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Hello. A very warm and slightly blustery Welcome to Barcelona for

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the third practice session before we get under way for the life

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qualifying. Taking us through the next few minutes is David Coulthard.

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Are you enjoying Spain? Yes, love it. Yesterday, the first session

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was very difficult. It was raining and it never dried up. It is hard

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to get any relevant data. They do a lot of testing pre-season.

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Barcelona is the main proving ground for Formula One. Any race

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session is about that date in history. This circuit is affected.

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Looking through the weekend, it will be about tyres. All have free

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practice sessions are about trying to understand how they will get the

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best out of them. Yesterday in free practice, they were trying out

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their upgrades and trying them out on longer runs. This happened for

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Paul di Resta. Check out the rear late. This is the Pirelli Engineer

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trying to cover it. Going back to the previous grand prix, this

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happened with Lewis Hamilton on the Mercedes. In Bahrain, this is us on

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board with Filipe Massa. Pirelli have a real concern. These issues

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have been caused by actual damage. Cuts and debris. The curbs have

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always been there. It is a standard one. It is looking like there is an

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inherent weakness in the design Pirelli were not talking about the

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issue yesterday until they had examined it. Is there any news or

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anything you can therefore asked during this session? Her my first

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job is to go and find the boss of I will do that very shortly. There

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is a real buzz in the pit lane. Last night there was more freight

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coming into Barcelona than usual. We will look out for all the

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upgrades. A few of the teams have new wings on their cars. Thank you.

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A pop up to the commentary box. What are you expecting in this

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session? I guess we're going to see plenty of running in the first part.

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Will they be out there for the whole session? We might get the odd

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moment of paws and build up towards the end of the session. Most of

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them were like to do a rang to check the car balance. Then they

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will put on the softer tyres. -- will like to do a runner. They need

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to be confident they have a reasonable set-up. It is the build-

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up to qualifying really. Qualifying is so vital. We talk about Monaco

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but to get on the front row it is really important. Overtaking here

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is more difficult than some of the other circuits. Qualifying is

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down to the end of the pit lane. The green light comes on. We have

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Force India and Toro Rosso taking to the track. Paul di Resta has

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moved over to the side to do a practice start. That is the only

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area they are allowed to do that. It is an important date for Sauber

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as well. We will be talking about McLaren and Williams. Sergio Perez

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qualified 5th last year. They have been struggling with this stability

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problems. That is another team we need to keep an eye on. You would

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expect more from McLaren, Williams and Sauber. It is about the

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stability on the rear end of the car on entry. If you do not have

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rear end stability, you take it out a bit easier and turn it earlier.

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You have a mid corner understeer and create traction problems. It is

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very difficult to change your plan. Actually it is a rear end problem

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on the way in. There is the staff for the fans in Spain - Fernando

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Alonso. -- star. He comes from the northern part of Spain and has a

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huge amount of support. It is quite a long time since he won in

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Barcelona, it was back in 2006. He led here last year and led be the

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before. We always know the Ferrari is quick off the line. Their

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intention is to be that fraction more competitive in qualifying. We

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have already seen a Ferrari on the front row. That has to be their aim.

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Some drivers are saying that being in pole position is not that

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important because you cannot drive the race as hard as you want. It

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makes your life so much easier. You are not going to get involved in

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the mid- grid half race. It is about letting them know you are

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here. You get people behind you with that little bit of motivation.

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You do not get the card damage so easily. You need to be at the front

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to win races. Sometimes people can come from behind because they got

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it wrong but it does not happen very often. He was talking about

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the joy of driving in a home race. He said at the start of his career

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it was a pressure to perform in front of your home fans but now he

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revels in it. He has won a couple of times in Spain. That is

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something that Nigel Mansell used to talk about all the time - the

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extra energy and speed being in a home race gives you. Kimi Raikkonen

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for Lotus, one Aberu Kebede to watch this weekend. They have been

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competitive all year. -- one to watch. They have been very fast in

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race trim. They did get onto the front row in China. Sebastian

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Vettel was twice a pole winner. can see the car running. There is a

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lot of luminous dust painted on the wing. What you are trying to do

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with that is put it onto the front wing and see where it is going.

