:01:09. > :01:12.Hello and welcome to the sunshine for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix, the
:01:12. > :01:22.70th Grand Prix around the tight, twisting streets of the
:01:22. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:34.principality. This is how things by just one race win. If we look at
:01:34. > :01:39.the Constructors' Championship, it has a similar feel with Red Bull
:01:39. > :01:43.being at the top. All the action from the race coming our way in
:01:43. > :01:49.just a minute. First, it was a dramatic qualifying session and
:01:49. > :01:54.here is what happened. Sergio Perez hit the barriers for
:01:54. > :01:58.the second time in his Monaco qualifying Korea. Jenson Button was
:01:58. > :02:05.left scratching his head after he was put out in Q2, blaming a lack
:02:05. > :02:07.of pace from his McLaren car. Michael Schumacher claimed the
:02:07. > :02:11.first pole position since his comeback. But the penalty from
:02:12. > :02:16.Barcelona means he cannot take advantage of the clear road ahead
:02:16. > :02:21.and starts from six. It was good news for his team-mate, Nico
:02:21. > :02:25.Rosberg who moves up to the front row of the grid. Mark Webber
:02:25. > :02:35.continues to outshine his team-mate Sebastian Vettel on Saturdays. So
:02:35. > :03:03.
:03:03. > :03:07.He is at the back of the grid. is the dream of every racing driver
:03:07. > :03:13.to win at Monaco. The most prestigious Grand Prix on the
:03:13. > :03:21.calendar and the ultimate test of skill and concentration. Round six,
:03:21. > :03:25.the 70th Grand Prix in Monaco is under way! Webber gets off the line
:03:26. > :03:30.beautifully this time. We have got a shunned behind. Grosjean in the
:03:30. > :03:35.pack got hit by somebody. He got hit by Michael Schumacher. He spun
:03:35. > :03:39.around. The rest of the field had successfully negotiated their way
:03:39. > :03:44.round. Let's see if they feel the need put the safety car out on that.
:03:44. > :03:49.It looks like it can be recovered. Out front it is Mark Webber who
:03:49. > :03:55.leads Rosberg in second, Hamilton third and then the two Ferraris.
:03:55. > :04:03.Both Alonso getting away well and challenging Houghton as they come
:04:03. > :04:09.down into the Loews Hairpin. -- challenging Hamilton. Jenson Button
:04:09. > :04:13.his way down in 14th place. He is behind Kovalainen in the Caterham.
:04:13. > :04:19.I think the confusion of the first corner, Jenson Button's poor
:04:19. > :04:23.qualifying position has seen him drop further back than Mark Webber.
:04:23. > :04:26.He will be breathing a sigh of relief. As we come to the end of
:04:26. > :04:31.the first lap, this is a point where the drivers will start to
:04:31. > :04:41.breed. Yes, Mark Webber has made the perfect getaway on the circuit
:04:41. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:49.he loves so much. He leads this a horrible weekend. The start of
:04:50. > :04:56.Barcelona is out of the race already, unless they can get the
:04:56. > :05:03.card... That is Romain Grosjean. He is being manhandled out of the way.
:05:03. > :05:11.The safety car is on the track. Everybody will have to back off.
:05:11. > :05:16.Mark Webber has got the lead. Into the pits, Pedro de la Rosa. He was
:05:16. > :05:23.the man that was hit by Pastor Maldonado. The safety car is for
:05:23. > :05:28.that incident. The marshals were recovering Romain Grosjean. Mark
:05:28. > :05:33.Webber got it hooked up. The sigh of relief. Romain Grosjean is
:05:33. > :05:38.touching wheels with the Ferrari, as Michael Schumacher goes to the
:05:38. > :05:43.left. He will touch wheels with the Ferrari. Michael goes across, and
:05:43. > :05:48.he gets squeezed. Unfortunately, that is just one of those things in
:05:48. > :05:57.Monte Carlo, because the barrier for laws the cars end. Romain
:05:57. > :06:04.Grosjean moves across in front of Michael. That is the hazard. That
:06:05. > :06:10.was Kamui Kobayashi jumping into the air. That was quite a bounce.
:06:10. > :06:16.He bounced into Jenson Button. explains his poor start. The hit
:06:16. > :06:22.had already happened between Pastor Maldonado and Pedro de la Rosa.
:06:22. > :06:29.Pastor Maldonado getting twisted into the air. We can see the rain
:06:29. > :06:33.that is supposed to come. Apparently, it is raining slightly.
:06:33. > :06:43.Hamilton is defending from Fernando Alonso. An error from Lewis
:06:43. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:51.Hamilton. The DRS is enabled, because they were running under the
:06:51. > :07:01.safety car. I was caught out by the restart. I did not see the safety
:07:01. > :07:06.
