The Italian Grand Prix - Practice 2

:00:17. > :01:12.Welcome to Monza. The sun has broken through the clouds and it is really

:01:13. > :01:15.hotted up. If you missed free practice one, it was Lewis Hamilton

:01:16. > :01:23.who topped the time sheets. No big surprise there. It was a surprise to

:01:24. > :01:31.see Jenson Button popping up into second. The cars are making their

:01:32. > :01:38.way out. Let's join Jenny and Tom in the pit-lane. We are waiting to see

:01:39. > :01:44.Daniel Ricciardo leave. He only did 12 laps this morning. Red Bull have

:01:45. > :01:49.had to take his car apart, take the power unit apart to get at the ECU

:01:50. > :01:54.works on the front brakes as well. works on the front brakes as well.

:01:55. > :02:05.Four drivers stood out of the first practice session. Sergio Perez came

:02:06. > :02:11.in for the last hour of it taking over from Daniel Juncadella. Good

:02:12. > :02:15.news - Sebastian Vettel has been chumming it up with John Surtees. I

:02:16. > :02:27.don't think he will be going out. Daniel Ricciardo is, though. Every

:02:28. > :02:37.minute counts on this Friday free practice two session. Always a

:02:38. > :02:44.favourite. As the cars make their way on to the Autodromo Nazionale Di

:02:45. > :02:49.Monza, let's join our commentary team.

:02:50. > :02:52.COMMENTARY: This is the second free practice session ahead of the

:02:53. > :02:58.Italian Grand Prix. This is one of my favourite races of the year, this

:02:59. > :03:06.part of the season where we come to Monza, a track of great history and

:03:07. > :03:12.these wonderful fast straights, high straight-line speeds, Allan, is it

:03:13. > :03:16.amongst your favourites? It is. Nowhere has got more passion for a

:03:17. > :03:20.sport - and a sport where they have contenders at the front end. Monza

:03:21. > :03:24.has a great history about it. As a driver, you feel that history when

:03:25. > :03:31.you come down into the first corner. You can see the banking on the

:03:32. > :03:37.right, looping off to the right and up towards Curva Grande. The fans

:03:38. > :03:41.are the ones that make it. They are only here for one thing - a Ferrari

:03:42. > :03:52.victory. The cars are out on circuit already. So, we are three minutes

:03:53. > :03:59.into the session. Nico Hulkenberg had some changes on his car and

:04:00. > :04:06.Kamui Kobayashi is back at the wheel of the Caterham having missed out in

:04:07. > :04:10.Spa. We are looking at Romain Grosjean, locking up the braking

:04:11. > :04:15.into the second chicane. The approaches here in Monza are so

:04:16. > :04:20.critical, the braking here, with the car that is running with low

:04:21. > :04:24.downforce, getting your braking point right is such a critical part

:04:25. > :04:31.of the story? Certainly is. Grosjean gave up his car this morning to

:04:32. > :04:39.Charles Pic, the test driver at Lotus. From that point of view, he's

:04:40. > :04:44.trying to recover the one-and-a-half hours that he lost this morning. At

:04:45. > :04:51.the second chicane, you brake very late. If you lock up, you are better

:04:52. > :04:53.to release the brake and save the tyre and use the run-off area to

:04:54. > :05:15.come back on. If you leave aside Frank Williams,

:05:16. > :05:20.the longest-serving team principal is probably Christian Horner at Red

:05:21. > :05:24.Bull - and he is only about 41. Now, celebrating 50 wins with that

:05:25. > :05:27.success of Ricciardo, Daniel Ricciardo, at Belgium. That was the

:05:28. > :05:35.50th win this Formula One for Red Bull and all of them under his

:05:36. > :05:41.management. Alonso's manager as well... On board with Ricciardo.

