:01:14. > :01:20.concentration, people are right on the edge of the race. The chances of
:01:20. > :01:26.finishing a very remote. It is the most beautiful thing that can
:01:26. > :01:36.happen. Monaco is unique, with its spectacular circuit around Monte
:01:36. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :02:26.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds
:02:26. > :02:29.the 60th world championship Formula one Grand Prix in Monaco. Partying
:02:29. > :02:32.is the rigour and glamour is absolutely essential, which is why
:02:32. > :02:40.taking us through the session today is Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard.
:02:40. > :02:43.She is very keen on the glamour and that is what we have got. It any
:02:43. > :02:47.sporting calendar, this is the pinnacle. No other sport can touch
:02:47. > :02:52.it. It is where everything happens. When you pack coming here come you
:02:52. > :02:55.make sure your best gear is in the suitcase. And you may have seen him
:02:55. > :03:03.playing on the boat. How many gigs did you played last night? I did
:03:03. > :03:05.play too, I am very proud of it. same songs, I think. David, how much
:03:05. > :03:13.importance on with putting on qualifying in terms of the result of
:03:13. > :03:17.the race tomorrow. ? Qualifying is always important in Monaco, the
:03:17. > :03:20.tyres, like we have been repeating, isn't going to go away with that
:03:20. > :03:24.issue. We have seen a few drops of rain, which may turn qualifying on
:03:24. > :03:31.its head. There has been a lot of news this weekend, here is Lee
:03:31. > :03:35.McKenzie to take you through it. Red Bull have won the Monaco Grand
:03:35. > :03:39.Prix the last three years, with Mark Webber victorious in 2010 and 2012.
:03:39. > :03:45.He is hoping to add 2013 to the list and join an elite group of triple
:03:45. > :03:51.Monaco winners. I think we have a very good chance to win. Mercedes
:03:51. > :03:56.will be strong. They have got good form, it is a nice card for them to
:03:56. > :04:01.have. But the race is always long for them and for most people, so we
:04:01. > :04:04.will see how it unfolds. As Mark Webber says, Lewis Hamilton's
:04:04. > :04:08.Mercedes has been strong on Saturdays but left the driver
:04:08. > :04:12.frustrated on race days. Lewis hopes this weekend will be different.
:04:12. > :04:16.were on such a high from the first few races, plus we were on the front
:04:16. > :04:20.row, so I expected that the last race, so I was a bit shocked but we
:04:20. > :04:23.move forward and look forward to the next one. Jenson Button is looking
:04:23. > :04:29.forward to his McLaren team working with Honda from 2015. Mercedes.
:04:29. > :04:34.Providing engine to the team from the end of next season. But spent
:04:34. > :04:37.most of his career with the Japanese manufacturer. To have such a big
:04:37. > :04:40.manufacturer like Honda coming is great for the future of Formula one.
:04:40. > :04:46.A lot of it is then to the new style of engines that are coming out, it
:04:46. > :04:51.is exciting for manufacturers, not just being a petrol powered engine,
:04:51. > :04:58.you have got the hybrid system and turbo, and I think that is the big
:04:58. > :05:01.reason we are going to see more big engines coming to Formula one.
:05:01. > :05:06.Chilton has a good record at this circuit and is relishing his first
:05:06. > :05:11.race at Monaco. It is a very special moment, the first time I raised was
:05:11. > :05:14.last year in GP to, I was in the podium --I raced. But being in the
:05:14. > :05:18.Grand Prix was a little bit different. I can't wait until Sunday
:05:18. > :05:22.and those lights going out and doing something I had dreamt all my life
:05:22. > :05:32.will stop Romain Grosjean got things spectacularly wrong in free practice
:05:32. > :05:37.to. Taking advantage of the first F F1 car in the barriers this year.
:05:37. > :05:41.Something was not right. We have a very good car, but it was not a
:05:41. > :05:45.perfect corner. So that mistake from Romain Grosjean
:05:45. > :05:50.on Thursday and you can just about tell, the heavens are opening and it
:05:50. > :05:52.is starting to rain. But this morning, in the final free practice
:05:52. > :05:56.session, towards the end of the session, towards the end of the
:05:56. > :05:59.session, it got extremely intense. Let's take you through the
:05:59. > :06:03.incidents. Let's start with Felipe Massa. This is across the start
:06:03. > :06:07.finish line, he had the brakes and there is a massive lock-up. The
:06:08. > :06:11.barrier comes out to meet you and a big impact. No damage to Felipe
:06:11. > :06:17.Massa, but damage to the car. He gives them into the corner, straight
:06:17. > :06:21.into the barrier. A lot of people speculating it was Carpathia but the
:06:22. > :06:27.team have confirmed it was driver error. -- car failure. That will
:06:27. > :06:31.impact on the team, Eddie, surely, going into the session?
:06:31. > :06:35.catastrophic. We have to reflect back to 2010, Fernando Alonso did
:06:35. > :06:41.not make a time, didn't qualify and still finished in sixth. They say it
:06:41. > :06:45.is impossible to pass here, but the really good ones now a way around.
:06:45. > :06:49.Psychologically, when something like that happens to you, how would it
:06:49. > :06:52.affect your confidence? It does around this racetrack. Any other
:06:52. > :06:57.circuit come you take it as one of those things, but here, you need to
:06:57. > :07:00.get your eye in. In qualifying, when it was dry come you need to know
:07:00. > :07:04.what the vision was like but now, there is a reasonable chance of
:07:04. > :07:08.having wet qualifying. And I am going to have a wet head, because I
:07:08. > :07:13.can't reach under your umbrella. This was Adrian Sutil. This was just
:07:13. > :07:16.a loss of grip as he goes over Casino Square. He corrected and then
:07:16. > :07:21.over corrected. Here we see Romain Grosjean going to early into the
:07:21. > :07:26.Chicane. He has been showing good speed, but clumsy. That was Lewis
:07:26. > :07:29.Hamilton on the left-hand side coming he gets a little bit
:07:29. > :07:35.unsighted and turns into aggressive way, already on a one-way ticket to
:07:35. > :07:39.the barrier as the rear slides and he drifts out wide. I am intrigued
:07:39. > :07:43.by Romain Grosjean. Any time we see him having a mistake or a crash, it
:07:43. > :07:46.seems to be peripheral vision, as if something uncharacteristic has
:07:46. > :07:52.caught his eye and he has momentarily taken his braking area
:07:52. > :07:56.away, or has been distracted. Is that possible? I think it is a good
:07:56. > :07:59.point. I'm sure you have employed drivers with great speed but can't
:08:00. > :08:05.keep it together. Sadly for Romain Grosjean, those mistakes of last
:08:05. > :08:09.year are coming through. Of all of the tracks, is this one different
:08:09. > :08:12.for concentration for the drivers? Definitely, your senses are attacked
:08:12. > :08:17.all the time, the barriers are there, white lines and bombs. The
:08:17. > :08:24.cars are quick, but he is pushing too hard too early. -- bumps.
:08:24. > :08:28.first car we saw this morning was Nico Rosberg, but it wasn't
:08:28. > :08:36.perfect. This is around Portier, of the big curve, touches the Barra,
:08:36. > :08:41.barrier, but no damage. You would hardly find a straight wheel on a
:08:41. > :08:47.car after a race here as a team owner, so you need abundances of
:08:47. > :08:51.wheels. But it doesn't detract from the spectacle. The drivers are still
:08:51. > :08:54.able to get the car around. Talking about the teams, they have had an
:08:54. > :08:59.enormous amount of work to do in between these two sessions. Let's
:08:59. > :09:03.get the latest from Tom Clarkson. I am outside the Ferrari garage and
:09:03. > :09:08.behind the closed door, all four corners Felipe Massa 's are being
:09:08. > :09:12.replaced, plus the gearbox. It is pretty chaotic in there. You have
:09:12. > :09:15.Fernando Alonso's mechanics helping out, Stefano Domenicali has been
:09:15. > :09:21.coming in and helping, so it looks like they will not be ready for the
:09:21. > :09:27.start of the session. Pretty anxious then here. Less and in the pit lane.
:09:27. > :09:31.Romain Grosjean's car has had three corners replaced Dash less thanks.
:09:31. > :09:35.It is the same with Adrian Sutil, he has had the right hand side of his
:09:35. > :09:37.car replaced, but it will be ready for the session. Well, it looks as
:09:37. > :09:43.though they might all just about make it, but it is going to be
:09:43. > :09:49.tight. Ferrari is probably closest to the market, but then you see the
:09:49. > :09:52.full effect of teamwork. You have a's people helping Felipe Massa bash
:09:52. > :09:57.you have Fernando Alonso's people helping. They are willing on their
:09:57. > :10:04.competitor -- you have an under Alonzo's people helping Felipe
:10:04. > :10:08.Massa. Confidence going into the session, and now the rain as well,
:10:08. > :10:18.it at the anti-bribery single team. It has been going on this morning,
:10:18. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:38.well, it is Monaco. Dash -- it ups So with Monaco being round six of
:10:38. > :10:42.19, we already one third through the season. If you fancy getting up
:10:42. > :10:46.close and personal with the paddock, there are still tickets left for the
:10:46. > :10:50.British Grand Prix. Silberstein headlines in five weeks' time.