:07:06. > :07:13.car turning it slides off. Sebastian Vettel is up to sixth
:07:13. > :07:18.place. He has the advantage of the more durable tyre. He has benefited
:07:18. > :07:25.from the difficulties at the start. The other driver who has had a good
:07:25. > :07:33.start, Paul di Resta, he is up to 11th place. Nico Hulkenberg is up
:07:33. > :07:38.to ninth place. They are behind Michael Schumacher. This is
:07:38. > :07:44.Fernando Alonso. He is chasing after Kimi Raikkonen. Apologies,
:07:44. > :07:51.Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen is behind her. Kimi Raikkonen has what
:07:51. > :08:00.to do. Mark Webber leads. He is trying to stretch an advantage over
:08:00. > :08:05.Nico Rosberg. Michael Schumacher is still in eighth place, then Nico
:08:05. > :08:12.Hulkenberg and Bruno Senna, Bruno Senna also got through the debris
:08:12. > :08:20.of the first corner, and he is running in tenth place. You
:08:20. > :08:28.mentioned Heikki Kovalainen, a great start. If they were trying to
:08:28. > :08:36.make two stops, they would have to make the tyres last and to lap 25.
:08:37. > :08:46.-- until lap 25. If they are making one stop, we expect it to be around
:08:46. > :08:56.lap 40. Daniel Ricciardo did not lose places this time. He came up
:08:56. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:05.to 12th place. He is doing well. Kimi Raikkonen has a James Hunt
:09:05. > :09:08.crash helmet this weekend. Sebastian Vettel is chasing after
:09:08. > :09:14.the Ferrari cars just ahead, and keeping an eye on Kimi Raikkonen
:09:14. > :09:18.behind. They get on well, but we saw them racing hard in Bahrain,
:09:18. > :09:26.when Sebastian Vettel took the victory. Kimi Raikkonen will look
:09:26. > :09:32.for any opportunity to get past. What a miserable weekend it has
:09:33. > :09:39.been for Pastor Maldonado, he was the start of Barcelona. If a driver
:09:39. > :09:44.has his helmet on, approach with caution! You take your life into
:09:44. > :09:50.your hands if you interview him. We will try to get a word with them.
:09:50. > :09:56.Romain Grosjean and Pedro de la Rosa are also out of the race. Mark
:09:56. > :10:05.Webber leads. 1.4 seconds, the advantage over Nico Rosberg. Lewis
:10:05. > :10:09.Hamilton is in third place. Looking down the running order, just
:10:09. > :10:15.outside the top 10, Heikki Kovalainen in 13th, a great
:10:15. > :10:25.performance. He is opening out a gap to Jenson Button. He has a one-
:10:25. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:32.second gap. Jenson Button is on the Prime tyre. This is a replay of
:10:32. > :10:38.Sergio Perez, looking for a way past Jean-Eric Vergne. He applies
:10:38. > :10:48.the brakes late. Jean-Eric Vergne gave him just enough space, and he
:10:48. > :10:48.
:10:48. > :10:53.cut the inside of the Chicane. In the case of Monza,... Car number 17
:10:53. > :10:57.missed the apex, he will get a warning. But he cannot
:10:57. > :11:02.systematically do that. If there was a barrier there, he would have
:11:02. > :11:08.hit it. You have to use the track at all times. Mark Webber leading
:11:08. > :11:16.up, where he wants to be, after that tremendous start. Chased by
:11:16. > :11:21.Nico Rosberg. Mark Webber is control and this race. --
:11:21. > :11:30.controlling it. We are expecting pit-stops in the next couple of
:11:30. > :11:40.laps. Gary, any action in the pits? Obviously, Kimi Raikkonen... RADIO:
:11:40. > :11:48.We could get some rain in 15 laps. Does that affect the strategy?
:11:48. > :11:52.GARY: You have got to hold on and drive as far as you can. You do not
:11:52. > :12:00.want to be pitting before the rain. Sebastian Vettel looks pretty
:12:00. > :12:08.strong. The super soft tyres are good for 20, 25 laps, then they may
:12:08. > :12:15.fall off. The soft tyre is good for 30, 35 laps. Sebastian Vettel is
:12:15. > :12:22.looking after them well. He is leaving a gap to Felipe Massa.
