The Japanese Grand Prix - Practice 3 Formula 1

Hello and welcome. You may remember the Spanish driver suffered a

serious head injury and lost an eye in a testing incident. She was found

in her hotel room in Seville and early reports suggest she died of

natural causes. In the pit lane we have Tom. What

are the latest conditions? It is a little bit cooler than it was

yesterday, a little bit of cloud cover, but that won't be as much

concern as the wind. Today we have a strong wind gusting up to about 20

kilometres per hour down the pit straight. It might even feel like a

new race track. There are some new cars for today's session. Parades is

in a new car because he crashed yesterday. -- Perez. If you go off

at Suzuka, you are very close to a wall. It all started with the

Frenchman. He got it a little bit wrong. He bashed his elbow into the

cockpit. A little bit after that we saw him lose his left rear wheel.

Forcing him to abandon his car if you met later. He was actually find

60,000 euros for this incident. -- fined. He did just managed to stop

as he got to the barrier. Back out with all four wheels on his wagon.

He got it wrong and this time did some damage to the front end of his

car, that was the end of his day. This was the resulting impact and as

we have heard, he has a rebuilt chassis for this event today.

Thankfully got away without hitting anything. He wasn't so lucky and he

lost it as he went up through the course. Gary, it was an eventful

time, wasn't it? I wonder if we will see quite that level of action here

today. Barely restrained. I think as the wind, there is little run-off

area, and if you come in there and lock the break you just can't get

the speed out of the car. -- the brakes. Absolutely right. He put in

a very good luck yesterday before he went off. It showed that they can be

very competitive. They started the season quite strongly but then they

seem to drop the ball mid-season. -- seemed. He is not frightened about

trying. It will be interesting to see who can come out of the top of

data. -- top of that. In the pits, Jenny, how are things where you are?

Lewis Hamilton has just got into his car. He looks very relaxed. He has

just had a good look at the front of wing of his Mercedes with one the

engineers. He was definitely exploring it and seeing what he

could do today. The rest of the drivers getting ready to come out.

Sebastian Vettel there, the fastest yesterday. Best lap was one minute

Sebastian Vettel there, the fastest and 34 seconds.

One minute 33.8 seconds. About another 10th of a second slower than

that, so pretty close. A little bit of an advantage for Red Bull.

They didn't quite get down to that today. Why did think that was? -- do

you think that was? It is difficult because in the first session it was

the same hard tyre, the wind did get up and it was a tailwind. That could

probably be part of it. It is so critical to lap time around here.

You could lose a lot of time. Tom was telling us that the wind has

changed direction. It is pretty much a perfect headwind now, that will

presumably help them. It will help a car to get more downforce. We do

hope nothing has gone wrong for him. It is just barking little bit. What

is going on their Gary? -- sparking a little. Maybe they're downforce,

may be the tyre pressure is off. He doesn't want that again, he had that

yesterday. Just seeing how many cars are out on track. We are quite a

view in the pits at the moment. Seven are on the tracks and 15 are

still in the pit lane. -- quite a few.

Just watching Jimmy as he accelerates. Head down the start

area. Just another little bit of look, there is a little bit of smoke

from the back of his car. This piece of high density would underneath the

car. It is to protect the track from getting eaten up. The maximum you

are allowed to wear off during a race is one millimetre. It gives the

car less drag. They are obviously trying to run it are very low. --

run it very low. A little bit closer to the overall pace than we have

seen on some occasions. Jimmy was fourth quickest. He would have been

quicker than his one minute and 34 seconds. He put it over the curb.

Using the hard compound tyre. In good form at the moment, Gary. He

made one mistake which allowed Jimmy to get past him, but apart from that

it was pretty much a perfect weekend. You are coming up and you

are doing 300 kilometres per hour, it is so hard to get the breaks in

there. -- the brakes. You are throwing away to lapse on the track.

-- two laps. Sergio is out in his rebuilt McLaren

after the incident yesterday. The wheels are not yet fitted. Fiddling

around a bit with our car. -- that car. Everything is ready for the

race now. Probably bleed the breaks. -- the brakes. It is better to have

the car ready to go in at the end of the session than habit struggling

with some problems. -- have it. That is going to lead to a tailwind.

Gary, if you are having to decide on your ratio on Friday evening and

then you wake up and have a complete your ratio on Friday evening and

180 degrees change in the wind like this, are we going to see a change?

