:00:57. > :01:04.Qualifying issue to start in ten minutes but they cannot go out in
:01:05. > :01:09.these conditions. We had the same conditions five years ago, and I was
:01:10. > :01:12.speaking to David Coulthard about it, it was very funny, we just need
:01:13. > :01:16.to brace ourselves and keep chatting and make sure the people at home
:01:17. > :01:19.stay with us, because when she get going, these ten cars will be
:01:20. > :01:38.electric and it will be worth the wait. This season has been dominated
:01:39. > :01:43.by the mastery of Sebastian Vettel. 13 wins in the season, he will be
:01:44. > :01:51.equalling Michael Schumacher. He is a master of Formula 1. These records
:01:52. > :01:59.mean so much. He has great human spirit. He can be hugely emotional.
:02:00. > :02:07.He can see aspects of life where he will enjoy this for as long as he
:02:08. > :02:12.lives. He is a very endearing boy. You would be very happy to have him
:02:13. > :02:18.as a son of yours. He is a top-quality guy, a great ambassador
:02:19. > :02:26.for our sport. He was incredibly emotional. He was kind of choked at
:02:27. > :02:34.the end. He said, this might not last for ever, we have got to grab
:02:35. > :02:45.hold of these moments. Of course, he is the star, it is box office, but
:02:46. > :02:57.it takes more than an individual to win. Strategy is vital in Formula 1,
:02:58. > :03:06.as Gary Anderson will explain. Formula 1 on race day, when the
:03:07. > :03:09.lights go out it is mathematical. They have to perform many
:03:10. > :03:14.calculation is to come up with the best risk strategy. Tyre
:03:15. > :03:21.management, fuel load, car and driver weight have to be taken into
:03:22. > :03:29.account to ensure peak performance. The rate of the car plus the driver
:03:30. > :03:38.less any fuel has to be a minimum of 642 kilograms -- the weight of the
:03:39. > :03:43.car. Let's say it is 56 lap race, it means 2.5 kilograms per lap times 55
:03:44. > :03:56.laps, equals 140 kilograms of fuel for the race distance. The car now
:03:57. > :03:59.weighs 782 kilograms. Confused, yet? Stick with me for a while longer.
:04:00. > :04:17.There will also be a safety buffer. Be warned, any extra weight comes at
:04:18. > :04:21.a cost in performance. As speed increases, so does the stress on the
:04:22. > :04:25.engine, meaning drivers may be asked to turn down their engine performs,
:04:26. > :04:32.conserving fuel and resisting the stress on the engine -- reducing.
:04:33. > :04:37.Tyre performance and durability also come into play. How many pit stops
:04:38. > :04:41.and which laps you have to stop. Each team has legions of tacticians
:04:42. > :04:46.analysing the race lap by lap to see how the strategy has do change.
:04:47. > :04:50.Considering a pit stop as an overall loss time of approximately 18
:04:51. > :04:55.seconds, this fresh tyres have to make up the lost time. Get this
:04:56. > :04:59.wrong and it is difficult to make up the lost time. If the team has
:05:00. > :05:05.everything right it is down to the driver's skill, reliability and luck
:05:06. > :05:08.to see the driver through to the chequered flag, and if they are
:05:09. > :05:16.really lucky they could be on the podium. Sebastian Vettel has hardly
:05:17. > :05:20.been of the podium this season. You can learn about the science of
:05:21. > :05:26.Formula 1 on our website. Loads of content on there. It is a great
:05:27. > :05:36.column that Lewis Hamilton dies prior to every race. -- that Lewis
:05:37. > :05:37.Hamilton does. It is stopping raining, Christian is on the pit
:05:38. > :05:53.wall. Can you hear me? I can. Are you dry? Very. These are
:05:54. > :06:00.confusing times, what are the thoughts of the drivers? It breaks
:06:01. > :06:03.the rhythm a little bit. They are getting their thoughts together
:06:04. > :06:14.again. It looks like it is drying up. They don't like getting out of
:06:15. > :06:21.the car. It looks like it is going to start in five minutes, Eddie has
:06:22. > :06:25.a question. You are evaluating the crossover time, the full wets to
:06:26. > :06:29.when you may be able to get a couple of laps for the intermediates, is
:06:30. > :06:33.that how you are looking at the situation?
