The Canadian Grand Prix - Qualifying Formula 1

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famous scalps over the years. Welcome to Montreal for qualifying

at the Canadian Grand Prix. We greet you with dirty weather, which will

have implications for the qualifying later. Before that, let's backtrack

a couple of weeks to win the streets of Monaco were littered with carbon

fibre and Formula One was having a smashing time will stop Nico Rosberg

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car has been deployed. Hamilton in fourth place, having lost the

position through the safety car intervention. Webber gets back in

front! Button has a chance! They hit each other. Ferrari and McLaren,

there was definite contact. Perez has passed Button! He is not going

to like that. Huge crash, is this going to be a safety car? Red flag.

He crossed my way. Rosberg leading probably looking for a gap that I

don't believe was there. You run out of luck eventually. If someone could

have avoided the accident, it was Kimi. Nico Rosberg wins in Monaco!

Can't believe it! Thank you so much. This is a childhood dream for me, to

win in Monaco. It doesn't get much better.

Well, Nicola's superb win marked the For any good night out, you need two

special ingredients, ADC and an EJ. , gentlemen. I would not take him

with me on a night out! I would not go with him. Wasn't he singing on

that talent programme? I thought it was you. Have you recovered from

Monaco, chaps? Monaco was great. Full of drama, intrigue. It had

everything. Great moment for Nico Rosberg. More important was the on

track action. Nico Rosberg had a great victory there, but there was

not really that push that we are used to seeing. But Canada will be

different. This is also a huge event. We talk about Monaco being a

rock 'n' roll event, but it is in Canada as well, isn't it? Canada has

captivated everyone. When we look to North America from the team

perspective, we wanted to make sure we had a big voice in North

America. Canada and Montreal in particular embraced that. It brought

huge volumes of tourism here. The nightlife is staggering, and the

racing is the best. David was not concentrating on anything you said,

because we were showing lots of pictures of hot women. Would you

mind not putting your shoes on my white shoes? Is this one of your

favourite tracks? The venue makes it special. It is not the best race

track in the world. You can't really exploit the high-speed nature of the

race cars, which is what the drivers want to do. But it is nonetheless

challenging. It is an enjoyable weekend. Everyone who comes here

goes back with fabulous memories. know, but she asked me about the

driving, the track. Eddie, for you, some good memories for Jordan. Have

you been going back in time? Look at that nice looking car? That is are

Gary Anderson of the nicest looking Formula One car. I am naturally

biased, but it is a beautiful car. Fourth and fifth, wasn't it? Fourth

and fifth. This was Barry Callow finishing second -- Rubens

Barrichello finishing second. A bunch of Irish people came up from

New York, and Boston is full of Irish people. So we endeared

ourselves to the people. We had the odd little party, and I brought my

rock 'n' roll band and they all enjoyed the occasion. It is a rock

'n' roll event. He doesn't like rock 'n' roll, he is involved with the

racing. Has something been going on while I haven't been with you two

today? We have people behind us, a fantastic atmosphere. Let's check

out how they stand at the moment. Sebastian Vettel's podium finish at

around here. He is sensational around Canada. He won his first

Grand Prix here. He is looking for number four. But on different

machinery. Is it possible? Of course it is possible. Lewis was the first

to get it. It is pretty cold here this weekend. It was 15 degrees in

free practice this morning. They have a bit more experience of

testing these tyres than the other teams as well, so that may give an

advantage. Mercedes do arrive here making all the headlines in the

Formula One paddock, because they did the test with Pirellis after the

Barcelona Grand Prix. Eddie, people who don't know the story, might be

wondering what is wrong with what they did? It is against the rules.

You are not allowed to use a 2013 car, and furthermore, you have to

advise your other competitors of the test if you are doing so. They did

run a 2013 car and they did not cover competitors. The competitors

are in arms. Red Bull have protested. They have had a test,

which is invaluable with the tyres and brakes. Typical Formula One. All

hell has broken out. The news broke the night before the Monaco race,

which is what we were talking about over race day in Monaco. We are now

in a situation where that story has gone to an international tribunal,

which we here will happen before Silverstone, which is good news,

because we want to clear this up. Nobody wants something like this to

drag on. This weekend, we will be talking about it. Hopefully, there

will be on track action which gives us something else to get stuck into.

Were you surprised by this story? There is a test going on after

Barcelona. How secret was it? confused, because in my day we had a

referee. And the referee used to be the tyre manufacturer. You were

allowed to test the week before the race. What has happened here between

Pirelli and the team? This was badly handled by a number of people.

is why we sent him to speak to team boss Ross Brawn.

Ross, congratulations. Pole position at Monaco. We managed to turn it

into a race win. That was rewarding. Do you think the protest after the

race took the gloss off the win? is never nice. We heard about it

before the race started, so it is a distraction. Your immediate thought

is then to deal with that, rather than celebrating a win. We have to

deal with those things. This test that occurred, did you learn

something from it that was helpful to win the race in Monaco? No. There

was nothing that you could directly link with our race in Monaco. The

track is very different. None of the tyres were related to Monaco, they

were tyres for the future. Please confirm to us that it was a

straightforward 1000 kilometre test from the beginning and that you had

written confirmation from the FIA permitting you to do so? I will not

go through the process by which we arrived at the test, but it was a

Pirellis 1000 kilometre test. We were seeking privacy, not secrecy.

You know that you don't go testing for three days at Barcelona and

expect people not know about it. I was surprised that people did not

comment on it earlier. You signed the agreement whereby it is to

defined as to what a testing Day is and what a promotional day is, and I

believe you are obliged to advise them that it is taking place. You

did not do that. Well, this was a Pirelli test. Some of them have

taken place before. It is not the first one that has happened. It was

the first one with a current car and current drivers and your team.

was a Pirelli test. So we don't believe we have an obligation to

inform other teams. If Pirellis want to inform other teams, that was up

to them. We are comfortable with the fact that it was a test requested by

Pirelli. What would you do differently if this happened again?

In the long-term, Formula One has to look at this whole tyre situation.

We are not giving the tyre supplier a chance. We have to specify the

2014 tyres in about six weeks' time. If we have a problem, we only

have ourselves to blame. I know Pirelli pushed for teams to test

them, queued up and said, how much What you think the outcome it will

be? I am optimistic. This is a new process and the judges will sit and

listen to our perspective on things. I am optimistic once the facts are

presented they will see things as we saw them and we can move on.

you feel you needed written approval from the FIA to do this

test? Why we get to the tribunal we will see what went on. Did you

think you needed written approval? I was comfortable with the position

we were in. Let's see what the tribunal says. We are not party to

any paperwork or conversations that have been had regarding this test.

In your opinion who is at fault? Is it Mercedes or Pirelli or is it

both? I do not think we know all the facts yet and I think it will

emerge at the tribunal. One seems to be blaming and putting all the

effort on to Pirelli's test and we do not know about the obligations

of the team because it is a matter of a judicial system. They are very

experienced judges and they will see which document takes preference

over another. I am sure there are a lot about him as their. Ross was

very eloquent. As always.Let's see how strong his argument is. He kept

saying it was a Pirelli test. You try to speak to them, but you could

not. I could not, but I think the lawyers said not to. When there is

a very strong, legal process, it is a process between two major brands

and the world, Pirelli and mayors - - Mercedes. They are innocent until

proven guilty. Christian Horner is standing next to us. You were the

first team to protest about this situation. When you first heard

about it, what did you then? When we first heard about it, which was

Saturday night in Monte Carlo, it was, that cannot be true. Then more

facts started to come out and it appeared it was true and for us it

was black and white. It was a clear breach of the rules and the best

way to deal with that is a protest. In order to achieve clarity put it

in the hands of the stewards and the FIA and let them make a

judgement on it. Was the problem the fact they used this year's car?

That is a fundamental thing. For I can understand Pirelli wanting to

test cars -- tyres. But for an existing team to do it with current

drivers it is a monumental advantage and that is not right.

