The Korean Grand Prix Formula 1

victory. Louis Hamilton has done it. If a devastating victory -- Lewis.

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

Absolute belter. Round 16, Scotland. Seasons blend into one another.

Teams, fans and drivers are always looking to the future. But

sometimes, something happens that especial that deserves a reflection

on an incredible snapshot in time. -- that is special.

To win the championship here is fantastic. I mean, there are so

many things you want to say in this moment, but it is hard to remember

all of them. The chance to crown Sebastian Vettel as world champion,

he has broken records throughout his career... Are you playing the

percentage game or going for glory? A glory. Sebastian, you are 2011

world champion, well done. I am just so, so thankful to

everyone in the team, and it is great to have achieved the goal we

set ourselves going into this season.

These are your fans. Back-to-back Formula One world champion. Alain

Prost is within sight of his second... Ayrton Senna... She Makah

will be world champion... Fernando Alonso... A -- issue Makah will be

incredible weekend in Japan in Sebastian Vettel is the new for me

a one world champion, but don't think there is no incentive for

these other current drivers in Formula One. They are desperate to

prove they have got what it takes to pick up a win between now and

the end of this season. Just a few races left until the end of 2011.

We are racing at the newest track in Formula One, but in a few weeks'

time, that will no longer be the case because India joins in the

fund at the end of October. Then it is off to Abu Dhabi in the desert

before the season ends in Brazil at the end of November. What a long

and successful season for Sebastian Vettel. That gap at the top cannot

be bridged, which means he is the new Formula world champion. Bath

Formula One. And at the constructors battle, Red Bull are

now 130 points ahead of McLaren. If they outscored them this weekend,

they will be constructors champions. Sebastian Vettel is already the

world champion but plenty of reasons to stay with us, which is

exactly what David Coulthard will be doing from the commentary box.

You won't hear last year but we got rained on and it was complete chaos

-- you weren't here. It could be just as confusing today. Today will

be all about tyres, there are rumours that the option will only

last about seven laps, which means a lot will come to strategy. Your

view over the pit lane could be an important one. We can see the pit-

lane entry and I expect to see a lot of activity. I will be amazed

at the top teams are not doing three stops. You can hear David

Coulthard alongside Martin Brundle in a moment, but this is what we

witnessed during qualifying, this is what happened with Ted Kravitz.

Isn't it just a typical. Sebastian Vettel wraps up the championship in

Japan and a week let in Korea, we are put -- treated to the most one

can -- unpredictable qualifying of the year. 14 years since Williams

won a championship, Rubens Barrichello was the first big-name

knocked out after struggling. He starts 18th. But Michael Schumacher

was slow down and this qualifying because Oberwil vibration. The

Felipe Massa out-qualified his team-mate Fernando Alonso for the

second successive race. Felipe Massa has not been given the new

wing. But Fernando Alonso is not sure whether it made it good or

worse. LEE MCKENZIE: Did it make it a good

or better or worse? That is the answer. I was able to do a good lap

even without the new front wing, so it was positive and I am looking

forward to having a good race. Lieutenant tense final few minutes

as McLaren tried to end the Red Bull's domination of qualifying --

that left attends the final few minutes. Jenson Button in third or

stop McLaren are at a slight disadvantage on race strategy after

Red Bull managed to save three sets of new tyres, whereas McLaren Addie

have two. Uneventful last lap for Sebastian Vettel. -- an eventful.

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

Quick in-lap. In his haste to get back, at Vettel cut the corner at

105, but the stewards later decided he hadn't gained an advantage --

turn five. It wasn't good enough, Lewis Hamilton had parked in the

garage and drove a stunning lap for his first pole position of the

season, ending the 16 race run for Red Bull. It has been a roller-

coaster race -- ear. It is good to be there but tomorrow is the most

important day and we will have to see how it goes. I was a bit

surprised didn't you three to see how close we were, because in Q2 we

were quite far behind -- in Q3. We had a bad strategy regarding the

tyres but it could turn out to be an advantage. All of the tyres on

year, whereas one of last -- ours has got three timed laps. It may

work out for them that hopefully by the time we have on our last set of

tyres it will work out for us. Lewis Hamilton on pole and looking

for winter cheer himself up. Sebastian Vettel is alongside and

has a better strategy. Jenson Button happy to be on the clean

side of the grid. Felipe Massa leads the Ferraris. Vitaly Petrov

and Paul di Resta leading the Renault and Force India.

Alguersuari at qualified Michael Schumacher. 16th and 18th for

Williams, but at least Barrichello has a new tyres for the race.

Heikki Kovalainen wins the battle International Circuit is found in

the South West of South Korea. The region well known for shipping and

fishing and of course, now, Formula One. This second Grand Prix to be

held here should be both fascinating and, I am pretty sure,

unpredictable, especially if that rain comes in like some of the

teams are saying. They have very little Norwich of this 80 turn a

3.5 mile layout -- knowledge. Many questions remain unanswered as we

are just four minutes away from the warm-up and formation lap and the

start of this Grand Prix. Red Bull have majored on the soft tyre.

Other teams have saved the faster but last year report super-soft

compound. Do you reckon they have got it right, David?

DAVID COULTHARD: There is a lot of speculation on how fast these tyres

can go. Seven laps for the options, we hear. 15-20 on the prime. The

reality is that if it is so little running when it is wet, only one

hour to try and evaluate the tyres but set the car before qualifying

it, the teams simply don't know. We have said time and again, this year

is a journey into the unknown because it is Pirelli's first year

back in two F1. Once they have this season under their belts, there

will be so many unanswered questions to deal with and put into

the strategy, but nobody knows today who has the right strategy.

Red Bull have gone one way and the teams have gone... TEAM RADIO:

Around three, there might be a small shower. As far as we can tell,

it is only a couple of minutes and then nothing after that. 3pm is the

start of the race, locally, and as I was saying, some of the teams

have gone in a different direction. Why wouldn't McLaren and Red Bull

split their strategies? One driver on the super-soft, one driver on

the soft compound and have an each- way bet? Because that compromises

the drivers going into qualifying. There is seven-tenths of a second

difference between the prime and the option in qualifying, so are

you going to say to Jenson Button, great weekend last week, but you

are going to be compromised? You have to give them the best chance

to qualify the car and then deal with the race thereafter. Sebastian

Vettel second on the grid, and yet another helmet designed for this

track. Looking at his pole positions over the year, he seems

than a different helmet cover for every single race. Let's have a

look at how they line up. Hamilton on pole from Vettel. Jenson Button

in third, he says he is happy. Webber four, he seems quite punchy,

the first man out of this Grand Prix last year. Felipe Tamas Kadar

and Fernando Alonso for Ferrari. Then Petrov and Rosberg -- her

Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. Michael Schumacher and Buemi and

Kobayashi have the fastest cars in the straight. It will be

interesting to see how they fare. Sergio Perez, he will do less stops

than most. 23rd and 24, the to HRTs of Liuzzi and Ricky are there --

surprisingly set his time that the -- on the tyre he used in due to,

so he will be the reference point for how long that read Mark super-

soft tyres will last -- Q2. We get ready for the formation lap. Force

India had split the strategy, super-soft for Paul di Resta and

the soft for Adrian Sutil. In their position, it makes absolute sense.

Just inside the starting grid. You have a situation where one of them

is going to be in the race strategy and early doors. It is all about

managing these tyres in the early laps. The back with fuel as they go

off the line -- a fat with the awl. So from what you are saying that,

at Force India are saying do what you are told but you won't get away

with that with Hamilton, Jenson Button and Vettel. They are not

picking drivers until next December, they have drivers under contract

and they all just say OK. No other real choice right now. The teams

they would like to be moving to, the teams in front of them, are all

locked out. A man to watch as Michael Schumacher, a slightly

dismal performance in qualifying, he has gained 24 positions in the

last seven starts and at no point in those seven starts has he lost a

position. So Michael Schumacher is the man on the move at the start of

the Grand Prix. That is interesting, because when he used to do physical

assessments compared to other drivers, his reaction tests were

never that good, but clearly the starting system on the Mercedes and

his instinctive racing ability to the first corner has seen him make

a lot of games. Or maybe he is not qualifying where he should be. As a

team mate, I beat him off the start every time. It used to be his

Achilles heel. Now he is statistically the best. The drivers

will have to get their revolutions and primary and secondary clash

distance, Button, Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton. We saw on the yellow

soft tyre, they had to do two or three laps to get them to come to

them. This is quite a slow lap. RADIO: Temperatures are good.

