazing guy to watch. We should dedicate this to

:02:00. > :02:10.them. Fernando, your battle was with Mark Webber, tell us about

:02:10. > :02:11.

:02:11. > :02:20.your race. We didn't make the perfect start. To be starting on

:02:20. > :02:26.the clean side, I didn't get a grip we were expecting. They started

:02:26. > :02:33.better than us so we lost a couple of positions. I stayed with Mark

:02:33. > :02:39.until the second pit stop. He decided to stop and then we did two

:02:39. > :02:44.extra laps and we were able to overtake him. To get on the podium

:02:44. > :02:52.on the first race in India, to have this feeling and to taste the

:02:52. > :03:02.champagne is always nice. As these two said, mixed feelings this

:03:02. > :03:03.

:03:03. > :03:10.weekend. Sad days for motor sport over the last couple of weeks. Two

:03:10. > :03:15.accidents and we are all praying for them today. Always remember

:03:15. > :03:20.these two fantastic people. have set a new record for the most

:03:20. > :03:24.laps lead in a former one season, taking over from Nigel Mansell. I

:03:25. > :03:29.bet you don't want this year to end. I don't mind. The car is fantastic,

:03:29. > :03:35.the team is enjoying it and we are on the run. Since the beginning of

:03:35. > :03:39.the season. We enjoy every race. The great thing is, you walk in the

:03:39. > :03:45.garage in the morning and you see the guys, they are flat out, they

:03:45. > :03:50.are pushing very hard. There's no sign of getting lazy and not paying

:03:50. > :03:54.attention to detail. It is really enjoyable to see that, knowing we

:03:54. > :03:59.have already achieved a lot this year, but we are still hungry. We

:03:59. > :04:03.are not lacking motivation at any stage. People come back with

:04:03. > :04:10.questions, but we seem to give the right answers. I love what I do. We

:04:10. > :04:14.all do. We don't want this season to end. After all the excitement on

:04:14. > :04:17.the circuit, and understandably sombre press conference. The best

:04:17. > :04:21.way to remember Marco Simoncelli and Dan Wheldon was for those guys

:04:21. > :04:27.to go out and do what they do to the best of their ability. I think

:04:27. > :04:33.they said everything. It was done with such sincerity. And feeling.

:04:33. > :04:36.It doesn't need any more from me. We all thought about these guys

:04:36. > :04:40.today and we know the sacrifice these drivers are taking every week

:04:40. > :04:44.in all different sports, not just in Formula One, throughout the

:04:44. > :04:48.world, whether it is karting or grass track racing or biking. Motor

:04:48. > :04:52.racing is dangerous, it will never not be dangerous, but these are

:04:52. > :04:57.dark days when we see what we have seen in the last couple of weeks

:04:57. > :05:01.and we are just very happy for the one, thankfully, the legislators

:05:01. > :05:05.and organisers make sure the cars are absolutely in the safest way

:05:05. > :05:09.possible. After spending time in such a corporate sport that is

:05:09. > :05:15.constantly moving at an incredible rate of knots, it is worth pointing

:05:15. > :05:18.out that the atmosphere has been very reflective. We remembered them

:05:18. > :05:21.here by putting on as memorable a Grand Prix as possible and this is

:05:21. > :05:27.Grand Prix as possible and this is how the race finished. Sebastian

:05:27. > :05:32.Vettel picking up yet another victory. He set new records. Jenson

:05:32. > :05:42.Button was the only man to really raised him regularly this season.

:05:42. > :06:13.

:06:13. > :06:18.Alonso also manages to finish Cannery cobia she has not picked up

:06:18. > :06:28.points in the last eight races - Kobayashi. Not good enough for him.

:06:28. > :06:50.

:06:50. > :06:56.Fresh from the garage with a few thousand fans hanging around behind

:06:56. > :07:02.him and some grid girls as well, who are very excited to see Narain

:07:02. > :07:06.Karthikeyan. A very special afternoon. Explain your emotions.

:07:06. > :07:14.It was hard to finish the race and I finished the race and I was

:07:14. > :07:22.running comfortably and beat my team-mate. I made a very good start.

:07:22. > :07:26.I had to finish. Today probably was the start of something big in India.

