:02:02. > :02:09.win, he is the first back-to-back winner of the season. Yes, baby!
:02:09. > :02:13.wins his career, it is three out of three in Asia. Thanks boys.
:02:13. > :02:19.likes this part of the world, doesn't he and the man famous for
:02:19. > :02:24.driving a Bull is perhaps bet er compared to an Asian tiger. Has he
:02:24. > :02:29.struck at the right time? Can he maintain momentum? Welcome to
:02:29. > :02:35.qualifying for the Indian Grand Prix. David Coulthard is alongside
:02:35. > :02:39.me. There is no reason to think he will lose his form? No-one has won
:02:39. > :02:44.back-to-back race, it seems the momentum is there and it can only
:02:44. > :02:50.be fate over reliability that steps in his back. Way. We are getting
:02:50. > :02:54.close, the whole season is distilled down to this four race
:02:54. > :02:57.battle. It is not just about point, it is about momentum. It is key,
:02:57. > :03:01.going into the last four Grand Prixs and it looks like the
:03:01. > :03:05.development momentum is Red Bull and the rest are being left behind.
:03:05. > :03:09.Fernando Alonso, no race wins since July. He needs to find some form at
:03:09. > :03:14.the right time, but Ferrari will be happy they are currently sitting in
:03:14. > :03:20.front of McLaren. McLaren have had the fastest car all season. They
:03:20. > :03:24.haven't managed to turn it into a contender in the drivers or the
:03:24. > :03:28.constructtors. We have arrived, race 17 of this record 20 race
:03:28. > :03:31.Formula One season. We have arrived in India, it is amazing to think
:03:31. > :03:36.two years ago we took a trip here and this is what we found. It is
:03:36. > :03:40.remarkable what has changed. shows the power of engineering,
:03:40. > :03:44.they took this site, when you visited it was medal of the monsoon
:03:44. > :03:48.and muddy and horrible that. Have created a Grand Prix track and one
:03:48. > :03:53.the drivers enjoy. The Grandstand is impresieve. It wasn't easy
:03:53. > :04:03.trying to drive round this place in a 4X4, it looks just as hard
:04:03. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:28.driving a Formula One car round here in 2012. So the best drives in
:04:28. > :04:31.the world, the best car, how do they make it look hard? The track
:04:31. > :04:38.is challenging, they have done a great job creating a lot of
:04:38. > :04:42.indulaition, a lot of blind corner, and the way the modern Grand Prix
:04:42. > :04:46.cars it creates difficulty with braking. That is why they are
:04:46. > :04:51.making a few mistakes. Nothing really happened for the rest of the
:04:51. > :04:55.year racing wise, does that play into it? Tfrpblgts circuit is dusty.
:04:55. > :04:58.We refer to it being green. The best lap of the track will be on
:04:58. > :05:02.Sunday, when it comes to the chequered flag and it won't get
:05:02. > :05:08.used again until the following year. It is something that evolves. We
:05:08. > :05:13.talk about it being a living thing. The rubber is going down with each
:05:13. > :05:17.track they drive -- lap they drive. In the pit lane it is looking busy.
:05:17. > :05:20.Lots of people have turned up. They will hope the action on track
:05:20. > :05:25.remains exciting. One man who struggled yesterday, was a certain
:05:25. > :05:35.Felipe Massa. Not the perfect way to celebrate an extended Ferrari
:05:35. > :05:40.
:05:40. > :05:44.I am sure you are glad people like my can stop asking you question
:05:44. > :05:51.like will you be at Ferrari next season? Not like you, because you
:05:51. > :05:55.are nice. People like most of the journalist, I think, is a nice
:05:55. > :05:59.relief, you know. I think it is good because I can concentrate on
:05:59. > :06:04.my job, on the race, and not, you know, having all these questions
:06:04. > :06:12.all the time, so I am happy any way. When did you find out you were
:06:12. > :06:15.going to be station at Ferrari? would say after the, after mons is
:06:15. > :06:18.a. I would say the second part of the season with all the good
:06:18. > :06:22.results helps as well. And your ruls have been going from strength
:06:22. > :06:27.to strength. The last two races have been great. What do you put
:06:27. > :06:34.that down to? Is it the car or you? Both, the first part of the season
:06:34. > :06:42.was very difficult. Very bad, you know. He hasn't appeared to be
:06:42. > :06:47.comfortable. It was negative. And I then when you go in the car to have
:06:48. > :06:57.fun, is when you just do your job, you know, with the much better
:06:58. > :07:01.
:07:01. > :07:05.result, at the end, and things like positive things is coming together.
:07:05. > :07:10.Fernando Alonso sounded unsettled. Do you think Ferrari are doing
:07:10. > :07:15.enough for him. There was many races we didn't do an improvement.
:07:15. > :07:19.I mean that is clear. But I would say many race also in the first
:07:19. > :07:24.part of the season, we didn't have the quickest car on the track and
:07:24. > :07:30.he did a good job. He was able to score many many good points without
:07:30. > :07:36.having the bas carton track. Do you think Ferrari have a chance to win
:07:36. > :07:40.the constructors? Is that the bat t -- battle you are in? The chance to
:07:40. > :07:44.win the Constructors Championship is very tough, so maybe we need to
:07:44. > :07:48.have a race that maybe both Red Bull will not finish and maybe we
:07:48. > :07:53.are first and second. We need to keep pushing. It is important to be
:07:53. > :07:57.in front of McLaren, the difference is very small, but I think I am
:07:57. > :08:01.getting stronger and stronger all the time. It is important to carry
:08:01. > :08:05.on like that, for this four races, on like that, for this four races,
:08:05. > :08:08.but also for next year. A smiley flation there, he will be happy to
:08:08. > :08:13.know -- Felipe Massa there. It is the team that everybody wants to
:08:13. > :08:17.drive for. It sound like that fourth place in mons ya was the
:08:17. > :08:21.moment they said yes. Certainly his form has improved in the second
:08:21. > :08:24.half of the year. Putting to one side he is a well liked chap in the
:08:24. > :08:29.paddock, the beginning of the season wasn't good enough. He seems
:08:29. > :08:33.to have found form. If he can keep that up and into next year there is
:08:33. > :08:39.no reason why the guy who almost won the World Championship couldn't
:08:39. > :08:43.have a longer career at Ferrari. But one more year. Being totally
:08:43. > :08:47.honest he had had a tough 18 month, can you write off 18 months of
:08:47. > :08:50.struggle by saying he has been good for the last few races so let's
:08:50. > :08:55.keep him? The past would tell us that is very difficult to do so,
:08:55. > :08:59.but he seems, I think that was a Frank and open interview, so he
:08:59. > :09:04.does seem to be in a happy place, you know, that is when he has
:09:04. > :09:09.performed at his best, so he has to deliver those performances to
:09:09. > :09:13.secure his long-term future in Formula One. He is right. Lee is a
:09:13. > :09:21.lot nicer than some of the other journalist, you not included. Here
:09:21. > :09:26.is Leigh with the latest news at the Indian Grand Prix. After 16
:09:26. > :09:32.races the Championship is reaching its climax. Mathematically the top
:09:32. > :09:36.six drivers could still win the title. Realisticly it is between
:09:36. > :09:41.Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. We are been doing 16
:09:41. > :09:46.perfect race, so we need to do another fourth, even with another
:09:46. > :09:50.four perfect races I think we will be close. With two double World
:09:50. > :09:54.Champions looing looking for a title they know it is not just a
:09:54. > :09:58.battle between them but a war of development between Ferrari and Red
:09:58. > :10:02.Bull. If you try to beat the others with a bike, good luck, for sure
:10:02. > :10:07.you need to have a the right car. It is the combination, I think, if
:10:07. > :10:11.you look at the last couple of year, the one that deserved it most won.