They won the next raised immediately after that test. What

could they have learnt? switching the rear tyres around

they go further. They do that in that race and it worked for them.

Just learning one thing. The drivers having a bit more

experience. Our drivers get six days each of testing pre-season. To

be able to do more running in a current car is a huge advantage and

that is why we felt it was a clear breach of the regulations. A hoodie

you think should have told you they were doing a test? Pirelli or

Mercedes? They should not have done it. They would have needed the

unanimous agreement of all the teams, which they did not have. It

is disappointing we were not told by either Pirelli or Mercedes.

need clarification. Were you ever asked by Pirelli to do a test?

we have been asked in the previous season and earlier this year. But

we dismissed it immediately because our view was that running a current

carp is in clear breach of the regulations. Did you tell them

that? We did not take it any further. We will wait for the

results from that. I do not know where Gary is? How can I not find M

Quested Nike is a giant. Did you like that little 191? In it was

always a nice little car. I want to continue the conversation we were

having about the advantages that Mercedes could have got from that

test. It was 1000 kilometres of stock Ross said they gained no

advantage from that. What is your take on it? I would love to do that,

it is such a big advantage. We heard some stuff about Nico Rosberg

and the engineer and how the tyres were lasting very well. At the end

of the day, they had confidence from that test in Barcelona to do

that. They had confidence more than anything. Let's listen to what you

are talking about. 60% remaining on the rear tyres. 50% on front left.

You are event. We would like to up the pace again. Not immediate, but

just bring it up. They are not necessarily to Nico Rosberg. The

rest of the team was saying, do not bother trying, we can pick up half

a second if we wanted. Forget about is raised, we are going to win it.

That came from confidence. I do not believe they started to do a 1000

come at a test with the same set-up of the car as they would have run

at the weekend. They would have tried something different and they

got knowledge from it. The drivers learnt a lot. They would have had

10 or 12 sets of tyres each. It is very difficult to get the tyres

warmed up before qualifying. They could experiment without paying a

price for it. Lewis Hamilton is saying he has got braking problems.

In his 100 laps in Barcelona he would have had eight or 10 good

braking episodes per lap. It is experimenting a bit more, you never

forget that star, so they learnt a lot. A as a driver when you are

doing a tyre test, what kind of things are you being told to do?

Pens, there is no-one answer to that type of question. They are

developing tyres which are relevant to the car they are racing this

year and with a view to next year. It is very relevant to breaking,

two issues drivers might have. It is a non pressure environment for

the driver of. It does not matter if he locks up, it will not affect

his grid positions. It is the freedom to experiment and play with

your own driving as well as understanding how to get the best

out of the tyres. It is great for a driver. From a team perspective I

would be furious. I felt it was an necessary and underhand that we

were not told. Had you been told, it would have eliminated some of it,

but not all. The drivers ran in cloaked out helmets. I would like

to know why they did that. Someone needs to come out and tell everyone

so we can get on with further business. It has to go to a

tribunal. We need an answer quickly and we need to move on, but we need

to make sure we have a strong group of teams including Mercedes and we

need Pirelli there as well. They contribute significantly to this

championship. Bringing things forward to this weekend, Lewis

Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have been asked about this. As a driver, how

would it affect their preparations? It is better to be asked about

something that is not your responsibility than to be asked

about an issue that affects your driving. It is no pressure for them

to say, we did that tears, we are the drivers, we are employed by the

team. The fact we wore a cloaked out helmet, whatever ad referred to,

I think it meant a plane helmet, they'd just drove it, so they

enjoyed the pressure was off them. If you contrast somebody like Perez,

there has been asked about his driving Standards, that is

affecting his preparations for driving on this racetrack.

point. To will have you got for pole position? The rev Pauls and

the Mercedes. I am not sure which one. I could not put a driver on it,

but I think it will be one of the two Red Bulls. There is some other

news going on and E McKenzie has it all. Kimi Raikkonen said after the

Monaco Grand Prix that somebody should punch Sergio Perez in the

face after this incident. Almost two weeks on he has not changed his

opinion. He is stupid what he did. In one year thawed it will still be

the same. It is in the past and be cannot change it, unfortunately.

But when you have no chance and you expect people to go off because

they come to fast, and they make mistakes, we pay the price. McLaren

have won the last three Canadian Grand Prix, but Jenson Button knows

he has a big task on his hand this weekend to make it four for a

constructive. Hopefully we will make some improvements. We have

some things that should help us. Last year's when yet Lewis Hamilton

knows it will be difficult to repeat Mercedes' when poor Monica,

but he is not blaming his pyres or his tools. I am just breaking very

late. I am not able to apply the pressure that I normally applied.

But I will fix it. Pastor Maldonado says he is still suffering a few

aches after this crash. He also suffered a cut to his arm. Yes,

there are still some small panes. It is up to the main men. I am

focused and I will be up to it in the car. Finally Romain Grosjean is

back in the spotlight after an incident strewn at weekend last

time out. He takes a 10 points penalty in today's race. I was

unlucky sometimes, I got caught in the race with Danny breaking early.

It is a mistake, but it sometimes happens. It sometimes happens

comment but is seems to happen quite a lot of him. You cannot keep

blaming everybody else round About Eve. If it had been someone as's

bolt, they would have given Danny Baker nodded. But Romain Grosjean

is a great driver. He has flashes of brilliance and then he destroys

it all by doing what he did in Monica. He has something wrong with

his peripheral. I do not mean wrong with it. When he is on his own, he

is fantastic, but when he is in competition with someone directly,

he used his position on track. was a beautiful example of how to

remove your front left corner in under three seconds. This is more

worrying, he misjudged completely the length of his car. He locked

the rear, that could have been a KERS issue. There is enough room

left or right, but he panicked and ran into the back of Daniel. He is

a good racing driver, he has got speed. I do not think there is

anything brilliant about him. Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, have

consistently shown they can lead teams and win. So far he has not

been able to do that. His team-mate Kimi Raikkonen has consistently

outperformed him. Is it difficult for teams and drivers to respect

somebody who ends up in so many tangles? Even more difficult in

this case because his manager is Eric and is the team principal.

There is possibly a conflict of interests. I do not want to go more

into that. But the reality is that Eric has to sit him down and say to

him, if you want to keep your seat, I cannot do any more for you.

spoke to Eric yesterday and he seemed exasperated, but he was

saying the first crash was a technical problem and the next

three when not technical problems. He has got to sit down and sort his

head out, otherwise perhaps he is not going to be here very long in

terms of contract. Eddie knows very well the pressure in terms of the

team principal. Sometimes you have got young charges who are an asset

and you can sell on in the future. In the case of Lotus they are a

world championship constructed team, they can win this World

Championship, but you need both drivers getting the points that

Kimi Raikkonen is. At the moment Romain Grosjean is not getting back,

so you have to say he is the weak link. We will catch up with Eric

know there was an error with the mechanical suspension. And there was

one driver error. It was weird at the time to have two driver errors.

They were carbon copies of each other. How you could replicate the

first one was startling. But we listened to the team, and they are

honest. They tell us how it is. It will have knocked Felipe Massa's

confidence. He has looked confident so far in the practice sessions.

has never had a big result in Canada, either in qualifying or the

race. But maybe this could be the time. He has had a couple of good

races in terms of single lap race. You have to be on top of your game

to be in front of Fernando. Seems like Fernando has been working

really hard as well. Now, you probably will not remember this, but

this place was special. It was your last podium in 2008. I will always

remember that. We have some shots of David's celebration here. What do

you remember of that race? That was nice. I knew it was my last season.