:05:42. > :05:46.Approaching Variante Ascari. Flick it left, then right. That was flat

:05:47. > :05:52.out in previous years, as soon as you got on to the throttle, you are

:05:53. > :05:58.hard and flat trying to carry all of the momentum down towards Curva

:05:59. > :06:03.Parabolica. Down three gears and you squeeze on the throttle. This green

:06:04. > :06:08.area on the left - Ricciardo runs on to it, keeps his left wheels on the

:06:09. > :06:11.small drain. That's been a controversial part leading

:06:12. > :06:11.small drain. That's been a this Grand Prix because that used to

:06:12. > :06:17.be gravel. this Grand Prix because that used to

:06:18. > :06:21.Drivers will use it but they are allowed to put all four wheels off

:06:22. > :06:26.it. Once they do that, it is in a situation where they could receive

:06:27. > :06:32.penalties. A young fan there wearing a Juventus cap. Very much enjoying

:06:33. > :06:39.the Formula One action. Juventus one of the Italian club teams based in

:06:40. > :06:47.Turin. Enjoying the action. Nico Rosberg, who was very much the

:06:48. > :06:49.picture of contrition yesterday in the press conference, having been

:06:50. > :06:56.forced to apologise for the accident with Lewis Hamilton last time out in

:06:57. > :07:02.Spa. Rosberg, I sense, is slightly uneasy. A lot of drivers have been

:07:03. > :07:08.backing him and saying he had nothing to apologise for. Rosberg

:07:09. > :07:11.himself, I wonder whether it's taken a bit of momentum out of his

:07:12. > :07:14.campaign. He doesn't have the sparkle in his eyes and I wonder

:07:15. > :07:19.whether Hamilton can use this to try and get back at him. Underlying this

:07:20. > :07:24.battle on track between them is a fierce psychological battle? It is a

:07:25. > :07:28.psychological battle. In Spa the points went to Nico Rosberg, but he

:07:29. > :07:56.said to Lee McKenzie, "I have nothing to apologise for. It wasn't

:07:57. > :08:03.my problem. At the end" -- it wasn't my problem." Hamilton

:08:04. > :08:09.had the corner. It was a bit clumsy on Rosberg's behalf, so therefore he

:08:10. > :08:12.did have - he had to take the biggest portion of the blame. I

:08:13. > :08:16.think that it was just something that was about to happen. Lewis

:08:17. > :08:21.Hamilton has to take advantage of it. He can see for the first time

:08:22. > :08:25.that the team were behind him and so therefore he's got to try and gain

:08:26. > :08:28.the confidence out of it. Up until now, since the Monaco Grand Prix,

:08:29. > :08:34.that momentum has been going with Nico Rosberg. It was interesting

:08:35. > :08:37.because yesterday Toto Wolff, who clearly felt that his authority had

:08:38. > :08:41.been undermined by what happened in Spa, he felt there was an agreement

:08:42. > :08:45.between the team and the drivers not to collide with each other and that

:08:46. > :08:49.had been ignored. He made the strongest possible threat, didn't

:08:50. > :08:54.he, speaking to us, saying that if they can't work together and find a

:08:55. > :09:02.level and obey our rules, we will replace them. It is as simple as

:09:03. > :09:07.that. The team comes above any particular driver. The stewards of

:09:08. > :09:10.the day, they felt that it was a racing incident under this new

:09:11. > :09:13.situation of allowing the drivers to race. If it had been the beginning

:09:14. > :09:18.of the season, it was possible Nico Rosberg would have had a penalty

:09:19. > :09:25.underneath that. He didn't on this occasion. However, the Mercedes team

:09:26. > :09:34.- Romain Grosjean going too quickly there, he locks up the rears - if

:09:35. > :09:44.they cannot race together without crashing into each other...

:09:45. > :09:51.TEAM RADIO: How is the balance? Still a bit tricky on the rear.

:09:52. > :09:56.Daniel Ricciardo giving some feedback. He lost time this morning.

:09:57. > :10:03.The track temperature has gone up. It was 39 degrees. Just ducked back

:10:04. > :10:08.down to 38 degrees. To continue what we were saying about Toto Wolff? He

:10:09. > :10:13.was saying to the guys look, Mercedes is more important than your

:10:14. > :10:18.inter-team battle. Mercedes has to win each Grand Prix that it can win.

:10:19. > :10:21.They were half a second a lap faster than anyone else and still they

:10:22. > :10:25.managed to lose that. And also the previous Grand Prix as well. Daniel

:10:26. > :10:29.Ricciardo and Red Bull picked up victories. What they want is a

:10:30. > :10:33.Mercedes to win. After that, which one of their drivers achieves the

:10:34. > :10:37.World Championship, that is down to the sort of scrapping on track. They

:10:38. > :10:43.have to remember it is not all about themselves. Yes, as Magnussen puts a

:10:44. > :10:47.couple of wheels on to that artificial grass on the outside of

:10:48. > :10:51.the Curva Parabolica. Some straight-line speeds are creeping up

:10:52. > :10:55.now. Nico Hulkenberg - 343 kilometres an hour. Magnussen goes

:10:56. > :10:59.fastest. We are ten minutes into this free practice two session.