:12:22. > :12:29.Fernando Alonso is getting his tyres destroyed. As a driver, you
:12:29. > :12:38.do not want it to rain, if you are out different especially. -- out
:12:38. > :12:44.the front. But if it is in 15 laps, that would fall into the window of
:12:44. > :12:47.when you could expect to comment on the super soft tyres. It does not
:12:47. > :12:52.scare them too much in terms of holding on to the lap, but once
:12:52. > :13:00.they get closer to that point, as we see the side wall movement on
:13:00. > :13:04.the Ferrari, the high-speed she came, -- chicane, they will try to
:13:04. > :13:10.go as far as they can if they do think rain is coming. The last
:13:10. > :13:19.thing they want is to put a new set of slick tyres on, and then have to
:13:19. > :13:29.put intermediate tyres on. RADIO: Race control is asking us to give
:13:29. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:35.the position. Jean-Eric Vergne is editor said, but having given it up,
:13:35. > :13:41.Sergio Perez has set the fastest lap of the race. He has got clear
:13:41. > :13:45.air. He will get some traffic in one second's time. At the end of
:13:45. > :13:49.that radio transmission, Jean-Eric Vergne said, what about the first
:13:49. > :13:55.lap? He feels that he lost out in what happened, with some people
:13:55. > :13:59.cutting the corner. But once you have opened the door, you cannot
:13:59. > :14:04.decide to just drive straight. You have got to keep to the right of
:14:04. > :14:13.the curbs. In the pits, Vitaly Petrov. But this is not looking
:14:13. > :14:18.like a normal pit-stop. That is a great shame. Mark Webber is still
:14:18. > :14:24.leading the race. Car number one missed the apex of turned 10, that
:14:24. > :14:28.is at the chicane. That is Sebastian Vettel. We have already
:14:28. > :14:34.heard, at least if you gain a place there, you are in trouble, but he
:14:34. > :14:41.might just get a warning. What they have realised, as Michael
:14:41. > :14:47.Schumacher gets underneath the rear window of Kimi Raikkonen... Michael
:14:47. > :14:53.gets dropped a bit as they go through the tunnel. He is sizing up
:14:53. > :14:58.Kimi Raikkonen. You can hear the echo of that other engine behind
:14:58. > :15:04.you. You have to start driving a bit more defensively, which will
:15:04. > :15:12.open the gap to Sebastian Vettel. Just coming back to the chicane, as
:15:12. > :15:16.they have improved the run-off, it means that the drivers can get out
:15:16. > :15:21.of jail free. It was brought up in the drivers' meeting, to keep an
:15:21. > :15:27.eye on people deliberately missing bit. As the lap times drop away, as
:15:27. > :15:37.we watch Sebastian Vettel,... Did he gain any lap time advantage? If
:15:37. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:48.not, he is OK. The beautiful drift from Heikki Kovalainen. The tyre
:15:48. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:57.bending on the side wall, almost place. Michael Schumacher is in
:15:57. > :16:04.eighth, Hulkenberg is ninth. Bruno Senna quietly holding on to the top
:16:04. > :16:09.10 at the moment. RADIO: Possible light rain in four minutes.
:16:09. > :16:14.wonder nobody wants to come into the pits just yet. Even if the lap
:16:14. > :16:19.times start to drop-off. You want to stay out there until the rain
:16:19. > :16:29.comes down and presumably go for intermediate tyres. We have di
:16:29. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:38.Resta 11th, Ricciardo 12. Button his 40th. Perez his 50th. -- Button
:16:39. > :16:45.is in 14th. Perez is in 15th. Jean- Eric Vergne has just gone the
:16:45. > :16:54.fastest over a lap. From second place, Nico Rosberg comes in and
:16:54. > :16:59.away he goes. A reasonable stop. Perhaps not the best we have seen.
:17:00. > :17:04.3.4 seconds, that was pretty good. Webber, still leaving -- leading
:17:05. > :17:09.the race has not made a pit stop yet. Hamilton move that the second,
:17:09. > :17:15.Alonso up to third and Massa for. Into the pits, Mark Webber. The
:17:16. > :17:24.race leader is in the pits. He is looking to come out ahead of
:17:24. > :17:32.Rosberg. The yellow sidewall tyre, the heart of the two compounds of
:17:32. > :17:36.tyre going on. Webber rejoins in front of Rosberg so no change up
:17:36. > :17:41.front. As long as he does not make a mistake on the exit. They all
:17:41. > :17:45.have slick tyres on. If it does rain now, that will certainly
:17:45. > :17:49.change things. They have reacted to what is happening right now for
:17:49. > :17:55.thought this could be the one and only stopped for these guys.
:17:55. > :17:59.Finally, Raikkonen comes in as well and gets going. Hulkenberg comes
:18:00. > :18:08.out behind him, Senna rejoined behind him as well. All of them
:18:08. > :18:15.coming clean the Out. -- tenia Out. Michael Schumacher has stayed out
:18:15. > :18:20.there. He is beginning to set some personal best sector times. He will
:18:20. > :18:25.be hoping he can get past Raikkonen. Look how close that was to catching
:18:26. > :18:29.the tyre blanket of Force India. Brave, brave guys. There would not
:18:29. > :18:38.be enough money in the world to make me fulfil that role. But they
:18:38. > :18:42.do. Alonso is in for Ferrari. Alonso was in the lead because he
:18:43. > :18:47.came in later than the other guys. Michael Schumacher is still out
:18:48. > :18:56.there at the moment. Webber is on the track coming down past the
:18:56. > :19:02.start-finish now. Alonso has gained a bit of time. Where is Hamilton?
:19:02. > :19:06.He is well in front of Hamilton. Hamilton is still coming down now
:19:06. > :19:13.in the background. Alonso has taken third place through the pit stops
:19:13. > :19:20.and he was right behind Hamilton, remember. He obviously got a good
:19:20. > :19:27.lap. Gary, give us your thoughts. But one that he did, he just went
:19:27. > :19:32.purple, purple. He had that one lap of clean air and he used it.