I suppose you were only interested in the result, and not in the points

bonus. I never thought about that. You know it is not about that once

you have got a few pennies stashed away. We were still building the

performance of Red Bull at that time. We hear that Robert Kubica is

doing simulation tests with Mercedes, so we may see him back in

a Formula One car in the future. Robert was of course taken out of

action after a rallying crash, so Tom Clarkson went to the rally in

Athens to see how he was getting on. Another great performance by Robert

Kubica. This season, he has been flawless. A star is well and truly

born. Formula One driver Robert Kubica has undergone surgery after a

high-speed crash. He is unlikely to compete for Renault this season. He

had serious injuries to his right hand and arm. There were fears his

hand would be amputated. I paid quite a big price for a mistake. I

could have paid a much higher price. Unfortunately, it is part of this

sport. You have to accept it. are not accepting it, you are not

doing it. After everything that has happened, are you still in love with

the sport? I think more. Of course, I was always thinking that I am very

lucky. I had a hard time after the accident. Not only a hard time

because of the surgery and the pain, but after it, when you lie down in

the hospital, you realise how big an effect you have on the sport.

paddock misses you. Impossible!Do you miss Formula One? I miss racing,

yes. You do everything to become a Formula One driver, and then I

stayed for how many seasons? Five. And then suddenly it stops. It is

not painful, but not what you were looking for. But that is life. I

have suffered big injuries in the crash. But on the other hand, I am

lucky that I am still able to drive, although not any more in F1.

Driving in F1 will not be such a big problem. The problem will be to

compete in races. That is not possible for now. Maybe one day, if

they change the rules that the car has to be wider by ten or 15

centimetres, I can drive. What is important is that I am seeing

progress. Even if in normal life, I struggle using my hands, in driving,

I see the progress in the rally car and in simulators. And riding is

more difficult for my hand. The question is how far I go and how

long I will take. But it does not matter if it takes one year or ten

years. Maybe one day I will have a has always been good in Canada. I

crashed, of course, but that is part of the game. It was one of the most

spectacular ones in F1. I had a better than the year after. It was a

great day. It is better to at least win one race. Going forward, Robert

Kubica, world Rally Champion or world Formula One champion? It would

be 1000 to zero, but I would prefer the second option. But you never

know in life. Because of my situation, I cannot look too much

forward. I have to look weak after week, day after day, and look

forward. Well, he went on to win that Acropolis Rally in Greece,

which was great news, and his first win since the accident. Big

personality, very much missed. Eric Meunier was at the helm while that

was going on. Clearly, he has not lost his speed. No. And I am happy

for him. He was a great fan of rally, and seeing him racing in

rally and winning is quite impressive. As you say, he is a

strong character. He is missing us, but I knew him from the past and he

always impressed everybody. It seems that the rallying has helped him in

terms of getting better. He is sadly missed, because we had a lot of

those Polish vans come, swarms of them. He was a cult figure in

Formula One, and he was brilliant. He had that monstrous crash and then

came back the following year to win. How many can do that? In some

ways, he is similar to Kimi. He is strong and capable and popular. He

is a hero in his country. We would talking about Romain Grosjean

earlier. We would like to ask you about how he's doing this weekend.

How is his head? His head is to! He is doing well. He has clearly done

work on himself over the winter. You could see at the beginning of the

season, he came back step-by-step. Monaco was a bit of a files, but he

is OK this weekend. Monaco was actually a shocker. It was really

very, for all sorts of reasons. His driving was appalling. How many more

chances are you going to give him? It is not the number of chances we

give him. He came back last year and everybody agreed that the guy has

phenomenal speed. We just want to help him to make sure he can

transform the speed into success. But these points are flitting away.

Surely that is a worry? It is a concern. But we still believe we can

transform the speed into success. How do you do that? We support as

much as we can. It is not an easy life to be a Formula One driver. It

is difficult to step into the big five. To win races in Formula One or

to be a champion is a special class. He is one of the fastest drivers in

Formula One, and we all know this. We just need to help him to get the

maturity to battle the top guns. Thank you for talking to us. This

track has been fantastic for McLaren over the years. DC is with Martin

Whitmarsh. Looks like it will be dry going into qualifying.

Let's focus on qualifying first. Anything can happen on this track,

as you know. You can get a yellow or a read. We will probably go out on a

dry tyre. If you don't go out and there is a red flag, you are in

trouble, so you are forced out onto the track probably earlier than you

want. And you just try and secure it and make the right judgement and

hopefully be on it in good condition just as the track reaches its best

conditions at the end. That is the plan. You have started behind where

you would like to be. Canada being a different race track, does that take

up the development process? Are you looking as the next Grand Prix as

the one where you can judge the development? I am an optimist, so I

always think you can be up there. I think we have made progress. As you

say, this is an unusual circuit in unusual conditions. So you can't

read too much into this. You almost feel like you are in a cloud. We are

working hard to bring more developments to Silverstone. We are

not where we want to be. We want to do justice to the fans in

Silverstone, so we are working to be as competitive as we can there.

have a great following at Silverstone and a great history

there. The fact that there is this tyre scandal, do you see that as a

welcome distraction on the relative lack of performance you have had so

far, and do you have a view on what you would be doing if you were

battling for the championship at the front right now, on Red Bull's

protest and Mercedes' defence? you were battling for a

championship, perhaps you would take as much distraction for your

competitors as you could, which is why we stood out a bit and said,

let's focus on trying to get our car quicker. We are not expressing a

view, and I am pleased that we are not involved in a controversy like

this. Teams obviously try to draw us into it and ask us to get involved,

but we haven't. We want to get on with our job. Hopefully, they can

all distract themselves as they fight over that. So you have an

opinion, you are just not voicing it? Of course I do. We have partners

involved in this issue, so it is best that we just stand out a bit

and focus on doing our job. I have a clear opinion on the matter. Who is

going to be poll this afternoon? these conditions, Fernando is pretty

good. But so is Sebastian. They are two smart cookies. We will do our

best, but I would probably not bet on us this afternoon. Sebastian or

Alonso would be the right place to put your money.

Martin has a strong opinion on that, and I know you have as well,

regarding McLaren. Of course he must have an opinion. It does affect

him. This race and the testing that went on at Mercedes directly affect

him. I just wonder how much of an effect his quietness on the

situation has to-do with the fact that he also runs a Mercedes engine.

But sometimes you have to come off the fence. He knows it was wrong. We

would like to hear his opinions. David is just getting one over by

four tyres. They are beautiful! Dolly mixtures! David, you have such

a weird choice of words sometimes. Before he starts talking about birds

and does his Spring watch thing, let's get up close and personal with

How come the race so get the racer and I get... What is this? It is a

ladies'. I am old school, I get out there. If you stick with me, I will

give you some pointers. This says a rent me on your bike. I can rent

you. Standing here at turn two. Not the weather we were expecting.

did not run much in the rain here. We had that rain two years ago when

it did not stop. That looks like a red shouldered blackbird. The track

is very smooth, it is quite slippery. Is this a track you

naturally enjoy driving? Yes, I think it is a nice track. It is

obviously different with the long stretches. It is good fun and it is

a challenge every time to be a little bit closer, especially on

the last turn. # I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my bike.

I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle. They call this the war of

champions. What is it that makes it so tricky? You need to have a

larger radius and you need to open the corner and to open the corner

you need to use the kerb. There is a limit at some stage. It is quite

high, the kind of sausage you have on the inside. You cannot use

everything because you get too much of a hit and if that happens you

lose control over there and we know the rest of the story. You want to

use KERS, but you have to be careful because you cannot use to

much. When you are a German you have an advantage when it comes to

sausages. I enjoy a sausage to eat from time to time, being German.

But the English have quite good sausages as well. You are busy so

we had been kindly offered to share this track guide with Blucher from

Italian television. I have no idea what he said. The just invited you

to a party on Saturday night. was telling me a story about

sausages. Maybe you can explore that on Saturday night. Take me to

the Wall of Champions. I have never been in there. That hurts.