:11:00. > :11:04.Maldonado also just finding there is not as much grip on the outside

:11:05. > :11:21.there of that Curva Parabolica as there is elsewhere. Magnussen,

:11:22. > :11:28.Hulkenberg, Perez, Kvyat, Ricciardo, Bianchi, Vergne - and that is the

:11:29. > :11:34.team boss at Ferrari Marco Mattiacci. Alonso has used five

:11:35. > :11:38.internal combustion engines. Tom Clarkson is down there. As you can

:11:39. > :11:42.see from that graphic, Tom, we are going to start getting into theary y

:11:43. > :11:46.where people who need to change their engine, they will start

:11:47. > :11:48.getting into some penalties. Those penalties are complex and hard to

:11:49. > :11:56.understand, aren't they? They are, James. Both Ferrari drivers using

:11:57. > :12:00.brand-new power units at this race. They are absolutely clued up that

:12:01. > :12:04.straight-line speed is crucial here. That has manifested itself during

:12:05. > :12:08.these two practice sessions. This morning, they were back-to-back in

:12:09. > :12:12.high and low downforce. This afternoon, Alonso and Raikkonen -

:12:13. > :12:23.Alonso heading down the pit-lane now - are both using low downforce.

:12:24. > :12:27.Expect them to have a fast, relative to the other runners - expect them

:12:28. > :12:32.to be as fast as they can possibly be in a straight line. Thank you,

:12:33. > :12:37.Tom. We saw a quick shot of Hamilton's car having a bit of work

:12:38. > :12:42.done on it. Nico Rosberg is out on circuit, running the harder compound

:12:43. > :12:47.of the two Pirelli choices this weekend. Because of the very high

:12:48. > :12:51.wheel rotation speeds here, at speeds of 340 kilometres an hour,

:12:52. > :12:54.they get a lot of heat in the shoulder of these tyres and they

:12:55. > :12:58.have to be pretty conservative for that reason and bring the two

:12:59. > :13:03.hardest tyres in the range, the hard and the medium. Allan is pulling a

:13:04. > :13:07.face at me as if to say I'm not so sure about that. They are being very

:13:08. > :13:12.conservative. That was one of the problems this morning. Ferrari were

:13:13. > :13:15.complaining about the fact they couldn't build any tyre temperature

:13:16. > :13:20.into the tyre and they were struggling for grip. It is one of

:13:21. > :13:24.the things - the safety is due to the high top speeds, about 220mph, I

:13:25. > :13:28.expect to see at the end of this straight now that Nico Rosberg is

:13:29. > :13:31.going down, as Lewis Hamilton is clearly looking for something in

:13:32. > :13:37.there! Those high top speeds put a lot of force into the tyre on to the

:13:38. > :13:41.inner edge, so the construction is very stiff and that means the tyre

:13:42. > :13:44.is very difficult to work. He is looking for something to make some

:13:45. > :13:51.adjustments to his crash helmet. I thought he was looking for his

:13:52. > :13:54.sweets! He has a sweet tooth. Ricciardo missing the chicane there

:13:55. > :14:00.at turn one. That is the biggest stop of the year, that first chicane

:14:01. > :14:09.here at Monza. You are coming from 345, 350 kilometres an hour to 70,

:14:10. > :14:14.just over two seconds of retardation. It's a funny one. You

:14:15. > :14:19.are approaching it and you can see the braking area coming to you for

:14:20. > :14:26.such a long time. You are preparing yourself for it. That point of going

:14:27. > :14:30.past the 150 and down to the 100 metre board, it passes so quickly.

:14:31. > :14:34.At 200mph, you are travelling at 90 metres per second. It does pass so

:14:35. > :14:39.quickly, that you have to be so spot on. You don't find out if you have

:14:40. > :14:42.braked too late until you get to the corner and the point of no return.

:14:43. > :14:48.You are going down through the gears to get the car stopped, you have the

:14:49. > :14:54.hybrid energy recovery system so there's a lot of different dynamics

:14:55. > :15:00.going on and sit very tricky. -- it is very tricky.

