The Hungarian Grand Prix - Highlights

:01:04. > :01:09.It is not the easiest car I drove. At the moment we're not picking up.

:01:09. > :01:11.I think the car is just generally poor. We struggled a lot with the

:01:11. > :01:15.car at the beginning. You are the boss, it is not good

:01:15. > :01:22.enough, really is it? Absolutely. I am not happy.

:01:22. > :01:29.Fernando Alonso takes the victory. It was beautiful. I am still not

:01:29. > :01:32.happy with the performance of the carpm Alonso only ninth this time.

:01:32. > :01:37.It is hopeless. Alonso is second. What an

:01:37. > :01:42.achievement. Ferrari made huge steps forward.

:01:42. > :01:50.Ferrari are achieving something. Fernando Alonso is the first repeat

:01:50. > :01:54.winner of 2012. Fernando Alonso His third win of 2012.

:01:54. > :01:57.Well, Fernando Alonso is the birthday boy today, but who would

:01:57. > :02:01.have thought in pre-season testing that David, ten races into the

:02:01. > :02:06.championship and he would be at the top? Well, very few people is the

:02:06. > :02:10.answer to that apart from Ferrari. They never lost faith and Fernando

:02:10. > :02:16.is remarkable. He led that team from the front. They have worked on

:02:17. > :02:21.the car and they have developed it.. Fernando was saying they think they

:02:21. > :02:28.found three seconds. How impressive is that? And how much hard work

:02:28. > :02:32.would that be? I was talking to Gary Anderson. He thinks a lot of

:02:32. > :02:36.it is down to the sidepods. They have done it. So the question is

:02:36. > :02:41.can the other teams do it? That's the question. All that hard work

:02:41. > :02:48.means that Fernando Alonso is leading the drivers championship by

:02:48. > :02:52.34 points from Mark Webber. Behind Mark Webber is Sebastian Vettel.

:02:52. > :02:58.Jenson Button is seventh. In the constructors, Red Bull lead, but

:02:58. > :03:01.that development from Ferrari sees them closing the gap and Lotus are

:03:01. > :03:05.desperate for their first win and they are fourth.

:03:05. > :03:10.We had a dry qualifying session yesterday, but there were surprises.

:03:10. > :03:15.Here is Ben Edwards. After two recent top three

:03:15. > :03:18.qualifying performance in the wet, the dry conditions didn't suit fer

:03:18. > :03:25.seed yeses. seed yeses.

:03:26. > :03:35.-- Mercedes. Schumacher starts 17th. Perhaps the

:03:35. > :03:39.biggest scalp of Q2 was Mark Webber. He had to sit and watch whilst he

:03:39. > :03:45.was squeezed out of the top ten. With Maldonado producing a similar

:03:45. > :03:50.lap, we have two Williams in the top ten. The final stages saw

:03:50. > :03:54.Hamilton lay down the gauntlet and no one could match him. Alonso

:03:55. > :04:00.could only manage sixth. Sebastian Vettel lost second place as Romain

:04:00. > :04:03.Grosjean earned his front row start in the Lotus. It was McLaren's

:04:03. > :04:06.eighth front row victory, but they have won more races than any other

:04:06. > :04:09.team. So Hamilton and Grosjean are

:04:09. > :04:15.upfront then Sebastian Vettel with Jenson Button in fourth place.

:04:15. > :04:20.Fifth is Raikkonen, Alonso is joined by Massa and the two

:04:20. > :04:30.Williams. Nico Hulkenberg made the top ten and the Force India's

:04:30. > :04:36.

:04:36. > :04:46.sandwich Mark Webber, Rosberg is only 14th. Jean-Eric Vergne

:04:46. > :04:52.

:04:52. > :04:55.David, it was an impressive lap for Lewis Hamilton. McLaren have

:04:55. > :04:59.delivered. It looked like they were trying to understand their upgrades,

:04:59. > :05:05.but around this Budapest circuit, they have really come alive and

:05:05. > :05:10.that was a stunning pole position from Lewis Hamilton yesterday.

:05:10. > :05:16.Romain Grosjean, he is always smiling, but he is second? Lotus

:05:16. > :05:19.have been threatening to win a race. They have been coming strong at the

:05:19. > :05:22.end. Watch out for him in the run to the first corner.

:05:22. > :05:25.You are going to speak to the drivers. The drivers are on the

:05:25. > :05:35.grid behind me and the tension is building and soon we're going to

:05:35. > :05:45.

:05:45. > :05:48.Seb, as you cool off there, in qualifying it always looked that

:05:49. > :05:52.the McLaren had extra pace, but they are harder on their tyres, so

:05:52. > :05:57.your feelings going into the Grand Prix? We will see. It will be a

:05:57. > :06:00.long race. It is quite hot as you can see. So yeah, we will see in

:06:00. > :06:04.the race. Our pace should be good. Hopefully the McLarens will

:06:04. > :06:08.struggle with their tyres, but they had a strong pace all weekend so

:06:08. > :06:11.yeah, I think they are the ones to beat. They are the favourites going

:06:11. > :06:15.into this race, but as we have seen many times this year, the races are

:06:15. > :06:19.long and there is a lot of things that can happen until the end.

:06:19. > :06:24.You must feel confident being on the clean side of the grid and your

:06:24. > :06:27.starts have been good recently? Hopefully it it turns out to be an

:06:27. > :06:31.advantage. We missed second place yesterday, so now we are starting

:06:31. > :06:35.from third and hopefully it helps us to as you said, start on the

:06:35. > :06:39.clean side. Good luck.

:06:39. > :06:45.I am I am with Romain Grosjean. Congratulations on your best

:06:45. > :06:48.qualifying of the year. You are alongside one of the most forceful

:06:48. > :06:52.drivers in Formula One. How aggressive are you going to be with

:06:52. > :06:56.Lewis? In the perfect world we would be in front of him and it

:06:56. > :06:59.would be easier. There is 70 laps and it is very hot. The tyres maybe

:06:59. > :07:02.a surprise. So I think it is not only the first corner.

:07:02. > :07:06.Well, the best of luck. Thank you.

:07:06. > :07:12.Jenson, I have only noticed that you come to the grid in trainers,

:07:12. > :07:19.that's purely for comfort? Yeah, I mean, as you know, race boots have

:07:19. > :07:22.a thin sole and I get get through quite a few pairs. We are trying to

:07:22. > :07:28.save them, we are on a tight budget here!

:07:28. > :07:33.It is your best qualifying since Bahrain. This must set you you up

:07:33. > :07:35.for another good race? It wasn't the best qualifying. But it shows

:07:35. > :07:38.the pace of the car and Lewis putting it on pole. I don't know

:07:38. > :07:42.what's going to happen with the weather. They say it is going to

:07:42. > :07:47.rain at 2pm, but I can't see that personally. It is a good thing. I

:07:47. > :07:50.think it is good if it it stays dry. It is difficult from this side of

:07:50. > :07:53.the grid because there is more dust. We have had rain overnight and that

:07:53. > :07:55.should help us off the line and there is all to play for as they

:07:55. > :07:59.say. Well, play well.

:08:00. > :08:05.Well, the Hungarian Grand Prix rarely disappoints and we could be

:08:05. > :08:15.set for a fantastic race. So let's sit back and enjoy it in the

:08:15. > :08:27.

:08:27. > :08:33.company of David Coulthard and Ben on the formation lap, but alongside

:08:33. > :08:39.him 26-year-old Romain Grosjean who must be dreaming of a potential

:08:39. > :08:42.first win. Hamilton needs to grasp this

:08:42. > :08:49.opportunity in order to reduce his deficit in the points. They are

:08:49. > :08:53.using the soft and medium compound tyres in Hungary this weekend. The

:08:53. > :08:57.front-runners are on the soft tyre because that's what they qualified

:08:57. > :09:02.on. Mark Webber has gone for the medium tyre to start this race on.

:09:02. > :09:06.So a little bit of strategy playing its part as ever. Gary, what can we

:09:06. > :09:09.expect from the strategy in today's race? Yeah, I'm surprised there

:09:09. > :09:14.wasn't a few more went on the medium tyre there because this

:09:14. > :09:19.weather hanging over us, everybody keeps saying it is going to rain.

:09:19. > :09:27.They want to do as many laps as possible. It gives Webber an

:09:27. > :09:30.opportunity and he can go to the medium tyre. If he needs to run the

:09:30. > :09:34.of the race, you are going to see a variety of twos and threes. I am

:09:34. > :09:38.not sure anyone will go for the one stop.

:09:39. > :09:42.DAVID COULTHARD: Normally the option tyre will give you a start

:09:42. > :09:47.advantage off the line because if it was a fresh tyre and the top ten

:09:47. > :09:52.are starting in the tyres they qualified with. Mark Webber sitting

:09:52. > :09:56.in 11th feeling that a new prime, the white wall tyre is going to

:09:56. > :10:00.negate that disadvantage if you like, so interesting. We will see

:10:00. > :10:08.how that strategy plays out as the mechanics do the last thing you

:10:08. > :10:13.need in these warm conditions which is sprint back to the pit boxes.

:10:13. > :10:18.The detection zone here. The activation zone as they come on to

:10:19. > :10:23.the start/finish straight, but it isn't a long start/finish. Lewis

:10:23. > :10:29.Hamilton is coming around to take pole position and Romain Grosjean

:10:29. > :10:35.the first Frenchman on the grid since 198 and we have Vettel and

:10:35. > :10:40.Button and Raikkonen and Alonso on row number three. Row four will see

:10:40. > :10:47.Felipe Massa and Maldonado and row five is Senna and Nico Hulkenberg.

:10:47. > :10:51.Mark Webber starting in 11th and Paul di Resta 12th. Kobayashi 15th

:10:51. > :11:01.and Jean-Eric Vergne and Michael Schumacher down in 17th and it is

:11:01. > :11:01.

:11:01. > :11:07.Ricciardo, Vitaly Petrov and and pique and Peek. And each team with

:11:07. > :11:08.one driver who finished second in Hungary in the past.

:11:08. > :11:13.DAVID COULTHARD: DAVID COULTHARD: Romain Grosjean

:11:13. > :11:17.stopped short of his yellow marker so he is already giving away a

:11:17. > :11:22.couple of feet in the run to the first corner.