-- gear ratio. It will really mean that you won't have as big an

advantage out of the day, but everyone will be suffering the same

thing. Joining us on the pit wall right now is the president of

Mercedes. You can join us in our conversation about gear ratios and

Windsor ratios. -- wind. It does make quite a difference but we are

trying to anticipate it. It is the same for tomorrow. The forecast says

there are really heavy gusts this afternoon. It is going to catch our

attention for sure. Where would you like to be caught? I think it would

be a bit of a headwind into the complex. That would give a little

bit more stability. It could give you a bit of a moment. This

forecasting has proven to be quite accurate so far, does it say there

will be rain this weekend? Not so far. A touch cooler tomorrow. On

your long runs yesterday where you happy with tyre degradation? Are you

feeling confident? No. We suffered a lot of tyre degradation. We should

be in conservation mode to see how much we can save. Try to piece all

of that together. It will be about who uses the tyres best. Tyre

grading was a big problem. There doesn't seem to be such an issue.

Obviously being a figure eight track, we use both sides of the car

fairly evenly. It is normally two stops, but I think there will be

three stops tomorrow. Are they keeping Japanese hours over the

course of the weekend? By the time they get to the weekends they are

used to lead and then they try to cover the week after. -- used to

it. Keeping an eye on the progress. Quite a reasonable lap. Sergio is

second fastest. We just have the fastest first sector. -- had. The

circuit definitely is a bit quicker than yesterday. It does look as

though they are coming down now. Today it is a headwind. We know in

the UK it is a pretty horrible time but we have some people tuning in,

so that is great. That is a great shot there. Some slow mode action

from the drifts. Is there a regulation for how low the cars can

be? No. Some teams probably run very high. It depends on the economic

characteristics. It is up to you. You just want to keep the car on the

ground in a high-speed section. What you are talking about earlier with

heights, it has got people talking. Why do they use a plank? It is not

so much a plank. It was put there because the cars were having big

skids on the bottom. It was also very dangerous because you could hit

the ground very hard. We have seen gearboxes smashed just from the car

hitting the ground. To stop the cars being too low and doing the drivers

injury. That got a bit messy. That was just

a moment ago. He got himself out of rhythm. He got wind and then missed

it up. He actually did that twice. Once is a bit of a mistake but twice

is the responsible. The technical director of the team would not be

impressed. He is Foster's in this session so far. We have seen what he

can do but as you can see Mark Webber is on track. We will get an

idea of the split. Is almost as fast as anyone in Up towards the happy

now. There is a little bit of banking as it comes now through

the, the flat out. There is this tricky braking and getting into

spinning curve. Very fast entry. Try to slow it down. He is using all the

spinning curve. Very fast entry. Try downforce to group the tarmac as he

comes on to the long straight and back towards this left-hand turn. It

is an easy corner with how used to be. Yes. That tale wins coming up

is an easy corner with how used to their will upset the balance of the

car. You need a good front end for the essence you will be using a

little bit more rear than you think. A quick lap. And now we're getting

down some serious lap times. In this session, Vettel was the fastest. We

are looking at being back to the same sort of times. The wind has

are looking at being back to the a big effect. This man has just left

his first proper run on the session and watching the guys putting the

tyres on, he stayed just a little bit longer to make sure the wheels

tyres on, he stayed just a little were on properly. The team still

does not know why he lost his left rear wheel after three laps during

practice yesterday. They are trying to recreate what happened yesterday

up in the factory. They try to stimulate those laps on the other

red. The FIA want them to pass it on to the rest of the team. As of yet,

no idea why it happened. He has just gone third quickest. Red Bull are

looking good. Vettel goes through. Not as quick as we are. -- Webber. A

wrong to complain Nikkei is not fast enough. Can get the car right. While

some of the garage is able to do much good. These guys are out there

for a reason. Maybe it's time to get into the car and do the job that

they pay for. He did lock up going into the hairpin. There you can see

how it leaves that trail of rubber into the hairpin. There you can see

on the tarmac. You leave a bit of rubber like that idea and there is

one thing to shore, a lot of tyre is left on the road. It is alleged tyre

problems because it creates left on the road. It is alleged tyre

vibrations and it is very easy to hit that flat spot. Get a lot of

breaking on the tyre. It locks up again and that makes a bigger flat

spot. He wore right through the tread of the tyre. You have to be

very privileged. It is so easy to damage a tyre and then cost you a

pit stop. Do you think the front left is damaged? Just a little flat

spot. A clear analysis from Vettel. He was not ideal. Not as bad as we

have seen from some. I noticed yesterday that there was that big

spending which I would have thought left a flat spot. But he still

managed to do some of the race immolation on those tyres. It

depends. It is not so bad because as long as the driver gets off the

brake pedal the car does the spin itself. It is not set in one spot.

