:01:05. > :01:13.Glorious sunshine and scenes from an Italian paddock. Welcome back to
:01:13. > :01:18.Monza. Practice has just started but you haven't missed anything. This is
:01:18. > :01:24.one of the most important sessions. We get to see what could happen
:01:24. > :01:28.tomorrow. The time is right to get the track temperature. It is a good
:01:28. > :01:33.simulation for qualifying and the race because it is at the same time
:01:33. > :01:39.of day so they will do the longer runs on the harder tyres to begin
:01:39. > :01:44.with and then put on the softer ones. This is the session that
:01:44. > :01:51.matters for everybody. You can just hear a car on track, that is Max
:01:51. > :02:05.Chilton, just the one. Monza is beautiful, possibly one of the most
:02:05. > :02:06.scenic settings on the calendar. We can go to James
:02:06. > :02:22.scenic settings on the calendar. We McNish now.
:02:22. > :02:33.This is a majestic circuit. 3.6 miles. 11 turns. On Sunday they will
:02:34. > :02:38.do 53 laps, 75% taken at full throttle. This is the red-blooded
:02:38. > :02:44.track, all about the speed. Trees lining certain parts as well which,
:02:44. > :02:51.when it rains, makes life a bit difficult but it certainly acts adds
:02:51. > :03:03.character. It has got personality. But for me, it is Ferrari's home
:03:03. > :03:11.turf. In Italy. You feel that in the car, the grandstands are alive.
:03:11. > :03:16.Every corner has got a name, like Parabolica, and her something about
:03:16. > :03:20.it that is different to any other track.
:03:20. > :03:30.Lets not forget the McLaren won this race last year with Lewis Hamilton.
:03:30. > :03:36.This year, the opposite. Yet to get on the podium. It is a very
:03:36. > :03:42.different season for McLaren. Last week they celebrated their 50th
:03:42. > :03:49.anniversary as an entity. Bruce McLaren set up the team on the 2nd
:03:49. > :03:53.of September 1963. Quite a milestone surviving in Formula One for that
:03:53. > :03:59.long, that is an achievement in itself. McLaren are one of the storm
:03:59. > :04:10.warts of Formula One. They have been here for such a long time. -- store
:04:10. > :04:13.bought. But they seem to have found their sweet spot. The problem for
:04:13. > :04:18.bought. But they seem to have found Perez and Button is the sweet spot
:04:18. > :04:25.is not quite quick enough. I expect this to be one of their better Grand
:04:25. > :04:31.Prix. Lastly it was an emotional win for Lewis Hamilton. He was telling
:04:31. > :04:36.us last night how much pleasure he took for winning in Ferrari's
:04:36. > :04:42.backyard. Some booing from the highly partisan fans gave him even
:04:42. > :04:49.more encouragement. Hammering down the back straight, hard compound
:04:49. > :04:59.Pirelli tyres. The yellow flags are showing. Sector 13. They have now
:04:59. > :05:07.gone away. Interestingly they are running a media centre of -- running
:05:07. > :05:13.a film in the media centre of highlights. I forgot the enormous
:05:13. > :05:18.accident Kimi Reichmann had in 2007. He went piling into the
:05:18. > :05:24.barriers. He was fine but it was an absolutely enormous accident. If you
:05:24. > :05:26.go off here, it tends to be quick. Now we are on board with Adrian
:05:26. > :05:37.Sutil. A lot of forces going through the
:05:37. > :05:40.driver's body, the car and the suspension, and that is one of the
:05:40. > :05:49.characteristics of this place. High speed. It is the biggest stop of the
:05:49. > :05:59.year, from 330 kilometres an hour down to 90 kilometres an hour, 9.5
:05:59. > :06:04.G. It is a very big hit on your chest with the seat belt spoiling
:06:04. > :06:10.you. We saw this morning a lot of people having big problems. It is
:06:11. > :06:17.easy if the tyres are not up to pressure to lock a brake and with
:06:17. > :06:25.the Pirelli tyres, they are quite sensitive to that. Adrian Sutil is
:06:25. > :06:30.on a lap at the moment. The Force India cars have tended to go quite
:06:30. > :06:35.well here. It is certainly a circuit where they will be hoping to take
:06:35. > :06:41.away as many points as possible in their battle with McLaren. He was
:06:41. > :06:43.sitting in fifth place before Spa in Belgium but they have now dropped
:06:43. > :06:48.behind McLaren. 65 for McLaren and Belgium but they have now dropped
:06:48. > :06:54.61 for Force India. Joining us at Belgium but they have now dropped
:06:54. > :07:02.the pit lane is our technical expert, Gary Anderson.
:07:02. > :07:10.They have fired up Sebastian Vettel's car and I just having a
:07:11. > :07:16.look at Mark Webber's. There has been a lot of fiddling with this car
:07:16. > :07:27.in the last two minutes. Rebalancing the car. It is still on stilts. Why
:07:27. > :07:34.would they change it? The battery pack gets a lot of energy put into
:07:34. > :07:39.it and taken out that every lap. 80 horsepower 46 seconds of a lap, that
:07:39. > :07:43.is around half a second of lap time, so you cannot run out it. Sometimes
:07:43. > :07:51.the battery will not charge to its maximum. Then you pay a lap time
:07:51. > :07:55.deficit. It is better if you change it now and lose ten minutes than
:07:55. > :08:00.suffer the consequences in the whole of the session. Mark Webber always
:08:00. > :08:09.seems to get the problems in this team. It could be Ricciardo
:08:09. > :08:14.inheriting them next year. People should not be worried. Problems do
:08:14. > :08:20.occur. I don't see why a team of the stature of Red Bull would compromise
:08:20. > :08:25.one driver's performance so that is just the way things are.
:08:25. > :08:42.Noisy down in the pit lane. A couple of episodes for the Marussia going
:08:42. > :08:48.off circuit and managing to rejoin. This is Kimi Reich inning. He tries
:08:48. > :08:57.to make the corner but the problem is this thing on the inside which is
:08:57. > :09:04.very high and it kicked up the rear wheel. It is better to straighten up
:09:04. > :09:08.and abort the corner completely. It is the damage that could have gone
:09:08. > :09:14.into the suspension gearbox that is the problem. He is putting 750
:09:14. > :09:20.horsepower through it at the same time. The force on the drive shaft
:09:20. > :09:21.is colossal. Look at the Force on his head bouncing around in the
:09:21. > :09:32.cockpit. You need to use all of the curve but
:09:32. > :09:39.as you come through that, the road dips away and it is easy to barely
:09:39. > :09:43.the car. That is one of the characteristics of this, people
:09:43. > :09:49.pushing the limit as early as they can. We are ten minutes into this
:09:49. > :09:54.free practice session ahead of Sunday's Grand Prix at Monza. 43
:09:54. > :10:07.degrees track temperature, 29 the air temperature.
:10:07. > :10:16.We will see some quicker time is definitely this afternoon. Grosjean
:10:16. > :10:18.is second for Lotus. Button is third for McLaren. Perez is forth and Di
:10:18. > :10:32.Resta is fifth. Ricciardo, who we know will be
:10:32. > :10:37.replacing Mark Webber at Red Bull, is still in the Toro Rosso for the
:10:37. > :10:42.rest of the season and he is in seventh place. Maldonado is eighth,
:10:42. > :10:50.Hulkenberg ninth and Gutierrez in 10th.
:10:50. > :10:59.Alonso has just gone out on track. Webber is having his battery changed
:10:59. > :11:03.which has delayed his start to the session. Lewis Hamilton, who set the
:11:03. > :11:08.fastest time this morning in practice, is also still in the
:11:08. > :11:14.garage. Jenson Button is the fastest of all in the first sector, which is
:11:14. > :11:19.the very slow corners and accelerations, so the car is working
:11:19. > :11:24.well there, but after that in the high-speed bits he is a little bit
:11:24. > :11:29.off, so it is clear where McLaren needs to improve. Grosjean needs to
:11:29. > :11:36.turn in early year as well. No way he was going to make that curve --
:11:36. > :11:44.earlier. Quite a few mistakes already only ten minutes in. Lotus,
:11:44. > :11:50.Marussia, Raikkonen, people pushing the limits. We are also at a very
:11:51. > :11:56.high speed circuit where if you are, I don't know, one tenth of a second
:11:56. > :12:04.late, you have covered ten metres on the break, so the difference between
:12:04. > :12:10.getting it spot on and hitting your apex and not, fine margins. You do
:12:10. > :12:16.not have the downforce in the car. If you do hit it a little bit late,
:12:16. > :12:19.there has got to be a recovery process. Fernando Alonso, second
:12:19. > :12:26.fastest time this morning in the Ferrari. The Italian media is
:12:26. > :12:34.describing this as a must win race for this team. Alonso is trailing
:12:34. > :12:39.Vettel, and this is Round 12 of 19. He has to turn it around soon
:12:39. > :12:46.because he is almost two complete race wins behind Vettel. Vettel
:12:46. > :12:52.snatch the title away from him in the final round so Alonso is hoping
:12:52. > :12:58.he will do the same thing -- snatched the title. Vettel is on a
:12:58. > :13:05.good lap as well. Three tenths of a second faster than his own margin
:13:05. > :13:09.previously. This lap is even faster still. Vettel in his groove
:13:09. > :13:18.straightaway. Out of the Parabolica still. Vettel in his groove
:13:18. > :13:25.he goes. Accelerating at over 200 miles an hour. The fastest lap we
:13:25. > :13:30.have seen so far this weekend for Vettel. It is the quickest in all
:13:30. > :13:34.other sectors, which is ominous for everybody else, because it means the
:13:34. > :13:39.car is working in pretty much every condition around the circuit, but
:13:39. > :13:49.that does not mean it will be a Spa type dominant performance. It is a
:13:49. > :13:56.very different circuit to Spa. How would you, what would you
:13:56. > :14:00.characterise this Monza circuit? In my experience, in every type of
:14:00. > :14:05.category of racing, you need to have a very stable car, you need to be
:14:05. > :14:10.confident when you hit that brake pedal hard, that you know what the
:14:10. > :14:14.car is going to do. You want to be able to predict it very easy.
