The Chinese Grand Prix

:00:19. > :00:29.Fabulous stuff. It is pouring down.

:00:29. > :00:29.

:00:29. > :01:15.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds

:01:15. > :01:21.anything to go by, we could be set for a cracker. 2011 was incredible

:01:21. > :01:24.and the way the cars are lining up points to the fact that this could

:01:24. > :01:28.be a spectacular Grand Prix. This is the way that the calendar looks

:01:28. > :01:34.for 2012. The big story this weekend has been the fact that on

:01:34. > :01:39.the 22nd April, we are due to race cars in Bahrain. It is an ever

:01:39. > :01:45.changing situation, but the FIA said that race goes ahead. Let's

:01:45. > :01:51.look at standings ahead of the third Grand Prix. Alonso, despite a

:01:51. > :02:00.struggling car, was leading. Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button close on

:02:00. > :02:04.his tail. And look at Mark Webber sitting fourth ahead of Sebastian

:02:04. > :02:09.Vettel. McLaren have set the early pace and

:02:09. > :02:12.extended their lead in the last race. Three teams have yet to score.

:02:12. > :02:17.The three newest teams in Formula One.

:02:17. > :02:24.Right, time to show you what happened in qualifying followed by

:02:24. > :02:32.looking for his fourth poll position, but he was left looking

:02:32. > :02:38.for answers after going out in Q2 for the first time since Brazil

:02:38. > :02:44.2009. Ferrari may have won the last Grand Prix, but they knew this

:02:45. > :02:54.weekend would be tough. Felipe Massa was another Q2 casualty.

:02:54. > :03:01.Still delighted after Sunday in Malaysia, Sauber were given more

:03:02. > :03:06.reasons to celebrate. Hamilton knew before qualifying

:03:06. > :03:12.that he would have to take a penalty for a gearbox change. He

:03:12. > :03:18.dropped back into seventh and his team-mate will start fifth.

:03:18. > :03:21.No one expected a stunning time from Nico Rosberg. Michael

:03:21. > :03:31.Schumacher put his car third and was surprised when he spoke to his

:03:31. > :03:33.

:03:33. > :03:43.engineer on team radio. TEAM RADIO: OK Michael, Nico's lap

:03:43. > :03:50.time 35.1. Lewis Hamilton's penalty. Kobayashi

:03:50. > :03:55.moves up to third. Jenson Button starts fifth and Webber moves up to

:03:55. > :04:04.sixth. Hamilton starts seventh. Alonso is ninth with Vettel behind

:04:04. > :04:10.him and Felipe Massa in twelfth. Williams are on the seventh row and

:04:10. > :04:20.Torro Rosso is on the ninth and Vergne starts from the pit lane.

:04:20. > :04:34.

:04:34. > :04:40.the grid here in China, but they have been beaten to poll position

:04:41. > :04:45.by a man who has yet to win a race in 110 attempts.

:04:45. > :04:52.After the changeable conditions of Malaysia, the key factor today is

:04:52. > :05:00.likely to be just how warm or cool the track is going to be. The 3.4

:05:00. > :05:04.mile circuit with its long, long straight, 1.1 kilometres long and

:05:04. > :05:10.speeds approaching 200mph at the end of sector three, but some

:05:10. > :05:14.twiddling sections to deal with. Mercedes working brilliantly in

:05:14. > :05:22.qualifying, but there is a question mark as to whether the Mercedes car

:05:22. > :05:31.will be as fast in race conditions. We will see lots of overtarks but

:05:31. > :05:35.we will see a great race, I think. Now we are starting the build-up.

:05:35. > :05:39.For Rosberg this is where the nerves begin to show.

:05:39. > :05:46.Apologies if I'm repeating anything you said, Ben. It took me a long

:05:46. > :05:49.time to get up to the commentary box. It is ten years since he had a

:05:49. > :05:54.poll position and what he will need to be watching out for is when he

:05:54. > :06:01.comes around and sits on in the poll position position it can be up

:06:01. > :06:05.to a minute until the last year, it will be the HRT car that will be

:06:05. > :06:10.starting at the pit lane. You have got to make sure you don't arrive

:06:10. > :06:15.with too much temperature. A few procedures they will have to work

:06:15. > :06:20.with. Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher

:06:20. > :06:26.lead them around. Gar Gary is our man in the pits. Gary, what are we

:06:26. > :06:34.thinking of in terms of strategy today? My prediction is a three

:06:34. > :06:40.stop. But you could do four. If you did a two, the tyres would be so

:06:40. > :06:44.used, and minute with a three could catch you quickly. It looks the

:06:44. > :06:50.same as last year. There are cars getting trouble to getting the

:06:50. > :06:59.softer tyre to work. It is not just about how many stops, it is it is

:06:59. > :07:02.about how quickly you can you can get the car up to temperature and

:07:02. > :07:06.make sure you reach the decisions when the cars are suffering tyre

:07:06. > :07:12.problems. The teams will be reacting as

:07:12. > :07:15.quickly as possible to the problems. Mercedes have scored one solitary

:07:15. > :07:20.point this season. They want to improve on that. The tyres we're

:07:20. > :07:30.using this weekend are the soft, the tell yo banded tyre and the

:07:30. > :07:35.medium tyre with the white writing on the side wall. The Inter

:07:35. > :07:41.meadates and the wets, but it doesn't look like there will be

:07:41. > :07:46.rain. The key thing as I was mentioning David, is the track

:07:46. > :07:55.temperature. It is 24 degrees. If it drops away, some teams could

:07:55. > :08:01.struggle. As we heard from Jenson on the grid, the Pirelli tyre is

:08:01. > :08:06.sensitive to changes. Normally in the past you would notice if if you

:08:06. > :08:11.had a five or ten degree difference. A number of people are saying this

:08:11. > :08:14.could be a classic Grand Prix. Not only have we a number of cars

:08:14. > :08:19.showing great pace. Who will get the tyres working? Who will have

:08:19. > :08:27.the right temperature of the track? As we get that wonderful shot there

:08:27. > :08:34.of what the drivers' view is like. They will be trying to get the rear

:08:34. > :08:44.tyres nice and warm. Look at Nico.

:08:44. > :08:46.

:08:46. > :08:54.He is keeping it slow on to the start/finish straight. China is a

:08:54. > :08:59.huge market for Mercedes, it is their thard largest -- third

:08:59. > :09:03.largest market after Germany and the USA. Cars produced in China and

:09:04. > :09:09.now they have got to convert the two front row positions into

:09:09. > :09:14.descent points this afternoon which has not been the the case this year.

:09:14. > :09:18.Behind the two Mercedes you have Kobayashi and Kimi Raikkonen.

:09:18. > :09:22.Jenson Button starts on the right- hand side as you look at it on the

:09:22. > :09:26.third row of the grid and Lewis Hamilton behind him. They have got

:09:26. > :09:31.Mark Webber on the sore side to watch out for. Fernando Alonso is

:09:31. > :09:38.starting in ninth place in the Ferrari. And the rest of the cars

:09:38. > :09:45.now moving into position. Start procedure is underway! Lights

:09:45. > :09:47.out! Away we go go! Rosberg gets off the line beautifully well.

:09:47. > :09:51.Schumacher is slower away. And catch Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi

:09:51. > :09:59.Raikkonen is trying to go up to third. Jenson Button is trying to

:09:59. > :10:03.go around the the outside. Jenson Button gets past Kimi Raikkonen.

:10:03. > :10:06.Hamilton trying to follow through. Kobayashi had a poor get away and

:10:06. > :10:12.he has got his team-mate not far behind.

:10:12. > :10:15.Looking further down the grid, it looks like Sebastian Vettel dropped

:10:15. > :10:19.grid positions in that scramble, but unlike in the previous two

:10:20. > :10:25.years where we have seen the poll man lose his place in the run into

:10:25. > :10:30.the first corner, that was a perfect start for Nico Rosberg.

:10:30. > :10:39.Kobayashi and Perez fighting for position and Perez got past

:10:39. > :10:43.Kobayashi. Yes, he has. Mark Webber has got - Alonso passed him. Alonso

:10:43. > :10:49.charging. He has to make the post of this first lap. Rosberg leads.

:10:49. > :10:52.Schumacher second. Hamilton fifth. Perez is sixth. He has come up

:10:52. > :10:57.really well, Perez, from eighth place.

:10:57. > :11:00.The end of the second sector. We have got Sebastian Vettel who not

:11:00. > :11:04.only had a terrible qualifying, he a terrible start and he is down to

:11:04. > :11:09.15th. Really struggling. Alonso Trying to

:11:09. > :11:15.get past Mark Webber as they fight their way down this long straight.

:11:15. > :11:20.Mark Webber and Alonso look at them side by side and Alonso retakes the

:11:20. > :11:25.pace from Mark Webber. Felipe Massa is behind them as well. As they

:11:25. > :11:31.they head through and they are up to the left-hander Alonso versus

:11:31. > :11:35.Mark Webber and a crucial stage of the Grand Prix. Mark Webber needs

:11:35. > :11:42.to be ahead of that Ferrari. Rosberg leads from Schumacher. They

:11:42. > :11:52.have a gap of 1.3 seconds over Jenson Button. There is a move move

:11:52. > :11:52.

:11:52. > :11:58.which doesn't come off. Vettel had passed him. He is up

:11:58. > :12:07.into 14th. Looking at the front running order, Michael Schumacher

:12:07. > :12:17.is 0.7 behind Rosberg. The reason the second lap we will get DRA

:12:17. > :12:22.

:12:22. > :12:30.one second window to his team-mate, Michael Schumacher.

:12:31. > :12:36.Grow Grosjean has not had any mishaps. Vettel is 14th. Kovalainen

:12:36. > :12:41.and Nico Hulkenberg is 17th. Glock is in 18th. Take a look at the

:12:41. > :12:49.start. Michael Schumacher Made a

:12:49. > :12:57.reasonable start relative to the other cars, but that Mercedes must

:12:57. > :13:00.have been hooked up. Everything, RPM, everything sorted. You can see

:13:00. > :13:05.Sebastian Vettel was getting bunched in.

:13:05. > :13:14.Yeah and Massa got contact from one of the Williams. We will keep an

:13:14. > :13:22.eye on that. At the back of the grid, Grosjean

:13:22. > :13:30.was close to come nothing the back of the Ferrari of Alonso. He has

:13:30. > :13:35.only done four racing laps. Give him a couple of laps and he will be

:13:35. > :13:39.a journey into the unknown. You have Senna fantastic start. Oh he

:13:40. > :13:43.runs into the back of the Ferrari and he has front wing damage.

:13:43. > :13:46.But he is in 12th place, Senna. How did the start for Lewis

:13:46. > :13:49.Hamilton go? He deployed the KERS. That was tarred tarredy of Perez,

:13:49. > :13:53.leaving the door open. That was Kobayashi. It allows Lewis

:13:53. > :13:57.Hamilton to run the inside line. Kobayashi was slow away. Kovalainen

:13:57. > :14:02.is running in 16th place and he had a good run going.

:14:02. > :14:08.Yeah, there was bunching up as they went through the first corner. Here

:14:08. > :14:13.we have it from Kobayashi's position. It looked like it was a

:14:13. > :14:18.similar start to Michael Schumacher but he got swafrd as he lost --

:14:18. > :14:22.swamped as he lost the momentum of the others. Look at how small the

:14:22. > :14:28.mirrors are on the car. There is a blend spot in these cars. Hamilton

:14:28. > :14:38.was going around the outside. Sensible stuff from Kobayashi. He

:14:38. > :14:44.managed to stay out of trouble, but he did end up losing a place on

:14:44. > :14:52.that the first first lap to Perez who runs in sixth. The DRS has been

:14:52. > :14:58.enabled. We are on lap three out of 56 and Rosberg leads.

:14:58. > :15:02.David, this Sauber seems as effective in the dry, doesn't it?

:15:02. > :15:08.This car has shown good tyre wear. We talked about the track

:15:08. > :15:13.temperature not being high, but we have the mac Clarence trying to eek

:15:13. > :15:19.more out of the tyres at this stage. The cars are heavy with fuel and

:15:19. > :15:25.they have gone off the grid with 130 kilos of weight. It is like

:15:25. > :15:28.they have taken on a couple of passengers. The Sauber drivers have

:15:28. > :15:33.the confidence to push and lean on the tyre and as we get into the end

:15:33. > :15:43.of the fourth lap of Grand Prix racing, we we can expect the first

:15:43. > :15:48.