Do not say you were not warned! am very pleased, as Suzi, that

David never auditioned to be a Queen. I think he is quite camp

myself. I think he has got a following. He is better as a racing

driver than he is as a singer. bringing you outside the paddock in

terms of conditions. Getting away from sausages, it is quite blustery,

not too windy. It is cool with a bit of rain in the air. A really

quick time it will be on slicks. It will be a matter of bravery and the

key to it is picking the right moment. The clever ones will pick

the right moment and they will get pole position. It is 16 degrees and

it is quite chilly. Talking of bravery, let's have a look at

something that happened yesterday in free practice. This is Adrian

Sutil. Check this out. All wheels off the ground. That is over the

sausage kerb. That is amazing. is amazing the mechanics of that

car. That will not have done that car any good. Alexander Rossi was

talking in commentary yesterday and he said as the driver, Adrain Sutil,

his in nerds would have shaken. That would have been quite violent.

He it would have been violent. The driver should have spent all day

Thursday going round when there are no cars on track. There is a gap at

the end of that where he could have avoided that. He could have been a

lot kinder to his own body and more importantly to the car.

Preparations continuing for qualifying. It is one of those

sessions that is all going to be down to time is. That is a fast

bend it, isn't it? I will have to check that he still has his

passport. The stars come to Canada, they come to this race. And a big

surprise, tomorrow night the Rolling Stones are live in Montreal.

Montreal is the place to be. certainly is. I hope you have got

us tickets to go. I certainly have not because you are obliged to pay

for these things will stop I am joking. This is going to be rock

and roll, this qualifying session. It is all about timing. If you are

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Download the BBC sport application. If you miss all of that, you can

catch up on BBC iPlayer. We are in the Caterham garage. That is James

Macca boy. Why am I out here? are missing all the action, Suzi.

Think of me. What do you think about Mark Webber this weekend?

loves circumstances like this, as indeed do so many other drivers. We

know event to this day my favourite all-time Grand Prix was here a

couple of years ago when he passed Jenson Button on the last lap. The

great thing about here is that anything can happen to. He is a

specialist of Silverstone. He is a specialist at Monte Carlo, and

whilst that did not go quite to plan for him, Mark innies took up

his game because he has got a new contract to think about. Whether or

not he is going to be retained at Red Bull. He needs to kick-start

his season. It has not been strong enough yet for him. As we stand

here and tat, the range is starting to come down a little bit more. We

have got six minutes to go and tell qualifying stars. The Caterhams so

far this weekend? It is more of the same. There was a lot of jubilation

and people getting excited about the Caterham team and Marussia.

Marussia have moved up, but they need to get up and move amongst the

main runners in the teams. Maybe with this kind of whether they have

a chance here. It always changes the playing field. Williams were

hoping they would have the changeable conditions and they will

be clapping their hands. Just as we are speaking there is a drizzle and

this will have a major impact on the qualifier. Lee McKenzie and Tom

Clarkson are in the pit lane reporting for years. Let's go to

backdrop for a qualifying in Montreal. Round seven other

championship brings Formula One to another of its favourite cities, in

French-speaking Quebec. We are now one third of the way into the

season with his brief interlude of from the races in Europe. We have

come to a 2.7 mile circuit. It has long straights interrupted by

chicanes, and it puts the emphasis on breaking and good traction and

extreme accuracy from the drivers. McLaren and Williams had taken the

most pole positions here, but Red Bull have dominated over the last

few years with Mark Webber are looking for pole position. But he

has yet to win the event. He could have a battle on his hands to win

that pole position from Mercedes and Ferrari, but also with the

changing weather conditions adding to the confusion. David, you have

come over to the commentary box. That rain is hanging around at the

moment. It is annoying for the drivers because it takes away your

confidence not knowing what is on the track surface. It is a fine

drizzle, which is enough to get on your visor. We are not sure how

long it is going to last. A little bit more rain is coming now. You

can see the raincoats going on and the umbrella is going up. This

throws everybody into a bit more confusion. They were running

intermediate tyres this morning. You are in the situation at the

beginning of qualifying where you have got 20 minutes to play with,

so you have more time to build heat in the tyres. If this was a couple

of laps in the later part of the session, you might go for a wet to

give a more heat in the tyre. But this will be intermediaries with

that amount of rain down there. It will get to the point where the

tyres lose surface temperature. The drivers cannot get the heat in the

tyre. A few years ago Sebastian Vettel got a little bit wide and he

got sucked out into the run of area, so it is critical to make the right

choice. The first practice session was dry towards the end and Paul di

Resta was fastest in that session. This morning they were on slick

tyres by the end of it. Mark Webber was fast, but it is about being on

the track at the end. Look how close Mercedes are to Lotus.

Neither of them are that far behind Ferrari. Red Bull have made a break

at the pub. Mercedes have been the dominant force in qualifying. Nico

Rosberg had that hat-trick of pole positions. I wonder if they will

have that same pace in these changeable conditions? It remains

to be seen. If we have a scenario where it is slick tyres at the end

of the session, they have that advantage and the driver goes out

and has confidence to deliver that single lap. There is very light

rain at the moment. It should not get any worse. It should stop.

little bit of uncertainty on the weather conditions. Fernando Alonso

keeping a close eye. He loves the changeable conditions. Last time he

was on pole position in Germany. Tom, you are in the pit lane, how

are things that thing? I have spoken to somebody who says there

is no new where they're coming in. It is hovering around as it has

done for the last two days pretty much. It is drizzling, but it is so

fine, it is not making the track very wet. The teams are going to be

frustrated by this because a couple were telling me they wanted to use

of Q1 it to verify some overnight set up changes they had made and

they were not able to do all the work they were able to do. That is

a Toro Rosso going out. It will be interesting to see what the tyre

tries is going to be and there are some great vantage points around

this track. The cars are making their way to the end of the pit

lane as we prepare for the start of the first qualifying segment. We

are on the Leon Notre-Dame. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. There is

a great heritage for the Canadian fans, but we are likely to be using

all the different types of tyre. They are all going out on the super

soft tyre. Gary, do you think that the moment to use the intermediate

tyres. We have seen these courses change as the conditions change.

What sort of lap time should we be considering? If the track is damp

and wet, if you do 1: 23, and vice versa, if you are out in dry

weather, I would say it is looking to wet on parts of the track at the

moment. We are already seeing cars slipping and sliding around. It is

to wet. They were struggling to even run flat on the run down to turn

number ten. So we have this problem where you have a bit of water on the

surface, and you lose tyre temperature massively. Although

there is no standing water, you have no heat in the tyres. I would not be

surprised to see people going straight back into the pits and

going for a set of intermediates. It is not predicting good for slicks.

If you had gone out on the intermediates initially, you could

have been good enough for one lap. They want tangible conditions to

give them a chance to pull a result out of this qualifying session.

Felipe Massa is heading down the pit lane to make a change onto

intermediates. Doesn't look like anyone will get a grip. They will

now change onto the intermediate Pirelli tyre and then head back. But

of confusion there. No one was there to receive Fernando Alonso.

Normally, there would have their number one mechanic standing in

front of the car. An unusual team mix-up. You would have expected him

to pull up behind Felipe Massa and white. Nico Rosberg on his way. You

saw Romain Grosjean sitting and waiting. The guys are ready for

Button. They have rehearsed this so many times over the course of the

weekend. A number of adjustments are made, and then they are on their

way. Sebastian Vettel is not out on track at the moment. Taking a

relaxed approach to the start of the session, which, we have to save from

previous sessions, it is easy to get caught out if you don't get out

there early. If the heavens opened, you can find yourself in a

vulnerable position. But red Bull are confident. Sebastian Vettel

calmly sitting there, with a set of brand-new intermediates being

unwrapped. He will go out now. Looks like he will slot in behind a Toro

Rosso which is about to open its timing lap here. It was Jules

Bianchi that spun at turn ten, rather than Max Chilton. But they

are both OK. I wonder if all 22 will get through with no damage. It is

easy to make contact with the walls here. Felipe Massa a has been

looking aggressive this weekend. You would expect him to get through

qualifying. We will lose six parts in this -- six cars in this first

part of qualifying. A lot of slipping and sliding going on here.