:14:15. > :14:18.Afterwards, when you get in towards the apex, you need the front to
:14:18. > :14:25.Afterwards, when you get in towards up and allow you to go full
:14:25. > :14:30.throttle. As a driver you need attacking finesse, you cannot be too
:14:30. > :14:35.brutal with the car in turning in to the throttle, you have to have
:14:35. > :14:40.velvet gloves on. A little correction on the steering wheel as
:14:40. > :14:42.Alonso comes out. The fingers of his right hand flicking the paddle as he
:14:42. > :14:44.makes his way down to the Parabolica right hand flicking the paddle as he
:14:44. > :14:46.corner and the curves are such a big right hand flicking the paddle as he
:14:46. > :15:13.heart of Monza as well. I am delighted to say he is in the
:15:13. > :15:15.pit lane and joins us now. Congratulations on this fantastic
:15:15. > :15:20.pit lane and joins us now. opportunity. How did you feel about
:15:20. > :15:26.this morning? A fantastic opportunity to get back into the
:15:26. > :15:34.car. I had so much fun. Over the moon to be here. In the morning, it
:15:34. > :15:38.ran smoothly and a made no mistakes. I was able to give some good feed
:15:38. > :15:44.back to these boys in this session I was able to give some good feed
:15:44. > :15:50.now. Over the moon. Alan is joining me in the commentary box. He was
:15:50. > :15:56.describing the Monza circuit as a place you need velvet gloves. Is
:15:56. > :16:04.that how you found it? That is a pretty good description. It is very
:16:04. > :16:07.tough on braking. It is where you gain most black time at monster.
:16:08. > :16:14.tough on braking. It is where you They added it is to progress the
:16:14. > :16:20.car and get it good on brakes. -- lap time at monster. It was amazing
:16:20. > :16:27.on brakes, especially at the start. At the end I was able to give
:16:27. > :16:32.feedback. It was not stable. In the end, I was happy and only used one
:16:32. > :16:39.set of tyres and was able to match my same lap time. Just one question,
:16:39. > :16:43.you drove the young driver test at Silverstone. You talked about prep
:16:43. > :16:48.was not the power and straight-line speed you had to get used to come
:16:48. > :16:53.up was at the same here? Silverstone is a very different
:16:53. > :16:58.circuit. Part of the reason for me doing free practice is because the
:16:58. > :17:04.jump from Formula One 2 GP2 is not as big as Silverstone and Monaco.
:17:04. > :17:10.It was not a problem to adapt. In terms of power, it is not much
:17:10. > :17:16.different. It is the sheer downforce the cars have. The
:17:16. > :17:22.braking force is incredible. They have all the fancy electronics.
:17:22. > :17:29.That also accounts for lifetime. The record for Force India has been
:17:29. > :17:35.pretty good. What sort of shape is your team in for the weekend? You
:17:35. > :17:39.are locked into an intense Championship battle for 5th place
:17:39. > :17:46.with the McLaren team. It is an important weekend. Practice went
:17:46. > :17:52.well. We will have to see how they went on in the session. I was happy
:17:52. > :17:58.with the car towards the end of the session after I got rid of the
:17:58. > :18:03.sheer delight of driving in Formula One. They have been good in
:18:03. > :18:08.straight-line speed. Women who next be in the car on Friday morning? --
:18:08. > :18:13.when will you next? Probably in Abu be in the car on Friday morning? --
:18:13. > :18:16.Dhabi a. It is or was great when young drivers get an opportunity,
:18:16. > :18:21.even better when young British young drivers get an opportunity,
:18:21. > :18:30.drivers get an opportunity. -- it is always great. Thank you. The
:18:30. > :18:33.reserve driver for the Force India team are joining us there.
:18:33. > :18:36.Fantastic to see him getting his chance. It has been a week of
:18:36. > :18:56.opportunities. Red Bull it is a championship-
:18:56. > :19:01.winning car of last season - possibly this season as well. It
:19:01. > :19:06.was a long-term choice. Not just next year. Daniel Riccardo is going
:19:06. > :19:10.to have to take time to get up to speed and understand the
:19:10. > :19:14.differences in the team and also to work out Sebastian Vettel. That is
:19:14. > :19:18.a high benchmark. They are looking to develop him. Christian Horner
:19:18. > :19:25.said they were looking to develop him over the longer term. Their
:19:25. > :19:29.thoughts are 2015, 2016, as opposed to their first few races next year.
:19:29. > :19:34.Everyone talks about any Ricardo as a young driver. He is only two
:19:34. > :19:39.years younger than Sebastian Vettel. It shows you a lot about his
:19:39. > :19:44.achievement at a young age. It also shows you there is not much between
:19:44. > :19:48.them in terms of age but a lot between them in terms of experience.
:19:48. > :19:58.An hour and 10 minutes of this Friday free practice session
:19:58. > :20:09.remaining at the beautifully sunny Monza. The track temperature is 44
:20:09. > :20:20.degrees. We have Sebastian Vettel, the reigning world champion, at the
:20:20. > :20:28.top. Then it is Mark Webber, Nicky Rosberg, Kimi Raikkonen. Can Lewis
:20:28. > :20:32.Hamilton make it a 5th pole position in a row?
:20:32. > :20:41.A bit of work going on in the McLaren garage. Incidentally, we
:20:41. > :20:47.mentioned and Iran about the 50th anniversary. You can go to the BBC
:20:47. > :20:55.sport Facebook page 4 pictures of Mika Hakkinen, David Coulthard and
:20:55. > :21:00.Jenson Button. -- for pictures. We would like to know your favourite
:21:00. > :21:02.McLaren moment in F1 history. We will show you responses later. You
:21:02. > :21:09.have been getting in touch. A will show you responses later. You
:21:09. > :21:14.couple of questions here. It is a little bit quiet in the pit lane at
:21:14. > :21:19.the moment. This could prove to be a pivotal raised in the
:21:19. > :21:23.Championship if Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are on the podium.
:21:23. > :21:35.I think Ferrari and Mercedes will be hoping for that. With the likes
:21:35. > :21:40.of Hulkenberg and di Resta be more attracted to this?
:21:41. > :21:48.There is no question about it. Ferrari, Alonso is number one. The
:21:48. > :21:52.Lotus team has been doing a fantastic job with the budget they
:21:52. > :21:58.have. Not many people would turn down a Ferrari drive. Would you?
:21:58. > :22:05.I'm not sure that is a problem I will ever have to face. A lucky few
:22:05. > :22:09.ever did. Filipe Massa is trying to focus on retaining his Ferrari
:22:09. > :22:14.opportunity. Many believe it is hanging by a thread at the moment.
:22:14. > :22:20.He has been in this situation many times before. The rumours are this
:22:20. > :22:26.could be the one that he does not quite so. The big question is, who
:22:26. > :22:33.will fill the seat for 2014 if that does happen? People are talking
:22:33. > :22:37.about a certain finish five. You have to remember that Filipe Massa
:22:37. > :22:41.is part of the family but that he has been part of it for a long time.
:22:41. > :22:46.We will be seeing if that is enough to keep him in that seat. Joining
:22:46. > :22:50.us now from the pit lane for the second time today his team
:22:50. > :23:00.principal of ripple racing, Christian Horner. -- Red Bull
:23:00. > :23:11.racing. There was an issue with a curse that to that we did not like
:23:11. > :23:16.the look of. -- KERS battery. He is about five minutes behind in the
:23:16. > :23:22.programme. It looks like Sebastian Vettel started on the front foot.