:10:11. > :10:16.But some drivers are concentrating on writing their name in the
:10:16. > :10:22.history book, others are trying to get their name on the 2013 entry
:10:22. > :10:29.list. Despite a great podium at his home Grand Prix Kobayashi was
:10:29. > :10:34.trying to find sponsors to keep him in the sport. We need 100,000, we
:10:34. > :10:38.need one million money, which is everybody is surprised a bit, and
:10:38. > :10:46.even one or two million, I mean, in this time Formula One it is not
:10:46. > :10:50.enough. While he is searching for sponsors, Kovalainen had a message
:10:50. > :10:57.for his boss who is running two drivers next season He won't be
:10:57. > :11:02.getting money, that is for sure. I mean for me the main focus is try
:11:02. > :11:07.to give performance level as high and the main target is to regain
:11:07. > :11:13.that position, and then recover in the next year. Tony will decide
:11:13. > :11:18.what he wants to do. New Jersey has been taken off the calendar for
:11:18. > :11:22.2013 which brings it down to 19 races but Bernie ebgl on the says
:11:22. > :11:27.F1 will visit more countries in the world, and that could be bad news
:11:27. > :11:31.for fans in Europe. We will probably move into two or three
:11:31. > :11:37.others places in world. Maybe we will lose a couple of races in
:11:37. > :11:41.Europe. What is the reason for that? It is because the finance to
:11:41. > :11:44.keep these teams running comes from all different parts of the world,
:11:45. > :11:49.not Europe. Unfortunately. Qualifying action coming your way
:11:49. > :11:53.in a moment. Where better to be moments before qualifying than
:11:53. > :11:59.standing next to the fastest car in Formula One. The man that drives it
:11:59. > :12:02.Vettel was inspired by Formula One racing in Europe, as a young guy.
:12:02. > :12:08.It is difficult to keep taking it further and further away from
:12:08. > :12:12.Europe. That is a stark warning. is. It is worrying given so much of
:12:12. > :12:16.the history of Formula One has been built on European soil, Britain
:12:16. > :12:22.rightly lead the way in terms of the majority of teams and
:12:22. > :12:25.engineering, designing and what have you. As nice as it is to go on
:12:25. > :12:29.this journey of disrov -- discovery it makes it difficult for the fans
:12:29. > :12:38.to visit. It is all about success, there is a few clue tons floor as
:12:38. > :12:42.to why Red Bull are at the front of the pack. That is paint that is
:12:43. > :12:46.painted on the car. It confirms the airflow across the surface of the
:12:46. > :12:49.car, and it is backing up whatever they have done in the wind tunnel.
:12:49. > :12:54.Which means they are bringing new parts to the race, which means they
:12:54. > :12:57.are trying new things and pushing. They bring new parts to every Grand
:12:57. > :13:02.Prix. It gets more difficult for some of the teams with smaller
:13:02. > :13:05.budgets but that is the push to have success. And the team leader
:13:05. > :13:11.will head back to Britain in between these Grand Prix and the
:13:11. > :13:18.next one to, work on this car's development, next year's car's
:13:18. > :13:21.development then back to try and win the races. Are we looking at
:13:21. > :13:31.the championship car? Today could be telling. Let us get to the
:13:31. > :13:49.
:13:49. > :13:54.action. Gary is patrolling the area events in Asia in 2012 gets
:13:54. > :13:57.underaway with the start of Q1. The first elimination battle of the day.
:13:57. > :14:02.Gary, what have you gleaned from watching practice three, in terms
:14:02. > :14:07.of the tyre use and where do you any the cut off will lie for those
:14:07. > :14:12.aiming to be at in the top 17? morning's session was interesting.
:14:13. > :14:17.Not got on their ultimate lap.Ed they didn't have the balance to use
:14:17. > :14:20.the soft tyres. We expect the Red Bull to be up the front they seem
:14:20. > :14:28.to have a little bit of a bonus here, as far as car performance is
:14:28. > :14:32.concerned. I think they will have to nip into the 26, 27. If I
:14:32. > :14:39.haven't done 27 on my first run I would be panicking. You will have
:14:39. > :14:43.to push hard to do that on the hard tyre. First up Paul di Resta. He
:14:43. > :14:49.has come through turn six and seven. Eight and nine. Fast through here
:14:49. > :14:59.and then, this long looping right hander. Double apex corner.
:14:59. > :15:08.
:15:08. > :15:14.to be fantastic to drive. That is when a Grand Prix car really comes
:15:14. > :15:20.alive. Lewis Hamilton contract in the
:15:20. > :15:25.McLaren. Will they be able to deliver a performance this weekend?
:15:25. > :15:30.Hamilton qualified well here last year but had a penalty for ignoring
:15:30. > :15:36.a yellow flag on a Friday. Sophie did not end up on the grid exactly
:15:36. > :15:46.where he had qualified. But he was fast here last season. Felipe Massa
:15:46. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:58.has now done a better time. Hamilton going into the last corner
:15:58. > :16:05.there are trying to stop his lap. He is trying to back out of some
:16:05. > :16:10.traffic ahead of him. There was a group of cars in front of him. I
:16:10. > :16:20.would suggest that is not the ideal way to start a laugh, by going so
:16:20. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:38.William's first and third at the moment and that is looking
:16:38. > :16:38.
:16:38. > :16:47.impressive from them. Felipe Massa just at the apex fare, locking up
:16:47. > :16:52.slightly. He went very wide on the exit. He is down in eighth place,
:16:52. > :17:00.Hamilton. He lost eight tense in the last
:17:01. > :17:09.sector. That surely did not happen just in the last corner. Let us
:17:09. > :17:14.take a look. Gary, what are your thoughts there with him losing so
:17:14. > :17:21.much in the final sector? Well I do not think she he was able to get
:17:22. > :17:28.the throttle back on. You do not need much in that corner to lose
:17:28. > :17:34.quite a lot of time. This is the start of a quick lap for Fernando
:17:34. > :17:43.Alonso, just a bit of correction. He hit the sausage curve, as they
:17:43. > :17:49.are affectionately known. And that just unsettled of the car and he
:17:49. > :17:57.got some oversteer. Sebastian Vettel goes fastest straight away.
:17:57. > :18:07.Three tenths quicker than Maldonado. Felipe Massa up on a good lap. Oh
:18:07. > :18:07.
:18:07. > :18:17.no, he has lost it! He has thrown it all away. That is the Challenge
:18:17. > :18:22.of qualifying. That was a nerve- racking moment for him. There is
:18:22. > :18:26.not a loss of run-off on the inside of the race track there and it
:18:26. > :18:31.looked as if the momentum of the car would taking on to the grass.
:18:31. > :18:37.That was well held. But looking at how he was holding on to the
:18:37. > :18:45.steering wheel, he did not put on much correction. Just waiting to
:18:45. > :18:50.see what is going to happen. It did not look quite so scary from the
:18:50. > :18:54.outside but on the inside you can imagine that you lose a load of
:18:54. > :19:04.downforce and there is just that sensation that actually the car is
:19:04. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:12.speeding up. Do you think he might have gone on DRS? He may have done.
:19:12. > :19:22.But it looked as if he had already started to lose control of the car
:19:22. > :19:22.
:19:23. > :19:32.through the Apax. -- apex. Hamilton keeps it between
:19:33. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:38.the white lines which is the crucial thing.
