The Canadian Grand Prix - Qualifying Highlights Formula 1

Last year, this was the scene of a monumental Grand Prix. At four

hours and four minutes, it was the longest F1 race in history, a war

of attrition and the battle against the elements, but one man

MUSIC. You can't see anything. What is he

doing? This is a difficult and for McLaren.

Everything pretty much went wrong that could have gone wrong,

crashing with Lewis, crashing with Fernando. Getting a puncture,

breaking my front wheel, having a drive-through, the pit stops.

Jenson Button is on the charge. Having a tough year that I have had

has helped me, it made me realise you can't give up. Whatever happens,

and never give up. This is brave stuff from Jenson.

Every move you make feel so good. This race is not over. TEAM RADIO:

We can win this race. What can Jenson Button do? I didn't know if

I would get past Sebastian on the He deserved this win, everyone

knows that. TEAM RADIO: Brilliant, Jenson.

EDDIE JORDAN: Am I watching what I am watching, this is the best

racing? My whole career has been a roller-coaster ride and it had

ended on a high, which was great. I would say, yes, it is my greatest

ever win. Well, what an amazing race, David

Coulthard. It was certainly a race everyone will remember. It was the

longest ever Grand Prix, just over four hours, we were making all

sorts of stuff up in the commentary box but what a great end to the

weekend. You have had some dramatic races here, you scored your first

point, you have had podium finishes and pole positions, does it hold

good memories? It does, there is a great history, an amazing backdrop

in Montreal, the teams love coming here and the drivers love it. It is

very high speed, tight chicanes. All of the drivers talk about how

much they enjoyed but it is a tricky place to tame. Why is it so

challenging? It is the high-speed nature of the entries, which is why

the drivers love it so much. There is a consequence to any decision

you make. If you try to break later, it carries consequences. -- brake.

It gets the adrenalin pumping. though this -- this is a temporary

track, there is a real solid and amazingly, we have had six

different winners from the first six races of the year -- race seven.

We head back to Europe for the next few races but back this way for the

few races but back this way for the penultimate race. David, three

world champion still haven't won it yet, you would think they had a

good chance this weekend. Record brooks were rewritten in Monaco and

we could have a seventh win this weekend and I suspect we will.

Lewis Hamilton has been superb on this racetrack in the past, he

could be the man most likely. has such an interesting record here,

all or nothing. He has won twice but also crashed out twice. It is

the nature of this track. He is a very committed driver, which has

delivered him consecutive pole positions, but if it goes wrong

during the course of a Grand Prix, it can lead to an incident. I think

we are seeing a much more controlled Lewis Hamilton, he has

the speed we know he has but he is playing the long game. He looks

like a man who once the first win of the year. And lot of drivers

talking up their chances but there is some other news out there, here

is Ben Edwards. Despite rival dreams and objecting

to the Red Bull build, know a formal our objections and the issue

remains. A halt have been banished and according to Mark Webber, that

is the end of the matter. -- be holds. Whatever, 10 or 15 of these

go on each year, small interpretations of the Rolls and at

they get changed, because that is how Formula One is -- the rules.

While Jenson Button has great memories of last year, he is aware

that his qualifying this year it needs to improve. 10th and 12th in

the last two events, he has been out-qualified six Nell verses

Hamilton. -- 6 nil. It is tricky to understand. Here, you do certain

things to the car for this circuit and it will help qualifying. Lewis

Hamilton has enjoyed three propositions on his four visits to

this track. What chance that he could become the seventh different

winner of the season? I think anyone can be the seventh winner,

even the Marussia drivers have the chance to be the seventh winner, it

is so random this year, but we have prepared in the best way possible

and I think we are in a strong position, but we are SOME

incredibly tough teams. Michael Schumacher has won here and seems

impressed by the potential of the Mercedes, as does Nico Rosberg.

Everybody seems to think you have a good chance of winning this race,

is that how you see it? I seem to think the same thing. We have good

straight-line speed because we have the Mercedes engine in the back, so

it should suit did pretty well here. While Felipe Massa demonstrated

improved form in Monaco, the rumour mill continues to correct --

Connect a variety of drivers to the team for 2013. One who seems to

have been discounted according to the Ferrari boss is Sergio Perez,

but he remains tight-lipped. I will respect his comments, he has enough

experience to judge. I am doing my job and I'm doing my best every

race and there will be a time when I have to think of my future, and

right now I am not really worried. right now I am not really worried.

LEE MCKENZIE: Sergio Perez sits an impressive 10th in this topsy-turvy

championship. And Fernando Alonso will be delighted to be at the top

of the pile. David, although it has been a mixed up season, five world

champions in the top seven. shouldn't be surprised, based in --

it is a lot closer than the last it is a lot closer than the last

two years, but I think it is a reflection of the stability in the

regulations, all of the teams are getting closer to the peak of

performers. How will Sebastian Vettel field? Coming to this race

last year, five pole position and five points, this year only one of

each. I think he was frustrated earlier in the season, but I think

he has had time to realise that this year will be won by

consistency. He won't be able to win as many as he did in his second

world championship year. He has looked very good through free

practice and he will be pushing it to the limit, as well all of the

guys back -- battling for the championship. This is the first

high-speed test of the season, with speeds in excess of 300 kilometres

per hour. So it demands a different car to watch you have seen earlier.

Gary has been looking at what some of the teams bring to the track.