:23:22. > :23:26.Tell us a bit about this circuit and you and your team. You have won
:23:27. > :23:32.here but it would not necessarily suit your car on paper. How
:23:32. > :23:37.confident you feel? Traditionally it is a tough track. It exposes
:23:37. > :23:43.some of our weaknesses. There are long straights here and no real
:23:43. > :23:48.high-speed corners. For sure, it will probably suit Mercedes, we
:23:48. > :23:54.think, and Ferrari. They always put quite a lot of effort into this
:23:54. > :24:01.race. Hopefully we can take the fight to them. What is a weather
:24:01. > :24:07.forecasting for Sunday? One thing we saw of Sebastian Vettel's first
:24:07. > :24:13.victory was in the wet. We understand there could be some
:24:13. > :24:16.thunderstorms coming. There is some rain. Rain is not great here
:24:16. > :24:19.because it lingers in the trees and visibility is not great. It is the
:24:19. > :24:25.same for everyone but hopefully it visibility is not great. It is the
:24:25. > :24:32.will stay away until after the race. You are in a comfortable position
:24:32. > :24:38.in many ways. You have got a gap you can manage. Almost two race
:24:38. > :24:42.victories clear of your nearest rival. You need to throw a lot of
:24:42. > :24:47.effort into next year's new technology with a small capacity
:24:47. > :24:52.hybrid engine. Are you going to manage the Gap or will you try to
:24:52. > :24:58.crush the opposition? What is your focus? I do not think you can take
:24:58. > :25:04.anything for granted. 200 points are still available. It is a really
:25:04. > :25:09.difficult dilemma how much effort you put into this year and how much
:25:09. > :25:13.effort you put into next year. We will keep pushing and tried to get
:25:13. > :25:16.everything we can add of each individual event until the end of
:25:16. > :25:21.the year. -- out of each. Are you individual event until the end of
:25:21. > :25:30.happy there has been an announcement about driver line-up?
:25:30. > :25:35.I do not think it changes anything for us. Probably a bit of a
:25:35. > :25:40.distraction for me. As for the rest of the team, it does not really
:25:40. > :25:45.change anything. It is business as usual. It is great to get the
:25:45. > :25:50.announcement out there. I was asking you a minute ago about how
:25:50. > :25:57.you manage the margin. Looking at the run-in now, when we leave here
:25:57. > :26:00.we go to Singapore, Japan, Aberdovey. The places where you
:26:00. > :26:09.were strong, particularly with Sebastian Vettel. -- Abu Dhabi. As
:26:09. > :26:15.we said this year, before moves around a lot from circuit to
:26:15. > :26:21.circuit. -- perform. We're taking each race as it comes. Still a lot
:26:21. > :26:29.of points available in the Championship. Reliability, pace,
:26:29. > :26:33.and that will be critical. We are looking at the berm of Kamran for
:26:33. > :26:39.and that will be critical. We are Paul di Resta. -- the thermal
:26:40. > :26:45.camera. Can you see that? We are looking at it at the moment. It
:26:45. > :26:51.shows had dramatic the changes of temperature are, particularly for
:26:51. > :26:56.the high-energy corners. You can see it again now - the temperature
:26:56. > :26:59.building on the left-hand tyre. It will pull off down the straights.
:26:59. > :27:04.At the end of the straights, you will see a massive build-up in heat
:27:04. > :27:08.again. Quite an aggressive circuit on the brakes, put the energy into
:27:08. > :27:10.the tyre. It would have been interesting to have this on the
:27:10. > :27:15.cars at Silverstone. They were interesting to have this on the
:27:15. > :27:22.probably be showing more than yellow. Thank you for your time.I
:27:22. > :27:27.think looking at that on board and seeing the colour, it shows why
:27:27. > :27:33.there are so many mistakes. You can see the change in colour. That is a
:27:33. > :27:38.difficult thing to manage. The tyres cool down so much it is only
:27:38. > :27:43.be in there may be two inches that up to optimum temperature. When you
:27:43. > :27:51.hit the brakes, the load goes more on the car. I can see the straight
:27:51. > :27:57.line speed was of a big loss. We are looking into it. -- straight
:27:57. > :28:02.line speed. They are trying to work that out. Just one thing here, it
:28:02. > :28:06.is a very difficult thing to manage - the instantaneous build up of
:28:06. > :28:12.grip. If you do not have a feel for it, you can easily make mistakes.
:28:12. > :28:18.That is the art of what you can do - Beale for the grip and get their
:28:18. > :28:24.tyres up to temperature. The Pirelli tyres have been tricky -
:28:24. > :28:28.getting the front and the rear up to temperature at the same time.
:28:28. > :28:38.Jenson Button had a problem with that will start that -- a problem
:28:38. > :28:43.with that. He could not get proper balance. It is about tyre balanced
:28:43. > :28:49.and the driver balance. All of that coming together. With the way the
:28:49. > :28:54.Pirelli tyres have been, some teams and drivers seem to hit the sweet
:28:54. > :28:59.spot and others do not. When you talk about Jenson Button, he did
:28:59. > :29:07.struggle with that. Now they're coming back on stream. That was
:29:07. > :29:20.Kimi Raikkonen in the Lotus. Looking to see his time as he comes
:29:20. > :29:26.through. He sets 1:28.77. One hour of the session remaining. It is a
:29:26. > :29:32.90 minute session. They do some long runs, try some things out.
:29:32. > :29:36.That is the old banking from the beginning of racing through to the
:29:36. > :29:44.1970s. They finally got rid of it when the car's got to Crick. By dad
:29:44. > :29:48.used to race on that. -- the cars got too quick. There were
:29:48. > :29:56.centrifugal force. Only a little bit of tyre action and that was it.
:29:56. > :30:01.That was a braver man than me. That is a steep bank. It is difficult to
:30:01. > :30:09.climb up it, to the point where you are on your hands and toes. They
:30:09. > :30:14.had American Indy cars racing against Ferrari to produce a car
:30:14. > :30:15.against them. It is one time the Americans and Europeans were raised
:30:15. > :30:21.against them. It is one time the against each other. They called it
:30:21. > :30:26.the race of two worlds. Back in the 1950s when the Indy 500 was a World
:30:26. > :30:33.Championship round. Second mistake by Romain Grosjean. We were
:30:33. > :30:40.mentioning earlier, a huge stop from over 200 miles an hour. Nearly
:30:40. > :30:50.six G Wright on the driver's chest. Sebastian Vettel on the medium tyre.
:30:50. > :30:57.-- 6 capital G Wright on the driver's chest. Let's have a look
:30:57. > :31:01.what they should be. We have got the medium and harder compound tyre.
:31:01. > :31:06.Some would say a fairly conservative choice. We will see
:31:06. > :31:13.Conservative choices for the rest of the season. There will be fewer
:31:13. > :31:18.stops - probably one stop race for the weekend and for most people.
:31:18. > :31:22.Sebastian Vettel is almost too tense up after the first two
:31:22. > :31:47.sectors. The harder tyres can give that extra
:31:48. > :31:50.release of the speed. Not that much difference between the hard and the
:31:50. > :31:56.release of the speed. Not that much media at the moment. During the
:31:56. > :32:04.race, the degradation was the same between the two. Sergio Perez
:32:04. > :32:10.started the race on harder tyres, and managed to come from 12 up to
:32:10. > :32:17.second place, so that was a woody top strategy last year. -- a really
:32:17. > :32:24.top strategy. Strategy is a fascinating part of the game at
:32:24. > :32:29.Monza. I know it is early days, I was saying it is likely to be a
:32:29. > :32:34.one-stop strategy for a lot of people, but how are you seeing the
:32:34. > :32:42.deformities of the tie years? Three tenths of a second between the hard
:32:42. > :32:50.and medium? -- - performance of the tyres? You do not gain as much as
:32:50. > :32:57.you think. You may see some people getting the better lap time on the
:32:57. > :33:06.second lap on the medium tyres. My predictions so far is that a two
:33:06. > :33:13.stop is six or seven seconds slower. So it is quite close. It depends on
:33:13. > :33:17.the car. I was talking to one of the engineers who were saying that if
:33:17. > :33:25.you are going to do it properly, a Monza package, for want of a better
:33:25. > :33:33.word, you need a front wing, a rear wing, a floor, brake ducts, it is
:33:34. > :33:39.easy to drop 1.2 million on your Monza package! A lot of money for
:33:39. > :33:47.one race. Who is going for it this weekend? Everybody is going for it.
:33:47. > :33:55.We used to have two of these races so it justified it. But now there is
:33:55. > :34:01.only this one. It is a lot of money. You cannot run here without doing it
:34:01. > :34:09.though. You have to play around with the front wing to get the balance. I
:34:09. > :34:16.do think Red Bull are pursuing straight-line speed quite closely.
