:00:16. > :00:23.Is a sport of high numbers, high speed in the hundreds of miles an
:00:24. > :00:31.hour. Resolutions per minute by the many thousand, salaries by the
:00:32. > :00:41.millions paid or unpaid. In this sport of high numbers, temperatures
:00:42. > :00:46.soar, too. And on the scorched land, the tropical storm falls at
:00:47. > :00:52.day's end. Mercury rising. And in its red zone, rubber melts. In the
:00:53. > :01:01.furnace, tempers flare, even among team-mates. But in the delirium of
:01:02. > :01:09.heat, in the midst of all the falling out, every connection made.
:01:10. > :01:16.Calling in on old friends. Dropping if you're passing by. High numbers,
:01:17. > :01:21.high temperatures, but this was the season of the smallest unit. The
:01:22. > :01:28.slimmest of single digits and the coolest head. The number is in the
:01:29. > :02:39.title. In Formula one, the number one is the one.
:02:40. > :02:53.I think you should behave. For someone who is deaf, you hear a lot.
:02:54. > :03:01.I am very keen not to listen to you! Very compelling.
:03:02. > :03:08.So fellows, cast your mind back to January. What were your expectations
:03:09. > :03:12.going into this season? When you consider we came off the back of
:03:13. > :03:16.three dominant years from Red Bull, but Sharon had the fastest car last
:03:17. > :03:23.year. And they came with a very different car. And we were thinking,
:03:24. > :03:25.maybe this is it. Maybe this is the big step that will make them world
:03:26. > :03:42.champions. There is a nice feeling with the
:03:43. > :03:45.car. Towards the end of the day we did our quickest lap with a tyre
:03:46. > :03:51.that would not normally work on cold temperatures. That was incredible
:03:52. > :03:59.doing on hard tyres for the first day. It was a good lap time. The
:04:00. > :04:06.first day, Jansen was quickest. Then we started to find out all sorts of
:04:07. > :04:11.things about the car. Basically it was upside down,
:04:12. > :04:14.certain bits of the rear suspension. Yet, it was different.
:04:15. > :04:21.But obviously you could never race like that. The problem was, we did
:04:22. > :04:25.not get a good understanding of how good the car was because we kept
:04:26. > :04:30.having issues with the car. So we did not really find out until we did
:04:31. > :04:38.the third test and saw the pace of Mercedes and Red Bull. We were two
:04:39. > :04:42.seconds off the pace. A few months ago we had the fastest
:04:43. > :04:48.car. We finished last year so strongly. There is a lot of opinion.
:04:49. > :04:53.Should we go back to last your's car? We didn't. If that was the
:04:54. > :04:59.right or wrong decision, I don't know. We were expecting something
:05:00. > :05:07.like a second and a half, two seconds. From that point on which we
:05:08. > :05:13.realised how difficult it was going to be.
:05:14. > :05:23.So the first race really showed the true colours of McLaren. But in
:05:24. > :05:28.finished in 10th. When you focus on electronics, marketing, road cars,
:05:29. > :05:31.catering companies, if you are in management structure and you are
:05:32. > :05:37.having to give 100% to any of those businesses, of course you can. You
:05:38. > :05:40.have to delegate. I just wonder whether the McLaren machine in its
:05:41. > :05:47.quest for a share price, has become too big and not focused enough. The
:05:48. > :05:50.road car project is a big distraction. You have to ask
:05:51. > :05:56.yourself, do I want to be a world championship winning constructor? Or
:05:57. > :05:58.do I want to build the best road cars in the world? That is the
:05:59. > :06:22.simple question. We are ready to go racing in 2013.
:06:23. > :06:36.Lights down! Clearly you could see that he has
:06:37. > :06:44.not lost any speed over the winter. Good to see him back. McLaren looks
:06:45. > :06:53.low in a straight line. He is making this a two stop race. We are not
:06:54. > :07:01.supercompetitive. But we have good tyre wear and good tyre drag.
:07:02. > :07:10.Kimi Raikkonen wins the Australian Grand Prix!
:07:11. > :07:18.It is a World Championship team. That is where Fernando Alonso won
:07:19. > :07:22.his two world titles. Melbourne was a wake-up call for a number of
:07:23. > :07:29.teams. What a strong team and a quality team they work. A perfect
:07:30. > :07:38.start for Kimi Raikkonen and then we went to
:07:39. > :07:47.Alonso doesn't charge too much. Looks like Alonso has got damage to
:07:48. > :07:57.the front wing of his car. Broken front wing. You can see its parking.
:07:58. > :08:01.He will have two come in. He is trying to see if he can stay to the
:08:02. > :08:04.window. We had the front wing hanging off
:08:05. > :08:09.the car but the team did not tell him. Are you telling me that he
:08:10. > :08:14.can't feel the front wing hanging off the car? For goodness me, who
:08:15. > :08:18.was going to take responsibility? The driver has to realise there is
:08:19. > :08:26.something wrong with the car. He has got no steering! That could
:08:27. > :08:30.have been very frightening indeed. That was a risk that the team and he
:08:31. > :08:35.took and it has not paid off. Maybe that shows us a little bit
:08:36. > :08:38.about the personality of Fernando. He is so focused and so intent, he
:08:39. > :08:44.believes he can drive around the problem.
:08:45. > :08:50.Mercedes have time to dwell. He went in the wrong paid! Hamilton went
:08:51. > :08:56.into the wrong paid! Was go to happen at one stage. Still today,
:08:57. > :09:02.even in the last race, I nearly pulled into McLaren. Next year it
:09:03. > :09:09.should not be a problem because the pit director will be closer.
:09:10. > :09:17.There is Lewis Hamilton running in third place. Nico Rosberg is fourth.
