The Spanish Grand Prix

:00:22. > :00:32.Fast, furious, heart-stopping! Heartbreaking. Race 5, Barcelona.

:00:32. > :00:32.

:00:32. > :01:32.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:01:32. > :01:39.I think there is really something special about being back in Europe.

:01:39. > :01:45.Barcelona has that vibrancy. It is such an exciting city. This is my

:01:45. > :01:55.favourite market. I fully agree with you. It is my favourite market.

:01:55. > :01:59.I have never been here before. are going to go now. The season so

:01:59. > :02:06.far, Sebastian Vettel is leading the Championship. It is all going

:02:06. > :02:11.according to plan. It has blended from 2012 into 2013. They have a

:02:11. > :02:17.world-class car. I should think the team and Sebastian Vettel has been

:02:17. > :02:22.tarnished because of the team order situation in Malaysia. After

:02:22. > :02:32.Bahrain, Fernando Alonso was fuming. He will be right here for the grand

:02:32. > :02:35.

:02:35. > :02:42.prix win in front of his home crowd. Suzi, will you marry me? Lewis

:02:42. > :02:48.Hamilton nude from Mercedes to McLaren. -- moved. He is driving

:02:48. > :02:55.better for it. Mercedes is the most improved team from last year. If we

:02:55. > :03:01.look at the other guys winning races, Kimi Raikkonen has to be

:03:01. > :03:10.considered a real contender. Police say yes, we're on television.

:03:10. > :03:15.sorry, you are a bit late! McLaren have been dreadful. As a group

:03:15. > :03:18.together, they are not being led in the right direction. Who would have

:03:19. > :03:25.thought that the fight for fifth- place in the Championship is going

:03:25. > :03:33.to be between McLaren and Force India? Barcelona is a place of

:03:33. > :03:42.surprise. Last year, Williams won. Miracles do not happen twice. It is

:03:42. > :03:48.a direct reflection on David Coulthard. After I left them.

:03:48. > :03:58.Exactly! I cannot wait for it to begin. Barcelona start the European

:03:58. > :04:04.

:04:04. > :04:08.season which, for me, is brilliant. Not very happy with me. Eddie

:04:08. > :04:16.Jordan, never knowingly one to follow. Has oak and welcome to

:04:16. > :04:21.Barcelona for the Spanish Grand Prix. -- hello. Perfect conditions.

:04:21. > :04:27.What a difference Fernando Alonso has made! The great barometer is it

:04:27. > :04:34.you cannot get a hotel room for love nor money. Fernando Alonso is

:04:34. > :04:39.the darling of Spain. He makes this possible. We saw him on the

:04:39. > :04:47.drivers' parade this morning. This was a great bit of from real one

:04:48. > :04:56.free styling. He jumped out of the car and went to meet them all.

:04:56. > :05:00.was a shy, quiet boy. Now he has embellished and embraced the

:05:00. > :05:05.Ferrari world. The people of Spain have brought him into their hearts.

:05:05. > :05:13.He has it all to do in front of his home crowd. What is it like to race

:05:13. > :05:20.at home? There is no doubt of that extra support. That shows his

:05:20. > :05:28.passion for his home crowd. It is giving you a buzz. He will carry

:05:28. > :05:34.that into the start of this grand prix. You won twice at Silverstone.

:05:34. > :05:38.It focuses the mind. Pressure is when you are slightly out of

:05:38. > :05:46.control. That is the only time you fill pressure as a driver. When the

:05:46. > :05:50.wind is behind you, the crowd is behind you, that is not pressure.

:05:50. > :06:00.As the crowds continue to arrive, the atmosphere in 10 suppliers and

:06:00. > :06:10.the drivers prepare for the battle ahead. -- intense surprise. --

:06:10. > :06:30.

:06:30. > :06:35.legs. A long way to go till someone is crowned 2013 champion. Kimi

:06:36. > :06:45.Raikkonen is 10 points adrift. Lewis Hamilton is third. Jenson

:06:46. > :06:49.

:06:49. > :06:56.Button is intense. The -- in 10th. Qualifying was yesterday able stuck

:06:56. > :07:00.here is Lee McKenzie with the story. -- yesterday. McLaren hoped AB

:07:00. > :07:08.grades would get their Championship back on track. Jenson Button had

:07:08. > :07:16.his worst qualifying of the season. Sergio Perez managed his best

:07:16. > :07:21.qualifying but still only got up to 9th. Ferrari had a disappointing

:07:21. > :07:25.day. Fernando Alonso could only manage 5th in front of the home

:07:25. > :07:31.fans. Sebastian Vettel has never taken pole position and it was not

:07:31. > :07:35.to be this year. He had to settle for third. Mercedes dominated

:07:35. > :07:42.qualifying and got their hat-trick of pole positions, thanks to a

:07:42. > :07:47.great laugh from Nico Rosberg. Phyllis Hamilton was alongside him

:07:47. > :07:53.in second. -- Lewis Hamilton. Recent experience has been from

:07:53. > :08:00.pole to 9th. That is not a nice thing - not very enjoyable. I doubt

:08:00. > :08:05.we can fight for the win. A podium could be difficult. Mercedes lock

:08:05. > :08:15.out the front row. They are not confident of staying in that

:08:15. > :08:44.

:08:44. > :08:50.Some seriously hot laps from Mercedes yesterday. Today is

:08:50. > :08:54.somewhat different. They have been focusing more on longer runs. None

:08:54. > :09:01.of us expected them to have propositioned and not by the gap

:09:01. > :09:07.they ended up with. It is all down to the fact, they have a car which

:09:07. > :09:12.takes more out of the tyres in the early laps of the race. Have they

:09:12. > :09:19.done enough to set the car up to make it more durable? They have had

:09:19. > :09:27.the problem on the rear in Bahrain, it is not the same in Barcelona, is

:09:27. > :09:30.it? We are seeing graining on the tyres as compared with the thermal

:09:30. > :09:39.degradation and outright aware. That means the front tyre will

:09:39. > :09:43.start to give up. You have a lot of weight on the car. Mercedes had the

:09:43. > :09:50.benefit of having both cars. They can maybe paced the rest of the

:09:50. > :09:56.field. I was just looking to see Ross Brawn. We cannot find him at

:09:56. > :10:01.the moment. Talking about the wing man scenario, going from the front,

:10:01. > :10:07.do you think they will do that? They are clever enough to realise

:10:08. > :10:12.they have a fast car. Therefore, whoever leads through the first

:10:12. > :10:19.corner, you would want to manage that. You would want the gite in

:10:19. > :10:26.second place, you would want him to back up the rest of the field will

:10:26. > :10:33.start the big story is McLaren. at the field. Rubens Barrichello

:10:33. > :10:43.has made a brief appearance. Sergio Perez, is he your new trump card?

:10:43. > :10:53.He had a great race. He qualified with a great lap in due to. He had

:10:53. > :10:53.

:10:53. > :10:58.a cautious start to his season. -- Q2. I think he was a bit tentative.

:10:58. > :11:05.He did not want to make mistakes but he has got over that now.

:11:05. > :11:11.football terms, you would be sacked by now, wouldn't you? I am sure I

:11:11. > :11:16.would have people asking me, if I was any way. Are you feeling

:11:16. > :11:21.comfortable with the management? What would you do to change things?

:11:21. > :11:25.If you are a team principal with McLaren and not making races, you

:11:25. > :11:31.are not going to get a comfortable ride from the media. If you do not

:11:31. > :11:35.like that, do not put has a forward as being team principal. We are as

:11:35. > :11:40.tough on ourselves as the media. I cannot be happy when you are

:11:40. > :11:44.celebrating getting into the third qualification. That is not what we

:11:44. > :11:50.are about. We need to focus on the future and make sure we make

:11:50. > :12:00.progress and come forward. We must get back to a winning position.

:12:00. > :12:05.wish you lots of love. We had just been hearing from Martin Whitmarsh.

:12:05. > :12:10.Talking about where you are right now, you seem to have the fastest

:12:10. > :12:16.car in Formula One in qualifying. What are you doing differently to

:12:16. > :12:21.manage this car in the longer runs of the race? It is our issue. It is

:12:21. > :12:26.frustrating to have a car that shows such pace in qualifying. I

:12:26. > :12:31.think here, for instance, the problem that will cost you time in

:12:31. > :12:35.the race is the left rear. That will start to fade and you'll get

:12:36. > :12:42.oversteer. We are working about how we can protect that left rear in

:12:42. > :12:48.the race and have the drivers need to drive to protect that. That has

:12:48. > :12:55.been Our priority this weekend. It is about making their tyres last

:12:55. > :13:01.and getting the set-up right. appreciate your openness. I always

:13:01. > :13:09.assumed it was a front limited circuit. In actual fact, what

:13:09. > :13:16.overheats the left rear? It is mainly the long term three, long-

:13:16. > :13:21.term nine. You are leading hard on that tyre. If you overdo it, there

:13:21. > :13:27.is too much understeer to protect the rear and that can be a big

:13:27. > :13:33.problem. We want to try to keep the real left tyre alive. Thank you

:13:33. > :13:39.very much. We are having problems with our microphones. Traditionally,

:13:39. > :13:44.here in Barcelona, the winners have come from the front rows. Will

:13:44. > :13:49.tradition be broken today? I hope so. We are not on it. The Mercedes

:13:49. > :13:54.were very quick. It will be a big challenge to take them on. In front

:13:54. > :14:01.of his home crowd, it is a bit of a party atmosphere. A challenge to

:14:01. > :14:06.keep him behind and Kimi Raikkonen as well. The lotuses are a bit of a

:14:06. > :14:14.dark horse. They are light on the tyres. They have used by sets of

:14:14. > :14:22.tyres with Kimi Raikkonen. We need to get ahead of Lewis Hamilton and

:14:22. > :14:31.Nico Rosberg. How many laps do you think you will be able to do with

:14:31. > :14:36.regard to strategy? Not many. These tyres are so marginal, it depends

:14:36. > :14:43.how you drive the car. Flat out, they do not last that long. It is

:14:43. > :14:51.about measuring your pace and not taking too much out of the tyres.

:14:51. > :14:56.Strategists will be working flat out. Thank you. Romain Grosjean,

:14:56. > :15:02.that was reasonable qualifying yesterday. What can you do?

:15:02. > :15:07.Everything is possible. Cars in front of us are slower in the long

:15:07. > :15:13.round, the Mercedes. Ferrari's should be quite competitive. We

:15:13. > :15:21.will do our best. There is a lot of tired degradation. We do not know

:15:21. > :15:30.if it is coming from the rear. -- tyre degradation. A do you try to

:15:30. > :15:37.adopt different strategies? clearly depends what the simulation

:15:37. > :15:44.says. At the moment, we are more or less on the same things. It can be

:15:44. > :15:54.changed during the race. We had two plans. We can swap at the end to

:15:54. > :16:18.

:16:18. > :16:24.is no pressure on them. They are not under the spotlight, they are

:16:24. > :16:30.cruising. They are doing a brilliant job. What do you think about

:16:30. > :16:36.McLaren? I love the way Martin speaks to us, he has been

:16:36. > :16:39.ridiculously honest, under the most immense pressure. They have all

:16:39. > :16:49.sorts of issues, but at least he explains to us what he is going to

:16:49. > :16:49.

:16:49. > :16:53.do. If any team will turn it around, it is McLaren. We wait to see.

:16:53. > :17:00.Speaking to Romain Grosjean, both Lotus is going off the dirty side of

:17:00. > :17:05.the grid. Not too much of a difference. The clean side has to be

:17:05. > :17:11.better, but the restriction they have is that they only have one new

:17:11. > :17:19.set of the option tyres left. That has to be to the detriment of their

:17:19. > :17:27.race pace. On the long runs, the tyres are similar, but they will

:17:27. > :17:34.miss out on the first two or three laps. A great atmosphere here,

:17:34. > :17:39.everybody waving, all good stuff. We talked about some of the contenders,

:17:39. > :17:44.and two of the others have got to be Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso.

:17:44. > :17:54.They have reached 200 races, only the 12th and 13th drivers to have

:17:54. > :18:01.

:18:01. > :18:07.done that. They are friends on and It is great to meet you, your

:18:07. > :18:14.memories of the first Grand Prix? have a queue, and all of them are

:18:14. > :18:17.quite scary. In Australia, we did not have any tests, it was the first

:18:17. > :18:27.time I jumped in the car, and I did not know all of the buttons on the

:18:27. > :18:29.

:18:29. > :18:39.steering wheel! At the end of the pits, there was a queue of cars. I

:18:39. > :18:46.tried to find it, and I said, good start! Pretty scary!What about your

:18:46. > :18:52.favourite race? One of the Monte Carlo victories, 2010.

:18:52. > :18:59.Poll position, chequered flag, championship lead.

:18:59. > :19:09.He crashed, which helped me a bit. The race was one of those days where

:19:09. > :19:12.

:19:12. > :19:18.everything went well. Monaco is so special. And you? Best race?

:19:18. > :19:27.Malaysia, 2012. Fernando Alonso wins a Malaysia

:19:27. > :19:33.Grand Prix, he takes the victory! This is one of the most beautiful,

:19:33. > :19:43.we are so proud of you, so proud of you and of the team.

:19:43. > :19:48.

:19:48. > :19:55.We have had some good battles on the track. I remember one.You were not

:19:55. > :20:05.happy with one of them, I was in the Jaguar, no grip or traction, and the

:20:05. > :20:05.

:20:05. > :20:13.Renault was the opposite. I was cutting you off everywhere. I do not

:20:13. > :20:23.remember! There were no rules at all. I would get a ten race by now.

:20:23. > :20:25.

:20:25. > :20:29.It is good to battle with somebody that I respect. It is very risky if

:20:29. > :20:33.you do not have a Formula 1 mentality.

:20:33. > :20:43.This has a massive impact in terms of the championship! Romain

:20:43. > :20:45.

:20:45. > :20:55.Grosjean, what are you doing? 2003, a very tricky grand prix.

:20:55. > :20:59.

:20:59. > :21:07.Going up the hill, I made a bad mistake. What people do not

:21:07. > :21:13.understand on TV is the speed. You had a huge shunt as well. Was that

:21:13. > :21:23.your biggest crush in Formula 1? Yes, without a doubt. For you?

:21:23. > :21:47.

:21:47. > :21:52.after Formula 1. We know that this is the top, but we are aware that

:21:52. > :22:00.there are more things to do, there are other cars to drive. Sometimes I

:22:00. > :22:06.enjoyed go-karting most. Yes, things change. The Thursdays on the track

:22:06. > :22:13.or not enjoyable, they have changed. I like Friday onwards. You like

:22:13. > :22:20.Friday? Fridays are not very good now! You want to race at the highest

:22:20. > :22:26.level, on the best circuits, but you are open to the fact... There are

:22:26. > :22:33.more things. It is not just the bubble we are in. There is a life

:22:33. > :22:40.outside. That is right. You will be out of a job, they are rubbish!

:22:40. > :22:45.will win the title this year? Madrid!

:22:45. > :22:53.Real Madrid! The is disappointed that Barcelona won the league last

:22:53. > :22:57.night. How great to see the interaction between them. You can

:22:57. > :23:03.never get tired, watching that, the interaction of two professionals,

:23:03. > :23:08.they are at the top of their game, respecting each other. They had some

:23:08. > :23:13.questions about the Rockies, but this is what people want to see, top

:23:13. > :23:18.professionals respecting each other in front of a camera. I feel as if I

:23:18. > :23:24.will be redundant soon! Interestingly, they were talking

:23:24. > :23:34.about the crash in Brazil that had implications for both of you.

:23:34. > :23:38.should have won that race, but you wonder. Jordan won it!I will have

:23:38. > :23:47.to see the transcript of the interview, because I was distracted

:23:47. > :23:52.by their shorts! When you were driving, who did you hang out with?