After the controversy of the holes in the Red Bull car in Monaco, the

FIA has clarified that they are going to implement things as is

said in a technical handbook. So it was a job of basically blocking

them off. But they have some holes and the front axle that allows air

flow of to help cool the brakes. They have had to fill these because

they deemed it to be at moving aerodynamic device. To everybody's

surprise, Ferrari are leading the world championship, but they need a

lot of new developments to Montreal. The inside of the tyres are

completely shielded, but more importantly, the exhaust out that

have been modified. Like the McLaren, getting better airflow

into the inside of the rear tyre means you get more than forced into

the diffuser. I think we will see a more competitive Ferrari -- Macro

And in the Williams, it has a bent section, which means the amount of

downforce will be greater. It is about who has the fastest car

coming up to the last chicane. Friday are Montreux -- in Montreal

was used for a lot of testing. The Red Bull car measures the air speed

away from the surface of the car and when she discovered that, you

can try and instigate some turning manoeuvres to take advantage.

of this effort is to get an edge, but how does it feel for the

drivers? Does it feel different? will do, especially when they use

all of these different devices, but with restrictions and in-season

testing, they have the use Friday's to see how they can make progress -

- they have the use of Fridays. Ferrari are a good example of that,

they have developed the car well, and that is the Q2 winning the

World Championship. It is so important to feel comfortable at

this circuit, and a couple of drivers not feeling comfortable

drivers not feeling comfortable yesterday. A small mistake can have

big consequences, as Heikki Kovalainen found out. This was a

strange one. He started to lose the back end coming out of that second

chicane but it looked as if the car bottomed out. The entry phase,

nicely under control, transition phase, gets on the power, and visit

the back end. When he makes a correction, it runs on and it sucks

him into the wall. Here we have Bruno Senna at the last chicane.

They call this the Wall of Champions because several have

crashed here in the past. This is a clumsy one, he is experienced

around this track. High-speed breaking into the corner, the

across the run-off area but he tried to correct and it was a one-

way ticket to the wall. So apart from keeping out of the war, what

is the success? -- wall. It is the braking zones. You should be

running at the same seed Agger teammates, but if you can just E

Kuyt -- E Kuyt that breaking, you qualifying Ed de Schill at

Villeneuve circuit. -- at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit. TEAM

RADIO: There is still went on the straight, but a bit less. Intensity

has changed a little bit from the morning but not as high as

yesterday. Track temperature is now 40 degrees, that is up nine degrees

on this morning. Let's get a word from Gary Anderson in the pit lane.

What can we expect from qualifying exciting time. 16 cars within one

second that this morning, so blink and you lose it at these chicanes.

It will be something like 15.1, 15.2. The super-soft tyres is

perhaps half a second quicker than the soft tyre. But the one thing

that is interesting is as the tale went down towards the pits, the

cloud cover is there now, so a bit cooler.

DAVID COULTHARD: This is Kobayashi moving very wide through Turn One.

We saw Jean-Eric Vergne do something very similar this morning.

He carried into the tyres as he carried the momentum, that is an

example of how not to do it. couple of cars going quickly and

Lewis Hamilton is one of them, fastest in both free practice

sessions on Friday. Not fastest this morning but third quickest and

he has a very good record in Canada. Three propositions at this track,

including his first ever in 2007, which led to his first-ever Grand

Prix victory, so fond memories of this circuit. He loves the place,

doesn't he? He relishes getting close to the walls and challenging

positions round this track. We saw him in free practise, waving to the

crowd, round turn ten. Getting close to the grass. Getting ready

to deliver what will be his opening lap time. It's a 1.16.2. He is

using the soft tyre. The yellow marked one. Some way off what we

saw this morning. He will get a couple of laps out of their tyre.

He is likely to go quicker. They will have fuelled the car for a few

gaps. We see Sebastian Vettel visualising his lap. He will see a

pole position. That is in the first part of qualifying. They are only

looking through to the next section. We see Perez coming to finish his

opening lap. Yes Sergio Perez. 1.16.1. On the yellow soft tyre.

have seen very little degradation. Lap on lap they are building

momentum. Massa lost the rear end on entry. So different to what we

saw with Kamui Kobayashi who has undersear. Massa on turn in,

locking up the rear axle. They will have fuelled the car for three

timed laps, to get the opportunity, to build some momentum, and use the

fact that the tyres are not dropping off in performance and

deliver the lap time. Let us see what these two are tkp doing. Kamui

Kobayashi is going fast. Fernando Alonso was going fast, it looks

like it it could be a good lap. This is off what he did this

morning, he is on the harder of the two compound tyres, the soft as

opposed to the supersoft. That was Perez coming through, a moment ago.

He skirted that wall. Known as the champions wall, from 1999 where

three World Champions crashed into that wall during the race,

including Michael Schumacher and others have gone off many times

since. Bruno Senna -- hit the wallette yesterday. A nice slide

from Paul di Resta. Nico Hulkenberg is second and he goes fourth.

steady opening last from Paul di Resta. The forces for is looking

stronger in free practise round this Monday trarl track than what

we saw in Monaco, they ended up getting both cars in the points

there, so good result for them, they will look to try and

capitalise on the speed they get from that engine and deliver a

strong, we would be would be a top ten qualifying. Michael Schumacher

looks to try and continue the good work he did in Monaco by going

fastest in qualifying. He is second quickest. He has a tremendous

record. Here comes Lewis Hamilton out of the final quarter. Let us

see where this puts the McLaren he is seventh at the moment, he goes

second. 1.15.3 for Lewis Hamilton and Massa is now on a good lap as

well. Now, Gary said to us round 1.15. 1, 15.152, but some of those

behind might have to do another run. A bit of a story here developing.

Caterham is battling to get through to Q2 and Petrov and Laszlo Kovacs

are ahead of Vergne, but they are in that drop zone. Petrov Heikki

Kovalainen, Glock, Pic, all in the drop zone. Close and competitive on

the time. Could be an opportunity. Jean-Eric Vergne will have to go on

the supersoft tyres. Unless he is feeling particularly confident. He

missed the morning session having crashed at turn two. Let us watch

how to do turn ten. Nice, not too eventful. That is what the drivers

need to do on the Pirelli tyres, you don't want to fight it at the

hairpin. Let us see what it looks out to the wall. He goes fastest.

1.14.7 for Sebastian Vettel, that is on the harder of the two tyres.

