:01:13. > :01:18.Hello. A very warm and slightly blustery Welcome to Barcelona for
:01:18. > :01:24.the third practice session before we get under way for the life
:01:24. > :01:30.qualifying. Taking us through the next few minutes is David Coulthard.
:01:30. > :01:35.Are you enjoying Spain? Yes, love it. Yesterday, the first session
:01:35. > :01:41.was very difficult. It was raining and it never dried up. It is hard
:01:41. > :01:46.to get any relevant data. They do a lot of testing pre-season.
:01:46. > :01:55.Barcelona is the main proving ground for Formula One. Any race
:01:55. > :01:59.session is about that date in history. This circuit is affected.
:02:00. > :02:04.Looking through the weekend, it will be about tyres. All have free
:02:04. > :02:09.practice sessions are about trying to understand how they will get the
:02:09. > :02:15.best out of them. Yesterday in free practice, they were trying out
:02:15. > :02:25.their upgrades and trying them out on longer runs. This happened for
:02:25. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:37.Paul di Resta. Check out the rear late. This is the Pirelli Engineer
:02:37. > :02:44.trying to cover it. Going back to the previous grand prix, this
:02:44. > :02:51.happened with Lewis Hamilton on the Mercedes. In Bahrain, this is us on
:02:51. > :02:58.board with Filipe Massa. Pirelli have a real concern. These issues
:02:58. > :03:07.have been caused by actual damage. Cuts and debris. The curbs have
:03:08. > :03:17.always been there. It is a standard one. It is looking like there is an
:03:17. > :03:22.inherent weakness in the design Pirelli were not talking about the
:03:22. > :03:28.issue yesterday until they had examined it. Is there any news or
:03:28. > :03:38.anything you can therefore asked during this session? Her my first
:03:38. > :03:40.
:03:40. > :03:45.job is to go and find the boss of I will do that very shortly. There
:03:45. > :03:50.is a real buzz in the pit lane. Last night there was more freight
:03:51. > :03:57.coming into Barcelona than usual. We will look out for all the
:03:57. > :04:03.upgrades. A few of the teams have new wings on their cars. Thank you.
:04:03. > :04:10.A pop up to the commentary box. What are you expecting in this
:04:10. > :04:15.session? I guess we're going to see plenty of running in the first part.
:04:15. > :04:20.Will they be out there for the whole session? We might get the odd
:04:20. > :04:24.moment of paws and build up towards the end of the session. Most of
:04:24. > :04:33.them were like to do a rang to check the car balance. Then they
:04:33. > :04:38.will put on the softer tyres. -- will like to do a runner. They need
:04:38. > :04:46.to be confident they have a reasonable set-up. It is the build-
:04:46. > :04:53.up to qualifying really. Qualifying is so vital. We talk about Monaco
:04:53. > :04:58.but to get on the front row it is really important. Overtaking here
:04:58. > :05:08.is more difficult than some of the other circuits. Qualifying is
:05:08. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:18.down to the end of the pit lane. The green light comes on. We have
:05:18. > :05:25.Force India and Toro Rosso taking to the track. Paul di Resta has
:05:25. > :05:31.moved over to the side to do a practice start. That is the only
:05:31. > :05:40.area they are allowed to do that. It is an important date for Sauber
:05:40. > :05:46.as well. We will be talking about McLaren and Williams. Sergio Perez
:05:46. > :05:53.qualified 5th last year. They have been struggling with this stability
:05:53. > :05:59.problems. That is another team we need to keep an eye on. You would
:05:59. > :06:04.expect more from McLaren, Williams and Sauber. It is about the
:06:04. > :06:10.stability on the rear end of the car on entry. If you do not have
:06:10. > :06:16.rear end stability, you take it out a bit easier and turn it earlier.
:06:16. > :06:25.You have a mid corner understeer and create traction problems. It is
:06:25. > :06:35.very difficult to change your plan. Actually it is a rear end problem
:06:35. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:42.on the way in. There is the staff for the fans in Spain - Fernando
:06:42. > :06:48.Alonso. -- star. He comes from the northern part of Spain and has a
:06:48. > :06:54.huge amount of support. It is quite a long time since he won in
:06:54. > :06:59.Barcelona, it was back in 2006. He led here last year and led be the
:06:59. > :07:03.before. We always know the Ferrari is quick off the line. Their
:07:03. > :07:12.intention is to be that fraction more competitive in qualifying. We
:07:12. > :07:16.have already seen a Ferrari on the front row. That has to be their aim.
:07:16. > :07:22.Some drivers are saying that being in pole position is not that
:07:22. > :07:28.important because you cannot drive the race as hard as you want. It
:07:28. > :07:34.makes your life so much easier. You are not going to get involved in
:07:34. > :07:41.the mid- grid half race. It is about letting them know you are
:07:41. > :07:46.here. You get people behind you with that little bit of motivation.
:07:46. > :07:51.You do not get the card damage so easily. You need to be at the front
:07:51. > :07:56.to win races. Sometimes people can come from behind because they got
:07:56. > :08:01.it wrong but it does not happen very often. He was talking about
:08:01. > :08:04.the joy of driving in a home race. He said at the start of his career
:08:04. > :08:10.it was a pressure to perform in front of your home fans but now he
:08:10. > :08:14.revels in it. He has won a couple of times in Spain. That is
:08:14. > :08:20.something that Nigel Mansell used to talk about all the time - the
:08:20. > :08:26.extra energy and speed being in a home race gives you. Kimi Raikkonen
:08:26. > :08:33.for Lotus, one Aberu Kebede to watch this weekend. They have been
:08:33. > :08:40.competitive all year. -- one to watch. They have been very fast in
:08:40. > :08:48.race trim. They did get onto the front row in China. Sebastian
:08:48. > :08:54.Vettel was twice a pole winner. can see the car running. There is a
:08:54. > :09:01.lot of luminous dust painted on the wing. What you are trying to do
:09:01. > :09:10.with that is put it onto the front wing and see where it is going.
:09:10. > :09:17.That Clwyd will land on parts of the car. -- that fluid. That is the
:09:17. > :09:25.most important thing. You need to get air flow off the front wing. It
:09:25. > :09:31.is understandable. You may have to tweak some stuff. Looking at the
:09:31. > :09:38.Red Bull, as it comes into the pits, USA Inc yesterday at the front wing
:09:38. > :09:45.is very sophisticated. -- you were saying. It is a hugely expensive
:09:45. > :09:53.piece of kit. The area in front of the front tyre is very important.
:09:53. > :10:00.You can see the yellow luminous paint. All these bits add up to
:10:00. > :10:09.give inconsistent front downforce but it does not her the rest of the
:10:09. > :10:17.car. -- giving consistent downforce. If you look where it says red,
:10:17. > :10:24.there are four struts coming down. Normally they'd tried to put them
:10:24. > :10:30.underneath. -- they try. They are trying to create a vortex to push
:10:30. > :10:39.the air through. You can see the wing - it is multi- element.