:10:50. > :10:55.Currently, Red Bull's Sebastien Vettel homes onto the top placing,
:10:55. > :11:00.with Kimi Raikkonen just four points adrift. Fernando Alonso's victory in
:11:00. > :11:03.Barcelona leaves them in third. In terms of the constructors
:11:03. > :11:13.championship, the same three manufacturers, but in a slightly
:11:13. > :11:17.different configuration. So Kimi Raikkonen, four points off the lead,
:11:17. > :11:23.and his "I know what I am doing" attitude has been a huge hit with
:11:23. > :11:29.fans. He feeds off adrenaline, four wheels, two wheels, skis, boats, you
:11:29. > :11:39.name it, he has raced them. And only one man pulls his strings, and that
:11:39. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:54.is him. It is not the save the sport. You
:11:54. > :11:58.can get hurt easily bash the safest sport -- the safest board. You can
:11:58. > :12:02.fall down the stairs, you cannot say come you cannot do this because you
:12:02. > :12:07.can get hurt and stay at home. That is not the way to live your life.
:12:07. > :12:17.wonder if you weren't allowed to do that, would you go nuts at home?
:12:17. > :12:19.
:12:19. > :12:29.Probably. It is too late to say I What is your take on that as a team
:12:29. > :12:38.
:12:38. > :12:42.manager? We have a position, obviously. As a team, we understand
:12:42. > :12:47.that Kimi likes all of these activities. Just the name Kimi
:12:47. > :12:52.itself is a myth. Last year, you raced with a James Hunt helmet here.
:12:52. > :12:56.You have a fascination with James Hunt. You use him as a pseudonym to
:12:56. > :13:02.enter various sporting events. What is it about James that you can
:13:02. > :13:07.identify with? I don't know. I think it is more kind of that age of
:13:07. > :13:11.drivers and the racing from the 1970s and early. It was completely
:13:11. > :13:15.different, because there was not so much money involved and not big
:13:15. > :13:20.manufacturers and big sponsors, so it was a bit more relaxed and there
:13:20. > :13:25.was more danger, and of course, that makes it more interesting in a way.
:13:25. > :13:29.This weekend, the Monaco Grand Prix. You have won it before, it is a
:13:29. > :13:32.special race. How tough is it on concentration as a driver?
:13:32. > :13:38.cannot push the limit as much. On other circuits, if you lock the
:13:38. > :13:48.wheel, you lose one corner and you go off and you come back. Around
:13:48. > :13:49.
:13:49. > :13:54.here, you lose the session and qualifying and the race. As Kimi
:13:54. > :13:58.said, you cannot make any mistake. You cannot allow yourself a mistake
:13:58. > :14:02.in traffic, because for the team it is a headache, with strategy, but it
:14:02. > :14:06.is an amazing race. Thank you for your time, it has been great talking
:14:06. > :14:09.to you both and we wish you the best for the weekend.
:14:09. > :14:18.David, he is enigmatic, isn't he measure marquee is so softly spoken
:14:18. > :14:21.and clearly a riot out of hours -- isn't he? He likes to do other
:14:21. > :14:25.things outside of Formula One and he doesn't buy into the other
:14:25. > :14:29.commercial activities that other drivers would embrace and say, that
:14:29. > :14:33.is what they get paid for. The bottom line is he is fast. And he's
:14:33. > :14:42.doing it all right, isn't he measure marquees sensational and he's doing
:14:42. > :14:46.it without the pressure. -- and he is doing all right, isn't he? Kimi
:14:46. > :14:49.is doing an unbelievable job under the radar, and I expect he will be
:14:50. > :14:59.right there come the end of the season. Let's see what he can do out
:15:00. > :15:09.
:15:09. > :15:13.on track with the rest of the field. The most demanding, the most intense
:15:13. > :15:18.qualifying session of the year begins on the two mile 3. 3
:15:18. > :15:22.kilometre street circuit at the foot of a cliff and bordering the
:15:22. > :15:28.Mediterranean, and just to add to the challenge, it is damp, slippery,
:15:28. > :15:32.the car cars are just tentatively exiting the pit lane as they go on
:15:32. > :15:36.to the first lap. Unlike many qualifying session, we are seeing a
:15:36. > :15:40.Hes of cars going straight on the track. If you were running a team,
:15:40. > :15:44.is this what you would be doing Gary? You have to get out now and
:15:44. > :15:47.put in a lap to get on the board, get a time in, because the
:15:48. > :15:52.conditions can change. This is banker country, it is like the Stock
:15:52. > :15:57.Market. The Stock Market goes up and down, conditions can get better or
:15:57. > :16:02.worse, you have to take a gamble. The rain is coming down more
:16:02. > :16:07.heavily. That is partly why we are seeing them go out. The track has
:16:07. > :16:11.been bone dry up until this point. We haven't seen any rain. What is it
:16:11. > :16:17.going to be like out there The white line, you can see the first
:16:17. > :16:21.incident. It is the Marussia. It is Jules Bianchi. He lives down the
:16:21. > :16:25.road and yet he has something, it has gone wrong for him straight
:16:25. > :16:29.away. That is a bit of an odd one. We will look at that in a moment.
:16:29. > :16:35.Drama, this is Monaco, and this is what we expect to see throughout the
:16:35. > :16:39.session. Yes, a mechanical problem, I am sure. There is a crane, so they
:16:39. > :16:44.should be able to lift him over the barrier, just get out, watch the
:16:44. > :16:49.white line, they are slippy. You don't want to get on them. Zebra
:16:49. > :16:53.crossings, a lot of white, learning about the track, learning where the
:16:53. > :16:58.slippy parts are and going for a decent lap. There is Jules Bianchi
:16:58. > :17:04.walking away from his stricken Marussia, what a disappointing way,
:17:04. > :17:09.race day will be 45 years since his grand uncle took his only ever
:17:09. > :17:14.podium in Formula One, so it is in the family to run at Monaco, in the
:17:14. > :17:19.Grand Prix, but that was a bad start. Onboard with Jenson Button.
:17:19. > :17:23.He has no rear temperature at all. Look at that wheel spinning in
:17:24. > :17:29.fourth gear, so again, I wouldn't be surprised Ben, if we see someone
:17:29. > :17:33.looking to put a full wet on, to get the confidence of the tyre will rip
:17:33. > :17:37.to pieces, with that single lap. has gone faster on this initial run.
:17:37. > :17:44.It could be important. Let us see what Mark Webber does, he goes
:17:44. > :17:50.faster, 1. 36. 529. The last part of last year's race, he was leading the
:17:50. > :17:55.race and has to Jung the conditions, he has Juned them well so far --
:17:55. > :18:01.judged the conditions well. Cars are getting out of the way.
:18:01. > :18:05.Hamilton is getting out of the way of Rosberg. That That will always be
:18:05. > :18:10.the case. All cars on track apart from Bianchi. You have more time in
:18:10. > :18:14.this session, 20 minutes of course, to try and find that clear lap, but
:18:14. > :18:21.it just gets so frustrating, the engineers will be be talking to the
:18:21. > :18:31.drivers. So there is Hamilton, just trying to pick his own little bit of
:18:31. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:37.space, as well. Rosberg has dropped back. Vettel is now third. Pic is up
:18:37. > :18:42.in fourth place. Let us get down to the pits. Williams will take a lot
:18:42. > :18:47.of heart from seeing both drivers in the top ten at the moment, because
:18:47. > :18:51.they seemed lost during practise, they tried last year's front wing on
:18:51. > :18:56.the FW 35. They told me they have reverted back to this year's front
:18:56. > :19:01.wing for the session, and any Aero problems they might have will be
:19:01. > :19:07.negated because of this weather. We will see the good mechanical grip
:19:07. > :19:11.that car has, Pastor Maldonado is a special lest round here. Alonso is
:19:11. > :19:18.going well. He has gone fastest in the first sector. But Paul di Resta
:19:18. > :19:23.has gone quickest. He has done a 35. 46. So the forces for driver
:19:23. > :19:29.quickest. 1. 35. 7. We are about 20 seconds away from what they would do
:19:29. > :19:33.in the dry. Let us see if it is enough. Alonso, he goes fastest, his
:19:33. > :19:39.last pole position was in the wet as well. Felipe Massa watches as his
:19:39. > :19:45.car is being prepared -- repaired. Neither he nor Grosjean have been
:19:45. > :19:50.out on to the circuit. Let us keep an eye on the Red Bulls Hamilton has
:19:50. > :19:59.gone quickest. Let us see how that time is going to play out if he gets
:19:59. > :20:04.a clear lap. He is, he is very close as Verne goes fastest of all. In the
:20:04. > :20:11.next ten seconds we will see what the opening lap time from that
:20:11. > :20:16.Mercedes is. Hamilton goes fastest, 1. 32. 09. Jean-Eric Vergne is
:20:17. > :20:21.currently second. Alonso third, Perez fourth. It is going to get
:20:21. > :20:24.better, in theory as long as the rain doesn't fall any heavier and
:20:24. > :20:28.Sebastian Vettel trying to do something, he has the fastest first
:20:28. > :20:32.sector. It looks as if the rain has eased off to me, so this session
:20:32. > :20:36.will just get quick e the drivers' confidence will grow and with the
:20:36. > :20:42.drying track, we will see the times tumble.