:09:18. > :09:24.Hamilton trying to get past Rosberg again.
:09:25. > :09:26.Sometimes I just wish I could've let him pass because it would got rid of
:09:27. > :09:37.all that. It is never a decision I like
:09:38. > :09:44.making. Both were in difficulties with fuel consumption. That was a
:09:45. > :09:52.strong factor in the decision. Nico, please drop back, leave a gap.
:09:53. > :09:57.There is a massive gap behind. There is nothing to gain in front. I want
:09:58. > :10:04.to bring these cars home. It was frustrating, yes. It is not
:10:05. > :10:11.playing second fiddle. It was just not having the right to overtake.
:10:12. > :10:15.I was very pleased that the drivers supported the decisions that were
:10:16. > :10:31.made. Even though they may not have necessarily agreed with them.
:10:32. > :10:36.This took the Spike out of hours. Mark Webber should be ahead. It will
:10:37. > :10:40.be relatively close. Vettel side-by-side with Mark Webber as
:10:41. > :10:48.they come around the first corner. Vettel will get a better exit out of
:10:49. > :10:58.the corner. Mark Webber will have to go defensive. Webber hold his
:10:59. > :11:03.ground. -- holds. The message was an instruction that
:11:04. > :11:06.car number two was meant to finish in front of car number one. For
:11:07. > :11:11.whatever reason, Sebastian did not feel that was the finishing order he
:11:12. > :11:21.was going to accept. Vettel coming back at Mark Webber!
:11:22. > :11:29.The team-mates side-by-side. There was more said over the radio
:11:30. > :11:36.then was broadcast? Absolutely. He was only giving me problems sectors.
:11:37. > :11:38.I didn't obey the team order. It wasn't the right thing to do from my
:11:39. > :11:55.point of view. Webber is on the outside, they
:11:56. > :12:04.touch! Webber is back down the inside. What racing this is.
:12:05. > :12:07.It actually produced some spectacular wheel to wheel racing.
:12:08. > :12:16.It was just extremely uncomfortable to witness.
:12:17. > :12:23.Still side-by-side, look at this! He has gone round him! Sebastian Vettel
:12:24. > :12:34.takes the lead! He was told. He was told.
:12:35. > :12:39.Good job, Sebastian, good job. Thank you, Nico. Excellent drive. Well
:12:40. > :12:48.done. I just feel I was a massive team
:12:49. > :12:50.player that day. If I had had a bit more about myself, it could have
:12:51. > :13:07.gone another way. Multi-21.
:13:08. > :13:12.After his last stop, the team told me the race was over. We turn the
:13:13. > :13:18.entrance down and go to the end. In the end said made his own decision
:13:19. > :13:23.today. That's the way it goes. Sebastian, the team had asked you to
:13:24. > :13:29.hold position in second, is that right? That is correct. I did not
:13:30. > :13:35.mean to ignore the call. Otherwise, why would it take some at risk to
:13:36. > :13:39.passing? I messed up. I would love to come up with a very nice excuse
:13:40. > :13:45.or a very nice story right now but I cant.
:13:46. > :13:52.Are you happy that you have won? No. I am not. I did a mistake. If I
:13:53. > :13:57.could undo it, I would. It is a very serious breach of a team order. And
:13:58. > :14:05.for me, it was a sack offence. I thought it was just appalling. You
:14:06. > :14:09.cannot sack the guy who has won three world Championships. You're
:14:10. > :14:13.talking crazy. You have to realise who is running the team. You
:14:14. > :14:17.confident you will be allowed to challenge to win a World
:14:18. > :14:27.championship at Red Bull? Yes, this was something that was in my mind in
:14:28. > :14:31.the last part of the Grand Prix. As It is three weeks until the next
:14:32. > :14:34.race, thankfully, we will see what happens.
:14:35. > :14:42.Where you genuinely surprised, the way he dealt with Malaysia? No. I
:14:43. > :14:47.think his initial reaction was not too far from the money. But two
:14:48. > :14:51.weeks later... Had I understood the message, I would have thought about
:14:52. > :14:56.it and done the same thing, because Mark does not deserve that. He had
:14:57. > :15:01.obviously reflected long and hard and he came to me in China very
:15:02. > :15:04.upset that he had not been able to get it off his chest and I
:15:05. > :15:08.encouraged him to sit down with Mark, just the two of you, and have
:15:09. > :15:13.it out. So I put the two of them in my office, and Sebastien came out
:15:14. > :15:17.and said, I feel much better. Mark came out and said, I am going to
:15:18. > :15:26.thump him, where is he? So it obviously didn't address the issue.
:15:27. > :15:31.China, we had a chat and the chatter didn't go that well. So that was
:15:32. > :15:34.probably the lowest point in the relationship. I wouldn't visit tries
:15:35. > :15:40.to give his decision to retire was made very soon after that --be
:15:41. > :15:46.surprised if his decision. The bottom line is I was racing, I
:15:47. > :15:50.passed him, I was faster, I was one. Fernando Alonso wins in China for
:15:51. > :15:57.Ferrari. What is going to happen in the battle for third place? He is
:15:58. > :16:03.still in front of Sebastien Vettel. Raikkonen is third. Sebastien Vettel
:16:04. > :16:08.is for. -- in fourth. So a few races in an
:16:09. > :16:15.Formula one is headline news as we head into Bahrain.
:16:16. > :16:19.The Bahrain Grand Prix is embroiled in fresh controversy. Despite
:16:20. > :16:24.clashes between police and protesters... Condemned by many as a
:16:25. > :16:28.propaganda tool for the Kingdom's rulers. They say it should not be
:16:29. > :16:32.staged because of the poor record on human rights.