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That Clwyd will land on parts of the car. -- that fluid. That is the

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most important thing. You need to get air flow off the front wing. It

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is understandable. You may have to tweak some stuff. Looking at the

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Red Bull, as it comes into the pits, USA Inc yesterday at the front wing

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is very sophisticated. -- you were saying. It is a hugely expensive

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piece of kit. The area in front of the front tyre is very important.

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You can see the yellow luminous paint. All these bits add up to

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give inconsistent front downforce but it does not her the rest of the

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car. -- giving consistent downforce. If you look where it says red,

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there are four struts coming down. Normally they'd tried to put them

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underneath. -- they try. They are trying to create a vortex to push

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the air through. You can see the wing - it is multi- element.

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Underneath it, you put stiffen us. When part of its stores, it does

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not affect the rest of the wing. When the carp is neared the ground,

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the airflow stalls. -- the car. It is a sophisticated part which makes

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the rest of the car work. Paul di Resta suffered yesterday. You have

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had a night to examine the tyres on the cup of Paul di Resta. Similar

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to the other tyres we have seen this season. When you pick up

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debris, it does not penetrate and the weak point becomes the trade.

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You get a cat, the tread is overheated and it comes away. --

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the cut. You could say it is safer but it looks more dramatic. I am

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sure people watching would think it is coming away by chance. Just to

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clarify, it was debris that caused it. Yes. We have used 10,000 tyres

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and we have had four cuts of that type. You get a cat and it heats up

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and comes away. -- a cut. Last season it would have deflated on

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the rim. Is that worse or better? It begs the question, should the

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tier be more resilient? When they put in a non- penetrable layer of

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steel in there, you are going to get cuts on the tyre. It is a

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difficult one. Whale-watching one of the Red Bulls. -- we are

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watching. It is difficult to get the right thing. They use 616 slick

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tyres in a weekend. This paint has washed off the front wing and gone

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to areas of the car where it influences. Did you like that

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pattern? Yes, that was OK. If it hits there and washes away like

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water going down a glass, it is not working. There is no airflow on it.

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It looked pretty good. What are you looking at? You can see this side

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pods. The yellow hit that part of the car. You get a big bubble. It

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was not getting influenced by air flow. The airflow was good on that

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impact and attaches to the surface and goes backwards. It is about

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keeping consistent airflow on the surface. That looks pretty good.

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Formula One is a competitive world. They might be leading the

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Championship but you can never stand still. Only a few times have

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been set so far. Charles Pic is fastest in the Caterham. Lewis

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Hamilton and Keke Rosberg have set times. Nothing very exciting. If

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you want to get in touch you can use - tag. There may be a surprise

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from Hamilton or Kimi Raikkonen. Is Romain Grosjean looking good?

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best yesterday was Kimi Raikkonen. Fernando Alonso was good on both

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types of tyres and Nico Rosberg. They have more than the rest of

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them. Yesterday did not seem as consistent. Kimi Raikkonen tended

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to drop away. I would suspect Romain Grosjean we pick up the pace

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to that level but he did not show throttle. Why did you like to watch

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their? The first corner is a right-hander, then you have to keep

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the car in the middle of the road. The road drops away dramatically.

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You have to keep the car in the middle of the road. It is easy to

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see the car if they have got understeer. If they have, they run

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wide. The last part of the corner is more or less flat-out, but you are

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on the outside line of the track. You can see the car, whether it has

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got good balance and grip. Lewis Hamilton on the hard compound tyre.