Think what is interesting in that, typically Red Bull have not been

strong the last couple of seasons, in straight line speed. Even when

they were winning the championship, they would find them outside the

top 15, in terms of V max. Sebastian Vettel fastest of all. A

lot of the lap time coming from the braking and change of direction in

this last chicane, in front of the come box. Let us look at Raikkonen.

The red marked side walls. Not having a lot of confidence that he

can do the job on the slightly slower of the tyres. That is a

surprise. Lotus haven't been showing the form we have seen from

this this yore, no doubt they have had to go for the softer of the the

two tyre compound. Kimi has take an victory in the past. They have to

find pace here. He has never been on the front row in Canada.

have Raikkonen in 12th behind Grosjean, all weekend and he has

backed out of it. He is feeling the need to get clean air, they have

been beside each other on the time sheets. Romain Grosjean has been

the slightly quicker, can Raikkonen use his experience? We are onboard

with Perez, on the supersoft tyre as you can see, the red side walls

on the front tyres. And Sergio sits and waits, this long straight to be

completed. Let us watch him. Such a crucial corner. Gear change in the

middle of a coner there from Sergio. You hear that from a throft guys.

Across the line and he is tenth fastest. I don't think that is the

right way n my view to be quick in that last chicane. When do you a

down shift, we see Pastor Maldonado doing it, and Kamui Kobayashi

getting on the grass through the exit of turn one, but any way, I

want to say when you down shift in the middle of that last chicane, a

big power slide, Bruno Senna out of the last chicane. Let us see what

he delivers. It is not a big improvement. That is right. He is

down in 14th place. Senna needs a good result. Vettel is on a good

lap. He might go quirk than 1.14.. He has done a 1.14.6. He is going

faster. You are onboard with Paul di Resta in the forces for. He is

on the supersoft tyre and he is aiming to move up the order. Nico

Hulkenberg is fifth. Paul di Resta displaces his team-mate by a few

hundreds of a second. Good effort from both Force India. They should

be safe they have been split by Rosberg. I don't know how you could

split them, they are so close. You have Vettel on top. Michael

Schumacher, Alonso, then Webber, in the drop zone we have Petrov and

Heikki Kovalainen, then Jean-Eric Vergne, the two HRTs of Clemence

Poesy and Glock. The HRT. We have to give recognition to Pedro de la

Rosa as we see Jenson Button finding form on the supersofts and

a 14.7. He will get through this first part. Down in the drop zone.

Rose groetsing that HRT in -- gross. Pedro de la Rosa. HRT have been

working to get themselves out of being the slowest cars in Formula

One which they have had an exclusive on in the last couple of

year, that is not good, through free practise. Petrov quicker than

Heikki Kovalainen. It doesn't happen very often that Heikki

Kovalainen's team-mate is quicker than him. It might change. We have

a bit of time to go in the first set. Pastor Maldonado across the

line in the Williams. And at the moment, we will have to see. He is

in danger territory in 17th place. Jean-Eric Vergne should get another

time lap after the one he is on. We will get a replay of the trin to

turn one, locking up. Hits the apex and gets the car positioned into

turn two. A bit wide on the entry phase. You can use some of the kerb

there. That was good. Let us see whether that was enough. Petrov

still not an improvement. 1.16.705. We will have to wait and see what

Heikki Kovalainen does. He is on a lap himself at the moment, but it

looks as though we will lose the two Caterhams unless something

change, Pedro de la Rosa's performance impressive. He was

really happy with his lap in Monaco. At the moment he is faster that

both of them. Vergne is at risk of dropping a place to him. He has

been matching, they have been matching each other, so let us see

how the lap unfolds. That is a slow time lap. Laszlo Kovacs. Pastor

Maldonado goes 13th. Senna by the way is very safe. He is up in

seventh. Mald not Senna in the first part. The clock ticking away,

it goes to zero. It is OK if you are still on a lap like Jean-Eric

Vergne. This is when the pressure is on. He crashed the car in the

morning session. His first season in Formula One, he has one lap to

get himself up in front of his team mate, which is the ultimate goal

for Jean-Eric Vergne, against Daniel Ricciardo. Let us see how it

is unfoeding. It not looking good. He is down on that. It doesn't look

as though Vergne will be able to displace him. Vergne is the

youngest driver on the grid. 22- year-old, in his first season of

Formula One. Watch him here. A bit of a lock up. Gathered it together.

Comes back out again, and he is going to cross the line, I don't

know it will be enough. He stays 20th. Meanwhile cove has gone

faster than his team-mate -- Laszlo Kovacs. It doesn't happen he gets

outqualified and Laszlo Kovacs has managed to go quicker. But the

Caterhams the fastest of the cars that have dropped out. Looking back

at a lot of wheel action from Jean- Eric Vergne. He hasn't found his

comfort zone. He had difficult any that first section of the track,

and that has led through to what will be a very disappointed Toro

Rosso driver. It is Sebastian Vettel fastest in the first part of

qualifying. Jenson Button second quickest with Hamilton third, then

Michael Schumacher fourth, Alonso fifth, ahead of Webber, Pastor

Maldonado, improved at the end, he went seventh so just ahead of seven

na. Then Kimi Raikkonen,. 15th only for Massa, then Perez, and then the

guys then Daniel Ricciardo, then the guys that have not made to it

the second part of qualifying. They are Kimi Raikkonen, his Tate maim

Petrov. Then Jean-Eric Vergne, Pedro de la Rosa who has outfall --

outqualified Glock and Pic. And Narain Karthikeyan. A bit of kerb

action from him there. He is not a very tal driver. Way too much kerb.

Look at the car sliding through the exit. He is charging off. He went

quicker than his team-mate. He will be happy about that. But

disappointed not to have got through, into Q2. The cars out. The

drivers are out.. Out after Q1 are you disappointed. I didn't expect

us to qualify unless someone has a problem. Since Monaco, we, we can't

be expecting that result every weekend, so, in a way I am not

surprised we are out, I did make a mistake on the last corner. I would

have been closer. I was trying to cut the last corner ant went too

much. I launched the car with the kerb. I will try 100%, since

yesterday's crash, I am happy about my car crew, they are done an

excellent job. The car feels as good as it could at the moment. We

are working on the updates and hopefully close the gap later on in

the season. It is about finding your limits on the Friday. Tomorrow,

what can we expect from you? Classic trend has been, we are

closer in the rain than qualifying. I hope we can continue that

tomorrow. I think this hot conditions today are quite

different to yesterday, so I don't think we can read that yesterday.