:16:33. > :16:37.They keep asking people about human rights, I don't know what they are.
:16:38. > :16:44.We will trust in the FIA and that they will make the right decision
:16:45. > :16:49.and here we are raising in Bahrain. He looked a little bit in awe of
:16:50. > :16:54.being a race for a big team. It wasn't the exuberance we wanted to
:16:55. > :17:00.see, so we'll encouraged him to do just that.
:17:01. > :17:07.DAVID COULTHARD: A battle between the two McLarens. Perez saying, I
:17:08. > :17:10.have had a quiet start, but I wonder some of this.
:17:11. > :17:14.The guy you have to work with, especially to develop a car, it is
:17:15. > :17:21.not working and anyone who you did not need to upset at that time was
:17:22. > :17:27.Jenson Button. Perez not far behind. Look at Button. That could have been
:17:28. > :17:32.frightening! It looks like I was racing in GP two, and it was a long
:17:33. > :17:39.time since I had raced in a junior formula. We are all led to prove it,
:17:40. > :17:44.we all have a team made, and you raise hard, there are no jerky
:17:45. > :17:50.movements. We understand the nature of the sport -- and we race hard.
:17:51. > :17:56.Button is going down the outside. Don't hit each other! They both went
:17:57. > :18:01.too far, they physically made contact a couple of times, that was
:18:02. > :18:05.too far. Do they need to be fighting this hard? I guess they are racing
:18:06. > :18:09.for position and it is very but it is putting them both in a bit of
:18:10. > :18:13.danger. Contact! Perez runs into the back
:18:14. > :18:20.Button. Golden rule, do not hit your team-mate.
:18:21. > :18:24.Did he overstepped the mark? He did, he not only went wheel-to-wheel with
:18:25. > :18:29.his team-mate and upset him, he had upset Hamilton the race before, he
:18:30. > :18:33.had upset Alonso. Those guys do not complain to the sake of it, they say
:18:34. > :18:38.something when they feel some young pup is not respecting the
:18:39. > :18:41.wheel-to-wheel action. The impression I get there is that Perez
:18:42. > :18:45.was out of his depth and should not have been doing what he was doing
:18:46. > :18:49.and had no right to be there and I cannot accept that. Perez is his own
:18:50. > :18:57.man and has to establish his own career. Here is Perez again.
:18:58. > :19:08.Can they get there safely? Perez and Button?
:19:09. > :19:11.It is part of the fight for me. You don't care about banging wheels with
:19:12. > :19:17.your team-mate? It was too much, definitely. The team principals had
:19:18. > :19:22.to say it was a step too far, because how they did not have one or
:19:23. > :19:27.both cars out in that race, it was remarkable luck. Sebastien Vettel
:19:28. > :19:29.wins in Bahrain, the first repeat winner of 2013.
:19:30. > :19:48.Yes! It was special and always when I am
:19:49. > :19:56.in Spain, I feel a lot of emotion, a lot of support from the people. And
:19:57. > :20:02.in that moment, I had the opportunity to give a high five to
:20:03. > :20:05.some who were in the stand. Remarkably, over 30 years have
:20:06. > :20:10.passed since a dry Spanish Grand Prix was one from anywhere other
:20:11. > :20:13.than the front row. Fernando Alonso is only fifth on the grid, the
:20:14. > :20:20.Mercedes are upfront. Will they stay there?
:20:21. > :20:32.Light out, away we go, Ross Berg and Hamilton. Close to the outside of
:20:33. > :20:36.Hamilton -- Rosberg. Alonso trying to get fourth place. On the outside
:20:37. > :20:40.goes Alonso. He is trying to get Hamilton as well. That is amazing
:20:41. > :20:47.from Fernando Alonso, he is into third position. This season has been
:20:48. > :20:51.dominated by poor qualifying and good laps to recover on the
:20:52. > :20:54.Saturdays, that was one of the best first laps.
:20:55. > :20:58.DAVID COULTHARD: The thing that really sets him apart from your
:20:59. > :21:07.average racing driver is it is a long run from the start line to the
:21:08. > :21:11.first corner. You have all of your KERS and traditionally use that. He
:21:12. > :21:16.didn't. He watched the Grand Prix two races and saw that some people
:21:17. > :21:24.were overtaking, he hit the boost Button around the outside.
:21:25. > :21:33.Brilliant stuff from Fernando Alonso. Both of the leaders are into
:21:34. > :21:38.the pits. Alonso is on the outside. The Ferrari is going to split the
:21:39. > :21:42.pair of them. He has gained a place from Vettel. Alonso is on the
:21:43. > :21:45.attack, the Spaniard going for the lead in the Spanish Grand Prix and
:21:46. > :21:53.he is ahead! Fernando Alonso gets past the Mercedes. Fernando Alonso
:21:54. > :22:04.wins the Spanish Grand Prix, his home event.