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It is a big weekend for McLaren, they have put a lot of updates on

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the car. What can you see, Tom? very much, neither driver is in the

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car. Gary, they have got the old front wing on both cars. After a

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night of looking at the data, the new front wing is not working, what

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did you think? Yes, we will show some detail on that, but the area

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they worked on, it is not the area that is causing the problem. For me,

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there are three elements on the front wing, they are too big, they

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do not control the airflow. We will explain that before qualifying. If I

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were them, I would not be not driving now. You have got to try a

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different set-up, you have got to get the best out of the car you have

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got. They do not have a package that will win a race. RADIO: Look after

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attraction. He is under instructions already. Once you start spreading

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the rear wheels, the tyres overheat. Back to McLaren. You have got to get

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the best out of your car at a race meeting to score as many points as

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possible. They might not win, but you still have to get the best out

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of the package. You do not do that by sitting in the garage.

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qualifying programme starts at 12:10pm on BBC One, with more

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information about McLaren and also looking at Williams in their

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attempts to move up the grid. Esteban Gutierrez, the 21-year-old

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Mexican, you youngest driver in Formula 1. The car has not been as

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competitive as last year's Sauber. Nicole Holcombe vote is more

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experienced, he has been getting the odd performance out of the car.

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Still very early days. Jenny, you are at Lotus? Yes, they had a good

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day yesterday, one of the best Fridays they have had, according to

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them. A lot of work going on, so another team that will not get out

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there much. Romain Grosjean yesterday, if you look at the times

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from the second session, he was 18th or 19th, but actually, he did not do

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a fast time because it looked like he had a cracked exhaust. It was a

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centre row. It was misleading, occurs he is looking at an

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incredible pace for today. Yes, you have got to get the lapse in,

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because we will see who is who, because the track is decent, it is

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warm, and we will see who has got what as far as pace is concerned.

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Because Kimi Raikkonen was up there, I would expect Romain

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Grosjean to be up there as well. Yes, and Kimi Raikkonen is right

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back on top form. For those of you who did not catch up with yesterday,

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the fastest time was set by Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso

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was .017 slower than that. Mark Webber was third, Kimi Raikkonen was

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fourth, Felipe Massa was fifth. Jean-Eric Vergne was in ninth, and

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Paul di Resta was 10th. I wanted to mention Jean-Eric Vergne, Gus Toro

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Rosso seemed happy yesterday. It went well for them in China. They

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did not have a good time in Bahrain, but here, both drivers have

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got a spring in their step. They are going well. They have quite a few

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updates. They have pressed a button on getting developments for this

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race. It is the right time, you need to make sure you do not overreact,

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you want to get the best out of the package you had during the first

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races, and then press the button for developments to take it forward.

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They did the right thing, because they understand this track. They

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have got a better car. They are up and down a bit. You have to reserve

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judgement. Nico Hulkenberg is attacking the track a bit more. His

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team-mate is fastest so far, but only five cars have established a

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time. Nicole Holcombe Berg looking pretty rapid at the moment. Not the

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fastest in the first sector so far. Using quite a lot of road. This is

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where a second DRS zone has been introduced. That is different for

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this year, we are used to it the ink on the finishing straight here.

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because they have taken it away from qualifying, and put it onto the same

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positions in the race, they have created the second one. But the back

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straight is short. It is very difficult to keep within a second

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off the car in front of you without understeer in, so it will be tough

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to pass. We saw Nico Hulkenberg back off. That time is not

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representative, he will go for another lap. On board with Sebastian

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Vettel. Mark Webber is also out on track. We are beginning to see some

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of the front runners coming out. Up through the gears again on the X it.

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He did not lock up. Down the hill, this is down to the seventh corner,

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seven and eight. Then, the blind approach into number nine. I call

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that a man's corner, you cannot see the apex or exit. Difficult

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breaking, because it is bumpy. This corner has changed a bit over the

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years. It is tight, and then opens up. Then you are into the twisty

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stuff at the end of the lap. This was introduced later on. Number 14

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and 15, trying to get the traction out of the corner, get the power

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down, and then into the flat-out final turn. This will be a good lap.

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He goes fastest. But we are not quite down to what we had yesterday.

