The Korean Grand Prix

:00:15. > :00:25.victory. Louis Hamilton has done it. If a devastating victory -- Lewis.

:00:25. > :00:25.

:00:25. > :01:25.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:01:25. > :01:29.Absolute belter. Round 16, Scotland. Seasons blend into one another.

:01:29. > :01:33.Teams, fans and drivers are always looking to the future. But

:01:33. > :01:42.sometimes, something happens that especial that deserves a reflection

:01:42. > :01:47.on an incredible snapshot in time. -- that is special.

:01:47. > :01:52.To win the championship here is fantastic. I mean, there are so

:01:52. > :02:02.many things you want to say in this moment, but it is hard to remember

:02:02. > :02:02.

:02:02. > :02:09.all of them. The chance to crown Sebastian Vettel as world champion,

:02:09. > :02:19.he has broken records throughout his career... Are you playing the

:02:19. > :02:21.

:02:21. > :02:26.percentage game or going for glory? A glory. Sebastian, you are 2011

:02:26. > :02:30.world champion, well done. I am just so, so thankful to

:02:30. > :02:35.everyone in the team, and it is great to have achieved the goal we

:02:36. > :02:45.set ourselves going into this season.

:02:45. > :02:52.These are your fans. Back-to-back Formula One world champion. Alain

:02:52. > :02:57.Prost is within sight of his second... Ayrton Senna... She Makah

:02:57. > :03:07.will be world champion... Fernando Alonso... A -- issue Makah will be

:03:07. > :03:10.incredible weekend in Japan in Sebastian Vettel is the new for me

:03:10. > :03:13.a one world champion, but don't think there is no incentive for

:03:13. > :03:16.these other current drivers in Formula One. They are desperate to

:03:16. > :03:22.prove they have got what it takes to pick up a win between now and

:03:22. > :03:26.the end of this season. Just a few races left until the end of 2011.

:03:26. > :03:30.We are racing at the newest track in Formula One, but in a few weeks'

:03:30. > :03:35.time, that will no longer be the case because India joins in the

:03:35. > :03:40.fund at the end of October. Then it is off to Abu Dhabi in the desert

:03:40. > :03:46.before the season ends in Brazil at the end of November. What a long

:03:46. > :03:53.and successful season for Sebastian Vettel. That gap at the top cannot

:03:53. > :03:57.be bridged, which means he is the new Formula world champion. Bath

:03:57. > :04:02.Formula One. And at the constructors battle, Red Bull are

:04:02. > :04:07.now 130 points ahead of McLaren. If they outscored them this weekend,

:04:07. > :04:10.they will be constructors champions. Sebastian Vettel is already the

:04:10. > :04:14.world champion but plenty of reasons to stay with us, which is

:04:14. > :04:18.exactly what David Coulthard will be doing from the commentary box.

:04:18. > :04:22.You won't hear last year but we got rained on and it was complete chaos

:04:22. > :04:27.-- you weren't here. It could be just as confusing today. Today will

:04:27. > :04:32.be all about tyres, there are rumours that the option will only

:04:32. > :04:38.last about seven laps, which means a lot will come to strategy. Your

:04:38. > :04:41.view over the pit lane could be an important one. We can see the pit-

:04:41. > :04:45.lane entry and I expect to see a lot of activity. I will be amazed

:04:45. > :04:49.at the top teams are not doing three stops. You can hear David

:04:49. > :04:56.Coulthard alongside Martin Brundle in a moment, but this is what we

:04:56. > :05:01.witnessed during qualifying, this is what happened with Ted Kravitz.

:05:01. > :05:05.Isn't it just a typical. Sebastian Vettel wraps up the championship in

:05:05. > :05:11.Japan and a week let in Korea, we are put -- treated to the most one

:05:11. > :05:13.can -- unpredictable qualifying of the year. 14 years since Williams

:05:13. > :05:18.won a championship, Rubens Barrichello was the first big-name

:05:18. > :05:22.knocked out after struggling. He starts 18th. But Michael Schumacher

:05:22. > :05:25.was slow down and this qualifying because Oberwil vibration. The

:05:26. > :05:32.Felipe Massa out-qualified his team-mate Fernando Alonso for the

:05:32. > :05:37.second successive race. Felipe Massa has not been given the new

:05:37. > :05:42.wing. But Fernando Alonso is not sure whether it made it good or

:05:42. > :05:49.worse. LEE MCKENZIE: Did it make it a good

:05:49. > :05:53.or better or worse? That is the answer. I was able to do a good lap

:05:53. > :05:58.even without the new front wing, so it was positive and I am looking

:05:58. > :06:04.forward to having a good race. Lieutenant tense final few minutes

:06:04. > :06:09.as McLaren tried to end the Red Bull's domination of qualifying --

:06:09. > :06:12.that left attends the final few minutes. Jenson Button in third or

:06:12. > :06:16.stop McLaren are at a slight disadvantage on race strategy after

:06:16. > :06:22.Red Bull managed to save three sets of new tyres, whereas McLaren Addie

:06:22. > :06:29.have two. Uneventful last lap for Sebastian Vettel. -- an eventful.

:06:29. > :06:34.Read all the running out of time to refit a new tyres. TEAM RADIO:

:06:34. > :06:39.Quick in-lap. In his haste to get back, at Vettel cut the corner at

:06:39. > :06:45.105, but the stewards later decided he hadn't gained an advantage --

:06:45. > :06:49.turn five. It wasn't good enough, Lewis Hamilton had parked in the

:06:49. > :06:54.garage and drove a stunning lap for his first pole position of the

:06:54. > :06:59.season, ending the 16 race run for Red Bull. It has been a roller-

:06:59. > :07:06.coaster race -- ear. It is good to be there but tomorrow is the most

:07:06. > :07:10.important day and we will have to see how it goes. I was a bit

:07:10. > :07:16.surprised didn't you three to see how close we were, because in Q2 we

:07:16. > :07:22.were quite far behind -- in Q3. We had a bad strategy regarding the

:07:22. > :07:26.tyres but it could turn out to be an advantage. All of the tyres on

:07:26. > :07:30.year, whereas one of last -- ours has got three timed laps. It may

:07:30. > :07:35.work out for them that hopefully by the time we have on our last set of

:07:35. > :07:39.tyres it will work out for us. Lewis Hamilton on pole and looking

:07:39. > :07:44.for winter cheer himself up. Sebastian Vettel is alongside and

:07:44. > :07:51.has a better strategy. Jenson Button happy to be on the clean

:07:51. > :07:56.side of the grid. Felipe Massa leads the Ferraris. Vitaly Petrov

:07:56. > :08:00.and Paul di Resta leading the Renault and Force India.

:08:00. > :08:06.Alguersuari at qualified Michael Schumacher. 16th and 18th for

:08:06. > :08:16.Williams, but at least Barrichello has a new tyres for the race.

:08:16. > :08:32.

:08:32. > :08:36.Heikki Kovalainen wins the battle International Circuit is found in

:08:36. > :08:42.the South West of South Korea. The region well known for shipping and

:08:42. > :08:46.fishing and of course, now, Formula One. This second Grand Prix to be

:08:46. > :08:50.held here should be both fascinating and, I am pretty sure,

:08:50. > :08:57.unpredictable, especially if that rain comes in like some of the

:08:57. > :09:03.teams are saying. They have very little Norwich of this 80 turn a

:09:03. > :09:09.3.5 mile layout -- knowledge. Many questions remain unanswered as we

:09:09. > :09:15.are just four minutes away from the warm-up and formation lap and the

:09:15. > :09:21.start of this Grand Prix. Red Bull have majored on the soft tyre.

:09:21. > :09:26.Other teams have saved the faster but last year report super-soft

:09:27. > :09:31.compound. Do you reckon they have got it right, David?

:09:31. > :09:40.DAVID COULTHARD: There is a lot of speculation on how fast these tyres

:09:40. > :09:45.can go. Seven laps for the options, we hear. 15-20 on the prime. The

:09:45. > :09:50.reality is that if it is so little running when it is wet, only one

:09:50. > :09:55.hour to try and evaluate the tyres but set the car before qualifying

:09:55. > :09:59.it, the teams simply don't know. We have said time and again, this year

:09:59. > :10:03.is a journey into the unknown because it is Pirelli's first year

:10:03. > :10:07.back in two F1. Once they have this season under their belts, there

:10:07. > :10:11.will be so many unanswered questions to deal with and put into

:10:11. > :10:17.the strategy, but nobody knows today who has the right strategy.

:10:17. > :10:22.Red Bull have gone one way and the teams have gone... TEAM RADIO:

:10:22. > :10:30.Around three, there might be a small shower. As far as we can tell,

:10:31. > :10:35.it is only a couple of minutes and then nothing after that. 3pm is the

:10:35. > :10:40.start of the race, locally, and as I was saying, some of the teams

:10:40. > :10:44.have gone in a different direction. Why wouldn't McLaren and Red Bull

:10:44. > :10:49.split their strategies? One driver on the super-soft, one driver on

:10:49. > :10:53.the soft compound and have an each- way bet? Because that compromises

:10:53. > :10:57.the drivers going into qualifying. There is seven-tenths of a second

:10:57. > :11:01.difference between the prime and the option in qualifying, so are

:11:01. > :11:06.you going to say to Jenson Button, great weekend last week, but you

:11:07. > :11:11.are going to be compromised? You have to give them the best chance

:11:11. > :11:16.to qualify the car and then deal with the race thereafter. Sebastian

:11:17. > :11:21.Vettel second on the grid, and yet another helmet designed for this

:11:21. > :11:27.track. Looking at his pole positions over the year, he seems

:11:27. > :11:33.than a different helmet cover for every single race. Let's have a

:11:33. > :11:38.look at how they line up. Hamilton on pole from Vettel. Jenson Button

:11:38. > :11:44.in third, he says he is happy. Webber four, he seems quite punchy,

:11:44. > :11:51.the first man out of this Grand Prix last year. Felipe Tamas Kadar

:11:51. > :12:00.and Fernando Alonso for Ferrari. Then Petrov and Rosberg -- her

:12:00. > :12:04.Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. Michael Schumacher and Buemi and

:12:04. > :12:12.Kobayashi have the fastest cars in the straight. It will be

:12:12. > :12:22.interesting to see how they fare. Sergio Perez, he will do less stops

:12:22. > :12:26.

:12:26. > :12:36.than most. 23rd and 24, the to HRTs of Liuzzi and Ricky are there --

:12:36. > :12:50.

:12:50. > :12:54.surprisingly set his time that the -- on the tyre he used in due to,

:12:54. > :13:03.so he will be the reference point for how long that read Mark super-

:13:03. > :13:07.soft tyres will last -- Q2. We get ready for the formation lap. Force

:13:07. > :13:12.India had split the strategy, super-soft for Paul di Resta and

:13:12. > :13:18.the soft for Adrian Sutil. In their position, it makes absolute sense.

:13:18. > :13:22.Just inside the starting grid. You have a situation where one of them

:13:22. > :13:26.is going to be in the race strategy and early doors. It is all about

:13:26. > :13:36.managing these tyres in the early laps. The back with fuel as they go

:13:36. > :13:39.off the line -- a fat with the awl. So from what you are saying that,

:13:39. > :13:45.at Force India are saying do what you are told but you won't get away

:13:45. > :13:48.with that with Hamilton, Jenson Button and Vettel. They are not

:13:48. > :13:52.picking drivers until next December, they have drivers under contract

:13:52. > :13:56.and they all just say OK. No other real choice right now. The teams

:13:56. > :14:02.they would like to be moving to, the teams in front of them, are all

:14:02. > :14:06.locked out. A man to watch as Michael Schumacher, a slightly

:14:06. > :14:10.dismal performance in qualifying, he has gained 24 positions in the

:14:10. > :14:14.last seven starts and at no point in those seven starts has he lost a

:14:14. > :14:21.position. So Michael Schumacher is the man on the move at the start of

:14:21. > :14:24.the Grand Prix. That is interesting, because when he used to do physical

:14:24. > :14:28.assessments compared to other drivers, his reaction tests were

:14:28. > :14:31.never that good, but clearly the starting system on the Mercedes and

:14:31. > :14:38.his instinctive racing ability to the first corner has seen him make

:14:38. > :14:41.a lot of games. Or maybe he is not qualifying where he should be. As a

:14:41. > :14:49.team mate, I beat him off the start every time. It used to be his

:14:49. > :14:53.Achilles heel. Now he is statistically the best. The drivers

:14:53. > :15:03.will have to get their revolutions and primary and secondary clash

:15:03. > :15:11.