:15:01. > :15:06.TEAM RADIO: Some locking on the right front. Rosberg has

:15:07. > :15:08.TEAM RADIO: Some locking on the vibration from a flat spot on the

:15:09. > :15:13.right front tyre. There is another big problem here in Monza. If you

:15:14. > :15:17.have a big lock-up, as we look at the floor coming off Hamilton's car,

:15:18. > :15:20.the mechanics going to work. Hamilton is tinkering away in the

:15:21. > :15:30.back of the garage. That looks like more than tinkering to me.

:15:31. > :15:37.An hour and 14 minutes remaining on the clock. Rosberg is the fastest

:15:38. > :15:42.man around here at the moment. That is just almost a second-and-a-half

:15:43. > :15:46.slower than Hamilton went this morning in the first free practise

:15:47. > :15:50.session. Using the harder compound tyres for everybody. Around about 40

:15:51. > :15:55.minutes into this session we'll see them come in and take the fuel out

:15:56. > :15:59.and put on medium tyres and do a simulation. Those lap times will set

:16:00. > :16:04.the fastest times of the day. Then what will happen is they will come

:16:05. > :16:09.back in, send it out again on the same tyres to simulate the early

:16:10. > :16:13.part of the Grand Prix. On a set of medium tyres in the opening part of

:16:14. > :16:17.the Grand Prix, we expect this race, as was last year, probably to be a

:16:18. > :16:22.one-stop race. So this homework they will do in this session now is

:16:23. > :16:26.critical if you will get the strategy right W the speeds so high

:16:27. > :16:31.here, when you come into make a pit stop, it is a long pit stop here,

:16:32. > :16:34.but you lose so much time relative to these cars travelling quickly.

:16:35. > :16:40.You have to make the right calls on strategy here. You to have. The

:16:41. > :16:44.average speed, as you said, is so quickly, but it has historically

:16:45. > :16:50.been a one-stopper. If you do have to go towards a two stop, but with

:16:51. > :16:53.the hardest of these tyres I would expect it to be one stop for most

:16:54. > :16:59.people. There is an opportunity if you have straight-line speed to be

:17:00. > :17:05.able to overtake. It is about doing the work so you keep the traction.

:17:06. > :17:12.It is the traction out of the first chicane out of the second. Rosberg,

:17:13. > :17:23.we saw coming through now and then the stability as you come through

:17:24. > :17:28.Curva Parabolica. Let's find out what the problem is

:17:29. > :17:34.for Lewis Hamilton. Unfortunately the team don't know. What I can tell

:17:35. > :17:38.you, as you can see here s the mechanics are under the car. It will

:17:39. > :17:41.not fire, that is why he's not gone out on track. They have taken off

:17:42. > :17:46.the floor to look at the engine to see what the problem is. As soon as

:17:47. > :17:50.I have more, I'll come back to you. Hamilton needs a clean race weekend.

:17:51. > :17:54.He's not had one since the Spanish Grand Prix back in May. Monaco went

:17:55. > :17:59.wrong with the incident where Rosberg brought out the yellow flags

:18:00. > :18:03.which ruined Hamilton's final qualifying run. Since then, he's

:18:04. > :18:07.been on the back foot, either his own mistakes, in places like Canada

:18:08. > :18:12.and Austria and problems on the car, like the fire he suffered in

:18:13. > :18:16.Hungary. He's not been able to put together a really complete, clean

:18:17. > :18:21.race weekend. So, he doesn't really need this, he wants to be out on

:18:22. > :18:22.circuit. He'll stay calm. If this was happening tomorrow afternoon,

:18:23. > :18:28.that would be a different matter! He was happening tomorrow afternoon,

:18:29. > :18:33.does not want to lose this critical session. Rosberg has equalled his

:18:34. > :18:37.time he did this morning. He's quickest of anyone in that first

:18:38. > :18:41.sector. This looks like it will be even faster again for Nico Rosberg.

:18:42. > :18:45.So, as much as he will get that information, it's still not as good

:18:46. > :18:48.as getting it for yourself. Especially after Hamilton was

:18:49. > :18:52.quickest this morning, that he would want to carry that momentum forward.

:18:53. > :19:00.It looks like it will be a while before that car is out on track. An

:19:01. > :19:05.hour and 11 remaining. Remember, you can get in touch with us here, we

:19:06. > :19:10.love to hear from you. It has been a busy time for social media and

:19:11. > :19:14.Formula One. Fascinating opinions since spa.