:10:39. > :10:46.Underneath it, you put stiffen us. When part of its stores, it does
:10:46. > :10:56.not affect the rest of the wing. When the carp is neared the ground,
:10:56. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:08.the airflow stalls. -- the car. It is a sophisticated part which makes
:11:08. > :11:09.
:11:09. > :11:14.the rest of the car work. Paul di Resta suffered yesterday. You have
:11:14. > :11:20.had a night to examine the tyres on the cup of Paul di Resta. Similar
:11:20. > :11:25.to the other tyres we have seen this season. When you pick up
:11:25. > :11:35.debris, it does not penetrate and the weak point becomes the trade.
:11:35. > :11:44.You get a cat, the tread is overheated and it comes away. --
:11:44. > :11:50.the cut. You could say it is safer but it looks more dramatic. I am
:11:51. > :11:58.sure people watching would think it is coming away by chance. Just to
:11:58. > :12:08.clarify, it was debris that caused it. Yes. We have used 10,000 tyres
:12:08. > :12:18.and we have had four cuts of that type. You get a cat and it heats up
:12:18. > :12:18.
:12:18. > :12:28.and comes away. -- a cut. Last season it would have deflated on
:12:28. > :12:29.
:12:29. > :12:36.the rim. Is that worse or better? It begs the question, should the
:12:36. > :12:45.tier be more resilient? When they put in a non- penetrable layer of
:12:45. > :12:52.steel in there, you are going to get cuts on the tyre. It is a
:12:52. > :13:00.difficult one. Whale-watching one of the Red Bulls. -- we are
:13:00. > :13:05.watching. It is difficult to get the right thing. They use 616 slick
:13:05. > :13:11.tyres in a weekend. This paint has washed off the front wing and gone
:13:11. > :13:21.to areas of the car where it influences. Did you like that
:13:21. > :13:27.pattern? Yes, that was OK. If it hits there and washes away like
:13:27. > :13:36.water going down a glass, it is not working. There is no airflow on it.
:13:36. > :13:44.It looked pretty good. What are you looking at? You can see this side
:13:44. > :13:50.pods. The yellow hit that part of the car. You get a big bubble. It
:13:50. > :13:56.was not getting influenced by air flow. The airflow was good on that
:13:56. > :14:02.impact and attaches to the surface and goes backwards. It is about
:14:02. > :14:06.keeping consistent airflow on the surface. That looks pretty good.
:14:06. > :14:11.Formula One is a competitive world. They might be leading the
:14:11. > :14:19.Championship but you can never stand still. Only a few times have
:14:19. > :14:26.been set so far. Charles Pic is fastest in the Caterham. Lewis
:14:26. > :14:34.Hamilton and Keke Rosberg have set times. Nothing very exciting. If
:14:34. > :14:44.you want to get in touch you can use - tag. There may be a surprise
:14:44. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:51.from Hamilton or Kimi Raikkonen. Is Romain Grosjean looking good?
:14:51. > :15:00.best yesterday was Kimi Raikkonen. Fernando Alonso was good on both
:15:00. > :15:04.types of tyres and Nico Rosberg. They have more than the rest of
:15:04. > :15:10.them. Yesterday did not seem as consistent. Kimi Raikkonen tended
:15:10. > :15:20.to drop away. I would suspect Romain Grosjean we pick up the pace
:15:20. > :15:30.
:15:30. > :15:36.to that level but he did not show throttle. Why did you like to watch
:15:36. > :15:43.their? The first corner is a right-hander, then you have to keep
:15:43. > :15:51.the car in the middle of the road. The road drops away dramatically.
:15:51. > :15:54.You have to keep the car in the middle of the road. It is easy to
:15:54. > :16:00.see the car if they have got understeer. If they have, they run
:16:00. > :16:06.wide. The last part of the corner is more or less flat-out, but you are
:16:06. > :16:12.on the outside line of the track. You can see the car, whether it has
:16:12. > :16:17.got good balance and grip. Lewis Hamilton on the hard compound tyre.
:16:17. > :16:23.It is a big weekend for McLaren, they have put a lot of updates on
:16:23. > :16:31.the car. What can you see, Tom? very much, neither driver is in the
:16:31. > :16:35.car. Gary, they have got the old front wing on both cars. After a
:16:35. > :16:42.night of looking at the data, the new front wing is not working, what
:16:42. > :16:52.did you think? Yes, we will show some detail on that, but the area
:16:52. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :16:57.they worked on, it is not the area that is causing the problem. For me,
:16:57. > :17:03.there are three elements on the front wing, they are too big, they
:17:03. > :17:09.do not control the airflow. We will explain that before qualifying. If I
:17:09. > :17:14.were them, I would not be not driving now. You have got to try a
:17:14. > :17:19.different set-up, you have got to get the best out of the car you have
:17:19. > :17:28.got. They do not have a package that will win a race. RADIO: Look after
:17:28. > :17:35.attraction. He is under instructions already. Once you start spreading
:17:35. > :17:38.the rear wheels, the tyres overheat. Back to McLaren. You have got to get
:17:38. > :17:43.the best out of your car at a race meeting to score as many points as
:17:43. > :17:50.possible. They might not win, but you still have to get the best out
:17:50. > :17:54.of the package. You do not do that by sitting in the garage.
:17:54. > :17:57.qualifying programme starts at 12:10pm on BBC One, with more
:17:57. > :18:03.information about McLaren and also looking at Williams in their
:18:04. > :18:09.attempts to move up the grid. Esteban Gutierrez, the 21-year-old
:18:09. > :18:15.Mexican, you youngest driver in Formula 1. The car has not been as
:18:15. > :18:19.competitive as last year's Sauber. Nicole Holcombe vote is more
:18:19. > :18:26.experienced, he has been getting the odd performance out of the car.
:18:26. > :18:30.Still very early days. Jenny, you are at Lotus? Yes, they had a good
:18:30. > :18:36.day yesterday, one of the best Fridays they have had, according to
:18:36. > :18:41.them. A lot of work going on, so another team that will not get out
:18:41. > :18:51.there much. Romain Grosjean yesterday, if you look at the times
:18:51. > :18:52.
:18:52. > :18:55.from the second session, he was 18th or 19th, but actually, he did not do
:18:55. > :19:02.a fast time because it looked like he had a cracked exhaust. It was a
:19:02. > :19:07.centre row. It was misleading, occurs he is looking at an
:19:07. > :19:11.incredible pace for today. Yes, you have got to get the lapse in,
:19:12. > :19:17.because we will see who is who, because the track is decent, it is
:19:17. > :19:22.warm, and we will see who has got what as far as pace is concerned.