I'm sure he damaged the tyre but probably not as much as he thought.

He won't be very happy though, he is trying to get around and he has gone

He won't be very happy though, he is straight back in. A reminder, they

are now tied in the championship. We've seen a Vettel going fastest in

the first sector. Very wide from this driver. Getting to grips with

this is a -- circuit. We will keep an eye on him. Vettel and Webber are

at the top of the figures. Similarly, they are the top it all

the speed tracks. We have a problem Similarly, they are the top it all

with the exhaust. The exhaust broke. That is going to be challenging for

him. They're going to change the exhaust system. It is like a bunch

of bananas and you need not to hold on. It is not easy. Maybe it is a

tailpipe that is broken which wouldn't be too bad. What you are

trying to do is create downforce in the rear of the car and the exhaust

gases are at high speed. Each... Here it is going wide... Some tracks

we are trying to do is a small exhaust pipes so the exhaust can

cover at a higher the loss compromises engine performance. That

is what they are doing at the moment. These exhaust, another great

replay their, hopping over the curb at the chicane. We keep talking

about him being a finger tip driver. at the chicane. We keep talking

He is definitely able to fix it in an instant. His girlfriend Jessica

is a big star in Japan. You could hear it as he came in. It did not

sound right. There are four excise -- exhaust pipes that come out. Tom,

you are there, had a sound to you? Very poorly. It looks like he might

even be getting out of the car. Actually, no he is not. I'll give a

very close eye on what they are doing. Not an ideal start for him.

He was one of the stars of Korea last time. He got for lost time. Got

a lot of admiring comments from people in the pit lane stop see what

his lap is like, is it being behind his teammate, there seemed a bit

closer yesterday. Quite now there is a big gap between the top and the

bottom. Early days, of course. We will keep an eye on that. He has

done best in the first sector. He is only down a little bit and in the

end he is doing very well. It does look like Rebel have the pace on

this harder compound tyres. He is off again. He has had eight scrappy

weekend so far we have got a car that isn't as fast as you want it to

be an attractive push the car faster than will go sometimes you back off

a bit and that is the best thing you got. It probably won't be that bag

of -- bad. Sometimes you can do a good job. You are opposite Joe

Scarborough 's remark I am. A lot of work going on at the moment. This is

the spare chassis that they have had to rebuild overnight. They have not

done any extra work on the car. The are stuck with the plan but they

initially had and they are working hard on this curb. A difficult

weekend for him as well. He heads down shoe turns one and two. At the

moment, the four rara is are not doing a lot. He is 11th fastest on

that lap. We are yet to see a time to him. We have not seen him

establish a lap time yet. He goes through the chicane clearly. There

is lot of comments coming in through Twitter. Just got in from a night of

watching the Formula 1. Great comment. In the changes of a new

power unit in 2014, will we still have DIS? It will disappear into a

hybrid engine. It will be used in conjunction with something else.

There will be a driver pressed on. The BRS that is my opinion. Do you

think about Rome and grow John has reached at the same pace? -- Roman.

He asked to say look, I'm your man. -- house -- has to say. The question

has been about is solidity and staying out of trouble on the track.

-- he's. -- his. What's going on here, Gary? We see

these cars, they are all covered in bodywork. Let's get down to Jenny,

what is going on at Red Bull. --? At the back of Mark Webber's car. You

can clearly see that on Mark Webber's car. We can see on

Sebastian Vettel's car, which they are just firing up. This is just

about getting the right downforce. Webber is doing 203. That is just a

gust of wind indifference. -- in different. Difference.

Interesting, he has just gone quickest. Then again over the curb.

-- Hamilton. Another replay here, Gary. It took

him a while to get back on. The Jenson button griller. -- gorilla.

One of them gained via 10th of a second. -- five ninths. -- five

tenths. He is last of the runners at the

moment. White writing on the side wall. When we saw his car bottom

before. He has been on the median tyres for a while now. -- medium. He

is having a tough time, isn't he? So much grip says Lewis Hamilton. A

headwind blowing up through those bands. -- bends. You are getting

help through those very tricky curves. That headwind will also

help. It really is like a different circuit today. We will wait to see

when he puts the medium compound tyre on. I will think because he

wants to do a little bit more work tyre on. I will think because he

on the higher fuel load. Awful qualifying and then you have to use

it at the start of the race. -- or four -- for. You can see by his head

position. Please turn right, it didn't want to do that. Oh no, he

got a bit sideways there. Just swipes it off there. There is

another victim of the unforgiving Suzuka circuit. Just lost control as

he came out of that corner. You have the headwind giving you that extra

grip. The transformation of the car between those is bigger than normal.