:15:11. > :15:17.distance, Button, Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton. We saw on the yellow

:15:17. > :15:24.soft tyre, they had to do two or three laps to get them to come to

:15:24. > :15:30.them. This is quite a slow lap. RADIO: Temperatures are good.

:15:30. > :15:34.Possibly a few drops at turn 13. will be telling him that the engine

:15:34. > :15:44.temperature is good, but guess what they do not want to do, put too

:15:44. > :15:47.much heat into that engine. Drops of rain, because there is downwind.

:15:47. > :15:53.If all the teams will have someone out there with an umbrella and a

:15:53. > :16:03.radio feeding back information. -- all of the teams. Schumacher,

:16:03. > :16:03.

:16:03. > :16:12.putting heat into his tyres before he got onto the grid. That is a

:16:12. > :16:17.long-standing mechanic from the Ferrari team who has, sadly, died.

:16:17. > :16:23.They are understandably sad about that. The Drivers' Championship has

:16:23. > :16:28.been sealed, but there is still four races to be run, up seasons to

:16:28. > :16:35.be salvaged, reputations to be recovered. Can the next 55 laps put

:16:35. > :16:41.the smile back on Lewis Hamilton's face? We are about to find out, as

:16:41. > :16:48.soon as we get the HRT in line at the back of the field. We will see

:16:48. > :16:56.a man with a green flags somewhere in there. The Korean Grand Prix is

:16:56. > :17:01.now underway. Hamilton away very well. Button is alongside Sebastian

:17:01. > :17:10.Vettel already. Hamilton leads comfortably. No contact except at

:17:10. > :17:14.the back. Contact between a Sauber and a Torro Rosso. Hamilton with a

:17:14. > :17:22.Red Bull in his slipstream. Look at that, Sebastian Vettel pulls out

:17:22. > :17:30.because he has such a... Look at Felipe Massa! Up to third place.

:17:30. > :17:38.What a braking zone for him. Felipe Massa, brave as you like. Alonso

:17:38. > :17:44.was in there. So is Mark Webber. Sebastian Vettel leads the race.

:17:44. > :17:49.Mark Webber going around the outside of Felipe Massa. And Jenson

:17:49. > :17:55.Button getting shuffled down the field. We are on board with them,

:17:55. > :18:02.behind Fernando Alonso. A tremendous start for Hamilton, but

:18:02. > :18:06.somehow it Sebastian Vettel found the speed. Brave Stuffer. Those two

:18:06. > :18:10.teams were neck and tuck in terms of top speed. With the DRS closed,

:18:10. > :18:19.as it is at this moment, he was ideally positioned to get the

:18:19. > :18:23.slipstream. Bunching through the air, getting up a huge toll.

:18:23. > :18:27.wind speed is four metres per second. I am not sure what that

:18:27. > :18:34.means but it does mean that Sebastian Vettel, in the slipstream,

:18:34. > :18:37.could really take advantage. It is a tail wind down to turn four.

:18:37. > :18:47.would have expected Lewis Hamilton to take a left line to defend that

:18:47. > :19:00.

:19:00. > :19:08.position but he left more than a that contact. Kobayashi got himself

:19:08. > :19:12.up into 13. Sebastian Vettel easily pulling out a second on that first

:19:12. > :19:20.lap, including passing Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button, under

:19:20. > :19:24.pressure. He needs to brake the one second window to make sure that at

:19:24. > :19:33.the end of the second lap, Lewis Hamilton is not in the DRS zone.

:19:33. > :19:41.Yellow flag at turn four. Liuzzi leaving the pit lane. He has a new

:19:41. > :19:48.nose. Yellow flag at turn four. But it should have been yellow and red

:19:48. > :19:58.indicating fluid. Jenson Button, really struggling to hang on to the

:19:58. > :20:03.

:20:03. > :20:13.two Ferraris. Petrov is in 8th place. Mark to rest I is in 9th --

:20:13. > :20:23.Paul di Resta. The space between the first and 16th driver was 10

:20:23. > :20:25.

:20:25. > :20:31.seconds, so they are close together. There is a replay of the start.

:20:31. > :20:35.was nip and tuck off the line. We were expecting the dirty side of

:20:36. > :20:40.the grades to lose a car's length but no evidence of that. Clean

:20:40. > :20:50.staff as they find their way through. One of the Lotuses and one

:20:50. > :20:56.

:20:56. > :21:03.of the Virgin's running wide. -- not lose anything. Looking for the

:21:03. > :21:08.outside line. Squeeze a little bit, and then he is in a perfect

:21:08. > :21:12.position to get the slipstream. Rubens Barrichello, further down

:21:12. > :21:20.the grades, no evidence that the left side is dirty. There is no

:21:20. > :21:28.grip anywhere. -- down the grid. This is the concertina effect,

:21:28. > :21:38.using more Curbar than ideal. We will see a Ferrari appear down

:21:38. > :21:42.Jenson Button's inside. He goes down around the outside of the Red

:21:42. > :21:47.Bull and tries to go past the Ferrari, momentarily back into

:21:47. > :21:55.third place but he has got into deep. Why have we saw a of from

:21:56. > :21:59.Jenson, he was deploying KERS, enabling him to get in the

:21:59. > :22:07.slipstream and pull around the outside of the Ferrari. Who is that

:22:08. > :22:12.going around the outside? Rosberg. He followed Button's line. Pretty

:22:12. > :22:21.ambitious by Mark Webber. The DRS is now enabled. Hamilton is within

:22:21. > :22:28.1.2 seconds of Sebastian Vettel. Not quite in the DRS zone. He has a

:22:28. > :22:33.gap of one second. Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton and Webber were faster

:22:33. > :22:40.than the rest of the pack. Hamilton will not have his rear wing open.

:22:40. > :22:45.The detection zone is on the exit of the first corner. Fernando

:22:45. > :22:52.Alonso is on Felipe Massa. Rock Smedley said he did not have to

:22:52. > :22:58.yield in Suzuka last weekend. Kobayashi told you that PRS is

:22:58. > :23:03.quite late, and not in his opinion so effective, we have Alonso seven.

:23:03. > :23:09.Seconds behind Felipe Massa. Huge oversteer from them. That is not

:23:09. > :23:15.what you want to do in that these tyres. The minutes you like them up,

:23:15. > :23:25.the temperatures go through the roof. -- like to them up. You can

:23:25. > :23:32.

:23:32. > :23:42.wear out the tyres and you can overheat them. They will degrade.

:23:42. > :23:44.

:23:44. > :23:52.Lap four, Sebastian Vettel, two- tenths law. -- slower. RADIO: Light

:23:52. > :23:56.rain ahead. That is not what you need to here. The other thing, you

:23:56. > :24:04.end up being the reference point. Some hesitation as to whether to

:24:04. > :24:11.pull out in the DRS zone. It is almost as if he brakes as he pulled

:24:11. > :24:21.to the left. 1.1 now, the gap. If Lewis Hamilton is late on the

:24:21. > :24:22.

:24:22. > :24:29.brakes, he can get in the DRS zone here. In to turn three. One 10th of

:24:29. > :24:36.the second he needs now. Michael Schumacher, huge slipstream on the

:24:36. > :24:44.Force India. They should be fairly straightforward. I would have been

:24:44. > :24:49.pressing turning there. -- Bremmer Singh. I think he carried the speed

:24:49. > :24:53.differential into the ratings on. At this stage, if you have spots of

:24:53. > :24:57.rain, it is a difficult job to lead the race. Lewis Hamilton will be

:24:57. > :25:00.able to use Sebastiaan as an indicator of where to brake and

:25:00. > :25:05.inevitably, you start braking earlier to allow yourself a margin,

:25:05. > :25:09.should it be more damp than you expect. It does give you a big

:25:09. > :25:13.advantage because Michael Schumacher has just done the

:25:13. > :25:18.fastest first sector by three- quarters of the second. It is worth

:25:18. > :25:23.a lot. Why did you not tell Kobayashi? He is thinking it is not

:25:23. > :25:28.going to work. My job is to ask questions, not tell the driver is

:25:28. > :25:33.how it is going to be. I will try that, see how far I get! Michael

:25:33. > :25:43.Schumacher in 9th place. Passing Paul di Resta with that move. This

:25:43. > :25:47.

:25:47. > :25:50.is critical. Hamilton does not look any closer. Did you notice that

:25:50. > :25:55.Sebastian Vettel was on a wider line as he went through the last

:25:55. > :26:01.turn that Hamilton. Is that a sign that he is already having to open

:26:01. > :26:11.the steering and tried to reduce the rear where? A great battle

:26:11. > :26:13.

:26:13. > :26:16.going on behind. RADIO: Lots of on this year on the front tyres.

:26:16. > :26:25.that. Work through the graining period and the balance will come

:26:25. > :26:32.back. The front graining, when we had a briefing with Mark Williams,

:26:32. > :26:42.he said that the front right is the critical tyre. Very little running

:26:42. > :26:45.

:26:45. > :26:49.on this tyre -- very little running on at this circuit. The three

:26:49. > :26:53.fastest cars were the two Torro Rossos without DRS and Michael

:26:53. > :27:00.Schumacher. No surprise that the Torro Rossos are starting to make

:27:00. > :27:05.their way through. TED KRAVITZ: No panic despite both drivers losing

:27:05. > :27:08.places. They believe they have the pace to win the race. Lewis

:27:09. > :27:15.Hamilton's fastest lap will back that up. They believe that Jenson

:27:15. > :27:19.Button was caught out by some rain. They have done 12 laps on the

:27:19. > :27:23.super-soft. We expect that to be the end. They're going to hit the

:27:23. > :27:28.cliff soon, but no sign of him coming in awe of his lap times

:27:28. > :27:38.being poor. We are finding the tyres are lasting better than we

:27:38. > :27:40.

:27:40. > :27:45.initially were told. The track temperature is 24 degrees. Michael

:27:46. > :27:54.Schumacher is catching Petrov. Quite a bit slower. Maybe he is

:27:54. > :28:00.getting in that zone as we head down to the braking point. Quite a

:28:00. > :28:10.crest there, from that camera angle. Looking at the Times on that last

:28:10. > :28:10.

:28:10. > :28:18.lap, we can see the effect of the understeer on Paul di Resta. He was

:28:18. > :28:24.on a 47.2 there. Most of the cars in front around 47.6 off 47.5.

:28:24. > :28:29.is a shame, the front tyre sliding off the surface. Then you have to

:28:29. > :28:38.wait and wait and wait until you can get on the throttle. It feels

:28:38. > :28:42.so frustrating. You want the car to get edgy at the back. We saw that

:28:42. > :28:49.beautifully in qualifying. He was all steering the car using his rear

:28:49. > :28:54.axle. -- he was almost stealing the car. Paul di Resta, last man in the

:28:54. > :28:58.points at the moment. Sebastian Vettel leads Hamilton by 1.6. I

:28:58. > :29:01.heard that the McLaren was hurting its tyres as much as anything

:29:01. > :29:05.yesterday. I found that difficult to believe but I did here that

:29:05. > :29:08.Lewis had taken quite a lot out of his tyres to make that pole

:29:08. > :29:17.position lap yesterday. I am wondering if we are beginning to

:29:17. > :29:27.see that today. The gap is now at two seconds. He lost another if

:29:27. > :29:37.