:07:26. > :07:30.Because of the fact we have had the race. How do you think it will help

:07:30. > :07:34.you commercially to bring the necessary sponsorship to get you a

:07:34. > :07:39.really good drive next year? gave me my first drive in 2001, my

:07:39. > :07:44.first test in a Jordan. Since then it has been building up and I made

:07:44. > :07:50.my debut in 2005 and then Force India came in at this Grand Prix. A

:07:50. > :07:55.lot of corporate support. As you saw, a big crowd as well. A big

:07:55. > :07:59.success for us. Motor Sport in general is on a high at the moment

:07:59. > :08:03.in India. Yet more evidence that just about every driver in Formula

:08:03. > :08:09.One has driven with Eddie! Let's talk about India and motor racing

:08:09. > :08:13.in general. How important is it that Formula One comes here and

:08:13. > :08:18.give something back to the country as well as turning up and then

:08:18. > :08:22.proceed with these beautiful cars and lovely circuit? All of our

:08:22. > :08:27.neighbours, China, Malaysia, Singapore, we are competing with

:08:27. > :08:32.them in the economy and other things. Having a high-profile event

:08:32. > :08:37.like this gives us a boost, which is very important these days.

:08:37. > :08:42.There's a lot of disparity, but we are a country of a billion

:08:42. > :08:44.passionate people and we are very, very happy with what we have. It is

:08:45. > :08:49.fantastic for Formula One to come here and for India to host this

:08:49. > :08:53.event. Have you spoken to your boss? What have you said to him?

:08:53. > :09:02.You look very strong, give me a seat, is that what you have basked

:09:02. > :09:09.in? It is an option. The Indians are on a buying spree of Formula

:09:09. > :09:14.One teams, so we will see what happens! I sold Julie! I think so.

:09:14. > :09:16.We are going to have a look at the start of the race. We will see how

:09:16. > :09:21.start of the race. We will see how you kept out of trouble. It started

:09:21. > :09:26.happening around you at the back. Sebastian Vettel's aim was to get

:09:26. > :09:29.away cleanly, in the lead, and he managed to do just that. We heard

:09:29. > :09:34.Mark Webber saying he thought he had a good chance to get into the

:09:34. > :09:44.lead, but he didn't do it. Vettel absolutely out of sight. What is

:09:44. > :09:44.

:09:44. > :09:53.going on at the back? One of the green Lotus's hit him and I hit him.

:09:53. > :09:58.I was lucky to get away with only a little bit of damage. The car was a

:09:58. > :10:02.bit strange, but it was OK. This circuit has been designed to tempt

:10:03. > :10:07.people into overtaking. Jenson Button had a go at Mark Webber and

:10:07. > :10:14.snatched second place. Has that been one of the successes,

:10:14. > :10:17.encouraging the drivers to have a go? Yes. Both the braking areas and

:10:17. > :10:22.the hairpins... Even if you are a bit outside, you can take different

:10:22. > :10:25.lines and get away with it. It is not like other circuits. We are

:10:25. > :10:30.surrounded by autograph hunters are we will let you enjoy those, thank

:10:30. > :10:34.you. We will go on board with Fernando Alonso. It looked like he

:10:34. > :10:37.had got the perfect start, but it wasn't to be. Losing the rear end

:10:37. > :10:44.and we talked about the lack of grip on this circuit and it cost

:10:44. > :10:47.him. He made the cardinal error, he went too wide on the first corner.

:10:47. > :10:53.That entices everybody to come on the inside where they have the grip

:10:53. > :10:57.and they don't have any other problems. Jenson was right there.

:10:57. > :11:02.How many times have we seen Jenson take opportunities like this? It is

:11:02. > :11:06.fabulous. We are on board with Jenson. You can see the start made

:11:07. > :11:14.by Alonso. He loses his grip and Jenson goes down the inside. A

:11:14. > :11:19.superb move from Jenson. Jenson made that move on Mark Webber. Talk

:11:19. > :11:23.us through this move by Jenson. Let's be honest, the Mercedes

:11:24. > :11:33.engine, in my opinion, has the legs of most of the engines in Formula

:11:33. > :11:38.One, and it certainly has the legs of Renault in a situation like this.

:11:38. > :11:42.It was like a catapult. What Jenson witnessed was something magic,

:11:42. > :11:47.something you can never quite explained. You get out of the draft

:11:47. > :11:50.and you still have enough power to put you in front. It is a magic

:11:50. > :11:58.situation. We know it was a difficult afternoon for Lewis

:11:58. > :12:02.Hamilton. His Bob Marley reggae helmet. Be difficult weekend all-

:12:02. > :12:06.round and stolen at the start. think he is probably saying to

:12:06. > :12:12.himself, get me to the end of Brazil as quickly as possible. Get

:12:12. > :12:16.me out of here, let my life start again. I have just had enough.