:22:05. > :22:10.I remember the lap after the race, after the chequered flag, when I
:22:11. > :22:15.held the flag, and it was a special weekend and obviously the highest
:22:16. > :22:18.point of this year for me. A quick word on Fernando's performance,
:22:19. > :22:35.Stefan? Outstanding, outstanding. At that stage of the season, we were
:22:36. > :22:37.talking a lot about the tyres and if you look at what happened in
:22:38. > :22:41.qualifying, Mercedes on the front row, locked out, and they finished
:22:42. > :22:47.in sixth and 12th. That is not supposed to happen. That was a tough
:22:48. > :22:51.period, because the emotional highs that come from pole positions and
:22:52. > :22:55.then when I do get a pole, there is always the hope and believe that I
:22:56. > :22:58.can make it happen also in the race. And to get eaten up like that
:22:59. > :23:04.in the race and just dropping off the cliff more less, that was quite
:23:05. > :23:09.tough, really and not nice. The whole tyre issue is confusing the
:23:10. > :23:15.public and not good for Formula one. We get so accustomed to watching man
:23:16. > :23:19.and machine in perfect harmony on a qualifying lap that it is confusing
:23:20. > :23:25.when suddenly you see these cars go from pole position and backing into
:23:26. > :23:29.cars that can make their tyres fast. We were shell-shocked after that, it
:23:30. > :23:33.was so bad. That race in particular caused us to do some soul searching
:23:34. > :23:41.on what we had to do to try and improve the tyre situation. The most
:23:42. > :23:45.famous venue on the F1 calendar, Monaco, many stories of success and
:23:46. > :23:49.heartbreak. Lewis Hamilton, he goes fastest in
:23:50. > :23:56.the Mercedes. Is that going to be enough? Nico Rosberg has gone even
:23:57. > :24:00.faster. It is pole position once again for Nico Rosberg. His
:24:01. > :24:05.hat-trick of pole positions. Side into the first corner, Rosberg
:24:06. > :24:11.gets ahead, Hamilton for second place.
:24:12. > :24:18.SUZI PERRY: It was carb carbon tax take, there was stuff all over the
:24:19. > :24:24.place. This looks like a Sunday drive!
:24:25. > :24:30.TEAM RADIO: You are starting to crack the pace up. Sounds very
:24:31. > :24:36.controlled at the moment, doesn't it? It sounds wrong, they should be
:24:37. > :24:39.gunning it every lap. When you win, there will always be criticisms. You
:24:40. > :24:47.have to listen to them, respect them and move on and do your own thing. I
:24:48. > :24:54.always underestimated at Monaco the ability Nico is to create space and
:24:55. > :24:58.the gap when he needs it. -- as to create. Nico Rosberg wins in Monaco,
:24:59. > :25:10.he has repeated the performance of his father here 30 years ago. : !
:25:11. > :25:13.TEAM RADIO: Very well done, Nico. Winning the race is about winning it
:25:14. > :25:20.in the slowest possible time, that is what they did. And then all kinds
:25:21. > :25:24.of controversy break-out when it is discovered there has been a tyre
:25:25. > :25:29.Test and it has been done by Mercedes and he rarely, but with
:25:30. > :25:34.Mercedes drivers. And their car, the current car. It was so blatant, it
:25:35. > :25:38.was ridiculous. It is a bit weird of the regulations don't allow you to
:25:39. > :25:43.Test and one team is doing testing. What is the solution? Is everybody
:25:44. > :25:47.have a go for three days? I don't think they want to do that today
:25:48. > :25:52.because of last week, but surely it helps. Whence it came out, I am
:25:53. > :25:55.surprised Mercedes did not pay a bigger penalty and in my opinion,
:25:56. > :26:00.they got away scot-free in the FIA appeal afterwards.
:26:01. > :26:05.Sebastien Vettel comes out of the final chicane in Canada. He has
:26:06. > :26:13.taken victory for Red Bull. In Canada, a very convincing win for
:26:14. > :26:17.Sebastien Vettel. I can't help but feel it was marred by a very sad
:26:18. > :26:22.occasion. Mark Robinson, we underestimate the value of marshals.
:26:23. > :26:25.He sadly lost his life when he was run over by a truck at the circuit,
:26:26. > :26:34.and my thoughts were obviously with him at that time. And onto one of
:26:35. > :26:37.the gems of the calendar, Silverstone, and David, you did
:26:38. > :26:43.everything you could to get Lewis Hamilton flying.
:26:44. > :27:02.We have liftoff. A bit of a moment there. Woo hoo! Holy crap! I have
:27:03. > :27:15.never heard you so excited. COMMENTATOR: Hamilton is going
:27:16. > :27:25.faster than everybody else. It is good to see you smiling right now.
:27:26. > :27:26.COMMENTATOR: He has done it, Lewis Hamilton, look at the lap time. Pole
:27:27. > :27:37.position. TEAM RADIO: Storming job, Lewis.
:27:38. > :27:44.COMMENTATOR: Lights out and away we go and a great start by Lewis
:27:45. > :27:48.Hamilton, the perfect getaway. The pole position I had and the pace I
:27:49. > :27:54.had, it was just controlling it from then on. I was pulling away from the
:27:55. > :27:59.Red Bull and it is very rare to see that. Hamilton is out of the charge
:28:00. > :28:06.for winning this race. The crowd watching cannot believe it. I think
:28:07. > :28:10.at the end of the day, it was still a good race. In actual fact, I like
:28:11. > :28:14.those races more than leading, when you overtake and come through. That
:28:15. > :28:19.is what I was always good at when I was doing go-karting and that is how
:28:20. > :28:26.I made my name. They send him on his way once again. He has gone off.
:28:27. > :28:33.What is the cause of that? It is a puncture. The tyre has gone, right
:28:34. > :28:36.in front of Raikkonen, Sebastien grows on.
:28:37. > :28:48.TEAM RADIO: People have been having punches. Watch out for the corners.
:28:49. > :28:53.We do not accept is -- expect to see this informally one racing. Hamilton
:28:54. > :28:57.goes for it. It is a problem with the gears. He is in trouble and
:28:58. > :29:03.Rosberg takes the lead in the British Grand Prix.
:29:04. > :29:07.TEAM RADIO: It is the gearbox. Alonso has got more grip. And look
:29:08. > :29:14.at Hamilton, he is going to take advantage. The tyre has gone, Perez.