:20:42. > :20:47.So has he eased? I wonder if they have any chance of getting on a
:20:47. > :20:53.different tyre? I doubt it. Looking at the lap times, still a long way
:20:53. > :20:58.from a dry weather time. Vettel is on a fast lap. Sebastian Vettel goes
:20:58. > :21:02.fastest, still early stages of Q1. Remember, it is all about the bottom
:21:02. > :21:06.six cars, in this session, that will be dropped from qualifying and not
:21:07. > :21:13.make it through to Q2. Still early stage of this session, at the moment
:21:13. > :21:17.in that drop zone, Pic, Rosberg on a lap now, then we have Max Chilton,
:21:17. > :21:22.Jules Bianchi we know is going to be the drop zone, Massa and Grosjean
:21:22. > :21:28.are waiting for their cars to be ready. Guess who is fastest in the
:21:28. > :21:32.middle section? Pastor Maldonado in the William, he is a Monaco
:21:32. > :21:38.specialist is Pastor Maldonado, he has just gone fastest. Pastor
:21:38. > :21:43.Maldonado has gone fastest of all, he loves this track. That is an
:21:43. > :21:47.impressive lap. 1. 3 seconds quirk than Vettel. But track conditions
:21:47. > :21:54.are improving considerably, so let us expect that time to fall further.
:21:54. > :21:59.It has to be said Maldonado has been looking good. Rosberg has been
:21:59. > :22:05.getting traffic on his laps. Let us see Hamilton. He is on a good lap.
:22:05. > :22:13.So Lewis Hamilton has the fastest mid sector. Jean-Eric Vergne is on a
:22:13. > :22:17.fast lap. And that is Sutil. Rosberg being told he needs a lap.
:22:17. > :22:22.Sutille's car is repair and he is out there. But Hamilton, think it
:22:22. > :22:26.was Ricciardo, but he has gone fastest, Vergne, second, Perez,
:22:26. > :22:31.second, no di Resta is fastest, it is changing every moment here and
:22:31. > :22:36.Paul di Resta is maintaining a good performance. Let us see what Mark
:22:36. > :22:44.Webber can do. Rosberg still waiting to put a lap in. Button has done a
:22:44. > :22:50.good lap. Webber goes fastest. It is Webber at the top of the times.
:22:50. > :22:55.Coming through at high speed you can see the track there dry. Mark Webber
:22:55. > :23:00.describing five, six, seven eight, so at the top of the circuit, and
:23:00. > :23:04.they are struggling with the damp track. They have had a few laps here
:23:04. > :23:09.so what that does is remove some of the gauge, the tread depth of the
:23:09. > :23:13.tyres. Maldonado goes faster. for long? Sebastian Vettel takes it
:23:13. > :23:18.back by 1. 4 seconds, that is a brilliant lap by Sebastian Vettel.
:23:18. > :23:22.Now Alonso goes second, but 1. 1 slower. Just goes to show Vettel was
:23:22. > :23:29.quick in the wet in Australia, he was on pole position in Malaysia
:23:29. > :23:34.when we had that damp Q3 and he has been showing that wet weather pace
:23:34. > :23:39.effectively This is a good thing for the intermediate, many are on the
:23:39. > :23:46.sixth or seventh lap or more. It cures the tyre. You can see how damp
:23:46. > :23:51.it is, so with only six, six minutes and 40 seconds to go, maybe someone
:23:51. > :23:55.gets brave and sticks a set of slicks on at the end. Rosberg is
:23:55. > :23:59.fastest in the first sector, di Resta is also going quickly again,
:23:59. > :24:05.Paul di Resta who lives in here in Monaco, is one of the six drivers to
:24:05. > :24:09.live here in Monaco, and he is going very well. Well. Rosberg lives here,
:24:09. > :24:14.he was borough to school here he has spent the vast majority of his life
:24:14. > :24:17.in Monaco, it is his home town, and he has been looking fantastic
:24:17. > :24:22.throughout the dry practise session, and he is looking fast again here.
:24:22. > :24:28.Let us see whether this is going to be enough to go ahead of Vettel.
:24:28. > :24:38.Rosberg goes fastest again. So Nico Rosberg goes fastest. The bottom six
:24:38. > :24:40.
:24:40. > :24:49.we need to keep an eye on. Hamilton is down there at the moment. So is
:24:49. > :24:54.Giedo van der Garde. Keep pushing. There is no point, the rears are
:24:54. > :25:01.going. That was interesting. Button told to keep pushing but he said
:25:01. > :25:08.there is no point. As a McLaren it is Perez who has put a new set of
:25:08. > :25:13.intermediates on. McLaren sticking with the inters. So far, good,
:25:13. > :25:16.because his first sector is faster than anyone else at this point, so
:25:16. > :25:21.slipping and sliding is all part of getting a car round here quickly,
:25:21. > :25:25.look at the dry line, beginning to develop. Through the dry tunnel.
:25:25. > :25:30.This is the longest flat out section on the circuit, then the tricky
:25:30. > :25:37.braking over the bumps, down into the chicane. That was good from
:25:37. > :25:41.Hamilton. Really tidy, now he can breathe as he approaches Tabac, look
:25:42. > :25:46.at the white lines and parking space, getting dry now. He is well
:25:46. > :25:50.up on the time. He is a second faster on that second split. Rosberg
:25:50. > :25:55.fastest from Vettel but Vettel has been in the pits and put another set
:25:55. > :25:59.of tyres on. We will see what Rosberg can do. These intermediates
:25:59. > :26:03.of Rosberg have done some nine lap, so these are quite worn
:26:03. > :26:11.intermediatiates. Let us see what the lap time is like. Hamilton goes
:26:11. > :26:15.fastest. 1. 23. 799. That was on a new set of intermediates. That is
:26:15. > :26:20.good for hip. Grosjean has gone out on circuit, but no sign of Felipe
:26:20. > :26:26.Massa being able to get out on track in the Ferrari.
:26:26. > :26:32.Watch Watching Hamilton at the moment. There is Kimi Raikkonenment
:26:32. > :26:36.I don't think Massa is going to get out. It is all over for him. Let us
:26:36. > :26:42.watch Kimi Raikkonen. He needs to drag himself up that order. Down in
:26:42. > :26:46.15th place. He is on those intermediate tyres and on a new set.
:26:47. > :26:51.So they had to use another set. Let us see where this puts him. He goes
:26:51. > :26:55.fifth. That should be safe new for now. He can concentrate on Q2. In
:26:55. > :27:00.the drop zone. Nico Hulkenberg in the Sauber. Giedo van der Garde in
:27:00. > :27:04.the Caterham. Max Chilton for Marussia, the only one that is
:27:04. > :27:10.running in this session. Bianchi is no longer running, Grosjean is on
:27:10. > :27:13.track, he has a chance to get out of the drop zone and mast is not in the
:27:13. > :27:19.-- Massa is not in his Ferrari. Nico Hulkenberg is up there now. He is in
:27:19. > :27:25.fifth. He is well out of the drop zone. That drops Charles Pic down
:27:25. > :27:32.into 17th place. They stopped the work on the Ferrari, so Massa is not
:27:32. > :27:37.going to get out in this session. He goes fast -- fast faster Grosjean
:27:38. > :27:40.has crashed three times and he has just got quickest in Q1. Around of
:27:40. > :27:44.applause from the mechanic, that shows they have been able to build
:27:44. > :27:49.their car under pressure, in a way that gave him the confidence to
:27:49. > :27:54.drive a clean lap. Brilliant stuff. Sutil who had crash this morning, he
:27:54. > :27:59.is in the drop zone. Is this enough? He is usually good in slippery
:27:59. > :28:04.condition, he has gone across the line with another chance, he has
:28:04. > :28:08.beaten the chequered flag, he better do it on this lap. He is in the drop
:28:09. > :28:17.zone, along with Esteban Gutierrez. Jean-Eric Vergne is there as well.
:28:17. > :28:22.Whether they have changed tyres on eVergne's car. Den -- Vergne's car.
:28:22. > :28:28.Pastor Maldonado has gone fastest, to Pastor Maldonado tops the times
:28:28. > :28:31.as the track continues to dry, we are now about ten seconds off a dry
:28:31. > :28:35.weather pace, still not good enough, I wouldn't have thought for slicks
:28:35. > :28:40.but it does mean the second part of qualifying, they may have that
:28:40. > :28:47.chance, chequered flag comes out, so if you are o a lap great, if you are
:28:47. > :28:51.not, you will have to sit and wait to see what the others do. How is it
:28:51. > :28:56.looking for Sutil? Not a brilliant first sector He has been tentative.