:11:22. > :11:26.They are getting into position. The starter Charlie Whiting will see

:11:26. > :11:32.this and once we get the signal from the back of the field we go

:11:32. > :11:37.into the count down sequence for the start of the Hungarian Grand

:11:37. > :11:40.Prix. We have an aborted start by the looks of it will. He has

:11:40. > :11:45.aborted the start. Gary, what would have been the cause, do you think

:11:45. > :11:48.of that aborted start? Well, if there is one of the cars in the

:11:48. > :11:54.wrong position or one of the cars at the back had a problem. We have

:11:54. > :11:56.to wait and see if everybody gets away, but if you look, it may have

:11:56. > :12:00.been Romain Grosjean. I am sure they will highlight it. There is

:12:00. > :12:04.yellow flags waving in the background.

:12:04. > :12:09.I think that's Schumacher's car, that could be the cause. You saw

:12:09. > :12:12.Grosjean wasn't in the right spot, but perhaps it is a stalled car.

:12:12. > :12:16.The message got through to Charlie Whiting and Michael Schumacher's

:12:16. > :12:22.weekend isn't getting any better. He had a crash on Friday and when

:12:22. > :12:25.they were aborting that start, we didn't see a signal from Schumacher,

:12:25. > :12:30.normally the driver will raise his hands and the marshal will pick up

:12:30. > :12:37.on it and whether that was a wave and the marshal noticed it and the

:12:37. > :12:40.message got to Charlie, to a disappointed Ross Brawn. Michael

:12:40. > :12:48.Schumacher's weekend got worse. a crash on Friday and poor

:12:48. > :12:53.qualifying. He got caught out in the dust of Maldonado.

:12:53. > :12:57.Lewis Hamilton looking for win number three. That would match

:12:57. > :13:02.Ayrton Senna's record at this track, but we know how fast that car is.

:13:02. > :13:09.Is it going to look after its tyres well enough, David? Well, the tyre

:13:09. > :13:15.has a curing effect. We see we see Michael getting ready to get

:13:15. > :13:18.restarted. TEAM RADIO: There was' yellow flag.

:13:18. > :13:28.Michael, you are going to start down there and start in the pit

:13:28. > :13:28.

:13:28. > :13:30.lane. An agitated sounding Michael

:13:30. > :13:34.Schumacher. I couldn't really hear what he was

:13:34. > :13:38.saying, but a message from the engineers saying we will start

:13:38. > :13:41.there and drive down to the pit lane and he will sit and wait and

:13:41. > :13:44.thankfully for him the cars are coming around on to the grid so he

:13:44. > :13:47.will not sit there heating the engine for too long, but the

:13:48. > :13:51.consequence of a second formation lap is the tyres will have lost

:13:51. > :13:55.more temperature. So the risk running into the first corner with

:13:55. > :13:58.cold tyres and cold brakes is definitely heightened and that

:13:58. > :14:03.gives more opportunity for an incident in turn one.

:14:03. > :14:06.So for the second time of asking, the grid lines up. You are looking

:14:06. > :14:08.at Hamilton. He is on the right- hand side. He is on pole position

:14:08. > :14:13.with Grosjean and on the left behind them, of course, it is

:14:13. > :14:17.Vettel in the Red Bull and Jenson Button with that much better

:14:17. > :14:23.qualifying performance. The race distance reduced by one lap, having

:14:23. > :14:33.done an extra formation lap so there will be a 69 race as opposed

:14:33. > :14:44.

:14:44. > :14:48.to 70. The two HRTs of de la Rosa we go and Hamilton getting off the

:14:48. > :14:52.line well. Vettel gets in front of button. Raikkonen not far behind.

:14:52. > :14:57.Vettel trying to go round the outside into turn one. Can't quite

:14:57. > :15:02.do it. Grosjean holding on to second for the moment as Hamilton

:15:02. > :15:08.leads. Getting squeezed out by button.

:15:08. > :15:12.Vettel's got the faved inside line. When it twos right, Button might be

:15:12. > :15:17.able to get third place. Great reactive driving from Button.

:15:17. > :15:21.Vettel tried to go outside of Grosjean. Vettel has to go

:15:21. > :15:27.defensive for Alonso so not a great start from the Red Bull but great

:15:27. > :15:33.start from Jenson. He saw the opportunity.

:15:33. > :15:38.Webber has had a brilliant start. Excellent stuff for him. But Alonso

:15:38. > :15:41.in the middle of that pack. Raikkonen is behind. Senna eighth

:15:41. > :15:46.ahead of his team-mate Maldonado who is ninth. This track favours

:15:46. > :15:50.one side as opposed to the other at the start and it certainly accepted

:15:50. > :15:53.Senna as opposed to Maldonado. Webber is coming through. Brilliant

:15:53. > :15:57.start there for Webber, exactly what he needed after that difficult

:15:57. > :16:01.qualifying yesterday. He set the pace. Rosberg is under attack from

:16:01. > :16:05.Maldonado. That is for 11th position.

:16:05. > :16:10.Rosberg had to two defensive. He'll have picked up dust on the tyres

:16:10. > :16:18.but Maldonado's had to two defensive for Perez which has given

:16:18. > :16:26.Rosberg crucial space. You do not want someone close as you go out of

:16:26. > :16:36.the last corner. Hamilton leads by 1.4 seconds from Button. Raikkonen

:16:36. > :16:41.

:16:41. > :16:47.behind. The car is quick. Team Radio: Press OK twice, the

:16:47. > :16:54.battery is a bit low... Was that just to get the tyres out

:16:54. > :16:59.of the way? He was starting on the option tyre I believe, unless I'm

:16:59. > :17:02.reading that wrong. Michael's got that stop out of the way. The only

:17:02. > :17:08.pole for him this afternoon would be the pit lane investigation for

:17:08. > :17:10.speeding. It just is not working for Michael around hundred hundred

:17:10. > :17:14.ring. Not according to plan for him but

:17:14. > :17:18.it is for Hamilton at the moment. Initial advantage of 1.4 seconds,

:17:19. > :17:24.although he's keeping it about the same as Grosjean in second position.

:17:24. > :17:31.Button is there in third. Then Vettel in fourth. Alonso, then

:17:31. > :17:39.Raikkonen and Webber who's not far behind. The second of the Red Bulls.

:17:39. > :17:49.Senna is eighth. Massa is ninth. Hulkenberg is tenth for the Force

:17:49. > :17:52.

:17:52. > :17:58.India. Maldonado is 12th. Ricciardo 15th. Kovalainen 16th. Petrov,

:17:58. > :18:03.Kobayashi is well done. Kobayashi is down in 19th place. And you are

:18:03. > :18:07.watching Raikkonen chasing down Alonso in the Ferrari. The

:18:07. > :18:11.Championship leader, of course, is Alonso after such a brilliant run

:18:11. > :18:15.in this mid part of the season but a bit of work to do here. He'll be

:18:15. > :18:19.pleased he's gained one spot from his position and he's in the hunt

:18:19. > :18:24.chasing after Vettel. Raikkonen will apply the pressure. No doubt

:18:24. > :18:28.this car has been fast all weekend and Raikkonen is looking as though

:18:28. > :18:33.he's back at his World Championship winning best kind of form. Lovely

:18:33. > :18:37.shot through turn four. Conditions are ideal.

:18:37. > :18:47.Nine seconds slower than in qualifying now. Partly that's

:18:47. > :18:50.

:18:50. > :18:53.helped of course by DRS. One second off the pace feels like

:18:53. > :18:57.a lifetime to a Grand Prix drive. Can't imagine what nine seconds

:18:57. > :19:01.feels like. Massa running a touch wide there holding on to ninth

:19:01. > :19:06.place. Won't be happy about the start he made. If you look at the

:19:06. > :19:10.grid photographic, you can see that Hamilton maintained position.

:19:10. > :19:20.Grosjean gained one, Vettel lost one. Webber is the big star of the

:19:20. > :19:34.

:19:34. > :19:44.start because he gained fourth Schumacher for speeding in the pit

:19:44. > :19:44.

:19:44. > :19:48.lane. The two that Russians going through the back -- the two

:19:48. > :19:53.Marussians. Glock is 23rd. Schumacher's way, way down the

:19:53. > :19:59.field. Let's try and understand what

:19:59. > :20:03.happened to Massa. You can' straightaway that Williams and

:20:03. > :20:07.Senna passed him. Grosjean goes defensive on the right hand side,

:20:07. > :20:12.Vettel tries to get around the outside. Grosjean fairly takes his

:20:12. > :20:17.racing line. Vettel has to lift out of the throttle, Button pounces and

:20:17. > :20:23.then in turn two, this is what was a skilful peace of driving because

:20:23. > :20:27.Jenson hung on on the outside. As he ran into three, he's got the

:20:27. > :20:37.position. On board with Senna and this is what it looks like to chase

:20:37. > :20:40.

:20:40. > :20:50.and quite wisely goes defensive on the run-down into turn one on the

:20:50. > :20:54.

:20:54. > :20:59.outside. Tries to go on the outside for now. Here is Vettel. Seemed to

:20:59. > :21:03.bog slightly. His head goes forward. Defensive. Picks up the slipstream

:21:03. > :21:08.of Grosjean. Renault power versus Renault power. Better on the brakes.

:21:08. > :21:11.Look at Lewis Hamilton, we hadn't picked up just how wide he went. He

:21:11. > :21:17.didn't really need to be that brave with his lead. Kobayashi did

:21:17. > :21:23.everything he could not to lose his front wing. In the end, Rosso ran

:21:23. > :21:28.him wide runs off the circuit. This was the view on board with

:21:28. > :21:32.Button. This was as the battle went on between Vettel and Grosjean.

:21:32. > :21:36.this stage it's not looking like he has the opportunity but the moment

:21:36. > :21:40.Vettel has to lift out of the power on the exit of turn two, then it's

:21:40. > :21:44.all there for him to take and he would be like, thank you very much.

:21:44. > :21:49.Remarkably clean start when you consider they are running side by

:21:49. > :21:54.side through turn one and two and it only gets to single file at turn

:21:54. > :22:01.three. That was Glock a while ago. Both HRTs got past him. That's why

:22:01. > :22:06.Glock is running down towards the tale of the feld. Upfront, not much

:22:06. > :22:11.difference -- tail or the field. Lap times are still improving. That

:22:11. > :22:18.was a lock up for Raikkonen there. Lewis Hamilton comes out on to the

:22:18. > :22:28.start finish straight and the gap this time is 2.1 sckonds. Let's

:22:28. > :22:36.

:22:36. > :22:46.is happening with Vettel. In Germany last time out, we saw the

:22:46. > :22:48.