:19:15. > :19:32.Spa. Sauber are yet to score a

:19:33. > :19:36.Championship Point. Here is Massa, having changed to

:19:37. > :19:41.Williams. The team has been the fastest through the speed traps

:19:42. > :19:45.through most of the season. Perez is for Force India. That will

:19:46. > :19:51.help Williams be strong here. Going back to what we were discussing

:19:52. > :19:55.about the tyre choice, you said it is conservative by pier really to

:19:56. > :19:59.bring the hard and the medium. When the tyres are brought out it does

:20:00. > :20:05.not necessarily help Williams too much. They tend to go better on the

:20:06. > :20:09.softer end of the range tyres. They do go better. These tyres work

:20:10. > :20:13.better at higher track and air temperatures. Therefore, the hotter

:20:14. > :20:17.it gets, the more these tyres will come into their own, as Fernando

:20:18. > :20:24.Alonso popped up into quickest. That will be a fillip for him. It is few

:20:25. > :20:29.tenths quicker than he managed this morning. The higher the

:20:30. > :20:31.tenths quicker than he managed this temperatures the better it will

:20:32. > :20:38.work. That is the same for everybody. So Alonso is fastest. A

:20:39. > :20:44.lap from Bottas as well. He's currently at sixth. It is Alonso,

:20:45. > :20:49.Button in second place. As I say, the real headline lap

:20:50. > :20:54.times will be set in around half an hour from now when they run with the

:20:55. > :21:02.medium compound tyre. As Massa hammers down the straight then and

:21:03. > :21:08.across the start finish line at 341 kilometres per hour. Picks his

:21:09. > :21:13.breaking point. Almost six G hits his chest. Flicks it right and then

:21:14. > :21:19.left. Just in front of the car, just quivering as he brings it back under

:21:20. > :21:25.control. A huge amount of talk out of this hybrid turbo power plant

:21:26. > :21:30.that makes the car want to slide. This is an overtaking place on race

:21:31. > :21:35.day. We have seen some pretty exciting wheel-to-wheel action.

:21:36. > :21:41.Particularly Alonso and Vettel in recent years and ended up with one

:21:42. > :21:53.of them on the grass on several occasions. Now through Lesmo two. On

:21:54. > :22:00.to the straight which leads to the Ascari, named after a two-time

:22:01. > :22:05.champion for Ferrari. The only Italian driver to win at the wheel

:22:06. > :22:12.of a Ferrari. Builds up speed to the Parabolica

:22:13. > :22:22.corner. This is characterised by not too many corners. It is chicanes and

:22:23. > :22:29.the only corners worth a name is this and the other. When you have a

:22:30. > :22:33.car underneath you, you can see, but his team-mate Valtteri Bottas is

:22:34. > :22:38.going quickest right now. It looks like the Williams team have gone

:22:39. > :22:41.back to their standard Friday speck, where they may get more fuel on the

:22:42. > :22:45.Friday morning and then start to build things up through the course

:22:46. > :22:51.of the weekend. But here is Bottas coming across. I expect him to go

:22:52. > :22:58.faster than his team-mate and he doe. Impressively, Jenson Button is

:22:59. > :23:05.up there again. He is. Jenson Button is currently in third. Williams this

:23:06. > :23:11.morning announcing half-year figures. They are a listed company

:23:12. > :23:19.on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Here is the radio.

:23:20. > :23:35.TEAM You get to see what the gain is.

:23:36. > :23:39.That is something they spoke about beforehand.

:23:40. > :23:46.Sebastian Vettel actually forgot in the heat of the moment and got

:23:47. > :23:51.reminded by his team engineer. Tom Clarkson is down outside the garage.

:23:52. > :23:54.I am. It is far from an ideal build up for Ricciardo.

:23:55. > :23:57.I am. It is far from an ideal build hat-trick this weekend. He did 12

:23:58. > :24:02.laps this morning. He's only done seven this afternoon. Let 's start

:24:03. > :24:06.by talking about the brake ducks. The team put on new ones prior to

:24:07. > :24:10.the start of practise this morning. They have been busy filing away at

:24:11. > :24:17.them. They have reduced less drag than the ones they were using at

:24:18. > :24:28.SpaA. They are trying to make -- at Spa. Let's look at this front wing -

:24:29. > :24:32.how beautiful is that! The front wing has no outlets. It is very

:24:33. > :24:39.clean. It is beautifully clean. They tell me they have a smaller rear