:34:16. > :34:24.Vettel has had some of the bits of the front wing removed. He is
:34:24. > :34:32.quickest at the moment. There are six slot gaps. I think everybody is
:34:32. > :34:40.still pushing pretty hard to come away from Monza with the best result
:34:40. > :35:03.and money is not the object. Vettel, weather and Ross -- Tosberg on the
:35:03. > :35:17.medium tyres. -- Rosberg. Webber, personal best in one and two.
:35:17. > :35:32.Hamilton is yet to use the medium compound tyre.
:35:32. > :35:42.Perez has a set of the medium tyres now which should improve his pace,
:35:42. > :35:47.currently 10th. Also Felipe Massa coming down into Parabolica, the
:35:47. > :35:53.final corner. The Ferrari has not looked as quite as stable as I would
:35:53. > :35:57.have expected. It has a reasonably gentle front end on it. They have
:35:57. > :35:59.been pushing the limits on it. This team needs to push the investment
:35:59. > :36:14.into the race. A lot of pressure on Ferrari to
:36:14. > :36:18.perform this weekend and get back in the game. The confidence Ricciardo
:36:18. > :36:24.must be feeling, knowing his future is secure for the next couple of
:36:24. > :36:32.years. The Red Bull team have told him they should be pressuring Vettel
:36:32. > :36:36.by midway through the season. If I was in Ricciardo's shoes, the
:36:37. > :36:46.crucial thing is not to try to beat Sebastien -- Vettel, the crucial
:36:46. > :36:51.thing is to make sure Ricciardo delivers his best 20 times a year
:36:51. > :36:56.because whatever that brings will be delivers his best 20 times a year
:36:56. > :37:05.good enough. For Ricciardo it will be trying to manage expectations.
:37:05. > :37:10.There is no way saying there is no way I am going to beat him, I am
:37:10. > :37:15.there to play down the expectations. But I am sure that there will be
:37:15. > :37:19.expectations from Red Bull. He will But I am sure that there will be
:37:19. > :37:21.have to lift their game. They are expecting him to finish on the
:37:21. > :37:27.podium, quite early on. The expecting him to finish on the
:37:27. > :37:35.constructors' title will rest on Ricciardo's season, not on
:37:35. > :37:40.Vettel's. Absolutely. Webber's extra points have brought them the
:37:40. > :37:46.constructors. It is not inconceivable that Ricciardo will do
:37:46. > :37:52.as well as Webber. Webber is averaging 10.8 Grand Prix. That is
:37:53. > :37:58.just off the podium. He should be aiming to be on the podium. It is a
:37:58. > :38:00.pretty big ask but it is something he will be aiming for and so will
:38:00. > :38:08.the team. When we saw the Mercedes he will be aiming for and so will
:38:08. > :38:13.of Hamilton starting his lap, he is weaving around a lot and that is the
:38:13. > :38:19.one thing here, to try to bring the tyres up to temperature and pressure
:38:19. > :38:23.at the right point for these first important chicanes is very critical.
:38:23. > :38:27.You will see some of them weaving around more than they would do at
:38:27. > :38:44.other circuits. The Ferrari bounces over the curves.
:38:44. > :38:51.You were talking about the cost of preparing wings for the race because
:38:51. > :38:56.it is so specific and that could be a problem for Williams because
:38:56. > :39:01.Bottas is reporting that his front wing is dragging massively on the
:39:01. > :39:07.straights. We heard earlier this morning Jenson Button having a
:39:07. > :39:17.problem. His TRS got stuck and it was a bit hairy for him -- DRS. But
:39:17. > :39:23.it was a problem with the parts. That is another thing. They don't
:39:23. > :39:26.use this rear wing very often. The sporting director said it should not
:39:26. > :39:32.happen again and the problem is resolved.
:39:32. > :39:42.Thank you, Jenny. Lewis Hamilton in fifth place now. Fernando Alonso
:39:42. > :39:48.just in front of him. Charles Pic, not the first man to get it wrong in
:39:48. > :39:49.the first chicane. Everyone gets it wrong into there! You are pushing
:39:49. > :39:55.the brakes as late as possible. If wrong into there! You are pushing
:39:55. > :40:01.you can keep the temperature on the tyres, it helps you for the next
:40:01. > :40:08.one. But in one tenth of a second, you are travelling ten metres so a
:40:08. > :40:13.small-time mistake is a big penalty. It is a bit like getting a duck in
:40:13. > :40:20.cricket. Until you have done it, you are not a cricketer. I am Scottish,
:40:20. > :40:32.we do not know what cricket is. I will explain it to you.
:40:32. > :40:42.That is what an engineer hates. When a driver says "everywhere".
:40:42. > :40:48.At the halfway point in this free practice two session. Not exactly
:40:48. > :41:02.qualifying simulations. Lewis Hamilton being given verbal
:41:02. > :41:07.instructions. They have lost the data that come from the car back to
:41:07. > :41:12.the pits in real-time. They are capable of getting them back to the
:41:12. > :41:17.factories in real-time as well. For Mercedes, that is back in
:41:17. > :41:21.Silverstone. The engineers are sitting there watching everything
:41:21. > :41:23.that is going on. For Hamilton, they are now looking at a blank screen.
:41:23. > :41:34.Vettel on top. Then Webber. I think they are pursuing
:41:34. > :41:42.straight-line speed for Sebastian Vettel. It is a minute rear wing on
:41:42. > :41:52.the Red Bull. To get the balance on the front wing, they have taken off
:41:52. > :41:56.some parts. There are seven elements and six slot gaps. The area in front
:41:56. > :42:02.of the tyres are very critical because when you are producing
:42:02. > :42:07.downforce, then you turn the front wheels into the corner, you change
:42:07. > :42:16.the way the area of the wing produces completely. So more slot
:42:16. > :42:18.gaps means more consistent airflow. It is quite an impressive piece of
:42:18. > :42:29.kit. It certainly is. The highest speed we have seen so
:42:29. > :42:40.far in the session has been Ricciardo, 211 miles an hour.
:42:40. > :42:48.It gives you an idea of the speeds they are travelling at. It is the
:42:48. > :42:56.only time of the season that the Formula One cars reach those kinds
:42:56. > :43:00.of speeds. You don't see straight-line speeds as high as that
:43:00. > :43:07.anywhere else on the calendar. The important thing is it is not just
:43:07. > :43:11.once a lap they are over 200 mph. You have another four straights
:43:11. > :43:15.where you have these high speeds. From that point of view it is
:43:15. > :43:22.important to have the efficiency of the straight-line speed. I think Red
:43:22. > :43:34.Bull's idea of the low downforce is their strategy. Normally they have a
:43:34. > :43:42.bit more downforce to break the DRS possibility. I am not sure it would
:43:42. > :43:46.work here. Vettel won in Canada and was strong with the straight-line
:43:46. > :43:53.speeds in Spa, which was one of the cornerstones of his win, he was able
:43:53. > :43:58.to go past Hamilton on straight-line speed and that is very unusual, a
:43:58. > :44:03.Red Bull overtaking a Mercedes down a straight. They have obviously
:44:03. > :44:08.found something for these high-speed sections that is really working for
:44:08. > :44:13.them. Different in character from places where they are normally
:44:13. > :44:17.strong like Silverstone. The interesting thing in Spa is that
:44:17. > :44:24.even though they do not have much wing, they are still very good with
:44:24. > :44:28.the corners. They were extremely quick in the middle sector at Spa.
:44:28. > :44:38.Hamilton was surprised how fast they were on the streets in the midfield
:44:38. > :44:49.section. Raikkonen goes third fastest on the medium tyres. Still
:44:49. > :44:57.some way off the pace set by Vettel. Raikkonen is in third for Lotus.
:44:57. > :45:09.Alonso is fourth, Hamilton is fifth. Jenny has found the Pirelli boss.
:45:09. > :45:17.This is a big race for you, the Italian fans are here, how important
:45:17. > :45:26.is it to have a strong weekend to? Very important. You can hear the
:45:26. > :45:32.cars. It is a very much of a home race for us. It is hot, which we
:45:33. > :45:38.like to see in Monza. So far so good. You bought the medium and the
:45:38. > :45:42.hard tyres this weekend. How tough is this circuit on your tyres?
