The British Grand Prix

:00:17. > :00:21.was that? My goodness! This is Formula One, race nine, Great

:00:22. > :02:07.Britain. Here we are for the British Grand

:02:08. > :02:12.Prix. Traditionally, we like to make an entrance because it's our home

:02:13. > :02:20.race. However, this year it won't be the BBC doing the stunts... It'll be

:02:21. > :02:24.him! I actually can't believe he's going to do this. I've never done

:02:25. > :02:55.this before going to work but I love it! OK, stand by.

:02:56. > :03:41.He's going to be all right, isn't he?

:03:42. > :03:59.Go, Lewis! James Bond, eat your heart out!

:04:00. > :04:07.Now that's how you make an entrance! I can't even tell you how much fun

:04:08. > :04:20.that was. Let's go! That is the way to arrive at work.

:04:21. > :04:23.Hello, welcome to the British Grand Prix. David and Eddie taking us

:04:24. > :04:32.through the event. We should have had you joining in as well. I did

:04:33. > :04:38.something like that once, never again! If you want to see how that

:04:39. > :04:44.film was made, we've got a special film on our website. You can comment

:04:45. > :04:49.on Facebook or tweet us. Here we are at Silverstone. David, a couple of

:04:50. > :04:54.wins for you, we can see it a terrific crowd. What's so magical

:04:55. > :04:58.about this one? It's a home Grand Prix. We cut the Red Arrows, it's

:04:59. > :05:04.the home of the British Grand Prix. So many of the Formula One teams are

:05:05. > :05:09.based around this circuit. It really is very special, you can feel the

:05:10. > :05:13.atmosphere. The A not just is it the home of British Grand Prix, I think

:05:14. > :05:18.it's the home of motorsport. I think everything that has come out of

:05:19. > :05:22.here, all the great champions, This has been the one great home for

:05:23. > :05:27.world races. Everybody came here, whether it be Senna, all the people

:05:28. > :05:32.down through the ages, they based themselves here and that's why it's

:05:33. > :05:37.so special. They are celebrating their 50th Grand Prix, it's a

:05:38. > :05:42.four-day extravaganza. -year-old I based myself here, it was the

:05:43. > :05:46.closest circuit here but we used it for testing and marketing and

:05:47. > :05:49.promotional things. Silverstone is very accommodating. I don't think I

:05:50. > :05:57.would have got anywhere close we got to had it not been for Silverstone.

:05:58. > :06:01.120,000 fans here today. It's a really terrific crowd. They've been

:06:02. > :06:05.treated to some terrific entertainment, rock bands, all kinds

:06:06. > :06:13.of festival activities and some vintage parades. Fantastic. Nigel

:06:14. > :06:17.Mansell has been out there today. It's been a fantastic opportunity

:06:18. > :06:21.for the fans, new fans to Formula One coming here for the first time,

:06:22. > :06:26.to look at Grand Prix cars over the decades. And it's always a bit of a

:06:27. > :06:30.concern because we have to compete against so many different sports and

:06:31. > :06:34.festivals, but the hardened fans are here. The Red Arrows have literally

:06:35. > :06:41.just been putting on an absolutely breathtaking display. They were led

:06:42. > :06:44.by Jim Turner, they really are a British institution and are

:06:45. > :06:49.fantastic. Well, it's historic as well. They seem to come and enjoy

:06:50. > :06:52.their time here. They feel part of the group, people are able to speak

:06:53. > :06:56.to them. What is fantastic about Ilkeston, the people have access. We

:06:57. > :07:01.have everybody here, the circuit is so close to the track. It gives them

:07:02. > :07:05.that extra special field. They feel they are on top of the game, being

:07:06. > :07:10.from this great height on what is going on in the race. That makes it

:07:11. > :07:16.special. We are at home this weekend. This is round nine of 19,

:07:17. > :07:20.Silverstone, the British Grand Prix. We've got a couple more European

:07:21. > :07:23.races before the summer break, followed by some classic venues.

:07:24. > :07:27.Then back to the flyaway is before the conclusion in the desert in

:07:28. > :07:33.November. But much battling to be done in the championship before

:07:34. > :07:36.then. A trio of wins for Rosberg and constant podiums have gifted him a

:07:37. > :07:41.29 point advantage over Hamilton, who could certainly do with his

:07:42. > :07:47.share of Lady luck. Ricciardo is best of the rest, four points ahead

:07:48. > :07:50.of Alonso, who heads Vettel. Jenson Button lies in eighth. Mercedes

:07:51. > :07:55.dominate the constructors' championship. The battle between

:07:56. > :08:00.third and sixth is a close one, for RE forcing Williams and McLaren,

:08:01. > :08:04.just 26 points between them, Marussia on the board in ninth with

:08:05. > :08:08.two points, their first ever points. Could they sneak anymore today? It's

:08:09. > :08:12.really quite interesting. We know about the front of the field but

:08:13. > :08:20.that midfield battle, it's quite tight and extraordinary, Force India

:08:21. > :08:23.battling with for RE. Actually, they are not because for RE are at the

:08:24. > :08:30.back of the grid in this particular case. I think there's always a great

:08:31. > :08:35.fight for it. Everyone is talking about the Mercedes. They are already

:08:36. > :08:39.so far ahead. We need to make some excitement. This excitement has been

:08:40. > :08:43.dished up to us in abundance in the midfield. I think Force India have

:08:44. > :08:48.done a remarkable job, not just yesterday by all season. Did you

:08:49. > :08:52.think Force India will be able to make -- maintain this momentum? If

:08:53. > :08:56.we were having this conversation a couple of years ago, I would have

:08:57. > :08:59.been nervous. But there is real stability in that company,

:09:00. > :09:03.financially as well. Punching above their weight in terms of spend and

:09:04. > :09:07.deliverance in the pace on the track. Not only will they be able to

:09:08. > :09:12.keep it, they might improve on it as well. We had an incredible day

:09:13. > :09:16.yesterday. It was a lean over and shout at the telly stuff. Here is

:09:17. > :09:21.Lee McKenzie with the report. British summer Time was in full

:09:22. > :09:24.flow, rain and sunshine. It created problems for some big names.

:09:25. > :09:31.Williams locked out of the front row in Austria but they set a time here.

:09:32. > :09:36.Caught out by the rain. Ferrari also got it wrong. Raikkonen was on track

:09:37. > :09:40.at the wrong time. Alonso spun on circuit. Marussia getting both, is

:09:41. > :09:47.interviewed two meant they were the highest powered Ferrari team.

:09:48. > :09:50.Chilton was just behind in 13th. It looked like Sebastian Vettel had

:09:51. > :09:54.been caught out as he didn't leave the garage whilst the track was

:09:55. > :09:59.dry. A big rain shower meant most cars waited in the pit lane and the

:10:00. > :10:03.Toro Rosso drivers and Ricciardo called it a day. At that stage,

:10:04. > :10:07.Lewis Hamilton was in pole position. He thought he'd done enough and let

:10:08. > :10:12.Rosberg grew and aborted his own lap. At the final sector of the

:10:13. > :10:15.track dried out faster than anyone could have thought. Hulkenberg went

:10:16. > :10:20.fastest in the last few seconds, then came Vettel and then Luis'

:10:21. > :10:24.worst nightmare, Rosberg took pole position. Hamilton was left

:10:25. > :10:28.shell-shocked in sixth. You are obviously incredibly disappointed.

:10:29. > :10:34.Did you expect the circuit would dry out so fast? Obviously not, no. I

:10:35. > :10:39.don't really have anything to say. Together with my team, we made all

:10:40. > :10:43.the right calls today. It was a great example of teamwork. It was

:10:44. > :10:45.nice to see in such a conjugated situation, because normally you can

:10:46. > :10:52.always find bits and pieces that went wrong but today we got it all

:10:53. > :10:56.right. Was bird gets his first pole position of the season and the first

:10:57. > :11:02.that this track. Vettel is alongside, matching his best

:11:03. > :11:06.performance are bigger. Button is third and Hulkenberg is fourth.

:11:07. > :11:10.Magnussen has the despondent Hamilton next to him. But expect the

:11:11. > :11:17.lightning start from the Mercedes. Perez and Ricciardo are on the

:11:18. > :11:28.fourth row. Grosjean was happy in 11. Max Chilton takes... Sutil,

:11:29. > :11:34.Bottas and Alonso move forward. This is where it gets, located. Gutierrez

:11:35. > :11:38.added a penalty but only dropped from 14 to 19, as he can't fall

:11:39. > :11:42.behind cars he didn't officially qualify. Maldonado was excluded for

:11:43. > :11:47.not being able to provide a fuel sample, but he's allowed to start

:11:48. > :11:50.20th, as both cater run drivers didn't qualify within 107% of the

:11:51. > :11:58.cut-off time, so they start at the back of the grid.

:11:59. > :12:04.Qualifying yesterday at everything, arguably, apart from the Hollywood

:12:05. > :12:10.ending... David, sometimes a mixed upgrade can be really exciting to

:12:11. > :12:14.watch. That's exactly what we get in these varied qualifying sessions.

:12:15. > :12:18.Lewis Hamilton in sixth, we have to look out for him, the Ferrari is out

:12:19. > :12:22.of position. There's a lot to look forward to in this Grand Prix. Nico

:12:23. > :12:25.Rosberg has to feel stronger because if you've got a good start and

:12:26. > :12:31.straight line speed he should be able to control the race out front.

:12:32. > :12:34.He should be feeling strong in that pole position. Wii he did the job

:12:35. > :12:37.all the way through, he was on the circuit at the right time and he

:12:38. > :12:42.wasn't sitting in the pits, as some of the other people had decided to

:12:43. > :12:46.do. That was the very important deciding factor about it. This is

:12:47. > :12:56.the on-board just before they come round to start their final

:12:57. > :12:59.qualifying lap. Tell Lewis he needs to speed up. He knows the clock is

:13:00. > :13:02.ticking, he knows there is a possibility he will not make it,

:13:03. > :13:04.like Perez did not do. Hamilton had the option to back him up a little

:13:05. > :13:08.bit further here. He didn't take that, he was focusing on his own lap

:13:09. > :13:10.and trying to make sure he was clean coming out of the last corner.

:13:11. > :13:13.Rosberg comes out and crosses the timing line-up. Look at the Bridge,

:13:14. > :13:18.it's green. He is just over the line at the right moment as it turns red.

:13:19. > :13:32.That was less than half a second, being able to start the lap or not.

:13:33. > :13:35.If he hadn't, he would have started behind on the grid down in sixth.

:13:36. > :13:38.Now he is able to use as a great marker board coming into turn three

:13:39. > :13:40.and then into The Loop. Lewis, with a slightly greasy conditions, locks

:13:41. > :13:42.up and slides wide and decides to abort the actual lap. Even then,

:13:43. > :13:46.Rosberg is able to use the slipstream and the DRS to gain

:13:47. > :13:51.another few kilometres per hour, get up to 200 kilometres per hour.

:13:52. > :13:56.Hamilton inadvertently helped Rosberg to pole position. But he

:13:57. > :14:00.couldn't speak in his interview, he was gutted, he said was all his

:14:01. > :14:03.fault. It was a split second decision and he wasn't the only one

:14:04. > :14:09.who got caught out with that. It was just a moment when Matt Wrack got a

:14:10. > :14:14.bit faster. So many people were caught out, Ricciardo was out of

:14:15. > :14:18.position as well. Sebastian Vettel only went out because he hadn't done

:14:19. > :14:23.a time. In reality, we've all been through it, we all know this place.

:14:24. > :14:28.You've got to be on the circuit, the last car over the line. If you can

:14:29. > :14:33.be that last car in these wet, damp and drying conditions. Let's talk

:14:34. > :14:37.about Lewis Hamilton's start. We saw in Austria he had the most

:14:38. > :14:42.incredible start. He did really well. He's ninth on the grid, he

:14:43. > :14:49.gets the power down fantastically well. He said this was one of the

:14:50. > :14:54.best starts he'd ever made in Formula One, up to six position by

:14:55. > :14:58.the first corner. Then, as we see coming diving into the hairpin turn

:14:59. > :15:02.to, he is then up the inside and into fifth. He overtakes Alonso by

:15:03. > :15:06.the end of this first lap and gets himself up into fourth place. It was

:15:07. > :15:10.a stunning first lap. He's going to need to do that again today but it

:15:11. > :15:13.will be more difficult. There is not the big long straights at the

:15:14. > :15:23.beginning of the lap that allows him to use the acceleration. Well, it

:15:24. > :15:30.was an opportunistic time. Marussia got both their drivers through to Q2

:15:31. > :15:36.since the last time since Spa. Tom is with Graham. They were the

:15:37. > :15:43.highest placed Fernando Alonso car of all. A great performance? It is

:15:44. > :15:48.our job to maximise what we can do in every session, whether it is a

:15:49. > :15:54.qualifying session, a test session for a race. The guys did a great job

:15:55. > :15:59.yesterday and they put a spring in everybody's step. Can you add to the

:16:00. > :16:03.points from Monaco? Well, Monaco was good and we were there on merit.

:16:04. > :16:06.Today, we won't have the race pace really to stay where we would like

:16:07. > :16:12.to be. We have to work on that and try and get the car quicker, but

:16:13. > :16:19.again, we'll do the best that we can and give Max and Jules the best

:16:20. > :16:24.chance and see where we end up when the flag drops. I guess you have

:16:25. > :16:28.been doing a rain dance It is funny how greedy you get when you start

:16:29. > :16:32.moving up the grid. It is great to see so many people here. It is a

:16:33. > :16:36.home Grand Prix for a lot of drivers as well and you know, it is great

:16:37. > :16:40.for them that it's dry. Yes, it would be nice to have a little bit

:16:41. > :16:44.less grip for everyone. It would suit us well, but we will see how we

:16:45. > :16:49.get on. The conditions are the same for everybody. Good luck. Thanks.

:16:50. > :16:55.Well, interesting stuff there from Graham. I never saw this before. The

:16:56. > :16:58.Red Arrows showing their love for the British Grand Prix signing off

:16:59. > :17:03.with a heart! Let's hope that's going to be a good sign for the day

:17:04. > :17:08.gentlemen. A little bit of romance here at Silverstone. What do you

:17:09. > :17:11.think about Marussia today? They are going to have a hard time because

:17:12. > :17:16.they have got great drivers behind them, but it is not out of the

:17:17. > :17:20.realm? We've got windy conditions which makes it more difficult for

:17:21. > :17:24.the cars. Marussia could hang in there for a little bit in the Grand

:17:25. > :17:31.Prix, but of course, points are their target. Yeah, exactly. I want

:17:32. > :17:39.you to come with me. I can see our Nig. Lovely to see you. Have you

:17:40. > :17:46.just come off is safari. Thanks for a very nice comment!

:17:47. > :17:50.Nigel, you are a Stewart this weekend, of course, this is an

:17:51. > :18:01.amazing place? Oh, it is fantastic here to be. 50th an anniversary.

:18:02. > :18:08.Lewis is going to put all that energy into the race today. Either

:18:09. > :18:14.driver can win here and Fernando Ferrari coming from the back and

:18:15. > :18:18.Williams coming from the back. Lewis was there and Jenson was there. Did

:18:19. > :18:23.they really take something away from this? Will this give Lewis good

:18:24. > :18:28.spirit for the race? Let's not forget about Jenson. What a

:18:29. > :18:31.fantastic job he did with the McLaren yesterday and everyone is

:18:32. > :18:36.here to support all the British drivers. It is going to be a

:18:37. > :18:39.fantastic day. Yes, Lewis for the championship, has got to win this

:18:40. > :18:43.race today. Yeah, absolutely. You still have a big love for this,

:18:44. > :18:47.don't you? When we think about Silverstone and the British Grand

:18:48. > :18:52.Prix, everybody thinks about Nigel Mansell. This is for us, the Mecca

:18:53. > :18:55.of Grand Prix racing and this circuit is one of the best, if not

:18:56. > :19:02.the best, sequence of corners in the world. Down the straight, Hangar

:19:03. > :19:08.Straight, and having a little bit of a kiss with Nelson, my spend did

:19:09. > :19:13.team-mate and the fans invading the circuit here. I charged him a lot of

:19:14. > :19:18.money for this slip, but I never got paid! Tell us about the team battle

:19:19. > :19:23.you had. We have seen it with Nico and Lewis right now and you had it

:19:24. > :19:27.with Nelson. You have to fight your own corner within the team? People

:19:28. > :19:31.have said, it was a huge mistake yesterday. Lewis will draw strength

:19:32. > :19:36.on that. It was a simple mistake. He thought that the lap had gone so he

:19:37. > :19:40.backed off. You should never back off, of course, we know that. But

:19:41. > :19:46.he'll draw strength from that and he'll go on to be stronger. Nico is

:19:47. > :19:53.doing a fabulous job. A great driver. He won fabulous races and

:19:54. > :19:56.his dad will help him too. You say he will gain a lot of

:19:57. > :20:00.strength, but you yourself used to say that there was nearly a second

:20:01. > :20:06.in the time with the crowd willing you on. Will that apply to Lewis?

:20:07. > :20:14.Yeah, I think so. People react to pressure in a David way. David can

:20:15. > :20:21.testify that too. I found it gave me extra oomph and seeing Lewis' face,

:20:22. > :20:25.I think he has the eyes today to do an outstanding job. Let's hope he

:20:26. > :20:30.can focus and please the British crowd today. It is fantastic to see

:20:31. > :20:42.you. Thanks for coming to have a khat. Chat. Don't forget, Nico will

:20:43. > :20:45.push hard too. We saw shots of the drivers parade and Lee was out

:20:46. > :20:51.there. Let's see what they had to say sto her. This is always a

:20:52. > :20:56.special moment. It is unbelievable. We have the British flags. Nowhere

:20:57. > :21:00.else we get this. Do you ever come here and just almost

:21:01. > :21:01.else we get this. Do you ever come feeling of this? It must be so

:21:02. > :21:06.special just seeing your feeling of this? It must be so

:21:07. > :21:10.over this place? It is always like it is the first time. Is it? It

:21:11. > :21:14.feels like every year it is growing. There is more and more people every

:21:15. > :21:18.year, but more and more flags. The support me and Jenson and Max have

:21:19. > :21:22.is just incredible. It is incredible. We appreciate it so

:21:23. > :21:27.much. I hope we can do a good job for them today. Max, is this

:21:28. > :21:33.something you ever get used to? No, it would be odd to get used to this.

:21:34. > :21:39.Your home Grand Prix with so many spectators, it is amazing and there

:21:40. > :21:46.is so many Union Jacks. What's it like to some to Silverstone? You get

:21:47. > :21:51.a great knowledgeable crowd base here? It is great to race in front

:21:52. > :21:55.of a big crowd. No matter, the conditions, people like come to go

:21:56. > :22:03.support us. Mostly the British drivers, that's fine. The crowd is

:22:04. > :22:07.really, yeah, interested in what we're doing. Jenson, how are you

:22:08. > :22:12.feeling? It is incredible the crowd here, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Very

:22:13. > :22:15.supportive. It is good to see so many people here as well and luckily

:22:16. > :22:19.enough we've got a little bit of sun right now and hopefully it will stay

:22:20. > :22:29.for the race. Overwhelming the support, not just for the he British

:22:30. > :22:34.drivers, but for everyone. I take it you dornt like the -- don't like the

:22:35. > :22:39.British summers. It wasn't good for you? Yes, we're in England and

:22:40. > :22:46.anything can happen and a little bit of rain today should help our

:22:47. > :22:50.possibilities. We will see today. We are not used to this! Are you

:22:51. > :23:00.planning on spoiling a big British party today? That's not in my plan.

:23:01. > :23:06.My plan is to win and it happens to be in Britain. Its going to be a

:23:07. > :23:09.tough race. I think probably a big battle between Lewis and I. I have

:23:10. > :23:13.the advantage at the start, but it is early on. It is a small advantage

:23:14. > :23:17.and I need to make the most of it and go for it up the front.

:23:18. > :23:25.Yeah, a lot of going for it up the front. Interesting stuff from the

:23:26. > :23:32.boys. Rob Jones joins me now. Very important here at Silverstone. Tell

:23:33. > :23:35.us about the role of the MSA. It is the national governing body.

:23:36. > :23:47.Silverstone put on the event. They are the promoter of the event:

:23:48. > :23:51.MSAs... There go the boys! The MSA organise the sporting side. Really

:23:52. > :23:57.what goes on the track particularly with the volunteers, the marshals

:23:58. > :24:02.here, the medics, most all the volunteers here are associated with

:24:03. > :24:07.the MSA and trained by the MSA and you can get involved in motorsport

:24:08. > :24:12.in any way you want, but the volunteering is special. We train

:24:13. > :24:16.volunteers throughout the world. They do an incredible job. How

:24:17. > :24:25.important is the British Grand Prix and the realm of UK motorsport? It's

:24:26. > :24:28.the pinnacle of the sport. It's not only the enthusiast who comes today

:24:29. > :24:34.and watches today, it is the wider public, people who have not been

:24:35. > :24:38.introduced to motorsport. It performs that role. This is the

:24:39. > :24:42.perfect way of introducing peel to the sport. There will be people

:24:43. > :24:45.watching who perhaps never watched the race before and it is the

:24:46. > :24:49.British Grand Prix and they will go away and hopefully get involved in

:24:50. > :24:53.grass-roots motorsport. You are trying to develop young drivers as

:24:54. > :24:57.well, it goes hand-in-hand? We have a young driver development

:24:58. > :25:03.programme. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. We have had Nick

:25:04. > :25:10.and Alex on the podium over the weekend and they are Team UK members

:25:11. > :25:13.as indeed is Elvin Evans and we're proud of them and what we are

:25:14. > :25:17.achieving with the young drivers. Rob, thank you very much. We wish

:25:18. > :25:22.all of those drivers as well. That's great. Thank you. We are seeing lots

:25:23. > :25:26.of Lewis Hamilton, of course who had a lot of help in his career along

:25:27. > :25:32.the way. You're looking at live shots of him and it was a story of -

:25:33. > :25:38.oh, there is Prince Harry having a khat with Jackie Stewart and Alain

:25:39. > :25:43.Prost there. You would like to be a fly on the wall there. Isn't he a

:25:44. > :25:46.great supporter. Jackie would make sure these people get looked after

:25:47. > :25:50.and it is an honour to have. As you said earlier, there is a lot of

:25:51. > :25:56.sporting competition. Wimbledon is on and people will want to watch the

:25:57. > :25:59.World Cup, but so many dignitaries and high-profile people and they

:26:00. > :26:03.love the Grand Prix and they love Silverstone and that's why they're

:26:04. > :26:08.here. Let's look at another side of Lewis Hamilton as he takes us back

:26:09. > :26:17.to his grass-roots in the carting realm with David.

:26:18. > :26:27.Me and my dad driving up here in his red Cavalier with the box trailer.

:26:28. > :26:34.We were nobodies. I was only eight years old. Dad spent all week in his

:26:35. > :26:38.off time from work preparing the car and making it look stunning for the

:26:39. > :26:51.race. And then I'd come and destroy it! I was out playing. I was a kid.

:26:52. > :27:00.This is where your career started? I used to come here and race 14 years

:27:01. > :27:05.before you were born. This is the Silverstone of what it is to cars.

:27:06. > :27:12.My first race was here. The place has changed so much. The track is

:27:13. > :27:16.still the original track. When you look back in your carting career and

:27:17. > :27:20.compare it to where you are in Formula One, do you have that same

:27:21. > :27:25.feeling? I do. The carting days are the best. You are bombing around

:27:26. > :27:29.going fast and all the guys in faster cars fly-past you out of

:27:30. > :27:33.nowhere and give you a heart attack. One guy hit me on the inside into

:27:34. > :27:38.turn one and I went flying off into the wall and smashed my helmet and

:27:39. > :27:42.my face on the steering wheel and my nose was bleeding and everything and

:27:43. > :27:48.this was the day before the first race. I got pushed around a lot when

:27:49. > :27:54.I was younger, but I gave as much back. We should get out there and I

:27:55. > :28:00.will show you some of my skills. You have not been in touch with Nico?

:28:01. > :28:09.No. You think I'm going to take you out? Let's do it, yeah. Shall we get

:28:10. > :28:14.our kit on? Yeah. So Lewis there, is where it all

:28:15. > :28:22.began. Let's try and re-enact your carting magic. Not too bad for an

:28:23. > :28:44.old man! Where are you going? I have always

:28:45. > :28:47.been known as a late breaker and my dad used to stand at the side of

:28:48. > :28:51.where we brake and he would see where the top drivers were braking

:28:52. > :28:57.and then he would go a few more meters later and he would make me

:28:58. > :29:10.brake there. I was often in that pond while learning to brake later!

:29:11. > :29:19.Try and grab his bumper. He has really caught back on me.

:29:20. > :29:33.I think I've kind of lost it a little bit.

:29:34. > :30:01.Very good. You were very well behaved. Do you know who this? Lewis

:30:02. > :30:04.Hamilton. One thing that you probably don't know or you may know

:30:05. > :30:11.is that Lewis Hamilton used to go to your school. How are you guys doing?

:30:12. > :30:25.APPLAUSE With your gloves on, you can't make

:30:26. > :30:33.a noise. Where do you live? Pe tri Way. That's where I used to live.

:30:34. > :30:37.Nico and I talked about boats and all these things and what we would

:30:38. > :30:49.call our boats and it was all a fantasy at the time. When was your

:30:50. > :30:56.first race? It was here in 1993. I was your age, I was eight. Can

:30:57. > :31:05.anyone imagine being 29 years old, does that seem really old? How about

:31:06. > :31:14.47? You've just added more years to me, I'm 43! The difference between

:31:15. > :31:15.them, some of the girls are going for it, some of the boys are more

:31:16. > :31:31.timid. Who has been your toughest

:31:32. > :31:36.competitor so far? Fernando Alonso, who I raced with years ago, he

:31:37. > :31:47.drives for Ferrari, he was probably my toughest. Moving to the British

:31:48. > :31:54.Grand Prix... It is particularly special. Naturally, because it is

:31:55. > :31:58.your home crowd and the heritage and history of motorsport in the UK. I

:31:59. > :32:07.remember winning my first Grand Prix there, the gold trophy. That was an

:32:08. > :32:15.unbelievable feeling. From karting to Formula One. And now we are in my

:32:16. > :32:24.hometown, aren't we? Some of these guys are bigger than you. That was

:32:25. > :32:24.probably the only time you looked up to me.

:32:25. > :32:42.Lovely These are pictures of Lewis in the

:32:43. > :32:46.garage, just before he's about to go out. Just under half an hour before

:32:47. > :32:52.the British Grand Prix starts. Eddie, that is Lewis having to put

:32:53. > :32:56.yesterday behind him and start afresh today. I agree with Nigel

:32:57. > :33:02.Mansell. I think this could be some form of extra motivation. You can

:33:03. > :33:08.see how gritty he is, because he has some really good cars in front

:33:09. > :33:08.see how gritty he is, because he has him, to make sure he passes quickly.

:33:09. > :33:10.If he can start like you started in Austria, we are in for a massive

:33:11. > :33:18.fight. If I was Rosberg at the moment, I wouldn't think this was an

:33:19. > :33:19.easy race to win. He's really got to control these problems he has had in

:33:20. > :33:23.the last few races because this is control these problems he has had in

:33:24. > :33:27.one of those heightened environments where you could become quite

:33:28. > :33:31.paranoid. Of course, every driver, they are very selfish, that's the

:33:32. > :33:35.way they have to be, most sports people are. They've got to think

:33:36. > :33:41.about themselves first. As they go through the day, Lewis has to think,

:33:42. > :33:46.why me, why is it always me? You've got to get that out of your head and

:33:47. > :33:51.get on, be positive, try and get into some motivation that gives you

:33:52. > :33:56.the supreme ability to be able to find the best and win this race. We

:33:57. > :34:02.are seeing pictures of John Surtees, the man who won World Championships

:34:03. > :34:06.on four wheels and two wheels, seven of those. Sebastian Coe before him.