:22:48. > :22:55.battle between Vettel and the boundaries of circuit. Lacking over

:22:55. > :22:59.the rear wing there, back at Raikkonen, not much change. I guess

:22:59. > :23:03.we can expect a little bit of stalemate in this early part of the

:23:03. > :23:07.race. We do have a car in, Kobayashi's come in. I guess the

:23:07. > :23:15.stalemate is to be expected to a certain extent? Yes, but I have to

:23:15. > :23:18.say, the lap times are stabilising a bit. Kobayashi just come through

:23:18. > :23:23.and changed tyres to the medium compound. So this is the

:23:23. > :23:30.interesting stage now, the middle section. It's one of the ones that,

:23:30. > :23:35.because it's got high speed at aerodynamic, it will stay steady.

:23:35. > :23:39.It's all about traction. Unusual Kobayashi coming in early. He

:23:39. > :23:42.throws himself in amongst the traffic by Petrov. That would mean

:23:42. > :23:48.he's considering a three stop this afternoon. We believe most would

:23:48. > :23:57.look at a two stop and in clean air. Kobayashi now 1.4 seconds behind

:23:57. > :24:05.Petrov is going to find that the pit stop is going to lose him some

:24:05. > :24:09.time. Particularly when Sauber goes on those tyres. There is the team-

:24:09. > :24:13.mate behind Maldonado. He's running in 1th. When you were talking us

:24:13. > :24:21.through the replays, I noticed that Maldonado was kaifl through the

:24:21. > :24:25.first couple of corners. -- careful. He's learned lessons. He has an

:24:25. > :24:31.attacking driving style. That's what allowed hum to win the Spanish

:24:31. > :24:41.Grand Prix and in true world champion potential style.

:24:41. > :24:43.

:24:43. > :24:47.The team have been working with them. They've calmed down a little

:24:47. > :24:51.bit. He's riding outside the points at the moment in 12th. He needs to

:24:51. > :24:57.find a few positions to get him the points. He's only scored on two

:24:57. > :25:07.occasions this tkwreer. That victory in Spain and earlier on in

:25:07. > :25:08.

:25:08. > :25:13.the year -- this year. Kartikeyan being passed by Kobayashi for 21st

:25:13. > :25:23.position. Kobayashi has been in the pits and getting past the Indian

:25:23. > :25:26.

:25:26. > :25:33.driver in the HRT. Kovalainen, Petrov, running ahead of the

:25:33. > :25:38.Marussians. They're always at a disadvantage when it comes to

:25:38. > :25:42.overtaking and no doubt Kobayashi was using his energy system to full

:25:42. > :25:48.effect. On board with Lewis Hamilton, looking at some ties

:25:49. > :25:52.smooth, consistent driving. Yes, he'll feel comfortable -- some nice

:25:52. > :25:56.smooth, consistent driving. He knows provided he doesn't make a

:25:56. > :26:00.mistake, he can try and manage the tyres and control things. He'll be

:26:00. > :26:04.watching very much the gap to Grosjean and trying to see, he

:26:04. > :26:08.knows his Lotus historically has been very good. Grosjean's keeping

:26:08. > :26:12.him honest, matching him pretty much lap time for lap time and this

:26:12. > :26:16.is the race right now because they are dropping Button who's running

:26:16. > :26:20.about six tenths of a second of a lap slower, the gap between Button

:26:20. > :26:26.and Hamilton was about half a second. That's giving these guys at

:26:26. > :26:32.the front a bit of a buffer. A very interesting point of the race now,

:26:32. > :26:35.we are just on lap 11 about to go on to 12 and this is the sort of

:26:35. > :26:39.area that people will be coming in if they are going to make a three

:26:39. > :26:45.stop race. Those guys who want to to it on two stops need to go

:26:45. > :26:49.deeper before they make that stop. As you say, it's time not to

:26:50. > :26:56.improve now which indicates where the tyre is going. Looking at the

:26:56. > :27:06.replay of that move on Le Da Rosa at that time, so DRS in operation

:27:06. > :27:08.

:27:08. > :27:13.there. That puts him in 0th now. -- 20th. Team Radio: Jenson. Pulling

:27:13. > :27:17.away from target one. Button holds on to his third place and has

:27:17. > :27:23.opened the gap to 1.4 seconds now. Replay of Button, a bit of

:27:23. > :27:26.oversteer up through turn four, David? That's a blind entry. As I

:27:26. > :27:30.explained, ever changing performance of the cars. You can

:27:30. > :27:34.see the McLaren McAn nicks heading to the pit lane, so this will be

:27:34. > :27:37.for Button. He's in the pit lane, so that radio message would have

:27:37. > :27:43.been an old message of course, doesn't get played to us live, so

:27:43. > :27:49.that releases Vettel. He has to push now. If Vettel can deliver a

:27:50. > :27:53.couple of laps, increase performance, he can do the pit stop.

:27:53. > :27:57.McLaren's pit stops are fantastic, blink and you miss them. That was

:27:57. > :28:02.crucial for Button getting into second place. We have some more

:28:02. > :28:08.people coming in, Hulkenberg is in, as is Maldonado. A lot of action on

:28:08. > :28:13.lap 16. You could get a two stop race out of this but it's early.

:28:13. > :28:18.Hulkenberg out again looking at the dice that's going on here. Button's

:28:18. > :28:22.in front of Perez. Button just in front of Perez. It will be bottom

:28:22. > :28:32.end of the top ten once we have cycled through some of the pit

:28:32. > :28:37.stops. Vettel's responded a 31-1. He would have not needed the

:28:37. > :28:40.message from his engineer, he would have seen Button pitted. He has to

:28:40. > :28:46.use up his tyres now and the question is whether he can do a few

:28:46. > :28:56.more laps to redaus the two second gap that was less than two seconds

:28:56. > :28:57.

:28:57. > :29:02.actually -- Le deuce. Button in front of Perez -- reduce. No sign

:29:02. > :29:06.of Hamilton nor Grosjean coming in the pits, although Grosjean put it

:29:06. > :29:10.down to 2.0 seconds on that lap. Vettel in third having stayed out

:29:10. > :29:15.there. Button certainly the first to blink at the front runners. The

:29:15. > :29:21.other question is to try and think how deep will Webber go. He started

:29:21. > :29:27.on a harder compound tyre. He's moved up to six. Senna is in pit

:29:27. > :29:31.lane in the Williams. Maldonado we saw last time around, Senna in on

:29:31. > :29:37.lap 17. I think this is fantastic stuff. Grosjean keeping Hamilton

:29:37. > :29:41.honest. This is his big chance to show, as Rosberg gets released

:29:41. > :29:45.there, can't be released until the Force India's cleared him and he's

:29:45. > :29:49.going to slot in there behind Caterham, but what I was saying is,

:29:49. > :29:53.I think this is a great opportunity for Lotus and Grosjean to show what

:29:53. > :29:57.they can do. Maldonado just getting past Petrov. Hulkenberg already

:29:57. > :30:07.done it and Maldonado was determined to do it before they

:30:07. > :30:11.

:30:11. > :30:16.bit into Hamilton's lead. If he can continue to keep that pressure on

:30:16. > :30:20.him then... TEAM RADIO: Let's use this clear

:30:20. > :30:24.air and get clear of Vettel. They have got Jenson and they have

:30:25. > :30:28.got him out in a good space. There is a good gap to Massa who is

:30:28. > :30:31.further up the road. Now Sebastian Vettel is going to be coming in, we

:30:31. > :30:37.think. We have got the Red Bull out in the

:30:37. > :30:42.pit lane and Ferrari are in the pit lane. Button is on new new primes

:30:42. > :30:46.that and there give him an opportunity to really hit this lap

:30:46. > :30:51.and will Vettel had done enough to get in front of Button?

:30:51. > :30:58.Let's see. Alonso is on his way as well. Where is Jenson Button?

:30:58. > :31:01.Sebastian Vettel, Vettel coming down the pit lane and Button is on

:31:01. > :31:05.the right and Button ahead of Sebastian Vettel as he gets down

:31:06. > :31:15.into turn one and therefore, no no change and Sergio Perez is that who

:31:16. > :31:16.

:31:16. > :31:24.is ahead of Alonso? Yes, it is. And Perez not not being in the pits yet.

:31:24. > :31:33.Raikkonen Has just done the fastest first sector. He was released from

:31:33. > :31:38.running in the the dirty air Sebastian Vettel interestingly has

:31:38. > :31:42.gone for the softer tyre, Button is on the harder compound tyre. Gary,

:31:42. > :31:49.let's listen. TEAM RADIO: Jenson, good job. Plan

:31:49. > :31:54.A and target lap. Plan A and target lap. Raikkonen

:31:54. > :31:58.has gone fastest in the firs sector and Hamilton is coming in. How many

:31:58. > :32:02.laps can Grosjean stay out there is it worthwhile for him to do so?

:32:02. > :32:07.Let's see, it is the harder of the two compounds going on. Oh, oh, it

:32:07. > :32:09.is a slow get away. They seem to make, what happened there? Well,

:32:09. > :32:14.the right side of the car was fine, was there something on the left

:32:14. > :32:20.side of the car or was the lights not released? The driver has the

:32:20. > :32:24.lights in front of him and that could prove costly. Grosjean was

:32:24. > :32:30.just under the two second window when he passed last time so it is

:32:30. > :32:33.all down to whether Grosjean can do a couple of clean laps before he

:32:33. > :32:38.has to pit. It is Grosjean who has come into

:32:38. > :32:42.the pits from the lead of the race. So Romain Grosjean has been leading

:32:42. > :32:47.the Grand Prix. Now he is looking at a slick pit stop to turn him

:32:47. > :32:51.around and get him on his way. He has gone for the softer tyre. Oh a

:32:51. > :32:55.delay for him as well. About the same I would say. Maybe a fraction

:32:55. > :33:00.shorter today, where is Hamilton? He has gone past our pit box so he

:33:00. > :33:04.is well clear. So no change between the top two

:33:04. > :33:13.and Grosjean comes out maybe having lost a bit? Lotus were forced to

:33:13. > :33:15.pit because the HRT were in front of them. The best will in the world,

:33:15. > :33:21.trying to lap a slower car. Alonso is trying to show Perez, "Look mate,

:33:21. > :33:27.I'm there. Let me past." As he locks up into turn one.

:33:27. > :33:37.Alonso needs to get past this assault and battery this Sauber. Oh

:33:37. > :33:39.

:33:39. > :33:44.another lock-up for Alonso. Mansell famously overtook here. Up the hill,

:33:44. > :33:51.he to do that quickly. Well, great reactive driving there.

:33:51. > :33:56.TEAM RADIO: KERS four. Most people have got prime, Mark, we will do

:33:56. > :33:59.the same. Do you still want the same flap adjustment? Yes, I do.

