The Singapore Grand Prix

:00:19. > :00:25.Well! Fabulous stuff! What a start to the season! Fantastic stuff! So

:00:25. > :00:35.close! He has hit the Lotus! What entertainment!

:00:35. > :00:35.

:00:35. > :01:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:01:40. > :01:45.completely ridiculous. The roads are closed, there is only one way

:01:45. > :01:50.to see the city. They will see the track, the skyline, everything.

:01:50. > :01:59.did not want to have a race to get to the race. Plus, two legends in

:01:59. > :02:06.one boat. He is only here for the motivation! Yes! And, it is the

:02:06. > :02:13.British Dragon Boat Racing team. Yes! That makes me feel better.

:02:13. > :02:17.Three miles. You are not going to get to do this on the football!

:02:17. > :02:25.spend my weekends in the rain in England! I can get you a deal, and

:02:25. > :02:34.for that, you will get beaten. Let's go, back-pedal! Shot up and

:02:34. > :02:44.paddle! Can I consider myself the British Fernando Alonso? Singapore,

:02:44. > :03:10.

:03:10. > :03:15.one of the greatest new races on was pretty tough. How does it feel

:03:15. > :03:20.to win again? It has been a long time, I will take it! The good news

:03:20. > :03:30.is, 81, but the bad news is, to whether it is in charge of the

:03:30. > :03:42.

:03:42. > :03:45.jump into the water, and you were not even paddling! A strenuous way

:03:45. > :03:52.to arrive at one of the most difficult circuits on the Formula

:03:52. > :03:55.One calendar, and it is lights out in less than one hour. Welcome.

:03:55. > :04:00.Everybody says it is the only night race in Formula One, but the first

:04:00. > :04:06.thing in the morning, it is a beautiful part of the world. It is

:04:06. > :04:13.new territory for May. I have not seen much daylight this year. Nor

:04:13. > :04:19.has David! Singapore is a special place, but it is difficult for the

:04:19. > :04:24.drivers at. It has just gone 7pm, it is 80% humidity, over 30 degrees,

:04:24. > :04:29.it is a tough day. It is bizarre, the only true night race is one of

:04:29. > :04:38.the hottest and most difficult for the drivers. It is the 14th race of

:04:38. > :04:45.the season. We are 88 miles north of the equator, the third most

:04:45. > :04:52.densely populated country in the world, the fifth Grand Prix here. A

:04:52. > :04:59.far cry from Italy. This has just been released, this is how next

:05:00. > :05:07.year is the king. The big headline, New Jersey replaces Valencia. That

:05:07. > :05:14.is the American Grand Prix. There are two races in North America next

:05:14. > :05:19.year. It has also been announced this weekend that Singapore will

:05:19. > :05:24.extend its contract for another five years. It has been on the

:05:24. > :05:28.calendar for a short time, but we have fallen in love with this place.

:05:28. > :05:33.The teams were supportive of this continuing, it has become a classic.

:05:33. > :05:37.I do not doubt that this will deliver the same sort of spectacle.

:05:37. > :05:42.Bernie Ecclestone said, we love coming to this race, which made it

:05:42. > :05:46.hard to negotiate a new deal. not believe a word of it, he is the

:05:46. > :05:52.all-time dealer when it comes to extracting money from people. He

:05:52. > :05:55.will have got a fair price, and Singapore probably got a fair deal,

:05:55. > :06:00.because an extension was correct for them, the image, the brand.

:06:00. > :06:05.They are able to do what they need to do through the Grand Prix.

:06:05. > :06:09.Bernie Ecclestone can say to people, you need Formula One More than

:06:09. > :06:14.Formula One needs you. They had musical acts performing, and the

:06:14. > :06:18.Proclaimers! I was first in line to see them! And a bunch of other

:06:18. > :06:24.stars. I did not see any of them, because we have been working so

:06:24. > :06:33.much. Alongside this, everybody lining up, preparing to start the

:06:33. > :06:38.race. It has been a remarkable season. 12 months ago, Red Bull

:06:38. > :06:45.were dominating, but it is much closer this year. McLaren could

:06:45. > :06:55.take the championship lead. Two victories separate the top five.

:06:55. > :07:17.

:07:17. > :07:21.last few races, McLaren have turned up on a Sunday feeling fantastic,

:07:21. > :07:25.they have picked up pole position in these three previous races, and

:07:25. > :07:29.they arrived here, hoping that they could push Fernando Alonso for the

:07:29. > :07:39.championship lead. What would happen yesterday in qualifying at?

:07:39. > :07:43.

:07:43. > :07:48.a picture postcard, but Bruno Senna might have wished he was not here.

:07:48. > :07:52.He was out of contention in Q2. Romain Grosjean almost copied him,

:07:52. > :07:56.but he escaped without damage, and he shrugged off his race bad by

:07:57. > :08:01.beating Kimi Raikkonen and earning a start on the first -- Forth Road

:08:01. > :08:06.of the grid. Sebastian Vettel set the pace on Friday and Saturday

:08:06. > :08:12.practice, but he came up short in qualifying, he was not in third

:08:12. > :08:15.position. The surprise performance came from Pastor Maldonado. He said

:08:15. > :08:20.second fastest time and the best ever starting position for Williams

:08:20. > :08:23.in Singapore. Lewis Hamilton appear to be on a different level, once he

:08:23. > :08:27.had adjusted. His best lap was almost half a second faster than

:08:27. > :08:34.his rivals, and he took a fourth successive pole position for

:08:34. > :08:39.McLaren. Three different constructors represented in the

:08:39. > :08:49.first three places. Jenson Button is fourth, and Fernando Alonso his

:08:49. > :09:16.

:09:16. > :09:21.fifth. Paul di Resta put in a good penalty for a gearbox change it.

:09:21. > :09:23.David, you have qualified here, give us an idea of how special the

:09:23. > :09:32.latter was from Lewis Hamilton. Half a second faster than anybody

:09:32. > :09:39.else. Having looked at it in the BBC suite, it was a flawless lap.

:09:39. > :09:44.The BBC suite! The edit suite! Portakabin! It was flawless.

:09:44. > :09:50.Controlled aggression, he took the maximum out of it. Audibly, one of

:09:50. > :09:55.his best ever qualifying laps. happened at Red Bull? Sebastian

:09:55. > :10:03.Vettel is so good, but he could not do it yesterday. The ingredient

:10:03. > :10:09.here, Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull were not expecting that flawless lap.

:10:09. > :10:13.Lewis Hamilton, he has found something in the last four or five

:10:13. > :10:19.races that is Buckland. He is on a different planet, and he is going

:10:19. > :10:25.places. He was not the only star of qualified yesterday. Pastor

:10:25. > :10:33.Maldonado. That is your pit board, they have already put on there,

:10:33. > :10:38.first place, 60 laps to go. Is that incredible confidence? It is going

:10:38. > :10:43.to be a difficult race. But we are looking forward to doing our best.

:10:43. > :10:51.We have a good speed, we hope to have great speed today. The track

:10:51. > :10:56.has improved after the GP2 race. We hope to have a great weekend.

:10:56. > :11:01.Barcelona, it was a very aggressive style. Is that how you want to

:11:01. > :11:08.continue, or do you just want to play things out? It depends on the

:11:08. > :11:14.start. Anything can happen. Starting from the inside cover they

:11:14. > :11:20.will see how the grip is. We are looking forward to a great start,

:11:20. > :11:26.like always have. We will try to always gain a position on the start,

:11:26. > :11:33.but if we stay second, it is a long race, and we have a great strategy.

:11:33. > :11:39.You drove a great lap in qualifying, looking at the footage. Talk us

:11:39. > :11:46.through a bit of the lap. It is one of my favourite tracks, especially

:11:46. > :11:52.because of the lack of grip, it is slippery. I found a really good

:11:52. > :12:00.setting in the car. Very well balanced, against the front and the

:12:00. > :12:04.rear. They were working together. Over the kerbs, it is quite good. A

:12:04. > :12:08.bit of understeer, but this track is fantastic for May. It is easy to

:12:08. > :12:12.find the limit. Unit could have through the chicane, which has

:12:12. > :12:16.caused a lot of drivers some difficulties. Is that something

:12:16. > :12:23.which will be a benefit for the Williams team, the fact that the

:12:23. > :12:26.car looks compliant? And were sipping his more conservative than

:12:26. > :12:34.aggressive -- hour setting up. We are looking forward to having a

:12:34. > :12:38.consistent race. That will be the tricky point of today for everybody.

:12:38. > :12:42.We want to have a consistent race, from the beginning to the end.

:12:42. > :12:49.are moments away from getting into the car, so let's hope they do not

:12:49. > :12:52.have to replace that number with any other number. It is so good of

:12:52. > :12:56.the drivers to join us just minutes before they strap themselves in,

:12:56. > :13:01.but he thinks we are a good luck charm, because we interviewed him

:13:01. > :13:06.before the Spanish Grand Prix, which he won. He has not scored a

:13:06. > :13:11.point since then. I wanted to ask him how aggressive he would be into

:13:11. > :13:15.the first corner. Is he going out to get on the podium or to get

:13:15. > :13:18.another victory? I think he is going for the victory. Lewis

:13:19. > :13:25.Hamilton will be regretting seeing him on the front row of the grid.

:13:25. > :13:29.They have had history, he knows he will be going for the first corner.

:13:29. > :13:33.Let's hope he behaves. He has had 33 penalties on the grid so far

:13:33. > :13:37.this season, that is a lot of places to be knocked back. He needs

:13:37. > :13:42.to start thinking about points in the back, they are being chased by

:13:42. > :13:46.Force India and Sauber. The team have been working with him, they

:13:46. > :13:52.have gelled well together. There is a good understanding. I believe he

:13:52. > :13:56.will play for points. You have to go for at the start, but wherever

:13:56. > :14:00.he ends up, he will drive a conservative race to try to make

:14:00. > :14:05.sure he can get to the finish. gets to do the real thing in half-

:14:05. > :14:09.an-hour, but these guys love racing, when they are not giving it for

:14:09. > :14:19.real, they do it on computer games in their spare time. We decided to

:14:19. > :14:31.

:14:31. > :14:36.set them a challenge and ask them this is Lewis Hamilton's home on a

:14:36. > :14:41.race weekend. These three drivers will be competing in a race. We

:14:41. > :14:51.have created another race, but it is not just the three drivers, we

:14:51. > :14:57.

:14:57. > :15:03.working together for three years, now. This is the head of

:15:03. > :15:13.reliability. No trouble. The former won 2012 video game and they will

:15:13. > :15:21.

:15:21. > :15:27.be racing on this circuit. Let us see how they get on. -- Formula One.

:15:27. > :15:36.And away we go. On board with Heikki Kovalainen. Bruno Senna,

:15:36. > :15:42.side by side. Enter the first corner. There was contact! And he

:15:42. > :15:48.has got a penalty. And Lewis Hamilton has got through all this.

:15:48. > :15:55.Bruno Senna, can he make up for the penalty? Heikki Kovalainen, chasing

:15:55. > :16:05.him down. Lewis Hamilton... He has crashed! On the way into the pits.

:16:05. > :16:07.

:16:07. > :16:15.Back into the pit stop. Time to change the tyres. And he takes over.

:16:15. > :16:22.Dempsey, he is chasing after. And Hamilton goes off! He is into the

:16:22. > :16:32.gravel. That leaves Kovaleinen's men in front., Colin driving for

:16:32. > :16:34.

:16:34. > :16:40.Bruno Senna. Here he comes, he has done it! Showing great smoothness

:16:40. > :16:46.and style. Bruno Senna leads but it is time for the second pit stop.

:16:46. > :16:51.And just behind, Mervyn Dempsey. This will be a challenge for the

:16:51. > :16:58.boys in the pit lane. Which car welcome out ahead? There was

:16:58. > :17:02.Hamilton takes over. And the racers are back behind the wheel. And away

:17:02. > :17:07.goes Heikki Kovaleinen. He has smashed the lead on the pit stop.

:17:07. > :17:11.The final short sprint to the flag. Concentration coming down towards

:17:11. > :17:16.the chequered flag. Heikki Kovalainen leaves and Bruno Senna

:17:16. > :17:23.isn't far behind. Victory for Heikki Kovalainen. Bruno Senna in

:17:23. > :17:27.second place. But as Lewis Hamilton crosses the line, he will be

:17:27. > :17:35.pleased to know that Bruno Senna has a ten-second penalty so he will

:17:35. > :17:38.end up in second place. Congratulations. HET has been a

:17:39. > :17:44.long time coming but any win is good. I cannot believe how

:17:44. > :17:51.seriously you take this. Lewis Hamilton had his racing boots on.

:17:51. > :17:55.He was more serious than I was. Lucky for me. Back to reality,

:17:55. > :18:02.though this is an pole position and you start from 19th place. What is

:18:02. > :18:10.your aim? If we can be close again today...! That would be critical.

:18:10. > :18:14.We have to stay of -- stay ahead of Mauritius. It is a very tough race

:18:14. > :18:18.so you have to be there at the end and hopefully we can get everything

:18:18. > :18:22.out of the car and the team. Eddie Jordan is always going on about how

:18:22. > :18:31.these two teams need to get better. Heikki Kovaleinen back to winning

:18:32. > :18:35.ways. Blame me! I was delighted, I never, ever doubted his talent. He

:18:35. > :18:40.has already been a winner and I just heard his name over the

:18:40. > :18:45.weekend, he could be back with McLaren. The permutations are

:18:45. > :18:50.immense. Just a shame that it was not real. The reality is 53 places

:18:50. > :18:55.since he last scored any point and that was in Singapore. How can he

:18:55. > :19:00.keep himself motivated? Normally it is by out qualifying team mates and

:19:00. > :19:05.delivering that leader status. Beyond that, there's not much else

:19:05. > :19:08.he can do. He had an opportunity at Renault and McLaren but the teams

:19:08. > :19:14.did not look at him at the front of the dread so he is now trying to

:19:14. > :19:20.rebuild his career. He has got the talent to be in a top team. But it

:19:20. > :19:27.will be difficult and it will take some slot to open up. You can hear

:19:27. > :19:31.the engines. Before we disappear, Sebastian Vettel's helmet is a kind

:19:31. > :19:37.of thing Katie Price would bring. Every time he moves, it starts

:19:37. > :19:42.flashing. What are they doing? They have been to Brighton or Blackpool

:19:42. > :19:47.for too long. This is the first time I have ever seen sparklers in

:19:47. > :19:52.the helmet. Keep your eyes on that helmet. And that is a dry ice being

:19:52. > :19:57.used. 61 very tough laps. But perhaps the most important one is

:19:57. > :20:01.the one before the race even starts. David Coulthard went back to the

:20:01. > :20:08.office to give us some idea of what happens before the grand prix even

:20:08. > :20:12.gets going. The most important lap of any grand prix weekend is the

:20:12. > :20:17.formation. By the time you get here on the grid, you have to make sure

:20:17. > :20:20.that not only had he maintained engine temperature, you happy to Dr

:20:21. > :20:25.brakes and tyres, but you have to set the biting point on the clutch

:20:25. > :20:33.carefully. This is all integration between the engineer and the driver.

:20:33. > :20:39.Get this right and you will win the Grand Prix. TEAM RADIO: These tyres

:20:39. > :20:45.will not last long. Some information for you... Warm-up

:20:45. > :20:50.those brakes well before the formation lap. Cooling down. The

:20:50. > :20:54.gearbox is good. Precision is everything. These last few moments

:20:54. > :20:58.before lights out by the final opportunity to fine-tune dozens of

:20:58. > :21:02.on board controls and work together with the engineer at the pit wall

:21:02. > :21:09.to optimise the performance. With the constant stream of data are

:21:09. > :21:19.being fed back to the garage, communication is paramount to

:21:19. > :21:20.

:21:20. > :21:30.ensure all systems are triumphant. TEAM RADIO: Here we go. I am away

:21:30. > :21:30.

:21:30. > :21:32.from the grid and the countdown is on. Looking good, divot. -- David.

:21:32. > :21:39.Everything from the engine temperature to the tyre pressure is

:21:39. > :21:43.being monitored by the team because of sensors. The steering wheel is a

:21:43. > :21:47.control panel were a can make final adjustments. The clutch, brake

:21:47. > :21:55.balance and listening to instructions. TEAM RADIO: Used 10%

:21:55. > :22:05.Kers. Check that the Kers is fully charged and the batteries are ready

:22:05. > :22:06.

:22:06. > :22:10.for the start. It is a lot of work in here and there are tweaks

:22:10. > :22:18.throughout the race so it is a very busy cockpit with lots of radio

:22:18. > :22:20.traffic. TEAM RADIO: Looking good. I need full burn out. I have to

:22:20. > :22:30.burn out to warm up the tyres and the brakes to their optimum

:22:30. > :22:30.

:22:30. > :22:36.temperature. Engine 0.1. The bike. First. The engine mapping has been

:22:36. > :22:44.set to get the maximum torque for the start. And that will be altered

:22:44. > :22:47.for maximum power during the race. Maurice Deville the clutch is poor.

:22:47. > :22:54.After numerous adjustments in the car, everything should now be at

:22:54. > :23:03.the optimum level by reaching the grid. Here we go. One light, two

:23:03. > :23:08.nights, three louts, four nights, five. -- lights. Perfect start. If

:23:08. > :23:12.you have got all that bright, you could be into the clean air and on

:23:12. > :23:19.your way to the podium. Bond of the memories. We're getting close to

:23:19. > :23:24.the start. McLaren gearing up to go out. To and welcome Lewis Hamilton.

:23:24. > :23:28.Less than half an hour. They will crossover when it becomes safer.

:23:28. > :23:36.Give us some insight into how much technology has changed from just a

:23:36. > :23:40.couple of years ago. Never mind across the seasons, even between

:23:40. > :23:44.races, these cars change. It was an eye-opener to see just how much the

:23:44. > :23:50.cars have moved on. Kers, DRS and other assistance they have to work

:23:50. > :23:54.so constantly the workload for the driver is getting more. I nearly

:23:54. > :24:00.went for it, there. But Kimi Raikkonen was coming. We will be

:24:00. > :24:07.out on the grid and a couple of moments but Jenson Button has been

:24:07. > :24:12.given unique insight to us about what the insight is like. In this

:24:12. > :24:18.busy panic on European time, do you ever get used to this? Yes, you do.

:24:18. > :24:26.I think so. The thing for us, we stay on European time, which is

:24:26. > :24:30.pretty easy because you don't have jet lag. But the most difficult

:24:30. > :24:35.part is your mind playing tricks most of the day. It I have been

:24:35. > :24:40.here since Sunday and I have loved my time. A hired you sum up this

:24:40. > :24:47.race? It is very different and unlike any other. Yes, very

:24:47. > :24:50.different. It is Bonby, big curbs. It is very unforgiving, it is a

:24:50. > :24:57.straight circuit and it is hot and humid and there is no sons of the

:24:57. > :25:02.circuit is quite cool. Difficult to get the tyres right. How important

:25:02. > :25:06.is it to start at the front? Is overtaking possible? This year,

:25:06. > :25:09.everyone says people are winning from way back but statistically,

:25:09. > :25:16.that isn't the case. There have been more wins from the front row

:25:16. > :25:21.than any other year in the last decade. S. Sorry, I didn't realise

:25:21. > :25:25.you were having an interview! course not! Yes, it is still

:25:25. > :25:31.important to be on the front row but you can overtake. We are

:25:31. > :25:37.those.? When driving behind somebody, do you think, this is it?

:25:37. > :25:45.Turn number five. There are always kinks on the circuits, not named or

:25:45. > :25:49.with the number, it is along the back straight with DRS. People

:25:49. > :25:54.don't expect you to throw the car up the inside in some places. They

:25:54. > :25:59.leave that door open. The darkness, the bumps, is it difficult to judge

:25:59. > :26:09.the limits more so than in other races? I would say it is trickier.

:26:09. > :26:11.

:26:11. > :26:19.Especially the most difficult part of the circuit, it is quite dark.

:26:19. > :26:23.Through the Mickey Mouse chicane. Good old, David Coulthard! He

:26:23. > :26:27.really need to be able to see, funnily enough! So you do need good

:26:27. > :26:33.lighting. And it's quite dark. does it take to win on the circuit?

:26:33. > :26:37.You have been on the podium before, but what does it take? I don't know.

:26:38. > :26:41.Every year I have come here, the result has gotten better. Last year

:26:41. > :26:48.I was second and am I chasing Fernando. I have really enjoyed it.