:19:32. > :19:37.amazing thing, Gary, is he can do that on tyres which have done so
:19:37. > :19:43.many laps on a Ferrari which has seemed to use its tyres harder than
:19:43. > :19:47.anyone else? Yes, when everybody start spitting and you are running
:19:47. > :19:51.in a competitive position you have to be brave to do something
:19:51. > :19:57.completely different and they were reacting to everyone else. He has
:19:57. > :20:01.got a place out of it. Felipe Massa now in in the other Ferrari. Where
:20:01. > :20:07.will this bring him out? I do not think he was as quick as Alonso on
:20:07. > :20:14.the him up. Ferrari have been so slip this year with their pit stops.
:20:14. > :20:20.Generally, there have been the team to beat. 3.3 seconds. It will be a
:20:20. > :20:25.long-run down. Massa will come out behind Hamilton. He will not get
:20:25. > :20:35.out in front of Schumacher. He comes at just in front of the rest
:20:35. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:40.of. Schumacher get the place so he is ahead of Felipe Massa. It means
:20:40. > :20:45.he is up ahead of Kimi Raikkonen who is further back. That has
:20:45. > :20:49.worked very well for Michael Schumacher. Up front and leaving --
:20:49. > :20:53.leading the race at the moment, Sebastian Vettel. He is on a
:20:53. > :20:57.different higher strategy to the others. Michael Schumacher is going
:20:57. > :21:02.very deep into this race without having made a pit stop. Michael is
:21:02. > :21:12.in sixth place at the moment. Paul di Resta is in eighth, Daniel
:21:12. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:21.Ricciardo in night, Sergio Perez, the next stop. RADIO: Rain could be
:21:21. > :21:26.as soon as five minutes away. could work for them if it rains. In
:21:26. > :21:33.comes Michael Schumacher. He has managed to go to lap 35 before
:21:33. > :21:38.changing for the harder compound tyre. That is good time management
:21:38. > :21:42.from driver and team to look after the tyres. It will bring him out
:21:42. > :21:47.behind Button. Bottom was ninth last time round. It will also bring
:21:47. > :21:55.him out into a nice, clear bit of track. Jean-Eric Vergne in the
:21:55. > :22:00.background. So, that game that we thought he had made, not quite the
:22:00. > :22:05.same. He would have got past Raikkonen which was his initial
:22:05. > :22:08.target. If you remember, he was breathing more low the back of Kimi
:22:08. > :22:13.Raikkonen. No longer is he up there with the Ferraris. Vettel leads
:22:13. > :22:17.this race from his team-mate Mark Webber. As you have just heard,
:22:17. > :22:20.teams are wondering whether Red Bull are going to work this one
:22:20. > :22:25.together and effectively slow everyone else down. That gives
:22:25. > :22:29.Vettel the chance to make a gap. I wonder if that would occur or is it
:22:29. > :22:34.simply a question that those behind are looking after their tyres.
:22:34. > :22:38.Karthikeyan getting out of the way there. It is certainly allowed. You
:22:38. > :22:45.can play the team order situation. That is not against the rules. I
:22:45. > :22:53.think at this early stage of the season, both Mark and Sebastian are
:22:53. > :23:00.in the championships. We see a bit of squabbling for position.
:23:00. > :23:05.Raikkonen was caught out completely. He was going to go past Perez.
:23:05. > :23:09.RADIO: Starting to spit with rain. That is nice information from his
:23:09. > :23:13.engineer but I can assure you Jenson would be aware of it before
:23:13. > :23:18.the engineer sitting in comfort in the engineering office above the
:23:18. > :23:27.pit lane. You see tiny little drops on your visor. You are super-
:23:27. > :23:31.sensitive. Vettel locking up on the turn. Is that because of the rain?
:23:31. > :23:39.And a drive-through penalty for Sergio Perez for impeding Kimi
:23:39. > :23:45.Raikkonen. Perez has been penalised, no surprise. McLaren are out in the
:23:45. > :23:49.pit lane. Presumably it will be for Jenson Button but what tyres will
:23:49. > :23:57.they put on? If there is a bit of moisture in the air, do they send
:23:57. > :24:01.him out on slicks or intermediates? He is putting the super softs on,
:24:01. > :24:07.getting back phase-out of the way for a start they are softer tyre.
:24:07. > :24:12.If it does get wet, you do not have to run both of the dry compound
:24:12. > :24:16.tyres but clearly McLaren decided to get him out on those tyres now.
:24:16. > :24:22.Even though that is the less durable tyre, if they think rain is
:24:22. > :24:29.coming... Co the line and is in a cage from trying to get in front of
:24:29. > :24:33.the McLaren, he has done it -- Kovalainen in the Caterham.
:24:33. > :24:38.would never think we would be seeing a McLaren battling a
:24:38. > :24:41.Caterham but that is exactly what is happening here. Jenson putting
:24:41. > :24:45.on the super softs, if they do think there is rain and they will
:24:45. > :24:50.have to stop for the intermediate later, there will only be short
:24:50. > :24:55.window for those tyres. Heikki can cut across the line, Jenson is held
:24:55. > :25:00.to being on the rider of the line in the interests of safety. He has
:25:01. > :25:09.a view of the back of the Caterham. It has Renault power and KERS.