:29:15. > :29:36.Hamilton down the inside of Adrian Sutil. Hamilton takes fourth place.
:29:37. > :29:45.This is a tremendous drive. Red Bull wins the British Grand Prix! An
:29:46. > :29:52.excellent job. Well done, mate. Crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. I was
:29:53. > :29:58.doing a lot of things to avoid curbs and drive slowly. I was really
:29:59. > :30:05.trying to adapt and make the most. -- missed most of it. The things I
:30:06. > :30:10.have two separate the tyres I had to keep them. I was not happy. Is
:30:11. > :30:14.unacceptable. It is unacceptable that until somebody gets hurt,
:30:15. > :30:20.somebody is going to do something about it. The bigger thing is
:30:21. > :30:24.safety. If somebody gets hit on the head by a attire, that could be game
:30:25. > :30:30.over. Pirelli had to provide new tyres in
:30:31. > :30:33.under a week? You know, Formula one has a habit of being able to react
:30:34. > :30:40.super quick. And that is exactly what they did. It is something we
:30:41. > :30:43.talked about from the first race. It is only when they went back to the
:30:44. > :30:53.previous year's compounds that things became more sensible. Still
:30:54. > :31:00.marginal but more sensible. Kimi Raikkonen is moving up through
:31:01. > :31:03.the field here. Vettel is in. So is the race leader. Reich and in. So is
:31:04. > :31:09.the race leader. I can and has stayed out. -- Reich and on. -- Kimi
:31:10. > :31:23.Raikkonen. Kimi was incredibly quick. Kimi Raikkonen has come in.
:31:24. > :31:28.Why they did the last pit stop at the end, I still to this date do not
:31:29. > :31:34.know why. I think he would have got to the end. There is a real chance
:31:35. > :31:39.here now. Kimi Raikkonen goes past his
:31:40. > :31:45.team-mate. Sebastian Vettel has driven a brilliant race here! Can
:31:46. > :31:49.Kimi Raikkonen do anything? Up to the last corner. I don't think it is
:31:50. > :31:53.likely. That was one of his best races of
:31:54. > :32:00.the year because he defended superbly to win one of the most
:32:01. > :32:04.demanding races of his career. Sebastian Vettel wins in Germany,
:32:05. > :32:10.the first time he has won his home Grand Prix!
:32:11. > :32:15.That was a tough one. To win the German Grand Prix for the
:32:16. > :32:25.first time, I was trying very hard. I simply enjoyed the lap. I tried to
:32:26. > :32:29.take everything in. There was great emotion when I crossed the line and
:32:30. > :32:42.great relief. They give me a run for their money.
:32:43. > :32:51.I feel like this is my home now. This is my team. I feel over the
:32:52. > :32:55.year they have embraced me. Was a difficult senior team-mate winning
:32:56. > :32:59.races? I would not say it was easy. You want to be ahead of the time. He
:33:00. > :33:04.had been here for three years. He did not have to change anything.
:33:05. > :33:08.When I was at McLaren, they brought Jenson in. To make Jenson feel
:33:09. > :33:13.comfortable, they shuffled around my engineers. They gave Jenson some of
:33:14. > :33:19.my engineers and gave me new people. Here, we didn't have that. Nico kept
:33:20. > :33:26.his engineers. They are learning about me. For us to do as well as we
:33:27. > :33:30.have done in our first year, has been great.
:33:31. > :33:44.Away we go! Lewis Hamilton gets brilliantly. Hamilton is flying.
:33:45. > :33:54.Here is Hamilton coming now. The pass on bottom. Hamilton stays in
:33:55. > :34:08.front of Vettel. Vettel has to talking behind button. -- Jenson
:34:09. > :34:19.Button. This is having a huge effect on the outcome of Vettel's race.
:34:20. > :34:24.Vettel is having a go. Finally come on passed Jenson Button! It could
:34:25. > :34:47.have been a different result. Hamilton wins in Hungary and takes
:34:48. > :34:51.his first win with Mercedes! Well done to Hamilton, who dominated
:34:52. > :34:57.proceedings here today. So Lewis Hamilton made that move to
:34:58. > :35:02.Mercedes. What you make of it? Very positive. I think Lewis Hamilton is
:35:03. > :35:05.an inspired decision. He has created a very good pitch for himself to be
:35:06. > :35:14.able to mount a real charge on the championship in years to come.
:35:15. > :35:19.After Hungary, I definitely thought there might be the smallest window
:35:20. > :35:26.that we could actually close the gap. But then one megabyte after the
:35:27. > :35:30.break, they had taken huge step. Lights out, where we go. Lewis
:35:31. > :35:37.Hamilton makes a very good getaway. Sebastian Vettel slots behind.
:35:38. > :35:44.Vettel has taken the lead! He has gone past Hamilton! It is like
:35:45. > :35:46.flying a propeller plane against a jet plane. That is what it is like.
:35:47. > :36:00.They have so much downforce. The car was absolutely fantastic.
:36:01. > :36:04.For sure, we made a few little tweaks to the car but nothing major.
:36:05. > :36:12.I think Sebastian just selected another gear. From that point on
:36:13. > :36:20.what he was an unbelievable form. -- onwards. Sebastian Vettel wins the
:36:21. > :36:25.Italian Grand Prix! Whatever he had to eat during his
:36:26. > :36:28.summer break, or whatever he did, he came back a different person. He was
:36:29. > :36:35.supreme. He never really looked back at all.
:36:36. > :36:41.Rosberg takes the lead but that'll get it back! Look at how he is
:36:42. > :36:49.opening the lead up already. What we saw there was a man and
:36:50. > :36:55.machine in perfect harmony. Yes, I'm loving it.