:24:40. > :24:45.wing on the car. I guess less downforce on the front to balance

:24:46. > :24:50.the car. Ricciardo earlier this morning, he had the more

:24:51. > :24:53.characteristic one with the little winglets and Sebastian Vettel tried

:24:54. > :24:58.that wing we are looking at now. You need to try and get that balance. It

:24:59. > :25:01.is a balance. It is a balance between the consistency between

:25:02. > :25:05.front to rear, but about the ability for the front end of the car to be

:25:06. > :25:10.precise. That is one of the keys of the Red Bull. They've had a front

:25:11. > :25:13.end, it's always been very sharp for the driver. He can come to these

:25:14. > :25:18.chicanes and put the front of the car in and change direction. The

:25:19. > :25:21.front would pick up and a turn around, allowing them to get earlier

:25:22. > :25:26.on to the throttle. Thank you very much for that. Lewis Hamilton

:25:27. > :25:29.looking very relaxed down in the Mercedes pit garage, even though

:25:30. > :25:34.there's a problem getting his car to fire up. Of coursely chatting to a

:25:35. > :25:37.guest down there and seeming -- of course, chatting to a guest down

:25:38. > :25:41.there and seeming very calm. No floor still on the Mercedes. Number

:25:42. > :25:47.44 of Lewis Hamilton, the only driver who has not gone out and set

:25:48. > :25:57.a time. There's the young Spanish driver who went out this morning. In

:25:58. > :26:07.an experience-gathering exercise he managed to do 29 laps. Former

:26:08. > :26:11.European F-3 champion. He's definitely a serious racing driver.

:26:12. > :26:15.Just getting a chance to get a few laps in and get a bit of Formula One

:26:16. > :26:19.experience with the Caterham team, now under new management, as they

:26:20. > :26:26.say. Gutierrez is out on circuit. It's

:26:27. > :26:30.not been a greater r year for him with the Sauber team. Has the best

:26:31. > :26:34.start record though - if you take away places lost from places gained,

:26:35. > :26:36.he's doing better than anybody else. He tends to

:26:37. > :26:41.he's doing better than anybody else. bottom end of the grid. I suppose

:26:42. > :26:45.you would argue it is easier for him than Rosberg or Hamilton starting

:26:46. > :26:49.off the front row. That's a struggle statistic, to be honest, if you look

:26:50. > :26:54.at that, whether it is the highlight of your year. It's been a bad season

:26:55. > :26:59.for the Sauber team. They didn't have a very good beginning to 2013.

:27:00. > :27:02.They got the car sorted out. Nico Hulkenberg wrestled it around at the

:27:03. > :27:06.end of the year. They've not been able to achieve that through the

:27:07. > :27:10.course of 2014. And for Gutierrez, it seems to have been just

:27:11. > :27:14.course of 2014. And for Gutierrez, from bad to worse. Adrian Sutil and

:27:15. > :27:19.his team-mate has managed to get more out of it since the Grand Prix

:27:20. > :27:23.back in July. He's been more competitive. We are in the middle to

:27:24. > :27:29.the back of the grid, as opposed to the middle to the front, where they

:27:30. > :27:33.thought they should be. They have brought through a number of young

:27:34. > :27:37.drivers for Ferrari over the years, including Felipe Massa. And now

:27:38. > :27:48.Ferrari have another team that they have lined up. There is Toto Wolff,

:27:49. > :27:54.with Lauder. They were critical of Rosberg after the collision in Spa.

:27:55. > :27:59.Rosberg said yesterday in a press conference that Lauder had

:28:00. > :28:03.apologised for being so strong with his wording.

:28:04. > :28:08.When you come out of that corner, it is a tricky one. The apex of the

:28:09. > :28:15.curve, it seems to be a little point and you've got to carry speed into

:28:16. > :28:19.it, where there's positive camber on the road, you have to hit that apex.

:28:20. > :28:21.Then, as soon as you get to the edge of the track, it drops off, on to

:28:22. > :28:27.the curve and the road falls away of the track, it drops off, on to

:28:28. > :28:30.from you. If you have any car imbalance and understeer or over

:28:31. > :28:37.steer, then it amplifies it significantly and you see a lot of

:28:38. > :28:44.people bouncing down the whole lent of that -- length of that. It is an

:28:45. > :28:48.extremely tricky corner. It leads on to a big straight. And there is

:28:49. > :29:07.another one. It will be very interesting when we

:29:08. > :29:13.speak to Christian Horner later on, there's the 1964 world champion. The

:29:14. > :29:19.only one to win on four and two wheels. It will be interesting to

:29:20. > :29:22.talk to Christian Horner about the setting on this car. The car,

:29:23. > :29:28.particularly the floor, has so much downforce. 30% of a Formula One's

:29:29. > :29:36.car is generated by the floor. The Red Bull floor has always been good.