:33:59. > :34:03.Understood. He is running in second place

:34:03. > :34:07.because Grosjean has been into the pits. Let's see that passing

:34:07. > :34:13.manoeuvre. This was Alonso. DAVID COULTHARD: Perez gets wide on

:34:13. > :34:19.to the artificial grass. Alonso, I suspect, would have released KERS

:34:19. > :34:26.and probably 1 100 erst of it to - 100% of it to get the boost up to

:34:26. > :34:31.four. Clean track ahead. Let's see if Lotus can do a better job? Yes,

:34:31. > :34:36.a tidier pull away. Away Mark Webber has been in as well. They

:34:36. > :34:43.asked him about the same flap adjustment. So depending on whether

:34:43. > :34:49.the driver has under steered or over steered. Does this get him out

:34:49. > :34:54.behind Alonso, crucially it has kept him this front of the Red Bull.

:34:54. > :34:56.On board with Sebastian Vettel who is behind Jenson Button as we saw

:34:56. > :35:02.in the early part of this race. Romain Grosjean the fastest in the

:35:02. > :35:07.first sector, straightaway. Sorry ben, he is running Four

:35:07. > :35:10.tenths of a lap quicker than the McLaren. As he gets into the dirty

:35:10. > :35:14.air of that McLaren he has to try and effect a pass early in the life

:35:14. > :35:19.of the tyres otherwise he is going to find himself running in a

:35:19. > :35:22.situation losing downforce and increasing brake temperatures and

:35:22. > :35:26.engine temperatures and all of that compounds the fact that you can't

:35:26. > :35:32.run to your true pace. I wonder how much further we are

:35:32. > :35:37.going to see anybody run. Well, Webber made his pit stop. Grosjean

:35:37. > :35:41.is on the softer compound tyre. Lotus as they did in Germany last

:35:41. > :35:44.time out, a different strategy to the others, but Red Bull follow

:35:44. > :35:48.that had strategy by going for a second set of the softer tyre. So

:35:49. > :35:53.if you got a new set of the soft tyres then that's an advantage, but

:35:53. > :35:58.most of them had used all their new tyres in qualifying so we expected

:35:58. > :36:03.them to use the harder compound tyre, but Grosjean is flying and he

:36:04. > :36:08.is chasing Hamilton upfront. Hamilton leads the race. This is

:36:08. > :36:12.Bruno Senna trying to go around the outside of Sergio Perez. That looks

:36:12. > :36:18.like a brave place to pass, but he pulled it off very, very well. And

:36:18. > :36:24.out of grip. He is in the pits. He couldn't fight anymore off. That

:36:24. > :36:28.was a moment ago as Senna went past. There is Jenson Button no change

:36:28. > :36:35.between them. The gap upfront. 1.7 seconds as Grosjean managed to put

:36:35. > :36:39.in a faster lap than Lewis Hamilton once again. It is a bit of a yo-yo

:36:39. > :36:44.this gap from Romain Grosjean to Lewis Hamilton. Another half a

:36:44. > :36:48.second. Let's see what this lap is like as well because he has gained

:36:48. > :36:53.a bit on the first and second sectors. He is closer once more.

:36:53. > :36:57.1.7, goes to 1.2, the gap between them.

:36:57. > :37:07.DAVID COULTHARD: Hamilton will be controlling the pace. Like wise

:37:07. > :37:09.

:37:09. > :37:14.with Button there. BEN EDWARDS: The prime being the

:37:14. > :37:21.harder of the two tyres. The question always is can they go

:37:21. > :37:26.so far on that tyre? Can they do so deep into the race?

:37:26. > :37:31.DAVID COULTHARD: Well, if you were doing a pure two stop you would be

:37:31. > :37:35.looking around lap 47 in terms of splitting up the race equally, but

:37:35. > :37:39.that would have presumed the first stop in the early 20s. The first

:37:39. > :37:42.stop was earlier. We can expect them to hang on for another ten

:37:42. > :37:46.laps or so before we see them coming in again.

:37:46. > :37:52.Sergio Perez a minor lock-up into turn one. He is running in 15th

:37:52. > :37:56.place. He is chasing the Torro Rosso of Daniel Ricciardo and quite

:37:56. > :38:03.possibly the Sauber here are trying to go for a two stop race while

:38:03. > :38:06.some of the leaders might be going early stop in this race, but he

:38:06. > :38:15.hasn't been back in for a second stop and the Japanese driver is

:38:15. > :38:21.down in 16th place. Jean-Eric Vergne in the other Torro Rosso is

:38:21. > :38:25.17 17th and Vitaly Petrov and Charles Pic. Perez would like to

:38:25. > :38:28.get himself back into 14th place which is where we started. That's

:38:28. > :38:38.the battle for third. Let's listen to Vettel.

:38:38. > :38:40.

:38:40. > :38:45.TEAM RADIO: Do something. DAVID COULTHARD:

:38:45. > :38:50.DAVID COULTHARD: "do something." It means get me in clean air. As soon

:38:50. > :38:56.as they know they can pit and get back out on track. They will be

:38:56. > :39:00.looking at where would the drop Vettel out if they pitted now. If

:39:00. > :39:04.there is too much traffic, they have no choice, but to hope that

:39:04. > :39:08.Button pits first. McLaren will be controlling it, waiting, taking

:39:08. > :39:13.their tyres as long as they can and hoping that Red Bull pit and then

:39:13. > :39:16.they can react. McLaren very much in control of this Grand Prix for

:39:16. > :39:21.for first place and third place. They don't have to do anything.

:39:22. > :39:26.TEAM RADIO: We know what you mean Sebastian, we're working on it.

:39:26. > :39:31.Try something. Try something. are cars behind Sebastian, we can't

:39:31. > :39:38.just try anything, we're looking at They are working on a plan! Just

:39:38. > :39:43.get on with your job and we'll do ours is the implication.

:39:43. > :39:45.That's Rocky, Sebastian's engineer saying, "We know what you mean,

:39:45. > :39:51.pal: You have no option, traffic is there. There is not a window.".

:39:51. > :39:55.Look at the gap. Hamilton just 0.9 of a second over Romain Grosjean so

:39:55. > :39:59.within the DRS distance of the McLaren. What is so different this

:39:59. > :40:04.weekend, David, to Hockenheim where they raced in Germany was it was

:40:04. > :40:09.relatively easy to use the DRA. There is a long curving straight.

:40:09. > :40:13.Overtaking in Hockenheim was easy, but here it is very, very difficult.

:40:13. > :40:17.This is like Monte Carlo and the graphic we had as Grosjean runs

:40:17. > :40:21.wide showed that Grosjean had already used more of his KERS on

:40:21. > :40:26.this lap than Hamilton so Hamilton very wisely storing up that KERS,

:40:26. > :40:30.using it, if he needs to defend because of course, with Grosjean

:40:30. > :40:36.who is losing the back end on the exit of turn six, the chicane.

:40:36. > :40:41.TEAM RADIO: We think we have to switch to Plan B. We think we have

:40:41. > :40:45.to and it will be Plan B, target lap.

:40:45. > :40:49.They are struggling for grip, but they are trying to defend from

:40:49. > :40:53.Vettel. Vettel is capable of faster. Sebastian Vettel was three tenths

:40:53. > :40:59.faster in the first sector alone now and that just shows the pace

:40:59. > :41:04.that that Red Bull has compared to the McLaren. Button definitely

:41:04. > :41:09.struggling and they maybe changing the plan here, not just yet, we're

:41:09. > :41:13.on lap 32 out of 69 as Grosjean, 1.3 seconds behind Hamilton again

:41:13. > :41:20.on this lap. So he just dropped back a fraction and there are the

:41:20. > :41:23.top two. Then the lapped car of Charles Pic and third and fourth,

:41:23. > :41:27.Button and Vettel. It may look like there is not a lot

:41:27. > :41:32.of action, but for me this is really exciting as we see a replay

:41:32. > :41:36.at turn four of Grosjean running wide. Just getting ragged. Every

:41:36. > :41:41.time you take the car into an area, there is debris and the consequence

:41:42. > :41:47.you see he runs wide again. Now we have seen punctures this weekend so

:41:47. > :41:51.running wide is extremely risky. Right, so Button had to come in.

:41:51. > :41:54.That releases Sebastian Vettel and he has gone on to the softer, the

:41:55. > :41:59.option tyre. So that's a change of plan as we heard it and you would

:41:59. > :42:05.have expected them perhaps to stay with the harder compound tyre, but

:42:05. > :42:10.in he comes on lap number 34 and well, that could, that is looking

:42:10. > :42:14.like a three stop race for Jenson Button because they are half the

:42:14. > :42:19.race to go here and he made two pit stops. So you would expect to see

:42:19. > :42:26.him come back in at some point. He comes out Senna.

:42:26. > :42:30.What can Vettel do now? TEAM RADIO: We think we may need to

:42:30. > :42:37.go to Plan B. We may need to go to Plan B.

:42:37. > :42:42.That's the second time we heard that from McLaren. Andy talking to

:42:42. > :42:47.Lewis Hamilton. The pressure is on. The option, the softer tyre is

:42:47. > :42:52.holding up extremely well despite track temperatures of 45 Celsius.

:42:52. > :42:58.And Vettel is responding to having clean air in front him. He has done

:42:58. > :43:03.a personal best middle sector 31.5 which compares to Hamilton running

:43:03. > :43:09.a 31.9. Vettel has to put in a couple of fast laps before he pits

:43:09. > :43:13.to clear Button. So Alonso leading Webber. These two

:43:13. > :43:19.had a big old battle at Silver stone. Vettel has set the fastest

:43:19. > :43:23.lap, 1.26.5 and now he has released Sebastian Vettel, he is on a charge.

:43:23. > :43:25.A good opportunity this for Vettel to take third place from Jenson

:43:25. > :43:29.Button once all this has settled down. The question is can he go

:43:29. > :43:33.chasing after the leaders? And there is no reason why not. He is

:43:33. > :43:37.only five seconds behind Grosjean, Sebastian Vettel and there is a

:43:37. > :43:45.chance of of closing that up. A lock-up from Button behind Senna.

:43:45. > :43:49.Let's see a replay of Perez running wide in the run into turn 12. 12 is

:43:49. > :43:53.one of the fastest corners on the track after turn four, picking up

:43:53. > :43:58.debris. When Vettel pits, if he puts on another set of options, he

:43:58. > :44:02.has to stop again this afternoon. If he did pick up a set of the of

:44:02. > :44:05.the white wall Prime Ministers they could eek it out to the end of the

:44:05. > :44:09.Grand Prix. Button has got a problem on his

:44:09. > :44:12.hands here, Gary, hasn't he, he is trying to use the softer tyre to go

:44:13. > :44:16.quickly, but he has a fast Williams ahead.