:19:23. > :19:32.Because Kimi Raikkonen was up there, I would expect Romain
:19:32. > :19:35.Grosjean to be up there as well. Yes, and Kimi Raikkonen is right
:19:35. > :19:42.back on top form. For those of you who did not catch up with yesterday,
:19:42. > :19:47.the fastest time was set by Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso
:19:47. > :19:57.was .017 slower than that. Mark Webber was third, Kimi Raikkonen was
:19:57. > :20:03.fourth, Felipe Massa was fifth. Jean-Eric Vergne was in ninth, and
:20:03. > :20:09.Paul di Resta was 10th. I wanted to mention Jean-Eric Vergne, Gus Toro
:20:09. > :20:13.Rosso seemed happy yesterday. It went well for them in China. They
:20:13. > :20:18.did not have a good time in Bahrain, but here, both drivers have
:20:18. > :20:28.got a spring in their step. They are going well. They have quite a few
:20:28. > :20:33.updates. They have pressed a button on getting developments for this
:20:33. > :20:40.race. It is the right time, you need to make sure you do not overreact,
:20:40. > :20:44.you want to get the best out of the package you had during the first
:20:44. > :20:51.races, and then press the button for developments to take it forward.
:20:51. > :20:55.They did the right thing, because they understand this track. They
:20:55. > :21:02.have got a better car. They are up and down a bit. You have to reserve
:21:02. > :21:06.judgement. Nico Hulkenberg is attacking the track a bit more. His
:21:06. > :21:14.team-mate is fastest so far, but only five cars have established a
:21:14. > :21:23.time. Nicole Holcombe Berg looking pretty rapid at the moment. Not the
:21:23. > :21:29.fastest in the first sector so far. Using quite a lot of road. This is
:21:29. > :21:35.where a second DRS zone has been introduced. That is different for
:21:35. > :21:42.this year, we are used to it the ink on the finishing straight here.
:21:42. > :21:46.because they have taken it away from qualifying, and put it onto the same
:21:46. > :21:54.positions in the race, they have created the second one. But the back
:21:54. > :21:58.straight is short. It is very difficult to keep within a second
:21:58. > :22:07.off the car in front of you without understeer in, so it will be tough
:22:07. > :22:12.to pass. We saw Nico Hulkenberg back off. That time is not
:22:12. > :22:18.representative, he will go for another lap. On board with Sebastian
:22:18. > :22:28.Vettel. Mark Webber is also out on track. We are beginning to see some
:22:28. > :22:31.
:22:31. > :22:39.of the front runners coming out. Up through the gears again on the X it.
:22:39. > :22:46.He did not lock up. Down the hill, this is down to the seventh corner,
:22:46. > :22:53.seven and eight. Then, the blind approach into number nine. I call
:22:53. > :22:57.that a man's corner, you cannot see the apex or exit. Difficult
:22:57. > :23:05.breaking, because it is bumpy. This corner has changed a bit over the
:23:05. > :23:11.years. It is tight, and then opens up. Then you are into the twisty
:23:11. > :23:14.stuff at the end of the lap. This was introduced later on. Number 14
:23:14. > :23:22.and 15, trying to get the traction out of the corner, get the power
:23:22. > :23:30.down, and then into the flat-out final turn. This will be a good lap.
:23:30. > :23:35.He goes fastest. But we are not quite down to what we had yesterday.
:23:35. > :23:42.It was interesting, looking at how much the tyres were worth. The
:23:42. > :23:48.Ferrari's only gained 0.2 seconds by going to the medium tyre. But other
:23:48. > :23:55.teams found more. If you go for a softer tyre, you end up getting more
:23:55. > :24:03.understeer. The balance was to have a bit of understeer on the harder
:24:03. > :24:09.tyres, and then you get more understeer with the softer tyre.
:24:09. > :24:13.They only had one shot at it yesterday. Overnight, they try to
:24:13. > :24:17.get the balance of the car to suit the softer tyre, to get the best lap
:24:18. > :24:24.time out of the soft tyre, which will compromise the harder tyre a
:24:24. > :24:33.bit, but that does not matter for the grid. Kimi Raikkonen also on the
:24:33. > :24:42.harder compound. RADIO: Still rear stability and understeer. Not a
:24:42. > :24:46.great mixture. Presumably, the car is nervous into the corners, but
:24:46. > :24:54.once he has got it into the corner, the car does not want to turn.
:24:54. > :24:58.Because the rear end is not stable, breaking and turning, he will be
:24:58. > :25:04.asking more from the front tire in the mid-corner, which is where the
:25:04. > :25:12.understeer comes from. I would try to fix the stability first, knowing
:25:12. > :25:16.that the understeer will diminish. Not looking at all nervous, Kimi
:25:16. > :25:23.Raikkonen, the car is looking stable. He is setting quick sector
:25:23. > :25:28.times. This will go ahead of Sebastian Vettel's pace. He goes
:25:29. > :25:35.quickest. That looked very smooth. He enjoyed the wet conditions
:25:35. > :25:42.yesterday morning. We had a heavy shower before the session, he was
:25:42. > :25:48.flicking the car around and enjoying himself. Up through the night turn,
:25:48. > :25:54.this is where they attack the corner. All four wheels over the
:25:54. > :25:58.edge... He just about kept inside the white line. We talk about the
:25:58. > :26:08.rear of the car touching the ground. We need to deal with the suspension
:26:08. > :26:13.that they have, a front and rear interconnected suspension. You can
:26:13. > :26:18.start to lower the rear of the car from the fact that, instead of
:26:18. > :26:27.displacing the front suspension, you can move the load to the rear of the
:26:27. > :26:33.car. It reduces the rear end instability. Lotus have it working
:26:33. > :26:39.the best. It is hydraulic suspension. They are playing the
:26:39. > :26:47.best chew on it. It is clever stuff. Hydraulic suspension systems go a
:26:47. > :26:54.long way back, Sichuan run them around the Second World War. But it
:26:54. > :26:59.is different on a racing car. We are on board with Adrian Sutil. He has
:26:59. > :27:07.been a bit out of luck in races, but he has shown great pace, he and Paul
:27:07. > :27:10.di Resta are a good combination. You know the team well, it has evolved
:27:10. > :27:20.from its Jordan days when you were the technical boss, but they have
:27:20. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:24.brought improvements, despite being on the pace in Bahrain. Yes, they
:27:24. > :27:29.are in -- identified problems and small changes. They are moving it
:27:29. > :27:37.along quite well. Every team needs to find .1 seconds per race to keep
:27:37. > :27:44.in touch with everybody else, so you need to make sure... This might be
:27:44. > :27:53.something falling off Romain Grosjean's car. That is sort of what
:27:54. > :27:58.I was talking about. They can make the rear of the car sit lower. They
:27:58. > :28:02.move the loads around the car to make the rear of the car sit lower.
:28:02. > :28:08.It reduces the drag of the car considerably. Back to force in the,
:28:08. > :28:12.small changes to keep in touch with the other teams, you find that .1
:28:12. > :28:20.seconds per race, you keep in touch, you find another .1 seconds,
:28:20. > :28:30.you move ahead. Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen setting the pace for
:28:30. > :28:32.