Looks like a real window of opportunity to be out on the driest

part of the track was the first moment of the session opening. You

can now see the spray as they go down into the chicane. There was an

opportunity for a brave team to have sent somebody out on intermediates

at the very beginning, but none of them did that. It is often worth a

gamble. But unless you have a man standing up wind, the local weather

forecast is so unpredictable. You look at the cloud mass, track

temperature, very low. I wish I had brought my scarf! It is chilly.

Jean-Eric Vergne sets the first lap at 1: 28. He has now been beaten by

massacre. -- Felipe Massa. And Rosberg is not far behind. There is

a huge amount of rivalry between these two. Rosberg takes initial

blood. Looking back to Australia, one we had that wet qualifying

session, Rosberg was impressive. Lewis had a spin, but recovered.

Felipe Massa used a loss of curve in these conditions. This is one of the

more tricky chicanes, the second chicane. He tries to straighten the

corner as much as possible. So he launches over the curve. Ooh, that

was Sutil. He was clearly not able to slow down, but good reactions to

avoid contact. Just shows how tricky the conditions are. Braking has been

the problem. And Vettel goes fastest, despite coming out later

than some of the others. His team-mate is faster in the middle

sector of the lap. Webber is not as quick as Vettel, but they do go on

to. So the Red Bull seem to be in good shape on the intermediate

tyres. We are respecting the lap times to come down to 24s. Still,

you have to keep your car in one piece. You don't want to be throwing

in the wall. Interesting that they have worked out what they believe

the lap time will be. Coming back to the McLaren engineer saying they

expect 1: 24, we believe the crossover is 1: 23. How can they

know it will be 1: 24? I don't know, I was wondering how they can

assess changing conditions. Kimi Raikkonen is want to keep an eye

on, but he was just beaten by Felipe Massa. It is the bottom six who will

drop out of this section of qualifying. Over ten minutes to go,

though. You have to look after your tyres. David, we are looking at

Sutil here, but I am thinking of what happened to Paul di Resta in

Monaco. He went from being one of the fastest to not making it through

Q1. Is that something we have to watch? Absolutely. This is a replay

of Alonso going into turn one. Just a bit wide. You can get caught out

easily. Probably 80 miles an hour in the wet as you go through turn on,

and as you are trying to gather that up, turn number two comes up and

effectively mugs you. He was lucky to get through that. Jimmy Raikkonen

is at the second chicane. It is proving difficult. Whether they will

have to put another set of intermediates on, it is changing all

the time. You can tell the important people have dark sunglasses on on

the dullest day in Canada! Lovely to see so many fans here. I love coming

to Canada, because this Grand Prix is tremendously well supported,

whether it is wet or dry, baking hot or trying to keep out of the rain.

But is halfway the circuit. Currently quite a long way down the

list, in the drop zone in 18 double my position. Hamilton has moved up

to third. And then we have Hulkenberg, as ever, he loves these

conditions. The Sauber has not been quick this year, but at the moment,

he is fourth. Buster Maldonado is fifth. But with nine minutes to go,

it could be that somebody could get a set of slicks on towards the end

of the session. The rain seems to have eased off. Our commentary box

overlooks the last chicane. This is Kimi Raikkonen as he goes into turn

ten. He needs a good lap, because he is on the verge of the drop zone at

the moment in 16th. But this is a better lap. Let's watch him through

the last chicane. This puts him up into fourth place. He has never

qualified on the front row in Canada, but for the moment, that

should put him say. Let's see where Alonso goes here. No change in his

position. Rosberg has gone to second. Expect Hamilton to go

quickest. This was Jules Bianchi. Look at that. If you go further

down, there is a gap for you to pass. It surprises me when drivers

have not gone out and done due diligence on Thursday. If he was

patient, that orange kerb runs 30 metres or so down, and there is a

gap in the tarmac. Vettel is made better lap than Hamilton. It looks

as though Mercedes and Red Bull are the dominant cars here at the moment

in these conditions. But whether it will stay that way, Vettel looks as

though he is on a quicker lap. He goes through the final chicane now.

We will see whether he beat Hamilton. Yes, he does. He is half a

second up on what Hamilton has just done. Sutil is a good fourth from

Webber. Williams has just been into the pits to put another set of

intermediates on. With six and a half minutes to go, they don't feel

this is anywhere near slick tyres. On the pit straight here, it is not

looking too bad. You can see a very dry line that some of them drive

straight towards. Now you have Button in 17th place. Rosberg has

gone fastest. New set of intermediates. I can't imagine that

Force India will not do that after the terrible time they had last time

with Paul di Resta not getting out of Q1. That was a clear decision

from the race engineer. That gives Sebastian time to reflect. If he

feels that should be challenged, he can make the call for super softs.

He did not make any broadcast, so we have to presume he concurs.

Ferrari looks very driveable in these conditions. Heavy braking for

turn three. Just stay on that line, try not to drift off it. It is so

easy to go wide. Vettel did that a few years ago and lost the win here.

Kimi has reported on the radio that it is still raining on track. He

says there is no way could they can that the tyres are going off. Let's

look at his septet times will stop it was purple for a very brief

moment in the middle sector. Felipe Massa is down in 16th as we go into

the last four minutes of this session. Jenson Button is behind

him, in the drop zone as we speak. Felipe Massa on top in the Ferrari

by a few hundredths of a second from Hamilton, Rosberg and Best of.

But Button is in the drop zone. He has got traffic ahead of him, that

is not what he needs. This is going to cost Jenson Button a bit of time

as he runs down into the chicane at 8 and 9. Nico Rosberg is taking its

steady on this lap. A Vettel allows Jenson Button through clearly. He

would have got that information from the team. McLaren is on a fast

lap. They are highlighting he might have lost a bit of time. Overall he

will be within a second if he can finish off this last sentence OK.

He has got another lap or two to try and move further up. Jenson

Button drags him sub out of the danger area. There is an

opportunity for some of them at the back of the grid. Can they time

their lap correctly? Perez has improved slightly, he his 7th

fastest. Both McLarens are in the top seven. This is Valterri Bottas,

in his first visit to the Montreal circuit. He comes out neatly and

tidily out of the final corner. But he goes second-fastest and moves

out of the drop zone. He was two- and-a-half seconds up going into

the last chicane. Nobody is showing any sign of going on to the slicks.

There is no time to do it. There is every chance they will be on slicks

in the second part of qualifying. Niko Hulkenberg is up to seventh.

Still a minute and a half to go up. Everyone is committed to the end of

the session on the intermediates. There is no time to change tyres.

Who is looking as if they are in a pickle? Romain Grosjean and Paul di

Resta. They have learnt from Monaco to go out late on a fresh set of

tyres. Sebastian Vettel has gone quickest. Paul di Resta only 16th.

He has got to get this lack right now and not encountered too much

traffic. He does not want a repeat of what happened in Monaco where he

was dropped in the first part of qualifying. Romain Grosjean is in

the drop zone at the moment. He has got a bit of work to do. The middle

sector is not good. He knows it and he runs a wide. He is just outside

what he needs. Gutierrez is up on what he needs to be in the top 16.