:26:48. > :26:53.It's a good race. What about the emotions? You are training and you

:26:53. > :26:58.are not averse to that, but you still feel it here were than in

:26:58. > :27:03.other races? Yes, because it is Bombay. There is no rest around the

:27:03. > :27:07.lap. Even the straights can be bumpy. It is mentally draining. And

:27:07. > :27:11.it's the longest race on the calendar. Yes, it's the toughest on

:27:11. > :27:15.out there. But we cannot complain, we do the training so we do not

:27:15. > :27:21.suffer too much. The training has been great, it has been tough and

:27:21. > :27:24.it hurts, to be fair. But that keeps us good for the race. A it

:27:24. > :27:28.might not be the fastest but the skid marks are testament to the

:27:28. > :27:34.fact that even a rider, you cannot take your eyes off the wall for one

:27:34. > :27:42.second. These are brand new barriers. They do a lot for safety.

:27:42. > :27:46.And we will be talking about a man who did a lot for safety into Ron.

:27:46. > :27:52.It is a nice reminder to the drivers. You cannot take your eyes

:27:52. > :27:57.off for one second. Especially turn 23, the difficult part is the

:27:57. > :28:02.middle of 22 and the driver had knocked off his front wing. And he

:28:02. > :28:07.went into the barriers. Let's go over to the other side of the grid.

:28:07. > :28:10.If we can get past the cars being rolled on. They have to turn the

:28:10. > :28:14.engine suffered the back. We had a discussion about the formation and

:28:14. > :28:17.the work that goes on before the cars make it this far. As we

:28:17. > :28:23.approached Bruno Senna, with all kinds of people, give us some idea

:28:23. > :28:26.of the work that is going on now. First off, there are the Czechs and

:28:26. > :28:31.everything the engineers are not doing, what I love about this

:28:31. > :28:34.particular moment is every one of those mechanics are working as one

:28:34. > :28:38.unit and very seldom do you hear them speaking because they are

:28:39. > :28:43.just... They understand what each person has to do and you don't get

:28:43. > :28:48.this by just turning up. It is training, practice and training and

:28:48. > :28:52.all that, all the way through. They are hugely professional guys.

:28:52. > :28:56.can see the man leading. Fernando Alonso. That is the fastest he will

:28:56. > :29:01.be going today but it has not been plain sailing. There is a new rear

:29:01. > :29:06.wing but it was not giving them the results? The only test the get is

:29:06. > :29:09.the young driver test and that took place last week. Clearly, whatever

:29:09. > :29:19.it was that they developed, they try to validate that on this track

:29:19. > :29:23.and it has not worked. I OK, you can say Timo Glock making his way

:29:23. > :29:26.onto the grid. Charles Pic is about to come exactly to were we are

:29:26. > :29:31.standing. It is worth pointing out that in the days when you came into

:29:31. > :29:34.the sport, there is no less effort going into the kind of work that

:29:34. > :29:39.they are putting in? But without the money, it's hard to get

:29:39. > :29:44.results? It is the same for every one of these cars on the grid.

:29:44. > :29:50.People should not think that it is just money, because actually, I

:29:50. > :29:54.must say that Goricha, we just heard about the effect that maybe

:29:54. > :29:59.these guys are on the move, there is new technology coming through

:29:59. > :30:04.and don't forget, they don't have Kers and that is worth not 0.6 on a

:30:04. > :30:11.second each lap. They have made decent progress and for them, to

:30:11. > :30:14.talk about being under pressure, with kitten -- kitchen, that is a

:30:14. > :30:24.big step. You can see Lotus getting pushed through. Grosjean getting

:30:24. > :30:27.

:30:27. > :30:34.and his team-mate, how much are they chase a know was that?

:30:34. > :30:41.should not be a great deal, that he was a tough the call for one race.

:30:41. > :30:44.This is a much more normal level of downforce from Italy. But it will

:30:45. > :30:49.be interesting to see what his strategy is, because that is why he

:30:49. > :30:58.was given the penalty. We are following the back of Heikki

:30:58. > :31:03.Kovalainen. It is Kimi Raikkonen, actually. Impressed by his return?

:31:03. > :31:09.He was on a high, he has been right up there, Belgium was brilliant,

:31:09. > :31:18.but this is a disappointment for him. We are joined by our friend.

:31:18. > :31:25.What happened yesterday? difference was the car. The carp is

:31:26. > :31:31.difficult, to drive here. We could not yet confident with the car. But

:31:31. > :31:36.we can use a lot of tyres for today. On a circuit like this, and you say

:31:36. > :31:42.you have no confidence into the corners, how does that feel?

:31:42. > :31:50.the driver, it is terrible. Without confidence next to the wall, it is

:31:50. > :31:54.terrible. But this is racing. We have to improve. Hopefully, the

:31:54. > :32:02.settings will work. We love you when you are starting at the back

:32:02. > :32:06.and overtaking people. Ready to go off and see who else you can find?

:32:06. > :32:14.I love the atmosphere here, you have got the fans sweltering under

:32:14. > :32:22.the night heat. Fribble take a wonder. I will let you go. Are you

:32:22. > :32:26.coming with me? It seems to be a better to be chair -- better

:32:26. > :32:30.temperature for the drivers to work in. But the cockpit temperature

:32:30. > :32:40.will be over 50 degrees, which will pump their core temperature up

:32:40. > :32:40.

:32:40. > :32:48.above 40. Will Ross Brawn...? Is this a convenient moment? You look

:32:48. > :32:54.deep in thought, any concerns? Nothing we can deal with! Tyres

:32:54. > :32:58.will be the big issue. Nobody has a good handle on how they will

:32:58. > :33:04.degrade, because the conditions are so different from Friday, when we

:33:04. > :33:09.ran high fuel. It will be a reactive race. One of the many

:33:09. > :33:16.titles and accolades you have it is a master strategist. You have gone

:33:16. > :33:23.with a different strategy for your two drivers. Which tyres will you

:33:23. > :33:28.start on? We think there is the right strategy, and you will see

:33:28. > :33:32.when the blankets, of which one we have chosen. You can tell the BBC!

:33:32. > :33:39.Give the fans the inside information! Perhaps that was

:33:39. > :33:44.pushing it a bit too far! I have lost Eddie Jordan, I guess he is

:33:44. > :33:52.finding a celebrity or two. I have found myself in amongst a group of

:33:52. > :33:56.dignitaries. Look at that come up all the boys hiding the car, but

:33:56. > :34:05.look at this side. It is beautifully exposed, but do not go

:34:05. > :34:12.too close! They might get upset! We have got a day to a junior here,

:34:12. > :34:17.doing the last minute checks. Looking at that everything is

:34:17. > :34:25.within the operating parameters. The extra heat that goes into the

:34:25. > :34:30.cockpit also goes into the car, the engine runs at 120 degrees. It is a

:34:30. > :34:36.pressurised system, that is how it is able to deliver. You bump into

:34:36. > :34:42.Adrian. You were the Sure Fire favourite for pole position, were

:34:42. > :34:48.you disappointed with third place? Yes, it sounds a bit sore, but the

:34:48. > :34:54.car was very good through practice, we seemed to be in good shape, Q1

:34:54. > :35:03.was very quick, and Q3, it did not happen. It was an impeccable lap by

:35:03. > :35:07.Lewis Hamilton. I was not really watching him. Use all the time!

:35:07. > :35:13.obviously made a good time, we thought we could do that as well,

:35:13. > :35:17.but it did not happen. A great opportunity to see right up close,

:35:17. > :35:22.but at the detail on the back of the Ferrari, the overhanging

:35:22. > :35:29.exhaust system, all of the developments. Gary Anderson will

:35:29. > :35:36.give us insight later. We are getting into the heart of the lap,

:35:36. > :35:46.the red lights there, 285 metres to the first corner, the guy at the

:35:46. > :35:52.

:35:52. > :35:57.looking for some other people to get hold of! They are singing the

:35:57. > :36:00.national anthem of Singapore. Due to its intensity and

:36:00. > :36:10.competitiveness, this sport rarely stops to reflect, but they will now

:36:10. > :36:10.

:36:10. > :37:20.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:37:20. > :37:25.reflect on the remarkable life of Bernie Ecclestone asked Professor

:37:25. > :37:30.Sid Watkins to improve medical facilities at one Prix races. Over

:37:30. > :37:34.three decades, his brief expanded and transformed the safety

:37:34. > :37:43.procedures of motor racing and Grand Prix racing. Many in the

:37:43. > :37:48.sport owe him an immeasurable debt. He died last week, aged 84. We now

:37:48. > :37:52.ask you to join us on the grid in observing a one-minute silence as

:37:52. > :38:02.we remember the remarkable achievements and lasting legacy of

:38:02. > :38:02.

:38:02. > :38:52.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:38:52. > :38:56.the man affectionately known as the Watkins, we will never know how

:38:56. > :39:02.many lives he saved, but it is a great many, and we will never

:39:02. > :39:07.forget the hard work he put in. There is a book of remembrance.

:39:07. > :39:12.This is the perfect message, somebody has written a car with the

:39:12. > :39:16.word safety on the side. The HRT team principal, I will always

:39:16. > :39:21.remember you as Allott Guardian. This bust was commissioned on his

:39:21. > :39:27.retirement. He did not want to do not want to be around Formula One.

:39:27. > :39:31.He was an incredible surgeon, but what has been special about this

:39:31. > :39:35.weekend, people have remembered the man as much as his achievements.

:39:35. > :39:42.this journey of life, you get touched by all sorts of different

:39:42. > :39:46.things, and he had something that was absolutely a remarkably special,

:39:46. > :39:52.very few people have that, so if you went to him with a problem, you

:39:52. > :39:56.could talk to him, he had a medical corps, but he had a friendship. I

:39:56. > :40:01.can talk about Rubens Barrichello, the things that he did for drivers,

:40:01. > :40:04.you cannot describe it. He did a lot for your drivers, and his

:40:05. > :40:10.legacy will live on. It is one of the reasons why the drivers can

:40:10. > :40:14.push as hard as they can go round a circuit like this. Yesterday, Lewis

:40:14. > :40:24.Hamilton gave us a masterclass in what it takes to grab a pole

:40:24. > :40:29.

:40:29. > :40:38.yourselves in for what is one of the best laps of Lewis Hamilton's

:40:38. > :40:45.career. The first corner. A short apex. Down into the third corner.

:40:45. > :40:50.Over the bump on the exit. The DRS is wide-open. He ran over the kerb,

:40:50. > :41:00.because it is only painted on the circuit, and then onto the wall.

:41:00. > :41:04.

:41:04. > :41:10.Let's listen. Five g of braking up, he nails his apex. A classic street

:41:10. > :41:17.circuit section, look at how dark it is on the left. Building the

:41:17. > :41:22.speed on to the back straight, the DRS, the KERS deployed. One of the

:41:22. > :41:29.trickiest corners on the track, the car is bouncing. A small correction

:41:29. > :41:33.for oversteer. Across the bridge, down to the slowest corner on the

:41:33. > :41:41.track, 40 miles per hour. Listen to the progression as he opens the

:41:41. > :41:46.power across the be the fault, one of the widest points on the track.

:41:46. > :41:52.He is riding it out to the wall. This is just a position as he

:41:53. > :41:57.breaks down into the first of the long chicanes. This was made famous

:41:57. > :42:03.by Nelson Piquet. One of the unique aspect of the track, underneath the

:42:03. > :42:11.stadium. People above him as he accelerates out of the darkness. He

:42:11. > :42:17.is building the speed. Listen to this. Only one gear down in the

:42:17. > :42:21.last turn, and for commitment as he runs to the line. Half a second

:42:21. > :42:27.quicker than his nearest rival. One of the best qualifying laps of his

:42:27. > :42:31.career. A remarkable 106 seconds. Pole

:42:31. > :42:36.position number 24 of his career, the same as Niki Lauda, Nelson

:42:36. > :42:42.Piquet, but no points on Saturday. There is a question over the tyres

:42:42. > :42:46.at this race. That might be his biggest demon. Trying to get him to

:42:46. > :42:54.the end of the race in front. He has an interesting partner next

:42:54. > :42:58.door to him, Pastor Maldonado. cannot wait to see the race start.

:42:58. > :43:06.Not the qualifying you hoped for yesterday, what can you do about

:43:06. > :43:12.it? Plenty of strategy involved, we need a clean first lap, and then we

:43:12. > :43:19.will see how the race goes. Have a good one.

:43:19. > :43:23.He is always happy-go-lucky. Six minutes to go. Ferrari asking

:43:23. > :43:30.themselves a few questions. The big positive is that Fernando Alonso

:43:30. > :43:36.can afford a bad weekend. He will not want a bad weekend. They are

:43:36. > :43:40.not going to win that many races, and the important thing is, how can

:43:40. > :43:45.they stay in front and keep the others behind? Sebastian Vettel

:43:45. > :43:50.arrived here a long way back in the championship 12 months ago, and he

:43:51. > :43:54.still took the title. That was a couple of years ago. The

:43:54. > :44:00.championship leader starts in fifth place, his closest challenger is on

:44:00. > :44:04.pole position and getting closer all the time. It is our two Lewis

:44:04. > :44:07.Hamilton to turn a late night into a great night in. With David

:44:08. > :44:12.Coulthard and Ben Edwards, it is the Singapore Grand Prix, under the

:44:12. > :44:22.lights in Singapore. If you go to the BBC Sport website, there is a

:44:22. > :44:22.

:44:22. > :45:23.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:45:23. > :45:29.host of extra options. This will be has become a monocle of Asia.

:45:29. > :45:36.Spectacular Singapore, hosts around 14 other championship. -- night

:45:36. > :45:41.race. The hub of one of the original Asian tiger economies,

:45:41. > :45:46.Singapore lies under 100 miles north of the equator and tropical

:45:46. > :45:51.heat just adds to the challenge of driving this three-mile, 5, Church

:45:51. > :45:55.Street circuit around Marina Bay. Bonby and twisted, hard and the

:45:55. > :45:59.bricks and fuel consumption and it is extremely demanding on the

:45:59. > :46:05.drivers for a race that lasts around the maximum duration, around

:46:05. > :46:13.two hours? 100% safety record here and that pushes it towards two

:46:13. > :46:17.hours. Just consider for one moment small racing drivers made above

:46:17. > :46:21.about 40 litres of fluid and they might lose four litres during the

:46:21. > :46:27.grand prix so he is in a severe state of dehydration towards the

:46:27. > :46:31.end of this. The core temperature rises up to around 40 degrees, that

:46:31. > :46:36.is fact because some drivers swallow a thermometer and they are

:46:36. > :46:41.able to get that information out later. They really are showing

:46:41. > :46:43.their ability. Very difficult sometimes to explain to people

:46:43. > :46:49.house sitting on your backside driving a car can be physically

:46:49. > :46:55.challenging but imagine getting on an exercise bike whilst dressed in

:46:55. > :47:00.skiing gear and that might put your mind into that place. Fernando

:47:00. > :47:06.Alonso leads coming into this, three victories so far. Starts in

:47:06. > :47:10.5th place, has some work to do. 4th place, Jensen Button, he has two

:47:10. > :47:14.wins, recently in Belgium and for podiums in total. He will be

:47:14. > :47:20.annoyed to be that little bit behind his team-mate in qualifying.

:47:20. > :47:26.Sebastian Vettel did not deliver in the final part of Q 3. But this is

:47:26. > :47:30.his first top-three start in three races. In memorial to Sid Watkins,

:47:30. > :47:38.the front of the Williams car, Pastor Maldonado, starting in

:47:38. > :47:45.second place. No 0.68 grand prix is. But that masterful victory in Spain

:47:45. > :47:50.earlier on. Can he get that form back? Started on pole position, it

:47:50. > :47:55.is Lewis Hamilton. His 5th pole position of the year, his second in

:47:55. > :48:00.Singapore. He seems to love this circuit, it was a brilliant lap, as

:48:00. > :48:06.you showed us, and he has had six podium finishes and a second in the

:48:06. > :48:11.championship. 142 points. He is the closest challenger to Fernando

:48:11. > :48:16.Alonso and he will be chasing victory here. To narrow that gap on

:48:17. > :48:21.Ferrari and take it into this final events. Here is the grade in detail.

:48:21. > :48:24.Lewis Hamilton lining up on pole position, alongside his Pastor

:48:24. > :48:30.Maldonado. The reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel with

:48:30. > :48:34.Jenson Button starting from 4th place. Alonso and Paul di Resta

:48:34. > :48:39.next. Paul di Resta had a great result last season. Mark Webber and

:48:39. > :48:42.Romain Grosjean on the 4th row. Then Michael Schumacher and Mika

:48:42. > :48:46.Rosberg and we're waiting to see what strategy they used on the

:48:46. > :48:53.tyres. Hulkenberg and Kimi Raikkonen behind, Felipe Massa only

:48:53. > :49:03.13th place and Perez, he is on the 14th. Dinah Ricardo and Jean-Eric

:49:03. > :49:13.Vergne. There could be that threat from Timo Glock in Russia. Bruno

:49:13. > :49:13.

:49:13. > :49:18.Senna further down that he would have been. The blankets are coming

:49:18. > :49:23.off. All the top honours will be on the red super soft tyres. They have

:49:23. > :49:27.to run with the tyres they qualified on. Both Mercedes cars of

:49:27. > :49:30.Schumacher and Rosberg, we are waiting to see what higher civil

:49:30. > :49:35.start on because they have the option and they did not do any that

:49:35. > :49:39.in qualifying, they simply went out and came back in so we will have a

:49:39. > :49:46.quick look to see if Mercedes are doing anything differently as we

:49:46. > :49:51.get ready to see them off on the final formation lap. They have gone

:49:51. > :49:55.for super soft. Hulkenberg, we think, could be on soft tyres,

:49:55. > :49:59.which is the harder of both compounds this weekend. That is

:49:59. > :50:06.interesting, we will wait and see if we can get confirmation of that

:50:06. > :50:10.when we see Mercedes coming forward. As we saw in the build-up, this is

:50:10. > :50:15.arguably one of the most important laps. The last one crossing the

:50:15. > :50:19.line is the most important. Why would Mercedes have tipped out of

:50:19. > :50:26.qualifying and then chosen to start on a super soft, except for the

:50:26. > :50:29.fact that that allows them afresh set of tyres for the start?

:50:29. > :50:33.Definitely on this house. Hulkenberg is on the harder

:50:33. > :50:40.compound. The cars are away from the grid, you get that scurry as

:50:40. > :50:46.mechanics wash away from the grade with all those bits and pieces.

:50:46. > :50:49.Let's talk to our man down in a scramble, Gary Anderson. Mercedes

:50:49. > :50:54.not doing quite but be expected. They have gone for the same tyres

:50:54. > :50:59.as those around them? Super soft but they can use that a new set.

:50:59. > :51:04.They have another set left over. That is when the Superstock really

:51:04. > :51:08.has that extra group. They would jump a few places on the first

:51:08. > :51:11.couple of laps but I would have gone with two different strategies.

:51:11. > :51:18.One of super soft and the other on soft. Then they have information

:51:19. > :51:22.for each other. Some others have gone for the harder compound, Perez,

:51:22. > :51:29.Kobayashi, Charles Pic and De la Rosa. There are some split

:51:29. > :51:34.strategies. How many stops are be looking at, here? The fastest

:51:34. > :51:40.solution is two stops but it is all about thermal degradation, the rear

:51:40. > :51:44.tyres overheating. Few people know why and how that happens so we will

:51:44. > :51:54.probably see three stops for most people. Three stops will be the

:51:54. > :51:55.

:51:55. > :52:00.safest. We are hearing on the pit radio that Michael has got the

:52:00. > :52:05.softer, more Loose Setting. He is getting information from his

:52:05. > :52:11.engineers saying that once those rear tyres go away, he can tighten

:52:11. > :52:17.that up and bring the rear axle up. I would like with the go-kart,

:52:17. > :52:20.which has a fixed axle. The car's making their way around, there was

:52:20. > :52:26.somewhat in not wanting to rush away too fast so they stay stacked.

:52:26. > :52:30.Red Bull Racing, did not get any points last time at Monza. McLaren

:52:30. > :52:34.have got a chance to close that gap in the constructors championship.

:52:34. > :52:38.There are other battles, particularly between Williams and

:52:38. > :52:45.Force India. Force in the 7th place in the constructors championship,

:52:45. > :52:48.nine points ahead of Williams, who India have Paul di Resta in 6th

:52:48. > :52:53.place, Hulkenberg possibly able to score points. Bruno Senna, he is

:52:53. > :52:57.way down at the back. That is what was so exciting about this season.