:15:48. > :15:54.pit stops to be around lap ten to 1.6 seconds ahead of Michael

:15:54. > :15:59.Schumacher. Jenson Button is 1.6 further back. I RADIO: Keep pushing,

:15:59. > :16:03.we need to get through Felipe Massa. That is interesting, the team have

:16:03. > :16:09.had they'd look at the data. The bit of damage that we saw from the

:16:09. > :16:16.front wing of Bruno Senna or does not seem to be hurting him, he is

:16:16. > :16:21.still in 12th place. He is being chased by Paul di Resta. Bruno

:16:21. > :16:26.Senna, one second behind Romain Grosjean. That damage does not seem

:16:26. > :16:30.to be affecting him. Nico Rosberg has the advantage over Michael

:16:30. > :16:34.Schumacher. Jenson Button are in third, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis

:16:34. > :16:40.Hamilton, world champions, running together. They are being led by

:16:40. > :16:45.Nico Rosberg. Nico Rosberg led... RADIO: Which are in a good position

:16:45. > :16:53.now. Let's try to pull away from the Lotus. I am sure he can have

:16:53. > :16:56.worked that out himself! Some comforting words. Nico Rosberg led

:16:56. > :17:02.the Grand Prix last year, and Mercedes did not have enough petrol

:17:02. > :17:07.in the car. That saw him drop down the order. He is a Shanghai

:17:07. > :17:16.specialist. He has opened the gap to two seconds. There was some talk

:17:16. > :17:20.before the race, would Mercedes and strategically? Would Michael

:17:20. > :17:27.Schumacher try to back up the pack, allowing Nico Rosberg to open a

:17:27. > :17:36.gap? They are harder on the tyres than the cars around them. We will

:17:36. > :17:41.have to wait and see. Felipe Massa, 10th, there is Bruno Senna. Paul di

:17:41. > :17:47.Resta, 38. Sebastian Vettel, 14th, not making any progress at the

:17:47. > :17:57.moment. Then, Pastor Maldonado. Then, Heikki Kovalainen, Nico

:17:57. > :18:04.Hulkenberg, and Daniel Ricciardo. Jean-Eric Vergne has moved up to

:18:04. > :18:11.20th place. This is Sebastian Vettel, down in 14th position after

:18:11. > :18:16.the miserable first lap. He is trying to get past Paul di Resta.

:18:16. > :18:22.Watch the data on the dashboard. Seventh gear. He will hold back for

:18:23. > :18:30.a long way. You can see the speed of the Force India in front of them.

:18:30. > :18:34.Presuming Paul di Resta used his DRS... It is going to be a long

:18:34. > :18:40.afternoon if he is not able to get into the slipstream and use the DRS

:18:40. > :18:45.to pull the pass on the Force India. Clearly, the Red Bull is faster,

:18:45. > :18:55.but he is running in the dirty air, so he loses downforce, and the car

:18:55. > :19:02.slides more. It takes away tyre wear. RADIO: I cannot get passed on

:19:02. > :19:08.the straights. Undisturbed. -- understood. A bitter frustration

:19:08. > :19:18.coming through in his voice. He did not have expected to be in this

:19:18. > :19:24.position. The straight-line the figures, traditionally, quite low.

:19:24. > :19:28.The only cars that were behind them yesterday in qualifying at, HRT and

:19:28. > :19:34.Marussia. It was not age huge margin to the other cars, but when

:19:34. > :19:38.you do go down the field, it is hard to overtake. All of last year,

:19:38. > :19:42.they were regularly in the bottom half of the speed, and they worked

:19:42. > :19:47.with the FIA to see if Renault could get an upgrade to their

:19:47. > :19:54.frozen speck of engine, because at the point at which it was frozen,

:19:54. > :19:59.it did not allow the engine to be powerful. When you are running in

:20:00. > :20:06.clean air, you want to exploit the downforce, so it is not the problem,

:20:06. > :20:14.but when you are racing, you have a difficulty. That would make me

:20:14. > :20:24.nervous, given Romain Grosjean on's record! He has made it to the

:20:24. > :20:25.

:20:25. > :20:31.seventh lap, he has almost doubled his laps! RADIO: How is it? I do

:20:31. > :20:40.not know what is wrong. Nico Hulkenberg struggling. That is a

:20:40. > :20:50.very early pit-stop. Let's get some reaction. What do you reckon?

:20:50. > :20:51.

:20:52. > :20:56.Webber is on Bahadur tyre. -- on the hard of tyre. He wants to get

:20:56. > :21:00.one of the stops don't know, so hopefully, he can overtake a few of

:21:00. > :21:07.them. It is a gamble, but you have got to do something. Will we see

:21:07. > :21:14.something similar from Sebastian Vettel? I would not be surprised.

:21:14. > :21:23.He is struggling for straight-line speed. I would not be surprised, he

:21:23. > :21:27.is to cut traffic, so he might as well. Up front, no change. Nico

:21:27. > :21:34.Rosberg and Michael Schumacher, first and second. Then, Jenson

:21:34. > :21:38.Button, Kimi Raikkonen, Jenson Button for -- Lewis Hamilton. He

:21:38. > :21:44.has got a useful margin over his team-mate as he comes to the end of

:21:44. > :21:53.the straight. We saw a lot of break blocking in the colder temperatures

:21:53. > :22:00.on Friday. Now, 150 kilos of fuel, three times the size of an average

:22:00. > :22:06.family car. It is a massive emote. They have to be careful not to lock

:22:06. > :22:10.the tyres. Yes, his huge amount of mass that you are trying to slow

:22:10. > :22:17.down when you get on the brakes. They are running several seconds a

:22:17. > :22:22.lap slower than qualifying. They are trying to be gentle with the

:22:22. > :22:26.tyres, they suffer from thermal degradation, and you do not want to

:22:26. > :22:32.take them just beyond their operating window, otherwise they

:22:32. > :22:41.will fall off the cliff in terms of performance art. It is interesting

:22:41. > :22:44.that Mark Webber has gone for Bahadur tyre, which will be slow,

:22:44. > :22:49.and it will give some interesting information for the other teams if

:22:49. > :22:54.they are looking to see what sort of lap time he can get. They are

:22:54. > :22:58.getting a perfect run from Mark Webber. Unsurprising Glick, he has

:22:58. > :23:05.gone quickest in the first sector, he is running in clean air, in 20th

:23:05. > :23:10.place. Kimi Raikkonen, another formal world champion, returning to

:23:10. > :23:14.the sport this year. Fourth place at the moment. He set the fastest

:23:14. > :23:21.lap at the end of the Malaysia race. He was disappointed in qualifying

:23:21. > :23:26.yesterday. He finished fourth. But in Malaysia, he thought he could

:23:26. > :23:30.have challenged for pole position. When he saw Nico Rosberg, he

:23:30. > :23:34.realised there was no way. We thought Nico Rosberg was

:23:34. > :23:39.exceptional, but he is doing the Lapps, one after the other at the

:23:40. > :23:45.moment. He has a 3.5 second lead over Michael Schumacher. Sergio

:23:45. > :23:52.Perez is part of the group challenging for second place. As

:23:52. > :23:59.his Kamui Kobayashi and Fernando Alonso. Then, Felipe Massa. Bruno

:23:59. > :24:09.Senna, 11th position. Still not coming into the pits, Sebastian

:24:09. > :24:19.Vettel. He is deciding to stay out. RADIO: Similar lap times to

:24:19. > :24:20.

:24:20. > :24:25.Fernando Alonso. Mark Webber has already pitted. A lot of

:24:25. > :24:31.information going to Felipe Massa. He started the race on the heart of

:24:31. > :24:38.the two compounds, perhaps that explains why he is happy to stay in

:24:38. > :24:43.front of Romain Grosjean. He has already done the -- he has already

:24:43. > :24:51.done double the number of laps he managed in the first two Grand Prix.

:24:51. > :24:57.This, he will be happy to see that! He will be happy to see 56 at the

:24:57. > :25:01.end! Interestingly, Michael Schumacher is 0.6 seconds slower

:25:01. > :25:05.than his team-mate, but he is not looking like he is holding up

:25:05. > :25:11.Jenson Button. Jenson Button is there, but he is not looking like

:25:11. > :25:20.he is being held up. I do not think it is a strategic play from

:25:20. > :25:26.Mercedes. Let's keep an eye on that. Definitely. We will see which of

:25:26. > :25:31.the south because will head into the pits. They are preparing. --

:25:31. > :25:39.which of the Sauber cars. It is Kamui Kobayashi. Also, another

:25:39. > :25:43.change. Presumably, Sebastian Vettel. Yes. The tricky pit-lane

:25:43. > :25:50.entry which caught out Lewis Hamilton when he had no grip in

:25:50. > :25:56.2007. Sebastian Vettel stops cleanly in his box. They get ready

:25:56. > :26:03.to send him on his way. Force India, Nico Hulkenberg. Kamui Kobayashi

:26:03. > :26:08.has already headed off. Sebastian Vettel hoping that this early pit-

:26:08. > :26:14.stop will help them. He comes out into some traffic, he is on to the

:26:14. > :26:19.harder compound. As did his team- mate, Mark Webber. Perhaps what

:26:19. > :26:24.they have learned from Mark Webber is sufficient. Nico Hulkenberg has

:26:24. > :26:31.a new nose. A bit of damage, we knew he had problems on the first

:26:31. > :26:37.lap. Jenson Button is not really keeping with Michael Schumacher. He

:26:37. > :26:44.is being hounded by Kimi Raikkonen. Sergio Perez is still on the softer

:26:44. > :26:48.tyre. The same as most of the front runners. This is the battle for

:26:48. > :26:54.second place. A number of different drivers and different cars, that is

:26:54. > :26:58.what is making Formula One so exciting. The DRS zone was clearly

:26:58. > :27:02.marked, but it is not having an effect in the racing. We saw more

:27:02. > :27:12.than 60 passes on the track last year. DRS accounted for half of

:27:12. > :27:15.those. So far, there is not as much marbling. Lewis Hamilton is going

:27:15. > :27:22.into the pits. Everybody reacting to Mark Webber having stopped on

:27:23. > :27:30.the hard tyre. He is the fastest man on the track. That is giving an

:27:30. > :27:35.indication to everybody. The soft tyre again. That is what we

:27:35. > :27:45.expected, Lab 11. It was the Battle of the pit crews! Letters were not

:27:45. > :27:48.as good as McLaren. -- notice. is a place gained by McLaren. They

:27:48. > :27:53.changed their the AA jackets, and have they come out with Mark

:27:53. > :27:59.Webber? Yes, Kimi Raikkonen might have lost the place to Mark Webber

:27:59. > :28:04.as well. A fraction of a second lost in the pits, and Kimi

:28:04. > :28:12.Raikkonen has lost two places. It is a tricky place to try to

:28:12. > :28:17.overtake! He gets squeezed out, Mark Webber gets the place. That

:28:17. > :28:21.was great stuff. Mark Webber defended nicely. Kimi Raikkonen

:28:21. > :28:26.would have used his KERS is strategically. That was great

:28:26. > :28:33.racing. Two very experienced drivers. Mark Webber led his car

:28:33. > :28:38.ran out onto the line. RADIO: This is the option tyre. He is on the

:28:38. > :28:44.softer compound. They had a problem with it the real Jack last time in

:28:44. > :28:49.Malaysia, McLaren lost a lot of time on the pit stops. It has meant

:28:49. > :28:54.another designer of the jack. There was nothing wrong with that pit-

:28:54. > :29:01.stop, and it benefited then hugely. It got them ahead of Kimi Raikkonen

:29:01. > :29:05.and Mark Webber. Lewis Hamilton's pit stop going according to plan.

:29:05. > :29:15.They are closing on Heikki Kovalainen in 13th. Kimi Raikkonen

:29:15. > :29:15.

:29:15. > :29:20.try to get past the Toro Rosso. Kamui Kobayashi in the next as well.

:29:20. > :29:28.Jean-Eric Vergne is in the Toro Rosso. We have got a few more pit

:29:28. > :29:34.visitors. Jenson Button leaves the pits, ahead of Lewis Hamilton. That

:29:34. > :29:39.is Kamui Kobayashi, part of the group. This was the battle between

:29:39. > :29:48.Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton. It is all fair, the pit lane is

:29:48. > :29:53.part of the racetrack. They will be running with their limiters. It was

:29:53. > :29:57.all over for Kimi Raikkonen when he was dropped from his pit box. That

:29:57. > :30:02.was great work from McLaren. What is interesting, we have been

:30:02. > :30:07.talking about Mercedes not being able to make the tyres last. They

:30:07. > :30:14.still have not stopped! It is so confusing, this year, to make head

:30:14. > :30:24.nor tail of the tyres. They are under tyres they qualified on

:30:24. > :30:30.

:30:30. > :30:36.have been able to go this way? have been working hard on that and

:30:36. > :30:40.23 you look at Rosberg's time, they are in the mid-40s. The car should

:30:40. > :30:44.go faster because of the fuel usage, but it is not. There is Michael

:30:44. > :30:47.Schumacher just as we speak now. Michael was doing a good good job

:30:47. > :30:53.of making sure that Rosberg got a window.