:28:56. > :29:05.You can see some graining on the left and right rear of that Force
:29:05. > :29:12.India You have one more timed lap. Doesn't help, I have no traction he
:29:12. > :29:17.says. Sutil doing enough here, to get into the top 16. But Raikkonen
:29:17. > :29:23.is not that safe. Raikkonen with 2. 3 seconds off the pace. Sutil will
:29:23. > :29:31.move up. He goes to 12th. That pushes di Resta down, di Resta
:29:31. > :29:40.is on a lap currently. Not a good lap though. 40. 9 middle sectors, he
:29:40. > :29:43.has had a problem or traffic. a bit of a slide down inthere.
:29:43. > :29:49.at the graining. Paul unfortunately won't make it through as far as I
:29:49. > :29:53.can see. Let us look? Is it enough? He crosses the line. Di Resta who
:29:53. > :29:58.was fastest in this session at one point is out of Q1. That is hugely
:29:58. > :30:03.dramatic, he has been so consistency. He scored points every
:30:03. > :30:07.time except for the one non-finish and he is out. At his home, it is
:30:07. > :30:11.his home race, he lives here now, but di Resta is out. Charles Pic is
:30:11. > :30:14.out. Esteban Gutierrez. Esteban Gutierrez, who seemed to be quick in
:30:14. > :30:19.the damp conditions earlier this year, he is out in the Sauber. Max
:30:19. > :30:22.Chilton is out and of course no surprise, that Jules Bianchi and
:30:22. > :30:27.Felipe Massa, neither of them able to get a lap in. They are both out
:30:27. > :30:37.but Grosjean, what a great effort and what a salute to his team to end
:30:37. > :30:40.
:30:40. > :30:45.up fourth fastest after that car was rebuilt this morning. Maldonado
:30:45. > :30:50.ended up fastest, the Williams team which has scored no points this year
:30:50. > :30:55.has set the pace in the start of qualifying. Can he continue that in
:30:55. > :31:01.Q2 and Q3? At the moment, those at Paul di Resta, Charles Pique,
:31:02. > :31:07.Esteban Gutierrez, Max Chilton, Bianchi and Felipe Massa. But Valder
:31:07. > :31:11.guard has made it into Q2 the first time.
:31:11. > :31:15.Eddie, drama, but the Williams boys doing the team proud. You are spot
:31:15. > :31:21.on, drama throughout the session but nobody would expect the Williams to
:31:21. > :31:27.do what they did, both of them getting through, and two top the
:31:27. > :31:37.timing list. And the Caterham will be thrilled with that, won't they?
:31:37. > :31:40.
:31:40. > :31:48.Tony Fernandez, the team owner, and to see him make it into QT, Q2, that
:31:48. > :31:53.is fantastic. And this is Paul di Resta, listen to this. Macro radio
:31:53. > :31:58.that was a mess, I apologise. -- TEAM RADIO: That was a mess, I
:31:58. > :32:04.apologise. Paul, what was the problem? I think
:32:04. > :32:07.we just failed to read the track and didn't get a fresh set of tyres, and
:32:07. > :32:12.it was too late when we realise. Overall, we were very strong and
:32:12. > :32:15.that was what perhaps influenced the decision to stay. We had to be
:32:15. > :32:19.saved, that was the whole plan, given that Felipe Massa wasn't going
:32:19. > :32:24.to run the whole of the session and a silly mistake has cost is probably
:32:24. > :32:28.the most usual qualifying session of the season so far.
:32:28. > :32:31.Absolutely not what Paul wanted at all. He lives here and he is so good
:32:31. > :32:35.and the last couple of races have been phenomenal for him, gathering
:32:35. > :32:40.points. It doesn't mean it is all dead tomorrow but it is a bigger
:32:40. > :32:46.job, to get through the traffic will be a huge task, but he can do it.
:32:46. > :32:52.The second part of qualifying is already underway, cars making their
:32:52. > :32:56.way out of the pit lane where heavy drops of rain are beginning to fall.
:32:56. > :33:02.Gary, it is one of those once the tacticians, it will be tough to
:33:02. > :33:06.call. Yes, for sure. When that session finished, it was dry weather
:33:06. > :33:10.time, to be honest, they were nine seconds off the pace. But the rain
:33:10. > :33:15.came again in the break, so it is back out on intermediate tyres and
:33:15. > :33:18.it is the same thing again, the last man standing will do a lap time. You
:33:18. > :33:22.can see them slipping and sliding into the chicane and little bit.
:33:22. > :33:26.Nico Rosberg trying to change the brake balance or something, I'm not
:33:26. > :33:30.sure. Will we see quick laps at the beginning or the end of this
:33:30. > :33:33.session? The weather is changing again, the rain at the moment is
:33:33. > :33:38.quite heavy, so I think it will be the best lap time, but if the rain
:33:39. > :33:45.does stop, it will start to come down again. At the end of that last
:33:45. > :33:49.session, nine seconds of, dry weather time. And they have do look
:33:49. > :33:53.at for the intermediate tyres, a few of them have used a couple of sets.
:33:53. > :33:56.Yes, you have four sets for the weekend, that is it, so you have to
:33:56. > :34:01.respect them. The next session could be damp as well, so you have to keep
:34:01. > :34:04.a set for that. TEAM RADIO: I just need a good lap
:34:04. > :34:08.here, just a nice sensible lap. It looks like the rain is going to
:34:08. > :34:15.continue. Yes, I think most of these guys will
:34:15. > :34:22.have gone out for the used tyres -- on the used tyres. Top ten is
:34:22. > :34:27.important but maybe just as fast as the top ten. Nico Rosberg told to
:34:27. > :34:31.get a sensible lap in and he is really wide through Loews hairpin,
:34:31. > :34:35.but he may find a little bit of grip off-line. Just trying to keep it
:34:35. > :34:40.sensible. He tapped the barrier here this morning in the dry, when he set
:34:40. > :34:47.the fastest lap, a scintillating lap that he set this morning, but it is
:34:47. > :34:52.now a very different feel the track as heads into chicane. He had a big
:34:52. > :34:59.crash here a few years ago. He has the right to slap off, really.
:34:59. > :35:03.is his out lap, with the rain coming down, constantly changing
:35:03. > :35:08.conditions. We have Mark Webber coming out of the chicane. That is
:35:08. > :35:11.his team mate Sebastien Vettel behind Ricciardo, so he is just
:35:11. > :35:16.trying to find a bit of space. You don't want any distractions other
:35:16. > :35:21.than the road conditions themselves. He is fastest in the first and
:35:21. > :35:27.second sectors on this first flying lap, Mark Webber. Sebastien Vettel
:35:27. > :35:33.is slipping and sliding around. Runs it's not quite as much to the curb
:35:33. > :35:40.as he would in the dry, because those painted sections are fast.
:35:40. > :35:45.TEAM RADIO: We have a new set ready, you will get them soon. Just do the
:35:45. > :35:49.best job you can and you will get these soon. So there you are,
:35:49. > :35:53.confirmation about what Gary was talking about, a used set-up
:35:53. > :35:58.intermediate tyres for the first part of qualifying and hopefully a
:35:58. > :36:02.new set of tyres for the second part, but save some for the final
:36:02. > :36:07.part of qualifying. Sergio Perez, the young Mexican who set the
:36:07. > :36:12.fastest lap in the dry lashed year when he was driving for sober. Had a
:36:12. > :36:17.crash in qualifying, in fact he has crashed in both qualifying sessions
:36:17. > :36:21.in Monaco he has done, but one wasn't his fault, it was a steering
:36:21. > :36:26.failure last year and a big accident the year before. Just coming out of
:36:26. > :36:31.the final turn. Jenson Button has gone fastest. Sergio Perez crosses
:36:31. > :36:36.the line and beats him. So McLaren one and two at the moment. Tom, what
:36:36. > :36:39.have you got in the pit lane? wanted to comment on the amount of
:36:39. > :36:44.rain I am feeling in the pit lane, very similar to where we were at the
:36:44. > :36:48.start of Q1, but what is interesting is I am looking out to sea, where
:36:48. > :36:51.the weather is coming from, and I am looking at blue sky, so it looks
:36:51. > :36:58.like it will dry up the rest of this qualifying session, so will we see
:36:58. > :37:05.some slick tyre runs in Q3. Burke has gone fastest, he got the
:37:05. > :37:10.lap he needed. -- Nico Rosberg has gone fastest. Peres is continuing on
:37:10. > :37:16.his run. Massive amounts of rear sliding as he comes through the
:37:16. > :37:20.high-speed swimming pool section, coming into latter as cows. That is
:37:20. > :37:24.Adrian Sutil, it shouldn't affect the feature Nico Hulkenberg. These
:37:24. > :37:29.are relative in you intermediate tyres, but he may well be saving a
:37:29. > :37:34.new set of the last part of this session -- relatively new. That will
:37:34. > :37:44.give the Sauber guys a bit of a boost. But things can change, as we
:37:44. > :37:52.saw in the last session so quickly. Remember, this is all about the top
:37:52. > :37:58.ten you are trying to get into. Raikkonen gets 27.4. The car wasn't
:37:58. > :38:02.good in the wet earlier this year, but they feel they have improved it.