:25:09. > :25:18.RADIO: From the pit board, they keep on dropping. It hit me in the
:25:19. > :25:23.head. Oh, dear, that did not sound good at all. Did he do say things
:25:23. > :25:27.were dropping him -- hitting him on the head? Lewis is not having a
:25:27. > :25:32.good afternoon at the moment. one of the peculiarities of this
:25:32. > :25:36.track is that the pit lane looks out to us on the commentary box and
:25:36. > :25:41.the signalling boards are on the start-finish straight. Not the
:25:41. > :25:49.normal arrangement here. It would be a brave man to hang back border
:25:49. > :25:55.over in the wind in front of the cars. Sergio Perez will have to
:25:55. > :26:03.give that position back. The director not the slow motion
:26:03. > :26:07.through the high-speed chicane. Lewis Hamilton was in one of the
:26:07. > :26:13.Cars movies. Having a three-and a- half year-old I watch a lot of
:26:13. > :26:19.children's movies now. Vettel is still doing quick lap times. The
:26:19. > :26:26.guys behind Mark Webber and Rosberg are picking up the pace now. Vettel
:26:26. > :26:34.is still having to work at it. No doubt keeping an eye on the weather
:26:34. > :26:42.as we are to see if it is going to rain. Jean-Eric Vergne is currently
:26:42. > :26:49.in eighth place. That is an interesting one. Jean-Eric Vergne
:26:49. > :26:53.made a very early pit stop, do you remember that? Gary, what are your
:26:53. > :26:59.thoughts on the Toro Rosso running in eighth place. A very early pit-
:26:59. > :27:06.stop, is there any chance he can keep it going? It would be
:27:06. > :27:14.difficult. We are looking at Vettel having done 46 laps. Anything could
:27:14. > :27:20.happen. These tyres do seem to have a bit of a mind of their own. We
:27:20. > :27:24.will have to see what happens. You have to honestly react to when the
:27:24. > :27:34.tyre forced off. No one knows when they are going to pick here. That
:27:34. > :27:43.moment might be with us because we have just had several men deliver
:27:43. > :27:49.their best laps of the race. Only Vettel will know if that is because
:27:49. > :27:56.he has made a mistake or if he is hitting the cliff. He has done 45
:27:56. > :28:01.laps here and he started on a full tank of fuel. Red Bull are coming
:28:01. > :28:05.out. They are reacting. Vettel will be in this lap. He has reached the
:28:05. > :28:10.cliff in terms of tyre performance. Sebastian Vettel will be coming
:28:10. > :28:14.into the pits. Where will he come back out? Will he be behind
:28:14. > :28:23.Hamilton and Massa or between them? Will he be fighting with Michael
:28:23. > :28:27.Schumacher or? Forget Michael Schumacher. He is 22 seconds behind.
:28:27. > :28:33.Hamilton and Alonso have just passed under hour commentary box.
:28:33. > :28:40.There is Webber. Here comes Rosberg and Alonso and he gets out in front
:28:40. > :28:46.of Hamilton. Let's just wait and see. Up the hill goes Hamilton and
:28:46. > :28:49.he just gets cut off by Vettel. The McLaren is all over the back of the
:28:49. > :28:56.Red Bull. Hamilton surely cannot find a way through in this section
:28:56. > :29:01.of the track and by the time there is any space, Vettel will have
:29:01. > :29:04.settled down. He is on the softer compound tyre. He has to use that
:29:04. > :29:12.time at some point in the race and he will try to make it last until
:29:12. > :29:19.the end. That was close. Will Lewis be able to position himself Alf --
:29:19. > :29:26.as they come out of second Portier. That might give Sebastian a bit of
:29:26. > :29:31.breathing space. He goes a bit defensive. Sebastian Vettel has got
:29:31. > :29:36.himself up to third place. When you consider he started ninth on the
:29:36. > :29:44.grid, the strategy has worked very effectively. They have made it work.
:29:44. > :29:54.There is a huge game on a track like Monaco. Webber, Rosberg,
:29:54. > :30:01.
:30:01. > :30:08.of 1.2 seconds the lead over Nico Rosberg. Felipe Massa is still in
:30:08. > :30:15.there, in sixth place. A RADIO: Felipe Massa has been told to look
:30:15. > :30:23.after his tyres to attack us at the end of the race. I will try to do
:30:23. > :30:27.so as well. He did that very effectively last time, in Spain. He
:30:27. > :30:35.did not set a quick lap time, but he ended up beating Jenson Button
:30:35. > :30:41.and finishing in eighth place. Lewis Hamilton still managing to
:30:41. > :30:47.his race, holding on to fifth place. Michael Schumacher is still some
:30:47. > :30:53.way behind these guys. Jean-Eric Vergne is the one who might lose
:30:53. > :30:58.out big time, because he made a very early pit-stop. Reliability
:30:58. > :31:04.Wise, we have not had problems so far. Gary, this used to be such a
:31:04. > :31:11.hard track on gearboxes and drive shaft, but nowadays, the teams
:31:11. > :31:18.seemed to have that sorted? Yes, the regulations have changed, over
:31:18. > :31:25.the gearbox. The gearboxes are bigger. You were not allowed to use
:31:25. > :31:29.such exotic materials and such fine design. Reliability is everything.