:06:34. > :06:40.We have said how quickly the water can disappear. There's quite a of
:06:41. > :06:43.standing water. The medical car is going around, still a lot of
:06:44. > :06:53.standing water. I would be surprised if it did get to intermediates. Ten
:06:54. > :06:59.cars pounding around at pace, the spray will be dissipated over the
:07:00. > :07:05.track. My guess is we may see somebody taking chances at the end
:07:06. > :07:09.to get the benefit. You may well, it is going to be a driver caught,
:07:10. > :07:17.still a lot of standing water. Somebody may take that punt -- a
:07:18. > :07:25.driver call. In terms of crossover time, wet to intermediates, what are
:07:26. > :07:30.you thinking? You're talking 28, 29, something along those lines.
:07:31. > :07:39.Everybody is going to be good to the screen in the first flying lap. What
:07:40. > :07:46.an awkward question. He doesn't want to give his secrets away! Fine!
:07:47. > :07:55.We watched a piece about the strategy of the teams and the men
:07:56. > :07:58.who are behind the box office, how many people have you got in the red
:07:59. > :08:07.Bull team who work towards this qualifying session? Within the
:08:08. > :08:12.company we are over 600 people. About 80 of them are here. The rest
:08:13. > :08:19.are working very hard back in the factory in Milton Keynes. We have
:08:20. > :08:27.people in the factory who are supporting us. It is fascinating for
:08:28. > :08:34.anybody at home, you are sitting on the pit wall and you have the team
:08:35. > :08:37.behind you in the garage. That strategy coming from Milton Keynes
:08:38. > :08:43.as well, it is an incredible pull together. You won the constructors
:08:44. > :08:50.championship. How do you celebrate with those guys? We are going to
:08:51. > :08:55.have a big bash at the end of the year. What doesn't get recognised is
:08:56. > :08:59.it is teamwork at its most extreme. Getting over 600 people to work
:09:00. > :09:11.collectively in one group for one common goal, it is teamwork at its
:09:12. > :09:15.best. Thank you for your time and hopefully we will hear from you
:09:16. > :09:19.during this session. Let's pop up to the commentary box. How do you see
:09:20. > :09:25.this going? COMMENTATORS: We are getting ready
:09:26. > :09:29.for some real action, Q3 will be getting underway in a couple of
:09:30. > :09:40.minutes. Red Bull sending cars to the end of the pit lane. Intent on
:09:41. > :09:45.getting a quick lap in. The teams are so good at running the engines
:09:46. > :09:49.and not overheating because, they cut the number of cylinders that the
:09:50. > :09:59.car is running on. I know it is not as hot as some places. Even so there
:10:00. > :10:05.is no other way to cool the engine. They run over 100 degrees without
:10:06. > :10:09.pulling themselves. They probably left 75 or 80 degrees in temperature
:10:10. > :10:15.and they will be creeping up, the driver will be watching the
:10:16. > :10:22.temperature. They monitor that in the garages as well with the race
:10:23. > :10:25.engineers. This is something they do preseason to know how long they can
:10:26. > :10:32.run the car before it gets too critical temperature. They will go
:10:33. > :10:38.to 140 degrees before you need to start worrying about it melting
:10:39. > :10:43.itself so plenty of margin. Red Bull don't want to be caught short, they
:10:44. > :10:45.are going to be first out. The downside is you lose a massive
:10:46. > :10:54.amount of temperature from your tyres. If purple denotes cold, they
:10:55. > :10:59.are pretty cold. You can see the orange glow of the radiator. Prior
:11:00. > :11:10.to the start of qualifying you are allowed to hit your brakes, not once
:11:11. > :11:23.you are in the qualifying session -- hit up your brakes.
:11:24. > :11:29.The Red Bulls are at the end but everyone else seems to be waiting,
:11:30. > :11:36.clearly they think the track is going to get drier and drier. 47
:11:37. > :11:41.minutes between track action here. The final Q3 session eventually gets
:11:42. > :11:44.underway at Interlagos in Brazil. The two Red Bull is our first onto
:11:45. > :11:54.the circuit. We have Daniel Ricciardo. Full wet tyres, the blue
:11:55. > :12:05.side wall. I think there might be a chance for intermediates by the end
:12:06. > :12:11.of this. I am not sure if it is a good thing to do. At the end of the
:12:12. > :12:22.session, somebody will take a gamble and it will be of value. It has lost
:12:23. > :12:25.the heat, we have gone to boring black. Everything has gone. Sitting
:12:26. > :12:30.there, for two minutes is a long time, we can see a bit of colour
:12:31. > :12:35.inside the rim, where the brakes are, they will be slopping and
:12:36. > :12:38.sliding round, would imagine intermediates for the last run at
:12:39. > :12:42.least. A final prediction, who will be on pole position? That is a
:12:43. > :12:48.question. Think Rosberg, because he has done a good job up to now. If he
:12:49. > :12:52.can get a clear lap in. You get the tyre temperature quicker. Let us see
:12:53. > :12:56.what happens, the Red Bulls are out there as you can see, the track map
:12:57. > :13:01.showing where everybody is. Webber has the first clear run but Vettel
:13:02. > :13:04.is behind him. Rosberg and Hamilton, Alonso are on track further back, I
:13:05. > :13:10.think all of them are out. Grosjean, yes, he is out, Hulkenberg, so is
:13:11. > :13:15.Vergne and Rick doe, so the track getting busier. -- Ricciardo.