You only have one corner, you know you are in trouble and you have 22

seconds, but he should have enough to get one more lap and he is going

to need it. There is the line, he will get across. That is not enough

at the moment. Romain Grosjean in danger here. He has got one lap to

go up. Gutierrez gets himself into 12th place. Charles Pic is

definitely out because he has seen the chequered flag and that means

he will not be able to improve any further. His team-mate Giedo van

der Garde has been quicker than him in the last two events. That is not

a good lap. He has got a chequered flag, he is out again. That is

interesting. The force endear cars are good at looking after their

tyres in the dry, but maybe they are struggling in the wet. Romain

Grosjean is more than a second down in the first sector and it looks

like there is more rain coming down as well. The tyres will be

overheating. Lotus may be having the same problem. They are very

kind on their tyres, but they are struggling. Raikkonen is only 13th

at the moment. Paul di Resta is definitely out. Jules Bianchi is

not too far off his well-respected team-mates. His Romain Grosjean

going to get through? No, he has not, and he has got a 10 plays grid

penalty as well. Only the 19th fastest. That 10 players penalty is

only going to be three places! -- 10 place penalty. That is cunning.

That is a bit of a shocker. That was Nico Rosberg having a bit of a

Spain. He was 7th quickest. That is down at 106 and 7. Pulling in front

of the Ferrari. That would have got Felipe Massa's attention. Paul di

Resta for the second race in succession. Whether they got their

tactics wrong or whether they got traffic on the lap, he is out again.

But Sutil, his team-mate is in 14th. These cars struggle to get heat in

the tyres in the race. These have gone from qualifying. It is Paul di

Resta, Charles Pic, Romain Grosjean, playing field, Eddie, but nobody

would have thought Paul di Resta and Romain Grosjean would have been

out in the first session. Of all the tracks, I would have thought

this would have suited Force India. It is a big surprise for me and I'm

sure it is an even bigger surprise for Paul. He will have a big battle

on his hands tomorrow. Is that a case of timing? The laps looked OK

to me. Maybe the TV camera was kind to have him, but he did not have

the pace. But Adrian Sutil did not have the pace either and he was

only just in front of him. It could be what David is talking about, the

temperature of the tyres and the cars that are traditionally good

with track use of the tyres have failed here. It could a bit with

the rain coming towards the end of the session. Those cars missed the

opportunity of going on the slicks. In hindsight maybe I'd airport or

Adrian should have taken a chance and had a crack at the slicks in

these conditions. It was probably marginal for them. Tom Clarkson is

Let's talk about what we have just seen. How difficult is it team-mate

the intermediate tier last? It is all about temperature and we saw

Paul di Resta walk by. You mentioned it Romain Grosjean as

well. They struggled a bit more in the cool weather here. Were you

surprised that they did not use slicks? We were getting close to

that. The crossover is 1.23 and then it started raining again. When

we have a bit of rain it makes the qualifying interesting. It is

drizzling now, I do not know if we are going to see slick tyres in the

session, but if we see them, talk as through the dry performance

between them and the intermediate. There is a big difference between

the two. In dry conditions you would want to use the super soft,

but it is unlikely we will see it today, if anything it will be or

ban on the intermediate. Any warm- up issues? There will be. If we

have a race where it is like this tomorrow, 15 or 16 degrees, some of

the cars that have the benefit in the hot conditions will suffer it.

But others might find it to their advantage. Who is going to be on

pole? I think Lewis is pretty good and for the British people that is

something we would like to see. Thank you, Tom. We will go back up

to our commentary box for acute two. Grosjean. He scored a fine podium

finish last year and he will start at the very back after failing to

get through Q1 and also having that 10 plays grid penalty. Very

changing conditions. Gary, it got to the point where slicks might

have been right, but they were all committed to bring on the

intermediate. It would have been an opportunity to change, but at the

end of that session the rain came a bit again. That is where Romain

Grosjean and Paul di Resta has suffered a bit more. Those cars

that are a little gentler on their tyres seemed to be struggling to

get these intermediate to work. for sure. Because of the long

straights, you lose a lot of tyre temperature. In other circuits are

there are nowhere near as many long straights as this. He spent a lot

of time in four throttle and not going around corners, so they are

struggling to get the temperature up. We have seen some struggling on

intermediates in this session. Do you think they will go to six later

on? RADIO: We have another new set of tyres. We are planning to do

four and then another run on another set. That is confirming

they have got tyres available. That is Nico Rosberg running wide.

Confirm how many sets of intermediates they have got to use?

All the drivers starting this morning will have up four sets of

intermediate and three sets of the wet. I am sure that these cars will

have a use set of intermediates and when they need it right at the end

of the session, a fresh set if it stays raining, and if not, a set of

slicks. We shall see how this session unfolds. It is a slightly

shorter session. Everybody out there already, David, it is about

getting on track and getting a feel for it. You cannot miss sitting

there in case you have a downpour. You have got to make the most of

being on track and let the driver go and deliver what he can. A lot

of it comes down to confidence in these conditions will stop the

driver needs to be in a zone, but you need more of the car balance.

If the driver is feeling confident, he can extract a bit of lap time.

Beneath the trees, presumably here that makes things in terms of the

track drying out. The spray tends to hang there and come back down

onto the circuit. As you can see the island that is the Gilles

Villeneuve circuit. This is Mark Webber. He is blacked out. He locks

up slightly and takes the wide line. That is a karting line. He is

reversing against the traffic and deciding not to go for a have Spain.

At least we know the reverse works in the Ferrari. Always handy when

you want to find a parking space! - crackdown. Hamilton goes fastest.

Jean-Eric Vergne is within eight tenths of the big boys. Good

performance for him. But is currently eighth fastest. You got

out of the traffic, so that was a nice move. No harm done for Felipe

Massa. Got himself back on the track. So as yet, all the cars are

still surviving. It is all about getting in the top ten now in this

second part of qualifying. This is where it gets really difficult.

Alonso coming out of the hairpin. We will see the DRS open up. It was

interesting that the radio said, you got yourself out of traffic. He did

not mean to do that, but every cloud has a silver lining. That was

Hamilton bumping over the kerb and Sutil, I believe. It is all

happening. This last chicane is one of the fastest parts of the

racetrack. There will be 19 to 200 miles an hour in the drive. They

will be a bit slower in the wet. That is interesting, we have gone

backwards. They are on the verge of putting wet tyres on the cars. The

crucial thing is not so much whether a wet tyre is quicker, but it gives

confidence to the driver. All of the drivers are struggling to stop the

car into this last part of the track. It may be that these early

times could be crucial if the rain is still falling. The likes of

Button could be in trouble. Can they improve on these lap times? This is

the hardest it has rained throughout the whole session, so if it carries

on like this, those lap times earlier on will be... Oh, look at

that. Double bounce over the kerb, flying the front in the air. Great

place to have the slow motion camera, but painful for the

engineers and mechanics. Hamilton was sliding as he aborted going

round the apex of the second part of turned 14, the last corner, and then

had to run over that orange curb. I suspect that might be mentioned in

the letters that go to the Grand Prix Association. That second curb

is causing difficulty and possibly doing damage to the underside of the

cars. Another set of intermediates for pasta Maldonado -- Pastore

is still possible to go a bit quicker. It gives you an insight

into how a driver works. The fact that they are missing the last

chicane, anywhere they have a zone to play with, they try and exploit

taking risk. Anywhere where there is no margin for error, they don't run

wide, because they will hit the wall. They play the game of trying

to find that step change in performance. Mark Webber is back out

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

intermediates on. We will shortly update you on whether he is looking

good to get through into the top ten. Lewis Hamilton is currently out

there. Now you will have the problem of traffic to deal with as well.