It's a bit of a long run. I will try to attack and take as many cars

as I can and stay on the track all the way through. Thank you. Let us

get back to the action now. second stage of qualifying gets

under way. Daniel Ricciardo is first out in the Toro Rosso. We

have seen his team-mate go out, Jean-Eric Vergne, joining those

that have not made it through into Q2. Now then Gary, you were

accurate on your prediction of the times required in Q1. Give yours

thought, any surprises in, particularly from the front runners

and what question expect from this one? The slowest was a 15.5 for

rick rbg. Massa was on a 15.1. You will have to get into probably a

14.8, 14.6 to get through. It is going to be competitive. I do

believe there is half a second on the softer tyres. A lot of the

front runners didn't run it. So there is no give me, you have to

compound for this part of qualifying. Jenson Button coming

out early, Fernando Alonso, Nico Rosberg. Not waiting around very

long. Kobayashi has got some good clear space in front of him for the

moment, it just depends on who might come out of the pits. Sauber,

when they were BMW Sauber, had their one and only race victory

thanks to Robert Kubica in 2008. A brilliant win and 12 months on from

a big accident he had here in 2007. Sauber, their best result has been

a couple of fourth-place finishes in Canada in the past, but the car

has been looking impressive. But we are watching Daniel Ricciardo. We

know it will be hard work for him to get close to being in Q1, but he

will be -- he surprised us all in Bahrain when he ended up sixth on

the grid. Yes, again, it is showing the unpredictability of this season

that we see occasionally what are the mid- teens consolidate in the

top 10. -- teams. I wouldn't say Toro Rosso are particularly

comfortable on this track but Daniel has got through to the

second part of qualifying and has gone early on the super-soft tyres.

We will just watch this lap on fault. He has been a consistent

finisher this year although he was out of luck in Monaco last time. It

is a team that struggles in terms of budget, they don't have much to

develop the car through the season, so what they start with, they don't

have a lot of options to change it, unlike Ferrari and McLaren. 1: 15.9,

Gary by saying we need a 1: 14, so here it is about 1.5 seconds away.

On board with Nico Rosberg. His experience and knowledge of the

track should put what happened this morning behind him quickly.

suspect that Red Bull will get out of the way as they run down on the

fastest section of the track. Picks up a little bit of a slipstream,

and makes a brake suggestion -- adjustment. Unfortunately, the

director decides not to give us the on-board view as he slices through

the kerbs. We are hearing on the team radio that Fernando Alonso

words -- was told that the team want to see a 14.4 from him to

become the ball through this part of qualifying. So not too different

to what Gary was saying -- to be comfortable through this part of

qualifying. Lewis Hamilton relishing their challenge today, to

try and take pole position. -- the challenge. He has had a

couple already this year and he has qualified top three in terms of lap

time at every event this year. His worst was third in Monaco, he has

been in the top two in terms of times everywhere else but penalties

have affected it. He goes fastest, 1: 14.5. Let's see what Gen gutted

is up to. Locking on the bumps. let's see what Jenson. If he can

finished his lap, he has got a clear run into the last corner to

13. He has got Perez in the Sauber in front, so he has just exited

cleanly. I suspect this will be the fastest. He does go fastest by a

three-tenths, a good lap of, on the super-soft Red Bull tired, Vettel

is definitely in challenging -- on the super-soft Red Bull tyres.

Ahead of Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Bruno Senna Williams is 13th, but a

few changes up the top. Let's see. He is ninth at the moment. A

Michael Schumacher has just gone fourth fastest. -- and Michael

Schumacher. The information we have here is telling us that both Felipe

Massa and Fernando Alonso in the Ferraris are on the prime tyre.

Difficult to get a handle of how much performance gain varies from

the super-soft tyres up but they are clearly getting -- but they are

clearly getting a sight of. I don't think they think the super-soft

will be the better Tyacke if they get through to the last part of

qualifying. -- tyre. We are expecting that now, whereas earlier

in the year, and that was not a given. Sergio Perez in 14 that the

moment. A little bit of work to do there in the Sauber -- 14th at the

moment. Jenson Button not running it quite as wide on the exit as

some of the others. As he comes across the line, at that keeps him

in six Macro. Off -- and that keeps him. Now we are on board with Lewis

Hamilton and that keeps him in last chicane. So sweet. Lovely.

beautiful. Really aggressive on the turning it, but the car just

follows his hand movements, no instability from the rear of the

car and that puts him in second place at this stage. So he is just

behind Sebastian Vettel with a 1: 14.3. Hamilton tried to take

another pole position in Montreal. Raikkonen now, tenth at the moment

in the Lotus. Both of the Lotus cars still battling away. Maldonado,

the Barcelona race winner. TEAM RADIO: My biggest problem is the

lock-up. We saw that on the replay earlier, when he hits the bumps.

That energy goes in through the front tyre and most of the

suspension travel comes in through the side wall of the tyres, and

once it starts bouncing it, he is then unloading the front wheel and

locking up. He obviously feels that middle sector there but a strong

final sector from Schumacher. goes into fourth, using the super-

soft tyres. Gary, we are about halfway through the second part of

qualifying are, what are you seeing in the pits, in terms of the tyres?

I think Ferrari are playing quite a good game, they had a run on the

harder of the compounds and had a side to lap but they have got

themselves into a situation where they are going to get out on the

red tyres and the track is cleaner, a bit more rubber down. So instead

of potentially having to use two said, they are going to have one

run on the soft tyres. -- two sets. We are hearing on the team radio

that Nico Rosberg has been told to short shift. Would that be to save

fuel or is there any show up there with that Mercedes? -- is then

issue with that Mercedes? I heard that myself, I am not sure why.