:31:29. > :31:32.It does not matter how quick your car is, you have got to get to the
:31:32. > :31:37.chequered flag. If you could survive to the end, you would
:31:37. > :31:42.probably pick up points in the past, but today, you have got to race.
:31:42. > :31:52.still have 19 cars remained. Narain Karthikeyan is the last one still
:31:52. > :31:56.
:31:56. > :32:02.remained. That is still pretty good run. There are five cars out, from
:32:02. > :32:08.an early stage. Mark Webber, the Australian, commanding this race.
:32:08. > :32:12.Not by a huge margin, he is still looking after his tyres. Nico
:32:12. > :32:17.Rosberg is second. Mark Webber yet to win a Grand Prix this year. He
:32:17. > :32:22.could become the sixth different winner in six races. If Nico
:32:22. > :32:26.Rosberg wins, he will be the first repeat winner. It does not because
:32:26. > :32:31.though he has got an answer. The closing stages will tell the story
:32:31. > :32:38.of how each team has looked after the tyres. You have got to wonder
:32:38. > :32:44.if Nico Rosberg will have an answer for Mark Webber. Michael sanded
:32:44. > :32:49.sick as he passed by. Jean-Eric Vergne is chasing him. The Toro
:32:49. > :32:56.Rosso is in eighth place at the moment. He is putting up no
:32:56. > :33:02.resistance. He has acknowledged, I have a major problem. This is a
:33:02. > :33:07.good run for Jean-Eric Vergne, but he stop on lap 17, it is a huge
:33:07. > :33:11.number of laps if he is going to keep this going. Yes, but he is not
:33:11. > :33:18.under that much pressure from Paul di Resta, he has got a ten-second
:33:18. > :33:23.GAP. That can be eaten up quickly, once the tyres hit the cliffs. That
:33:23. > :33:28.was a very compliant Michael, realising his issue. The Force
:33:28. > :33:32.India cars have caught Michael Schumacher. Paul di Resta and Nico
:33:32. > :33:37.Hulkenberg, ninth and 10th. They are right behind Michael Schumacher.
:33:37. > :33:47.We saw him allowed the other car, Jean-Eric Vergne, go through. Will
:33:47. > :33:50.he do the same? He is very slow on the straight indeed. He lets Nico
:33:50. > :33:59.Hulkenberg through, the next one will be Kimi Raikkonen. It will put
:33:59. > :34:05.Kimi Raikkonen into the points. This is a replay. The Mercedes
:34:05. > :34:13.plates have titanium or something, and it sparked. Michael is cruising.
:34:13. > :34:16.The battle up front, it is starting to rain at La Rascasse. Some of the
:34:16. > :34:22.spectators are starting to move. Does that indicate they have had
:34:22. > :34:27.enough?! Perhaps they are starting to get wet. The umbrellas are a
:34:27. > :34:34.signal. Nico Rosberg is getting closer to the back. He has got the
:34:34. > :34:41.gap down, 0.9 seconds. There was editor of contact with Romain
:34:41. > :34:44.Grosjean and Michael Schumacher. -- there was a bit of contact. Michael
:34:44. > :34:54.Schumacher looks slow in a straight line, they could be a mechanical
:34:54. > :34:59.problem. Gary, what did you think? They were talking about an engine
:34:59. > :35:05.problem of some sort. He has got to take away the fuel-saving it, but
:35:05. > :35:09.that did not fix it. He has been told to use KERS at the end of the
:35:09. > :35:14.tunnel, there seemed to be a higher rpm problem. It is raining now, the
:35:14. > :35:19.heaviest it has been today. will he come out of the pits, or is
:35:19. > :35:24.this the end? The fastest man in qualifying, he had to start with
:35:24. > :35:30.the penalty, and it is not looking good. I would get him out of the
:35:30. > :35:37.way quickly. We are seeing more and more people putting on raincoats.