Here is what you said about the rain hanging in the air between the

trees. Let's listen. That sounds nice, not too much wheelspin. The

engines are dropping down to low revs in these conditions. It is

still probably max revs in an average family saloon. It is all

relative. Felipe Massa still not getting himself out of that robs

zone. You can see the rain from the helicopter shots. Button is in the

lowest spot at the moment, in 16th place. That is the hairpin. Looking

good. Nice and tidy. We need to find two seconds. Thanks for that!

see whether he has found two seconds or not. Interestingly, a

radiocommunication from Hulkenberg to his team said he is going to

cruise for a lap or so, just to keep the tyres in their best possible

shape for the last lap. Intelligent thinking from Hulkenberg. Bottas has

just gone third, the rookie in the Williams. He is impressing a lot of

people, Valtteri Bottas. Felipe Massa is struggling. That is his

brother. He is not impressed. Alonso is not doing much better. Gutierrez

has shown missing performance, but this is where it counts, in

qualifying. He is a long way off Felipe Massa has crashed again! He

crashed twice in Monaco. With two minutes to go, David, it could have

a huge effect on the outcome of this qualifying segment. Red flag. The

session has been stopped. Matter is OK. He stepped away from the car,

but the session has been stopped. Will there be time to restart and

get a lap in? They could start, but I don't see how you could get out of

the pits. He lost it early on the braking. You can see his

frustration. Does he touch the white line? He does indeed. And then it

just slides the rear end of the car and he goes into the barrier. It was

the same way he went in Monaco. neck is taking a pounding every time

on exactly the same muscles and tendons. Poor Felipe Massa. You have

to feel for him. It just shows you that when a car goes off, you think

they are not going that quickly, but my goodness, it still hits the

barrier very hard. The tyre took the major part of the impact, but

frustration for Felipe Massa. So, Q2 is red flag and it will be very more

marginal as to how many cars will be able to come out and get a lap in.

Adrian Sutil is waiting to hear what the team will do next. Red Bull 12,

but the outstanding performance is Valtteri Bottas in third place, in

the Williams. It is impressive. is finding his form will stop a lot

was expected of this young Finnish intermediates in wet conditions.

minutes to go, so we will have to be straight out. We will try for one

more time lap. As long as you are near the front of the queue. They

will not be hanging around on that out lap, or they will not get round

in time. If you wanted to be naughty, if you were sitting in 10th

place, you would put yourself down the end of the pit lane early.

Doesn't matter if you lose tyre temperature. You cruise down the pit

lane, and you are not blocking the map, so you can technically control

the pace and effectively on people out of time. That would be on

sporting, but it is possible. You were thinking about all the angles

in Formula One. Felipe Massa's car has been picked up by the cranes.

The Marshall is doing a great job of trying to get that car out of the

way quickly. A lot of it is down to getting a clear lap. Here is another

look at what happened to Felipe Massa. Look at the GeForce. It goes

quickly, to state the obvious, in these conditions. He just drifted

over and touched the white line. Some of the modern tracks have a

white line that grips. I can't remember what they call it. It has

got sand or something in the white lines. And you have slippery white

lines on the old tracks. And that was a slippery white line. Felipe

Massa is out of the session, whatever happens to anyone else. He

is not into the final part of qualifying. Mercedes are still

looking strong, but Red Bull are ruling the roost for both Webber and

Vettel at this stage. A lot of concentration on Rosberg's face.

Apart from Monaco, when Felipe Massa failed to reach Q3 in 2012, but then

he finished second in the race. So it does not always go disastrously

wrong if you don't complete in qualifying. This track is very

different to Monaco, where you can use the DRS. You have a couple of

long straights, you can overtake. We have been given a restart time,

which is just over two minutes from now. It will not be long before the

cars are back out. Then it will be a race to do a lap before the

chequered flag comes out. Looks like there has been no further rain while

we are waiting. So the track could be quicker. We are already seeing

the first few cars following the medical car that has just come back

in down to the end of the pit lane. They are scurrying around. There

will be a long line of them sitting meant to line up in single file,

but they are all sneaking up and trying to see if they can get a

jump when the light goes out. They will get a countdown from their

team. It is virtually three abreast. Shall I take a picture and tweet

it? These are cars all desperate to be able to get around the track

before the chequered flag comes around. The engines are still

running and there is no cooling on his Formula One cars. RADIO: It is

going to be getting yourself in the best tax position and trying to get

temperature in Europe tyres. Brendan talking to Adrian Sutil.

They can see all the other cars around them. 16 cars will be taking

to the track. I wonder if they read Pauls are going to go out. They are

first and second at the moment. they do, all of these cars

eventually will be backing up to get a clear run at it. You will

have a long train of cars down at turns and train -- 13 and 14.

final segment of cue to gets under way. They have got to get back

ground before the chequered flag comes out. Then they will have one

more lap to determine what the top 10 is going to be a. I am not sure

they are going to get round this lap. They are desperately trying to

monitor how long it will take them to go around. This only gives them

a 32nd leeway which is not that much. They certainly cannot hang

around. They are travelling at a decent pace at the moment. Right at

the back of its Sebastian Vettel has gone out. It is even

questionable whether Sebastian Vettel has gone for another look to

save. Alonso doing a lot to heat up the front tyres as well. He was

yanking the steering. Behind him is Rosberg. Then you have got the

Williams of Valterri Bottas. Jenson Button is in that group as well.

Gutierrez is at the front of the group will stop he will get there

before the chequered flag. Sebastian Vettel might just manage

to do it. No, he is at the hairpin with 18 seconds to go. RADIO:

Slowed down. They are bringing him in, they are convinced he will be

aired cable stock they are convinced he will not get to the

line. Gutierrez is the first of the cars and he is slipping and sliding.

Button and Webber did not make it across the line. Batten is out of

qualifying for the next session. He is not in the top 10. McLaren were

to relate effectively in getting him out. He has not made it. All

these guys have a chance. Then the question is, is the track going to

allow them to go much quicker? We have to keep an eye on the sector

times. Gutierrez, his first sector was 26. I do not think they are

going to be able to improve. That might mean we get the same

positions as we have at this point. Could cheer his knees 1.2 9.27. He

is on a better lap and he has done before. Adrian Sutil is on a better

lap. -- could hear his needs 1.2 9.27. Adrain Sutil has moved up.

That has pushed Hulkenberg down. Hamilton is faster than everybody

up. Rosberg has not improved. Valterri Bottas has made it through

for the first time in his career. He is in the top 10. Adrain Sutil

has made it into the top 10. So has Ricciardo. That is the first time

Toro Rosso has had any one in the top 10, that is Briot by them.

Birth of the McLarens are out. Maldonado is out as well. Button

did not make it across the line in time. McLaren for whatever reason

serviced the car too slowly and by the time they sent him out it was

too late. RADIO: We have just missed out. It looks like we could

not get enough tension into the tyres. McLaren with two cars out in

due to. -- Q2. Adrian Sutil and Ricciardo making

the most of that challenging last lap. We talked particularly about

Force India. They need to higher temperature to make that cargo

quickly. They found that extra temperature because it had not

rained this because the race had not stopped. He could have a good

qualifying session. Let's have a look at the crash. A David was

absolutely right. The white lines here are no Tories and that is why

it is called the wall of the champions. He is on the side of the

track and he gives the car and himself no chance. Once you are on

that you are on a skating rink. It is an old style circuit, people

love it for that, but you must keep It is also frustrating for McLaren

because they did not get Jenson Button out quickly enough. I got

the feeling he was not over- confident about having a very

strong qualifying. That is exactly what happened. Not any chance of

getting into the top 10. Very frustrating. Paul di Resta did not

make it into Q2. The second race in a row, tell us how you are feeling.

What went wrong? It is not even accept a bowl what happened. They

were not have the right settings to begin with and we had an issue with

the gearbox and sat in the garage for four minutes to fix it and when

we got out again it rained. Again when you have had a day like we had

yesterday and to blow it all away, fortunately it is a track where you

can overtake, but we need to go back and analyse what is going on.

It is not acceptable. You were fastest in free practice, it might

not have been 100% represented it. What is the problem? Where is it

going wrong? Today there was something wrong from the beginning

and we did not rectified at the right time when the track

conditions were at their best. Quite strong words from Paul di

Resta. It seems like it was a timing in the team. People do not

like to hear that. He feels very frustrated at this moment in time,

but there is a race at tomorrow and he could do a good job. He needs to

have a discussion with his team as to what did happen and how they can

stop it happening in the future and to point a few fingers to show

whose fault it was. Busy blaming the team or himself? Whatever it is,

it does not seem acceptable to him. More discussions at Lotus as well.

