The Korean Grand Prix - Highlights

:00:07. > :00:15.Previously on Formula 1. Felipe Massa crashes!

:00:15. > :00:20.It is Lewis Hamilton! They are side-by-side!

:00:20. > :00:23.My goodness! Res 14, Korea, this is Formula 1. --

:00:23. > :01:33.race. This is the centre of the South

:01:33. > :01:38.Korean flag, it holds the two in the polls of Ying and Yang in perfect

:01:38. > :01:45.harmony in constant movement. Light and dark, good and bad. The perfect

:01:46. > :01:52.illustration of Red Bull here at the Korean Grand Prix. The red part, the

:01:52. > :01:56.good, the excellence. Well done, brilliant drive,

:01:56. > :02:01.fantastic! Last year, a perfect one and two.

:02:01. > :02:08.Battle takes the victory, Mark Webber makes it a one and two

:02:08. > :02:12.finish. -- Sebastian Vettel. Thanks, boys!

:02:13. > :02:18.2011, another when for Sebastian Vettel.

:02:18. > :02:24.Fantastic, well done, great stride! Yes, yes, and yes again!

:02:24. > :02:30.But 2010 was a year for Red Bull to forget.

:02:30. > :02:34.Mark Webber has gone crashing into the wall, the championship leader is

:02:34. > :02:37.out of the race. The championship leader lost his

:02:37. > :02:41.edge. Both Red Bull cars are in the wars,

:02:41. > :02:44.we lost Mark Webber and now Sebastian Vettel.

:02:44. > :02:50.So what will this year hold for the top team? Another career highlight?

:02:50. > :02:57.Hello and welcome to race day in South Korea where we were promised a

:02:57. > :03:00.typhoon, we have received some rain and a right lustre of wind which

:03:00. > :03:05.should not bother the drivers too much. There can be noted out

:03:05. > :03:10.Sebastian Vettel has dominated here since the -- since the inaugural

:03:11. > :03:14.race in 2010, he has led all but 12 laps -- all the 12 laps, another

:03:14. > :03:15.statistic the other drivers will be laps -- all the 12 laps, another

:03:15. > :03:41.looking to change today. With a 60 point gap, it seems a

:03:41. > :03:46.matter of when and not if for the triple world champion. But there are

:03:46. > :03:50.still six races to go with 150 points available. Fernando Alonso

:03:50. > :03:55.and Hamilton are in the hunt but the target is fast disappearing. From

:03:56. > :03:56.Ari and Mercedes are tight in the constructors championship but Red

:03:56. > :04:01.Bull cant -- can practically taste constructors championship but Red

:04:01. > :04:07.the champagne. David, Sebastian Vettel seems to do no wrong at the

:04:07. > :04:10.moment, where does he stand in the all-time greats? He is definitely

:04:10. > :04:16.one of the greats and not because he has a good car and a good team, he

:04:16. > :04:20.has been able to exploit that against a stronger team-mate in Mark

:04:20. > :04:23.Webber. He's showed good pace in qualifying, the one thing that

:04:23. > :04:29.separates the good from the great, they can deliver when it matters on

:04:29. > :04:30.a Saturday. We are in four races he won last year, Singapore, venture

:04:30. > :04:36.pan, India and here, could won last year, Singapore, venture

:04:36. > :04:43.complacency be his biggest enemy? -- Japan. I think he is focused, his

:04:43. > :04:47.hunger is there. If you look at the last race in Singapore, he went

:04:47. > :04:52.wheel to wheel with Nico Rosberg and second place would have been

:04:52. > :04:55.sufficient. Playing the percentages and letting Rosberg have a read into

:04:55. > :05:00.the first corners, but he is fighting for it, he is hungry. Who

:05:00. > :05:07.doubts that is not watching the Grand Prix closely! This is the

:05:07. > :05:12.story of yesterday. Neither McLaren made it into the top

:05:12. > :05:16.ten but Jenson Button was out qualified by Sergio Perez. But said

:05:16. > :05:22.he was held up by promoters of Kimi Raikkonen. Another strong weekend.

:05:22. > :05:25.Who got both cars into the top ten. Esteban Gutierrez qualified in ninth

:05:25. > :05:32.with Nico Hulkenberg one place in front. Another typical Saturday for

:05:32. > :05:34.the Rory, they got into the top ten easily but Fernando Alonso could

:05:34. > :05:40.only manage sixth-place -- for Ferrari. He will rely on one of his

:05:40. > :05:45.lightning starts for the race. Mark Webber got a ten place grid penalty

:05:45. > :05:51.this weekend, his Red Bull went into third, but that's now becomes 13th.

:05:51. > :05:55.Once again, Romain Grosjean out qualified Kimi Raikkonen, he

:05:55. > :06:01.qualified for the whale Kimi Raikkonen was tense, still his best

:06:01. > :06:04.qualifying since Spa. -- 10th. Lewis Hamilton much like he could beat

:06:04. > :06:11.Sebastian Vettel to pole position, but he was ill to tens of Sebastian

:06:11. > :06:14.Vettel 's first and only flying lap. So Sebastian Vettel gets his sixth

:06:14. > :06:19.pole position of the season but has Hamilton alongside. Romain Grosjean

:06:19. > :06:26.is third and Mark Webber takes his templates penalty. The Sauber, Kimi

:06:26. > :06:38.Raikkonen and Sergio Perez, Bay round-up the top ten. Mark Webber

:06:38. > :06:45.Raikkonen and Sergio Perez, Bay bad day for Williams, Charles Pic

:06:45. > :06:51.wins the battle for Caterham against Marussia. Nobody has ever won from

:06:51. > :06:54.pole position here, is that because they're great overtaking

:06:54. > :06:58.opportunities? It is, there is an unusual opening. What we have seen

:06:58. > :07:03.in the previous starts is that they run through two into three and that

:07:03. > :07:07.creates an overtaking opportunity. run through two into three and that

:07:07. > :07:13.In 2011, Sebastian Vettel slots between the McLaren cars. This takes

:07:13. > :07:15.you down to three, he did not manage to overtake on that run but he got

:07:15. > :07:21.good positioning as he exited. to overtake on that run but he got

:07:21. > :07:26.gave a clear run in to turn four and you can see the pack behind doing

:07:26. > :07:29.the same. 2012, Mark Webber was in pole position but there is no

:07:29. > :07:33.difference between the starting positions on the left or the right

:07:33. > :07:38.and in this case, Sebastian Vettel can convert it to reading through

:07:38. > :07:42.the first couple of corners. This is great for the Wiz, it

:07:42. > :07:46.creates opportunity, doesn't it? It does, but the pace the Mercedes has

:07:46. > :07:49.shown has not been good in the first sector. But he will get the

:07:49. > :07:56.slipstream. In turns of Mark and Kimi, a scene

:07:56. > :07:59.out of position. -- in turns. Kimi signed for Ferrari recently, how

:07:59. > :08:04.difficult is it when you have your eye on the prize for next year? It

:08:04. > :08:09.should not be difficult, they should be as motivated as every member of

:08:09. > :08:12.the team. We have seen cases in the past way Kimi has lost sparkle in

:08:12. > :08:19.qualifying but he always delivers in the race. -- were Kimi. Gary, what

:08:19. > :08:24.do you think, how many stops? I think a two stop race because of the

:08:24. > :08:32.front tyre wearing, it is not tyre degradation, but performance stays

:08:32. > :08:36.stable but it wears out. You have to play it safe, it you cannot run the

:08:36. > :08:40.tyres onto the canvas so I think a two stop race and maybe some threes

:08:40. > :08:45.with cars that use the tyres too hard. Let's go over to the grid, we

:08:45. > :08:47.are talking to the drivers. A great pole yesterday, a different

:08:47. > :08:51.opening lap herewith the long run to A great pole yesterday, a different

:08:51. > :08:56.turn three and four, do you approach the start with that in mind? Of

:08:56. > :08:59.course, you have scenarios in your head but you know yourself you have

:08:59. > :09:05.ideas and a plan but most of the time it comes differently. We will

:09:05. > :09:10.see. Obviously, as you said, there is a long straight down to the

:09:10. > :09:14.hairpin of turn for so it is not clear where you want to be at the

:09:14. > :09:19.first corner -- turn four. We will try to have a good start and we will

:09:19. > :09:22.take it as it comes. Jenson, it you start in 11th, how

:09:22. > :09:26.differently are you approaching races this season when you are

:09:26. > :09:31.looking for points instead of podiums? No different, it you do the

:09:31. > :09:35.best you can and it is the same for every driver and every formula and

:09:35. > :09:39.that -- and that does not change. What will be the secret to getting

:09:39. > :09:44.points today? Drive as fast as we can, be intelligent and hopefully we

:09:44. > :09:49.have the car sat upright. We can only go as quick as the car let us.

:09:49. > :09:54.It will be good to get points but the important thing is to enjoy it.

:09:54. > :09:59.You are looking chilled ahead of the Grand Prix, great qualifying in

:09:59. > :10:05.seventh. Not bad, I hope we can repeat it. I feel confident and

:10:05. > :10:10.comfortable in the car, I like this track, so I look forward. Any plans

:10:10. > :10:15.in the rundown to these first straights? They may give you an

:10:15. > :10:19.opportunity to make places. The first priority is to keep your nose

:10:19. > :10:24.clean and hopefully we will have a good start and keep position and

:10:24. > :10:31.went a bit, but it is very tight and you need a good run in turn three.

:10:31. > :10:35.In the first two I was able to do that, so I hope again.

:10:35. > :10:41.You qualified third and start 13th, what can you do today, is it about

:10:41. > :10:47.points podiums? Grab what we can. We have everything we can in the bank

:10:47. > :15:57.to clear as many people as we can in turns of how we set the car

:15:57. > :16:02.Alonso followed through. Alonso is in a bit of trouble. Grosjean has

:16:03. > :16:09.got second. And we have got chaos. Chaos at the third corner. Trying to

:16:09. > :16:15.go down the inside, but Grosjean Chaos at the third corner. Trying to

:16:15. > :16:19.made a very good move. The McLaren cars are both looking good.

:16:19. > :16:27.Incredible stuff, the battle continues between Kimi Raikkonen and

:16:27. > :16:33.Hamilton. Fernando Alonso does not happen to be there. Felipe Massa had

:16:33. > :16:37.to get well out of it into three. Fernando Alonso has dropped into

:16:37. > :16:41.sixth place but it could be -- it could have been a lot worse.

:16:41. > :16:48.Gutierrez has gone way down the field. He is down in 15th place. On

:16:48. > :16:53.board with Lewis Hamilton. That is Grosjean ahead, so good start from

:16:53. > :16:58.him. Hamilton trying to buy up the opposition. They do not get the rest

:16:58. > :17:02.until a couple of laps so he will have to stay in the one second

:17:02. > :17:06.window, Grosjean will be aware of trying to catch Sebastian Vettel and

:17:06. > :17:11.breaking the slipstream of the Mercedes behind.

:17:11. > :17:18.Look at Sebastian Vettel, he has launched himself onto this first lap

:17:18. > :17:24.and he has opened up two seconds on that one.

:17:24. > :17:29.Hulkenberg in fifth place, then Fernando Alonso and chased by Daniel

:17:29. > :17:34.Ricciardo, who has had one of the best starts here. Kimi Raikkonen in

:17:34. > :17:39.eighth place and Pastor Maldonado in ninth position so he came through

:17:39. > :17:49.all that chaos extremely well. And he has moved into ninth place. TEAM

:17:49. > :17:57.RADIO: Something to look out for... Damage on that Force India car.