:44:16. > :44:21.It depends how fast that Williams is because he is going to be

:44:21. > :44:24.trapped behind Senna. Senna isn't going to give anything up and

:44:24. > :44:27.Button will be getting affected by it so he has to look at that and

:44:27. > :44:33.what Vettel is doing is faster than that.

:44:33. > :44:37.Well, Hamilton is our race race leader here from Grosjean by 1.2

:44:37. > :44:42.seconds. Vettel is now in third place with Button having stopped.

:44:42. > :44:46.Raikkonen has just gone fastest with, he is in fourth place, Alonso

:44:46. > :44:50.is in fifth and Kimi Raikkonen, there is an opportunity perhaps to

:44:50. > :44:56.try and get past Jenson Button through this round of pit stops as

:44:56. > :45:06.well and he has done a 1.26.3. Alonso fifth, Webber sixth, Button

:45:06. > :45:19.

:45:19. > :45:27.- I suppose it's the body language of the car ahead of you to see if

:45:27. > :45:32.the car is in trouble and needs new tyres. Jenson Button's frustration

:45:32. > :45:40.builds as he gets towards Senna. This is not helping his cause.

:45:40. > :45:44.Playing into the hands of Vettel. He's losing valuable time to both

:45:44. > :45:47.Vettel and Raikkonen in this situation but Senna's doing

:45:47. > :45:54.everything he should do, that's to fight for his place, drive round,

:45:54. > :45:58.stay out of trouble. He's holding on to an excellent seventh is Senna.

:45:58. > :46:02.He needs good results because it's been a tough season for him. He's

:46:02. > :46:06.trying to prove himself. Button struggling to find a way past the

:46:06. > :46:09.Williams Renault. Raikkonen still going quickly, by the way. Still

:46:09. > :46:15.setting some sector times that are fast. In fact he's set another new

:46:15. > :46:20.fastest lap in the Lotus. He's got to gap down to two-and-a-half

:46:20. > :46:30.seconds to Vettel. Not only Vetteled that focus to jump Button,

:46:30. > :46:31.

:46:31. > :46:38.he's now in the situation where... Team Radio: Not moving out of the

:46:38. > :46:45.damn way... Understood. Lewis Hamilton's been trying to get past.

:46:45. > :46:49.Button can't find a way past the Williams. Senna is a bit wide there.

:46:49. > :46:57.Great grips for Button on the tyres but can't make yus of them. One man

:46:57. > :47:01.who is making use is Raikkonen -- make use of them. We are seeing

:47:01. > :47:06.again this Lotus seems to come alive as the fuel burns off and the

:47:06. > :47:13.tyres and the track rubbers in, then they do have great pace

:47:13. > :47:17.towards the end of the race. Grosjean only 0.7 of a second off

:47:17. > :47:21.the last lap. No doubt the one losing out is Button. Chunks of

:47:21. > :47:28.time. Gary, you have been monitoring that and it's not just a

:47:28. > :47:33.couple of tenths is it? No, Button lost six tenths in the last lap to

:47:33. > :47:39.Vettel and 1.2 to Raikkonen. So it's not terribly good. Vettel into

:47:39. > :47:45.the pit so this is crucial for Vettel. Will he get out ahead of

:47:45. > :47:49.Button? He's running the harder of the two compounds. Where is Jenson

:47:49. > :47:54.Button? Still presumably behind Senna. There he is. He's going to

:47:54. > :47:59.be behind as they come down the straight and Vettel gets out in

:47:59. > :48:06.front of Senna, gets out with the Caterham of Petrov and Senna is

:48:06. > :48:10.there. Button's lost that place and that is a big blow to Jenson Button.

:48:10. > :48:16.The Lotus are coming out of the pit garage and we are going to be

:48:16. > :48:20.seeing one of them into the pits. I guess it will be Grosjean. Yes, it

:48:20. > :48:26.is. Into the pits. Let's see what happens. Hamilton's stayed out this

:48:26. > :48:32.time so interestingly, remember, it was the other way around, a softer

:48:32. > :48:39.tyre, a shorter sprint length. Grosjean, lap 39. Let's see where

:48:39. > :48:45.he comes back out. He's behind Alonso. Where's Webber gone? Why is

:48:45. > :48:49.Webber... Webber has come into the pit lane and Raikkonen is ahead of,

:48:49. > :48:56.no, sorry that,'s Grosjean still ahead. Let's see where Webber comes

:48:56. > :49:00.out. He rejoins behind Rosberg and he's on the softer compound. Clean

:49:00. > :49:06.air on board with Button at turn two. Still trying to find a way

:49:06. > :49:10.past Senna. A lot quicker on the fresher tyres having done his pit

:49:10. > :49:17.stops. Senna going defensive. The Williams team feeling that this is

:49:17. > :49:24.the best strategy for them to leave Senna out there on a slightly warm

:49:24. > :49:28.set of tyres at this stage of the race. Clean air for Hamilton.

:49:28. > :49:31.Trying to build you have enough advantage. Still riding with Button

:49:31. > :49:37.here but it's Hamilton who's working hard to win this race

:49:37. > :49:43.upfront and putting the laps together. There is Alonso. There is

:49:43. > :49:48.Vettel. He's only well, a little bit behind. Team Radio: Racing

:49:48. > :49:54.Vettel, racing Vettel... McLaren are in the pits. Hamilton

:49:54. > :50:04.comes in from the pit lane and we hear that Grosjean's racing Vettel

:50:04. > :50:10.

:50:10. > :50:13.so fightering for second rather so Alonso still behind. Raikkonen

:50:13. > :50:23.leading this race because Health and Safety not made a second pit

:50:23. > :50:29.

:50:29. > :50:32.stop. -- because he's not made a second pit stop. Button doing a

:50:32. > :50:38.short stint there. This will be Button's final stop but his third

:50:38. > :50:43.stop. Senna's come in. McLaren have gone back in the pit so they were

:50:43. > :50:49.obviously trying to fake a stop and get a reaction there. I wonder if

:50:50. > :50:54.Williams did react to the McLaren boys coming out because that

:50:54. > :50:58.release Button, Senna needs to make a second pit stop and he going to

:50:58. > :51:04.the end of the race. You are allowed to come out and present

:51:04. > :51:08.yourself for service if the car does come in, you can't

:51:08. > :51:11.systematically stay in the pit lane because you get in the way of the

:51:12. > :51:15.other cars. That could be a stunning strategy for McLaren.

:51:15. > :51:19.Alonso still in third place, but not a real third place. He'll make

:51:19. > :51:22.another stop. Grosjean, the one who's being hurt by this, a bit

:51:22. > :51:26.like Button earlier, because he's unable to use the benefit of the

:51:26. > :51:33.new tyre because he's stuck many the traffic. Hamilton's not miles

:51:33. > :51:38.up the road, only 2.2 seconds up ahead of them. Raikkonen is 17.8

:51:39. > :51:45.seconds ahead of vet Sol if he gets a clean stop, he can get out in

:51:45. > :51:53.front of Vettel and Grosjean who's only 16.9 seconds behind Raikkonen.

:51:53. > :51:58.Alonso heading in to the pit lane and the Ferrari, he's got de la

:51:59. > :52:03.Rosa. Ferrari, let's see how they go to work. Consistently very good

:52:03. > :52:07.in the pit stops. McLaren have been absolutely megarecently, although

:52:07. > :52:12.they had that glitch earlier. Alonso gets away and they bring

:52:12. > :52:16.Massa in on the same lap which is gad organisation. Something they

:52:16. > :52:21.practise in case you have to service both cars. They do it very

:52:21. > :52:25.well. Doesn't cost Massa any time. Just looking down the times here.

:52:25. > :52:29.Raikkonen on the last lap has opened the gap to 18 seconds over

:52:29. > :52:37.Grosjean and Vettel. So he has to be on for coming out in second

:52:37. > :52:41.place. This is Raikkonen having to put in some great laps. Riding with

:52:41. > :52:45.Vettel at the moment behind Grosjean and only just behind him.

:52:45. > :52:50.Webber has jumped Alonso by a margin. We have Alonso going

:52:50. > :52:54.through turn four and Webber's at the chicane. That's going well for

:52:54. > :52:59.Red Bull. Webber second in the Championship to Alonso, but he's

:52:59. > :53:05.gained a place thanks to great strategy and good pace from the Red

:53:05. > :53:09.Bull car. Totally on the limit is Raikkonen. A former winner here in

:53:09. > :53:13.Hungary. But he's been on the podium many, many times in the past.

:53:13. > :53:17.So he's had a great run of results here, but can he do enough? Let's

:53:17. > :53:21.wait and see. We are going to find out soon. He'll be coming around

:53:21. > :53:26.this turn and into pit lane. Average middle sector. Still

:53:26. > :53:29.quicker than this man who will take the lead as Raikkonen pits. But

:53:29. > :53:35.Grosjean responding and, as Raikkonen comes in, this is all

:53:35. > :53:39.about team work right now. We talk about no iron team. If he presents

:53:39. > :53:43.the car to the mechanics well and they service it fantastically, this

:53:43. > :53:48.is crucial for his Grand Prix. harder tyre goes on, away goes the

:53:48. > :53:53.Lotus. Now, where is Grosjean and Vettel? Just coming past the

:53:53. > :53:57.commentary position now. McLaren in the pit lane as well. He's done it.

:53:57. > :54:02.Grow January is going to hang on. No, you are right. They are side by

:54:02. > :54:05.side. Don't take each other off. Raikkonen gets it. Grosjean wide.

:54:05. > :54:11.Mie goodness, that almost ended in tears but Raikkonen was not going

:54:11. > :54:15.to give way to his team-mate. Fantastic stuff. Brilliant wheel-

:54:15. > :54:23.to-wheel racing. Didn't look like he had enough momentum on the run

:54:23. > :54:26.in to turn one but I would suspect he had a boost at the last part.

:54:26. > :54:32.Great wheel-to-wheel racing, fantastic strategy and a big result

:54:32. > :54:38.for Raikkonen jumping from fourth to second. Fantastic. Raikkonen up

:54:38. > :54:46.to second place in the race now. Hamilton leads this one. That was

:54:46. > :54:50.quite some manoeuvre. Take another look. Button's been in for that

:54:50. > :54:54.third stop. A problem with the front left, it didn't go on. Look

:54:54. > :54:59.at this, he presents the car well. Front left is off, doesn't get on,

:54:59. > :55:07.they don't locate it properly and that holds him up. I was giggling

:55:07. > :55:16.as you threw to me because I said there's no iron team. I am handed a

:55:16. > :55:23.piece of paper that says there is an I in Kiwi. We are hearing over

:55:23. > :55:28.the tracker that Webber's had a message about failure. Maybe we can

:55:28. > :55:35.have a word on what could fail in the differential, Gary?