Possibly a few drops at turn 13. will be telling him that the engine

temperature is good, but guess what they do not want to do, put too

much heat into that engine. Drops of rain, because there is downwind.

If all the teams will have someone out there with an umbrella and a

radio feeding back information. -- all of the teams. Schumacher,

putting heat into his tyres before he got onto the grid. That is a

long-standing mechanic from the Ferrari team who has, sadly, died.

They are understandably sad about that. The Drivers' Championship has

been sealed, but there is still four races to be run, up seasons to

be salvaged, reputations to be recovered. Can the next 55 laps put

the smile back on Lewis Hamilton's face? We are about to find out, as

soon as we get the HRT in line at the back of the field. We will see

a man with a green flags somewhere in there. The Korean Grand Prix is

now underway. Hamilton away very well. Button is alongside Sebastian

Vettel already. Hamilton leads comfortably. No contact except at

the back. Contact between a Sauber and a Torro Rosso. Hamilton with a

Red Bull in his slipstream. Look at that, Sebastian Vettel pulls out

because he has such a... Look at Felipe Massa! Up to third place.

What a braking zone for him. Felipe Massa, brave as you like. Alonso

was in there. So is Mark Webber. Sebastian Vettel leads the race.

Mark Webber going around the outside of Felipe Massa. And Jenson

Button getting shuffled down the field. We are on board with them,

behind Fernando Alonso. A tremendous start for Hamilton, but

somehow it Sebastian Vettel found the speed. Brave Stuffer. Those two

teams were neck and tuck in terms of top speed. With the DRS closed,

as it is at this moment, he was ideally positioned to get the

slipstream. Bunching through the air, getting up a huge toll.

wind speed is four metres per second. I am not sure what that

means but it does mean that Sebastian Vettel, in the slipstream,

could really take advantage. It is a tail wind down to turn four.

would have expected Lewis Hamilton to take a left line to defend that

position but he left more than a that contact. Kobayashi got himself

up into 13. Sebastian Vettel easily pulling out a second on that first

lap, including passing Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button, under

pressure. He needs to brake the one second window to make sure that at

the end of the second lap, Lewis Hamilton is not in the DRS zone.

Yellow flag at turn four. Liuzzi leaving the pit lane. He has a new

nose. Yellow flag at turn four. But it should have been yellow and red

indicating fluid. Jenson Button, really struggling to hang on to the

two Ferraris. Petrov is in 8th place. Mark to rest I is in 9th --

Paul di Resta. The space between the first and 16th driver was 10

seconds, so they are close together. There is a replay of the start.

was nip and tuck off the line. We were expecting the dirty side of

the grades to lose a car's length but no evidence of that. Clean

staff as they find their way through. One of the Lotuses and one

of the Virgin's running wide. -- not lose anything. Looking for the

outside line. Squeeze a little bit, and then he is in a perfect

position to get the slipstream. Rubens Barrichello, further down

the grades, no evidence that the left side is dirty. There is no

grip anywhere. -- down the grid. This is the concertina effect,

using more Curbar than ideal. We will see a Ferrari appear down

Jenson Button's inside. He goes down around the outside of the Red

Bull and tries to go past the Ferrari, momentarily back into

third place but he has got into deep. Why have we saw a of from

Jenson, he was deploying KERS, enabling him to get in the

slipstream and pull around the outside of the Ferrari. Who is that

going around the outside? Rosberg. He followed Button's line. Pretty

ambitious by Mark Webber. The DRS is now enabled. Hamilton is within

1.2 seconds of Sebastian Vettel. Not quite in the DRS zone. He has a

gap of one second. Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton and Webber were faster

than the rest of the pack. Hamilton will not have his rear wing open.

The detection zone is on the exit of the first corner. Fernando

Alonso is on Felipe Massa. Rock Smedley said he did not have to

yield in Suzuka last weekend. Kobayashi told you that PRS is

quite late, and not in his opinion so effective, we have Alonso seven.

Seconds behind Felipe Massa. Huge oversteer from them. That is not

what you want to do in that these tyres. The minutes you like them up,

the temperatures go through the roof. -- like to them up. You can

wear out the tyres and you can overheat them. They will degrade.

Lap four, Sebastian Vettel, two- tenths law. -- slower. RADIO: Light

rain ahead. That is not what you need to here. The other thing, you

end up being the reference point. Some hesitation as to whether to

pull out in the DRS zone. It is almost as if he brakes as he pulled

to the left. 1.1 now, the gap. If Lewis Hamilton is late on the

brakes, he can get in the DRS zone here. In to turn three. One 10th of

the second he needs now. Michael Schumacher, huge slipstream on the

Force India. They should be fairly straightforward. I would have been

pressing turning there. -- Bremmer Singh. I think he carried the speed

differential into the ratings on. At this stage, if you have spots of

rain, it is a difficult job to lead the race. Lewis Hamilton will be

able to use Sebastiaan as an indicator of where to brake and

inevitably, you start braking earlier to allow yourself a margin,

should it be more damp than you expect. It does give you a big

advantage because Michael Schumacher has just done the

fastest first sector by three- quarters of the second. It is worth

a lot. Why did you not tell Kobayashi? He is thinking it is not

going to work. My job is to ask questions, not tell the driver is

how it is going to be. I will try that, see how far I get! Michael

Schumacher in 9th place. Passing Paul di Resta with that move. This

is critical. Hamilton does not look any closer. Did you notice that

Sebastian Vettel was on a wider line as he went through the last

turn that Hamilton. Is that a sign that he is already having to open

the steering and tried to reduce the rear where? A great battle

going on behind. RADIO: Lots of on this year on the front tyres.

that. Work through the graining period and the balance will come

back. The front graining, when we had a briefing with Mark Williams,

he said that the front right is the critical tyre. Very little running

on this tyre -- very little running on at this circuit. The three

fastest cars were the two Torro Rossos without DRS and Michael

Schumacher. No surprise that the Torro Rossos are starting to make

their way through. TED KRAVITZ: No panic despite both drivers losing

places. They believe they have the pace to win the race. Lewis

Hamilton's fastest lap will back that up. They believe that Jenson

Button was caught out by some rain. They have done 12 laps on the

super-soft. We expect that to be the end. They're going to hit the

cliff soon, but no sign of him coming in awe of his lap times

being poor. We are finding the tyres are lasting better than we

initially were told. The track temperature is 24 degrees. Michael

Schumacher is catching Petrov. Quite a bit slower. Maybe he is

getting in that zone as we head down to the braking point. Quite a

crest there, from that camera angle. Looking at the Times on that last

lap, we can see the effect of the understeer on Paul di Resta. He was

on a 47.2 there. Most of the cars in front around 47.6 off 47.5.

is a shame, the front tyre sliding off the surface. Then you have to

wait and wait and wait until you can get on the throttle. It feels

so frustrating. You want the car to get edgy at the back. We saw that

beautifully in qualifying. He was all steering the car using his rear

axle. -- he was almost stealing the car. Paul di Resta, last man in the

points at the moment. Sebastian Vettel leads Hamilton by 1.6. I

heard that the McLaren was hurting its tyres as much as anything

yesterday. I found that difficult to believe but I did here that

Lewis had taken quite a lot out of his tyres to make that pole

position lap yesterday. I am wondering if we are beginning to

see that today. The gap is now at two seconds. He lost another if

personal best of 45.4, that is the sector, the second best. The last

thing you want to do is pick up for another slicks and then have the

going again for a set of wets. He will be watching the radars, and

there are where the people at the back, where information will be

critical. There is rain in the paddock,, rain in the sky, spot of

rain on the camera lens. You are looking at the fight for third,

fourth and fifth. Webber, along said... -- Fernando Alonso it...