:35:37. > :35:42.If Nico Rosberg so it -- suddenly said, I am coming in, they are not
:35:42. > :35:50.able to service the car. They are pushing it back. That will not
:35:50. > :35:56.happen this lap. This is Jenson Button having a go at Heikki
:35:56. > :36:03.Kovalainen. That was close. He goes to defend, which he is allowed to
:36:03. > :36:06.do. He moves across at the braking zone. Perhaps he was not realising
:36:06. > :36:14.that Jenson Button positioned his car there. You could sense Jenson
:36:14. > :36:17.Button breathing again. Mark Webber, from Nico Rosberg. Things are
:36:18. > :36:25.getting more difficult. Michael Schumacher is out of the Monaco
:36:25. > :36:30.Grand Prix. Added to the list of retirements. Michael Schumacher,
:36:30. > :36:37.the fastest on Saturday, but ending the race early on Sunday. Jenson
:36:37. > :36:43.Button is going very slowly. Has he had an issue? Lewis Hamilton gets
:36:43. > :36:49.closer to the back of Sebastian Vettel. Look at the train of cards
:36:49. > :36:54.-- cars. Fernando Alonso taking the wider line. It that is a mistake by
:36:54. > :37:02.Lewis Hamilton. It Felipe Massa closed the gap a touch. The track
:37:02. > :37:07.conditions are changing. 1:26, six seconds slower on that lap. It is
:37:07. > :37:12.getting very slippery in places. times like this, I wish we had a
:37:12. > :37:17.son RIF, because we could experience the rain -- I wish we
:37:17. > :37:24.had a sunroof. We are having to rely on what we can see on the
:37:24. > :37:30.cameras. Gary, how what is it? is wet enough. One or two more laps,
:37:30. > :37:35.you are into survival mode. One little mistake, you are after. We
:37:35. > :37:39.will see activity in the pits, Forshaw. Dare you make a pit stop?
:37:39. > :37:46.If you are in the leading bunch, you will go backwards. It is
:37:46. > :37:54.raining quite a lot. That was lover, that lap, said you are keeping a
:37:54. > :38:00.close eye on that -- that was slower. The top six are so far
:38:00. > :38:05.ahead. Jean-Eric Vergne is gambling, he wants to get into the points.
:38:05. > :38:10.The top six of 38 seconds ahead of Paul di Resta, so you will either
:38:10. > :38:14.win or finish sixth, a worst-case scenario, provided you do not crash.
:38:14. > :38:21.Jean-Eric Vergne was on for his best ever result, but the team have
:38:21. > :38:26.decided that he might get an even better one. I wonder if that is
:38:26. > :38:32.strategic. A yellow flag, an incident on the first corner.
:38:32. > :38:36.can see debris. It must be somebody to the left. Meanwhile, back with
:38:36. > :38:42.the battle at the front, Jean-Eric Vergne will tell the teams were
:38:42. > :38:46.there the intermediates of the tyre to be on. They will get the
:38:46. > :38:51.feedback straight away, can it be quicker than the slick tyre? Can
:38:51. > :38:55.you regain the time you lose for a pit-stop? You will either win or be
:38:55. > :39:04.sixth, that is the worst-case scenario, provided you do not make
:39:04. > :39:11.a mistake. Jenson Button was trying to make a move on Heikki Kovalainen.
:39:11. > :39:17.Jenson Button, going past very slowly. That is the contact of the
:39:17. > :39:22.debris, Sergio Perez on the outside of Heikki Kovalainen. Heikki
:39:22. > :39:27.Kovalainen locks up and has to go straight. The track is getting it
:39:27. > :39:31.drippy again. Mark Webber has got this under control. They have all
:39:31. > :39:35.had a fault must drive, world-class drivers, around the streets of
:39:35. > :39:41.Monte Carlo, the biggest challenge in the calendar. Apart from the
:39:41. > :39:46.court not wheel, I have not seen a mistake. It has been superb. We are
:39:46. > :39:51.about to go on to the final lap. Mark Webber crosses the line, he
:39:51. > :39:56.has got two miles to complete to record his second victory in Monaco.
:39:56. > :40:02.He climbs up the hill. Nico Rosberg has not done wrong, but it was all
:40:02. > :40:05.about the start and getting off the line effectively. This time, Mark
:40:05. > :40:10.Webber did that. Fernando Alonso in third place, dropping back a
:40:10. > :40:17.fraction. Sebastian Vettel in fourth place, the biggest gap
:40:17. > :40:24.between them that we have seen in recent laps. Nico Rosberg getting
:40:24. > :40:31.tight behind the Red Bull. Through the tunnel. Mark Webber, looking
:40:31. > :40:37.for his second Monaco victory, and to add another winner to the
:40:37. > :40:41.amazing list of winners that we have had so far in 2012. Along the
:40:41. > :40:45.harbour he comes, everybody watching and cheering from the
:40:45. > :40:51.grandstands. Just coming through the swimming pool, Nico Rosberg
:40:51. > :40:55.will not give up. He has thrown everything at Mark Webber. He has
:40:55. > :41:00.driven brilliantly. He won in China earlier this year, but he has not
:41:00. > :41:05.seen any mistakes from Mark Webber. Mark Webber comes out of the final
:41:05. > :41:11.corner, he becomes the sixth different when it in 2000 the 12th.