:45:42. > :45:46.hard tyres this weekend. How tough Everyone was talking about the
:45:46. > :45:53.high-speed, it is not so much that but breaking from high speeds. It
:45:53. > :45:59.creates blistering, this circuit. We have not seen it so far. We are very
:45:59. > :46:05.limited but the teams have been looking at a one-stop race here. We
:46:05. > :46:12.vary what we see in terms of stoppages but this is likely to be a
:46:12. > :46:14.one-stop. This is James Allen and Allan McNish. We have this thermal
:46:14. > :46:53.camera this weekend. You are seeing the extreme
:46:53. > :47:03.temperatures that the tyres go up to. But if you are in flat spots you
:47:03. > :47:08.can go up to 100 degrees, so the life of the tyre is tough. Would you
:47:09. > :47:15.say that one or two teams seem to have got a grip of the latest tyre
:47:15. > :47:22.more than others? I don't think there is much of a difference. We
:47:22. > :47:32.have exactly the same tyres as we had last year. We wanted to make it
:47:32. > :47:37.as easy as possible which is why we went in that direction. A mistake
:47:37. > :47:45.from Nico Rosberg going into the first chicane. He had to go straight
:47:45. > :47:50.back on again. You said it is likely to be a one-stop race. Monza always
:47:50. > :47:56.was the Grand Prix web designers would design the fuel tanks for a
:47:56. > :48:03.one-stop race. -- where the designers. Are we going to see a
:48:03. > :48:10.similar pattern, will the race be less oriented about the pit stops?
:48:10. > :48:16.We were looking at the choice is going on to the end of the season
:48:16. > :48:23.today. Places last year where we have maybe taken one step more.
:48:23. > :48:27.Monza is tough, you have got Suzuka coming up where you have to on the
:48:27. > :48:33.side of caution, but then places like Austin where we can make it
:48:33. > :48:42.up, so we do not expect to see many more one-stop races. We are looking
:48:42. > :48:45.at a bit of the tyre on Paul di Resta's are heating up as it goes
:48:45. > :48:50.at a bit of the tyre on Paul di through the corners. The thermal
:48:50. > :48:56.imaging is pretty spectacular. Actually I think that was Pastor
:48:56. > :49:01.Maldonado was Mac. Amazing images. You use that for testing. It shows
:49:01. > :49:09.the level of technology going into working on the tyres. Yeah. We have
:49:09. > :49:15.eight or nine infrared cameras. The big job is treating the data we
:49:15. > :49:21.picked up and turning them into the images you are seeing. That takes
:49:21. > :49:36.some very clever IT work. We use it on all sorts of development cars.
:49:36. > :49:45.When it goes to orange, through the corn and itself. -- corner. You are
:49:45. > :49:53.When it goes to orange, through the out looking at around 200 degrees.
:49:53. > :49:59.It is hot! You can fry your eggs on it. One final thought before you
:49:59. > :50:07.leave us. Denote anything more about whether you are the supplier
:50:07. > :50:13.part-timers next season? -- do you know anything more about whether
:50:13. > :50:19.you are the supplier of tyres next season? As far as we are concerned,
:50:19. > :50:25.I have booked my ticket for Melbourne. All the data needs to go
:50:25. > :50:33.out in a couple of weeks' time. The early discussions we have at the
:50:33. > :50:42.moment for next year. -- the only discussions. Thank you for joining
:50:42. > :50:50.us. Sebastian Vettel is on top. 39 minutes of the session of our
:50:50. > :50:58.remaining. Karen is Sebastian Vettel on a harder compound tyre. -
:50:58. > :51:03.- currently Sebastian Vettel. The Red Bull drivers, they may not be
:51:03. > :51:10.exchanging Christmas cards, but they are working together to gather
:51:10. > :51:17.data and have as clear a run as possible. That is for tomorrow's
:51:17. > :51:24.qualifying session for the Grand Prix. How long will the tyres last?
:51:24. > :51:29.What is the optimum stop lap? How far will the mediums both? This
:51:29. > :51:35.What is the optimum stop lap? How afternoon is where they do the
:51:35. > :51:42.basic work. This morning it is about getting ideas will start in
:51:42. > :51:47.the afternoon, it is about the long runs. -- getting ideas. It is the
:51:47. > :51:51.final Tickle before going into qualifying. No big changes after if
:51:51. > :52:03.the overnight changes. Guido van de Garde, his
:52:03. > :52:12.performances have improved quite a bit. He managed to get a 40in
:52:12. > :52:24.Hungary. He repeated that in SPAR in qualifying. -- Spa. Give more
:52:24. > :52:33.space to Sebastian Vettel. He is in qualifying. -- Spa. Give more
:52:33. > :52:39.heavy on fuel. Mark Webber is lapping in the 1:29. Sebastian
:52:39. > :52:43.Vettel is through. Very consistent lap times from Red Bull. It he is
:52:43. > :52:51.heading the field, he is only four seconds a lap slower than he was
:52:51. > :52:57.before. -- if he is. It shows that car is quick on a single lap and
:52:57. > :53:01.quick on a long race. We have seen that by the results. For the fuel,
:53:01. > :53:08.there are less corners ban on normal circuits. It may be
:53:08. > :53:14.different than Barcelona. Daniel Okada will be sitting in a Red Bull
:53:14. > :53:18.car. As we go on board, it is getting bumpy. Easy to get
:53:18. > :53:23.wheelspin, especially when the tyres are dropping off. This is
:53:23. > :53:30.wide open throttle. Very easy to take the line through here. Try to
:53:30. > :53:35.spot the brakes. After that is your braking point. You can take one or
:53:35. > :53:40.the other. A usually end up running over the kerb on the left-hand
:53:40. > :53:48.point. -- are usually. The light changes a lot with the shadow of
:53:48. > :53:56.the trees. The camber falls away right at the apex of. It throws the
:53:56. > :54:02.car out to the right hand kerb. Underneath the old track Bridge. In
:54:02. > :54:07.that over the kerb on the left. Wide open throttle through the
:54:07. > :54:14.right. Straighten up the wheel. Try to let the car be as free as
:54:14. > :54:21.possible. This is where you break about 50m and ran it in towards the
:54:21. > :54:28.apex. At this moment, you hang on a second before squeezing on throttle
:54:28. > :54:34.and running out towards the white line. Daniel Ricciardo dropped down
:54:34. > :54:41.a gear. He ticket down a gear. Jackie Stewart used to say, the
:54:41. > :54:45.higher be clear you go into a corner, the more stable a car is.
:54:45. > :54:55.But lower the gear, the more jumpy it is. With these gearboxes, it is
:54:55. > :55:01.pretty seamless. When you change down, it is more your engine note
:55:02. > :55:08.that tells you if it has changed any more. He pulled it down at the
:55:08. > :55:14.apex to get the car to hook up. It allows you to get back on the
:55:14. > :55:19.throttle. It is an alternative to braking. It has a braking effect a
:55:19. > :55:24.more knock some speed off. Without question. If you lift off in second
:55:24. > :55:30.gear with wide open throttle, it will be like hitting the standard
:55:30. > :55:32.brakes. If you shift down, you have engine braking prior to hitting the
:55:32. > :55:40.brakes. If you shift down, you have brake pedal. A some idea of what it
:55:40. > :55:54.takes to drive a fast lap at monster. 3.6 miles and 11 corners.
:55:54. > :55:57.-- Monza. The rest are curves or chicanes. We heard a radio message
:55:57. > :56:08.saying that Sebastian Vettel was on heavy fuel. This is your Beria.
:56:08. > :56:15.There is always a penalty when you carry around extra fuel full
:56:15. > :56:21.stabbed there is a penalty. -- extra fuel. Sebastian Vettel is on
:56:21. > :56:27.a hard tyre. Always after the first pit stop. I am 99.9 to 9% sure the
:56:27. > :56:34.top guy can qualified on a medium tyre will start -- 99.99 %.
:56:34. > :56:43.Sebastian Vettel is doing a long rant on the hard tyre. -- a long
:56:43. > :56:47.run. He would have had about nine kilograms of fuel in the car. That
:56:47. > :56:56.is equivalent to about four seconds in-lap time. It is how you try to
:56:56. > :57:03.get a team to work together was dug there is no point Sebastian Vettel
:57:03. > :57:09.having a cup full of fuel. -- work together. Last year, we are talking
:57:09. > :57:13.about it earlier on, remember that Sergio Perez started the Grand Prix
:57:13. > :57:19.on a hard compound tyre. That is the same tired we have here this
:57:19. > :57:24.year. He did a long stint on the hard tyre and changed on to the
:57:24. > :57:30.mediums. He came through the field to finish in second place. If
:57:30. > :57:35.you're not a midfield team, but not a top team and you're on the back
:57:35. > :57:41.end of the top 10, which you think about going out on a harder
:57:41. > :57:50.compound tyre? We do try to do it from a higher grade slot? -- we do
:57:50. > :57:59.try? The medium tyre will be tha stare at the beginning of the race.
:57:59. > :58:06.-- will be better at the beginning of the race. If you are further
:58:06. > :58:14.back, you can start on whatever tyre you want. Sergio Perez was a
:58:14. > :58:21.long way back last year. He did not do much of a different stint. It
:58:21. > :58:29.was not sort of that he had a quick tyre. He qualified at of position.
:58:29. > :58:33.The Sauber last year is a lot better than this year. With 30
:58:33. > :58:40.minutes of the session remaining, we had the session this morning,
:58:40. > :58:50.who is looking good? The usual bunch - Mercedes come at Ferrari.