:29:37. > :29:41.personal best of 45.4, that is the sector, the second best. The last

:29:41. > :29:51.thing you want to do is pick up for another slicks and then have the

:29:51. > :29:55.

:29:55. > :29:57.going again for a set of wets. He will be watching the radars, and

:29:57. > :30:04.there are where the people at the back, where information will be

:30:04. > :30:10.critical. There is rain in the paddock,, rain in the sky, spot of

:30:10. > :30:20.rain on the camera lens. You are looking at the fight for third,

:30:20. > :30:21.

:30:21. > :30:30.fourth and fifth. Webber, along said... -- Fernando Alonso it...

:30:30. > :30:40.Michael Schumacher is just beginning to close in. Up-and-down

:30:40. > :30:44.

:30:44. > :30:50.in the midfield. But first -- between first and 23rd, 43 seconds.

:30:50. > :30:59.What I don't understand what this DRS, we saw Michael Schumacher get

:30:59. > :31:02.a huge advantage in the First Sec day using it, we have Felipe Massa

:31:02. > :31:10.here, already starting to struggle with the rear tyres, they are in

:31:10. > :31:20.the DRS zone, they have KERS, but Fernando Alonso has not been able

:31:20. > :31:21.

:31:21. > :31:31.to have a go at his team-mate. Is he relying purely on DRS?! TEAM

:31:31. > :31:38.

:31:38. > :31:45.RADIO: We believe everything is all Webber so he gets his open first --

:31:45. > :31:51.is in. Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Rosberg have all done

:31:51. > :32:01.their personal best in the first sector as they get ready to get rid

:32:01. > :32:06.of some fuel. Ted Kravitz has so news. I think we are approaching

:32:06. > :32:12.some pit stops. On Ferrari, we will have to wait and see whether we get

:32:12. > :32:19.any on board graphics for the KERS, because the Ferrari have had

:32:19. > :32:27.problems with their drive shaft all weekend. Kobayashi and Perez have

:32:27. > :32:33.also had to change theirs in parc ferme. It is pretty frantic around

:32:33. > :32:43.the second half of this lap. It is relentless action and speed. There

:32:43. > :32:46.

:32:46. > :32:53.is a front wing hanging off one of the Virgin Racing cars. And how HRT

:32:53. > :32:58.issue as well. Have we got anyone in the pits? It might be raining

:32:58. > :33:04.but they ongoing ever faster. Webber is now 6.5 seconds off the

:33:05. > :33:08.lead in third. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are 0.9 behind him.

:33:08. > :33:13.Jenson Button is half a second quicker than the previous lap,

:33:13. > :33:18.cruising into the zone. He will get the advantage of the rear wing as

:33:19. > :33:25.well. Very late on the brakes for soppy kind of got beaten up in the

:33:25. > :33:28.first lap or two, but he is beginning to recover that -- very

:33:28. > :33:38.late on the brake. Jenson Button ever closer to the back of that

:33:38. > :33:48.Ferrari. Metal's lead up to -- Vettel's lead has gone up. But

:33:48. > :33:49.

:33:49. > :33:56.there is a long way to go. Let's just enjoy this. TEAM RADIO: This

:33:56. > :34:00.pace is very strong combat --, we can help the cars in front. What

:34:00. > :34:06.makes him so sure about that? think Jenson Button will have been

:34:06. > :34:09.saying it, yes we can. He is right in the Dirty air, he will be losing

:34:09. > :34:14.performance riding in that turbulence coming off each of the

:34:14. > :34:18.cars in front of him. He will have a good picture in his mind about

:34:18. > :34:22.how well he is managing these tyres. We are getting into what we

:34:22. > :34:27.suspected would be the pit stop zone but there is no sign of

:34:27. > :34:33.anybody in the pit lane. The race leader passes the commentary box.

:34:33. > :34:38.Lewis Hamilton still chasing. behind, losing half a second a lap.

:34:38. > :34:43.Webber is still doing well but can't match Hamilton's pace and was

:34:43. > :34:46.Rosberg slowing it? I think he was hanging in there quite well, 2.1

:34:46. > :34:53.seconds behind Jenson Button, so I think this middle group, for

:34:53. > :34:58.whatever reason, they are holding themselves up. What about Petrov?

:34:58. > :35:05.45.4, that is a quick lap and we thought his tyres would be gone

:35:05. > :35:15.first. Using about the same amount of KERS energy doubt that straight.

:35:15. > :35:15.

:35:15. > :35:25.Jenson Button all over the back of Fernando Alonso. Well he had a look

:35:25. > :35:25.

:35:25. > :35:30.at the insight into turn four? -- inside. Looks like a front wing

:35:30. > :35:33.losing scenario there and Jenson Button thought better of it. It he

:35:33. > :35:38.knows he is getting into the sequence of chords and S Curves, so

:35:38. > :35:45.he is just applying some pressure to Fernando Alonso, taking him out

:35:45. > :35:49.of his comfort zone and trying to force a mistake. The camera has to

:35:49. > :35:54.keep cleaning itself as Fernando Alonso spits of dust and fluid at

:35:54. > :35:59.us as we were watching on board. You have to say, the McLaren of

:35:59. > :36:02.Jenson Button looks significantly better in terms of the grip he has

:36:02. > :36:08.got and his speed through the apex. You have to think he will be passed

:36:08. > :36:17.these two. Rosberg a game, half a second quicker in that middle

:36:17. > :36:23.sector than the cars in front -- a gain. New fastest lap from Vettel.

:36:23. > :36:30.We watch Sergio Perez passing a Bruno Senna, that was for 15th

:36:30. > :36:38.place, down in turn three. The gap is up to 3.4 seconds. It is pretty

:36:38. > :36:45.relentlessly half a second a lap. Here is the main fight. This could

:36:45. > :36:52.be a four-way battle any time soon. Paul di Resta pits full Force India.

:36:52. > :36:58.Out of what was 13th place, sounds like he will be happy to park those

:36:58. > :37:03.tyres, are Dargo a set of super- soft. Just in time -- and on go.

:37:03. > :37:09.That is the one you set up super- soft that Paul di Resta had. Look

:37:09. > :37:15.at this battle. I wonder when Felipe Massa will be getting the

:37:15. > :37:20.call? There is no sign of it. You have got to imagine that Fernando

:37:20. > :37:28.Alonso could run faster in clean air back. You have to say that

:37:28. > :37:32.Jenson Button and the McLaren Welby significantly faster. -- will be.

:37:32. > :37:36.He is using hundreds of pounds of downforce, right up behind the

:37:36. > :37:45.gearbox of that Ferrari fill start it feels like a time when you turn

:37:45. > :37:54.the corner. -- of that Ferrari. The I have told to a million times, do

:37:54. > :38:00.not exaggerate. Vettel faster than Hamilton by four-tenths of a second.

:38:00. > :38:07.This is a better fight to be watching. Sergio Perez and Bruno

:38:07. > :38:16.Senna or, doing a good job to avoid Perez. Charlie Whiting had put a

:38:16. > :38:21.note, saying if you go outside back public you will not trigger the DRS.

:38:21. > :38:28.-- If you go outside of that. RADIO: Just concentrate on keeping

:38:28. > :38:35.it clean. That is one of the things they can adjust, quick a jester's,

:38:35. > :38:39.with a little drill, with a pre-set amount of tans -- adjust their.

:38:39. > :38:43.Nico Rosberg has taken a full advantage of Felipe Massa, this has

:38:43. > :38:47.got to be one of his strongest races. Fernando Alonso is in

:38:47. > :38:53.position there on the outside. There is no question that Felipe

:38:53. > :38:58.Massa is defending that position. None at all. Felipe Massa, as soon

:38:58. > :39:01.as your front tyres go and you start to understeer, you lean so

:39:01. > :39:06.heavily on the mechanical grip of your front tyre, especially in the

:39:06. > :39:16.final part of the braking zone. We keep over the top of Felipe Massa's

:39:16. > :39:18.

:39:18. > :39:22.rear wing. What a shape by Alonso. He must be on the radio. The race

:39:22. > :39:29.director plays in the radio of footage from Fernando Alonso car, I

:39:29. > :39:36.can't imagine he is silent. That is the four-way battle that remains a

:39:36. > :39:40.fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. They drop Petrov by five seconds.

:39:40. > :39:50.Alguersuari is coming in their nice little stop the we have got McLaren

:39:50. > :39:55.coming into the pit lane. TEAM RADIO: Overtake a best lap. That is

:39:55. > :40:01.why we think we can use the undercut. Jenson Button said last

:40:01. > :40:05.night, don't use the word undercut could identify what it means. It

:40:05. > :40:11.means you pit airy and use the fresh grip of the new tyres and you

:40:11. > :40:16.come out ahead. -- Early. But Nico Rosberg has got away before him.

:40:16. > :40:23.Side by side, you are allowed to do that. Rosberg can hit the Button

:40:23. > :40:29.and earlier and he well. He has made a mistake! Nico Rosberg, that

:40:29. > :40:34.won't go down well. You need to be seeing a picture of Ross Brawn at

:40:34. > :40:37.that point. The team got him out in front. But he has got the

:40:37. > :40:43.slipstream straight away and straight through he goes. Can he

:40:43. > :40:49.stop this time? He breaks nice and early. Where did he find that speed

:40:49. > :40:54.from? -- brakes. He has used KERS, presumably. And you pointed out

:40:54. > :40:58.Adia, the Mercedes was one of the fastest on the speed track during

:40:58. > :41:04.qualifying -- earlier. He has got to be careful not to flat spot of

:41:04. > :41:10.these tyres. Mercedes have got, I think, the best pit-stop record

:41:10. > :41:18.overall, I am told, of the teams. Jenson has gone on to the yellow

:41:18. > :41:24.mark... Surrey until the option tyre, the red mark super-soft --

:41:24. > :41:32.sorry, on to the option tyre. He will be spitting feathers that

:41:32. > :41:35.Rosberg got back in front of him. Mercedes get Rosberg back in front.

:41:35. > :41:42.He gets it wrong that the end of the pit lane and then redeems

:41:42. > :41:50.himself perfectly. He has come out into the DRS zone. He lost position

:41:50. > :41:57.but he has had a bit of KERS and DRS. There is Mark Webber.

:41:57. > :42:02.brand new set of primes. A Felipe Massa in there as well. Michael

:42:02. > :42:06.Schumacher in the pits as well. We have got to the end of lap 14 and

:42:06. > :42:11.Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg are still going at it during the first

:42:11. > :42:15.corner. Now Jenson Button get the help of the rear wing but it

:42:15. > :42:19.doesn't come into operation until the second half of the straight. He

:42:19. > :42:25.flips the rear wing Open and surely he has got a great chance? He will

:42:25. > :42:33.have to go at the long way around. Rosberg, the that the extra speed

:42:33. > :42:42.that gives. Battler cat. I think you are right, he had KERS and ers

:42:42. > :42:47.the previous time -- Look at that. He locks up. Jenson sneakily comes

:42:47. > :42:54.through on the inside than he thinks the job done, I'd be doing

:42:54. > :43:04.80 kilometres power. But Jenson I'd be having the choice to yield --

:43:04. > :43:13.

:43:13. > :43:19.only did 80 kilometres power hour. Of has Hamilton gone into the pit

:43:19. > :43:27.lane? He has gone in there now. pits from second place. Vettel

:43:27. > :43:36.carries on, that looks and a OK pit-stop for McLaren. The super-

:43:36. > :43:45.soft go on. It is a dirty pit lane. Not too bad at all. And finance so

:43:45. > :43:52.allotted -- Fernando Alonso has gone into the pits as well. The

:43:52. > :43:59.Ferrari team get their main man under way. He has gone for the more

:43:59. > :44:04.durable, slower softer tyres. About seven-tenths slower but they go

:44:04. > :44:09.twice as far. Adrian Sutil is under pressure from Jenson Button. Sutil

:44:09. > :44:12.is yet Tippett, but will sail down the outside with that we now hope

:44:12. > :44:16.that -- yet to go into the pits. That is one of the best things

:44:16. > :44:21.about DRS it, it allows the faster cars to make their way back through

:44:21. > :44:27.into position. TED KRAVITZ: That has worked nicely, despite being

:44:27. > :44:31.held up by Nico Rosberg, and for Jenson Button. He crossed the line

:44:31. > :44:38.cupboard does that count? He was OK with the line, it is a serrated

:44:38. > :44:42.line. The key point in the replay is that Michael Schumacher was able

:44:42. > :44:47.to nip through and nearly took the front wing of Fernando Alonso.