:41:11. > :41:15.It is a new record, we have never had six winners at the beginning of
:41:15. > :41:20.the year, and Mark Webber has achieved it. What a performance for
:41:20. > :41:25.Red Bull. A hat-trick of victories in Monaco. Nobody can begrudge him,
:41:25. > :41:32.that was a fantastic victory. It was well controlled. That is his
:41:32. > :41:39.huge weight off his shoulders. RADIO: Fantastic, to have won again,
:41:39. > :41:45.well done, a great run it. Thank you, guys. It was not a
:41:45. > :41:50.straightforward, but we will take it. The 2012 season is one of the
:41:50. > :41:55.most varied and competitive in Formula One history. Six world
:41:55. > :42:03.champions, 6 unpredictable races, and six different winners. We are
:42:03. > :42:08.in new territory. There are still for two races to go. -- 14 races.
:42:08. > :42:12.Concerns about the weather, but no concerns about Mark Webber, his
:42:12. > :42:20.second win around the streets of Monaco. A stronger second place for
:42:20. > :42:29.Nico Rosberg. Sebastian Vettel in front of a frustrated Lewis
:42:29. > :42:39.Hamilton. Bruno Senna will be happy to be back in the points. Mark
:42:39. > :42:57.
:42:57. > :43:04.three newest teams. You have won the Monaco Grand Prix,
:43:04. > :43:10.I do not imagine that you get bored of hearing that. No. An incredible
:43:10. > :43:14.day, this place gives you amazing memories. There were lots of
:43:14. > :43:20.different parts of the race where I had to be focused, to make sure
:43:20. > :43:24.that we really capitalised on the positioning that we had. A good
:43:24. > :43:33.friend of mine sent me a text message, he said, you are in for it,
:43:33. > :43:38.you are in charge, and we were. But you can get bitten quickly. When
:43:38. > :43:43.you have the experience thrown in, and a great team on the pit wall,
:43:43. > :43:48.it is still a tough nut to crack, but I had both hands on it, and I
:43:48. > :43:52.would not let go. At the start of the season, everybody said it was a
:43:52. > :43:57.difficult Ferrari, but you are leading the championship. It is a
:43:57. > :44:07.surprise for us, we never expected to begin now. Especially after
:44:07. > :44:07.
:44:07. > :44:14.Australia. We seemed to improve the car after testing, improved it the
:44:14. > :44:18.way of driving it. I am happy for Felipe Massa to show his skills on
:44:18. > :44:28.a technical circuit, and hopefully we can move up in the championship,
:44:28. > :44:36.
:44:36. > :44:43.to score more points. Consistency not frustrating but it was not the
:44:43. > :44:47.best result. This is motor-racing. I really dislike going backwards.
:44:47. > :44:50.Nonetheless, we still came away with some points. There are many
:44:50. > :44:56.more races ahead of us so we have to keep our heads up and keep
:44:57. > :45:03.pushing. Paul, congratulations, a strong performance for yourself and
:45:03. > :45:07.Force India. You must be pleased. think we probably optimised it at
:45:08. > :45:11.the end. We jumped a few cars. Fortunately, the rain stayed off at
:45:11. > :45:17.the end. We were in a great position. We have a double points
:45:17. > :45:24.score here. My car was definitely better in the race. We will go out
:45:24. > :45:33.and have a great night. I imagine you're getting sicker of the site
:45:33. > :45:39.of Heikki Kovalainen? It is so frustrating. I spun off and then
:45:39. > :45:45.caught him within two laps. It is one of those things. It all comes
:45:45. > :45:49.from bad qualifying. And being unlucky at the start. A tough
:45:49. > :45:54.afternoon. I want to say congratulations to mark. He is a
:45:54. > :46:04.good lad and sixth winner. It obviously livens up the
:46:04. > :46:07.
:46:07. > :46:13.championship a bit. Red Bull are the sixth winner.
:46:13. > :46:19.Eighth time the whole man has gone on to win a race. What an amazing
:46:19. > :46:28.St Red Bull have found on the streets of Monte Carlo. An amazing
:46:28. > :46:32.race. It is never ate easy around Monaco. It was a slippery track but
:46:32. > :46:38.he held on. That is where his experience came through. He knew
:46:39. > :46:42.where he could maintain the pace and avoid the use of Piara zones
:46:42. > :46:48.and maintain the KERS. There is probably one of Mark's strongest
:46:48. > :46:53.victories. He said it was his weakest car. Few men have won here
:46:53. > :46:57.twice. You are one of those few. How will the second one feel for
:46:58. > :47:01.Mark? I think there will be more satisfaction. The first one will
:47:01. > :47:05.probably be a blur of focus, attention and celebration. This
:47:05. > :47:12.time he has a good opportunity to reflect on that and use his
:47:12. > :47:17.experience. P1 here in Formula 3,000 so he knows how to drive here.
:47:17. > :47:23.The two men behind him, Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg have had a
:47:23. > :47:28.good season. I think it is a remarkable season. I think this is
:47:28. > :47:31.a golden era. I said it in commentary but I did not see any
:47:31. > :47:36.mistakes from the drivers. A Trulli world-class performance from the
:47:36. > :47:41.more. Thank you. A frustrating day for Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button
:47:41. > :47:45.well out of the points and retiring his car. All in all, an impressive
:47:45. > :47:51.Grand Prix. History has been made. Six races to start 2012, six