:17:57. > :18:01.Difficult with all of those car is being bunched up, but we can expect

:18:01. > :18:06.to see him coming in. The engineers can look at the data that they can

:18:06. > :18:13.get back at the Lane and they can work out exactly how much downforce

:18:13. > :18:17.he is using in that Force India. Pastor Maldonado, up nine places

:18:17. > :18:25.after that first lap and Gutierrez, you must feel for that Mexican, and

:18:25. > :18:34.Van der Garde, in 15th place. That is pretty good. He is ahead of Toro

:18:34. > :18:39.Rosso and both Williams cars. He has done very well. And Caterham will

:18:39. > :18:46.hope they can get something out of this. They need 13th place or better

:18:46. > :18:52.to me the head of Marussia in the Constructors' Championship. On-board

:18:52. > :19:00.with Fernando Alonso. -- to get ahead of. He looks like he has got

:19:00. > :19:05.some understeer on the car so lots of sterling through that apex. And

:19:05. > :19:12.they will playing that waiting game. -- will be. Hulkenberg has been very

:19:12. > :19:19.quick in the first sector. That was on Saturday and on race day, they

:19:19. > :19:23.have 140 kilos of fuel on board so there is a massive difference. Mark

:19:23. > :19:29.Webber did not really gain much I do that. He started in 13th place. We

:19:29. > :19:32.shall see what happens but you can see that flap on the rear wing

:19:32. > :19:36.opening up and it helps the straight-line speed but of course

:19:36. > :19:41.the car in front has that as well so it does not make it any easier to

:19:41. > :19:46.overtake. Behind with McLaren cars, Jenson Button in 10th place and his

:19:46. > :19:50.team-mate in 11th place. We could hear that radio message, Adrian

:19:50. > :19:54.Sutil can still follow the car in front as Mark Webber tries to take

:19:54. > :20:00.Perez. Williams keep his vision. Yes, indeed. We have seen that move

:20:00. > :20:06.in previous years. Hulkenberg made a very good move like that last year.

:20:06. > :20:10.Mark Webber taking good advantage of that, good grip around the outside.

:20:10. > :20:19.Can he get past the other McLaren of Jenson Button? He is in front of him

:20:19. > :20:22.now. We are on lap three. The second lap, interestingly, Sebastian Vettel

:20:22. > :20:27.did not open up much more over Grosjean. He did not run away from

:20:27. > :20:32.him on that second lap. This is Kimi Raikkonen, in eighth place, chasing

:20:33. > :20:37.Daniel Ricciardo, and they are both in the points. The Lotus is not as

:20:37. > :20:42.fast in a straight line as the other cars. They did suffer in terms of

:20:42. > :20:51.straight-line speed and that will make his life car. -- his life car.

:20:51. > :20:58.TEAM RADIO there is front wing damage, it is not a problem. It is

:20:58. > :21:03.just out of balance. Some understeer and he will hopefully be able to

:21:03. > :21:08.live with that. We have seen Red Bull continuing with damage. I think

:21:08. > :21:12.at this stage of the grand prix, these cars are so heavy and the

:21:12. > :21:18.drivers have to just work with the cartoon balance it as sweetly as it

:21:18. > :21:24.can be when the fuel starts to burn off. Kimi Raikkonen alongside

:21:24. > :21:31.Ricciardo, trying to go along the outside, and side-by-side, they are.

:21:31. > :21:41.Ricciardo is on the harder compound. He has the slipstream but this is

:21:41. > :21:48.not a DRS straight. That was a very mature display from Daniel. It would

:21:48. > :21:52.have been easy for him to brush wheels with him but he left in space

:21:52. > :22:00.and he came back, did not quite have the pace this time. TEAM RADIO: We

:22:00. > :22:09.need to rocks this lap. It is the front wing. They are getting get her

:22:09. > :22:12.back. They are looking at this. They have decided they are not happy and

:22:12. > :22:17.Mark Webber will be released. That will put him into 10th place. You

:22:17. > :22:22.cannot see the damage so much, the data will not be lying, of course.

:22:22. > :22:27.But this just five or six laps early and if he could hang on, that could

:22:27. > :22:31.have worked into the two stop strategy for this afternoon. Yes,

:22:31. > :22:34.and apparently it is affecting the brake temperatures. It may not just

:22:35. > :22:38.be a loss of downforce, but his brakes are being -- are really

:22:38. > :22:43.cooking. Some carbon might have gone brakes are being -- are really

:22:43. > :22:57.into the rec. 's behind the front wing. -- brake ducts. That was an

:22:57. > :23:02.amazing getaway from Sebastian Vettel. There is no difference, side

:23:02. > :23:08.to side, in terms of grip on that first corner. Otherwise, that is a

:23:08. > :23:10.very clean run through the first two corners and later on, it started to

:23:10. > :23:15.get messy. Fernando Alonso, we are corners and later on, it started to

:23:15. > :23:23.used to seeing him making good starts and he hit that limiter. He

:23:23. > :23:26.just has to get out of that as he comes out of turn number one and

:23:26. > :23:32.that has really lost him momentum. Kimi Raikkonen... That is a very

:23:32. > :23:37.nice getaway. Cautious going towards that first corner. Sauber taking

:23:37. > :23:52.good advantage. Line the inside of Felipe Massa. Look... This is where

:23:52. > :23:55.it gets messy. Felipe Massa down the inside, it will not happen with

:23:55. > :24:00.Mercedes, and Alonso has to go wide. You can see the damage. The front

:24:00. > :24:09.wing of McLaren, on-board with Grosjean. He gets that inside line.

:24:09. > :24:13.Into that slipstream. And he manages to keep things together into turn

:24:13. > :24:19.number three. Look for Felipe Massa spelling. How close can you get?

:24:19. > :24:23.That was so close for both Ferrari spelling. How close can you get?

:24:23. > :24:32.cars, taking each other out. Thermal imaging with Jenson Button... He was

:24:32. > :24:38.unlucky, there. Some avoiding action from the car in front. Just one of

:24:38. > :24:43.those racing incidents, unfortunately. He has not had much

:24:43. > :24:48.luck, he only got that far last year. He was hit by could be a went

:24:48. > :24:59.out of the race on that occasion. -- he was hit by Kamui Kobayashi. We

:24:59. > :25:02.are looking further down. Pastor Maldonado coming through, nine

:25:02. > :25:06.are looking further down. Pastor places of Williams but Mark Webber

:25:06. > :25:11.is behind him with a much faster Red Bull. Expect to see Mark Webber

:25:11. > :25:15.getting into that slipstream. He is going to defence of already, but he

:25:15. > :25:24.is not allowed to weave and changed election. Lewis Hamilton was

:25:24. > :25:32.penalised for that in Malaysia. -- change direction. I think if he did

:25:32. > :25:40.too much weaving, the stewards would have had a look at that. Maldonado,

:25:40. > :25:45.heading for the pits. Coming in relatively early. He was told he has

:25:45. > :25:53.to keep his tyres on for a long time so they will stick to two stops at

:25:53. > :26:00.Force India. That is relatively early. They wanted to get to lap

:26:00. > :26:04.number 11 before making the initial pit stop. We still have Hulkenberg

:26:04. > :26:10.followed by an alonso and Kimi Raikkonen and then Ricciardo, Perez

:26:10. > :26:14.is holding light in 10th place. Fernando Alonso locked up and went

:26:14. > :26:20.very wide. That has cost them some time relative to Gutierrez. This is

:26:20. > :26:30.Mark Webber. Daniel Ricciardo, I believe. That was a huge oversteer.

:26:30. > :31:22.He Hamilton right behind. Lewis

:31:22. > :31:30.Hamilton has got the DRM. That gives him a chance. He is going to go for

:31:30. > :31:34.it down the inside. There is still another opportunity for Hamilton on

:31:34. > :31:38.this next straight towards turn four. Grosjean holds tight to the

:31:38. > :31:43.left-hand side. Hamilton is forced to go to the outside. He tries to

:31:43. > :31:48.open the gap but Grosjean is not happening. A cutback from Hamilton.

:31:48. > :31:52.Fabulous racing between Grosjean and Hamilton. And for the moment, the

:31:52. > :31:56.Frenchman is holding of the Mercedes of Hamilton. That should he is not

:31:56. > :32:02.because they are into the twists and turns. Great defensive driving from

:32:03. > :32:07.Grosjean. He was holding the inside line and that left Hamilton no

:32:07. > :32:11.choice but to make his move. You have to use the momentum from the

:32:11. > :32:18.slipstream, you cannot wait for him to pole over in the braking zone. --

:32:18. > :32:22.to all over. Grosjean showing maturity in this second half of the

:32:22. > :32:27.season. It is lap 11 and here comes Sebastian Vettel and it is looking

:32:27. > :32:36.strong again for the championship leader. Red Bull go to work. No

:32:36. > :32:41.problems in the pit stop. The medium compound tyres go on and everybody

:32:41. > :32:47.has switched to those. Kimi Raikkonen is coming in for Lotus.

:32:47. > :32:54.Kimi Raikkonen is making progress, he started in ninth place, then 13th

:32:54. > :32:59.to third in Singapore. Hamilton has set fastest lap despite that a link

:32:59. > :33:07.with Grosjean and Grosjean has come out ahead of Daniel Ricardo. --

:33:07. > :33:11.Daniel Ricciardo. But he is under pressure for position. Grosjean

:33:11. > :33:18.should do this relatively easily and he does. Daniel Ricciardo going

:33:18. > :33:21.deeper. And he is on the medium compound tyres he started on rather

:33:21. > :33:27.than the super-soft tyres everybody else began on. Grosjean has closed

:33:27. > :33:33.the gap around the pit stop so the extra lap Sebastian Vettel has done

:33:33. > :33:38.has cost him a bit of lap time. Look at this, this is Paul di Resta and

:33:38. > :33:44.Sergio Perez. Let's see what happened here.

:33:44. > :33:50.It down into turn four, and Perez is trying to give him into the squeeze

:33:50. > :33:57.but he is hanging in. I do not think Paul will be happy about that

:33:57. > :34:01.because Perez, I do not think you can do that, you let your car run

:34:01. > :34:05.wider than it needs to go to make it clear you do not want anybody

:34:05. > :34:10.thinking there is a way past. Perez, earlier in the season, was accused

:34:10. > :34:15.by drivers including his team-mate of being over aggressive. Some

:34:15. > :34:20.drivers have taken exception, Mark Webber not impressed and said, how

:34:20. > :34:24.come I have ended up with three reprimands and a ten place penalty

:34:24. > :34:29.when Perez has not had anything? Web is reading at this point as he comes

:34:29. > :34:34.into the hits -- Mark Webber is leading. He started on the

:34:34. > :34:40.super-soft tyre and made them last well. Let's see how it works. Coming

:34:40. > :34:44.into the pits later is not necessarily to your advantage and he

:34:44. > :34:45.has been coming through traffic. Rosberg going across the finished

:34:45. > :34:48.now and look as though he will come Rosberg going across the finished

:34:48. > :34:54.out behind the battle between Nico Rosberg going across the finished

:34:54. > :35:00.Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso. He will come out in front of Jean-Eric

:35:00. > :35:06.Vergne, and he comes out in ninth place. And that means he is playing

:35:06. > :35:11.games and Kimi Raikkonen will be his next target. Kimi Raikkonen trying

:35:11. > :35:15.to close up to Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg who has more

:35:15. > :35:21.pressure on him in the Sauber. He is now in sixth place. Mark Webber is

:35:21. > :35:25.in ninth position, Jenson Button is tense. Pastor Maldonado in 11th

:35:25. > :35:32.place, he has dropped to 11th. Further back, we have another

:35:32. > :35:38.incident being investigated involving cars six and 14, that is

:35:38. > :35:43.Sergio Perez and Paul di Resta. Forcing another driver of the track

:35:43. > :35:47.is what they have typed into the message. The stewards have decided

:35:47. > :35:56.to look at the actions of Perez. The drivers' steward is weekend is

:35:56. > :36:04.Immanuel. He has been a steward on quite if you occasions. -- quite a

:36:04. > :36:13.couple -- on a couple of occasions. He is a very fair steward. So now

:36:14. > :36:21.that the first flurry of pit stops has been made, Sebastian Vettel

:36:21. > :36:25.leads the race by 2.7 seconds, seven seconds of a Grosjean. So it is

:36:25. > :36:30.virtually the same gap as it was before the pit stop. We are still

:36:30. > :36:34.waiting for Daniel Ricciardo because he started the race on the harder

:36:34. > :36:39.tyres so he is in fourth. Nico Rosberg is in fifth, Nico Hulkenberg

:36:39. > :36:44.is fixed, Fernando Alonso is in seventh, and hounding of the Sauber

:36:44. > :36:47.now. Both using a Ferrari engine. Fernando runs too wide. An unusual

:36:47. > :36:50.now. Both using a Ferrari engine. place to come off the track, I

:36:50. > :36:54.assume he was distracted by an adjustment he was making in the

:36:54. > :36:59.cockpit. That will have cost him the meant in turn three. The Ferrari

:36:59. > :37:06.does not look to be performing better on medium tyres. And Hamilton

:37:06. > :37:11.is keeping Grosjean tested in this part of the Grand Prix. Changes in

:37:11. > :37:16.performance depending on fuel loads and the tyres. We do not expect

:37:16. > :37:21.anybody to use the super-soft again this afternoon although it does have

:37:21. > :37:27.an offset in outright performance, it does not hold as well as prime

:37:27. > :37:31.tyres. Let's take a look, did he pick up understeer? Did he miss his

:37:31. > :37:35.turning point? His hand was high in the cockpit. Whatever it was, it was

:37:35. > :37:41.turning point? His hand was high in not part of his strategy. Already,

:37:41. > :37:48.rubber is starting to collect. They made a comment about that yesterday.