:13:16. > :13:19.Webber goes on to the lap. This is the difficult bit of the driver. How
:13:20. > :13:23.do you assessors how much grip you have to play with? You have no idea.
:13:24. > :13:27.The track has changed since you were last out. This is just using your
:13:28. > :13:32.experience and best judgment to try and avoid the wet patches, you can
:13:33. > :13:36.see how much spray there is. With every lap a car completes you chuck
:13:37. > :13:40.that spray up into the air and it gets thrown off the race track, so
:13:41. > :13:47.the track will get faster and faster, we have a 22.6 first 22.2
:13:48. > :13:51.first sector from the Red Bull, which would be an indication of a
:13:52. > :13:55.cross over to intermediate tyre, so they may not do more than they could
:13:56. > :14:00.come in at the end of the lap, but they may choose to do one lap on the
:14:01. > :14:04.full wet, to get themselves back up to speed, get heat penetrated into
:14:05. > :14:08.the up right and the brake system, before coming and putting the
:14:09. > :14:11.intermediate tyres on. Coming up to the second checkpoint. Webber still
:14:12. > :14:15.ahead of Vettel, but it was Vettel who had the quicker first set.
:14:16. > :14:22.Grosjean is faster than either of them in the first sector now. Coming
:14:23. > :14:26.through the second set, to 1.09 for Webber
:14:27. > :14:31.ON RADIO: Very low regroup. Understood. Keep up the face. You
:14:32. > :14:40.can see the back end of the car switching. You can see, very low
:14:41. > :14:48.rare grip. Alonso has been told for inters. We are not far off the cross
:14:49. > :14:52.over time. It is 1: 28.8. We could see the cars on intermediates any
:14:53. > :14:58.moment. There is not a lot of running water on the track. A bit of
:14:59. > :15:02.oversteer as he climbs up the hill. He is faster in the first sector.
:15:03. > :15:05.Grosjean looking good. Rosberg looking good. This could be quicker
:15:06. > :15:09.than either, he is coming straight in, we won't see how fast it could
:15:10. > :15:14.have been because they have decided to go for intermediates straight
:15:15. > :15:18.away. Rosberg, is he goes going to get a lap in. It's a banker lap.
:15:19. > :15:22.Sometimes it is a good idea to put a banker lap in and he splits the Red
:15:23. > :15:27.Bulls so it is Vettel, Rosberg, Webber. Ricciardo has rowed a time.
:15:28. > :15:31.Valtteri Bottas is out of this part of qualifying, he has qualified 13th
:15:32. > :15:35.on the grid but Grosjean has decided to go for the intermediates. There
:15:36. > :15:40.they are, fitted to the car. Still just under six months.
:15:41. > :15:45.ON RADIO: What do you want to do Sebastien? No hesitation from
:15:46. > :15:48.Vettel. He knows what he wants. An interesting difference in strategy,
:15:49. > :15:53.they could have brought them in straight ja. Lotus brought Grosjean
:15:54. > :15:57.in straight away. On the other hand the intermediate needs to be at the
:15:58. > :16:00.freshest. So perhaps Red Bull are happy the guys have a bit of
:16:01. > :16:04.experience of the track and they will have the intermediates on at
:16:05. > :16:08.the end of the session. Mark Webber Dais into the pit, so he is coming
:16:09. > :16:13.from his intermediates as well. He is running just a bit ahead of
:16:14. > :16:17.Vettel. So he will be able to get his car services. There is Vettel
:16:18. > :16:25.joining in. Vettel might have to coup ever so slightly. They do do
:16:26. > :16:29.under three second pit-stops. They had a record in Austin. It was
:16:30. > :16:33.magnificent work by the Red Bull crew. Meanwhile at Lotus they have
:16:34. > :16:39.sent their man out already. Grosjean, only one car in the top
:16:40. > :16:44.ten, so away he go, Vettel. Kovalainen didn't make it into the
:16:45. > :16:49.top ten shoot out. But we have Massa and Alonso. Alonso is fifth. Massa
:16:50. > :16:54.in ninth. Hulkenberg in Q3 again, in the Sauber. He has had a good record
:16:55. > :16:58.of going into Q3 recently, he has maintained it again on this occasion
:16:59. > :17:02.can he get a bit further up the order? We will see. Jean-Eric Vergne
:17:03. > :17:05.one to watch. We know his wet weather pace can be astonishing, he
:17:06. > :17:08.has decided to come in They are bailing out. They will get
:17:09. > :17:12.investigation from their engineers telling them what the others are
:17:13. > :17:19.doing. Rosberg is in as well. So, is this going to work to Lotus's
:17:20. > :17:23.advantage? Mercedes looking attentively down the pit lane.