:44:47. > :44:52.did cross the solid white line. is dotted. Said that hasn't worked

:44:53. > :44:58.out well for Ferrari, and they are on a completely different strategy

:44:58. > :45:03.to McLaren, as are Red Bull. They are going with the harder tyre for

:45:03. > :45:10.Webber, although it is the super- soft. Vettel is copying of the

:45:10. > :45:20.McLaren's strategy. He has put on the Red Stripe tyres. Vettel is

:45:20. > :45:24.

:45:24. > :45:31.third corner and continued. -- spun out. Safety car is out. City car

:45:31. > :45:34.deployed, just as Mark Webber does a new fastest lap. Petrov is

:45:34. > :45:41.clearly leaving debris somewhere. There will be another car out

:45:41. > :45:50.somewhere. Part of that accident. He has hit Schumacher. Schumacher's

:45:50. > :46:00.rear wing is broken. RADIO: Michael ahead of you has damage, and Vitaly

:46:00. > :46:08.Petrov. Too much repairing. A rear wing is difficult. Webber has come

:46:08. > :46:13.out, and gone past the safety car. That is why Schumacher spun at turn

:46:13. > :46:21.three. Alonso, making his way around the outside. And Vettel be

:46:21. > :46:31.the end of Schumacher's race. -- that will be the end. Alonso, so

:46:31. > :46:34.

:46:34. > :46:39.close. Schumacher, completely innocent. The safety car eyes in.

:46:39. > :46:44.It is the lead driver's job to slow down and allow the safety car to

:46:44. > :46:49.clear out of the way. Please do not read me and say that I have

:46:49. > :46:56.forgotten to say that Sebastian Vettel should be getting a penalty.

:46:56. > :47:00.He is the de facto safety car. Everyone in the pit lane has been

:47:00. > :47:04.told that it is coming in this lap. You have to judge were you think

:47:04. > :47:14.you can let it go. In the middle of turn 15, Sebastian Vettel has

:47:14. > :47:21.decided that is the moment. Don't forget, the DRS will not be enabled

:47:21. > :47:31.until two laps after the safety car goes into the pits. It is all going

:47:31. > :47:36.

:47:36. > :47:44.on behind. Adrian Sutil, Maldonado out of position. 22 runners. Jenson

:47:44. > :47:48.Button looking at the back of Sebastian Webber. -- Mark Webber.

:47:48. > :47:57.It is a long drag run down to turn a four. This is a decent straight

:47:57. > :48:02.on a regular circuit. And it is the shorter of the two here. So close.

:48:02. > :48:09.Jenson Button lucky not to lose the edge of his front wing. Looking for

:48:09. > :48:16.managers from Mark Webber. -- manners. But Mark said firmly, I am

:48:16. > :48:26.coming back across. Not for the first time in this race, bump and

:48:26. > :48:30.

:48:30. > :48:36.grind going on from Jenson Button. This is an opportune moment to ask,

:48:36. > :48:44.instead of using a scalded cat, can you use the analogy of a coils

:48:44. > :48:50.bring? I do not like the idea of a cat being scalded. -- coiled spring.

:48:50. > :49:00.I don't care. Many drivers fighting over the same piece of tarmac.

:49:00. > :49:02.

:49:02. > :49:12.Those two trying to get it together. Car 12, Maldonado for Williams, has

:49:12. > :49:17.

:49:17. > :49:23.hit a bollard. Moving into lap 22. Crucially, Sebastian Vettel is 1.1

:49:23. > :49:33.ahead. Just gauging the DRS absolutely right. Nico Rosberg

:49:33. > :49:35.

:49:35. > :49:44.falling back behind Button. Alguersuari doing a great job. He

:49:44. > :49:49.has got himself from the 11th on the grid up into 7th at the moment.

:49:49. > :49:59.It is a drive-through for Court 12, for being on alongside -- on the

:49:59. > :50:06.

:50:06. > :50:10.wrong side of the bollard. Pastor Maldonado on 11th, knocking on the

:50:10. > :50:17.door of a World Championship points. But he will have to drive through.

:50:17. > :50:24.With the pack so close, more pain than normal. In the background,

:50:24. > :50:34.Rubens Barrichello, Kobayashi and Bruno Senna. Damage to the front

:50:34. > :50:36.

:50:36. > :50:44.wing. Clipped the back of the Renault. Rosberg, 5th. Alonso,

:50:44. > :50:53.going backwards, it is not often we see that. Also, putting up dust,

:50:53. > :50:58.but not for the first time. thought it was very interesting. An

:50:58. > :51:05.interesting conversation earlier in the programme, interviewing Alonso.

:51:05. > :51:12.I sensed some frustration. Michael Schumacher won so many titles at

:51:12. > :51:17.Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen also. But Alonso looks nowhere near to

:51:17. > :51:27.winning a title. The incident involving Schumacher or an Petrov

:51:27. > :51:28.

:51:28. > :51:37.will be investigated after the race. -- Sue Makah and Petrov. I have a

:51:38. > :51:47.feeling he will get a great penalty for that one. Michael Schumacher,

:51:48. > :51:48.

:51:48. > :51:52.avoiding an accident. Frustration coming out in Alonso. He has

:51:52. > :52:01.positioned himself as the happiest he has ever been, here for the

:52:01. > :52:11.long-term, but something in Coria has put him in a bit of a maid. --

:52:11. > :52:21.

:52:21. > :52:27.something in Korea has put him in a bit of a nude. -- mood. Webber is

:52:27. > :52:37.in the DRS zone, dropping down to 1.2. He leads Button by three

:52:37. > :52:46.

:52:46. > :52:50.seconds. Car 22, Ricciardo. He might be better doing this after

:52:50. > :52:57.the corner because Kobayashi will get the DRS and, surely, take it

:52:57. > :53:05.straight back. Bruno Senna should have followed him through. As of

:53:05. > :53:14.any time now, Kobayashi can open the rear wing. There we see him

:53:14. > :53:19.cruising past. I don't think he was thinking that through. Kovalainen

:53:19. > :53:28.is right behind him. You can see the damage to Kobayashi's front

:53:28. > :53:36.wing, affecting his aerodynamics. He takes the position back. Look at

:53:36. > :53:40.that damage where he clipped the back of Bruno Senna. The front wing

:53:40. > :53:46.is the most critical area. If the air is disturbed, it will affect

:53:46. > :53:54.the rest of the car. Look at a Lotus cars. As they did in Japan,

:53:54. > :54:04.going much better in the race than in qualifying. 1:46s, not near the

:54:04. > :54:05.

:54:05. > :54:13.leading pace. 5.5 seconds covers the top four. Hamilton matching

:54:13. > :54:18.Sebastian Vettel every way. RADIO: Front when change, the front wing

:54:18. > :54:23.is damaged, come in on this lap. think they are in a tyre stop

:54:23. > :54:31.window. Very early. I wonder if they might have hung on to that for

:54:31. > :54:36.a little while. You will have to go in, at the heart of one of the most

:54:36. > :54:43.challenging corners on the track. TED KRAVITZ: They say it is a case

:54:43. > :54:46.of warming up the tyres. They feel that after the safety car restart,

:54:46. > :54:51.the temperatures got low and so it has taken them a few laps to get up

:54:51. > :54:57.to speed. They acknowledge that they lost out on the pit lane.

:54:57. > :55:01.Felipe Massa had to wait for Schumacher. It was not a

:55:01. > :55:07.particularly confident place for Ferrari. I think they might hold

:55:07. > :55:14.off -- hold on to some hope. As you were saying, they were right on top

:55:14. > :55:21.of Rosberg. He has pulled out now, made a bit of a gap. Quite a lot

:55:21. > :55:31.jam for the Ferrari team. It is not like he is much slower, but you

:55:31. > :55:32.

:55:32. > :55:41.sense they are hunting him down. All three cars on the prime tyres.

:55:41. > :55:45.This must be one of Rosberg as best races so far. Rosberg's. He likes

:55:45. > :55:50.this racetrack, Nico Rosberg. Nice to see him going forward. Just like

:55:50. > :55:53.he used to in the old days. I know that he is only 26 years old but he

:55:53. > :55:57.always used to move forward in a race, but that has not been the

:55:57. > :56:07.case this year. At the moment, he is in 5th, having started from

:56:07. > :56:13.seven. The top four are one second a lap faster. We are onboard with

:56:13. > :56:23.the two-time World Champion. Even at that speed, he will be affected

:56:23. > :56:28.by a loss of downforce. But the gap, as he is running down... I wonder

:56:28. > :56:33.if Alonso is running more drag Ombaka. Even with DRS and KERS, he

:56:33. > :56:38.is not able to make much headway. This straight looks more like he is

:56:38. > :56:43.in the slipstream. A little bit of a wiggle on the braking. He is

:56:43. > :56:48.saying to Felipe Massa, can you see me? I am sure that Massa is well

:56:49. > :56:53.away -- well aware. He has been under pressure, with questions over

:56:53. > :57:03.his performance. You could see the satisfaction when he out of five

:57:03. > :57:03.

:57:03. > :57:09.Alonso. -- out qualified. He is probably agree with him suffer. He

:57:09. > :57:19.had too much throttle. Others worry coming up and the Torro Rosso. --

:57:19. > :57:21.

:57:21. > :57:28.Alan dish worry. Catching the fight, at a quarter a second -- quarter of

:57:28. > :57:33.a second a lap. Paul di Resta maintains 9th. Adrian Sutil in 10.

:57:33. > :57:39.Catching quickly. 1.1 seconds behind. Much closer than that. The

:57:39. > :57:49.Force India has must be close. Adrian Sutil has passed Paul di

:57:49. > :57:53.

:57:53. > :58:01.Resta. This is the fight over 5, 6, 7. Alguersuari in eight. Sebastien

:58:01. > :58:07.Buemi in 11. Interestingly, Mark Webber is on prime tyres, according

:58:07. > :58:11.to our information, and Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton... He is going

:58:11. > :58:21.to get double past year. He will be deploying his KERS, trying to

:58:21. > :58:25.

:58:25. > :58:34.recover from that lot up. -- lock- up. Two positions lost in 700

:58:34. > :58:41.metres. Costly. Hamilton is within the DRS zone and he is half a

:58:41. > :58:47.second quicker. He must be within half a second of the leader.

:58:47. > :58:55.Catching Sebastian Vettel very quickly. Here is a replay of that.

:58:55. > :59:00.Rosberg got a little bit of a left turn in, unloaded the front left.

:59:01. > :59:05.As he turned, their egos, you saw him turn left and then the left

:59:06. > :59:10.front locked. Guaranteed to happen if you are beyond the limit of the

:59:10. > :59:18.grip of your front tyres. Meanwhile, back at the front, Mark Webber

:59:18. > :59:22.behind Hamilton, 0.7 of a second behind Hamilton, who is 1.2 behind

:59:22. > :59:29.Sebastian Vettel. They have gone much further on the option than we

:59:29. > :59:33.expected. If the two guys in front, Vettel and Hamilton, have to stop,

:59:33. > :59:41.and Webber can keep up the pace, he might be the man that can win this

:59:41. > :59:44.race. Webber is looking very handy indeed. Those tyres, certainly, the

:59:44. > :59:50.evolution of the track, up the traction zones, the dirt and dust

:59:50. > :59:57.coming up, the Pirelli rubber goes down and Rosberg makes a 3.8 second

:59:57. > :00:01.pit stop, presumably with a flat spot on his front left tyre. The

:00:01. > :00:06.yellow mark soft tyres have gone on for Rosberg. He should be able to

:00:06. > :00:11.get to the end on those, so we will not stop again. We will see how

:00:11. > :00:21.that goes by you are right, two seconds covering the top three at

:00:21. > :00:24.