:36:56. > :37:00.Sebastian, he is looking pretty good. It is always this man who
:37:01. > :37:06.seems to be chasing you up on the podium.
:37:07. > :37:14.He is a young man like anybody. When you walk out onto the podium and you
:37:15. > :37:19.have driven your heart out and you hear people deriding it, it is tough
:37:20. > :37:23.for anybody to take. Do you think the incident in
:37:24. > :37:31.Malaysia was the catalyst for the building? For sure. 100%. He had
:37:32. > :37:36.been the villain. He had taken a win away from Mark Webber. That,
:37:37. > :37:41.together with being a serial winner...
:37:42. > :37:45.Sebastian Vettel wins in Korea again.
:37:46. > :37:52.We should admire him not be jealous of him.
:37:53. > :37:57.He knew he would be able to turn it around.
:37:58. > :38:00.You are going against factual evidence if you think he is not
:38:01. > :38:07.worthy of being a champion and that team has not done a fantastic job.
:38:08. > :38:14.Sebastian Vettel is the 2013 world champion!
:38:15. > :38:16.When he expressed his emotion, everything changed. Everything
:38:17. > :38:21.turned around. The reaction he got in India was something I had never
:38:22. > :38:37.seen before. Yes! Yes!
:38:38. > :38:49.Here in India he is surely a superhero. You have done it in
:38:50. > :38:54.style. Fantastic. You are a three-time world champion. You had
:38:55. > :39:05.joined the greats. Unbelievable what he has achieved.
:39:06. > :39:08.He is part of such a select group. This is the incomparable Fangio, one
:39:09. > :39:22.of the greatest drivers the world has known.
:39:23. > :39:29.For all of the kids, for all of us, he looked -- reluctant to him
:39:30. > :39:37.because he was our hero. -- we looked up to him. No kids will be
:39:38. > :39:40.looking up to you? That is weird. I am still a kid. At least I feel like
:39:41. > :39:46.it! I believe he is in the realm of
:39:47. > :39:53.greatness. He is up there among the greats of Formula one.
:39:54. > :39:59.When Red Bull dominate one year, it is OK. They have great aerodynamics
:40:00. > :40:09.and a great team. When is this happening constantly, every year,
:40:10. > :40:15.all the other teams are getting a little bit worse. You are still in
:40:16. > :40:19.love with the idea of winning a title with Ferrari but perhaps not
:40:20. > :40:21.in love with Ferrari. Are you getting frustrated with
:40:22. > :40:27.Ferrari? We understand your manager has been speaking to Red Bull. You
:40:28. > :40:32.looking to leave? No. I am concentrating on the championship.
:40:33. > :40:39.Let's be very clear. He is disenchanted. Has your manager been
:40:40. > :40:45.to speak to Red Bull? No. Not that I know. The way he spoke on the team
:40:46. > :40:55.radio, there is not a person who believes that was genuine.
:40:56. > :41:01.What confirms that is the fact that the president of Ferrari came out
:41:02. > :41:05.afterwards and very publicly slapped back into place and said that nobody
:41:06. > :41:11.was bigger than the team. I believe he will win a title with Ferrari.
:41:12. > :41:13.Whether he will end up winning as many titles as Sebastian Vettel, who
:41:14. > :41:29.knows? Kimi Raikkonen has signed for
:41:30. > :41:37.Ferrari. He is lining up Fernando Alonso for
:41:38. > :41:43.the pass! Abu Dhabi and the last time we saw
:41:44. > :41:49.Kimi Raikkonen. It was like he did not want to be there. We were not
:41:50. > :41:54.privy to the financial situation at that moment. We were saying, why is
:41:55. > :42:03.this happening? Why would he leave Lotus? Why would he go there? The
:42:04. > :42:07.reality was he was not paid. He did his job as nicely as I would've
:42:08. > :42:11.dreamt. He did it on to later in the season. You cannot not pay your
:42:12. > :42:16.staff. That had a huge effect on his
:42:17. > :42:22.performance. Sebastian Vettel takes his 11th win
:42:23. > :42:22.of the season. Brilliant, brilliant job.
:42:23. > :42:36.Well done. So we hop across the pond to Austin,
:42:37. > :42:44.Texas and everyone gets a bit of a surprise, mostly Sergio Perez, that
:42:45. > :42:49.he is out at the end of the season. It certainly caught me. Well done
:42:50. > :42:52.McLaren, because they certainly got me over the previous year with
:42:53. > :42:57.Hamilton. I thought he had done enough to keep his seat. He has done
:42:58. > :43:03.a good job but you have to look forward. In simple terms, last year
:43:04. > :43:11.Jenson was outqualified by his team-mate on average by .3 of a
:43:12. > :43:17.second. So Jenson is a fantastic member of this team. But if you are
:43:18. > :43:22.aspiring to be a champion in the future, you have to go out and beat
:43:23. > :43:27.Jenson. When I joined McLaren, the car was
:43:28. > :43:31.extremely difficult. Every Friday until a couple of races ago, we were
:43:32. > :43:41.always changing everything. Every Friday was a learning experience. it
:43:42. > :43:45.is a cut-throat business and you have got to come in and do a great
:43:46. > :43:48.job. If you do, you have got a great career in front of you. If you
:43:49. > :43:56.don't, you read. DAVID COULTHARD: -- you read. Perez
:43:57. > :44:02.did not deliver and if you have a bad season, they dropped the driver.
:44:03. > :44:06.They have done it time and again. It is part and parcel of how you act.
:44:07. > :44:08.The engineers had a vote and they knew Magnusson, with a vote and they
:44:09. > :44:18.knew Magnusson, who they more potential and would be more exciting
:44:19. > :44:26.than Perez. Vettel with a slightly better start.