:52:57. > :53:05.Seven different manufacturers in the top 10. Smiles all round from

:53:05. > :53:08.Williams. The cars during the final preparations and lining up on the

:53:08. > :53:13.grid. Charlie Whiting, keeping that watchful eye to signal that they

:53:13. > :53:18.are ready to go. There was a lot and getting ready for the start. He

:53:18. > :53:22.has won this from pole position in the past, in 2009. But he has also

:53:22. > :53:27.been involved in incidents, here. He tangled with Mark Webber a

:53:27. > :53:32.couple of years ago and last year, he tangled with Felipe Massa. He

:53:32. > :53:36.got a drive-through penalty for that. So much opportunity for

:53:36. > :53:39.incidents around this track. We are certainly expecting the safety car

:53:39. > :53:49.at some point. But will they all get through the first few corners

:53:49. > :53:53.safely? Here we go, then. The lights out, away be go. Singapore!

:53:53. > :53:57.Lewis Hamilton makes a good start and Pastor Maldonado going with him.

:53:57. > :54:02.For cars abreast, Michael Schumacher, down the inside.

:54:02. > :54:06.Sebastian Vettel going into second. Yes, he has grab second place. If

:54:06. > :54:10.Nico Rosberg goes around the outside of Mark Webber. Somebody

:54:10. > :54:17.touched the wall. Mark Webber and Rosberg both missed the corner.

:54:17. > :54:21.Also going upside -- up the side of Paul di Resta. It was see if he

:54:21. > :54:25.gained any advantage by missing turn number two. Jensen Button is

:54:25. > :54:30.in third place. Pastor Maldonado drop into 4th place. Fernando

:54:30. > :54:35.Alonso in 5th place. Mark Webber squeezing him out, Grosjean having

:54:35. > :54:41.to go over the kerb. He has given a place up. He is back from that one-

:54:41. > :54:45.race band for that incident and he is trying to stay out of trouble.

:54:45. > :54:52.Should megastar to go front of him on the grid. On the dirty side.

:54:52. > :54:59.With those new super soft tyres. They turn into Number 10. Riding

:54:59. > :55:05.with Hulkenberg. 11th place for Nico Hulkenberg. As he chases after

:55:05. > :55:10.notice. Kimi Raikkonen started down there with him so he looks as if he

:55:10. > :55:16.might just have met the head. Fernando Alonso in 5th place, then

:55:16. > :55:24.Grosjean and Rosberg. Hulkenberg. Perez right behind. Most of the

:55:24. > :55:28.front-runners... BO, petrol, no front wing. He seems to be the only

:55:28. > :55:32.victim of any damage on this opening lap. A but whereas that

:55:32. > :55:38.front wing? Can the Marshal's recover that? Or will it cause any

:55:38. > :55:47.issues? As this is very long, especially this first lap, Beth

:55:47. > :55:53.Ospreys in... That would be awkward, if both Caterham cars tangled

:55:53. > :55:58.across the line. It was Hamilton looking after his tyres. He will

:55:58. > :56:08.not want to see Sebastian Vettel behind him. Mark Webber being

:56:08. > :56:18.chased by Grosjean. But out, Petrov is into the pit lane. Felipe Massa

:56:18. > :56:21.is right at the back. Something went wrong for Felipe Massa.

:56:21. > :56:25.Hamilton Leeds, then Sebastian Vettel will love the fact he has

:56:25. > :56:32.managed to get second place. Felipe Massa his way back, something must

:56:32. > :56:36.have happened. Michael Schumacher being chased by Kimi Raikkonen.

:56:36. > :56:45.can see the team from Cater and repairing that front wing. That was

:56:45. > :56:52.a very slick stop. Felipe Massa, let us see if we can keep an eye on

:56:52. > :56:58.what that issue is. They have gone straight from the super soft to the

:56:58. > :57:02.soft tyres. There might have been some contact around that lap.

:57:02. > :57:09.lucky. He started in 13th place and there are some incidents under

:57:09. > :57:16.investigation. There might have been more but it looked like

:57:16. > :57:20.Rosberg and Mark Webber where Offline going to turn number two.

:57:20. > :57:23.The stewards will see if they gained any advantage by that. A

:57:23. > :57:27.test to the Vic -- tends to be the case that they will take the view,

:57:27. > :57:31.as long as there is no obvious advantage, but that was a normal

:57:31. > :57:36.start, anything can happen. Better to have that than the cars coming

:57:36. > :57:40.together. No safety car at the beginning. Despite the odd incident,

:57:40. > :57:45.they have got away with it. They need to bump those curbs and

:57:45. > :57:55.Singapore to get good lap times. They are all still pretty close

:57:55. > :57:55.

:57:55. > :58:00.together. Bruno Senna a head of Kobayashi. That was a great start

:58:00. > :58:10.from Paul di Resta. Fernando Alonso got bogged down, that allowed Mark

:58:10. > :58:13.

:58:13. > :58:17.Webber and Grosjean to run this out. They had no option but to run wide.

:58:17. > :58:20.Fernando Alonso is bogged down, that allows Mark Webber and

:58:20. > :58:25.Grosjean and Michael Schumacher, he was trying to go down the inside

:58:25. > :58:29.and that allowed Rosberg to come down the outside. He almost touches

:58:29. > :58:34.with Mark Webber. It will be a very difficult card for the stewards --

:58:34. > :58:39.call for the stewards. On board the Pastor Maldonado. That was a very

:58:39. > :58:45.nice start, he was on a dirty side of the track. That would typically

:58:45. > :58:48.cost some time. He runs wide, he runs deep in to turn number one and

:58:48. > :58:52.that allows Sebastian Vettel to just nipped through. That was a

:58:52. > :59:00.very cautious Pastor Maldonado. The Williams team this morning, on

:59:00. > :59:07.board with Bruno Senna... Hooks that up nicely, releases Kers. Look

:59:07. > :59:10.at that advantage. That was great action, he nearly was taken out by

:59:10. > :59:18.Toro Rosso. In that incident, there was nothing that Bruno Senna could

:59:18. > :59:22.do. And he ends up getting past... You can see that front when lying

:59:22. > :59:26.on the exit of turn number three. He backed off, did not gain any

:59:26. > :59:30.advantage, so he probably will not be penalised. Despite going off

:59:30. > :59:35.track. It is all about any advantage. If you do not gain any

:59:35. > :59:45.advantage, you will not be paid last. At the moment, Sebastian

:59:45. > :59:48.

:59:48. > :59:54.Vettel is lighting up the timings. Second place. TEAM RADIO: That

:59:54. > :00:01.number needs to be between 30 and 80. Talking about the settings on

:00:01. > :00:05.the Lotus. No telemetry, that was the message. Ferrari suffered from

:00:05. > :00:15.that. They were getting no information being fed back to the

:00:15. > :00:23.

:00:23. > :00:28.engineers. It is down to the driver, slower than what they qualified. As

:00:28. > :00:34.they get set in for what will be a long hard slog, Grosjean has a lot

:00:34. > :00:41.of work to do. Going close to the two-hour mark, even if we don't get

:00:41. > :00:46.a safety car. Peres is on a slightly different strategy. Peres

:00:46. > :00:53.stormed through so impressively in mon Sa and has other racing

:00:53. > :00:58.engineers scratching their heads as to how those tyres are looked after

:00:58. > :01:01.so well. All the teams are worried and don't know how the rear tyres

:01:01. > :01:05.are going to last. Gary, we got through the first few laps, they

:01:05. > :01:09.haven't had a safety car though to help them cool the tyres, have

:01:09. > :01:13.they? No, there's no advantage from that, obviously, in this part of

:01:13. > :01:20.the race because if you could get the safety for the first couple of

:01:20. > :01:24.laps, temperatures front to rear would settle. The car gets a better

:01:24. > :01:29.balance, but right now they are having to have them from beginning.

:01:29. > :01:34.TEAM RADIO: Cool the car if you can. Cool the car, that's a strange one

:01:34. > :01:38.this far into the race. You would think tltd have cooled itself to

:01:38. > :01:43.the right level -- it would have cooled itself. Nothing's settled

:01:43. > :01:47.down yet. Once they start to settle down, wheel know what the pit stop

:01:47. > :01:52.challenge will unfold like -- we'll know.

:01:52. > :02:01.A quick lap from Hamilton this tieck, three tenths of a second

:02:01. > :02:07.faster than Vettel. -- this time. Was that Katy Perry who will be

:02:07. > :02:12.playing later on? Normally you need a special pass to be out on the pit

:02:12. > :02:17.wall but if you have superstar status and 50 million followers on

:02:17. > :02:21.Twitter, you can get up close there close to the action. Part of the

:02:21. > :02:25.musical entertainment at Singapore this weekend. What's providing the

:02:25. > :02:30.entertainment now is the racing. Hamilton has a lead over Vettel.

:02:30. > :02:36.Button is still in third place. Maldonado in fourth, Alonso in

:02:36. > :02:40.fifth. Di Resta and Webber as we look back from the Mercedes here of

:02:40. > :02:48.Schumacher looking back at Raikkonen, Hulkenberg is behind,

:02:48. > :02:53.then we've got Peres, Riccardo, Vergne and Kovalainen. Massa is

:02:53. > :02:57.still running after the earlier puncture but he's running last.

:02:57. > :03:02.Through that middle tricky chicane there. How much kerb you use there,

:03:02. > :03:06.every lap, David, you have to judge it with such concentration, the

:03:06. > :03:10.concentration is so total? It is indeed. The concentration that will

:03:10. > :03:13.be dominating the drives' minds is how hard do I push at this stage on

:03:13. > :03:17.these tyres. They obviously want to put pressure on the car in front

:03:17. > :03:21.trying to force the mistake. It just fills the mirrors of the car

:03:21. > :03:27.in front when you can just see the activity of the car behind.

:03:27. > :03:31.Interesting fastest lap. Went for the soft tyre, did Massa, a new

:03:31. > :03:36.set's obviously always beneficial, but a quick lap for Massa He's

:03:36. > :03:39.running in clean air so he can see his track and cool his car properly.

:03:39. > :03:43.We heard the message to Schumacher that he has to cool his engine

:03:43. > :03:48.which started to build too much heat sitting on the grid. Any

:03:48. > :03:53.running too close to the car in front is going to affect your brake

:03:53. > :03:59.temperatures. We also heard on the car radio that we've got to be able

:03:59. > :04:04.to hear that Hulkenberg's got to try and run. You can see running

:04:04. > :04:10.behind Raikkonen who's trying to run in clear air. TEAM RADIO: We'll

:04:10. > :04:14.need target lap. 16 more laps. Target lap 16 more laps. He's

:04:14. > :04:20.switched to the other tyre. 16 more laps, they are looking at 18 or 19

:04:20. > :04:23.on that set of the soft tyre. suggest they'll try and stop it

:04:23. > :04:26.this afternoon having already come plaited one pit stop. Whilst I

:04:26. > :04:31.talked over tf beginning of that message, Hulkenberg was running out

:04:31. > :04:35.of the slipstream of the car in front with Raikkonen. You get fresh

:04:35. > :04:40.air coming into your car that, is the upside. But you pick up the

:04:40. > :04:43.rubber and debris that you see being thrown offline. Looking at

:04:43. > :04:48.the times, first sector from Lewis Hamilton, although he's been going

:04:48. > :04:55.quick up to now, suddenly remay be seeing a sign that the tyres are

:04:55. > :04:58.beginning to go off? The last lap was four tenths of a second slower.

:04:58. > :05:03.Let's see the lap time stabilising and see who drops off the most.

:05:03. > :05:07.We'll keep a close eye on that on the top ten. With Rosberg and

:05:07. > :05:10.Schumacher, didn't start with new tyres, they've bought three lap

:05:10. > :05:15.newer tyres than the rest so they should last that little bit longer.

:05:15. > :05:23.That's where the advantage will come from. Going to be able to lap

:05:23. > :05:27.15 or 16. Webber in seventh place and you have to be patient at this

:05:27. > :05:31.early stage. Confirmation that will will be no further action after the

:05:31. > :05:35.cars running wide at the first corner. That is sensible. There was

:05:35. > :05:41.a lot of avoiding incidents and if the triefrs tried to stay within

:05:41. > :05:51.the apex, we would have had a saef safety car by now. Hulkenberg and

:05:51. > :05:52.

:05:52. > :05:58.Peres on their soft tyre. They are saying Mercedes will start slowing

:05:58. > :06:02.down. They are on the softer tyre but it only has a limited life on

:06:02. > :06:06.this Singapore street track and it's measured in less than double

:06:06. > :06:09.figures probably around this track and these guys on the yellow, the

:06:09. > :06:14.harder of the two compounds could be in good shape, but getting past

:06:14. > :06:17.is very difficult here. You need a huge advantage to actually be able

:06:17. > :06:22.to overtake. We know from talking with the various engineers that you

:06:22. > :06:24.have to be four or five seconds a lap faster to be able to complete

:06:25. > :06:30.an overtake. There just isn't four or five seconds between the front

:06:30. > :06:35.and the back of the grid except when someone hits the cliff in

:06:35. > :06:39.terms of tyre performance. So contrasting strategies being played

:06:39. > :06:45.out here in terms of the Mercedes trying to eke out as much as they

:06:45. > :06:50.can, as is Raikkonen on the super soft. Hulkenberg and Peres behind

:06:50. > :06:52.on the softer tyre, the yellow wall tyre who should be able to go

:06:53. > :06:57.significantly further. Raikkonen. We join them on the exit of turn

:06:57. > :07:02.ten where he ended his race last time he was here in the Ferrari.

:07:02. > :07:06.He'll be a lot more cautious. They've changed the exit of the

:07:07. > :07:13.chicane by removing the kerb that caught him out a couple of years

:07:13. > :07:16.ago. Certainly had a good return to Formula One, Raikkonen, coming into

:07:16. > :07:20.this race third in the Championship. Qualifying didn't go according to

:07:20. > :07:26.plan but he's completed every lap so far this year. That's pretty

:07:26. > :07:31.good. Not got into any trouble. Hasn't had any reliability problems

:07:31. > :07:37.either. It's a remarkable comeback. Kimi breaks the mould in the way he

:07:37. > :07:41.goes about his racing. He's not one for PR. He clearly is a fit man and

:07:42. > :07:49.it appears he does enough to get him through a Grand Prix. I met a

:07:49. > :07:54.couple who were his neighbours in Switzerland. TEAM RADIO: By far the

:07:54. > :08:00.quickest pace, don't destroy it. Confirmation of doing a good job,

:08:00. > :08:05.all is not lost. Going back to Kimi, having met his neighbours in

:08:05. > :08:09.Switzerland, they say his lifestyle is definitely James Hunt-esque. He

:08:09. > :08:12.breaks the mould in many ways, but lying third in the driver's

:08:12. > :08:16.Championship. No-one's won a World Championship without at least one

:08:16. > :08:20.victory. If he's going to win this year, he's got to be getting a

:08:20. > :08:30.victory some time soon. Yes, never scored any points here in Singapore

:08:30. > :08:34.in the past though, so he's going to try to correct that. 11th, just

:08:35. > :08:38.outside the points. Webber's gone first in the first sector. He's

:08:38. > :08:43.established a new quickest first sector. Interesting that. The

:08:43. > :08:48.leaders haven't really dropped off their pace. Webber may be looking

:08:48. > :08:53.after his tyres well. We are getting into that area where any

:08:53. > :08:58.time over the next few laps is the point where they could run out of

:08:58. > :09:02.their operating window. It's not the degradation, it's not the wear,

:09:02. > :09:05.there's enough rubber but it's thermal that we have spoken about

:09:05. > :09:15.on the Pirelli tyre and it's something that comes in, it could

:09:15. > :09:17.

:09:17. > :09:27.come in if you are lucky. A misunderstanding there. Looked like

:09:27. > :09:27.

:09:27. > :09:31.the door was left open. Could have cost them both a bit of time.

:09:31. > :09:37.Senna's had a tough weekend. Puts him up into 16th place as you see

:09:37. > :09:41.the leaders go through. Hamilton chased by Vettel. Button is six

:09:41. > :09:47.seconds behind Hamilton. Pit lane action now. It's going to be Webber.

:09:47. > :09:57.Yes, he is in. This is an early stop. They are going for it. Wonder

:09:57. > :10:11.

:10:11. > :10:15.if they are going to go to plan a because it's late in the race, you

:10:15. > :10:22.are going to have the problems with the tyres. A couple of laps now

:10:22. > :10:32.makes such a difference way, way down the line at lap 58 or 59. The

:10:32. > :10:39.

:10:39. > :10:47.lap time was his best lap so why bring him in now? They have a lot

:10:47. > :10:51.more information to make decisions Replay of somebody having an

:10:51. > :10:58.incident. The car's spinning through and into the wall goes one

:10:58. > :11:06.of the that Russianians. I expect to see that come into the pits --

:11:06. > :11:10.marussians. He missed the chicane. He'll get away with it as long as

:11:10. > :11:14.he doesn't gain lap time. He would have felt the rear end move as he

:11:14. > :11:19.went to turn in. We've also heard whilst Gary was talking to us there

:11:19. > :11:23.that Hamilton's been told he's in the window so any time he wants,

:11:23. > :11:27.that's clear that the McLaren team are ready to service his car. The

:11:27. > :11:31.strategy I think is interesting around here this afternoon because

:11:31. > :11:35.you can only use the previous information. It says you will get a

:11:35. > :11:39.safety car this afternoon. So maybe they are not thinking this is a 61-

:11:39. > :11:49.lap race, thinking of it as an average safety car round here.

:11:49. > :11:58.

:11:58. > :12:01.after he slapped the wall yesterday but clearly they are having

:12:01. > :12:05.problems with it. You can see, by the way, already a lot of rubber

:12:05. > :12:09.beginning to biltd up offline. That can cause problems, not only if you

:12:09. > :12:14.run over it, but if the bits of rubber get trapped in the slot gaps

:12:14. > :12:19.in the front wings. That has happened to teams this year, hasn't

:12:19. > :12:22.it? It's something that we are used to seeing the Ferrari mechanics get

:12:23. > :12:26.a ruler and run it through the slot gaps. We should look out for that

:12:26. > :12:32.with the other teams during the pit stops. Quite incredible to think

:12:32. > :12:37.that they are able to do so many things during a stop under three

:12:37. > :12:47.seconds. Just as we look at Sebastian Vettel there, chasing

:12:47. > :12:55.down Lewis Hamilton, on board with Bruno Senna. Glock's dropped down

:12:55. > :13:00.to 19th place. Total time in the pit was 28 seconds. Senna tucked in

:13:00. > :13:03.behind Ricciardo. Vergne is ahead. Williams with greater pace than

:13:03. > :13:09.Rosso. This is what we are talking about. You can have greater pace

:13:09. > :13:13.but you need a lot more to overtake. Heading round, there is still

:13:13. > :13:19.Sebastian Vettel. But the McLaren of Button, very much closer behind

:13:19. > :13:23.him. Getting ready for a pit stop now. Looks like Vettel is in.

:13:23. > :13:27.Sebastian Vettel. The harder of the two compound tyres going to go on

:13:27. > :13:30.the car here and that rear grip suddenly went away from him. We saw

:13:30. > :13:35.him have to miss the chicane. He struggled on that last lap. The

:13:35. > :13:39.tyres gave up and he's into the pits for a tyre change and McLaren

:13:39. > :13:44.seem to be in better shape looking after their tyres here in Singapore

:13:44. > :13:47.than Red Bull do. Vettel now on his way again.

:13:47. > :13:51.What's crucial now is, where does he drop in amongst the pack and if

:13:52. > :13:58.he jumped into some clean air, then you will be able to run a fast out

:13:58. > :14:02.lap and if you look at the bunch of cars, that's where Lewis Hamilton

:14:02. > :14:05.will come out in amongst the group. This is not just a straight race of

:14:05. > :14:10.car against car, this is having to get through the traffic. What have

:14:10. > :14:13.you got for us, Gary? The last lap with Hamilton was 1.8 seconds

:14:13. > :14:16.slower than his fastest lap. He's trying to get himself up through

:14:16. > :14:24.the traffic. At the moment, he's running the risk of hasing a lot of

:14:24. > :14:28.time to the guys around them. Button is only half a second away

:14:28. > :14:33.from his fastest lap. Jenson is picking it up again. I expect

:14:33. > :14:36.Jenson to come out on top. Vettel trying to fight his way through the

:14:37. > :14:42.traffic. He's behind Peres and Vettel takes the place now. Will

:14:42. > :14:45.Hamilton come in at the end of this lap? That's what we might expect. A

:14:45. > :14:51.third of the lap to complete before we see whether he comes in. Vettel

:14:51. > :14:55.gets through on the yellow-walled soft tyres. It's the harder of the

:14:55. > :14:58.two compounds. If Jenson Button does another lap at least, this

:14:58. > :15:01.will give him, as Gary said, the opportunity to jump Sebastian

:15:01. > :15:05.Vettel who is losing time in amongst the traffic. Button's

:15:05. > :15:10.definitely closed up to Hamilton a bit on this last lap. We'll check

:15:10. > :15:14.that next time around. 4.5 seconds behind as they went past. Finished

:15:14. > :15:18.last time around. Let's see now whether Hamilton is going to head

:15:18. > :15:28.into the pits. I don't think he is. He's going to stay out there for at

:15:28. > :15:37.