:19:38. > :19:44.This circuit changes quite dramatically and gets better with
:19:44. > :19:49.more rubber down. And it is probably hotter than it was coming
:19:49. > :19:56.into the session. This is probably quite a good time for putting in a
:19:57. > :20:01.good laugh. Hamilton fastest in the first sector which is about
:20:01. > :20:11.straight-line speed rather than it speeded through the corners. No
:20:11. > :20:12.
:20:12. > :20:22.real improvement in this sector and he is in dangerous territory.
:20:22. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:29.suggests that he has the benefit of DRS. Look at his left tyre and the
:20:29. > :20:38.right rear tyre just vibrating on of will. It just looks as if it has
:20:38. > :20:43.not got enough pressure to support the side wall. Now Mark Webber has
:20:43. > :20:50.not got himself in the top 17 as yet so the means this lap to work
:20:50. > :20:59.for him. There is some traffic around, as you can see. He has got
:20:59. > :21:03.to clear that without too many problems. Pedro de a rosette is the
:21:03. > :21:13.next one up ahead, he may not be quite so easy to get past if he is
:21:13. > :21:18.
:21:18. > :21:28.on a time that himself. Look at the difference in speed. Mark Webber is
:21:28. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:46.saved, he goes through to the next stage of qualifying. Jean-Eric
:21:46. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :21:55.Vergne is in the danger zone. One place will be lost. Bruno Senna
:21:56. > :21:59.down in the danger zone recently as well. If you have a car failure
:21:59. > :22:08.them often you cannot make it through to the next stage of
:22:08. > :22:16.qualifying. They are now switching on to the softer tyres to make sure
:22:16. > :22:20.they get through to the next stage. They obviously feel that using up a
:22:20. > :22:30.valuable set of those softer tyres come up we will find out just what
:22:30. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:42.that Offset is between the compound Rangers. -- ranges. Timo Glock is
:22:42. > :22:46.visiting in 21st place, as are some way short of making it through to
:22:46. > :22:55.the next part of qualifying. They seemed to have stalled a bit with
:22:55. > :23:03.their development pace with this car. They also struggle with tracks
:23:03. > :23:11.like this with no KERS package. Jensen Button is in 10th place.
:23:11. > :23:20.Hamilton now very safe, he has gone second. So McLaren to have some
:23:20. > :23:26.pace here. Buzz and should be OK. Still using those hard compound
:23:26. > :23:30.tyres. -- button. Interesting that the teams have all gone with doing
:23:30. > :23:40.several laps and that means that they have to carry the fuel, which
:23:40. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:50.is a weight penalty. And there is not the potential to do that first
:23:50. > :23:55.lap time. But it seems to be a characteristic of this track.
:23:55. > :23:59.of the midfield grit cars now out on track on the softer tyres and
:23:59. > :24:05.they were all tried to move of that order. Paul di Resta it down in
:24:05. > :24:12.17th place, so very much in danger territory but he is on the softer
:24:12. > :24:17.compound tyres. He got a personal best in the first and second
:24:17. > :24:22.sectors. So this should put him comfortably up where he needs to be.
:24:22. > :24:30.We have got some traffic ahead but I do not think it is going to
:24:30. > :24:39.affect him. The HRT is going to block him at the last corner.
:24:39. > :24:44.gets across the line in 14th place but he will not be happy about that.
:24:44. > :24:54.Pedro de Roser was just ahead of him there. It is not easy to keep
:24:54. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :25:05.out of the way. Kimi Raikkonen doing well. It looks as if this
:25:05. > :25:07.
:25:07. > :25:14.will be a bit of an improvement. 1:26:7 his time. He is right up
:25:14. > :25:17.there with Lewis Hamilton. That is a good lab in deed. And it tells us
:25:17. > :25:26.that those upgrades that Lotus have been working on, perhaps they have
:25:26. > :25:36.got something to actually work. Daniel Ricciardo, having a good
:25:36. > :25:43.
:25:43. > :25:51.laugh. His team-mate half a second slower. The chequered flag so Verge
:25:51. > :25:55.will not be going through into the top 17. He has not been here before
:25:55. > :26:02.and perhaps that makes a bit of a difference as well. Hamilton has
:26:02. > :26:09.just had another good lap. But Nico Rosberg has gone second on the
:26:09. > :26:14.softer tyres. Michael Schumacher at managing to get into the next stage.
:26:14. > :26:20.He also went on to a bit softer tyres. Heikki Kovalainen who was
:26:20. > :26:28.trying to be quicker than his team- mate, has gone into the gravel
:26:28. > :26:36.track. Disappointing for Heikki Kovalainen as he fights for a seat
:26:36. > :26:46.in Formula 1. No confirmation as yet that he will be at Caterham
:26:46. > :26:48.
:26:48. > :26:52.next year. Pastor Maldonado just went quicker there at the end.
:26:52. > :26:58.are going to have to sweep that gravel before the next session
:26:58. > :27:02.starts. An uncharacteristic error there from Heikki Kovalainen. That
:27:02. > :27:09.must be just about the only gravel track on this race track. He cannot
:27:09. > :27:13.even playing the traffic ahead. Very unlucky. He controlled the
:27:13. > :27:23.spin and basically drifted to the inside of the corner. That is
:27:23. > :27:32.
:27:32. > :27:40.literally the only piece of gravel on this track.
:27:40. > :27:44.So these are the cars currently in the knockout the zone. Some cars
:27:44. > :27:50.make it through as always, at some sadly not doubt been the first part
:27:50. > :27:56.of qualifying. And Jean-Eric Vergne, you have not been in the biz -- in
:27:56. > :28:01.his position for a while. What were the issues? Something was not
:28:01. > :28:09.really working. And this morning we started again and it has been quite
:28:09. > :28:13.complicated. It is a shame. But as we have seen in the last races come
:28:13. > :28:18.up we have always been able to make up the time in the race and we will
:28:18. > :28:24.try to do that this morning. When it shows that there is pace in the
:28:24. > :28:30.car, your team-mate got a good time. The car has always been quite good.
:28:30. > :28:34.It was good last year. And this kind of track does suit the cars
:28:34. > :28:42.are the race should be better for us. The track itself is a Challenge
:28:42. > :28:49.for the drivers. It is a Challenge. But I think it should give us a
:28:49. > :28:53.good race tomorrow. A very tough session for him and
:28:53. > :28:56.disappointment. But what about the men who made it through to the
:28:56. > :29:02.second part of qualifying? They now had the chance to fight for pole
:29:02. > :29:07.position. The second part of qualifying has
:29:07. > :29:12.begun. Cars still sitting in the pit lane as we wait for them to
:29:12. > :29:15.come on to circuit. Gary, it was all pretty fraught in the first
:29:15. > :29:25.part of qualifying but now it really gets intense to try to get
:29:25. > :29:26.
:29:26. > :29:36.into the top 10. For sure. The track does look a bit slower this
:29:36. > :29:46.
:29:46. > :29:52.morning. This will be the tricky one. 26.5 would see you through.
:29:52. > :30:02.But you do not want to be outside of that.
:30:02. > :30:17.
:30:17. > :30:21.The penultimate corner now for a ran out on to the kerb. Hamilton is
:30:21. > :30:27.fast in the middle sector. He sup on the times. What out for Vettel,
:30:27. > :30:35.because he is faster. Behind Hamilton. E-- Hamilton. Vettel is
:30:35. > :30:44.flying. The Red Bull is looking in great shape. Into the final turn
:30:44. > :30:48.comes Hamilton. It's a 1:26.0. Here comes Vettel and he will go in
:30:48. > :30:58.1:25.4. Six tenths of a faster than the McLaren of Hamilton. That is a
:30:58. > :31:03.