He clambers out of the car. There is a bit of work for those guys. It

looks pretty straightforward. Clips the first curb okay. That wind from

behind just changes the balance of the car. You want to come out of

there as quickly as possible. Too much throttle to Airlie. -- too

early. The cars are quite a handful. It is making it very tricky to

drive. It has changed since it went back to last year's construction. It

is a thing of responsibility. It does make one car better than the

other, but at the end of the day they have to respond to it because

that is their job. When he came back in, I happen to be at the front of

the Mercedes Garrard. -- garage. They have just put some soft tyres

on a pink, so he will be back out soon. -- I think. Bouncing over the

curbs. A skid plate there. The interesting thing was that punctured

his tyre and sparked. That will look into why Sebastian Vettel will have

a tyre failure. Still use that skid plate and it still makes sparks.

That is the end of the session clearly for him. We have 25 minutes

to go in this practice session. He is 18 minutes in the overall

standings. -- he is 18 th. I think if you look at yesterday's

time, back to a reasonably comfortable time. I think the same

cars will be at the front again at the end of the session. I would have

said there will be five or six cars that will be able to do that and

rest. Looking at Alonzo, he is on the harder tyre. Down to second

gear. Watch that speed rise now. Absolutely flat out. Until he comes

up towards spin corner. Takes another gear down, or gear for the

second part. -- fourth. And then he has backed off. Very quickly. Put

the gearbox into one gear before he takes out the other one, so there is

minimum loss as far as he is concerned. You can hear the

driveshaft winding up. You shouldn't have that if the gear changes are

working 100% correctly. Ferrari can hear that, some other Khasi can hear

that. -- cars. We can learn from watching the camera is a bit small.

-- bit more. Currently sixth fastest. They haven't gone to the

softer compound tyres yet. We wait expect to see any more improvements

at this point in the session. -- would not. Chance to do a qualifying

simulation and see what pace they can do exactly. With all Lewis

Hamilton a little bit earlier in the session. -- we saw. Suzuka track

really looks after the fans. There is always a big screen in all of the

grandstands. It is an area that spectators can't really get to see

the marshals enjoy the view there. -- sorry -- so the marshals.

Sebastian Vettel. Across the line goes Rothberg. That was about two

10th slower than his previous best. There were fans for each and every

driver out there in Japan. The excitement is great. A fair bit of

work going on in the Red Bull barrage at the moment. -- garage.

They do play around a fair bit. It sort of is a compromise. Especially

for the race, you want to make sure you are looking after the rear

wheels. Tom, do you have any news for us

there? They have replaced it. It looks like

he will be back out before the end of the session which is crucial.

Quick work by the team there. He has come on quite well in the last few

races. Those new part also seem to have helped his car. There is no

room for complacency. That is not what he needs at the moment. You

need a bit of a push. Sometimes drivers have different drivers star

and can find a bit of time in a certain area and can learn from each

other. It is also that he has come on better. His car has suited him

better. He has used the car that in the best possible way. We saw that a

bit last year with Ferrari. The tragedy were meeting the inks with a

bit last year with Ferrari. The car that was clearly not competitive

and then as the car got better through the year, we saw him get

better and improve. The improved relative to his earlier performance.