:30:53. > :30:59.That's the gap opened up. He has gone for the harder of the two

:30:59. > :31:05.compounds of tyre. Bruno Senna is into the pits. I wonder if they

:31:05. > :31:12.will do anything to Senna's front wing? Schumacher comes out. Michael

:31:12. > :31:15.running wide there on the new hard tyres and that's worked

:31:15. > :31:21.fantastically for Jenson Button who gets out in front of Michael

:31:21. > :31:27.Schumacher. One thing I want to come back on Ben as we see a replay.

:31:27. > :31:34.I suspect a lock-up. Indeed, he runs wide. No real harm done

:31:34. > :31:39.though? No. Rosberg pushing on as he approaches his first stop, but

:31:39. > :31:43.as you say Jenson Button crucial to getting past Michael Schumacher and

:31:43. > :31:46.Schumacher pulled off. Is that? There must be a problem for Michael

:31:46. > :31:50.Schumacher for the second time this year. It was a gearbox problem in

:31:50. > :31:53.Australia that took him out of the race. Something has gone wrong for

:31:53. > :32:00.Michael Schumacher. It is not going to be his day of days. He is not

:32:00. > :32:08.going to take his 9 92nd victory and Schumacher is out. Well,

:32:08. > :32:15.Schumacher is out. Something with his wheel. We saw

:32:15. > :32:25.one of the pit crew slapping the ground as the car pulled away.

:32:25. > :32:27.

:32:27. > :32:31.Rosberg has come into pit. Let's Michael mention a problem with the

:32:31. > :32:35.wheel? I didn't catch him myself. Which tyres are going on? Rosberg

:32:35. > :32:39.doesn't have anyone backing him up anymore. He has to do this on his

:32:39. > :32:44.own. Away goes Nico Rosberg. He maintains the lead of this race, I

:32:44. > :32:48.believe. No, he won't, Perez has not been in yet. Perez will be the

:32:48. > :32:53.race leader and again, Sauber as usual going fob a different

:32:53. > :32:59.strategy, but Michael Schumacher. Let's see if we can spot anything

:32:59. > :33:05.here, David. No. I'm sure he mentioned he had an issue with his

:33:05. > :33:10.wheel and I saw one of the pit crew slapping the ground. I am trying to

:33:10. > :33:16.to catch out for any wobbly wheels. I can't spot anything, but we will

:33:16. > :33:21.get news on that soon and that's a shame for the crew, for Michael and

:33:21. > :33:26.for Ross brawn. They are down to the one car in the race, but it is

:33:26. > :33:36.the lead car. Let's keep an eye of the left-hand side. The hand comes

:33:36. > :33:36.

:33:36. > :33:43.He never got the gun on the nut. He had not got the airgun on the nut.

:33:43. > :33:47.He knew that was not going to be good. Disappointment for Mercedes.

:33:47. > :33:50.That's a surprise, but they have got their other car leading the

:33:51. > :33:54.race. Michael Schumacher will have a few words about that when he

:33:54. > :34:02.comes back, but he was given the signal to go and that's what he did.

:34:02. > :34:10.Rosberg made his pit stop and Perez, now did he come out in front of

:34:10. > :34:19.Perez even though Perez hadn't stopped? Perez is leading. There we

:34:19. > :34:28.are with Perezle. Perez was going for the victory last time and had

:34:28. > :34:33.to settle for second. He leads in China. He is moving the wheel a lot

:34:33. > :34:37.which may suggest the tyres are going off. We can suspect -- expect

:34:37. > :34:42.him to come in at the end of this lap. Felipe Massa is running on the

:34:42. > :34:49.harder tyre. TEAM RADIO: Felipe Massa has not

:34:49. > :34:57.stopped. Button maybe on Plan B for him. Rosberg has gone on to the

:34:57. > :35:00.harder tyre, but he has a new set of the softer tyre available to him.

:35:00. > :35:02.A lovely position to be in as a driver knowing you have got a

:35:02. > :35:10.perfect set of tyres waiting for you.

:35:10. > :35:17.He is in a commanding position right now. He is running nicely on

:35:17. > :35:21.the tyres. The track temperature is playing nicely for him. There is

:35:21. > :35:25.only three-and-a-half seconds which separate him from Jenson Button so

:35:25. > :35:31.he will have to keep pushing. This is where there is great racing.

:35:31. > :35:36.Jenson Button doesn't have much of an advantage of Hamilton. The two

:35:36. > :35:44.McLaren drivers on it. Behind them Raikkonen and Alonso. There is

:35:44. > :35:53.Webber in the Red Bull. There is Raikkonen. Fernando Alonso If they

:35:53. > :35:57.can get get fer Ferrari moving up the top ten they can protect that

:35:57. > :36:05.championship. Jenson Button is third. Jenson Button needing

:36:05. > :36:12.Hamilton in there. Rosberg has just set fast test lap. The -- fastest

:36:12. > :36:15.lap. He has done a 1.42.5, but the other mer sedees driver is --

:36:15. > :36:17.Mercedes driver is back at paddock and it is race over for Michael

:36:17. > :36:23.Schumacher. Another look at that pit stop.

:36:23. > :36:29.You can see the front right heel. It seemed to be -- wheel. It seemed

:36:29. > :36:33.to be slow coming off. When the other wheel was presented.

:36:34. > :36:38.traffic light had gone to green. You can see the green light. Quite

:36:38. > :36:44.why he got the signal. Normally the system is the lights

:36:44. > :36:49.go green when the wheel nut has been engaged and the gun has been

:36:49. > :36:53.taken off the wheel and that's why we are seeing sub three second pit

:36:53. > :37:00.stops because you are taking out the human reaction to informing the

:37:00. > :37:06.chief mechanic who informs the go or no go for the car. The wheel nut

:37:06. > :37:09.is housed within the wheel. It is a system that's been used in DTM,

:37:09. > :37:13.German touring cars for a number of years. A number of teams have adopt

:37:13. > :37:18.that had so every wheel has its unique nut.

:37:18. > :37:22.Sauber Are getting ready for Perez. A big lock up for Perez as he gets

:37:22. > :37:25.ready to come into the pit. Gary, give me a thought on the pace we

:37:25. > :37:28.have seen from Perez before he comes in? Do you think they might

:37:28. > :37:33.go for a two stop where others might go for the three? Yes, that's

:37:33. > :37:37.what I would do out there putting on the harder of the two tyres

:37:37. > :37:42.again. Try to go as far as possible. That lock up probably hurt that

:37:42. > :37:48.left front tyre as well. They will maybe change them now and see how

:37:48. > :37:52.far they can go. He is into the pit box. This is a

:37:52. > :37:58.crucial stop for Sauber. Yeah, it is the harder tyre. A little slow

:37:58. > :38:03.away there. He seemed to be drags his clutch.

:38:03. > :38:10.That will have cost him time in the pit lane. Normally it is 21 seconds

:38:10. > :38:16.from leechg the track -- leaving the track, but in that case it it

:38:16. > :38:21.took 22 seconds. He has come out ahead of Sebastian Vettel, behind

:38:21. > :38:26.Grosjean, but ahead of Sebastian Vettel. Vettel has got Bruno Senna

:38:26. > :38:32.behind him. That was an important place. He don't want to come out

:38:32. > :38:36.behind Sebastian Vettel. It shows how close close Formula One is. No

:38:36. > :38:42.team seem to be leaping forward like we have seen in the past. You

:38:42. > :38:51.have got a battle for each position. Massa has not stopped yet. Massa is

:38:51. > :38:55.going deep. Ferrari are going for the two stop option. We can expect

:38:55. > :39:05.Rosberg to get the use of DRS and we will see his rear wing open up

:39:05. > :39:09.any time soon. There is the DRS zone open and that's a textbook DRS

:39:09. > :39:14.overtake. For someone like Rosberg, that's

:39:14. > :39:20.where DRS is useful because he doesn't lose time behind somebody

:39:20. > :39:23.who has not come into the pits. There is bits of rubber. Is that

:39:23. > :39:28.going to cause problems? Later in the race it makes it more difficult

:39:28. > :39:32.for the drivers because the racing line starts to narrow where you see

:39:32. > :39:38.the marbles being thrown off. They get thrown up into the air and they

:39:38. > :39:44.drop down and there is less grip out there.

:39:44. > :39:48.Kimi Raikkonen with Fernando Alonso behind behind. Kimi is a former

:39:48. > :39:52.Ferrari driver himself, a world champion with Ferrari, but Alonso

:39:52. > :39:54.the current star at Ferrari. It is great to see the two of them

:39:54. > :39:59.running close together. There is Perez after that pit stop. He is in

:39:59. > :40:03.front of Sebastian Vettel, but can't find a way past Grosjean yet

:40:03. > :40:06.and Grosjean sitting there in nieurpt place doing what -- ninth

:40:06. > :40:11.place doing what he needs to do, finish in the points. That's what

:40:11. > :40:17.he has got to do after the two non finishes, the Frenchman needs to to

:40:17. > :40:23.deliver points here today and so far he is driving sensibly.

:40:23. > :40:29.Kobayashi running up aof them. Let's look at Perez. This was the

:40:29. > :40:33.battle trying to get get past Kimi Raikkonen.

:40:33. > :40:36.Kimi had it. The rules are, the drivers can make one change of

:40:36. > :40:42.direction to defend their position and they have got to do it clearly

:40:42. > :40:50.and maintain the line as they go into the braking zone. We have got

:40:51. > :40:55.the past being taken. It is Grosjean rather than Kimi in

:40:55. > :40:59.that little group. Kobayashi just ahead of them. Jenson Button and

:40:59. > :41:07.Hamilton no real change between those two.

:41:07. > :41:12.The rest of them heading down. So behind Alonso you have got

:41:12. > :41:15.Kobayashi with Perez behind. We are getting a message on our

:41:15. > :41:19.screens telling thaws an incident involving car seven which is

:41:19. > :41:23.Michael Schumacher will be investigated for an unsafe release.

:41:23. > :41:26.Presumably that must be the fact that the wheel nut has not been

:41:26. > :41:30.tightened up. Normally when you use that terminology is because you

:41:30. > :41:37.have been released into another car in the pit lane.

:41:37. > :41:40.Massa has been in for that one stop. I wonder where he will come out

:41:40. > :41:45.with regards to Perez. Now everybody has cycled through one

:41:45. > :41:51.pit stop, we have got Nico Rosberg leading the race again by a margin

:41:51. > :41:56.of 4.4 seconds over the McLaren of Jenson Button. Then it is Hamilton

:41:56. > :41:59.behind. Mercedes power, powering the top three cars. Felipe Massa

:41:59. > :42:06.Has dropped down the order. After that early pit stop, it seemed to

:42:06. > :42:16.work well for Webber. It brought him up to fourth. Who is that?

:42:16. > :42:16.

:42:16. > :42:20.That's one of the Saubers. That was Perez. Perez, indeed. He went wide

:42:20. > :42:29.out in the hide speed corner. that's not good news for Perez who

:42:29. > :42:34.was running strongly. It is Perez. Kobayashi is the lead Sauber. Senna

:42:34. > :42:39.is tucked in behind him. He lost that lace to -- place to Vettel.

:42:39. > :42:43.As we see the running order after the round of pit stops, generals

:42:43. > :42:48.Jenson Button is dropping back from Nico Rosberg so Mercedes have

:42:48. > :42:54.genuine race winning speed. They are making their tyres last. What

:42:54. > :43:00.could become Nico Rosberg and his first Grand Prix victory? Will he

:43:00. > :43:02.have to turn down the engine later in the race? If they haven't done

:43:02. > :43:08.that, they have done their sums right. He is looking in a

:43:08. > :43:11.commanding position. He is looking good. The track

:43:11. > :43:19.temperature is consistent. The cars working in these conditions and

:43:19. > :43:24.they won't be worried. Senna one running in 11th. Felipe Massa is in

:43:24. > :43:34.14th place ahead of Vergne, Nico Hulkenberg in 16th and it is

:43:34. > :43:35.

:43:35. > :43:42.Charles Pic running in 17th place, ahead of his team-mate, Timo Glock.

:43:42. > :43:48.That's Grosjean and he is tucked in points are important to Sauber

:43:48. > :43:57.after the remarkable second place for his team-mate, Perez. We know

:43:57. > :44:00.that podiums are not likely to be regular occurrences, but top ten

:44:00. > :44:04.finishes are likely with this car. Still getting the running of this

:44:04. > :44:07.harder tyre out of the way. They have to run both types of tyre at

:44:07. > :44:12.some point during the race, but it is up to the teams as to when to do

:44:12. > :44:17.that. Gary, just a little look at the lap times over the last few

:44:17. > :44:27.laps? Generous bettering, does seem to have -- Rosberg does seem to

:44:27. > :44:30.