:23:52. > :23:56.Usually, it is not your team-mate. That is why it Fernando Alonso and

:23:56. > :24:00.Mark Webber have developed a great relationship. They have been managed

:24:00. > :24:05.in the same company, so they have another connection. I hung out with

:24:05. > :24:10.Jenson Button and people like that, and I would talk to Michael, because

:24:10. > :24:15.nobody else would. It is getting pretty noisy, so let's join the

:24:15. > :24:23.Sebastian Vettel School of racing as he teaches his engineer how to drive

:24:23. > :24:32.a lap of this track. We have got an envelope! Today is

:24:32. > :24:36.job swap day, your mission is to get him to set a time good enough to get

:24:36. > :24:46.on the back of the grid of last year's Spanish Grand Prix. Do not

:24:46. > :24:52.

:24:52. > :25:00.press the wrong button! The ejector The big desk, off you go. Nice

:25:00. > :25:07.shorts! I think he will be all right, but he does not practice. He

:25:07. > :25:17.has driven the simulator once or twice but for fun. I am sure he is

:25:17. > :25:25.

:25:25. > :25:34.under enormous pressure now. Let's Radio check. You are loud and clear.

:25:34. > :25:44.You ready? OK. The pedals are wrong. Stop complaining, keep

:25:44. > :25:50.

:25:50. > :25:54.pushing! Nice. It can be done, it is not hard! I was thinking I would

:25:54. > :26:04.take it easy in the last sector, because I do not want to show you

:26:04. > :26:04.

:26:04. > :26:14.up! The first time lap, in the gravel! Just dump the clutch, lots

:26:14. > :26:15.

:26:15. > :26:25.of throttle. Have you done this before? Yes! Try to do that in third

:26:25. > :26:34.

:26:34. > :26:44.gear, roll around. OK.I always miss the apex there as well! It is good.

:26:44. > :27:13.

:27:13. > :27:21.So far, it is good. Stay in third the wall! Right, your time was 1:30

:27:21. > :27:28.9.6. The slowest time in qualifying at the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix was

:27:29. > :27:38.31.1. I am afraid you did not make it. I will blame you! You can blame

:27:39. > :27:40.

:27:40. > :27:45.me! It was not working!You have got a future in racing, you have got the

:27:45. > :27:53.excuses lined up already! Get back in, more practice. We need to beat

:27:53. > :27:59.that time. The crowds are pretty much in place,

:27:59. > :28:04.not long to go until the Spanish Grand Prix. We saw Sebastian, as if

:28:04. > :28:07.Potter would not melt, but you felt as though his reputation had been

:28:07. > :28:15.damaged by what happened earlier in the season. Do people not have short

:28:15. > :28:18.memories? They do, but things like that linger. We saw him growing the

:28:18. > :28:28.biggest set of horns, he was determined. I did not like what he

:28:28. > :28:31.did. The reaction was very serious. Nevertheless, he is a consummate

:28:31. > :28:36.professional, he interviews brilliantly, and he is quiet, you

:28:36. > :28:41.would love him as your son. But when he gets in the car, he becomes an

:28:41. > :28:45.out and out racer. It will be changing as he is preparing now.

:28:45. > :28:55.What are his chances of taking the victory? He is the favourite in my

:28:55. > :28:59.view, because we are being told by Mercedes that they cannot seem to

:28:59. > :29:05.make the tyres last long enough for them to capture the victory,

:29:05. > :29:10.possibly a podium at best. Sebastian Vettel is in prime position in third

:29:10. > :29:16.place, he will pick them off, and we know how good he is. The car is

:29:16. > :29:19.great. I hope he does not go off into the distance and make it three

:29:19. > :29:29.victories, because we saw what happened two years ago, we want a

:29:29. > :29:42.

:29:42. > :29:50.big fight. We talked about strategy, These beauties will have a major

:29:50. > :29:58.outcome on the race. 83 stop race is the fastest. A four stop his own

:29:58. > :30:04.need seven seconds slower. If I was making decisions, I would go for

:30:04. > :30:09.eighth or stop. I would not have lost time by driving slower to make

:30:09. > :30:16.the tyres last. Mercedes can win this race. You need to be clever on

:30:17. > :30:24.the pit wall. I would decide on the four stops. Gary Anderson has

:30:24. > :30:29.spoken. He thinks it will be a four stop strategy. Not long to we find

:30:29. > :30:35.out. There is the Spanish Grand Prix. The crowds have poured in.

:30:35. > :30:43.Fernando Alonso is not from the Catalan region. Over 100,000 people

:30:43. > :30:48.here today. An amazing crowd. He has a magnetism about him. It is

:30:48. > :30:58.not just motor racing, it is tennis, football, of the whole thing. They

:30:58. > :30:59.

:30:59. > :31:05.want to cheer on their hero, Fernando Alonso. He is driving in

:31:05. > :31:13.the Porsche Super Cup. He did all right yesterday. He is going down

:31:13. > :31:20.the great to see who is about. has a one Mand nine consecutive

:31:20. > :31:25.World Championships in rallying. -- he has a won. We were talking about

:31:25. > :31:33.respect between drivers and sports men. A slight concern in a country

:31:33. > :31:41.like Spain with the economic situation being so bad. That is a

:31:41. > :31:45.very interesting question. I think where you have greatness, where

:31:45. > :31:52.Britain won at the World Cup, it makes people want to be successful

:31:52. > :32:00.and do things. If any country has big sports stars, Spain certainly

:32:00. > :32:07.has. People are so passionate about it. David it is on the grid now. I

:32:07. > :32:15.think he is with Nico Rosberg. in pole position. By am standing

:32:15. > :32:21.with Tanya, I did offer for ladies to go first but she has allowed BBC

:32:21. > :32:28.to go first. When Nico Rosberg has finished with his engineers, which

:32:28. > :32:34.is now. Tinier suggested we could go first and ask a question in

:32:34. > :32:39.English. Great qualifying. We know you are pole position. It is about

:32:40. > :32:47.controlling the tyres. You must feel it is your time. Yesterday, I

:32:47. > :32:52.was very happy. We know there are weaknesses in raise performance. We

:32:52. > :32:57.have been working on it. If it is enough to fight for the front, I am

:32:57. > :33:07.not sure of it yet. I will go in with that mentality but you need to

:33:07. > :33:17.be cautious. One thing I want to do is, I just wanted to show, this is

:33:17. > :33:19.

:33:19. > :33:26.the longest run of any start- Finnish rate. If I can get him to

:33:26. > :33:36.turn round, or we can go for a walk along the grade. Walk this way if

:33:36. > :33:39.

:33:39. > :33:46.you can! -- the grid. Lewis Hamilton is right on the tale of

:33:46. > :33:56.Nico Rosberg. It is always about tyres. I will see if I can get a

:33:56. > :34:01.

:34:01. > :34:11.word with Paul Hembery. Hallowed. - - hello. There you go. There are

:34:11. > :34:12.

:34:12. > :34:18.some happy faces. Niki Lauda Air. How are you feeling ahead of the

:34:18. > :34:25.Spanish Grand Prix? A lot more people than last year. The weather

:34:25. > :34:30.is good. We hope it will be a big race. Who is your money on?My

:34:30. > :34:38.money is on Fernando Alonso. Rightly or wrongly, I think he has

:34:38. > :34:43.the best chance. I would not bet against you so I will go with that.

:34:44. > :34:53.It is so busy here now. He is talking to someone else. I think we

:34:54. > :34:56.

:34:56. > :35:02.can stand in here. Hello.I did not exactly hear the end of that.

:35:02. > :35:09.tyres seem to be a lot more closely matched. There are looking to be

:35:09. > :35:16.three, four stops this afternoon. If the temperature drops, the

:35:16. > :35:23.medium tyre opens up the gap. Teams starting in the second

:35:23. > :35:31.qualification have an opportunity to be quicker. If you were driving,

:35:31. > :35:38.then maybe five stops. I will not be so nice to him next time. I was

:35:38. > :35:44.known for being silky smooth. Who can we find further down the great?

:35:44. > :35:54.That is what the opposition has been looking at quite a lot be

:35:54. > :35:56.

:35:56. > :36:06.sheer. All those tiny details on the brake ducts and the rear wing.

:36:06. > :36:06.

:36:06. > :36:10.Sebastien was racing in the Super Cup for Porsche. He is about to

:36:11. > :36:19.talk to someone from German TV. We will continue to walk down here and

:36:19. > :36:24.see what we can see. We are passing the Lotus team. I have just walked

:36:24. > :36:29.into a diminutive Scotsman. You are very small to see. You have been

:36:29. > :36:36.trying to knock me over four years. What do you think ahead of this

:36:36. > :36:41.race? The last quarter of the race, the warmer it is, the better it is

:36:41. > :36:49.for the Lotus. Kimi Raikkonen is very good at keeping tyres. He has

:36:49. > :36:55.a bit of Scottish blood. He is a conservationist. He is quite

:36:56. > :37:05.economical. We are hearing that Filipe Massa might be hanging out

:37:06. > :37:06.

:37:06. > :37:12.on a wall somewhere. Shall I take my chances? It is all a bit up

:37:12. > :37:20.close and personal here. Let's see. I think I am going completely to

:37:20. > :37:24.the wrong car. He got a quick penalty. He was given a penalty. I

:37:24. > :37:33.was in the zone of yesterday's qualifying. Filipe Massa talking

:37:33. > :37:38.with his Engineer. I was see if we can just get a word with him in a

:37:38. > :37:46.moment. -- I will see. They have the great relationship. They are

:37:46. > :37:52.probably about the same age but it is almost like a father. Rob is

:37:52. > :38:01.always so cool when he talks on the radio. He is probably the same age

:38:01. > :38:06.as you. Sometimes he is a pain in the bottom. It is even more

:38:07. > :38:11.negative, I would say. If you want to talk about pains in the backside,

:38:11. > :38:19.he needs to be looking in the mirror. Surrey Free or penalty

:38:19. > :38:27.yesterday in qualifying but you still have a good chance. -- sorry

:38:27. > :38:31.for your penalty. The car had a good pace on Friday. I hope we can

:38:32. > :38:41.see the same today and be strong all the time from the beginning to

:38:41. > :38:46.the end. You can see how much extra space there is. I suspect many of

:38:46. > :38:56.the drivers may have gone off for comfort brakes. Let's wonder down

:38:56. > :38:56.

:38:56. > :38:59.the middle. We will keep walking. I need the exercise. We do not

:38:59. > :39:06.normally see Martin Whitmarsh this far down the grid. It is quite a

:39:06. > :39:14.long walk for you. You are not used to this. Good exercise on a Sunday

:39:14. > :39:24.afternoon. Further than I would like. Thank you. I will hand back

:39:24. > :39:25.

:39:25. > :39:32.to you and back to the commentary box. Thank you very much. Some

:39:32. > :39:38.terrific stuff from David. Very funny! He was enjoying himself. He

:39:38. > :39:43.is not missing driving these cars. He has a new occupation and he is

:39:43. > :39:50.brilliant at it. This is the first race in Europe and all the huge

:39:50. > :39:55.motor homes and hospitality is are here. Seriously big budgets! I got

:39:55. > :39:59.my figures muddled up a couple of years ago and I suffered the wrath

:39:59. > :40:06.of McLaren. I said they cost 40 million a year to hike around

:40:06. > :40:15.Europe for the season. They said it was only 4 million. But, 4 million

:40:15. > :40:21.quid! It takes 28 or 26 tracks to ferry that around. It will be

:40:21. > :40:27.making its way to Monaco this coming week. To set that up again...

:40:27. > :40:32.That is what people and sponsors need so, give them what they want.

:40:32. > :40:37.Not long to go before the race where everyone needs complete

:40:37. > :40:47.concentration. Every millimetre counts. Here is David to explain

:40:47. > :40:47.

:40:47. > :40:54.why. The circuit in Catalunya is a six km race track. Let's see how

:40:54. > :41:01.pole position was won on Saturday. Nico Rosberg on the left and Lewis

:41:01. > :41:11.Hamilton on the right. Contrasting styles. Nico Rosberg has a thought

:41:11. > :41:15.

:41:15. > :41:24.tyre's width on the kerb. It gives Through the apex of 10 to. He is

:41:24. > :41:33.using more of the circuit. He is working the wheel quite hard. Down

:41:33. > :41:41.in to turn four, not much to see between the two driving styles.

:41:41. > :41:46.Into five, Lewis is left half a car's width wider. Nico Rosberg is

:41:46. > :41:53.able to straighten the car more and uses more artificial grass on the

:41:53. > :42:03.exit, gaining him valuable time. Into seven, a tricky third big

:42:03. > :42:06.

:42:06. > :42:11.corner. As they approach the run up to nine, he is a car length ahead.

:42:11. > :42:15.Lewis Hamilton is getting right to the outer limit of the white line.

:42:15. > :42:23.Great balance adjustment from both drivers as they go down the hill.

:42:23. > :42:28.The gap is about the same distance. Lewis Hamilton is trailing. He is

:42:28. > :42:34.wider on the entry. It looks like the car of Nico Rosberg is much

:42:34. > :42:41.better set-up for the qualifying phase. Through 11 and into 12, both

:42:42. > :42:48.working the wheel and not much to separate them. This is where

:42:48. > :42:58.Mercedes were faster than Red Bull. Queued for positioning in the last

:42:58. > :43:05.sector. -- beautiful. A brilliant pole position for Nico Rosberg. The

:43:05. > :43:11.third consecutive pole for Mercedes. Up performance on Saturday and

:43:11. > :43:16.failure to deliver on Sunday? We will find out soon. Track

:43:16. > :43:23.temperature of 35 degrees. Air temperature 25 degrees. There is a

:43:23. > :43:26.slight breeze which will go down as the day goes on. The person who has

:43:26. > :43:33.come out of this on top of everything is Nico Rosberg. Few

:43:33. > :43:41.people were able to evaluate where he was. Lewis Hamilton has brought

:43:41. > :43:47.him credibility. Who will win? Sebastian Vettel. We do not have

:43:47. > :43:53.long to wait until we find out. Your reporters are Tom and lead in

:43:53. > :43:59.the pit lane and Gary and David and Ben will be your commentators. Your

:43:59. > :44:09.front row is an all Mercedes lockout. Will they be able to keep

:44:09. > :44:09.

:44:09. > :45:25.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:45:25. > :45:28.the race pace? Or, will it be a win wheels, ignited by Fernando Alonso,

:45:28. > :45:34.reaches its crescendo, where seven different drivers have won the last

:45:34. > :45:38.seven events, but neither of the front row men are among them. After

:45:38. > :45:44.the long distance travels to Australia, Asia and the middle east,

:45:44. > :45:49.we have arrived in Europe, the spiritual home, and the prospect of

:45:49. > :45:54.Monaco and Silverstone to come. There are 16 corners that stressed

:45:54. > :46:02.the left-hand side tyres, especially the third one, where forgery of a

:46:02. > :46:08.lateral load is sustained. There are two DRS zones. One on the straight

:46:08. > :46:13.where Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell went wheel to wheel in 1991, and it

:46:13. > :46:16.is also available between nine and ten. Over 30 years have passed since

:46:16. > :46:24.a try Spanish Grand Prix was one from anywhere other than the front

:46:24. > :46:27.row. It is a gorgeous day, the fans are getting into the atmosphere.

:46:27. > :46:33.Perfect conditions for the start of the race, but the Mercedes at the

:46:33. > :46:37.front, will they be able to stay there? Lewis Hamilton started from

:46:37. > :46:43.pole position in China but he finished third. Nico Rosberg did in

:46:43. > :46:47.Bahrain but he plummeted down to ninth place. They think they have

:46:47. > :46:54.come up with some answers, but the proof will only be at the end of

:46:54. > :46:58.this race, it will be unsettled until the final stages. Fernando

:46:58. > :47:04.Alonso lines up in fifth place, not quite the third place he has been

:47:04. > :47:14.accustomed to. Kimi Raikkonen is one to watch, he will start from fourth

:47:14. > :47:24.

:47:24. > :47:31.point. Romain Grosjean was on the podium last time out. Sergio Perez

:47:31. > :47:41.the first of the McLarens. Felipe Massa with a penalty. Paul di Resta

:47:41. > :47:42.

:47:42. > :47:48.came so close to a podium last time. Toro Rosso have free tyre choice.

:47:48. > :47:55.Only 13 points scored for Jenson Button this year. Last year's

:47:55. > :48:05.winner, Pastor Maldonado, 17th place. Giedo van der Garde did well

:48:05. > :48:10.