Michael Schumacher is just beginning to close in. Up-and-down

in the midfield. But first -- between first and 23rd, 43 seconds.

What I don't understand what this DRS, we saw Michael Schumacher get

a huge advantage in the First Sec day using it, we have Felipe Massa

here, already starting to struggle with the rear tyres, they are in

the DRS zone, they have KERS, but Fernando Alonso has not been able

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

RADIO: We believe everything is all Webber so he gets his open first --

is in. Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Rosberg have all done

their personal best in the first sector as they get ready to get rid

of some fuel. Ted Kravitz has so news. I think we are approaching

some pit stops. On Ferrari, we will have to wait and see whether we get

any on board graphics for the KERS, because the Ferrari have had

problems with their drive shaft all weekend. Kobayashi and Perez have

also had to change theirs in parc ferme. It is pretty frantic around

the second half of this lap. It is relentless action and speed. There

is a front wing hanging off one of the Virgin Racing cars. And how HRT

issue as well. Have we got anyone in the pits? It might be raining

but they ongoing ever faster. Webber is now 6.5 seconds off the

lead in third. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are 0.9 behind him.

Jenson Button is half a second quicker than the previous lap,

cruising into the zone. He will get the advantage of the rear wing as

well. Very late on the brakes for soppy kind of got beaten up in the

first lap or two, but he is beginning to recover that -- very

late on the brake. Jenson Button ever closer to the back of that

Ferrari. Metal's lead up to -- Vettel's lead has gone up. But

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

pace is very strong combat --, we can help the cars in front. What

makes him so sure about that? think Jenson Button will have been

saying it, yes we can. He is right in the Dirty air, he will be losing

performance riding in that turbulence coming off each of the

cars in front of him. He will have a good picture in his mind about

how well he is managing these tyres. We are getting into what we

suspected would be the pit stop zone but there is no sign of

anybody in the pit lane. The race leader passes the commentary box.

Lewis Hamilton still chasing. behind, losing half a second a lap.

Webber is still doing well but can't match Hamilton's pace and was

Rosberg slowing it? I think he was hanging in there quite well, 2.1

seconds behind Jenson Button, so I think this middle group, for

whatever reason, they are holding themselves up. What about Petrov?

45.4, that is a quick lap and we thought his tyres would be gone

first. Using about the same amount of KERS energy doubt that straight.

Jenson Button all over the back of Fernando Alonso. Well he had a look

at the insight into turn four? -- inside. Looks like a front wing

losing scenario there and Jenson Button thought better of it. It he

knows he is getting into the sequence of chords and S Curves, so

he is just applying some pressure to Fernando Alonso, taking him out

of his comfort zone and trying to force a mistake. The camera has to

keep cleaning itself as Fernando Alonso spits of dust and fluid at

us as we were watching on board. You have to say, the McLaren of

Jenson Button looks significantly better in terms of the grip he has

got and his speed through the apex. You have to think he will be passed

these two. Rosberg a game, half a second quicker in that middle

sector than the cars in front -- a gain. New fastest lap from Vettel.

We watch Sergio Perez passing a Bruno Senna, that was for 15th

place, down in turn three. The gap is up to 3.4 seconds. It is pretty

relentlessly half a second a lap. Here is the main fight. This could

be a four-way battle any time soon. Paul di Resta pits full Force India.

Out of what was 13th place, sounds like he will be happy to park those

tyres, are Dargo a set of super- soft. Just in time -- and on go.

That is the one you set up super- soft that Paul di Resta had. Look

at this battle. I wonder when Felipe Massa will be getting the

call? There is no sign of it. You have got to imagine that Fernando

Alonso could run faster in clean air back. You have to say that

Jenson Button and the McLaren Welby significantly faster. -- will be.

He is using hundreds of pounds of downforce, right up behind the

gearbox of that Ferrari fill start it feels like a time when you turn

the corner. -- of that Ferrari. The I have told to a million times, do

not exaggerate. Vettel faster than Hamilton by four-tenths of a second.

This is a better fight to be watching. Sergio Perez and Bruno

Senna or, doing a good job to avoid Perez. Charlie Whiting had put a

note, saying if you go outside back public you will not trigger the DRS.

-- If you go outside of that. RADIO: Just concentrate on keeping

it clean. That is one of the things they can adjust, quick a jester's,

with a little drill, with a pre-set amount of tans -- adjust their.

Nico Rosberg has taken a full advantage of Felipe Massa, this has

got to be one of his strongest races. Fernando Alonso is in

position there on the outside. There is no question that Felipe

Massa is defending that position. None at all. Felipe Massa, as soon

as your front tyres go and you start to understeer, you lean so

heavily on the mechanical grip of your front tyre, especially in the

final part of the braking zone. We keep over the top of Felipe Massa's

rear wing. What a shape by Alonso. He must be on the radio. The race

director plays in the radio of footage from Fernando Alonso car, I

can't imagine he is silent. That is the four-way battle that remains a

fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. They drop Petrov by five seconds.

Alguersuari is coming in their nice little stop the we have got McLaren

coming into the pit lane. TEAM RADIO: Overtake a best lap. That is

why we think we can use the undercut. Jenson Button said last

night, don't use the word undercut could identify what it means. It

means you pit airy and use the fresh grip of the new tyres and you

come out ahead. -- Early. But Nico Rosberg has got away before him.

Side by side, you are allowed to do that. Rosberg can hit the Button

and earlier and he well. He has made a mistake! Nico Rosberg, that

won't go down well. You need to be seeing a picture of Ross Brawn at

that point. The team got him out in front. But he has got the

slipstream straight away and straight through he goes. Can he

stop this time? He breaks nice and early. Where did he find that speed

from? -- brakes. He has used KERS, presumably. And you pointed out

Adia, the Mercedes was one of the fastest on the speed track during

qualifying -- earlier. He has got to be careful not to flat spot of

these tyres. Mercedes have got, I think, the best pit-stop record

overall, I am told, of the teams. Jenson has gone on to the yellow

mark... Surrey until the option tyre, the red mark super-soft --

sorry, on to the option tyre. He will be spitting feathers that

Rosberg got back in front of him. Mercedes get Rosberg back in front.

He gets it wrong that the end of the pit lane and then redeems

himself perfectly. He has come out into the DRS zone. He lost position

but he has had a bit of KERS and DRS. There is Mark Webber.

brand new set of primes. A Felipe Massa in there as well. Michael

Schumacher in the pits as well. We have got to the end of lap 14 and

Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg are still going at it during the first

corner. Now Jenson Button get the help of the rear wing but it

doesn't come into operation until the second half of the straight. He

flips the rear wing Open and surely he has got a great chance? He will

have to go at the long way around. Rosberg, the that the extra speed

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

the previous time -- Look at that. He locks up. Jenson sneakily comes

through on the inside than he thinks the job done, I'd be doing

80 kilometres power. But Jenson I'd be having the choice to yield --

only did 80 kilometres power hour. Of has Hamilton gone into the pit

lane? He has gone in there now. pits from second place. Vettel

carries on, that looks and a OK pit-stop for McLaren. The super-

soft go on. It is a dirty pit lane. Not too bad at all. And finance so

allotted -- Fernando Alonso has gone into the pits as well. The

Ferrari team get their main man under way. He has gone for the more

durable, slower softer tyres. About seven-tenths slower but they go

twice as far. Adrian Sutil is under pressure from Jenson Button. Sutil

is yet Tippett, but will sail down the outside with that we now hope

that -- yet to go into the pits. That is one of the best things

about DRS it, it allows the faster cars to make their way back through

into position. TED KRAVITZ: That has worked nicely, despite being

held up by Nico Rosberg, and for Jenson Button. He crossed the line

cupboard does that count? He was OK with the line, it is a serrated

line. The key point in the replay is that Michael Schumacher was able

to nip through and nearly took the front wing of Fernando Alonso.