:28:32. > :28:42.notice. It is very close between them. Jean-Eric Vergne again showing
:28:42. > :28:43.
:28:43. > :28:46.Corazon in good shape. Thank you for your comments on twitter. Billy
:28:46. > :28:54.says, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso on the front row, come on,
:28:54. > :28:58.Lewis Hamilton! We will see if he can do that. One person says Spanish
:28:58. > :29:05.home advantage will throw Fernando Alonso on the front row, but a Lewis
:29:05. > :29:10.Hamilton pole position and Felipe Massa third. Oliver asks, how do you
:29:10. > :29:16.solve a problem like McLaren? Are the updates working? The jury is out
:29:16. > :29:22.at the moment, Gary. When they spoke to Tom yesterday... Let's speak to
:29:23. > :29:32.Tom. Tom, you spoke to both McLaren drivers, you did not say they
:29:33. > :29:50.
:29:50. > :29:56.less competitive than he was in Bahrain last time out. The fact
:29:56. > :30:00.they are not running the new front wing this morning. Sam Michael
:30:00. > :30:07.mentioned this when I spoke to hint a little bit earlier that they
:30:07. > :30:17.might run the front wing but they would not race it. It seems they
:30:17. > :30:17.
:30:17. > :30:24.are a little bit without a rudder at that team. You kind of think,
:30:24. > :30:33.would last year's car had been quicker? I am up at a Red Bull as
:30:33. > :30:43.Mark Webber comes in. When Sebastian Vettel came in earlier, a
:30:43. > :30:46.
:30:46. > :30:53.wonder if they had met at the left of that car. -- I wonder if they
:30:53. > :30:59.had it at the left of that car. McLaren is still struggling. Sam
:30:59. > :31:05.Michael said yesterday, they are working on every area of the car.
:31:05. > :31:10.We do not expect this kind of performance from McLaren. Last year,
:31:10. > :31:16.let's not forget that Lewis Hamilton was on pole in qualifying.
:31:16. > :31:23.He was light on fuel but he was on pole by about half a second. Last
:31:23. > :31:29.year the car was tremendous. They cannot wheel that car at from last
:31:29. > :31:37.season. It is too late to do that. Should they not have continued to
:31:37. > :31:44.develop the car? You try to improve on a car. I went to the press
:31:44. > :31:52.release and I thought it was a better step. They thought it was.
:31:52. > :31:57.Whenever the car hit the ground, it was a shock to them. Up it is a
:31:57. > :32:03.situation where I have an opinion and I am not too frightened to
:32:03. > :32:11.voice it. I do not think the changes have fixed the problems.
:32:11. > :32:16.Some of them have created problems. They have new rear wings on the car
:32:16. > :32:26.and the small modification on the front wing. Martin is busy covering
:32:26. > :32:27.
:32:27. > :32:33.his mouth. It seems to be taking a couple of laps for the tyres to
:32:33. > :32:41.cumin. -- come in. Do not push too hard in the first lap. Fernando
:32:41. > :32:46.Alonso has gone fastest. He is still on a pretty good lap. It was
:32:46. > :32:54.a good first sector. Faster than the two Lotus's. He lost a bit on
:32:54. > :33:00.the middle and by now sectors. He stays ahead of Romain Grosjean,
:33:00. > :33:10.Kimi Raikkonen and Filipe Massa earth. We were talking about Force
:33:10. > :33:10.
:33:10. > :33:18.India being so close to getting a podium last time out will -- last
:33:18. > :33:25.time out. There is a monkey seat, which is a new. It is a triple
:33:25. > :33:30.element monkey seat. That is helping this team. Fernando Alonso
:33:30. > :33:34.in the Ferrari team said these are one of the people who could be a
:33:34. > :33:41.threat to them this weekend. But then to say they are looking out
:33:41. > :33:49.for Force India is quite amazing. - - for them. They are punching above
:33:49. > :33:55.their weight at the moment. What is a monkey seat? Everything gets a
:33:55. > :34:00.name. The area between the upper wing and the bottom wing. In the
:34:00. > :34:07.McLaren, they also have a monkey seat. It is an area by you can put
:34:08. > :34:13.stuff and it creates downforce. The airflow at the top wing reacts with
:34:13. > :34:19.the shape of the monkeys seat wing which reacts with the diffuser. It
:34:19. > :34:23.connects the car up together. That is one of the areas, the middle
:34:23. > :34:27.part of the wing. It is difficult to keep the air flow in the middle
:34:27. > :34:31.part of the car working consistently. It helps a little bit
:34:31. > :34:39.by making the air flow work together. A bit of testing stuff
:34:39. > :34:46.going on. They are still dealing data analysis at this stage. We are
:34:46. > :34:53.on board with Jenson Button. -- doing data analysis. The rear wing
:34:53. > :35:00.is no longer allowed. The only reason that could be there is you
:35:00. > :35:10.are allowed to mount the wing on two central pillars. On the
:35:10. > :35:13.
:35:14. > :35:18.outboard part of the wing, and nobody uses that potential. It was
:35:18. > :35:24.not data gathering, it was a problem with front suspension. He
:35:24. > :35:28.has a lot of the lap to do before he comes back. A few more of tweets
:35:28. > :35:33.coming in. Thank you for your company for the third practice
:35:33. > :35:41.session before the serious business of qualifying gets under way.
:35:41. > :35:49.Surely it is time to bring the old car back for McLaren? Hoping that
:35:49. > :35:53.Paul di Resta has a good race like last time at in Spain. How to the
:35:53. > :35:59.side pods improve performance? They are there to store the radiators
:35:59. > :36:07.are primarily. How do you use the shape to improve performance?
:36:07. > :36:12.all about airflow. It goes through there and through the air radiator.
:36:12. > :36:18.-- the radiator. It is about getting airflow down into the back
:36:18. > :36:25.of the car, in between the rear wheels. The more airflow you can
:36:25. > :36:31.get attached to that surface, it means the rear wing works better.
:36:31. > :36:37.The diffuser works better and more consistently. The front wing is one
:36:37. > :36:42.of these things. It does the job. The rest of the car is about
:36:42. > :36:46.managing the airflow to try to get to the back of the car. That is
:36:46. > :36:55.certainly the aim. We will have to see which teams get that sorted out
:36:55. > :36:59.best of all. Sergio Perez is coming into the pit lane. We are having a
:36:59. > :37:09.good look at the car to see if there is anything we can
:37:09. > :37:09.
:37:09. > :37:15.identifiable stuck not much frantic activity going on. -- we can
:37:15. > :37:21.identify. Let's see if there is anything untoward. Can you see
:37:21. > :37:29.anything? I can see nothing broken. Nothing broken at the moment will
:37:29. > :37:36.stump it might be inside of the chassis. -- at the moment.
:37:37. > :37:42.Yesterday there was some debris which got inside the front wheel.