:12:16. > :12:21.Everything I do, every door I open seems to be full of problems. He is

:12:21. > :12:26.saying to himself, sorry, he is apologising to the team, he can't

:12:26. > :12:31.do enough, but everything he does seems to turn out badly. Lewis

:12:31. > :12:40.Hamilton not deserving the race he had today. Let's watch Pastor

:12:40. > :12:47.Maldonado. This is in the thick of the action. He got hit by his team-

:12:47. > :12:53.mate. Maldonado in the end having to retire. Pastor Maldonado is

:12:53. > :13:00.suffering the worst driver -- season of and the Williams driver.

:13:00. > :13:05.Will he still be in Formula One next year? If he is, he will a lot

:13:05. > :13:09.to his commercial nous. What he brings to the team is a very

:13:09. > :13:14.significant budget from Venezuela. I think he has performed quite well.

:13:14. > :13:18.I don't know what the situation is with Raikkonen. The possibility of

:13:18. > :13:24.Adrian Sutil going there if he is not retained by Force India. A lot

:13:24. > :13:29.to play for at Williams. I am not sure how it will unfold. Pastor

:13:29. > :13:34.Maldonado, only one point to his name all season. Sergio Perez

:13:34. > :13:42.managed to pick up. Today ft up a very difficult last few races for

:13:42. > :13:46.Sauber. Fife Toro Rosso are starting to show great pace. They

:13:46. > :13:53.need Perez and Kobayashi to start to impress. I am hugely impressed

:13:53. > :13:59.with Perez for top you go out and say to him, our strategy will be to

:13:59. > :14:07.stop less, you will have to put up with the Tigers. Let's go with them.

:14:07. > :14:10.He does it every single time. Today He does it every single time. Today

:14:10. > :14:14.he nicked a point. He has given some impetus to the Sauber team. In

:14:14. > :14:19.my opinion in recent races, they have not been close enough to the

:14:19. > :14:24.action. They are in desperate trouble to keep Toro Rosso behind

:14:24. > :14:28.them. I don't see it happening, I think Toro Rosso have the wind in

:14:28. > :14:33.their sails. Toro Rosso fighting hard. Another man fighting hard is

:14:33. > :14:43.Michael Schumacher. He is his -- he is enjoying his battle with Nico

:14:43. > :14:46.

:14:46. > :14:52.Another strong race, fifth place. It just worked out perfectly to

:14:52. > :14:56.plan. My plan was not use any KERS in the first couple of corners and

:14:56. > :15:03.save it for the long straight. It worked out perfectly well in the

:15:03. > :15:09.important moments. I planned my race carefully. There was no need

:15:09. > :15:13.to run to close to Nico and destroyed tyres. I drove my pace

:15:13. > :15:19.that I knew my tyres could handle for the long distance and it worked

:15:19. > :15:23.out nicely. They also have to say, the guys I am working with, we have

:15:23. > :15:28.a lot of experience together and it was nice to sort out the car for

:15:28. > :15:35.the race and have a great battle. It was nice that you got the nod as

:15:35. > :15:38.well and you were able... You held your position. Normally the guys

:15:38. > :15:42.who pit first have the advantage because they can take fresher tyres

:15:42. > :15:47.earlier. Here it was slightly different in as far as I had my

:15:47. > :15:52.tyres in such good shape, even by the end, that I was able to close

:15:52. > :15:55.the gap. That is not normally the case. I don't think it was a

:15:55. > :16:00.strategy advantage, it was just managing and setting up the car to

:16:00. > :16:04.the right spot. Leaving India, do you have positive things to say

:16:05. > :16:08.about this first Indian Grand Prix? I have a big compliment to make. If

:16:08. > :16:12.you imagine these guys do the job for the first time, I am sure

:16:13. > :16:17.things have been difficult but it worked out perfectly fine. The

:16:17. > :16:22.circuit is fantastic, a good spectacle for overtaking, a good

:16:22. > :16:32.challenge to drive. Organised very much in order and has to be

:16:32. > :16:37.He finished fifth, five point between him and Nico Rosberg. He

:16:37. > :16:43.has told everybody that he does not care if he finishes ahead of his

:16:43. > :16:50.team-mate. Do you believe that? for an iota. This is the most

:16:50. > :16:54.competitive man on the planet. Should we believe such nonsense? He

:16:54. > :17:04.wants to beat Nico Rosberg and everybody else like there is no

:17:04. > :17:07.tomorrow. He is driven, pardon the pun, and he wants to beat everyone.