:37:48. > :37:51.Moaning a bit about these Pirelli tyres and saying they did not hold

:37:51. > :37:56.together for one lap of qualifying because they were going off and they

:37:56. > :38:00.were throwing of a lot more than some of the other tyres used in

:38:00. > :38:04.Formula 1. He has been moaning about a couple of things this year and

:38:04. > :38:09.Pirelli certainly got the attention yesterday. Frustration is coming

:38:09. > :38:15.into his racing. He is a double world champion and the Farida

:38:15. > :38:21.dream... He has certainly informed expections -- exceptionally well but

:38:21. > :38:26.has not delivered that championship. Sebastian Vettel reading now by 3.2

:38:26. > :38:30.seconds. Let's listen. The gap is good, focus on stick

:38:30. > :38:36.length. In other words, look after those tyres. Daniel Ricciardo, we

:38:36. > :38:42.have got to lap 15, how many labs will he be able to go before he

:38:42. > :38:47.comes in? They are all on medium tyres so they will look at him to

:38:47. > :38:52.see how consistent his lap times. I think he can do 20, he has to do

:38:52. > :38:58.that if the other guys have one more stop. He still has Nico Hulkenberg

:38:58. > :39:04.and Fernando Alonso, and Alonso is throwing himself into this battle.

:39:04. > :39:10.A couple of mistakes. Nico Hulkenberg in the Sauber has a

:39:10. > :39:12.quarter of the budget. But he has not done too bad at the moment, he

:39:12. > :39:18.quarter of the budget. But he has is sixth in a small team.

:39:18. > :39:21.Sauber have made such a weak. Doing a fantastic job over the last few

:39:21. > :39:26.races. A big update package they a fantastic job over the last few

:39:26. > :39:28.brought to Hungary and it is about how the exhaust are fed through the

:39:28. > :39:32.rear bodywork and it has helped how the exhaust are fed through the

:39:32. > :39:36.Sauber a lot in the couple -- in the last couple of races and he is doing

:39:36. > :39:42.a fine job of keeping Alonso behind him. This is polled -- Pastor

:39:42. > :39:48.Maldonado against Sergio Perez. It is turned four and he concludes

:39:48. > :40:02.the pass at that point. -- her macro for -- turn four. That is down into

:40:02. > :40:07.turn three, so it we are sparse into turn three -- a DRS. He should have

:40:07. > :40:13.forced Perez to make a decision and maybe they are making -- and maybe

:40:13. > :40:17.they are having fun. They are fighting outside the

:40:17. > :40:24.points. They are running in 11th and 12 places as Nico Hulkenberg has

:40:24. > :40:28.Alonso behind him. Look after the right front tyres.

:40:28. > :40:33.Grosjean in second place being Look after the right front tyres.

:40:33. > :40:38.guided to look after the right front tyres. They take a real hammering in

:40:38. > :40:41.Korea and last year when Sebastian tyres. They take a real hammering in

:40:42. > :40:47.Vettel one here, he was urged by the engineer to calm it down because it

:40:47. > :40:51.was fairly marginal towards the end of the Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen

:40:51. > :40:56.has caught Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber is behind them. His last lap

:40:56. > :41:03.was not much quicker but he is closing up. This is working the fact

:41:03. > :41:10.that Nico Hulkenberg is keeping this pack together. He is not that Fest

:41:10. > :41:17.-- fast in the Sauber, but good pace in that first sector. When you are

:41:17. > :41:22.trying to find your wine and maintaining your grip, while someone

:41:22. > :41:25.is robbing that clean air from in front of you, downstream, it is

:41:25. > :41:30.difficult enough for Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen is getting double

:41:30. > :41:36.the used air. Not easy. That is the race leader,

:41:36. > :41:41.Sebastian Vettel reading. Grosjean in second place in the Lotus,

:41:41. > :41:46.Hamilton has had a quiet race in third place, unable to get past

:41:46. > :41:50.Grosjean after the pit stop. Still doing a collapse in turns of speed

:41:50. > :41:56.but he is being caught by Nico Rosberg on newer sets of tyres. The

:41:56. > :42:01.race for sixth place between Nico Hulkenberg, Fernando Alonso and Mark

:42:01. > :42:03.Webber. Daniel Ricciardo is in a difficult face because he will be

:42:03. > :42:04.Webber. Daniel Ricciardo is in a caught up by these guys but he has

:42:04. > :42:10.to stay and manage his tyres caught up by these guys but he has

:42:10. > :42:15.difficult phase. He will come out between -- behind

:42:15. > :42:17.Paul di Resta in 14th place. If he can make it last long enough, he

:42:17. > :42:21.Paul di Resta in 14th place. If he will have a pit stop in hand but if

:42:21. > :42:26.it is not going to work for him, he will have the penalty of having to

:42:26. > :42:28.do a second stop and the extra 25 seconds so he is in a zone where he

:42:28. > :42:40.has to keep because he is now tucked in behind

:42:40. > :42:43.him. We will see if he can repeat the manoeuvre from before. Let's

:42:43. > :42:48.him. We will see if he can repeat listen Fernando ahead is

:42:48. > :42:54.struggling. Alonso struggling with graining.

:42:54. > :42:59.The team identifying Alonso as his problem, forcing him out wide. Kimi

:42:59. > :43:01.Raikkonen will try to take advantage of that. The Lotus usually good on

:43:01. > :43:06.Raikkonen will try to take advantage its tyres, the first time it has

:43:06. > :43:10.been running its long wheelbase during a Grand Prix, they tested it

:43:10. > :43:11.at previous events but they are running a long wheel based version

:43:11. > :43:17.on Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen. So running a long wheel based version

:43:17. > :43:21.far, so good. I should look after the rear tyres slightly better, but

:43:21. > :43:23.it is the front tyres here taking all the work is Daniel Ricciardo is

:43:23. > :43:29.coming through the long right-hand all the work is Daniel Ricciardo is

:43:29. > :43:33.leading to the start finish straight. Nico Rosberg closing that

:43:33. > :43:37.gap on Daniel Ricciardo but not close enough to challenge, not on

:43:37. > :43:44.this straight, but he will be well placed as they get into the next

:43:44. > :43:49.zone. And Kimi Raikkonen again tries to get closer to the Varese. And how

:43:49. > :44:06.much did Mark Webber gain? Not very much.

:44:06. > :44:15.He will not have done any damage, he managed to release the pressure from

:44:15. > :44:19.the brake pedal. Mark Webber is still looking after his tyres, he

:44:19. > :44:27.does not want to get too close to the back of these guys straightaway.

:44:27. > :44:30.Behind them, we still have Jenson Button in 10th place, then Perez and

:44:30. > :44:35.Behind them, we still have Jenson Maldonado in 12th place. We can have

:44:35. > :44:41.a replay of Sebastian Vettel. TEAM RADIO: You were quick in the middle

:44:41. > :44:45.sector, be careful not to abuse your tyres. He seems to be totally in

:44:45. > :44:51.sector, be careful not to abuse your control at the moment. What news

:44:51. > :45:00.have you got? I am just pandering what Daniel Ricciardo 's strategy

:45:00. > :45:08.was. Let's just look back. One driver did one-stop blaster, Pastor

:45:08. > :45:13.Maldonado. He beat his team-mate, Bruno Senna. And last it was just

:45:13. > :45:22.soft and supersonic. Medium is one specification harder. As I speak, he

:45:22. > :45:29.has just gone into the pit lane. He kicked off the last as he came in.

:45:29. > :45:39.He is making his way down the pit lane. That brings Hulkenberg up to

:45:39. > :45:44.fifth place. -- kicked off the dust. He will come out around where Paul

:45:44. > :45:55.di Resta is at this stage of the grand prix. Gutierrez and Labour

:45:55. > :46:05.masses still in that little group. Done in 15th position. -- Felipe

:46:05. > :46:09.Massa. Ricciardo will come out in 13th place, as it looks at the

:46:09. > :46:14.moment. No change between Hulkenberg and Kimi Raikkonen. We have seen

:46:14. > :46:21.Hulkenberg leading before, famously in Brazil last year. In these

:46:21. > :46:26.positions, he never looks phased? He is a great driver. He has just never

:46:26. > :46:36.had the car destroyed his -- to show his strengths. He is keeping all of

:46:36. > :46:43.those race winners lined up behind him. Fernando Alonso, double

:46:43. > :46:52.champion, and Kimi Raikkonen and Mark Webber is a multiple race

:46:52. > :46:58.winner. He was bailing on that number 19 because was it a gin being

:46:58. > :47:04.removed from his car. It looks like that back row it was an ex-pigeon.

:47:04. > :47:10.That might be one of the reasons they stopped trying to do one stop

:47:10. > :47:15.this afternoon. Kimi Raikkonen has been told to change some of the

:47:15. > :47:21.settings on his KERS. Hopefully that is not an ongoing problem with him.

:47:21. > :47:25.That energy recovery boost certainly helps with overtaking. Fernando

:47:25. > :47:30.Alonso still watching the rear wing and gearbox of the Sauber ahead. He

:47:30. > :47:37.is getting closer. He goes to the outside. And Hulkenberg, just that

:47:37. > :47:49.little wobble to keep you guessing. There was no chance. Fernando Alonso

:47:49. > :47:53.used all of his KERS on the rundown. Starting to hustle at the back of

:47:53. > :48:00.that server. Kimi Raikkonen is not far behind. Can he take advantage?

:48:00. > :48:06.That incident earlier will be investigated after the race. We will

:48:06. > :48:14.not see any penalties for Perez or Paul di Resta. Hulkenberg just

:48:14. > :48:21.fending off Fernando Alonso. TEAM RADIO: Fernando Alonso 's training

:48:21. > :48:31.has just cleared and expect yours to do the same. How does that work?

:48:31. > :48:35.Those marbles you mention, that they have been complaining about, it is

:48:36. > :48:42.like a razor on paper, if you rub it across, you start to deposit its of

:48:42. > :48:47.rubber and it goes across the surface of the tyres. In the

:48:47. > :48:53.direction of the load. And it gets to the end of the surface and then

:48:53. > :48:56.turns off, just like a marble. During that, you are just running

:48:56. > :49:03.around on the surface and you can see the graining very clearly with

:49:03. > :49:08.Hulkenberg. One such claims, it is just allowing more contact and that

:49:08. > :49:13.reduces your understeer and allows you to push harder. You can see that

:49:13. > :49:19.clearly on Kimi Raikkonen 's car as well. Yes, that darker ban. All

:49:19. > :49:29.those cars have a little bit of graining, at least. It is coming

:49:29. > :49:37.from those Pirelli tyres. As you move, it becomes more difficult to

:49:37. > :49:52.contain surface temperature because there is less rubber there. Less

:49:52. > :50:04.death. -- death. -- depth. The team principal at Sauber. She has got

:50:04. > :50:15.Hulkenberg holding on to fit case. TEAM RADIO: It is too early. There

:50:15. > :50:21.could be graining. He is being told that his grip might come back. We

:50:21. > :50:26.were hearing that Kimi Raikkonen is being told his KERS battery is not

:50:26. > :50:30.being charged. So he will have that deficit, that is about the

:50:30. > :50:38.performance you gain from having fully usable KERS. In qualifying the

:50:38. > :50:47.get that double hit. And once you qualify, we can see if we can get

:50:47. > :50:56.some graphic... Save we can get that system working again. -- see if.