A you knew you came into this qualifying session carrying that 10

place penalty, but 19 is not what you expected. No, it is quite far.

We got caught by the weather and we stopped for a new intermediaries in

midsession and we went out and a car went in front of me and there

was a yellow flag and I had to respect it. To was there a mistake

from the team in terms of timing with the tyres? No, it was the

condition, we did not even see on the radar there was going to be

rain, so it is very hard for everyone. Do you think that is his

Canadian Grand Prix over? surprises everybody. When you

expect him to have a good race, he runs into everybody and when you do

not expecting to have a good race, he gets onto the podium. The

unpredictability of his results has played into the excitement of the

races. The it is going to be exciting. It is just about time for

the circuit in a moment or two. You can see that dry line developing

again. It keeps changing, the conditions. It is eight teaser.

There is a flash of something which is saying, challenged me. We should

be able to see them getting onto it towards the end if we do not get

any more rain. That was a good lap from Lewis Hamilton straight out of

the pits. It shows that the Mercedes switches on the tyres.

Lewis is a lot more confident on this track compared to other

sessions. The top 10 shoot-out is under way it. Kimi Raikkonen pops

out from behind Webber. Gary, it is hard to keep track of the changing

conditions. They are all out on intermediates. Any opportunity at

all to be on the sticks? I do not think so. It is a lottery. It is a

10 minute session and there are only 10 cars out there as well.

Part of the track is very wet and the rest of it is a very damp. It

is an intermediate position. We could see a different race Tamara.

You loved these conditions when you were in charge of the set-up.

there are good because there is a small team and you can try and do

something different. My back- slapping goes to the Williams team

with Valterri Bottas. That was a fantastic drive from him to get

fourth position. What is your prediction? He did a pretty meadow

lap in the last little flurry. think it is going to be that tyres

and the right timing. RADIO: We need to get two time-lapse and a

pit stop and two time-lapse. It is only a 10 minute session. Two or

three laps exploratory on this set of tyres unless you have got a

fresh set of intermediate. You hope tomorrow you have got enough tyres

left. Daniel Ricciardo almost got caught by Adrian Sutil. Adrian

Sutil slipped into the inside and he is running in front of him on

track. That is very wet on five. I concur with Gary. I do not think

anyone is going to go on the slicks in this session. Sebastian Vettel

is showing that the Red Bull is fast not only in the dry, but in

the wet as well. He loves these changeable conditions. His first

victory came back in one set in 2008 and he has never been afraid

of a damp track. He goes quite deep and finds the dry track crucially.

Straight in the car nicely to unleash as much top speed as

possible along the longest section. 100% throttle and spot you're

breaking down into 13 and 14 across the sausage curves. Uses a little

bit of a curb on the way out. He is looking for three pole positions in

a row on this Montreal's Circuit. It is something Lewis Hamilton has

achieved in the past. Look at this the teams were talking about is 1:

23. We still have a few minutes to go. Look how slippery it is. And

Kimi Raikkonen has never had the pole position. Mark Webber has also

never been on pole position. He just had the one podium finish. Bottas is

the other one who has not set a time yet. This is about who will be

fastest man, but you have to set your car up what you expect race to

be. Other than making wing adjustment and break temperature,

you are not able to do anything else other than what will affect the temp

job the car. They have to choose the mechanical set-up they will expect

to have to race tomorrow for 70 laps. So they may have compromised

on performance today, hoping for drive tomorrow. Very impressive

again from the young Finn. He has gone into the top ten for the first

time in his career, and his first run is very representative. That

will make people sit up and notice. Jean-Eric Vergne and his team-mates

are both trying to impress. A bit of miscommunication in the Mercedes

team. Hamilton waiting to come back out on circuit. They are all looking

at the stop watch and deciding when to come into the pits to go for your

final, flat-out run which will determine the top ten positions.

Hulkenberg will start this race in 11th, because he was the fastest of

those not to make it through. Both McLarens are out of the top ten. It

has been a long time since that happened. Away goes the Red Bull,

and incomes Webber. This session is now building up nicely towards its

climax. So, three laps. DRS in operation as he heads towards turn

on. We know the Lotus is kind on its tyres, but that might not be what

you need here. You want a car that is aggressive on its tyres.

Struggles for traction as he comes through four. Raikkonen explores

where the grip levels are. Every session they have done, the

conditions have been a bit different. There is room for

improvement. Temperatures are still on the low side. Rain increasing, so

it could get more slippery. But Rosberg has gone fastest in the

first sector of anybody so far in this session. We are still watching

Kimi Raikkonen in the Lotus. Interestingly, Lotus have a strange

record in Canadian Grand Prix. They have had several pole positions, but

they never had a race victory, despite all those years and the

great period in the 70s. Rosberg had a good middle sector. Let's watch

the rest of Kimi Raikkonen's lap. Let's see where this puts the Finn.

He has not been on pole position in the past. I don't think he will be

fastest by the end of this. Rosberg crosses the line. Is it getting

wetter? This is Lewis Hamilton, currently second quickest. They are

looking for five consecutive pole positions between himself and Nico

Rosberg. Red Bull asked the looking incredibly strong. Just over a

minute ago. You will not see a chequered flag this time. They will

get another lap in, at least. Vettel is half a second down on what he had

done. Big slide for Mark Webber as he exits the final corner.

Indications are that the track is getting slower, not weaker. Bottas

is slower. If the track does not improve, he could end up with an

incredible starting position. Under 30 seconds to go. David, I am not

sure they are getting the quicker laps we were expecting. No. Last

sector, they are all going slower. It could be a big day for Williams

and more importantly for Bottas, who has been a bit ominous, given that

the car has not been performing. No visible signs of strain, but this is

a long drag down to the last chicane. The chequered flag is now

out on this session. Lewis Hamilton, looking for a fourth pole position

in Canada. He has missed the chicane. And Vettel is slow in the

middle sector as well. Vettel is currently fastest. Can Webber do it?

Into the final chicane. He has got the braking right. Will it be enough

to challenge his team-mate, Sebastian Vettel? It is not. Bottas

is a brilliant third as Kimi Raikkonen slides his way out of the

final corner. Sebastian Vettel has taken pole position, his hat-trick

of pole positions in Montreal. Another outstanding effort by the

championship leader, but he has not yet won this race. So maybe it is

the time lucky for Sebastian Vettel, as he dominates qualifying.

I say dominates, but it was a tight session. Hamilton will join him on

the front row of the grid. But Valtteri Bottas is surely the star

of the show. He starts third for Williams, and they had scored no

points at all this year. For those tuning into Formula One for the

first time, you will get to see his smiling face in the top three

conference coming up after this. He is making his way back now. He is a

very composed young man. He has been a test driver with them for a while.

That was a mega jump. Very good job. Excellent work. Thank you,

guys. Sebastian Vettel takes pole position in Canada, but Valtteri

Bottas qualifies third and was definitely the star of the show.

Valtteri Bottas, what a superstar. Could this be Williams' first points

tomorrow? Let's hope so. What is it with fins and slippery conditions?

They are brought up to be brilliant on the ice. He drove brilliantly

today. Not taking anything away from Sebastian Vettel. That was also a

superbly timed pole position. And he led it from the beginning. He picked

his timing perfectly. The weather changed against the other guys. But

Vettel is the astute guy we know him to be, can he turn it into another

race win? We don't know, because Hamilton looks very strong and a lot

of money will be on him. It was certainly a very eventful qualifying

session. We know that the rain always levels out the playing field

a bit. That was what some of the teams needed. It worked for Williams

today, and perhaps we will see what Valtteri Bottas is really made of.

We have been waiting for that all season. Unfortunately, we haven't

got time for any reaction, but you can catch all of the interviews and