They had a clutch problem this morning but I don't know any more

than that. I don't know if they have a problem but if they do, it

will be hard to fix in the time available. Fernando Alonso weaving

around aggressively as we have seen the Ferrari do to get the

temperature into the front. Easy enough to get temperature into the

rear, as he likes them up on acceleration, but the lighting also

causes a massive amount of heat. Trying to keep it tidy past the

grandstand on the outside, a fantastic viewing spot. Those in

at regarding Fernando Alonso. has just equalled pretty much the

best first sector, a couple of hundred so way from what Sebastian

Vettel managed, so this is a good lap so far for the Ferrari.

Confidence built on this track, if you can get through that first set

and get into the more straightforward part of the track,

which is about straight-line breaking. -- braking. If Fernando

Alonso does a nice steady last chicane, this could take him into

the top 10 comfortably. That Ferrari is riding the curve here

really well, I think they have got the car Seca beautifully to absorb

the bump. He goes second-fastest. Faster than Hamilton but not as

quick as Sebastian Vettel, who still tops the times. We are

looking at Daniel Ricciardo at the moment in the Toro Rosso Rosso. He

is heading down to the same last what this delivers for the young

Australian. He is 11th quickest at the moment. Good improvement on the

previous lap. Kimi Raikkonen is then in 12, Paul di Resta 13th,

Maldonado is only 14. Bruno Senna, Kobayashi and Sergio Perez are in

the drop signed -- drop zone. Daniel Ricciardo seemed to be able

to split the two Lotus cars, which had been joined at the hip.

Raikkonen would have to run again, it would seem to suggest. Is he

able to move up into the top 10? A little bit wide for the Sauber of

Kobayashi. He is giving it his all to drag his team into the top 10. I

thought the Sauber was looking good in the free practice sessions. It

is so close at the moment. One second covers the top 12 at the

moment, down to Kimi Raikkonen. It is a fractional amount, so every

thousandth of a second counts. is not his personal best middle

sector, the first sector was respectable, one-tenth away from

the fastest, but he has got time to go another lap, another couple,

actually, depending how much Ford - - fuel is on board. It will cost

two-lap time, no doubt, they will burn and a couple of kilos per lap

but it'll cost you around one-tenth of a second. That burn a couple of

then, Felipe Massa and a tenth at the moment. Paul di Resta gets into

top 10. That shunt he had yesterday mint -- meant the Williams crew had

a lot of work to do last night, right up to the curfew, when the

mechanics had to leave the car and return to it this morning but they

got it dead, brilliant work by the team as ever. -- they got it out.

Bruno Senna trying to get into the top 10. Neither he nor Maldonado

are looking comfortable. Bruno Senna is 16. Felipe Massa has some

work to do. That bit of track it -- traffic ahead of him. Felipe Massa

has done a reasonable first sector but his middle sector is not

particularly strong, 24.0, compared to 23.7 for the fastest from Vettel.

At bit of oversteer has he tended - - a bit of oversteer as he turned

in. He has never gone particularly well in Canada. Not enough to be

comfortable. He has never been on the podium here. At the moment,

he's going to struggle. The Lotus is just lacking real grip. They are

running a little less downforce on this Canada track, not as much as

it used to, because of the fact that you have DRS available to

share the drag, but the Lotus is not comfortable. Grosjean has not

been able to improve on either of his first two sectors, so could

both of the Lotus cars be out of this shoot-out for the top 10?

would be a surprise based on their recent performances. But it is a

struggle. It is the first time Grosjean has raced here in Canada.

It is not enough for Romain Grosjean, he has not made the top

10. He has got one more lap. Maldonado is 15th, does this

improve it? Yes, but Kimi Raikkonen is only up to tenth. Hulkenberg has

crossed the line, 11th. The cat Felipe Massa attacking that Curbar,

throwing himself that this -- a look at. Off -- lookout Felipe

Massa attacking that kerb. Is there anyone else? Some -- Grosjean on a

reasonable lap and so is Maldonado. I was giving it the thumbs down on

Felipe Massa's lap but he did mighty well in that last sector to

get himself in. Another man on the move is Maldonado, who has gone

fastest of all in the first sector. This session may be over, but a few

guys can finish their laps. We will see some changes. Yes, Maldonado

desperately on target to get into the top 10 and push Kobayashi out

but what about the Lotus cars? Grosjean trying to get a bit more.

A good first sector, the Middle nothing special. He has done it, he

is in seventh. But Raikkonen... And Maldonado hits the wall on the exit

of the last corner. He keeps it going, just, but he has damaged the

car. My goodness, he got away with that but he would have been in the

of the top ten so McLaren breathe a sigh of relief and Maldonado, he is

fast, but fast and furious, he does make the odd mistake. He was oh so

close to drop it at the last corner, we know that is a tricky one.

Maldonado. What a pity. He didn't need to throw everything into the

last corner. He was already up. It just got away from him David.

got up on the kerb as he went through the left-hander. He was

nicely positioned as he carried speed into turn 13, but as he did

the change of direction, he got up on top of that white kerb and

launched the car. Destabilised and lost the back end. They had seen

the purple time come up which meant he was faster than anybody in the

first sector. Middle sector wasn't particularly special but it went

wrong for him. Same wall that Senna -- Senna hit yesterday. It is being

an expensive weekend for Williams so far. The cars that are out,

Kamui Kobayashi and Raikkonen, Hulkenberg south as well but Paul

di Resta is through. Ricciardo is out. Perez is out. Senna and

Maldonado are out of qualifying.. You disappointed. I am disappointed

but any way, I think, the last lap was not the best to get into Q3,

for some rb we lose some performance during the qualifier,

but tomorrow the race will be very long, we have a great pace, so

looking forward. The guys are working late on Bruno's car, how

damaged is your car? Not much t rear suspension, but nothing that

big. Thank yo you very much. Let us get back to the pole position shoot

out. The battle on and the final ten minutes of qualifying here in

Montreal. Strailyaigt we have McLaren sending Lewis Hamilton out.