:48:10. > :48:15.to qualify in 18th. That is the line-up. 66 laps. Sebastian Vettel

:48:15. > :48:19.just calmly focusing before the start of the race. He will be

:48:19. > :48:28.visualising reaction times, he will have done that in the driver's room

:48:28. > :48:32.ahead of time, they have a laptop which simulates the lights and going

:48:32. > :48:37.-- the light lighting up and going out. Lewis Hamilton was disappointed

:48:37. > :48:44.that he was pipped by his team-mate and generally with the balance he

:48:44. > :48:50.achieved in qualifying. We saw how Nico Rosberg hit every apex. It was

:48:50. > :49:00.a brilliant lap, two pole positions this year, but he has not had a

:49:00. > :49:00.

:49:00. > :49:05.podium finish. There were team orders, they were ordered to stay

:49:05. > :49:12.third and fourth, so he has not got a podium this year. The one China

:49:12. > :49:15.last year. He is down in ninth place in the championship, he has never

:49:15. > :49:21.finished better than sixth fear. That was when he was driving for

:49:21. > :49:27.Williams in 2007. Lewis Hamilton has never won this race, he has had a

:49:27. > :49:36.couple of second places. He was in second in 2010 and had a wheel

:49:36. > :49:41.problem. RADIO: Daniel Ricciardo is on medium. Jean-Eric Vergne is on

:49:41. > :49:48.used, and Jenson Button on a new tyre. The drivers being told by the

:49:48. > :49:54.engineers what tyres everybody is using. The used tyre for the top

:49:54. > :49:58.ten, but after that, you have choices. Daniel Ricciardo has gone

:49:58. > :50:06.for a new set of medium tyres, but Jean-Eric Vergne has gone for a

:50:06. > :50:12.scrub set. Very few people have gone for the hard ones. Only three from

:50:12. > :50:18.the back are starting on the hard compound. That is very strange. We

:50:19. > :50:25.will have to see how that works. Nico Rosberg leads them away on the

:50:25. > :50:30.formation lap. The teams rushing back to make sure that they are

:50:30. > :50:35.ready in case of any early pitstop that might come about. Gary, you

:50:35. > :50:39.have been telling us that it looks as though this could be a. Race,

:50:39. > :50:45.which will make life busy in the pitlane. But there is a possibility

:50:45. > :50:53.that some could make it through with three. If you do three stops, you

:50:53. > :51:00.have just got to drive slightly off the ultimate pace. Once you lose it,

:51:00. > :51:08.you cannot pick it up. I would drive to suit. Is, to drag the first set

:51:08. > :51:17.of tyres to lap ten or 11. Corner three is critical. You have to have

:51:17. > :51:21.a very good balance. Understeer or oversteer can be harmful. You need

:51:21. > :51:27.to change the racing line to keep the car well balanced. The track

:51:27. > :51:33.temperature has been oscillating a bit, we are up to 37 degrees now. We

:51:33. > :51:38.are going to the latter part of the afternoon out. It will start

:51:39. > :51:46.dropping, but the midthirties is a good temperature. Sebastian Vettel

:51:46. > :51:51.not happy. Normally that is after the red light! It is about keeping

:51:51. > :51:58.the brakes and the tyre temperature up. Mercedes have done a lot of work

:51:58. > :52:03.on that, I think they could pull this one off. With all of the fans

:52:03. > :52:10.around on the grassy banks and in the grandstands, just under 95,000

:52:11. > :52:14.people here. That Ferrari has a massive amount of support, it would

:52:14. > :52:21.be amazing for the home fans if Fernando Alonso can win from fifth

:52:21. > :52:26.place, but it has never been done here from that far back. RADIO: We

:52:26. > :52:34.need to budge the field plenty. does not want to be sitting there,

:52:34. > :52:39.overheating the engine. The engines do not have fans. The engine gets

:52:39. > :52:44.warmer and warmer, which takes away horsepower, and it takes several

:52:45. > :52:48.laps to bring it down to its normal temperature. They are happy with low

:52:48. > :52:54.tyre temperatures as well, and they want to make sure that other people

:52:54. > :52:58.have that. He wants to bring them in slowly so that the time it takes for

:52:58. > :53:03.them to form up on the grid is shorter than normal. The pole

:53:04. > :53:13.position man can sometimes wait for a minute. Nick Ross Burke and Lewis

:53:14. > :53:16.

:53:16. > :53:26.Hamilton on the front row, -- Nico Rosberg. Jenson Button starting

:53:26. > :53:35.

:53:35. > :53:43.the Spanish Grand Prix, just outside Barcelona. Who will come through to

:53:44. > :53:51.take the victory? Lights out, away we go! Nico Rosberg and Lewis

:53:51. > :53:56.Hamilton pretty even. Fernando Alonso charging down. Sebastian

:53:57. > :54:02.Vettel trying to make it wide. He splits the Mercedes, and Fernando

:54:02. > :54:08.Alonso is in fourth place. He is trying to get fourth place from Kimi

:54:08. > :54:14.Raikkonen. He is trying to get Lewis Hamilton as well, that is amazing

:54:14. > :54:18.from Fernando Alonso! He is up into third position! Brilliant stuff from

:54:18. > :54:25.Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. It looked like a car moved

:54:25. > :54:32.early, so I look forward to seeing a replay. Did Fernando Alonso get more

:54:32. > :54:38.than a great start? Nico Rosberg would have wanted to have his

:54:38. > :54:42.team-mate behind him, to give the team the support they need. The

:54:42. > :54:46.minute they pushed, the tyres went off the end of the cliff, so

:54:46. > :54:53.Mercedes are vulnerable. But they have said they will run their own

:54:53. > :54:59.race, they will not push too hard in the early stages. Sergio Perez and

:54:59. > :55:03.Felipe Massa fighting for sixth place. Adrian Sutil has moved up to

:55:03. > :55:10.eighth place, a really good start. He is ahead of his team-mate in 10th

:55:10. > :55:18.place. Mark Webber has lost out, he is down in 12th place. Things are

:55:18. > :55:21.going wrong for him. As they come around, Nico Rosberg has the lead,

:55:21. > :55:27.Sebastian Vettel in second, Fernando Alonso inferred, Lewis Hamilton in

:55:27. > :55:33.fourth. Here comes the other Ferrari, trying to go around the

:55:34. > :55:40.outside. Felipe Massa already on the move, up into sixth place. A great

:55:40. > :55:49.opening lap. Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso hungry for more

:55:49. > :55:55.table Championships. Fernando Alonso has made it clear his dream. RADIO:

:55:55. > :56:00.Dutiful, you are in the pack, go for it. He almost has a fatherly voice

:56:00. > :56:04.to Felipe Massa, and it clearly works. A great relationship between

:56:04. > :56:11.driver and engineer. Kimi Raikkonen will not be so happy with the start

:56:11. > :56:18.of this race, he is down to fifth place. He is chasing Lewis Hamilton.

:56:18. > :56:23.Lewis Hamilton wanting to look after the tyres from an early point. Jules

:56:23. > :56:28.Bianchi is being told to stay out there, despite some damage. He is

:56:28. > :56:35.running 21st, Giedo van der Garde is the lead of the younger teens

:56:35. > :56:44.towards the back. Look at how they are bunching up. Nico Rosberg is not

:56:44. > :56:53.able to extend the advantage. Multiple DRS cars available once we

:56:53. > :56:56.get into the zone. All of those cars would be able to activate DRS. It

:56:56. > :57:02.might be more difficult on this circuit, because it is such a fast

:57:02. > :57:11.run onto the straight. The second zone is a high-speed corner

:57:12. > :57:15.normally. It is slowed slightly by the fact that they have fuel.

:57:15. > :57:24.Rosberg leads from Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. DRS is

:57:24. > :57:34.available now. Sergio Perez is dropping away in the McLaren. They

:57:34. > :57:45.

:57:45. > :57:49.are getting closer and closer, the his team to get Nico Hulkenberg.

:57:50. > :57:57.Jenson Button is all the way down in 17th place, it has not in a good

:57:57. > :58:01.start for him. Contrasting styles, the early turn of Nico Rosberg, and

:58:01. > :58:08.Sebastian Vettel running very wide before cutting back. That might be a

:58:08. > :58:14.strategy to straighten the exit. RADIO: It is important to look after

:58:14. > :58:18.the left rear. He has had that horrible experience from going from

:58:18. > :58:23.pole position to ninth place last time. He needs to look after the

:58:23. > :58:30.tyres will stop and perhaps not fight too hard. Sebastian Vettel is

:58:30. > :58:39.not quite close enough, the DRS is operating now, but he was not close

:58:39. > :58:46.enough to use it. The Williams of Pastor Maldonado going through. What

:58:46. > :58:50.happened to Valtteri Bottas? Perhaps what caught my eye was that Felipe

:58:50. > :58:59.Massa had such a flyer relative to Mark Webber. Everybody reacted

:58:59. > :59:07.cleanly. Fernando Alonso had to go on the outside. A lock-up from Lewis

:59:07. > :59:11.Hamilton. Look at Fernando Alonso, on the outside of the Lotus, who

:59:11. > :59:21.gets hunched up behind the Mercedes. It is fantastic to watch these

:59:21. > :59:32.

:59:32. > :59:42.drivers go wheel to wheel. He makes Prix, Fernando Alonso, and neither

:59:42. > :59:45.

:59:45. > :59:54.from pole position will stop initial reaction was good. Look for

:59:54. > :00:02.the Markup on the brakes. There was contact with Sebastian Vettel. Just

:00:02. > :00:12.a little kiss between professionals. It does not make any damage to the

:00:12. > :00:13.

:00:13. > :00:20.car. Now he is running in free air. He is not getting the slipstream.

:00:20. > :00:30.He positions himself through two, cuts back and catches the Lotus.

:00:30. > :00:40.Once the opportunity was there, heat to kit. That was phenomenal! -

:00:40. > :00:45.

:00:45. > :00:55.- he took it. A bad start from Mark Webber. Filipe Massa decided to

:00:55. > :01:00.

:01:00. > :01:10.bail out of that won a. Feisty staff from both the Ferraris. --

:01:10. > :01:14.

:01:14. > :01:24.that one. I was going to talk about Ferrari. There is a blank space.

:01:24. > :01:25.

:01:25. > :01:35.Pat fry it is not out there today because he had an appendix

:01:35. > :01:39.

:01:39. > :01:44.operation. They are a man down. front, Nico Rosberg leads. You had

:01:44. > :01:52.Kimi Raikkonen chasing down Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso was the

:01:52. > :01:57.fastest man of all in the speed trap. As Sebastian Vettel runs in

:01:57. > :02:05.the dirty air off the back of the Mercedes, he is able to be close

:02:05. > :02:11.enough coming off the last turn. It is a huge amount. It will mean that

:02:11. > :02:18.Sebastian Vettel will struggle to get himself into position to use

:02:18. > :02:26.DRS. Filipe Massa and needs to go defensive. He is well into the DRS

:02:26. > :02:32.zone. He got a bit of oversteer as he went into the turn. No chance

:02:32. > :02:38.for Filipe Massa to draw alongside the Lotus. He showed that Ferrari

:02:38. > :02:45.had great pace on Friday. It has been confirmed that Ferrari, on

:02:45. > :02:53.this tyre at least, is flying. Fernando Alonso is putting pressure

:02:53. > :02:58.on Sebastian Vettel. Let's watch as they exit out on to the final turn.

:02:58. > :03:05.On board with Kimi Raikkonen. He is chasing you is Hamilton will start

:03:06. > :03:15.Filipe Massa is close, not close enough to challenge will start Kimi

:03:16. > :03:28.

:03:28. > :03:35.Raikkonen runs out of the straight this phase of the Grand Prix. When

:03:35. > :03:43.you contrast that to qualifying, it is significantly slower. Eight gap

:03:43. > :03:53.developing between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. Then the gap

:03:53. > :03:54.

:03:54. > :04:01.back to Sergio Perez. Ben Adrian Sutil in the Force India. Then the

:04:01. > :04:06.second Force India. Mark Webber is in 11th place. An attack by Kimi

:04:06. > :04:12.Raikkonen. It has moved him up into 4th place. Lewis Hamilton was

:04:13. > :04:22.harder on his tyres in free practice. He was not able to drive

:04:22. > :04:32.the car like that. They are surely going for four stops with Mark

:04:32. > :04:33.

:04:33. > :04:38.Webber. They are trying to get him out of trouble. Lewis Hamilton is

:04:38. > :04:48.too far back. I wonder if Filipe Massa will have a chance of getting

:04:48. > :04:49.

:04:49. > :04:57.past year is Hamilton will start a brand new set of hard tyres. --

:04:57. > :05:02.past Lewis Hamilton. Filipe Massa earned his putting Lewis Hamilton

:05:02. > :05:08.under pressure. They have had many wren ins in the past. Hopefully

:05:08. > :05:18.they can put that behind them. need to push early in this stint

:05:18. > :05:25.

:05:25. > :05:30.will -- this stint. That is confirmation of the four stop

:05:30. > :05:38.strategy. Once they move up into the mid- grid areas, he will start

:05:38. > :05:44.to lose performance. Up a great move from Filipe Massa. He has

:05:44. > :05:54.taken fifth-place. Lewis Hamilton is dropping back quickly pulls up

:05:54. > :05:54.

:05:54. > :06:02.he has been told to think about brake balance. Ferrari is getting

:06:02. > :06:12.ready for a pit stop. It is for Filipe Massa apple stuck behind him

:06:12. > :06:20.

:06:20. > :06:27.on its tyres. That is interesting. We will have to wait and see how

:06:27. > :06:33.long they can go on for. Still dreaming of last year and wondering

:06:33. > :06:43.what a difference 12 months makes. He was still in a Williams pit

:06:43. > :06:43.

:06:44. > :06:49.bulls up damage to Romain Grosjean. He has damage to his car. Is that a

:06:49. > :06:55.failure out on track? Force India has a very long stop. Is it

:06:55. > :07:05.memories of Malaysia with the horrible pick stop problems? It is

:07:05. > :07:07.

:07:07. > :07:15.not good. -- pit stop. It looks to be all over for Romain Grosjean.

:07:15. > :07:21.is obviously attached at the top. Just wobbling around. I wonder if

:07:22. > :07:28.there was a bit of contact around back position. We will have to wait

:07:28. > :07:37.and see. Adrian Sutil has come back out onto the track. I think they

:07:37. > :07:43.have managed to send him on his way again. Fernando Alonso into the

:07:43. > :07:51.pits. A straight forward stop. Lewis Hamilton is in as well. Paul

:07:52. > :07:58.di Resta is also into the pits. Away it goes Fernando Alonso. 2.5

:07:58. > :08:06.stationery. That is very impressive. He goes out behind Jenson Button.

:08:06. > :08:16.He is at last making up some ground. Everyone is bailing out early. We

:08:16. > :08:17.

:08:17. > :08:23.saw Jenson Button locking up into Turn One. Romain Grosjean has been

:08:24. > :08:31.in the points every grand prix this season so far. There was no contact.

:08:31. > :08:39.The back end has let go on him. The stationery stop for Lewis Hamilton

:08:39. > :08:46.was five seconds. Not good for him. He will have lost some ground. Mark

:08:46. > :08:52.Webber is further back down the field. These are the top two. Nico

:08:52. > :08:58.Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel. Neither of them have gone into the

:08:58. > :09:07.pits. Both the leaders are into the pits. They can still make this a

:09:07. > :09:14.three-star race. This is a battle of the pit crews. -- a three stop

:09:14. > :09:21.race. It was quick. It will be close. Up they will be very tight

:09:21. > :09:27.but they had just about managed to get Nico Rosberg in front of the

:09:27. > :09:32.Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso is on the outside.

:09:32. > :09:38.He has gained a place from Sebastian Vettel but he has not

:09:38. > :09:45.managed to get past the Mercedes. He is having a go at getting past

:09:45. > :09:53.the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg. He is under pressure from Fernando Alonso.

:09:53. > :10:03.He made good use of the fresh tyres. He has been getting his nose in

:10:03. > :10:10.