:44:30. > :44:35.have the pace? He has done a 42.5 there. They are fresher than Button

:44:35. > :44:40.and Hamilton's. The car is working and the tyre is well, both the soft

:44:40. > :44:43.and the medium tyre. It is looking good at the moment. There is more

:44:43. > :44:49.to go yet, but it does look good for them.

:44:49. > :44:53.There is a way to go, but Nico Rosberg commanding things by 4.47

:44:53. > :45:03.seconds, now a race going on in the background as Paul di Resta is

:45:03. > :45:13.

:45:13. > :45:19.trying to get past. That won't be an easy task.

:45:19. > :45:29.Paul di Resta finding that Williams is using road that he would be like

:45:29. > :45:36.

:45:36. > :45:43.to be in, and behind them it is The lap times are not too far away

:45:43. > :45:47.from Fernando Alonso. This is not the position we are used to seeing

:45:47. > :45:53.Ferrari in. Felipe Massa has not been able to get as much out of the

:45:53. > :45:59.car as his team make. But a couple of tenths -- couple of tenths is a

:45:59. > :46:06.respectable gap. Paul di Resta not as close to Pastor Maldonado this

:46:06. > :46:16.time. Lots of looking in the mirrors, that was Narain

:46:16. > :46:25.

:46:26. > :46:32.Karthikeyan, about to be lapped by hairpin. Still chasing after Kimi

:46:32. > :46:39.Raikkonen. Mark Webber comes in. He was the earliest in on the first

:46:39. > :46:47.stint, now he is in after 21 laps. He is going on to another set of

:46:47. > :46:55.harder tyres. A Yes, he will be spending a lot of time in the pit

:46:55. > :47:00.lane. He will rejoin in to clean air, nobody on the track. The next

:47:00. > :47:05.man will be Jean-Eric Vergne. He has had a 15 lap stint on the

:47:05. > :47:14.previous set of tyres, so he is struggling to make them last. As

:47:14. > :47:19.the race goes on, you burn fuel. Every set of tyres should be able

:47:19. > :47:28.to go a bit longer in the race. are on board with Fernando Alonso,

:47:28. > :47:33.chasing Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi Raikkonen moving around quite a lot.

:47:33. > :47:36.What can we learn from the behaviour of the cars? Kimi

:47:36. > :47:40.Raikkonen desperately trying to make sure he does not allow

:47:40. > :47:48.Fernando Alonso to get within the activation said which allows him to

:47:48. > :47:54.use the DRS. It looks like he has got a better drive off of turn 13.

:47:54. > :48:01.He has opened the gap slightly. You have to be in the zone to get the

:48:01. > :48:07.activation. Not really closing up at all. McLaren get ready for a pit

:48:07. > :48:11.stop. Jenson Button or Lewis Hamilton? They are second and third

:48:11. > :48:16.at the moment. Lewis Hamilton, from third position, bringing the

:48:16. > :48:21.McLaren into the pit lane. They are in a good point scoring position,

:48:22. > :48:27.but he is getting it fed up with third place. I am sure he is not

:48:27. > :48:35.really, because he is it -- he is in a strong position in the

:48:35. > :48:43.championship. Lewis Hamilton could take the championship lead. He

:48:43. > :48:48.comes out behind Felipe Massa. A 3.9 second pit stop. That will be

:48:48. > :48:53.the second of what we expect to be three stops for Lewis Hamilton. It

:48:53. > :48:58.is crucial, how they print the tyres in when they leave the pit

:48:58. > :49:06.stop. They cannot hit it too hard, because they get the thermal shock

:49:06. > :49:14.into the rubber. At this stage, they are having to drive with their

:49:14. > :49:18.fingertips. You are holding it with a light hand, allowing the car to

:49:18. > :49:24.use all of the road, and desperately trying to not generate

:49:24. > :49:30.slip angle across the tyre. Nico Rosberg has got a 4.2 second lead

:49:30. > :49:36.over Jenson Button. The last lap, Jenson Button was a bit quicker.

:49:36. > :49:41.Lewis Hamilton has been into the pits. Next up, Kimi Raikkonen and

:49:41. > :49:46.Fernando Alonso. They have seen Lewis Hamilton go into the pits.

:49:46. > :49:52.Behind them, Kamui Kobayashi, chased by Romain Grosjean on, and

:49:52. > :49:58.behind them, Sebastian Vettel. Mark Webber is lighting up the timing

:49:58. > :50:01.screens with his new set of tyres. It is interesting that they went to

:50:01. > :50:09.the harder tyre. Do we think the compound tyre is working better

:50:09. > :50:16.today? We cannot hear from Gary at the moment. We will come back to

:50:16. > :50:23.him at the moment -- in a moment. What is Heikki Kovalainen doing?

:50:23. > :50:28.Heikki Kovalainen going in a bit deep. Heikki Kovalainen backed out,

:50:28. > :50:33.I do not know if he has got a problem? When you are in the wider

:50:33. > :50:38.path, you have to get off the marbles. If you pick up the rubber

:50:38. > :50:43.deposited off the racing line, it gets buried into the tyre, and it

:50:43. > :50:50.can affect your performance. Rather wisely, he decided not to hand it

:50:50. > :50:56.around the outside. This is where he pulled the pass on Sebastian

:50:56. > :51:01.Vettel last year. He has got more speed as they go through the apex.

:51:01. > :51:06.The concertina effect as they break and roll through the eighth corner.

:51:06. > :51:12.A lot of patience as they go through the double left-hander. A

:51:12. > :51:22.bit of oversteer correction. Hard on the brakes, clearly within the

:51:22. > :51:23.

:51:23. > :51:26.DRS activations own. -- activation zone. He has got a better drive. He

:51:26. > :51:35.had to hesitates slightly at the latter part, which has allowed the

:51:35. > :51:38.Ferrari to open the cap slightly. It is important to get clear of the

:51:38. > :51:45.Ferrari as fast as possible, he does not want to get stuck in the

:51:45. > :51:52.traffic. Into the pits, Jenson Button. Again, he goes for the

:51:52. > :51:58.harder tyre. The yellow tyres being displaced. Interesting tactics

:51:58. > :52:04.about Red Bull and McLaren going on to the harder tyre. Do you think it

:52:05. > :52:10.is the better tyre? Both tyres are competitive, but it is about how

:52:10. > :52:15.your car makes it work. You have to run both types. I am sure they will

:52:15. > :52:23.make another stop. They can make up their mind for the final set, with

:52:23. > :52:28.they want to use the softer tyre. They are making the switch now, to

:52:28. > :52:34.make the decision constructively. The last 10 laps, it will tell the

:52:34. > :52:39.tale of who got the strategy right. Whenever you pick from the lead off

:52:39. > :52:43.from second or third, you end up in the 11th or 12th, because everybody

:52:43. > :52:50.is packed tightly together. It is interesting, Jenson Button trying

:52:50. > :52:54.to get past Pastor Maldonado. Lewis Hamilton is still further behind,

:52:54. > :53:01.still trying to get past they have -- Felipe Massa. Both of the

:53:01. > :53:08.McLaren cars are in situations where they are in traffic. The

:53:08. > :53:15.Williams ahead is sliding around. The DRS on the real wind does not

:53:15. > :53:22.open for a bit. Now it is open, now he has got the top speed. The

:53:22. > :53:25.braking should be straight forward into the hairpin. Jenson Button has

:53:25. > :53:30.done what Lewis Hamilton has failed to do. This is costing Lewis

:53:30. > :53:35.Hamilton, especially now that Jenson Button has got past his car.

:53:35. > :53:41.Lewis Hamilton could get frustrated. Remember how many times Fernando --

:53:41. > :53:45.Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton clashed last year. Yes, they got up

:53:45. > :53:51.close and personal. This is where Lewis Hamilton past Jenson Button

:53:51. > :53:55.last year. He has got to watch out for Mark Webber, leaving the door

:53:55. > :54:04.open. Mark Webber will have a go if he sees an opportunity. He has been

:54:04. > :54:11.very fast over the last two laps. He wants a bit of that action.

:54:11. > :54:17.is within the zone. Felipe Massa does not make it easy, but he

:54:17. > :54:23.Paul's the pass. Mark Webber will try to do the same. That has cost

:54:23. > :54:30.Lewis Hamilton some time. When you first go out from the pit stop,

:54:30. > :54:34.you're tyres are at their best. Lewis Hamilton has used the best in

:54:34. > :54:39.trying to get past Felipe Massa. has got to be careful he does not

:54:39. > :54:44.put the tyre over its peak of operating temperature. Perhaps that

:54:44. > :54:54.is why he was being cautious. In the end, he would have used the

:54:54. > :54:57.

:54:57. > :55:07.KERS. That is a cautious overtake. He gets the appreciation of the

:55:07. > :55:07.

:55:07. > :55:13.McLaren crew. Achy retirement, early on,... The only retirement of

:55:13. > :55:16.the race so far, Michael Schumacher. He is talking to Lee McKenzie.

:55:16. > :55:26.disappointing, the team seemed to know straight away the wheel was

:55:26. > :55:31.not on. When did you find out? noticed it in the third quarter. --

:55:31. > :55:36.third corner. By the sixth corner, there was smoke and damage. Afford

:55:36. > :55:41.it was better to stop before I made a serious damage. Should the team

:55:41. > :55:48.have told you it was not on? probably found out before them,

:55:48. > :55:52.maybe. I do not have any hard feelings. I feel sorry for my boys,

:55:52. > :55:57.Agassi feels responsible. But it is part of the game. The car seemed to

:55:57. > :56:05.be looking after the tyres better than in the past. Can Nico Rosberg

:56:05. > :56:13.win the race? It looks pretty positive. We are looking stronger.

:56:13. > :56:20.We told you that we were struggling with where, so there must have been

:56:20. > :56:24.a middle way, and we have found their way of operating the car.

:56:24. > :56:32.saw Jenson Button go past Pastor Maldonado, but he has also got past

:56:32. > :56:36.Bruno Senna. This is Mark Webber against Fernando massive. --

:56:36. > :56:40.against Felipe Massa. The Ferrari is not working so well on the

:56:40. > :56:45.brakes, a clear sign it is lacking overall downforce. Lewis Hamilton

:56:45. > :56:52.behind Paul di Resta. That looks as though it will be a fairly

:56:52. > :56:58.straightforward pass. He needs to be a bit careful, he could lose

:56:58. > :57:04.another place to Mark Webber. Jenson Button going quite quickly

:57:04. > :57:10.over the past couple of laps. Into the pits, Fernando Alonso. He has

:57:11. > :57:19.gone on to the softer tyre, I think. Bicker was but continues to lead

:57:19. > :57:24.the race, 27 laps completed -- Nico Rosberg continues to lead. It is a

:57:24. > :57:32.straightforward pass for Mark Webber over Paul di Resta. Nico

:57:32. > :57:37.Rosberg leads. Kimi Raikkonen has not made his second pit stop.

:57:37. > :57:41.Romain Grosjean has been competitive. It will be fascinating

:57:41. > :57:48.to see how it works out at the end. There are people on different

:57:48. > :57:58.strategies. The Jenson Button behind Sergio Perez. Just in front

:57:58. > :57:59.

:57:59. > :58:02.of him, in the distance, Sebastian Vettel. He has not pitted again.

:58:02. > :58:09.Different strategies being played between Sebastian Vettel and Mark

:58:09. > :58:13.Webber. Yes, I wonder how long they can go on those tyres. Romain

:58:13. > :58:20.Grosjean on his going well in fourth position. Kimi Raikkonen is

:58:20. > :58:28.second, because McLaren have been into the pits. Here comes Jenson

:58:28. > :58:34.Button, with the DRS activated. Another straight forward pass. The

:58:34. > :58:40.race winner here a couple of years ago, in the tricky red -- in the

:58:40. > :58:45.tricky weather conditions. Kimi Raikkonen is also another former

:58:45. > :58:55.race winner, and looking to get a podium for Lotus. Using Renault

:58:55. > :58:55.

:58:55. > :59:01.power. The same power as Red Bull used. He sets off en route again.

:59:01. > :59:10.He will come out behind both the recast. It has been Fernando Alonso

:59:10. > :59:15.and Kimi Raikkonen throughout this race. Mark Webber still in the hunt.

:59:15. > :59:21.We should not discount him from this race. But he needs to close

:59:21. > :59:25.the gap to Lewis Hamilton. Keep an eye on the speed of the McLaren of

:59:25. > :59:31.Lewis Hamilton, who has got himself held up behind Pastor Maldonado.

:59:31. > :59:39.That might give Mark Webber the chance to close the gap. Having an

:59:39. > :59:45.eye on the gap that Nico Rosberg has, having done one stop. The

:59:45. > :59:49.first of the people with two stops, Jenson Button. RADIO: This is a

:59:49. > :59:56.brilliant job, the cars in front of there for the taking. A bit of

:59:56. > :59:59.encouragement! Jenson Button is 20 seconds behind Nico Rosberg, so it

:59:59. > :00:04.will be extremely close when Nico Rosberg goes into the pits, whether

:00:04. > :00:10.he comes out in front of Jenson Button or not. We expect it to be

:00:10. > :00:14.around 21 seconds between leaving your circuit and getting back out.