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It was interesting, looking at how much the tyres were worth. The

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Ferrari's only gained 0.2 seconds by going to the medium tyre. But other

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teams found more. If you go for a softer tyre, you end up getting more

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understeer. The balance was to have a bit of understeer on the harder

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tyres, and then you get more understeer with the softer tyre.

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They only had one shot at it yesterday. Overnight, they try to

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get the balance of the car to suit the softer tyre, to get the best lap

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time out of the soft tyre, which will compromise the harder tyre a

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bit, but that does not matter for the grid. Kimi Raikkonen also on the

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harder compound. RADIO: Still rear stability and understeer. Not a

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great mixture. Presumably, the car is nervous into the corners, but

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once he has got it into the corner, the car does not want to turn.

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Because the rear end is not stable, breaking and turning, he will be

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asking more from the front tire in the mid-corner, which is where the

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understeer comes from. I would try to fix the stability first, knowing

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that the understeer will diminish. Not looking at all nervous, Kimi

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Raikkonen, the car is looking stable. He is setting quick sector

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times. This will go ahead of Sebastian Vettel's pace. He goes

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quickest. That looked very smooth. He enjoyed the wet conditions

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yesterday morning. We had a heavy shower before the session, he was

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flicking the car around and enjoying himself. Up through the night turn,

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this is where they attack the corner. All four wheels over the

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edge... He just about kept inside the white line. We talk about the

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rear of the car touching the ground. We need to deal with the suspension

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that they have, a front and rear interconnected suspension. You can

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start to lower the rear of the car from the fact that, instead of

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displacing the front suspension, you can move the load to the rear of the

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car. It reduces the rear end instability. Lotus have it working

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the best. It is hydraulic suspension. They are playing the

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best chew on it. It is clever stuff. Hydraulic suspension systems go a

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long way back, Sichuan run them around the Second World War. But it

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is different on a racing car. We are on board with Adrian Sutil. He has

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been a bit out of luck in races, but he has shown great pace, he and Paul

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di Resta are a good combination. You know the team well, it has evolved

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from its Jordan days when you were the technical boss, but they have

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brought improvements, despite being on the pace in Bahrain. Yes, they

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are in -- identified problems and small changes. They are moving it

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along quite well. Every team needs to find .1 seconds per race to keep

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in touch with everybody else, so you need to make sure... This might be

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something falling off Romain Grosjean's car. That is sort of what

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I was talking about. They can make the rear of the car sit lower. They

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move the loads around the car to make the rear of the car sit lower.

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It reduces the drag of the car considerably. Back to force in the,

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small changes to keep in touch with the other teams, you find that .1

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seconds per race, you keep in touch, you find another .1 seconds,

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you move ahead. Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen setting the pace for

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notice. It is very close between them. Jean-Eric Vergne again showing

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Corazon in good shape. Thank you for your comments on twitter. Billy

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says, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso on the front row, come on,

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Lewis Hamilton! We will see if he can do that. One person says Spanish

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home advantage will throw Fernando Alonso on the front row, but a Lewis

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Hamilton pole position and Felipe Massa third. Oliver asks, how do you

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solve a problem like McLaren? Are the updates working? The jury is out

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at the moment, Gary. When they spoke to Tom yesterday... Let's speak to

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Tom. Tom, you spoke to both McLaren drivers, you did not say they

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less competitive than he was in Bahrain last time out. The fact

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they are not running the new front wing this morning. Sam Michael

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mentioned this when I spoke to hint a little bit earlier that they

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might run the front wing but they would not race it. It seems they

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are a little bit without a rudder at that team. You kind of think,

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would last year's car had been quicker? I am up at a Red Bull as

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Mark Webber comes in. When Sebastian Vettel came in earlier, a

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wonder if they had met at the left of that car. -- I wonder if they

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had it at the left of that car. McLaren is still struggling. Sam

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Michael said yesterday, they are working on every area of the car.

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We do not expect this kind of performance from McLaren. Last year,

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let's not forget that Lewis Hamilton was on pole in qualifying.