:38:02. > :38:05.Here is Grosjean, he is fastest of all. Romain Grosjean does it again
:38:05. > :38:09.in this rebuilt car. He goes fastest for the moment, just under nine
:38:09. > :38:13.minutes to go. I think the conditions are drying up, the rain
:38:13. > :38:19.has dropped off, so we will see a rapid drop in the actual lap times
:38:19. > :38:23.and see a nice dry line all around the old Loews hairpin. Again, coming
:38:23. > :38:31.through Portier, it is looking pretty dry. So maybe the rain we saw
:38:31. > :38:34.at the beginning of the session was at this end of the circuit. Kimi
:38:34. > :38:39.Raikkonen comes down towards the chicane, a former winner of this
:38:39. > :38:43.Monaco Grand Prix, when he was driving for McLaren. A dominant win
:38:43. > :38:47.in 2005, but a little while ago now. He didn't have a great run here last
:38:47. > :38:52.year, but he wants to keep the pressure on Gilles Simon in the
:38:52. > :38:56.championship. He is second in the points at the moment that he do
:38:56. > :39:02.pressure on Sebastien Vettel in the championship. -- keep the pressure
:39:02. > :39:09.on. We'll just wait and see whether Kimi Raikkonen can continue to
:39:09. > :39:13.improve. He is in fifth at the moment, his team-mate Grosjean is
:39:13. > :39:17.fastest but Raikkonen goes fastest at all. New intermediate tyres
:39:17. > :39:21.getting fitted for new of the cars. Jenson Button, it is difficult to
:39:21. > :39:29.keep up. It is, Jenson Button is now fastest. Every time a new car
:39:29. > :39:32.crosses the line. That will give McLaren a boost, but whether it will
:39:32. > :39:42.be converted into a dry weather pays... On board with Sebastien
:39:42. > :39:49.Vettel, what is he doing? Through tobacco, on the entry to And Paul --
:39:49. > :39:54.Swimming Pool. If you were in the car, would you be asking the teams
:39:54. > :39:59.to be looking at slick tyres or just new intermediate? You have to have
:39:59. > :40:09.an open mind. Nico Rosberg is fastest of all. Macro radio would
:40:09. > :40:10.
:40:10. > :40:17.you like new dry tyres that TEAM RADIO: Would you like new dry tyres?
:40:17. > :40:23.Does he have time to coming? He does if he does a flying lap. We
:40:23. > :40:27.can see from the commentary box he has pulled in for a new set of
:40:27. > :40:32.supersoft tyres. Let's expect Fernando Alonso to react in the same
:40:33. > :40:37.way. That was Nico Rosberg just going out, both of the Mercedes are
:40:37. > :40:41.going out on the supersoft now. Fernando Alonso is upon time on the
:40:41. > :40:48.intermediate tyre. Does he finished the lab will come into the pits? He
:40:48. > :40:52.has come in. -- that he finished the lap or come into the pits? It seemed
:40:52. > :40:57.like a late call, Mark Webber when fastest of all in that last session,
:40:57. > :41:04.that puts him second. The supersoft are going on. Nicely warmed up in
:41:04. > :41:13.that fire blankets, but can he maintain that temperature on the add
:41:13. > :41:17.-- the ad lap? Mark Webber has just gone fastest in the first sector on
:41:17. > :41:23.his supersoft tyres. 21.3. That is a pretty good sign that they might
:41:23. > :41:33.have got it right. Unquestionably they have got it right. No more rain
:41:33. > :41:33.
:41:33. > :41:39.at the moment and he has done much time on the slick tyre. Let's see
:41:39. > :41:42.what he can do, he goes sixth in the Caterham, he would love to hold on
:41:42. > :41:47.to that, the first time to get a Caterham in the top ten, but I don't
:41:47. > :41:57.think it is going to happen, because so many others have made that
:41:57. > :41:59.
:41:59. > :42:02.switch. That is bot us. -- boaters. Just imagine if there is an accident
:42:02. > :42:05.and the session just stopped, that would put the cat amongst the
:42:05. > :42:09.pigeons, because it would be difficult to get a lapping at that
:42:09. > :42:15.point. Fernando Alonso has missed the chicane. But time will not
:42:15. > :42:21.count, so he will have to go around to start another timed lap. He is in
:42:21. > :42:25.the drop zone at the moment, with Hulkenberg, Raikkonen, Adrian Sutil
:42:25. > :42:31.and Fernando Alonso. Just experimenting with whether braking
:42:31. > :42:41.zone is, trying to get as much heat in the tyres as possible. -- with
:42:41. > :42:51.where the braking zone is. Into Sante devoted, lovely through there,
:42:51. > :42:51.
:42:51. > :42:57.climbed the hill at Sainte Devote. Up the fashion shops on the
:42:57. > :43:01.left-hand side. Past the Hotel De Paris, into Casino Square.
:43:01. > :43:07.Concentration edged into the faces of the four robbery mechanics as
:43:07. > :43:13.much as on Fernando Alonso's phase. -- before Rory mechanics as much as
:43:13. > :43:23.on Fernando Alonzo 's phase. Romain Grosjean has gone quickest of all.
:43:23. > :43:23.
:43:23. > :43:32.Kimi Raikkonen is in the drop zone. These times are three point --
:43:32. > :43:36.slower than we saw this morning, who will be the one who doesn't make it
:43:36. > :43:41.through. Who will get the chequered flag first? Raikkonen is going to be
:43:41. > :43:45.OK, he will get another lap in. Sebastien Vettel, there will be? As
:43:45. > :43:49.to whether he will get another one in, but we will wait and see. He
:43:49. > :43:53.crosses the line with 27 seconds ago, Raikkonen, and he is
:43:53. > :44:01.second-fastest. TEAM RADIO: This is the lap that
:44:01. > :44:04.plan. Where does Fernando Alonso go? He is in sixth, he is going to hope
:44:04. > :44:09.that will be enough. The chequered flag is not quite out. There is
:44:09. > :44:15.Sutil, he is only 11. I think Jenson Button will be the last man to get
:44:15. > :44:20.across the line. Can he get there? Did he make it? But unjust across,
:44:20. > :44:26.yes, the last one to make it. He has got through. Van der Garde is the
:44:26. > :44:30.first want to see the chequered flag. -- first one. I am afraid the
:44:30. > :44:35.Caterham great dream of getting in the top ten for the first time isn't
:44:35. > :44:40.going to happen. Let's see what Hulkenberg can do, he is currently
:44:40. > :44:44.16. He crosses the line and goes into sixth. But Fernando Alonso is
:44:44. > :44:50.being pushed down the order. Grosjean is out, he has seen the
:44:50. > :44:53.chequered flag. Van der Garde, Maldonado has also seen the
:44:53. > :44:58.chequered flag, Sebastien Vettel has gone fastest. There he is, Sebastien
:44:58. > :45:06.Vettel faster than Nico Rosberg, but Fernando Alonso, we are waiting for
:45:06. > :45:13.him to come around, because... Has he competed the lap? -- completed
:45:13. > :45:21.the lap? Can he get out of the drop zone? Yes, he does it. Last gap and
:45:21. > :45:25.it pushes Daniel Ricciardo into 11th place. Grosjean is definitely out,
:45:25. > :45:31.so is van der Garde. Sutil has gone into sixth, and that has pushed
:45:31. > :45:36.Hulkenberg down. Good effort from Sutil. He crashed here on this part
:45:36. > :45:39.of the track this morning and he has gone six. And of course, di Resta
:45:39. > :45:44.went out in the first part of qualifying. Hulkenberg is out, Ben
:45:44. > :45:54.Ricciardo, Grosjean, van der Garde is out, and amazingly, Pastor
:45:54. > :45:57.
:45:57. > :46:05.Maldonado. That is a shocker. all happening in that session,
:46:05. > :46:08.wasn't it. Eddie. Defence drama from the word go. The man talking up the
:46:08. > :46:15.high heights was Grosjean having crashed three time, his luck ran out
:46:15. > :46:20.an he didn't make it through to the finish. He has been talking to Lee.
:46:20. > :46:26.The guys did get the car back out on track but you were out in Q2.