:10:10. > :10:16.There is are only so much you can defend. Filipe Massa is not very

:10:16. > :10:23.far behind. He is being chased down by Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi Raikkonen

:10:23. > :10:31.in the background is making a move. He went through. No problem at all.

:10:31. > :10:36.He is running in 7th place at the moment. We had a drive-through

:10:36. > :10:43.penalty for Pastor Maldonado. He was taking a strange line at one

:10:43. > :10:53.point, we noticed. Nico Rosberg is in the lead of this group at the

:10:53. > :10:54.

:10:54. > :11:00.moment. Rosberg does take over the lead of the race. Filipe Massa er

:11:01. > :11:10.is in there as well. It is very close in the top group. Further

:11:10. > :11:19.back, Hamilton is weighed down by a pack in comparison. -- way down.

:11:19. > :11:27.Jenson Button is in about 15th place. Fernando Alonso is weaving

:11:27. > :11:35.about. Nico Rosberg is wise to it. He is having to go up very

:11:35. > :11:41.defensive. The Ferrari was a bit too wide. They are coming up to the

:11:41. > :11:50.second DRS zone. Up through turn nine they come. No change on the

:11:50. > :11:58.rear wing of the car of Nico Rosberg. He has managed to close up.

:11:58. > :12:05.Not enough space on the straight. Kimi Raikkonen is joining in in 6th

:12:05. > :12:15.place. Mark Webber is in 7th. Pour the master and Lewis Carroll 10,

:12:15. > :12:21.who is in 10th place. -- Paul di Resta and Lewis Hamilton. Fernando

:12:21. > :12:28.Alonso is closer than on the last lap but he is losing time. Here

:12:28. > :12:35.comes Fernando Alonso. He has gone for the lead in the Spanish Grand

:12:35. > :12:42.Prix and he is ahead. Look at the response from the fans! Their man

:12:42. > :12:52.is in front. The Ferrari is working well. Nico Rosberg is struggling.

:12:52. > :12:54.

:12:54. > :13:04.Great stuff! Bernice said, Fernando Alonso for the win. -- Bernie

:13:04. > :13:14.Ecclestone. Sebastian Vettel is attacking. He has gone past Nico

:13:14. > :13:20.

:13:20. > :13:26.Rosberg. He has gone into second here is Filipe Massa. He locks up

:13:26. > :13:35.but gets away with it. That passed by Sebastian Vettel will be him

:13:35. > :13:41.using all his KERS. It leaves him vulnerable. He has gone

:13:41. > :13:49.strategically. It is an example of how you deploy the horse power and

:13:49. > :13:59.use it anywhere on the lap. Riding on board with Kimi Raikkonen.

:13:59. > :14:01.

:14:01. > :14:11.Fernando Alonso it is in the lead. Sebastian Vettel is in second place.

:14:11. > :14:14.

:14:14. > :14:22.Sergio Perez is in 7th place. Lewis Hamilton is in 9th. The over speed

:14:22. > :14:30.was such a difference. Fernando Alonso gained with the DRS open. He

:14:30. > :14:39.was the fastest man of all in qualifying. A round of applause

:14:39. > :14:48.from his own mechanics. That was Filipe Massa. What have you got

:14:48. > :14:53.from the pits? I was going to talk about strategy. A conventional

:14:53. > :14:59.three stop, we were expecting them to pit about now. All the leaders

:14:59. > :15:07.have come in quite early. Lewis Hamilton went from the back of the

:15:07. > :15:14.grid to eighth last year. Can they make this middle stint long?

:15:14. > :15:20.Perhaps longer than before the start of the race. This race is not

:15:20. > :15:25.over. How they manage their tyres and which tyres are on. Kimi

:15:25. > :15:31.Raikkonen is on the medium compound. All those around him are on the

:15:31. > :15:38.hard compound. He is going on the attack. Kimi Raikkonen takes the

:15:38. > :15:48.place and gets past the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg. He is in 4th position.

:15:48. > :15:57.

:15:57. > :16:03.He is on a different tyre. Can he the ones that matter, indeed, it

:16:03. > :16:11.could come down to that. That is the over speed that is available with

:16:11. > :16:21.DRS. Nico Rosberg does not weave at all, there is no point picking up

:16:21. > :16:25.

:16:25. > :16:32.dust. 200 mph. 15 laps in, they will have burned 40 kilos of mass. That

:16:32. > :16:39.is being used in creating the horsepower. He is passing Lewis

:16:39. > :16:43.Hamilton into ninth place. Daniel Ricciardo up into the top ten, and

:16:43. > :16:48.Mercedes are dropping back as badly as we have seen, more than in China,

:16:48. > :16:58.and similar to Bahrain, but it could change in the latter part of the

:16:58. > :17:01.

:17:01. > :17:11.race. Two Ferrari is in the top three. Mark Webber is some way back.

:17:11. > :17:14.

:17:14. > :17:22.RADIO: Mark Webber is behind, he is going to. So. Mark Webber came in

:17:22. > :17:28.early, he is charging hard, but his last lap was not that quick, 31.8.

:17:28. > :17:32.He is not closing the gap to Nico Rosberg on the last lap. Listen to

:17:32. > :17:39.the response for Fernando Alonso, fabulous. Thousands of people on the

:17:39. > :17:46.hillside. You can hear it above the roar of the engine. That is what you

:17:46. > :17:50.call fun power. I remember overtaking at Silverstone to take

:17:50. > :17:58.the lead in the British grand prix and I heard the crowd cheering,

:17:58. > :18:02.which was a bit disconcerting! wonderful moment for Fernando

:18:02. > :18:10.Alonso, he leads the Spanish crown three. But there is a long way to

:18:10. > :18:20.go. RADIO: You are doing a great job, look after the tyres, we will

:18:20. > :18:22.

:18:22. > :18:27.make places. He is on the same strategy as is, he has new primes.

:18:27. > :18:33.He is on slightly fresher tyres, Mark Webber is being told, but they

:18:33. > :18:37.think they are on a similar strategy. We will wait and see.

:18:37. > :18:44.pace of the McLaren is not too bad from Sergio Perez. He is closing the

:18:44. > :18:50.gap. Mark Webber was the first of the drivers in, he stop on lap

:18:50. > :18:55.seven. You would not have thought that a McLaren would be pushing a

:18:55. > :19:01.Red Bull, but Sergio Perez found some form in qualifying, he did a

:19:01. > :19:07.good job, contrasting with Jenson Button. 14 seconds behind his

:19:07. > :19:13.team-mate at the moment. In Bahrain, Mark Webber lost a place to Sergio

:19:13. > :19:18.Perez at the end, when it did count. Sergio Perez will be thinking about

:19:18. > :19:25.that and hoping he can do something similar. Look at the graining.

:19:25. > :19:34.RADIO: The drivers in front are struggling on their tyres. This is

:19:34. > :19:40.really good. Some very encouraging words to Sergio Perez. We have seen

:19:40. > :19:47.one driver go out of the race so far, Romain Grosjean. That looked

:19:47. > :19:53.like a nasty surprise, tell us what happened. I made a little failure,

:19:53. > :19:59.the breaking into corner ten. Suddenly, the wheel came completely

:19:59. > :20:09.loose. It was not very nice. contact, no indication it would

:20:09. > :20:13.

:20:13. > :20:17.happen? Nothing. I was waiting to go for it, and it just broke. Sergio

:20:17. > :20:25.Perez has closed up to the back of Mark Webber. You feel the Australian

:20:25. > :20:31.is struggling, 32.0, his last lap, not quick at all. Sergio Perez

:20:31. > :20:40.trying to close the gap. Behind them, Paul di Resta and Daniel

:20:40. > :20:44.Ricciardo, for eighth place. Tom? is worth watching Mark Webber,

:20:44. > :20:51.because his straight line speed in qualifying, he was the slowest of

:20:51. > :20:56.everybody, so with his tyre problems as well, he will be a sitting duck.

:20:56. > :21:02.There is the DRS, but Sergio Perez dropped back a bit more. Let's see

:21:02. > :21:12.if he does another time lap. I expect he will be coming in soon.

:21:12. > :21:13.

:21:13. > :21:20.RADIO: Trouble with the front left. Understood. It is graining. It is

:21:20. > :21:26.causing him a problem. He is sticking with it, but he is allowing

:21:26. > :21:30.the battle behind him to close up. Interesting statistics, talking

:21:30. > :21:38.about Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, because the gap is now 3.7

:21:38. > :21:44.seconds. The Ferrari is flying. There is a change further back, and

:21:45. > :21:51.already does get past Paul di Resta. A lot of development parts on the

:21:51. > :22:01.Toro Rosso, and it is working very effectively. Mark Webber again, 32,

:22:01. > :22:02.

:22:02. > :22:08.three seconds slower than the race leader. That is not just struggling.

:22:08. > :22:13.That was for eighth position, Daniel Ricciardo well inside the top ten.

:22:13. > :22:19.We are on board with Esteban Gutierrez, battling with Jean-Eric

:22:19. > :22:22.Vergne, and he got the place. That has moved him up into 12. The long

:22:22. > :22:28.early stint for Esteban Gutierrez has helped him. That is a good

:22:29. > :22:35.effort. We will see if it works well later. Fernando Alonso still setting

:22:36. > :22:40.some pretty good times. He is able to extend his lead. Gary, the

:22:40. > :22:43.Ferrari cars are showing the form we saw on Friday afternoon, because we

:22:43. > :22:49.have seen it from Felipe Massa as well, but Kimi Raikkonen is

:22:49. > :22:54.closing. Kimi Raikkonen is only on the medium tyre. They have a

:22:55. > :23:01.different strategy. Fernando Alonso, the Ferrari is looking

:23:01. > :23:05.pretty good on the tyres. They could pull away in clean air. I am

:23:05. > :23:15.surprised at Lewis Hamilton dropping back to 10th place. He did not look

:23:15. > :23:16.

:23:16. > :23:23.as good in practice is Nico Rosberg. RADIO: It is difficult. Understood,

:23:23. > :23:28.box. At the end of this lap. Felipe Massa will be coming in at the end

:23:28. > :23:33.of this lap, that is quite early, he has got some sort of difficulty.

:23:33. > :23:39.Daniel Ricciardo is flying in eighth place, but he has caught Sergio

:23:39. > :23:46.Perez had of him. Kimi Raikkonen has been catching Felipe Massa. Very

:23:46. > :23:53.interesting to watch that. Yes, Fernando Alonso's tyre is really

:23:53. > :23:59.grained. Corner three really picks it up. It is not too big a drama,

:23:59. > :24:03.because it will happen. It starts throwing bits of rubber of the tyre.

:24:03. > :24:09.The driver does not like it, because it is not confidence boosting.

:24:09. > :24:15.you, Gary. Will we see Felipe Massa? Yes, the Ferrari crew are

:24:15. > :24:23.ready. Felipe Massa brings the car back into the pits. It is a short

:24:23. > :24:27.run, only 11 or 12 laps on that set of tyres. He will be going on to

:24:28. > :24:31.another set of the hard compound tyre. I wonder whether there was

:24:31. > :24:41.another problem there, but that is a short stint. The tyres are so

:24:41. > :24:44.

:24:44. > :24:47.His lap times were too far away. Woods you get in a situation that

:24:47. > :24:52.the tyres have fallen beyond their operating window, you cannot bring

:24:52. > :24:57.them back again. If you keep them below that point, like with Fernando

:24:57. > :25:06.Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, who are running nip and tuck, Kimi Raikkonen

:25:06. > :25:12.close to them, and when you run down further, Nico Rosberg is one second

:25:12. > :25:16.behind per lap, so you can see the effect. Esteban Gutierrez, the

:25:16. > :25:19.second Sauber, he is having a good run, he went for the long first

:25:19. > :25:23.stint, and it has brought him out behind his team-mate, who was

:25:23. > :25:32.further up the grid. Felipe Massa under pressure from Daniel

:25:32. > :25:38.Ricciardo. Daniel Ricciardo has got past, -- he has got past Sergio

:25:38. > :25:46.Perez and Nico Rosberg. Fernando Alonso is coming in. And Sergio

:25:46. > :25:49.Perez behind Felipe Massa. Felipe Massa has had his other stop. Daniel

:25:49. > :25:55.Ricciardo is going well, Lewis Hamilton in eighth place. That

:25:55. > :26:05.pitstop was slightly slow. Where will it put him out relative to Nico

:26:05. > :26:11.Rosberg? The coals but has gone through. By the time he gets on the

:26:11. > :26:21.back of him, Nico Rosberg will have decided his tyres have had enough.

:26:21. > :26:23.

:26:23. > :26:30.Ferrari might be going for the four stops, charging along. RADIO: OK,

:26:30. > :26:34.try to make it back. That will be a shameful Giedo van der Garde if he

:26:34. > :26:44.has got a problem, he is the second of the younger teens group, behind

:26:44. > :26:45.

:26:45. > :26:50.Shoal Peak. This was after he exited the pits. Because of the pitstop, he

:26:50. > :26:58.was behind, but he got passed in front of him, so he is now running

:26:58. > :27:02.in fifth place. Could he make the move on Sergio Perez? Yes. Ferrari

:27:02. > :27:08.going for four stops and being aggressive on the tyres all the

:27:08. > :27:13.time. Sebastian Vettel might not be doing that. He might be trying to

:27:13. > :27:17.stay out longer to try to do this with three stops. He will have to do

:27:17. > :27:24.another five or six laps from where he is now. He stays out for the

:27:24. > :27:33.moment, one minute, 30.7, but he is being caught by Kimi Raikkonen, 2.1

:27:33. > :27:41.seconds behind him. As the race goes on, more and more rubber stays down.

:27:41. > :27:49.Fernando Alonso has caught Nico Rosberg. Felipe Massa's fastest lap

:27:49. > :27:57.of all, 28.1. Massively faster than anybody else, and Fernando Alonso

:27:57. > :28:03.will be around that mark. You get the situation that you can push

:28:03. > :28:07.harder and harder and longer as the fuel burns off. They might be making

:28:07. > :28:13.early stops, but they might be able to pull that back later. Jenson

:28:13. > :28:18.Button against Mark Webber. You can see Giedo van der Garde, his rear

:28:18. > :28:24.wheel falling off, that is not a good thing. That is a shame for

:28:24. > :28:29.Giedo van der Garde. The wheel goes off to the gravel track. He manages

:28:29. > :28:35.to get it back to the pits. He is limping back. The youngsters

:28:35. > :28:40.appreciate the free styling! I do not think Giedo van der Garde

:28:40. > :28:46.appreciates it, he was on for a decent run. I wonder how much damage

:28:46. > :28:50.has been done to the car, they might get him back out. Sebastian Vettel

:28:50. > :28:55.leads, but the gap has gone down, Kimi Raikkonen is right behind, and

:28:55. > :29:00.he has to keep pushing, because Fernando Alonso's pace is still

:29:00. > :29:07.looking very strong. Felipe Massa trying to get past Nico Rosberg,

:29:07. > :29:14.this will be straightforward. Fernando Alonso, 27.7, the fastest

:29:14. > :29:24.lap of all. Kimi Raikkonen took 1.4 seconds out of Sebastian Vettel on

:29:24. > :29:41.

:29:41. > :29:46.10 at the moment. He is still on for a top 10 finish. It is a little

:29:46. > :29:52.bit over the one-third distance. Kimi Raikkonen is bearing down on

:29:52. > :29:58.Sebastian Vettel for the lead but Fernando Alonso is flying in third

:29:58. > :30:03.place. By the time Sebastian Vettel makes his stop, it is about 18

:30:03. > :30:09.seconds. A what happened there? Kimi Raikkonen appeared to have

:30:09. > :30:19.lost ground. I should think Sebastian Vettel will think about

:30:19. > :30:29.popping in. Kimi Raikkonen is freed up. He is able to extend the Lotus

:30:29. > :30:42.

:30:42. > :30:49.a bit more. He is in front of Daniel Ricciardo, who is in sixth.

:30:49. > :30:58.6th Filipe Massa gains a place. Sebastian Vettel has come out. He

:30:59. > :31:04.is behind Nico Rosberg as well. Mark Webber makes a move. He goes

:31:04. > :31:12.past Esteban Gutierrez. Maybe his tyres are now going away. Mark

:31:12. > :31:22.Webber is on virtually new tyres. Mark Webber is in 6th position.