:15:37. > :15:42.the championship leader. He comes in from fifth-place. He wants to

:15:42. > :15:47.try to avoid losing too many points today to the likes of Lewis

:15:47. > :15:52.Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. It is the harder tyre. Mercedes also

:15:52. > :16:00.getting ready. Michael Schumacher. Mercedes have gone a reasonable

:16:00. > :16:05.distance on the super soft tyres. Fernando Alonso will have some

:16:05. > :16:11.clean air. That will help them. Jenson Button gained a second on

:16:11. > :16:17.Lewis Hamilton. RADIO: We have lost 0.3 in the first sector, and a

:16:17. > :16:23.similar amount in the second sector. He has a funny feeling? Let's hope

:16:23. > :16:29.that it is that tonight is going to be a good night. That was a funny

:16:29. > :16:34.spark. But yes, Jenson Button still faster than Lewis Hamilton.

:16:34. > :16:41.Sebastian Vettel has got to try to cut through the traffic. He is

:16:41. > :16:45.behind Kimi Raikkonen, so he has got past Nico Hulkenberg. All of

:16:45. > :16:51.the men around him, their tyres are going off, so they are struggling

:16:51. > :16:55.with a lack of grip. He is trying to make the most of it. He is going

:16:55. > :17:01.to struggle to stay in front of Jenson Button. Lewis Hamilton is

:17:01. > :17:07.coming in. McLaren are getting ready. Jenson Button will stay out

:17:08. > :17:13.there. Jenson Button making good use of the tyres, with his smooth

:17:13. > :17:18.driving style. It is interesting to see the contrast in styles of the

:17:18. > :17:23.McLaren drivers, Lewis Hamilton is the manner able to get the maximum

:17:23. > :17:29.out of it, more often than not. Let's see if McLaren can beat their

:17:29. > :17:38.previous best pit-stop, which is 2.4 seconds. They got an award for

:17:38. > :17:45.it. A very fast pit-stop by McLaren. Paul di Resta coming in behind.

:17:45. > :17:52.Also, Nico Rosberg. 2.9 seconds, a very good pit-stop. That does them

:17:52. > :17:59.well. He will be in clean air. is ahead of Sebastian Vettel, which

:17:59. > :18:04.is crucial. He did not lose as much as I expected. The crucial thing

:18:04. > :18:10.will be, where will Jenson Button come out? Sebastian Vettel will get

:18:10. > :18:15.past Kimi Raikkonen on this lap, surely. He will have DRS. Such a

:18:15. > :18:20.crucial opportunity for Sebastian Vettel. He needs to make the move.

:18:20. > :18:27.He does it, no problem. The DRS reducing the drag and giving him

:18:27. > :18:32.the extra kilometres an hour. Kimi Raikkonen staying out of trouble.

:18:32. > :18:37.He is trying to go deeper into the race. The people that have stopped

:18:37. > :18:46.already are more likely to have to do three stops. A straight forward

:18:46. > :18:50.overtake. Kimi Raikkonen does not even try to put up a fight. Pastor

:18:50. > :18:55.Maldonado is closing the gap to Jenson Button. He was only 2.7

:18:55. > :18:58.seconds behind on that last lap. Have we reached the point where

:18:58. > :19:06.Jenson Button might end up being under pressure from Pastor

:19:06. > :19:11.Maldonado? Looking at the middle sector again, it looks like Pastor

:19:11. > :19:18.Maldonado is a bit quicker again. A great battle between millions --

:19:18. > :19:22.Williams, McLaren and Red Bull. battle between Paul di Resta and

:19:22. > :19:28.Mark Webber for tenth place. They have both been into the pits.

:19:28. > :19:34.Pastor Maldonado is in. He was in second place. Jenson Button is

:19:34. > :19:39.still out there, he is doing a good job. He got a personal best in the

:19:39. > :19:44.middle sector, his tyres are last been better than expected. Pastor

:19:44. > :19:52.Maldonado ought to be able to just have two stops, if he can keep it

:19:52. > :20:02.altogether. People come out behind Nico Hulkenberg but just in front

:20:02. > :20:05.

:20:05. > :20:09.of the battle with Sergio Perez in the Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen is in.

:20:09. > :20:16.More activity, will Jenson Button be able to get another lap out of

:20:16. > :20:20.this? The letters is not quite as quick as McLaren. -- Lotus. The

:20:20. > :20:24.target is to get below three seconds. Jenson Button will be

:20:24. > :20:28.coming in at the end of the lap. The fastest lap for Sebastian

:20:28. > :20:35.Vettel. Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Battle of putting in

:20:35. > :20:40.quick laps under a new tyres. Gary Anderson, what are you thinking?

:20:40. > :20:49.For Jenson Button, he is a bit slower, 0.2 seconds off his fastest

:20:49. > :20:52.lap. Jenson Button is looking at the long game. The last five to 10

:20:52. > :20:57.laps will be important. It has gone five laps longer than Sebastian

:20:57. > :21:07.Vettel did on this first set of tyres, which will stand him in good

:21:07. > :21:12.stead. RADIO: We can still stay out for a bit. Felipe Massa is in 23rd

:21:12. > :21:18.place after picking up a puncture on the first lap. Jenson Button is

:21:18. > :21:26.in. He had been in delayed. Fernando Alonso is trying to get

:21:26. > :21:33.past Sergio Perez. Can McLaren turn Jenson Button around as quickly?

:21:33. > :21:37.That was not quite as fast. There seemed to be a bit of a delay. Will

:21:37. > :21:45.he be in front of Lewis Hamilton? He lost over one second on that

:21:45. > :21:53.stop. Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have crossed the finish line,

:21:53. > :21:58.so he has not made as much progress as I expected. He comes back out

:21:58. > :22:06.into third place. Nico Hulkenberg has got in front of Pastor

:22:06. > :22:13.Maldonado. He has not been in, remember. He has stayed out. Sergio

:22:13. > :22:16.Perez has not been in. He is being chased by Fernando Alonso. Pastor

:22:17. > :22:24.Maldonado daring sideways as he tries to get around the outside of

:22:24. > :22:28.Nico Hulkenberg. Did he make the corner? He kept the position, but

:22:28. > :22:33.the amount of carbon dust, he went deep into the corner, I can only

:22:33. > :22:42.imagine that the car bottomed out, which is why he had the sudden kick

:22:42. > :22:47.sideways. The DRS was opened, it sheds 100 kilograms of load. It is

:22:47. > :22:53.as if the steering gets heavier. The rear has been lifted up, taking

:22:53. > :22:57.away the feeling of grip and security. But he made it stick.

:22:57. > :23:03.Sergio Perez still fending off Fernando Alonso. He is still on his

:23:03. > :23:07.first set of tyres, like Nico Hulkenberg. No chance to defend

:23:07. > :23:12.against Fernando Alonso, he has got more grip available. Returning the

:23:12. > :23:22.favour for a couple of weeks ago in Italy, where Sergio Perez grabbed

:23:22. > :23:23.

:23:23. > :23:29.second place towards the end. spins up the rear tyres, 170 mph.

:23:29. > :23:34.That is one of the down sides of DRS, if you have it like that. That

:23:34. > :23:44.will be part of the discussion in the Grand Prix Drivers' Association.

:23:44. > :23:45.

:23:45. > :23:48.Look at how close it lost. A great catch from Kamui Kobayashi. This is

:23:48. > :23:55.a replay of Fernando Alonso on Sergio Perez. He will have saved up

:23:55. > :23:59.his KERS, and he releases it. Anybody who would like to think

:23:59. > :24:04.Sergio Perez has been signed already, he was not thinking about

:24:04. > :24:10.his future team, if he has. He has got his eye on this afternoon,

:24:10. > :24:17.which is what we want. RADIO: Beautiful! He got a congratulations

:24:17. > :24:22.from his race engineer. Lewis Hamilton still leads. The gap

:24:22. > :24:32.between him and Sebastian Vettel is much as it was before the first pit

:24:32. > :24:37.stops, 1.5 seconds. Crucially, Sebastian Vettel is taking it 0.3

:24:37. > :24:40.seconds out of Lewis Hamilton on this first sector. It looks like

:24:40. > :24:49.Sebastian Vettel is getting more comfortable now he has burned off

:24:49. > :24:57.some fuel. He will burn 2.2 to 2.3 kilos per lap. 10 kilos can cost

:24:57. > :25:05.you 0.4 seconds. The cars are becoming more responsive. A bit

:25:05. > :25:14.more forgiving in the braking stones. Still fairly lumbering in

:25:14. > :25:23.comparison to when they would have driven the cars in qualifying.

:25:23. > :25:29.Lewis Hamilton was 1:46 in qualifying, they are doing 1:55 at

:25:29. > :25:35.the moment. Fernando Alonso has caught Nico Hulkenberg. Nico

:25:35. > :25:41.Hulkenberg has not stopped yet, he is trying to go deep into the race.

:25:41. > :25:45.He is doing a good job so far, Nico Hulkenberg. He was disappointed

:25:45. > :25:50.yesterday, he felt the team have not helped him. But he is

:25:50. > :25:59.responding with a solid drive so far. But he is giving up a lot of

:25:59. > :26:06.grit to the car behind. When he does pit, it will taking 30 seconds

:26:06. > :26:12.down the grid. Paul di Resta has pitted already. Nico Hulkenberg

:26:12. > :26:16.will probably come back out in around 15th place. Fernando Alonso

:26:16. > :26:21.stays on the racing line. Nico Hulkenberg does not put up much

:26:21. > :26:27.resistance. He is running one second a lap slower. Paul di Resta

:26:27. > :26:32.is not far behind Nico Hulkenberg, even though he has made a pit stop.

:26:32. > :26:40.It shows the different strategies in Force India. Paul di Resta has a

:26:40. > :26:45.good chance of scoring good points. He qualified well. Nico Hulkenberg

:26:45. > :26:50.and Sergio Perez have not been into the pits. Lewis Hamilton

:26:51. > :27:00.maintaining the GAP, 1.3 seconds, over Sebastian Vettel. 3.7 seconds

:27:01. > :27:18.

:27:18. > :27:21.to 40 per place. Charles Pic has made a pit stop. We are on

:27:21. > :27:27.different tyres for Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, from the ones

:27:27. > :27:37.they started on. On the soft tyre, Sebastian Vettel has got a bit more

:27:37. > :27:45.speed. He is piling the pressure on slowly. Paul di Resta is ahead of

:27:45. > :27:52.Sergio Perez. He has managed to gain the place. Sergio Perez's and

:27:52. > :27:57.Wales have done 19 laps. A big slide. The rear tyres did not have

:27:57. > :28:01.the grip for Sergio Perez. difficult situation. Nico

:28:01. > :28:07.Hulkenberg is running a couple of seconds slower than Paul di Resta.

:28:07. > :28:12.Mark Webber goes up the inside. Sergio Perez cannot do anything to

:28:12. > :28:19.defend her. The difficult situation that forced India have, Paul di

:28:19. > :28:23.Resta has stopped already come up on fresher tyres, so to maximise

:28:23. > :28:29.their potential, they will have to ask Nico Hulkenberg to not make it

:28:29. > :28:34.difficult for his team-mate to get past. That takes away the battle

:28:34. > :28:38.between the team mates. Sergio Perez locking up and thinking

:28:38. > :28:44.against getting through the chicane. He goes the wrong way around.

:28:44. > :28:49.is where he gave up the place to Paul di Resta, probably. He might

:28:49. > :28:54.have given up the place? Paul di Resta came past him fairly soon

:28:54. > :29:04.afterwards. Paul di Resta gets a better drive there, and Sergio

:29:04. > :29:07.

:29:07. > :29:14.Perez struggled with the tyres. A mature decision from Force India.

:29:14. > :29:19.Nico Hulkenberg, that is a sign of a true team player. He is making a

:29:19. > :29:27.good job of going a long way on these tyres. He is maximising the

:29:27. > :29:33.team's opportunity to score points. Team orders are allowed. We are

:29:33. > :29:39.coming up for one-third distance. This is a long race. They have to

:29:39. > :29:45.keep focused and concentrated. Nico Hulkenberg has managed to get to

:29:45. > :29:50.lap 19 before making his pit stop. He can do it on to the Chris Stops.

:29:50. > :29:56.Will this work for him in the latter stages? It is interesting

:29:56. > :30:06.how he and Sergio Perez have gone the same distance. In comes Nico

:30:06. > :30:08.

:30:08. > :30:11.Hulkenberg. Sergio Perez will slot thinks that might give them this

:30:11. > :30:17.afternoon. Gary, based on the number of laps they did there, does

:30:17. > :30:25.that allow us to think ahead to what the leaders might be doing?

:30:25. > :30:33.would say Jenson Button came in at lap 15 so he's not going to try to

:30:33. > :30:43.eke that out to a two-stop race. Hulkenberg and Perez are looking at

:30:43. > :30:46.

:30:46. > :30:52.a two stop. Lewis Hamilton... He is pulling them in. Big decisions to

:30:52. > :30:55.make pretty soon. Ron Denis famously tossed a coin, over a

:30:55. > :30:57.million dollars either way on Ayrton Senna's contract back in

:30:57. > :31:01.those days so they are certainly not against tossing the coin and

:31:01. > :31:06.making brave decisions. That's right. I'm sure they'll study lots

:31:06. > :31:10.of data as well before they decide on Lewis's car. It's Hamilton and

:31:10. > :31:14.Vettel evenly matched. One thing to remember though, watch Ricciardo,

:31:14. > :31:18.the young Australian doing a fine job at the moment in the Rosso.

:31:18. > :31:23.He's down in 16th place but keeping off the wall, that's the key thing.

:31:23. > :31:27.Being the car in front, we always see it as an advantage. It does

:31:27. > :31:32.allow you to manage your tyres easily than the guy behind? You are

:31:32. > :31:37.running in clean air and you have the confidence of knowing that you

:31:37. > :31:42.knead to be four seconds faster presuming you don't get into the

:31:42. > :31:49.DRS zone. A huge amount of advantage to be the car in front.

:31:49. > :31:56.If you can play strategic and know where to go fast to break the tour

:31:56. > :32:02.for the DRS. You control the pace here easier than on some other

:32:02. > :32:12.tracks where overtaking opportunities are a lot more open.

:32:12. > :32:14.

:32:14. > :32:17.Lovely view down over the corner there. The streets of Singapore

:32:18. > :32:21.closed off for the weekend providing the backdrop for an Super

:32:21. > :32:25.Leagueing race here. Hamilton loves this track but is being chased by

:32:25. > :32:30.the guy that won here last year, Vettel, who put in a brilliant

:32:30. > :32:32.display. Into the pits has come the Ferrari of Massa. Alonso going

:32:32. > :32:38.quite well meanwhile. He was quicker on that last lap than most

:32:38. > :32:48.of the leaders around him. But he's got nearly a five second gap to

:32:48. > :32:52.

:32:52. > :32:57.make up an Maldonado. We are on board here with Raikkonen.

:32:57. > :33:04.yourselves in the mind of the driver, they have been out here now

:33:04. > :33:12.for 20-odd minutes now. Can you imagine sit thrg knowing you have

:33:12. > :33:18.another hour-and-a-half to go -- sitting there. The Lotus car

:33:18. > :33:26.sometimes comes alive on a certain tyre, staims it doesn't work on one

:33:26. > :33:36.of the compounds -- sometimes. We might see that once again.

:33:36. > :33:38.

:33:38. > :33:44.Schumacher being chased down. People have made their pit stops.

:33:44. > :33:49.TEAM RADIO: Suggest jif magic. Thank you former say Indonesia for

:33:49. > :33:53.coming up with some little expressions that then we can talk

:33:53. > :33:58.about and I think we've had something else talking about a

:33:58. > :34:07.magic paddle in the past so it's dif magic. Let's presume that's the

:34:07. > :34:14.end setting for the dif so to avoid any issues of misunderstanding.

:34:14. > :34:21.Raikkonen's fastest in the first, Hulkenberg in the second.

:34:21. > :34:25.Hamilton's done a 56.6, so two seconds faster than the race leader

:34:25. > :34:31.for Hulkenberg. He's on a newish tyre, I suppose. It shows you that

:34:31. > :34:41.the tyres are going away fairly quickly. Schumacher, Raikkonen.

:34:41. > :34:45.Neither scored points here before. We've got Alonso on a 5 flat, 1.6

:34:45. > :34:48.seconds quicker than Lewis Hamilton so. It does seem as if there has

:34:48. > :34:53.been either some traffic to have passed that we have not seen or

:34:53. > :34:57.some other issue out front because the chasing pack are catching them.

:34:57. > :35:01.Look at Senna's improvement compared to these guys. He's come

:35:01. > :35:05.from a long way back. He started 22nd on the grid. He's showing

:35:05. > :35:09.genuine pace. Maldonado showed it in qualifying. Senna had a horrible

:35:09. > :35:19.time in qualifying hitting the wall. It's catching now, the likes of

:35:19. > :35:20.

:35:20. > :35:30.Raikkonen and Schumacher trying to get into the top ten. Hulkenberg is

:35:30. > :35:42.

:35:42. > :35:45.be better than red. He's not telling him he's on the prime tyre,

:35:45. > :35:48.the soft tyre. That must be the grading system. Saying guys, I'm

:35:48. > :35:53.getting to that point where I'm going to be on the radio screaming

:35:53. > :35:59.red, red, red, and that'll be a pit stop coming up. On the last lap,

:35:59. > :36:05.Alonso once again a 55-1 which compares to Lewis Hamilton on a 16-

:36:05. > :36:15.1 so Alonso in fifth bringing the gap down to Hamilton to 11 seconds

:36:15. > :36:20.

:36:20. > :36:24.and closing in a second a lap. He is down in fifth place still

:36:24. > :36:28.watching the battle for tenth here between Schumacher and Kimi

:36:28. > :36:31.Raikkonen with Bruno Senna. Not that far behind Senna. Sounds as

:36:31. > :36:37.though he might be struggling a little bit for grip at this stage.

:36:37. > :36:47.Perez is also going fast on his new tyres but he's all the way down in

:36:47. > :36:54.

:36:54. > :36:58.16th position. We are on lap 22 so just over the third distance mark.

:36:58. > :37:02.Keep an eye on those who'll be doing three stops. Massa is out of

:37:02. > :37:07.sync with everyone else. Yes, he's a long way off. Probably a tall

:37:07. > :37:09.order for him to pick up a point or so this afternoon. I wonder what is

:37:09. > :37:14.going on inside the Head of Raikkonen, the world champion, of

:37:14. > :37:23.course, one time, chasing Schumacher, seven times world

:37:23. > :37:29.champion. He's known to be pretty handy. We see a replay here of a

:37:29. > :37:34.cater ham being driven out by HRT. Hamilton's in trouble. He's lost

:37:34. > :37:38.drive. Hamilton is out of the lead. He's in neutral. Look at the dash.

:37:38. > :37:45.He's got a zero. He doesn't have a gear. Another failure to finish for

:37:45. > :37:48.Hamilton by the looks of it! There's no gears getting selected.

:37:48. > :37:53.His World Championship hopes are disappearing rapidly with that.

:37:53. > :37:58.Lewis Hamilton shakes his head. He surely can't believe what's

:37:58. > :38:01.happening here. It's a non-finish for McLaren when theyed to have a

:38:01. > :38:05.certain amount of control here. I wouldn't say he was definitely

:38:05. > :38:09.going to race but he was going to score good points, he was in front

:38:09. > :38:15.of Alonso in fifth and this changes everything and now Vettel leads the

:38:15. > :38:19.race with Button second, Maldonado third and Alonso catching in fourth.