:58:50. > :58:59.The Red Bulls are up there. -- Mercedes, a Ferrari. Romain
:58:59. > :59:10.Grosjean, I am not sure where he is. It is a good comparison. It will be
:59:10. > :59:13.very close. Getting the medium tyre to work on the first lap when it
:59:13. > :59:19.has its best grip, without the straight line penalty is the
:59:19. > :59:26.biggest challenge. It has always been a challenge and will be a
:59:27. > :59:32.challenge again. Romain Grosjean has set an identical lap time. I
:59:32. > :59:39.have not seen characteristics in the lotus to help them. Anything to
:59:39. > :59:43.give it more stability under braking are the chicanes will study
:59:43. > :59:52.had to have a problem before you can fix it. You can keep changing
:59:52. > :59:59.things with the car. Maybe they will not have two of them, maybe
:59:59. > :00:03.they well. Very briefly, in layman's terms, at long wheelbase.
:00:03. > :00:08.What they had done is move the front wheels forward. I think they
:00:08. > :00:16.have made for it about four inches was up you have to do a new crash-
:00:16. > :00:19.test with their nose. -- moved forward it about four inches. By
:00:19. > :00:26.doing that, you get less weight forward it about four inches. By
:00:26. > :00:34.transfer on braking. There is that a less weight on the front axle.
:00:34. > :00:44.These cars end up transferring about 250 kilograms of load up the
:00:44. > :00:48.rear tyres on to the front tyres. That is the only advantage I can
:00:48. > :00:59.see the stub whether it is a big enough advantage, I do not know. --
:00:59. > :01:07.I can see. Identical lap times for the pair. That will give them a bit
:01:07. > :01:14.of a head scratch. They are fighting for the World Championship.
:01:14. > :01:20.It is not all over yet. They have done it for competitiveness. It
:01:20. > :01:26.does send Dad a little sick not in Formula One. -- send it out a
:01:26. > :01:31.little signal. Lotus is always pushing hard. Also to Kimi
:01:31. > :01:37.Raikkonen, who is willing to put in the effort to get the World
:01:37. > :01:41.Championship. In his situation with did not finish he had in the last
:01:41. > :01:47.grand prix, that put him on the back foot without any question. It
:01:47. > :01:52.was a fantastic record by Lotus for reliability and Kimi Raikkonen to
:01:52. > :02:05.go solo without having any problems. It is unfortunate in happened at a
:02:05. > :02:08.critical stage. Sergio Perez has a problem at the second chicane but
:02:08. > :02:13.there he almost rips off the floor of the McLaren. -- but he almost
:02:13. > :02:36.rips off the floor. 27 minutes of the session remaining.
:02:36. > :02:40.A plastic tear got into the braking system and it caused it to fail.
:02:40. > :02:42.A plastic tear got into the braking This stupid little thing that the
:02:42. > :02:47.driver and the team cannot do much This stupid little thing that the
:02:47. > :02:51.about. They could retrieve it at the first pit stop but by then the
:02:51. > :03:00.damage had been done. The Lotus looks stable generally. It is not
:03:00. > :03:04.quick reaction inputs, it is a very small and gentle input. They must
:03:04. > :03:08.feel they have a potential with a longer wheelbase but I think it will
:03:08. > :03:15.be over a race distance where you will see that. The Lotus is already
:03:15. > :03:22.very kind to its tyres. It can go longer on these Pirellis than the
:03:22. > :03:27.others. They are not the fastest in a single that but certainly very
:03:27. > :03:32.good over the longer run. Quite a weapon for Raikkonen and no shortage
:03:32. > :03:46.of push from the 2007 world champion.
:03:46. > :03:51.Vettel's engineer was speaking to him and looking at Vettel's long
:03:51. > :04:08.runs, they are looking very good. Vettel is hanging those lap times
:04:08. > :04:16.in. 28.6, 28.5, 28.48, pretty impressive. The key with target
:04:16. > :04:20.shooting is to have the holes in the target as close as possible to each
:04:20. > :04:27.other and Vettel's lap times, the fuel is burning off all the time.
:04:27. > :04:33.Having said that he has just done 28.2 on the last lap. The tyre is
:04:33. > :04:38.clearly holding up as the fuel load burns off and it looks like a very
:04:38. > :04:51.consistent run indeed from Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull. The reigning
:04:51. > :04:52.world champion is on top of the time sheets with 25 minutes of the
:04:52. > :05:17.session remaining. Hamilton has been in pole position
:05:17. > :05:26.for four in a row, record-breaking for him, can he make it five?
:05:26. > :05:32.Two 100ths of a second is the difference between Hamilton and
:05:32. > :05:48.Rosberg, only! Vettel is nine tenths of a second
:05:48. > :05:54.faster on lap 12 than he was on the first one, that is the weight to the
:05:54. > :05:59.fuel. All four wheels are drifting, not just the rear one, so he is
:05:59. > :06:02.reasonably aggressive on the throttle. The car looks extremely
:06:02. > :06:07.reasonably aggressive on the stable and he looks like a man with
:06:07. > :06:10.total control and confidence in his car. Gary Anderson has looked at the
:06:10. > :06:26.data from Vettel's long runs. The fuel load is equivalent to 0.8
:06:26. > :06:35.seconds. So you should go faster if the tyre is staying consistent. It
:06:35. > :06:40.does look like Vettel will have no problems unless the tyres wear out.
:06:40. > :06:44.But they are definitely not degrading. There may just not be
:06:44. > :06:49.enough rubber on them to accept the sliding. The shoulder gets dragged
:06:49. > :07:02.around all these right-hand corners, sliding. The shoulder gets dragged
:07:02. > :07:07.then Parabolica and the two Lesmos, but they do look pretty consistent.
:07:07. > :07:11.It looks like the front is biting nicely and then he is getting back
:07:11. > :07:20.on the throttle. The car looks in line all the way through. The
:07:20. > :07:24.important thing is if you can get the balance in the where, and you
:07:24. > :07:33.are not having one axle is sliding, and the other not, it stays
:07:33. > :07:39.consistent, it uses all four tyres consistently, so ideal if you have
:07:39. > :07:44.that sort of balance. Sebastian Vettel is in the pit stop, you might
:07:44. > :07:51.be able to go and have a look at his tyres. We are now on board with Nico
:07:51. > :08:03.Hulkenberg, also on a long run. 28.2 was the last one. 1.8 seconds slower
:08:03. > :08:04.for a lap than Vettel. But the fuel weight effect is still quite
:08:04. > :08:13.predominant. Sauber are still waiting for the
:08:13. > :08:25.Russian investment coming through. Hamilton distracted I think slightly
:08:25. > :08:31.by the car that came out onto the line in front of him. Doing exactly
:08:31. > :08:47.what Rosberg did five or ten minutes ago. Watched by Toto Wolf. Had the
:08:47. > :08:55.opportunity to be the Mercedes Chief Executive and also to buy shares.
:08:55. > :09:00.Nevertheless you sense a real rising tide of momentum within that team.
:09:00. > :09:13.Wings seem to have fallen into place. He has got his role, Wolf.
:09:13. > :09:20.Does it feel a bit like a wave, the wave is growing? Hamilton says that
:09:20. > :09:24.is exactly what he feels like. They improved their car from what was
:09:24. > :09:28.already pretty quick last year to something that is quick on every
:09:28. > :09:33.occasion this year. With Lewis Hamilton, who I consider probably
:09:33. > :09:40.the quickest guy over one lap in qualifying situation, he himself has
:09:40. > :09:43.fitted into the team now, he has his feet under the table, he understands
:09:43. > :09:48.the car better and he is able to produce some of the best drives that
:09:48. > :09:55.we have seen in quite a long time. 20 minutes to go in the second free
:09:55. > :10:01.practice session for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Track
:10:01. > :10:07.temperature is 44 degrees. James Allen and Allan McNish with you.
:10:08. > :10:14.Sebastian Vettel is fastest. Ahead of his team-mate, Mark Webber. The
:10:14. > :10:23.two Lotus are third and forced. -- third and fourth.
:10:23. > :10:29.Chilton at the moment is on top in the battle of the small teams at the
:10:29. > :10:34.back of the field. Gary Anderson is at Red Bull.
:10:34. > :10:42.Vettel went straight into the pits and went straight back out again.