:37:42. > :37:52.They got some debris in there. I cut a big group in the wheel. The
:37:52. > :37:58.driver can also feel that. He sees the outcome. It could be anything.
:37:58. > :38:04.I would imagine it is inside the chassis. They will be having a good
:38:04. > :38:14.look at set full dug how far off the Grand is the average Formula
:38:14. > :38:15.
:38:15. > :38:23.One car? -- good look at it. front right height is between 20
:38:23. > :38:33.and 25 mm. The rear right height, probably as low as 60. With the Red
:38:33. > :38:38.Bulls, it is higher. A lot of teams cannot get that better but Red Bull
:38:38. > :38:44.can. The car would probably be five millimetres here but it will not
:38:44. > :38:54.touch the ground at the front. The Rea is bouncing more and it will
:38:54. > :39:04.touch the ground. Not very high. You get a stone underneath it and
:39:04. > :39:04.
:39:04. > :39:12.you definitely feel it on your bottom. Interestingly, Sergio Perez
:39:12. > :39:19.is not out of the car. They might feel it is not a major problem.
:39:19. > :39:29.They have something telling them deposition of the front shock
:39:29. > :39:31.
:39:31. > :39:37.absorbers. They have lowered it sells on the pushrods of the car.
:39:37. > :39:47.They would know if there was a structural failure. Just talk us
:39:47. > :39:53.through the hierarchy of the guys who would be available at this
:39:53. > :40:01.point. You could not see anything there. Something flew off - a bit
:40:01. > :40:07.of carbon fibre. This is the on- board. He rumbles it over the kerb.
:40:07. > :40:17.That was a big chunk of something. It looked like it was under the
:40:17. > :40:19.
:40:19. > :40:29.front wing. Maybe it was a turning will under the side pot. I do not
:40:29. > :40:29.
:40:29. > :40:35.think you could hit it on the ground. He would not really feel
:40:35. > :40:43.that. He would see it but not feel it. Hopefully they can get that
:40:43. > :40:51.back out without too many dramas. This is only a 1 and practice
:40:51. > :40:55.session. It seems to run away with you. -- ate one hour. Everybody is
:40:55. > :41:01.still using the hard compound tyre. We are waiting to see who will be
:41:02. > :41:05.first at. Medium tyres will likely to be the ones used in qualifying
:41:05. > :41:15.on the fastest laps. What the top teams will be looking for is
:41:15. > :41:18.
:41:18. > :41:27.perhaps trying to get through Q1. Red Bull usually use it as gently
:41:27. > :41:34.as possible to start with. I think it is good enough to do two
:41:34. > :41:41.competitive laps. The harder tyre is a better, more stable race tier.
:41:41. > :41:51.People will be trying to keep those. I would not be surprised to see Red
:41:51. > :41:57.
:41:57. > :42:06.Bull using a softer tyre. Fernando Alonso has done a Netani Talei
:42:07. > :42:13.23.20. -- 8 1:23.20. In this area, you can see the black rubber, which
:42:13. > :42:23.is not on the grid. To measure of the attraction availability is a
:42:23. > :42:25.
:42:25. > :42:30.buried -- a very deceptive thing. The cars are run down that side all
:42:30. > :42:37.the way through practice. They are busy cleaning up the left-hand side
:42:37. > :42:43.of the straight. You want to be an odd number ideally when you qualify
:42:43. > :42:51.will stop you do not think about that or planet. You just go as fast
:42:51. > :43:01.as possible. -- plant it. Of the ENG teams at the moment, Charles
:43:01. > :43:07.
:43:07. > :43:11.Pic is currently the quickest. -- young teams. Nico Hulkenberg says
:43:11. > :43:19.that the rear tyres have gone. It is early for him to be struggling
:43:19. > :43:24.after 10 laps. It is. You're going to have to go further in the race.
:43:24. > :43:32.If the attraction is not good, he was talking about the weird being
:43:32. > :43:42.nervous and the understeer. -- at the rear. An unbalanced card does
:43:42. > :43:48.
:43:48. > :43:58.not look after the tyres. -- car. Jules Bianchi has impressed many
:43:58. > :43:58.
:43:58. > :44:05.people. It is his first season. The Fernando Alonso is still fastest.
:44:05. > :44:15.Let's get back down to the pits. just want to comment on how calm
:44:15. > :44:16.
:44:16. > :44:21.everybody is in Mercedes will -- Mercedes. They have been doing some
:44:21. > :44:29.long running this morning. They have a very good cart over one lap.
:44:29. > :44:35.We know that. I was talking to an engineer yesterday and he was
:44:35. > :44:41.waxing lyrical about Lewis Hamilton, saying what a motivational force he
:44:41. > :44:45.is. Not as technical as Michael Schumacher but, as a motivational
:44:45. > :44:53.force for all the mechanics and everybody, they said they have
:44:53. > :45:03.never experienced anything like it. That is very interesting. Every
:45:03. > :45:08.time he gets into make-up, he drives it flat out. It is good to
:45:08. > :45:16.hear. You have to say, they are looking pretty good in qualifying
:45:16. > :45:24.pace. It is about race pace. Nico Rosberg will go out with these
:45:24. > :45:29.softer tyre. He will go for a lap time. Going back to drivers and
:45:29. > :45:35.engineers and Michael Schumacher being very involved in engineering,
:45:35. > :45:41.sometimes a driver can become too involved in engineering. If you
:45:41. > :45:47.click a couple of buttons on a car, Lewis Hamilton will bring at home.
:45:48. > :45:57.As an engineer, that is what you want. You want a good driver and a
:45:58. > :46:07.
:46:07. > :46:12.the medium tyre. We will begin to get more of a picture now on
:46:12. > :46:16.qualifying pace. They will not run as light as qualifying later, they
:46:16. > :46:22.run a bit more fuel when they do these runs in the morning.
:46:22. > :46:29.kilograms of fuel is just over .3 seconds, so most teams will run 20
:46:29. > :46:32.kilos of fuel. You do not have to go down to low fuel, you just want to
:46:32. > :46:40.see the balance is good for fairly low fuel, and do a couple of laps to
:46:40. > :46:46.make sure the tyres last. While Fernando Alonso is building up, that
:46:46. > :46:55.get back to the pits. I am at Williams, watching Pastor Maldonado
:46:55. > :46:58.come in. He will do a quick break test. The team are happier this
:46:58. > :47:03.morning, Pastor Maldonado has said he feels the balance of the car is
:47:03. > :47:09.better. Valtteri Bottas is still not happy with the grip, so they have
:47:09. > :47:15.been doing tweaks and changes, but both drivers are having a better
:47:15. > :47:20.day. Pastor Maldonado is 10th at the moment. Much better from Williams.
:47:20. > :47:26.We will not know the full story Intel qualifying. Valtteri Bottas is
:47:26. > :47:34.12. Their aim has got to be to get into the second session of
:47:34. > :47:42.qualifying. They have not run the softer tyre yet either. Jenson
:47:42. > :47:49.Button in ninth place, on the same tyre as Fernando Alonso was on. That
:47:49. > :47:55.is what we would expect. The Williams drivers have closed up.