:00:15. > :00:24.Jenson Button, if Nico Rosberg will have to follow a similar strategy,

:00:25. > :00:32.

:00:32. > :00:36.and go into the pits again, it will through. Vettel's tyres are older

:00:36. > :00:41.than Jenson Button's. Jenson Button was a second-and-a-half faster than

:00:41. > :00:46.Vettel so he is right up behind him. Will he have to wailt for the --

:00:46. > :00:54.wait for the DRS zone or will he be able to overtake before they get

:00:54. > :01:01.there? We have Jenson Button doing 41.7. Jenson Button has has got the

:01:01. > :01:07.gap down. A car going very slowly, that's

:01:07. > :01:13.that's Kovalainen. The Finn is in trouble. The two Ferraris, 11th and

:01:13. > :01:22.12th. The Ferrari must be sliding around a lot so I wouldn't think he

:01:22. > :01:24.will block Alonso for long. TEAM RADIO: Fernando is on a

:01:24. > :01:28.different strategy so let the other car past.

:01:28. > :01:33.Team orders are allowed in Formula One now. It was brought to a head

:01:33. > :01:38.because of the information that Massa got a few years ago where, I

:01:38. > :01:43.think, his engineer said... Sorry to interrupt you there, David. He

:01:43. > :01:48.has got that move made and cleanly done. Maybe that is a demonstration

:01:48. > :01:52.there of the straight line speed, even with DRS he had that move made.

:01:52. > :02:00.No chance for Massa really with the DRS in operation and Alonso goes

:02:00. > :02:10.past his team-mate. Well, Rosberg is running about one-

:02:10. > :02:13.and-a-half seconds slower than the pace of Jenson Button. He lost time

:02:13. > :02:17.passing Jenson Button. Rosberg will be trying to hold on to do a two

:02:17. > :02:21.stopper this afternoon. That looks like the best opportunity for him

:02:21. > :02:31.to win this Grand Prix. If he was to bail in now, he is going to come

:02:31. > :02:33.

:02:33. > :02:35.out behind the McLarens. The tyre wear at the end of the

:02:35. > :02:39.race could be crucial and it might be difficult to stay up there. Well

:02:40. > :02:45.wait and see. Rosberg still the race leader. Alonso making another

:02:45. > :02:50.move and getting past Paul di Resta. No problem up at turn six. Massa

:02:50. > :02:59.not coming into the pits. It looks as if the two Ferraris are on

:02:59. > :03:05.different strategies. A new fastest lap has been set by the Torro Rosso

:03:05. > :03:10.by Jean-Eric Vergne. They changed a lot of the bodywork. He was unhappy

:03:10. > :03:14.after qualifying and although he is new to Formula One and he has been

:03:14. > :03:19.rapid in the ranks of single-seater racing before come nothing Formula

:03:19. > :03:23.One, he has the fastest lap. I am sure welds the fastest laps tumble

:03:23. > :03:27.as more fuel is burnt off. TEAM RADIO: Paul, we are in a race

:03:27. > :03:32.here. We are still in a race. Currently sitting in ninth place.

:03:32. > :03:38.In other words, do not let that Ferrari past too easily!

:03:38. > :03:48.I can imagine a a frustrated driver behind the wheel saying, "Thanks

:03:48. > :03:49.

:03:49. > :03:55.for that message! ". Gary, a quick thought, look ago the pictures we

:03:55. > :03:59.are seeing. We are not seeing the overtaking under DRS, we have seen

:03:59. > :04:03.vetting into the pits, but we are not seeing the sort of overtaking

:04:03. > :04:06.that we saw last year or that we expected. What are your thoughts on

:04:06. > :04:09.that? I am surprised. We have seen a bit of difference in car speed

:04:09. > :04:16.down the end of that straight in qualifying and you would have

:04:16. > :04:26.thought the 15 to 20 kilometres an hour that you get from the DRS

:04:26. > :04:29.

:04:29. > :04:34.It is not enough speed. They don't start the DRS at beginning. It

:04:34. > :04:41.should be able to be done, but difficult, but it was too difficult

:04:41. > :04:51.today! We have seen some passes, but not as many as we might have

:04:51. > :04:55.expected. Jean-Eric Vergne with that pass. Heikki Kovalainen Has

:04:55. > :05:01.brought the car back into the pits. This is maybe what caused him to

:05:01. > :05:06.trundle. Was there a problem trying to get the wheel on? Yes, there was.

:05:06. > :05:11.He is out of the Grand Prix. Two retirements, Michael Schumacher and

:05:11. > :05:18.hike and Heikki Kovalainen. Grosjean finds himself running in

:05:18. > :05:23.second place. He has only done one stop like Rosberg. He did his first

:05:23. > :05:29.stop on lap 11 so an early stop, trying to get good life out of the

:05:29. > :05:36.second set of tyres. done the one stop and lapping well,

:05:36. > :05:42.but Jenson Button set fastest lap now. Hamilton trying to get past

:05:42. > :05:44.Perez. There was no way there, but you thought he might have a go up

:05:44. > :05:48.the inside and decided against it and Perez fending off Lewis

:05:48. > :05:53.Hamilton, the double winner in China in the past for the moimt. --

:05:53. > :05:58.moment. In comes Grosjean. That was a good stint by the Frenchman. He

:05:58. > :06:02.will have moved himself up the order hugely as a result of that

:06:02. > :06:05.and Romain Grosjean showing the pace we saw in testing from him

:06:05. > :06:09.which he hasn't been anal to demonstrate -- able to demonstrate

:06:09. > :06:16.in the first two Grand Prix of this year.

:06:16. > :06:26.It may not sound impressive to the viewers back home.

:06:26. > :06:29.

:06:29. > :06:34.TEAM RADIO: Generals Generalsons, we are in -- Jenson, we are in this

:06:34. > :06:37.race to win. That will means he will have had a

:06:37. > :06:43.planned strategy. He is informing Jenson they will be adding three

:06:43. > :06:49.laps to his next stop. Jenson Button has done two stops this

:06:49. > :06:55.afternoon. We can expect to see him in again around 40, maybe longer,

:06:55. > :07:00.43, 44. So a few more laps to do on this set of tyres.

:07:00. > :07:05.It looks as if Rosberg is going all the way on one more stop. Jenson

:07:05. > :07:10.Button is going for the three stop. Hamilton has not found a way past

:07:10. > :07:16.Perez. Look ago the lap comparisons between Rosberg and Jenson Button

:07:16. > :07:22.and there you are. R -- there you are, the benefit of going on to a

:07:22. > :07:28.fresher set of tyres. Jenson Button is making more stops. Last year it

:07:28. > :07:32.made for an exciting finish. It looks like we are in for a similar

:07:32. > :07:39.grandstand finish today. How close can Hamilton get to Perez without

:07:39. > :07:46.getting past him? That saub her a mass -- Sauber had a massive top

:07:47. > :07:53.speed in qualifying. Hamilton is having to get defensive.

:07:53. > :07:57.That won't work, Mark! Nice try, anyway! Hamilton is too

:07:57. > :08:04.sharp for that one! This Sauber gives a little bit of a breathing

:08:05. > :08:11.space to Hamilton. When you have got the DRS available, you have

:08:11. > :08:18.only got 5 or 6 kilometres and that's not enough speed. You have

:08:18. > :08:25.Jenson Button running 12 seconds behind Rosberg. We expect both have

:08:25. > :08:30.to do an extra stop. A crucial 12 second gap will decide who will win.

:08:30. > :08:37.If Jenson Button can close that up before Rosberg does his second stop

:08:37. > :08:44.or on the last part when he is he is on the fresher set of tyres.

:08:44. > :08:47.Hamilton on DRS, no Sergio Perez gets it turned in. He might lose

:08:47. > :08:51.the place on the exit because he was deep into the corner and he

:08:51. > :08:57.just stays in front of Hamilton. Again, he has locked up.

:08:57. > :09:01.And behind them Vettel, sorry Webber coming in. Rosberg has been

:09:01. > :09:05.in. Rosberg a race leader, into the the pits and back out and he is

:09:05. > :09:13.coming out ahead of that fight again Perez and Hamilton. That is

:09:13. > :09:19.where rs Ross re-- Rosberg re- emerges.

:09:19. > :09:25.That was crucial for Rosberg. The Mercedes team...

:09:25. > :09:29.TEAM RADIO: Try to get two or three more laps and stri to stay in front.

:09:29. > :09:35.-- try to stay in front. The Mercedes team trying to take

:09:35. > :09:40.advantage of this battle. That released Rosberg into some clean

:09:40. > :09:44.air. Rosberg still fighting for the victory, but Jenson Button going

:09:44. > :09:49.well. So are Hamilton and Perez. These tw are fighting for -- two

:09:49. > :09:54.are fighting for a potential podium. Perez last weekend, he was closing

:09:54. > :10:00.up on Fernando Alonso, now he is being hounded by another, Lewis

:10:00. > :10:09.Hamilton. There is Rosberg up ahead of them and there is Alonso. This

:10:09. > :10:16.will be a three-way tussle. Perez has great straight line speed.

:10:16. > :10:20.We have said Mercedes can't make their tyres last. Alonso on the

:10:20. > :10:26.back of a McLaren. He is the current World Championship leader

:10:26. > :10:33.after three Grand Prixs. They are battling again.

:10:33. > :10:42.How does he make the corner? I don't see how you can be that

:10:42. > :10:44.locked up and make the apex. The pit entry is tricky. If you are

:10:44. > :10:49.going into the pits and you are following another car, you have to

:10:49. > :10:52.slow down and accelerate up again. Perez has the benefit of a straight

:10:52. > :10:57.run in. Alonso right with Hamilton. This is

:10:57. > :11:02.exciting stuff. The two former team-mates a few years ago, of

:11:02. > :11:06.course, which didn't always go according to plan. Alonso chasing

:11:06. > :11:11.down Hamilton. Let's take a look atted lock up. Having locked up

:11:11. > :11:17.once on the worn tyres, it is likely to happen again.

:11:17. > :11:22.There is no ABS, you can see the wheel turning as the driver driver

:11:22. > :11:28.tries to create his own ABS by pumping at the brake pedal. You

:11:28. > :11:31.can't release your poot your foot from the brake otherwise you will

:11:31. > :11:34.go on. Is Jenson Button doing enough? It

:11:34. > :11:39.is Jenson Button leading Rosberg now because Jenson Button still

:11:39. > :11:45.needs to make another pit stop. Jenson Button needs to pull out 12

:11:45. > :11:48.seconds to stand a chance of winning the Grand Prix. He is nine-

:11:48. > :11:53.and-a-half seconds ahead of Rosberg. If he can pull another 12 seconds

:11:53. > :11:58.before his final stop, he can come out in front of Rosberg. If he does

:11:58. > :12:01.come out in front of him, he can race him on the track. Let's keep

:12:01. > :12:06.an eye on the gap. Rosberg now set for the rest of the Grand Prix

:12:06. > :12:09.without stopping. Hamilton comes through behind with Alonso

:12:09. > :12:17.shadowing his every move. Felipe Massa, he is on a different

:12:17. > :12:21.strategy to Alonso. He is going for the two stop race. Kimi Raikkonen

:12:21. > :12:31.sorry Kobayashi and Sebastian Vettel in there, Grosjean is a

:12:31. > :12:37.

:12:37. > :12:42.little bit further behind in the the second Lotus.

:12:42. > :12:47.The top ten at the moment, but they are on different strategies. You

:12:47. > :12:51.are riding on board Sebastian Vettel.

:12:51. > :12:57.Alonso fourth, Kobayashi seventh, then Sebastian Vettel eighth, you

:12:57. > :13:06.are riding with him. Ninth place is gre is Grosjean and in tenth is

:13:06. > :13:11.Bruno Senna. Let's watch watch Vettel. It is a different story for

:13:11. > :13:16.Sebastian Vettel. He has been used to a a lot of clean air and that

:13:17. > :13:23.led people to question his ability to race wheel to wheel. Webber is

:13:23. > :13:29.very wide on the exit of turn 13 and well, that will be one for the

:13:29. > :13:35.FIA to look at the kerb. Clearly it launched the front of the car into

:13:35. > :13:39.the air. I am not surprised if that has country damage to the chassis.

:13:39. > :13:43.The car is run on something that is called the plank. It is not a piece

:13:43. > :13:48.of wood, but it looks like it. That is bolted to the chassis and a

:13:48. > :13:58.driver as tall as Mark is sitting with his spine on the base of the

:13:58. > :14:05.