:46:26. > :46:31.team. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Three minutes to the end of Q1 we
:46:31. > :46:37.were not ready to go. They gave everything they had. Unbelievable. I
:46:37. > :46:43.think we had the car to do something very God, but Monaco is traffic is
:46:43. > :46:46.part of Monaco, and this is it. came out after a very difficult
:46:46. > :46:53.morning, and then you went fastest straight away. You must have
:46:53. > :46:57.confidence in the car. What happened in Q2? Traffic in the last lap. It
:46:57. > :47:03.was getting drier and drier, the second one, the car in front of me,
:47:03. > :47:08.I spoke with him but he didn't see me. So the race is gone when you
:47:08. > :47:13.only get two laps. For a second I thought that Caterham were going to
:47:13. > :47:17.get Giedo van der Garde into Q3 looked as if they had won the race!
:47:17. > :47:22.It was a Titanic job. What he achieved. You have to remember this
:47:22. > :47:25.is a team emerging, so this is a good sign for the future and Giedo
:47:25. > :47:29.van der Garde, really, he was a surprise because the four guys at
:47:29. > :47:33.the back, he was the one you would least expect to be up there. It is
:47:33. > :47:36.time new for Q3. The final part of qualifying to
:47:36. > :47:42.determine the top ten positions on the grid is just about to get under
:47:42. > :47:45.way here in Monaco. The groen light comes on. We are on super-soft slick
:47:45. > :47:49.tyres, onboard with Kimi Raikkonen, that seems to be the choice for most
:47:49. > :47:55.of the teams as they come back out. Gary, how can we predict what lap
:47:55. > :48:00.time we will see for pole position? They are changing but we have down
:48:00. > :48:08.to the 1. 15 so it was coming pretty good. By the end of this session we
:48:08. > :48:14.will see as good lap time session as ever. Rosberg did a 1. 37. I am not
:48:14. > :48:18.sure we will nip into the 13s but we will see low ones at 14. That was an
:48:18. > :48:21.amazing second part of qualifying. It was tough to call it You have to
:48:21. > :48:27.be there at the right time. I thought people were leaving it too
:48:27. > :48:32.late to get on the dry weather tyre, but they did pull it off. The mix is
:48:32. > :48:37.still the same. There is two Red Bull, two McLarens in there, two
:48:37. > :48:41.Mercedes, so, you know, one Ferrari, so I think pole position will be a
:48:41. > :48:46.justified pole position today. think you are right. We will see a
:48:46. > :48:52.fantastic battle all the way through. Tom, you getting any more
:48:52. > :48:56.rain down in pit lane? There are a few spits of rain, but that blue sky
:48:56. > :49:00.is edging closer, so I don't think it will last long, but people are
:49:00. > :49:05.unsure down here. We have virtually all of the top ten out, trying to
:49:05. > :49:11.get that banker in. Let us see what happens. We are watching Kimi
:49:11. > :49:15.Raikkonen, he is the first to to cross the line. His team-mate
:49:15. > :49:19.crashed there this morning and Thursday. Kimi keeping it neat and
:49:19. > :49:23.tidy for the moment as he climbs up the hill and through the long
:49:23. > :49:27.left-hander. Then this change of camber, through casino square,
:49:27. > :49:33.losing the camber, the positive camber, goes to negative. He is
:49:33. > :49:39.taking it carefully here, in term of how he uses the road Exploring, to
:49:39. > :49:46.make sure he has his eye in, and he will know that providing it doesn't
:49:46. > :49:50.come and drizzle any more, that he will be able to unleash a lap time
:49:50. > :49:54.on his super-softs later in the session. He does need to get on with
:49:54. > :50:00.it though, but sometimes having a bit of a -- safety margin is the
:50:00. > :50:05.wise thing to do. He has shown he is Mr Consistency in his performance
:50:05. > :50:09.over the past year. He has a tremendous record of pointing
:50:09. > :50:13.finishing, trying to beat the all time record which is achievable, but
:50:13. > :50:18.Webber is fastest on the first sector of all of the cars out there.
:50:18. > :50:22.Hamilton was quick in that first sectors and so was Alonso. Kimi not
:50:22. > :50:28.quite as quick, I don't think, on this lap as some of those behind
:50:28. > :50:32.him. He may build up to it. Yes, it is slow compared to what we saw at
:50:32. > :50:40.the end of the last part of qualifying, but Hamilton going
:50:40. > :50:45.quicker. 1. 15. 7. So he goes fastest but Webber is on a quicker
:50:45. > :50:50.lap That is quicker than Hamilton, so he has gone for it straight off.
:50:50. > :50:54.Here comes Mark Webber, the pole winner, he goes fastest, remember,
:50:54. > :50:59.he inherited pole last year when Michael Schumacher who set the
:50:59. > :51:04.outright fastest qualifying time had a grid pen Friday a preceding race
:51:04. > :51:09.so Mark ended up with the pole but he earned it a couple of years ago,
:51:09. > :51:16.so he does love this circuit. Alonso has gone third. Jean-Eric Vergne is
:51:16. > :51:20.fourth. I wonder if he can keep up this God form. Perez. Sutille,
:51:20. > :51:25.Rosberg ninth. We are yet to see Vettel, although he has just crossed
:51:25. > :51:30.the line and has gone seventh. Raikkonen pushing now and two
:51:30. > :51:35.tennises down on the fastest man of all, Webber at this stage. Let us
:51:35. > :51:42.see what he can do. So conditioning the tyres on that out-lap. Now he is
:51:42. > :51:46.giving it is full beans. Here we go. Let us see what time that is.
:51:46. > :51:54.Raikkonen goes second. Not enough to beat him. Here comes Hamilton. Has
:51:54. > :52:01.he found more pace? Yes. Hamilton goes ahead. Rosberg has gone quicker
:52:01. > :52:08.than Hamilton. The two Mercedes fighting together. We see Alonso go
:52:08. > :52:12.fourth and Webber, has gone faster, he has done it 1. 14. 7 but the
:52:12. > :52:16.track is continuing to get faster. Vettel fastest in the first sector.
:52:16. > :52:25.Look at that, the speed through the swimming pool. It is all going to be
:52:25. > :52:28.done into this last sector. Huge commitment from the reigning World
:52:28. > :52:33.Champion Sebastian Vettel and points leader here in 2013. How he rotates
:52:33. > :52:38.that car and keeps it just off the barrier is remarkable. He is
:52:38. > :52:46.fastest, Sebastian Vettel 1. 14. 3 and we are getting down to serious
:52:46. > :52:50.dry weather times now, because 1. 43 was pole for Schumacher in terms of
:52:50. > :52:55.fastest qualifying pace although they were in the 13s a couple of
:52:55. > :53:02.years ago. It is a fraction faster than Rosberg did this morning
:53:02. > :53:08.looks like there is more to come. Adjustment on the steering wheel.
:53:09. > :53:13.That could be something that affects the way the braking, look at the
:53:13. > :53:20.speed as he goes into the back. Small hesitation there, through the
:53:20. > :53:24.swimming pool. Locked up on the way into the chicane.
:53:25. > :53:30.Round the Rascasse, so early on the power with this modern formula,
:53:30. > :53:34.Formula One. So what is this going to do for
:53:34. > :53:38.Jenson Button. He crossed the line and goes seventh. He is ahead of
:53:38. > :53:41.Perez but only by a President Obamaingion. They in the top ten,
:53:41. > :53:47.that is the key thing for McLaren who know they don't have a car that
:53:47. > :53:52.is as quick as some of their rivals. Alonso is back out. The only Ferrari
:53:52. > :53:56.in the final part of qualifying. Massa never did a lap because of the
:53:56. > :54:04.damage done this morning. You are onboard with Alonso as he chases
:54:04. > :54:10.down a potential front row starting position. Hamilton is out on track
:54:10. > :54:14.as well. We have several rejoining. Jean-Eric Vergne is out.
:54:14. > :54:18.RADIO: It is spitting a bit but it is only going to get worse, you have
:54:18. > :54:24.to push as hard as you can for the first lap. That is interesting, that
:54:24. > :54:31.would work well for Alonso, because he is the first to go back on the
:54:31. > :54:35.new tyre. He is running behind Button. I am seeing they are going
:54:35. > :54:43.through the Portier, presumably Button will feed to get a move op or
:54:43. > :54:47.let Alonso go to avoid boxing his lap. Alonso has backed off on this
:54:47. > :54:52.lap to get some space. Looking at Hamilton. He is finding himself
:54:52. > :54:57.space. He has a clear space. No cars ahead of him. There you are onboard
:54:57. > :55:04.with Alonso. He is warming the tyres This is not ideal. When you are
:55:04. > :55:10.having to weave round, it does very little. You get more heat by
:55:10. > :55:14.braking, that radiates into the wheel, the tyre, and into the cars
:55:14. > :55:21.can, so Alonso compromised by having to go slowly. Webberer fastest of
:55:21. > :55:27.all in the first sector. Another great performance from Webber. What
:55:27. > :55:32.about Kimi Raikkonen? He was a tenth slower than Webber. Hamilton is
:55:32. > :55:37.virtually the same. Rosberg has gone fastest in the first sector. So
:55:37. > :55:41.Rosberg's pace from practise is being repeated by the looks of it.