:31:03. > :31:10.big margin. Maldonado, that time we have seen from Vettel, - Maldonado
:31:10. > :31:14.through ten and 11. Strange to shift down gears. Vettel, coming
:31:14. > :31:18.back to his time, that is four tenths faster than what he managed
:31:18. > :31:23.on the soft tyre. They felt they had left a bit of performance
:31:23. > :31:30.behind. That confirms it as Maldonado backs out and heads to
:31:30. > :31:35.the pits. Webber had -- Webber has gone second. Ricciardo crosses the
:31:35. > :31:39.line sixth fastest for Daniel Ricciardo on the Toro Rosso.
:31:39. > :31:43.Rosberg, fastest rvingser than Hamilton. That is a surprise that
:31:43. > :31:47.Rosberg is quicker in the Mercedes than Hamilton in the McLaren
:31:47. > :31:52.Mercedes, and, well, wasn't expecting that. Expecting the
:31:52. > :31:56.McLaren to be quicker. Mercedes have struggled in recent races.
:31:56. > :32:01.This is one to watch. Kimi Raikkonen T Lotus has been look
:32:01. > :32:07.competitive so far. Let us see where he gos with that. Only sixth
:32:07. > :32:15.for the moment. We have Michael Schumacher coming out. Let us see
:32:15. > :32:19.how he fares. Somewhere short of the lap of Rosberg who had 25 .9.
:32:19. > :32:23.So there is po tn shall to come there. Watching Grosjean, that was
:32:23. > :32:28.a bit of an error from the Frenchman, straight on the grass.
:32:28. > :32:32.He has been looking not that comfortable all weekend. As we
:32:32. > :32:37.mentioned earlier, through practise, one moment in qualifying we see a
:32:37. > :32:42.lock up from Massa over the rise. Held it this time. If you are in
:32:42. > :32:48.any doubt what oversteer is you have just seen a perfect example.
:32:48. > :32:51.Grosjean hasn't looked comfortable. He has been thanking the team for
:32:51. > :32:54.their support and helping him through the issues he had at the
:32:54. > :32:59.start. But at the moment Raikkonen is showing his experience, and it
:32:59. > :33:04.is a big challenge for Grosjean, to really, if he is going to show
:33:04. > :33:08.himself as being a driver for the future, he has to be able to beat
:33:09. > :33:14.Raikkonen. Good lap coming from Fernando Alonso. He is showing good
:33:14. > :33:17.pace in first and second sectors, Alonso, the Championship rival to
:33:17. > :33:26.Vettel. Second in the points right now. Let us see what he does as he
:33:26. > :33:30.comes across the line. He is only fourth in the end behind Rosberg.
:33:30. > :33:34.Still an impressive lap. Raikkonen no change. Interesting how
:33:34. > :33:42.Raikkonen and muem have the same lap time to the thousandst of a
:33:42. > :33:47.second. Impressive stuff. Looking at Alonso's sector, he is losing
:33:47. > :33:52.half a second to Vettel in the last sector alone, which is only four
:33:52. > :33:57.corners. One is pretty high speed. Then you have 15, 16 are medium
:33:57. > :34:01.speed turns as Webber is lighting up our timing screens. Gone purple
:34:01. > :34:06.in the middle sector he is three tenths down on Vettel, but he has
:34:06. > :34:11.made that up in the middle sector. Let us see how he finishes the lap.
:34:11. > :34:16.He is second. He has a faster lap but still ends up second. Red Bull
:34:16. > :34:22.running one and two then, we still have six-and-a-half minutes of this
:34:22. > :34:26.session to go. Now, let us see what Hamilton is doing. We haven't seen
:34:26. > :34:32.Jensen Button doing much although he is out on circuit. He is
:34:32. > :34:36.building up to a lap. Gary, quick word from you, are you surprised
:34:36. > :34:39.that Rosberg is up there in - sorry, Hamilton, getting it all wrong, we
:34:39. > :34:43.have seen a couple of people getting it wrong and losing the
:34:43. > :34:46.back end, sliding wide and having to back out, but Gary, that
:34:46. > :34:51.performance from Rosberg looking strong. It is looking strong. You
:34:51. > :34:55.have to look tt off set to Schumacher and Rosberg did pull a
:34:55. > :34:59.lap out of it. If he can do it twice, I don't know, but that
:35:00. > :35:05.should get him through to the top ten comfortably. So Rosberg should
:35:05. > :35:10.be safe. Hamilton has to go again. He has set an impressive first
:35:10. > :35:15.split time there, 41.3, so impressive performance potentially
:35:15. > :35:18.as Felipe Massa gets ready to km out. It looks like a lot of the
:35:18. > :35:23.drivers are struggling with the need to have to run so much front
:35:23. > :35:29.wing to get through ten and 11. Massa has to wait for his team-mate
:35:30. > :35:33.to push back in. Unusual for a team-mate not to communicate well
:35:33. > :35:39.enough to have a man sitting there. Because of the lay out of the track,
:35:39. > :35:44.it looks like they have to run so much wing for ten and 11 it makes
:35:44. > :35:49.the car vulnerable on entries, so you have a feeling of too much load.
:35:49. > :35:55.If you don't run the wing, and given how long ten and 11 are you
:35:55. > :35:58.lose too much time. That is an engineering and driving challenge.
:35:58. > :36:03.Jensen Button goes sixth fastest with that lap. I wonder if he will
:36:03. > :36:07.keep on pushing and see if he can do another quick lap. We have seen
:36:07. > :36:11.some of them doing that. Hamilton was on a lap that would have seen
:36:11. > :36:15.him improve. Who is going to get in the top ten? Riding onboard with
:36:15. > :36:20.Paul di Resta who is down in 12th place. Ten is Senna, but we think
:36:20. > :36:24.they are going to need more. Mid 26s probably to get into the top
:36:24. > :36:30.ten, and perhaps even more, onboard, as I say with Paul di Resta as he
:36:30. > :36:34.comes down this long, long straight. It is about a kilometre long. Even
:36:34. > :36:39.if a Formula One car it takes a little while, some 14 seconds of
:36:39. > :36:43.full throttle, all the way down, and into turn four. A lock up we
:36:43. > :36:47.see from the rear camera shot there. Doesn't appear to have affect his
:36:47. > :36:53.apex and exit. Down a little bit on the pace that he has been showing
:36:53. > :36:56.so far, but he has done a personal best for sector. This is where we
:36:56. > :37:02.saw Hamilton lose the back end of his car. Another high speed chicane.
:37:03. > :37:09.That is when it feels fantastic, the approach to ten... Fourth gear
:37:09. > :37:12.on entry. Unusual selection up to fifth and back down to fourth, so
:37:12. > :37:17.when he made the gear shift it unsettled the car and immediately
:37:17. > :37:22.did a shift down. Even though they are seamless shifts it costs you
:37:22. > :37:27.time, just the sort of shunting effect unsettles the balance of the
:37:28. > :37:33.car. A bit of uncertainty from Paul there. The balance not 100% to his
:37:33. > :37:39.liking. Let us see how it finishes. Di Resta is only 12th with that so
:37:39. > :37:46.he is not in the top ten. You can imagine everyone is pushing. Senna
:37:46. > :37:51.is tenth currently. Let us watch the lap. Very smooth. A silky style
:37:51. > :37:57.does Bruno Senna. Into the final corner. Picks up the throttle. Let
:37:57. > :38:04.us see what it is. Sixth fastest. That is good. He should be safe. It
:38:04. > :38:11.will be round about that mark, but let us keep an eye on the others.
