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