:14:05. > :14:07.I wonder if he will be a pilot when of times! Down into the hairpin and

:14:07. > :14:13.Kobayashi in the middle of the group, but Felipe Massa is trying

:14:13. > :14:20.to eek it out on these tyres. This is looking like a good performance

:14:20. > :14:25.from Massa. He has got to keep his head and not make mistakes. A great

:14:25. > :14:32.performance from Rosberg. It does not look that Jenson Button is able

:14:32. > :14:36.to do much with this set of tyres and Rosberg who we expect to take

:14:36. > :14:42.this sector has good pace. That's really interesting. Jenson

:14:43. > :14:47.Button is not getting the sort of lap time that he needs. At moment

:14:47. > :14:52.Rosberg is living with him. This tussle between Felipe Massa in the

:14:52. > :14:58.Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen in the Lotus, chased by Kobayashi and he

:14:58. > :15:04.has has Vettel had a Grosjean is not far back, but on different

:15:04. > :15:09.strategies and Felipe Massa doing his up most to stay in his position.

:15:09. > :15:13.A long time since Massa won a race. If he could come home with points

:15:13. > :15:23.that would take the pressure off him at Ferrari, Jenson Button is

:15:23. > :15:31.

:15:31. > :15:39.doing? 0.7 slower than us. If we get a few more laps out of this set,

:15:39. > :15:48.we will be OK. There is always a delay on the radio communications.

:15:48. > :15:56.Let's see what this club is like. 42.04 Jenson Button. 41.4 seconds

:15:56. > :16:03.for Nico Rosberg. McClellan responding. Passionate McLaren

:16:03. > :16:08.responding. Ferrari very fast with their pit stops in Australia. Force

:16:08. > :16:14.India won the game last time out. This time, even Stevens between

:16:14. > :16:20.McLaren and Ferrari. Beautiful work from both sets of mechanics,

:16:20. > :16:26.getting the car serviced. That will give them an instant feeling of

:16:26. > :16:33.increased grip. As we enter the latter stages, they have burned off

:16:33. > :16:38.a lot of fuel, and the car responds so much better. It stops so much

:16:38. > :16:46.easier. Mark Webber having a sniff of Bruno Senna in the run down to

:16:46. > :16:50.the sixth corner. Mark Webber is the fastest guy in the first sector.

:16:50. > :16:55.The fastest of all cars this afternoon. You will expect to see

:16:55. > :16:59.the lap times continue to drop until late in the race. Sergio

:16:59. > :17:04.Perez has been into the pit stop for his second stop, so that has

:17:04. > :17:10.dropped him down the order. He is on a different strategy from Kamui

:17:10. > :17:15.Kobayashi. Sensible stuff. Romain Grosjean on the back of the group,

:17:15. > :17:21.chasing Sebastian Vettel. McLaren pit crew are coming out

:17:21. > :17:31.into the pit lane. That will be for Jenson Button. There he is, in the

:17:31. > :17:33.

:17:33. > :17:41.pit lane. He will not be leading when he comes back out. He is on

:17:41. > :17:47.the harder tyre. A problem! It is a slow pit-stop. He is still there!

:17:47. > :17:51.Now, he moves. He had a dreadful pit-stop. As he finally gets going,

:17:51. > :17:57.you should see him emerge from the left-hand side. Look at the places

:17:57. > :18:02.he has lost! He has lost a bunch of places, and his chances of winning

:18:02. > :18:08.the Grand Prix have gone out of the window. He has got all of these

:18:09. > :18:18.cars ahead of him. Agony for McLaren. A problem with the left

:18:19. > :18:21.

:18:21. > :18:28.rear tyre. He could not get there will not in. Not even a shake off

:18:28. > :18:33.the head, he just sat there. There was the problem. They do not want

:18:33. > :18:40.to take any chances. Remember Silverstone, McLaren could not get

:18:40. > :18:47.it on at all, and he had to pull off. They have had some changes.

:18:47. > :18:52.They would rather have a slow start. RADIO: Jenson Button has been slow

:18:52. > :18:57.in the pit stop, this could be close. Jenson Button coming out

:18:57. > :19:02.behind this group. He has got past Romain Grosjean. That was important.

:19:02. > :19:09.He has got to throw caution to the wind to an extent, he is on the

:19:09. > :19:15.fresh tyres, he has got the advantage in terms of grip. Jenson

:19:15. > :19:20.Button was stationary for nine seconds. Normally, he would be in

:19:20. > :19:27.and out in three seconds. It would have been painful. Waiting for the

:19:27. > :19:34.lollipop man to tell you it is safe to go. Mark Webber is further back.

:19:34. > :19:39.Jenson Button is still ahead of his team-mate, Lewis Hamilton. This is

:19:39. > :19:43.the group battling for second place. He has to get to the front of this

:19:43. > :19:51.group as quickly as possible, but he is 20 seconds behind the race

:19:51. > :20:01.leader. There are 15 laps to go. Nico Rosberg has a 22nd advantage

:20:01. > :20:01.

:20:01. > :20:08.over Jenson Button. -- 22nd advantage. He can almost Chase de

:20:08. > :20:13.Champagne, and less there are any mechanical issues. That would be

:20:13. > :20:18.the only thing that can stop him. That would be an emotional moment

:20:18. > :20:21.for Mercedes and for him. I do not want to tempt fate, but he is

:20:21. > :20:26.driving superbly. There is something about the Shanghai

:20:26. > :20:35.circuit that suits Nico Rosberg. Felipe Massa still has not made his

:20:35. > :20:39.second pit stop. How long can he go? He has not been passed by them.

:20:39. > :20:44.You could not want people with better CVs trying to get past him.

:20:44. > :20:49.But he is staying in front of them at the moment. He has done 22 laps

:20:49. > :20:53.on these tyres. It is a great drive, he is making them last. It is not

:20:54. > :20:59.the quickest way to drive, but it is allowing him to run in second

:20:59. > :21:07.place. He will have to stop again, of course. Mark Webber getting the

:21:07. > :21:14.pass on Bruno Senna. RADIO: You have to look after the tyres. The

:21:15. > :21:20.next guy is 19 seconds behind. Felipe Massa has released this

:21:20. > :21:25.bunch. Kimi Raikkonen in second, Sebastian Vettel in third, Jenson

:21:25. > :21:30.Button enforced. Sebastian Vettel's tactics have worked well. Jenson

:21:30. > :21:34.Button, trying to get past the Red Bull and the Lotus as quickly as

:21:34. > :21:41.possible, and then go on the chase of Nico Rosberg. But Nico Rosberg

:21:41. > :21:46.has been told that all he has to do is look after the tyres. Romain

:21:46. > :21:50.Grosjean getting on to the back of Jenson Button. Jenson Button will

:21:50. > :21:55.be looking at the DRS zone. He wants to position himself into the

:21:55. > :22:00.perfect spot. The Red Bull does not have the straight-line speed. He

:22:01. > :22:06.could be a sitting target. He is trying to get past Kimi Raikkonen.

:22:07. > :22:12.Kimi Raikkonen will not have DRS, Sebastian Vettel well, and Jenson

:22:12. > :22:17.Button also. RADIO: All of the guys in front of you will either go into

:22:17. > :22:24.the pit stop or run into trouble. Presumably he means they will not

:22:24. > :22:30.have any grip? Yes. 2.5 mm of rubber available when you put the

:22:30. > :22:35.tyres on. All of the debris, that is discarded rubber that has been

:22:35. > :22:42.removed from the top of the surface. Once you get down to 2 mm, you lose

:22:42. > :22:46.the ability to keep the temperature in the tyre. The Engineer is

:22:46. > :22:51.banking that, when they hit the cliff, they will be able to pick

:22:51. > :22:59.them off. This was Lewis Hamilton on Pastor Maldonado. That was for

:22:59. > :23:07.ninth position. Is this the same move? Yes. The sixth corner, that

:23:07. > :23:11.has been a passing place for him this afternoon. A good mood. --

:23:11. > :23:16.good mood. Although Nico Rosberg might have the edge, look at how

:23:16. > :23:24.close they are, racing for second place. It is incredible. It is like

:23:24. > :23:29.Formula Ford! They are nose-to-tail, great stuff. World champions,

:23:29. > :23:35.second, third and fourth. Lewis Hamilton getting past Bruno Senna.

:23:35. > :23:41.He is into seventh place. Fernando Alonso trying to get past Fernando

:23:41. > :23:51.-- Pastor Maldonado. He is on the marbles, he runs wide! Does he lose

:23:51. > :23:54.

:23:54. > :24:00.a place to the Sauber? Yes. Sergio Perez has got past Fernando Alonso.

:24:01. > :24:04.Pastor Maldonado having none of it. Fernando Alonso pays the price.

:24:04. > :24:12.does not seem to be making much difference. I thought that Jenson

:24:12. > :24:19.Button would be able to make the moves. Lewis Hamilton has got past

:24:19. > :24:25.Pastor Maldonado, and Bruno Senna. The same place as he made the move

:24:25. > :24:31.on Pastor Maldonado. On his way does Lewis Hamilton. Nico Rosberg

:24:31. > :24:37.still lives. This is what happens when you go off the racing line.

:24:37. > :24:43.The dust and debris. It is like driving on ice, you cannot control

:24:43. > :24:49.the car. You have to allow it to run wide. I am surprised that

:24:49. > :24:54.Jenson Button cannot close the gap a bit more. Mark Webber on slightly

:24:54. > :25:00.fresher tyres that Sebastian Vettel. Lewis Hamilton closing up onto the

:25:00. > :25:03.back of the group. Nico Rosberg doing a fantastic job at the front,

:25:03. > :25:08.22.6 seconds ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. If he needed to make

:25:08. > :25:17.another pit-stop, he could get in and get some new tyres and get back

:25:17. > :25:22.out. It is a wonderful position. He has got the choice. Could he give

:25:22. > :25:24.the pit crew a bit of breathing space? It was the pit-stop that

:25:24. > :25:34.went wrong for Jenson Button that has allowed him to be in that

:25:34. > :25:37.

:25:37. > :25:43.position. Gary, your thoughts? RADIO: Next up, Mark Webber. His

:25:43. > :25:53.tyres of five laps older than ours. Gary, your thoughts, with 12 laps

:25:53. > :25:54.

:25:54. > :25:57.to go? Just as David said, if Nico Rosberg can keep it tidy, he is

:25:57. > :26:05.making the gap bigger all the time, he just needs to keep in his rhythm

:26:05. > :26:09.and makes sure that he does not abuse the tyres. They should not be

:26:09. > :26:14.any problem for him as long as he can keep his focus and

:26:14. > :26:18.concentration. His first Grand Prix win after quite a few starts, he

:26:18. > :26:26.will be hearing every rattle and jingle in the car for the last few

:26:26. > :26:31.laps! I wonder how his nerves are! His lap time again was 1:41.3, so

:26:31. > :26:36.no nervousness. Kimi Raikkonen in second place, controlling things at

:26:36. > :26:41.the moment. To get to the end of this race, he will have to get 28

:26:41. > :26:51.laps and of the set of tyres. Detractors improve, and the tyre

:26:51. > :26:52.

:26:52. > :26:58.where improves. Yes, he can. Mark Webber getting past Romain Grosjean,

:26:58. > :27:02.or the Romain Grosjean is not giving the place up. He will go

:27:02. > :27:07.wide, a carbon copy of what Fernando Alonso did. It looked like

:27:07. > :27:13.he got the pass initially, but he drifted on to the marbles off.

:27:13. > :27:19.Pastor Maldonado, they made contact in Australia. Let's hope this does

:27:19. > :27:27.not end badly for Romain Grosjean. He just has enough. Pastor

:27:27. > :27:33.Maldonado will have a look! They hit each are there! Be touched

:27:33. > :27:42.twice! Pastor Maldonado round the outside. This time, Romain Grosjean

:27:42. > :27:50.fence him off. He has damaged his plate! Sergio Perez getting in on

:27:50. > :27:53.the act. He is going to get one of them into the hairpin. He has got

:27:53. > :28:02.past Romain Grosjean, but Romain Grosjean will try to get back on

:28:02. > :28:08.the exit. It looks like they are racing in GP2! Romain Grosjean has

:28:08. > :28:12.stayed in front of Pastor Maldonado. He is taking a quick sigh of relief

:28:12. > :28:20.as he tries to pull away again. Sergio Perez trying to get past

:28:20. > :28:25.Pastor Maldonado. That was great driving from Romain Grosjean.

:28:25. > :28:31.Fernando Alonso has slipped up the inside of Sergio Perez. He has got

:28:31. > :28:37.the familiar view that he had from Malaysia, the back of the Ferrari.

:28:37. > :28:44.I was holding my breath. RADIO: Take it very easy on the Left Front,

:28:44. > :28:51.you can afford to lose another 0.5 seconds. That is interesting.