:00:24. > :00:28.the moment. Seven seconds covering Massa by 6.5 seconds. I think

:00:28. > :00:34.Rosberg will try and get to the end not matter set of tyres but that is

:00:34. > :00:39.a long way. He will be trying to make it last -- wombat sec. At the

:00:39. > :00:45.front, I would expect one more stop a piece of from these guys. It it

:00:45. > :00:50.is a question of whether this option tyre can take them far

:00:50. > :01:00.enough. Webber has caught them up, running faster on the tyre which

:01:00. > :01:01.

:01:01. > :01:07.should be slower. Webber had a scrappy middle sector there, so too

:01:07. > :01:17.0.1 covers the top three, and crucially, Hamilton won't get the

:01:17. > :01:21.

:01:21. > :01:28.advantage of the DRS -- 2.1. Webber well. Her -- will. It closes as he

:01:28. > :01:35.hit the brake pedal or releases the Button. Although all the other. --

:01:35. > :01:43.one or the other. Mark Webber has not run a -- a one a race against

:01:43. > :01:47.his team-mate this year. A him as to feeling pretty satisfied that

:01:47. > :01:52.the moment. You can see the yellow marks on his tyres, he can see what

:01:52. > :01:58.the driver has in front of him and it is working well, at and it is a

:01:58. > :02:01.very clear indication now that everybody who pits from here are

:02:01. > :02:04.then there must go on to those tyres. A TED KRAVITZ: At the

:02:04. > :02:10.McLaren will have to, because they haven't run the yellow stripe yet.

:02:10. > :02:15.It has not worked out for Jenson Button. He had to pass Mark Webber

:02:15. > :02:20.immediately after the safety car to make it work and he didn't. Now his

:02:20. > :02:25.super-soft tyres are getting on for 17, 18 laps old are not starting to

:02:25. > :02:35.fall off. So is every calculations going on. -- and are starting.

:02:35. > :02:38.

:02:38. > :02:48.Vettel has got -- not got this in the bag at all. He leads by 1.2

:02:48. > :02:52.seconds as they move into lap 30. Webber will get the DRS. Jenson

:02:52. > :03:02.Button is seven seconds adrift of the leader, 6.1 ahead of Felipe

:03:02. > :03:06.

:03:06. > :03:10.Massa, who appears to have the legs on his team-mate Alonso.

:03:10. > :03:14.Does confirming on the radio then a bad Felipe Massa is at four-tenths

:03:14. > :03:21.quicker than his team-mate -- just Kenneth Irving on the radio that a

:03:21. > :03:26.Felipe Massa. Vitaly Petrov ran into the back of Michael Schumacher

:03:26. > :03:31.and Lee McKenzie is with him. seen that to be minding your own

:03:31. > :03:36.business, heading into the corner. -- you seemed to be. Tell us the

:03:36. > :03:43.first you knew? I was suddenly 180 degrees in the wrong direction and

:03:43. > :03:47.saw my wing heading down and another wing flying the by. But

:03:47. > :03:53.that is racing. It does happen occasionally. I haven't seen the

:03:53. > :03:58.circumstances, at as I was focusing forward, not paying much attention

:03:58. > :04:02.to the back, but the day you go. This is the third time you have had

:04:02. > :04:07.at coming together with Vitaly Petrov this season. We have had

:04:07. > :04:11.some great racing together, we are naturally together due to our

:04:11. > :04:18.positions and the pace of our cars, so having a couple of get-togethers,

:04:18. > :04:24.the first to where are my head and maybe this one was him -- that the

:04:24. > :04:30.first two were on my head. Vitaly Petrov, tell us what happened.

:04:30. > :04:36.had to defend our position from Fernando, I was in a position to

:04:36. > :04:41.break back, and I locked and I hit Michael. It was my fault. That is

:04:41. > :04:48.racing. A we are not realising how close the Mercedes was going to

:04:48. > :04:52.get? Bath were you not realising. That we are not realising how close

:04:53. > :04:58.the Mercedes was going to get? was just focusing on my position

:04:58. > :05:08.and I tried to break almost the same and I was on the dirty side,

:05:08. > :05:08.

:05:08. > :05:12.and even he missed the corner at brake. Italy Petrov confirming her

:05:12. > :05:16.-- Vitaly Petrov confirming that he didn't see the Mercedes. I didn't

:05:16. > :05:24.quite catch the radio correspondents there as we were

:05:24. > :05:31.listening to Petrov, but talking about his friend tyres, and --

:05:31. > :05:37.front tyres and he is starting to drop back. Webber a little bit

:05:37. > :05:42.slower and we are on board with Toro Rosso. This is over ninth and

:05:42. > :05:46.tenth. He uses the DRS and the car that have the fastest line speed

:05:46. > :05:51.anyway, Paul di Resta slightly bumpy on the inside, realising

:05:51. > :05:58.there is no point in trying to resist. That was an easy pass and

:05:58. > :06:03.we have got another retirement in the Williams garage. Maldonado has

:06:03. > :06:13.pitted from what was 21st place. He has already had a drive through

:06:13. > :06:19.today. And look at this. Webber just 0.4 on a second behind Lewis

:06:19. > :06:27.Hamilton, with the DRS available and the slipstream. Will it do him

:06:27. > :06:35.any good? The white line is where he can open it. TEAM RADIO: Try to

:06:35. > :06:45.go forward on the bias, You are damaging your rears. That will be

:06:45. > :06:45.

:06:45. > :06:51.the rear tyres, rather than the rear brakes. It is something that

:06:51. > :06:56.can happen a lot with the KERS. You have last -- less under rotation

:06:56. > :07:01.with the rear axle so you will move your brake balance. You will be

:07:01. > :07:05.constantly adjusting that during the race depending on how much

:07:05. > :07:10.recharging of the KERS they have to do in each of the braking zones.

:07:10. > :07:17.Maldonado, straight out of the car. This is the intriguing battle.

:07:17. > :07:20.Sebastian Vettel is opening up the gap. If Mark Webber cannot get by

:07:20. > :07:24.Lewis Hamilton, then maybe he has to do the early stop, get a new set

:07:24. > :07:31.of primes on and get some clear track to gain position and beat

:07:31. > :07:34.Lewis that way. He was looking like he was in a position to jump back

:07:34. > :07:43.row Larisa for a while, but this is playing into Sebastian Vettel's

:07:43. > :07:53.hands. The UN safe release of brickyard their's car or will be

:07:53. > :08:05.

:08:05. > :08:08.investigated after the race. -- transmission was about the brakes.

:08:08. > :08:13.The McLaren are not thinking about winning the race, which they were

:08:13. > :08:17.earlier, which is slightly unfortunate for them. It is indeed.

:08:17. > :08:21.Webber get ever-closer with his rear wing Open, getting better

:08:21. > :08:27.purchase out of turn three. Hamilton has the stay left-hander

:08:27. > :08:33.making go the the Rock -- long way around. Webber tries to go around

:08:33. > :08:38.the outside. Hamilton tries to close him laugh off. Will Webber

:08:38. > :08:42.run out of road? -- close him off of. Hamilton is very much under

:08:42. > :08:51.pressure and Vettel is long gone. All of this is playing into

:08:51. > :08:57.battle's hands. -- Vettel's hands. Webber knows if he cannot pass

:08:57. > :09:03.Hamilton, he has to pit. There is a long way to go on a set of primes.

:09:03. > :09:09.A bit of a grumpy message coming out of McLaren. That is for sure. I

:09:09. > :09:15.was very much hoping we would see a happy Lewis Hamilton. TEAM RADIO:

:09:15. > :09:20.Boxx this lap, please, confirm. Maybe. So the mechanics are getting

:09:20. > :09:25.ready. That is good information for Red Bull as way -- as well. It is

:09:25. > :09:32.now a question of what Mark Webber can do with clear air. Red Bull are

:09:32. > :09:37.in the pits as well, so Webber is coming in. 22 laps after this one.

:09:37. > :09:42.12 Mark Webber be thinking, that is not what I need. -- wind. I needed

:09:42. > :09:45.another couple of laps of clear air. Exactly, or they should have

:09:46. > :09:49.brought in in a couple of laps earlier, because they will both be

:09:49. > :09:58.out on like-for-like, and he hasn't been able to pass him on the last

:09:58. > :10:03.set. He will have the DRS as he does. He has got to use it. I think

:10:04. > :10:09.he gutted. A that gap enough? They were neck and neck in terms of

:10:09. > :10:14.straight-line speed in qualifying. Open goes the rear wing as you

:10:15. > :10:23.predicted. I think he would have come into the pits thinking oh no,

:10:23. > :10:27.why did I pit? I am amazed they didn't... Maybe his tyres work

:10:27. > :10:32.giving way, they were worried about the undercut of Hamilton on new

:10:32. > :10:42.tyres. That would give you a sizable advantage on the out-lap.

:10:42. > :10:43.

:10:43. > :10:49.Hamilton has gone wide. Webber is down the inside. Drag race now. It

:10:49. > :10:53.is a very fast section indeed. A sweeping right-hander. Not quite

:10:53. > :10:58.room for two. It is as a left- hander and Hamilton has the right

:10:58. > :11:03.place of the racetrack. Hamilton strikes right back at Webber. But

:11:03. > :11:09.still having to be defensive. Webber getting tremendous

:11:09. > :11:13.attraction on this corner. No DRS on this part of the track. It is a

:11:13. > :11:17.long left hander and again, Hamilton has got track position.

:11:18. > :11:24.Webber cannot drive clean through. Vettel pits from the lead as they

:11:24. > :11:31.squabble over second place. Jenson Button is in the pit as well.

:11:31. > :11:37.Alonso goes through and doesn't pit. Felipe Massa has pitted for Ferrari.

:11:37. > :11:41.Berest Vettel coming out. That is a Toro Rosso in the background. --

:11:41. > :11:46.There is. Where is Jenson Button going to be? He is just behind him.

:11:46. > :11:52.Now we will see some fun. Webber will get the DRS at this time

:11:52. > :11:57.around. Jenson Button's tyres have done one-lap less, as well Felipe

:11:57. > :12:06.Massa's. Alguersuari does his personal rest of the base --

:12:07. > :12:16.personal best of the race. That was great stuff true that middle sector.

:12:17. > :12:18.

:12:18. > :12:23.-- through. Wheel-to-wheel stuff. Lewis Hamilton fighting for all his

:12:23. > :12:27.work to keep Mark Webber behind him. You have to say, he placed his car

:12:27. > :12:32.beautifully. In that initial lock- up, he was under pressure and he

:12:32. > :12:38.just kept the car where he needed to. Super clean, super respectful

:12:38. > :12:42.yet aggressive. Nice driving by both of them. Interestingly, they

:12:42. > :12:52.are sharing a plane leaving this place tonight so I wonder if it

:12:52. > :12:53.

:12:53. > :12:58.crossed their minds?! I doubt it. Jenson Button behind this fight.

:12:58. > :13:06.Felipe Massa has a face full of Formula One car, as he seemed to

:13:06. > :13:14.have had all afternoon. Adrian Sutil is in there as well. He is

:13:14. > :13:19.yet to make his second stop, so that is what he is doing there.

:13:19. > :13:29.Alonso does a new fastest lap of the race having not stopped. That

:13:29. > :13:29.

:13:29. > :13:39.is just pipped their by Mark Webber. 41.8 from alarm so in clear air. --

:13:39. > :13:41.