:38:11. > :38:14.Pastor Maldonado. He has done a slow one. Hulkenberg 26.6. He
:38:14. > :38:18.remains eighth. A slight improvement from him. Less than a
:38:19. > :38:21.tenth but it is helping him at this point, as a critical stage,
:38:21. > :38:25.watching Schumacher. As we watch Schumacher we have heard that
:38:25. > :38:30.Rosberg has been told by his engineer he has fuel for three laps
:38:30. > :38:35.and they expect him to do his best on the third lap. So it is showing
:38:35. > :38:38.that the Pirelli tyres on the track are reacting much more differently
:38:38. > :38:43.than we have seen throughout the course of the year, where you get
:38:43. > :38:47.one flying lap, if you get it wrong you have no chance of improving. So
:38:47. > :38:52.that will have an effect on strategy tomorrow, of course, but
:38:52. > :38:57.meanwhile back where it counts in qualifying. Jensen Button just got
:38:57. > :39:04.third, so he has improved. Four tenths away from the fast rest man
:39:04. > :39:07.Vettel. That should be safe for him, meanwhile, as you can see Grosjean.
:39:07. > :39:10.Raikkonen in the drop zone, so it is starting to get intense.
:39:10. > :39:15.Grosjean has a good qualifying record this year of getting into
:39:15. > :39:20.the top ten on most occasion, now there is Kimi Raikkonen, but we can
:39:20. > :39:24.expect to see them lapping through the chequered flag. They can do
:39:24. > :39:28.several laps on the tyre, the big problem is you have plenty of cars
:39:28. > :39:33.out and you can be affected by traffic. That is what they will try
:39:33. > :39:39.to avoid. It looks reasonably good for Raikkonen. Massa is further up,
:39:39. > :39:47.and through turns six and seven, Lotus looking more compliant and
:39:47. > :39:52.carrying good speed. Coming up to the mighty ten and 11. Right out to
:39:52. > :39:57.the kerb, looked inch perfect. Got some traffic ahead. Michael
:39:57. > :40:02.Schumacher, is he going to get out of the way? Yes, at the last minute.
:40:02. > :40:06.Not ideal to allow car to pass you in that position, but you have no
:40:06. > :40:11.choice. You can't impede a car otherwise you will get a penalty.
:40:11. > :40:16.Down into 16. Let us see how his effort finishes. So is Raikkonen
:40:16. > :40:21.going to be close to Grosjean. He is eighth, so they are evenly
:40:21. > :40:25.matched. He has another lap to do. All of them trying to get in one
:40:25. > :40:29.more lap. Maldonado looking good to get or stay in the top ten at this
:40:29. > :40:34.point. As he tries to muscle the Williams round. He is down in 17th
:40:34. > :40:42.but the lap time he is showing is enough to get into the top ten, but
:40:42. > :40:47.it will be very close. Senna is one of the ones he will attack. That
:40:47. > :40:55.1:26.4 is the target time. He is three tenths up on Perez's time
:40:55. > :40:59.Great commitment through the exit of turn 11. Over the rise. Look at
:40:59. > :41:07.this undue laition bend. It gives you a sense of being on a
:41:07. > :41:12.rollercoaster and takes what would otherwise be a fairly... He has
:41:12. > :41:16.gone seventh. Seventh for Maldonado. It has pushed Senna down but he is
:41:16. > :41:19.hanging on by his finger-tips. He has pushed out. Senna has been
:41:19. > :41:23.pushed out he can't respond because he has seen the chequered flag.
:41:23. > :41:28.Michael Schumacher is trying to get into the top ten. Is he doing
:41:28. > :41:34.enough? Second sector not special, I don't think he can make it. He is
:41:34. > :41:38.three tenths down but Massa could still make it. Alonso is up there.
:41:38. > :41:43.Jensen Button, Hamilton. Massa is trying to make it. Schumacher I
:41:43. > :41:46.don't think will get into the top ten whereas Rosberg is already
:41:46. > :41:52.there. No Michael Schumacher 149 but what about Massa? He crosss the
:41:52. > :41:57.line, he is in. In ninth. It push Hulkenberg out. Perez trying to do
:41:57. > :42:02.it and he is up to eighth. Pushing Grosjean out. So now, we have, I
:42:02. > :42:08.think everybody across the line. Let us just, no we still have a few
:42:08. > :42:15.to come. Button, he is safe. He goes quicker, he goes second
:42:15. > :42:21.fastest there. 1:25.4. That will give McLaren some hope against Red
:42:21. > :42:27.Bull. Michael Schumacher has been outqualified by Rosberg, and
:42:27. > :42:32.Rosberg gaining back on that interteam battle. It is 9-8 in
:42:32. > :42:36.favour of shuem but Rosberg has made it 9-8. So he is fighting back
:42:36. > :42:41.in the closing stages. I am surprised Michael finished the lap.
:42:41. > :42:47.He was down in the first and second sector. He will have that in his
:42:47. > :42:51.cockpit display, and running into the last corner, he was just over
:42:51. > :42:57.two tenths slower. It would be omit mystic toy think he could find it
:42:57. > :43:02.on one corner, we will see an incident from Massa locking up. Get
:43:02. > :43:07.to the apex, but would have damaged the surface of the tyre. He just
:43:07. > :43:11.made it. He has got into that top ten and Grosjean has not. Let us
:43:11. > :43:17.look back at what happened to Grosjean. A bit of that oversteer
:43:17. > :43:26.slide we have seen on a number of occasions at that corner. Six and
:43:26. > :43:32.seven. Romain Grosjean has not made it but Kimi Raikkonen has. He went
:43:32. > :43:39.inside the kerb. If he has finished the lap faster, that would have
:43:39. > :43:43.been deleted. Those out of Q2 Grosjean, Hulkenberg, Senna,
:43:43. > :43:47.Michael Schumacher, Daniel Ricciardo, Paul di Resta and Kamui
:43:47. > :43:50.Kobayashi. 300 t of a second between Jensen Button in second
:43:50. > :43:54.place and Sebastian Vettel the number one man and we can run along
:43:54. > :44:00.with Grosjean, who walks at a very fast pace. One question, it seems
:44:00. > :44:05.like a tough car to drive. How was it? Bad! We saw you slipping and
:44:05. > :44:10.slying round, is the car not feeling right or is it a tough
:44:10. > :44:15.circuit? It's a tough circuit. The tyres are not working, so the grip
:44:15. > :44:20.is very low, it is very tight, one mistake, end of story. One mistake
:44:20. > :44:30.is all it takes, as you can tell not the happiest man in Formula One
:44:30. > :44:42.
:44:42. > :44:46.right now. Let us get back to the onto the circuit. 10 minutes to
:44:46. > :44:50.decide who will is going to start from pole position. The top seven
:44:50. > :44:56.drivers from the Championship have made it into the top 10. We're
:44:56. > :45:00.seeing a slightly different format to qualifying today. Nico Rosberg
:45:00. > :45:06.did something like 21 laps full DUP it is unusual to see them doing so
:45:06. > :45:15.many laps. It just shows that the tyres are a bit too durable for the
:45:15. > :45:20.track. It will not be strategy, it will actually be racing that counts.