:47:55. > :48:02.Their developments are working, it looks like. McLaren's have not taken
:48:02. > :48:12.them anywhere. Sauber will pay the price, a cosmic Hulk and Berg is in
:48:12. > :48:12.
:48:12. > :48:19.14th and Esteban Gutierrez in 15th. This will be the new benchmark. That
:48:19. > :48:27.was quite a gain over the hard tyre run. A decent game between the two
:48:27. > :48:33.compounds. Nico Rosberg did not set a benchmark time, so we cannot gauge
:48:33. > :48:43.his performance. How does it compare with the Ferrari? Not quite as
:48:43. > :48:43.
:48:43. > :48:50.fast. Lewis Hamilton is on a lap as well. He is on the medium compound.
:48:50. > :48:55.Nicole Mossberg not as quick as the Ferrari on this occasion. Perhaps
:48:55. > :48:58.Mercedes are focused on race pace rather than qualifying pace. They
:48:58. > :49:06.need to look after qualifying, you have to be at the front to win the
:49:06. > :49:14.race. We saw Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton write down the bottom, so
:49:14. > :49:17.they were running with race fuel, but Fernando Alonso was not. His
:49:17. > :49:27.pluck up -- pick-up of performance was a lot less relatively because he
:49:27. > :49:32.did not have the change of fuel load as well. It is difficult if you are
:49:32. > :49:37.taking out fuel at the same time. Fernando Alonso is quickest, could
:49:37. > :49:44.this be the weekend for Ferrari? Tom is with the Ferrari development
:49:44. > :49:53.driver. Could this be the weekend for Ferrari? We hope so, we have
:49:53. > :50:01.been working flat out since Bahrain. A Formula 1 race is never easy, we
:50:01. > :50:06.faced of competitors. But this is a special grand prix, and if we have
:50:06. > :50:12.to win a race, let's hope it is this one. But there are so many things
:50:12. > :50:20.that can happen. Red Bull, Lotus, Mercedes, they are so strong here,
:50:20. > :50:24.we do not know. But we have done a good testing on Friday, a good
:50:24. > :50:30.comparison between the compounds, we have a good understanding, and after
:50:30. > :50:36.that, it is about the drivers. good is Fernando Alonso? Can he put
:50:36. > :50:40.it on pole position? I have no idea. We are looking strong for the race,
:50:40. > :50:45.but I am not concerned about qualifying. The amount of
:50:45. > :50:55.degradation we have, it is more important to think about the race,
:50:55. > :50:58.saving enough tyres for the race. Then, we will see. But this is one
:50:58. > :51:06.of the strongest circuits for Fernando Alonso, it is one of his
:51:06. > :51:10.favourites. He will fight hard. The important thing is that the points
:51:10. > :51:15.are given on a Sunday and not on the Saturday. Does Fernando get extra
:51:15. > :51:24.energy from the crowd? Of course, we all do when you race in your home
:51:24. > :51:33.grand prix. The crowd makes you feel very special, it is a unique
:51:33. > :51:38.sensation. But it does not give you any added time. In fact, it is an
:51:38. > :51:42.added pressure for all of us to be in Spain. But we will do our best,
:51:42. > :51:49.we will try to help Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, and the team has
:51:49. > :51:52.done a very good development in the past two or three weeks. 20 of the
:51:52. > :51:57.22 races here have been won from the front row, do you see that happening
:51:57. > :52:05.again tomorrow? You have a higher chance from pole position, this is
:52:05. > :52:13.maths, but it is not as important as it yesterday. It is not about being
:52:13. > :52:18.at the front, you have to save enough sets of tyres for the race.
:52:18. > :52:24.We are looking at a race with plenty of stops. You have to think about
:52:24. > :52:31.how many sets of tyres you need. not go crazy, thank you for talking
:52:31. > :52:37.to us! Very intelligent and says from Pedro Deller racer, a veteran
:52:37. > :52:42.of 100 races, but many years of test driving. I bet he has done 80
:52:42. > :52:48.kilometres around the circuit in his time! More than anybody else,
:52:48. > :52:55.probably. The official website said Jenson Button has done over 21,000
:52:55. > :53:02.miles of testing here in his career. It is a lot of mileage, but that can
:53:02. > :53:07.be a bad thing, because you do not experiment with the track. Every car
:53:07. > :53:14.attacks it differently, every time you come to a track, you have to go
:53:14. > :53:17.with a fresh approach, see how the car works over the bumps. Every car
:53:17. > :53:23.has its own characteristics, and sometimes you have to exploit it a
:53:23. > :53:27.bit more. Esteban Gutierrez has improved on the medium tyre. If you
:53:27. > :53:37.compare that with the 22.2 that Fernando Alonso has done, where will
:53:37. > :53:37.
:53:37. > :53:44.Sauber end up? Is it too big a gap? It is a tough one. Last year in the
:53:44. > :53:54.first qualifying session, Lewis Hamilton was the quickest, and 16th
:53:54. > :53:59.place was Sergio Perez, 1.7 seconds away. It is going to be close. It
:53:59. > :54:03.will be in that margin. Let's keep an eye on Kimi Raikkonen on the
:54:03. > :54:09.medium compound. Let's talk quickly add a team that is showing that a
:54:09. > :54:15.good pace at the moment, Jean-Eric Vergne is 11th fastest, Daniel
:54:15. > :54:20.Ricciardo is 15th fastest. What can you see at Toro Rosso? They said
:54:20. > :54:25.they had their best Friday ever, especially for Daniel Ricciardo.
:54:25. > :54:30.They have a relatively large upgrade, a new floor, side pods,
:54:30. > :54:35.rear wing and exhaust, so this fits into their new exhaust system. Both
:54:35. > :54:40.guys say they are much happier. The car needed a push, that is what they
:54:40. > :54:46.have got. They had a brilliant seventh place for Daniel Ricciardo
:54:46. > :54:53.in China. They finished seventh. A real boost to the team. We will have
:54:53. > :54:57.to see what they can do. The second checkpoint, Kimi Raikkonen is up on
:54:57. > :55:04.the time of Fernando Alonso, the fastest of anybody in the middle
:55:04. > :55:11.sector. What are you looking for from the car on each sector? The
:55:11. > :55:17.final sector is about traction. first two are about aerodynamics.
:55:17. > :55:21.The third section is about mechanics. That is a good time, he
:55:21. > :55:28.will be happy about that. He only does what he needs to do when he
:55:28. > :55:34.needs to do it. In qualifying, he knows he has to be at the front. But
:55:34. > :55:40.in practice, he does what he needs to do. RADIO: There has been
:55:40. > :55:48.something in the power stealing that is causing inconsistent steering.