did cross the solid white line. is dotted. Said that hasn't worked

out well for Ferrari, and they are on a completely different strategy

to McLaren, as are Red Bull. They are going with the harder tyre for

Webber, although it is the super- soft. Vettel is copying of the

McLaren's strategy. He has put on the Red Stripe tyres. Vettel is

third corner and continued. -- spun out. Safety car is out. City car

deployed, just as Mark Webber does a new fastest lap. Petrov is

clearly leaving debris somewhere. There will be another car out

somewhere. Part of that accident. He has hit Schumacher. Schumacher's

rear wing is broken. RADIO: Michael ahead of you has damage, and Vitaly

Petrov. Too much repairing. A rear wing is difficult. Webber has come

out, and gone past the safety car. That is why Schumacher spun at turn

three. Alonso, making his way around the outside. And Vettel be

the end of Schumacher's race. -- that will be the end. Alonso, so

close. Schumacher, completely innocent. The safety car eyes in.

It is the lead driver's job to slow down and allow the safety car to

clear out of the way. Please do not read me and say that I have

forgotten to say that Sebastian Vettel should be getting a penalty.

He is the de facto safety car. Everyone in the pit lane has been

told that it is coming in this lap. You have to judge were you think

you can let it go. In the middle of turn 15, Sebastian Vettel has

decided that is the moment. Don't forget, the DRS will not be enabled

until two laps after the safety car goes into the pits. It is all going

on behind. Adrian Sutil, Maldonado out of position. 22 runners. Jenson

Button looking at the back of Sebastian Webber. -- Mark Webber.

It is a long drag run down to turn a four. This is a decent straight

on a regular circuit. And it is the shorter of the two here. So close.

Jenson Button lucky not to lose the edge of his front wing. Looking for

managers from Mark Webber. -- manners. But Mark said firmly, I am

coming back across. Not for the first time in this race, bump and

grind going on from Jenson Button. This is an opportune moment to ask,

instead of using a scalded cat, can you use the analogy of a coils

bring? I do not like the idea of a cat being scalded. -- coiled spring.

I don't care. Many drivers fighting over the same piece of tarmac.

Those two trying to get it together. Car 12, Maldonado for Williams, has

hit a bollard. Moving into lap 22. Crucially, Sebastian Vettel is 1.1

ahead. Just gauging the DRS absolutely right. Nico Rosberg

falling back behind Button. Alguersuari doing a great job. He

has got himself from the 11th on the grid up into 7th at the moment.

It is a drive-through for Court 12, for being on alongside -- on the

wrong side of the bollard. Pastor Maldonado on 11th, knocking on the

door of a World Championship points. But he will have to drive through.

With the pack so close, more pain than normal. In the background,

Rubens Barrichello, Kobayashi and Bruno Senna. Damage to the front

wing. Clipped the back of the Renault. Rosberg, 5th. Alonso,

going backwards, it is not often we see that. Also, putting up dust,

but not for the first time. thought it was very interesting. An

interesting conversation earlier in the programme, interviewing Alonso.

I sensed some frustration. Michael Schumacher won so many titles at

Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen also. But Alonso looks nowhere near to

winning a title. The incident involving Schumacher or an Petrov

will be investigated after the race. -- Sue Makah and Petrov. I have a

feeling he will get a great penalty for that one. Michael Schumacher,

avoiding an accident. Frustration coming out in Alonso. He has

positioned himself as the happiest he has ever been, here for the

long-term, but something in Coria has put him in a bit of a maid. --

something in Korea has put him in a bit of a nude. -- mood. Webber is

in the DRS zone, dropping down to 1.2. He leads Button by three

seconds. Car 22, Ricciardo. He might be better doing this after

the corner because Kobayashi will get the DRS and, surely, take it

straight back. Bruno Senna should have followed him through. As of

any time now, Kobayashi can open the rear wing. There we see him

cruising past. I don't think he was thinking that through. Kovalainen

is right behind him. You can see the damage to Kobayashi's front

wing, affecting his aerodynamics. He takes the position back. Look at

that damage where he clipped the back of Bruno Senna. The front wing

is the most critical area. If the air is disturbed, it will affect

the rest of the car. Look at a Lotus cars. As they did in Japan,

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

leading pace. 5.5 seconds covers the top four. Hamilton matching

Sebastian Vettel every way. RADIO: Front when change, the front wing

is damaged, come in on this lap. think they are in a tyre stop

window. Very early. I wonder if they might have hung on to that for

a little while. You will have to go in, at the heart of one of the most

challenging corners on the track. TED KRAVITZ: They say it is a case

of warming up the tyres. They feel that after the safety car restart,

the temperatures got low and so it has taken them a few laps to get up

to speed. They acknowledge that they lost out on the pit lane.

Felipe Massa had to wait for Schumacher. It was not a

particularly confident place for Ferrari. I think they might hold

off -- hold on to some hope. As you were saying, they were right on top

of Rosberg. He has pulled out now, made a bit of a gap. Quite a lot

jam for the Ferrari team. It is not like he is much slower, but you

sense they are hunting him down. All three cars on the prime tyres.

This must be one of Rosberg as best races so far. Rosberg's. He likes

this racetrack, Nico Rosberg. Nice to see him going forward. Just like

he used to in the old days. I know that he is only 26 years old but he

always used to move forward in a race, but that has not been the

case this year. At the moment, he is in 5th, having started from

seven. The top four are one second a lap faster. We are onboard with

the two-time World Champion. Even at that speed, he will be affected

by a loss of downforce. But the gap, as he is running down... I wonder

if Alonso is running more drag Ombaka. Even with DRS and KERS, he

is not able to make much headway. This straight looks more like he is

in the slipstream. A little bit of a wiggle on the braking. He is

saying to Felipe Massa, can you see me? I am sure that Massa is well

away -- well aware. He has been under pressure, with questions over

his performance. You could see the satisfaction when he out of five

Alonso. -- out qualified. He is probably agree with him suffer. He

had too much throttle. Others worry coming up and the Torro Rosso. --

Alan dish worry. Catching the fight, at a quarter a second -- quarter of

a second a lap. Paul di Resta maintains 9th. Adrian Sutil in 10.

Catching quickly. 1.1 seconds behind. Much closer than that. The

Force India has must be close. Adrian Sutil has passed Paul di

Resta. This is the fight over 5, 6, 7. Alguersuari in eight. Sebastien

Buemi in 11. Interestingly, Mark Webber is on prime tyres, according

to our information, and Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton... He is going

to get double past year. He will be deploying his KERS, trying to

recover from that lot up. -- lock- up. Two positions lost in 700

metres. Costly. Hamilton is within the DRS zone and he is half a

second quicker. He must be within half a second of the leader.

Catching Sebastian Vettel very quickly. Here is a replay of that.

Rosberg got a little bit of a left turn in, unloaded the front left.