:13:41. > :13:45.from Alonso. He is 22.4 ahead of Felipe Massa. He is not quite a pit

:13:46. > :13:50.stop ahead of his Ferrari team-mate. That is the gap between second that

:13:50. > :13:56.there. The strategy going on in the cars, the Lewis Hamilton will be

:13:56. > :14:03.losing a bit of his KERS of from turn two to keep that gap. Webber

:14:03. > :14:10.is probably relying more on the DRS, hoping he can catch Hamilton

:14:10. > :14:15.between three and four. The KERS has become as much of a defensive

:14:15. > :14:21.to all of this year as an attacking tour. A bit of breathing space

:14:21. > :14:31.there now. -- attacking tool. Fernando header front. Of 4.1

:14:31. > :14:34.

:14:34. > :14:44.seconds ahead of Vettel. -- Alonso out front. He had so much speak to

:14:44. > :14:51.

:14:51. > :14:56.spare perked up behind his team- race by Alonso, he is absolutely

:14:56. > :15:04.flying. He has to get 25 seconds ahead of his team-mate. Vettel, a

:15:04. > :15:09.new fastest lap, 1: 40.9, closes the gap. Alonso doesn't care, he is

:15:09. > :15:17.not going to beat Vettel today, he needs to get ahead of Felipe Massa.

:15:17. > :15:23.The gap is 22.4 seconds there. 23.5 as Felipe Massa or crosses the line.

:15:23. > :15:33.That is enough to jump him. This is incredible driving from Alonso. His

:15:33. > :15:36.

:15:36. > :15:42.times at the end of the race, and saying, why am I fighting with my

:15:42. > :15:52.team-mate? He is striving for all he's worth just to get ahead. But

:15:52. > :15:55.

:15:55. > :16:05.in his 15 seconds off the lead. -- looking at the Os lap times. But in

:16:05. > :16:07.

:16:07. > :16:16.his closing the gap. -- Button. Significant debris on the side of

:16:16. > :16:26.the track, tyre marbles. One goes hand-in-hand with the other.

:16:26. > :16:27.

:16:27. > :16:37.Sebastian Vettel, 10 seconds ahead of Hamilton. Fernando Alonso gets

:16:37. > :16:43.

:16:43. > :16:51.ready to put. -- ready to pit. Bird's-eye view of a perfect pit-

:16:51. > :16:55.stop. And the way he goes. Man- sized coming out of the last corner.

:16:55. > :17:03.-- Felipe Massa. Sweeping around in front of Felipe Massa. Job done for

:17:03. > :17:10.Alonso. An awful lot of work to beat your team-mates. Webber, DRS

:17:10. > :17:16.wide open. Not getting the advantage. They said that they were

:17:16. > :17:24.running into the limiter a little bit in qualifying. They'll be have

:17:24. > :17:28.DRS on that one straight. Losing about 1000 rpm. That is just off

:17:28. > :17:33.the engines. It is a compromise. We saw Lewis Hamilton in Monza was

:17:33. > :17:43.buzzing into the limiter. Are we seeing the same thing here for Mark

:17:43. > :17:49.

:17:49. > :17:56.Webber? We are on lap 38. Vettel leaves Hamilton by 9.9 seconds.

:17:56. > :18:06.Webber is in third, Button 1.9 behind. Alguersuari has pitted so

:18:06. > :18:11.

:18:11. > :18:19.Felipe Massa moves up. Can Alonso haul himself up? RADIO: You have

:18:19. > :18:25.got everything we have got. There is not much they can do now. They

:18:25. > :18:33.have done two stops. They have to hope to get to the end now. They

:18:33. > :18:41.cannot change now. Ted Kravitz a couple of things. I am in the Red

:18:41. > :18:46.Bull garage and they said there were not any strange radio messages.

:18:46. > :18:49.I think Mark is naturally harder on his tyres than Sebastien and Red

:18:49. > :18:54.Bull thought they could race McLaren out of the pits, but

:18:54. > :18:59.McLaren did as good a job. Looking at the order, I am not sure that

:18:59. > :19:03.Kovalainen in Twelfth is not trying a one-stop strategy. He has used

:19:03. > :19:10.all the tyres that he needs to use. 12th place would be decent for

:19:10. > :19:20.Lotus. Except he has just pitted, just to blow that theory out of the

:19:20. > :19:29.

:19:29. > :19:35.window! Jenson Button edging towards Mark Webber. RADIO: Jenson,

:19:35. > :19:40.Fewlass good. Keep that up. We're catching the cars in front. -- fuel

:19:40. > :19:47.is good. Very little information from pre- practice, how much fuel

:19:47. > :19:53.do you put on the car's? -- on the cars. We saw that in Suzuka last

:19:53. > :20:00.week. Jenson Button parked the car after the chequered flag. The teams

:20:00. > :20:07.are required to give at least 0.7 kilograms of fuel for her the FIA

:20:07. > :20:15.to do an analysis test. So they tried to on their fuel the car has,

:20:15. > :20:25.as we know, and you have to weigh that up. -- so they tried to under

:20:25. > :20:28.fuel for cars. Alonso does a new fastest lap. Sebastian Vettel's

:20:28. > :20:37.lead was 3.8 seconds, and with all the squabbling that this two had

:20:37. > :20:47.been doing, he now leads by 10.5%. They have given him all the comfort

:20:47. > :20:50.

:20:50. > :20:55.zone he needs to look after his tyres and check his fuel. He has

:20:55. > :21:01.not gone into cruise mode, having won his second world title. Quite

:21:01. > :21:06.the contrary. This is a bigger gap that we have seen of late. So the

:21:06. > :21:13.story is, how far can Alonso gets? Hamilton, Webber, Button, and you

:21:13. > :21:23.could see Alonso dragging Felipe Massa a long. RADIO: Try-saving all

:21:23. > :21:25.

:21:25. > :21:30.KERS for turn two to try and help you defend. Any minute now, you can

:21:30. > :21:40.sense that Mark Webber is going to head out of turn three. Jarno

:21:40. > :21:44.

:21:44. > :21:54.Trulli making his way, passing Timo Glock. Kovalainen, back out in 16th.

:21:54. > :21:54.

:21:54. > :21:59.Hamilton and Webber. Button, down to 1.6, definitely catching Webber.

:21:59. > :22:07.Alonso dozen other new fastest lap, 1:40.6. You will see him in the

:22:07. > :22:14.background any time soon. Areas. Interestingly, he did longer on

:22:14. > :22:21.that set of tyres. We know the Ferrari is easy on the tyres. He's

:22:21. > :22:28.definitely going to be on the back of Button pretty soon. We will see

:22:28. > :22:38.a four-way fight. Will he drank Felipe Massa along? -- will he

:22:38. > :22:43.

:22:43. > :22:48.drank. Alguersuari is catching Rosberg. Coming back and Rosberg,

:22:48. > :22:56.at a few tenths of a second a map - - a lap. Paul di Resta, he always

:22:56. > :22:59.stays in there, in the points. Points are not guaranteed a towel

:22:59. > :23:09.yet. But there is a good fight going on between Torro Rosso and

:23:09. > :23:21.

:23:21. > :23:26.newer than Rosberg's. He was 1.4 behind but this is the battle for

:23:26. > :23:36.the front. Run wide through their in your peril. You will be straight

:23:36. > :23:37.

:23:37. > :23:47.in the wall and those marbles. Another six tenths of a second out

:23:47. > :23:47.

:23:47. > :23:51.of them. He smells more points. You have to say, many fans do not like

:23:51. > :23:56.it when Felipe Massa gets shuffled out of the way like a second-class

:23:56. > :24:01.citizen, but it has cost Ferrari today because the pace he has had

:24:01. > :24:04.since he passed the sister car has been phenomenal. Unquestionably.

:24:05. > :24:13.After the second round of stops, he could have been a front of Button

:24:13. > :24:19.had he not lost the time behind his team-mate. The teams have to try to

:24:19. > :24:25.maximise their position. RADIO: Think about driving tactically to

:24:25. > :24:30.keep Alguersuari as far away as possible. How will he do that?

:24:30. > :24:36.has about 10 laps more on his tyres and Alguersuari. He will be nursing

:24:36. > :24:40.them to the end. The only option has is to turn up the engine mode

:24:40. > :24:45.on the run out of the last sector and use some KERS on the run

:24:45. > :24:49.through, and then use another big boost as he comes out of turn two.

:24:49. > :24:56.And then cross yourself and pray! Because he will have used up all

:24:56. > :25:02.his toys. Sitting duck is a phrase that springs to mind. The fastest

:25:02. > :25:07.guy in a straight line against the second fastest car. Nice analogy,

:25:07. > :25:17.sitting duck, I like that one. will use that again. The Torro

:25:17. > :25:17.

:25:17. > :25:26.Rosso Boys, they think their man is going to steal 7th place. Start to

:25:26. > :25:33.the 11th. -- started the 11th. Mark Webber, further behind than he has

:25:33. > :25:37.been. Just a thought, I wonder if Ferrari are letting their guys race

:25:37. > :25:42.freely because there is no championship at stake and no chance

:25:42. > :25:46.on the constructors? This might be about letting them race, rebuilding

:25:46. > :25:56.confidence in Felipe Massa. He qualified in front of Alonso

:25:56. > :25:58.

:25:58. > :26:02.yesterday, which was on merit,... And for the 4th time in two races.

:26:02. > :26:09.Talking of the constructors title, right now, Red Bull would be

:26:09. > :26:13.securing that. They will be out scoring McLaren and they will be

:26:13. > :26:21.taking their second title in two and second at weekends if the race

:26:21. > :26:29.stays like this. -- two consecutive weekends. Will he be happy with

:26:29. > :26:34.this performance? He is managing his tyres well. He is in the mood -

:26:35. > :26:39.- in good communication with his team. The questionnaires, how will

:26:39. > :26:42.they manage this last sector? I am sure he is confident and his

:26:42. > :26:49.confidence is growing, the fact that Mark Webber has not challenged

:26:49. > :26:56.him on the run down to turn three. Look, they're both running over the

:26:56. > :27:01.debris on the run down to the turn. That will not help their cars. Mark

:27:01. > :27:09.Webber has been slow off the stern. Much better traction as they leave

:27:09. > :27:16.turn two. Look at Hamilton, he has used up all his care as an that has

:27:16. > :27:26.given in the buffer. -- KERS. All it does is bring him back to the

:27:26. > :27:27.

:27:27. > :27:35.same position at that he was in at. -- the same position that he was in.

:27:35. > :27:42.So prising Lee, Button is not closing up more. His Jenson just

:27:42. > :27:52.controlling his temperatures and the flow and letting this unfold? -

:27:52. > :28:02.- surprisingly. RADIO: Jenson, these tyres are goods to the end of

:28:02. > :28:04.

:28:04. > :28:11.the race. -- are good. As Webber and Hamilton start to fight, it is

:28:11. > :28:15.clear that Button is closer. KRAVITZ: I had been asking McLaren

:28:15. > :28:20.while Lewis is so close. -- so slow. Their response is not that he is

:28:20. > :28:24.slow, but just that this is the pace. His chronic understeer is a

:28:24. > :28:27.result of the lack of running on Friday. They would have discovered

:28:27. > :28:31.this if they had done the homework they should have done on Friday.

:28:31. > :28:36.But because it was wet, they did not manage to do it. They would

:28:36. > :28:40.have discovered that McLaren would have ended up with on the steering

:28:40. > :28:45.on their tyres. It is not getting any better. It is just a matter of

:28:45. > :28:50.containment. Jenson Button is easier on his tyres, and seems not

:28:51. > :28:55.to be suffering the understeer. Maybe he can take advantage.

:28:56. > :29:04.young racing drivers watching this, this is how Fernando Alonso drives

:29:04. > :29:14.a Formula One race that makes the difference. His last five laps,

:29:14. > :29:18.1:40.6, 1:40.6, 1:40.6. Relentless consistency, and that is now

:29:18. > :29:24.beginning to bring him into play. Three seconds away from the pack,

:29:24. > :29:34.from the back of Jenson Button. I think he will apply pressure when

:29:34. > :29:42.

:29:42. > :29:46.he arrives. He is not the happiest Ferrari has a better top speed.