:17:24. > :17:27.Everyone turning to see as the guys are ready to fit the intermediate
:17:28. > :17:31.times now. Not the kind of pressure that is on in the middle of a race
:17:32. > :17:35.but it still needs to be done cleanly. Four minutes to go then in
:17:36. > :17:39.the final part of qualifying. Mercedes stacking their cars as
:17:40. > :17:45.Rosberg gets going. Hamilton has come in, Hamilton currently third
:17:46. > :17:52.fastest, behind Rosberg, stacking the Ferraris. Looking at the first
:17:53. > :17:58.sector from Grosjean, a 22.1. That is not as quick as we saw from the
:17:59. > :18:03.Red Bulls. It is going to take a lap or to get the tyres in. Find where
:18:04. > :18:07.the track conditions are. It is going to be about that last flying
:18:08. > :18:11.lap. Could be the last man across the line. He could be on pole this
:18:12. > :18:14.after noon. It is exciting stuff. Grosjean never had a pole position
:18:15. > :18:20.in Formula One, could he challenge for it in these conditions, or are
:18:21. > :18:22.we going to see Mercedes break the stranglehold which that existed for
:18:23. > :18:26.Red Bull. ON RADIO: We think there is rain at
:18:27. > :18:32.the end. Make sure the first laps count. If that the case Lotus's
:18:33. > :18:39.decision was a good one. They got him out first on the inter#3450ed
:18:40. > :18:48.yachts You can take off so many Ss at the end of laps! Crucial lap for
:18:49. > :18:52.Grosjean. Grosjean, 1: 27.7. Put under massive -- massive pressure.
:18:53. > :18:57.You can see the delight. Nobody knows if that is going to be enough.
:18:58. > :19:04.Vettel is faster. We join Webber as he was looking up into turn seven.
:19:05. > :19:12.Sound bg very tentative as he tries to accelerate -- sounding out of
:19:13. > :19:17.nine. This is him into ten. Vettel fastest in the first sectors
:19:18. > :19:25.Rosberg has done the fastest last sector, but as hopes his lap, this
:19:26. > :19:32.is looking quite cautious. He comes up the hill, he is quicker in both
:19:33. > :19:35.first and second sector. Vettel is going quicker. He is fastest in the
:19:36. > :19:39.middle sector. Let us see what Webber does, is it enough to
:19:40. > :19:43.displace Grosjean? Yes, but Vettel is going faster than him behind, got
:19:44. > :19:49.another lap here, Mark Webber. He will get maybe two laps in in fact,
:19:50. > :19:55.as you see, there is Vettels. He goes fastest. 1: 26.4. That was a
:19:56. > :19:59.good lap in conditions he is still trying to reed and understand. What
:20:00. > :20:04.is going on behind? Rosberg and Hamilton are both on laps here, but
:20:05. > :20:08.they are about a tenth down in the first sector, on the Red Bull, let
:20:09. > :20:13.us see how they can make up time We join Rosberg with a big power slide
:20:14. > :20:18.in nine. Tidy out of ten. Hesitant as he goes through the dip,
:20:19. > :20:20.through 11. He is down on the sectors. Not quite as quick as the
:20:21. > :20:25.Red Bulls. Well, this is going to be his last
:20:26. > :20:31.flying lap, so one more lap to see if he can show the form he had on
:20:32. > :20:34.Friday. Quickest in both sessions. Hamilton almost identical to the
:20:35. > :20:40.second sector point, so they are not as quick as the two Red Bull, across
:20:41. > :20:43.the line, Rosberg, he is quicker than Webber. Just under a tenth
:20:44. > :20:47.faster than Webber. Let us see what Lewis Hamilton can do. So evenly
:20:48. > :20:51.matched the Mercedes driver, who will come out on top in Brazil?