:38:19. > :38:27.Well, I can't believe it really, David. We saw Button fail the

:38:27. > :38:33.finish last time out. We have seen Lewis. He was in that incident at

:38:33. > :38:37.Spa a few races ago. What's been a purple patch is not being converted

:38:37. > :38:42.into points. We haven't seen what led up to that but everything looks

:38:42. > :38:45.intact on the outside, so a bit of smoke coming out the back there. A

:38:45. > :38:49.pure mechanical failurement he's done everything right so far this

:38:49. > :38:53.weekend, delivered when it really mattered in the last part of

:38:53. > :38:57.qualifying. Look at the disappointment as he walks away.

:38:57. > :39:04.Bet he goes back to the yellow crash helmet next time. Shaking his

:39:04. > :39:08.head there. You've got to feel for Lewis Hamilton. Who knows what

:39:08. > :39:13.would have happened later in the Grand Prix but... That is a

:39:13. > :39:23.disConsulate figure walking away. Lewis Hamilton, no points from

:39:23. > :39:33.

:39:33. > :39:37.Singapore. Let's just listen in one I think the clutch or

:39:37. > :39:47.something's gone. You can see he's pulling the paddles. He's got a box

:39:47. > :39:48.

:39:48. > :39:52.full of neutrals there as he hits the steering wheel in frustration.

:39:52. > :39:55.Well... TEAM RADIO: Really sorry about that, we did everything we

:39:55. > :39:58.could yesterday. We'll just have to look forward to the next one. Great

:39:58. > :40:01.driving up until then. We did everything we could yesterday that,

:40:01. > :40:06.tells us that that was a known issue within the McLaren team. You

:40:06. > :40:10.can see the smoke coming out of the back of his car. Sebastian Vettel

:40:10. > :40:13.comes around the corner. I have to tell you that when you see your

:40:13. > :40:16.competitor have a problem, you know that's an opportunity for you. It's

:40:16. > :40:21.happened to Sebastian Vettel. It happened to him last week, happened

:40:21. > :40:26.to Button butt of course. So I suspect that we'll find out in

:40:26. > :40:31.retrospect that McLaren did have an issue after qualifying and quite

:40:31. > :40:35.rightly they tried to mask that and control that as best they could.

:40:35. > :40:39.Unfamiliar voice talking to Lewis. It was Mark Temple who is

:40:39. > :40:44.engineering Lewis this weekend. Andy Latham away on paternity leave

:40:44. > :40:47.and Andy won't be happy watching this from home. No, I thought you

:40:47. > :40:52.were going to say he was sayings "you can tell him, Higham not going

:40:52. > :40:58.to Kell him!". Oh, but for Lewis Hamilton, not what he needed when

:40:58. > :41:02.he was in such good form. This man now, Sebastian Vettel, as he comes

:41:02. > :41:07.up to Petrov in the Caterham has the advantage of three seconds.

:41:07. > :41:12.Button is in second. Maldonado and Williams. Locking up into turn one.

:41:12. > :41:17.A lot of brake dust. We have seen that at previous Grand Prixs. Very

:41:17. > :41:21.high brake ware around this circuit and Maldonado could be finding

:41:21. > :41:25.himself getting marginal on brakeware later in the race as he's

:41:25. > :41:29.been chased down here by Alonso. A long way to go in the Grand Prix

:41:29. > :41:39.yet. As we commiserate the disappointment for Lewis Hamilton,

:41:39. > :41:39.

:41:39. > :41:42.all is not lost. Still a Championship being fought over.

:41:42. > :41:47.Gary, the brake dust we were seeing from the Williams which we have

:41:47. > :41:52.seen a couple of times, should we be concerned about that? I would

:41:52. > :41:57.imagine they have it under control. We see it there again. That the is

:41:57. > :42:00.brakeware whenever the brakes get too hot, they get up to 900 degrees,

:42:00. > :42:03.suddenly you have to abort and go across the kerb. It's about

:42:03. > :42:11.changing the brake balance that little bit. The team need to be on

:42:11. > :42:17.top of that. They'll be mon monitoring the brake ware.. You

:42:17. > :42:22.have to save it now. Lewis Hamilton. What do you say? I mean what to you

:42:22. > :42:26.say to him and what do they say to him? He looks incredibly composed

:42:26. > :42:32.dealing with that. That's the mark of maturity that comes as you go

:42:32. > :42:35.through your Grand Prix career. Some drivers tend to deal with the

:42:35. > :42:38.disappointment and reality of what's happened because you can't

:42:38. > :42:43.waste any energy on the past, you have to focus on the future. He'll

:42:43. > :42:47.be keeping a close eye on his competitors now. Of course, these

:42:47. > :42:52.drivers want to win fair and square out on the racetrack. Reliability

:42:52. > :42:56.is part of the team game in Formula One. Alonso meanwhile desperately

:42:56. > :43:02.trying to make up some ground here. If he can get past the back marker,

:43:02. > :43:06.he's going to try and close that gap to Maldonado and he is going to

:43:06. > :43:10.get past de la Rosa. No problem there. The fellow Spaniard not

:43:10. > :43:20.causing any problems. De la Rosa, despite being experienced, has

:43:20. > :43:24.

:43:24. > :43:30.never raced here in the past in we see the Williams team getting

:43:30. > :43:40.ready for a stop. This is very much a three-stop territory here. We are

:43:40. > :43:43.

:43:43. > :43:47.on lap 26. Still a long way to go. Senna is in.

:43:47. > :43:57.Let's see what he can do here and make sure the guys get a good clean

:43:57. > :43:59.

:43:59. > :44:05.stop under way. He was way down at the bang of the field at the start

:44:05. > :44:09.of this race and he's started the race on the option, so yes, on the

:44:09. > :44:13.supersoft. It's interesting that he's gone for the supersoft again.

:44:13. > :44:17.Clearly feeling that the supersoft he's putting on will be a used set.

:44:17. > :44:21.That means they've been through a heat cycle in qualifying. Sometimes

:44:21. > :44:26.when you put a new set of tyres on, you get a peak of performance and

:44:26. > :44:34.build up in temperature, then you see it drop off after that. You put

:44:34. > :44:39.a heat cycle on your tire tyres, you can get more consistency.

:44:39. > :44:42.There's been a lap spread difference. If you can just get the

:44:42. > :44:47.supersoft to hang in there, that will be the tyre that will allow

:44:47. > :44:52.you to explore the lap time and chase down whoever you're racing

:44:52. > :44:56.against. It's Alonso coming out from behind the Caterham. A lot of

:44:56. > :45:00.debris being thrown offline already. Little marbles coming off the tyres.

:45:01. > :45:08.You don't really want to have to run off line anywhere because you

:45:08. > :45:14.pick up the marbles on your tyre surface, you need to wait until you

:45:14. > :45:24.have lateral load. Your contact patch is taken away from the Tarmac

:45:24. > :45:29.

:45:29. > :45:33.and you feel like you are walking are slightly out of sequence. We

:45:33. > :45:37.will see if anybody might be deciding to come in out of the

:45:38. > :45:42.leaders. There is so much debris through the last corner there. If

:45:42. > :45:50.you go off-line, you will be straight into the wall. It is the

:45:50. > :45:58.only place where you see high lateral load. This is on board

:45:58. > :46:08.with... Jean-Eric Vergne. It was a fairly straightforward overtake.

:46:08. > :46:17.

:46:17. > :46:22.The DRS wide open. Running on to racing, they all roads. It is

:46:22. > :46:25.always a challenge for these places to have a surface which is

:46:25. > :46:29.acceptable for Grand Prix racing. The board than planned under the

:46:29. > :46:33.chassis is skimming across the track surface. All of the heat

:46:33. > :46:36.radiates into the carbon floor and into the seat of the driver. But

:46:37. > :46:46.has been known that drivers have ended up with blisters on the

:46:46. > :46:52.bottom. It is very much a standard, to go over the kerb. I love that

:46:52. > :46:57.angle, you have to put the concrete barrier. It is brave. The drivers

:46:57. > :47:01.cannot see the outside of their tyres, just the top of them. You

:47:01. > :47:07.would think we would practise before the season, going through

:47:08. > :47:14.cones to judge the width of your car. We never do that. RADIO:

:47:14. > :47:19.Increase your speed, or else the temperature will drop out. That is

:47:19. > :47:24.interesting. Nico Rosberg is in seventh place. They are polite way

:47:24. > :47:30.of saying, go-faster! Pit are always trying to find different

:47:30. > :47:37.ways! Sebastian Vettel leads the race, he has got a three. One-

:47:37. > :47:43.second advantage over Jenson Button. Pastor Maldonado it is a further

:47:43. > :47:53.few seconds behind. Fernando Alonso is in fourth place. Paul di Resta

:47:53. > :48:04.

:48:04. > :48:12.is in a solid fifth-place, it is a Sergio Perez. Bruno Senna has just

:48:12. > :48:18.set the fastest lap. Felipe Massa is still running. That was quick

:48:18. > :48:25.braking. It is clear what his intention is. He gets a bit wide

:48:25. > :48:32.with understeer. He is trying to hustle Daniel Ricciardo. He is

:48:32. > :48:37.trying to force an error. They both have the same strategy. They are

:48:37. > :48:44.binding over the kerbs. It looks as though most of the leaders are

:48:44. > :48:48.hanging on to the grip reasonably well. RADIO: We are in the window.

:48:48. > :48:53.That confirms again that Jenson Button is in the pit stop window.

:48:53. > :49:00.It is over to the driver, as soon as he feels the tyres will hit the

:49:00. > :49:05.cliff. Gary Anderson, let's get some thoughts from year. Mark

:49:05. > :49:12.Webber is heading into the pit lane, they brought him in early initially,

:49:12. > :49:15.so they have to come in earlier again. From here, it is definitely

:49:15. > :49:23.down to keeping your fingers crossed that you can make it

:49:23. > :49:28.without another stop. He has the super soft tyres. 32 laps to go. I

:49:28. > :49:34.do not think they will make that, so he is committing to another stop.

:49:34. > :49:39.Hopefully, he can pick up some places. If I were Jenson Button, he

:49:39. > :49:44.is 0.3 seconds per lap faster than Sebastian Vettel, so do not go in

:49:45. > :49:52.just yet. Be ready, though. The last five laps of the race will

:49:52. > :49:57.count. This was Mark Webber coming in a moment ago. He ran wide on the

:49:57. > :50:02.way into the pit lane. He got on top of the kerb. He pulled it back

:50:02. > :50:11.across. That would have cost him a bit of time. The drivers have to

:50:11. > :50:16.practise that. It is all taken into consideration. In his battle with

:50:16. > :50:20.Nico Rosberg, that might have cost him a position. Kimi Raikkonen has

:50:20. > :50:27.not found a way past Michael Schumacher. The old adversaries are

:50:27. > :50:31.still running around together. All of them are trying to go a bit

:50:31. > :50:36.deeper into this race, and perhaps just get through with one more stop.

:50:36. > :50:46.But Mark Webber will have to come back in one more time. The red tyre

:50:46. > :50:52.de not be able to do 32 laps. The yellow tyres... Into the pits,

:50:52. > :50:59.Pastor Maldonado and Fernando Alonso. The battle of the pit stops

:50:59. > :51:05.here. This is for the mechanics' honour. The furore is out. What

:51:05. > :51:10.will happen with Williams? They are struggling a bit, but he gets

:51:10. > :51:15.released in front of Fernando Alonso. It was slower for billions.

:51:16. > :51:22.4.2 seconds against 3.1 seconds, but he is in front. They have both

:51:22. > :51:26.gone on to the yellow... No, Pastor Maldonado is on the super soft tyre.

:51:26. > :51:30.It is likely that Pastor Maldonado will have to make another stop,

:51:30. > :51:38.whereas Fernando Alonso will try to do half a race on this set of

:51:38. > :51:45.tyres? He has got a brand new set of soft tyres on. He went from lap

:51:45. > :51:50.12 to lap 30. The car has less fuel in it, so it will be easier on the

:51:51. > :51:54.tyres. But there is no way you can make 30 laps on the super soft

:51:54. > :51:58.tyres. Williams are going conservative, it is crucial for

:51:58. > :52:02.them to score points, particularly in their battle with Force India.

:52:02. > :52:09.Paul di Resta is going well, so perhaps that is what they are

:52:09. > :52:16.thinking about. It makes it unlikely that, no matter how well

:52:16. > :52:21.put up the Ferrari is, on a different tyre, he will be able to

:52:21. > :52:29.hustle Pastor Maldonado. There is a tyre advantage, which will give

:52:29. > :52:33.Pastor Maldonado a better time. He has got traffic, though. Romain

:52:33. > :52:37.Grosjean following Nico Rosberg. This might play into Fernando

:52:37. > :52:44.Alonso's hands. This is not good for billions if they have breakaway

:52:44. > :52:48.issues. -- not good for Williams. This is the last thing they want,

:52:48. > :52:52.to be running in the dirty air of the slower cars in front. They will

:52:52. > :52:59.be hoping that Romain Grosjean and Nico Rosberg will come in any time

:52:59. > :53:03.soon, so they can release some fresh air. Still some cars

:53:03. > :53:09.travelling on the East Coast Parkway above the track. RADIO: You

:53:09. > :53:13.might need to cut through some traffic, Nico Hulkenberg, Kimi

:53:13. > :53:18.Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher ahead. It will not be easy, but

:53:18. > :53:22.overtaking is difficult here. You have got to make the most of the

:53:22. > :53:27.softer tyres. That is what Pastor Maldonado has got to do. He has got

:53:27. > :53:31.to get past Romain Grosjean and Nico Rosberg ahead, and this is

:53:31. > :53:36.helping Fernando Alonso. That will be a tall order for Mark Webber. It

:53:36. > :53:39.has got to get past them and then get 29 seconds of the road to be

:53:39. > :53:47.able to cover the fact that he has another pit-stop, or else he will

:53:47. > :53:57.be behind them. Sebastian Vettel still leads. Fernando Alonso tucked

:53:57. > :54:00.

:54:00. > :54:04.in behind Pastor Maldonado. He will have a go. Messy stuff, with an HRT.

:54:04. > :54:14.Will Fernando Alonso follow- through? He does. Has he used up

:54:14. > :54:15.

:54:15. > :54:20.his KERS? Has he got any left? At the slowest corner on the track.

:54:21. > :54:30.Then you are in a group like this, how easy it is it to get caught out

:54:31. > :54:46.

:54:46. > :54:50.by the way it slows up in front of your car is reduced, so when you

:54:50. > :54:57.hit the brakes, it doesn't slow down as much. It's like taking

:54:57. > :55:00.weight off the car. This is difficult for Alonso. Put yourself

:55:00. > :55:03.inside an aircraft and going through the clouds, following

:55:03. > :55:08.another aircraft, you know how that shakes the aircraft around, the

:55:08. > :55:18.Grand Prix car doesn't shake around, but it loses its downforce across

:55:18. > :55:20.

:55:20. > :55:26.past the hospitality areas. Great viewing in those first couple of

:55:26. > :55:31.corners. We have got a tussle between this group. Pastor

:55:31. > :55:36.Maldonado and Fernando Alonso. Pastor Maldonado got a great drive.

:55:36. > :55:40.Although Fernando Alonso will have been in the activation zone, he

:55:40. > :55:44.lost out a lot, and he missed an opportunity to potentially get in

:55:44. > :55:51.front of Fernando at -- in front of Pastor Maldonado. It is difficult

:55:51. > :55:57.to overtake. Fernando Alonso again getting very close to Pastor

:55:57. > :56:04.Maldonado. Pastor Maldonado picks up the slipstream from the car in

:56:04. > :56:09.front. That hurts, when your head banks of the head restraint. It is

:56:10. > :56:15.just not form, but that is part of Formula One. Try to stay still

:56:15. > :56:25.complain about that chicane. Sebastian Vettel has been making

:56:25. > :56:33.

:56:33. > :56:38.Commons this weekend. Can he go close. I knew they would have to

:56:38. > :56:43.squeeze in the braking zone. He will not be brave enough to go down

:56:43. > :56:49.the inside. This is under the grandstand. This is great stuff,

:56:49. > :56:54.though. Yes, but I have one hand across my face. You never know what

:56:54. > :57:01.will happen. Pastor Maldonado sliding around, up to what's the

:57:01. > :57:05.last corner. He just has a bit of breathing space. What is really

:57:06. > :57:10.interesting, the super soft tyres on Pastor Maldonado's car, they are

:57:11. > :57:15.not giving him the amount of grip we thought he would have.

:57:15. > :57:22.safety car will come out. Narain Karthikeyan. This is perfect for

:57:22. > :57:26.those guys going for two stops. That is beneath the grandstand. In

:57:26. > :57:34.comes Kimi Raikkonen. The teams are trying to respond as quickly as

:57:34. > :57:39.possible. Kimi Raikkonen dived into the pits, that was a good call. The

:57:39. > :57:44.safety car is out, it will try to pick up Sebastian Vettel. Sebastian

:57:44. > :57:50.Vettel is a long way around. Gary Anderson, the pit lane will start

:57:50. > :57:54.to get quite busy. Yes, this is worth keeping an eye on. They will

:57:54. > :58:01.come in as quickly as possible. Kimi Raikkonen might have lost

:58:01. > :58:09.their place, but I am sure he will pick it back up. This is the

:58:09. > :58:16.accident. RADIO: I hit the wall, something is broken. He turned into

:58:16. > :58:22.the corner, the rear started to slide. It takes you on a wider line.

:58:22. > :58:26.That is the unforgiving nature of a street circuit. The Marshalls have

:58:26. > :58:32.stood there patiently all weekend, they felt the need to unleash some

:58:32. > :58:36.fire extinguishers! In comes the race leader. I have to keep to a

:58:36. > :58:42.certain speed as soon as the safety car is called, they cannot sprint

:58:42. > :58:48.end. This will block him when he goes for his release. The Red Bull

:58:48. > :58:55.lollipop man had to wait before releasing the Red Bull. He still

:58:55. > :59:03.maintains the position. It cost him quite a bit of time. They had to

:59:03. > :59:07.wait for the McLaren. It is a slow pit lane speed on a street circuit.

:59:07. > :59:11.There is not quite the same sprint they'd used to be under safety car

:59:11. > :59:16.conditions, because they have the regulation, as soon as the safety

:59:16. > :59:21.car is called, you have to reduce your speed to a set level. You have

:59:21. > :59:31.a lap Delta displayed on your dashboard. It is connected to

:59:31. > :59:31.

:59:31. > :59:37.marshalling lights. They have to drive to a set Delta time. That

:59:37. > :59:43.maintains the speed around the lap. It neutralises the race in some

:59:43. > :59:53.respects. Pastor Maldonado has been in. Fernando Alonso has got past

:59:53. > :59:56.

:59:56. > :00:03.Pastor Maldonado. Fernando Alonso they hope they can get to the end

:00:03. > :00:09.with what he is already on. This was the stop for Sebastian Vettel.

:00:09. > :00:14.The rules are that you cannot do an unsafe race and the McLaren car

:00:14. > :00:22.comes in, here it is from Sebastien's point of view. The car

:00:22. > :00:26.is down. Waits for the red light and a lollipop. So close. The

:00:26. > :00:30.mechanics are so brave, you would not want to be the man closest to

:00:30. > :00:35.the pit wall for any amount of money. We can draw breath and work

:00:35. > :00:41.out what is going on because the safety car, of course, leading the

:00:41. > :00:49.cars slowly as they gather up the remains of the HRT car. Sebastian

:00:49. > :00:53.Vettel is a leader. Jenson Button in second place, then the lapped

:00:53. > :00:57.car and they will be allowed and asked to move around to join the

:00:57. > :01:01.back of the came once everybody has gathered but Fernando Alonso has

:01:01. > :01:09.moved up to third place. He had already made his pit stop before

:01:09. > :01:19.the safety car came out. That has moved 10 ahead of Pastor Maldonado.

:01:19. > :01:20.

:01:20. > :01:25.Team radio we do not need the safety. -- TEAM RADIO: We do not

:01:25. > :01:32.need the safety. They go to the grid with the heaviest fuel tank.

:01:32. > :01:42.And they are now going to be allowed to relax. Risibly,

:01:42. > :01:48.

:01:48. > :01:56.Sebastien is doing his utmost to bring these tyres up to temperature.

:01:56. > :01:59.When you go for the restart, as it is a lot of suspension travel, the

:01:59. > :02:09.control comes from the tyre and you will have the car banging on the

:02:09. > :02:17.