:50:56. > :51:05.Jenson Button has finally giving up with that understeer. Three stops

:51:05. > :51:11.this afternoon? He will have to make another, I am sure. Tough strategy

:51:11. > :51:16.for Jenson Button. Perez is currently in ninth place in his

:51:16. > :51:21.McLaren. Mark Webber, by the way, still tucked into the back of this

:51:21. > :51:25.group, and we mentioned Libby Mansour and we have not seen

:51:25. > :51:31.anything from him after that spin on the third corner on the opening

:51:32. > :51:39.lap. -- Felipe Massa. He is tucked in behind Gutierrez. And they are

:51:39. > :51:40.behind Paul di Resta. This is the stop from Jenson Button a moment

:51:40. > :51:47.ago. Little bit slow getting mad stop from Jenson Button a moment

:51:47. > :51:52.rear jack down. Did he gets a message to say there was an issue?

:51:52. > :52:00.There was no car in the pit lane but was hesitation. They are normally

:52:00. > :52:04.pretty slick when it comes to stops. Getting as close as you want to that

:52:04. > :52:08.Sauber as he finds his way around the outside of Gutierrez. That was

:52:08. > :52:13.pretty close and they did not realise they were quite that close!

:52:13. > :52:19.Look at that. There was some contact on the front wing. Gutierrez,

:52:19. > :52:24.fighting for his Formula One career, as he hopes to stay at Sauber. We

:52:24. > :52:29.don't really know what will happen because is all of that talk about

:52:29. > :52:34.the team. Or if they will go for someone more experienced. Another

:52:34. > :52:40.lock-up. We still have both Mercedes cars ahead of Ferrari and in the

:52:40. > :52:43.current battle for second in the Constructors' Championship, that is

:52:43. > :52:49.crucial because Mercedes are trying to get back into second place, ahead

:52:49. > :52:52.of Ferrari. The gap is only seven points so Mercedes looking good at

:52:52. > :52:59.the moment to move ahead. Look at that, look at how wide he is. Really

:52:59. > :53:08.struggling on the exit of the turn. Turn six. TEAM RADIO: It looks like

:53:08. > :53:14.others have got through this graining phase and then it cleans

:53:14. > :53:22.up. Quite a clear message from the driver, he is not happy with his

:53:22. > :53:29.tyres. The team will want him to try and stay out. Incomes Kimi

:53:29. > :53:34.Raikkonen. He is going early. Loaders are very good at looking

:53:34. > :53:37.after those tyres. They are using that strategy to get him out on a

:53:37. > :53:42.clear piece of tarmac and hope that he can go all the way to the end

:53:42. > :53:47.because loaders tends to be able to look after their tyres better than

:53:47. > :53:52.other teams. He is just stuck in that dirty air behind Hulkenberg and

:53:52. > :53:57.Alonso. They will have to push because he is going to come out

:53:57. > :54:06.behind Ricciardo. Yes, Kimi Raikkonen rejoins in 10th place.

:54:06. > :54:08.Paul di Resta? Oh, no! And this is another retirement for Paul di

:54:08. > :54:17.Resta. Three in recent races. He crashed in

:54:17. > :54:25.Singapore, at Monza and with modern adult in Belgium. -- with Maldonado.

:54:25. > :54:33.He is just suffering a desperate run at the moment. He gets onto the

:54:33. > :54:34.kerb. He corrects that and then his mental just brings him around the

:54:34. > :55:15.other way. -- lament. fresh tyres. They can go deeper. And

:55:15. > :55:20.Fernando Alonso decides to stay out. Kimi Raikkonen me that earlier stop

:55:20. > :55:31.and Hulkenberg is being forced in, perhaps more than loaders. -- made

:55:31. > :55:36.that earlier stop. Yes, Mark Webber is ahead of Fernando Alonso. Let us

:55:36. > :55:45.see how that happened. I do not know when that happened. Five, sneaky one

:55:45. > :55:50.into six? Yes, indeed. He has been using that wider line. Let's look at

:55:50. > :55:55.the thermal imaging camera. I guess we don't have control over that! It

:55:55. > :56:00.does not look as exciting from that angle as it does from the good,

:56:00. > :56:07.old-fashioned version. You are right. Mark Webber is now ahead of

:56:07. > :56:12.Fernando Alonso. So, he has to try to chase after Hamilton and Rosberg

:56:12. > :56:16.and they were closer together. Rosberg is catching Hamilton. We

:56:16. > :56:25.heard he was struggling on his tyres. TEAM RADIO: You are catching

:56:25. > :56:35.Lewis Hamilton, 2.5 seconds every lap. And you have got lapped traffic

:56:35. > :56:40.in front of you. Mercedes, the crew is still sitting in the pit box.

:56:40. > :56:46.Mark Webber has set the fastest middle sector of anybody. Rosberg

:56:46. > :56:52.will be right into the DRS range as they head along this straight.

:56:52. > :56:54.Hamilton has clearly got a very big problem and he could find themselves

:56:54. > :57:01.Hamilton has clearly got a very big coming I'd behind Perez. Just over

:57:01. > :57:07.26 seconds behind him. Look at that! Something has broken! He still gets

:57:07. > :57:13.turned but something has happened to the front. The whole front of the

:57:13. > :57:18.nose has dropped down. You can see the front. The whole front of the

:57:18. > :57:26.there is no gap at all. That must have broken. And rotated on the

:57:26. > :57:30.actual nose Hangar. You can see that gap, where it joins the rest of the

:57:30. > :57:36.bonnet. I am not sure where he will be with that. You can see those

:57:36. > :57:44.sparks. You can feel anything, it will be different, racing drivers

:57:44. > :57:54.and in other forms of racing. TEAM RADIO: The front wing looks as if it

:57:54. > :58:00.has failed. Box this lap. Hamilton cannot overtake just here. Hamilton

:58:00. > :58:04.should have been brought in. He is cannot overtake just here. Hamilton

:58:04. > :58:09.losing three seconds every lap. Rosberg is holding Hamilton up. He

:58:09. > :58:14.clearly has problems as well. I would like the engineer to say, the

:58:14. > :58:18.front wing has failed. Caution, extreme caution! We know what

:58:18. > :58:23.happens when they go underneath the front of the car. We have seen that

:58:23. > :58:26.happen before with Fernando Alonso. You can just lose your steering.

:58:26. > :58:35.This forces Hamilton to do another lap. 50.7. Mercedes not showing the

:58:35. > :58:41.goods and the strategic reaction we are used to. In terms of this fight

:58:41. > :58:46.with Ferrari, they are looking to beat Ferrari very well this weekend

:58:46. > :58:49.but that has changed. They have practised this but in the heat of

:58:49. > :58:57.the battle, it is never as easy as when practising? And they had that

:58:57. > :59:10.failure on their nose. That minding point has become detached. We could

:59:10. > :59:13.not see anything broken. -- minding. Nico Rosberg was asking, how quick

:59:14. > :59:21.can add no wish to mark so they were talking to each other but they did

:59:21. > :59:25.not let Hamilton go past. -- how Wick can I go?

:59:25. > :59:31.We need to service Nico Rosberg a slap.

:59:31. > :59:38.Exactly what he said. He will not like that. It has delayed Hamilton

:59:38. > :59:42.'s stop. I wonder if it was brought on by the downforce as he pulled out

:59:43. > :59:46.of the slipstream of Hamilton so there would be a lot of load on the

:59:46. > :59:50.nose and he pulled out of the slipstream, suddenly you get air

:59:50. > :59:57.passing over the front wing. We have never seen this before. Does he make

:59:57. > :00:01.contact here? No contact, but as the load goes back on the nose, it fails

:00:01. > :00:06.the front wing. The nose has dropped down, so whether nose is attached to

:00:06. > :00:12.the chassis, it is possible they have not been locked off at the

:00:12. > :00:14.start of the Grand Prix and it has taken something like this to

:00:14. > :00:17.start of the Grand Prix and it has highlight the issue. Not happy, he

:00:17. > :00:21.has got a great legacy of strong highlight the issue. Not happy, he

:00:21. > :00:29.engineering and eventually Lewis Hamilton, five or six laps, he heads

:00:29. > :00:33.for the pits. Hamilton has been as good for new tyres for a while and

:00:33. > :00:38.now he will get them, but he lost time behind Nico Rosberg. The way he

:00:38. > :00:44.goes and this will take him to the end, he has got to do 25 laps on

:00:44. > :00:49.those tyres. A good stop in turns of time and he will come out behind

:00:49. > :00:55.Kimi Raikkonen. -- in turns. Down to the pits with Tom. Relief for the

:00:55. > :01:01.Mercedes pit crew they turned Lewis round in 2.5 seconds, a great stop.

:01:01. > :01:06.But I was standing next autumn to Rosberg as they were trying to get

:01:06. > :01:14.the nose of. David is right, it had dropped down and they had to gang it

:01:15. > :01:21.from side to side. -- all it. They lost a good five seconds. We have

:01:21. > :01:26.just seen Fernando Alonso pass Daniel Ricciardo. In all the action,

:01:26. > :01:31.we have got to now round up what has been happening. Kimi Raikkonen made

:01:31. > :01:34.an earlier stop than the others and that put him ahead of Alonso but

:01:34. > :01:42.Mark Webber has really been making great strides in this race. About to

:01:42. > :01:48.be loved by Sebastian Vettel. He is the race leader, he has a gap of 5.4

:01:48. > :01:53.seconds over Grosjean. In third place is Mark Webber, so he is

:01:53. > :01:57.really showing great pace. Sebastian Vettel trying to fight through the

:01:57. > :02:03.traffic. Not getting too much of a problem. It will not difficult to

:02:03. > :02:11.get past Charles Pic. He has made his second stop. Read all ready to

:02:11. > :02:17.service Mark Webber, heading for the pits. -- Red Bull ready. He has gone

:02:17. > :02:22.up to third because he had not stopped where is some of those

:02:22. > :02:27.around him have. Let's see where this rings him. And Perez has been

:02:27. > :02:32.able to move up because he has not made a second pit stop. We are still

:02:32. > :02:37.making for Sebastian Vettel and Grosjean. And Perez has gone wide

:02:37. > :02:43.and that has allowed Kimi Raikkonen to get past him. Perez is under

:02:43. > :02:51.pressure and look at Hamilton! Philia on the car of Perez! What can

:02:51. > :02:58.we pick up? -- failure. And Hamilton is coming through but Perez has got

:02:58. > :03:03.the right front tyre. He has lost the tread. He is still going. We

:03:03. > :03:09.have not seen this since the British Grand Prix. He needs to slow down,

:03:09. > :03:14.that tyre has no tread. It is completely wrecked and it has ruined

:03:14. > :03:19.some of the bodywork. Safety car has been deployed, and this changes

:03:20. > :03:23.things. Sebastian Vettel and Grosjean will come out on the slap

:03:23. > :03:29.and it will not affect the lead too much. -- on this lap. Read all were

:03:29. > :03:44.lucky because they had time to react. -- Red Bull. Was that because

:03:44. > :03:48.of the delamination? Did he hit it at the point where the tyre is

:03:48. > :03:57.bonded together or did he have a puncture? And that compound it as he

:03:57. > :04:05.went through speed down turn two. He did 20 laps so it was 80 -- a long

:04:05. > :04:13.stint, but similar for Grosjean, so it does depend. He is still trying

:04:13. > :04:21.to get back. The carcass is intact at the puncture is there, the tread

:04:21. > :04:25.has rolled off the tyre. The tyre already has delamination as he went

:04:25. > :04:34.through turn one. As he accelerated down the straight, you can see it

:04:35. > :04:43.roll off the surface. Where did that delamination start? You can just see

:04:43. > :04:50.the inner shoulder. Had that started before he went into turn one Mr Mark

:04:50. > :05:00.the shape of the tyre is amazing. -- into turn one? As you say, this is a

:05:00. > :05:05.different kind of failure. This seems to have been brought about by

:05:05. > :05:09.a lock-up rather than by instantaneous failure. Safety car is

:05:10. > :05:13.out, everybody is taking advantage. Mark Webber has made his pit stop,

:05:13. > :05:15.out, everybody is taking advantage. Grosjean and Vettel made their pit

:05:15. > :05:19.stops, they will still read this Grosjean and Vettel made their pit

:05:19. > :05:26.Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen had made his stop, so he is in good shape and

:05:26. > :05:33.moves up to third place. Why has Mark, straight back in? He just made

:05:33. > :05:38.an extra stop, what is going on? He has come straight back in, so what

:05:38. > :05:44.tyres did he put on at the stop? So he was clear to keep going, so did

:05:44. > :05:50.he have an issue? That was the beginning of it. A massive lock-up

:05:50. > :05:55.as he went down. Is that what caused the delamination? Or was that

:05:55. > :05:59.as he went down. Is that what caused lock-up a result of a problem? And

:05:59. > :06:06.you saw Mark Webber coming out of the pits. Did he run over the

:06:06. > :06:19.debris? That is possible, let's wait and see. Any moment now.