:34:07. > :34:12.We can get the latest on what's going on in the pit lane now. Tom is

:34:13. > :34:15.up there. This is one of the loneliest moments

:34:16. > :34:22.of the weekend for me. Everyone is heading to the grid. It's going to

:34:23. > :34:27.be a stunning race today. Judging by Pirelli's tyres from Friday, it's

:34:28. > :34:33.going to be a one ought to stop race. It's probably going to be to

:34:34. > :34:38.stop. That's a good thing, because it's quite difficult to overtake at

:34:39. > :34:42.this race track and we want as many variables as possible. We want to

:34:43. > :34:51.look at those Ferraris and Williams... According to Ferrari's

:34:52. > :34:56.simulations, they think Alonso can finish fifth in this race, from a

:34:57. > :35:01.starting position of 16th, if he has a clean run.

:35:02. > :35:09.Great shots there. Everybody is scurrying past us, about to go onto

:35:10. > :35:14.the grid. We've got her Majesty 's Royal Marines marching band behind

:35:15. > :35:19.us. It's really building now to what is going to be a fascinating race.

:35:20. > :35:26.It is, because yesterday, Bernie used to say, without telling anyone,

:35:27. > :35:30.I'm going to win the track and each and every race of qualifying because

:35:31. > :35:34.he said the rain is always the one that throws up the most unlikely

:35:35. > :35:39.grades, the most unlikely race results and the most excitement. And

:35:40. > :35:44.what happened yesterday? Exactly that. We are looking at Bianchi's

:35:45. > :35:54.car, they are sorting the brakes out. He had an off on Friday. Then

:35:55. > :35:59.yesterday he had his great qualifying, 12, the best ever

:36:00. > :36:04.qualifying. This team has moved on so significantly, it's so exciting

:36:05. > :36:07.to see. They started as one of the new teams, most people didn't give

:36:08. > :36:12.them hope at all of being up where they are at the moment, so fingers

:36:13. > :36:16.crossed, Max Chilton is one of their drivers, huge British interest. We

:36:17. > :36:20.will make sure that we are supporting him as much as we can.

:36:21. > :36:24.They are working right up to the wire. Why do you think that

:36:25. > :36:28.difference has been with Marussia? Is it the fact they've switched to

:36:29. > :36:33.the Ferrari powertrain? The engine made such a difference. The

:36:34. > :36:37.reliability of the Ferrari was such a massive coup. In the previous cars

:36:38. > :36:46.they didn't have some of the gizmos that the top teams had. Over last

:36:47. > :36:50.winter, they were able to find the budget and commitment. They are now

:36:51. > :36:55.coming out as a team. They are ahead of people like Saab and pushing

:36:56. > :36:59.other teams. Do I think the likes of Caterham can catch them? I don't

:37:00. > :37:04.think so. I know there's a change of ownership in Caterham and we may see

:37:05. > :37:09.some fireworks there but this team is quite honestly on top of their

:37:10. > :37:17.game. We're just going to grab a hold of Sebastian Coe. Literally!

:37:18. > :37:22.You've already met Suzi, what about me? This has been such a busy two

:37:23. > :37:27.years but you. Lots of people talking about what you are going to

:37:28. > :37:35.do next, working at the BBC, what's the latest news? I'm here to watch

:37:36. > :37:43.the Grand Prix! I like braking news. Are you the designated new person to

:37:44. > :37:48.take over Formula One? There's FIFA, the Vatican, loads of jobs you

:37:49. > :37:52.haven't ran through. Seriously, I know you are a big motor sports fan.

:37:53. > :37:57.What are you expecting out there today? I was nervous yesterday

:37:58. > :38:01.because of the weather. I think it should be OK today. I will leave

:38:02. > :38:08.that to the experts, but I think that's the way Ferrari and Williams

:38:09. > :38:13.can come through the field today. Nice to talk to you, thank you.

:38:14. > :38:18.Indeed, let's go to the grid, because David is with some of the

:38:19. > :38:22.drivers. I'm standing here at the moment, you can probably see the

:38:23. > :38:27.police cordon. You've got Sir Jackie Stewart here, we will maybe get a

:38:28. > :38:35.quick word. He is with Prince Harry. I understand... Can you maybe give

:38:36. > :38:40.us an insight into your royal guest's interest in Formula One?

:38:41. > :38:43.He's a great enthusiast, he was coming to races at nine and his

:38:44. > :38:48.brother was 11 when I first brought them to the British Grand Prix. We

:38:49. > :38:55.came to Donington, went to brands Hatch, he's very keen on racing.

:38:56. > :39:01.What sort of insight have you been giving him today? It's been some

:39:02. > :39:06.time since you drove a car. It is. He's been to see the Williams team,

:39:07. > :39:14.McLaren, he knows it all. He covers it very well. You can just see

:39:15. > :39:19.behind Sir Jackie their, we have some of the celebrities. We have Her

:39:20. > :39:25.Majesty's Royal Marine band from Collingwood. They will be putting on

:39:26. > :39:30.a fine show for the grandstands here. You can see behind all of the

:39:31. > :39:34.union Jacks. One of the things I always appreciate about the British

:39:35. > :39:40.fans, there are some Ferrari flags and other fans -- flags as well,

:39:41. > :39:44.British fans really spread the love. Nico Rosberg has not come to

:39:45. > :39:48.the grid. He's not talking to anyone today, very focused on the race

:39:49. > :39:53.ahead. That psychological battle that's going on between the two

:39:54. > :39:57.team-mates so far seems to have been won by Nico. We've got Sebastian

:39:58. > :40:03.Vettel, only the second time he's been in the front row so far this

:40:04. > :40:07.season. He hasn't had the chance to get that one

:40:08. > :40:11.season. He hasn't had the chance to going this year. Nico Rosberg has

:40:12. > :40:14.started to pick up on that now, so it's obviously something that is

:40:15. > :40:21.from their nation particularly. A few words with his engineer, rocky.

:40:22. > :40:26.They will be discussing the wind mainly around this race track,

:40:27. > :40:33.making some adjustments to the wings. The Red Bull is particularly

:40:34. > :40:37.slow in a straight line, 14: It is per hour slower than the Mercedes of

:40:38. > :40:41.Nico Rosberg. Sebastian Vettel have to get this car off the line and

:40:42. > :40:43.then try and brake the DRS zone, if he's going to have any chance at

:40:44. > :40:57.all. Let's hang a little bit longer. He is discussing what's going on

:40:58. > :41:05.behind him. In the meantime, we will jump in and see a lady here. From a

:41:06. > :41:12.pretty racing driver... Have you got a hangover? Sorry, it's live. URA

:41:13. > :41:16.regular now, the second time at the British Grand Prix. I absolutely

:41:17. > :41:22.love it, there's nothing better than the sound of that juicy engine. I've

:41:23. > :41:26.never heard it called juicy before. Who are you supporting? I'm here

:41:27. > :41:31.with Red Bull, a British racing team, so I would love Vettel to

:41:32. > :41:34.win. Lewis Hamilton made a mistake yesterday but I reckon he's still

:41:35. > :41:41.got a good chance, it would be great to see him win. Meanwhile, Vettel

:41:42. > :41:45.still talking with his engineer. I wonder if we will take a walk along

:41:46. > :41:55.and try to talk to some of the other drivers. We've got Catania here. We

:41:56. > :42:04.are both live at the moment. I'd rather use spoken English and

:42:05. > :42:07.German. The British Grand Prix. I don't suppose it really strikes a

:42:08. > :42:11.chord with the German driver, but certainly with the British teams

:42:12. > :42:16.that are all based here... If you can get in there, you can see the

:42:17. > :42:20.diagram that Rocky has drawn on his engineering board. It's showing the

:42:21. > :42:28.direction of wind around this open racetrack. We may have to move on

:42:29. > :42:34.and see if we can speak to some of the other drivers. The pretty map,

:42:35. > :42:37.showing the wind direction. I'm interested in you talking to the

:42:38. > :42:41.crowd because it's your home crowd. The wind coming in from the West,

:42:42. > :42:47.what do you have to change on the card to make it work this afternoon?

:42:48. > :42:52.I just asked for the intensity. We've adapted already to that, the

:42:53. > :42:57.wind is different to Friday. It plays a big role with high-speed

:42:58. > :43:05.corners. We just made sure it didn't change. Can you do anything with

:43:06. > :43:09.Nico? I will try. You don't have the straight line speed is all you've

:43:10. > :43:14.got to be relying on the start. That is the idea. They are quick. We will

:43:15. > :43:18.do the best we can. If there's a chance to annoy them, I hope we can

:43:19. > :43:27.go for that. I'd like to get a word with Jenson Button. Emotional day,

:43:28. > :43:31.great to see so many people bringing out the pink for your father.

:43:32. > :43:36.Thoughts ahead of this British Grand Prix, is your mind firmly focused on

:43:37. > :43:41.converting what was a great qualifier? Yes, yesterday was a good

:43:42. > :43:44.day, I went to bed happy last night. Hopefully we can have a good result

:43:45. > :43:49.today. It's going to be tricky but we will have a good race. Good luck

:43:50. > :43:58.and great effort. Let's find our way back onto the grid. Lewis Hamilton

:43:59. > :44:08.they're heading off for a last-minute focus. I'll just get a

:44:09. > :44:14.quick word with Niki Lauda. Lewis disappointed yesterday, how is his

:44:15. > :44:19.mood today? Good, very good. He is highly motivated. He looks good.

:44:20. > :44:25.Your boys are separated, they will not really be racing each other, are

:44:26. > :44:31.they? There is a difference on tyres between the two, let's see who has

:44:32. > :44:35.the advantage, maybe Lewis. Different strategies from the two.

:44:36. > :44:42.That is going to be great to see how that plays out. We saw earlier in

:44:43. > :44:46.the year that Mercedes were allowing that two drivers to really run their

:44:47. > :44:52.best race will stop of course, that puts the lead driver and a little

:44:53. > :44:59.bit of pressure later in the race. We might just keep moving on from

:45:00. > :45:04.Hulkenberg. Force India really doing a fantastic job. Their home Grand

:45:05. > :45:10.Prix, they are within a stone 's throw of this racetrack. Lewis

:45:11. > :45:15.Hamilton they're out of position. The Mexican flag flying here, that

:45:16. > :45:26.can mean only one of two things. We are with Sergio Perez. Sergio, are

:45:27. > :45:31.you a golf fan? You realise that he is handy with a club? Yes, he is

:45:32. > :45:35.better than I. How do you see this afternoon? You maybe out of position

:45:36. > :45:39.from what the car could have done, but you're having a great run so

:45:40. > :45:44.far? Unfortunately, we didn't get to do the last lap so we lost a few

:45:45. > :45:50.positions. It is good to be in the position. All we can aim for is

:45:51. > :46:00.third today. We're not too bad in that position. OK, we wish you luck.

:46:01. > :46:08.A word with Ian Poulter. You are a local man? Force India invited me a

:46:09. > :46:10.long today. I'm having a great time. We're going to cut off for the

:46:11. > :46:48.National Anthem. All the best. So a very proud crowd there all

:46:49. > :46:53.standing for the National Anthem. All 120,000 of them. It is a real

:46:54. > :47:01.terrific British crowd today and they are such a resilient. The sun

:47:02. > :47:05.is out. It is a little bit blustery. Well, on the way to the grid, we got

:47:06. > :47:11.team radio from Lewis Hamilton which was concerning. He was asking the

:47:12. > :47:19.team about his brakes. See the smoke?

:47:20. > :47:25.So he asked the team if there was a problem with his brakes. After that,

:47:26. > :47:29.I have to say, I was on the grid and he walked past Eddie and myself and

:47:30. > :47:34.he gave us a little smile. He looked relaxed so perhaps that's gone away

:47:35. > :47:39.now? Well, let's hope all those teething problems, you know, coming

:47:40. > :47:45.up to the start of a race, everybody is anxious, they are uptight and

:47:46. > :47:47.maybe they are doing things they wouldn't do under normal

:47:48. > :47:52.circumstances. So the brakes, anything he can pick out so he can

:47:53. > :47:56.get his mind off what is going to happen, the start of the race,

:47:57. > :47:56.that's when the adrenalin is pumping and rushing and they

:47:57. > :48:01.that's when the adrenalin is pumping sure they are in the best possible

:48:02. > :48:05.situation. So get the engineers and the mechanics look at the brakes and

:48:06. > :48:09.console him and tell him everything is OK and off he goes. Take nothing

:48:10. > :48:13.away from Nico Rosberg, he has just done everything right recently. He

:48:14. > :48:17.has taken the momentum away from Lewis in Monaco. Lewis accepted that

:48:18. > :48:20.in an interview that Lee did yesterday, but he looked like he

:48:21. > :48:27.dealt with it and moved on from it, but really Lewis has got the whole,

:48:28. > :48:34.all the cards in his hand, don't you think, Eddie? The situation here is

:48:35. > :48:39.Rosberg psychologically made a move and that move occurred in Monaco. It

:48:40. > :48:43.was a crucial moment for him to get pole position. It was a crucial time

:48:44. > :48:47.for him to win the race. He did both of those things and he took the

:48:48. > :48:51.upper hand at that moment. He still has the upper hand, but I believe

:48:52. > :48:57.that can be changed quickly and Lewis is the man who can do it

:48:58. > :49:03.because we do know for sure, Lewis is the faster, but at the moment

:49:04. > :49:09.psychologically, Rosberg has the upper hand. Jules Bianchi got on to

:49:10. > :49:14.the grid in time and well done to Marussia for sorting out that

:49:15. > :49:17.problem. Bianchi going from 12th. Lee managed to catch up with Felipe

:49:18. > :49:21.Massa. Let's hear what he had to say. It was a difficult day for

:49:22. > :49:28.Williams yesterday. Can you make your way through the pack today? I

:49:29. > :49:32.will try. It will not be an easy race. Maybe the car can be

:49:33. > :49:36.competitive and it can be important today in the race. Have a good one.

:49:37. > :49:41.Thanks. Well, he has got a lot to do. He starts from 15th. His

:49:42. > :49:44.team-mate going from 14th in that unfortunate qualifying session they

:49:45. > :49:48.had yesterday getting caught out. You have got to see the Williams

:49:49. > :49:52.moving through here. We're quick now, aren't they? Well, the car in

:49:53. > :49:57.many respects, I think this is, in the right hands and if they had

:49:58. > :50:01.probably a better last couple of seasons and they were ready for

:50:02. > :50:07.this, they could have been championship contenders, absolutely.

:50:08. > :50:13.This car is right up there with the Mercedes and the Force Indias. They

:50:14. > :50:17.are all fighting in that mid-section. We talked about how

:50:18. > :50:21.exciting that fight is for the constructors and drivers. Williams,

:50:22. > :50:26.outstanding car. Outstanding. They have done an amazing turn around and

:50:27. > :50:30.they have a huge fanbase. What Frank achieved all those years ago and now

:50:31. > :50:34.Clare bringing it forward, it is a new dimension. It certainly is. With

:50:35. > :50:43.just under ten minutes to go then, let's have a look at 1.36 of Nico

:50:44. > :50:51.Rosberg yesterday. Here is his pole lap. The 50th running of the British

:50:52. > :50:53.Grand Prix at Silverstone a 6.2 mile racetrack and we have variable

:50:54. > :50:57.weather conditions. This is at the dying moments of the qualifying

:50:58. > :51:02.session, that's Lewis Hamilton in front of Nico Rosberg and the clock

:51:03. > :51:06.is ticking down as we come through the second last corner. As he

:51:07. > :51:12.positions himself to get across the line, the red lights are on. He has

:51:13. > :51:20.crossed the start/finish line for timing through turns one and two.

:51:21. > :51:23.Nico is able to use laws Lewis as a braking reference. They are slower

:51:24. > :51:27.than they were on their previous best lap. Lewis locks up as he goes

:51:28. > :51:37.out on to the Wellington Straight and he throws in the towel and he

:51:38. > :51:42.moves over having given his team-mate the toe down the we

:51:43. > :51:48.Wellington Straight, never give up to the chequered flag and that's

:51:49. > :51:53.what Nico Rosberg has done. Exits, and passes the British Racing

:51:54. > :52:01.Drivers' Club and past the old Formula One pits and towards Copse.

:52:02. > :52:05.The conditions are far from ideal in this session. Towards Becketts, the

:52:06. > :52:10.most challenging section of corners of any Grand Prix track in world and

:52:11. > :52:17.a must see for any racing fans. Keeps it tidy as he runs out to the

:52:18. > :52:21.Hangar Straight. Hangar Straight under the bridge and this is where

:52:22. > :52:26.the position lap was won. Towards Stowe. The track is drier than the

:52:27. > :52:31.previous lap. He misses the apex, but is able to get a good drive down

:52:32. > :52:35.through Vale. He is not giving up. He's going for the lap. Correction

:52:36. > :52:40.for oversteer as he goes into Club. Nice and tidy through the second

:52:41. > :52:45.part. Short shifts in the last corner and he takes pole position.

:52:46. > :52:48.His fourth of the season and his team-mate, Hamilton, is down in

:52:49. > :52:51.sixth place. This sets it up for a fantastic race this afternoon as

:52:52. > :52:58.Lewis will need to work his way through the field. Never a truer

:52:59. > :53:01.word said. We can't wait for this race to happen. Even if you are on

:53:02. > :53:10.the move, you never have to miss a moment. You can download the BBC

:53:11. > :53:15.Sport smartphone app. You can watch the action live when we are live.

:53:16. > :53:20.Not long to go now until this Grand Prix starts and what a build-up we

:53:21. > :53:24.have had. What a session we had yesterday. The crowd was out there.

:53:25. > :53:27.They can't wait for this. And they are desperate for Jenson to hold

:53:28. > :53:31.position. It will be tough for him in these conditions though? Well,

:53:32. > :53:35.there is a couple of things. Jenson, really, this was a miracle

:53:36. > :53:40.qualifying yesterday for him. Great testimony of the ability that he

:53:41. > :53:45.has. If we remember my favourite race was his race win in Canada when

:53:46. > :53:49.he judged the surface, the tyres, the whole balance, he did that again

:53:50. > :53:54.yesterday. He is outstanding at finding extra speed when no one else

:53:55. > :54:00.can, but he has that gift. Do I see him finishing in the podium? No, the

:54:01. > :54:07.car is not able to do it? For once, I hope you are wrong. David and Ben

:54:08. > :54:08.are your commentators, can Lewis Hamilton win at the British Grand

:54:09. > :54:21.Prix? COMMENTATOR: Hamilton's lap is

:54:22. > :54:30.fastest. TEAM RADIO: We're going to box this

:54:31. > :54:35.lap. It looks good for Hamilton. The times are coming down. Rosberg is

:54:36. > :54:46.fastest. Where is Hamilton? He's in the pits! Hamilton is the sixth.

:54:47. > :54:52.Just go for it, Lewis. You can do it! Come on, Lewis. I'm rooting for

:54:53. > :54:58.you. You can do it. Get in your car, do what you do best and we'll be

:54:59. > :55:00.cheering every time you go past. I did it before so there is no reason

:55:01. > :55:23.I can't do it again. Lewis Hamilton has won four Grand

:55:24. > :55:27.Prix this year, but can he win the one that's closest to his heart? The

:55:28. > :55:32.British Grand Prix. Six years ago to this day, he took his first and so

:55:33. > :55:35.far only win at Silverstone from fourth on the grid and he will have

:55:36. > :55:40.to work harder today from sixth position. For the 50th time, Grand

:55:41. > :55:48.Prix racing comes to the site of the ancient Luffield Abbey and the 13th

:55:49. > :55:55.century chap of Thomas Becket names which aplay to -- apply to various

:55:56. > :56:00.corners. It features some of the fastest corners in Formula One and

:56:01. > :56:08.creating ing neck-wrenching G-forces. Two DRS zones should

:56:09. > :56:12.create overtaking opportunities. In dry conditions, it is not an easy

:56:13. > :56:18.circuit on which to overtake. Hamilton has his work cut out today.

:56:19. > :56:24.Between him and his team-mate, Nico Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel and 2009

:56:25. > :56:29.world champion, Jenson Button and two other Mercedes powered cars that

:56:30. > :56:36.will be fast on the straights. We need to keep on eye on the Williams

:56:37. > :56:41.and Ferraris. There is so much to look forward to David and the

:56:42. > :56:51.build-up reaching a crescendo as we get ready for the start of the Grand

:56:52. > :56:57.Prix. I have been staying on track and the at mass fear is just --

:56:58. > :57:02.atmosphere is really wonderful. There is a festival feeling here.

:57:03. > :57:07.Lewis came up short in qualifying, but Jenson Button put in a good show

:57:08. > :57:12.with McLaren and a lot of expectation just how quickly Lewis

:57:13. > :57:17.can come through. Vettel is on second. Button on third. His best

:57:18. > :57:26.grid position of the season. Hulkenberg fourth and Magnussen

:57:27. > :57:33.fifth. The two McLarens up there. Daniel Ricciardo starts in eighth.

:57:34. > :57:39.And the two Torro Rossos in tenth place. 11th, Romain Grosjean and

:57:40. > :57:44.Jules Bianchi, career best and team best. Adrian Sutil 13th on the grid.

:57:45. > :57:49.He went off in qualifying, Valtteri Bottas further down than expected.

:57:50. > :57:58.He is in 14th and 15th for his team-mate. Fernando Alonso is 16th.

:57:59. > :58:06.Kimi Raikkonen is down in 18th followed by Esteban Gutierrez and

:58:07. > :58:10.Pastor Maldonado and we have the two Caterhams. Well, Lewis Hamilton

:58:11. > :58:14.starting sixth on the grid. Only twice has the British Grand Prix at

:58:15. > :58:19.Silverstone been won from sixth or lower. We have to go back to 1975

:58:20. > :58:26.when it was won from seventh on the grid. Peter Collins won it from

:58:27. > :58:32.sixth in 1958, I wonder if Lewis can emulate his progress. Nico Rosberg,

:58:33. > :58:38.good qualifying profres for him. -- progress for him. Jenson Button, his

:58:39. > :58:42.best grid position of the season so far. He was fourth in Canada, but

:58:43. > :58:44.never had a podium finish here at Silverstone. Sebastian Vettel

:58:45. > :58:49.starting in second place on the grid. He celebrated his 27th

:58:50. > :58:54.birthday this week. He really could do with a descent result. He a tough

:58:55. > :58:58.season. A non finish last time out in Austria. There is Nico Rosberg

:58:59. > :59:03.who leads the World Championship table by 29 points. Winner here last

:59:04. > :59:06.year, let's not forget, but he did inherit the victory. Lewis Hamilton

:59:07. > :59:09.was leading the race and Sebastian Vettel was leading the race and

:59:10. > :59:12.Rosberg came through to take the victory. This time David, he has a

:59:13. > :59:16.great opportunity from pole position? The confidence grows when

:59:17. > :59:20.you have got cars around you that you leave are less competitive.

:59:21. > :59:27.Lewis Hamilton is sitting alongside him on the start grid and his heart

:59:28. > :59:32.rate would be ten beats higher. Even if he makes an average start, he

:59:33. > :59:39.knows he has the straight line speed over Hamilton and Vettel. Hamilton

:59:40. > :59:43.down in sixth has to get a couple of places in before we get down into

:59:44. > :59:52.the Wellington Straight to stand a chance of getting on to the gearbox

:59:53. > :59:56.of Rosberg. Further down the field, a slight difference from Ferrari,

:59:57. > :00:00.only Ferrari are starting the race on the harder tyre. Alonso did that

:00:01. > :00:06.a couple of years ago and was beaten to the win by Mark Webber, but he is

:00:07. > :00:10.not going for the win today. He is going to try and score as many

:00:11. > :00:15.points as possible. The next time they come to the grid will be for

:00:16. > :00:20.the start of the Grand Prix. We just check that all cars move away

:00:21. > :00:26.cleanly and they do. The two Williams, Raikkonen passing and

:00:27. > :00:32.we're waiting for the two Caterhams and yes, everybody is away and on to

:00:33. > :00:37.the final formation lap. There is a packed house here at Silverstone

:00:38. > :00:41.waiting to see if Hamilton can fight his way through the order. We will

:00:42. > :00:45.see pit stops and how many? That's one of the questions. Let's get down

:00:46. > :00:56.to Tom and get the latest answers. What do you expect to see, Tom? All

:00:57. > :01:00.the guys who are going to two stop, I can see them hitting as early as

:01:01. > :01:03.lap ten if they are starting the race on the medium tyre. It looks

:01:04. > :01:07.like Ferrari are going for the one-stop, but that's a brave

:01:08. > :01:11.decision. Looking at the data, Mercedes, particularly Rosberg, was

:01:12. > :01:16.suffering overheating after 60 laps on a long run on Friday. Two stops

:01:17. > :01:22.is probably the quickest way but Ferrari have to do something

:01:23. > :01:23.different. They are on the hard tyre. There's the gap between

:01:24. > :01:38.Rosberg and Hamilton. A bit of feedback from Nico Rosberg

:01:39. > :01:44.to his team about the response he got on the practice start. When he

:01:45. > :01:48.says and engaged, he will be referring to the clutch. It's normal

:01:49. > :01:55.to release one clutch as a real action to the light and then once,

:01:56. > :01:58.he feels movement in the car, he releases the second clutch panel. He

:01:59. > :02:03.felt there was a bit too much slip on the clutch as he released that.

:02:04. > :02:07.Remember back to China, where he said the start was perfect. Then

:02:08. > :02:11.when he came to the race start proper, he had a pretty average

:02:12. > :02:16.start. Although they do the best job to finely tune all the systems, it's

:02:17. > :02:22.all about tyre temperature, track position, wind, so many variables as

:02:23. > :02:26.you release the clutch. How is the actual start going to go? Lewis

:02:27. > :02:30.Hamilton had a brilliant start in Austria, he could do with another

:02:31. > :02:33.one here. He started from ninth and he was fourth by the end of the

:02:34. > :02:39.first lap. This time he starts a little further up in sixth. Rosberg

:02:40. > :02:48.and Vettel upfront. Magnussen is fifth. Hamilton is sixth. Perez

:02:49. > :02:53.seventh. Grosjean, Lotus much happier with the performance of the

:02:54. > :02:59.car, he might be able to squeeze into the points here today. Watch

:03:00. > :03:06.out for the Marussias as well. The Saubers are still desperate for

:03:07. > :03:13.points as well. Gutierrez is further back with a lot of work to do.