As he turned, their egos, you saw him turn left and then the left

front locked. Guaranteed to happen if you are beyond the limit of the

grip of your front tyres. Meanwhile, back at the front, Mark Webber

behind Hamilton, 0.7 of a second behind Hamilton, who is 1.2 behind

Sebastian Vettel. They have gone much further on the option than we

expected. If the two guys in front, Vettel and Hamilton, have to stop,

and Webber can keep up the pace, he might be the man that can win this

race. Webber is looking very handy indeed. Those tyres, certainly, the

evolution of the track, up the traction zones, the dirt and dust

coming up, the Pirelli rubber goes down and Rosberg makes a 3.8 second

pit stop, presumably with a flat spot on his front left tyre. The

yellow mark soft tyres have gone on for Rosberg. He should be able to

get to the end on those, so we will not stop again. We will see how

that goes by you are right, two seconds covering the top three at

the moment. Seven seconds covering Massa by 6.5 seconds. I think

Rosberg will try and get to the end not matter set of tyres but that is

a long way. He will be trying to make it last -- wombat sec. At the

front, I would expect one more stop a piece of from these guys. It it

is a question of whether this option tyre can take them far

enough. Webber has caught them up, running faster on the tyre which

should be slower. Webber had a scrappy middle sector there, so too

0.1 covers the top three, and crucially, Hamilton won't get the

advantage of the DRS -- 2.1. Webber well. Her -- will. It closes as he

hit the brake pedal or releases the Button. Although all the other. --

one or the other. Mark Webber has not run a -- a one a race against

his team-mate this year. A him as to feeling pretty satisfied that

the moment. You can see the yellow marks on his tyres, he can see what

the driver has in front of him and it is working well, at and it is a

very clear indication now that everybody who pits from here are

then there must go on to those tyres. A TED KRAVITZ: At the

McLaren will have to, because they haven't run the yellow stripe yet.

It has not worked out for Jenson Button. He had to pass Mark Webber

immediately after the safety car to make it work and he didn't. Now his

super-soft tyres are getting on for 17, 18 laps old are not starting to

fall off. So is every calculations going on. -- and are starting.

Vettel has got -- not got this in the bag at all. He leads by 1.2

seconds as they move into lap 30. Webber will get the DRS. Jenson

Button is seven seconds adrift of the leader, 6.1 ahead of Felipe

Massa, who appears to have the legs on his team-mate Alonso.

Does confirming on the radio then a bad Felipe Massa is at four-tenths

quicker than his team-mate -- just Kenneth Irving on the radio that a

Felipe Massa. Vitaly Petrov ran into the back of Michael Schumacher

and Lee McKenzie is with him. seen that to be minding your own

business, heading into the corner. -- you seemed to be. Tell us the

first you knew? I was suddenly 180 degrees in the wrong direction and

saw my wing heading down and another wing flying the by. But

that is racing. It does happen occasionally. I haven't seen the

circumstances, at as I was focusing forward, not paying much attention

to the back, but the day you go. This is the third time you have had

at coming together with Vitaly Petrov this season. We have had

some great racing together, we are naturally together due to our

positions and the pace of our cars, so having a couple of get-togethers,

the first to where are my head and maybe this one was him -- that the

first two were on my head. Vitaly Petrov, tell us what happened.

had to defend our position from Fernando, I was in a position to

break back, and I locked and I hit Michael. It was my fault. That is

racing. A we are not realising how close the Mercedes was going to

get? Bath were you not realising. That we are not realising how close

the Mercedes was going to get? was just focusing on my position

and I tried to break almost the same and I was on the dirty side,

and even he missed the corner at brake. Italy Petrov confirming her

-- Vitaly Petrov confirming that he didn't see the Mercedes. I didn't

quite catch the radio correspondents there as we were

listening to Petrov, but talking about his friend tyres, and --

front tyres and he is starting to drop back. Webber a little bit

slower and we are on board with Toro Rosso. This is over ninth and

tenth. He uses the DRS and the car that have the fastest line speed

anyway, Paul di Resta slightly bumpy on the inside, realising

there is no point in trying to resist. That was an easy pass and

we have got another retirement in the Williams garage. Maldonado has

pitted from what was 21st place. He has already had a drive through

today. And look at this. Webber just 0.4 on a second behind Lewis

Hamilton, with the DRS available and the slipstream. Will it do him

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

go forward on the bias, You are damaging your rears. That will be

the rear tyres, rather than the rear brakes. It is something that

can happen a lot with the KERS. You have last -- less under rotation

with the rear axle so you will move your brake balance. You will be

constantly adjusting that during the race depending on how much

recharging of the KERS they have to do in each of the braking zones.

Maldonado, straight out of the car. This is the intriguing battle.

Sebastian Vettel is opening up the gap. If Mark Webber cannot get by

Lewis Hamilton, then maybe he has to do the early stop, get a new set

of primes on and get some clear track to gain position and beat

Lewis that way. He was looking like he was in a position to jump back

row Larisa for a while, but this is playing into Sebastian Vettel's

hands. The UN safe release of brickyard their's car or will be

investigated after the race. -- transmission was about the brakes.

The McLaren are not thinking about winning the race, which they were

earlier, which is slightly unfortunate for them. It is indeed.

Webber get ever-closer with his rear wing Open, getting better

purchase out of turn three. Hamilton has the stay left-hander

making go the the Rock -- long way around. Webber tries to go around

the outside. Hamilton tries to close him laugh off. Will Webber

run out of road? -- close him off of. Hamilton is very much under

pressure and Vettel is long gone. All of this is playing into

battle's hands. -- Vettel's hands. Webber knows if he cannot pass

Hamilton, he has to pit. There is a long way to go on a set of primes.

A bit of a grumpy message coming out of McLaren. That is for sure. I

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

Boxx this lap, please, confirm. Maybe. So the mechanics are getting

ready. That is good information for Red Bull as way -- as well. It is

now a question of what Mark Webber can do with clear air. Red Bull are

in the pits as well, so Webber is coming in. 22 laps after this one.

12 Mark Webber be thinking, that is not what I need. -- wind. I needed

another couple of laps of clear air. Exactly, or they should have

brought in in a couple of laps earlier, because they will both be

out on like-for-like, and he hasn't been able to pass him on the last

set. He will have the DRS as he does. He has got to use it. I think

he gutted. A that gap enough? They were neck and neck in terms of

straight-line speed in qualifying. Open goes the rear wing as you

predicted. I think he would have come into the pits thinking oh no,

why did I pit? I am amazed they didn't... Maybe his tyres work

giving way, they were worried about the undercut of Hamilton on new

tyres. That would give you a sizable advantage on the out-lap.

Hamilton has gone wide. Webber is down the inside. Drag race now. It

is a very fast section indeed. A sweeping right-hander. Not quite

room for two. It is as a left- hander and Hamilton has the right

place of the racetrack. Hamilton strikes right back at Webber. But

still having to be defensive. Webber getting tremendous

attraction on this corner. No DRS on this part of the track. It is a

long left hander and again, Hamilton has got track position.

Webber cannot drive clean through. Vettel pits from the lead as they

squabble over second place. Jenson Button is in the pit as well.

Alonso goes through and doesn't pit. Felipe Massa has pitted for Ferrari.

Berest Vettel coming out. That is a Toro Rosso in the background. --

There is. Where is Jenson Button going to be? He is just behind him.

Now we will see some fun. Webber will get the DRS at this time

around. Jenson Button's tyres have done one-lap less, as well Felipe

Massa's. Alguersuari does his personal rest of the base --

personal best of the race. That was great stuff true that middle sector.

-- through. Wheel-to-wheel stuff. Lewis Hamilton fighting for all his

work to keep Mark Webber behind him. You have to say, he placed his car

beautifully. In that initial lock- up, he was under pressure and he

just kept the car where he needed to. Super clean, super respectful

yet aggressive. Nice driving by both of them. Interestingly, they

are sharing a plane leaving this place tonight so I wonder if it

crossed their minds?! I doubt it. Jenson Button behind this fight.

Felipe Massa has a face full of Formula One car, as he seemed to

have had all afternoon. Adrian Sutil is in there as well. He is

yet to make his second stop, so that is what he is doing there.