:55:35. > :55:45.situation is controlled by the hydraulics. If the electronics

:55:45. > :55:51.

:55:51. > :55:57.detect the pressure... Very close to Grosjean. You are racing Kimi.

:55:57. > :56:03.The team radio there, an old message. Controlled by the

:56:03. > :56:10.hydraulic pressure and it could shut down the valve because of the

:56:10. > :56:17.leak in the dif financial. That's Mark Webber's potential problem --

:56:17. > :56:22.differential. You were spot on about the use of curves there. He

:56:22. > :56:27.worked that extremely effectively. Let us see what is going on. Di

:56:27. > :56:31.Resta crossing the line in 13th place. His team-mate is in 11th and

:56:31. > :56:36.Maldonado is between them, so it's the Williams of Maldonado. This is

:56:36. > :56:40.on board with Maldonado. He was behind Hulkenberg. He had a little

:56:40. > :56:43.look at getting past. Hulkenberg gave him space, then there was

:56:43. > :56:51.contact. Well, you held your breath as he

:56:51. > :56:57.went on the brakes and here he gets on board from Paul di Resta and he

:56:57. > :57:02.gets whacked off the circuit. was di Resta, yes, not Hulkenberg.

:57:02. > :57:07.Di Resta will be on the radio saying, he pushed me off the

:57:07. > :57:13.circuit. He's a talented young racer but he's note against using

:57:13. > :57:17.his car as a bit of a battering ramp. Certainly he did so there.

:57:17. > :57:23.News that there is a drive-through penalty for Maldonado causing a

:57:23. > :57:28.collision, so the stewards have determined that Maldonado was at

:57:28. > :57:32.fault. No surprise there. Vettel coming into the pit. That is a

:57:32. > :57:38.surprise. Let's just see here. He looks up the front as he comes down

:57:38. > :57:41.to the line to the speed limit area. Stops it in the pit lane and they

:57:41. > :57:44.obviously feel that they need that third stop to have a fresh set of

:57:44. > :57:49.tyres in the closing stages of this race.

:57:49. > :57:53.That will bring him out still in front of Alonso, I believe. You can

:57:53. > :57:58.see Alonso in the background there as Schumacher passes. Should be

:57:58. > :58:04.comfortable enough on the run in to turn one. Alonso might try the cut

:58:04. > :58:08.back. He'll release his curves but Vettel will have the same thing at

:58:08. > :58:13.his disposal. Will have to go defensive into two. Look at Alonso

:58:13. > :58:18.going in wide. He's on the outside! Oh, he can't do that and he has to

:58:18. > :58:20.come out of it! He's still on the attack is Alonso. He is driving so

:58:20. > :58:26.hard this year and he's trying to take any, any opportunity that

:58:26. > :58:31.comes his way, but he couldn't make that one go his way and is now

:58:31. > :58:35.sitting in behind Vettel. This looks like non-finished number six

:58:35. > :58:41.of the year, Michael Schumacher, have they retired that car because

:58:41. > :58:46.they were running so far down? I don't know. Looks like that car was

:58:46. > :58:49.levitating at one point. Schumacher looked like he could walk on water.

:58:49. > :58:53.Dolly wheels behind the car and it's been pushed into the garage

:58:53. > :58:59.and he's had a bad run of reliability this season. Second

:58:59. > :59:05.retirement of this Grand Prix or maybe not. He pulled up. Front left

:59:05. > :59:09.is damaged. He's looking for a gap in the barrier which is obviously

:59:09. > :59:14.shown by the orange and he'll switch off and the marshals will

:59:14. > :59:18.push him in, that should mean that car can get clear and not need a

:59:18. > :59:24.safety car which would be a disappointing end to this Grand

:59:24. > :59:28.Prix. Back with Senna. Wide there down at

:59:28. > :59:33.turn two into turn three down the hill. Slightly climbing back up the

:59:33. > :59:41.other side. Best result for Senna has been the sixth place he had way

:59:41. > :59:45.back in Malaysia. Just passed the HRT before turn four. They'll have

:59:45. > :59:49.waved yellows there. Alonso managed to pass Perez there earlier in the

:59:49. > :59:53.race but it's not normally someone you would expect -- somewhere you

:59:53. > :00:01.would expect to see people overtaking. Shouldn't have too much

:00:02. > :00:08.of an effect as you see Hamilton. The car gets lighter, getting down

:00:08. > :00:14.to just fumes. Probably have about ten kilos of fuel on board. Just

:00:15. > :00:18.ahead of them you saw Alonso in fifth. Button is in sixth. Button

:00:18. > :00:23.has not been able to match his team-mate today. Hamilton has been

:00:23. > :00:26.in a class of his own all weekend hasn't he, David? Fantastic

:00:26. > :00:30.qualifying, up the road from anyone, didn't ever look like he was losing

:00:30. > :00:33.the barrel for a pole and he's controlled this race, the gap looks

:00:33. > :00:39.tight to Raikkonen but he's controlling it, making his tyres

:00:39. > :00:42.last the distance. Just done his fastest lap of the race as well

:00:42. > :00:52.with 125.6. That's the level of control we are seeing from Lewis

:00:52. > :00:53.

:00:53. > :00:58.and best lap from Webber 1.25 because he had a fresher tyre and

:00:58. > :01:03.clear air, now he has a lap at the same pace that Senna is doing.

:01:03. > :01:07.Senna is in control here. Can the Williams go all the way to

:01:07. > :01:10.the end without those tyres going away? Senna is a very thinking

:01:10. > :01:14.driver. He know has he has got to do here.

:01:14. > :01:23.Well, it is an important weekend for Bruno Senna. Seventh place

:01:23. > :01:29.would be a healthy result. He has been overshadowed in terms of

:01:30. > :01:33.Maldonado. Look at that win in Barcelona, but he had points more

:01:33. > :01:38.afternoon than Maldonado because Maldonado has thrown them away

:01:38. > :01:40.often. That's what they need and Williams in an intense battle in

:01:41. > :01:44.the constructors championship, they are on 47 points coming into this

:01:44. > :01:49.race and Force India are only one point behind them so for Williams

:01:49. > :01:54.this is good news because both of the Force Indias are outside the

:01:54. > :01:58.points they are running 11th and 12th. We see that the yellow flag

:01:58. > :02:00.before turn four, with the HRT, will remain before the end of the

:02:00. > :02:04.race. They feel that car can't be removed

:02:05. > :02:13.with that front suspension damage and it is off line so it shouldn't

:02:13. > :02:19.pose any danger to the drivers. There is Raikkonen. That's Grosjean,

:02:19. > :02:26.sorry. Grosjean is 8.4 seconds behind the battle. He has a 7

:02:26. > :02:30.second lead to Vettel. Although Vettel has been lapping so

:02:30. > :02:33.fast, I don't think he has got the time to close up to Grosjean. So it

:02:33. > :02:39.does look at the moment as though Sebastian Vettel is going to miss

:02:39. > :02:43.out on a podium finish today. He never won this race in Hungary and

:02:43. > :02:47.he ain't going to win it this time either. Lewis Hamilton has won it

:02:47. > :02:51.in the past and right now he is heading for another victory. Over

:02:51. > :02:56.the line they go. Two laps to go and no difference and frustration

:02:56. > :03:00.perhaps for Lotus. The only team of the lead teams not to have won a

:03:00. > :03:04.race so far this year. We're still looking for our eighth different

:03:04. > :03:08.winner, but it doesn't look as if it is going to be Kimi Raikkonen on

:03:08. > :03:12.this occasion. Well, if it was, he would be a

:03:12. > :03:17.popular winner, that's not to take anything away from Lewis who will

:03:17. > :03:21.be an extremely popular winner. He has had a great deal of success.

:03:21. > :03:28.Big smiles after qualifying. He was saying how much he loves attacking

:03:28. > :03:35.the ups and downs. We see a replay of Grosjean at turn four. What's he

:03:35. > :03:40.been up to? That was past the yellow flag zone. Just a beauty

:03:41. > :03:46.action shot of the car rather than any mistakes that I can see.

:03:46. > :03:54.Just the race editor editor deciding, "We will just show you a

:03:55. > :03:59.few fill-ins because there isn't much overtaking happening.". Just

:03:59. > :04:08.looking at the drivers championship predictions, lower down, Vettel

:04:08. > :04:12.would be on 122 and Kimi would be on 116. Alonso would be on top. As

:04:12. > :04:16.Hamilton comes around. He will be going on to his final lap this time.

:04:16. > :04:22.Across the line he goes. The gap has been consistent, it is back to

:04:22. > :04:25.one second. There is no sign of Hamilton's tyres letting go on him.

:04:25. > :04:30.He seems to have managed it just about perfectly. Raikkonen really

:04:30. > :04:34.going deep into turn one, trying to close up to the McLaren, trying to

:04:34. > :04:40.put Hamilton under pressure, but I don't Hamilton is feeling pressure.

:04:40. > :04:45.The car tracks neatly through the corner. No sign of the back end of

:04:45. > :04:51.the car moving around. That's the car they are coming up to pass now.

:04:51. > :04:55.Turns it into turn four. Balanced, beautiful, totally under control.

:04:55. > :04:59.A dominant display. It doesn't look like it with a one second gap and

:04:59. > :05:03.it is all about management and super smart performance from Lewis

:05:03. > :05:08.Hamilton. A great comeback from a fifth place qualifying for Kimi

:05:08. > :05:11.Raikkonen. Yeah, Raikkonen, as you say, started in fifth place. He

:05:11. > :05:17.will end up with second position. Great fight with his team-mate

:05:17. > :05:21.Romain Grosjean which Kimi Raikkonen was able to win only just

:05:21. > :05:26.as they came out of the pits, but he hasn't been able to pass the

:05:26. > :05:29.McLaren. If we had been at Hockenheim the story could have

:05:29. > :05:34.been different, but Lewis Hamilton has driven the way he needed to

:05:34. > :05:37.here today, a different style to what he did in qualifying where he

:05:37. > :05:40.could chuck it around over the place, but Lewis Hamilton comes

:05:40. > :05:44.through to win the Hungarian Grand Prix. It is his second win of the

:05:44. > :05:50.season. He is the third driver to win more than one race this year.