:28:52. > :28:56.Fernando Alonso makes the move on Sergio Perez, he gets him back. It

:28:56. > :29:02.is so important in terms of championship points, that his tenth

:29:02. > :29:06.place. That is worth one point. The championship lead is surely going

:29:06. > :29:11.to disappear for Fernando Alonso, because the McLaren drivers are

:29:11. > :29:16.ahead, but they will not win the race as it stands. Jenson Button is

:29:16. > :29:20.still in fourth place. He has got Red Bull either side of him.

:29:20. > :29:24.Sebastian Vettel is in third. After their problems in qualifying, with

:29:24. > :29:32.Sebastian Vettel in 11th, they have shown today they have got a car

:29:32. > :29:37.that is fast in racing. The benefit of qualifying in 11th, you get more

:29:37. > :29:43.fresh tyres to use in the race. Last year, Mark Webber qualified

:29:43. > :29:47.18th and finished on the podium. Sebastian Vettel kept a cool head

:29:47. > :29:51.yesterday, with the disappointment, and at the moment, he will be

:29:51. > :29:55.rewarded with a podium, presuming he will allow the harder tyres to

:29:55. > :30:02.make it to the end. What are they talking about come up with the

:30:02. > :30:08.front tyres? It is not just be lowered, it is the amount of energy

:30:08. > :30:14.being put into the surface, and you get the more balls flying off. You

:30:14. > :30:23.end up losing the gauge from the tyre. Imagine you are rubbing and a

:30:23. > :30:32.razor on to a piece of paper. It will get hot, and it will start to

:30:32. > :30:37.break, if anybody uses robbers on has to manage now. Do they bring

:30:37. > :30:45.him in or leave him out there? It looks like they have decided to

:30:45. > :30:47.leave him out there. As soon as the lap times starts to go, they can

:30:47. > :30:52.bring him in. At moment he is running 41.7 compared to Raikkonen

:30:52. > :30:56.so he is opening out that gap. He has got a 25 second lead over

:30:56. > :31:03.Raikkonen and they have the luxurious position of going to the

:31:03. > :31:07.end of this set of tyres of pitting or getting a fresh set of boots.

:31:07. > :31:14.Their preferred strategy strategy would be to leave the car out and

:31:14. > :31:17.not take any chances with the pit stop.

:31:17. > :31:23.Red Bull have their two cars in the top five, but is that going to

:31:23. > :31:30.change because Webber and Hamilton and Webber are coming through so

:31:30. > :31:35.Hamilton. There is a battle as Hamilton tries to get past Mark

:31:35. > :31:40.Webber? He slipped up the inside! Mark Webber is holding the inside.

:31:40. > :31:46.This is good stuff, isn't it? Now Mark Webber fends him off and

:31:46. > :31:51.Hamilton couldn't make the most TV. Sebastian Vettel is going on the

:31:51. > :31:56.outside of Raikkonen trying to do the cut back. He will use KERS as

:31:56. > :32:00.he comes off turn six. Will he do what Alonso failed to do which is

:32:00. > :32:07.get around the outside? He does and Raikkonen goes wide and that allows

:32:07. > :32:10.Jenson Button through. Vet set is in -- -- set set is into

:32:11. > :32:14.second second -- Sebastian Vettel is into second.

:32:14. > :32:19.Raikkonen who held on to second place, he lost two places. Now he

:32:19. > :32:23.might lose another one to Hamilton as well. What a race this is

:32:23. > :32:29.turning into! It might not be for victory, but boy, this is amazing

:32:29. > :32:35.stuff between so many different cars. We have the Lotuses and the

:32:35. > :32:41.Red Bulls and the McLarens and Senna is down in the seventh. Bruno

:32:41. > :32:44.Senna on for another good haul of points for Williams, but Sebastian

:32:44. > :32:50.Vettel got himself into second and Jenson Button is in third place and

:32:50. > :32:55.as they fight for second, Hamilton is down the the inside. Yes,

:32:55. > :32:59.Hamilton claims the place and Raikkonen could drop back quickly

:32:59. > :33:03.because Mark Webber gets a run on him and goes around the outside and

:33:03. > :33:10.Raikkonen's tyres are as they say fallen off the cliff, he is

:33:10. > :33:15.struggling for grip now. He is in trouble. We saw two black lines at

:33:15. > :33:20.turn 14. Yeah, how to lose several places. Another place lost as Senna

:33:20. > :33:26.goes up the inside and what will Grosjean do? He is up the inside.

:33:26. > :33:33.He has done it as well. In one lap, look how many places Kimi Raikkonen

:33:33. > :33:39.lost. This Is a textbook example of tyre performance. He loses another

:33:39. > :33:44.position to Maldonado and next up is Alonso. Alonso passes him coming

:33:44. > :33:48.off the turn and Raikkonen goes from second to tenth. Grosjean

:33:48. > :33:53.gained a place on Senna as well. So Grosjean, who has had a difficult

:33:53. > :33:57.start to the year, is flying now for Lotus. They have a fast car.

:33:57. > :34:03.Their tyres haven't lasted for Raikkonen, but for Grosjean things

:34:03. > :34:09.are working better. Alonso is going to to try and get past the Williams.

:34:09. > :34:12.Hamilton this was on the move on Mark Webber. He got down the inside

:34:12. > :34:17.and they were side by side and Mark Webber did not want to give that

:34:17. > :34:24.will place up at that stage. So managed to fend him off, but then

:34:25. > :34:29.further around as they were trying to deal with Raikkonen and that's

:34:29. > :34:33.where Mark Webber ran wide. He was trying to position it down

:34:34. > :34:41.the inside and look at the debris off the racing line, the dust and

:34:41. > :34:45.debris being thrown up as we have the two Saubers going wheel to to

:34:45. > :34:50.wheel. Kobayashi is up into 11th place.

:34:50. > :34:55.Well, your team-mate is your biggest rival and that's Kobayashi

:34:55. > :35:02.getting past Perez. Let's not forget that Nico Rosberg still

:35:02. > :35:08.leads for Mercedes. The race is on for second second between Sebastian

:35:08. > :35:12.Vettel and Jenson Button. That was a late move from Perez to defend

:35:12. > :35:16.his position. Kobayashi caught out by that. He put a wheel on the

:35:17. > :35:21.grass and again we have seen it several times this afternoon, Perez

:35:21. > :35:26.locking up. We have got a replay of the battle. Raikkonen on the

:35:26. > :35:31.outside watching him. He will be thinking, "Well, it would be useful

:35:31. > :35:34.for me if they were to touch right now! ". Senna is further up the

:35:34. > :35:38.road. There is a battle for second between Sebastian Vettel and Jenson

:35:38. > :35:46.Button. It includes Hamilton. Hamilton is going quickly at the

:35:46. > :35:49.moment. Hamilton did a 1.40.6. He is only two seconds behind Jenson

:35:49. > :35:53.Button so we will have the three world champions Sebastian Vettel,

:35:53. > :35:58.Jenson Button and Hamilton fighting for second place in the Grand Prix,

:35:58. > :36:01.but Nico Rosberg is marching, marching, towards his first ever

:36:01. > :36:08.Grand Prix victory. There we are, this is the battle for second

:36:08. > :36:13.that's developing. It is Sebastian Vettel versus Jenson Button.

:36:13. > :36:19.And as that radio message tells us, Hamilton is quicker. Now Jenson

:36:19. > :36:24.Button might be able to go faster if he could get past Sebastian

:36:24. > :36:30.Vettel, but he hasn't been able to do that for a lot of laps. He has

:36:30. > :36:36.been sliding the rear of that car using up precious rubber. It will

:36:36. > :36:44.not be lost on Jenson. He has been chased down by his team-mate.

:36:44. > :36:49.Memories when Hamilton got past Jenson Button for Hamilton it would

:36:49. > :36:55.mean the championship lead of course, as well. Into the pits is

:36:55. > :37:01.the Caterham of Vitaly Petrov. Vitaly Petrov running in 18th place,

:37:01. > :37:06.no, it is Kovalainen's car. I thought he was out, but he is still

:37:06. > :37:14.running. On board with the race leader, Nico Rosberg.

:37:14. > :37:17.Look at that soft grip on the steering wheel. Ever so gentle on

:37:17. > :37:26.the acceleration. He is leading this race and he has plenty of time

:37:26. > :37:30.to think. Look at all that clear space behind him! Who would have

:37:30. > :37:35.thought we would have the Mercedes with a 20 second lead.

:37:35. > :37:43.In the distance, we have black markers and that battle for for

:37:43. > :37:47.second. Vettel's tyres have done eight laps more than Jenson

:37:47. > :37:53.Button's tyres. It might become more and more difficult and Jenson

:37:53. > :37:58.is going for. Jenson Button takes second place, but can he hold on to

:37:58. > :38:04.it? Jenson Button is in second place ahead of Sebastian Vettel,

:38:04. > :38:07.but Lewis Hamilton is catching. I was tripping over you with the

:38:07. > :38:11.excitement of that late pass that Jenson went for, but assured on the

:38:11. > :38:17.brakes. Put his car down the inside, committed to the pass and Sebastian

:38:17. > :38:24.Vettel tried to come back at him. Look how far back he was come

:38:24. > :38:27.nothing the DRS zone. He starts to say, "I'm thinking about it."

:38:27. > :38:37.Vettel holds the racing line. He should have been more defensive,

:38:37. > :38:41.

:38:41. > :38:44.but subtle approach to overtaking Button trying to eke out his

:38:44. > :38:48.advantage over the Red Bull. But that gap to the race leader is 25

:38:48. > :38:54.seconds, that's the margin. Remember the slow pit stop that

:38:54. > :38:58.Jenson Button suffered was a part of that. Without that slow pit stop,

:38:58. > :39:03.Jenson Button might have had more of a chance, but looking at the

:39:03. > :39:11.performance that Nico Rosberg has been putting in. Rosberg is still

:39:11. > :39:16.in the one minute 41s and that on tyres that have done many laps, it

:39:16. > :39:22.shows that Mercedes have not had the tyre problem here.

:39:22. > :39:29.The mystery of Formula One's tyre performances continues. We had the

:39:29. > :39:32.surprise of the Ferrari in Malaysia and only four laps, but 20

:39:32. > :39:36.kilometres over separate Nico Rosberg from his first Grand Prix

:39:36. > :39:40.victory. Rosberg started on poll position

:39:40. > :39:44.and launched himself into the lead. It looked as if Michael Schumacher

:39:44. > :39:49.might be able to back him up, but Schumacher was our first and only

:39:49. > :39:53.retirement from this race after a wheel nut didn't go on properly and

:39:53. > :39:57.since then we have seen great battling. Kobayashi didn't start so

:39:57. > :40:02.well and dropped down the order a bit. Raikkonen held on to second

:40:02. > :40:10.place. Just a note that Felipe Massa who is on the different

:40:10. > :40:17.strategy, Massa is down in 13th and Raikkonen is down in 14th place now.

:40:17. > :40:27..So Vettel and looking back at Hamilton then Webber. These guys

:40:27. > :40:28.

:40:28. > :40:31.are close. A little lock up. Hamilton with that lock up. I

:40:31. > :40:37.wouldn't have expect that had to damage the tyre, but it is getting

:40:37. > :40:43.to the end of their usable life. Sebastian Vettel has to pass a

:40:43. > :40:49.lapped car. We have got both bits of action going on.

:40:49. > :40:53.Yeah, Hamilton's tyres should be in better shape. They are seven laps

:40:53. > :40:57.newer than those of Sebastian Vettel and you could start to see

:40:57. > :41:01.Vettel's car sliding more and more and Webber who has newer tyres than

:41:01. > :41:05.Vettel come into the factor as well. It is about tyre management and as

:41:05. > :41:13.a Grand Prix driver, David, it is part of that their job to look

:41:13. > :41:15.after those tyres? It is indeed. It Formula One World Championship. It

:41:15. > :41:23.was about preserving everything, the gearbox, the engine, the brakes,

:41:23. > :41:27.the cars were so fragile back then. Modern Grand Prix racing,

:41:27. > :41:31.reliability is so good. The only thing the drivers need to worry

:41:31. > :41:37.about is the tyres. Rosberg is doing that fine in the

:41:37. > :41:46.Mercedes. Jenson Button does a 1.41.1, Jenson Button only gaining

:41:46. > :41:49.two tenths. TEAM RADIO: Jenson, pull away now

:41:49. > :41:53.before Lewis gets past Vettel. a great, great message.

:41:53. > :41:57.McLaren let their drivers go for it and race and clearly his engineer

:41:57. > :42:04.is rig to get the -- trying to get the best for his driver.

:42:04. > :42:14.We are on board with Alonso. He is behind Maldonado. Both Williams are

:42:14. > :42:19.running in the top ten. Maldonado is in eighth place. Sir Frank

:42:19. > :42:27.Williams would celebrate his 70th birth dape tomorrow.