:02:17. > :02:19.deck. Interesting message from Lotus. It is very difficult to

:02:19. > :02:23.generate much heat. It is psychologically good, leading, but

:02:23. > :02:33.it does nothing for the surface temperature. Fernando Alonso up to

:02:33. > :02:41.

:02:41. > :02:47.third place. Hulkenberg is on a different strategy. I am not sure.

:02:47. > :02:52.Then the have Mark Webber in 6th position, Perez in 7th then Rosberg,

:02:52. > :02:57.Grosjean, Maldonado has got down to 10th place because of that stop but

:02:57. > :03:05.it has counted against him, all of this, because the timing of the

:03:05. > :03:15.safety car has hurt him. Hulkenberg will, I think, have to make another

:03:15. > :03:15.

:03:15. > :03:22.stop? He went to soft tyres on his first pit-stop. The team thinks...

:03:22. > :03:27.TEAM RADIO: We have a hydraulic problem. We will have to retire.

:03:27. > :03:37.Another retirement. Pastor Maldonado with a hydraulic problem.

:03:37. > :03:39.Williams, so desperate to get these points. He has either ignored that

:03:39. > :03:47.message or he hopes they will change that message before he gets

:03:47. > :03:50.to the pit-lane entry. It is running. Gary, they said and the

:03:50. > :03:55.radio there was a hydraulic problem but the gearbox seems to be working

:03:56. > :04:01.OK so that is slightly strange. these cars are driven by hydraulics.

:04:01. > :04:05.The clutch, gearbox, everything. It must be something they can see in

:04:05. > :04:09.the system that says they're losing fluid. They are bringing it back to

:04:09. > :04:15.the garage rather than stopping it on the track because of the safety

:04:15. > :04:23.car. We can see the replay. Narain Karthikeyan, full of commitment and

:04:23. > :04:27.loses the rear. And then runs out of the road. This was De la Rosa,

:04:27. > :04:33.his team-mate, by what happened here? The problem with the right

:04:33. > :04:39.rear tyre. Look at the amount of dust. And certainly some pretty

:04:39. > :04:47.impressive images in that heat and humidity. They are just dripping

:04:47. > :04:51.out there. Mark Webber, the brake disc in to turn number one, a few

:04:51. > :04:59.years ago. It does help having the safety car, it reduces the energy

:04:59. > :05:03.and you can see the car passing on the left side. They are allowed to

:05:03. > :05:08.overtake the cars in front, past the safety car, and Come around. It

:05:08. > :05:18.is doubtful they can get round in time before the safety car has been

:05:18. > :05:20.

:05:20. > :05:23.called in. It is, I think, a very Fir system. -- fair system. That

:05:23. > :05:30.message would have been passed on to various drivers in front of

:05:30. > :05:36.those cars. Nicky Stamford, that long-serving member of Williams.

:05:36. > :05:41.Getting a message. They have both been there since the days that I

:05:41. > :05:47.was a test driver in the early 1990s. Everything at the moment,

:05:47. > :05:51.from our point of view and what we can see, is running OK. But clearly,

:05:51. > :05:57.they are very worried about Pastor Maldonado. He is tense place at the

:05:57. > :06:03.moment. We are just looking at the aftermath of the incident at turn

:06:03. > :06:09.at number 18. Sticky rubber and skid marks. There have been a

:06:09. > :06:14.number of cars in the support races and in the free practice that have

:06:14. > :06:17.gone in there. There is always accident blackspots. Whether or

:06:17. > :06:21.everyday roads or on the racetrack. And these are just the more

:06:21. > :06:27.difficult corners, where if you make any mistake, there is no

:06:27. > :06:31.margin for error. These cars evolve every lap. And the drivers do their

:06:31. > :06:36.best to judge as a fuel burns off, exactly how much group there will

:06:36. > :06:40.be. Sometimes you hit the brake and think, that was too early. Other

:06:40. > :06:46.times, you think, I wish I was anywhere else right now than

:06:46. > :06:50.sitting in this car! Narain Karthikeyan had one of those! Poor

:06:50. > :06:57.chap. He hit one of those new barriers, they do stop the car from

:06:57. > :07:06.bouncing back. Wonderful barriers. The barriers of choice for the

:07:06. > :07:10.drivers to hit! There is no give in concrete. 1700 of those new

:07:10. > :07:17.barriers around this track. It takes three weeks leading up to the

:07:17. > :07:21.grand prix just to get them into place. Pastor Maldonado has come in.

:07:21. > :07:25.We have a real conversation indicating a problem with this car

:07:25. > :07:30.and, sure enough, he has come into the pit lane. Meanwhile, the back

:07:30. > :07:36.marker is trying to catch the queue. We will not get this race under way

:07:36. > :07:40.just yet. Let's listen... Well, not Benitez. You have to feel for

:07:40. > :07:46.Pastor Maldonado. This weekend he has done everything right. And yet

:07:46. > :07:51.he ends up with no points again. For the 9th Grand Prix in a row.

:07:51. > :07:55.points since Barcelona. Obviously disappointed for the Williams team

:07:55. > :08:01.and for Pastor Maldonado. He did a great job in qualifying but I am

:08:01. > :08:04.pretty worried for the BBC's team access. He thought you were a good

:08:04. > :08:09.luck charm before he jumped into the car. I'm sure that has gone

:08:10. > :08:14.under the water, now! The air looking at the pit stop times.

:08:14. > :08:19.Hamilton is fastest. That is fairly irrelevant. If you have just joined

:08:19. > :08:23.us later on, he was Hamilton had this under control. He was not

:08:23. > :08:27.dominating because Sebastian Vettel was always within shooting distance

:08:27. > :08:31.but Lewis Hamilton did lead from pole position and then all of a

:08:31. > :08:37.sudden he had no gears at all to play with. And Lewis Hamilton is

:08:37. > :08:41.out of this Grand Prix. And the potential loss of 25 points as he

:08:42. > :08:46.tries to chase down Fernando Alonso. Fernando Alonso did not have a

:08:46. > :08:52.brilliant qualifying session, started in 5th place. He now sits

:08:52. > :08:56.in third place. Pastor Maldonado takes off his overalls. And the

:08:56. > :09:01.entire team just shrug and there is nothing they can do. He is pretty

:09:01. > :09:09.hot after racing for one of the half distances in this grand prix

:09:09. > :09:12.but he will not get any points for Williams today. TEAM RADIO: The

:09:12. > :09:18.more the safety car is out, the higher the chance people will

:09:18. > :09:22.take... Sergio Perez being told effectively that the more this if a

:09:22. > :09:28.car is out, everybody might be able to go to the end of the race on the

:09:28. > :09:33.tyres they are currently on. Everybody other than Mark Webber,

:09:33. > :09:37.they might be on the super-soft but Hulkenberg and Maldonado all want

:09:37. > :09:42.to stop because they have not used super-soft yet. They will have to

:09:42. > :09:49.do that some time. When Hulkenberg did not common with the safety car,

:09:49. > :09:52.he took a gamble. Letting these cars passing and catching back up,

:09:52. > :10:00.it takes two safety car labs for the Formula One car to catch back

:10:00. > :10:05.up. That is what is going on right now. It is wasting racing laps. Go

:10:05. > :10:11.all the quick cars will be together at the restart. That is part of the

:10:11. > :10:14.new rule but it is taking a while. De la Rosa has still got nearly

:10:14. > :10:19.one-third of a lap before he catches the back of the group. And

:10:19. > :10:22.the safety car, the quick road car, obviously nothing like Formula One,

:10:22. > :10:27.but he is trying to go quickly because they're trying to maintain

:10:27. > :10:34.temperature. Jenson Button has been told or brake warming required to

:10:34. > :10:39.get the Rhea temperatures up. were running in the 50s in clean

:10:39. > :10:44.air. Significantly slower, now at 41. That is why it is difficult for

:10:44. > :10:50.the drivers to maintain tyre pressure and the brakes because

:10:50. > :10:54.this is a window that they never even the wettest conditions. The

:10:54. > :10:56.safety car will be in this lap. They have waited long enough, De la

:10:56. > :11:02.Rosa will not get any chance to join the back of the group but

:11:02. > :11:04.everyone else is in line. Look out for that flashing yellow light and

:11:04. > :11:09.that's it IndyCar will be switched off, indicating to the drivers that

:11:09. > :11:13.they can start to drop back from the safety car. And they will get

:11:13. > :11:19.into that final sector, and then it is all down to Sebastian Vettel to

:11:19. > :11:24.control the face -- control the pace. When he started to run for

:11:24. > :11:26.that last corner, he has to ensure that he isn't catching a safety car.

:11:26. > :11:32.He is experienced in this and what you do when running behind these

:11:32. > :11:37.other cars in his you ideally want to be within one car length of the

:11:37. > :11:41.car in front so that you can react at any moment and then get going.

:11:41. > :11:46.Unlikely anybody will miss this restart but some drivers are better

:11:46. > :11:49.at this and others. So Avastin Vettel and Button. Watch the same

:11:49. > :11:52.as last year, Sebastian Vettel won the race and Jenson Button was

:11:52. > :12:01.catching him towards the end but Sebastian Vettel seemed to have it

:12:01. > :12:05.under control. Jenson Button has never won this grand prix. Oh!

:12:05. > :12:09.RADIO: We need to get this spot on! He thought that he was going for

:12:09. > :12:14.him and he nearly hit the back of the Red Bull. The Red Bull is there

:12:14. > :12:17.to control the pace. Great reactions from Jenson Button. That

:12:17. > :12:22.will not have done any damage to his tyres and now Sebastien Vettel

:12:22. > :12:25.is going for it. Fernando Alonso has lost out on that get away. The

:12:25. > :12:28.air is going to be cleaned out to the first corner but look at the

:12:28. > :12:35.gap down to Fernando Alonso, who has been caught out with the

:12:35. > :12:39.restart. So Avastin Vettel has the edge over Jenson Button. Then

:12:39. > :12:45.Fernando Alonso. He many got caught out by what Jenson Button did. Mark

:12:45. > :12:48.Webber attacking Hulkenberg. Perez, Rose Bird, Grosjean. Jean-Eric

:12:48. > :12:51.Vergne is ahead of Michael Schumacher. The pit stops had

:12:51. > :12:56.certainly worked for Jean-Eric Vergne. As the head around, maybe

:12:56. > :13:02.the chance for Mark Webber on the attack. Try to get past Hulkenberg.

:13:02. > :13:06.He is on better tyres. Mark Webber is on the option tyre and he should

:13:06. > :13:10.be, well, side by side... He has not done that yet. Hulkenberg is

:13:10. > :13:16.busy defending their position. On board with Mark Webber, he cannot

:13:16. > :13:21.get through. Here he comes. It will be impossible to get around. And

:13:21. > :13:24.again, cutting back as they come up to turn No. 9. He has gone round

:13:24. > :13:29.and a chicane three corners to do that. But Hulkenberg eventually

:13:29. > :13:33.gave way. Perez has run wide and that has allowed Rosberg to come

:13:33. > :13:38.through. And Grosjean is coming up. The mistake from Perez at the

:13:38. > :13:41.restart as they concertina through the chicane. This should allow

:13:41. > :13:49.Schumacher or an opportunity to have that little run at Jean-Eric

:13:49. > :13:52.Vergne as they go across the bridge. Not much space on the way. Perez is

:13:52. > :13:59.on tyres at her older than the ones around him which is why he has

:13:59. > :14:04.struggled to keep them behind. Side by side. Schumacher does it for the

:14:04. > :14:13.second year in a row! He runs into the back of another car! He had

:14:13. > :14:17.Perez's last year and this time it is a Jean-Eric Vergne! Another none

:14:17. > :14:24.finished to add to his tally this year. Let's just hope that both

:14:24. > :14:27.drivers are OK. That was a very big impact. It was indeed. Turn 11 last

:14:27. > :14:31.year, 14 this year. Michael Schumacher was just caught out by

:14:31. > :14:41.the rate a deceleration of the cars in front and at that moment, these

:14:41. > :14:43.

:14:43. > :14:53.cars are running not at optimal conditions. Michael locks up. You

:14:53. > :14:55.would expect that he will go on to Jean-Eric Vergne. Well, racing is

:14:56. > :15:01.racing and incidents happen and the safety car is out. Let's watch that

:15:01. > :15:06.one. Michael apologises to Jean- Eric Vergne. Disappointment for the

:15:06. > :15:09.young French man won his first time here in Singapore. And he had the

:15:09. > :15:14.chance for points. The weather pit- stop was working out. Probably

:15:14. > :15:19.would not have scored them. But what a disappointing way to go out

:15:19. > :15:24.of the Grand Prix. The safety car for the second time. It is very

:15:24. > :15:29.likely this race will go to the time limit. We have had two safety

:15:29. > :15:39.car periods. It is likely we shall go to the two hour mark. 38 bullets

:15:39. > :15:51.

:15:51. > :15:56.to go at the moment. Getting ready fact that Perez and Vergne brake

:15:56. > :15:59.early. See it from another perspective. Michael locks up the

:15:59. > :16:03.front axle and unfortunately the road ahead was completely blocked.

:16:03. > :16:13.The only safe thing to do in that point of view is actually hit the

:16:13. > :16:19.

:16:19. > :16:24.car square in the mid toll avoid any launching. TEAM RADIO: What

:16:24. > :16:28.happened there? What happened there? Did he get a reply - no.

:16:28. > :16:34.They've restarted the race, brake and tyre temperatures are not what

:16:34. > :16:39.they were. Is there an issue there. The big difficulty and challenge

:16:39. > :16:42.when you are running at lap times considerably slower than you would

:16:42. > :16:52.normally expect is that you struggle to maintain brake

:16:52. > :17:03.

:17:03. > :17:09.temperature and tyre temperature. The car runs lower. Red Bull have

:17:09. > :17:12.responded to this. A number of cars are coming in. Perez as well.

:17:12. > :17:17.Those that were a bit out of sequence are using the safety car

:17:17. > :17:22.to get back out. Of course, it will drop them right to the back of the

:17:22. > :17:25.queue and it's going to makivity very difficult to make up places,

:17:25. > :17:28.although they'll have very good tyres for the end of the race. He

:17:28. > :17:33.had to go on the option tire there, Hulkenberg because he hadn't used

:17:33. > :17:41.them until this point. He's on the supersoft tyres on the Force India.

:17:41. > :17:46.Perez as well. Webber is on the soft tyre and there's a problem I

:17:46. > :17:54.think for the Caterham. Trying to get back out into the race once

:17:54. > :18:04.something when the Caterham car, you can see it on your screen, he

:18:04. > :18:06.

:18:06. > :18:16.was released from the stop then Schumacher and Vergne, second time

:18:16. > :18:45.

:18:45. > :18:52.the back. He did it to Senna in Barcelona as well. He got a penalty

:18:52. > :19:02.as well. They're all burning off fuel and

:19:02. > :19:07.they've got fresh tyres on. Fastest lap just presumably before the

:19:07. > :19:07.you didn't put a foot wrong all weekend but it wasn't to be. What

:19:07. > :19:08.did you think when you heard the message? Very difficult weekend,

:19:08. > :19:08.especial think race, the conditions, very hot, the degrigaition was hard

:19:08. > :19:16.but we were managing well. -- degradation. I said yesterday, I

:19:16. > :19:21.was expecting it not to be so had problems in the car and that's

:19:21. > :19:29.it. Then we missed the supersoft compound. You have been driving so

:19:29. > :19:39.that deliberately cautious? Yes, the start was OK but just the first

:19:39. > :19:41.

:19:41. > :19:51.places there. But after that, I was running quite well. The race pace

:19:51. > :19:55.

:19:55. > :20:05.fighting for the victories and I hope to have better luck. No points

:20:05. > :20:15.incident. Button was saying, just mens it to Charlie about the

:20:15. > :20:22.that he went and backed off again, that? Yes, well, the stewards will

:20:22. > :20:32.decision. I think in many ways Jenson answered his own question

:20:32. > :20:34.

:20:34. > :20:40.once the restart has been announced. cars behind. It was incredibly

:20:40. > :20:49.reactions from Jenson. Very calm radio message that was being played

:20:49. > :20:57.that the problem for Petrov in the Caterham was a wheel nut problem.

:20:57. > :21:06.quick to stop a cargoing out on track. The last thing you need is a

:21:06. > :21:16.problem with your nuts. That's why mechanic lifted that car. Second

:21:16. > :21:41.

:21:41. > :21:46.going to go to time rather than out the maths. But anyway, it will

:21:46. > :21:51.go to lap distance for sure, it just depends on how quickly they

:21:51. > :21:56.leer the cars and get it restarted. There is a lot of time lost usually

:21:56. > :22:01.but we shouldn't have this problem this time. Petrov's gone back out

:22:01. > :22:02.so they were able to redeem the and attached the wheel properly

:22:02. > :22:02.presumably and Petrov is still running. I'm amazed how many are

:22:02. > :22:02.still running. We have got Maldonado and Hamilton and Vergne

:22:02. > :22:03.and Michael Schumacher. Still 19 cars and, on a track like this, you

:22:03. > :22:13.can expect a lot of non-finishes. Safety car in due in this lap so

:22:13. > :22:23.

:22:23. > :22:33.Resta who's in a fine fourth place. gets under way again. Vettel,

:22:33. > :22:33.

:22:33. > :22:43.shuts the door in time! The two low uss are running sixth and seventh -

:22:43. > :22:53.I was worried there there wouldn't be any Low duses -- Lotuses in the

:22:53. > :22:57.

:22:57. > :23:06.they got the close. Massa running in tenth so he's recovered the

:23:06. > :23:16.situation well given he had a Senna which is fair enough. Go down

:23:16. > :23:17.

:23:17. > :23:23.sideways. Wow, Senna was wide and was as close as those guys would

:23:23. > :23:33.like to be to an incident at turn nine. Massa's got a bit more grip

:23:33. > :23:34.

:23:34. > :23:41.Massa slides and they both get away with it! Incredible! Brave stuff

:23:41. > :23:50.moment he'd try and pass there. That's why there was the contact

:23:50. > :23:54.but it doesn't look like there's If anyone doubts Massa's commitment,

:23:54. > :24:00.that was real commitment to make a pass. He needs a bit more speed to

:24:00. > :24:08.secure his future. Massa and Senna swapping places in an area that is

:24:08. > :24:16.just so narrow and somehow getting away with it. We've got the

:24:16. > :24:20.Kobayashi -- Kovalainen. Behind Kovalainen I think we've got Webber,

:24:20. > :24:24.so some quick people further down. Let's take another look at this.

:24:24. > :24:28.Incredibly tight down here, David? You would normally not expect

:24:28. > :24:33.anyone to overtake there. Lack at Massa drifting the car, more

:24:33. > :24:38.reminiscent of what you see in a MotoGP in the braking phase. After

:24:38. > :24:41.turn ten, cuts back through 11 and 12, releases and gets squeezed

:24:41. > :24:46.against the wall, but he was committed on the dirty part of the

:24:46. > :24:51.track and somehow stops the car as he gets down into 13. I don't think

:24:51. > :24:57.Senna thought for one moment he was going to be there. Did he touch the

:24:57. > :25:03.left hand side? It's softer than concrete so you would rather touch

:25:03. > :25:08.that. Great, great control. Rob Smedley shakes his head in

:25:08. > :25:13.disbelief or amazement. Disbelief probably that the door was closed,

:25:13. > :25:17.amazement that his man was able to hold on to it. Take a look at this.

:25:17. > :25:22.Di Resta hounding the Ferrari of Championship leader Alonso. This is

:25:22. > :25:29.a great effort, best finish he's had in his Formula One career so

:25:29. > :25:31.far. A sixth place finish. He's got a good Chinese of him proving that.

:25:31. > :25:36.Schumacher walking back through the paddock area to answer the

:25:36. > :25:42.questions about what happened there. Vergne trudging back, I would say,

:25:42. > :25:47.after being hit in the rear by the Mercedes of Schumacher.

:25:47. > :25:53.Disappointment for both men and maybe a dad embarrassing for

:25:53. > :25:57.Michael unless there's some other issue there. We are expecting and

:25:57. > :26:01.hearing that this race might be about three laps short of full race

:26:01. > :26:05.distance which will be music to the ears of this man leading the Grand

:26:05. > :26:11.Prix. That of course gives him a little bit more safety within the

:26:11. > :26:15.tyre ware of the Red Bull. But it has to be said, on the soft tyre,

:26:15. > :26:21.it does look like Red Bull has been a little bit more comfortable on

:26:21. > :26:31.the tyre than the McLaren this afternoon. McLaren looked more

:26:31. > :26:31.