:45:20. > :45:25.Down the straights there is a little bit more grip. The grip is
:45:25. > :45:33.good drew the faster it section. But sometimes the balance is not
:45:33. > :45:40.quite there. So they do a slower lap to adjust the temperatures. So
:45:41. > :45:47.the third will probably be the best. They will have to try to hammer in
:45:47. > :45:53.the first lap. You do not have much time, which is the key here. You
:45:53. > :45:57.have to plan your attack and it is not as if you can just go round and
:45:57. > :46:01.round was a up what makes it a little easier is the fact that
:46:01. > :46:10.there are just 10 cars out there so planning for Clear Space turns to
:46:10. > :46:16.be a bit easier. Then later on we try -- we tend to see them bunching
:46:16. > :46:25.up as they try to get across the line. Lewis Hamilton will be the
:46:25. > :46:29.first to go out on to a flying lap. Fighting the will a bit but he has
:46:29. > :46:34.good speed to the first couple of corners. That is to keep coming up
:46:34. > :46:40.the hill because you cannot see the apex at all. They know it is fair,
:46:40. > :46:45.but they have to commit then to the turn before they can actually see
:46:45. > :46:55.where they are heading. But that is a bit like driving in Monte Carlo
:46:55. > :46:56.
:46:56. > :47:01.or some of those street circuits. He looked quite slow there, not
:47:01. > :47:06.happy with this lapse so far. Latinos that these tyres will last
:47:06. > :47:16.and will be just as good for the next flying lap. But Fernando
:47:16. > :47:19.
:47:19. > :47:24.Alonso has gone faster it already in the first sector. They have made
:47:24. > :47:31.an inner loop as well would we explained the gravel but Heikki
:47:31. > :47:36.Kovalainen was finding earlier in possession. That is probably quite
:47:36. > :47:44.an exciting corner in its own right. Alonso still going quite quickly
:47:44. > :47:54.behind Lewis Hamilton. So getting in at a reasonably good early lap.
:47:54. > :47:56.
:47:56. > :48:02.Let us just keep an eye on Alonso as he comes across 1:25.7. He is
:48:02. > :48:10.going to have to do a little better than that. This is the replay of
:48:10. > :48:16.that lock up we had earlier from Hamilton. Alonso has found a little
:48:16. > :48:25.bit of lap time, but only about a 10th. Sebastian Vettel makes a
:48:26. > :48:35.mistake! That is unusual. That is a tricky corner however. The first
:48:36. > :48:37.
:48:37. > :48:40.sector was not looking particularly good anyway. It looks as if he was
:48:40. > :48:45.on the kerb slightly on entries so when he then committed to the turn
:48:45. > :48:49.in there was not the same level of grip. I think that was just as
:48:49. > :48:58.straight forward positioning error. Hamilton back up to speed once
:48:58. > :49:03.again. Definitely picking up the pace. Reasonably good first sector
:49:03. > :49:13.but not anything we need to write home about. Will it be quicker than
:49:13. > :49:13.
:49:13. > :49:23.Alonso? Across the line and Hamilton is second to Alonso at
:49:23. > :49:25.
:49:25. > :49:35.this stage. Mark Webber on a good lap. Will this be enough to put him
:49:35. > :49:37.
:49:37. > :49:44.faster than Alonso's yes, he goes quickest. 1:25.3. The fastest we
:49:44. > :49:50.have seen in qualifying today. Sebastian Vettel still backed off
:49:50. > :49:55.on his previous attempt of course and will now try to pick it up.
:49:55. > :50:00.Gary, interesting tactics from Red Bull. They decided not to go with
:50:00. > :50:05.the extra run on that occasion because the clock is still ticking.
:50:05. > :50:15.They know that if you can get that first lap, it will be the quickest.
:50:15. > :50:24.I would expect them just to be dipping intervene 24s. In reality,
:50:24. > :50:29.you can do that on me and tyres, not tyres that are of two laps old.
:50:29. > :50:39.It seems to me that the track and the tyres combination this year is
:50:39. > :50:43.
:50:43. > :50:48.far from the offset that we have seen on other circuits.
:50:48. > :50:55.It could be a reasonable run. Here is Sergio Perez who will be moving
:50:55. > :50:59.to McLaren next year. That was slightly wide. Very wide. That is
:50:59. > :51:09.that apex that you cannot see. It looks as if that caught him by
:51:09. > :51:09.
:51:09. > :51:17.surprise. It was not that he was correcting. But we will have to
:51:17. > :51:22.wait and see if that has cost him any time. His best position so far
:51:22. > :51:27.this year has been that fourth place in Belgium. We have seen some
:51:27. > :51:30.good performances recently from him. Meanwhile Lewis Hamilton has been
:51:30. > :51:36.asking the team to increase the tyre pressures a little for his
:51:36. > :51:41.final run. These are crucial for fine-tuning the car in qualifying.
:51:41. > :51:46.We see how much movement there is in the side walls of these Pirelli
:51:46. > :51:56.tyres. Increasing the pressure increases the stiffness of the
:51:56. > :51:58.
:51:58. > :52:07.tyres. Mark Webber asking for a tiny
:52:07. > :52:12.change in the front wing. We will see quite a few cars
:52:12. > :52:22.filling in the gaps here. On board now with Jensen Button who had a
:52:22. > :52:23.
:52:23. > :52:28.strong finish here last year. A brand new set of tyres ready and
:52:28. > :52:32.waiting on Lewis Hamilton's car. Jensen Button doing that time at
:52:32. > :52:42.the moment which is a bit quicker than that opener from Lewis
:52:42. > :52:45.
:52:45. > :52:54.Hamilton. Jensen Button for 10 stamp on what Mark Webber has done.
:52:54. > :53:00.-- four tenths down. Jensen Button could come round and do another lap
:53:00. > :53:06.on that set of tyres but there would then be past their best.
:53:06. > :53:11.Sebastian Vettel, certainly not the fastest time we have seen. But when
:53:11. > :53:19.the ad both sectors together he is fractionally up. Very tight between
:53:19. > :53:29.him and Mark Webber. Can he keep it all neat and tidy on the last
:53:29. > :53:32.
:53:32. > :53:38.corner? Is he going to beat Mark Webber? He goes faster 1:25.283.
:53:38. > :53:43.But it is not quite over yet. cars are all grouped together
:53:43. > :53:53.pretty much finishing off sector one and getting into the Sangin
:53:53. > :53:55.
:53:55. > :54:01.sector. Kimi Raikkonen certainly - just sitting in 6th place.
:54:01. > :54:06.Fernando Alonso, the main Championship contender, coming
:54:06. > :54:15.around to go on to the lab with just 28 seconds of this session
:54:15. > :54:25.remaining. Felipe Massa following him through. Button, Hamilton, Mark
:54:25. > :54:28.
:54:28. > :54:32.Webber, all going on to another lap. Sebastian Vettel has got to wonder
:54:32. > :54:39.what Mark Webber in particular it will do on this one. The he will be
:54:39. > :54:44.waiting for the radio call from his engineers. Alonso seem to be
:54:44. > :54:53.grabbing the rear axle and then had to turn away from it which resulted
:54:53. > :55:00.in locking the front. That has cost it a bit of time. Felipe Massa on a
:55:00. > :55:05.good lap, very good sector time, the fastest of anybody. He has
:55:05. > :55:11.found new form in recent races. He now has that contract and is going
:55:11. > :55:21.even better. Alonso down by six tenths of a second on Sebastian
:55:21. > :55:22.
:55:22. > :55:26.Vettel's target time. Down towards the final term. Mark
:55:26. > :55:36.Webber are not doing much on his lap. So Sebastian Vettel looking
:55:36. > :55:37.
:55:37. > :55:41.Safer and Safer. Felipe Massa crosses the line. He is the 5th.
:55:41. > :55:51.And now Jensen Button in the third, it slightly quicker on that lap.
:55:51. > :55:52.
:55:52. > :56:00.Here comes Hamilton who now goes the third. But it is a Red Bull
:56:00. > :56:10.one-two. Despite all the success that they have had, three in a role,
:56:10. > :56:18.
:56:18. > :56:25.their first time to get that position on the grid. Mark Webber
:56:25. > :56:35.have a strong second. Let us take a look back at Mark Webber. That is a
:56:35. > :56:45.lock up into three. That pesky blind apex cost him some time.