:55:48. > :55:53.That is interesting. You cannot read that very easily. It is a hydraulic
:55:53. > :56:01.steering system, it gives you 60% of the steering glowed in the
:56:01. > :56:04.hydraulics, so you are driving 40% of it. There is a valve that works
:56:04. > :56:13.the steering, and as you turn the wheel, it will offset fluid at
:56:13. > :56:17.pressure. If the valve has got a small amount of dirt in it, it can
:56:17. > :56:23.offset it and the fluid can leak slightly to one side. It will tend
:56:23. > :56:28.to feel as though the car is pulling. It is not the safest thing
:56:28. > :56:36.in the world. If the power steering fails and the car turns one way, you
:56:36. > :56:42.will never captured. RADIO: Stick some fuel, we can have a look at the
:56:42. > :56:47.first few laps of tyre management. That is exactly what I would do.
:56:47. > :56:57.This is what you are going to start to race with. He needs to see what
:56:57. > :56:57.
:56:57. > :57:01.his first few laps are like. This message is about getting three or
:57:01. > :57:08.four laps in, but they are important. The boss of Ferrari is
:57:08. > :57:10.here, waiting to be found. Will this be a great weekend for them?
:57:10. > :57:15.Fernando Alonso needs it after a couple of finishers which have not
:57:15. > :57:20.gone his way. Bahrain was affected by the wink failure, but he still
:57:20. > :57:24.got some points. No points in Malaysia, when he looked as though
:57:24. > :57:28.he had a front-running car, but he ran into the back of Sebastian
:57:28. > :57:35.Vettel and was not called into the pits. The car could not be
:57:35. > :57:40.recovered. Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest, then Fernando Alonso, Lewis
:57:40. > :57:44.Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. We saw Esteban Gutierrez go slightly
:57:44. > :57:49.quicker on his second lap, which encourages the thought that some of
:57:49. > :57:52.these teams will try to do two runs on the medium compound tyre will
:57:52. > :58:01.stop Esteban Gutierrez could get a second quick lap out of them. That
:58:01. > :58:08.has not always been the case here. He either. The tyre to last or he
:58:08. > :58:13.made a mistake on the first lap. You would want to keep the harder tyre
:58:13. > :58:19.for the race if you can. If you go out in the first qualifying session
:58:19. > :58:23.with a medium set and do a controlled lap, you can use them
:58:23. > :58:29.again for the second session. If you had to put on the second set, so be
:58:29. > :58:38.it. You can go out again in the third session. If you have to put on
:58:38. > :58:44.the third set, you will have to use that for the race, but the will have
:58:44. > :58:49.three sets of harder tyres. Mark Webber has moved up, it is looking
:58:49. > :58:59.close at the top, which is what we love to say. We are riding with Paul
:58:59. > :59:07.di Resta. He is out of the final corner. DRS in operation. Another
:59:07. > :59:11.encouraging performance by Paul di Resta. Williams in 11th, that should
:59:11. > :59:18.be a boost for them. We are waiting for everybody to set a lap on these
:59:18. > :59:22.tyres. Felipe Massa attacking the track this weekend, as ever. Good
:59:22. > :59:26.performances from him so far this year, he beat Fernando Alonso in
:59:26. > :59:32.qualifying at the start of this season, he was on the front row in
:59:32. > :59:38.Malaysian. We know that his qualifying pace is as good as he can
:59:38. > :59:44.do. Let's see if he can keep this tidy through the chicane. That was
:59:44. > :59:53.pretty neat. He runs it through the final turn. This should put him up
:59:53. > :00:00.in the ballpark somewhere. Yes, he is quickest. Kimi Raikkonen pushed
:00:00. > :00:07.down to second, Adrian Sutil goes sixth. What about McLaren? Is there
:00:07. > :00:12.an improvement? Not really. The aim is to get the cars in the top ten in
:00:12. > :00:22.qualifying. Ferrari fans are happy enough with Felipe Massa going
:00:22. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:43.lap time Sergio Perez will do. We are waiting for him to get on to a
:00:43. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:49.flying lap. Jean-Eric Vergne has not done a time on the soft tyre.
:00:49. > :00:59.Interesting. Sebastian Vettel has just gone out. He will be the
:00:59. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:09.interesting candidate, to see how good the Red Bull is. Valtteri
:01:09. > :01:19.Bottas has just completed his lap. Their performance was not quite as
:01:19. > :01:24.good on the soft tyre. We do have to wait and see in qualifying.
:01:24. > :01:31.Daniel Ricciardo is getting a bit of traffic with Hamilton. That will
:01:31. > :01:36.not help. That is difficult for him. He may not get a fully
:01:36. > :01:46.representative lap time. Sergio Perez getting past Lewis Hamilton
:01:46. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:57.as well. Sebastian Vettel behind that group, as he heads to 1010. --
:01:57. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:10.turn macro 10. This will put him slow were than Mark Webber. --
:02:10. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:21.slower. He goes force behind Mark Webber and ahead of Fernando Alonso.
:02:22. > :02:27.The track is still cleaning up. Let's just see the replay. He gets
:02:27. > :02:37.blocked. At the end of the day, Lewis Hamilton is trying to do what
:02:37. > :02:39.
:02:39. > :02:46.he is doing. They've will look at the date set in the car and see
:02:46. > :02:55.what the lap time will have been without the blockage. -- they will
:02:55. > :03:01.look at the data set in the car. Romain Grosjean and Lotus. He has
:03:01. > :03:06.been looking pretty good this weekend. We did not get a chance to
:03:06. > :03:13.see his pace yesterday because he had to abandon the lap. It is
:03:13. > :03:19.looking impressive from the Frenchman. The track suits his
:03:19. > :03:26.style. He tends to drive off the back end of the car, more than Kimi
:03:26. > :03:33.Raikkonen. It is close. He lasted all in the last section. In the
:03:33. > :03:43.last chicane, you can lose a hell of a lot. Is this a practice start
:03:43. > :03:50.or a problem for Ben Ando Alonso? - - Fernando Alonso? It is just a
:03:50. > :03:54.practice start. No problem for him. 1.5 minutes of this session
:03:54. > :04:04.remaining. Filipe Massa is currently quickest from Kimi
:04:04. > :04:06.
:04:06. > :04:11.Raikkonen. Sergio Perez is on a set of tyres. It is not a bad first
:04:11. > :04:16.sector. We will keep an eye on the second sector and see if there is
:04:16. > :04:22.an improvement. He qualified well last chip in the Sauber. He was
:04:22. > :04:28.helped by the fact that Lewis Hamilton got demoted from pole
:04:28. > :04:34.position. There was one of his best qualifying positions. Look how much
:04:34. > :04:39.he has lost in the middle sector. That is a lot. That is where the
:04:39. > :04:45.ergo dynamic performance of the car stands out. It is about mechanical
:04:45. > :04:55.and not making a mistake. You are sort of a passenger to the car. You
:04:55. > :04:56.