Alonso does a new fastest lap of the race having not stopped. That

is just pipped their by Mark Webber. 41.8 from alarm so in clear air. --

from Alonso. He is 22.4 ahead of Felipe Massa. He is not quite a pit

stop ahead of his Ferrari team-mate. That is the gap between second that

there. The strategy going on in the cars, the Lewis Hamilton will be

losing a bit of his KERS of from turn two to keep that gap. Webber

is probably relying more on the DRS, hoping he can catch Hamilton

between three and four. The KERS has become as much of a defensive

to all of this year as an attacking tour. A bit of breathing space

there now. -- attacking tool. Fernando header front. Of 4.1

seconds ahead of Vettel. -- Alonso out front. He had so much speak to

spare perked up behind his team- race by Alonso, he is absolutely

flying. He has to get 25 seconds ahead of his team-mate. Vettel, a

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

not going to beat Vettel today, he needs to get ahead of Felipe Massa.

The gap is 22.4 seconds there. 23.5 as Felipe Massa or crosses the line.

That is enough to jump him. This is incredible driving from Alonso. His

times at the end of the race, and saying, why am I fighting with my

team-mate? He is striving for all he's worth just to get ahead. But

in his 15 seconds off the lead. -- looking at the Os lap times. But in

his closing the gap. -- Button. Significant debris on the side of

the track, tyre marbles. One goes hand-in-hand with the other.

Sebastian Vettel, 10 seconds ahead of Hamilton. Fernando Alonso gets

ready to put. -- ready to pit. Bird's-eye view of a perfect pit-

stop. And the way he goes. Man- sized coming out of the last corner.

-- Felipe Massa. Sweeping around in front of Felipe Massa. Job done for

Alonso. An awful lot of work to beat your team-mates. Webber, DRS

wide open. Not getting the advantage. They said that they were

running into the limiter a little bit in qualifying. They'll be have

DRS on that one straight. Losing about 1000 rpm. That is just off

the engines. It is a compromise. We saw Lewis Hamilton in Monza was

buzzing into the limiter. Are we seeing the same thing here for Mark

Webber? We are on lap 38. Vettel leaves Hamilton by 9.9 seconds.

Webber is in third, Button 1.9 behind. Alguersuari has pitted so

Felipe Massa moves up. Can Alonso haul himself up? RADIO: You have

got everything we have got. There is not much they can do now. They

have done two stops. They have to hope to get to the end now. They

cannot change now. Ted Kravitz a couple of things. I am in the Red

Bull garage and they said there were not any strange radio messages.

I think Mark is naturally harder on his tyres than Sebastien and Red

Bull thought they could race McLaren out of the pits, but

McLaren did as good a job. Looking at the order, I am not sure that

Kovalainen in Twelfth is not trying a one-stop strategy. He has used

all the tyres that he needs to use. 12th place would be decent for

Lotus. Except he has just pitted, just to blow that theory out of the

window! Jenson Button edging towards Mark Webber. RADIO: Jenson,

Fewlass good. Keep that up. We're catching the cars in front. -- fuel

is good. Very little information from pre- practice, how much fuel

do you put on the car's? -- on the cars. We saw that in Suzuka last

week. Jenson Button parked the car after the chequered flag. The teams

are required to give at least 0.7 kilograms of fuel for her the FIA

to do an analysis test. So they tried to on their fuel the car has,

as we know, and you have to weigh that up. -- so they tried to under

fuel for cars. Alonso does a new fastest lap. Sebastian Vettel's

lead was 3.8 seconds, and with all the squabbling that this two had

been doing, he now leads by 10.5%. They have given him all the comfort

zone he needs to look after his tyres and check his fuel. He has

not gone into cruise mode, having won his second world title. Quite

the contrary. This is a bigger gap that we have seen of late. So the

story is, how far can Alonso gets? Hamilton, Webber, Button, and you

could see Alonso dragging Felipe Massa a long. RADIO: Try-saving all

KERS for turn two to try and help you defend. Any minute now, you can

sense that Mark Webber is going to head out of turn three. Jarno

Trulli making his way, passing Timo Glock. Kovalainen, back out in 16th.

Hamilton and Webber. Button, down to 1.6, definitely catching Webber.

Alonso dozen other new fastest lap, 1:40.6. You will see him in the

background any time soon. Areas. Interestingly, he did longer on

that set of tyres. We know the Ferrari is easy on the tyres. He's

definitely going to be on the back of Button pretty soon. We will see

a four-way fight. Will he drank Felipe Massa along? -- will he

drank. Alguersuari is catching Rosberg. Coming back and Rosberg,

at a few tenths of a second a map - - a lap. Paul di Resta, he always

stays in there, in the points. Points are not guaranteed a towel

yet. But there is a good fight going on between Torro Rosso and

newer than Rosberg's. He was 1.4 behind but this is the battle for

the front. Run wide through their in your peril. You will be straight

in the wall and those marbles. Another six tenths of a second out

of them. He smells more points. You have to say, many fans do not like

it when Felipe Massa gets shuffled out of the way like a second-class

citizen, but it has cost Ferrari today because the pace he has had

since he passed the sister car has been phenomenal. Unquestionably.

After the second round of stops, he could have been a front of Button

had he not lost the time behind his team-mate. The teams have to try to

maximise their position. RADIO: Think about driving tactically to

keep Alguersuari as far away as possible. How will he do that?

has about 10 laps more on his tyres and Alguersuari. He will be nursing

them to the end. The only option has is to turn up the engine mode

on the run out of the last sector and use some KERS on the run

through, and then use another big boost as he comes out of turn two.

And then cross yourself and pray! Because he will have used up all

his toys. Sitting duck is a phrase that springs to mind. The fastest

guy in a straight line against the second fastest car. Nice analogy,

sitting duck, I like that one. will use that again. The Torro

Rosso Boys, they think their man is going to steal 7th place. Start to

the 11th. -- started the 11th. Mark Webber, further behind than he has

been. Just a thought, I wonder if Ferrari are letting their guys race

freely because there is no championship at stake and no chance

on the constructors? This might be about letting them race, rebuilding

confidence in Felipe Massa. He qualified in front of Alonso

yesterday, which was on merit,... And for the 4th time in two races.

Talking of the constructors title, right now, Red Bull would be

securing that. They will be out scoring McLaren and they will be

taking their second title in two and second at weekends if the race

stays like this. -- two consecutive weekends. Will he be happy with

this performance? He is managing his tyres well. He is in the mood -

- in good communication with his team. The questionnaires, how will

they manage this last sector? I am sure he is confident and his

confidence is growing, the fact that Mark Webber has not challenged

him on the run down to turn three. Look, they're both running over the

debris on the run down to the turn. That will not help their cars. Mark

Webber has been slow off the stern. Much better traction as they leave

turn two. Look at Hamilton, he has used up all his care as an that has

given in the buffer. -- KERS. All it does is bring him back to the

same position at that he was in at. -- the same position that he was in.

So prising Lee, Button is not closing up more. His Jenson just

controlling his temperatures and the flow and letting this unfold? -

- surprisingly. RADIO: Jenson, these tyres are goods to the end of

the race. -- are good. As Webber and Hamilton start to fight, it is

clear that Button is closer. KRAVITZ: I had been asking McLaren

while Lewis is so close. -- so slow. Their response is not that he is

slow, but just that this is the pace. His chronic understeer is a

result of the lack of running on Friday. They would have discovered

this if they had done the homework they should have done on Friday.

But because it was wet, they did not manage to do it. They would

have discovered that McLaren would have ended up with on the steering

on their tyres. It is not getting any better. It is just a matter of

containment. Jenson Button is easier on his tyres, and seems not

to be suffering the understeer. Maybe he can take advantage.

young racing drivers watching this, this is how Fernando Alonso drives

a Formula One race that makes the difference. His last five laps,

1:40.6, 1:40.6, 1:40.6. Relentless consistency, and that is now

beginning to bring him into play. Three seconds away from the pack,

from the back of Jenson Button. I think he will apply pressure when

he arrives. He is not the happiest Ferrari has a better top speed.

There will be a bit of Spanish aggression waiting to be unleashed

and Jenson Button is his first target. Still doing a personal best

in the middle part of the lap. Clearly, his tyres are extremely

good. Webber in -- is ever closer to Lewis Hamilton. This is the

corner where Hamilton got a bit of oversteer but save it. Opens it up

this time by the looks of it. Webber just 0.3 behind. Finally,

they are a bit quicker than Fernando Bob Crow. -- Alonso.