:03:14. > :03:18.Everybody now just preparing for the start of this race. Keep an eye on

:03:19. > :03:23.the two Williams further down the grid, Bottas starts 14th and Massa

:03:24. > :03:27.in 15th. It seems amazing that it went so wrong for them in qualifying

:03:28. > :03:32.yesterday, but it's a dry day, it looks as though it's set to write

:03:33. > :03:35.for the race. 30% chance of rain. Whether you are an avid Grand Prix

:03:36. > :03:39.fan or tuning in for the first time, or perhaps revisiting the

:03:40. > :03:43.sport you used to follow, sit back and enjoy the ride as the 50th Grand

:03:44. > :03:46.Prix at Silverstone is about to start. The 50th Grand Prix at

:03:47. > :03:52.Silverstone is about to start. Away we go! Hamilton trying, a great

:03:53. > :03:59.start by Rosberg, a good start by Jenson Button. Vettel has dropped to

:04:00. > :04:06.fourth position already, dread. For him. He's under attack from

:04:07. > :04:12.Hamilton. Hamilton already, as he's coming back at him, he's charging

:04:13. > :04:16.with Vettel still behind him. Hulkenberg losing out in the middle

:04:17. > :04:20.of this. Not a good start for the Force India. Rosberg getting away in

:04:21. > :04:28.front, Button second, Magnussen inferred. Contact! It is Kimi

:04:29. > :04:34.Raikkonen. Other cars involved there as well. One of the Caterhams

:04:35. > :04:39.bouncing across the grass. I think it was Felipe Massa and the

:04:40. > :04:42.bouncing across the grass. I think car. It is. He's having a tough

:04:43. > :04:48.time. That car looks very badly damaged. He obviously didn't see the

:04:49. > :04:54.tyre that has been removed from the Ferrari on the impact. Damage to the

:04:55. > :04:57.rear of the car, heavy shunt on the front. The crash structure at the

:04:58. > :05:05.front of the car has taken a big hit. He is still in the car but

:05:06. > :05:09.there's a movement. A good sign. You can see the left rear damage on the

:05:10. > :05:14.Williams, that's a long way back to the pits. The safety car is on

:05:15. > :05:19.track. On the opening lap Grand Prix, the medical car is just behind

:05:20. > :05:23.the field. Kimi Raikkonen this out, he's limping. His feet or ankles

:05:24. > :05:28.have taken a big hit, because they are right in that top section you

:05:29. > :05:32.can see at the front of the car will stop Kimi Raikkonen limps away as

:05:33. > :05:38.Felipe Massa tries to get this car back. He's going past the old pics

:05:39. > :05:46.here. RADIO: Are you OK? Trying to get

:05:47. > :05:50.some feedback from the team. Red flag, the race has been completely

:05:51. > :05:54.stopped. Probably too much debris out there for them to feel they can

:05:55. > :05:58.clean it up safely. Kimi Raikkonen has been taken straight to the

:05:59. > :06:03.medical car. It's as much about that, you wouldn't expect to have an

:06:04. > :06:09.accident on the Wellington straight, so there isn't the recovery

:06:10. > :06:16.facilities there. The marshals do a marvellous job of removing the

:06:17. > :06:20.debris. He gets very wide coming out onto the Wellington Straight. As he

:06:21. > :06:25.rejoins, the car starts and he has the accident all in his own. The

:06:26. > :06:28.avoiding action there of the Williams, so Massa did a great job

:06:29. > :06:34.to avoid a full on impact with the side of Raikkonen. Coming onto the

:06:35. > :06:39.Wellington Straight, Raikkonen has come back onto the circuit, spun,

:06:40. > :06:41.had his own accident and then watched Massa. He locks it out and

:06:42. > :06:47.throws the car into the spin stop great avoiding action there

:06:48. > :06:49.from Massa. That could have been so much worse, a T-bone accident,

:06:50. > :07:00.always the most frightening. It flicks on him completely. Snaps

:07:01. > :07:04.as he comes across the circuit. A big hit. The Caterham as well took a

:07:05. > :07:14.hit on the nose. Witt that was Kobayashi. Gets pushed out over the

:07:15. > :07:20.grass. We've seen that before. It jumps. A big hit into the barrier as

:07:21. > :07:26.it comes out to allow for the bridge. Massa, great stuff in trying

:07:27. > :07:31.to avoid. Good to see Kimi Raikkonen is out of the car, back to see that

:07:32. > :07:35.he is limping. That was a frightening accident, he hit the

:07:36. > :07:40.barrier very hard indeed. Probably getting up to 180 mph at that point.

:07:41. > :07:45.The race has been stopped and cars have been brought back to the grid.

:07:46. > :07:48.Williams will analyse the damage on the back of mass's car and decide

:07:49. > :07:52.what to do now. Under the current red flag regulations, you don't go

:07:53. > :07:58.back to the original grid. You pick up the order, race control decide on

:07:59. > :08:04.a timing loop around that first lap. They will line up with Button in

:08:05. > :08:08.second and Magnussen inferred, as they had got away from the grid. We

:08:09. > :08:12.won't go back to the original grid. That helps Hamilton because he was

:08:13. > :08:17.already up into fourth position. There is the damage on the Ferrari.

:08:18. > :08:23.It's the front-end that took the biggest hit. What a horrible season

:08:24. > :08:28.Kimi Raikkonen is having. Is. Side impacts like that, there's very

:08:29. > :08:32.little, you can see some tyre damage on the front of that Marussia, but

:08:33. > :08:37.there's very little protection for the driver's legs in a side impact.

:08:38. > :08:41.By that, I don't mean the strength of the survival cell. Your feet have

:08:42. > :08:45.to be able to move on the pedals. Some drivers put any power between

:08:46. > :08:48.their knees to stop them moving around, but otherwise your legs are

:08:49. > :08:52.just flapping around in the cockpit. You get a big hit like that, the

:08:53. > :08:57.normal position is to brace yourself. Personally, I always found

:08:58. > :09:03.it was something to help stabilise myself in the car. The Williams boys

:09:04. > :09:09.will be surveying the damage and deciding whether that car can safely

:09:10. > :09:13.take the restart. We saw Max Chilton in the pit lane. He probably will be

:09:14. > :09:18.allowed to line up at the back if they feel the car is OK. The first

:09:19. > :09:22.race we've seen, red flag on the first lap, since the 2000 Monaco

:09:23. > :09:27.Grand Prix. Let's take another look at the start of the race. A horrible

:09:28. > :09:31.start of the race. Horror. For Sebastian Vettel. He starts coming

:09:32. > :09:38.under pressure from Lewis Hamilton. There was contact there. That was

:09:39. > :09:42.the Force India there, Perez. Even through turn one. Let's keep an eye

:09:43. > :09:46.on that from this angle. You can see the slow starting Lotus as well,

:09:47. > :09:52.some avoiding action was being made. The two Ferraris getting

:09:53. > :09:56.pinched through the corner. There was that contact between Perez, who

:09:57. > :10:01.was nursed into that half spin... Just trying to spot who it was,

:10:02. > :10:08.might have been one of the Toro Rossos. Meanwhile, Hamilton managed

:10:09. > :10:11.to get around the outside of Vettel. Looking for Raikkonen, he is being

:10:12. > :10:17.pushed wide as they go through the apex. This is from Felipe Massa's

:10:18. > :10:20.point of view, going from The Loop onto the Wellington Straight.

:10:21. > :10:25.Raikkonen has already left the circuit, is rejoining. He then

:10:26. > :10:29.whacks across the barrier. That's an extraordinary reaction there from

:10:30. > :10:34.Massa. Lesser drivers would have just barrelled in their nose first.

:10:35. > :10:40.It was so late that he couldn't see anything. He was blind to what was

:10:41. > :10:45.happening up ahead of him. Here is Raikkonen rejoining and then

:10:46. > :10:48.slamming right across in front. Reminiscent of one of the

:10:49. > :10:56.Silverstone races going through woodcut, hit the barrier and then a

:10:57. > :10:58.whole bunch of people in 1973... The Encyclopaedia of knowledge is

:10:59. > :11:06.joining us here in the commentary box. A huge hit for Raikkonen. Not a

:11:07. > :11:14.complete front on impact. It's that side impact. Let's watch the start

:11:15. > :11:18.from Hamilton's point of view. Terrible start for Hulkenberg, he

:11:19. > :11:24.gets straight past the Force India. Lewis is already looking to find a

:11:25. > :11:30.way past Sebastian in the first corner. He's got to wait and see

:11:31. > :11:36.where Vettel breaks. He gets a squeeze, there was contact there

:11:37. > :11:44.from Vettel. He keeps the position. Loses a bit of drive as he comes out

:11:45. > :11:50.onto the Wellington Straight. Here is Vettel's start, let's see how

:11:51. > :11:54.poor it was. It seemed as if he almost had a double up shift there.

:11:55. > :11:58.It really affected his drive off the corner. We will see Hamilton

:11:59. > :12:02.appearing on his left hand side. He's defending on the inside.

:12:03. > :12:03.Hamilton comes and opens the steering. A little bit of contact

:12:04. > :12:17.there. Has to concede the corner. Hulkenberg almost got him back.

:12:18. > :12:22.That's the corner where we know Raikkonen went out onto the tarmac.

:12:23. > :12:26.As he rejoined, it looks like it's all over for Felipe Massa. He's had

:12:27. > :12:30.a tough time recently. He crashed here on Friday morning. He was

:12:31. > :12:35.involved in a huge accident with Sergio Perez in the Canadian Grand

:12:36. > :12:39.Prix. Between that, he's had a pole position in Austria. Be finished in

:12:40. > :12:56.fourth place. He is having a season of major ups and downs. The Williams

:12:57. > :12:59.team have had a horrible time this weekend. Suzi Wolf got hardly any

:13:00. > :13:01.laps in that Friday morning, he crashed, they qualified right down

:13:02. > :13:04.the back. Their only hope now with Bottas. To be fair to Bottas, he

:13:05. > :13:07.made some ground on that first lap and got up to ninth position. There

:13:08. > :13:11.is Lewis Hamilton's car. Every time a car is stopped in the garage, the

:13:12. > :13:14.mechanics will have a look around. It was wheel to wheel. If you are

:13:15. > :13:21.going to have any contact with a racing car, that's the best to have.

:13:22. > :13:28.RADIO: the race will be restarted with the safety car. Interesting to

:13:29. > :13:32.hear. A lot of damage to the barrier there. You prefer to hit metal and

:13:33. > :13:38.concrete. You see how close he was to where it joins up against the

:13:39. > :13:41.bridge. If there is such a thing as fortunate in an accident, it looks

:13:42. > :13:46.like he was fortunate to strike at where he did. No spare cars in

:13:47. > :13:51.Formula One these days. In your era, there was often the opportunity

:13:52. > :13:55.to jump into the spare car at that point but that doesn't happen now.

:13:56. > :14:01.You have to factor that in. In certain races you could afford to be

:14:02. > :14:06.more aggressive at the start. Now they have spare cars but only in a

:14:07. > :14:13.box at the back of the truck, for if they have a damage through

:14:14. > :14:19.practice. If your car is damaged now, that's it, your afternoon is

:14:20. > :14:23.over. It takes about nine hours to put that car together from all the

:14:24. > :14:26.bits in the back of the truck. Nico Rosberg, having made a good start

:14:27. > :14:28.first time around and dealt with those around him, he now finds

:14:29. > :14:29.himself having those around him, he now finds

:14:30. > :14:39.again. He's got a those around him, he now finds

:14:40. > :14:43.one of the tallest drivers, Fernando is even shorter. But out of the car

:14:44. > :14:46.stretching his legs, it's not the most comfortable of environments.

:14:47. > :14:55.Its hostile, warm, the radiators are right side the driver. That seeps

:14:56. > :14:59.into the cockpit. The water systems run over 100 degrees. That's why you

:15:00. > :15:03.see most of the drivers getting out of the car, stretching their legs.

:15:04. > :15:03.see most of the drivers getting out They then go through the procedure

:15:04. > :15:06.of getting the kit on, going back They then go through the procedure

:15:07. > :15:13.into the car and focusing the mind. Ricciardo focusing -- and in one

:15:14. > :15:17.place on that lap. At least he hasn't lost as he did in the first

:15:18. > :15:21.lap in Austria, he lost several places on the first lap of the

:15:22. > :15:27.previous Grand Prix. He will be hopeful that he made up a bit more

:15:28. > :15:32.proud. Hulkenberg Roz car there. Magnussen, the other McLaren. We've

:15:33. > :15:36.got the two McLarens second and third on the grid. This is one of

:15:37. > :15:41.the better performances we've seen from McLaren and from Magnussen. He

:15:42. > :15:44.had that solid start to the year, brilliant start in second place in

:15:45. > :15:47.Australia. Had a good result last time in Austria. You can see the

:15:48. > :15:55.confidence beginning to come back now. It is and there is no question

:15:56. > :15:58.that he is a talented racing driver. McLaren, not having the competitive

:15:59. > :16:03.car, he has to be outperforming Jenson to stand out from the crowd

:16:04. > :16:07.and historically, McLaren, whenever they have had a bad season, they

:16:08. > :16:10.have tended to change one of the drivers, not that the driver, of

:16:11. > :16:14.course, designs the car, but that's as Sergio Perez can confirm tends to

:16:15. > :16:18.be the case. So I think that Kevin has to be looking in the second half

:16:19. > :16:22.of the season to really start stamping his name there as the lead

:16:23. > :16:28.driver. We know that Ron Dennis decided to put pressure on...

:16:29. > :16:32.TEAM RADIO: If this goes on for much longer, the race is going to go on

:16:33. > :16:39.longer and there is more of a chance of that rain coming at the end. It

:16:40. > :16:43.is nice to hear Max Chilton thinking through what is going on. We have

:16:44. > :16:50.been told that we won't be getting a restart underway quickly. They need

:16:51. > :16:55.to repair the guard rail. They can't restart the race until the guard

:16:56. > :16:59.rail is repaired. It is something that the circuit management are used

:17:00. > :17:06.to doing. It is something they plan for, but it takes time. You can see

:17:07. > :17:09.the tell tale signs of where it has been replaced before. It is not a

:17:10. > :17:16.normal place that you expect a car to crash, but you have to make sure

:17:17. > :17:27.that with all the FIA safety provisions. The main problem that we

:17:28. > :17:32.have got to consider is whether the support behind is damaged. So we

:17:33. > :17:36.have got a race stop situation here. Let's take another look at what

:17:37. > :17:41.caused this. It was Kimi Raikkonen running wide as he came out on to

:17:42. > :17:45.the Wellington Straight and as he rejoined, he hit the bump. He

:17:46. > :17:51.slammed into the barrier and crossed in front of a number of cars, just

:17:52. > :17:55.touched by Kobayashi and Massa locking up the rear tyres almost

:17:56. > :18:01.doing a handbrake turn to avoid Raikkonen at the last moment. Very

:18:02. > :18:05.scary more Felipe Massa who is having his 200th Grand Prix this

:18:06. > :18:10.weekend and I'm not sure this is what he planned in way of a

:18:11. > :18:15.celebration. Let's look at this again. Kobayashi ever calm and the

:18:16. > :18:23.master of... TEAM RADIO: You need to look at my

:18:24. > :18:28.car on the straight. I hit with the Ferrari. I tried to avoid. I'm not

:18:29. > :18:33.sure. DAVID COULTHARD: That's what I'm

:18:34. > :18:40.going to tell you. BEN EDWARDS: Hearing the level of

:18:41. > :18:45.control in the voice of Kobayashi. His car didn't slam into the barrier

:18:46. > :18:49.and he sounds as though he is on a Sunday afternoon drive. That's the

:18:50. > :18:54.level these guys are working at. A massive under statement. He really

:18:55. > :18:58.hasn't had the chance to show the skills we saw when he was with the

:18:59. > :19:03.Sauber team. Really attacking Japanese driver smiling away there.

:19:04. > :19:07.He was unlucky in qualifying because they got the car out at the right

:19:08. > :19:11.time, but the car suffered an energy recovery system failure and he had

:19:12. > :19:13.to come back into the pits. I think he could have done a good job. His

:19:14. > :19:18.experience in those conditions would have counted for a lot. His

:19:19. > :19:22.team-mate did spin off, but Kobayashi, that technical problem

:19:23. > :19:26.hurt them and it meant that the Caterhams started at the black of

:19:27. > :19:30.the grid. -- back of the grid. It was due to the conditions as much as

:19:31. > :19:34.anything, so of course they were given permission to start. It

:19:35. > :19:38.doesn't look as if the damage is too bad. Presumably they've changed the

:19:39. > :19:50.nose section. New ownership at Caterham for this weekend. It was

:19:51. > :19:57.sold during the week by Tony Ferdinandes. There is a new group of

:19:58. > :20:05.owners at this team. The new bits of armco are being prepared. In British

:20:06. > :20:12.tradition, you have got two guys stand watching and one guy doing the

:20:13. > :20:15.work! There is the damage on front of Chiltern's car. We didn't see

:20:16. > :20:19.where that came from. There might be another chance to find out what

:20:20. > :20:22.happened. Yeah, trying to undo the bolts when they have been hit as

:20:23. > :20:26.hard as they have won't be easy. He has a spanner as well and it would

:20:27. > :20:30.be nice to see an airgun and something that could crack the nuts

:20:31. > :20:36.off quicker. Is that an airgun? Yes, it looks as though they are bringing

:20:37. > :20:42.in tower tools. Alonso had a great record here at Silverstone so where

:20:43. > :20:47.did he get up to? He is 14th Not a great start from his position of

:20:48. > :20:51.16th. He might of had to take avoiding action of the car that Kimi

:20:52. > :20:55.was pushed wide, not pushed wide, but they were battling through on

:20:56. > :21:00.the Wellington Straight was a Sauber. Well, they didn't really get

:21:01. > :21:05.that close wheel to wheel so it looks like Kimi took the decision

:21:06. > :21:08.early that he knew he could run wide and it come back as bit him and

:21:09. > :21:12.maybe with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been better to have

:21:13. > :21:16.lifted off. That's right. It is always easy looking back on these

:21:17. > :21:20.things. A bit of a pause in proceedings here at the moment.

:21:21. > :21:25.Alonso out of his car. All the drivers out of their cars. Jules

:21:26. > :21:29.Bianchi will line up 11th on the grid. He managed to hold position in

:21:30. > :21:35.his Marussia. That was a good effort from him. Max Chilton into the pits.

:21:36. > :21:39.He might be tenth for Bianchi, Max Chilton will have to start further

:21:40. > :21:45.down. At the moment, he is showing tenth and that's because he came

:21:46. > :21:53.into the pits and crossed the lib in the pits -- line in the pits. It is

:21:54. > :21:56.encouraging to the hear comment thinking about what is going to

:21:57. > :22:01.happen later. We heard that rain was forecast for later in the afternoon.

:22:02. > :22:07.More like about 3pm, but this delay could push us into that area where

:22:08. > :22:11.we could see showers. Kevin Magnussen keeping cool and relaxed.

:22:12. > :22:15.Jean-Eric Vergne was involved in the incident at the start with Perez.

:22:16. > :22:20.The team were asking him on the radio if there was any damage to the

:22:21. > :22:24.car. It is unusual for the cars to come together during turn one. It is

:22:25. > :22:31.an open corner almost flat in qualifying. Vergne's car is not too

:22:32. > :22:34.badly damaged. It will put him back into a half sensible position, but

:22:35. > :22:43.he started top ten and he is looking to be 17th or 18th when the race

:22:44. > :22:49.restarts. The thermal imaging camera on Jenson Button's car. A good start

:22:50. > :22:57.from Jenson Button. The tyre warmers are hot and the mechanics are super

:22:58. > :23:01.cool! We won't be seeing the cars up and running for a while as the

:23:02. > :23:05.repairs are made to that section of track. Fantastic viewing points

:23:06. > :23:11.around this Silverstone circuit, aren't they? That's the Club

:23:12. > :23:15.Complex. This is a nice opportunity actually to see the drivers

:23:16. > :23:21.relaxing. They have spoken to their engineers. There is no media down

:23:22. > :23:25.there trying to get a word with them. They have got a chance to

:23:26. > :23:34.reflect, gather their thoughts and know they have to do it again. Nico

:23:35. > :23:41.Rosberg taking on some carbes. He is always nibbling away at something,

:23:42. > :23:46.isn't he? He does seem to be. Watching Nico eat some carbohydrates

:23:47. > :23:51.and get energy. We have been joined by double world Formula One champion

:23:52. > :23:54.and you won here twice. It is a special place, not the start we

:23:55. > :24:06.wanted, of course, but how did you see that crash? Well, it happened

:24:07. > :24:11.and for us, Brazilians, Felipe, the Ferrari bounced back again and it

:24:12. > :24:16.was a shame for the Williams Team, they could do a fantastic race

:24:17. > :24:23.today. It is a very exciting Grand Prix because there are fast cars

:24:24. > :24:26.coming from the back and with that erratic qualifying yesterday, it

:24:27. > :24:32.generates a different type of race and that's the risk. Fast cars on

:24:33. > :24:37.the back and slow cars on the front. Massa, we saw you with his family.

:24:38. > :24:42.They must be consoled, the fact that, this was the most amazing

:24:43. > :24:46.escape. The natural reaction to spin the car away otherwise it could have

:24:47. > :24:57.been a head on collision. Is that how you saw it? I saw Felipe had a

:24:58. > :25:03.fast intuition. He did perfect, but still hit, but he is OK. Like you

:25:04. > :25:13.say, Eddie, it could be a T-bone situation, but he was very fast. The

:25:14. > :25:18.cars are much safer. But you can still get injured. We are on board

:25:19. > :25:24.with Felipe. We can see from his point of view. Well, he had the

:25:25. > :25:29.problem at the start and then he was catching up everybody. He seemed to

:25:30. > :25:33.be dogged with bad luck. One time he can be on pole position and finish

:25:34. > :25:38.in the top five and then he can have situations like this. It doesn't

:25:39. > :25:48.seem to have the consistency. If you were to say, where would you see his

:25:49. > :25:51.situation going forward? Well, there is always in the

:25:52. > :25:55.situation going forward? Well, there everything goes wrong and I hope

:25:56. > :25:59.from now on, everything will be good will be Felipe. The incidents, the

:26:00. > :26:05.past has to go away. The future has to be much better than that. The

:26:06. > :26:09.problem today, because he was out of place on the grid, wasn't he, he was

:26:10. > :26:13.towards the back? He didn't have a good start, if he was further up,

:26:14. > :26:18.that would have been avoided. This is the problem where we get this

:26:19. > :26:27.mixed up grid? Always when you start forward on the grid, you are much

:26:28. > :26:32.safer and you can persist with the speed and everybody around you has

:26:33. > :26:37.less chance to do a mistake, but when you are behind, mid-grid

:26:38. > :26:42.backwards, there is a lot of moving, a lot of action and a big surprise

:26:43. > :26:48.can happen and that's where the risk is higher behind. He is physically

:26:49. > :26:53.OK. Stay with us because we can hear from Felipe now. He has been talking

:26:54. > :26:56.to Lee. Felipe, incredible reactions not to

:26:57. > :27:02.have a bigger hit than you did. Tell us when you first saw Kimi? I didn't

:27:03. > :27:07.see very hard, I couldn't see very well. I saw Kimi crash and then he

:27:08. > :27:15.was coming into me very quick. So I turned right completely and I hit my

:27:16. > :27:27.rear left on his car and the car is very damaged and you know, it the

:27:28. > :27:30.car was not moving and I went last and another problem like that. A

:27:31. > :27:34.problem in the first session. A problem in the qualifying. It was

:27:35. > :27:39.really a weekend to forget. I hope that Kimi is fine. I saw that he had

:27:40. > :27:46.a big crash and I hope that he is fine. David Coulthard said that less

:27:47. > :27:50.experienced drivers couldn't do that. I suppose that's what 200

:27:51. > :27:54.races brings to you, even though it didn't finish well? I the wanted to

:27:55. > :28:02.have a better weekend than that, but I'm happy that I'm fine. That's

:28:03. > :28:07.important. Thank you. Tough times for Felipe, but good to see he is

:28:08. > :28:13.OK. Shots of Kimi's car which was totalled as it went into the armco.

:28:14. > :28:17.That was a bizarre incident for Kimi. We saw him go off the track

:28:18. > :28:26.there and almost bounced in and couldn't control when he came back

:28:27. > :28:33.on to the track. Well, I think if you think about everything is cold

:28:34. > :28:39.at the beginning of the race. Kimi, both Ferraris and both the Williams

:28:40. > :28:44.had a good start and these drivers are aggressive and they want to gain

:28:45. > :28:48.the position because that's an opportunity, starting at the back of

:28:49. > :28:54.the grid of a much faster car than the back markers and they had

:28:55. > :28:57.tremendous pressure to jump and to go forward in the first two or three

:28:58. > :29:03.corners, but we always say you can lose or you can win a Grand Prix on

:29:04. > :29:08.the first corner. Sometimes they are paying a high price being so anxious

:29:09. > :29:13.and at the beginning of the race and Kimi has a lot of experience. We

:29:14. > :29:17.might just change and we have got this opportunity. It is a great joy

:29:18. > :29:22.to have you as part of our show. You won the World Championship with Ron

:29:23. > :29:26.Dennis and with McLaren. They are running second and third at the

:29:27. > :29:33.moment. Is that a surprise to you? Well, I think, they were

:29:34. > :29:38.disappointing at the beginning of the year, but McLaren has the

:29:39. > :29:43.technology, has the people, has the resource to come back again strong

:29:44. > :29:48.and I think with the new rules, some teams are off competition a little

:29:49. > :29:56.bit because they are always changing with the new rules, the envelope of

:29:57. > :30:04.the rules like Mercedes did a very good job and now other teams have to

:30:05. > :30:07.catch up and they will catch up. You know his modus operandi very well,

:30:08. > :30:12.were you surprised that some of the things he said about Jenson, or do

:30:13. > :30:19.you think that was the big motivating factor? I think my

:30:20. > :30:24.opinion of Jenson, he's one of the most complete drivers today in Grand

:30:25. > :30:31.Prix racing. He has a superb style, he's very smooth. He knows to

:30:32. > :30:35.administer the tyres, because that is another challenge for the drivers

:30:36. > :30:40.today. You can put a quick lap but you need to put many quick laps and

:30:41. > :30:49.not destroy the tyres. That's a new challenge for the drivers. When the

:30:50. > :30:55.boost comes, the Turbo, there is a change to 800 horsepower just like

:30:56. > :31:02.that. Power going through the transmission, the tyre takes that.

:31:03. > :31:10.You have to have a very good control. The drivers have to drive

:31:11. > :31:16.now with their hands and feet. And partly their head! It's a massive

:31:17. > :31:19.balancing act. We've seen shots of that barrier still being prepared.

:31:20. > :31:22.We will that barrier still being prepared.

:31:23. > :31:26.another 15 minutes. A slightly that barrier still being prepared.

:31:27. > :31:28.longer delay. As a driver on the grid, you've prepared

:31:29. > :31:31.longer delay. As a driver on the the British Grand Prix, this has

:31:32. > :31:35.happened and now you've got this brake. What happens in your head,

:31:36. > :31:41.how do you maintain focus for what's ahead? Emotion is a tremendous

:31:42. > :31:46.pressure to go back again starting the thing. Always the start is the

:31:47. > :31:50.tension. The drivers are building up like a balloon that is going to

:31:51. > :31:54.blow. Like any athlete before the competition, I'm sure that is going

:31:55. > :31:59.back again to everybody. The tension, they note there was a

:32:00. > :32:10.crash. They have more pressure now than before, for sure. We are seeing

:32:11. > :32:13.lots of drivers sitting. Max is on his corner, sitting on his own

:32:14. > :32:17.around the gate. Some possible problem here because he came into

:32:18. > :32:21.the pits after the red flag, that is being investigated at the moment,

:32:22. > :32:28.Eddie. That looks quite clear, doesn't it? It is clear, but we have

:32:29. > :32:32.two see why he did come in. There was obviously something pretty

:32:33. > :32:36.problematic, terminal almost, with the car. We will see what he is

:32:37. > :32:40.saying. My guesses his body language is saying to us that he's going to

:32:41. > :32:45.have a discussion with the stewards. We will have to hear what

:32:46. > :32:50.they have to say. Emerson, thank you for joining us today, it's been

:32:51. > :32:55.lovely talking to you. Some great information you've shared with us.