:06:19. > :06:28.Tom, what was it about? The guy from Pirelli has shown me a picture of a

:06:28. > :06:34.hole in the tyre and he said if you do 21 laps and a massive lock-up,

:06:34. > :06:39.you will get a hole in the carcass. An update from Mark Webber, he had a

:06:39. > :06:43.puncture which is why he came straight back in, caused by the

:06:43. > :06:48.daybreak from the blow out on the tyre of Perez. -- the degree. The

:06:48. > :06:51.safety car is coming into the pits, this race will be restarted. In the

:06:51. > :06:54.safety car is coming into the pits, array can and has gained through the

:06:54. > :06:59.safety car period because he made an earlier stop than the others. Kimi

:06:59. > :07:03.Raikkonen is third, Hamilton is fourth, eco-Holcombe Berg is fifth,

:07:03. > :07:08.safety car charging towards the pits, and Sebastian Vettel will

:07:08. > :07:13.choose his moment as he did effectively in Singapore. Grosjean

:07:13. > :07:19.will try to stay with him, and away they go. Grosjean already losing

:07:19. > :07:25.several car lengths to Sebastian Vettel as the race restarts and it

:07:25. > :07:29.crosses the line. Grosjean, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Nico

:07:29. > :07:34.Hulkenberg. Watch out for Nico Rosberg, in eighth place after that

:07:34. > :07:40.front wing change. He will be looking to make up ground. Mark

:07:40. > :07:44.Webber getting another set of tyres, super-soft tyres, unlikely to

:07:44. > :07:49.make it to the end of the Grand Prix so he may have to make another stop.

:07:49. > :07:56.Sebastian Vettel getting away upfront. Nico Hulkenberg

:07:56. > :07:59.side-by-side with Hamilton. He gets in front of the Mercedes. Adrian

:07:59. > :08:04.Sutil hits Mark Webber! He hits the Red Bull of Mark Webber and the

:08:05. > :08:11.Australian 's day goes from bad to worse. He is still running, Hamilton

:08:11. > :08:15.and Alonso go side-by-side and Hamilton fends off the Spaniard. I

:08:15. > :08:21.thought Red Bull was OK but Mark Webber is out of this grunge brief.

:08:21. > :08:25.Two retirements in dramatic fashion in successive events and I hope they

:08:25. > :08:30.can get fire extinguishers to that car or it will be very expensive.

:08:30. > :08:35.How close did he manage to stop next to a martial 's post? Normally there

:08:35. > :08:40.are markings telling you where to whole over but there is no martial

:08:40. > :08:46.coming over to that car. One week until Japan to get the car. That has

:08:46. > :08:51.gone. With that sort of heat, if that makes its way forward to the

:08:51. > :08:57.chassis, it has gone. That is the gearbox. You can effectively write

:08:57. > :09:00.that off. They have got some marshals to it and a fire

:09:00. > :09:08.extinguisher. You want the thermal camera now! The marshal is blowing

:09:08. > :09:13.from the wrong side. It is easy to criticise, who wants to stand beside

:09:13. > :09:19.from the wrong side. It is easy to a burning car? Kimi Raikkonen just

:09:19. > :09:24.manages to find space, my goodness! And he is up ahead. They have got

:09:24. > :09:30.the safety car on track, it has been deployed. That was a late call. It

:09:30. > :09:33.looks like the martial 's van went on the circuit before the safety car

:09:33. > :09:39.which is just leaving pit lane now so did the marshals reacted before

:09:39. > :09:43.getting instruction? I was looking at the screen when I saw the course

:09:43. > :09:47.car and the safety car was definitely not deployed when the

:09:47. > :09:52.course car was heading down the straight. That is very unusual. That

:09:52. > :09:56.car is still burning, he needs more fire extinguishers under the

:09:56. > :09:59.bodywork. Very unusual to see a fire fire extinguishers under the

:09:59. > :10:06.in Formula 1 nowadays, thankfully. One of the most frightening aspects

:10:06. > :10:11.of motor racing but very much controlled these days. That incident

:10:11. > :10:21.with Adrian Sutil rupturing oil or a fuel line and that has created the

:10:21. > :10:27.fire. That was all very unusual. We are on lap 3855, let's take a look

:10:27. > :10:32.at how this came about. This is Nico Hulkenberg on the Mercedes. Making

:10:32. > :10:37.an adjustment to the dial on the steering wheel. Goes round the

:10:37. > :10:43.outside of Lewis Hamilton. Look at the distance. The Force India locks

:10:43. > :10:45.up on the brakes. It spins down the inside, it catches the rear of Mark

:10:45. > :10:49.Webber 's car and it pushes the inside, it catches the rear of Mark

:10:49. > :10:57.bodywork against the exhaust. As he pulls away, you can see tell-tale

:10:57. > :11:02.signs of flames. Nothing that Mark Webber could do in that situation.

:11:02. > :11:13.You can see the car is already on fire. That was enough to ignite that

:11:13. > :11:19.car upon impact. A big hit. And he thinks the car is all right. Mark

:11:19. > :11:24.has got to find a red marking. Sorry, orange marking. He cannot see

:11:24. > :11:31.anything and decides to bail out and park the car there. This is raping

:11:31. > :11:37.and Grosjean who makes a late move. -- this is Kimi Raikkonen. And he

:11:37. > :11:42.makes it stick. He did it before the safety car was announced. Getting

:11:42. > :11:47.ready for another restart. We have had two safety cars within a short

:11:47. > :11:52.distance and they have cleared away Mark Webber 's car and Sebastian

:11:52. > :11:56.Webber were once -- and Sebastian Vettel were once again dictate. Kimi

:11:56. > :12:04.Raikkonen made a move on his team-mate, and straightaway, he does

:12:04. > :12:07.not lose as much ground as Grosjean did on the original restart. He is

:12:07. > :12:11.not lose as much ground as Grosjean staying close. Grosjean in third

:12:11. > :12:14.place, Nico Hulkenberg in fourth, chased by Lewis Hamilton, Fernando

:12:14. > :12:21.Alonso, Jenson Button in the top ten, with Nico Rosberg potentially

:12:21. > :12:26.fast and Sergio Perez making a move down the side of fully paymaster.

:12:26. > :12:31.Now on to the next straight, Lewis Hamilton moves to the outside. No

:12:31. > :12:36.DRS available on the restart so it will have to be on sheer pace.

:12:36. > :12:40.Hamilton has the inside lane, Ferrari on the inside, Hamilton gets

:12:40. > :12:44.into the corner and Fernando has to watch out because there is Jenson

:12:44. > :12:49.Button. Another chance towards turn four, will he shut the door on

:12:49. > :12:56.Hamilton? Yes, he well, but he has left a gap and Hamilton says, thank

:12:56. > :13:00.you, I will take that gap! He has just about got it and Fernando

:13:00. > :13:05.Alonso will come back. I am surprised he left the door open.

:13:05. > :13:12.Rates stuff, but Fernando Alonso has just shown a bit too much caution

:13:12. > :13:19.with Hamilton there. That is a tough call. Gary, we have seen all sorts

:13:19. > :13:24.of action, in turns of the fire on Mark Webber 's car, that team has

:13:24. > :13:26.little time to get the car ready for next week so that is a real concern

:13:26. > :13:37.for Red Bull. Fired just destroys everything. We

:13:37. > :13:39.have the race to the flag and everybody has done their stops and

:13:39. > :13:43.the safety car is have given them everybody has done their stops and

:13:43. > :13:44.time to let up on their tyres so they will hopefully not struggle

:13:44. > :13:56.time to let up on their tyres so quite as much? This should be the -

:13:56. > :14:02.for the cash. He is pushing to get that for second gap, get that

:14:02. > :14:08.cushion and then save his tyres. That was pretty close between Kimi

:14:08. > :14:13.Raikkonen and Grosjean? Kimi Raikkonen is on older tyres. He was

:14:13. > :14:24.to get the use out of them but he needs to get on with it. He does the

:14:24. > :14:28.job very effectively. Fastest lap for Sebastian Vettel, no surprise

:14:28. > :14:31.there. But it is that an announcement of the penalty for

:14:31. > :14:36.Adrian Sutil for speeding in the pit lane after his incident that he

:14:36. > :14:42.suffered when he spun into the side of Mark Webber and needed repairs

:14:42. > :14:48.but he still running. -- he is still running. Adrian Sutil, amazingly

:14:48. > :14:54.enough, has continued. The other car that has gone out is the one that he

:14:54. > :15:00.hit, Mark Webber. 20 car is still running from 22. Sebastian Vettel is

:15:00. > :15:04.again stamping his authority. Lewis Hamilton is happier on the set of

:15:04. > :15:12.tyres. Racing into these closing laps. Getting himself position.

:15:12. > :15:16.Hulkenberg has shown great speed, very high top speed in that sector.

:15:16. > :15:25.Lewis Hamilton has to get position and keep within that window for the

:15:25. > :15:31.advantage of DRS. Just exiting turn number 15. As we know, that is

:15:31. > :15:38.slippery on the fast -- straight line. This will not be easy for

:15:38. > :15:46.Lewis Hamilton. He is lining himself up. He gets tucked in behind, DRS is

:15:46. > :15:56.enabled. Can Hamilton pick up the slipstream? His flap opens.

:15:56. > :16:00.Hulkenberg gets that great drive from turn number one. That leaves

:16:00. > :16:05.Hamilton with a lot to do with braking. He has slightly overcooked

:16:05. > :16:11.it. That will leave him in a very difficult position towards number

:16:11. > :16:17.four. Hulkenberg hanging in, and that is a great drive from Nico

:16:17. > :16:22.Hulkenberg this afternoon. Rear end instability was a problem but there

:16:22. > :16:28.is no sign of that? Looking very solid on his brakes. Congratulations

:16:28. > :16:32.to Sauber for turning around a car that was not on the pace earlier

:16:32. > :16:36.this year. Other teams really do not seem to have been able to make that

:16:36. > :16:41.kind of progress this season. Jenson Button running in second place so

:16:41. > :16:44.points are possible for Jenson Button but he still has to improve

:16:44. > :16:48.on the best finish this season, which is fifth place. Interesting to

:16:48. > :16:50.see this battle between Kimi which is fifth place. Interesting to

:16:50. > :16:56.Raikkonen and Grosjean, his tyres have done 26: It is less driving but

:16:56. > :17:02.most of that was with the safety car is. That will help Kimi Raikkonen

:17:02. > :17:08.just a little bit but they have been on his car a bit longer and Grosjean

:17:08. > :17:12.must be thinking, I have beat him for the last five races in

:17:12. > :17:20.qualifying but he seems to just keep finding his way forward. He has had

:17:20. > :17:28.a couple of real comebacks. Second and third going through. Sliding

:17:28. > :17:36.from Hamilton. And that allows Hulkenberg... The DRS will open.

:17:36. > :17:42.That is the line but he is just too far back. It looks like Sauber are

:17:42. > :17:49.just hitting their sweet spot in setting this car up. Great effort

:17:49. > :17:58.from that team, no doubt about that. Felipe Massa in 12th place. Perez

:17:58. > :18:03.hit his rear wheel. Felipe Massa is certainly not happy. Daniel

:18:03. > :18:13.Ricciardo is running in ninth place. Then Pastor Maldonado and

:18:13. > :18:22.interestingly, Gutierrez... He has just dropped back. Felipe Massa has

:18:22. > :18:25.gained a little bit. Underneath those big gantries of the mighty

:18:25. > :18:35.shipyards from this part of South Korea. Can he stay in the top ten?