:10:42. > :10:48.Then after that lap he put on the medium tyre. They did not change the
:10:48. > :10:53.fuel load. This will be a good comparison of lap time to see if the
:10:53. > :10:58.medium tyre was faster. You gather so much data and a lot is sent back
:10:58. > :11:02.from the pits. Around the track sometimes you do not get a good
:11:02. > :11:11.reception. But that first visit from the pits, it may have been to
:11:11. > :11:15.download the data from the car. Then they can gather more data to look at
:11:15. > :11:26.later on tonight after he has changed tyres. You can see the
:11:26. > :11:31.thermal imaging camera. It is warmer, but still some generation of
:11:31. > :11:36.load. If you see it again later on on a big long straight, it was cool
:11:36. > :11:41.down so it will only be the inside edge that has got the temperature,
:11:41. > :11:44.and then when you hit the brakes it will instantly flare up. It is
:11:45. > :11:48.impressive, a stunning piece of imagery. And interesting to bring it
:11:48. > :11:58.out at this stage. We have had some problems with the
:11:58. > :12:04.tyres this season, in Bahrain and then at Silverstone. Clearly this is
:12:04. > :12:08.about showing what they go through and how it works. Interestingly we
:12:08. > :12:15.also have tyres from what we are seeing that are super consistent.
:12:15. > :12:19.The fact that Vettel's performance over ten laps is more or less what
:12:19. > :12:25.you would do simply by learning the fuel loss, that is to say the tyres
:12:25. > :12:30.are not degrading any more, that was not what he really wanted, they
:12:30. > :12:35.wanted the tyres that would degrade, add to the spectacle. There has been
:12:35. > :12:36.a big ideological debate as to whether that is what Formula One
:12:36. > :12:43.a big ideological debate as to should be about. Red Bull say they
:12:43. > :12:47.want tyres to go for ever. That is a discussion to be had. Hamilton once
:12:47. > :12:55.again missing a breaking point in the second chicane. Very interesting
:12:55. > :13:01.to have this thermal imaging camera on this car throughout this weekend
:13:01. > :13:07.on Paul di Resta's car. Alonso, medium tyre. He is over one second a
:13:07. > :13:15.lap slower for most of it than Vettel. But of course, what we don't
:13:15. > :13:18.know is how much more fuel he is carrying than Vettel. If he has 30
:13:18. > :13:32.know is how much more fuel he is kilos more, Vettel's tyre was on the
:13:32. > :13:37.harder compound before. Vettel is now doing 27.6 on the medium tyre
:13:37. > :13:45.though significantly faster than the Ferrari. But 30 kilos of fuel, 35
:13:45. > :13:51.kilos of fuel, is about one second. Do you think that is what it is? Red
:13:51. > :13:58.Bull and the other teams may not the thoroughly have the same fuel load
:13:58. > :14:02.for the various different tyre performance runs. I have seen teams
:14:02. > :14:07.run a different fuel load for each tyre to try to stimulate different
:14:07. > :14:11.parts of the race which spices things up further. Right now the
:14:11. > :14:14.Ferraris are probably not quite on things up further. Right now the
:14:14. > :14:20.the pace of the Red Bull, because both the Red Bulls of Sebastian
:14:20. > :14:24.Vettel and Mark Webber on the long runs on both tyres looked to be
:14:24. > :14:28.pretty consistent. And we are never quite sure how high they have the
:14:28. > :14:34.engine is turned up on a Friday afternoon. They are certainly not
:14:34. > :14:37.running at full power. This is one of those race tracks, along with
:14:37. > :14:42.Spa, where they want to try to have a brand-new engine on Saturday
:14:42. > :14:47.morning for peak performance. They have to make eight engines lost
:14:47. > :14:55.throughout a 19 race championship, which is no mean feat. In practice
:14:55. > :14:57.they will be using an engine which may have competed for example in a
:14:57. > :15:11.wet race earlier in the season. Maximum power is not being used.
:15:11. > :15:17.They know how much more speed they would have if they used for power
:15:17. > :15:23.to do these runs. We will find out on Saturday afternoon when everyone
:15:23. > :15:32.goes for it. Then we will see who has the fastest car. Pastor
:15:32. > :16:00.Maldonado out on circuit. Valtteri Bottas is a -- his 18th.
:16:00. > :16:10.Come back like that. Do not go down in the first or second. You will
:16:10. > :16:15.have to go from second into neutral. Problem with the gearbox with
:16:15. > :16:25.Filipe Massa. The engineer is telling him to drive back safely
:16:25. > :16:32.and slowly. It was a 42nd sector. He has a fair way to get back to
:16:32. > :16:41.the pits. Your thoughts? We have seen a couple of gearbox problems.
:16:41. > :16:49.The cars are so light that when they are riding over the kerbs at
:16:49. > :16:57.the chicane scrap the wheels are so light. -- the chicanes, the wheels
:16:57. > :17:03.are so light. This is a difficult surface. Sometimes when the wheels
:17:03. > :17:11.land, they spike through the line. Kimi Raikkonen got it a little bit
:17:11. > :17:17.wrong at the first chicane. We are talking about the shaking and
:17:17. > :17:22.shuddering or suspension. It is a surprise for me, to be honest. We
:17:22. > :17:27.have had a Nico Hulkenberg this morning and now Filipe Massa. I
:17:27. > :17:34.know there are places like that but I have never seen this number and
:17:34. > :17:43.frequency. You would have called that a sleeping policeman. In Le
:17:43. > :17:47.Mans, they were called baguettes. Black stuck in my mind. Into the
:17:47. > :17:55.final 12 minutes. -- that stuck. We Black stuck in my mind. Into the
:17:55. > :18:02.were talking earlier on about telemetry - the data cent in real
:18:02. > :18:07.time from the cars. 120 sensors measuring wheel speeds and
:18:07. > :18:11.temperatures and pressures. When the car is on the circuit, they can
:18:11. > :18:17.look at the steering. They can see when the driver has made a mistake.
:18:18. > :18:24.There is no work for a grand prix driver to hide in modern Formula
:18:24. > :18:30.One. -- nowhere. In the holidays they could tell the mechanics and
:18:30. > :18:39.engineers are what the car was doing. - us the old days. Nowhere
:18:39. > :18:43.to hide for a modern grand prix driver. They are watching all this
:18:43. > :18:47.data coming through in real time and making decisions. As for
:18:47. > :18:50.Sunday's race, they make a lot of strategy decisions, based on a lot
:18:50. > :18:55.of that data as well. Who is strategy decisions, based on a lot
:18:55. > :19:00.looking good in the middle of the field? We have talked about Red
:19:00. > :19:06.Bull. We have not seen where everyone is at. They have been
:19:06. > :19:12.doing different programmes. Can you draw any conclusions? We would
:19:12. > :19:17.normally see Force India being very strong. Paul di Resta is only in
:19:17. > :19:25.11th at this point. You have picked up on the two cars that have the
:19:25. > :19:31.most chance now. Everybody ahead of them, in pure time, is doing a very
:19:31. > :19:36.good job. Force India right now is back into the midfield area. The
:19:36. > :19:40.likes of McLaren have jumped up a little bit. Mercedes are keeping
:19:40. > :19:51.the high performance level right the way through. In Montreal, the
:19:51. > :19:56.last circuit on this aerodynamics circuit, Paul di Resta had a really
:19:56. > :20:01.good ran. They are certainly the ones I would watch out for right
:20:01. > :20:06.now. Filipe Massa is out of this session. We heard him telling the
:20:06. > :20:10.team he had a problem with the gearbox. He only had third gear to
:20:10. > :20:15.get back to the pit lane. Lots of black smoke coming out of the left
:20:15. > :20:22.front tyre of Adrian Sutil. He tried to break from about 210 miles
:20:22. > :20:33.an hour for the first chicane. A big stop - 150 metres. He gets down
:20:33. > :20:39.to around 50, 60 miles an hour for the first chicane. Over 210 miles
:20:40. > :20:45.an hour. A brutal experience for car and driver. The other a Toro
:20:45. > :20:52.Rosso driver, overlooked for the seat of Mark Webber next year, he
:20:52. > :20:57.has been assured his place is secured with the team for next year.
:20:57. > :21:03.Who do you think they will put into the team? They have two guys
:21:03. > :21:08.knocking on the door. One is Antonio Felix de Costa. He is more
:21:09. > :21:12.mature than the son of the former world rally champion but looked
:21:13. > :21:19.quick in the young drivers test. I think at this moment, to cast a has
:21:19. > :21:26.probably got the best chance. I do think it will be a young Red Bull
:21:26. > :21:29.driver coming through the system. I think it is logical they will try
:21:29. > :21:36.to do that with one of the juniors coming through. Right now I think
:21:36. > :21:40.Antonia Felix de Costa is in a prime seat but he needs to prove
:21:40. > :21:52.himself. It has been an up and dance season for him. Fernando
:21:53. > :21:59.Alonso was saying he thinks moving on is great. He has a lot of
:21:59. > :22:05.momentum. There are a lot of sponsors who have links. He is
:22:06. > :22:13.pushing without any question. At the end of the day, it would be
:22:13. > :22:17.quite a big jump. He is racing in GP 3 the DUP that is a perfect
:22:17. > :22:24.platform for him to say, this is me, this is what I am doing was a -- GP
:22:24. > :22:44.3. Do you have a view on this? It is interesting. It will be a
:22:44. > :22:53.back to back between the two drivers. He did a great job at
:22:53. > :22:59.Monaco. They need to see how good he really is before they make a
:22:59. > :23:02.decision. I do not think it is too young. When you bring him in, as
:23:02. > :23:04.long as you are going to give him time to mature, the earlier you get
:23:04. > :23:10.long as you are going to give him hit the better.