He has had three pole positions in the past. He loves the circuit. Can

he make it a fourth? Lewis Hamilton coming out on the super-soft but

Jenson Button on the harder of the two tyres. They are probably a

scrub set for Lewis Hamilton. Gary will be able to confirm that. But

Jenson Button going out on a brand- new set of the prime tyre. The

yellow marked tyre, so whether that is giving us an indication he is

not finding the balance he needs on the super-soft tyre, or whether he

just, because of the very low degradation he is using this as a

sacrificial set to get his eye in for qualifying in this last part of

the top ten shoot out. Kimi Raikkonen had problems with his car

with pressure so that maybe explains his performance. Gary,

what can we expect in this final part of qualifying? I think, you

know, we are going to see the guy, you know you need to be on pole.

Pole is very important. If you can get out of that DRS done? The first

couple of laps which is what Vettel was good at. You want to get away

from them. The tyres are looking stable. So there is not a big deal

in starting on the super-soft tyre or the soft tyre. But as in Monaco,

Vettel was in a good position in the middle stint to make up some

position, so I think you might see Button trying to qualify on the

hard tyre, because the balance is better. But I think we have to wait

the session tout see it. It is going to be interesting the last

five minutes. How much of a lap time difference are are we seeing

at this track temperature twen the two tyres? You are looking at four

tenths. Maybe five tenths. It's a deficit but you do need, you do

need that balance to get that half second. We are watching Lewis

Hamilton attacking this track. Still keeping his foot hard on the

accelerator. Up towards turn eight he comes now. Under the bridge.

Tricky right, left combination again, and he is backing it off a

bit. He had arm fuls of oversteer he was wide on exit six which is

where Sebastian Vettel ran wide last year allowing Jenson Button to

pull off their amazing victory on the last lap. So he has felt, right,

I haven't got my tyres in the right temperature, the right balance, so

he is backed out of it. A bit of weefing on the straight, trying to

warp the tyre compound. Move the surface, build temperature and have

a good healthy brake. Whenever you see black lines being left on track,

that is too much rear slip angle and that costs time. Ferrari has

have had ten pole position, Williams have gone well here in the

past. They are not going to do it this time because thiether are in

the top ten. Mercedes, what can Nico Rosberg do? They came in

feeling strong about their chances. Watch him through the chicane, they

can use a fair bit of kerb. They have set the car up well in that

respect. But I don't think this is going to be the ultimate pace.

1.14.6. About half a second o off what Vettel did in the previous

part of qualifying. Now we are beginning to see the times coming.

Here come the frarroifsen Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. A good lap

from Massa. 1.14.65. He goes fastest for the moment. A lot of

pressure en masse is a to deliver. He was strong in Monaco, very close

to Alonso, and that is a good opening lap from him, -- Massa.

Vettel has gone purpose on both his first two sector, so let us see

where the opening lap is for Lewis Hamilton. This could be a contest

between Hamilton, Vettel and Massa. He goes fastest, ham -- Hamilton

quicker than Felipe Massa, Jenson Button on a lap as well, but let us

see what Sebastian Vettel can do. It's a quick lap. It is a 1.13.9

from Sebastian Vettelment he is looking to make it back-to-back

pole positions and he is half a second quicker than anyone else at

the moment. Onboard with Fernando Alonso, the Ferrari looking so much

better n the hands of Felipe Massa, as well. What can the world

championship leader do? Remember, he has that 3 three point margins

he needs to qualify up front. And he is second fastest. He is only

two tenths slower than vet. He was very quick in the first sectors but

amazingly, the Red Bulls have discovered real paint in this last

sector, it is the longest shing of flat out, duration on the track and

they will do about 14 seconds of 100 percent throttle. It is 60 odd

percent of the lap is spent at 100%. Mark Webber is not as strong. That

is seven tenths down on what we have seen from his team-mates. Will

he come in and do another run? We see a replay of Massa getting up on

the kerb. Similar to what we saw with Maldonado. Massa backs out

early, allowing the car to regain stability, and accelerating for the

line. Track temperature has been going up and down, we are up to 39

degrees which is where we started. It dropped to 35 a while ago. This

will after feming the teams and how they treat the tyre, a few degrees

can make all the difference to the handling. I am not sure how

reliable that is. There are clouds round but we haven't seen the sort

of, the cloud cover, taking away the sunshine on the race track, so

I suspect as we see Emerson, a vittor this this Grand Prix. Former

winner of Canadian Grand Prix but not here, it was run at moss port,

but great to see him here. Jenson Button, he has been struggling with

lock up so far, he is only ninth fastest on the harder tyre, the

yellow walled tyre. The hard over the two compounds. Are we going to

see him put a set of super-softs on to finish the session? He is the

only car on track at the moment. Paul di Resta has yet to go out.

Whether he will set a time or bl it will be to cover if anyone else

doesn't manage do anything spern special what a contrast you have

Jenson Button in ninth and Vettel on pole with 13.9. Sebastian Vettel

looking to try and win this race, he hasn't yet won this event, Red

Bull haven't won this event ieth very rare. They have won every race

on the calendar, except the new ones, but this is one of the one

they are missing out on. They have won everywhere else in a few year,

amazing record they have managed to achieve. David, you drove last

year's Red Bull, last weekend? that was a joy to get behind the

wheel of a relatively current Grand Prix car, and the current World

Championship car of course. Despite all the years I drove the cars I

never fails to amaze you how impressive the deceleration, how

impressive the amount of grip there is when you do the turn in to the

apex, it really does challenge your senses, and there is no question,

we are witnessing a golden era of Formula One with the current crop

of cars and drivers. Yes. Vettel one of the six World Champions,

there is another one in the background and Vettel the only one

of the six champions who hasn't won the race, he wants to put that

right. At the moment he is doing everything he can by setting the

fastest time. Button is back in the pits, does that mean it is over?