Vettel, the fastest man on the track, out front. Lap 46 of 55.

Apparently, the fastest lap of the race so far, Fernando Alonso, he

has just responded with their -- another, finding himself a couple

of tenths or stop I happen to know that Vettel happened to call in and

wanted to go for fastest lap last weekend when he wanted to win the

championship and they went, forget it, just go to the end of the race.

Let's take this championship, died make a mistake. -- don't. But

Fernando Alonso has punished those tyres and little too hard. He has

dropped another three tent city Jenson Button in that first sector.

It bears looks as though those super consistent and super-fast

eighth laps may have sacked -- taking it out of the tyres. TEAM

RADIO: There are some quick times behind Hamilton, you might need

does tyres. That is their Head Master. You are leading the race,

you have a big lead. As stop enjoying yourself. Webber is

looking down the inside, that is just trying to put Hamilton off a.

Closer than he has been through a two. Hamilton has much better

traction and he is having to defend really added. There goes the rear

wing of Webber. That really early. He is going to go down the outside

and he will cut back underneath and should be armed the throttle first.

But a lot of wheelspin from Webber. The McLaren has better traction.

That is helping Lewis Hamilton where it really counts. Fantastic

from Webber, trying to set Hamilton up but you need to get up earlier

in the morning to get Lewis to fall for that one. This will allow

Jenson Button to close that gap. It was 1.4 on the last lap.

Significantly less this lap. CERN has run a 40.8, so -- Jenson

Button. Six seconds covers the top five. They are so close this year,

it is great. Not too many changes for next year, either. We should

see plenty of evolution and consistency. They are lowering the

nose of the car for safety and stopping them put in the exhaust

underneath. The cars should be even more equal next year in theory.

Hamilton sweeping left, left again, at tents 17, Webber was very wide,

he goes straight on to the back of Hamilton -- turn 17. It is so dirty

on the inside of the track. I think it would be unwise to go up the

inside of turn one. The problem Webber has his Jenson Button is

right behind him. If he wasn't there, it would be worth a

speculative attempt, but if he messes up, a third place rapidly

becomes fourth. Alguersuari can't make any inroads. He keeps doing

wonderful first sectors but he can't do anything about Rosberg.

That makes the Toro Rosso cars eight and 10. Sebastian Buemi is

catching Paul di Resta as well. Paul di Resta still with the chance

of a championship of point or two. -- Check the injured point. Here

comes a man on the march, Fernando Alonso. Just 2.4 behind Jenson

Button. Well, Fernando Alonso, 40.6, the last lap. Only one-tenth away

from his fastest, the current fastest lap of the race. That was

seven-tenths quicker than Jenson Button's last lap. He is coming

into play. Jenson Button has got to get up there with Webber and make a

move or he will be attacked by Ferrari. And Webber is closer than

he has been. He goes for wreck. He is going to keep it tidy. -- he

goes for it. Back row Lewis will have the DRS. -- Lewis. Wrong-

footed by the Lotus, but he opened the DRS now and it goes straight

past. He was already on his way past with better speed and with the

KERS employed. Jenson Button right on the back of that fight. Hamilton

are keeping his head and reclaiming bad place, and indeed, look at

Jenson Button for the right in there. -- right in there. That is

the Lotus getting out of the way. Hamilton slightly wrong footed

through turn a 17 and 18 and that gave Webber a chance. It is

interesting to see whether relative pace of these cars is. You have a

McLaren looking mighty on traction and for whatever reason, there is

Hamilton got back in that last sector with a lot of sweeping

corners, he loses a lot of pace. Webber goes for it commanded the

end, Lewis Hamilton, I wonder if he just says, take it this time.

imagine Lewis felt he wouldn't stop. They got so excited. I am loving

this. Let me see some more racing and overtaking. We might just give

you more of that yet. And Webber is right back on Hamilton and they

have cropped Jenson Button. What happened there? Webber has done the

fastest sector of the entire Grand Prix. They have dropped Jenson

Button. We are back to square one, except Fernando Alonso gets ever

closer. Six laps to go, including this one. In the very far distance,

Felipe Massa, in sixth place, 6.7 seconds behind his team leader.

Alguersuari can only get within a second of Rosberg. Paul di Resta,

13 seconds adrift in night. TEAM RADIO: Six laps to go, blue Button,

please. Blue Button, not a Jenson Button. This is Paul di Resta at

getting past Sebastian Buemi. Down to tenth. He will have to drive

like crazy if he wants to take the last point. Toro Rosso up into

eighth and ninth back row. -- ninth. You have to say, they have greater

pace here. He has just done the fastest first sector. Barrichello

in the Williams going past his country man. Then into the braking

zone at turn three. A very polite from the Brazilians. Cut back. Cut

back. Undercut is where they go in the pit, I have made a note of that.

The fastest lap of from Webber, a 40.5. He really wants second place

badly. He had it in his hands, but Hamilton just a breeze to straight

back. Ted Kravitz is in the pit lane. I have come down to Toro

Rosso, where a lot of Italians are pointing out that Sebastian Buemi

is the only one in his pack who is on the super-soft tyres. He had

been threatening Paul di Resta for a long time and has finally got him.

Alguersuari is on the hard at tyre but is still challenging the

Rosberg for seven, so a great race for Toro Rosso. It is India. The

Toro Rosso are looking strong -- it is indeed. Alguersuari just can't

get rid of that final second he is behind Nico Rosberg. I would say he

was a sitting duck, but he is it, Rosberg is holding him off, just as

Hamilton is holding off Webber. They have got relatively different

strengths around the racetrack. fastest man on the track, Sebastian

Buemi, is out on the option. The super-soft. All of these guys at

the front on the prime, you can see the yellow markings, it is the

slower tyre. TEAM RADIO: Full power. And next, five, for power. I think

that is the same as blue Button. In position to care for the past that

pass in 101, Webber backs out -- in position to go for the past in turn

or 1. By the time he gets into the DRS activation point, he is too far

back. 12 seconds behind the leader now. Vettel coasting out front. As

this lot are busy watching each other. Alonso has just been told 10

that Ferrari up to the maximum amount of fuel power -- turn that

Ferrari up to the maximum amount of in the action of lapping as they

come through. Felipe Massa has closed a little bit on them. They

have dropped Rosberg by 22.5 seconds in seventh. Paul di Resta

is holding off a Sutil, matching him a lap for lap -- Sutil. The NM

aggregating in position. We can see Jenson Button with the oversteer

Off the kerb. -- Alonso getting in position. Short shift of the exit,

then down the two more shifts, playing the gearbox like a musical

instrument. A gap has opened up a little bit. The gap is there to

zero. Take. He would have got the DRS. He went wide, oversteer on

entry. Just about to get the DRS. He is 0.8 behind going over the

line, he must have been more than one second adrift as he went over

the activations loan at the exit of turn one. -- activation zone.

Hamilton still leads Webber, it has been a good fight. It has been

intriguing. These guys are in there, playing with the various parameters

available to them, how much KERS delight the ploy? What do I do with

my brakes? How hard the why push these tyres? What about the engine

note? Do I use up more? Do I use more fuel? Those questions

definitely distract you when you are in the car, it is a lot to

think about. As soon as tyres started to go away, my

concentration was really stretched to its absolute limit, let alone

pressing buttons and going into different modes. TED KRAVITZ: I am

back at McLaren and the drivers have been told a different things.

Hamilton is asking how many laps left as he desperately tries to

defend from Webber and Jenson Button is being told to push, he

has saved enough fuel, and they feel he can get more out of his

tyres. He is being told to push and Hamilton is being told to defend.