:56:45. > :56:45.
:56:45. > :56:50.That line up looking like Noah's Ark.
:56:50. > :57:00.Alonso now has three cars between himself and his major Championship
:57:00. > :57:27.
:57:27. > :57:32.contender. It has not really been a will start from pole position and
:57:32. > :57:39.will be on target for four race victories in a row. The first time
:57:39. > :57:44.he has ever done that in a single season.
:57:44. > :57:50.As strong qualifying from Red Bull. It is amazing to think with the
:57:50. > :57:59.dominance your team has enjoyed, it is the first time you ever had a
:57:59. > :58:03.hat-trick of starts in the grid. Well, whatever! It is a good effort.
:58:03. > :58:07.Given how competitive it is these days. It is not something we
:58:07. > :58:12.focused on. It is just something we know is important part of the
:58:12. > :58:17.weekend. But the amount of work would have done as a team, we just
:58:17. > :58:20.keep improving the car. And it has gone well for us. We know that
:58:20. > :58:23.Sunday is important and we are looking forward to that race was
:58:23. > :58:27.there up as the cars develop it seems that your performance in
:58:27. > :58:34.qualifying has got stronger so you must be happy with the way that
:58:34. > :58:40.development is going. I think both myself and Sebastian Vettel have a
:58:40. > :58:45.big impact on the changes that are made. It is powerful to develop a
:58:45. > :58:50.car during the season and we have done a good job on that. It is nice
:58:50. > :58:56.to be able to predict what the car is going to do. We will hear in a
:58:56. > :59:01.minute from Fernando Alonso. He says that is not actually racing
:59:01. > :59:08.Sebastian Vettel for the Championship. I think he is opening
:59:08. > :59:15.up a bit. We saw that a little bit earlier. He is a class act. Double
:59:15. > :59:22.world champion. But he wants to be further up. Maybe a new haircut
:59:22. > :59:32.like yours would do the business. Will you be allowed to raise from
:59:32. > :59:34.
:59:34. > :59:38.the start? Flat out. Going for it. As David can relate to, it is never
:59:38. > :59:41.at lysed not finishing the first lap of a Grand Prix and going home.
:59:41. > :59:48.So I will do whatever I can to get through the first lap as quickly as
:59:48. > :59:58.I can. If that is in front, that is great. Is it is the second, then we
:59:58. > :00:06.
:00:06. > :00:11.take from there. session in the end, obviously, the
:00:11. > :00:16.first run, Q3, wasn't fantastic. I was a bit too late on the breaks
:00:16. > :00:21.for turn four. Went wide, had to abort. I knew I would only have one
:00:21. > :00:27.lap left. I knew if I could get it together, it should be a decent lap.
:00:27. > :00:31.And fortunately it was. I was maybe shy in turn four, it was good
:00:31. > :00:35.enough for pole but big thanks to the team, especially to the guys in
:00:35. > :00:39.the factory in Milton Keynes. They give us big support, yesterday,
:00:39. > :00:46.yesterday evening, and I think we made another step forward for today,
:00:46. > :00:50.so all in all, very happy with the car, yes, seems to suit the circuit,
:00:50. > :00:57.and in terms of race pace I think we will have to wait until tomorrow
:00:57. > :01:01.and Friday afternoon. It looks very close, everyone looked competitive,
:01:01. > :01:05.there wasn't much between the McLaren, Ferrari and us, even the
:01:05. > :01:09.Lotus. We will have another look that the mistake Sebastian Vettel
:01:09. > :01:14.referred to. But the important message is that in qualifying Red
:01:14. > :01:18.Bull are fast but in race pace it is close. McLaren were fast on the
:01:18. > :01:24.long runs on Friday which is where people are preparing for twrand
:01:24. > :01:28.pree itself but track position is useful and they have that today.
:01:29. > :01:32.People might struggle to understand why Red Bull are quick in
:01:32. > :01:37.qualifying but not in the race. They are able to get the maximum
:01:37. > :01:41.out of a fresh set of tyres. Maybe it makes the car harder on tyres
:01:41. > :01:47.when you are doing 20 lap s on a set. If you are Fernando Alonso
:01:47. > :01:51.listening to that interview. Yor heart sinks when you hear him say
:01:51. > :01:55.we have improved the car further. There is a chin income that armour
:01:55. > :01:58.though. They are pushing the limits, and this is the first time he is --
:01:58. > :02:03.he is trieving with these particular tyres. When you go on
:02:03. > :02:07.that journey into the unknown which is qal I fiing, it sometimes makes
:02:07. > :02:13.small errors of judgment. The corners are approaching at high
:02:13. > :02:17.speed. A difference in where you brake makes a big difference.
:02:18. > :02:21.was a strong session from McLaren. Jensen Button is with us. Is that
:02:21. > :02:26.about as close you could have got to the Red Bulls today? Think we
:02:26. > :02:29.are happy with that. Yesterday was a tough day for us, and really
:02:29. > :02:33.struggling to get the tyres in a working range. It is something we
:02:33. > :02:39.had at the start of the year and most teams did. We come here and
:02:39. > :02:44.struggle with it again. But we have done a great job in geting the car
:02:44. > :02:49.working, in in its working range. We are surprised in a way we have
:02:49. > :02:55.extracted that much out of it. heard Lewis's engineer tell him it
:02:55. > :03:01.was a fantastic lap. You must be happy. I was half to one tenth not
:03:01. > :03:06.as fantastic! Still pretty good. was a better lap for me. Q3 was OK.
:03:06. > :03:12.But the circuit gripped up as it always does, but I didn't expect
:03:12. > :03:16.the balance to change that much. I am happy to be fourth. Look at this
:03:16. > :03:20.sorry for talking over you. The opening lap, it is all straight
:03:20. > :03:24.line stuff, but when we get to the end of the sec shin, maybe you can
:03:24. > :03:29.talk us through the middle part of the lap. It looks fun to drive.
:03:29. > :03:34.ran wide here, had too much understeer, a bit of lock up, that
:03:34. > :03:38.is where the tenth was. But, yeah, the next sector is fantastic. You
:03:39. > :03:44.have five, six, seven, it is very fast. The car is on a knife edge,
:03:44. > :03:49.and just plant it nicely. A bit of curve there. Up through the gear,
:03:49. > :03:57.up to fifth for the right left, PFI Pacific Ocean as Martin would say,
:03:57. > :04:04.then we are into a long. We are told we are allowing to run up. Let
:04:04. > :04:08.us see how much we do. This is a fourth -fifth gear corner. The car
:04:08. > :04:11.is so tricky through here, it is skating all over the place. It is
:04:11. > :04:16.tough how much you do in the movement standing here, then you
:04:16. > :04:20.play down second gear for the last corner. You have everything. Not
:04:20. > :04:26.quite the fantastic lap. There was me thinking you were good at
:04:26. > :04:31.talking over a fast lap. I was loving that. You were just out of
:04:31. > :04:38.camera shot moving. You feel the move. The cars are slower now. When
:04:38. > :04:44.you were raising they were faster. As David remind us almost ev reday
:04:44. > :04:48.in his day it was a man's game. What do you hope for for tomorrow?
:04:48. > :04:53.With don't know how the car is going to be in the race. Yesterday
:04:53. > :04:55.it wasn't fantastick. I did two laps but I feel with the updates,
:04:55. > :04:59.sorry not the updates the development we have done with the
:04:59. > :05:04.car should help news the race. It is an exciting place to race, we
:05:04. > :05:09.don't know how we will fare, but looking forward to it.