When you are driving a car to its limit, and limit is actually quite

good. He can recognise a driver and recognise that weather. A driver who

tries to hide just pushes it to hide. He was always driving the car

and making lots of mistakes. Some of them were massive. He is on the

softer tyre now. Nobody is on prime-time. You are clear very good

run. What you think on that? It is difficult. The harder of the two

tyres. Webber We saw that his problem and not quicker but is not

too far away. Is the consistency of the tyre that they should be looking

at now stop them getting a time on it. Interestingly, there is a bit of

a rumour on Twitter has been created by Mark Hughes, is rumoured to be

heading back to McLaren. You think that is headline grabbing? There

might be a headline grabbing change. Anyone who has heard at Rebel would

be a valuable asset that those happening in those great stock for

McLaren. There must be some reason why he is moving on from that

McLaren. There must be some reason building because it is a team that

is really working in harmony. They could use his Rebel experience. He

has been with McLaren before. Yes, he had a great relationship with

Rebel so I'm surprised that someone of that level is leaving red ball to

go to McLaren. Mike Hughes is very respected journalist. We will find

out more no doubt. Not long to go here on the track, qualifying, the

cloud has come over today a little bit more but we still have a track

and richer to six degrees. Yesterday it was up of Auty, especially in the

afternoon. We had quite a community and the humidity dropped a little

bit. We really are having to rethink is a bit stop they do not have a lot

of time to change the car because once you get out of the third track

session you have to fine tune it for qualifying and then you cannot

change that all stop the only thing you can change is the setup. You

cannot just a car for after qualifying for the race you are

stuck with we got. Is have a look at a replay, what are we seeing here,

Hamilton running a wide again. This was the first part of it. As ever,

taking the car to the very limit, so much grip on the road. He is still

experimenting with the boundaries. It is up to use it a little bit

occurs you could lose a lot of lap time. Hamilton is this fastest at

the moment. Interestingly, there are only two cars running the medium

tyre. That is because he had a puncture. There is still a lot of

what they can do. More news from red will. Big dramas for Sebastien

Vettel. He has walked it in with a T-shirt on. They are changing the

cars that reads. He is not going to get back out at the end of the

session so it will be Acehnese to see how he gets on in qualifying

this afternoon. Is going to miss out on a quick run. In the past, if he

didn't have occurs earlier on when he did that, he is looking in very

good shape he would be in qualifying using the test possible at time. It

will be very close between Mark Webber and him. This should at the

qualifying will be pretty impressive stop it has this amazing record here

of four prime positions in the last four years. You wonder at any going

to knock him off his perch. Mark Webber will be up for it. Is or is

very fast on this corners. He is trying to break that sequence that

Vettel has been giving him. He reviewed a little bit of an age but

we have seen Mac one before do an amazing job in qualifying and he has

only been given one run her qualifying session. We will have a

look at the chicane again. Even Iceland motion shot. Interestingly,

we have no more laps than anyone else. Because you are not into the

gravel trap and is making up for that. He believes is doing the right

thing. The win today's going to be similar to win tomorrow. You want to

do that well. I'm confused why people on giving it a little bit

more. It is about maximum learning possible. The track will be a bit

better. An annual problem do a better lap. When everyone does it in

qualifying at the same time, it seems a bit strange. He is off

again. He is a like Hamilton and has been warring track limits. He

again. He is a like Hamilton and has doesn't want to be getting in the

have it all it later on. They've managed to repair the exhaust system

we saw earlier. Thankfully they have gone back on the circuit stop he

joined us on the coverage yesterday. Entertainers with some of his

opinion. There is a tall man in Formula 1 stop here is busy trying

to sort out its future in Formula 1. Still no word as to whether he will

be seen next year. Sebastian Vettel in jeans and his Rebel T-shirt is

out of the rest of the session with just over 11 to go. Just a little

problem with you and not often see problems for them. Over the years,

we have seen that his crash quite heavily in practice and still come

out on Saturday and blitz everybody. He is very good at managing his mind

and ensure that he gets on with the job. He does a pretty good job and

is doing that. He is one of those fans. Even a works in a different

team. He is very supportive of what Vettel has done in the last couple

of years. This is the little bit of calm before the storm. We have 18

cars in the pit at the moment stop as he gets a quick lap or two in the

car to check the fix they have done on the exhaust. A look of

disappointment on the fence face because they are back in the pit.