:20:52. > :20:57.Hamilton is not as quick on the lap. He still has another lap to go. He
:20:58. > :21:02.will see chequered flag. Flons in sixth position. His first sector
:21:03. > :21:06.reasonable but not anything particularly dramatic. Fernando
:21:07. > :21:11.Alonso. Vergne has gone sixth. He is ahead of the Ferrari. Looks to me
:21:12. > :21:16.that Vettel was doing a slow lap, to give himself one flying run at it.
:21:17. > :21:21.He is coming up to the line now. That is him starting his lap. Red
:21:22. > :21:25.Bull are good at timing their laps. Alonso goes second. Up to second
:21:26. > :21:30.place. Just ahead of Rosberg, but only by the narrowest of margin,
:21:31. > :21:34.very tight behind. Massa goes seventh in the Ferrari. Grosjean has
:21:35. > :21:38.made a mistake in the middle sector and dropped a bit of time relative
:21:39. > :21:42.to his best. It is about the last run for the line. Ricciardo has gone
:21:43. > :21:45.seventh. Hulkenberg has been pushed down tenth. He has seen chequered
:21:46. > :21:50.flag and across the line goes Grosjean. He is sixth, with that
:21:51. > :21:54.time, so it is not going to be a front row start for Grosjean on this
:21:55. > :21:59.occasion, he is behind the Red Bull, and the Mercedes and one Ferrari, of
:22:00. > :22:03.Fernando Alonso. Alonso once again dragging a great time out of the
:22:04. > :22:08.car. What is going to happen in the closing moments? Rosberg is second,
:22:09. > :22:13.he hasn't managed to beat Vettel's time. Sebastian Vettel is out there,
:22:14. > :22:19.he is on a lap. Lewis Hamilton is on a lap. It is not a quick lap. Vergne
:22:20. > :22:23.could improve on his ninth place, we talked about his wet weather
:22:24. > :22:27.prowess, at the moment he is behind Daniel Ricciardo, but this is a
:22:28. > :22:33.better lap copping up from Jean-Eric Vergne, he goes eighth. So Ricciardo
:22:34. > :22:37.for once in the wet pips his team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne, let us
:22:38. > :22:42.see as Webber comes across the line, he stays in fourth position. Rosberg
:22:43. > :22:46.second, Alonso third. It looks as though Sebastian Vettel has done it
:22:47. > :22:49.yet again, let us keep an eye on Felipe Massa, he is on a reasonable
:22:50. > :22:54.lap here, it is a reasonable lap. Let us see how far up the top ten it
:22:55. > :23:00.puts him. It would give the fans something to here about. It is not
:23:01. > :23:05.enough in the end -- cheer about. He stays down in ninth position. Alonso
:23:06. > :23:10.has qualified third, but once again, pole position has gone to Sebastian
:23:11. > :23:15.Vettel. His ninth pole of the season. The 45th of his career. The
:23:16. > :23:18.eighth consecutive for the team, because of course they have been
:23:19. > :23:24.sharing pole positions between himself and Mark Webber in some of
:23:25. > :23:27.the recent events but it is still eight consecutive pole position
:23:28. > :23:31.authorise for that team. A remarkable performance, not as pole
:23:32. > :23:35.positions as he scored in 2011 but still a good effort. Good effort
:23:36. > :23:39.from Alonso, he qualified third here, Webber fourth. Hamilton in
:23:40. > :23:44.fifth. Grosjean sixth. Ricciardo in seventh. Vergne 8th Massa ninth and
:23:45. > :23:47.the top ten will be completed by Hulkenberg. It will be a Red Bull
:23:48. > :23:52.and Mercedes on the front row for the start of the Brazilian Grand
:23:53. > :23:56.Prix. You will have to to forgive us for
:23:57. > :24:00.going off air we have hugely overrun. All of the interviews and
:24:01. > :24:05.reaction will be on line o on the web sigh so look that the. We will
:24:06. > :24:10.be back with you again tomorrow, on BBC One, at 3.00. Same time, same
:24:11. > :24:14.places it has been wet, wet, wet in Brazil. Who is going to win
:24:15. > :24:18.tomorrow? I couldn't take it away from Vettel Mercedes look like they
:24:19. > :24:23.might be able to take to it the Red Bulls very possibly. See you at
:24:24. > :24:25.three o'clock. What will the weather be like? Who knows