:32:56. > :33:01.It's going to be a great race again. We hope so. We have to wait a little

:33:02. > :33:05.bit longer for that one. This is the scene at Silverstone. We can get the

:33:06. > :33:11.latest news from the pit lane, Tom is down there.

:33:12. > :33:14.I've just had a quick chat with Kimi putt data engineer. He said they

:33:15. > :33:19.didn't get any radio message from him at all after the impact, but

:33:20. > :33:23.Rory have been in contact with the medical centre, who say there are no

:33:24. > :33:27.broken bones, which is great, but they are a bit concerned about his

:33:28. > :33:32.right ankle. They are going to x-ray his right ankle, but there's nothing

:33:33. > :33:35.they think is too serious. On a different matter, I must tell you

:33:36. > :33:39.that these drivers have been walking up and down in front of me. I'm

:33:40. > :33:46.behind the red line, I'm not allowed into the pit lane. Jenson has just

:33:47. > :33:50.strolled past, like he is on a Sunday afternoon walk. He had his

:33:51. > :33:51.trainer with him, they were under an umbrella, or he was waving at the

:33:52. > :34:03.crowd. Extraordinary scenes. Is a very different scene when you

:34:04. > :34:06.get a long delay like this. We've been told another update on the

:34:07. > :34:11.guard rail repair. Another update in 15 minutes again, it has clearly

:34:12. > :34:17.taken them quite a while to sort out those repairs. When you have a bent

:34:18. > :34:21.and battered item like that, it is hard to remove the offending item.

:34:22. > :34:26.Nonetheless, the fans are soaking up the atmosphere, they are getting a

:34:27. > :34:32.bit extra in one way. They get to see their heroes out of the Cazan

:34:33. > :34:36.bonding -- and wandering around for a bit longer. They've now got some

:34:37. > :34:40.of the damaged barriers out of the way. It tells us it was Jean-Eric

:34:41. > :34:44.Vergne who was involved in a collision with Sergio Perez at the

:34:45. > :34:49.start of the race. That was a completely separate incident into

:34:50. > :34:52.the first corner, nothing to do with the Raikkonen accident that brought

:34:53. > :34:58.the red flag out. But the stewards will be looking at that. They are

:34:59. > :35:02.much more relaxed, there's been a slight change in approach to these

:35:03. > :35:07.sorts of accidents. They have. As a loose rule of thumb, unless it's

:35:08. > :35:11.more than 70% one of the drivers to blame, they are just going to put it

:35:12. > :35:15.down as a racing incident. It's a step away from what we saw in the

:35:16. > :35:19.past. The reason why the stewards became very firm and strict is

:35:20. > :35:24.because the drivers asked for it. For years, we were frustrated that

:35:25. > :35:26.in one ways -- ACE UK a yellow flag and a penalty for something or

:35:27. > :35:31.another and the next it wouldn't happen. We were calling for

:35:32. > :35:34.consistency. The only way to be consistent is to be hard. At least

:35:35. > :35:39.we knew where we sat. They've obviously decided that's not what

:35:40. > :35:44.the people want. I'm sure we will see in the future sometimes... How

:35:45. > :35:49.can you call a percentage on an incident is the real question?

:35:50. > :35:54.Absolutely right. The positions as they will start when the race gets

:35:55. > :35:59.restarted, Rosberg, Button, Magnussen, they will have to start

:36:00. > :36:03.by a safety car, so we won't see them on the grid doing a standing

:36:04. > :36:07.restart. Under the current sporting regulations, it will be a start

:36:08. > :36:10.behind safety car. It seems ironic when they've already announced that

:36:11. > :36:15.for next year that any restart during the race within the first two

:36:16. > :36:19.laps will be a new standing restart. This is an introduction for next

:36:20. > :36:22.season, we will see more standing starts, because if it happens

:36:23. > :36:25.halfway through the race that a safety car is brought out, the cars

:36:26. > :36:30.will be brought back onto the grid and go from sea roll again. Today,

:36:31. > :36:35.we will see a start behind safety cars. That will give Rosberg the

:36:36. > :36:39.advantage. They will be won by one, single file as they come out of the

:36:40. > :36:44.last corner, he will dictate the moment he accelerates away. The

:36:45. > :36:47.Hulkenberg, he starts sixth after a really poor getaway. I'm sure he's

:36:48. > :36:51.been talking to his engineers about what went wrong on that original

:36:52. > :36:56.start. The big day for Nico Rosberg, the opportunity to extend his lead

:36:57. > :36:59.in the World Championships. The bigwigs at him, he's getting married

:37:00. > :37:04.later in the week. I know that because he is asked to borrow my

:37:05. > :37:09.car. He clearly doesn't have enough friends who have a nice car he could

:37:10. > :37:13.use! The last few weeks for Nico Rosberg have really come together.

:37:14. > :37:18.Let's take another look at the start again. Maybe further down the field.

:37:19. > :37:22.You can see Felipe Massa in the background, it looked like he got a

:37:23. > :37:30.box full of neutrals and had to go through a reset system. Then you see

:37:31. > :37:37.Vergne and Perez coming together. They said no further action will be

:37:38. > :37:41.taken on that incident. At least we know quickly. Lotus struggling off

:37:42. > :37:44.the line as well. Then there's this contact between Perez and Vergne. It

:37:45. > :37:49.did look as though that was Perez coming through his line, Vergne

:37:50. > :37:55.thought he had space. That was a fair call. In this case Perez has

:37:56. > :38:00.come off worse. Further down the field it's all getting a bit bunched

:38:01. > :38:05.up. At the back of that, Raikkonen found himself out wide. The salvo

:38:06. > :38:13.was able to pass him just before. Just listen. It seemed to me like he

:38:14. > :38:17.was in a false neutral. Hamilton, no such problems. He really launches

:38:18. > :38:25.fantastically away past some of the Force Indias. Hamilton is an

:38:26. > :38:29.instinctive race, he comes to the right and then cuts back to the

:38:30. > :38:33.left, braking down into this section of the race track. That's the

:38:34. > :38:36.contact that was made between himself and Vettel. Understeer is a

:38:37. > :38:42.bit as he's going through the last part of The Loop.

:38:43. > :38:49.He gets wheel spin as a natural reaction to the frustration of

:38:50. > :38:51.having made a poor start. He runs out over the kerb. That's what

:38:52. > :38:56.allows Hamilton to get the momentum.

:38:57. > :39:03.Then there's that contact there, a racing incident, but Vettel trying

:39:04. > :39:07.to let the car rolled towards Hamilton to dissuade him taking the

:39:08. > :39:11.past into the next corner. That would have been a worry for Red

:39:12. > :39:13.Bull, to see that slow start. Now we get another look at Raikkonen

:39:14. > :39:21.running wide. He bails out early but he has

:39:22. > :39:24.researched the fact he can come back onto the track. We've seen this

:39:25. > :39:28.happen a few times. It's partly a function of the side walls in a

:39:29. > :39:33.Formula One car, they are very high. A lot of the suspension travel is in

:39:34. > :39:36.the side wall of the tyre itself. One of the things that is being

:39:37. > :39:40.tested at this very track by Pirelli, to go to a much smaller

:39:41. > :39:45.side wall, something we would be a lot more familiar with if we looked

:39:46. > :39:51.at a performance road car. It has a very small height of sidewall, one

:39:52. > :39:54.and a half, two inches, a few centimetres. You get a lot of

:39:55. > :39:58.momentum built up as the car can move within the structure of the

:39:59. > :40:05.tyre. You can see clearly the sidewall here, that must be a good

:40:06. > :40:09.ten centimetres in height. I'm trying to identify what happened to

:40:10. > :40:13.the Marussia of Chilton. He's a few cars ahead of Massa here. I think

:40:14. > :40:16.there was a bit of contact here. Massa is already backing out a bit.

:40:17. > :40:20.Good awareness from him. He Massa is already backing out a bit.

:40:21. > :40:23.have known there was a car off track. What goes off

:40:24. > :40:28.have known there was a car off come back on again. He was prepared

:40:29. > :40:32.for it. I think Chilton got hit... Hit some of the debris that came off

:40:33. > :40:38.the front of that for robbery. That could have been a lot worse. We know

:40:39. > :40:44.Raikkonen was limping from the car. Hopefully no permanent damage. More

:40:45. > :40:50.than can be said for the chassis. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a

:40:51. > :40:53.chassis change for the next race. Apparently the wheel from

:40:54. > :40:58.Raikkonen's car bounced off Chilton's car, bounced off the front

:40:59. > :41:01.of his car and touched his helmet. Because Chilton came into the pit

:41:02. > :41:05.lane after the race was suspended, he will have a drive-through penalty

:41:06. > :41:10.once this race restarts. Max Chilton losing out as a result. Sadly,

:41:11. > :41:16.that's the way it is. He's sitting at the end of the pit lane looking

:41:17. > :41:18.pretty relaxed. He's not going to worry too much about that

:41:19. > :41:23.drive-through penalty because he's going to focus on what he can do.

:41:24. > :41:30.Derek Dooley a bear, and nice shot of him. Eric bringing some changes

:41:31. > :41:34.to McLaren which are certainly much needed. It's been a disappointing

:41:35. > :41:39.couple of seasons. This is the best qualifying performance as a team

:41:40. > :41:46.since the Brazilian Qom pre-2012, when they were one two on the grid

:41:47. > :41:50.in the case of Hamilton and Button. We are talking about two cars in the

:41:51. > :41:55.top five originally coming into this space. A poor period from McLaren's

:41:56. > :41:59.point of view. Eric the man charged with turning things around, bringing

:42:00. > :42:03.new things onto the car. There have been a few glimmers things are

:42:04. > :42:08.improving. It puts them a little bit out of ease when you know there are

:42:09. > :42:13.changes being made. A lot of focus on the aerodynamic department of

:42:14. > :42:24.McLaren. They say they simply don't have enough downforce. Imagine if

:42:25. > :42:27.you are remember of that front line team in the aero department of

:42:28. > :42:30.McLaren. They have to make a change. Who is the person who will put their

:42:31. > :42:33.hand up and say, you know what, I don't think I'm doing a very good

:42:34. > :42:35.job? They have been headhunting some senior designers from the aero

:42:36. > :42:41.department, from Red Bull, Mercedes. It's quite normal in this

:42:42. > :42:45.very small world of Formula One, that engineers and mechanics will

:42:46. > :42:48.move between teams several times over their careers. The current

:42:49. > :42:53.track conditions, reasonable temperatures, track temperature of

:42:54. > :42:56.34 degrees. The wind picking up a little bit, it's stronger than it

:42:57. > :43:00.was in qualifying yesterday but not quite as strong as we saw on Friday

:43:01. > :43:05.afternoon, when it was really gusting. No sign of any rain showers

:43:06. > :43:09.above us at the moment. A bit of blue sky. A fairly solid level of

:43:10. > :43:14.cloud, just the odd bits of blue sky as well. Once we do get racing, in

:43:15. > :43:19.terms of strategy we are expecting a couple of stops this afternoon.

:43:20. > :43:23.There is Bianchi nibbling on a banana, anything to keep your energy

:43:24. > :43:27.levels up. It's quite difficult for the drivers to get enough calories

:43:28. > :43:32.in to the build-up of the race. They also need to put in so much fluid as

:43:33. > :43:35.well. It's quite common to drink between five and six litres of fluid

:43:36. > :43:40.from waking up to starting the Grand Prix. That is not all retained.

:43:41. > :43:46.There are frequent comfort breaks. Magnussen is sitting there with all

:43:47. > :43:48.his friends! Keven certainly having a good start. Let's go down to the

:43:49. > :44:01.paddock now. It was good from a Mercedes point of

:44:02. > :44:11.view. It was quite good for Mercedes. We are one and four, two

:44:12. > :44:17.McLarens in front of Lewis. Kimi is limping off, he will get his ankle

:44:18. > :44:21.x-rayed. Tell us the mindset of your drivers, Lewis seemed very

:44:22. > :44:26.despondent after yesterday? Yes, but he was in a very good place this

:44:27. > :44:30.morning, very focused and concentrated in the strategy

:44:31. > :44:35.meeting. He will want to show a good performance in front of his home

:44:36. > :44:40.crowd. His car isn't damaged, after the link back from Vettel. He should

:44:41. > :44:44.be doing well. We keep asking about the pressure to the drivers between

:44:45. > :44:49.the drivers, but what's it like to manage from your point of view? It's

:44:50. > :44:52.not difficult to manage as long as you keep being transparent and

:44:53. > :44:58.communicate. This is what we are always trying to do. Always be on

:44:59. > :45:02.the same page. The race will be on soon. Ray sample both those guys,

:45:03. > :45:07.they are allowed to battle as hard as they want. Absolutely. There

:45:08. > :45:09.could be a bit of a strategy change but they are allowed to battle.

:45:10. > :45:24.Hopefully not lose any front wings. flag here at Silverstone after the

:45:25. > :45:28.crash. I'm with the communications chief. What can you tell us first of

:45:29. > :45:34.all about Kimi's condition? Kimi is OK. Which is the best news so far.

:45:35. > :45:41.He got a big hit and we all saw him get out of the car with his own

:45:42. > :45:46.forces which is a good sign. He was lamenting some bruises to his leg.

:45:47. > :45:53.We figured out in the medical centre where he is now with our Ferrari

:45:54. > :45:56.doctor and his physio and the medical delegates and he only seems

:45:57. > :46:04.to have bruises on his ankle and a little bit on his knee so he is OK.

:46:05. > :46:07.We will quickly look at Fernando Alonso's race so far. We heard you

:46:08. > :46:14.are changing to the medium for the restart? Is that a fact? We will

:46:15. > :46:18.see. We will see. The safety car will change a bit the strategy. We

:46:19. > :46:23.were trying something different from the back to see if we could gain as

:46:24. > :46:27.many positions as possible. That remains our objective. We will see.

:46:28. > :46:33.It is a tough year for Kimi Raikkonen. If he didn't have bad

:46:34. > :46:40.luck, he would have no luck at all? It is up to Ferrari to improve the

:46:41. > :46:44.car for both of the drivers and Kimi's talent is out of question and

:46:45. > :46:48.he has not been able to express such talent as we would all like to see,

:46:49. > :46:53.but he will be back very soon. What are your hopes for Fernando this

:46:54. > :46:59.afternoon? Do you think you can get him into the points? The race on

:47:00. > :47:04.Friday was promising, and now we have to prove it on Sunday and

:47:05. > :47:08.Fernando is a fighter, we all know that, traffic will be an issue, we

:47:09. > :47:13.will see how the race plays out. Good luck. Thank you. Thanks very

:47:14. > :47:17.much, Tom. A difficult day for Ferrari and it is good to hear it

:47:18. > :47:24.doesn't sound as if Kimi Raikkonen is seriously injured. There is the

:47:25. > :47:30.boss of Ferrari, Formula One Team. Ferrari have been in a position like

:47:31. > :47:34.this at Silverstone. If we think back to the 1999 race, Michael

:47:35. > :47:38.Schumacher had a nasty accident at the start of the Grand Prix and

:47:39. > :47:42.broke his leg and suffered a double fracture, Schumacher. That caused a

:47:43. > :47:47.red flag and that was the day David, you went on to win your first

:47:48. > :47:53.British Grand Prix? He went down the inside of his team-mate Eddie Irvine

:47:54. > :47:56.and went down the side of the barriers and sustained that leg

:47:57. > :48:16.injury. It put him out for several races. Ferrari wasn't competitive.

:48:17. > :48:26.Eddie Irvine got close to Mikko Hackonan. When Michael's housekeeper

:48:27. > :48:29.asked where Michael was, she said he was out playing football. And it was

:48:30. > :48:34.suggested he should come into the next Grand Prix. He was not rushing

:48:35. > :48:39.to get in what was a less competitive car. Let's hope Kimi is

:48:40. > :48:43.able to race in Germany,. Course. Lewis Hamilton -- Germany, of

:48:44. > :48:47.course. Lewis Hamilton started sixth. He will take the restart from

:48:48. > :48:52.fourth place. Lee is with Lewis' father, Anthony Hamilton. Anthony,

:48:53. > :48:57.lovely to see you. Lewis was telling us that you are the reason why he is

:48:58. > :49:01.king of late braker when we filmed him. You used to stand in a position

:49:02. > :49:07.where you were standing he had to brake and he ended up in a pond a

:49:08. > :49:15.few times. Yeah, he did. The middle corner and everybody used to brake

:49:16. > :49:19.early and I said if you learn to brake later, and he used to end up

:49:20. > :49:23.in a little bit of a pond. He moved up through the field. What do you

:49:24. > :49:28.think his mindset is heading into this race, he was down yesterday?

:49:29. > :49:32.Yeah, he was down yesterday. It is normal because, you know, it it is

:49:33. > :49:36.an emotional business and when you are running at the British Grand

:49:37. > :49:40.Prix, what you want to do is perform at your best. He felt he let the

:49:41. > :49:45.whole world down. That's how he felt. He hadn't let anybody down, it

:49:46. > :49:48.was just one of those things. Came back this morning and the support

:49:49. > :49:53.from the crowd was phenomenal and that helped boost him for today. So

:49:54. > :49:57.yeah, I'm hoping we get a good start again when the race restarts and

:49:58. > :50:00.give Nico a run for his money. This isn't the first year he has been in

:50:01. > :50:03.a battle with a feisty team-mate. What do you think he has up his

:50:04. > :50:08.sleeve that maybe Nico doesn't? That's going to be a difficult

:50:09. > :50:14.thing. Lewis is, what you see is what you get. Raw talent. A nice

:50:15. > :50:19.guy. Personable and you know, and just an ordinary person and the

:50:20. > :50:22.thing is he fought hard to get to Formula One through his racing

:50:23. > :50:28.career and he is going to fight hard to win the championship again this

:50:29. > :50:32.year. Anthony, thank you. It is nice to hear from Anthony Hamilton. He is

:50:33. > :50:36.less involved in Lewis' career than he was in the early days. We will

:50:37. > :50:40.get an update in five minutes time. We saw the barriers going back

:50:41. > :50:43.together quickly which is good news. Anthony Hamilton, he has taken a

:50:44. > :50:47.step back. There was a falling out between the two of them at one

:50:48. > :50:52.stage, but it is lovely to hear him talk about his son in those terms

:50:53. > :50:55.now. It was great to see Anthony and Lewis arriving along with his

:50:56. > :50:59.brother actually this morning. Very much a family together and relaxed.

:51:00. > :51:04.As we were having the interview with Lee and Anthony, you could see Lewis

:51:05. > :51:09.walking down the side of the McLaren mechanics, waving to the crowd, he

:51:10. > :51:13.does seem in a very relaxed place. After the disappointment of

:51:14. > :51:16.yesterday where he was almost stunned, that he found himself

:51:17. > :51:20.making what turned out to be an error of judgement, you know, you

:51:21. > :51:25.can't know that at the time when you are making the decision, but I

:51:26. > :51:29.strongly suspect he won't ever back out from a position like that

:51:30. > :51:32.especially when you are in front of your team-mate and in the closing

:51:33. > :51:34.minutes of qualifying. It is part of the learning experience. This is the

:51:35. > :51:37.first time he is living this life. Just because he won a World

:51:38. > :51:41.Championship and just because he is famous and recognised as such,

:51:42. > :51:46.doesn't mean he doesn't make mistake. Everyone does. Indeed, a

:51:47. > :51:49.team that made mistakes yesterday was the Williams Team, they

:51:50. > :51:54.qualified poorly, but today it has been difficult. Felipe Massa

:51:55. > :51:59.clipping the back of Kimi Raikkonen's car. Lee McKenzie is

:52:00. > :52:02.with Clare Williams. Clare, mixed feelings I'm sure,

:52:03. > :52:07.Valtteri Bottas making a fantastic start, Felipe Massa no longer in the

:52:08. > :52:14.race, but incredible avoiding action out there? It is so sad for Felipe,

:52:15. > :52:16.it is his 200th race, he didn't make it through the first lap, but he did

:52:17. > :52:20.avoid an accident which could have been worse. I'm pleased he is out of

:52:21. > :52:27.the car. He is so disappointed and we are for him as well, but Felipe,

:52:28. > :52:35.Valtteri Bottas made a good start. He is up to P 9. I hope he keeps P9.

:52:36. > :52:39.It must be like a roller coast of emotionings, you seem to go from --

:52:40. > :52:43.emotions, you seem to go from a bad weekend to a fantastic weekend and

:52:44. > :52:48.this could either way. What were the emotions last night after a strong

:52:49. > :52:53.performance in Austria to be caught out by the weather? It is really

:52:54. > :52:57.disappointing, but Formula One is an emotional rollercoaster and you deal

:52:58. > :53:01.with it. You have to get on with it, both drivers were really positive

:53:02. > :53:07.and it hasn't worked out for Felipe, I hope now we have had our bad luck,

:53:08. > :53:12.we have been totting up the amount of bad luck, they say it goes in

:53:13. > :53:16.threes, we've had five. I hope Valtteri Bottas can get to the end

:53:17. > :53:22.of this race and get some points for us at our home Grand Prix. We have a

:53:23. > :53:27.restart time of 2.05pm and that means in about 11.5 minutes time the

:53:28. > :53:30.cars will take the restart. The atmosphere is getting better and

:53:31. > :53:34.better out there despite the delay, but the repairs have been done now.

:53:35. > :53:39.So new bits of barrier. Everything is as it should be. Of course, the

:53:40. > :53:43.track has to be fully fit and fully functional for the restart of any

:53:44. > :53:46.race, but particular, a Formula One Grand Prix, when you see the speeds

:53:47. > :53:51.that the cars are getting around this track, but good work by the

:53:52. > :53:59.crew here at Silverstone and drivers will be preparing to get back into

:54:00. > :54:03.their cars and making sure the hydration levels are kept up and

:54:04. > :54:11.Valtteri Bottas will be starting from ninth. I hope he remembers to

:54:12. > :54:17.take his hat off before putting his balaclava on! It is another elements

:54:18. > :54:22.that the Mercedes team got right. The starts have been strong. Since

:54:23. > :54:27.China, they have been good? It is something they work on, the

:54:28. > :54:32.drivability of the engine down to the way the driver releases his

:54:33. > :54:35.clutch pedal as well, all that can be tuned to the individual and

:54:36. > :54:41.Fernando Alonso looking as cool as ever. Just going to click his back a

:54:42. > :54:47.little, there you go, before the start of the race. Well, he is

:54:48. > :54:51.taller again! Indeed. Fernando Alonso will be starting from 14th

:54:52. > :55:03.position for this restarted race. The Mercedes boys are getting ready.

:55:04. > :55:14.Nico there and Lewis before. Just ten minutes to go. There was almost

:55:15. > :55:19.some Cairo praktry going on here. This race delay, it is not too bad

:55:20. > :55:27.for your drivers. This is correct. I want to speak overall. Go on then.

:55:28. > :55:33.Formula One is over regulated. This start, all these stupid rules, when

:55:34. > :55:43.you don't fit your tyre properly, your driver gets a penalty. It is

:55:44. > :55:47.crazy. Now, to stop the race for one hour because there is barrier

:55:48. > :55:50.damage. It is wrong. Nobody will hit this place again and all these

:55:51. > :55:56.things, I think, are against the sport. We wait for a restart which

:55:57. > :56:00.is nice, but it really is not what Formula One should be. Nicky, you

:56:01. > :56:04.have to call into question what you just said. The people here, they are

:56:05. > :56:09.culpable, they are responsible for what is likely to happen and if

:56:10. > :56:12.another car came and hit that, how unlikely that maybe, I understand

:56:13. > :56:19.and if it went into the crowd, who is going to talk to the relatives of

:56:20. > :56:23.the people who have been killed? I agree, but we have seen it other

:56:24. > :56:28.times in television, do you think that in the restart something will

:56:29. > :56:31.happen there? The chances are zero. The chances maybe zero, but who is

:56:32. > :56:35.responsible. You are right, it needs to be discussed at the safety

:56:36. > :56:41.briefing and the safety meetings. Yeah, I agree with you, but Formula

:56:42. > :56:45.One is overregulated. We take care of every detail and now we stand

:56:46. > :56:47.around here for an hour, a lot of people go home or switch the

:56:48. > :56:52.television off. This is the other problem we have. There is no chance

:56:53. > :56:58.that this place will be hit again. Kimi made a mistake going wide and

:56:59. > :57:01.then hid the guard rail is one thing that's clear. Nobody else will make

:57:02. > :57:08.the same mistake there again, I would say. Would you have stopped

:57:09. > :57:12.the race? Yes. That's clear to get rid of the damage, correct. But now

:57:13. > :57:17.to replace the guard rail, I would not have done. Don't switch over!

:57:18. > :57:21.There is only five minutes until the race starts. Stay with us because we

:57:22. > :57:26.have fantastic arguments here on BBC Two as you can tell. Suzi is being

:57:27. > :57:32.dismissive. He probably has a plane to catch and he is an hour late! I'm

:57:33. > :57:37.staying here tonight. This man was at the forefront of safety all those

:57:38. > :57:42.years ago. Moving forward from that subject, what should we expect from

:57:43. > :57:48.this restart? Nico is the master of restarting behind the safety car,

:57:49. > :57:53.isn't he? He is very good and Lewis, this is what the spectators want to

:57:54. > :57:58.see, Lewis is in fourth position. In three laps, he will be second and we

:57:59. > :58:02.will race like all through the year, Lewis will fight Nico until the end.

:58:03. > :58:08.Do you think Lewis could take the win? He is capable. His car is not

:58:09. > :58:14.damaged. So he is fit and the chances are much better now. You

:58:15. > :58:18.talked briefly that there would be different tyre strategies with both

:58:19. > :58:22.cars. Will you keep to that? Yes, it can still happen. I don't know what

:58:23. > :58:24.is the latest because we used another set of tyres now as

:58:25. > :58:29.everybody does, but let's wait and see. And you are now on the medium

:58:30. > :58:33.tyre? Yes, everybody will start on a

:58:34. > :58:39.medium one. OK. I don't know. I will have to check. It makes sense.

:58:40. > :58:43.Fourth and second is close. Lewis will be second quickly and then he

:58:44. > :58:50.will race Nico all the way to the end. That's an exciting prospect.

:58:51. > :58:56.Nicky Lauder thank you for joining us. Full of information. Nicky says

:58:57. > :59:00.it how it is. There is no airs or graces, what you get is what you get

:59:01. > :59:04.and it's full-on and he means that. There is no fluffing about the

:59:05. > :59:08.place. I'm standing in the middle of two men that aren't fluffy and say

:59:09. > :59:12.it how it is. Nicky, thank you very much. Thank you very much.

:59:13. > :59:16.Just about five or six minutes to go now until the restart. The flags are

:59:17. > :59:20.flying in the wind. The sun is shining on the paddock and the

:59:21. > :59:24.temperatures are really quite good for the British Grand Prix. We saw a

:59:25. > :59:30.few pictures of Jenson's helmet and he has his tribute to his dad. It is

:59:31. > :59:35.pink for Pappa Day. We're wearing our emblems in honour of John Button

:59:36. > :59:39.who would be here today and obviously would have been loving the

:59:40. > :59:44.British Grand Prix and loving the fact that his son started on the

:59:45. > :59:47.second row. And even right this moment, the fact that he is second

:59:48. > :59:53.and he will make the start second here. Can he maintain that position?