:31:22. > :31:25.

:31:25. > :31:34.Kimi Raikkonen continues to lead. The parties man out on circuit --

:31:34. > :31:40.this was Mark Webber of getting past Hamilton. In the space of the

:31:40. > :31:49.two corners, Hamilton last two places. It is really struggling at

:31:49. > :31:55.the moment. He is in 9th place. is struggling with traction. It

:31:55. > :32:02.looks like the tyres had completely given up. Esteban Gutierrez is

:32:02. > :32:11.struggling on his tyres. Paul di Resta is going through. Now running

:32:11. > :32:21.in 9th position. Look at the lap comparisons. Fernando Alonso was

:32:21. > :32:25.

:32:25. > :32:31.1.7 seconds faster last time around. Lewis Hamilton is coming in this

:32:31. > :32:38.lap. Mercedes do seem to be making this a three stop race. They are

:32:38. > :32:46.very much running to their own pace. Hamilton is in. He is struggling.

:32:46. > :32:51.He does not seem to be able to get as much durability out of the tyres

:32:51. > :32:57.as Nico Rosberg. It is a quick tyre over a single lap but they are

:32:57. > :33:03.struggling with the peak temperatures and the compound

:33:03. > :33:13.reacting and evolving. It starts to lose grip. The lap time for Kimi

:33:13. > :33:13.

:33:13. > :33:21.Raikkonen on the last lap was quite good. Fernando Alonso it is still a

:33:22. > :33:30.fair bit quicker but not quite as much quicker as he was. Into the

:33:30. > :33:37.pits comes Kimi Raikkonen. He has gone into the pits on lap 26. Is he

:33:37. > :33:43.going to go back on to the medium tyres? You can see the different

:33:43. > :33:53.tyre use strategy continues. All around him are using the hard tyre.

:33:53. > :33:55.

:33:56. > :34:00.Sebastian Vettel goes past. He will be close to own Nico Rosberg.

:34:00. > :34:08.know there was not projected to be much difference between the medium

:34:08. > :34:14.and the hard tyre in race pace. In qualifying, it was faster with the

:34:14. > :34:21.medium tyre. The fact they have been used and put in storage

:34:21. > :34:28.overnight, chilled out of and heated up the next day, it hardens

:34:28. > :34:38.the rubber and makes it more durable again. Pastor Maldonado is

:34:38. > :34:46.going past Lewis Hamilton. That was nice and clean. Lewis Hamilton was

:34:46. > :34:53.looking to come back on him. left front is critical. That is

:34:53. > :34:58.what you need to look after. That was on a fairly new set of tyres.

:34:58. > :35:05.There went Fernando Alonso. In the background is Filipe Massa. He

:35:05. > :35:12.started in 9th position. Let's have a look at the gap! It is seven

:35:12. > :35:19.seconds as they go over the line. Sebastian Vettel is on a different

:35:19. > :35:25.strategy. They have made two stops. They are fairly even. We think

:35:25. > :35:34.possibly Red Bull are trying to make one stop bless. Fernando

:35:34. > :35:40.Alonso was faster than Sebastian Vettel. -- less. Effectively, if

:35:41. > :35:50.Sebastian Vettel is going with four it stops and Fernando Alonso with

:35:51. > :36:05.

:36:05. > :36:14.three, he can get the extra three Hamilton is dropping down a bit.

:36:14. > :36:21.Valtteri Bottas is still running. Now I have been overtaken by a

:36:21. > :36:26.Williams. He does not sound impressed. We are on board with

:36:26. > :36:34.Lewis Hamilton. Let's see what he is doing. He has got Pastor

:36:34. > :36:41.Maldonado back. He has indeed. If you are not up with the front-

:36:41. > :36:47.runners, you may as well have a bit of fun battling. What is Kimi

:36:47. > :36:57.Raikkonen doing? It is interesting to watch will start he is quite a

:36:57. > :36:58.

:36:58. > :37:03.lot faster than Sebastian Vettel. - - he is interesting to watch. He

:37:03. > :37:13.was faster than Sebastian Vettel, who we had already heard is trying

:37:13. > :37:23.to look after his tyre temperatures. They are trying to control the

:37:23. > :37:31.

:37:31. > :37:41.front left whereas before it was affecting the front tyre and the

:37:41. > :37:42.

:37:42. > :37:46.Mercedes. Fernando Alonso is flying up front. Lewis Hamilton is in 14th

:37:46. > :37:56.position. It looked so wonderful yesterday with the Mercedes lockout

:37:56. > :38:03.on the front row. He is languishing in 14th. A lot of cars with similar

:38:04. > :38:09.strategies. That was where he got past by Pastor Maldonado. That was

:38:09. > :38:13.a straight forward pass. It needs a committed overtake. The arrests is

:38:13. > :38:23.open on the part of Kimi Raikkonen as he gets closer to Sebastian

:38:23. > :38:28.

:38:28. > :38:38.Vettel. -- and DRS is open on the car. I cannot drive any slower!

:38:38. > :38:39.

:38:39. > :38:44.That hurts. It does. Kimi Raikkonen closed right up into turn four. I

:38:44. > :38:53.thought he might have sensed the chance to get through. He is going

:38:53. > :38:59.to be close. No doubt his car will not turn in as sharply as the Lotus.

:38:59. > :39:03.Just reflecting on the terminology, saying the rear tyre is reaching

:39:03. > :39:09.the top of the window. That would represent something you can look

:39:09. > :39:16.through, look beyond, loop to the horizon. If it means it is near to

:39:16. > :39:23.the point they are close to no longer operating, they should use

:39:23. > :39:28.the cliff terminology. That allowed Kimi Raikkonen to close up on the

:39:28. > :39:37.entry phase. Sebastian Vettel has pulled away from Kimi Raikkonen as

:39:37. > :39:44.they exit. If you want to know what a Formula One car hitting a sausage

:39:44. > :39:50.kerb looks like, we had a great view! The this is crucial time last

:39:50. > :39:59.four Kimi Raikkonen. He is losing a second a lap. He is desperate to

:39:59. > :40:06.get past as soon as possible. Kimi Raikkonen have a chance to

:40:06. > :40:13.pounds into four or five? Sebastian Vettel will need to be defensive.

:40:13. > :40:20.He has a loss of downforce into the apex. He is a wide before using the

:40:20. > :40:28.throttle again. -- he is why it. Presumably the wide line is what

:40:28. > :40:34.you're talking about. Sebastian Vettel is 17.6 seconds behind the

:40:34. > :40:42.race leader, Fernando Alonso. Next time he will be Athol pit stop

:40:42. > :40:52.behind. It gives Ferrari a whole range of opportunities. -- a whole

:40:52. > :41:01.

:41:01. > :41:09.I could not work out what it was all about. The Marussia is coming

:41:09. > :41:19.into the pits, it looks like Max Chilton. Now come at Sebastian

:41:19. > :41:20.

:41:20. > :41:30.Vettel is likely to pick up the DRS itself. -- at now, Sebastian Vettel.

:41:30. > :41:40.Filipe Massa is still in second position at the moment. The -- if

:41:40. > :41:41.

:41:41. > :41:51.they are on a four stop strategy... Hold it together. You need to do

:41:51. > :41:59.this. Lots of encouragement from Rob Smedley. Sebastian Vettel is

:41:59. > :42:08.still fending off Kimi Raikkonen. If he can hold on and open up the

:42:09. > :42:15.gap to 19, 20 seconds, it is his pit crew some breathing space. Up

:42:15. > :42:20.that is brave! Sebastian Vettel gives only just enough space.

:42:20. > :42:26.Sebastian Vettel almost lost a position. That is a special line

:42:26. > :42:32.that Sebastian Vettel is taking in trying to look after his tyres. Can

:42:32. > :42:38.he not hit the kerb so much a? Not on the kerb but he gets a touch of

:42:38. > :42:46.will spin will start that allows Sebastian Vettel to gain another

:42:47. > :42:53.car length. Still not quite close enough. Frustrating for Kimi

:42:53. > :43:03.Raikkonen. He has done it. He is side by side with Sebastian Vettel.

:43:03. > :43:04.

:43:04. > :43:08.He really went for it will start that was great stuff from Sebastian

:43:08. > :43:16.Vettel. In the end, you have to say that Sebastian Vettel was not sure

:43:16. > :43:26.where he was but left him enough of a car's width. I did not catch the

:43:26. > :43:26.

:43:27. > :43:31.radio message. I was too excited.I was not complaining! Let's take

:43:32. > :43:40.another look. I did not think he was going to go for it. I believe

:43:40. > :43:48.the message was, you have to raise your race. Do not over defend.

:43:48. > :43:54.Drive to the tyres you have got. All of this plays perfectly into

:43:54. > :44:04.the hands of Fernando Alonso. Last time he had eight 22nd lead. We

:44:04. > :44:19.

:44:19. > :44:23.need to assume that has been opened standing in the back of the McLaren

:44:23. > :44:33.garage apple stuck as Kimi Raikkonen overtook Sebastian Vettel,

:44:33. > :44:34.

:44:34. > :44:38.there was a bit of cheering from his mechanics. I can imagine that!

:44:38. > :44:46.We are watching Fernando Alonso is still exciting the fans with the

:44:46. > :44:53.advantage he has got. We are on lap 34. This gap between himself and

:44:53. > :45:03.Filipe Massa. When will we see Ferrari going into the pits?

:45:03. > :45:03.

:45:03. > :45:10.can see the lock up on turn ten. The gap to Kimi Raikkonen was 13.4

:45:10. > :45:20.seconds. Keep an eye on the Ferrari pit crew. Mark Webber is running in

:45:20. > :45:26.5th place, behind Sebastian Vettel. The gap is 11 seconds. Daniel

:45:26. > :45:36.Ricciardo is in 9th and 10th is Sergio Perez with Jenson Button in

:45:36. > :45:44.

:45:44. > :45:52.quickly now that he has got Sebastian Vettel. He was 0.9 faster

:45:52. > :46:00.last time, he has got the gap down. The pitstop time is about 18 seconds

:46:00. > :46:06.in total. About 15 seconds time lost, and if you are now a three

:46:06. > :46:12.second pitstop, that is where you get an 18 second window. He looked

:46:12. > :46:22.sluggish there, but the sector time is 24.9, that equals Fernando

:46:22. > :46:27.

:46:27. > :46:31.Alonso. Listen for the lift here. The contrast between race pace and

:46:31. > :46:40.qualifying is so obvious, you have to be so much more gentle on the

:46:40. > :46:46.car. A bit quicker than Fernando Alonso there, so he is keeping

:46:46. > :46:50.Fernando Alonso honest. If they are on the same strategy, it will not

:46:50. > :46:55.matter, but if Kimi Raikkonen is trying to do one stop less, which is

:46:55. > :47:04.possible... A pitstop for Nico Hulkenberg, released in front of the

:47:04. > :47:14.Toro Rosso. There will be a penalty. And contact! He might not have been

:47:14. > :47:15.

:47:15. > :47:24.able to see him's he definitely saw him, he did not expect it. RADIO: My

:47:24. > :47:31.front is gone. Nico Hulkenberg's Bay has got worse. Esteban Gutierrez is

:47:31. > :47:38.having a better day. Look at Kimi Raikkonen's lap times. Quicker than

:47:38. > :47:46.Felipe Massa. Definitely bearing down. But his main race is with

:47:46. > :47:52.Fernando Alonso. If we think the strategy works out as we think. But

:47:52. > :48:02.there is no sign of Ferrari coming into the pits. Will they stop for

:48:02. > :48:02.

:48:03. > :48:12.times? On that Nico Hulkenberg incident, the stewards give a hefty

:48:12. > :48:17.fine for unsafe release. Different wind change for Nico Hulkenberg.

:48:18. > :48:22.Ferrari are ready as well. We will see one of the Ferrari cars in, and

:48:22. > :48:28.it is Fernando Alonso, from the lead. This is his third pitstop,

:48:28. > :48:34.people need one more. He goes on to the medium tyre. Felipe Massa as

:48:34. > :48:43.well. Ferrari calling the strategy, 3.2 seconds for Fernando Alonso, not

:48:43. > :48:47.the best, but reasonable enough. The same strategy for Felipe Massa. They

:48:47. > :48:52.did not have to put medium tyres on, so it is interesting they have gone

:48:53. > :49:00.for the other one as the racing tire. Perhaps they are looking at

:49:00. > :49:10.Kimi Raikkonen. Mark Webber is coming in. That was a beauty. Four.

:49:10. > :49:11.

:49:11. > :49:16.Perfect. Mark Webber gets underway again. The team 's practice pitstop

:49:16. > :49:22.is 50 times per weekend, it is crucial to get every move

:49:23. > :49:27.synchronised. Kimi Raikkonen is now the race leader. The Mercedes pit

:49:27. > :49:35.crew are out as well. They will service their car. They have gone

:49:35. > :49:41.backwards this weekend. It is for Lewis Hamilton. They practice

:49:41. > :49:46.pitstops every day at the factory. Mercedes have a Formula 1 car with

:49:46. > :49:49.an electric engine, doing their bit for the environment, they drive it

:49:49. > :49:54.around the workshop, they do the practice pitstop, and drive it out

:49:54. > :50:02.again. They are working so hard to improve them. It is early on when

:50:02. > :50:12.you see it done cleanly. Kimi Raikkonen leads, but Fernando Alonso

:50:12. > :50:12.

:50:12. > :50:16.is 1.7 seconds behind. They both have one more pitstop to go. Kimi

:50:16. > :50:22.Raikkonen is still going to stop three times, but Fernando Alonso is

:50:22. > :50:29.going to stop for times. Felipe Massa needs 12 to 13 laps on this

:50:29. > :50:35.set of tyres. Cutting through the traffic, losing is little time as

:50:35. > :50:40.possible. Fernando Alonso wants to use the fresher tyres to find his

:50:40. > :50:46.way past Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi Raikkonen did his fastest lap last

:50:46. > :50:50.time around, so he was still able to find some life in the tyres. Yes,

:50:50. > :50:55.and with both of them having a pitstop to do, the choice of tyre

:50:55. > :51:00.will be interesting. Kimi Raikkonen has stuck on the medium compound

:51:00. > :51:09.until now, he has not used hard tyre, so he will have to switch.

:51:09. > :51:17.Toro Rosso wide. A mechanical problem. We will check that out in a

:51:17. > :51:22.moment. Jean-Eric Vergne Ord Daniel Ricciardo. It is Jean-Eric Vergne.

:51:22. > :51:30.Not going where he should be. dropping down the field. He has lost

:51:30. > :51:36.several places. Here comes Fernando Alonso. He has got the DRS, it will

:51:36. > :51:42.be a straightforward pass. Fernando Alonso goes ahead, he gets past Kimi

:51:42. > :51:47.Raikkonen and take the lead again. Both of them have one pitstop to go.

:51:47. > :51:52.It is all going to come down to how much Kimi Raikkonen can stay with

:51:52. > :51:58.Fernando Alonso. They cannot afford to lose too much time. Fernando

:51:58. > :52:04.Alonso is on pretty fresh tyres. That might be the result of the

:52:04. > :52:08.damage he got from Nico Hulkenberg hitting the back of him. I am not

:52:08. > :52:16.quite sure what they are doing, it was a slow stop, maybe there was

:52:16. > :52:22.some damage. Mark Webber going past Nico Rosberg. Felipe Massa was the

:52:22. > :52:30.fastest man last time around. still trying to get second place.

:52:30. > :52:35.The right rear wheel. We have seen that a couple of times. This weekend

:52:35. > :52:44.and on previous weekends. It is a great shame. It looks like an

:52:44. > :52:50.explosion when it goes off. The metal belt that holds it together.