:44:27. > :44:29.Webber lost out big-time. It is the best we have been doing so far. Mark
:44:30. > :44:41.Webber was so quick behind me, always chasing me. Webber making the
:44:42. > :44:48.lunch? No, he has a think, unsettling Alonso. The Red Bull car
:44:49. > :44:54.did not make any mistakes at all. A few races ago, we probably would not
:44:55. > :44:58.have held him up, but as we get better and better, he just couldn't.
:44:59. > :45:04.Sebastien Vettel to take his first-ever win in the USA and Romain
:45:05. > :45:11.Grosjean gets his best ever result in second. There was some praise
:45:12. > :45:14.from other drivers after this race, including Mark. Unfortunately, he's
:45:15. > :45:23.getting quite experienced, and he is learning some tricks. I would like
:45:24. > :45:26.to start with the hat. I am not very good with the lasses yet, but I'll
:45:27. > :45:35.come back next year and we will catch a ball -- lasso.
:45:36. > :45:39.It has been a whole 180. In Monaco, he crashed the car 4 times over the
:45:40. > :45:46.weekend, it is fair to say both of you thought he was aired. I think I
:45:47. > :45:52.was then sink faster than the music. It was frustrating trying to deliver
:45:53. > :45:58.where Kimi Raikkonen was. I was trying to go to click. If I was to
:45:59. > :46:03.go back there today, it would be different. No 1 is doubting his
:46:04. > :46:06.speed, he has won pretty much every championship he has raced in, except
:46:07. > :46:15.in Formula One, but the 1 thing he has not got is consistency. But he
:46:16. > :46:19.has started to deliver that as he has matured. The second half of the
:46:20. > :46:24.season for Paul di Resta was not good, he got most of his points up
:46:25. > :46:31.in Silverstone and it was the 5th time in a row he had not finished
:46:32. > :46:37.the race. Another retirement for Paul di Resta. It was a difficult
:46:38. > :46:45.period to go through. We had 1 race where -- one race where we hit
:46:46. > :46:47.Maldonado, then I made a mistake, and we experienced something we had
:46:48. > :46:53.never experienced before. Unfortunately I went off in what was
:46:54. > :46:57.going to be a sixth position, which, if you look at my points tally, was
:46:58. > :47:02.going to be crucial. A driver wants to have a strong end to his season,
:47:03. > :47:07.because teams are looking at their options and you want to say you are
:47:08. > :47:12.there performing. At I think he suffered badly because of the tyre
:47:13. > :47:23.change. That car was not anywhere as close as good as it was at the
:47:24. > :47:29.beginning of the season. Leading Brazil, there will be a lot of
:47:30. > :47:33.emotion in this, I have put a lot into Formula One and it has taken a
:47:34. > :47:39.lot to get there. Last day at the office in Formula One. I have got to
:47:40. > :47:43.try and are is like another race. Definitely different emotions this
:47:44. > :47:50.morning. -- treated like another race. It is the last time I will do
:47:51. > :47:58.this as an F1 driver, but that is good, that is what I want. It is not
:47:59. > :48:03.a sad moment, it is a proud moment. It is just emotions that you have to
:48:04. > :48:12.accept. You have got to be able to let go. Speak your mark, good luck.
:48:13. > :48:16.Thank you. You know it is time to stop but you
:48:17. > :48:23.cannot accept it is. What is the point of continuing at that level if
:48:24. > :48:27.you cannot do it? Your final day in school, had you think? Very good,
:48:28. > :48:34.ready to go and we will see how we go. Is it possible to win? Of
:48:35. > :48:45.course. For sure we are going to miss him, he has been a massive part
:48:46. > :48:48.of this team for 7 years. He could have gone on in Formula One for
:48:49. > :48:55.another couple of years. Unfortunately, he fell out of love
:48:56. > :49:01.with the sport. He is a tough competitor, he is a grisly,
:49:02. > :49:08.bad-tempered competitors sometimes. And he pushed.
:49:09. > :49:20.Rosberg lives, Vettel into second, then it is Hamilton. -- leads. Here
:49:21. > :49:25.comes Vettel, he is on the charge. No DRS on the opening lap but Vettel
:49:26. > :49:30.doesn't care, he blasts past Nico Rosberg. Webber has a bit of a
:49:31. > :49:34.chance. Hamilton goes wide. He gives in just enough space. I'm not sure
:49:35. > :49:39.he can do it. He has done it, he is into fourth. No sign of a lack of
:49:40. > :49:45.commitment from Mark Webber on his final Grand Prix. Webber trying to
:49:46. > :49:53.take third place. I think he has done it. Alonso and Webber, on a
:49:54. > :50:00.decent run. He takes the place of the Ferrari and Webber goes up into
:50:01. > :50:05.second position. Sebastien Vettel wins in Brazil, and he equals one of
:50:06. > :50:10.the oldest records in Formula One, nine consecutive Grand Prix wins,
:50:11. > :50:16.and he is the only driver to have done that in one season. Mark Webber
:50:17. > :50:22.finishes in second place in his final Grand Prix. What a way to bow
:50:23. > :50:26.out of Formula One. Fantastic career, it has been brilliant
:50:27. > :50:28.working with you. You can be proud of everything you have done, we
:50:29. > :50:43.certainly are. Well done. Obviously, Sebastien and I have had
:50:44. > :50:46.our challenges over time, but it was easier to have a relationship with
:50:47. > :50:52.Fernando because he wasn't on the same team. Finishing on the podium
:50:53. > :50:56.with those guys, with them being the best of their generation, showed me
:50:57. > :51:00.I can still drive well at the end of my career. We didn't have the best
:51:01. > :51:06.relationship, but I can certainly say that I learned a lot from him. I
:51:07. > :51:11.learned to become a better driver because of his skills, which he has,
:51:12. > :51:16.which is why I consider him as one of the drivers we have with the most
:51:17. > :51:21.talent on the grid. They are both cut from the same cloth. They are
:51:22. > :51:26.both aggressive, competitive, fast, hungry drivers. That is why they
:51:27. > :51:30.have had the success they have had. And it has been uncomfortable and
:51:31. > :51:33.lumpy at times, but it has worked. We have had almost 20 1-2 finishes
:51:34. > :51:49.between us. It has worked. It is hugely important in life, in
:51:50. > :51:56.any respect, and it is a great model to have, and that is make sure you
:51:57. > :52:00.give it up and not that it gives you up. Market gave up Formula One, not
:52:01. > :52:13.the other way around. He will always feel superior because of that.