:29:46. > :29:53.There will be a bit of Spanish aggression waiting to be unleashed

:29:53. > :29:58.and Jenson Button is his first target. Still doing a personal best

:29:58. > :30:06.in the middle part of the lap. Clearly, his tyres are extremely

:30:06. > :30:11.good. Webber in -- is ever closer to Lewis Hamilton. This is the

:30:11. > :30:21.corner where Hamilton got a bit of oversteer but save it. Opens it up

:30:21. > :30:31.this time by the looks of it. Webber just 0.3 behind. Finally,

:30:31. > :30:32.

:30:32. > :30:42.they are a bit quicker than Fernando Bob Crow. -- Alonso.

:30:42. > :30:46.

:30:46. > :30:53.Vettel, the fastest man on the track, out front. Lap 46 of 55.

:30:53. > :31:01.Apparently, the fastest lap of the race so far, Fernando Alonso, he

:31:01. > :31:06.has just responded with their -- another, finding himself a couple

:31:06. > :31:11.of tenths or stop I happen to know that Vettel happened to call in and

:31:11. > :31:15.wanted to go for fastest lap last weekend when he wanted to win the

:31:15. > :31:21.championship and they went, forget it, just go to the end of the race.

:31:21. > :31:26.Let's take this championship, died make a mistake. -- don't. But

:31:26. > :31:30.Fernando Alonso has punished those tyres and little too hard. He has

:31:30. > :31:34.dropped another three tent city Jenson Button in that first sector.

:31:34. > :31:40.It bears looks as though those super consistent and super-fast

:31:40. > :31:46.eighth laps may have sacked -- taking it out of the tyres. TEAM

:31:46. > :31:54.RADIO: There are some quick times behind Hamilton, you might need

:31:54. > :31:58.does tyres. That is their Head Master. You are leading the race,

:31:58. > :32:02.you have a big lead. As stop enjoying yourself. Webber is

:32:02. > :32:08.looking down the inside, that is just trying to put Hamilton off a.

:32:08. > :32:12.Closer than he has been through a two. Hamilton has much better

:32:12. > :32:18.traction and he is having to defend really added. There goes the rear

:32:18. > :32:23.wing of Webber. That really early. He is going to go down the outside

:32:23. > :32:30.and he will cut back underneath and should be armed the throttle first.

:32:30. > :32:34.But a lot of wheelspin from Webber. The McLaren has better traction.

:32:34. > :32:38.That is helping Lewis Hamilton where it really counts. Fantastic

:32:38. > :32:43.from Webber, trying to set Hamilton up but you need to get up earlier

:32:43. > :32:48.in the morning to get Lewis to fall for that one. This will allow

:32:48. > :32:55.Jenson Button to close that gap. It was 1.4 on the last lap.

:32:55. > :33:01.Significantly less this lap. CERN has run a 40.8, so -- Jenson

:33:01. > :33:05.Button. Six seconds covers the top five. They are so close this year,

:33:06. > :33:11.it is great. Not too many changes for next year, either. We should

:33:11. > :33:15.see plenty of evolution and consistency. They are lowering the

:33:15. > :33:22.nose of the car for safety and stopping them put in the exhaust

:33:22. > :33:31.underneath. The cars should be even more equal next year in theory.

:33:31. > :33:39.Hamilton sweeping left, left again, at tents 17, Webber was very wide,

:33:39. > :33:46.he goes straight on to the back of Hamilton -- turn 17. It is so dirty

:33:46. > :33:50.on the inside of the track. I think it would be unwise to go up the

:33:50. > :33:56.inside of turn one. The problem Webber has his Jenson Button is

:33:56. > :34:00.right behind him. If he wasn't there, it would be worth a

:34:00. > :34:09.speculative attempt, but if he messes up, a third place rapidly

:34:09. > :34:17.becomes fourth. Alguersuari can't make any inroads. He keeps doing

:34:18. > :34:24.wonderful first sectors but he can't do anything about Rosberg.

:34:24. > :34:30.That makes the Toro Rosso cars eight and 10. Sebastian Buemi is

:34:30. > :34:38.catching Paul di Resta as well. Paul di Resta still with the chance

:34:38. > :34:45.of a championship of point or two. -- Check the injured point. Here

:34:45. > :34:55.comes a man on the march, Fernando Alonso. Just 2.4 behind Jenson

:34:55. > :34:58.

:34:58. > :35:03.Button. Well, Fernando Alonso, 40.6, the last lap. Only one-tenth away

:35:03. > :35:07.from his fastest, the current fastest lap of the race. That was

:35:07. > :35:12.seven-tenths quicker than Jenson Button's last lap. He is coming

:35:12. > :35:17.into play. Jenson Button has got to get up there with Webber and make a

:35:17. > :35:23.move or he will be attacked by Ferrari. And Webber is closer than

:35:23. > :35:30.he has been. He goes for wreck. He is going to keep it tidy. -- he

:35:31. > :35:35.goes for it. Back row Lewis will have the DRS. -- Lewis. Wrong-

:35:35. > :35:40.footed by the Lotus, but he opened the DRS now and it goes straight

:35:40. > :35:47.past. He was already on his way past with better speed and with the

:35:47. > :35:53.KERS employed. Jenson Button right on the back of that fight. Hamilton

:35:53. > :36:00.are keeping his head and reclaiming bad place, and indeed, look at

:36:01. > :36:06.Jenson Button for the right in there. -- right in there. That is

:36:06. > :36:10.the Lotus getting out of the way. Hamilton slightly wrong footed

:36:10. > :36:15.through turn a 17 and 18 and that gave Webber a chance. It is

:36:15. > :36:20.interesting to see whether relative pace of these cars is. You have a

:36:20. > :36:23.McLaren looking mighty on traction and for whatever reason, there is

:36:23. > :36:33.Hamilton got back in that last sector with a lot of sweeping

:36:33. > :36:33.

:36:33. > :36:42.corners, he loses a lot of pace. Webber goes for it commanded the

:36:42. > :36:50.end, Lewis Hamilton, I wonder if he just says, take it this time.

:36:50. > :36:54.imagine Lewis felt he wouldn't stop. They got so excited. I am loving

:36:54. > :36:59.this. Let me see some more racing and overtaking. We might just give

:36:59. > :37:06.you more of that yet. And Webber is right back on Hamilton and they

:37:06. > :37:10.have cropped Jenson Button. What happened there? Webber has done the

:37:10. > :37:14.fastest sector of the entire Grand Prix. They have dropped Jenson

:37:15. > :37:23.Button. We are back to square one, except Fernando Alonso gets ever

:37:23. > :37:30.closer. Six laps to go, including this one. In the very far distance,

:37:30. > :37:36.Felipe Massa, in sixth place, 6.7 seconds behind his team leader.

:37:36. > :37:42.Alguersuari can only get within a second of Rosberg. Paul di Resta,

:37:42. > :37:52.13 seconds adrift in night. TEAM RADIO: Six laps to go, blue Button,

:37:52. > :37:54.

:37:54. > :38:04.please. Blue Button, not a Jenson Button. This is Paul di Resta at

:38:04. > :38:11.getting past Sebastian Buemi. Down to tenth. He will have to drive

:38:11. > :38:18.like crazy if he wants to take the last point. Toro Rosso up into

:38:18. > :38:26.eighth and ninth back row. -- ninth. You have to say, they have greater

:38:26. > :38:31.pace here. He has just done the fastest first sector. Barrichello

:38:31. > :38:36.in the Williams going past his country man. Then into the braking

:38:36. > :38:45.zone at turn three. A very polite from the Brazilians. Cut back. Cut

:38:45. > :38:52.back. Undercut is where they go in the pit, I have made a note of that.

:38:52. > :38:59.The fastest lap of from Webber, a 40.5. He really wants second place

:38:59. > :39:03.badly. He had it in his hands, but Hamilton just a breeze to straight

:39:03. > :39:06.back. Ted Kravitz is in the pit lane. I have come down to Toro

:39:06. > :39:12.Rosso, where a lot of Italians are pointing out that Sebastian Buemi

:39:12. > :39:16.is the only one in his pack who is on the super-soft tyres. He had

:39:16. > :39:20.been threatening Paul di Resta for a long time and has finally got him.

:39:20. > :39:28.Alguersuari is on the hard at tyre but is still challenging the

:39:28. > :39:33.Rosberg for seven, so a great race for Toro Rosso. It is India. The

:39:33. > :39:39.Toro Rosso are looking strong -- it is indeed. Alguersuari just can't

:39:39. > :39:43.get rid of that final second he is behind Nico Rosberg. I would say he

:39:44. > :39:49.was a sitting duck, but he is it, Rosberg is holding him off, just as

:39:49. > :39:54.Hamilton is holding off Webber. They have got relatively different

:39:54. > :40:00.strengths around the racetrack. fastest man on the track, Sebastian

:40:00. > :40:04.Buemi, is out on the option. The super-soft. All of these guys at

:40:04. > :40:14.the front on the prime, you can see the yellow markings, it is the

:40:14. > :40:17.

:40:17. > :40:22.slower tyre. TEAM RADIO: Full power. And next, five, for power. I think

:40:22. > :40:30.that is the same as blue Button. In position to care for the past that

:40:30. > :40:36.pass in 101, Webber backs out -- in position to go for the past in turn

:40:36. > :40:44.or 1. By the time he gets into the DRS activation point, he is too far

:40:44. > :40:50.back. 12 seconds behind the leader now. Vettel coasting out front. As

:40:50. > :41:00.this lot are busy watching each other. Alonso has just been told 10

:41:00. > :41:00.

:41:00. > :41:10.that Ferrari up to the maximum amount of fuel power -- turn that

:41:10. > :41:18.

:41:18. > :41:23.Ferrari up to the maximum amount of in the action of lapping as they

:41:23. > :41:28.come through. Felipe Massa has closed a little bit on them. They

:41:28. > :41:38.have dropped Rosberg by 22.5 seconds in seventh. Paul di Resta

:41:38. > :41:38.

:41:38. > :41:42.is holding off a Sutil, matching him a lap for lap -- Sutil. The NM

:41:42. > :41:52.aggregating in position. We can see Jenson Button with the oversteer

:41:52. > :41:53.

:41:53. > :41:58.Off the kerb. -- Alonso getting in position. Short shift of the exit,

:41:58. > :42:07.then down the two more shifts, playing the gearbox like a musical

:42:07. > :42:14.instrument. A gap has opened up a little bit. The gap is there to

:42:14. > :42:24.zero. Take. He would have got the DRS. He went wide, oversteer on

:42:24. > :42:25.

:42:25. > :42:29.entry. Just about to get the DRS. He is 0.8 behind going over the

:42:29. > :42:37.line, he must have been more than one second adrift as he went over

:42:37. > :42:41.the activations loan at the exit of turn one. -- activation zone.

:42:41. > :42:44.Hamilton still leads Webber, it has been a good fight. It has been

:42:44. > :42:50.intriguing. These guys are in there, playing with the various parameters

:42:50. > :42:55.available to them, how much KERS delight the ploy? What do I do with

:42:55. > :43:04.my brakes? How hard the why push these tyres? What about the engine

:43:04. > :43:08.note? Do I use up more? Do I use more fuel? Those questions

:43:08. > :43:13.definitely distract you when you are in the car, it is a lot to

:43:14. > :43:16.think about. As soon as tyres started to go away, my

:43:16. > :43:22.concentration was really stretched to its absolute limit, let alone

:43:22. > :43:25.pressing buttons and going into different modes. TED KRAVITZ: I am

:43:25. > :43:30.back at McLaren and the drivers have been told a different things.

:43:30. > :43:34.Hamilton is asking how many laps left as he desperately tries to

:43:35. > :43:38.defend from Webber and Jenson Button is being told to push, he

:43:38. > :43:45.has saved enough fuel, and they feel he can get more out of his

:43:45. > :43:53.tyres. He is being told to push and Hamilton is being told to defend.