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He was light on fuel but he was on pole by about half a second. Last

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year the car was tremendous. They cannot wheel that car at from last

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season. It is too late to do that. Should they not have continued to

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develop the car? You try to improve on a car. I went to the press

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release and I thought it was a better step. They thought it was.

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Whenever the car hit the ground, it was a shock to them. Up it is a

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situation where I have an opinion and I am not too frightened to

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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

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Alonso has gone fastest. He is still on a pretty good lap. It was

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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.
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India being so close to getting a podium last time out will -- last

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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

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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

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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

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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

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not data gathering, it was a problem with front suspension. He

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has a lot of the lap to do before he comes back. A few more of tweets

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coming in. Thank you for your company for the third practice

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session before the serious business of qualifying gets under way.

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Surely it is time to bring the old car back for McLaren? Hoping that

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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.

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-- the radiator. It is about getting airflow down into the back

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of the car, in between the rear wheels. The more airflow you can

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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

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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

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identify. Let's see if there is anything untoward. Can you see

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anything? I can see nothing broken. Nothing broken at the moment will

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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

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: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

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Bulls, it is higher. A lot of teams cannot get that better but Red Bull

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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.
:41:15.:41:18.

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.
:56:57.:56:57.

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.
:00:22.:00:33.

lap time Sergio Perez will do. We are waiting for him to get on to a

:00:33.:00:43.
:00:43.:00:44.

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.
:00:59.:01:00.

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.
:01:46.:01:47.

as well. Sebastian Vettel behind that group, as he heads to 1010. --

:01:47.:01:57.
:01:57.:02:00.

turn macro 10. This will put him slow were than Mark Webber. --

:02:00.:02:10.
:02:10.:02:12.

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

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he is doing. They've will look at the date set in the car and see

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what the lap time will have been without the blockage. -- they will

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look at the data set in the car. Romain Grosjean and Lotus. He has

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been looking pretty good this weekend. We did not get a chance to

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see his pace yesterday because he had to abandon the lap. It is

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looking impressive from the Frenchman. The track suits his

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style. He tends to drive off the back end of the car, more than Kimi

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Raikkonen. It is close. He lasted all in the last section. In the

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last chicane, you can lose a hell of a lot. Is this a practice start

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or a problem for Ben Ando Alonso? - - Fernando Alonso? It is just a

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practice start. No problem for him. 1.5 minutes of this session

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remaining. Filipe Massa is currently quickest from Kimi

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Raikkonen. Sergio Perez is on a set of tyres. It is not a bad first

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sector. We will keep an eye on the second sector and see if there is

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an improvement. He qualified well last chip in the Sauber. He was

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helped by the fact that Lewis Hamilton got demoted from pole

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position. There was one of his best qualifying positions. Look how much

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he has lost in the middle sector. That is a lot. That is where the

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ergo dynamic performance of the car stands out. It is about mechanical

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and not making a mistake. You are sort of a passenger to the car. You

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cannot influence it to match. He looked neat and tidy but lost a lot

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in the middle. Too much. Jenson Button is 12th and Sergio Perez his

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14th. No indication they have made a great stride. It will be close in

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the grid. You have Sergio Perez, Pastor Maldonado he had done a

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1:dot 30 trade. -- 1:33. I do not know if Jenny has more information

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on that. Slightly surprising to see that. The chequered flag is out on

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this session. All the cars are finishing off their laps and

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heading back in towards pit lane. Looking at the times, we had quite

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Grosjean been a Lotus. You have the other Red Bull. Fernando Alonso did

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do his time earlier on. That would have been worth a few tenths of a

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second. Paul di Resta air and Adrian Sutil showing they are

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capable of getting a top 10. The qualifying pace may not be as

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strong. Back in 9th, 11th position, they did run the medium tyre fairly

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early. Three-tenths of a second for 10 kilograms of fuel, it means so

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many positions - seven or eight positions on the grid. We have to

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go to qualify before we know the true performance. Coming into the

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pits is Sergio Perez after the minute Macro 23.3 balls but that is

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not what they are looking for. -- 1:23.3. The battle will be to get

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out of the qualifying. Williams and Sauber are both in danger territory.