:18:35. > :18:41.He has got Gutierrez bearing down on him and the other Sauber. TEAM

:18:41. > :18:51.RADIO: You are just racing him. Racing him. No team orders from

:18:51. > :18:55.Lotus. Earlier in the year, Kimi Raikkonen had a chance of winning

:18:55. > :18:59.the title but that has gone so it is just up to the drivers to sort

:19:00. > :19:03.things out. And all the time, Hamilton is trying to get underneath

:19:03. > :19:11.the gearbox of the Sauber. Hamilton is going for it? No, he is not.

:19:11. > :19:17.Watch him coming here. Look at how good the driving is on that Sauber.

:19:17. > :19:21.An amazing, incredible. Just so fast from the corner. Lewis Hamilton

:19:21. > :19:26.being told to take things easy on sector number two to save the tyres

:19:26. > :19:32.for the end of the race. He is just not close enough. Again, not close

:19:32. > :19:38.enough. You wonder if he has a problem with his car. Gutierrez, on

:19:38. > :19:44.Maldonado, side-by-side for 10th place. He has to give his place up,

:19:44. > :19:52.anyway. And Gutierrez takes 10th place. Perez, no comment here comes

:19:52. > :20:02.Maldonado... There was contact between Ferrari and McLaren. They

:20:02. > :20:11.might do this again. Felipe Massa just fending off McLaren. And then

:20:11. > :20:22.what has at the back of the group. -- Bothas. This is great stuff. Look

:20:22. > :20:29.at Gutierrez! What an opportunist piece of overtaking that was! Great

:20:29. > :20:37.piece of driving but one step forward and one step back. He has to

:20:37. > :20:43.overtake a Ferrari. Maldonado has dropped to the back, passed by his

:20:43. > :20:49.team-mate. From leading this group, he is now at the very back in 14th

:20:49. > :20:58.place. Overcome with emotion. Back with Hamilton. Again, not quite

:20:58. > :21:03.there. Watch this corner. Hulkenberg could be using all of his KERS.

:21:03. > :21:08.Strategically giving him that extra horsepower. Hamilton is coming quite

:21:08. > :21:16.late. He is closer than he has been. He will have a look. Hulkenberg,

:21:16. > :21:20.again, very late on his brakes. Hamilton has got to match Hulkenberg

:21:20. > :21:26.in the Sauber. Felipe Massa in 10th place, in the points. We saw both

:21:26. > :21:31.Mexicans side-by-side in Singapore and we might again in a moment.

:21:31. > :21:38.Behind them, the Williams of Valtteri Bottas. He can take his

:21:38. > :21:45.line and he has gone in front of Sauber. That was a very nice, tidy

:21:45. > :21:52.pass. Let's look at some of this, David. It was all happening. There

:21:52. > :21:58.are a coming together with Perez, entering the corner, Maldonado going

:21:58. > :22:05.wide. And it all continues. -- Ferrari coming together. Contact

:22:05. > :22:08.between Ferrari and McLaren. Very thinking about going around the

:22:08. > :22:15.outside and that is what allowed Perez to come back. And in the end,

:22:15. > :22:23.Maldonado has come of that corner, he can see his team-mate. This is

:22:23. > :22:30.when Gutierrez made this move down the inside. Felipe Massa takes full

:22:30. > :22:36.advantage. Thank you very much! Here comes Hamilton again on Hulkenberg.

:22:36. > :22:44.Going down the start-finish. He is trying to cut back. Closer than at

:22:44. > :22:48.any point he has been earlier. This is his chance. Hulkenberg will need

:22:48. > :22:55.to keep to the right hand side to try to defend. Too late? Hamilton

:22:55. > :23:01.has to go to the outside. Hulkenberg has locked up. Fernando Alonso

:23:01. > :23:07.trying to join in. Sorry, they have both used up all of their KERS.

:23:07. > :23:14.Hulkenberg deciding whether to go tight or not. Last Hamilton was

:23:14. > :23:22.struggling. I think Lewis would like to get him back. Fernando Alonso is

:23:22. > :23:31.also there, tucked in behind. Review macro: Thank you. I just hope we do

:23:32. > :23:41.not follow like bananas at the end of the race. Great presence of mind

:23:41. > :23:45.to be able to have that conversation whilst being hounded by the world

:23:45. > :23:51.champions, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso behind. Hulkenberg

:23:51. > :23:53.is really showing his star quality. That ability to interact with his

:23:53. > :23:58.is really showing his star quality. team, that is the mark of the buried

:23:58. > :24:04.best drivers. Hamilton, closer than ever. Another incident behind the

:24:04. > :24:09.safety car is. The stewards will be very busy tonight, by the look of

:24:09. > :24:11.it. Hulkenberg surely cannot hold on much longer? He might be several

:24:12. > :24:19.places rather than just one That is what he was worried about.

:24:19. > :24:26.Hamilton has done at this time. And Hamilton takes fourth days. And

:24:26. > :24:29.Hulkenberg could not answer that and he will have Fernando Alonso trying

:24:29. > :24:40.to get past him on the next straight. Fantastic.

:24:40. > :24:47.racing. Hulkenberg judging that to perfection. And Jenson Button is

:24:47. > :24:52.trying to join in. This allows Jenson Button to get back to the

:24:52. > :24:57.back of this battle. He was soft with Hamilton on the restart.

:24:57. > :25:01.Side-by-side. Where is Jenson Button? Is he far behind? He just

:25:01. > :25:08.gets in. Trying to go around the Button? Is he far behind? He just

:25:08. > :25:13.outside. No, he cannot do that. Classic stuff from Fernando Alonso.

:25:13. > :25:17.But he cannot quite find the space that he needs and Jenson Button is

:25:17. > :25:23.right on his tail. Back on board with Grosjean. He sits in third

:25:23. > :25:28.place and he is allowed to race his team-mate, Kimi Raikkonen. TEAM

:25:28. > :25:34.RADIO: You are quicker than Kimi Raikkonen. You can overtake, OK?

:25:34. > :25:42.RADIO: You are quicker than Kimi Keep racing like it is. Did they say

:25:42. > :25:47.that he was losing downforce? I did not catch that. He said he was

:25:47. > :25:54.struggling and he cannot race the way he wants. Interesting that his

:25:54. > :25:59.team are urging him on, isn't it? Hulkenberg and Hamilton. Look how

:25:59. > :26:04.close ears as he runs to the apex. He just cannot get the drive from

:26:04. > :26:13.that corner. And Hamilton has Fernando Alonso behind. -- close he

:26:13. > :26:18.is. And Nico Rosberg there. And again, Hulkenberg candid take the

:26:18. > :26:21.line into turn number three with that little lock up from Hamilton,

:26:21. > :26:29.if anything. And back towards number four. Trying to work out when to use

:26:29. > :26:34.their KERS to best effect. So far, Hulkenberg is hanging in there.

:26:34. > :26:44.Forward position. This would be his best finish of the year for Sauber.

:26:44. > :26:46.If he can hold on. We can see that incident between Felipe Massa and

:26:46. > :26:54.Perez will be investigated. Another one to deal with. It will be a very

:26:54. > :26:57.long night in Korea. We are enjoying an extremely entertaining race and

:26:57. > :27:01.Sebastian Vettel looks like he is well on his way to taking victory at

:27:01. > :27:06.what entertainment we have enjoyed behind him. It has not been looking

:27:06. > :27:10.easy for Sebastian Vettel. I think he has controlled that gap but he

:27:10. > :27:13.still has to look after his tyres all the way to the chequered flag.

:27:13. > :27:17.As he looks to score another maximum all the way to the chequered flag.

:27:17. > :27:28.25 points. Only five laps left to go. Can Hulkenberg hold of Hamilton?

:27:28. > :27:34.TEAM RADIO: The same as last year. Still opening up? That is

:27:34. > :27:44.uninteresting expression. That is an expression for graining. They are

:27:44. > :27:49.losing track contact. Hamilton does get so close behind the Sauber, he

:27:49. > :27:55.loses some front end through the corner. He will lose front end. But

:27:55. > :28:01.he is a very good racer and he is working with the tools that he has

:28:01. > :28:07.got and for whatever reason, Mercedes is not delivering out of

:28:07. > :28:10.that slightly awkward turn. And the key this afternoon to this great

:28:10. > :28:20.drive from Hulkenberg has been first sector pace. Great display under

:28:20. > :28:28.pressure. It sounds like they have just joined his fan Club but this is

:28:28. > :28:34.impressive. TEAM RADIO: The nose will be hired but pool the car to

:28:34. > :28:39.the right-hand side where you can. Would that we brake temperature?

:28:39. > :28:43.Could be the tyres. Front right. Andy clockwise circuit. Lots of

:28:43. > :28:54.energy going into that right-hand side. Not getting that same airflow

:28:54. > :28:58.over the car. Adrian Sutil is in, I wonder if they are retiring the car

:28:58. > :29:04.because of the incident before? He wonder if they are retiring the car

:29:04. > :29:10.will still be classified, I think. Classified last. We have only lost

:29:10. > :29:14.two cars, they were Paul di Resta who appeared to crash out of the

:29:14. > :29:20.race, and Mark Webber, who went out as a result of being hit by the

:29:20. > :29:24.other Force India. The car caught fire and another of retirement for

:29:24. > :29:29.Mark Webber along with the one he had in Singapore. Lewis Hamilton is

:29:29. > :29:36.almost pushing him round the first corner and it still does not seem to

:29:36. > :29:40.work for him. Any closer, you would need a bucket of water to separate

:29:40. > :29:48.them. They keep the gap into turn three. Rosberg still not able to

:29:48. > :29:53.close up more on Jenson Button. Button holding on to seventh place.

:29:53. > :29:55.Rosberg is a little closer but it does not look like he will find a

:29:55. > :29:59.Rosberg is a little closer but it way past. Behind them, Daniel

:29:59. > :30:11.Riccardo in ninth and Felipe Massa in 10th. We have Perez, Gutierrez,

:30:11. > :30:16.five Mac pro. -- Valtteri Bottas. That is what every team is worrying

:30:16. > :30:24.about. You have to see what is going on. Look at that rate front. They

:30:24. > :30:27.were concerned last year about the tyres and they are still not totally

:30:27. > :30:32.confident. As we have seen with Perez, what happens when you end up

:30:32. > :30:36.with not a lot of surface on the tyres and if you have a small

:30:36. > :30:42.lock-up, you can end up with a delamination. Tom, Eve have

:30:42. > :30:49.information on the battle we are watching.

:30:49. > :30:52.I went to Lagos last year. Sorry, I did not catch the message from

:30:52. > :30:59.Hamilton. It reminds me of the battle last year when they actually

:30:59. > :31:03.made contact at turn one and let's hope it does not happen that way

:31:03. > :31:10.again. When Holcombe Berg was driving the Force India, and

:31:10. > :31:16.Hamilton in the McLaren -- Nico Hulkenberg. So far, no contact

:31:16. > :31:21.between them and we are on lap 53 out of 55. A little bit stalemate, I

:31:21. > :31:29.wonder if there will be a rake through from anybody. --

:31:29. > :31:33.breakthrough. Rosberg is having a lock down the inside of Jenson

:31:33. > :31:39.Button, he makes late, has he overshot the corner? I think he has

:31:39. > :31:44.made the move and Nico Rosberg moves into seventh place. But he will have

:31:44. > :31:48.to defend. Button will try to go round the outside. He cannot quite

:31:48. > :31:53.do it, Rosberg gives him the squeeze. A good effort from Jenson

:31:53. > :31:58.Button. And Lewis Hamilton has got on the radio to his team and said,

:31:58. > :32:06.has anybody got any suggestions? How do I get past Nico Hulkenberg?