Ten minutes to go or have equivalent. It is just a matter of

making sure he was a K. Being sure you're ready to go the final lap

time. He is but his speed trap the year up to 304 kilometres now. Very

interesting to note that. Right now that was a lap is set on the softer

compound tyre stop you will probably that was a lap is set on the softer

see him dropped down the order because they have not got the best

tyres. Vettel have not done the best simulation run. He could be a dark

horse. He will test more than normal. Whether they are going to

apply any pressure to Mercedes will have to wait and see. The gap

between red Bull is quite large. It seemed like the gap was a little bit

less. When the notice here, they almost give Vettel a hard time. You

never knew what Vettel had in hand until you catch him. Most of the

time. But they are doing their homework right, as long as they are

doing it. The really are looking very strong with regard to how race

times are going. This could be a very interesting next lap. It is

about half way around. He is on the extreme softer tower. Ferrari have

been struggling in all of finding throughout the year, have not had a

pole star the whole year. It is not right you would expect from a team

like Ferrari stop less travelled this, and I of spiking. Whole -- a

little bit of spiking. They get stuck in the queue and they could

not use what has usually been a race basis. He had to move up through the

order. Here is Alonso going on to the quick lap and we will see that

he can do stop there is a little bit of power when we Newtonian at high

speed. It is a very easy right-hand turn. Once you get the car in

position for this you really need to get because if you do not keep it

online you just get worse and worse. It is an important lap and important

corner to start the lap. It gives a driver confidence how high it can

push for the rest of the lap. It does not headed as hard as it can

do. Now we are going down towards hairpin. That was all fairly wide.

He missed the apex ashore. -- for sure. He is nowhere near that turf

as he does so. The oversteer in the mid- corner. Definitely. And then it

changes to another corner, that decision. The rear got loose. For

the left-hander it was this boom when he overtook Michael Schumacher

2000 years ago. Into the chicane becomes, he drops down quite steeply

and it is a 132.8, which puts him further think we are going to see

quite a improvements around him there. He probably will be at least

.5 of a second off the pace. We have to wait and see what the red Bull is

going to be doing. He is sitting in a garage for half of the session and

I do not understand why a bad driver would do that. He is just about to

complete his lap as well. His personal best and first in again on

the softer tyre, he goes into fourth position. Separated by 15,000 of a

second -- 0.015 of a second. He is up on the first sector. Which is

only a little bit quicker than we have seen so far. We have seen some

quicker first sectors than that. Again, and little bit wide. Maybe

there is a little bit of a deep there and that upsets the traction.

-- dip. That is where you are going through a whole 180 degrees from

headwind to tail wind. And a good middle sector there. Very fast

middle sector there. Just what is going to be the targets here for

Mark Webber? Put in six tenths faster than anyone else -- him. Get

past him without losing any time. Their usual target is to get into

that top ten safely and securely. That is what they will be trying to

do here. Neat and tidy on the way. 30 28. -- 32 eight. I think there

will be quite a few cars up ahead of them once we see the likes of

Mercedes out there. All of the rest are getting ready to build up. Just

watching from the pit garage. I think he won't be too unhappy with

that. It does move them into contention with a Ferrari. Not quite

as quick there. If he is also one battling for the top ten. He is in

the same kind of ballpark normally. Very quick here. -- very quick here

in 2011. Currently 16th. A think that was on his softer tyre.

Hamilton just started his third fastest lap. I'm not sure why, he

had started his warmup lap that maybe the Tigers went there

something. -- Tigers were not -- tyres. He hasn't really done very

much yet. He has gone back out on a set of hard tyres. He is about to

come out of the final term there. -- turn. She is watching that progress

closely, I am sure. Not too bad. He is down by a 10th on web. -- Mark

Webber. Whether it is close enough to go on a lot. -- or not. You

wonder if they really have the pace to take the challenge to Red Bull.

Sebastian Vettel will not be making any more laps in the session.

Riccardo goes across the line. That is not as quick. Hamilton has just

gone faster than anyone in the first sector so let's watch that lap. It

definitely helps whenever you can do that slower lap and get the tyres

all working for you. Not a great place but he gets out of the way.

That rumbles the vibration through the car, changes up to six year. --

sixth gear. Absolutely flat out now, the breaking begins. -- the

braking. Certainly a good challenge from Lewis Hamilton. A little bit of

fuel, ten mg of fuel. You never know who is keeping that in there to stop

showing their true performance. Everybody looks at it after each

race and tries to predict what each person does. We didn't get a clear

picture. They run a different strategy. They run it better. There

is a bit more to come from them. He is back in eighth position there.

Lewis Hamilton just slowing down. I don't know if he is doing something

that he has been asked to do by the team, checking controls or

something. We have an order with Mark Webber having set the pace in

the first session. It means that Mercedes have ended up second and

third. Fourth for Lotus. Alonso was fifth. Slightly out of position. It

is likely that letters could challenge Ferrari. -- Lotus. Even

then he is the top ten which is pretty impressive. On the cusp again

of getting into the top ten. It has been an interesting

practice. We are certainly set up for a jewel for pole position. --

dual. Sebastian Vettel will be one to watch. That is certainly the

wishful thinking of the drivers up and down this paddock. You can see

it again at 1:20pm on BBC One. We will see you in one-hour's time.

Thank you. Goodbye.