:04:56. > :05:06.cannot influence it to match. He looked neat and tidy but lost a lot
:05:06. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:11.in the middle. Too much. Jenson Button is 12th and Sergio Perez his
:05:11. > :05:21.14th. No indication they have made a great stride. It will be close in
:05:21. > :05:27.
:05:27. > :05:37.the grid. You have Sergio Perez, Pastor Maldonado he had done a
:05:37. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:45.1:dot 30 trade. -- 1:33. I do not know if Jenny has more information
:05:45. > :05:48.on that. Slightly surprising to see that. The chequered flag is out on
:05:48. > :05:52.this session. All the cars are finishing off their laps and
:05:52. > :06:02.heading back in towards pit lane. Looking at the times, we had quite
:06:02. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:15.Grosjean been a Lotus. You have the other Red Bull. Fernando Alonso did
:06:15. > :06:20.do his time earlier on. That would have been worth a few tenths of a
:06:20. > :06:24.second. Paul di Resta air and Adrian Sutil showing they are
:06:24. > :06:34.capable of getting a top 10. The qualifying pace may not be as
:06:34. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:39.strong. Back in 9th, 11th position, they did run the medium tyre fairly
:06:40. > :06:44.early. Three-tenths of a second for 10 kilograms of fuel, it means so
:06:44. > :06:49.many positions - seven or eight positions on the grid. We have to
:06:49. > :06:55.go to qualify before we know the true performance. Coming into the
:06:55. > :07:05.pits is Sergio Perez after the minute Macro 23.3 balls but that is
:07:05. > :07:12.not what they are looking for. -- 1:23.3. The battle will be to get
:07:12. > :07:15.out of the qualifying. Williams and Sauber are both in danger territory.
:07:15. > :07:25.I think Toro Rosso might be in better shape but we will have to
:07:25. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :08:34.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds
:08:34. > :08:38.wait and see. A bit of a debrief. the GP2 race last year. Esteban
:08:38. > :08:47.Gutierrez is the gangster. I do think he has the ability to show
:08:47. > :08:52.what he can do. -- the youngster. He has a very good team-mate, Nico
:08:52. > :08:59.Hulkenberg, to learn from. He is very quick and very consistent.
:08:59. > :09:03.When you do not have a very good car, it is difficult to find your
:09:03. > :09:11.level. Esteban Gutierrez needs to keep his head down and exploit it a
:09:11. > :09:19.bit more. His best grid position has been 14th so far this year.
:09:19. > :09:23.Over at Mercedes, will we see a hat-trick of Mercedes propositions?
:09:23. > :09:31.The evidence is not that at the moment unless they are running a
:09:31. > :09:35.very different race. Having seen Hamilton and Nico Rosberg taking
:09:35. > :09:42.pole in the last few events, it would be an achievement to get that
:09:42. > :09:49.hat trick. Filipe Massa is faster us at the moment. We have to go all
:09:49. > :09:53.the way back to 2008 for the last time he had a pole. You would have
:09:53. > :09:59.to say that crowd power could well be worth something to Fernando
:09:59. > :10:09.Alonso. It is going to be exciting. Thanks for your input. Let's get
:10:09. > :10:10.
:10:10. > :10:15.Third and 5th after final practice. Your thoughts? An interesting
:10:15. > :10:21.session. The wind is critical. It is getting all sectors together. We
:10:21. > :10:27.need to find some pace in the first sector. Still a bit of work to do
:10:27. > :10:32.between now and qualifying. important is pole position? It is
:10:32. > :10:38.important. You always want to start in clean air. As long as you are in
:10:38. > :10:42.the first two, maximum three rows, that is OK. It is about having the
:10:42. > :10:49.right tyre strategy for the race. How many pit-stops do you think we
:10:49. > :10:55.will see? I have no idea. Less than six and more than one. Mark Webber
:10:55. > :11:01.has done very well this weekend. He has had a difficult last couple of
:11:01. > :11:05.races. Your thoughts? He is the king of the last sector. He has the
:11:05. > :11:10.last sector absolutely beautifully timed and always has. We are
:11:10. > :11:14.expecting him to perform very strongly here. Hopefully we can get
:11:14. > :11:19.both cars right up there. A what about the threat from Ferrari?
:11:19. > :11:29.look strong. Ben Ando in Monza in front of his home crowd is giving
:11:29. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:41.it everything. -- Fernando Alonso. We would do our best to try to stay
:11:41. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:56.All the big cheeses will be here. Thank you. Christian Horner taking
:11:56. > :12:00.things one session at a time. the ultimate politician. He was
:12:00. > :12:06.waving at nobody waving back which I thought was funny. He has the
:12:06. > :12:16.great passion and a great history with the Ferrari team. People stand
:12:16. > :12:19.
:12:19. > :12:23.This is an important race. It is the first of the European with a
:12:23. > :12:27.lot of upgrades here this weekend. We have not seen what we thought we
:12:27. > :12:31.would with McLaren in terms of moving forward. Everyone is moving
:12:31. > :12:38.forward because they are all bringing upgrades. That is what
:12:38. > :12:44.Sergio Perez said in an interview. There are up braids all the time.
:12:44. > :12:47.McLaren are having to make bigger steps. -- upgrades. It has to be
:12:47. > :12:52.the talking point. They do seem to be struggling to understand where
:12:53. > :12:57.they are with this car. It is still relatively early in the season in
:12:57. > :13:07.terms of winning races. It is well into the season in terms of them
:13:07. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:14.having any chance of winning the The Championship is quite tight at
:13:14. > :13:19.the moment. It is difficult to include anything from that session
:13:19. > :13:24.with different levels of fuel, etc. It does seem to bode very well for
:13:24. > :13:28.qualifying this afternoon. You are right in saying it is difficult to
:13:28. > :13:32.include anything from that session. Even if everyone ran their
:13:32. > :13:37.qualifying levels of fuel, we would probably get a slightly different
:13:37. > :13:43.result. This track is affected by the wind. Track temperature has a
:13:43. > :13:47.huge bearing on the overall balance. There are small differences and
:13:47. > :13:54.there is nothing the same in Formula One. We will have a great
:13:54. > :14:00.shoot-out between Ferrari and Lotus. Filipe Massa was the fastest. Is
:14:00. > :14:05.that half a metre of track? I will take your word for that. It does
:14:05. > :14:09.not matter how much quicker you are. If you are ahead, even if you do
:14:09. > :14:16.the same time but it is one that ahead of your competitor, that will
:14:17. > :14:19.give you pull. We are back at 12:10pm on BBC One and BBC One HD
:14:20. > :14:25.for qualifying. What are you expecting to see in a qualifying
:14:25. > :14:29.session? Lots of cars and drivers pushing to the absolute limit and
:14:29. > :14:35.giving us their best shot at it. A highly motivated Fernando Alonso.
:14:35. > :14:45.It is a home race for him. Is it a help or hindrance? Does it give the
:14:45. > :14:50.pressure or a beast? Definitely a boost. I was never that passed so