:55:41. > :55:46.Raikkonen fast through the swimming pool section.
:55:46. > :55:53.RADIO: There is a problem with power, what do you want me to do
:55:53. > :55:59.Keep pushing. A slow first sector for Jenson. Where is the flying
:55:59. > :56:04.Finn? He is up to third. Vettel, will that be for long? Webber is on
:56:04. > :56:09.top now, 1. 14. 1 but Vettel is back on circuit. With the clock ticking
:56:09. > :56:14.away, here, the chequered flag will come out soon, but Hamilton
:56:14. > :56:23.perfectly timed here, because he is going to get one more lamb lap in,
:56:23. > :56:29.it is a 1. President for -- 1. 13. 9. Is that enough? He still has
:56:29. > :56:34.another lap. Rosberg has gone even faster. He has done a is. 13. 8 and
:56:34. > :56:37.he has beaten his tame mate again. Can anybody else improve on what we
:56:37. > :56:42.have seen from these two Mercede, you have to keep an eye on Vettel
:56:42. > :56:45.because he has been fast, but he is not showing fastest of all at the
:56:45. > :56:50.moment. There is Sebastian Vettel, he is a fraction down in the first
:56:50. > :56:55.sector, about a tenth down in the second, so this final sector will
:56:55. > :56:59.have to be miraculous, if Sebastian Vettel is going to prevent Nico
:56:59. > :57:06.Rosberg taking pole. It is not enough. He is beaten by both
:57:06. > :57:11.Mercede, now it is Webber and he has I think backed off. It won't make
:57:11. > :57:15.any improvement from him and Raikkonen has backed off. It is pole
:57:15. > :57:19.position once again for Nico Rosberg, his hat-trick of pole
:57:19. > :57:25.positions and of course four in a row for Mercede, that is another
:57:25. > :57:35.stunning effort by the Mercedes team. Rosberg has outqualified
:57:35. > :57:35.
:57:35. > :57:42.Hamilton, Webber but what must this men to Rosberg? Let us look at this
:57:42. > :57:52.order then. With a much better chance this time of hanging on to it
:57:52. > :57:57.
:57:57. > :58:05.in space last year. Red Bull third Jean-Eric Vergne's befrs qualifying
:58:05. > :58:13.position. Behind him those who didn't make it into to the top 0.
:58:14. > :58:23.-- best. Daniel Ricciardo 12th fastest, then
:58:24. > :58:30.
:58:30. > :58:33.Grosjean 13th after a very up and disappointed, then you have pick
:58:33. > :58:43.peck, Esteban Gutierrez, Max Chilton and Jules Bianchi, but top spot, the
:58:43. > :58:44.
:58:44. > :58:46.controlling position for the Monaco Grand Prix belongs to Nico Rosberg.
:58:47. > :58:50.Congratulations your third consecutive pole at home and what
:58:50. > :58:55.must have been testing conditions out there today? Yes, good challenge
:58:55. > :58:57.out there. But it was great, it was good fun in the wet. Then just
:58:57. > :59:01.difficult, with the changing condition, and you just had to be
:59:01. > :59:06.out there in the right moment, right time. For us it was a matter of
:59:06. > :59:09.keeping it safe. All I had to do was get through to the next session. I
:59:09. > :59:14.was quick, even in the wet because the car was just good, so I knew I
:59:14. > :59:18.didn't have to go the limit, it was about the last part of qualifying
:59:18. > :59:22.where it came down to one lap because the first lap was getting a
:59:22. > :59:27.feel for where everything is. The last lap was the one that pointed --
:59:27. > :59:34.counted and it worked out. Let us look at that. It was superfast.
:59:34. > :59:39.You can tell us about it? Yes, this is the Loews hairpin. The tightest
:59:39. > :59:46.corner of the year, and you can still see wet patches which made it
:59:46. > :59:51.difficult. I go wide op the kerb there. It is difficult braking into
:59:51. > :59:58.the next chicane. Braking over the hump. There is a risk of locking up
:59:58. > :00:02.the front tyres. I got it right. Good acceleration. Really close to
:00:02. > :00:06.the barrier on the exit. This is the fastest part of the track. Here I
:00:06. > :00:12.clip the inside barrier, you will see maybe I hit it, I don't know if
:00:12. > :00:17.it was the front wing or tyre. I hit the barrier, it was OK. The last two
:00:17. > :00:21.hairpins went and got out the last one well, and flat out to the finish
:00:21. > :00:29.line. It was good enough. We have seen your outstanding pace, is this
:00:29. > :00:32.the one that you are going to convert to the win? Nobody is
:00:32. > :00:37.thinking about the win honestly yet, because it has been so
:00:37. > :00:40.difficult in the races. Just two weeks ago, one and a half seconds
:00:40. > :00:45.lower in the race. It is just a weakness. I'm happy with the day,
:00:45. > :00:52.but my happiness is a bit, how can I say, not as high as it would
:00:52. > :00:54.normally be, because I know that tomorrow... Tempered.Tempered is
:00:54. > :00:59.the word, tomorrow is still difficult. Maybe the track will be
:00:59. > :01:03.an advantage, for sure, but the amount of stops we are going to do
:01:03. > :01:08.tomorrow, a lot less than we did in Barcelona, so to do a good result,
:01:08. > :01:12.you still need a good car that has little degradation, so...
:01:12. > :01:16.obviously wish you all the best tomorrow. I know you have to go, so
:01:16. > :01:20.thank you the stopping and talking to us. Let's hear now from Lewis.
:01:20. > :01:22.Just tell us how you think it is going to work tomorrow, you and Nico
:01:22. > :01:28.going alongside each other into turn one.
:01:28. > :01:30.The have to be careful, can you get in front? It is very difficult to
:01:30. > :01:36.overtake him, unless he has a problem at the start, which is
:01:36. > :01:41.unlikely, with Alistair Wing so good. Getting past is going to be
:01:41. > :01:44.trouble -- with our staff being so good. A pit stop is when you will
:01:44. > :01:48.get the chance, maybe. Explain how you are feeling, because Saturdays
:01:48. > :01:54.have been strong for you, Sundays are less so. Can this change around
:01:54. > :01:59.the streets? I hope so. Saturdays haven't been particularly strong for
:01:59. > :02:03.me, they have been so-so, but usually my qualifying sessions are
:02:03. > :02:06.pretty good. I have been struggling this season, but I'm hoping to get
:02:06. > :02:11.better, I am working on it and we are working on the long-running
:02:11. > :02:16.pace, high-speed corners here, we may have a better chance.
:02:16. > :02:20.So front row, but not looking too happy, Eddie. I think he's trying to
:02:21. > :02:25.disguise, he doesn't want any extra pressure. He knows, front row of the
:02:25. > :02:30.grid, who knows what happen? He is in the perfect position. For
:02:30. > :02:34.Mercedes, it couldn't be a better starting position. How do you see
:02:34. > :02:38.it, David? I think he's disappointed. This is a badge of
:02:38. > :02:42.honour, any qualifying session, you want to be ahead of your team-mate
:02:42. > :02:46.and Nico has been faster in all of the sessions. He is any one tenth
:02:46. > :02:53.behind, you can find and blues that in one corner, and he also knows he
:02:53. > :03:01.has a difficulty knowing whether the tyres will be more durable. -- he is
:03:01. > :03:07.only one tenth behind. I think I had a chance on pole
:03:07. > :03:10.position today, so I wasn't surprised being third, but I kind of
:03:10. > :03:17.wanted to go for Paul, so initially I am a little bit disappointed, but
:03:17. > :03:20.that is how it is -- go for pole position. No point wasting energy on
:03:20. > :03:25.a result, it is done, so even though I would love to try again, I can't
:03:25. > :03:29.and we have a strong car, that is the most important it. Thursday, I
:03:29. > :03:33.was struggling and I didn't feel well, but we improved the car a lot,
:03:33. > :03:38.so the free day yesterday helped and it seems we made use of it. So I am
:03:38. > :03:43.happy with that, and I'm happy race tomorrow. It is a long race here, so
:03:43. > :03:47.usually the one who crosses the line first deserves to win. That many
:03:47. > :03:53.laps give you the opportunity to make up for something, in case you
:03:53. > :03:56.have the speed, so at some stage we will be able to use our speed and we
:03:56. > :04:01.will see what we can do. He looks relaxed, doesn't equal
:04:01. > :04:05.Jamaat he is in third, he can do something from there, can't he?