:17:07. > :17:12.Paul di Resta has shown more than an iota of quality and talent this

:17:12. > :17:20.season. This is him overtaking a virgin car. Things have slightly

:17:20. > :17:30.fallen away, we believe he is going to be retained by the team next

:17:30. > :17:33.

:17:33. > :17:38.season, with Nico Hulkenberg. Let's Just some of pure race.

:17:38. > :17:45.underestimated the tyre wear. We went for an aggressive start on the

:17:45. > :17:50.hard tyres. We were hoping for a safety car. It was a big risk. But

:17:50. > :17:58.it was worth taking, because if it had worked out, we would have

:17:58. > :18:04.gained a pit stop. Unfortunately, it did not happen. The other people

:18:04. > :18:10.around us could do two stops. Their tyre where was better. But when we

:18:10. > :18:15.were on the track, we were reasonably quick. You made your two

:18:15. > :18:24.stops pretty quickly, and you could not have stayed out? We did not

:18:24. > :18:29.have the tyre wear. Maybe the last two sets worked better. But we

:18:29. > :18:35.would never have made it to the end on the middle set. It is a big

:18:35. > :18:39.weekend for Force India, lots of media attention, a Scottish man

:18:39. > :18:47.giving Indians lots to smile about. I think the Grand Prix has been

:18:47. > :18:52.successful, but not for me. But Adrian BOP ninth place, and two

:18:52. > :18:58.points. That is fallible for the Constructors' Championship. -- that

:18:58. > :19:08.is valuable. He will be back in the points,

:19:08. > :19:15.hopefully, when we had to Abu Dhabi. -- when we head to Abu Dhabi. What

:19:15. > :19:19.do you think? For Jenson Button, a fantastic race, assertive,

:19:19. > :19:23.aggressive at the start, he got up to second place, a fantastic

:19:23. > :19:28.defence, with Mark Webber behind him, he looked after the tyres, he

:19:28. > :19:36.did not put a foot wrong. We were not quick enough to catch Sebastian

:19:36. > :19:43.Vettel, but a great result. A great race. For Lewis Hamilton,

:19:43. > :19:48.disappointing. He and Felipe Massa are magnetic! I do not have to have

:19:48. > :19:58.the debate, the stewards have made a clear decision, but that had

:19:58. > :19:58.

:19:58. > :20:03.Lewis Hamilton, and his strategy had to be changed, and his car was

:20:04. > :20:10.damaged, so he had the discipline to print the points that secured

:20:10. > :20:15.second place in the ditch at this championship. -- in the

:20:15. > :20:20.Constructors' Championship. overview of the race? It was OK. It

:20:20. > :20:27.did not quite deliver, for a number of reasons. They have got to bring

:20:27. > :20:32.the high-pressure washers to clean... There were some unique

:20:32. > :20:37.features that could not be used because it was so dusty. But you

:20:37. > :20:45.have to take India for what it is. They put on a good show. Next year,

:20:45. > :20:48.it will be better, but it was not a classic race. Eddie Jordan has been

:20:48. > :20:54.crystal-clear, he believes that Felipe Massa looks in his mirror

:20:54. > :21:04.before making the move. Perhaps you could talk us through your

:21:04. > :21:08.emotions? I could not tell you what my emotions were, live on TV! The

:21:09. > :21:13.stewards made a decision, it is a shame, they seem to be magnetic,

:21:13. > :21:18.but he turned in, and he knew he was there. Lewis Hamilton did not

:21:18. > :21:23.have a chance. Others will try to interpret it differently. We all

:21:23. > :21:33.think it is quite clear. We need to talk about Lewis Hamilton, his

:21:33. > :21:33.

:21:33. > :21:38.manager has evaporated. -- his motivation. What do you do?

:21:38. > :21:44.last race, pole position, then he had an impaired car. He defended

:21:44. > :21:52.brilliantly. That was a great race. He came here, he was second on the

:21:52. > :21:57.podium. He had a penalty, so actually, it has been unfortunate.