:05:09. > :05:15.Congratulations today, and as Jensen pointed out he showed you
:05:15. > :05:19.the point he lost the tenth round the lap. How much happier are you
:05:19. > :05:24.at the end of the session than the beginning. It didn't look
:05:24. > :05:30.comfortable at the beginning, how much did the car change? Not much.
:05:30. > :05:34.The tyres have been difficult. We have been talking about it all year,
:05:35. > :05:40.switching the tyres and this is one of the first, one of the only
:05:40. > :05:46.weekends I have struggled to do that. So you see with Jensen he did
:05:46. > :05:56.a long run on the option. I think I did at the end so I am happy. But I
:05:56. > :05:57.
:05:57. > :06:00.wasn't, there is no way I could have beaten Vettel's time. Are you
:06:00. > :06:06.thinking one-stop strategies. depends how you look after your
:06:07. > :06:12.Thai, but I think the tyres could last one-stop potentially, and the
:06:12. > :06:16.long run paces yesterday look close. I think the trar -- Ferraris look
:06:16. > :06:25.quick. We were there or thereabouts. Hopefully without any issues and
:06:25. > :06:32.car issue, hopefully we can stay in theifying. That is what -- wanted.
:06:32. > :06:36.P Fernando, how you feeling about how today went? You were quite a
:06:36. > :06:39.few plays from Sebastian Vettel. cannot do anything more than this.
:06:39. > :06:43.We have a similar cars to everyone. I think we were leading the
:06:43. > :06:48.championship, now that we are fighting against a new car, because
:06:48. > :06:52.they are first and second in all the race, it is not only Sebastian,
:06:52. > :06:56.very little to do on Saturday, especially on Sunday, we normally
:06:56. > :07:02.improve thing, and we are more competitive, so target for tomorrow
:07:02. > :07:08.is to arrive in front of Sebastian. We need to overtake the McLarens
:07:08. > :07:13.and put pressure on all the rest to the Red Bulls. If they have an easy
:07:13. > :07:17.race it will be the worst conditions for us. You are working
:07:17. > :07:24.hard. Are Ferrari working hard enough to give you the tools?
:07:24. > :07:31.are working hard. We brought new parts and they work fine we are
:07:31. > :07:36.happy with your progress, in the two week, the others, they have
:07:36. > :07:42.propress. It is time for us to work and bring in something more clever.
:07:42. > :07:46.He still has a smile on his face. What is your reaction. It is
:07:46. > :07:51.intetion that he is choosing to name one technical experience it's
:07:51. > :07:55.a slap in the face to whoever heads up the technical department back
:07:55. > :08:00.home, but he is the number one driver so he is leading the team.
:08:00. > :08:04.Maybe that is the point, maybe it's a message to us and Ferrari. It is
:08:04. > :08:07.going to be hard for him tomorrow. He has to fight the McLarens as
:08:07. > :08:12.well, just to get to Red Bulls. That will be the disappointing
:08:12. > :08:17.thing he has that buffer of the McLarens, that will make it a long
:08:17. > :08:21.afternoon. Let us hear from his team-mate who has been -- confirmed
:08:21. > :08:27.at Ferrari for another year. Felipe Massa. We saw you have a spin, how
:08:27. > :08:34.ungripy, if that is a word, and how difficult were the tyres? I think
:08:34. > :08:40.tyre, yes, take a bit for warm up. You will see maybe people doing
:08:40. > :08:44.one-stop in this race. I think maybe to find the right grip is not
:08:44. > :08:54.easy. I think it was OK for us, so let us hope our guys are stronger
:08:54. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:07.expecting more or is that OK? it was the wrong decision. What is
:09:07. > :09:13.the problem, what were you struggling with Just no grip. Like
:09:13. > :09:18.I say the morning the car was very good, but then... It is always
:09:18. > :09:23.short and sweet when we hear from him. It wasn't sweet. He is grumpy.
:09:23. > :09:27.He is frustrated that the teams are left behind in the development
:09:27. > :09:31.battle. I think it is due to lack of funding. I think frustration is
:09:31. > :09:36.coming through. He is not looking particularly fit. Which is not
:09:36. > :09:40.affecting his speed, but clearly motivation is not making him a
:09:41. > :09:44.happy person. Everybody looks fat next to ewe you it's the bane of my
:09:44. > :09:47.life. There are a couple of corners you think make a difference,
:09:47. > :09:52.explain the tough place this is to race. After the first sector where
:09:52. > :09:56.they are running the straight. They get to this tricky six and seven.
:09:56. > :10:00.You can key Grosjean losing the back end as he turns into the
:10:00. > :10:06.corner. He misses completely the right part of the race circuit. You
:10:06. > :10:12.can see coming off the artificial gra, Hamilton, on turning, starts
:10:12. > :10:17.the lose the rear of the car and morally style than anything else.
:10:17. > :10:22.Et if we look at the left rear tyre as we are looking at the shot. Look
:10:22. > :10:26.at the tyre gripping and then sliding. Gripping then sliding. He
:10:27. > :10:32.is hang on the rim. Then the current World Champion, doing the
:10:32. > :10:38.same thing. Loses the rear end and missing the corner. That is what it
:10:38. > :10:48.should be. The drivers love the track. No-one is saying it is bad.
:10:48. > :11:04.
:11:04. > :11:07.It is time to talk you through the and Senna shows great pace but he
:11:07. > :11:12.started to struggle. Michael Schumacher starts in 14th. Paul di
:11:12. > :11:18.Resta, another struggle for him, he starts 16th on the grid. And Jean-
:11:18. > :11:25.Eric Vergne was the first man to be knocked out. That is how the grid
:11:25. > :11:34.shapes up P -- up. It is the same faces to the back, but how can the
:11:34. > :11:37.man at the friend turn -- at the -- the meant at the front turn it
:11:38. > :11:41.round. This will be down to the pace of the cars we are getting in
:11:41. > :11:46.qualifying three and four laps out of soft tyres. Yet Kimi Raikkonen
:11:46. > :11:50.did a 15 lap run. The tyres got better and better. If you have a
:11:50. > :11:54.look at my pit stop strategy it shows that a one-stop is the
:11:54. > :11:59.fastest but in reality you are putting things at risk but doing
:11:59. > :12:05.that. I am sure the 24 seconds for a two stop. The car that wins the
:12:05. > :12:10.race I think will do a two stop strategy. The cars are slower than
:12:10. > :12:14.last year. Last year's race was two minutes faster than the race we
:12:14. > :12:21.will see tomorrow. We will see fantastic racing. Thank you. Do you
:12:21. > :12:24.know what that is mew stick to the ears of of many formula one fans.
:12:24. > :12:28.Tomorrow to, have it on straight pace and the tyres hoelgd up well
:12:28. > :12:33.is going to be interesting. It is fantastic what a great way to go
:12:33. > :12:37.into the fourth last race of the season this is a race track that
:12:37. > :12:41.encourages overtaking and with the tyres appearing to have a bit of
:12:41. > :12:48.life in them, it will be gret to see the guys pushing. We heard from
:12:48. > :12:55.Mark who said he will push laugh -- lap after lap fright the start. It
:12:55. > :13:00.is an interesting decision. He is so straight talking, he knows, he
:13:00. > :13:04.is one step be hide, in terms of where he is going to start. But he
:13:04. > :13:10.will go for it, try and do the best lap and take it from there. We will
:13:11. > :13:18.be on the grid before the race begins. Join us for all the action,
:13:18. > :13:21.extended highlights at 5.05 in high definition, you enjoy a lay in,
:13:21. > :13:25.cook your Sunday lunch and enjoy Formula One. Sebastian Vettel was