Head restraint is coming out. I don't see him looking like he is

about to step out of the car. He is holding the the air cooler which

the driver uses to lower the cockpit temperature. I suspects

they are making some last minute change. He only has a minute-and-a-

half. He won't have time to get round. Has the he thrown in the

towel? He will start on the yellow tyre, think he is going for a

different strategy to these guys who are going on the super-soft

tyre and going for ultimate performance, so Vettel will be

interested to see that, because he played that game in Monaco, but

here in Montreal it is easier to overtake as Jenson Button

discovered last year when he came from last to win this thing, and

beat Vettel in a final lap. Vettel is on a good lap: He set fastest

first sector. Now Alonso has gone fastest and Hamilton has gone

fastest in the mid sector, we are witnessing a great climax to

qualifying. Here comes Sebastian Vettel. It is looking like a good

lap. Will it be enough? 1.13.7. Quicker than before, but the

Ferrari and the McLaren of Alonso and Hamilton are going fast.

Managing Director my goodness he skirted the wall there, is it

enough for Hamilton? No, he is second fastest. Vettel fastest,

Hamilton second. We are still waiting for Alonso. Alonso could do

it. He is down, a tenth down in the middle sector. But of course, right

there with Vettel, so all comes down, to this last section, he has

a clean run for the line. Here we go, out in the final corner.

Fernando Alonso chasing pole position, Vettel is on top at the

moment. It is enough for Ferrari? He has not done it. He is third

fastest and Alonso cannot match Vettel's time. Here comes Webber.

He displaced Rosberg, Massa is sixth. Grosjean is seventh. What

about Michael Schumacher? He is on a lap, but his last lap wasn't

anything particularly special, he has done a personal best in the

first sector, he is really going to have to throw something out here.

He has backed out. He is not happy with the traffic. Hand coming out.

That is an indication that was Massa he has to pass as he came

autoof turn three and four. Pole position for Red Bull again and

back-to-back pole positions here in Canada for Sebastian Vettel. And of

course, for the Red Bull team it is their third pole position of the

season, that is a decent margin, three tenths of a second over Lewis

Hamilton, who once again confirms consistent performance, beaten to

pole by Vettel. Different strategy from Jenson Button. He will start

from tenth place on the harder compound tyre and hope that that

workforce him. Paul di Resta qualifying eighth in the forces for,

he will be pleased about that and Grosjean up there as well. He is in

seventh in the Lotus, but it is Red Bull that has merged ahead once

again, Sebastian Vettel, pole winner in Bahrain earlier this year,

and Monaco pole went to his team- mate Mark Webber and pole position

here, for Sebastian Vettel, trying to correct the record book and put

in win in his record book himself, he wants to take the month yarl

victory. Jut, as we know, will be trying something a bit different

when it comes to the race tomorrow. Be will that be the correct

strategy. He was the man who made it work last year in the changeable

condition, but weather forecast for tomorrow is warmer than today. So,

let us wait and see what happens for Jenson but Paul di Resta, he

will be happy with that qualifying. The man that seems to have

rediscovered his qualifying mojo, what an impressive lap. That was a

remarkable lap by Sebastian Vettel. And that is incredibly satisfying

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for the double World Champion. LEE MCKENZIE: Son not quite normal

service resumed but Sebastian Vettel does get his second pole

position of the season, that is sure to be a relief. It is a great

pole position as well. Not a track where he has had great success, but

a dominant pole position. He spoke to Tom Clarkson and earlier.

Congratulations on a bomb at pole position, were you surprised that

the gap to Lewis -- on a dominant pole position? A little bit. In

practice, you never know exactly what other people have done but we

knew it was extremely tired, so in qualifying we expected it to be

tight again -- extremely tight. We were able to improve on the last

couple of runs on the super-soft tyre and fortunately, the others

couldn't keep up, so it is good for us but the race is tomorrow, there

have been no points scored so far, but the car was pretty good at the

end. You left nothing on the table. You always think there is something

here or there but I was very happy. It is not easy to get the complete

perfect lap everywhere. So many corners here and so many chicanes

and quick changes of directions. It is a short amount of time you have

to decide when to brake, and it has to be perfect and has to be good

from the start. From the last chicane, maybe, two or 300, but all

in all, I was very happy. in all, I was very happy.

Quite rightly and you were impressed as well. He talks about

the last chicane. We join him here at the first of the chicanes,

riding it out towards the wall in to turn five when Olivier Panis

crashed many years ago. This is where he lost the victory to Jenson

Button last year. No such problems when he goes into one of the tricky

corners as you go under the Bridge, there is a change of track surface,

and absolutely hitting his apex. As we come down to what turned 10,

this was the only obvious mistake, as he gets to the end of the

braking zone, a little bit wide but he makes a great recovery. How much

you think that last season will play on his mind? -- do you think?

It will play on him for the rest of his career, but it will -- he can

his career, but it will -- he can make it better this weekend. Mark

Webber started fourth tomorrow. De Beers your thoughts on that

session. -- give us. Given the session we have had, I was very

happy. When they told me I was fourth, I thought, it could have

been worse. I didn't get the most out of it, really. I certainly left

some time on the table, it was... It was disappointed not to get it

all together when it really counts, and that is what we have been doing

a lot in qualifying and today, we didn't quite get it. Where do you

think you have been losing time compared to Sebastian? He looks a

bit more comfortable coming off the chicanes and he looks like he has

done a better job in the hairpins. What about tomorrow, you have a a

good pace? The car on Sundays has always been solid. It is a bit

warmer but it is not anything for Lewis Hamilton came here hoping to

have his fourth pole position. How Our he will be disappointed, he had

a triple run of poor positions. looked at the time difference at

the end and he said, that is a lot. Wed you think he lost it? I think

he used all of the potential of the car so he will be looking at the

engineers and asking where they are engineers and asking where they are

losing the pace. Here is the last corner. There is no question he is

fully committed. He ran it right to the wall. Look at that, absolutely

kissing the concrete. Let's hear kissing the concrete. Let's hear

from Lewis. P2 on the grid, congratulations,

but are you surprised by the gap to Sebastian? I am not. I think

yesterday we were looking quite quick and then this morning, we

realised we weren't that quick and the others were seriously fast. I

also knew last night, I thought Ferrari were holding back a little

bit but I didn't realise the Red Bull would be so quick today. But

they were and we have struggled generally with our tyres as you can

see with Jenson, and we had to use a lot of them just to get to Q3.