:52:51. > :52:54.The tread of the tyre, the weakest part of the tyre, and it is about

:52:54. > :53:01.how it is constructive. This was Fernando Alonso getting past Kimi

:53:01. > :53:09.Raikkonen. Adrian Sutil has set the fastest lap in this race. RADIO:

:53:09. > :53:13.Your front brakes are too hot, the rear brakes or cold. That is why you

:53:13. > :53:22.have rear locking, the brake balance needs to come to the back. It is

:53:22. > :53:27.counted intuitive for the driver. If you know you have real locking, you

:53:27. > :53:33.would not want to put more rear brake ballots, but it is all

:53:33. > :53:36.relative when the temperatures are called, they are only running at

:53:36. > :53:43.seven or 800 degrees instead of 1000d. Sebastian Vettel has been

:53:43. > :53:49.into the pits, he will have to make another pitstop. 26 laps to go. He

:53:49. > :53:54.will have to get another pitstop in. It looks like for stops for Red

:53:54. > :54:00.Bull. Esteban Gutierrez under pressure from Jenson Button, for

:54:00. > :54:06.seventh place. Jenson Button is not quite able to make the move stick,

:54:06. > :54:12.but Esteban Gutierrez is a bit wide. Jenson Button still with him, but

:54:12. > :54:18.not enough, he loses the downforce and he will not be close enough.

:54:18. > :54:22.Both have done to stops so far, the Jenson Button is lapping quicker.

:54:22. > :54:30.They are fighting inside the top ten. They have done a similar number

:54:30. > :54:36.of tyres -- laps on these tyres. Fernando Alonso is one second faster

:54:36. > :54:43.than Kimi Raikkonen, the gap is three seconds, he has got to keep

:54:43. > :54:50.tilting the window, to give himself a margin. The artificial grass has

:54:50. > :55:00.been coming up all weekend. Esteban Gutierrez trying to defend from

:55:00. > :55:02.

:55:02. > :55:08.Jenson Button. RADIO: Push, push! That was a simple instruction. He is

:55:08. > :55:12.staying in front of Jenson Button at the moment. Jenson Button's

:55:12. > :55:21.team-mate Sergio Perez is down in 11th place, but he has made an extra

:55:21. > :55:27.pitstop. The message will be, defend, defend! Here comes Jenson

:55:27. > :55:33.Button, Esteban Gutierrez forcing him around, and Jenson Button gets

:55:33. > :55:39.it turned in. He has moved up into seventh place. He still has a few

:55:39. > :55:42.more laps before he needs to come into the pits. He will try to open

:55:42. > :55:48.up the advantage as much as possible. It could be that Jenson

:55:48. > :55:53.Button will make one stop fewer than his team-mate. We will see how that

:55:53. > :56:00.settles down. In the early stages of the race, Jenson Button could not

:56:00. > :56:08.make much progress. Fernando Alonso 0.4 faster than himself on this lap,

:56:08. > :56:14.27.8, 29.64 Kimi Raikkonen. The gap is just under five seconds. On board

:56:14. > :56:20.with Felipe Massa. That is all very straightforward, he is still in

:56:20. > :56:26.third place. Keep an eye on the battle between Kimi Raikkonen and

:56:26. > :56:33.Felipe Massa for second place. Winning this might be too tall an

:56:33. > :56:43.order for Kimi Raikkonen, he is 4.8 seconds behind Fernando Alonso.

:56:43. > :56:43.

:56:43. > :56:47.RADIO: Clear at the head, great job. Jenson Button being encouraged. Paul

:56:47. > :56:55.di Resta still in the top ten, Sergio Perez is in 10th place. Paul

:56:55. > :57:01.di Resta being told that he is stopping for times, and he is

:57:01. > :57:04.currently in ninth place, so he will drop back a bit. Interesting,

:57:04. > :57:10.because they have been good on the tyres, Force India, but talking to

:57:10. > :57:15.the team, they knew this would not be their best circuit, because it is

:57:15. > :57:25.a bit hard on the front tyres, they tend to be better on the stick its

:57:25. > :57:26.

:57:26. > :57:31.-- the circuits where deep rear tyres are a factor. 23 laps to go.

:57:31. > :57:36.Fernando Alonso seems to be in very good shape, he can stretch the

:57:36. > :57:42.advantage out over Kimi Raikkonen. What will they do in the final stint

:57:42. > :57:48.of this race? Will the tyres come together for Kimi Raikkonen? Will he

:57:48. > :57:55.be able to stay ahead of Felipe Massa? He was quite a lot faster

:57:55. > :57:59.than Kimi Raikkonen on that lap. He took 1.6 seconds out of him.

:57:59. > :58:09.Sebastian Vettel is going well in fourth place, but he is 13 seconds

:58:09. > :58:15.

:58:15. > :58:20.behind Felipe Massa. Mark Webber in performance, Jenson Button is six

:58:20. > :58:29.seconds behind Nico Rosberg, one of them started in pole position, the

:58:29. > :58:33.other one in 14th place. The gap is down to 4.5 seconds, so the man who

:58:33. > :58:38.started in 14th place, on the same strategy, will overtake the pole

:58:38. > :58:43.position sitter. Valtteri Bottas overtaken by Kimi Raikkonen are both

:58:43. > :58:51.from Finland, one a former world champion, the other in his first

:58:51. > :58:56.season in a car with hard work. Pastor Maldonado is in 14th place,

:58:56. > :59:05.so he is only a bit of the road. It will be the next car that Kimi

:59:05. > :59:10.Raikkonen tries to get past. Williams had a car that worked

:59:10. > :59:13.perfectly last year, they beat Fernando Alonso on home turf. But

:59:13. > :59:20.now Fernando Alonso is leading this race, and Felipe Massa is the

:59:20. > :59:30.fastest car on the track. He was just a few hundredths faster than

:59:30. > :59:42.

:59:42. > :59:52.Engineer. He is getting into a low levels of fuel. Nobody likes

:59:52. > :00:00.carrying a heavy load. A best finish off 4th position so far this

:00:00. > :00:06.year. He is being told to go for it now. It will be interesting. We do

:00:06. > :00:16.not know when that message was broadcast. Let's see how many laps

:00:16. > :00:16.

:00:16. > :00:23.he dares before he comes in. He is on the medium compound tyre. There

:00:23. > :00:29.is Sergio Perez. He is in 9th position will start he got his best

:00:29. > :00:36.result of the season so far up last time out. What will he do on this

:00:36. > :00:44.one? It does look as though they might be on differing strategies.

:00:44. > :00:53.He has done three stops already. Jenson Button has only Dan two.

:00:53. > :01:03.Sergio Perez is showing people he has the ability that McLaren saw in

:01:03. > :01:04.

:01:04. > :01:13.him. He has an attacking stance, as shown in Bahrain. No one will

:01:13. > :01:23.question his ability to manage tyres and read the race. It is

:01:23. > :01:24.

:01:24. > :01:30.interesting to see how he gets on in qualifying. Sebastian Vettel has

:01:30. > :01:38.a learned very quickly at this point. Kimi Raikkonen will have to

:01:38. > :01:45.stop shortly. He has only made two stops so far. Can they get two

:01:45. > :01:54.Ferraris finishing on the podium in Spain? Filipe Massa was in 9th

:01:54. > :02:04.place. He qualified in 6th. He had a penalty in qualifying. Canute box

:02:04. > :02:05.

:02:05. > :02:15.that lap? They are going for a long, final stint. 19, 20 laps on the

:02:15. > :02:16.

:02:16. > :02:23.hard tyre. Incomes Kimi Raikkonen. Let's just listen will start -- in

:02:23. > :02:33.comes Kimi Raikkonen. Let's just listen. It will be a long run to

:02:33. > :02:34.

:02:34. > :02:40.the flag. Sebastian Vettel is just a few seconds behind. He is being

:02:40. > :02:46.chased. We reckon Sebastian Vettel will come back into the pits. He

:02:46. > :02:50.will lose more time when he comes back out of the pits. It does not

:02:50. > :02:56.look as though the World Championship leader is going to be

:02:56. > :03:03.able to win this race. Kimi Raikkonen is his nearest challenger

:03:03. > :03:08.in the points at the moment. He is 10 points behind coming into this

:03:08. > :03:14.race. Red Bull had a tough race here last year. Perhaps the nature

:03:14. > :03:20.of the circuit does not suit them. Today, they do not seem to quite

:03:20. > :03:26.have the pace of Ferrari and Lotus over the longer distance. They will

:03:26. > :03:31.be a bit upset to see Kimi Raikkonen coming out in front of

:03:31. > :03:37.him. That will make it difficult this afternoon. Let's just watch

:03:37. > :03:45.him as he comes up to this final section once again. Just further

:03:45. > :03:52.Danby order, keeping an eye on who is in the top 10. -- down the order.

:03:52. > :04:00.Hamilton is in 11th place. Adrian Sutil is in her 13th. Romain

:04:00. > :04:05.Grosjean suffered a suspension failure and is out of the race, as

:04:05. > :04:11.is Guido van de garde. No safety car. No safety car period in the

:04:11. > :04:16.entire season. We are well into the 5th grand prix of the year.

:04:16. > :04:22.hope he is not paid by the lap, otherwise he might be cutting back

:04:22. > :04:28.on Christmas presents this year. has had a very quiet time of it.

:04:28. > :04:33.Fernando Alonso is leading the race. Gary, I want to ask the opinion.

:04:33. > :04:39.Kimi Raikkonen is on the hard tyre and he is going to the flag.

:04:39. > :04:44.Fernando Alonso will have to make another pit stop but he has a good

:04:44. > :04:52.margin. Fernando Alonso is in good shape. He should stay out for their

:04:52. > :04:57.next couple of laps. He needs good tyres on the last two, three laps.

:04:57. > :05:07.He has it 29 second gap. He can give up five seconds of that and

:05:07. > :05:09.

:05:09. > :05:16.not put the pit stop team under ended pressure. Come in with 24, 25

:05:16. > :05:23.and you are OK. What about Filipe Massa set against Kimi Raikkonen?

:05:23. > :05:33.Has he anything in hand? We are just looking at the tyre on the car

:05:33. > :05:33.

:05:33. > :05:39.of Filipe Massa. The tyres and getting a bit shabby. The reality

:05:39. > :05:44.of it is, I think Fernando Alonso will comfortably win this race.

:05:44. > :05:50.Kimi Raikkonen will comfortably beat in second and Filipe Massa

:05:50. > :05:56.that will be in third. This is the sort of pace we saw from Fernando

:05:56. > :06:00.Alonso in China earlier this year. They are constantly improving. It

:06:00. > :06:09.means they will challenge for the Championship. Sebastian Vettel has

:06:09. > :06:15.not been able to show that pace. very bad day for the two Red Bulls.

:06:15. > :06:22.If you look at Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, he is 18 seconds

:06:22. > :06:28.behind Fernando Alonso. A massive gap! We are learning a lot from the

:06:28. > :06:32.first European race of the season. Not necessarily what the Red Bull

:06:32. > :06:37.will want to know. They were not have at their own way. Fernando

:06:37. > :06:43.Alonso leads the Grand Prix but Kimi Raikkonen is on his final

:06:43. > :06:47.stint. He is in great shape. Filipe Massa has been told he needs to

:06:47. > :06:53.make another three laps before he makes his final pit stop. That

:06:53. > :06:58.would give him his final run to the flag. They are talking Kimi

:06:58. > :07:05.Raikkonen through this as he is doing the job well. It seems as if

:07:05. > :07:10.Barcelona and this region are having some celebrating. There was

:07:10. > :07:19.the book ball the other night. A home victory for Fernando Alonso,

:07:19. > :07:29.how good would that be? -- be football. Just riding on board with

:07:29. > :07:39.

:07:39. > :07:45.Kimi Raikkonen. Let's just listen nine. I liked to watch the front

:07:45. > :07:52.suspension movement. They have a hydraulics system which almost

:07:52. > :07:59.levels of the car. Incomes Fernando Alonso for his final pit stop. --

:07:59. > :08:06.incomes. Can they get him out safely? No trouble at all.

:08:06. > :08:14.Fantastic! Absolutely fantastic pit stop! Fernando Alonso will come out

:08:14. > :08:20.knowing he has Filipe Massa to protect him. Absolutely perfect.

:08:20. > :08:25.The fans will seek it is working well for Fernando Alonso. He re-

:08:25. > :08:31.emerges in front in the final stint of the Grand Prix. He just needs to

:08:31. > :08:40.look after the car and bring it home. He is up for braking the

:08:40. > :08:50.record state of the most number of finishers are that a mechanical

:08:50. > :08:55.failure. -- finishes without a mechanical failure. Lewis Hamilton

:08:55. > :09:03.is losing a lot of time but protecting the left-hand side.

:09:03. > :09:08.is getting driving lessons from his team-mate. How is that going down?

:09:08. > :09:17.Not well pulled up you get a high of Saturday. He is 85 seconds

:09:17. > :09:27.behind the leader, Fernando Alonso. -- not well. He is 79 seconds

:09:27. > :09:27.

:09:27. > :09:34.behind Nico Rosberg. What about Monaco? Are we going to see a huge

:09:34. > :09:44.train of cars trying to get past? That has to be the big hope. They

:09:44. > :09:51.

:09:51. > :09:58.Monaco. It backs people up a lot more than you see on the open

:09:58. > :10:05.circuits. They have been quick enough. Back at the Spanish Grand

:10:05. > :10:15.Prix, it is all about Ferrari will start at the moment it is all about

:10:15. > :10:16.

:10:16. > :10:21.Ferrari. Filipe Massa unease -- needs to make his final pit stop.

:10:21. > :10:30.That is the 4th pit stop for Mark Webber. Lewis Hamilton is being

:10:30. > :10:37.passed by Jenson Button will start that was bought 11th place. --

:10:37. > :10:47.Jenson Button. That was for 11th place. Two former team-mates but

:10:47. > :10:48.

:10:48. > :10:58.they are fighting at the bottom of the top 10. Sergio Perez is in the

:10:58. > :11:37.

:11:38. > :11:44.pits. Be careful with the left 2011 but not so today. He does not

:11:44. > :11:54.have the pace to do that. It does not seem he will get a podium and

:11:54. > :11:58.less a problem occurs to the three in front. Mark Webber has lost a

:11:58. > :12:06.place to Paul di Resta. I think Mark Webber will come back up into

:12:06. > :12:16.that position. He has got back past him. There is a battle between

:12:16. > :12:19.

:12:19. > :12:28.Charles Pic and Jean-Eric Vergne. Beat Toro Rossos are pretty quick

:12:28. > :12:38.cars. Daniel Ricciardo own is doing well. Charles Pic is leading a

:12:38. > :12:39.

:12:39. > :12:47.young group. We asked Guido van de garde a little while ago. -- we

:12:47. > :12:55.lost. Charles Pic made the switch from Marussia at the end of last

:12:55. > :13:02.year. They have a Vanity panel at the front of the car. It no longer

:13:02. > :13:11.has the duck-billed platypus look. There have been several upgrades.

:13:11. > :13:21.They were feeling pretty bid ahead of this grand prix. -- pretty good.

:13:21. > :13:21.

:13:21. > :13:31.Daniel Ricciardo has yet to see where he will come around. The

:13:31. > :13:41.Caterhams are hanging in there. We can see Mark Webber will -- Mark

:13:41. > :13:48.

:13:48. > :13:56.tremendous amount of drag. Mark Webber moves back into 5th place.

:13:56. > :14:00.He is only one position behind Sebastian Vettel. Red Bull is not

:14:00. > :14:06.showing the race winning pace we have seen on other tracks so far

:14:06. > :14:14.this year. Fernando Alonso is ticking away their laps. He is

:14:14. > :14:22.still opening the lead, if anything. He is very comfortable out in front.

:14:22. > :14:26.He has Max tilt next in his sights to put a lap on. -- Max Chilton.

:14:27. > :14:34.The young British driver has finished all the races so far this

:14:34. > :14:44.year. He has not manage to out qualify gills Bianchi that he was

:14:44. > :14:45.

:14:45. > :14:50.closer this time. We need to retire. We have damage. That may be

:14:50. > :15:00.precaution eight and will allow them to change the gearbox for the

:15:00. > :15:08.next race. -- that maybe as a precaution. On board with Adrian

:15:08. > :15:18.Sutil. He is chasing Lewis Hamilton. We are into the last stint of the

:15:18. > :15:24.

:15:24. > :15:34.race. It is a genuine race for points. Paul di Resta has been into

:15:34. > :15:41.the pits. We will see where he comes back out. Will he be a fair bit

:15:41. > :15:47.ahead? He is just behind Nico Rosberg, in front of Jenson Button.