:59:54. > :59:58.Well, you heard what Nicky Lauder thinks behind the scenes, he thinks

:59:59. > :00:06.that the two cars in front of him are slower and he would be past them

:00:07. > :00:10.quickly. He doesn't think much of the McLaren cars. I think Jenson and

:00:11. > :00:14.Magnussen could have a big race here. It has been an extraordinary

:00:15. > :00:17.weekend so far. What on earth will happen next?

:00:18. > :00:24.BEN EDWARDS: We're getting ready for the restart here at Silverstone. A

:00:25. > :00:29.race that was interrupted at the start. Kimi Raikkonen went in front

:00:30. > :00:38.of several cars. He was collected by Felipe Massa. A little bit of damage

:00:39. > :00:43.to the car of Kobayashi. We have lost the cars of Kimi Raikkonen and

:00:44. > :00:46.Felipe Massa from this Grand Prix. They won't be taking the restart.

:00:47. > :00:50.Max Chilton came into the pits at the end of the lap which he

:00:51. > :00:54.shouldn't have done. He will have a drive-through penalty, but he will

:00:55. > :00:57.be starting from the pit lane which will move a couple of cars up in the

:00:58. > :01:02.single file restart. They will restart behind the safety car as per

:01:03. > :01:06.the regulations and they aren't allowed to do a standing restart at

:01:07. > :01:10.this stage of the Grand Prix. So once they are given the signal, the

:01:11. > :01:15.safety car will lead them around and then will release them to go racing

:01:16. > :01:19.once again and it will be Rosberg who leads from Button second,

:01:20. > :01:20.Magnussen third, Hamilton up to fourth having started from sixth

:01:21. > :01:24.place on the grid and Sebastian fourth having started from sixth

:01:25. > :01:28.Vettel who lost out most of all of the leaders on that opening lap. A

:01:29. > :01:32.poor start from the four times world champion means Vettel will restart

:01:33. > :01:37.in fifth and Hulkenberg sixth and behind him it will be Daniel

:01:38. > :01:41.Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat as we see Felipe Massa now changed into

:01:42. > :01:51.civvies and very much out of the Grand Prix. Sitting there with Eric

:01:52. > :01:55.Clapton and Jean told. He is not looking particularly impressed. I'm

:01:56. > :02:00.sure he will understand that he's extremely disappointed to be sitting

:02:01. > :02:04.out of his 200th Grand Prix. Not the way he wanted to celebrate such a

:02:05. > :02:06.key number of races. Jenson Button it is quite a big weekend in terms

:02:07. > :02:20.of numbers of Grand Prix Looe. He's not quite up there with Rubens

:02:21. > :02:27.Barrett cello, who started 325 Grand Prixs to have the existing record.

:02:28. > :02:33.Enthusiasm hasn't waned over the last hour.

:02:34. > :02:39.It has been pretty much exactly an hour since the original start got

:02:40. > :02:43.under way, but we are getting ready for the restart now. Just a couple

:02:44. > :02:47.of minutes before they are sent on their way. You were looking at the

:02:48. > :02:57.order they will be behind the safety car. Bianchi will start 10th because

:02:58. > :03:03.of Chilton starting from the pit lane.

:03:04. > :03:07.Chilton will be starting from the pit lane and have a drive-through

:03:08. > :03:14.penalty once the races up and running. Perez will actually start

:03:15. > :03:19.the race. But we've lost mass and Raikkonen. Those are the two cars

:03:20. > :03:23.that will not be taking this restart. Still plenty of blue sky

:03:24. > :03:27.around, not much threat of rain at this stage. There was some talk that

:03:28. > :03:33.within an hour, from this time, there might be some showers, but

:03:34. > :03:37.it's looking good at the moment. A beautiful summer day. It doesn't

:03:38. > :03:41.mean there's not a black cloud over the horizon, but for everyone it

:03:42. > :03:44.does make the racing somewhat more exciting, but it makes it more

:03:45. > :03:48.difficult for the fans sitting around the track. The race time he

:03:49. > :03:54.normally around the hour and a half mark. That will take us to around

:03:55. > :03:57.3:30 p.m., so there is a possibility that by then we may see the odd

:03:58. > :04:02.shower around. But right now it looks as though we are on for a

:04:03. > :04:07.good, dry restart, dealing a bit of heat haze coming off the grid. Track

:04:08. > :04:11.temperature up to 34, that will help the team is running on a hard tyre

:04:12. > :04:17.compound as well, because the hard tyre is quite difficult to get into

:04:18. > :04:21.its working range. With the safety car, you don't have that stopping on

:04:22. > :04:25.the grid and losing temperature from the tyre itself. Once they get

:04:26. > :04:34.released following that safety car around, they've got a good chance to

:04:35. > :04:38.maintain heat. The grid is beginning to clear, the engines are firing up,

:04:39. > :04:43.the safety car in position at the front end of the grid. Lewis

:04:44. > :04:46.Hamilton will restart from fourth, he's on the medium compound tyre.

:04:47. > :04:52.Vettel has changed onto a hard tyre and Ricciardo likewise. Ferrari have

:04:53. > :04:56.got rid of the hard tyre. That could work well for them. It is the less

:04:57. > :04:59.favoured tyre but, having run it, you don't have to run it again.

:05:00. > :05:03.There's about half a second difference new to new between the

:05:04. > :05:07.tyres. Ferrari have committed themselves to having a time deficit

:05:08. > :05:11.at the start of the race. We've seen safety car is here and incidents in

:05:12. > :05:17.the past. Having got rid of that now, they are on the faster of the

:05:18. > :05:21.tyres this afternoon. They can stay with that medium tyre for the rest

:05:22. > :05:25.of the race. A couple more on hard tyres. Grosjean, Vern and Perez

:05:26. > :05:34.having switched to the hard tyre as well. Away they go, behind the

:05:35. > :05:40.safety car, as we prepare for a restart next time around. After an

:05:41. > :05:45.hour's brake, the British Grand Prix will be under way once more.

:05:46. > :05:51.Wells-Burr leading the field from the two McLarens of Jenson Button

:05:52. > :05:55.and Magnussen. All four cars are powered by the Mercedes power unit.

:05:56. > :05:59.Similar horsepower and, as we know, the Mercedes chassis definitely a

:06:00. > :06:04.step up from the McLaren so far this year. The mechanics rushing back

:06:05. > :06:07.step up from the McLaren so far this into the pit lane. Lewis Hamilton

:06:08. > :06:10.starts from fourth. Keeping a little bit of a gap to allowed to

:06:11. > :06:16.accelerate and generate some lateral load, has become through the last

:06:17. > :06:23.part of Luffield here. It used to be the last corner.

:06:24. > :06:34.You referred to that big pilot in 1973... Matching the distance that

:06:35. > :06:40.they have to be behind the safety car. Tom, give us an update from the

:06:41. > :06:44.pit lane. Wii there is madness as the mechanics went past me, except

:06:45. > :06:48.Ferrari, where everything is relaxed, because they've only got

:06:49. > :06:53.one car making this restart. The guy I feel most sorry for going into

:06:54. > :07:01.this restart is Daniel Cassia, who I saw examining his grid position. He

:07:02. > :07:05.is now starting P8. All that work you put into P nine is going to go

:07:06. > :07:11.against him because he's starting P8 at this restart. But he still up

:07:12. > :07:19.there in the top ten, unlike Jean-Eric Vergne. Kvyat will prefer

:07:20. > :07:26.that. Rosberg building up to the restart here. La two out of the

:07:27. > :07:30.British Grand Prix. Nico Rosberg has already launched himself away. He

:07:31. > :07:34.has timed it beautifully. Pulling away very quickly from Jenson

:07:35. > :07:38.Button. But really didn't see that coming. Rosberg has opened up a

:07:39. > :07:43.healthy gap. Hamilton will hate to see that because he wants to be as

:07:44. > :07:49.close as possible to his team-mate. Rosberg, a great restart. He leads

:07:50. > :07:54.from Button, Hamilton, Magnussen and Vettel on the chase as well, with

:07:55. > :07:58.Hulkenberg and Ricciardo in the mix. Great stuff from Rosberg, he's done

:07:59. > :08:02.his research and caught them napping. Given himself the breathing

:08:03. > :08:06.zone already, as Hamilton tries to get himself into position early on

:08:07. > :08:09.to get a pass. We already saw in get himself into position early on

:08:10. > :08:12.previous race that he wasn't particularly close coming down the

:08:13. > :08:19.straight relative to McLaren down into Brooklyn's. Did he continue to

:08:20. > :08:26.place a move? Bottas has taken eighth place from Kvyat. Did he

:08:27. > :08:34.manage to make that pass of Gutierrez? He's going to have a go

:08:35. > :08:43.down towards the copse corner. Is he going to give him the space? He

:08:44. > :08:48.isn't. Hamilton takes the place. Magnussen tried to do the last of

:08:49. > :08:54.the late breakers. It didn't work out. A massive cheer has gone up all

:08:55. > :08:58.around Silverstone. The big screen showing everybody what Hamilton has

:08:59. > :09:04.done, he's moved up into third. Now just Jenson Button between Hamilton

:09:05. > :09:08.and the race leader, Rosberg. Bottas is overtaking again. He's got past

:09:09. > :09:12.Ricciardo. Bottas charging that Mercedes engine once again, helping

:09:13. > :09:20.the Williams. As we saw in Australia, where Bottas moved from

:09:21. > :09:28.15th to finish fifth, he likes to overtake. He does indeed. Alonso

:09:29. > :09:35.didn't manage to get that pass on Gutierrez. He is right in his

:09:36. > :09:39.gearbox. Will he have an attempt down into the village corner? He is

:09:40. > :09:46.in 12th at the moment. Gutierrez behind him. Here comes Hamilton

:09:47. > :09:51.already. Look how quickly he is catching Jenson Button! Lewis

:09:52. > :09:55.Hamilton closing up to the second-place car. The McLaren of

:09:56. > :09:58.Jenson Button, the two British drivers go side-by-side, Hamilton

:09:59. > :10:03.dives down the inside and take second place from Jenson Button.

:10:04. > :10:08.Another huge cheer goes up all around the circuit. Hamilton is into

:10:09. > :10:12.second place already. You can almost hear the side from Rosberg's cockpit

:10:13. > :10:19.over the cheer of the crowd, as he would have realised that Hamilton is

:10:20. > :10:23.now in second place. Was has a four second advantage over his team-mate

:10:24. > :10:28.at the moment. But clearly, Lewis Hamilton has got his head down and

:10:29. > :10:31.going for it. Let's see what happened to Alonso getting past

:10:32. > :10:39.Gutierrez. Dived down the inside into Brooklands. Something you don't

:10:40. > :10:45.normally see is Bianchi in front of him. Hamilton, a late apex there.

:10:46. > :10:48.Hamilton realising that, last of the late breakers down the inside.

:10:49. > :10:54.Bottas has now gone around Hulkenberg.

:10:55. > :11:05.It will be tough to overtake again there. Bottas into sixth place now,

:11:06. > :11:09.charging up through the field. The next one at in his sights is

:11:10. > :11:14.Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull. That Mercedes engine giving him the

:11:15. > :11:18.advantage in a straight line. Vettel in fifth position. Hamilton chasing

:11:19. > :11:22.after his team-mate. Last lap, he was still overtaking people, he

:11:23. > :11:26.wasn't as quick as Rosberg, it's the next lap time which will be crucial

:11:27. > :11:31.to watch for. Five seconds the gap between them at the moment.

:11:32. > :11:44.Ricciardo and Hulkenberg close together on

:11:45. > :11:49.The Red Bull is losing out in terms of straight-line speed. They've got

:11:50. > :11:56.the speed through the corners but they lose out in a straight line.

:11:57. > :12:00.Out of Luffield he comes now. Kvyat doing well again, then it's Alonso.

:12:01. > :12:07.Alonso now ahead of Bianchi, as well as the head of Sutil. He's got the

:12:08. > :12:10.Ferrari into 10th place. He is on the favoured tyre. He should be able

:12:11. > :12:14.to have a couple of good stints here. Let's see how far he can get.

:12:15. > :12:18.He told Tom earlier today that Ferrari have a plan of getting up to

:12:19. > :12:23.fifth place. If he's going to achieve that, he still has a long

:12:24. > :12:29.way to go here, he's in 10th at the moment. Ricciardo trying to close

:12:30. > :12:33.up. Hulkenberg and Ricciardo swapped positions on the final lap of the

:12:34. > :12:34.Austrian Grand Prix last time out, but for many laps Hulkenberg had

:12:35. > :12:48.been able to fend off the Red Bull. The Red Bulls were only marginally

:12:49. > :12:52.quicker than the caterer and Lotus during qualifying. Daniel is going

:12:53. > :12:59.to have to rely on getting his current gearbox... Allow the Force

:13:00. > :13:10.India to get a slipstream, get into the DRS zone. Hulkenberg is wise to

:13:11. > :13:13.that. DRS enabled now, so we will see more overtaking opportunities on

:13:14. > :13:18.the two straights. One of those is about to come up. Alonso may take

:13:19. > :13:22.full advantage of trying to get past the Toro Rosso. He is trying to get

:13:23. > :13:28.good speed on the exit of the corner. Alonso trying to get past

:13:29. > :13:34.Kvyat, who goes defensive down the inside to Brooklands. Does he go

:13:35. > :13:41.wide on the outside? He's in a very wide line. Will he be able to get

:13:42. > :13:44.cut back? He has. That was lovely, he set

:13:45. > :13:50.cut back? He has. That was lovely, beforehand. Alonso moves up to

:13:51. > :13:56.ninth. It's all part of the learning experience for Daniel.

:13:57. > :14:03.Alonso is a wily old fox when it comes to racing wheel to wheel. It's

:14:04. > :14:09.great to see Alonso having this opportunity, to see him at his best.

:14:10. > :14:12.Magnussen leading the group in fourth. Hulkenberg under attack from

:14:13. > :14:17.the Red Bull, who tries to do a man's full but can't quite get down

:14:18. > :14:23.the inside and is forced around the outside. Alonso is getting the

:14:24. > :14:28.opportunity, Ricciardo has to go defensive. He does it, what a

:14:29. > :14:32.brilliant manoeuvre from Fernando Alonso! He made it look easy but

:14:33. > :14:37.that is so tough, it's so narrow on that section of the circuit.

:14:38. > :14:42.Fantastic pass. One of the more difficult places to overtake at low

:14:43. > :14:45.speed. It's off camber. Very easy if you commit to that for the guy in

:14:46. > :14:50.front to lean on you and pushing onto the grass. Ricciardo getting a

:14:51. > :14:54.lesson there from Alonso, but it's because he was so busy trying to get

:14:55. > :14:59.past Hulkenberg that he got that opportunity. Now the Ferrari has the

:15:00. > :15:02.same problem. He has a Mercedes powered car ahead and a Mercedes

:15:03. > :15:06.powered car is so strong in a straight line. You can see Alonso

:15:07. > :15:12.struggling, dropping back a bit. What's happening up front? Rosberg

:15:13. > :15:16.is leading the Grand Prix by 5.5 seconds. Over the last couple of

:15:17. > :15:20.laps, there was one lap that was quicker than Hamilton. On the last

:15:21. > :15:27.lap, they both done exactly the same time, within a few thousandths of a

:15:28. > :15:32.second. The gap is around the five to 5.5 second mark. Hamilton has

:15:33. > :15:42.been getting a message from his team. It is under braking down into

:15:43. > :15:50.Brooklands. They are through Chapel Curve and on to the Hangar Straight.

:15:51. > :15:52.Look how hard, he is trying, David. Lost downforce trying to keep his

:15:53. > :15:57.foot in and gets his tyres dirty. Lost downforce trying to keep his

:15:58. > :16:02.That will affect him for the next couple of corners, but the Force

:16:03. > :16:06.India goes wide through Stowe. It is where the Ferrari is good. We saw

:16:07. > :16:17.that before the Hulkenberg defence of his position. Hulkenberg is so

:16:18. > :16:20.good at placing the car. I couldn't catch Ricciardo's words. He is

:16:21. > :16:24.saying trouble with overall grip. He is behind these two in ninth

:16:25. > :16:29.position. He is running the hard compound tyre and that's the least

:16:30. > :16:35.favoured tyre out there, of course, and Hulkenberg is on the medium

:16:36. > :16:37.tyre. Interestingly though, Alonso is under investigation for being out

:16:38. > :16:41.of grid position on the original start. You can see that come up on

:16:42. > :16:45.the screen now as he goes on the attack. Was he out of the position?

:16:46. > :16:49.Alonso is on the outside of Hulkenberg. Hulkenberg has the

:16:50. > :16:52.inside line. No, he doesn't. Alonso squeezes in front of him and takes

:16:53. > :16:57.the place away. It moves him into seventh position now. Alonso

:16:58. > :17:00.charging up through the field, seventh position now. Alonso

:17:01. > :17:05.is there a question mark about his original start on the grid? He only

:17:06. > :17:07.had his career wheels inside the grid slot for the original start.

:17:08. > :17:11.There is a censor that's positioned in the nose of the Formula One cars

:17:12. > :17:14.and there is a censor in the grid slots themselves which

:17:15. > :17:18.and there is a censor in the grid message to Charlie Whiting that you

:17:19. > :17:21.can go with the start. Everybody is in position, what would be strange

:17:22. > :17:27.is why would Charlie have done the original start if there was clearly

:17:28. > :17:34.a car out of position? So whether that's down to the marshal who was

:17:35. > :17:41.on that grid slot that's given him that information, well Bottas

:17:42. > :17:45.finding his way and Vettel is ahead. This could be one to watch. Bottas

:17:46. > :17:50.made a few places in this race already. Vettel is on the harder

:17:51. > :17:56.compound tyre. We heard from Ricciardo that he is struggling for

:17:57. > :18:01.grip on that tyre. There maybe an opportunity for Bottas to attack

:18:02. > :18:06.Vettel over the next lap or so. The battle for eighth. Upfront, it is a

:18:07. > :18:10.5.6 second gap between Rosberg and Hamilton. There is dill difference

:18:11. > :18:16.in lap time and whilst Hamilton is throwing everything he can at

:18:17. > :18:25.closing the gap, Rosberg is defending resolutely and there is

:18:26. > :18:28.not much difference between them. Will it be enough? He decides to go

:18:29. > :18:33.right. TEAM RADIO: Nico braking later. Turn

:18:34. > :18:40.15. The two drivers are being told

:18:41. > :18:46.Ricciardo with a chance. He will try and do the comeback, but as we go on

:18:47. > :18:50.board, he hasn't the momentum needed. You can see the speed of

:18:51. > :18:53.that Force India. The Force India is able to pull away from the Red Bull.

:18:54. > :18:57.The Red Bull closes up in the corners and the Force India has gone

:18:58. > :19:01.wide and that would have been a loss of lap time if that was qualifying.

:19:02. > :19:06.He will get away with that in this situation once or twice, but after

:19:07. > :19:12.that, if he keeps doing it, expect him to get a call from the FIA

:19:13. > :19:16.stewards here telling him that any further using of the run-off areas,

:19:17. > :19:20.he will have to give up the position. Hulkenberg goes to the

:19:21. > :19:24.inside. We're keeping an eye on Bottas as well. He is around the

:19:25. > :19:29.outside. He has done it! Ricciardo has done it at Stowe Corner. A great

:19:30. > :19:32.move by Daniel Ricciardo finding a little bit of space in the end and

:19:33. > :19:37.that moved him into eighth position. Hard work to get past Hulkenberg,

:19:38. > :19:43.but it didn't take him as long as it did in Austria last time out. Jules

:19:44. > :19:50.Bianchi is holding on to 12th place for Marussia. Oh, problems for

:19:51. > :19:55.Gutierrez, is there? Yes. Maldonado or Grosjean. They are bunched

:19:56. > :20:00.together. They have got involved. That was up at the last corner.

:20:01. > :20:04.Stowe. He has damage. There must have been contact. Maybe a puncture

:20:05. > :20:08.on the rear. The front right is down. He is going off. There is no

:20:09. > :20:15.air in the front tyre. Oh dear, oh dear. Gutierrez is having a dreadful

:20:16. > :20:18.time. If he beached it, will we need another safety car to get the car

:20:19. > :20:25.removed? Let's see what happened if we can. Down the Vale, does he try

:20:26. > :20:30.and dive down the outside? The gap is closing and he punctures his tyre

:20:31. > :20:36.and he conditions to keep hitting because one little kiss is not

:20:37. > :20:46.enough. That was pretty shoddy driving. Well, the car is not OK. He

:20:47. > :20:50.is off in the gravel trap and his poor season goes from bad to worse.

:20:51. > :20:55.Maldonado that he made the contact with. Maldonado goes flying around

:20:56. > :21:00.the outside when Jean-Eric Vergne and Grosjean and they took full

:21:01. > :21:03.advantage of that. Well, this isn't bumper racing. In comes Sebastian

:21:04. > :21:07.Vettel, Bottas doesn't have to overtake the Red Bull. Are they

:21:08. > :21:11.reacting to the possibility of maybe a safety car? Could be. They have

:21:12. > :21:14.the harder tyre on so they want to get that out of the way. Got a

:21:15. > :21:22.yellow flag a the moment because of the car that's in the gravel trap.

:21:23. > :21:25.No sign of the safety car yet. Sebastian Vettel into the pits after

:21:26. > :21:30.the red flag and the restart and he goes on his way once again. Quick

:21:31. > :21:34.stop. 2.9 seconds, Red Bull amongst the pace setters when it comes to

:21:35. > :21:38.the pit stops. Sebastian Vettel will come out just ahead, I think, of a

:21:39. > :21:42.little group of traffic. That's Sutil goes through, but behind is

:21:43. > :21:46.Bianchi who is hanging on to 12th place, but he is holding up a group

:21:47. > :21:51.of cars. Well, they've got the digger there lifting the Sauber out

:21:52. > :22:00.of the way and they feel the yellow flag is sufficient. So well, no

:22:01. > :22:05.safety car this time. Max Chilton is running in this race. He is in the

:22:06. > :22:08.back having done his drive-through penalty for coming into the pits

:22:09. > :22:13.during the red flag. The gap is the same, but a good lap from Hamilton

:22:14. > :22:18.just then has closed it down a touch. Still around the five second

:22:19. > :22:23.mark between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton and Rosberg red sponding to

:22:24. > :22:27.that -- respond to go that with a very good middle sector now. That

:22:28. > :22:35.sort of time gap, of course, you know how quickly they are turning

:22:36. > :22:39.these cars around at the pit stop. They could bring both cars in at the

:22:40. > :22:43.same time. Normally you are at a disadvantage if your team-mate gets

:22:44. > :22:47.the call on when to stop. This is Alonso. Yes, this is the original

:22:48. > :22:52.start. Did he put the car in the wrong place? Look at the boxes which

:22:53. > :22:56.are clearly marked as he is doing his tyre warming and pulls up to his

:22:57. > :23:01.slot, he goes beyond and realises he is well out of position and well, a

:23:02. > :23:06.rare mistake for Fernando. He doesn't normally find himself

:23:07. > :23:10.starting down in in 16th position, but well out of place. Now, did he

:23:11. > :23:14.gain an advantage? Well, if he did, it is a straightforward penalty. If

:23:15. > :23:21.he didn't, they could take the view that, you know, no harm done. The

:23:22. > :23:31.incident involve Maldonado and Gutierrez under investigation.

:23:32. > :23:38.Problems for Ericsson there will. TEAM RADIO:? If you feel it is safe

:23:39. > :23:41.to bring it back. Bring it back. Something has broken on the left

:23:42. > :23:45.front suspension. He is bringing the car back to the pits. Well, it looks

:23:46. > :23:48.as if it could be one of the Caterhams out of the Grand Prix.

:23:49. > :23:55.Kobayashi is still running, but he is in 17th place and behind Sergio

:23:56. > :23:59.Perez who is running 16th. Tough afternoon. It was a tough day for

:24:00. > :24:03.Ericsson yesterday. He spun off in qualifying and the rooky from

:24:04. > :24:08.Sweden, not covering himself in glory, but he managed to stay out of

:24:09. > :24:12.most incidents. He made the odd little mistakes and odd little spins

:24:13. > :24:16.in qualifying, and this one looks like it is not his fault. There is

:24:17. > :24:20.some failure on the left front. It is the end of the race for Marcus

:24:21. > :24:24.Ericsson as Valtteri Bottas who now is in fifth place, courtesy of the

:24:25. > :24:33.pit stop we saw for Sebastian Vettel. Be aware, fuel is to target.

:24:34. > :24:38.You don't have excess, we're just safe at the moment. Rosberg just

:24:39. > :24:42.having to think about that. There are not so many corners where they

:24:43. > :24:49.are slowing right down and speeding up. We have been told a five second

:24:50. > :24:53.stop/go penalty for Fernando Alonso. He was out of grid position and

:24:54. > :24:58.Alonso who is now in sixth place will have to do a drive through. He

:24:59. > :25:02.had a drive through here in the past at Silverstone because he used too

:25:03. > :25:06.much road. This time, it is because he was in the wrong place on the

:25:07. > :25:10.road at the start of the race. Xwi the time you leave the -- by the

:25:11. > :25:14.time you leave the track and rejoin, you can add 17 seconds to that. It

:25:15. > :25:19.will drop him way down the order, isn't it? Of course, this is the

:25:20. > :25:25.five second stop and go, so it is not as bad because it means you can

:25:26. > :25:30.take it at the pit stop. A new rule for this year. Well, that's the

:25:31. > :25:36.replay of Gutierrez getting underneath Maldonado. A different

:25:37. > :25:46.angle. He certainly got some air. Well, ten out of ten for freestyle.

:25:47. > :25:51.Is that a comeback for Bahrain? Gaut gaut came on the road -- Gutierrez

:25:52. > :25:59.came on the radio and said, "What was that?" There is Gutierrez. He

:26:00. > :26:04.made his way back. Bottas making a move on Magnussen. And that brings

:26:05. > :26:09.Bottas up into fourth position. Williams have had a horrible weekend

:26:10. > :26:14.so far. Can Valtteri Bottas reclaim honour for the team that got a

:26:15. > :26:18.podium and a finish last time out? He is driving well at the moment,

:26:19. > :26:23.David? Yes, a tidy race. He is finding his way through. He kept it

:26:24. > :26:33.clean and using the advantage of what is a well performing Williams

:26:34. > :26:40.car. TEAM RADIO: Nico, watch the track

:26:41. > :26:47.limits in turn nine. Hulkenberg is struggling for grip and he is being

:26:48. > :26:54.told, just watch for running ot out of road at Copse Corner. The wind

:26:55. > :26:58.will be affecting that as well. You are very exposed at certain areas of

:26:59. > :27:04.the racetrack. Those high-speed corners, well over 140mph at the

:27:05. > :27:07.apex. Well, you get a lot of windage, anyone familiar with kite

:27:08. > :27:12.flying or driving a boat will be able to relate to that. Alonso

:27:13. > :27:17.doesn't have to take his penalty until he is in for his pit stop. So

:27:18. > :27:21.we will wait to see when he comes in. In the meantime, he is catching

:27:22. > :27:27.Magnussen. He is closing the gap. The gap between Rosberg and Hamilton

:27:28. > :27:32.came down a little bit. A good lap from Hamilton, it is down to 4.3

:27:33. > :27:37.seconds as Alonso closes the gap to Magnussen. Call that four, Ben.