:04:05. > :04:08.explained everything graphically there, he didn't have a run at pole
:04:08. > :04:12.position, which wasn't the case with the free practice sessions, but he
:04:12. > :04:16.knows there is a whole host of opportunities tomorrow. In that
:04:16. > :04:19.interview, we have heard so much about tyres, and all of those
:04:19. > :04:23.complaints are coming from Red Bull and in particular Sebastien Vettel,
:04:23. > :04:27.not a whisper. He knows he has a chance to win this and they are
:04:27. > :04:31.putting the tyres away for another excuse in weeks to come. We can get
:04:31. > :04:35.the thoughts from his team boss, Christian Horner. You have locked
:04:35. > :04:41.out the second row of the grid, you are seeking your fourth consecutive
:04:41. > :04:45.Monaco win, can you do it? Anything is possible around here. It was a
:04:45. > :04:48.solid qualifying. I thought we had got pole position at one point,
:04:48. > :04:53.Sebastien decided to go for one more lap on the last run and he was up
:04:53. > :04:56.all the way up until the last sector and he just got a bit out of shape.
:04:56. > :05:02.He sounded frustrated on the radio on the way in that he had just
:05:02. > :05:06.missed that 10th of a second. But nonetheless, third and fourth,
:05:06. > :05:10.strong qualifying the Mark Webber, it is good to have cars on the
:05:10. > :05:15.second row. How you going to get past those Mercedes? It is so often
:05:15. > :05:20.one from the front row here. Yes, but we have seen 2013 Formula One is
:05:20. > :05:24.nothing like that. If Barcelona is anything to go by, it was 15 years
:05:24. > :05:27.or so since a car the front row had won the race there, so anything is
:05:27. > :05:32.possible. We just have to focus on how our race, try and get a good
:05:32. > :05:39.start and get stuck in. Eddie, are Red Bull up against it in
:05:39. > :05:42.terms of pressure against? Lotus are coming at them, four points. It is
:05:42. > :05:45.nice pressure, because they are leading the championship not just
:05:45. > :05:49.for the drivers but also the constructors. They are very
:05:49. > :05:52.confident behind-the-scenes. You heard Christian, they believe
:05:52. > :05:57.Mercedes will have a problem with tyres, so they feel they are
:05:57. > :06:02.actually really on pole position. They have locked out the
:06:02. > :06:11.front-runner in their minds. David, where the possibilities here that
:06:11. > :06:16.you can overtake? The DRS zone is down into turn one but it is hard to
:06:16. > :06:20.find a place there. I think into Chicane if someone is being
:06:20. > :06:25.compliant. Otherwise it is very difficult. But it can be won and
:06:25. > :06:28.lost with pitstops and strategy? That can be the defining moment. If
:06:28. > :06:32.somebody can get away with 1-stop, they will have tens of seconds in
:06:32. > :06:38.their back pockets over someone a two stop will stop when you are
:06:38. > :06:44.talking about one stop, you have to talk about motors? By the past
:06:44. > :06:47.masters, I don't want to talk about, but they are building up pressure
:06:47. > :06:53.for themselves. Kimi Raikkonen is the consummate professional and I
:06:53. > :06:56.will be very surprised if he is not on the podium.
:06:56. > :07:01.Well, obviously, we didn't see Felipe Massa in qualifying because
:07:01. > :07:04.of this crash this morning in the final free practice session, and the
:07:04. > :07:08.team just could not get that car ready in time, but Lee McKenzie
:07:08. > :07:12.caught up with him after qualifying. Tell us what happened
:07:12. > :07:16.this morning. The team have said it was your fault. Actually, I was
:07:16. > :07:23.breaking over the bump and I locked both wheels in the front, which was
:07:23. > :07:31.a very difficult thing to happen, and when I braked, the front wheels
:07:31. > :07:36.locked and I hit the side on the left, and it just happens, you know?
:07:36. > :07:42.By the time I braked, it was on a bump and everything, so it was not a
:07:42. > :07:46.nice thing to happen. But for sure, we checked the car and there was no
:07:46. > :07:50.problem with the car. Such bad timing to happen in that
:07:50. > :07:53.final practice session and too much for the team to sort out. Indeed, it
:07:53. > :07:58.was a comprehensive accident but let's not be doom and gloom.
:07:58. > :08:03.Fernando Alonso in 2010, he came back from no qualifying time to
:08:03. > :08:09.finish in sixth in the race. David, and a state like that, how easy is
:08:09. > :08:13.it to make when you hit a bump -- a mistake. On this kind of circuit,
:08:13. > :08:17.with temperatures not optimal, it is easy to lock the front tyres. On
:08:17. > :08:22.this case, it is unforgiving because the barrier comes back to meet you.
:08:22. > :08:26.It may not be all doom and gloom as Eddie says, he will be able to
:08:26. > :08:31.preserve the tyres and the place will be slow slow -- the pace will
:08:31. > :08:35.be so slow, he may be able to do it on a one stop. And he should start
:08:35. > :08:41.from the pitlane, which maybe an extra vantage, because it will avoid
:08:41. > :08:44.all of the first lap incidents. -- advantage. Let's hear from his
:08:44. > :08:51.team-mate, Fernando Alonso, who goes from the third row. Sixth place,
:08:51. > :08:54.better or worse than you expected? It is worse, obviously. Monaco is
:08:54. > :08:59.the most important qualifying of the season, and six is not a great
:09:00. > :09:04.position if you want to fight for the win, but it seems that here, we
:09:04. > :09:11.are not competitive enough to go for the win, so we need to target new
:09:11. > :09:15.goals for the race and maybe finishing in front of our main
:09:15. > :09:22.competitors in the championship, Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastien, but we
:09:22. > :09:27.are starting in the same row as Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastien is one in
:09:27. > :09:30.front, so we try to finish ahead of them. If Mercedes wins the Grand
:09:30. > :09:35.Prix, a difficult weekend Ross, maybe it is good news. He sounds
:09:35. > :09:41.like he sounds like he's going for the point, but you believe that --
:09:41. > :09:49.he sounds like he is going for the points. I don't believe a word of
:09:49. > :09:54.it. He is a master craftsman. He is trying to fool us where we think he
:09:54. > :09:58.is going for a podium position, but I believe he is totally fired up for
:09:58. > :10:02.this. You just have to see what unfolds. If he has the car and clear
:10:02. > :10:08.track and you can see the lap times. If he is running in traffic, at
:10:09. > :10:14.Monte Carlo, you have to take what you can get it was looking great out
:10:14. > :10:18.there, the best qualifying session we have had this year.
:10:18. > :10:24.Mixed conditions helped, but in the first two sessions, every time we
:10:24. > :10:28.crossed the finishing line, we were right the front. I think in Q3, I
:10:28. > :10:35.was in fifth place, and then I went into the pits for another set and I
:10:36. > :10:40.had no power, we had a problem with something. We seem to be our own
:10:40. > :10:43.worst enemy, really. When we eventually get the car working
:10:43. > :10:47.well, going great in terms of performance, and through qualifying
:10:47. > :10:50.the team did a great job in terms of strategy on getting out on tyres in
:10:50. > :10:55.the right time, and we make decisions, and when it all matters,
:10:55. > :10:59.we have a problem. It did look a lot more likely today,
:10:59. > :11:04.but he got at qualified by his team-mate, Sergio Perez, which he
:11:04. > :11:09.will not be pleased about -- outqualified. He won't, but it is
:11:09. > :11:12.good news for Sergio Perez, he will be judged against his world champion
:11:12. > :11:15.team-mate. Jenson is disappointed that they are taking one step
:11:16. > :11:20.forward but to back when it comes to the last part of qualifying. Jenson
:11:20. > :11:25.tends to be much stronger in the races, and if it is changeable
:11:25. > :11:28.conditions tomorrow, who would that against him moving forward? Yes, but
:11:28. > :11:35.his body language is disappointing. He doesn't give that confident air
:11:35. > :11:38.that he had, when he was with McLaren and I don't see it. At the
:11:39. > :11:43.moment, he seems like a man that needs a big injection of speed.
:11:43. > :11:51.how can he feel confident when he is not being given the goods to drive?
:11:51. > :11:54.He has to think about his team-mate first. Yes, he beat him last time in
:11:54. > :12:00.Barcelona but it was somewhat fortunate. I believe he needs to up
:12:00. > :12:03.his qualifying speed. Do you agree, David? The facts are that Sergio is
:12:03. > :12:08.in front of Jenson and they both have the same car, so presumably
:12:08. > :12:11.they will bring in new parts and it is working better on Sergio's car,
:12:11. > :12:15.but the whole team needs to go forward. The winning drivers usually
:12:15. > :12:19.have the cars that are capable of doing that consistently. McLaren as
:12:19. > :12:26.we know are having a difficult start of the season. Let's have a look at
:12:26. > :12:33.how the grid will form. The second straight Mercedes front
:12:33. > :12:43.row with the red cars right behind, seeking a fourth consecutive Monaco
:12:43. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:53.victory -- with the Red Bull. John Eric Verne has achieved a
:12:53. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :12:59.career-best 10th -- John Eric Verne. Van der Garde has secured
:12:59. > :13:03.Caterham's test starting slot in 15 years. Felipe Massa start at the
:13:03. > :13:06.very back of the grid following his accident in practice. You can catch
:13:06. > :13:10.all of the action tomorrow at 5:35 p.m.
:13:10. > :13:15.On BBC One and BBC One HD. Gentleman, a great qualifying