:05:50. > :05:52.Raikkonen finishes in second place and it is a double podium for Lotus

:05:52. > :05:57.as Romain Grosjean's third. And Sebastian Vettel finishes in fourth

:05:57. > :06:03.place and then we expect to see the championship leader, Fernando

:06:04. > :06:07.Alonso coming home in fifth place. It is the sixth McLaren win in

:06:07. > :06:11.Hungary in eight years. They have a truly remarkable record as a team

:06:11. > :06:16.on this track. Alonso comes through in fifth. Button, a little

:06:16. > :06:22.disappointed I think in sixth. We will have to see what he says,

:06:22. > :06:29.Senna and Webber and Massa in ninth with it looks as as though Rosberg

:06:29. > :06:34.will get the final point in the Mercedes, but Hamilton is winner.

:06:34. > :06:39.So a super job from him. TEAM RADIO: Lewis, that's a

:06:39. > :06:47.magnificent drive, mate. A fantastic weekend from start to

:06:47. > :06:54.finish. Absolutely brilliant mate. Really fantastic. We managed to do

:06:54. > :06:59.it. I'm so grateful for all the effort you put in and let's try and

:06:59. > :07:02.keep it up. BEN EDWARDS: Lewis Hamilton is the

:07:02. > :07:06.winner in Hungary. Kimi Raikkonen finishes second. Romain Grosjean

:07:06. > :07:09.third and then Vettel in fourth. Alonso maintaining his point

:07:09. > :07:14.scoring record in fifth, ahead of Button. Senna, a strong result from

:07:14. > :07:24.him after a difficult time recently. Webber only eighth. And then the

:07:24. > :07:29.

:07:29. > :07:34.two force inias. In -- Force Indias. In 17th, Kovalainen and the two non

:07:34. > :07:39.finishers, Karthikeyan and Michael Schumacher. For Lewis Hamilton this

:07:39. > :07:43.will be his fifth podium finish of 2012 and it it does put him in the

:07:43. > :07:46.championship chase which was so crucial after a couple of non

:07:46. > :07:56.scores recently. He now can at least go into the August break

:07:56. > :07:56.

:07:56. > :08:42.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds

:08:42. > :08:45.happy he has a fast car and he is APPLAUSE

:08:45. > :08:48.He doesn't get a gold medal, but he is very much the winner here in

:08:48. > :08:53.Hungary. The Hungarian Grand Prix for the third time goes the way of

:08:53. > :08:57.Lewis Hamilton. Eleven races down, nine remain and in the five weeks

:08:57. > :09:03.until Spa there will be a holiday, but there will be hard work as

:09:03. > :09:13.Fernando Alonso's rivals try harder to reign in the prancing horse, but

:09:13. > :09:14.

:09:14. > :09:18.Lewis Hamilton has certainly shown Well, a very happy Lewis Hamilton

:09:18. > :09:23.joins us now. Lewis, congratulations. Just sum-up how

:09:23. > :09:27.you are feeling? I am feeling chilled right now. I'm feeling

:09:27. > :09:30.excited that I can go into the break relaxed so can the team, but

:09:30. > :09:35.we, I'm still very, very mindful that we have got a long, long way

:09:35. > :09:38.to go. The low tusz were rapid -- Lotuses were rapid and I know if it

:09:38. > :09:42.was a different track where overtaking would have been easier,

:09:43. > :09:46.it would have been harder to keep them behind. Nevertheless, we still

:09:47. > :09:51.did the job and we can go away and enjoy it, but it just shows that

:09:51. > :09:54.the season is not over yet. You are a cool guy. 101 is the new

:09:54. > :09:59.100, after a difficult week, you came here and you controlled it

:09:59. > :10:03.from the start? Yeah. For once, we got a good start. The start I was

:10:03. > :10:06.so happy with it, because it is 600 meters down to turn one. I got a

:10:06. > :10:08.great start. I did the the procedures really well.

:10:08. > :10:12.DAVID COULTHARD: You can talk us through it.

:10:12. > :10:16.Body Shop Body Shop. I got a great start and I didn't need to move. I

:10:16. > :10:20.went into turn one and locked up. LAUGHTER

:10:20. > :10:26.It didn't go perfect. I locked up and went straight on. But still

:10:26. > :10:31.managed to stay in the lead but a perfect sequence.

:10:31. > :10:37.You can't hear the audio, but it sounds like you just did the

:10:37. > :10:40.perfect amount of drive off the line. At what point did you look in

:10:40. > :10:45.your mirror to confirm that you got a good start.

:10:45. > :10:49.As soon as you got on the KERS, you start looking in the mirrors to see

:10:49. > :10:53.if you need to block. You have got to do a sequence of things, you

:10:53. > :10:57.know what it is like. You have to warm up the clutch and at a certain

:10:57. > :11:01.speed you have to do different things and the correct amount of

:11:01. > :11:08.burn outs and the reaction time is important. The average reaction

:11:08. > :11:13.time is 0.2 seconds, and you can get it down to 0.18 that could be

:11:13. > :11:16.half a meet tore a meter and you want to make sure you get that, but

:11:16. > :11:20.you don't want to jump the start. It looked like that was the only

:11:20. > :11:26.mistake of the whole Grand Prix, that little run wide at turn one,

:11:26. > :11:30.the rest of the race, flawless? really, really feel it was as close

:11:30. > :11:35.to for me, I am always searching for perfection, I always want to

:11:35. > :11:42.make sure you never lose time and never make mistakes and to keep

:11:42. > :11:46.those guys behind I had to be 100 erst, if I had -- 100%, and if I

:11:46. > :11:56.had ran wide anywhere, they would have had me. I have got to keep

:11:56. > :11:56.

:11:56. > :12:01.working, I can always improve. What a difference a few guys make.

:12:01. > :12:05.McLaren seem to have done a good job? We picked up a lot of

:12:05. > :12:10.performance, but we have we have got a throt do still as -- lot to

:12:10. > :12:17.do still. These guys were rapid and it is so close, you have to assume

:12:17. > :12:22.have a new upgrade coming so we have got to do something over in

:12:22. > :12:25.break in the two weeks in the break we have got to make sure that we

:12:25. > :12:31.bring something, hopefully a good step to Spa.

:12:31. > :12:36.Will you sort out your contract with McLaren in that period? I hope

:12:36. > :12:39.so. I am not going to be thinking much about it. I I pay people to do

:12:39. > :12:47.that! I'm going to be enjoying myself with lots of friends and you

:12:47. > :12:50.know, a big shout out to my family, auntie Diane and all the family

:12:50. > :12:54.back home. I have been tweeting and the support, the messages that I

:12:54. > :12:58.get all the time makes a huge difference. If you are not

:12:58. > :13:01.following, follow, it is great fun. I really appreciate the support.

:13:01. > :13:06.Lewis, thank you very much for joining us. Have a great break. Now

:13:07. > :13:10.we can hear from Jenson Button. Jenson, a brilliant start, how much

:13:10. > :13:14.did Bruno Senna ruin your race? didn't, because it was his choice

:13:14. > :13:18.to be on the circuit at that moment in time. We damaged our race by

:13:18. > :13:23.pitting when we did on the second and third stops. The first stop we

:13:23. > :13:26.pitted because I felt a bit of degradation and the second and

:13:26. > :13:31.third stops, I don't know why. The pace was still there. I was

:13:31. > :13:35.catching the guy ins front, but the team thought I would drop into

:13:35. > :13:38.clear air and overtake the cars in front when they pitted, but both

:13:38. > :13:42.times I pitted I dropped into traffic. Around cars that were

:13:42. > :13:47.slower than the cars I was racing. So I made a few mistakes and

:13:47. > :13:53.hopefully we will learn from that. Jenson Button being kind about

:13:53. > :13:57.Bruno Senna and diplomatic about the team. It wasn't a a great

:13:57. > :14:02.strategy being stuck on new tyres. I was touched by someone by McLaren,

:14:02. > :14:11.oh, it was Jenson Button! He is disappoint that had the strategy

:14:11. > :14:14.put him out in traffic and that is chance of a better result. His lap

:14:14. > :14:16.times are going well, relative to Lewis Hamilton so he found form in

:14:16. > :14:20.the Grand Prix over what he had in qualifying.

:14:20. > :14:24.Let's talk about this lunge, he made a lunge past Sebastian Vettel.

:14:24. > :14:29.It is like the Jenson Button, we will whisper it, it is like the

:14:29. > :14:33.Jenson Button we saw of old. He is happy in the car? This was the

:14:33. > :14:37.racer came out. He saw Vettel was being pushed. He tried to pass

:14:37. > :14:40.Grosjean and he ran wheel to wheel around turn two. It is difficult to

:14:40. > :14:45.do because you put your car out on the dusty side of the track. Top.

:14:45. > :14:52.He is into the slipstream and pulls to the left. He is trying to weigh

:14:52. > :14:57.up the the options and and he will see Vettel and he sees that he

:14:57. > :15:02.starts to push wide. Button releases any left over KERS and he

:15:02. > :15:05.has to run it on the brakes with 150 kilos of fuel on board, runs

:15:05. > :15:15.wide on to the dust, but maintains the position as he comes through

:15:15. > :15:18.

:15:18. > :15:24.How much will he be looking forward to the break? He doesn't need it

:15:24. > :15:28.from a physical point of view. He is off to the Philippines to do a

:15:28. > :15:32.triathlon. I think he will feel he missed opportunities. So he will be

:15:33. > :15:42.hoping that the team can deliver him more confidence before the next

:15:43. > :15:43.

:15:43. > :15:48.Well, Eric is here smiling, no wonder, a double podium for Lotus

:15:48. > :15:53.today. Congratulations. You said earlier on in the week you were

:15:53. > :15:58.1,000% happier than this time last year, must be 1,050 now? Yes, but I

:15:58. > :16:05.need to keep the percentage as high as possible you know. It's a very

:16:05. > :16:11.good weekend and again, it's a good reward for the guys because the

:16:11. > :16:16.other guys were pitting the car behind and it's a credit to go to

:16:16. > :16:19.them. There is a lot of positive out of this weekend. It's true that

:16:19. > :16:22.enstone have a good record of developing a car during the season,

:16:22. > :16:27.so what do we expect during the summer break, part of it you are

:16:27. > :16:33.not allowed to work but what will you be bringing to make the

:16:33. > :16:40.difference. Not entirely happened with second place and you must want

:16:40. > :16:47.to win? Definitely, we, if you do second and Thursday, even if I'm

:16:47. > :16:51.happy, you score big points. We keep bringing the car and will keep

:16:51. > :16:55.bringing somebody for the next couple of races. That will make a

:16:55. > :16:57.little step to make sure we qualify in the top four every time. As we

:16:58. > :17:02.understand from this weekend, starting from top five, you can

:17:02. > :17:04.fight for the win. How much do you want that win? Is there an

:17:04. > :17:08.underlying frustration that you haven't got the win at this stage?