:15:47. > :15:53.Yes, he is back out in seventh place. It is a good afternoon for

:15:53. > :15:59.him, he had a good qualifying yesterday. They were surprised to be

:15:59. > :16:09.beaten by McLaren, which shows how strong force in the are this year.

:16:09. > :16:10.

:16:10. > :16:15.It looks like Nico Rosberg will fall to Paul di Resta any time soon. This

:16:15. > :16:21.is Lewis Hamilton against Adrian Sutil. Adrian Sutil, they are good

:16:21. > :16:25.friends, Lewis Hamilton was praying that Adrian Sutil would get his

:16:26. > :16:35.chance to come back into Formula 1. Adrian Sutil started the season

:16:36. > :16:36.

:16:36. > :16:38.well, but he has been out of luck. The hazard tape cleaner run -- he

:16:38. > :16:44.has had a cleaner run, but he has not delivered the result he was

:16:44. > :16:48.hoping for. Jean-Eric Vergne out of the Toro Rosso. Esteban Gutierrez

:16:48. > :16:56.has been into the pits for his final stop. He is back on his way again.

:16:57. > :17:05.RADIO: You do not have to worry about Sebastian Vettel, we have a

:17:05. > :17:13.pitstop on him. Felipe Massa being encouraged. A bit premature, he is

:17:13. > :17:20.14.7 seconds of the road. They are going a bit quicker, but you want

:17:20. > :17:26.the gap to be 18 seconds and more. Maybe just trying to take a bit of

:17:26. > :17:32.pressure off. Letting Felipe Massa think he has got a bit of wriggle

:17:32. > :17:38.room. He has made four stops already this afternoon. It is a question of

:17:38. > :17:42.the Lotus lasting until the end, but we think it should be able to do

:17:42. > :17:49.that. Lewis Hamilton hanging on to 12th place, from Adrian Sutil.

:17:49. > :17:54.Fernando Alonso leads. Nico Rosberg is still shrinking on in sixth

:17:54. > :18:02.place, with everybody cycling through the pitstops. Nico Rosberg

:18:02. > :18:12.has done three stops. Paul di Resta has got DRS, will he get their? Not

:18:12. > :18:12.

:18:12. > :18:19.on this lap. Nico Rosberg fighting on tyres that have done some work.

:18:19. > :18:29.RADIO: You are facing -- fighting Paul di Resta. You need to keep him

:18:29. > :18:38.behind. Some comedy messages this afternoon! It is up to you to look

:18:38. > :18:43.after the tyres at the same time! This is for sixth place. Mercedes

:18:43. > :18:49.trying to make three stops with Nico Rosberg. Jenson Button and Sergio

:18:49. > :18:59.Perez battling, separated by 1.5 seconds. Jenson Button has one fewer

:18:59. > :18:59.

:19:00. > :19:03.stop. Jenson Button will have that sinking feeling again. RADIO: The

:19:03. > :19:11.fastest lap of the race. He is trying to catch up to Kimi

:19:11. > :19:18.Raikkonen. Putting pressure on Kimi Raikkonen. He is trying to do the

:19:18. > :19:21.long stint on the harder tyres. Even the teams do not know how the tyres

:19:21. > :19:27.will react over the longer distances. They do not do enough

:19:27. > :19:34.running to predict it. Paul di Resta is not quite close enough again,

:19:34. > :19:39.even under DRS. Sergio Perez is still in ninth place, Daniel

:19:39. > :19:43.Ricciardo in 10th place. If they were to finish now, Sebastian Vettel

:19:43. > :19:50.would still lead the championship, but Kimi Raikkonen would be within

:19:50. > :19:56.four points. He will be very anxious to hold onto second place. I fastest

:19:56. > :20:02.lap by Esteban Gutierrez in the Sauber. He had just made a pitstop,

:20:02. > :20:10.he put on a new set of hard tyres. A good time to make a pitstop, and he

:20:10. > :20:17.has taken full advantage. He is in 11th place. Nico Hulkenberg is

:20:17. > :20:24.running down in 15th place. update on the McLaren battle, the

:20:24. > :20:28.gap is now down to 0.7 seconds. I would guess Sergio Perez might

:20:28. > :20:35.approach that battle more cautiously after the conversations they had in

:20:35. > :20:39.Bahrain. But I do not see how Jenson Button will be able to defend, he is

:20:39. > :20:46.on older tyres. I wonder how many more places Jenson Button might

:20:46. > :20:52.lose. He has got Daniel Ricciardo behind him. His tyres are not that

:20:52. > :20:57.fresh, so he might be able to fend him off. Across the line again, Nico

:20:57. > :21:04.Rosberg, with Paul di Resta behind him. The McLaren cars, a bit further

:21:04. > :21:10.behind, came across the line, just separated by half a second. Sergio

:21:10. > :21:19.Perez within DRS range, but I will not be surprised to see him get

:21:19. > :21:24.passed quickly. Fernando Alonso just over the line. The McLaren

:21:24. > :21:29.team-mates, we will see if this is better behaved so far. They are not

:21:29. > :21:39.far behind the battle for sixth place, so you have got to think they

:21:39. > :21:40.

:21:40. > :21:42.would be reasonably happy, all things considered. A six second gap

:21:42. > :21:49.to Daniel Ricciardo in 10th place, so they should be reasonably

:21:49. > :21:55.comfortable to fight this out to the chequered flag. Sergio Perez would

:21:55. > :22:01.fancy his chances of catching Nico Rosberg, as he is on fresh tyres.

:22:01. > :22:08.The Carlos Burke might lose sixth place to Paul di Resta, but he could

:22:08. > :22:14.be on for a late race charge, Sergio Perez, to further cement his

:22:14. > :22:20.relationship with his new team. McLaren respond to performance.

:22:20. > :22:24.Unquestionably, they let their drivers race more often than not.

:22:24. > :22:34.Otherwise, for better or worse, they let them go wheel to wheel, which is

:22:34. > :22:45.

:22:45. > :22:50.a great thing for us to watch. good. He is in the points, but he is

:22:50. > :22:53.having to be so gentle with the approbation of the throttle --

:22:53. > :22:58.application of the throttle, all the things you do when you are cruising

:22:58. > :23:04.at home. He does have a gap to Sebastian Vettel, so he has got

:23:04. > :23:09.time, but you want to hear the cars having their necks wrung. It is an

:23:09. > :23:16.interesting point, he is going quickly, quicker than the guys ahead

:23:16. > :23:22.of him, but watching that on board, he is still not able to really

:23:22. > :23:27.attack. He is not exploiting the car to its maximum, he is being gentle.

:23:27. > :23:33.It is not a criticism of him, he is driving exceptionally well. It is

:23:33. > :23:37.where they are, trying to manage the tyres. He could be on for his first

:23:37. > :23:42.podium of the season. He got one towards the end of last year in

:23:42. > :23:52.Japan. We have seen the resurgence in form continue from him from that

:23:52. > :23:59.

:23:59. > :24:02.will be measuring it himself and allowing Felipe Massa to get a bit

:24:02. > :24:11.closer, that he will not want the pressure to be too much. Max Chilton

:24:11. > :24:14.get out of the way. RADIO: We need to get to the end of the race

:24:14. > :24:21.without damaging the tyres too much. Try to get past Jenson Button.

:24:21. > :24:26.that a coded message? He will be allowed to pass, but the point is

:24:26. > :24:32.not to push the tyres too hard in doing so. He was half a second

:24:32. > :24:39.behind, crossing the line. That would normally be enough with DRS.

:24:39. > :24:46.It will be interesting to see if we could get some action of them

:24:46. > :24:56.battling it out. Sergio Perez's tyres are younger, so he should have

:24:56. > :24:59.

:24:59. > :25:01.more speed. Felipe Massa trying to close the gap, but Kimi Raikkonen

:25:01. > :25:08.responded. They were virtually identical. Fernando Alonso is

:25:09. > :25:18.reeling them off. He has got the gap down to 12.7 seconds. But he is

:25:18. > :25:26.totally in control. RADIO: ...Did he say too much oversteer? It was

:25:26. > :25:35.difficult to interpret that. Felipe Massa having a charge, taking too

:25:35. > :25:40.much out of his rear tyres, perhaps. Jenson Button in eighth, followed by

:25:40. > :25:44.Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo. He is only 1.1 seconds ahead of

:25:44. > :25:52.Esteban Gutierrez, who still has the fastest lap. With everybody having

:25:52. > :26:02.changed tyres, I wonder if anybody will go quicker. We will wait to

:26:02. > :26:02.

:26:02. > :26:10.see. Esteban Gutierrez still has a chance of his first ever point, if

:26:10. > :26:11.he can close up to Daniel Ricciardo. His tyres are much younger than

:26:11. > :26:17.Daniel Ricciardo's. Sauber have run a good strategy, they had a late

:26:17. > :26:21.first stop for Esteban Gutierrez, and now a more recent stop. He has

:26:21. > :26:27.got some good tyres to go on the attack and get a final point. We

:26:27. > :26:34.will keep an eye on that. Will he become the first rookie of the year

:26:34. > :26:38.to score a point? No great change in the intervals, Kimi Raikkonen

:26:38. > :26:44.stretching the advantage over Felipe Massa a little bit. It is back over

:26:44. > :26:47.ten seconds. Ferrari, Lotus and Ferrari, then the Red Bull of

:26:47. > :26:55.Sebastian Vettel, 15 seconds further back down the road. That seems

:26:55. > :27:03.amazing. A big gap from him to Mark Webber. Both Red Bull cars looking

:27:03. > :27:06.to score points and maintain the constructors lead. They came into

:27:06. > :27:11.this with a 16 point lead over Lotus, and only one Lotus will

:27:11. > :27:21.finish in the points, because we lost Romain Grosjean early. They

:27:21. > :27:23.

:27:23. > :27:29.could have had two cars in the top four or five. RADIO: Use the DRS.We

:27:29. > :27:36.are in the range, Paul di Resta trying to get past Nico Rosberg. He

:27:36. > :27:42.has sat there for a few laps. A few more laps to go on these tyres.

:27:42. > :27:49.Because what -- Nico Rosberg's tyres could suddenly full of the cliff.

:27:49. > :27:53.This has got to be Paul di Resta's opportunity. He is running in the

:27:53. > :28:03.dirty air, which will help him getting into position. Mercedes is

:28:03. > :28:05.

:28:05. > :28:11.tidy office last sector. Paul di Resta is as close as he has been. It

:28:11. > :28:15.is flat-out normally, he is in position. He should be able to hone

:28:15. > :28:22.in on the back of the Mercedes. The Carlos was becoming defensive

:28:22. > :28:29.already. He will have to go to the outside. He is deciding to her on

:28:29. > :28:37.the side of caution. Giving us a grandstand finish, I think. Biding

:28:37. > :28:45.his time, perhaps. They have some traffic up ahead, Nico Rosberg

:28:45. > :28:49.having to defend. He is struggling for corner speed. The tyres have

:28:49. > :28:53.done 16 laps. He should be able to get it to the end, that it will be

:28:54. > :29:01.slightly nerve wracking. He will not to -- not want to lose too many

:29:01. > :29:08.places. Sergio Perez has not got past Jenson Button, so Nico Rosberg

:29:08. > :29:15.might drop to seventh place but not any further. The DRS is open. I was

:29:15. > :29:22.getting excited their! A bit too short, that section. If he gets

:29:22. > :29:31.within the window of the Caterham, Nico Rosberg will have DRS, so Paul

:29:31. > :29:41.di Resta might have to wait another lap. We are on top 64 of 66. It

:29:41. > :30:00.

:30:00. > :30:10.Rosberg has the DRS. He might have to find Sands to get past the

:30:10. > :30:16.Mercedes. -- somewhere else. We are on two-lap 65. Two laps to go. Paul

:30:16. > :30:26.di Resta is looking for any opportunity. Daniel Ricciardo is

:30:26. > :30:33.half the second in front of Esteban the TLS. He has missed his braking

:30:33. > :30:39.point. -- Esteban Gutierrez. The battle for 6th place is unfolding.

:30:39. > :30:45.How good is Fernando Alonso? many times to be say that? He is

:30:45. > :30:52.breathtaking when he has a car like he has this year. He is on home

:30:52. > :31:00.turf. This will be only his second win in a Spanish Grand Prix. He had

:31:00. > :31:10.a huge win in Valencia last year. The attacking style on that opening

:31:10. > :31:15.lap. Still attacking. Still locking into turn ten. That is the wife of

:31:15. > :31:22.Filipe Massa and their son. He does not have a broken finger. He has

:31:22. > :31:29.been taught to give the thumbs up for Daddy when he has the camera.

:31:29. > :31:38.It was the team principles birthday this week. He is 48. A young man

:31:38. > :31:46.leads this team. That feeling when you know you are within several

:31:46. > :31:52.laps from the end of a Grand Prix. The emotions will be bubbling over

:31:52. > :31:59.in the cockpit. He has more than and 11 seconds lead. He does not

:31:59. > :32:04.need to do anything dramatic on this lap. No relaxing until the

:32:04. > :32:10.chequered flag. These guys had been around too long to know you do not

:32:10. > :32:15.celebrate until the cars had been registered as crossing the line.

:32:15. > :32:21.The Ferrari has been the most successful team in the Spanish

:32:21. > :32:28.Grand Prix. Just look at that response from the fans for Fernando

:32:28. > :32:38.Alonso! A bit a brakes made from someone other head. No change in

:32:38. > :32:49.

:32:49. > :32:55.the other battles. -- a bit of a Pastor Maldonado is in a 14.

:32:55. > :33:03.Fernando Alonso is making his way round through the final corner. He

:33:03. > :33:09.is waving to the crowd already. Fernando Alonso has a won the

:33:09. > :33:15.Spanish Grand Prix! It is his third win in Spain, when you include

:33:15. > :33:22.Valencia. Kimi Raikkonen has come home in second place. Paul di Resta

:33:22. > :33:31.at was unable to get past at the end. We're waiting to see what

:33:31. > :33:37.happened with Keke Rosberg and Paul di Resta. They have managed to get

:33:37. > :33:47.a double podium at the end of last year in Brazil. With a win and a

:33:47. > :33:52.

:33:52. > :33:59.third place, it is a super season. That matches Sebastian

:33:59. > :34:05.Vettel. It was painful when we saw the problems with the DRS wing in

:34:05. > :34:09.Bahrain. The team did not call him in with damage to the front wing.

:34:09. > :34:19.What the response this is! It proves they have a cup once again

:34:19. > :34:25.they can race with this year. -- a car. A 4th podium for Kimi

:34:25. > :34:29.Raikkonen. He is racking up the podium finishes. It is the second

:34:29. > :34:35.time this year that Sebastian Vettel has finished in 4th place.

:34:35. > :34:41.He is still doing what he needs to do and that his score valuable

:34:41. > :34:47.points. Well done! It was a good race. Filipe Massa came from 9th

:34:47. > :34:54.position on the grid to finish third. That gives you some idea of

:34:54. > :34:59.the pace they were able to use. They were not able to beat Kimi

:34:59. > :35:06.Raikkonen. He did not have the best of starts so he had some work to do

:35:06. > :35:15.himself. In the top 10, Nico Rosberg did hold on. Quite a gap

:35:15. > :35:22.between himself and Paul de Leicester. He is in the points once

:35:22. > :35:26.more. Sergio Perez is in 9th position. Both McLarens up in the

:35:26. > :35:33.points. There have been difficulties with a car that is not

:35:33. > :35:43.as quick as they would expect. They have got two of cars home with the

:35:43. > :35:48.

:35:48. > :35:54.carries the flag around the circuit. We saw him jump of the presentation

:35:54. > :36:01.car and go and see the fans on the parade laps earlier bomb. They have

:36:01. > :36:08.responded wonderfully to him. -- earlier on. Fernando Alonso had it

:36:08. > :36:17.all under control. The two red balls have been struggling a little

:36:17. > :36:25.bit today puts up -- Red Bulls. Lewis Hamilton all the way down in

:36:25. > :36:35.12th. Adrian Sutil came in 13th. Caterham won the young team's

:36:35. > :36:36.