Fortunately, I had a new set I was able to use. Just nailing a lap

today has been so difficult for us, but I am really happy that I was

able to use those tyres on the last lap. Didn't expect the front row.

And you did nail it, you got very close to the wall of champions.

have got to get as close as you can, just give it a little kiss. You are

starting on the dirty side of the grid, do you see that as an

advantage? I don't know what the differences generally. A lot of

drivers drive over that there decide on a qualifying lap, it is

the shortest way from the last corner to the start line. Lewis

Hamilton not looking too disappointed but what about Jenson

Button? He has tried to turn disappointment into a different

strategy. He has not been able to get these tyres and the car working

in qualifying. He is the only man to start on the softer tyres.

hear from him. What is happening in with your

qualifying? Everybody knows you are a fabulous driver, what is going

wrong? Haven't got a clue, and I would love to know. You don't have

three bad qualifying sessions and understand what is going wrong. The

first view of the year were quite good, and then suddenly, I'm just

inside the top 10 -- the first three of the year. I don't know but

hopefully we will solve it. When you compare your traces with those

of Lewis, where is he gaining on It has been a good day for Ferrari,

they have had their best qualifying season so far. Gary Anderson caught

up with Stefano earlier. Lots of new pits, that is your best

qualifying this year. The car is improving race by race, this is a

our objective and I hope that in the next couple of days, we can be

ready for a pole position, because I think it is the right time to

have it. Anyway, let's see tomorrow. Any other new developments for

future races? That has to be the target, it has to be race by race,

otherwise the others will jump. It is church a short class of vocation,

such short gaps, if you stop it is finished -- such short class a

vocation. Fernando seems to be enjoying this battle with the car

and everything. That is the atmosphere he likes, so we need to

improve the car and he will be the one we go to. Good luck tomorrow.

Another great performance by the championship leader, Fernando will

be happy with third. A remarkable comeback from Ferrari, leading the

world championship, attacking at the track. Let's see if he is

smiling, here is Fernando Alonso. You're very quick in practice and

to have delivered in qualifying, how are you feeling? Very happy,

because the weekend was by far the best weekend so far for us in terms

of level of performance and competitiveness, and qualifying is

always the time to deliver and confirm all of the good or bad

feelings in the weekend, so we have had a very smooth weekend and it

seems that the car keeps working well. It is the best position so

far this year, the same as Barcelona, and tomorrow we need to

finish the job. You have a lot of new parts on the car this weekend,

you have made a lot of progress, do you see this as Ferrari being

frontrunners from here on? I think so. I think that is the best news

for us. We have been competitive in Barcelona, second in the race,

competitive in Monaco in a different circuit and we have been

on the podium. In Canada, we are fighting for the first row of the

grid. Three different tracks and three more or less competitive

weekends. This is the best news. Sir Fernando Alonso is a happy man

but another have a man is Paul di Resta who starts in a -- 8 tomorrow.

You must be placed there that went We near the climate would be

different -- we knew the climate would be different today and I am

glad we stuck with it because we were able to get into Q3 and the

car on the long run look that looked equally competitive

yesterday. -- looked equally competitive. You are emerging as a

team leader in Force India, G were not as strong in qualifying as in

Monaco, but it must represent a step forward from the car in terms

of performance? I think the Canada package has shown strong. The race

place in Monaco was good but I am not going to get to carried away,

because when we get to the race, it will be the true potential, but the

focus is making sure we have a good car tomorrow. There are points up

for grabs and we are ahead of competitors, so to make a

difference, we need to use this opportunity. Tell us about the

start, things can get messy out there. It came up in the briefing,

it does seem to jam up a little bit in the first of two terms. You want

to be as far forward as possible, dashed to terms. But I could have

got one position further up. But it is the luck of the draw, and that

the main thing is to keep your nose clean, because there is nothing to

suggest how many stops we will be doing tomorrow and it is playing

the game, being there at the end is the game, being there at the end is

when it counts. We hope it goes well for you tomorrow. Let's take a

look at the grade. Sebastian Vettel gets his second pole position of

the year. Lewis Hamilton is out of Q1. Pedro de la Rosa gets

ahead of the Marussias. Karthikeyan ahead of the Marussias. Karthikeyan

is at the back of the grid. Strategy is always important,

particularly around here. What can we expect tomorrow? There is no

data from last year and Jenson Button actually visited the pits

last year six times, but I think a two-stop race strategy looks the

two-stop race strategy looks the best solution. It is a little bit

faster than the one stop, so I wouldn't be surprised to see both.

I think that will be the best way to get rid of those and make sure

you have the best tyres. I wouldn't you have the best tyres. I wouldn't

disagree, I think it would be possible to do one stop because of

the low degradation but there are so many people taking trips through

the gravel and the grass that we will see a fuse -- flat spot.

year was a thriller but it hasn't provided any data. But will it take

a brave team to lead it and will Red Bull look to do that? I think

they will, they will plan to do a two-stop strategy and see how far

the car can go before the tyres start to fall away, and that then

you have to pit. If it is lap 25, they may do one, but I think they

they may do one, but I think they will do a to stop. You can see

highlights tomorrow night and go on BBC One and BBC One H D. It is late,

but don't worry about work on Monday. Gary, David, thank you for

your company and thank you very much to you. The last time, the

person who got pole position on the Saturday and started at the front