:43:53. > :43:57.Top 0.2 seconds behind Vettel is Hamilton -- 12.2. Once again,

:43:57. > :44:06.Webber will have the seemingly useless DRS available to him in the

:44:06. > :44:12.second half of this trade. -- straight. TEAM RADIO: I give up. I

:44:12. > :44:18.give up now. What? That is not a nice message for 18 to hear.

:44:18. > :44:22.never thought I would hear him say that. -- for a team to hear. He has

:44:22. > :44:26.not been happy this weekend. I think he has come back and been

:44:26. > :44:32.fantastic, he has pulled himself back into this race, he can sniff

:44:32. > :44:36.second place if there was an incident in front of them. It is a

:44:36. > :44:41.dummy message, it is a message to McLaren next back you think he is

:44:41. > :44:45.teasing them? I think he is. He will be telling Jenson Button,

:44:45. > :44:50.Fernando has thrown in the towel, but Jenson Button will want to see

:44:50. > :45:00.the white flag being waved. I think that is, if you ever leave me

:45:00. > :45:05.

:45:05. > :45:08.behind Felipe Massa again, you will Rosberg comes back. I'm glad we are

:45:08. > :45:12.seeing this action because Alguersuari has been consistently

:45:13. > :45:22.quicker in this sector. Good defensive driving from Rosberg but

:45:23. > :45:23.

:45:23. > :45:27.can he hold on? It is a good layout for racing, this track. Perez has

:45:27. > :45:37.pitted with one lap to go. Hamilton does his personal best, the fastest

:45:37. > :45:40.

:45:40. > :45:50.lap of the race. 1:40.4. People that out of the back. -- he pulled

:45:50. > :45:50.

:45:51. > :45:59.that out of the back. RADIO: Used the overtake Button if you get the

:45:59. > :46:05.chance. That is a delayed transmission. I think that moment

:46:05. > :46:12.is over. And there is the man who has given up. Hunting down Jenson

:46:12. > :46:16.Button as if it was for a Grand Prix victory! He could have spoken

:46:16. > :46:22.to his engineer in Italian, of course, but he sent that message in

:46:22. > :46:29.English. He did, didn't say? It could be any language but that is

:46:29. > :46:39.the one he chose. -- didn't he. Vettel is a few corners from home.

:46:39. > :46:39.

:46:39. > :46:49.Once again, he has pure Mrs Li left his main pursuers after taking the

:46:49. > :46:54.

:46:54. > :46:58.lead on the first lap. -- peerlessly. Sebastian Vettel will

:46:58. > :47:03.have thoroughly enjoyed that. He may have won the championship last

:47:03. > :47:10.weekend, but that will mean a great thing -- a great deal to him.

:47:10. > :47:15.Hamilton is second, Mark Webber third. Jenson Button in 4th and the

:47:15. > :47:22.man who was giving up in 5th, Alonso. Felipe Massa picks up some

:47:22. > :47:31.rubbish on his tyres to gain weight on his car. Alguersuari has got

:47:31. > :47:34.past Rosberg. We're going to see a replay. Coming from a long way back.

:47:34. > :47:43.You have to wonder if Rosberg has got a feeling issue, because that

:47:43. > :47:47.was from 50 metres behind. Alguersuari takes seven. Nico

:47:47. > :47:52.Rosberg crosses the line, 4.5 seconds adrift, almost as if he was

:47:53. > :47:59.out of fuel. Sebastien Buemi seven or eight seconds behind, crossing

:47:59. > :48:06.the line in 9th. Seven and nine for Torro Rosso. Paul di Resta in 10th,

:48:06. > :48:14.with their World Championship point, beating Adrian Sutil by 2.6%. --

:48:15. > :48:24.2.6 points for -- to buy six seconds. Barrichello will be 12. 21

:48:25. > :48:25.

:48:25. > :48:33.finishers. RADIO: A fantastic, Sebastian, fantastic! Yes Yes Yes

:48:33. > :48:38.and yes again! 10 wins, my friends, 10 wins! He is counting them.

:48:38. > :48:46.RADIO: Great drive, Mark, fantastic, we have won the constructors. Well

:48:47. > :48:51.done. The de World Champion and the man who won the second Grand Prix

:48:51. > :48:55.in Korea, Sebastian Vettel. Confirming the result, Sebastian

:48:55. > :48:59.Vettel is the winner. It was a shame for him a year ago. His

:48:59. > :49:05.engine blew and he did not pick up any points but this year, he has

:49:05. > :49:11.helped Red Bull become the Constructors' Championship. --

:49:11. > :49:16.constructors champions. We have to say, well done to Alguersuari,

:49:16. > :49:21.Sebastien Buemi and Paul di Resta, who will be very happy with points..

:49:21. > :49:23.Been prizes. And these are the prizes given out so far this season.

:49:23. > :49:28.Sebastian Vettel has won the drivers' championship leading

:49:28. > :49:31.Jenson Button, Alonso, Webber and Hamilton to fight for second. And

:49:31. > :49:38.the Constructors' Championship Trophy will also be handed to Red

:49:38. > :49:42.Bull. 558 points after 16 races. An incredible season for them. They

:49:42. > :49:45.finish in front of McLaren. Let us hear from the men at the centre of

:49:45. > :49:51.the action. It was a very nice day the action. It was a very nice day

:49:51. > :49:57.today, very special. It means a lot. It was a phenomenal race, with so

:49:57. > :50:01.much pace. It was so much fun out there. Lot of head wind. It was

:50:02. > :50:08.difficult to get away. I could always see the car getting bigger

:50:08. > :50:18.and bigger in the mirror, braking again, bigger and bigger. It was a

:50:18. > :50:19.

:50:19. > :50:23.tough race in that regard. RADIO: Do not abuse retires. You manage to

:50:23. > :50:30.get the fastest lap in the end, despite Rocky telling you not to

:50:30. > :50:40.abuse the tyres? He said he would kill me, so what is a silly thing.

:50:40. > :50:40.

:50:40. > :50:44.-- he saw it is a silly thing. I might not be with you in India(!)

:50:44. > :50:50.It would be wrong for me, winning the championship without the

:50:50. > :50:54.fastest lap. There is no Calleri -- there is not lorry, but I have done

:50:54. > :51:04.and that, even though it might be the end of my life! I'm sure you're

:51:04. > :51:07.

:51:07. > :51:12.disappointed he did not get the win, but the battle was fantastic.

:51:12. > :51:19.went backwards. I am not ecstatic, but I am happy for the team to get

:51:19. > :51:22.some points for them. I think I drove pretty well, considering how

:51:23. > :51:30.much quicker their car was, which was a considerable amount.

:51:30. > :51:37.Fortunately, we were able to just about stay ahead, but I had to push

:51:37. > :51:43.hard. A fantastic battle to watch. It was. It was pretty intense.

:51:43. > :51:47.There was a bit of a battle before, and then after the stock, I was

:51:47. > :51:51.frustrated that we managed to follow him out of the pit lane. I

:51:51. > :51:59.tried to risk quite a bit to pass him before he got settled in, which

:51:59. > :52:05.is not easy with somebody of the calibre of Lewis. The battle began

:52:05. > :52:13.and I tried some moves. In the end, it was a good battle. The cars had

:52:13. > :52:18.weaknesses and strengths in different areas. Trying to get the

:52:18. > :52:22.move done was not particularly easy on him. I was strong in the last

:52:22. > :52:28.sector but it was hard to stay close. I would have liked to get

:52:28. > :52:36.that extra position. Performance- wise, I think we deserve it. Lewis

:52:36. > :52:43.drove well. The pace was OK, but I could not get close enough. Whether

:52:43. > :52:49.Wright did not have enough front or what, but still, I had so much

:52:49. > :52:55.understeer. I could not get close to them. I think I used to DRS once

:52:55. > :53:00.in the whole race. Not perfect. If this is a bad day, it is not so bad.

:53:00. > :53:05.Tell us about the start. The start was OK. I thought Mark was behind

:53:05. > :53:09.me. I do not know where Felipe Massa was. I brakes were found was

:53:09. > :53:17.correct and it felt corrects. I turned in an there was a car there.

:53:17. > :53:21.I did not see him before. -- it felt correct. I do not think it

:53:21. > :53:25.would have changed the race, even if I did have a bad start or a bad

:53:25. > :53:29.first late -- bat first lap, because I was not quick enough.

:53:29. > :53:35.as many points as you would have hoped for. It is a point, so it is

:53:35. > :53:40.quite crucial. Torro Rosso outpaced us. We were giving it all at the

:53:40. > :53:47.end, but we came up a few laps short. I think we extracted what we

:53:47. > :53:55.could but it was just not to be. The nice thing is that sober, we

:53:55. > :53:59.gained a point back on Sauber. -- the nice thing is that Sauber. We

:53:59. > :54:02.can go away happy. As the sun sets, let us get the thoughts of David

:54:02. > :54:06.Coulthard. That was a race the fitting of crowning the

:54:06. > :54:10.constructors champions. A fantastic race with a much bigger winning

:54:10. > :54:15.margin than we have seen of late. The battle for second place, Lewis

:54:15. > :54:18.Hamilton learning how to control the race, look after his tyres, and

:54:18. > :54:22.Mark Webber passing him and then losing the place again with the

:54:22. > :54:26.skilful use of DRS from Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso

:54:26. > :54:28.pretending to be throwing in the towel as he hunted down Jenson

:54:28. > :54:35.Button. Three different manufacturers, six different

:54:35. > :54:38.drivers all battling for position. An Jenson fort mark, Lewis and

:54:38. > :54:43.Fernando and Sebastien made the pass early on and was not involved

:54:43. > :54:46.in any of that. The perfect Grand Prix from them. He had a very good

:54:46. > :54:51.start and position the car on the run down to the third term. He

:54:51. > :54:55.saved some KERS and then you stop is KERS to get down the inside.

:54:55. > :54:59.From there, he was not seen again. Great to see Lewis Hamilton on the

:54:59. > :55:04.podium. Who knows whether that will put a smile back on his face. You

:55:04. > :55:09.hope so. He deserves to smile. He drove a fantastic pole position.

:55:10. > :55:14.The way he dance to the car around the middle sector, he should be

:55:14. > :55:24.very proud. He showed us that he can manage his tyres. We have been

:55:24. > :55:25.

:55:25. > :55:28.talking about Jenson Button's scale, but today,... And he has helped his

:55:28. > :55:32.team to win the Constructors' Championship, Mark Webber. He will

:55:32. > :55:36.take pride in that is. Have helped secure the championship. But he is

:55:36. > :55:39.disappointed. He had a chance to win the Grand Prix today. There was

:55:39. > :55:42.a point when there was three seconds between the top three cars

:55:42. > :55:47.and he started squabbling over position with Lewis Hamilton and

:55:47. > :55:50.lost a lot of time. He put it at the same time. We have to question

:55:50. > :55:58.that strategy. Ultimately, that allowed Sebastien to open his

:55:58. > :56:01.leaked. -- open his lead. Mark Webber will take part in that he

:56:01. > :56:09.helped Red Bull to win the championship today. And this is how

:56:09. > :56:19.they have done it. RADIO: Yes, that is what I'm talking about! Thank

:56:19. > :56:57.

:56:57. > :57:06.we are who we are. -- we do our brilliant! Brilliant work by the

:57:06. > :57:10.Red Bull mechanics. We have done an amazing job with the team. It is

:57:10. > :57:14.pretty straightforward. Drive as quick as you can. It is better than

:57:14. > :57:24.anything you can imagine. Pleasure, it is a pleasure every week to be

:57:24. > :57:32.

:57:32. > :57:37.with you. I am loving it. Fantastic, have won the constructors, thank

:57:37. > :57:41.have won the constructors, thank you, well done. Congratulations to

:57:41. > :57:46.Red Bull. They can reflect on a job well done this season. We expected

:57:46. > :57:50.Sebastian Vettel to take his foot off the gas after he was crowded --

:57:50. > :57:55.crowned Drivers' Championship but he did not. Do you expect Red Bull

:57:55. > :58:02.to take the food offie gas over the to take the food offie gas over the