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I think Toro Rosso might be in better shape but we will have to

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds

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wait and see. A bit of a debrief. the GP2 race last year. Esteban

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Gutierrez is the gangster. I do think he has the ability to show

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what he can do. -- the youngster. He has a very good team-mate, Nico

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Hulkenberg, to learn from. He is very quick and very consistent.

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When you do not have a very good car, it is difficult to find your

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level. Esteban Gutierrez needs to keep his head down and exploit it a

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bit more. His best grid position has been 14th so far this year.

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Over at Mercedes, will we see a hat-trick of Mercedes propositions?

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The evidence is not that at the moment unless they are running a

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very different race. Having seen Hamilton and Nico Rosberg taking

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pole in the last few events, it would be an achievement to get that

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hat trick. Filipe Massa is faster us at the moment. We have to go all

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the way back to 2008 for the last time he had a pole. You would have

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to say that crowd power could well be worth something to Fernando

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Alonso. It is going to be exciting. Thanks for your input. Let's get

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Third and 5th after final practice. Your thoughts? An interesting

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session. The wind is critical. It is getting all sectors together. We

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need to find some pace in the first sector. Still a bit of work to do

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between now and qualifying. important is pole position? It is

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important. You always want to start in clean air. As long as you are in

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the first two, maximum three rows, that is OK. It is about having the

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right tyre strategy for the race. How many pit-stops do you think we

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will see? I have no idea. Less than six and more than one. Mark Webber

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has done very well this weekend. He has had a difficult last couple of

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races. Your thoughts? He is the king of the last sector. He has the

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last sector absolutely beautifully timed and always has. We are

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expecting him to perform very strongly here. Hopefully we can get

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both cars right up there. A what about the threat from Ferrari?

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look strong. Ben Ando in Monza in front of his home crowd is giving

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it everything. -- Fernando Alonso. We would do our best to try to stay

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All the big cheeses will be here. Thank you. Christian Horner taking

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things one session at a time. the ultimate politician. He was

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waving at nobody waving back which I thought was funny. He has the

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great passion and a great history with the Ferrari team. People stand

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This is an important race. It is the first of the European with a

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lot of upgrades here this weekend. We have not seen what we thought we

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would with McLaren in terms of moving forward. Everyone is moving

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forward because they are all bringing upgrades. That is what

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Sergio Perez said in an interview. There are up braids all the time.

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McLaren are having to make bigger steps. -- upgrades. It has to be

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the talking point. They do seem to be struggling to understand where

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they are with this car. It is still relatively early in the season in

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terms of winning races. It is well into the season in terms of them

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having any chance of winning the The Championship is quite tight at

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the moment. It is difficult to include anything from that session

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with different levels of fuel, etc. It does seem to bode very well for

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qualifying this afternoon. You are right in saying it is difficult to

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include anything from that session. Even if everyone ran their

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qualifying levels of fuel, we would probably get a slightly different

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result. This track is affected by the wind. Track temperature has a

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huge bearing on the overall balance. There are small differences and

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there is nothing the same in Formula One. We will have a great

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shoot-out between Ferrari and Lotus. Filipe Massa was the fastest. Is

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that half a metre of track? I will take your word for that. It does

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not matter how much quicker you are. If you are ahead, even if you do

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the same time but it is one that ahead of your competitor, that will

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give you pull. We are back at 12:10pm on BBC One and BBC One HD

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for qualifying. What are you expecting to see in a qualifying

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session? Lots of cars and drivers pushing to the absolute limit and

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giving us their best shot at it. A highly motivated Fernando Alonso.

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It is a home race for him. Is it a help or hindrance? Does it give the

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pressure or a beast? Definitely a boost. I was never that passed so

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