:32:06. > :32:11.Fantastic! What is the gap between these two? Under a second, Grosjean

:32:11. > :32:16.is catching Kimi Raikkonen. This is on board with Jenson Button at the

:32:16. > :32:20.graphic shows the gap between the two Lotus cars and we need to watch

:32:21. > :32:25.that because we heard the team pushing Grosjean to overtake his

:32:25. > :32:30.team-mate. A couple of things to look at, but it is still the race

:32:30. > :32:34.for fourth and second. Lotus for a double podium. I am surprised they

:32:34. > :32:39.did not say, settle for second and third. They have clearly fallen out

:32:39. > :32:44.of love with Kimi Raikkonen who has signed to Ferrari and they want to

:32:44. > :32:49.build the confidence of Grosjean and show him as a team leader.

:32:49. > :32:53.Sebastian, be careful, we need to finish this race.

:32:53. > :32:57.He wants another grand slam, Sebastian Vettel. He wants to take

:32:57. > :33:07.the proposition. And Riccardo is out from what was 10th place. De she

:33:07. > :33:13.wants to take the podium. He is out for Toro Rosso. It moves Perez up

:33:13. > :33:18.into 10th position as a result. That is Nico Rosberg in seventh, having

:33:18. > :33:25.got past Jenson Button. Felipe Massa is in ninth and Sergio Perez is up

:33:25. > :33:31.to 10th. Grosjean is in 0.7 seconds of Kimi Raikkonen, in the DRS zone,

:33:31. > :33:38.so could he do it on the last lap Western Mark there could be a change

:33:38. > :33:43.between the Lotus pairing. -- in the last lap?

:33:43. > :33:45.This has been enthralling, despite the dominance of Sebastian Vettel.

:33:45. > :33:50.And it takes a bit of pressure away the dominance of Sebastian Vettel.

:33:50. > :34:00.from eco-Holcombe Berg. Lovely to see. -- Nico Hulkenberg. No

:34:00. > :34:06.overtaking in that particular area but it is not a favoured overtaking

:34:06. > :34:10.area. And you can see Nico Hulkenberg drawing breath because he

:34:10. > :34:14.knows Hamilton cannot pass, but Sebastian Vettel is on to the final

:34:14. > :34:18.lap of this Grand Prix. Are we are going to see a change can Nico

:34:18. > :34:25.Hulkenberg hold on for fourth place? And the gap between the Lotus

:34:25. > :34:31.pairing was 0.7 seconds. Nico Hulkenberg out across. The last

:34:31. > :34:34.chance now for Hamilton. If he is to take the fourth place away from Nico

:34:34. > :34:41.Hulkenberg. And he has to respond to the pressure, a great exit out of

:34:41. > :34:46.turn two. It leaves the Mercedes behind. Grosjean is right with Kimi

:34:46. > :34:50.Raikkonen and we can see on the back stretch that he is still behind Kimi

:34:50. > :34:55.Raikkonen. Sebastian Vettel is five seconds in front. Again, Nico

:34:55. > :35:02.Hulkenberg controls it brilliantly, Alonso closes up to Hamilton. Last

:35:02. > :35:06.chance is up this straight, Grosjean still behind Kimi Raikkonen, and a

:35:06. > :35:10.last chance for Alonso, will he make a move on Hamilton? He goes to the

:35:10. > :35:15.outside but he is surely too wide to get a run on the Mercedes which is

:35:15. > :35:19.struggling for a lap of grip and dropping away from Nico Hulkenberg.

:35:19. > :35:23.These two have not finished their own battle. They have pulled away

:35:23. > :35:28.from Nico Rosberg. Button has dropped back but is still in eighth

:35:29. > :35:34.place. Here comes Sebastian Vettel. David, behind him, it has been

:35:34. > :35:39.happening. He has again been supreme in front. A fantastic drive, minute

:35:39. > :35:43.performance all weekend. He is a man at one with his car and there will

:35:43. > :35:48.be a lot of good stories this afternoon. Sebastian Vettel wins in

:35:49. > :35:54.Korea again! He takes victory at this track and second goes to Kimi

:35:54. > :36:00.Raikkonen, Grosjean could not beat his team-mate. Lotus score a double

:36:00. > :36:05.podium, a billion today for Lotus as Red Bull take maximum points for

:36:05. > :36:09.Sebastian Vettel but get a non-finish for the other car. An

:36:09. > :36:15.eco-Holcombe Berg has held on despite massive pressure from Lewis

:36:15. > :36:19.Hamilton. That was surely the driver of the race! He finishes fourth in

:36:20. > :36:24.the Sauber and Hamilton has to settle for fifth. Alonso sixth, no

:36:24. > :36:29.podium for the Ferrari. Rosberg in seventh, Jenson Button in eighth,

:36:29. > :36:36.Felipe Massa in ninth and the final point goes to Sergio Perez in 10th

:36:36. > :36:39.place. What a race! Behind Sebastian Vettel. It was very enjoyable to

:36:39. > :36:42.watch. Well done, that was a very

:36:42. > :36:51.disciplined Drive, well done. Tricky, but well done.

:36:51. > :37:00.Yes! I do not want to stop! Very smooth, very smooth. Thank you,

:37:00. > :37:05.guys. Thank you, yes! So the result of the Korean Grand

:37:05. > :37:10.Prix, Sebastian Vettel winning by a narrower margin than in Singapore. A

:37:10. > :37:15.double podium for Lotus. The best result of the season for Sauber,

:37:15. > :37:21.ahead of Hamilton in fifth. And Rosberg who suffered that front nose

:37:21. > :37:27.wing failure is in seventh. Both McLaren cars in the points.

:37:27. > :37:34.Gutierrez just hang to the point is, it you have to feel for him. Charles

:37:34. > :37:41.Pic winning the battle of the young teams, that was very close at the

:37:41. > :37:46.end. The official non-ossified racers were Paul di Resta and Mark

:37:46. > :37:50.Webber, but Daniel Riccardo and Adrian Sutil did not make it to the

:37:50. > :37:55.flag. Sebastian Vettel receiving the

:37:55. > :38:02.applause and again stroking the Red Bull.

:38:02. > :38:09.As he applauds the Red Bull team, all smiles for Christian Horner as

:38:09. > :38:16.they continue to open the gap. Between Ferrari and Mercedes, there

:38:16. > :38:19.is one point separating the second place in the constructors

:38:19. > :38:23.championship. No doubt credible heading to win the championship if

:38:23. > :38:30.they carry on like this. But look affecting the other car of Mark

:38:30. > :38:55.Webber here today. -- but Outlook. And Red Bull getting the

:38:55. > :39:00.smile on the podium, please. I wonder what was going on. Grosjean

:39:00. > :39:06.was not happy he was waste that she was racing wheel to wheel with Kimi

:39:06. > :39:12.Raikkonen. -- he was not happy that he was racing. He had his engineer

:39:12. > :39:18.telling him, you are racing, you can pass him, to get the best results

:39:18. > :39:23.possible. Time for the champagne and a little touching note, it is 40

:39:23. > :39:29.years to the day since French Formula 1 driver Francois Cevert was

:39:29. > :39:36.killed and we have a Frenchman on the podium here in Korea. So a nice

:39:36. > :39:42.touch for the team-mate of -- so a nice thought. Francois Cevert was a

:39:42. > :39:45.team-mate to Sir Jackie Stewart. So Sebastian Vettel has big smiles

:39:45. > :39:48.after taking another victory, I wonder if anybody will stop him

:39:48. > :39:55.winning in Asia this year. He seems to dominate all these races.

:39:55. > :40:00.Sebastian, well done, a very measured drive and it must be tricky

:40:00. > :40:06.to have to restart the race twice. Yes, I think my second restart was

:40:06. > :40:14.not as good as the first. Kimi was quite good. He got a bit closer than

:40:14. > :40:19.Grosjean. But fortunately, I still managed to pull away and a very

:40:19. > :40:22.strong first corner and strong exit because after that, the straights

:40:22. > :40:30.are very long especially if you are the first car. You have nobody in

:40:30. > :40:36.front so it is quite... Yes. The sound you get from the engine it

:40:36. > :40:40.suffers down the straight, it does not accelerate and you can see the

:40:40. > :40:45.guys close again in the mirror. Probably the best start of the

:40:45. > :40:49.season, you aren't launched everybody into the first corner.

:40:50. > :40:53.Yes, we had a phenomenal start. I did not have to cover the inside and

:40:53. > :41:03.could focus on the first turn. I was well protected for the back

:41:03. > :41:08.straight. But the group is high here and we had a very strong start. You

:41:08. > :41:13.can see Lewis is in trouble, and we are closing a lot in the last couple

:41:13. > :41:20.of metres before raking in to turn three. I saw they were fighting each

:41:20. > :41:22.other and from here, I benefited. I had a bit of KERS left just in case

:41:22. > :41:32.and I was safe for the first lap. The work is not over after the Grand

:41:32. > :41:37.Prix, you have to go away for the team talk now.

:41:37. > :41:40.Well done, a step closer to the fourth prize. Christian, we will

:41:40. > :41:44.talk you in a minute, let's hear from Mark Webber who did not have a

:41:44. > :41:50.good day today. On the restart, I was looking for a

:41:50. > :41:54.big exit on the next straight to use a lot of KERS on the Williams.

:41:54. > :42:03.Adrian Sutil, I do not know what happened. He hit me from the inside.

:42:03. > :42:11.But before that, I was very happy with how I drove. I got back to

:42:11. > :42:17.where was a very good position. We had a Pirelli tyre failure on the

:42:17. > :42:21.car of Perez. I was lucky to miss the tread and unbelievably, I

:42:21. > :42:26.managed to get a puncture going through that. That is the most

:42:26. > :42:29.disappointing thing today, you do everything you can and we get a

:42:29. > :42:35.puncture in the race. Another podium chance gone, like

:42:35. > :42:42.heaven and hell in Europe Harwich. One thing after another today. -- in

:42:42. > :42:46.your garage. He was very unlucky, he drove fantastically well. He would

:42:46. > :42:49.have been on the podium for second and third. But he picks up a

:42:49. > :42:54.puncture being first on the scene behind Perez and as you can see, he

:42:54. > :42:57.is first on the scene, he has nowhere to go, he picks up a

:42:57. > :43:05.puncture on the first right. Adrian Sutil loses breaking and Mark is the

:43:05. > :43:09.innocent victim and you can see this starts now and it seemed to take an

:43:09. > :43:12.age before anybody got there with an extinguisher. And Adrian Sutil had a

:43:12. > :43:28.chat about that incident with Mark. You cannot ask for more than that.

:43:28. > :43:31.How much work was this cause? We unite all of those spare parts and

:43:31. > :43:37.that might be needed, looking at that damage, but it will make it a

:43:37. > :43:41.very busy week. Not even a week because you have that travel in

:43:41. > :43:48.between? We have to get all of this equipment over and the boys have to

:43:48. > :43:52.build a completely new car. That is what they are fantastic at and they

:43:52. > :43:55.work so hard and I am sure we will have that car in tiptop condition

:43:55. > :44:01.for Friday morning. It does bring you closer to the fourth

:44:01. > :44:07.Championship for Sebastian Vettel. Are you thinking about that?

:44:07. > :44:12.Absolutely not, we are in a great position and we shall have to try

:44:12. > :44:17.quite hard to screw things up! But that can all this happened. And

:44:17. > :44:22.motor racing can ebb and flow and we have seen that so many times in

:44:22. > :44:26.history. Things change. There are 125 points still available with 77

:44:26. > :44:31.in the lead. We take nothing for granted. It is mathematically

:44:31. > :44:41.possible. We are not focused on that. Nico Hulkenberg, driver of the

:44:41. > :44:43.day. Spectacular driving today. I didn't know how you managed to get

:44:43. > :44:49.Lewis Hamilton behind you for so long? Thank you very much, very

:44:49. > :44:53.demanding race. I was not allowed to make one mistake. Today was one of

:44:53. > :44:58.those days were we had an opportunity to shine. And we grabbed

:44:58. > :45:03.that. But we really punched above our weight. We should not be up with

:45:03. > :45:05.these cars in terms of pace but we had strong points like traction and

:45:05. > :45:09.top speed and that was the recipe had strong points like traction and

:45:09. > :45:10.for staying ahead. You mentioned punching above your weight and has

:45:10. > :45:18.been talk about you being to tall or punching above your weight and has

:45:18. > :45:23.heavy for the car is going forward? But today shows you have all the

:45:23. > :45:31.skills? Everybody will have their opinion. Let us leave it at that and

:45:31. > :45:35.in terms of my weight and height, as you say, there is no point in

:45:35. > :45:38.discussing that because it is God-given and I cannot change that.