Top 0.2 seconds behind Vettel is Hamilton -- 12.2. Once again,

Webber will have the seemingly useless DRS available to him in the

second half of this trade. -- straight. TEAM RADIO: I give up. I

give up now. What? That is not a nice message for 18 to hear.

never thought I would hear him say that. -- for a team to hear. He has

not been happy this weekend. I think he has come back and been

fantastic, he has pulled himself back into this race, he can sniff

second place if there was an incident in front of them. It is a

dummy message, it is a message to McLaren next back you think he is

teasing them? I think he is. He will be telling Jenson Button,

Fernando has thrown in the towel, but Jenson Button will want to see

the white flag being waved. I think that is, if you ever leave me

behind Felipe Massa again, you will Rosberg comes back. I'm glad we are

seeing this action because Alguersuari has been consistently

quicker in this sector. Good defensive driving from Rosberg but

can he hold on? It is a good layout for racing, this track. Perez has

pitted with one lap to go. Hamilton does his personal best, the fastest

lap of the race. 1:40.4. People that out of the back. -- he pulled

that out of the back. RADIO: Used the overtake Button if you get the

chance. That is a delayed transmission. I think that moment

is over. And there is the man who has given up. Hunting down Jenson

Button as if it was for a Grand Prix victory! He could have spoken

to his engineer in Italian, of course, but he sent that message in

English. He did, didn't say? It could be any language but that is

the one he chose. -- didn't he. Vettel is a few corners from home.

Once again, he has pure Mrs Li left his main pursuers after taking the

lead on the first lap. -- peerlessly. Sebastian Vettel will

have thoroughly enjoyed that. He may have won the championship last

weekend, but that will mean a great thing -- a great deal to him.

Hamilton is second, Mark Webber third. Jenson Button in 4th and the

man who was giving up in 5th, Alonso. Felipe Massa picks up some

rubbish on his tyres to gain weight on his car. Alguersuari has got

past Rosberg. We're going to see a replay. Coming from a long way back.

You have to wonder if Rosberg has got a feeling issue, because that

was from 50 metres behind. Alguersuari takes seven. Nico

Rosberg crosses the line, 4.5 seconds adrift, almost as if he was

out of fuel. Sebastien Buemi seven or eight seconds behind, crossing

the line in 9th. Seven and nine for Torro Rosso. Paul di Resta in 10th,

with their World Championship point, beating Adrian Sutil by 2.6%. --

2.6 points for -- to buy six seconds. Barrichello will be 12. 21

finishers. RADIO: A fantastic, Sebastian, fantastic! Yes Yes Yes

and yes again! 10 wins, my friends, 10 wins! He is counting them.

RADIO: Great drive, Mark, fantastic, we have won the constructors. Well

done. The de World Champion and the man who won the second Grand Prix

in Korea, Sebastian Vettel. Confirming the result, Sebastian

Vettel is the winner. It was a shame for him a year ago. His

engine blew and he did not pick up any points but this year, he has

helped Red Bull become the Constructors' Championship. --

constructors champions. We have to say, well done to Alguersuari,

Sebastien Buemi and Paul di Resta, who will be very happy with points..

Been prizes. And these are the prizes given out so far this season.

Sebastian Vettel has won the drivers' championship leading

Jenson Button, Alonso, Webber and Hamilton to fight for second. And

the Constructors' Championship Trophy will also be handed to Red

Bull. 558 points after 16 races. An incredible season for them. They

finish in front of McLaren. Let us hear from the men at the centre of

the action. It was a very nice day the action. It was a very nice day

today, very special. It means a lot. It was a phenomenal race, with so

much pace. It was so much fun out there. Lot of head wind. It was

difficult to get away. I could always see the car getting bigger

and bigger in the mirror, braking again, bigger and bigger. It was a

tough race in that regard. RADIO: Do not abuse retires. You manage to

get the fastest lap in the end, despite Rocky telling you not to

abuse the tyres? He said he would kill me, so what is a silly thing.

-- he saw it is a silly thing. I might not be with you in India(!)

It would be wrong for me, winning the championship without the

fastest lap. There is no Calleri -- there is not lorry, but I have done

and that, even though it might be the end of my life! I'm sure you're

disappointed he did not get the win, but the battle was fantastic.

went backwards. I am not ecstatic, but I am happy for the team to get

some points for them. I think I drove pretty well, considering how

much quicker their car was, which was a considerable amount.

Fortunately, we were able to just about stay ahead, but I had to push

hard. A fantastic battle to watch. It was. It was pretty intense.

There was a bit of a battle before, and then after the stock, I was

frustrated that we managed to follow him out of the pit lane. I

tried to risk quite a bit to pass him before he got settled in, which

is not easy with somebody of the calibre of Lewis. The battle began

and I tried some moves. In the end, it was a good battle. The cars had

weaknesses and strengths in different areas. Trying to get the

move done was not particularly easy on him. I was strong in the last

sector but it was hard to stay close. I would have liked to get

that extra position. Performance- wise, I think we deserve it. Lewis

drove well. The pace was OK, but I could not get close enough. Whether

Wright did not have enough front or what, but still, I had so much

understeer. I could not get close to them. I think I used to DRS once

in the whole race. Not perfect. If this is a bad day, it is not so bad.

Tell us about the start. The start was OK. I thought Mark was behind

me. I do not know where Felipe Massa was. I brakes were found was

correct and it felt corrects. I turned in an there was a car there.

I did not see him before. -- it felt correct. I do not think it

would have changed the race, even if I did have a bad start or a bad

first late -- bat first lap, because I was not quick enough.

as many points as you would have hoped for. It is a point, so it is

quite crucial. Torro Rosso outpaced us. We were giving it all at the

end, but we came up a few laps short. I think we extracted what we

could but it was just not to be. The nice thing is that sober, we

gained a point back on Sauber. -- the nice thing is that Sauber. We

can go away happy. As the sun sets, let us get the thoughts of David

Coulthard. That was a race the fitting of crowning the

constructors champions. A fantastic race with a much bigger winning

margin than we have seen of late. The battle for second place, Lewis

Hamilton learning how to control the race, look after his tyres, and

Mark Webber passing him and then losing the place again with the

skilful use of DRS from Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso

pretending to be throwing in the towel as he hunted down Jenson

Button. Three different manufacturers, six different

drivers all battling for position. An Jenson fort mark, Lewis and

Fernando and Sebastien made the pass early on and was not involved

in any of that. The perfect Grand Prix from them. He had a very good

start and position the car on the run down to the third term. He

saved some KERS and then you stop is KERS to get down the inside.

From there, he was not seen again. Great to see Lewis Hamilton on the

podium. Who knows whether that will put a smile back on his face. You

hope so. He deserves to smile. He drove a fantastic pole position.

The way he dance to the car around the middle sector, he should be

very proud. He showed us that he can manage his tyres. We have been

talking about Jenson Button's scale, but today,... And he has helped his

team to win the Constructors' Championship, Mark Webber. He will

take pride in that is. Have helped secure the championship. But he is

disappointed. He had a chance to win the Grand Prix today. There was

a point when there was three seconds between the top three cars

and he started squabbling over position with Lewis Hamilton and

lost a lot of time. He put it at the same time. We have to question

that strategy. Ultimately, that allowed Sebastien to open his

leaked. -- open his lead. Mark Webber will take part in that he

helped Red Bull to win the championship today. And this is how

they have done it. RADIO: Yes, that is what I'm talking about! Thank

we are who we are. -- we do our brilliant! Brilliant work by the

Red Bull mechanics. We have done an amazing job with the team. It is

pretty straightforward. Drive as quick as you can. It is better than

anything you can imagine. Pleasure, it is a pleasure every week to be

with you. I am loving it. Fantastic, have won the constructors, thank

have won the constructors, thank you, well done. Congratulations to

Red Bull. They can reflect on a job well done this season. We expected

Sebastian Vettel to take his foot off the gas after he was crowded --

crowned Drivers' Championship but he did not. Do you expect Red Bull

to take the food offie gas over the to take the food offie gas over the