:27:38. > :27:42.Hamilton has got closer to Rosberg, but it is a four second gap, but

:27:43. > :27:46.Hamilton is really going for it. We're getting close to Mercedes

:27:47. > :27:52.first pit stop. Alonso trying to line up Magnussen. Tom. You're

:27:53. > :27:57.right, Bertie Ahern. Ben. This is classic two stop territory. They

:27:58. > :28:02.were saying anything from lap ten onwards, I'm primed and ready for

:28:03. > :28:06.people to come. Also looking at Bottas, 14th to fourth, coming into

:28:07. > :28:09.this race, there were people doubting that car saying it is not

:28:10. > :28:16.any good through fast corners, well there, is proof they've got a proper

:28:17. > :28:20.race car. It is not just good around tracks like Austria.

:28:21. > :28:23.TEAM RADIO: Nico, just let us know what the tyres are like. They look

:28:24. > :28:29.like they're coming back a little bit. The tyres are good. Copy, we're

:28:30. > :28:35.going to go one more lap. Rosberg seems in command of the situation.

:28:36. > :28:45.That's Daniil Kvyat what made his first pit stop. Vettel one of the

:28:46. > :28:49.earlier stoppers in this Grand Prix. Kvyat coming out. An interesting

:28:50. > :28:53.decision on strategy. If I was Hamilton I would want another set of

:28:54. > :28:57.the option tyres to give myself the chance to have the fastest tyre on

:28:58. > :29:03.there and work on the gap to Rosberg and put him under pressure if I can.

:29:04. > :29:07.The engineer of Rosberg will know what the intentions are of

:29:08. > :29:11.Hamilton's side of the garage. Yes, that's right. We're watching Jules

:29:12. > :29:14.Bianchi and Pastor Maldonado and ahead of them Sergio Perez and

:29:15. > :29:18.Bianchi has been pushed down the order a bit now. He is in 15th

:29:19. > :29:23.position. Alonso on Magnussen and is he making the move? He's side by

:29:24. > :29:24.side with the McLaren and I think he's done it.

:29:25. > :29:27.side with the McLaren and I think he's done Fernando Alonso takes

:29:28. > :29:31.another place. Well, that was an attacking dive down the inside into

:29:32. > :29:38.Stowe. That would have been with the overspeed of DRS. Vettel making a

:29:39. > :29:39.move. That was on his team-mate or Kvyat. Kvyat has

:29:40. > :29:42.move. That was on his team-mate or Kvyat. Kvyat been in already. I

:29:43. > :29:50.think it might have been on his team. -mate. Ricciardo came into the

:29:51. > :29:55.pits. Maybe he knew he was coming in. There is Ricciardo. He made his

:29:56. > :30:03.pit stop on his way, of course, it is a later pit stop than his

:30:04. > :30:09.team-mate. 2. -- 2.7 seconds. He goes out on the medium compound

:30:10. > :30:13.tyre. So he is on the favoured tyre. He was struggling on the hard tyre

:30:14. > :30:18.earlier and Daniel Ricciardo rejoins in tenth position now. He is behind

:30:19. > :30:26.Sutil, but ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne. Instant involving, Maldonado

:30:27. > :30:30.and Gutierrez will be investigated after the race, that collision, we

:30:31. > :30:33.saw airborne flying from Pastor Maldonado. They will look at it

:30:34. > :30:37.after the race. Rosberg Maldonado. They will look at it

:30:38. > :30:40.Grand Prix by 3.8 seconds now from Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton is taking a

:30:41. > :30:47.further half a second out of him on this lap. The gap would be down to

:30:48. > :30:50.just over three seconds. That's a slow lap actually from Rosberg.

:30:51. > :31:00.Hamilton does the fastest lap of the race. A full seven tenths.

:31:01. > :31:07.TEAM RADIO: Let's settle down and try to make this one work. He goes

:31:08. > :31:10.around the outside. Bottas, that was brave! He's got himself up into

:31:11. > :31:15.third place, getting past Jenson Button, who fought as hard as he

:31:16. > :31:24.could but is also aware of not losing too much time. Not

:31:25. > :31:29.comparable, the two cars. An impressive move from Bottas but

:31:30. > :31:35.Jenson can only race with the car he's got. Bottas up into third

:31:36. > :31:43.place, having started 14th. Here is how he did it. Round the outside and

:31:44. > :31:44.then kept with it. He loves that outside line. He's found a really

:31:45. > :31:59.good line at Stowe. Race leader Nico Rosberg is no doubt

:32:00. > :32:02.being told he is being hunted down a little bit by his team-mate.

:32:03. > :32:06.Hamilton has taken an extra ten above him in the first sector,

:32:07. > :32:13.another 10th in the second sector. TEAM RADIO: OK, Lewis, you're the

:32:14. > :32:18.fastest man on track so push hard now, it won't be long. We are ready

:32:19. > :32:27.for the pit stop. It sounds like it might be one more. This is where he

:32:28. > :32:30.has to keep his cool. I'm sure he's aware that Hamilton is going that

:32:31. > :32:35.little bit more quickly in the background. He takes an early four

:32:36. > :32:38.tenths of a second, the gap now under three seconds. Hamilton on the

:32:39. > :32:42.charge as we look back at Ricciardo making the move on Sutil.

:32:43. > :32:48.charge as we look back at Ricciardo for ninth place a moment ago. Sutil

:32:49. > :32:54.in 10th position. Sauber have yet to score any points this year, could

:32:55. > :32:58.this be an opportunity for them? The Toro Rosso is definitely a

:32:59. > :33:02.potentially faster car. It might still be difficult for Sauber to

:33:03. > :33:07.score any points here, but watch Hamilton. Three tenths quicker.

:33:08. > :33:15.Hamilton is on a charge, reminiscent of the Mansell era. Anne if Rosberg

:33:16. > :33:20.gets the first stop which, as the leader of the Grand Prix, he should

:33:21. > :33:23.be entitled to, then he'll be onto a fresh set of tyres and that should

:33:24. > :33:29.give Rosberg back a bit of the advantage. But this is like-for-like

:33:30. > :33:34.racing right now. Neither of these men have made a stop since the

:33:35. > :33:41.safety car and a restart. Hamilton has had to work is tyres harder to

:33:42. > :33:45.affect the overtakes. I wonder if Hamilton's early pace was because he

:33:46. > :33:50.was looking after the tyres of it, knowing he would perhaps have to go

:33:51. > :33:56.lap longer than his team-mate. TEAM RADIO: OK, Lewis, three tenths

:33:57. > :34:02.faster. He stays out as Rosberg comes into the pits. Hamilton comes

:34:03. > :34:07.through the final corner, he's got to push like mad now. It's a real

:34:08. > :34:11.opportunity to further close the gap on Rosberg. Rosberg in there. Let's

:34:12. > :34:18.watch the pit stop. Here, the team are tested. Can they keep its quick

:34:19. > :34:24.and smooth? Yes, they can. A beautiful piece of work, 2.7 seconds

:34:25. > :34:33.for Rosberg. And a whole load of clean race track for him to rejoin.

:34:34. > :34:39.A considerable gap of 30 seconds prior to the last lap. Rosberg right

:34:40. > :34:45.into clean air. Tom, that looked pretty faultless. It was,

:34:46. > :34:49.brilliant. I think he went out on a used set of the medium tyre. Given

:34:50. > :34:54.that we had intermediates in qualifying yesterday, it was

:34:55. > :34:57.surprising to see that. I think the front runners didn't have so many

:34:58. > :35:00.new sets of the option tyre available. Some of those further

:35:01. > :35:10.back, like Bottas, if you keep a look at his tyres at the pits, you

:35:11. > :35:13.may have new set of tyres to use, whereas some of the front runners

:35:14. > :35:15.who got through to the latter stages of qualifying got through most of

:35:16. > :35:17.their allocation. How is Hamilton doing? He's not setting personal

:35:18. > :35:23.bests but he still pushing very hard. We would expect to see him in

:35:24. > :35:26.at the end of the lap. We've got Kobayashi and Chilton just ahead of

:35:27. > :35:31.him, he's just gone fastest man of all in that middle sector.

:35:32. > :35:40.TEAM RADIO: We need to run this tyre right to the end of its life, how

:35:41. > :35:47.many laps left? It's a bit limited, I think the where is OK. Hopefully

:35:48. > :35:54.up to ten laps. Impressive if they could get ten laps out of these

:35:55. > :36:04.tyres. Alonso is in fifth place here. Hamilton has gone again. He is

:36:05. > :36:09.an good pace. Alonso going on the attack, trying to get past Jenson

:36:10. > :36:13.Button. Look a much more speed he has got here. He's going to attempt

:36:14. > :36:19.to go round the outside. Not enough space to do it.

:36:20. > :36:24.There's no doubt the Ferrari is working well and the McLaren is

:36:25. > :36:28.struggling on these sets of tyres. The McLaren seems to have used up

:36:29. > :36:32.its tyres more quickly than the Ferrari. It looks like Hamilton

:36:33. > :36:37.reacted to the fact that Kobayashi pitted.

:36:38. > :36:47.Hamilton doing a 38.8. Closing that gap. Rosberg, interestingly, similar

:36:48. > :36:50.kind of pace in the sector for what Hamilton is doing. Alonso now begins

:36:51. > :37:03.to close up again on Jenson Button. He won't make it easy for him. They

:37:04. > :37:12.come through Luffield now. Could be a chance at the exit to get a run.

:37:13. > :37:19.TEAM RADIO: Gearbox problem on the downshift. Gearbox problem, says

:37:20. > :37:23.Rosberg, could be concerns. The reliability has all been on his side

:37:24. > :37:27.of the garage, it has been Hamilton who have had the problem. Could this

:37:28. > :37:31.be the first inkling that Rosberg has a mechanical problem here today?

:37:32. > :37:37.He's just done a good middle sector, so no evidence yet that it's slowing

:37:38. > :37:39.him down. Hamilton staying out with it, getting ever closer to Chilton

:37:40. > :37:51.ahead of him. 38.9. There's a good indication, Rosberg

:37:52. > :37:55.on fresh tyres at 38.6, only three tenths quicker than Hamilton's lap

:37:56. > :38:01.on those older tyres. Hamilton has found his past Chilton. Definitely a

:38:02. > :38:06.great one from Hamilton. He could be building a real challenge for the

:38:07. > :38:10.race win here. We are on slightly different strategies with Hamilton

:38:11. > :38:14.going deeper into this race. TEAM RADIO: We are continuing to

:38:15. > :38:21.look at the problem, Nico, no information at the problem dashed

:38:22. > :38:25.back at the moment. On board with Daniel Ricciardo, he is in ninth

:38:26. > :38:29.place and chasing Hulkenberg once again. Both of them were battling

:38:30. > :38:33.earlier on in this Grand Prix, but Ricciardo sits there. Hulkenberg has

:38:34. > :38:37.stayed out there. We know Force India like to go deep into the race.

:38:38. > :38:41.You almost wonder, are they trying to make this a one-stop race? We are

:38:42. > :38:47.not at half distance yet but we're not too far away from it. The Force

:38:48. > :38:51.India really struggling for grip compared to the Red Bull. I think it

:38:52. > :38:55.would be much easier for Ricciardo to get past on a new set of tyres.

:38:56. > :38:57.Uses DRS, got plenty more grip and this time it's much easier to take

:38:58. > :39:05.the position. Rosberg, the fastest man of all in

:39:06. > :39:12.the middle sector. Hamilton still staying out. Real contrast in

:39:13. > :39:13.strategy between the two Mercedes team-mates in terms of how long they

:39:14. > :39:20.are going. Slipstream, DRS, overtake, very

:39:21. > :39:31.simple. I wonder how deep Hamilton is going

:39:32. > :39:37.to go into this race. Is he going to go for the one-stop strategy, web as

:39:38. > :39:45.Rosberg is going for two? No sign of him coming in, as Rosberg has just

:39:46. > :39:54.jump in 1:30 8.03. TEAM RADIO: You have now jumped a

:39:55. > :39:57.lot of cars ahead. He has made some decent progress, he is in eighth

:39:58. > :40:02.place and not too far behind his team-mate now.

:40:03. > :40:09.That reference is to the fact that he is 57 seconds behind the leader,

:40:10. > :40:16.with crucially only 17 seconds of that taking him up to where Bottas

:40:17. > :40:21.is. They will all start peeling in and that will help them come

:40:22. > :40:26.forward. Again, no sign of Button or Alonso making a pit stop just yet.

:40:27. > :40:31.It's only Rosberg who has made that relatively early stop. Tom. I think

:40:32. > :40:35.Rosberg was probably reacting to the data he gathered on his long run on

:40:36. > :40:41.Friday afternoon, when his tyres started to overheat after about 16

:40:42. > :40:44.laps. Hamilton, however, this is new territory. He hasn't done a race

:40:45. > :40:49.simulation because of technical practice -- is on Friday. He says

:40:50. > :40:53.the tyres are OK so he is staying out. Hamilton leads the British

:40:54. > :40:57.Grand Prix at the moment on lap times, but he's in a real duel with

:40:58. > :41:01.his team-mate, Nico Rosberg, and they are an different strategies at

:41:02. > :41:06.this point. Very difficult to read which one will have the advantage by

:41:07. > :41:09.the time of the chequered flag. Alonso closing up again.

:41:10. > :41:15.TEAM RADIO: The tyres were evenly born, 50% remaining. It looks as

:41:16. > :41:22.though the Mercedes car was well balanced for Nico Rosberg. Hamilton

:41:23. > :41:25.is going to try and attempt to do one-stop this afternoon. He's going

:41:26. > :41:29.to have to be looking at that different strategy because Rosberg

:41:30. > :41:34.building about five tenths a second a lap will stop if the

:41:35. > :41:37.building about five tenths a second bailed on to the same strategy he

:41:38. > :41:41.will find that gap between them larger than it was. If he does do

:41:42. > :41:46.that he would have the position in the race and it would be up to

:41:47. > :41:50.Rosberg to overtake Hamilton. Let's wait and see. Lots to look forward

:41:51. > :41:54.to in this Grand Prix, as Hamilton tries to take his second ever

:41:55. > :41:58.British Grand Prix victory. Alonso is trying to get past another

:41:59. > :42:03.British driver. That's Jenson Button for fourth place. So far, he can't

:42:04. > :42:06.quite find a chink in Jenson Button's armour. Button, never

:42:07. > :42:13.having finished here on the podium at Silverstone. He only had the one

:42:14. > :42:21.podium finish so far this year, he didn't even stand on the podium on

:42:22. > :42:24.that occasion! Hamilton staying the tyres are starting to drop off. That

:42:25. > :42:31.is no surprise because he has done a long stint here, 23 laps above 52.

:42:32. > :42:38.No surprise that Hamilton's tyres are beginning to give up the ghost.

:42:39. > :42:44.What can Alonso do? This is where he likes to have a go at it. But in

:42:45. > :42:48.holding the middle ground. Which way does Alonso go? He goes to the

:42:49. > :42:53.inside but he's not close enough. The Mercedes hp again enough to give

:42:54. > :42:58.Button that edge. He was trying to throw him a dummy there to get

:42:59. > :43:05.Jenson to go defensive. That would affect his position in the last

:43:06. > :43:09.three corners. Trying to be as smooth as possible on the power.

:43:10. > :43:18.Let's ride with him. We are going to cut away to watch follow Button

:43:19. > :43:21.through the first corner. Outdone in this race so far by Bottas for

:43:22. > :43:25.Williams, who is moved up from 14th to be running in third place. We

:43:26. > :43:30.have the two Mercedes racing for the win here today and then behind them

:43:31. > :43:35.it is Williams, McLaren, Ferrari and the other McLaren. Magnussen still

:43:36. > :43:39.in sixth place. Vettel and Ricciardo seventh and eighth. Hulkenberg is

:43:40. > :43:44.now in ninth. Subtle intent, but he's just come into the pits, so he

:43:45. > :43:48.will drop back a bit will stop Kvyat. It looks as though Hamilton

:43:49. > :43:53.will be coming in on this lap. The hard tyres being prepared for Lewis

:43:54. > :43:58.Hamilton. Using the different tyre, he might well go for Asian fairly

:43:59. > :44:02.short stint. Or is he going for the one-stop and going through to the

:44:03. > :44:07.end? He may be able to do that from here. When Rosberg made his stop, he

:44:08. > :44:13.came out 16.2 seconds behind Hamilton, he's got that gap down to

:44:14. > :44:18.14.6. Hamilton has to be trying something different. A little bit

:44:19. > :44:21.slow, 4.1 seconds. He may well try to get thee to the end of the race

:44:22. > :44:29.on this set of tyres now. We are almost at half distance. There is

:44:30. > :44:33.Hamilton. If he is doing one-stop, when Rosberg makes his next stop is

:44:34. > :44:39.all about the gap that exists between them. That's right. Rosberg

:44:40. > :44:43.has to continue to push. No doubt these tyres should do it on where,

:44:44. > :44:50.they won't wear out before the end of the Grand Prix. Let's see where

:44:51. > :45:01.the delay was caused. Was it right rear? Took a bit of time to work

:45:02. > :45:05.out. Hamilton has rejoined and is in second position. He's on the harder

:45:06. > :45:13.compound tyre. It looks as though they are an different strategies.

:45:14. > :45:20.TEAM RADIO: Jenson, understood, you are doing a great job. Telling tales

:45:21. > :45:27.on Alonso. You've got to try and send the message, defend your

:45:28. > :45:30.corner. Vettel trying to get past Magnussen. Having a little

:45:31. > :45:42.opportunity but Magnussen... He opens up the door. Good stuff from

:45:43. > :45:47.Sebastian Vettel. Sneaky move. Magnussen was very slow off the

:45:48. > :45:52.acceleration there. That difficult moment for Magnussen who now drops

:45:53. > :45:57.down to seventh. Let's take another look. Magnussen a little wide,

:45:58. > :46:01.Vettel positioned himself to get the cut back but I don't suspect he

:46:02. > :46:05.thought it would happen in the middle of the corner. He was

:46:06. > :46:08.probably setting it up for the corner. Leaves the door ina bit too

:46:09. > :46:24.much. Dr Dr Open a bit too much. Implies he's not going. Let us see

:46:25. > :46:31.what they decide to do here. It will depend on the performance of the car

:46:32. > :46:35.on the next few laps. Ferrari preparing for Alonso. He's

:46:36. > :46:41.in. He comes in after chasing Butts tonne for lap after lap. Button's

:46:42. > :46:45.stayed out there, and there are brand-new tyres to go on. Ferrari

:46:46. > :46:51.ran the hard tyre at the beginning of the Grand Prix. Five seconds,

:46:52. > :46:54.sorry. A five-second penalty there. That's why they couldn't touch the

:46:55. > :47:02.car. That's for him being out of position on the grid. So he's dealt

:47:03. > :47:09.with that now. The pit stop just over eight seconds. He's on a good

:47:10. > :47:13.tyre. Hulkenberg gone through. Maybe he could get to the end on this

:47:14. > :47:17.tyre. Could struck until the last few laps but it's still possible.

:47:18. > :47:21.Still on for some points though. That is the reason why. He saw this

:47:22. > :47:25.earlier. Made an error, followed the car in front and was out of

:47:26. > :47:34.position. You can see by half a car length. There's the reason. They

:47:35. > :47:43.weren't allowed to off ed to touch the car for five seconds. Alonso's

:47:44. > :47:55.been give an black-and-white flag. He's got to be a bit wary here. Nine

:47:56. > :48:02.tenths quicker than Rosberg. Rosberg's been told to make an

:48:03. > :48:08.adjustment to his gear boxes. He's been told that should be transparent

:48:09. > :48:11.to him as a driver. Presumably, less optimal, but Hamilton, people power,

:48:12. > :48:16.certainly not the tyres they optimal, but Hamilton, people power,

:48:17. > :48:20.they are a fresh set. Should be less performance available from those

:48:21. > :48:24.tyres. Hamilton is definitely on the chase. Takes another four tenths

:48:25. > :48:27.tyres. Hamilton is definitely on the a second from Rosberg on the first

:48:28. > :48:35.sector alone. He's chasing after the race leader here in the battle for

:48:36. > :48:41.victory in Silverstone. Got over the half mark. Hamilton has a real

:48:42. > :48:45.chance of winning here today, it just depends on Rosberg and how

:48:46. > :48:49.resolute his defence may be. Bottas is running third for Williams at

:48:50. > :48:52.this stage. Button fourth and neither the Williams nor the McLaren

:48:53. > :48:56.have been into the pits yet. Very much looks as though those two are

:48:57. > :49:03.definitely going for the one-stop strategy. Bottas in third. Button

:49:04. > :49:08.fourth. Vettel is in fifth. Magnussen and Ricciardo, Hulkenberg

:49:09. > :49:19.and Alonso has dropped to ninth, after having made a pit stop.

:49:20. > :49:29.Hamilton on course to be quicker. Hulkenberg ahead. Is it enough? Yes,

:49:30. > :49:33.it is. Alonso takes the place. Gets past the Force India and that brings

:49:34. > :49:37.Alonso back up into eighth place. Again making the move through the

:49:38. > :49:42.Fylde as quickly as possible. -- field. Force India didn't have a

:49:43. > :49:47.particularly fast car here on Friday. Did a lot of laps on the

:49:48. > :49:58.tyres, yet to come into the pits. Hulk hull doing what was done

:49:59. > :50:02.earlier when he was saved running off the circuit. Hamilton took nine

:50:03. > :50:08.tenths of a second out of Rosberg last lap around. Kevin Magnussen has

:50:09. > :50:12.come into the pits for McLaren. This presumably will be to go on to the

:50:13. > :50:17.hard tyre. He does, and this presumably also is a one-stop race.

:50:18. > :50:26.That is his stop made and now he needs to Ypres the tyres alive,

:50:27. > :50:29.which he should be able to do. -- needs to keep the tyres alive.

:50:30. > :50:33.Magnussen in eighth position here. needs to keep the tyres alive.

:50:34. > :50:40.Hamilton leaning over the lap time again. On to be a second quicker

:50:41. > :50:42.than Rosberg. Button down to seconds, so he'll be under pressure

:50:43. > :50:50.too. Hamilton continues to close the gap.

:50:51. > :50:57.It was four seconds, it's much less than that on this lap. Let us see

:50:58. > :51:01.what it is. 1.9. Two seconds out of his team-mate he took on just the

:51:02. > :51:04.one lap, did Lewis Hamilton. Nico Rosberg with a bit of traffic to

:51:05. > :51:09.deal with. Not just traffic. He clearly has a problem. There's not

:51:10. > :51:18.two seconds between them. Look at his hand on wheel. TEAM RADIO:

:51:19. > :51:22.Problem. Something slowing me down. Hamilton takes the lead again from

:51:23. > :51:25.Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton leads the British Grand Prix with his

:51:26. > :51:31.team-mate in trouble. Stuck in fifth gear.

:51:32. > :51:35.Hamilton's in front and his big Reeve is in -- rival is in trouble

:51:36. > :51:39.here. The poor reliability's afflicted Hamilton a couple of times

:51:40. > :51:41.here and it seems to be Rosberg's turn here in the British Grand Prix.

:51:42. > :51:46.Remember, a 29 point lead coming turn here in the British Grand Prix.

:51:47. > :51:50.into this race from Rosberg. If he fails to finish and may still get

:51:51. > :51:55.some points, Button in by the way, if he failed to finish, the gap

:51:56. > :52:02.would come down to just four points between Rosberg and Hamilton and

:52:03. > :52:07.reignite Hamilton's hopes for the 2014 title. Button in. On the hard

:52:08. > :52:15.tyre. Rosberg in big trouble. Trying to get a gear.

:52:16. > :52:21.Too high speed a section to drive through with a wounded car. Sensibly

:52:22. > :52:25.pulls off on to the grass whilst he tries to work on this issue to get

:52:26. > :52:31.the car back to the pits. Doesn't want to work, does it? No.

:52:32. > :52:44.Nico, I understand your frustration. TEAM RADIO: Having big problems with

:52:45. > :52:47.the gear box. Leave it in eight. That message will have been theyed

:52:48. > :52:53.and it doesn't seem to be working. He got the lead from Vettel last

:52:54. > :52:57.time. This time 12 months ago. Rosberg is not going to take

:52:58. > :53:01.back-to-back victories at Silverstone. It's all gone wrong. We

:53:02. > :53:05.have been denied a race, which is sad, because Lewis Hamilton was on

:53:06. > :53:09.such a charge, we could have had a brilliant climax to this Grand Prix,

:53:10. > :53:13.but sad hi, Rosberg is out and Hamilton now has it all to himself,

:53:14. > :53:18.as long as he has reliability, of course.

:53:19. > :53:28.He's pulled off. I guess that's the safest thing to do at that stage?

:53:29. > :53:38.Can't see whether he was behind the barrier. Let's listen to this. It

:53:39. > :53:50.was the down shift into the village corner there.

:53:51. > :53:56.Rosberg went on to take poll. This time it's reversed as Lewis takes

:53:57. > :53:59.the lead of the British Grand Prix to the delight of the Silverstone

:54:00. > :54:04.fans. Look at the emotion there. Rosberg

:54:05. > :54:08.still desperately struggling to get something to work.

:54:09. > :54:13.Never give up. That's what took him to pole position. Keep trying. Not

:54:14. > :54:20.much you can do here. Step back and let him do his thing. He's turned it

:54:21. > :54:28.off now. That's it. Temperature was getting too high.

:54:29. > :54:34.Interesting, reliability-wise, Mercedes were so strong in the early

:54:35. > :54:43.part of the year. TEAM RADIO: Just look after the car as much as you

:54:44. > :54:47.can. Nico's had to stop. Rosberg out of the car now. His hopes of

:54:48. > :54:51.back-to-back victory all over now and his lead in the Championship

:54:52. > :54:55.will be massively reduced if Hamilton continues where he is right

:54:56. > :55:00.now. That's leading the Grand Prix by 24 seconds over his nearest

:55:01. > :55:06.rival. Bottas hasn't stopped this afternoon, so by the time Bottas

:55:07. > :55:10.does the other stop, Hamilton has a healthy, healthy lead, he doesn't

:55:11. > :55:14.have to push the car, he could start short shifting and proticket

:55:15. > :55:18.everything, as far as the dominance of this Mercedes car. He's got to

:55:19. > :55:22.hope that he doesn't have anything wrong with it. Of course, always a

:55:23. > :55:26.concern to know that one of the cars has had a problem, but he should be

:55:27. > :55:29.able to just gently look after the car for the remainder of this race

:55:30. > :55:34.now. He's under absolutely no threat at all. Bottas 24 seconds behind but

:55:35. > :55:38.with a pit stop to do. Vettel in third place at the moment, Ricciardo

:55:39. > :55:43.in fourth. They'll have to stop again. Mind youthey should still be

:55:44. > :55:46.able to challenge the McLarens in this race. Still lots to look

:55:47. > :55:49.forward to here in terms of rivalries inside the top ten.

:55:50. > :55:53.Opportunities for people to score points, but there's no question that

:55:54. > :56:02.Lewis Hamilton just needs reliability to win. TEAM RADIO:

:56:03. > :56:09.(Inaudible) We are looking into your question. Looking at what they can

:56:10. > :56:13.do. Ricciardo's next rival is his own team-mate, Sebastian Vettel, so

:56:14. > :56:18.we could see the Red Bulls racing hard against each other. And

:56:19. > :56:24.Valtteri Bottas is now in and has come in from second place. Let us

:56:25. > :56:32.see where he will re-emerge. He'll be passed I think by Vettel, in

:56:33. > :56:37.front of him or behind him? Vettel will definitely be in front of him I

:56:38. > :56:41.think. Ricciardo an opportunity for Bottas to get out in front of

:56:42. > :56:46.Ricciardo, so there is Vettel going through. Look at Ricciardo, in the

:56:47. > :56:51.background. He's come out ahead of the second Red Bull, re-emerged in

:56:52. > :56:57.third place. There is an opportunity perhaps to get second here today. He

:56:58. > :57:01.had his first ever podium two weeks ago in Austria, Bottas. He could get

:57:02. > :57:05.even better than that here today. But of course, we'll have to wait

:57:06. > :57:06.and see how strong the Red Bulls are in the latter stages of the Grand

:57:07. > :57:25.Prix as well. Hamilton is going to be hearing

:57:26. > :57:28.every little gear change, every noise from the engine. They know

:57:29. > :57:38.that they've had some reliability issues. He's been experiencing the

:57:39. > :57:43.lion's share of the issues. TEAM RADIO: Vettel is up. Used

:57:44. > :57:50.option. He needs to stop again. Keep your head down. Wait for the end.