:42:27. > :42:36.-- birthday tomorrow. My goodness, they were almost

:42:36. > :42:42.banging wheels there! Look how sideways he got! This was a slow

:42:42. > :42:52.burn race. Almost Coming together with the Sauber of Kobayashi.

:42:52. > :42:52.

:42:52. > :43:00.How are the tyres holding up for Nico Rosberg? Hamilton goes to the

:43:00. > :43:03.inside. He is into third position. that. Mark Webber trying to get in

:43:03. > :43:06.on it, can he? Sebastian Vettel coming back on the inside, but

:43:06. > :43:10.surely he can't do anything and for the second year in succession,

:43:10. > :43:14.Sebastian Vettel gets past by Hamilton, but this time it is not

:43:14. > :43:21.for the lead. Hamilton has got to be careful for

:43:21. > :43:25.that that that that weaving. He was pulled up in Malaysia a few years

:43:25. > :43:31.ago. No team orders apply. We are in the

:43:31. > :43:34.closing stages of the Chinese Grand Prix. Jenson Button is second.

:43:34. > :43:39.Hamilton third for McLaren. Sebastian Vettel fourth. Mark

:43:39. > :43:47.Webber fifth for Red Bull and Romain Grosjean in the Lotus, he

:43:47. > :43:53.hasn't finished a Grand Prix yet this year, but Grosjean is in sixth.

:43:53. > :43:58.It is not over yet, but Webber wants to get past his team-mate.

:43:58. > :44:04.Newer tyres on Mark Webber's cars. There is not a huge margin, three

:44:04. > :44:08.laps the difference between them. Take another look at this. A

:44:08. > :44:13.classic DRS pass. Gets in the slipstream and opens up DRS, a

:44:13. > :44:23.little bit of defending down into turn 14 and then, of of course,

:44:23. > :44:23.

:44:23. > :44:29.any left over KERS, but he is on the outside as you come into the

:44:29. > :44:37.tight last corner and then just to clarify the situation of the rules

:44:37. > :44:43.now, you are allowed to make one change of direction to defend your

:44:43. > :44:46.position. Look at this. It is Mark Webber

:44:46. > :44:51.versus Sebastian Vettel. The Australian going for it! Can he do

:44:51. > :44:58.it? He goes wide into the hairpin. Sebastian Vettel defends. No, he

:44:58. > :45:05.has got the inside line. Mark Webber has done it. He has gone

:45:05. > :45:08.past past his team-mate. He could be on for a hat trick of fourth

:45:08. > :45:12.places. He has taken a a fourth from Sebastian Vettel. I suspect

:45:12. > :45:20.that was a sweet feeling. He got shown how to drive last year, but

:45:20. > :45:23.of the two Red Bull drivers. They are running cars in different

:45:23. > :45:29.specification as well and that will cause thinking back in Milton

:45:29. > :45:33.Keynes which specification car is best? Mark Webber seems to show

:45:33. > :45:40.that what he has got is working. Here is the guy that led this race

:45:40. > :45:43.from the beginning, apart from the odd change on the pit stops, he has

:45:43. > :45:49.dominated this race, has Nico Rosberg and he looks all set now

:45:49. > :45:56.for his first ever Formula One victory. His 111th Grand Prix and

:45:56. > :46:03.Nico Rosberg, former team-mate in cart to go Lewis Hamilton, former

:46:03. > :46:06.GP 2 champion in 2005, and now he looks to come into the last few

:46:06. > :46:16.corners, Nico Rosberg, his father, of course, world champion back in

:46:16. > :46:18.

:46:18. > :46:28.1982. He took his first win at Swiss Grand Prix in 198 2, but this

:46:28. > :46:43.

:46:43. > :46:47.time it is Nico Rosberg who wins Sebastian Vettel in fifth place,

:46:47. > :46:52.Romain Grosjean in sixth place, Bruno Senna in seventh, Pastor

:46:52. > :47:01.Maldonado eighth, Fernando Alonso ninth, but still in the points, and

:47:01. > :47:11.Kamui Kobayashi gets the final point. It is Nico Rosberg who wins.

:47:11. > :47:11.

:47:11. > :47:21.For a RADIO: A great effort. Pickup rubber and enjoy! Yes, come on!

:47:21. > :47:23.

:47:23. > :47:31.brilliant job! Fantastic. Well done. Thank you, everyone. Amazing!

:47:31. > :47:38.RADIO: Thank you. Not the result we were looking for, the pit stop

:47:38. > :47:44.made it more difficult, but even so, a good result, and a fun race.

:47:44. > :47:50.The car slowing down after this historic victory for Nico Rosberg.

:47:50. > :48:00.What a feeling for the Mercedes boss! He is delighted! He does not

:48:00. > :48:01.

:48:01. > :48:06.know what to do! All credit to him, he has kept Mercedes in 4 min one.

:48:06. > :48:15.-- in Formula One. They have been rewarded, their first victory. Of

:48:15. > :48:24.the modern era. Their first since 1955. That came from poor position

:48:24. > :48:28.as well. -- from pole position. Michael Schumacher might have come

:48:28. > :48:38.second if he had not had the problem, but they will settle for

:48:38. > :48:45.this! They will celebrate this very special moment. You know Mercedes

:48:45. > :48:51.well, what must this mean to these guys? Naught but started life as a

:48:51. > :48:56.journalist, he has been the motor Sport boss of Mercedes for 20 years,

:48:57. > :49:01.and through difficult times, he has kept them steady, he has been

:49:01. > :49:07.committed to motor sport as a platform to show their winning ways.

:49:07. > :49:11.As you mentioned, this is a huge market in car sales. I said it

:49:11. > :49:16.yesterday, this was the right man to take the first pole position in

:49:16. > :49:22.the modern era, and the right man to take the first victory. This man

:49:23. > :49:27.is the architect of the victory. He has enjoyed such success. The

:49:27. > :49:32.Michael Schumacher era at Ferrari, and then when he took on the team

:49:32. > :49:36.that was Honda, he had to purchase the team, and he had to make them

:49:36. > :49:46.survived. It was purchased by Mercedes, and he is the architect

:49:46. > :49:48.

:49:48. > :49:56.of success again. It was changing all the time!

:49:56. > :50:06.were eight of us together at one point. That was serious! That is

:50:06. > :50:08.

:50:08. > :50:15.not mine! I nearly took your hat! I will have to make it harder for you

:50:15. > :50:20.next time! A chat between the drivers. It is

:50:20. > :50:30.fun, they were talking about the long queue of cars. Nico Rosberg

:50:30. > :50:30.

:50:30. > :50:35.had nothing to do about it! Let him so could the moment up. Such a

:50:35. > :50:43.special moment for Nico Rosberg. He receives the trophy for victory

:50:43. > :50:52.here. The first winner for Mercedes since the Italian Grand Prix of

:50:52. > :50:59.1955. Nico Rosberg has achieved that. He will make the most of all

:50:59. > :51:04.of the celebrations that will come. The constructors Trophy to Mercedes.

:51:04. > :51:08.He did not even know where to go, a moment ago, it is so long since he

:51:08. > :51:15.has been up there. Mercedes have never been up there in the modern

:51:15. > :51:20.era. A very special moment for him. Jenson Button, to receive the

:51:20. > :51:25.trophy for second place. The McLaren boys are looking strong, it

:51:25. > :51:30.will be a massive rivalry between the two of them, but not just

:51:30. > :51:37.between them, Red Bull is fast, Mercedes is fast, they will not

:51:37. > :51:46.have it their own way. A hard- fought third place for Lewis

:51:46. > :51:52.Hamilton. Now, it is time for the champagne shower. Nico Rosberg,

:51:52. > :51:58.Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton celebrate. The Chinese year of the

:51:58. > :52:03.Dragon, Shanghai has been conquered by Nico Rosberg.

:52:03. > :52:13.A frenetic race! Congratulations, Nico Rosberg, he kept himself out

:52:13. > :52:14.

:52:14. > :52:24.of trouble. Jenson Button, and Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber got

:52:24. > :53:00.

:53:00. > :53:06.ahead of Sebastian Vettel. That today. They moved up to fifth place.

:53:06. > :53:10.Congratulations, you are a Formula One race winner! It feels amazing.

:53:11. > :53:15.Hello to everybody at the team, thank you for all of your efforts.

:53:15. > :53:20.It is very special, it is great to share this with everybody. The

:53:20. > :53:25.whole weekend went really well. Pole position, a great strategy, a

:53:25. > :53:30.great race, the weather helped, it all came together. It is nice to

:53:30. > :53:35.see how quickly we are progressing. We have had a strong start to the

:53:35. > :53:42.season, qualifying was good, and the race was good. I really enjoyed

:53:42. > :53:47.it, lots of fun overtaking. Not just the DRS zone. To come away

:53:47. > :53:51.with second place is good, but if the last pit stop was as good as

:53:52. > :53:56.the others, which were very fast, we could have been in clear air,

:53:56. > :54:02.and we could have perhaps chased down Nico Rosberg. I had a good

:54:02. > :54:07.battle with Sebastian Vettel and Romain Grosjean, but you always

:54:07. > :54:11.want more. As a team effort this weekend, we have done very well. We

:54:11. > :54:16.have got good points on the board, and we are leading it in the

:54:16. > :54:23.constructors. My team-mate is only two points ahead, so a positive

:54:23. > :54:27.weekend. I go to Bahrain very happy, looking forward to 32 degrees in

:54:27. > :54:31.the air and 45 on the track! With just a few laps to go, you were

:54:31. > :54:36.fighting in fifth position, and seconds later, you are on the

:54:36. > :54:41.podium. How does that feel? feels great, I had a great race, I

:54:41. > :54:47.am really happy for Nico Rosberg. I am happy that we could get back on

:54:47. > :54:51.the podium and score some good points. It was a tough race, if we

:54:51. > :54:56.started where we were supposed to start, it would have been better,

:54:56. > :55:03.but we still managed to gain some time. We did not do much overtaking,

:55:03. > :55:06.but it was quite close at one point. We expected more wind. We

:55:06. > :55:11.compromised a bit in qualifying, but we were not quick enough to

:55:11. > :55:20.make up the ground. We kept ourselves in the hunt, like

:55:20. > :55:25.Australia, but it was not enough. We were very close, but when you

:55:25. > :55:30.are not getting in the points, it is not good enough. I will have to

:55:30. > :55:35.work hard for Bahrain, but nothing new there.

:55:35. > :55:44.That was a frenetic Grand Prix, it was incredible from start to finish.

:55:44. > :55:50.It started slow, everybody was trying to manage the tyres. Then,

:55:50. > :55:59.as we got into the final rounds of pit stops, we thought the Mercedes

:55:59. > :56:04.car had problems with tyres, but it went the Grand Prix with two stops.

:56:04. > :56:08.There was frantic activity, Kimi Raikkonen falling off the cliff,

:56:08. > :56:15.coming from second place to 14th place. It shows how unpredictable

:56:15. > :56:19.this is. Last season, we were reduced to a German driver being

:56:19. > :56:24.ahead throughout, and that is what Nico Rosberg did today. He won by

:56:24. > :56:29.more than 20 seconds, I do not recall Sebastian Vettel were named

:56:29. > :56:33.by that margin in many of the basis last year, if at all. The margin of

:56:33. > :56:39.victory was very close, but he was able to dominate qualifying up, get

:56:39. > :56:44.a clean start, and gain track position. It was a masterful drive,

:56:44. > :56:52.he has done 110 races, it is a long time coming, but what a way to get

:56:52. > :56:59.it! McLaren, both drivers on the podium, it was a really nice battle

:56:59. > :57:06.towards the end. Sebastian Vettel, he has got to take the good with

:57:06. > :57:12.the bat. He has had a great run, there is a long way to go this year.

:57:12. > :57:16.He is in the hunt, battling for a position with McLaren. We will not

:57:16. > :57:21.have called conditions next weekend in Bahrain. The pecking order could

:57:21. > :57:25.be on its head when we arrived in a hot country. The track temperature

:57:25. > :57:34.he was 25 degrees, we could have doubled that in of rain, which is a

:57:34. > :57:39.significant difference. -- in Bahrain. I think McLaren or Red

:57:39. > :57:49.Bull for that race. Before that, you can see highlights of to date

:57:49. > :58:04.

:58:04. > :58:08.at 7pm. -- highlights of today's It was 57 years until they won

:58:08. > :58:13.again. Congratulations, Mercedes and Nico Rosberg.

:58:13. > :58:21.Nico Rosberg is going to have his first ever pole position! That was

:58:21. > :58:27.a perfect start. Different drivers, different cars, that is what is

:58:27. > :58:31.making Formula One so exciting. They virtually touch! Something has

:58:31. > :58:41.gone wrong again for Michael Schumacher! Nico Rosberg commanding

:58:41. > :58:46.

:58:46. > :58:52.Hamilton. What a race this is turning into! He is down the