:23:10. > :23:17.Another driver has said at the age of 19 he was not ready and it was a
:23:17. > :23:25.mistake to bring him in there. What we have seen has been the Toro
:23:25. > :23:30.Rosso team giving a driver a chance on a Friday morning. I would expect,
:23:30. > :23:35.as they have to put one of the drivers into the team next season,
:23:35. > :23:40.in the closing part of the season, we will possibly see both of them
:23:40. > :23:49.driving on Friday morning. What do you think? I am not sure if we have
:23:50. > :23:56.lost Gary. That chance is pretty high. Fernando Alonso is getting a
:23:56. > :24:03.kiss inside the kerb. He is running through gravel. The chances are
:24:03. > :24:09.pretty high. Danny Ricardo knows he is assured of the Red Bull seat.
:24:09. > :24:14.Red Bull has always been very high - putting pressure on the driver's.
:24:15. > :24:23.Seeing who stands up to it and who brakes. It will be clear to see if
:24:23. > :24:27.they use the same strategy. Fernando Alonso turns in. He turns
:24:27. > :24:39.in two early goals that he will clip the inside kerb. That is the
:24:39. > :24:48.reason he steers the wane. -- -- too early. If you do not do that,
:24:48. > :24:55.you will steer wide and the camber will fall away from you. The tyres
:24:55. > :25:03.are getting tired at the end of the long runs and one or two mistakes
:25:03. > :25:10.are starting to happen. Red Bull one and two. Kimi Raikkonen and
:25:10. > :25:15.Romain Grosjean, identical lap times. Last round of the 97 World
:25:15. > :25:19.Championship, do you remember? Jacque Villeneuve and Michael
:25:19. > :25:27.Schumacher going for the title. It was the race when Schumacher drove
:25:27. > :25:33.into Jacque Villeneuve. All three set identical lap time at the top
:25:33. > :25:38.of the time sheets. He said it first was decided he was in pole
:25:38. > :25:43.position. You do not see that very often. It is pretty unusual to have
:25:43. > :25:51.two identical lap times. That is what we have today. Track
:25:51. > :26:00.temperature still well up. It is 25 past three local time. In the Royal
:26:00. > :26:04.Park, just outside the city of Milan. Niki Lauda, the chairman of
:26:04. > :26:09.the Mercedes Formula One team is still working for German television
:26:09. > :26:14.in giving his opinions on a Saturday and Sunday. He manages to
:26:15. > :26:19.juggle those roles. We saw Rubens Barrichello standing next to a chap
:26:19. > :26:27.with glasses on in the garage. It is the grandson of the great scion
:26:27. > :26:36.of the Fiat dynasty. His brother John is involved with the company.
:26:36. > :26:41.They're all very out there. He is a very out their character. Up Jenson
:26:41. > :26:46.Button in the McLaren. They won last year with Lewis Hamilton.
:26:46. > :26:50.Looking reasonably good for a top 10 qualifying spot. How they will
:26:51. > :26:56.race, we will have to see. Slow but sure progress. We think we have got
:26:56. > :27:00.on top of the problems. Particularly aerodynamic problems.
:27:00. > :27:04.Getting that right is so important before the end of the season. There
:27:04. > :27:10.will be some carry over into next season. A lot of the technology we
:27:10. > :27:15.will see next year it will be quite different. Certainly eight-track
:27:15. > :27:21.Jenson Button has always enjoyed racing on. His team-mate is just in
:27:21. > :27:27.front of him. He will be boys by looking at that provisional
:27:27. > :27:32.calendar for 20 fact -- he will be buoyed by looking at that
:27:32. > :27:37.provisional calendar for 2014. Mexico is the week before the US
:27:37. > :27:42.Grand Prix in Austin. They are working flat out to try to get that
:27:42. > :27:47.circuit ready for next year. What you feel about that? It is great
:27:47. > :27:54.news to be going back to Mexico. There are a heck of a lot of
:27:54. > :27:58.Mexican drivers on the scene. From that point of view, no reason why
:27:58. > :28:02.they should not have the grand prix in the home country. Nigel Mansell
:28:02. > :28:08.was the last winner of the Mexican Grand Prix. That last corner, just
:28:08. > :28:17.the way he attacked through there is unbelievable. He is talking with
:28:17. > :28:26.Filipe Massa. His gearbox broke earlier in the session. He tried to
:28:26. > :28:34.overtake on a high-speed corner and it was a very brave thing to do
:28:34. > :28:36.from Nigel Mansell. He used to do what he wanted and the rest had to
:28:36. > :28:54.fall into line. The president of Ferrari is to here
:28:54. > :28:59.tomorrow. He likes to come on qualifying day. A bit like Enzo
:28:59. > :29:01.Ferrari did. He does not come on race day because he finds it too
:29:01. > :29:07.stressful. He is calling for action race day because he finds it too
:29:07. > :29:12.from his team. He has sent a nice to every member of staff after the
:29:12. > :29:17.Hungarian Grand Prix. Alonso had a bit of a go at the car and he had a
:29:17. > :29:19.go at Alonso. He set a knife to every member of staff. He wants
:29:19. > :29:24.them to put it between their teeth every member of staff. He wants
:29:24. > :29:28.and get on with the work. If they do not get on with their work, they
:29:28. > :29:33.can use it for something else. Looking at the way Ferrari are
:29:33. > :29:48.going to day, they have been more competitive. Following on from
:29:48. > :29:57.their performance in SPAR. -- Spa. Adrian Sutil is getting a
:29:57. > :30:05.slipstream. That is brake dust from the carbon-fibre brakes. That means
:30:05. > :30:10.the high brake wear for the Force India. We are counting down for the
:30:10. > :30:20.chequered flag as Adrian Sutil crosses the line. The brake discs
:30:20. > :30:26.go down many millimetres from the start to the end of the race. They
:30:26. > :30:31.literally wear away. Sebastian Vettel is doing a practice start.
:30:31. > :30:36.He is the getting there is a right hand corner. He is having to go
:30:36. > :30:41.straight on, as a number of drivers have done this afternoon. Helmet
:30:41. > :30:54.Mark Howard, one of the key men who took the decision to put down
:30:54. > :31:01.Daniel Riccardo in the team. Sebastian Vettel is topping the
:31:01. > :31:18.time sheets. Apart from him, it is pretty close.
:31:18. > :31:25.Tomorrow when it comes down to qualifying, it could be a different
:31:25. > :31:32.story. I think it will be a lot closer than what we see there. It
:31:32. > :31:36.needs to be because people need to get on the front row with Vettel if
:31:36. > :31:59.they are going to try to contain him. It is a Red Bull one and two.
:31:59. > :32:09.They are just doing some simulations for Sunday's Grand Prix. It will be
:32:09. > :32:12.interesting to see how the picture shows up tomorrow in qualifying and
:32:12. > :32:14.hopefully we will get similar beautiful conditions to the ones we
:32:14. > :32:17.have had today. It is predicted beautiful conditions to the ones we
:32:17. > :32:31.be hot and sunny tomorrow. You have to come into the pits and
:32:31. > :32:35.brake to a certain speed and so Vettel was practising it because in
:32:35. > :32:40.the race you have to do it as late as possible. I think Vettel is
:32:40. > :32:45.making sure he knows through the barriers, the zigzag section, so if
:32:45. > :32:49.he gets pushed off through the race he knows how to get through it.
:32:49. > :32:54.Michael Schumacher used to practice a lot of things like that, he would
:32:54. > :32:59.drive outside the gravel tracks so that if it happened in the race he
:32:59. > :33:08.knew what to do. Interesting story with Lotus. Same lap times,
:33:08. > :33:13.completely different cars. They have spent £100,000 or even more on Kimi
:33:13. > :33:19.Raikkonen's car, on extending the wheelbase by ten centimetres. They
:33:19. > :33:23.are trying to get the car to be better. But both drivers have gone
:33:23. > :33:30.within 1000th of a second, third and fourth. Maybe it is £100,000
:33:30. > :33:36.unwisely spent! We will have to wait and see. You can get more Formula
:33:36. > :33:47.One tonight if you want to watch the news channel. 6:45pm. Tomorrow
:33:47. > :33:51.morning, free practice three live. These sessions will be repeated
:33:52. > :33:56.before then and I will be back tomorrow on BBC One at ten past 12,
:33:56. > :34:02.where we will have all the news. Gary and the gang will be there as
:34:02. > :34:02.well. Thank you very much for your company. We will catch you tomorrow.