:21:57. > :22:01.He can do a better job, he is a great driver. We have got to give

:22:01. > :22:06.him the opportunity. He can now demonstrate to everybody that he is

:22:06. > :22:14.a great driver. Perhaps you would like to analyse the most dramatic

:22:14. > :22:24.moment. You are talking about the incident? The reaction of Rowan

:22:24. > :22:31.Atkinson! He merely said a bad word! Very nearly! He loves his

:22:31. > :22:36.motor-racing! He certainly does! Now, proper analysis. Let's look at

:22:37. > :22:46.the incident between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa. Have you noticed

:22:46. > :22:52.a pattern emerging? There is clearly bad blood between them. A

:22:52. > :22:56.number of incidents. I had something like this in 1992. We

:22:56. > :23:02.just happened to be the same speed on all of the tracks for the whole

:23:02. > :23:09.year. You are always fighting for the same piece of.... Sometimes,

:23:09. > :23:13.they yield, other times, they do not. Of course, Felipe Massa was

:23:13. > :23:20.looking at in his mirror, because he needed to judge where the other

:23:20. > :23:28.car was. You have got to take a view on whether you can turn in or

:23:28. > :23:33.not. It depends which camera angle you look. That was Singapore, Lewis

:23:33. > :23:39.Hamilton underestimated the length of his car. It is six of one, half

:23:39. > :23:43.a dozen of the other, between these two. They are half-hearted moves

:23:43. > :23:53.which result in them slipping off. This is Japan, Lewis Hamilton did

:23:53. > :23:54.

:23:54. > :24:01.not know he was there. Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other. It has

:24:01. > :24:05.been unfortunate, if you focus on today, Felipe Massa was judged by

:24:05. > :24:11.the stewards, and we accept that. But let's talk about something

:24:11. > :24:15.positive. Jenson Button is doing a fantastic job. He is giving Lewis

:24:15. > :24:19.Hamilton a hard time. Lots of people did not expect that, but

:24:19. > :24:24.Jenson Button is not putting a foot wrong, he is driving brilliantly,

:24:24. > :24:30.and he is now in a strong position. He has not secured second in the

:24:30. > :24:34.championship, but had the day he will do. Do you think signing him

:24:34. > :24:39.on a long deal has helped him consolidate? I would like to claim

:24:39. > :24:44.that, but he is such a focused individual, he is doing a great job,

:24:44. > :24:47.and he fits well with the team, he works well in the organisation.

:24:47. > :24:53.Hopefully, he will continue, and we have got another three exciting

:24:53. > :24:57.years with him. A final congratulations, today you have

:24:57. > :25:02.confirmed second place in the Constructors' Championship.

:25:02. > :25:09.Compared to Red Bull, that is not a bad place to be. It is not what we

:25:09. > :25:16.wanted. But nonetheless, we have done it, now we continue. We are

:25:16. > :25:21.putting in our efforts to improve next year's car. I am sure you will

:25:21. > :25:31.bring development parts for the next couple of races. Just to let

:25:31. > :26:06.

:26:06. > :26:16.you know, if you have just got out But you can press the red button

:26:16. > :26:23.and join us for all of this. Am I in the way?! You are bouncing

:26:23. > :26:31.away! Moaning and groaning and mumbling about the music! This is

:26:31. > :26:35.how they celebrate at Red Bull. Just about the only negative is

:26:35. > :26:39.another win for Red Bull, which means more loud music in the pit

:26:39. > :26:46.lane, but please do pressed the red button at the end of the show and

:26:46. > :26:50.join us on the Formula One Forum. However, we are also doing our bit

:26:50. > :26:59.for Children In Need. Eddie Jordan, please announce what you are

:27:00. > :27:04.donating. I would be pleased to do so. It started as a joke, but this

:27:04. > :27:08.garment will be signed by everybody associated with the programme today,

:27:08. > :27:12.and we will put it on eBay, to make sure we raise as much money as

:27:12. > :27:19.possible for the Children In Need. They need the money, you can have

:27:19. > :27:24.this. We are getting rid of David Coulthard's white jeans. Would you

:27:24. > :27:29.like to bid for those?! I have got my notes from the start of

:27:29. > :27:32.qualifying, the start of the race, the running order for the shows,

:27:32. > :27:37.and the statistics document that we used to pretend we know what we are

:27:37. > :27:44.talking about. And I will give away a signed script, which only takes

:27:44. > :27:50.two minutes to write! We would love you to get involved. Please help us,

:27:50. > :27:56.go on the website. We are now going to disappear to the F1 forum.

:27:56. > :28:02.Plenty of questions, we would love you to join us. What a first Indian

:28:02. > :28:05.Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel stayed out at the front for the whole of

:28:05. > :28:10.the Grand Prix. He drove the kind of the race we have seen from him