:57:51. > :57:53.Information there in Bottas, don't worry about Vettel being ahead

:57:54. > :57:58.because he needs to stop once more. We are expecting Ricciardo to have

:57:59. > :58:02.to stop again. That will drop the Red Bulls into the clutches

:58:03. > :58:07.potentially of the McLaren and Button and Ferrari of Alonso. Alonso

:58:08. > :58:12.just under three seconds behind Button at the moment. Not as close

:58:13. > :58:17.as he was in the early stages of the Grand Prix. You could see that

:58:18. > :58:30.rivalry renewed twine Button and Alonso. -- between Button and

:58:31. > :58:36.Alonso. Sutil is 11th, Perez, 12th, Grosjean passed Maldonado, 13th and

:58:37. > :58:41.14th. Bianchi is currently 15th and, leading the Caterham Marussia

:58:42. > :58:48.rivalry, he's got a big gap to Kobayashi. Chilton is some way

:58:49. > :58:52.further back after that penalty he had to have earlier on. On board

:58:53. > :58:57.with Vettel here and Bottas is close behind on a much fresher set of

:58:58. > :59:04.tyres, the gap coming down to under half a second now.

:59:05. > :59:10.TEAM RADIO: Nico you should be able to push these all the way to the

:59:11. > :59:21.end. Hulkenberg is in ninth place. 16 seconds behind eighth place.

:59:22. > :59:29.Rosberg returns to the pits and it's all over for him today. No points to

:59:30. > :59:35.be scored from the British Grand Prix. There through goes Bottas,

:59:36. > :59:38.moves into second place. Williams on for a great result if they can hold

:59:39. > :59:42.it together. What a pick me up that would be. Suzie in the middle of the

:59:43. > :59:46.shot there looking so delighted for Bottas. That was the car she drove

:59:47. > :59:51.on Friday morning, only lasted four laps before the engine let go, but

:59:52. > :59:56.right now, that car is going extremely well and he is in second

:59:57. > :00:00.position, flying fin. Vettel into the pits. Final stop for Vettel now.

:00:01. > :00:06.Where will this bring him back out? It's going to be around Button and

:00:07. > :00:10.Alonso territory which could give us a pretty interesting race. Not quite

:00:11. > :00:21.as quick a stop. Button will go ahead. Alonso and Magnussen pretty

:00:22. > :00:24.close. There we are, comes out ahead of Alonso. Alonso on the attack

:00:25. > :00:29.immediately here and Magnussen trying to take full advantage.

:00:30. > :00:33.immediately here and Magnussen Vettel now up against Alonso. Two of

:00:34. > :00:40.the greats of Formula One here, David? Fantastic stuff as we go on

:00:41. > :00:45.to the Wellington strait. He's looking in his mirrors, like a

:00:46. > :00:51.missile. Round the outside. Holds the outsideline. Magnussen. Alonso

:00:52. > :00:56.left the door wide-open yet again and Magnussen not close enough to

:00:57. > :01:02.capitalise on it. Always so aware of, not only where he is, but where

:01:03. > :01:07.his rivals are. Here he comes. Alonso on the outside. Clever stuff

:01:08. > :01:11.by Vettel. He turns it ahead. Vettel will be slow off the turn. Magnussen

:01:12. > :01:21.wasn't in a position to capitalise on that. He seems to have lost some

:01:22. > :01:25.momentum himself. Whether it's a question of not getting as much

:01:26. > :01:48.recovery and he's not getting the drive off, with Vettel running wide,

:01:49. > :01:51.it's released Alonso. Toto, we have seen what's happened to Rosberg.

:01:52. > :01:59.Have you seen what's happened to him? We haven't spoken to him yet.

:02:00. > :02:03.He's disappointed. Can you explain any more about what's gone wrong and

:02:04. > :02:09.are there any consequences for Lewis Hamilton? We have seen a couple of

:02:10. > :02:15.clips earlier that he commented on, on the gear change problems and the

:02:16. > :02:23.problem got worse. We tried to resolve it. The gear box didn't come

:02:24. > :02:26.back. Don't know the reason yet. With Lewis we tried to play it safer

:02:27. > :02:31.now. Are the two gear boxes similar age?

:02:32. > :02:37.Nowadays, you have to have the gear boxes in the car for the races. Are

:02:38. > :02:43.they at the same level, the two gear boxes? Lewis Hamilton's gear box is

:02:44. > :02:46.a little younger. That could be significant. Thank you very much and

:02:47. > :02:49.fingers crossed for your car that is currently leading in the hands of

:02:50. > :02:53.Lewis Hamilton. Thank you very much. So Hamilton may not be in that sort

:02:54. > :02:57.of trouble. We'll have to wait and see. Rosberg very much out of this

:02:58. > :03:01.Grand Prix after leading in the early stages. It's been a race of

:03:02. > :03:04.some drama. It started and stopped all too quickly when Raikkonen

:03:05. > :03:09.crashed out on the opening lap of this Grand Prix. It involved Massa

:03:10. > :03:13.and well. Both drivers were unhurt and able to step away from their

:03:14. > :03:16.cars, but it was a frightening looking accident. An hour delay

:03:17. > :03:20.before the race restarted. Rosberg was in command but under attack in

:03:21. > :03:35.team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg now out of the Grand Prix.

:03:36. > :03:43.this Grand Prix. Vettel is still chasing after Alonso. He is. Vettel

:03:44. > :03:47.getting himself into position. The big handicap they have is they are

:03:48. > :03:51.not quick in a straight line. He has to rely on getting right in the

:03:52. > :03:56.slipstream of the Ferrari and getting his DRS open. See how that

:03:57. > :04:07.gap opens out to accelerate down the back straight.

:04:08. > :04:12.TEAM RADIO: Copy that, it's good info, thank you. That information is

:04:13. > :04:17.going straight back to race control, so he's reporting on another driver

:04:18. > :04:20.running wide all the time. Raise control monitoring those

:04:21. > :04:23.discussions. It's just a kind of, take a look at this guide, will

:04:24. > :04:28.you? We know that Alonso has already been given a black-and-white warning

:04:29. > :04:38.flag. If he continues to run wide he will get a penalty. Ricciardo in

:04:39. > :04:44.third place, we believe he's going to stay out. No further stops if he

:04:45. > :04:49.can keep those tyres together. He made a much later pit stop than

:04:50. > :04:53.Sebastian Vettel. It could be a good result for Ricciardo. He is eight

:04:54. > :04:57.seconds behind Bottas at the moment, ahead of his team-mate once again.

:04:58. > :05:01.If you consider Vettel started on the front row of the grid on the

:05:02. > :05:06.original start, having made a very poor getaway. But he was still in

:05:07. > :05:12.front of Ricciardo on the restart. Still going against Vettel and in

:05:13. > :05:18.favour of Ricciardo. Ricciardo is still unquestionably the real deal.

:05:19. > :05:22.Driving fantastically well. A world champion and world champion action

:05:23. > :05:27.here. Ricciardo, to do that, he needs 36 laps on his option tyres,

:05:28. > :05:34.that's a lot. It may well be that Ricciardo will still have to stop.

:05:35. > :05:39.In his favour, the track is in, more grip. His best chance... Is he going

:05:40. > :05:45.to go round the outside on the brakes? Where is Alonso? Vettel

:05:46. > :05:51.still hasn't made it through. Alonso just fend him off, this is

:05:52. > :05:58.wonderful! Alonso in the robbery. He nearly lost it there to Sebastian

:05:59. > :06:02.Vettel. Great racing from these two. Vettel got him exactly where he

:06:03. > :06:10.needs him to be. He has to try and do it all again through Beckett.

:06:11. > :06:19.TEAM RADIO: I would have crashed into him! Understood. Frustration

:06:20. > :06:23.coming through in Sebastian's voice. I didn't see anything untoward in

:06:24. > :06:29.what we saw. Now he's having another go at closing the gap to the

:06:30. > :06:35.Ferrari. Alonso will do whatever it takes, within reason, to keep Vettel

:06:36. > :06:38.behind him. And behind a little lesson perhaps for Magnussen. An

:06:39. > :06:43.opportunity might even develop for him, he's in seventh place. He's

:06:44. > :06:49.almost too scared to get involved with those guys. That didn't look to

:06:50. > :06:53.me like anything other than Alonso just maintaining his track position.

:06:54. > :06:57.I think he may be referring to this point here. He was trying to do a

:06:58. > :07:03.sneaky pass mid-corner. Wheel to wheel, leaving some space. Alonso

:07:04. > :07:07.keeps it going and gives them a bit of space as well on the exit. I

:07:08. > :07:11.think this is the point he's referencing. He tried to speak up

:07:12. > :07:17.the inside and then Alonso comes back through his line. You shouldn't

:07:18. > :07:21.be surprised by that. It looked like typical Silverstone racing to me.

:07:22. > :07:25.Nothing different to what we've seen an lots of different categories.

:07:26. > :07:33.TEAM RADIO: What's going on with the brakes again? Adrian is not happy,

:07:34. > :07:37.the brakes are not performing as he would like. He is hanging on in

:07:38. > :07:45.there at the moment, he is 6.8 seconds ahead of Grosjean but he has

:07:46. > :07:50.lost a place to Perez. We may be only halfway through this Grand Prix

:07:51. > :07:59.season, but these brake systems the teams are using is in infancy. Loses

:08:00. > :08:04.out again to Alonso. Driving down onto Hangar Straight. He's not close

:08:05. > :08:08.enough to have a go this time. At least Adrian Sutil is slightly

:08:09. > :08:10.better than in Austria, where he heard the team tell him to turn the

:08:11. > :08:16.engine off suddenly when everything was going fine, so he did, only to

:08:17. > :08:20.be told it wasn't for him but for his

:08:21. > :08:22.be told it wasn't for him but for stop. Radio messages can get

:08:23. > :08:25.confused sometimes. stop. Radio messages can get

:08:26. > :08:31.back in the dark ages are bracing for Williams, I got a radio message

:08:32. > :08:34.from a local taxi station wanting me to do a pick-up! I was a bit too

:08:35. > :08:48.busy! TEAM RADIO: Understood, the track

:08:49. > :08:52.limits for everyone. The car behind you included. That's very much

:08:53. > :09:00.translated for us but particularly for race control. Alonso, amazing,

:09:01. > :09:05.he must have one eye on the road and one eye on his mirror. This is

:09:06. > :09:10.classic dogfight stuck between Alonso and Vettel. Vettel on the

:09:11. > :09:15.back of the season that has been disappointing so far. Fernando

:09:16. > :09:19.Alonso doing everything he can to score some solid points. They are

:09:20. > :09:22.battling for their teams as well in the championship, the constructors'

:09:23. > :09:25.championship, and for their own positions in the drivers'

:09:26. > :09:31.championship. Neither of them will be title winners this year but

:09:32. > :09:38.honour is at stick. He cut the corner a little bit too much. Going

:09:39. > :09:42.over 130 mph, he has to correct right on the limits of trying to get

:09:43. > :09:47.himself into the slipstream of Alonso. A great bit of action

:09:48. > :09:51.between these world champions will stop meanwhile, Hamilton,

:09:52. > :09:59.comfortably leading upfront Bottas did a really solid job there but, to

:10:00. > :10:04.be honest, by Ricciardo, if he made any mistake then Ricciardo could be

:10:05. > :10:10.all over him. Button still in fourth place ahead of these two. Alonso in

:10:11. > :10:15.fifth. TEAM RADIO: These tyres are pretty

:10:16. > :10:21.good. There's a lot of life left in them. Right now, if you asked Lewis

:10:22. > :10:25.about anything he would say it was great. He's leading this Grand Prix.

:10:26. > :10:29.He knows the applications this has on the Championship, it will bring

:10:30. > :10:33.him right back in the hand his team-mate and the pendulum of

:10:34. > :10:37.pressure continues to swing. What a classic season this is turning into

:10:38. > :10:45.between Rosberg and Hamilton. Home victory tantalisingly close for

:10:46. > :10:49.Lewis Hamilton here today. Rosberg scoring his first non-finish, not

:10:50. > :10:52.only that, it will be the first non-podium finish for Rosberg all

:10:53. > :10:56.year. He has been finished on the podium every time out this year, of

:10:57. > :11:01.course, but it's not going to happen on this occasion. Hamilton has a

:11:02. > :11:04.massive lead over everybody else in this Grand Prix. Bottas holding on

:11:05. > :11:10.to second for Williams, Ricciardo third for Red Bull and then Button.

:11:11. > :11:15.Then these two, Alonso and Vettel, providing us with the

:11:16. > :11:20.entertainment. Uncle -- convert is in eighth, the two Toro Rossos have

:11:21. > :11:28.got themselves back into the top ten. Perez is the next car on the

:11:29. > :11:38.road behind Jean-Eric Verne in 11th. Sutil in 12, Bianchi 15th. Kobayashi

:11:39. > :11:42.16th. The final runner, Max Chilton. TEAM RADIO: I think Ricciardo will

:11:43. > :11:47.try and get to the end so we need to chase him down. That might be

:11:48. > :11:53.possible, that the Jenson Button. He's behind and it such a long stint

:11:54. > :12:00.that Ricciardo will be doing. 24 laps on those tyres already. Jenson

:12:01. > :12:04.not quite doing enough to make it an easy situation for him, but he will

:12:05. > :12:10.have a bit more straight-line speed than Ricciardo and DRS as well.

:12:11. > :12:14.Hamilton into the pits now, don't worry, this should be a pretty

:12:15. > :12:15.standard pit stop. They had obviously planned a two-stop

:12:16. > :12:29.strategy for Hamilton. Such is his lead, Bottas is just

:12:30. > :12:34.exiting Beckett is on to the Hangar Straight. A comfortable stop for the

:12:35. > :12:39.team. You do feel they may have been able to get to the end those set of

:12:40. > :12:44.tyres. Sometimes you've got to be careful. Just because it's new

:12:45. > :12:46.doesn't mean it's better. I remember situations in the past where you

:12:47. > :12:48.doesn't mean it's better. I remember feel they may have been able to get

:12:49. > :12:50.to the end those set of tyres. Sometimes you've got to be careful.

:12:51. > :12:53.Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better. I remember situations

:12:54. > :12:55.in the past, you can sometimes damage the gearbox at a stop. It's

:12:56. > :12:59.like Jenson for McLaren a few years ago when the wheel came off, he was

:13:00. > :13:04.set for a decent result. He still has a chance today of getting to the

:13:05. > :13:08.podium. Jenson Button, if you can catch Ricciardo, as he was being

:13:09. > :13:10.urged to do earlier, he would get his first-ever podium at

:13:11. > :13:15.Silverstone. He has a massive incentive. We'll be McLaren give him

:13:16. > :13:21.the performance he needs? That may only tell in the final stages. At

:13:22. > :13:24.the moment, there's little to choose between Ricciardo and Button in

:13:25. > :13:28.terms of pace. There an eight second gap between them. Still no luck for

:13:29. > :13:35.Vettel, he's been stuck behind Alonso for quite a laps now. He

:13:36. > :13:40.hasn't managed to sneak ahead. He's trying to work something out but

:13:41. > :13:43.Fernando Alonso is so widely. He has a great record himself here at

:13:44. > :13:46.Silverstone, a couple of victories but a run of three podium finishes

:13:47. > :13:52.here in the last three years. Mind you, Vettel has a pretty good record

:13:53. > :13:56.here, too. Both of them enjoying the vast, open, sweeping nature of this

:13:57. > :14:03.track. He's a bit closer on the approach to Brooklands but can't get

:14:04. > :14:08.alongside. Tom. This is playing into Fernando Alonso's hands. Although

:14:09. > :14:16.Vettel's medium set of tyres are 11 laps luck younger... It's looking

:14:17. > :14:20.very close their... I will come back to you, Tom. I don't think he's

:14:21. > :14:25.going to get through. He was as close as we've seen him at copse

:14:26. > :14:32.corner. Coming back to you, Tom. Let's see how they get on down the

:14:33. > :14:35.Hangar Straight. The longer that Fernando can keep Vettel behind him,

:14:36. > :14:44.it's going to be using up that set of tyres. Although they are 11 laps

:14:45. > :14:48.younger... They... He is going to be using up that rubber behind

:14:49. > :14:54.Fernando. That will really help them in the latter stages of this race.

:14:55. > :14:58.It always harms the tyres to be the ones following rather than the one

:14:59. > :15:02.in front. As close as Vettel got then on the approach to the corner,

:15:03. > :15:05.you have to be so brave to launch an attack from there. You really need

:15:06. > :15:09.to be alongside the car before you get anywhere near the entry point,

:15:10. > :15:15.he wasn't quite there. Alonso holds on to fifth place for the moment. We

:15:16. > :15:38.are on lap 43 out of 52. Lewis Hamilton is sailing away. He still

:15:39. > :15:42.has a pit stop in hand. TEAM RADIO: We are reporting track

:15:43. > :15:47.limits. Interestingly, they are both talking about track limits for the

:15:48. > :15:51.other car. No sign of any warning signals being given to either Vettel

:15:52. > :16:03.or Alonso for exceeding track limits as yet.

:16:04. > :16:12.He also made the comment that he could easily give Alonso a puncture

:16:13. > :16:13.when he is weaving around. We know these Pirellis are particularly

:16:14. > :16:32.sensitive to What are we being told? It's not

:16:33. > :16:43.mandatory that you do that during those conditions. All that allows

:16:44. > :16:50.Vettel to get closer. TEAM RADIO: Close up on Vettel. See can we get

:16:51. > :16:56.them towards the end. It's a reduction in the charge being

:16:57. > :17:02.delivered to the rear axle. If you presume a certain level of

:17:03. > :17:08.acceleration off, expect that to be slowing down as the car starts to

:17:09. > :17:13.lose its ability to put 160 horsepower maximum energy from the

:17:14. > :17:18.battery packs into the rear axle. At that point, it tells you that Alonso

:17:19. > :17:25.is starting to lose effective charge and delivery from the battery packs

:17:26. > :17:28.in the car. It's not real hi helping Vettel is it, you would think it

:17:29. > :17:34.might have cost Alonso more speed but he always had enough. This is

:17:35. > :17:58.one area we know that he can do. Alonso doing a great job of this

:17:59. > :18:07.lap. Looks to me that Red Bull was very much on the nose. That is him

:18:08. > :18:13.complaining about Alonso exceeding. I didn't see that personally. My

:18:14. > :18:17.eyes are not too sharp. What about you, Ben? It's a slightly delayed

:18:18. > :18:19.message so maybe it's fromtialier on. They are complaining about each

:18:20. > :18:24.other. Neither are being on. They are complaining about each

:18:25. > :18:39.in any way just yet. Both marginal there just about within the white

:18:40. > :18:45.line. That is a key area. Vettel still not finding a way. Fifth place

:18:46. > :18:48.for Ferrari, sixth for Vettel. Hamilton still going quickly

:18:49. > :18:53.upfront. Might have a comfortable lead but he's just done a fastest

:18:54. > :18:59.first over anybody. We are on board with Alonso here. Is Vettel going to

:19:00. > :19:03.be any closer? A sneaky chance. Alonso's got himself well

:19:04. > :19:09.positioned. Vettel going round the outside. He'll try and cut back.

:19:10. > :19:33.Alonso is wise to it. You can see the G forces on his

:19:34. > :19:40.helmet, the tension over to the right, being forced up against the

:19:41. > :19:45.side of the chassis. TEAM RADIO: Another one. He's

:19:46. > :19:54.keeping score, like he has a score card inside the cockpit.

:19:55. > :20:27.You wonder how long he can sustain this pressure. As wide as he

:20:28. > :20:34.possible can. Upfront Hamilton still lapping

:20:35. > :20:38.consistently. Bottas is still over 20 seconds. No danger

:20:39. > :20:42.consistently. Bottas is still over except of course for any reliability

:20:43. > :20:46.issues that may arise. His team-mate out with a gear box problem. So far

:20:47. > :20:52.so good for Hamilton as he looks to win the British Grand Prix for the

:20:53. > :21:03.second time in his career. Third place still for Ricciardo. Still a

:21:04. > :21:18.gap of seven seconds between them. Ricciardo. In control of that

:21:19. > :21:27.position. Let us wait and see what happens.

:21:28. > :21:32.Still a bit of nervousness for Vettel's side of the Red Bull team.

:21:33. > :21:37.Are they going to be able to get past this Ferrari and come home with

:21:38. > :21:44.third and fourth places? Is Vettel to be denied here? Magnussen's gone

:21:45. > :21:49.all four behind, all four wheels over there, we can see that. That is

:21:50. > :21:53.a bit of an interesting one. The team principal joins us. Christian,

:21:54. > :21:56.we have been hearing your driver and Alonso in fact complaining about

:21:57. > :22:02.each other going over track limits. What's the story there? Are they

:22:03. > :22:06.likely to be in trouble? A word has been had with both. We are as close

:22:07. > :22:11.as we have been here actually, so let us see what Sebastian does here.

:22:12. > :22:34.Can't get close enough on the straight. He's having a go.

:22:35. > :22:45.Done it. Vettel. He's done it.

:22:46. > :22:53.Great to have the team principal with us.

:22:54. > :22:55.We've not go many laps to do. Ricciardo, how about him? He has a

:22:56. > :23:21.long way to go on these tyres. Let us see what happens over the

:23:22. > :23:26.last few laps. Thank you for joining us, Christian, and we'll watch with

:23:27. > :23:31.interest. This was amazing, David. How close were you without actually

:23:32. > :23:34.touching? A great example between world class drive who is know the

:23:35. > :24:00.limit. Just sneaked over the white line.

:24:01. > :24:04.Look at that reaction. Great to have them with us.

:24:05. > :24:09.He was listening, commentating on what the drivers were doing.

:24:10. > :24:21.Getting excited. It's all part of what they expect.

:24:22. > :24:29.TEAM RADIO: (Inaudible) He's saying use the DRS in areas

:24:30. > :24:36.that you are not allowed to. It seems unlikely. He was saying turn

:24:37. > :24:44.five and nine. Turn five if he went in front he's entitled to do so.

:24:45. > :24:48.That is now a DRS activation zone. Very strange if that was the case.

:24:49. > :24:53.Alonso looking at any opportunity he can to find a reason why Vettel

:24:54. > :24:55.should get a penalty. It's all part of the psychological warfare of the

:24:56. > :25:00.sport. We have talked about it before. Vettel at the moment is in

:25:01. > :25:05.fifth. Chasing after Button. There he is. He's gradually brought the

:25:06. > :25:06.fifth. Chasing after Button. There gap down to Ricciardo. 5.7 seconds

:25:07. > :25:13.and he's running out of laps now. He gap down to Ricciardo. 5.7 seconds

:25:14. > :25:20.is. Bottas meanwhile done a great job this afternoon. Done a great job

:25:21. > :25:23.for Williams. TEAM RADIO: (Inaudible)

:25:24. > :25:27.I think he's expecting Vettel to give up his position. I don't think

:25:28. > :25:32.that's likely to happen. Could be some interesting discussions going

:25:33. > :25:37.on afterwards as Rosberg speaks to Toto. Just goes to show how hard it

:25:38. > :25:52.is fighting over fifth place. Not close enough for the moment to

:25:53. > :25:58.put Ricciardo under pressure. Three laps to go. Looks as though McLaren

:25:59. > :26:14.have done enough. Tyres Ricciardo's got are very worn at this stage.

:26:15. > :26:26.Raikkonen notably dropping back. Button is throwing his all in to

:26:27. > :26:33.trying to get a podium. This would at least match his fourth place.

:26:34. > :26:38.It would still be cause for celebration, particularly with the

:26:39. > :26:42.McLaren car that's not just been that good so far this year. It's not

:26:43. > :26:46.been a podium finishing car. Currently more than one second

:26:47. > :26:52.faster than Ricciardo. Got the gap down to seconds now. But he's only

:26:53. > :27:04.got two laps in which to do it. So it's not enough time. No, it's not.

:27:05. > :27:08.He's not managed to get on podium. That's right. It's been a tough

:27:09. > :27:11.place for him over the years, but he's driving his heart out here

:27:12. > :27:17.today and still getting massive support from the crowd all the way

:27:18. > :27:21.here. But can he do anything about Ricciardo in the closing stages.

:27:22. > :27:26.Upfront, Lewis Hamilton is still leading the Grand Prix and it's

:27:27. > :27:33.looking very, very good now. No reliability problems sofar. Two laps

:27:34. > :27:37.to go. Bottas for Williams has had a difficult weekend with lack of

:27:38. > :27:41.running on the Friday, an accident for his team-mate on Friday, another

:27:42. > :27:47.accident here today, but Bottas has put the problems behind him. Only

:27:48. > :27:53.qualified 14th today, miscalculated in qualifying. After taking a finish

:27:54. > :28:03.in Austria, looks like he'll go one better. TEAM RADIO: I can smell

:28:04. > :28:11.something burning. Something fell off the back of his car. Maldonado

:28:12. > :28:16.in fourth place. Chucking out bits of metal.

:28:17. > :28:25.Bits of metal coming a out the exhaust pipe. He's out again.

:28:26. > :28:29.Nothing new there. Season's been very, very trying indeed.

:28:30. > :28:40.Nothing new there. Season's been still a little closer. Not sure it's

:28:41. > :28:44.going to be enough, because we are on lap 51 out of 52. The gap's

:28:45. > :28:50.reduced. There is the battle then for third place. Ricciardo in the

:28:51. > :28:55.Red Bull, Jenson Button getting that bit closer. The flag is urging him

:28:56. > :28:59.on to see whether we can get two Brits on the podium here. I don't

:29:00. > :29:06.think he's quite going to be able to do it, looking at the times.

:29:07. > :29:09.Exorcise a bit of caution. Maldonado's stopped turn one,

:29:10. > :29:14.there's a yellow there. Being told to be careful. Button's taken

:29:15. > :29:18.another six tenths out of Ricciardo on that last sector. Ricciardo's

:29:19. > :29:22.definitely trying to manage the situation as much as possible. Lewis

:29:23. > :29:26.Hamilton's on his final lap. But those two will have to go a little

:29:27. > :29:29.further before they get to the checkered flag.