:36:36. > :36:40.battle with Charles Pic finishing in front. Just the three

:36:40. > :36:46.retirements. Jean-Eric Vergne, Guido van de garde and Romain

:36:46. > :36:52.Grosjean. Once again this track has seen a lot of reliability from

:36:52. > :36:57.these cars. Just to mention that I did tempt fate but they had done it.

:36:57. > :37:07.Ferrari has taking a new record of finishes without a mechanical

:37:07. > :37:09.

:37:09. > :37:16.Many congratulations. Give us your thoughts. Very happy for everyone.

:37:16. > :37:24.It was a good date for the team. Also for the people who had been

:37:24. > :37:27.working very hard. It was a very good day for the team. It was OK.

:37:27. > :37:35.Closing the gap in the Constructors' Championship as well.

:37:35. > :37:42.Let's hope so. Just a quick word on the performance of Fernando Alonso?

:37:42. > :37:45.Outstanding. They have moved themselves into second place. It

:37:45. > :37:51.keeps the Constructors' Championship very tight indeed.

:37:51. > :37:56.Great scenes of celebration. So special to win at home of once

:37:56. > :38:02.again will start you have to go back to 2006 when he won on this

:38:02. > :38:07.particular track. That was in one of his Championship winning the

:38:07. > :38:14.years. He loves the statistics and the figures. That will give him her

:38:14. > :38:20.huge boost. Such a long way to go. Thinking back to the first time

:38:20. > :38:26.that Ferrari won in Spain in the modern World Championship was back

:38:27. > :38:35.in 1954. It was the year that Mercedes were very dominant. 1954

:38:35. > :38:45.and 1955 were the two of dominant years for and Mercedes. Let's

:38:45. > :38:45.

:38:45. > :39:28.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:39:28. > :39:34.It is fairly peaceable. Who is on A great team, I think he was saying.

:39:34. > :39:41.Kimi Raikkonen is shrugging his shoulders and looking pretty

:39:41. > :39:47.relaxed. Not quite able to become the third driver to have won the

:39:47. > :39:55.Spanish Grand Prix in Sri different types of car. A winner for Ferrari

:39:55. > :40:00.and the winner for McLaren. The Ferraris where a bit too strong.

:40:00. > :40:05.They have brought Fernando Alonso home with this superb victory. How

:40:05. > :40:14.crucial it is when they have had those problems at the start of this

:40:14. > :40:20.year. The Diarra swing failure in Bahrain. -- the DRS wing failure.

:40:20. > :40:26.You can see that pick up on the tyres - the little bits of rubber

:40:26. > :40:36.that have been thrown off by other cars. Time for the drivers to be

:40:36. > :40:36.

:40:36. > :43:01.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:43:01. > :43:10.Soaking up the atmosphere and the adulation of the crowd. Fernando

:43:10. > :43:18.Alonso has won his home grand prix for Ferrari. He has a won in

:43:18. > :43:28.Valencia. Now he can take that off the list as well. Kimi Raikkonen

:43:28. > :43:36.

:43:36. > :43:43.was the last driver to win for Filipe Massa is waiting for his

:43:43. > :43:48.trophy. Kimi Raikkonen took that fabulous second place. He has had a

:43:48. > :43:55.one win and three second places so far this year. What a consistent

:43:55. > :44:01.scorer he is proving to be! The first podium for Filipe Massa. He

:44:01. > :44:09.was on the podium at was the end of last year in Brazil will start a

:44:09. > :44:19.match valued member -- in Brazil. He was a much-valued member of the

:44:19. > :44:42.

:44:42. > :44:49.The champagne has been sprayed and the photographs are up to follow.

:44:49. > :44:55.Our thoughts are with the technical director at Ferrari who had the

:44:55. > :45:00.operation for appendicitis yesterday when we were in Spain. He

:45:01. > :45:05.was not able to be here to enjoy it what was a special moment for the

:45:05. > :45:10.team. I am sure he will know all about what they have managed to do

:45:10. > :45:16.here today. First and third with Filipe Massa taking the final

:45:16. > :45:22.podium spot. Nowt to do the interviews on the podium this time,

:45:22. > :45:26.I am glad to say it is someone we know extremely well. Team owner

:45:26. > :45:36.extraordinary and much valued pundit for the BBC, it will be it

:45:36. > :45:47.

:45:47. > :45:54.you jumping off the victory ceremony, how much did the embracing

:45:54. > :45:59.of the crowd help you today? Hello, everybody. It was a fantastic

:45:59. > :46:05.emotion. It really helped, because you feel the support from

:46:05. > :46:09.everybody, every single member of the team taking care of every

:46:09. > :46:17.detail, Gus we want to do well in front of our fans and so many people

:46:17. > :46:26.supporting Ferrari. We did it, we are happy. But we do not want to

:46:26. > :46:31.stop now. How much does today mean to the confidence that you can win

:46:31. > :46:37.the championship? We know that we have five races only, some ups and

:46:37. > :46:42.downs. Some races we did well, no problems, and more or less finished

:46:42. > :46:48.on the podium in all of them, and in some races we had mistakes or

:46:48. > :46:53.mechanical problems. We know that we have the car to fight at the top,

:46:53. > :46:59.and if we do well, we can fight for the championship. If we do not do

:46:59. > :47:09.good enough, maybe we do not. Hopefully we can come back to do.

:47:09. > :47:10.

:47:10. > :47:15.Kimi Raikkonen! Kimi Raikkonen, four points off the championship lead at

:47:15. > :47:25.this stage, you are coming in under the radar, because nobody is giving

:47:25. > :47:31.you enough credit. How do you respond to that? I do not mind. I am

:47:31. > :47:34.here to do as good a race as we can. We want to win, it is disappointing

:47:34. > :47:42.to finish second, but sometimes we have to take what we can get. Like I

:47:42. > :47:47.said, I do not mind, we do our work, and we are happy with what we do. We

:47:47. > :47:56.try to achieve the big goal. Is the lack of attention possibly helping

:47:56. > :48:02.you? It makes no difference to me. We know in the team what we want to

:48:02. > :48:09.achieve, so that is the main thing. Felipe Massa, what a great drive,

:48:09. > :48:17.from ninth place on the grid! Felipe Massa, are you back to your very

:48:17. > :48:21.best? I think so. It was a bit disappointing yesterday after

:48:21. > :48:25.qualifying, losing three places, but the race was very good for us, our

:48:25. > :48:32.car was fantastic, very aggressive straightaway, I gained back the

:48:32. > :48:37.positions. I was already six after the first lap, and overtaking cars.

:48:37. > :48:43.Struggled a bit on the tyres, to make them survive every stint in a

:48:43. > :48:50.good way, but the race was very good for us. Your son is here, a big day

:48:50. > :49:00.for him. Fantastic! What a great day, I think we have to say, a great

:49:00. > :49:27.

:49:27. > :49:35.day for Ferrari, but a few words in through what happened in the race.

:49:35. > :49:40.For the Spanish fans. After what was a dominant victory in the end. It is

:49:40. > :49:48.lovely to see the emotion that he feels on winning for Ferrari in

:49:48. > :49:56.Spain. The European season has opened with victory for Fernando

:49:56. > :50:03.Alonso and Ferrari. The championship battle is definitely on once again.

:50:03. > :50:09.A sublime performance, and that 32nd when to Fernando takes him to fourth

:50:09. > :50:17.on the all-time winners list. Listen to the crowd, they are absolutely

:50:17. > :50:23.loving it today. A terrific day. A terrific day for Ferrari and Eddie

:50:23. > :50:29.Jordan. Ever the showman, he has got the crowd going! As if they needed

:50:29. > :50:35.anything! Only his third victory in Spain. Once in Valencia, and to

:50:35. > :50:40.hear, and this one is all the sweeter, the first time around it

:50:41. > :50:45.was with Renault. He is a cool character, it is a remarkable

:50:45. > :50:49.victory, and Ferrari are in the hunt. I wonder whether he knew he

:50:49. > :50:53.could do that, it was all weekend he has said that it is time traditions

:50:53. > :51:01.would be broken, it would not be from the front this year, it could

:51:01. > :51:10.be from the second row. All of the statistics are something to use as a

:51:10. > :51:17.reference, but the way the tire battles are, the polesitter is 60 or

:51:17. > :51:20.70 seconds behind at the end of the grand prix. They were there on

:51:20. > :51:26.merit, but they cannot keep it together over the race. Ferrari have

:51:26. > :51:32.found a good balance, and they have got exceptional drivers. One of them

:51:32. > :51:37.was Felipe Massa, it was terrific to see him on the podium, in good form.

:51:37. > :51:43.Many congratulations, let's deal with Felipe Massa, his first podium.

:51:43. > :51:48.Of the year. Not the first of his life! It was good, he did a good

:51:48. > :51:54.job, he was really consistent, he did not quite have the legs on the

:51:54. > :52:00.medium tire. With a bit more pace on the hard tire, we could have got

:52:00. > :52:08.ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Are you seeing the Felipe Massa of old?

:52:08. > :52:11.are getting there, bit by bit. We are not quite at 2008 spec, that we

:52:11. > :52:18.are getting there, and that is encouraging. What will this do for

:52:18. > :52:24.everybody at Ferrari? It lifts the spirits. We have got 50 odd people

:52:24. > :52:32.here, but back at home, we have got hundreds of people who work hard.

:52:32. > :52:39.This is what we do it for, to get results like this.

:52:39. > :52:45.And Eddie Jordan is about to walk back into shop. Congratulations, the

:52:45. > :52:53.crowd were really flat until you got them going! The excitement of

:52:53. > :52:59.Ferrari, it takes over, and everything that happens, it is an

:52:59. > :53:06.exciting, emotional day. Let's go back to the start and see how well

:53:06. > :53:10.Fernando Alonso did. This was key to the start of the Grand Prix. Nico

:53:10. > :53:16.Rosberg was hoping that he would be followed by his wing man, Lewis

:53:16. > :53:26.Hamilton. Sebastian Vettel went around the outside, and this was

:53:26. > :53:33.key, around the outside, Fernando Alonso boxes in the Lotus. They will

:53:33. > :53:39.be giving 160 mph even with the heavy tanks. That was the foundation

:53:39. > :53:44.of him being able to win the grand prix. We know that Ferrari have made

:53:44. > :53:51.great starts, he got blocked by Sebastian Vettel, he comes out into

:53:51. > :53:57.clean air, he loses the slipstream and comes back in, and the key

:53:57. > :54:04.moment is with him going through the second corner. Fernando Alonso comes

:54:04. > :54:13.around the outside, which pushes him to the outside of Lewis Hamilton. He

:54:13. > :54:17.picks up third place. And once more from on board. That is what a

:54:17. > :54:27.perfect start sounds like, very little wheelspin, and then it picks

:54:27. > :54:34.

:54:34. > :54:41.The Ferrari boss joining us. This must have been a difficult day.

:54:41. > :54:47.difficult weekend, but the third corner, David is the only one that

:54:47. > :54:52.can comment, because he is the only one that is in the car, so it is

:54:52. > :54:57.quite a good move. It was impressive, and key to winning the

:54:57. > :55:03.grand prix, getting into clean air. Was that some think you discussed

:55:03. > :55:12.beforehand? To be honest, we discussed it. Because we were

:55:12. > :55:16.committed to making. , we knew that the key was to avoid traffic. That

:55:16. > :55:23.was the need, to make sure that we could have got home a good result. I

:55:23. > :55:33.am pleased, because the team have performed very well, very calm,

:55:33. > :55:40.

:55:40. > :55:48.champagne! Your birthday present! terrific strategy, but perfect

:55:48. > :55:51.pitstops. When Tom spoke to you after the race, you did not seem as

:55:51. > :55:56.excited as I thought. Is that because you feel you are playing

:55:56. > :56:03.catch up in the championship? want to win the championship, you

:56:03. > :56:08.need to win all of the races, but we have only won two of them. I am very

:56:08. > :56:12.happy, but we need to stay with our feet on the ground, and work very

:56:12. > :56:18.hard, because the competitors are very strong. Congratulations, and we

:56:18. > :56:25.hope that that did not split his stitches. He is better.Let's hear

:56:25. > :56:33.from Lewis Hamilton. Where do you start? A tough day,

:56:33. > :56:37.tougher than expected? It was far too tough. We heard you on the radio

:56:37. > :56:46.saying that you have been passed by Williams and you could not drive any

:56:46. > :56:51.slower. Describe your emotions. have got a lot of work to do. We

:56:51. > :56:56.both went backwards, and I went back a long way, and I do not know why.

:56:56. > :57:01.We have got work to do, we will keep going back to the drawing boards and

:57:01. > :57:06.hope to find out what is wrong. use your tyres differently from Nico

:57:06. > :57:14.Rosberg, is that helpful, when somebody tells you how your

:57:14. > :57:23.team-mate is using his? Not really. How difficult is it, getting in

:57:23. > :57:27.touch with a new team? It is not that different. They are a racing

:57:27. > :57:32.team, they are fantastic, the work they have been doing is great, we

:57:32. > :57:37.have just got to keep washing. We have got a lot of work to catch up

:57:37. > :57:44.Ferrari and Lotus, but we will get there.

:57:45. > :57:50.Extremely frustrating day for the Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton imitated.

:57:50. > :58:00.We heard it throughout the team radio, let's have a listen.

:58:00. > :58:02.

:58:02. > :58:06.I have just been overtaken by a Williams. I cannot drive any slower.

:58:06. > :58:13.If there is one driver that wants to race, it is Lewis Hamilton.

:58:13. > :58:18.Correct? When have you ever heard a comment like that? I do not remember

:58:18. > :58:22.a driver saying things like that. You cannot possibly imagine the

:58:22. > :58:28.frustration of being on the front row, both of because, and winding up

:58:28. > :58:34.where they are. It is so damaging. The tyres situation with them, not

:58:34. > :58:40.improve today. Not at all, they never said anything other after

:58:40. > :58:44.qualifying that they did not expect to hold the position. It is bizarre

:58:44. > :58:47.to understand how the car is fast but they have not been able to

:58:47. > :58:55.maintain the rear tyres, but that is the challenge of Formula 1. He had

:58:55. > :59:00.to put up with being overtaken by Jenson Button. This is coming off

:59:00. > :59:05.the last corner, at the beginning of the season, Lewis Hamilton must have

:59:05. > :59:15.been feeling that he made the right move, but McLaren were very good

:59:15. > :59:34.

:59:34. > :59:41.Progress out birthday? For me, it was interesting. -- out there today.

:59:41. > :59:47.Turn One was a mess. To finish eighth is not too bad. A lot of

:59:47. > :59:54.work still needed. The speed that some of the cars came past me, they

:59:54. > :00:01.were on a different strategy but we have a lot of work to do. Other

:00:01. > :00:09.parts for the car are coming for Monaco. Maybe we have made some

:00:09. > :00:17.progress. Both cars were in the points. You and Lewis Hamilton were

:00:17. > :00:22.battling for 11th place. I think we when 9th and 10th last year. It is

:00:22. > :00:29.funny, we did not score points at Silverstone last year. It is

:00:29. > :00:38.possible for us to get up there. Thanks for the support from the

:00:38. > :00:45.fans. I see a lot of rocket red cap and tops. It is embarrassing for us.

:00:45. > :00:50.We will have a fall crowd at Silverstone and we will be stronger.

:00:50. > :01:00.Tough interviews today. Let's have a look at another couple of

:01:00. > :01:04.

:01:04. > :01:11.compliant. We heard the message telling Sebastian Vettel to run his

:01:11. > :01:16.own race. That released Kimi Raikkonen to go on and get second

:01:16. > :01:22.place. Jean-Eric Vergne, this was a de lamination of the rear tyre. I

:01:22. > :01:31.am not sure if that was caused by the incident in the pit lane. You

:01:31. > :01:38.can see when it let's go. That is not comfortable for the drive there.

:01:38. > :01:44.The Red Bulls did not have the pace. Christian was worried about that.

:01:44. > :01:51.We have the red Button for you straight after this. Send in your

:01:51. > :02:00.tweets. Then we will be back in Monaco, of course, in a couple of

:02:00. > :02:06.weeks' time. We will have all highlights of that. To date it was