:26:31. > :26:39.dominant. He won't get the DRS effect as we enter this lap. Good

:26:39. > :26:43.lap from Button as well. He only lost a couple of hundred s of a

:26:43. > :26:48.second. Alonso in third was slower. The Ferrari doesn't have the pace

:26:48. > :26:52.of the McLaren and the Red Bull. Meanwhile Massa trying to work his

:26:53. > :26:57.way further up the top ten. Ricciardo running in there in the

:26:57. > :27:01.Rosso. Remember, he's scored points on two occasions this year, has

:27:01. > :27:05.Ricciardo. He's got another chance to do so. We'll want to stay in

:27:05. > :27:10.front of Massa but could afford to has the place and score points, but

:27:10. > :27:13.he won't want to be overly aggressive. Ricciardo's got it

:27:13. > :27:19.covered as they come through the Singapore Sling, a little chicane

:27:19. > :27:23.at turn ten and now we are into the sequence of 90 degree corners at

:27:23. > :27:30.the bottom end. This is the corner where he was

:27:30. > :27:35.sideways passing Senna earlier in the race, turn 13. Ferrari power

:27:35. > :27:40.seems to be more than a match for the Ferrari power of the Ferrari

:27:40. > :27:44.car behind. Lack at Massa cutting the corner there massively. He's a

:27:44. > :27:48.man on a mission. This is more than he would have expected after having

:27:48. > :27:53.that puncture in the first lap, but this is just the way we expect it

:27:53. > :27:59.to be in Singapore. We have had nine laps of safety car. That's a

:27:59. > :28:03.record. Not the sort of record you want to have on your Grand Prix,

:28:03. > :28:07.but unsurprisingly, the incident involving Massa and Senna will be

:28:07. > :28:11.looked at after the race. As there was no harm done, in tend, it will

:28:11. > :28:20.probably pass off as a racing incident, one that we are all very

:28:20. > :28:24.happy to have gotten away with. Ricciardo. Kobayashi's down in 11th.

:28:24. > :28:28.Webber. Vettel is still leading. Kovalainen's in the pits again, a

:28:28. > :28:32.little surprising at this stage of the race. But Ricciardo fending off

:28:33. > :28:36.the Ferrari for the moment, but we are into DRS territory here and

:28:36. > :28:42.this is where the Ferrari's got a big opportunity. They are using

:28:42. > :28:49.kerbs as well. The electrical energy boost that is recharging in

:28:49. > :28:53.each lap. Ricciardo used all of his DRS to defend and this Ferrari just

:28:53. > :28:59.drives over the top of the kerbs. Such confidence there as he comes

:28:59. > :29:06.to the outside like he did with Senna before turn nine, cuts back

:29:06. > :29:12.to the inside. Massa had a bit available which enabled him to get

:29:12. > :29:17.past the Toro Rosso. Good strategic driving there from Massa, bringing

:29:17. > :29:22.him into eighth place. That matches his best ever finish here in

:29:22. > :29:28.Singapore. Still a bit of time to two in this race and Senna trying

:29:28. > :29:32.to target Rosso as well. He's trying to get behind Kovalainen.

:29:32. > :29:37.TEAM RADIO: Investigating the incident with Massa. Sounds to me

:29:37. > :29:40.like the engineer of Williams thinks it may have been marginal

:29:40. > :29:45.for Massa's side. I don't see why you would want to tell your driver

:29:45. > :29:48.who, in my opinion, is probably the one under question, it was question

:29:48. > :29:53.whether Bruno had maybe squashed Massa a little towards the wall,

:29:53. > :30:03.you norbgs I would see it more like a racing incident, one that was we

:30:03. > :30:09.

:30:09. > :30:13.were lucky to see the drivers in second place. Let's watch Bruno

:30:13. > :30:23.Senna towards the top corner. Let's see if he will have another go at

:30:23. > :30:24.

:30:24. > :30:32.trying to get past Daniel Ricciardo. Jenson and Webber lapping very

:30:32. > :30:41.quickly. Let's look at how Felipe Massa got past Daniel Ricciardo.

:30:41. > :30:49.was able to cut past on the inside, the run-down on to turn Number 10.

:30:49. > :30:56.Round of applause from the team. TEAM RADIO: Good luck. Eighth place.

:30:56. > :31:04.Cat and mouse up front. It is, they have the fuel and the depressed

:31:04. > :31:11.tyres and the safety cars so these boys are right for the win. There

:31:11. > :31:16.is 1.8 seconds gap between them. 14 laps to go, that will get cut back

:31:16. > :31:20.to around him or 11 laps because of the time thing. Jenson Button has

:31:20. > :31:25.to do something now. That was close! Hulkenberg battling with

:31:25. > :31:30.Perez at the back of the Cape and Mark Webber is trying to move up on

:31:30. > :31:34.Kobayashi in the Sauber. They're all just inside the top 10 and

:31:34. > :31:38.Kobayashi's tyres have done 16 laps and they are the softer tyres so he

:31:38. > :31:44.will be struggling for group, now. Softer tyres also for the men at

:31:44. > :31:48.the back, they went on a different strategy from earlier on. Mark

:31:48. > :31:53.Webber is desperate to try to get past the Sauber car because those

:31:53. > :32:01.two behind them, there could be a major threat. Kimi Raikkonen behind

:32:01. > :32:06.Romain Grosjean. TEAM RADIO: Do not hold him up. The team orders. Kimi

:32:06. > :32:12.Raikkonen is quicker, do not hold him up. And the response...

:32:12. > :32:19.Immediately... Well, we do not know when that radio message was played.

:32:19. > :32:23.Kimi Raikkonen third. Sebastian Vettel will move up to second place.

:32:23. > :32:28.Every point counts, it's important to get Kimi Raikkonen ahead of

:32:28. > :32:34.crucial. Grosjean has shown the better place during the course of

:32:34. > :32:39.this weekend but that is a very clear team decision based on...

:32:39. > :32:45.Here comes Mark Webber. Kobayashi reacts, suggesting he was going to

:32:45. > :32:49.have a go down the inside. In the end, he managed to hold that. Mark

:32:49. > :32:54.Webber not quite close enough to Kobayashi to do anything about that.

:32:54. > :32:57.He has got Hulkenberg behind him on the super-soft tyres. Just a little

:32:57. > :33:03.bit more performance at this stage but Mark Webber has to get closer

:33:03. > :33:09.to Kobayashi to be able to effectively pass. Sebastian Vettel

:33:10. > :33:14.still leads at Jenson Button in second place. 1.5 seconds gap. Some

:33:14. > :33:19.brake blocking going on. Perez shoving his nose around the outside,

:33:20. > :33:23.every chance to go around the outside there. Up towards turn at

:33:23. > :33:27.14, but again, they're all fallen in each other and at the front of

:33:27. > :33:32.this little kid, Kobayashi, trying not to make any mistakes on tyres

:33:32. > :33:36.that have got less group and the men around him. Sebastian Vettel

:33:36. > :33:42.and Jenson Button, still no change up front. Fernando Alonso, still in

:33:42. > :33:49.third place. Paul di Resta in 4th place. Then Nico Rosberg in 5th

:33:49. > :33:54.place. Then Kimi Raikkonen in 6th place, having gone past Grosjean.

:33:54. > :33:59.7th place for Grosjean Ben Felipe Massa, Daniel Ricciardo, Bruno

:33:59. > :34:03.Senna and this lot fighting for 11th place. We are riding on board

:34:03. > :34:07.with Sergio Perez as he comes out of that final turn. At this stage,

:34:07. > :34:11.the cars are getting light and fast and they will feel more like we had

:34:11. > :34:16.in qualifying. There is a lot of rubber on the racing line, which

:34:16. > :34:21.does improve the overall group. But they have been sitting in this cars

:34:21. > :34:25.for about one hour and 44 minutes. Although they have had that little

:34:25. > :34:28.brake behind the safety car, the heat and the constant, draining

:34:29. > :34:32.heat will affect their ability to make good decisions. They will

:34:32. > :34:37.probably have lost a couple of kilos of body weight, which has a

:34:37. > :34:43.couple of litres of fluid. At that point, you're decision-making

:34:43. > :34:48.abilities started up. TEAM RADIO: 12 more laps. This is a straight

:34:48. > :34:52.fight, isn't it? It is. No pit stops, just straight to the flag.

:34:52. > :35:01.It was like this last year, the same situation. Bruno Senna has

:35:01. > :35:11.just gone through the shot. The Lee Williams remaining... TEAM RADIO:

:35:11. > :35:11.

:35:11. > :35:15.This is a 60 lap race at the moment. Can he get past?! It takes off the

:35:15. > :35:19.front wing from Perez. And there was contact in the end between the

:35:19. > :35:24.two of them. This is what is going to count because he will not slow

:35:24. > :35:30.down very well. The wheels almost touching the back of the Force

:35:30. > :35:33.India. He has damaged the front wing, that has gone. He will assess

:35:33. > :35:38.these next few corners, whether that will be something that he can

:35:38. > :35:41.hang in wet and make it to the end of the race. A pit-stop at this

:35:41. > :35:48.stage will drop them well out of any potential battle for. This

:35:48. > :35:52.afternoon. He was shaping up from a pass for the last few laps.

:35:52. > :36:02.Hulkenberg had been defensive and interest at the dive and, well,

:36:02. > :36:02.

:36:03. > :36:10.contact was made. -- Perez took the dive. The last car in miscue his

:36:10. > :36:18.parents. The door was opened and he cuts well to the inside. -- the

:36:18. > :36:23.last car in this too is Sergio Perez. Did Hulkenberg know he was

:36:23. > :36:28.there. If he did, you just cannot turn when you know the car reserve.

:36:28. > :36:34.Mark Webber has got the chance to get past Kobayashi! Has he done it?

:36:34. > :36:39.No, Kobayashi fights in all. He was on the kerb, all four wheels. Will

:36:39. > :36:48.that be classified...? Hulkenberg follows him through. He has lost

:36:48. > :36:53.his front wing. Perez goes past his team-mate. Hulkenberg is in trouble.

:36:53. > :37:00.He has got a puncture. This huge battle, it has been split up by

:37:01. > :37:04.contact. Kobayashi limping, Hulkenberg limping as well. An

:37:04. > :37:08.opportunity for them to score points, they were just outside.

:37:08. > :37:11.That was a fierce encounter but, sadly, we will lose at least a

:37:11. > :37:17.couple of them. There could be some bits of debris around for the

:37:18. > :37:21.leaders coming around. Here we have Kobayashi. He was pretty fair with

:37:21. > :37:27.Mark Webber, he could have ran wide of have occurred. That was a great

:37:27. > :37:33.pass. The door was left open, allowing Hulkenberg... I'm not

:37:33. > :37:37.quite sure why the contact happen. It did not look as if Hulkenberg

:37:37. > :37:47.was trying to squeeze Kobayashi down. We can actually see the size

:37:47. > :37:52.

:37:52. > :37:58.of the wings, never mind the front wing... Bruno Senna touches... Was

:37:58. > :38:04.their damage to the car before he got there? He was up to 10th place.

:38:04. > :38:10.He is still behind and a recorder. Mark Webber is catching him, though.

:38:10. > :38:14.-- Daniel Ricciardo and here is Felipe Massa. Going quickly, here.

:38:14. > :38:21.There is a chance for the Ferrari to get another place. Up front,

:38:21. > :38:28.Sebastian Vettel is flying. He has opened a gap to Button. Sebastian

:38:28. > :38:34.Vettel is looking very comfortable. Changing the nose cone. That is a

:38:34. > :38:37.shame for this to end this way. As we say, it seemed unnecessary, the

:38:37. > :38:41.tangling. They do have paid the price because Hulkenberg has ended

:38:41. > :38:51.up with a puncture. We need to look more closely at that to work out

:38:51. > :38:55.whether it was just some racing incident... Hulkenberg struggling.

:38:55. > :39:00.He rain gauges the clutch and resets the system. He is well out

:39:00. > :39:04.of the point Position this afternoon. Rosberg still holding on

:39:04. > :39:10.to 5th place. We lost the other Mercedes. We will see an

:39:10. > :39:15.investigation into that action. Oh, no further action. Well, that was

:39:15. > :39:25.that one it sorted. There was no damage to the cars. They just about

:39:25. > :39:25.

:39:25. > :39:28.left each other enough room. Just about got away with it. On board

:39:28. > :39:35.with Sergio Perez. He still has that damage to the front wing but

:39:35. > :39:40.he is continuing. TEAM RADIO: It looks OK. That's will be the

:39:40. > :39:45.engineers looking at the censors, the information fed back to the pit.

:39:45. > :39:48.I would imagine he would lose some front load. Otherwise, you a

:39:48. > :39:53.question of why they have those wings on there, if they're not

:39:53. > :39:58.doing something. It is clearly not upsetting the balance enough to

:39:58. > :40:03.bring that car in. Look at the laps. Jenson Button is dropping off on

:40:03. > :40:08.the last two laps from Sebastian Vettel. Sebastian Vettel seemed to

:40:08. > :40:13.be controlling the pace of this race. Just over 15 minutes to go.

:40:13. > :40:16.We were not quite get the full distance. Fernando Alonso is still

:40:17. > :40:21.in a rather, I say lonely, but Paul di Resta is under two seconds

:40:21. > :40:28.behind him. Paul di Resta is still heading for a great result and that

:40:28. > :40:32.will boost Force India's chances as well. Rosberg is in 5th place, then

:40:32. > :40:37.Kimi Raikkonen. More investigating to do. This time the incident

:40:37. > :40:40.between Mark Webber and Kobayashi. The question will be, did Mark

:40:40. > :40:46.Webber again that players by running wider than the track

:40:46. > :40:53.limits? To my mind, he was on top of the curve, so one side of his

:40:53. > :40:58.car was clearly within the white lines. Contact me if you think my

:40:58. > :41:04.eyes are failing me. But that is how I would say that on. Fernando

:41:04. > :41:08.Alonso has set the fastest middle sector of the Grand Prix so far.

:41:08. > :41:16.Quicker than the race leader, Jenson Button. He is just

:41:16. > :41:26.responding. I mean Sebastian Vettel, not Jenson Button. Excuse me! I am

:41:26. > :41:29.feeling the fitting! This is a very long race. -- the fatigue. Fernando

:41:29. > :41:35.Alonso, quicker than Jenson Button but not quite as quick as Sebastian

:41:35. > :41:39.Vettel. Responding to Paul di Resta's pace. Rosberg behind him. I

:41:39. > :41:44.wonder if she might come under some threat from Kimi Raikkonen. One

:41:44. > :41:49.point it seconds, the gap. Mercedes can be harder on the tyres. We have

:41:49. > :41:55.seen that in the closing stages of some races. And they both have put

:41:55. > :42:01.their current tyres on on the same lap, Lab 32. As we can see the race

:42:01. > :42:05.leader tracking down. It does look at this stage as if the McLaren

:42:05. > :42:15.cars are not quite as comfortable on the soft tyres. The prime tyres

:42:15. > :42:15.

:42:15. > :42:20.that are available this afternoon. It is such a yo yo performance. As

:42:20. > :42:26.a fuel burns off, it does not work quite so well. That is what makes

:42:26. > :42:30.the strategy in 2012 so difficult to read. For the team's, so what

:42:30. > :42:36.chance do we have in this BBC suite? This very small box

:42:36. > :42:39.overlooking the last corner. Spectacular views, nonetheless.

:42:39. > :42:42.predictions would be Sebastian Vettel moving up to second place in

:42:42. > :42:50.the championship and the gap would reduce. But Fernando Alonso, still

:42:50. > :42:55.doing well. Can you recommend in that clear third place, wouldn't

:42:55. > :43:05.he? Kimi Raikkonen. And then, of course, Lewis Hamilton pushed back

:43:05. > :43:08.down by not scoring at all here. It is interesting. Be some Michael

:43:08. > :43:14.Schumacher crashing into the back of a Jean-Eric Vergne earlier in

:43:14. > :43:22.this race. We can talk to him. Michael, different year and a

:43:22. > :43:27.similar accident. What happened? had the safety car and I braked

:43:27. > :43:33.earlier than I normally would do on this corner. The car would not

:43:33. > :43:37.decelerate so I have to investigate. At one point I understood that I

:43:37. > :43:44.could not decelerate so I went straight on to the brakes and I had

:43:44. > :43:49.that hard lough. The excellent at that point was not avoidable

:43:49. > :43:56.anymore. I'm very sorry for a Jean- Eric Vergne, who had to retire for

:43:56. > :44:00.this one. And for the team. But we need to find out what happened.

:44:00. > :44:04.are, we did suspect there might have been a problem and Michael

:44:04. > :44:08.Schumacher is relaying ban, there was an issue with the car, the way

:44:08. > :44:13.that it locked up and seemed to lose the pace. Meanwhile, the other

:44:13. > :44:17.Toro Rosso is still in the points. On board with Mark Webber, here.

:44:17. > :44:24.And Mark Webber is behind Bruno Senna and tried to chase down the

:44:24. > :44:29.last point, 10th place. Bruno Senna has just brushed the wall earlier.

:44:29. > :44:34.Just a little clip over the kerb as well. The technical bus at Williams,

:44:34. > :44:38.keeping his eye on things. We lost Maldonado earlier when it looked

:44:38. > :44:41.like he was heading for a very good haul of points. He had driven

:44:41. > :44:46.superbly but he had a hydraulic problem that put him out of the

:44:46. > :44:50.race. We have seen Schumacher going out, Karthikeyan hit the wall and

:44:50. > :44:58.Lewis Hamilton pulled up with that gearbox problem. Right now,

:44:58. > :45:04.Sebastian Vettel leads. Forced India have told Paul di Resta that

:45:04. > :45:07.will dress to's tyres are older. He still has 20 kilometres less on his

:45:08. > :45:11.tyres and he can apply pressure. They can see the podium and much as

:45:11. > :45:17.they would have the points for a 4th place, it would improve on last

:45:17. > :45:23.year, it would be a big result. We are also being told that Sebastian

:45:23. > :45:26.Vettel has had a message from his team asking him to move the brake

:45:26. > :45:29.balance forward because he is losing front temperature and that

:45:29. > :45:39.shows the level of interaction between the pit wall and the

:45:39. > :45:44.

:45:44. > :45:48.when you need it. Mark being given a bit of

:45:48. > :45:52.information as he tries to get past Senna. That will be all to do with

:45:52. > :45:58.the battery temperatures. They're telling him he has one lap

:45:58. > :46:03.available where he can overtake. He's got DRS, he's got momentum as

:46:03. > :46:13.they run down to southern seven. In tend, he doesn't have to run it as

:46:13. > :46:14.

:46:14. > :46:18.bravely round the outside. He manages that pass. Just over 7.5

:46:18. > :46:24.minutes time available before it will be the last lap so it's not

:46:24. > :46:28.over yet. A replay here. Yes. Comes out of

:46:28. > :46:31.the slipstream, Bruno decides to go defence I. They come through the

:46:31. > :46:36.kink at six and from Mark's position, he catches him at the

:46:36. > :46:42.kink. Bruno's already made his move, shown his hand and then Mark pulls

:46:42. > :46:45.it around the outside. A replay from the other side as well. Four

:46:45. > :46:50.replays at the same event. That's probably just because of the

:46:50. > :46:56.sparking from the under side of the Williams as they come over the

:46:56. > :47:01.crest of the public road the rest of the year. The clock ticking away

:47:01. > :47:06.in the top of the screen now, so we are in a time brace. It's a two-

:47:06. > :47:12.hour maximum limit on any Grand Prix when it's running. If it gets

:47:12. > :47:16.red flagged and stopped, there is a rule that if the race is running,

:47:16. > :47:21.it goes to a maximum for two hours. It's been a long, long time since a

:47:21. > :47:26.dry race went to the full two-hour limit, back in 1991, the Phoenix

:47:26. > :47:30.Grand Prix, another street track. The average speed on a street track

:47:30. > :47:34.is low. They try and get 300 kilometres of Grand Prix in. We've

:47:34. > :47:38.just reached the limit this time because we have had a couple of

:47:38. > :47:48.safety cars. Remember who won the 1991 Phoenix Grand Prix? That was a

:47:48. > :47:52.Senna win wasen it? Indeed. Lacey had a go as well. Great race.

:47:53. > :47:59.Ricciardo is in ninth currently and still has the Red Bull of Webber

:47:59. > :48:05.chasing him. Senna's dropped out of the points and is down to 11th.