:29:30. > :29:33.Lewis Hamilton's father there just watching the monitors. It looks as

:29:34. > :29:38.though it's going to be the dream result. His brother keeping an eye

:29:39. > :29:44.on things as well. It's exactly six years to the very day since Lewis

:29:45. > :29:48.Hamilton took his first British Grand Prix win and this date is

:29:49. > :29:51.surely going to become one of his all-time favourites because it looks

:29:52. > :29:58.as though it's heading his way once more. What a superb drive. . We were

:29:59. > :30:04.denied of the race we wanted to see between himself and Rosberg and

:30:05. > :30:09.Hamilton earlier on, we would have had a huge battle today. Fair play

:30:10. > :30:12.to Lewis, he's been unlucky on a couple of occasions. Australia the

:30:13. > :30:18.car broke down on the opening lap and in Canada he suffered a failure

:30:19. > :30:22.as well. Two zero scores so far this year to go along with the four

:30:23. > :30:25.victories sofar, but it's come back his way and the crowd beginning to

:30:26. > :30:40.enjoy and celebrate the moment. Grand Prix. He wins for the second

:30:41. > :30:48.time. It's his 27th career when, to match Jackie Stewart. That is a

:30:49. > :30:54.wonderful achievement for him. A double winner at Silverstone. That

:30:55. > :31:00.is exactly what Jackie Stewart did. What a special moment it is for

:31:01. > :31:05.Lewis Hamilton, after a tough day in qualifying and a series of difficult

:31:06. > :31:10.weekends. He is half out of the car in celebration. As his father said

:31:11. > :31:15.before the race, what you see is what you get with Lewis. Heart on

:31:16. > :31:18.the sleeve stuff. This has got to be one of his most satisfying

:31:19. > :31:23.victories. It wasn't the wheel to wheel action we'd hoped for but

:31:24. > :31:28.satisfying nonetheless. Bottas taking second place, Ricciardo holds

:31:29. > :31:31.on to third, Button just 0.8 of the wheel to wheel action we'd hoped for

:31:32. > :31:33.but satisfying nonetheless. Bottas taking second place, Ricciardo holds

:31:34. > :31:35.onto third, Button just 0.8 of a second behind. Vettel finishes in

:31:36. > :31:42.fifth. We are waiting for Alonso in sixth place. Bottas in second

:31:43. > :31:48.place, he came from 14th on the grid. 35 years ago, Sir Frank

:31:49. > :31:51.Williams celebrated their first-ever victory here at Silverstone. They

:31:52. > :31:55.didn't get the win today but it's almost as good with a fine second

:31:56. > :32:01.finish from 14th on the grid for Bottas. Ricciardo third, Button

:32:02. > :32:08.fourth, Vettel fifth and Alonso sixth.

:32:09. > :32:19.TEAM RADIO: U can't touch this, Lewis. Home win. Lap it up, boy.

:32:20. > :32:25.England! I couldn't be happier. Sorry about yesterday but fantastic

:32:26. > :32:33.job today this weekend, as always. Toto Wolff joins us again, the boss

:32:34. > :32:37.of Mercedes motorsport. Many congratulations. Lewis Hamilton has

:32:38. > :32:41.emulated Sir Stirling Moss by being a British driver winning the British

:32:42. > :32:46.Grand Prix in a Silver Arrows car. What a great day for the team and

:32:47. > :32:53.for Lewis. I'm very happy for the crowds, they really deserved it. Now

:32:54. > :32:58.getting that back, fantastic. A major achievement. We saw use" Nico

:32:59. > :33:07.Rosberg towards the end of the race, tell us about his emotions. He was

:33:08. > :33:14.OK a very professional. Now the championship is wide open again. He

:33:15. > :33:19.gave us a tip. He was supporting Lewis in his final laps. Very

:33:20. > :33:24.professional indeed. That's great to hear. Many congratulations, Mercedes

:33:25. > :33:28.back-to-back winners of the British Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton wins at

:33:29. > :33:30.Silverstone, he takes the 25 points. Bottas, a fine second, Ricciardo

:33:31. > :33:44.third. Outside the points Perez, Grosjean,

:33:45. > :33:49.Sutil. Bianchi finished 17th but Marussia were unable to score points

:33:50. > :33:54.on this occasion. Maldonado was classified 17th despite coming to a

:33:55. > :34:01.halt towards the end of the race. 17 cars classified in the end, we lost

:34:02. > :34:04.Rosberg, Ericsson, Gutierrez and Massa and Raikkonen at the original

:34:05. > :34:08.start of this race, race that was delayed for an hour due to the

:34:09. > :34:13.damage to the barriers. After all of that, it is Lewis Hamilton

:34:14. > :34:17.celebrating in front of his family, winning for the second time the

:34:18. > :34:21.British Grand Prix and closing the championship point gap to just four

:34:22. > :34:27.going into Germany in a couple of weeks time. Enjoy the moment, Lewis,

:34:28. > :34:52.you've earned it. It's a very special day for Lewis Hamilton.

:34:53. > :34:59.Win number five of this amazing season. Mercedes still dominating,

:35:00. > :35:04.but look at the result for Bottas as well. Brilliant to see. Security

:35:05. > :35:09.getting involved, dropping him off his mechanics. A third place last

:35:10. > :35:12.time out, his first ever podium, and he backs it up straight away but

:35:13. > :35:18.second place despite starting all the way down in 14th position. Lewis

:35:19. > :35:21.over there to congratulate him. There's no doubt that Williams are

:35:22. > :35:26.back nearly to their best. It's a long time since they won the British

:35:27. > :35:31.Grand Prix, you have to go back to the days of Jack Villeneuve. My

:35:32. > :35:36.goodness, second-place here today. Ricciardo, once again, another

:35:37. > :35:41.hugely solid and professional drive from the Australian. Again, he has

:35:42. > :35:44.beaten Sebastian Vettel and today he was behind Vettel on the grid,

:35:45. > :35:49.behind him at the restart and yet he has emerged in front. I know there

:35:50. > :35:53.were different strategies employed by the two drivers. Nonetheless,

:35:54. > :35:58.Ricciardo continues to impress everyone in Formula One with his

:35:59. > :36:05.performances. Up the staircase comes Lewis Hamilton. It's a different

:36:06. > :36:12.podium to when he last won the British Grand Prix back in 2008. All

:36:13. > :36:13.of the circuit revised in it's his first win on this revised layout of

:36:14. > :36:18.Silverstone. He seemed to be first win on this revised layout of

:36:19. > :36:24.for it last year but, sadly, last year he lost a tyre, it blew on him,

:36:25. > :36:27.recovered to finish a fine fourth, but a disappointment that day.

:36:28. > :36:36.Surely more than made up for by the delight of today.

:36:37. > :37:11.this Grand Prix. Bottas holding on to second for Williams,

:37:12. > :37:11.this Grand Prix. Bottas holding on ten. Perez is the next car on the

:37:12. > :37:11.road behind ten. Perez is the next car on the

:37:12. > :37:11.try and get to the end so we need to chase him

:37:12. > :37:11.try and get to the end so we need to laps on those tyres already. Jenson

:37:12. > :37:43.You won't get him anyway. Did you not quite doing

:37:44. > :37:53.You won't get him anyway. Did you use prime time again?

:37:54. > :38:02.I didn't know the tyres could last that long. Lewis, I can't believe

:38:03. > :38:23.it. Fascinating to watch Lewis'

:38:24. > :38:29.reactions here, almost as though he can't absorb it. It's beginning to

:38:30. > :38:39.sink in. can't absorb it. It's beginning to

:38:40. > :38:42.chief designer there, along with Lewis Hamilton. Look at the crowd

:38:43. > :38:47.taking the opportunity to get close to that podium, so they can lend

:38:48. > :38:51.their support to his celebrations. It's down at that last area, the

:38:52. > :38:55.club corner, where they will be coming out onto the podium. Hamilton

:38:56. > :38:59.dominating the British Grand Prix in the end. The sort of speed he was

:39:00. > :39:04.showing, it was quite likely that he could have won this race anyway,

:39:05. > :39:09.whatever happened to Nico Rosberg. But we are now waiting for them to

:39:10. > :39:14.come out onto that podium area. We are going to see all three heading

:39:15. > :39:20.out. It is Ricciardo to add to his podium tally so far this year,

:39:21. > :39:25.really impressive. It is fourth podium position of 2014. It's a

:39:26. > :39:29.second straight podium for Bottas and the Williams team. But the race

:39:30. > :39:31.winner, the guy they all came to see here this weekend, it is Lewis

:39:32. > :41:36.Hamilton for Mercedes. Celebration time for Lewis Hamilton.

:41:37. > :41:43.It has taken a little while to get another victory at Silverstone, but

:41:44. > :41:49.it just makes it even more special. He came into the sport in 2007 and

:41:50. > :41:52.2008, when he went on to win the championship, it looked like there

:41:53. > :41:56.would be many Grand Prix victory is coming. It has taken a while, that

:41:57. > :42:02.championship winning season was when he took the British win. Mercedes

:42:03. > :42:08.are once again on top, despite the reliability problems for Nico

:42:09. > :42:14.Rosberg. This all goes well for Hamilton. He went on to take that

:42:15. > :42:17.title in 2008 of that victory here at the British Grand Prix. There are

:42:18. > :42:21.some tracks that he adores that are coming up on a calendar soon. John

:42:22. > :42:27.Surtees presenting the award to Bottas there. Lovely to see the

:42:28. > :42:31.world champion of 1964, world champion of motorcycles as well.

:42:32. > :42:37.Bottas is becoming one of the new stars of Formula One, along with

:42:38. > :42:38.Ricciardo. He gets his award from Allan Gow, the chairman of the motor

:42:39. > :42:44.sports Association. Ricciardo was getting used to this

:42:45. > :42:59.feeling of celebration. Lewis Hamilton has matched Sir

:43:00. > :43:04.Jackie Stewart in terms of race victories, 27 to his credit now.

:43:05. > :43:10.There's only one British driver with more, that's Nigel Mansell, another

:43:11. > :43:15.British hero, on 31. But another four victory is, you wouldn't put it

:43:16. > :43:18.past Hamilton this year. A lot more races to go and the championship

:43:19. > :43:25.chase that sees a gap of just four points. We are going to hear from

:43:26. > :43:29.Lewis and the other two in a moment. I hope he has made it there because

:43:30. > :43:33.it's going to be David Coulthard, who has just left the commentary

:43:34. > :43:37.box, who has made a quick sprint over towards the podium area. David

:43:38. > :43:43.has the task of getting a few words out of these guys. Lewis trying to

:43:44. > :43:47.find out what has happened to the bottle of champagne. Williams have

:43:48. > :43:48.got their one. It is being shared around. They will make the most of

:43:49. > :44:01.it. Photographs to be taken. Ricciardo stepping up onto that to

:44:02. > :44:07.join Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button just missing out in the end. Only

:44:08. > :44:10.0.8 of the second, the gap between himself and Ricciardo. No chance to

:44:11. > :44:14.see Jenson on the podium, but at least he matched his best ever

:44:15. > :44:15.result here at Silverstone, and to give the fans something to cheer

:44:16. > :44:27.about. The caps being handed out. It is

:44:28. > :44:33.time now for the presentation and the interviews to be made. David won

:44:34. > :44:40.this British Grand Prix twice, back-to-back victories, here in 99

:44:41. > :44:44.and 2000. Let's let him talk to the drivers now.

:44:45. > :44:51.Good afternoon, Silverstone. Ladies, please, you might have had

:44:52. > :44:54.to wait an extra hour but in the end you got your British winner. Your

:44:55. > :45:01.top three, if I can just jump appeared to join Lewis.

:45:02. > :45:05.Congratulations. Your adoring fans will stop the emotions must be

:45:06. > :45:10.running high, your fifth win of the season. That equals your 2008 World

:45:11. > :45:14.Championship year. 27 Grand Prix victories equalling Jackie Stewart,

:45:15. > :45:19.there's only Nigel Mansell who's got more wins. Tell us about the

:45:20. > :45:23.emotions of today. It's very mixed at the moment. I could see everyone

:45:24. > :45:28.cheering us on through the whole race. We've got the greatest fans

:45:29. > :45:35.here. Arriving today, it's you guys who spurred me on, thank you so

:45:36. > :45:38.much. You never want a competitor to drop out but the battle is very hot

:45:39. > :45:49.between you and your team-mate, Nico. He got quite a good gap at the

:45:50. > :45:55.beginning and I really just tried to look after the tyres, but after

:45:56. > :46:01.that, we came out on the harder tyre and I was catching him. I coulden

:46:02. > :46:04.believe I had that kind of pace. Obviously, I never want to see a

:46:05. > :46:08.team-mate fall behind, we want to work and get the one twos, but at

:46:09. > :46:11.the end of the day, I really needed this result so I'm very grateful for

:46:12. > :46:15.it. It was a great result. If I can move over to another man who's had a

:46:16. > :46:18.fantastic result. Third in Austria, second here at the British Grand

:46:19. > :46:31.Prix. You must be looking forward to Germany? ! Yeah. One step more to

:46:32. > :46:40.go, but I mean, the team has done such a good job.

:46:41. > :46:45.The car was behaving really Welsh it was a pleasure to drive it.

:46:46. > :46:50.Any scarce out there this afternoon or was it like clorkth clock work,

:46:51. > :47:00.you did some great passes? Good stuff going on, really enjoyed it.

:47:01. > :47:10.The plan was to come as high as possible and as a team we made most

:47:11. > :47:17.out of it. I have to say, I feel sorry Felipe. -- sorry for Felipe.

:47:18. > :47:21.If I can come across to Daniel Ricciardo. Congratulations on your

:47:22. > :47:25.third place. Australians have a good record of finishing podium here?

:47:26. > :47:29.Yes, well, they do. Obviously Mark enjoyed this track a lot so it's

:47:30. > :47:35.nice to be up here on the podium. It's been a good circuit to me in

:47:36. > :47:40.the past, so really, really happy. I think one more lap would have been

:47:41. > :47:51.tough. Jenson was coming, but really happy with the podium. If I can just

:47:52. > :47:56.come across here. Your British winner! Your team down here as well,

:47:57. > :48:02.Lewis. Where's the gold trophy, man? ! This thing's falling to pieces,

:48:03. > :48:07.look! You may need to speak to the sponsor!

:48:08. > :48:13.Do you know the points situation now? I assume we are four points

:48:14. > :48:18.behind now. We needed to show that you never give up and yesterday it

:48:19. > :48:22.wasn't a case of giving up, I didn't think I had to do the lap, I was

:48:23. > :48:28.shocked that it was so fast. But coming here today, I had my family

:48:29. > :48:34.with me, just focussed and support on the fans and I couldn't have done

:48:35. > :48:36.it without them spurring me on. It's been a great day.

:48:37. > :48:42.it without them spurring me on. It's been a great Congratulations to

:48:43. > :48:46.Lewis Hamilton. Some ups and downs for British sport

:48:47. > :48:50.this summer, but Lewis Hamilton's delivered exactly what the fans

:48:51. > :48:57.wanted, his fifth win of the season and he's four pointed behind in the

:48:58. > :49:01.title race -- four points behind. What incredible scenes we are

:49:02. > :49:10.witnessing here at Silverstone. That was certainly a crowd thriller and

:49:11. > :49:16.Lewis just looked as though #4e6s overwhelmed by proud -- he was

:49:17. > :49:21.overwhelmed by pride. Toto, it's been such an incredible event. It

:49:22. > :49:24.might not be the perfect result former say tease with Nico's

:49:25. > :49:28.problems but what a day for Lewis? What a day for Lewis, it's a perfect

:49:29. > :49:38.result for the crowds and the fans up here. He deserved that win.

:49:39. > :49:44.Really sorry for Nico, he had a Meg ga strong race as well.

:49:45. > :49:48.Toto, I have to bring in the family connection here. Tell us, your

:49:49. > :49:55.wife's team, Williams, they finished second, so is this a different type

:49:56. > :50:02.of one two for you? Yes. She's a faster driver than you, you can't

:50:03. > :50:06.complain! Suzie, you drove yesterday, Friday, did an amazing

:50:07. > :50:09.job and we'll see you again in Germany. We are talking about a

:50:10. > :50:18.conspiracy here, why did you let him win? We did really well after a bad

:50:19. > :50:23.day in qualifying yesterday. A happy day in our household today?

:50:24. > :50:28.And I never interviewed you? First for everything.

:50:29. > :50:34.14th to second. The scenes were amazing? It was. Especially the

:50:35. > :50:41.emotional part when Felipe had the crash. That could have been worse.

:50:42. > :50:45.We were a bit down. As soon as we could see Valtteri had the pace and

:50:46. > :50:49.started overtaking, we knew we had the chance. Very aggressive out

:50:50. > :50:53.there today. Safe of course. You've got the job, by the way, you are

:50:54. > :50:57.doing a good job there. You can take or any time you like! Nico gave a

:50:58. > :51:01.bit of information to help Lewis, we hear, what was that? Yes, it was

:51:02. > :51:06.great. He came many first of all, the way he stayed calm during the

:51:07. > :51:12.problems shows his professionalism. He came in with a tip actually. What

:51:13. > :51:16.was that tip? Some insider thing in the team, but it was in good spirits

:51:17. > :51:21.and it shows what a good sportsman he is. It certainly does show good

:51:22. > :51:25.sportsmanship like that when you are down-and-out and help the team.

:51:26. > :51:36.Shows how tight the team are actually? Yes, it does. Yesterday he

:51:37. > :51:41.was 29 points ahead, today it's four points, everything is open again.

:51:42. > :51:44.Does it make it any more difficult for you when they are so close like

:51:45. > :51:47.that? You have let them race all season. Would there come a point

:51:48. > :51:49.when you would back one of the drivers, or is it a let them

:51:50. > :51:55.when you would back one of the race all season no matter what? We

:51:56. > :51:58.let them race all season. It's important to win the Championship.

:51:59. > :52:02.Mercedes is one of the biggest brands in the world and there are

:52:03. > :52:08.many people involved in the success of the team, so they'll not risk the

:52:09. > :52:13.cars until maybe the very final end, so we are in good spirits, we are

:52:14. > :52:17.optimistic. But you never know, we'll see. Certainly, it's what the

:52:18. > :52:22.fans want isn't it? They do. They are thinking at this stage the race

:52:23. > :52:26.is over, but their mindset is now into Germany at the next race. Any

:52:27. > :52:31.change there, can Lewis continue this trend and keep winning Reich he

:52:32. > :52:35.is today? Yes, I guess so. They have been so close with each other in

:52:36. > :52:39.terms of racing and it was all about momentum. Lewis had the momentum

:52:40. > :52:43.until Monaco, then it changed and maybe it's going to change in the

:52:44. > :52:47.other direction. Very exciting for us. They keep pushing each other so

:52:48. > :52:52.much and it's so good for the team because they look at each other's

:52:53. > :52:58.data. In the beginning of the race, Nico was plugging a gap, the

:52:59. > :53:02.engineering were saying to Lewis, you are losing, gaining and that

:53:03. > :53:14.pushes the team forward. It's great to listen to. Let's have a look back

:53:15. > :53:18.then. Thank you, Toto. Let's have a look back at Lewis Hamilton's day.

:53:19. > :53:24.This is the first start, Eddie. He was coming from sixth? He was always

:53:25. > :53:27.up for it. He made reference on the podium, he made a big mistake

:53:28. > :53:30.yesterday but I actual hi feel beyond any doubt that this was the

:53:31. > :53:36.motivation for his commitment today because you could see the aggression

:53:37. > :53:40.here on the outside, look. Totally aggressive, making sure his car was

:53:41. > :53:47.taking the position. When the red flag came out, he was in fourth.

:53:48. > :53:50.That immediately gave him a big psychological boot, particularly

:53:51. > :53:54.when he knew the two McLarens in front, he could take them up. In his

:53:55. > :53:59.mind, he was mentally in second place, how can I beat Rosberg, that

:54:00. > :54:04.was his idea and mindset. Extraordinary. You see him taking

:54:05. > :54:08.Button for second. This was the pit stop. It went well. Not as slick as

:54:09. > :54:13.they might have wanted and he said on the team radio, don't worry, the

:54:14. > :54:22.next will be even better. He was confident today wasn't he? If he

:54:23. > :54:28.thinks about why me all the time, there he goes passing by taking the

:54:29. > :54:32.lead, that right or left rear got stuck and it cost him a second and a

:54:33. > :54:38.half and he probably realised that having stopped much later in the

:54:39. > :54:41.race for the tyres that it was going to compound the problem, but then he

:54:42. > :54:47.was gaining. He made reference again to it. He was gaining a second a lap

:54:48. > :54:52.on the same set of tyres. This was giving him the confidence to push on

:54:53. > :54:59.hard. We talked about lady luck. David's joined us now. Great podium.

:55:00. > :55:03.Le's wander down the pit lane. Didn't look as though Lewis Hamilton

:55:04. > :55:07.needed any talent today, it was all skill? It would have been great to

:55:08. > :55:11.see a few out front, but you just sense that if it had have come to

:55:12. > :55:15.that, Lewis had the momentum and the hunger. I actually thought he was

:55:16. > :55:20.surprisingly calm on the podium give than he's won the British Grand Prix

:55:21. > :55:24.and the significance of the points. He looked overwhelmed. It didn't get

:55:25. > :55:29.to sink in, maybe possibly later on we'll get a different reaction? It

:55:30. > :55:35.was a huge, huge relief to him. He knows what a tough character Rosberg

:55:36. > :55:40.is. He knows how intelligent he is and how he plans his race

:55:41. > :55:46.differently to Lewis himself. Therefore, today to get 25 clear

:55:47. > :55:55.points and back down to only four points is a bit big coup for him.

:55:56. > :56:01.You can hear the crowd chanting "Eddie". ". It's somebody else. It's

:56:02. > :56:05.all the Irish flags. I'm very upset. An Irish flag with McLaren on, I

:56:06. > :56:09.don't think so! We are on our way down to Williams and hopefully we'll

:56:10. > :56:18.talk to Claire Williams in a bit but what a day for the guys. Was the

:56:19. > :56:22.wait worth it? Bottas is growing in confidence. Disappointment for

:56:23. > :56:26.Massa, of course, but you have got to take the opportunities and the

:56:27. > :56:31.restart gave him that opportunity to get in amongst it and he's delivered

:56:32. > :56:35.a solid result. He certainly has. You think of the podium, everybody

:56:36. > :56:40.knows who Lewis Hamilton is, but there is two great young exponents

:56:41. > :56:46.that are going to be megain the future. Bottas and Ricciardo.

:56:47. > :56:52.Ricciardo, in my opinion, his race pace was amazing. I have nothing but

:56:53. > :56:55.admiration for the kid. I wonder whether Jenson might have taken that

:56:56. > :56:59.place because some tyres were going off there? Yes, but there was an

:57:00. > :57:03.element of management going on with the engine and the teams are always

:57:04. > :57:06.trying to work out, if we use our engine mode at this Grand Prix we

:57:07. > :57:10.won't have it for the next one. I don't know who your friends are

:57:11. > :57:16.behind but let us see what Jenson Button thought of that.

:57:17. > :57:24.So close to that podium today, just 0.8 seconds off it. Yes, it's not a

:57:25. > :57:34.lot. I gave it my all, all the way through the race. It's always tough.

:57:35. > :57:38.You give it your all but you have to fuel save as well and it's like, are

:57:39. > :57:48.you kidding me. We did good in the race, couldn't have gotten any more

:57:49. > :57:54.out of it. It's always tough when cars come past you like you're stood

:57:55. > :58:00.still, Mercedes and then Williams, but everyone else we could fight off

:58:01. > :58:05.and get a place. We should be happy with how we performed here, because

:58:06. > :58:10.we didn't expect to be OK round here, we expected to be reasonably

:58:11. > :58:15.bad. High speed change is not good for us. It's a step forward and

:58:16. > :58:20.enjoy the reasonably good points for us and work harder tomorrow.

:58:21. > :58:25.You and Lewis were alongside each other, the fans were going crazy.

:58:26. > :58:30.Can you feel the atmosphere and the buzz out there? Yes, I didn't make

:58:31. > :58:35.it too difficult for him, to be fair. In that situation, you have

:58:36. > :58:40.got to be very careful because I'd lose time. He's so much quicker. For

:58:41. > :58:44.me that matters. Great for a Brit to get a win and I said before the race

:58:45. > :58:49.that if there was anyone that wasn't me who was going to win, I would

:58:50. > :58:54.hope it was Lewis. It was, great response from the crowd and I wish I

:58:55. > :58:57.could have been up there with him. I did everything we could but not

:58:58. > :59:02.quite quick enough. That's all you can do. We are standing in front of

:59:03. > :59:05.the Williams garage, the champagne is flowing behind there. Claire

:59:06. > :59:10.Williams is grinning like a Cheshire cat and fair play because what a

:59:11. > :59:15.race that was, Valtteri's really shown what he can do now? He is, our

:59:16. > :59:18.little rock star. He's truly amazing. He's cool that you just

:59:19. > :59:24.know he can deliver. To deliver second out of 17th today was just

:59:25. > :59:28.phenomenal, well 14th. It was a team effort, everyone on the pit wall,

:59:29. > :59:37.the mechanics did a fantastic pit stop, great strategy today. We've

:59:38. > :59:42.now got P 4 in Championships -- in the Championships. I wanted to talk

:59:43. > :59:52.about P 4 jumping ahead of Force India and we can't let the badge go

:59:53. > :59:57.unnoticed, FM200, Felipe Massa? Tell us about him? It's been hard for

:59:58. > :00:00.him, it was his 200th Grand Prix today and we had a celebration for

:00:01. > :00:08.him last night and we were so hoping he would have had a great Grand Prix

:00:09. > :00:12.today. Felipe is so practical, he's probably sat there but he'll be

:00:13. > :00:20.disappointed. Great energy in the pit and, as we were talking, we saw

:00:21. > :00:26.Felipe walking out to congratulate the team, also talked to your engine

:00:27. > :00:30.suppliers, so there is genuine affection and you are in the hunt

:00:31. > :00:35.again? I know. I have to pinch myself. It's lovely to see this

:00:36. > :00:38.after some really difficult seasons. It was always heartbreaking last

:00:39. > :00:42.year at the end of a race where we didn't get a result but this is

:00:43. > :00:46.reward for everybody's hard work at Williams and I'm so pleased. It's

:00:47. > :00:49.the British Grand Prix, the home race, a lot of

:00:50. > :01:01.the British Grand Prix, the home they get the opportunity to come

:01:02. > :01:05.here. Delighted. Do you feel that if you had had this engine in the past,

:01:06. > :01:10.it would have made a difference? The engine performance does make a

:01:11. > :01:16.difference but the guys have done a great job turning round the team. It

:01:17. > :01:20.is not just the engine. You want more downforce and get more

:01:21. > :01:25.aerodynamics, but we have turned the team around in so many different

:01:26. > :01:30.ways, it is not just about the engine. We have been talking about

:01:31. > :01:34.it all season, you put different management in place. We are seeing

:01:35. > :01:40.that become more concrete. We don't know what Felipe Massa could have

:01:41. > :01:52.done today, he could have been on the podium as well? Who knows what

:01:53. > :01:55.could happen. Claire Williams, Frank Q very much. Let's go back to the

:01:56. > :02:04.start and have a look at what delayed is.

:02:05. > :02:13.That is Kimi Raikkonen going right off the circuit. But as he rejoins,

:02:14. > :02:20.with all the fuel, spins into the barrier. The Caterham has to go to

:02:21. > :02:25.the left. We will see it from Felipe Massa's point of view. He was the

:02:26. > :02:30.last man of the line. Kimi Raikkonen goes over to the right. He catches

:02:31. > :02:39.the rear of the Williams cart on the Ferrari. But avoided what would have

:02:40. > :02:46.been a huge impact with the Ferrari. You see Kimi Raikkonen going wide

:02:47. > :02:50.top right of the screen. Spins across the track and great reaction

:02:51. > :02:55.from all of the drivers. Thankfully Kimi Raikkonen did get out. We hear

:02:56. > :03:04.he has some bruising but local permanent injuries. This is the

:03:05. > :03:12.back-end of Felipe Massa catching the Ferrari which him retire. It is