:45:38. > :45:42.The team will have to work around that. Can we talk about your battle

:45:42. > :45:48.with Lewis Hamilton? It was fantastic. He did get past you one

:45:48. > :45:53.time. Let us look at this. Great stuff, this was the only place he

:45:53. > :45:55.could get close to you. Did you think you would be coming back? I

:45:55. > :45:59.was naturally concerned when he was think you would be coming back? I

:45:59. > :46:05.close with turn number one. He had DRS already but I knew I had to make

:46:05. > :46:10.sure that I could get a very good exit and I could get him back. And

:46:10. > :46:14.like traction today was really my strongest point with the car.

:46:15. > :46:17.Combined with great top speed. You could see him struggling with

:46:17. > :46:23.oversteer and I could really mail the power there. The team did a

:46:23. > :46:28.fantastic job. We enjoyed that radio banter! Coming out with some

:46:28. > :46:32.conversation about people slipping on bananas. And was Hamilton was

:46:33. > :46:37.asking for any suggestions to find some way past due. He said your

:46:37. > :46:46.traction was unbelievable! What was that set up? I am not sure, really.

:46:46. > :46:50.We started with the same configurations all weekend and women

:46:50. > :46:59.knew it would stay dry, the decision was made and we have not braced for

:46:59. > :47:06.a while and we came back with those upgrades and suddenly it works quite

:47:06. > :47:12.well. Is it an attractive opposition to maybe stay at Sauber? Maybe yes,

:47:12. > :47:27.maybe no. For now, I just want to enjoy this race and the future will

:47:27. > :47:33.come. Well done today. My battle with Hamilton was strong and the

:47:33. > :47:40.pace was very good at the end. We wanted to go for a very long stints

:47:40. > :47:47.to make them react but the safety car came out and that was more bad

:47:47. > :47:51.luck. Viewers were hiding behind the questions as you and Kimi Raikkonen

:47:51. > :47:56.got very close. Tell us about that moved out was it sporting? I think

:47:56. > :48:08.it was all right. I made a mistake on turn 15 and that was my fault. I

:48:08. > :48:14.slept and went on to the Astroturf. I think I could have kept one place

:48:14. > :48:19.back but it was bad luck. At the stake did cost him dearly but he did

:48:19. > :48:22.have a brilliant start? He was able to hook that car up nicely. Lewis

:48:22. > :48:28.Hamilton holds position into that rigging zone but the decision

:48:28. > :48:33.strategically is not to use KERS for the first corner but deploy it on

:48:33. > :48:38.this very long back straight. And they get the impression that is

:48:38. > :48:39.exactly what he did. DRS was not available on the first couple of

:48:39. > :48:43.exactly what he did. DRS was not laps but he positions himself

:48:43. > :48:48.perfectly, and then that pass is completed on his brakes. Do you feel

:48:48. > :48:54.he has done enough to say my place is safe? Does he still have a place

:48:54. > :48:58.at Bottas? I think so, the owners are also part of the management team

:48:58. > :49:03.that look after him so he has got that inside line and his performance

:49:03. > :49:07.in the second half is extraordinary. Unlucky at Singapore. But he shows

:49:07. > :49:10.he can score points on a regular Unlucky at Singapore. But he shows

:49:10. > :49:16.basis. What about that overtake from Kimi Raikkonen? That was very close,

:49:16. > :49:24.on the limit of what could be classed as fair. Very great move.

:49:24. > :49:30.But Kimi Raikkonen pulls to the left and Grosjean starts to come along

:49:30. > :49:35.and the code of conduct is you make your move before what the car behind

:49:35. > :49:43.does to avoid any chance of contact. Let us hear from him. The place

:49:43. > :49:53.really started was not too bad but we wanted to be in first place and

:49:53. > :50:00.there was no chance today. Was that we wanted to be in first place and

:50:00. > :50:20.a sporting gesture? I was next to him. I made a mistake. We did not

:50:20. > :50:28.touch, so it was OK. Listening to your team radio, that would hint at

:50:28. > :50:35.some frustrations? No, I was just trying to point things out. That is

:50:35. > :50:38.a type of language I sometimes use. My tyre was dead and I was turning

:50:38. > :50:44.and nothing was happening and I was three seconds slower than Nico

:50:44. > :50:49.Rosberg behind me. It was difficult and there was nothing I could do, I

:50:49. > :50:52.just had to go to a certain target, which was really unfortunate so I

:50:52. > :50:57.lost a lot of ground. And in that last stint, there was nothing I

:50:57. > :51:03.could do. I was not quick on the straight. The other guys were just

:51:03. > :51:07.cruising past me. It was difficult because we were very competitive in

:51:07. > :51:13.terms of the middle sector, which was really strong. But first and

:51:13. > :51:15.last was iffy. Massively disappointing and they said they

:51:15. > :51:20.last was iffy. Massively would bring Lewis in on that lap

:51:20. > :51:24.where Nico Rosberg 's nose dropped. Why do they not just let Lewis

:51:24. > :51:28.Hamilton go past and? There will be a number of questions at that

:51:28. > :51:32.debriefing and Nico Rosberg was a number of questions at that

:51:32. > :51:35.losing time with a damaged nose. And while that, Lewis Hamilton was

:51:35. > :51:43.losing time and it would desperately trying to get into that stop lap but

:51:43. > :51:46.when you can see the wing filling and dragging on the ground, clearly

:51:46. > :51:48.losing a lot of time, then I would have thought that he would have

:51:48. > :51:53.losing a lot of time, then I would instinctively that his team-mate go.

:51:53. > :51:58.Even if they had stopped them at the same time and changed position in

:51:58. > :52:01.the pit lane, they would have only had Lewis Hamilton stopping for

:52:01. > :52:03.three seconds. With that knows change, they lost a sizeable chunk

:52:03. > :52:08.three seconds. With that knows of time. People at home would have

:52:08. > :52:11.been screaming at the telly, move over and let Lewis Hamilton through!

:52:11. > :52:15.And he had that Riddick rattle with Nico Rosberg and that is no

:52:15. > :52:19.consolation for not being on the podium? I think that was a podium

:52:19. > :52:27.position lost and that was a great drive from Hulkenberg to defend. Are

:52:27. > :52:35.you still fighting for the Drivers' Championship this season? It is a

:52:35. > :52:41.very low priority. At the moment. If by luck or different circumstances

:52:41. > :52:48.we have a possibility in Brazil, we will see, but it does not look like

:52:48. > :52:56.that at the moment. The gap in the points, it is more performance. We

:52:56. > :53:00.will not give up, we will try to do our best every race. But second in

:53:00. > :53:05.the Constructors' Target Chip is more realistic for a target. We are

:53:05. > :53:08.very close to Mercedes. Talking about the Constructors' Target Chip,

:53:08. > :53:13.they were off the pace today? They have an argument? He was

:53:13. > :53:18.disappointed to have this deficit with the pace of Red Bull. His

:53:18. > :53:22.customary starts and I him to get again and had a chance for the

:53:22. > :53:26.podium but this afternoon, very lucky not to go out at the start of

:53:26. > :53:31.the grand prix, as we see them coming down. His team-mates are to

:53:31. > :53:35.lose control and spins around in front of him. If we look to the

:53:35. > :53:42.right of his mirror, look at that rear end plate. That is as close as

:53:43. > :53:48.it gets. There were some real nail-biting moments. And the one

:53:48. > :53:55.that really set rings alight was the tyre failure from Sergio Perez. He

:53:55. > :53:59.had that big lock up in turn number one, both tyres fully locked and

:53:59. > :54:03.then the power is out and onto the back straight. That dilemma is the

:54:03. > :54:09.tyre and the entire tread comes away. That led to that puncher. When

:54:10. > :54:17.you are behind with something with that happening, how terrifying is

:54:17. > :54:21.that? You are reactive, so everything in the grand prix, you

:54:21. > :54:27.feel in control, even up to the point of impact. On reflection you

:54:27. > :54:34.might think, but was lucky. We can hear from Pirelli. We can confirm

:54:34. > :54:41.that there was a very big lock up and at the end of it, that was

:54:41. > :54:48.leaving little on the surface but it burned right the way through. Very

:54:48. > :54:52.aggressive flat spot. Not what you would normally get, just surface

:54:52. > :54:57.indentation. Are you surprised that they did 21 laps? 20 laps was where

:54:57. > :55:04.we thought they would be at that particular stage with that fuel

:55:04. > :55:06.load. It was at the limit. Some of the drivers have been quite

:55:06. > :55:12.outspoken about the tyres again this weekend and Fernando Alonso and Mark

:55:12. > :55:15.Webber had if you words with you. They said that drivers don't matter

:55:15. > :55:20.any more? I would not say they don't matter any more, that is a very

:55:20. > :55:25.strange comment. He obviously was behind Perez so he could see

:55:25. > :55:31.something and he wanted to understand. We were able to explain

:55:31. > :55:37.that. And to very valid opinions. What do you think? You have to

:55:37. > :55:40.listen to those drivers, they have experience with other tyre

:55:40. > :55:44.Manufacturer 's under the drivers are complaining and we are seeing

:55:44. > :55:49.failures, there is clearly an issue. Safety has to come first? And

:55:49. > :55:55.Pirelli would put that as their priority and in trying to satisfy

:55:55. > :55:59.the desire to have multi-stop races, we are seeing too many fingers.

:55:59. > :56:05.There were so many moments in today's race, what about that moment

:56:05. > :56:11.when Lotus could see that fire truck? Those team-mates going at it,

:56:11. > :56:16.Grosjean but he would come back on that run down but the yellow flag is

:56:16. > :56:22.eyed, we have that safety truck on the circuit without the safety car

:56:22. > :56:27.being out there. There was clearly some breakdown into medication and

:56:27. > :56:28.we can see this great apple with Maldonado working his way up into

:56:28. > :56:38.the points. -- battle. And McLaren, Maldonado working his way up into

:56:38. > :56:42.all just too strong. And in the end, after all of this had sorted itself

:56:42. > :56:47.out, he was behind his team-mate, Valtteri Bottas. Fantastic action on

:56:47. > :56:55.the track. That has confirmed the results for you. Sebastian Vettel,

:56:55. > :57:01.25 points. He edges closer to his fourth title. Kimi Raikkonen,

:57:01. > :57:04.terrific drive. Romain Grosjean also on the podium. And what about that

:57:04. > :57:07.terrific drive. Romain Grosjean also driving from Nico Hulkenberg? So,

:57:08. > :57:22.the standings look like this. It is mathematically possible

:57:22. > :57:28.upset their plan, but unlikely. Lewis Hamilton drops down by six

:57:28. > :57:33.points into fourth place. In terms of the Constructors' Championship,

:57:33. > :57:41.Red Bull still dominating. Sauber moving ahead of Toro Rosso. Was that

:57:41. > :57:45.your race of the season so far? It was certainly great, we thought we

:57:45. > :57:49.would be in the situation of watching Sebastian Vettel runaway

:57:49. > :57:53.but the safety car is and some great battling from other drivers gave us

:57:53. > :58:00.some excitement and Hulkenberg would agree that it was all for him in

:58:00. > :58:04.fourth place. He did signed ready confident about his future. We shall

:58:05. > :58:12.be back in one week. It is early, live all week from Japan. Set your

:58:12. > :58:19.alarm clock. 5am on Saturday and 6am on Sunday. And all others practice

:58:19. > :58:23.sessions on BBC Two. It was a dominant victory by Sebastian Vettel

:58:23. > :58:25.at the Korean Grand Prix we can be forgiven for getting so excited

:58:25. > :58:29.at the Korean Grand Prix we can be about that battle per fourth place.

:58:29. > :58:31.It was absolute class. We will see you in less than one week. Live from

:58:31. > :59:01.Japan... Next time on Formula 1... Race 15.

:59:01. > :59:04.Japan.