:52:14. > :52:19.I think Mark has had a great, long career and was just unlucky to come
:52:20. > :52:25.up against a phenomenon, the guy who might rewrite history books. The
:52:26. > :52:34.best driver I raced against in F1? It is probably between Sebastien and
:52:35. > :52:40.Fernando. Fernando is a handful. No question about that. Over one lap, I
:52:41. > :52:46.think he is not with Vettel, but on Sundays, between those two, it is
:52:47. > :52:52.very, very tight. Only time will tell us, I think. When he will have
:52:53. > :53:00.a car like the others, if he wins, he will have great recognition and
:53:01. > :53:04.he will be one of the legends in Formula One. When, one day, he has a
:53:05. > :53:10.car like the others and he is fourth, fifth, seventh, these four
:53:11. > :53:14.titles will be bad news for him, because people will take these four
:53:15. > :53:19.titles in a worse manner than they are doing now, so there are
:53:20. > :53:24.interesting times for Sebastien to come. For sure, there will always be
:53:25. > :53:27.some people thinking you have to do this, you have to do that. I don't
:53:28. > :53:31.know, I think you can think about this a lot but at the end of the
:53:32. > :53:38.day, we don't have to prove anything. I think we have proven
:53:39. > :53:43.enough. Is Sebastien no one of the all-time
:53:44. > :53:48.greats? He has to be. A 26 years of age, he has won four World
:53:49. > :53:52.Championships. There are only three other drivers in the history of the
:53:53. > :53:56.sport, over 60 years, that have achieved that. He has gone up
:53:57. > :54:02.against some fantastic drivers in Fernando, Lewis, Mark Webber, Jenson
:54:03. > :54:05.Button, Kimi Raikkonen. It is a fantastic read he is up against and
:54:06. > :54:10.he has delivered, time and time again -- a fantastic grid. It is
:54:11. > :54:16.easy to say he has the best car, but we run two cars. One of them won 13
:54:17. > :54:20.races. And the other driver is no idiot, he is a very fast driver Mark
:54:21. > :54:25.Webber, easy to underestimate how good he is. Sebastien this year has
:54:26. > :54:34.again come of age, and I think what we have witnessed this year is
:54:35. > :54:38.something very, very special. I think it was incredible.
:54:39. > :54:42.EDDIE JORDAN: And how hard it is to win a Grand Prix, to win nine
:54:43. > :54:49.consecutive league is just phenomenal, and it defies logic in
:54:50. > :54:53.many respects -- consecutively. So a superhuman effort from Sebastien, I
:54:54. > :54:56.think he would say it is his best season. He gets very emotional, we
:54:57. > :55:01.are hearing him have a love affair with his team on the radio.
:55:02. > :55:05.TEAM RADIO: We have to remember these days, we have to remember
:55:06. > :55:09.these days. There is no guarantee they will last for ever. I love you
:55:10. > :55:13.guys, I am so proud of you. I love you.
:55:14. > :55:16.DAVID COULTHARD: The doubters will see that as annoying, but if you
:55:17. > :55:20.step back for a moment and try and imagine yourself in that position,
:55:21. > :55:25.you find yourself in a great car, you find yourself breaking records
:55:26. > :55:28.that the sport, in all of its history, has never seen the like of
:55:29. > :55:32.before, why would you not have those outcries of emotion and why would
:55:33. > :55:37.you not want to say to people, this is incredible, enjoy this moment?
:55:38. > :55:45.TEAM RADIO: Nobody has ever done what you have done. So that is it
:55:46. > :55:49.for 2013. I shall be seeing you guys again in Australia, mid-March, but
:55:50. > :55:58.of course, it is the last time that we have heard the sound of that
:55:59. > :56:02.special V8. Built with incredible precision, it
:56:03. > :56:09.has eight cylinders, the ultimate in speed and engineering. This engine
:56:10. > :56:17.has been fantastically successful ENGINE ROARS.
:56:18. > :56:24.The engine is very much the heart of the racing car.
:56:25. > :56:41.ENGINE ROARS. OK, Max, let's go get them. What the
:56:42. > :56:52.hell? TEAM RADIO: We will fight if he
:56:53. > :57:05.wants to fight. Watch out for the exit curves. Wow.
:57:06. > :57:20.That is absolutely appalling. What an idiot. He was told. What the hell
:57:21. > :57:33.are you doing? Get out of the way. Don't shout. I
:57:34. > :57:47.feel like I have been in a washing machine. What is wrong with this
:57:48. > :57:58.car? Sergio, please drop back, leave a gap.
:57:59. > :58:13.Brilliant job, Lewis. I can't believe it.
:58:14. > :58:22.You have done it in style. You are a four-time world champion. Yes, yes!
:58:23. > :58:24.I love you guys. I love you. Thank you.