:48:05. > :48:14.Weir we've got Ricciardo. He could afford to give up that pace and

:48:14. > :48:19.give up a point. TEAM RADIO: Keep as close to Webber as possible.

:48:19. > :48:23.Hold position now. Anything could still happen. Not long to go.

:48:23. > :48:27.McCullough giving a bit of encouragement to Senna. He's had a

:48:27. > :48:30.difficult weekend. A point would have been so much better for Senna

:48:30. > :48:34.if he could have got something and Williams look as though they'll get

:48:34. > :48:41.nothing out of this after having a car on the front row of the grid,

:48:41. > :48:46.David? Yes, I was going to say that's disappointing, but that's an

:48:46. > :48:52.understatement. All the teams work incredibly hard. Doesn't matter if

:48:52. > :48:55.it's HRT running at the back or the teams at the front, it's a

:48:55. > :49:00.relentless team of development and travel. That's what make this is

:49:00. > :49:04.the Grand Prix. This is one of the hashedest of them all, even with

:49:04. > :49:10.two safety cars, the drivers will have lost a lot of fluid -- hardest

:49:10. > :49:16.of them all. A 2% loss of fluid can affect your ability to make

:49:16. > :49:22.decisions by up to 20%, believe it or not, so you start thinking, well,

:49:22. > :49:25.shall I brake now or should I brake there or here. Very confused.

:49:25. > :49:29.Playing tricks with your mind. You see the normal shaking foot there

:49:29. > :49:33.of Christian Horner. We don't know, of course, whether they're nursing

:49:33. > :49:37.any issues, or whether it's a straightforward drive to the end of

:49:37. > :49:41.this Grand Prix. We have to presume that Lewis Hamilton was masking

:49:41. > :49:46.some sort of a gear box issue from yesterday from the radio message we

:49:46. > :49:51.heard his engineer play when they retired the car and Webber here

:49:51. > :49:56.chasing down the Toro Rosso running out of time. Just over four minutes

:49:56. > :50:00.of race time left before the final lap. Looks like he does have the

:50:00. > :50:05.pace to get by, this Toro Rosso, but they tend to set that car up

:50:05. > :50:09.with good straight line speed. Of course, if he just burned out his

:50:09. > :50:14.tyres, as Webber has an overkick stay, he opens the gap slightly as

:50:14. > :50:19.they run along the straight, so that makes it difficult to find the

:50:19. > :50:22.right place to have a go. Then we saw the incident involving Webber

:50:22. > :50:28.and Kobayashi. That will be looked at after the race because the

:50:28. > :50:32.stuers are frankly too busy to make a decision on that -- stewards.

:50:32. > :50:36.Hopefully they won't take too long. Vettel controlling this race with a

:50:36. > :50:42.bit of an advantage now. Riding on board with Vettel and the team are

:50:42. > :50:47.happy with what is going on. The flashing LEDs on the helmet doing a

:50:47. > :50:50.merry dance, much as Vettel has had since Hamilton retired. This race

:50:50. > :50:55.could well have been a massive confrontation between Hamilton and

:50:55. > :51:02.Vettel, but the way it's turned out, Vettel had actually been

:51:02. > :51:05.comfortable in the closing stages. Button's drop behind. Webber's not

:51:05. > :51:08.given up on trying to take ninth place away from Ricciardo. Two

:51:08. > :51:14.Australians racing hard here, one very established in Formula One,

:51:14. > :51:18.another trying to make his mark. Aussie honour at stake here. This

:51:18. > :51:23.would be a big result for Ricciardo. The Toro Rosso team will, I doubt

:51:23. > :51:27.very much, thinking about who owns the team at this stage of the race.

:51:27. > :51:30.Do you want to come back to Vettel's flashing lights?

:51:30. > :51:34.Apparently they represent the star signs of his family. I noticed

:51:34. > :51:40.there was a half moon as I came to the commentary box, Ben. I don't

:51:40. > :51:45.know if that means anything, the star signs of his family, a half

:51:45. > :51:51.moon, he has everything aligned to give him the second victory of the

:51:51. > :51:56.afternoon. Looking good for Vettel. Webber, even in that DRS, he's not

:51:56. > :52:01.able to close the gap to Ricciardo. Driving beautifully well here,

:52:01. > :52:06.defending resolutely and not making any mistakes so far. When the clock

:52:06. > :52:15.ticks to 0, then the chequered flag comes out and the end of the lap.

:52:15. > :52:22.Whichever lap the clock twos to 0 on, the flag will come out a at the

:52:22. > :52:27.end of the lap. TEAM RADIO: A car problem... Loss of power, loss of

:52:27. > :52:31.power. We'll look at the data. getting any better for Williams.

:52:31. > :52:35.His last lap time was six seconds slower than those around him. A

:52:36. > :52:40.loss of power. Meanwhile, Vettel is up at the top part of the corner.

:52:40. > :52:44.The clock will tick to zero on this lap so this will probably be the

:52:44. > :52:47.final lap of the race for Sebastian Vettel. It's amazing to think

:52:47. > :52:53.double world champion as he is and that dominant season last year,

:52:53. > :52:58.this will only be his second victory of 2012 if all goes to plan

:52:58. > :53:02.here? Yes, let's not speak too soon but it shows how competitive this

:53:02. > :53:08.season's been. We have Alonso and Hamilton. Senna retires the car. He

:53:08. > :53:12.was running in 12th place. That loss of power looks terminal. Yes,

:53:12. > :53:20.this victory will bring Sebastian Vettel up alongside worldwide web

:53:20. > :53:29.and Button butt and two victories apiece, so still one away from the

:53:29. > :53:33.Championship leader -- alongside Mark Webber and Jenson Button.

:53:33. > :53:37.Add arena was a winner himself at Goodwood, but he's led that team

:53:37. > :53:41.once again to yet another victory in Formula One. Just got to deal

:53:41. > :53:45.with a bit of traffic ah nervous moment perhaps for Vettel but all

:53:45. > :53:51.under control. The clock is ticking down and the checkered flag will be

:53:51. > :53:56.prepared at the end of this lap. The gap over Button has been built

:53:56. > :54:01.up to 8.30 seconds. With the lot of Lewis Hamilton from this race with

:54:01. > :54:03.a gear box problem, really from that moment on, it's all been

:54:03. > :54:07.straightforward for Sebastian Vettel. He was able to manage his

:54:07. > :54:11.tyres and manage the restarts. We have seen how accomplished this

:54:11. > :54:16.young man is, and Health and Safety going to do it yet again. He comes

:54:16. > :54:20.through the final two corners in Singapore to take back-to-back

:54:20. > :54:27.victorys in Singapore for Sebastian Vettel, his second win of the

:54:27. > :54:32.season. What a time to do it as he tries to close the gap to Alonso.

:54:32. > :54:41.Button butt finish in second position and looks back at the non-

:54:41. > :54:46.finish in mon Sa now and that must hurt even more -- Jenson Button

:54:46. > :54:51.finishes in second position and looks back at the non-finish in

:54:51. > :54:55.Monsa. Sebastian Vettel has taken the fourth Red Bull. Webber and

:54:55. > :55:01.Vettel. Great victory no, question about it. Again you see the

:55:01. > :55:05.flashing lights there. Can't help but think, I wonder how much

:55:05. > :55:11.reserve is in the battery for the plashers, but Sebastian Vettel

:55:11. > :55:15.waves to the crowd -- flashers. Enjoys the Coombeing loop. They've

:55:16. > :55:19.have plenty of fuel on board given the safe day cards and the

:55:19. > :55:23.fireworks explode above the bay here, fantastic scenes celebrating

:55:23. > :55:27.the fifth running of the Singapore Grand Prix. Beautiful. It always

:55:27. > :55:31.looks sostunning this place at night-time. Once again, it's

:55:31. > :55:36.delivered an entertaining race. Sebastian Vettel won here last year

:55:36. > :55:42.and now he's won again. TEAM RADIO: Well done. Won the Singapore Grand

:55:42. > :55:50.Prix again. You are back in this Championship, well done. Good man,

:55:50. > :55:56.top job, top job. CHEERING

:55:56. > :56:00.This one's for you... Great reaction. In 2010, not last year,

:56:00. > :56:04.but in 2010 when we had that wonderful battle for the

:56:04. > :56:08.Championship, he was 31 points off the lead of the title race in

:56:08. > :56:11.Singapore and went on to win and there were fewer races left off the

:56:11. > :56:15.calender, he was 39 off the lead this time, no reason why Vettel

:56:15. > :56:20.can't do what he did in 2010 and take it all the way to the wire and

:56:20. > :56:23.keep the pressure on. Alonso will know that. He got a third place

:56:23. > :56:28.finish today. Hamilton east not out of it, but it's going to hurt

:56:28. > :56:35.hugely having suffered the loss of 25 points. I'm assuming he would

:56:35. > :56:39.have at least been on the podium. Formula One is a roller coaster,

:56:39. > :56:43.your emotions are taken from the highest of highs to the lowest of

:56:43. > :56:49.lows whoever you are. Even if you are the most successful driver in

:56:49. > :56:52.this sport, and that is currently Schumacher in terms of race

:56:52. > :56:57.victories and he's still lost more than he's won. That's not a record

:56:57. > :57:03.you would want if you were a boxer! It's part of Grand Prix racing

:57:03. > :57:13.though. 23rd career victory for Sebastian Vettel and that matches

:57:13. > :57:17.

:57:17. > :57:20.Nelson pic Snr. A weeknighter -- Pique. Look at that! The fireworks

:57:20. > :57:24.over Singapore, fireworks today for Sebastian Vettel, although he

:57:24. > :57:27.stayed out of trouble, he looked after the car and the tyres,

:57:27. > :57:31.disappointed yesterday with his qualifying. Only managed third on

:57:31. > :57:35.the grid. Made a good get-away, of course. That certainly helped him.

:57:35. > :57:45.He was Lewis Hamilton's closest pursuer in the early stages. TEAM

:57:45. > :57:47.

:57:47. > :57:55.RADIO: A lovely touch from Sebastian Vettel remember Professor

:57:55. > :58:00.Sid Watkin who is sadly died last week, the "Prof" of Formula One. We

:58:00. > :58:04.had the one minute' silence and lovely that Sebastien remembered

:58:04. > :58:08.him on the slowdown lap and on his victory here in Singapore. He's a

:58:08. > :58:12.class act this young guy. It's easy to forget that he's only 25 but he

:58:12. > :58:18.just thinking about everything. think that's the key element there

:58:18. > :58:23.is he's not just a fast-racing deliver, he's very respectful of

:58:23. > :58:29.the history of this sport and to take time out there to recognise a

:58:29. > :58:32.much-loved figure in the sport, as he then stands and shows that

:58:32. > :58:35.famous finger. Fans of Sebastien will love to see it. Those who

:58:35. > :58:39.would rather have seen another winner will probably look away at

:58:39. > :58:44.that point, but there's no question that he was on his way for a podium

:58:44. > :58:52.irrespective of theish you that Lewis Hamilton had and he strokes

:58:52. > :58:58.his car probably pretty hot that -- the issue that Lewis Hamilton had.

:58:58. > :59:03.He strokes his car probably pretty. He calls this car Abbey. He likes

:59:03. > :59:09.to name them, doesn't he? Yes. There you are. There is the famous

:59:09. > :59:13.indicator of yet another victory for Sebastian Vettel. His 41st

:59:13. > :59:17.podium finish. Alonso going ahead of Senna in terms of podium

:59:17. > :59:21.finishes. Matched it last time out, but Alonso goes one ahead of the

:59:21. > :59:25.late great Ayrton Senna. Alonso very much talking about that third

:59:25. > :59:28.title being his big objective. That's what Senna achieved. That's

:59:28. > :59:33.what Alonso wants to achieve. Button got that second place here

:59:33. > :59:37.today, a solid drive by Button. Very valuable points for McLaren.

:59:37. > :59:41.In terms of the constructor's Championship, Red Bull just

:59:41. > :59:44.outscore, well no, well yes, they'll have outscored McLaren but

:59:44. > :59:48.McLaren won't have lost too much ground buzz Webber only picked up

:59:48. > :59:54.the one point for tenth place. Watching Vettel celebrations across

:59:54. > :59:58.the line. In other Championship term, Raikkonen finished in sixth.

:59:58. > :00:03.He scored not as many points as Lotus would have laked but none

:00:03. > :00:08.less useful points. Let's not forget that di Resta's had his best

:00:08. > :00:13.ever finish in Formula One. So di Resta finished in fourth, his best

:00:13. > :00:18.finish this Singapore last yearics sth, and matched that earlier on

:00:19. > :00:28.this year. Di Resta's earned his best finish in Formula One. Force

:00:29. > :00:29.

:00:29. > :01:31.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:01:31. > :01:34.India will exceed their points big fan in front of us. Very

:01:34. > :01:42.interesting how Fernando Alonso isn't engaging in the conversation.

:01:42. > :01:45.I suspect that a couple of years ago, after that race, it was

:01:45. > :01:50.suggested to the drivers at the short and the race by some distance.

:01:50. > :01:55.He felt that it was too long and too uncomfortable so I think he is

:01:55. > :01:59.probably reflecting on whatever discomfort he has got. It is hard.

:01:59. > :02:08.He was training between Monza and here, doing several hundred miles

:02:08. > :02:13.of running. We can see the helmet, there. I think his number two

:02:13. > :02:17.mechanic is going up there, he recently lost his father. He is

:02:17. > :02:21.Danish and the team wants to recognise his contribution and give

:02:21. > :02:31.him his moment of glory. So, the drivers heading onto the podium,

:02:31. > :02:41.now. Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. The

:02:41. > :02:41.

:02:41. > :04:51.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds

:04:51. > :04:56.victory leap for Sebastian Vettel back on track as Sebastian Vettel

:04:56. > :05:01.takes victory here in Singapore. That victory in Paris and seemed

:05:01. > :05:07.quite a while ago. But he has done it here under the floodlights and

:05:07. > :05:12.this is a track that he loves, clearly. He raced to victory here.

:05:12. > :05:15.He chased Fernando Alonso across the line for the closest ever

:05:16. > :05:21.finish in 2010 and this is the one that is a real favourite. The

:05:21. > :05:25.constructors trophy going to Red Bull as well. Disappointing but

:05:25. > :05:32.they were a real strategy with that car. And Jenson Button by

:05:32. > :05:39.collecting the trophy for second place. And he and Lewis Hamilton,

:05:39. > :05:43.almost the same number of podiums. This is his 40 eighth podium. His

:05:43. > :05:48.father and partner are there. Fernando Alonso, again scoring

:05:48. > :05:53.consistently, as he has been doing all season long. His 190 at Grand

:05:53. > :06:00.Prix. He takes his 81st podium. And Ferrari are still picking up the

:06:00. > :06:05.points. And to come on to the podium to ask the questions, the

:06:05. > :06:09.man who would do this in just a second... Of the champagne comes

:06:10. > :06:16.first. Time to celebrate that victory. It'll be a very special

:06:16. > :06:20.interviewer. None other than our very own Eddie Jordan! He will be

:06:20. > :06:24.asking the questions of these guys. I don't know how much energy they

:06:24. > :06:31.have left after this gruelling tour hour race in these very tricky

:06:31. > :06:35.conditions. Certainly putting some champagne over their heads. But in

:06:35. > :06:39.this you format of the interviews with the guest interviewer that

:06:39. > :06:45.comes along, it is going to be Eddie Jordan making his first

:06:45. > :06:52.appearance on the podium. That was since his own team one of four

:06:52. > :06:56.times in the late 1990s. I wonder what the boys will be able to say

:06:56. > :07:00.to him. Big round of applause for all three of these drivers. All

:07:00. > :07:05.they want to do is good back downstairs and get some flowers on

:07:05. > :07:12.board and try to relax just a little bit because this has been

:07:12. > :07:20.one very tough race. Legendary Formula Formula One owner and

:07:20. > :07:25.television broadcaster, Eddie Jordan! Welcome everybody and to

:07:25. > :07:35.the winners, we should start with Sebastian Vettel. The first-ever

:07:35. > :07:36.

:07:36. > :07:41.back-to-back winner, what is the secret? I have my own. Thank you. I

:07:41. > :07:45.think it is one of the toughest races. It was very long, we did

:07:45. > :07:49.those two hours and the circuit is a killer and there are so many

:07:49. > :07:53.bombs andfor mistakes and the race just seems to go on forever. We

:07:53. > :07:57.benefited from the failure of Lewis Hamilton and I could see that he

:07:57. > :08:02.had lost oil a couple of laps before and after that, generally we

:08:02. > :08:07.have a very strong pace all weekend. The good start got us into the hunt

:08:07. > :08:11.and the pace was there. I'm just incredibly happy and proud because

:08:11. > :08:16.this is such a tough race. Proud to win this and I would like to

:08:16. > :08:23.dedicate it to a very special man, Mr Sid Watkins, who passed away. He

:08:23. > :08:28.will be remembered for sure. When done. He is one of the reasons that

:08:28. > :08:31.we can go out and enjoy ourselves and be reasonably safe because he

:08:31. > :08:37.pushed the boundaries in terms of safety for all of us. There is a

:08:37. > :08:44.big thank you for him. We support those sentiments. Can you see

:08:45. > :08:49.something reminiscent to the back of 2010, how you came from this

:08:50. > :08:54.position to state that when? Fernando Alonso would not be too

:08:54. > :08:58.happy if it happened during the last race! But I think it was an

:08:58. > :09:01.incredible season for all of us. Approaching the weekend, not

:09:01. > :09:06.knowing what will happen, and everything can happen the race so

:09:06. > :09:11.it is a lot of fun for us and for the people who watch. We have a lot

:09:11. > :09:14.of races left and the cars seem to be competitive. I'll keep pushing

:09:14. > :09:22.him in the next couple of races to make sure we finish ahead of those

:09:23. > :09:28.guys. Jenson Button... What did happen on that restart? Sorry?

:09:28. > :09:36.were complaining on the radio, we could hear you, can you answer?

:09:36. > :09:42.Believe me, everyone! Was that fun?! I am glad. It was pretty

:09:42. > :09:47.tough. But yes, the restart, Sebastian Vettel accelerated and

:09:48. > :09:50.braked for the right hander and I just didn't expect that. Such as

:09:51. > :09:54.speed difference so I just missed the rear of his car, which would

:09:54. > :10:00.have been embarrassing. But we got through it and it's a good second

:10:00. > :10:05.place. I'm reasonably happy with that. But you cannot win them all.

:10:05. > :10:09.Does that make up in some small way for Monza? Yes... But, you know,

:10:09. > :10:13.for us as a team, to have another failure this weekend is

:10:13. > :10:16.disappointing. The important thing is we have a very good car and the

:10:16. > :10:20.team were doing a very good job and it seems that every race to go to,

:10:20. > :10:30.we have a very good chance of winning so that is important.

:10:30. > :10:32.

:10:32. > :10:35.Fernando Alonso! Our championship leader. You also have won twice

:10:35. > :10:39.here and you are on the podium, this must be one of your favourite

:10:40. > :10:46.tracks? Believe me, everybody. Of course, this is one of the best

:10:46. > :10:51.tracks to enjoy. It is out of the normal routine of times, etcetera.

:10:51. > :10:56.We enjoy driving here, the up this year is fantastic. The it was a

:10:56. > :11:00.very fun race. You still have the 29 point lead in the championship

:11:00. > :11:08.but you have not won since Germany. Or all of the opponents falling

:11:08. > :11:14.away or tripping over themselves? In Monza or I was winning the race

:11:14. > :11:18.and Sebastien retired and Lewis retired so it's OK if they keep

:11:18. > :11:21.doing it like this. To a everybody out there, throughout the world

:11:22. > :11:30.watching this unbelievable show from Singapore, thank you very

:11:30. > :11:34.much! Blimey! It takes somebody to overshadow three world champions!

:11:34. > :11:38.Thank you to the drivers for giving us one heck of a show. Christian,

:11:38. > :11:45.congratulations. Were heard you on the radio telling Sebastien that

:11:45. > :11:48.you think he is back in the title hunt? It was unlucky for Lewis

:11:48. > :11:52.Hamilton, we know how that feels and it's never nice to say but he

:11:52. > :11:58.was on it all afternoon and evening. He did a perfect race. It closes

:11:58. > :12:02.the gap to Fernando Alonso, that puts us in great shape. Christian

:12:02. > :12:06.look at the Bodger and went, Fernando, he keeps on finishing!

:12:06. > :12:09.That's the important thing for Ferrari. There's a lot more for

:12:09. > :12:12.Christian over on the foreign, if you want to press the red Button.

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