:17:08. > :17:12.No, I think we would have this kind of frustration at the end of the

:17:12. > :17:16.season if we only score second and third. I think there's no question

:17:16. > :17:21.you are going to get a win this season to be so close and it's just

:17:21. > :17:31.goinging to take one bit of track position at a pit stop or something

:17:31. > :17:31.

:17:31. > :17:41.like that? Yes. Romain was not capable to close off maybe

:17:41. > :17:42.

:17:42. > :17:46.Marussian. Never in a position to overtake. Kimi was after.

:17:46. > :17:51.comfortable are you to see your guys racing wheel-to-wheel? For us

:17:51. > :17:55.it's fantastic, but is that how you see it, open racing. Talk us

:17:55. > :18:01.through your heart rate as they approach term one? I think my blood

:18:01. > :18:08.pressure was down to zero. But they are getting so close there. You are

:18:08. > :18:12.happy with that? Yes, I'm happy with the outcome, OK. Definitely

:18:12. > :18:17.they will have crashed each other, that would have been a complicated

:18:17. > :18:20.problem to face but it's nice problem to have. This is my team

:18:20. > :18:25.policy definitely to have two drivers capable to fight. I want

:18:25. > :18:31.two and one, let's say, you give them the same cars and chance, this

:18:31. > :18:36.is a race team, gambling and the strategy. So we have this problem

:18:36. > :18:41.in the season because both cars can fight for the win, we have to fight

:18:41. > :18:44.each other, but obviously they can avoid the crash making my life much

:18:44. > :18:50.easier. We certainly enjoy your team policy so thank you very much

:18:50. > :18:54.for joining us. We can now hear from Kimi Raikkonen. Very harsh on

:18:54. > :18:59.your young team-mate coming out of the pits there? No, it's not my

:18:59. > :19:04.racing and we know what we are supposed to do and it was maybe

:19:04. > :19:11.close but very fair, so no issues. Brilliant place in the second stint

:19:11. > :19:17.there, how good was the car? car was good but we kept putting

:19:17. > :19:22.ourselfs in the back positions for some days for different reasons. We

:19:22. > :19:26.made mistakes in qualifying and made our life very difficult.

:19:26. > :19:31.There's Kimi's thoughts and now Romain Grosjean joins us. How are

:19:31. > :19:35.you feeling after all of that? Pleased with the way we come back

:19:35. > :19:39.to podium position. Fantastic for the team. Second and third is a lot

:19:39. > :19:42.of points, it's good for the Championship and good for the

:19:42. > :19:46.spirit of everybody before the break before they shut down the

:19:46. > :19:51.factory and give the motivation to all the guys. It's been a long 11

:19:51. > :19:55.races and now we can go on holiday for a few weeks and come back

:19:55. > :20:00.stronger. It wasn't an easy race. You were racing the leader and

:20:00. > :20:06.Vettel. You were in a huge bat well your team mate at one point? Yes,

:20:06. > :20:11.it was the closest one ever perhaps to win my Grand Prix, very close

:20:11. > :20:15.with Lewis, it was fantastic. Then we had a close run with Kimi, he

:20:15. > :20:19.knew it was going to be very close, but fortunately, a little bit of

:20:19. > :20:22.traffic at the beginning of my stint three and this is why we get

:20:22. > :20:25.so close at the exit. We are just about to see how close

:20:25. > :20:32.it was with Kimi. Talk us through this when you see him as you come

:20:32. > :20:37.out of the pit lane? I tried to go the outside but he brought me wide

:20:37. > :20:43.which is the game. Didn't do much so I did the same with Vettel on

:20:43. > :20:46.the first lap. The key moment, you looked as though you closed up to

:20:46. > :20:56.Hamilton and then had him over a second, then lost him. Was that

:20:56. > :21:00.

:21:00. > :21:06.traffic or a mistake? A lot of traffic, you make mistakes. We have

:21:06. > :21:12.been trying to jump in in the second. We had a lot of traffic and

:21:12. > :21:16.that lap was Alonso on the end of the stint. It's a bit of better

:21:16. > :21:20.luck, Alonso coming in we could have had a different end of the

:21:20. > :21:30.race. Romain, congratulations today, third position, enjoy your break.

:21:30. > :21:30.

:21:30. > :21:34.Thanks for joining us. Mark Webber is here with us. Mark,

:21:34. > :21:40.how are you feeling after that race, men goiing on out there, you made a

:21:40. > :21:45.good start, jumped fer none doe in the pit stops, shame you had to

:21:45. > :21:50.have the final pit stop -- Fernando? Yes, the key to the race

:21:50. > :21:56.for us to make it more difficult for us was that we had a failure on

:21:56. > :22:04.lap 44, 45, and then we had to then manage that, which was a bit more

:22:04. > :22:08.juicy on the tyres. We elected to stop again which put us behind a

:22:08. > :22:15.few people and yes, so the strategy was we did lose some places there.

:22:15. > :22:19.We thought that those tyres, from the opposition, wuf gone a -- would

:22:19. > :22:27.have gone off a little more as well. It was a real shame to lose the

:22:27. > :22:30.three or four spots before that. Before that disappointed --

:22:30. > :22:35.disappointment on 44, you had a great start? Yes, it was a

:22:35. > :22:40.reasonable get away. I was the only guy in the field on the hard of

:22:40. > :22:45.tyres. I'm now looking to go down the outside here a little bit and

:22:45. > :22:50.then get a nice run around here. It's worked in the past here so you

:22:50. > :22:54.get a good clean exit. I can see now in front Senna and Fernando

:22:55. > :22:58.having a good scrap so thought I would have a good crack around

:22:58. > :23:07.Senna which I thought would work well. You want to make sure the

:23:07. > :23:11.first few sck fors go well for you. -- sectors. Finish the first lap in

:23:11. > :23:16.seventh and from there we are still looking to go forward but we

:23:16. > :23:20.finished eighth. Stkpwh you are still second in the Championship,

:23:20. > :23:25.still hunting down Alonso? Yes, not doing much hunting at the moment.

:23:25. > :23:33.Fernando's still putting some good points together. Grabbed a few more

:23:33. > :23:36.from us today. But let's see how the coming races go and he's got a

:23:36. > :23:40.decent lead. We can talk about Championships with a few races to

:23:40. > :23:44.go, two or three races, you know, and up until then we have got to

:23:45. > :23:49.focus on each race. No Red Bulls on the podium today. Vettel finished

:23:49. > :23:55.fourth. Let's hear from him now. First place, three stop strategy,

:23:55. > :24:01.what are your thoughts? Well, I think probably not the result we

:24:01. > :24:05.could have had today. I was stuck behind Jenson quite slowly and then

:24:05. > :24:10.we lost a lot but obviously you can't just pit and come out in

:24:10. > :24:15.clean air if there's traffic. Other people weren't that much slower

:24:15. > :24:19.either so not much we could have done. How marginal were the tyres

:24:19. > :24:23.for you to have to make the last stop? Not too bad but we thought

:24:23. > :24:29.we'd try something. Could have been the case the tyres fall off the

:24:29. > :24:33.cliff but they didn't. So we'll try next time.

:24:33. > :24:36.Even by finishing fifth, Alonso increased his lead in the

:24:36. > :24:40.Championship today. He could he couldn't to much more down there?

:24:40. > :24:44.No, this was damage limitation. He still put up a brave fight but in

:24:44. > :24:48.the end, it was all about trying to keep himself there. He was always

:24:48. > :24:52.going to be in the lead of the Championship and minimise the

:24:52. > :24:57.deficit. He knows that every point matters this season? Yes,

:24:57. > :25:05.absolutely. He didn't win two World Championships through not being

:25:05. > :25:11.clever boy. He comes out after the pit stop. As Vettel gets up speed,

:25:11. > :25:15.Alonso tries to creep up. Vettel releases the steering wise to that.

:25:15. > :25:19.To double world champions fighting for every point available. We made

:25:19. > :25:25.the point earlier in the programme, he's the birthday boy today but how

:25:25. > :25:28.happy will he be with the position, Ferrari have had a huge turn around

:25:28. > :25:32.in fortunes? The pace is not there. But the fact he's leading the

:25:32. > :25:38.championship with more than a win in hand still, he'll be happy with

:25:38. > :25:43.the work. This gives him a chance to bring the next step of upgrades

:25:43. > :25:49.to Spa which will be a good start point for them. Let's mare from the

:25:49. > :25:55.leader. Fernando, your record continues. Your thoughts after

:25:55. > :26:01.that? Yes, a good finish for us. Finish in front of Webber and

:26:01. > :26:05.Vettel and it's impressive. The team is doing a great job making me

:26:05. > :26:15.have a strong car on my hands and finishing the races sothis is good.

:26:15. > :26:48.

:26:48. > :26:52.Just to confirm, this is how they A bad weekend former say Indonesia.

:26:52. > :26:56.Michael Schumacher can get nothing rite out there today? Started badly

:26:56. > :27:00.on Friday. He crashed out in the German Grand Prix, then apparently

:27:00. > :27:04.came up in his position, was out of the position and when the delayed

:27:04. > :27:09.start came on, he switched off the engine. So to add insult to injury,

:27:09. > :27:12.got a drive-through penalty as well. A disappointing weekend for the

:27:12. > :27:16.whole team. Maldonado, copy book once more? He's got to keep out of

:27:16. > :27:20.the attention of the stewards. If he can do that, he has a good

:27:20. > :27:23.chance of getting some other results. But the intention and the

:27:24. > :27:26.pass was absolutely fine. Paul gives him rule, but it was the

:27:26. > :27:30.opening of the steering wheel and whacking the side of the car where

:27:30. > :27:34.it all goes wrong. He has the inside. Paul gives him the space

:27:34. > :27:38.and as he gets into oversteer, he has to correct and that leans up

:27:38. > :27:44.against the car. In those situations, the stewards have no

:27:44. > :27:51.option but to give him a drive- through. What can we do to calm

:27:51. > :27:53.himself down? Might be -- that's a good question and there might be a

:27:54. > :27:58.natural substance! He's a quick driver and needs to learn to leave

:27:58. > :28:08.some space and if he can do that, he'll deliver. Still to come, after

:28:08. > :28:12.

:28:12. > :28:14.we are finished, Olympic coverage Thank you very much very much for

:28:14. > :28:20.your company this weekend. As we head into the summer break exwe

:28:20. > :28:23.have had seven winners from 11 races and Alonso leads the drivers'