:29:37. > :29:37.TEAM RADIO: We need to look at it on round two.

:29:38. > :29:49.It's good. Have a look at that. Nico Hulkenberg, that is the corner

:29:50. > :29:56.that Daniel Ricciardo came out as Hulkenberg started on the turn. It

:29:57. > :30:00.is the right-left. You have low revs there. A smooth delivery because you

:30:01. > :30:05.are in a low gear. That is one of the things that they'll try to

:30:06. > :30:11.adapt, is that drivability, because that helps to control the wheelspin.

:30:12. > :30:17.The wheelspin helps you control your tyre life.

:30:18. > :30:23.Romain Grosjean keeping cool in the pit-lane. The track temperature is

:30:24. > :30:29.40 degrees now, the air temperature is 25. The sun is out. There are a

:30:30. > :30:32.few grey clouds around. There is a grey cloud hanging over Lewis

:30:33. > :30:36.Hamilton at the moment. He's not been able to go out on circuit. The

:30:37. > :30:48.car will not fire up and the team are working on it. He is trying to

:30:49. > :30:53.look as serene as he possibly can! A curtain of Mercedes mechanics are

:30:54. > :30:57.blocking the view as they work on a sensitive area. They were covering

:30:58. > :31:03.up the rear wing this morning. They are trying to protect the cameras

:31:04. > :31:08.and the still cameras that the other team also be interested in looking

:31:09. > :31:13.-- teams will be interested in looking at as well. It is also a bit

:31:14. > :31:18.of a game - we have got something that we don't want you to know

:31:19. > :31:21.about! So, we have just under an hour remaining. Rosberg, from

:31:22. > :31:28.Alonso, from Button, from Magnussen - that's the top four. The Force

:31:29. > :31:35.India comes in to the pit-lane. A set of the harder compound tyres on.

:31:36. > :31:43.If you look at the right front, it had a bit of - you could see it was

:31:44. > :31:48.starting to work. This morning, they didn't look good at all, as if they

:31:49. > :31:52.had been driving around, as opposed to being loaded into the circuit.

:31:53. > :31:59.The Renault engine is working hard in the back of Daniel Ricciardo's

:32:00. > :32:04.Red Bull car. Magnussen has just gone - I beg your pardon, Magnussen

:32:05. > :32:10.is a tenth up. Ricciardo in fourth. And where is he going to end this

:32:11. > :32:15.lap up? The winner of the last two Grand Pries, the Australian is in

:32:16. > :32:26.such great form at the moment, he ends up 11th at the end of that run.

:32:27. > :32:34.We saw Giedo van der Garde a few moments ago, he is with Jennie. How

:32:35. > :32:41.is this circuit handling? Very slippery. We started with a low

:32:42. > :32:46.downforce configuration. It was all over the place. You know, it is the

:32:47. > :32:50.characteristic of the track, you over the place. You know, it is the

:32:51. > :32:57.always sliding, trying to find grip. It will get better and better during

:32:58. > :33:00.the day. Talk about Curva Parabolica, is it different as a

:33:01. > :33:07.driver? It is a bit different. You can use more on the exit. Before,

:33:08. > :33:11.you went through the gravel and you lost a lot of time. Now, if you go

:33:12. > :33:15.over the white line it is not a problem. You can enter the corner a

:33:16. > :33:20.bit quicker and you can carry more speed. Some people are saying they

:33:21. > :33:24.are making it too easy. Is it taking the fun and the excitement out of

:33:25. > :33:29.that corner? It is safer, that's for sure. On the other hand, the years

:33:30. > :33:37.before, if you make a mistake there, or if you push too hard, you will go

:33:38. > :33:41.off. Now, you lose nothing. I was watching the cars come out of that

:33:42. > :33:46.corner in the first session. You come out differently. So do you get

:33:47. > :33:53.a faster speed coming along the start-finish straight?

:33:54. > :34:03.You can carry more speed, which is normal. What are Sauber doing to

:34:04. > :34:10.turn around their fortunes this season? Any more movements? I mean,

:34:11. > :34:15.we are not too bad, I think. This morning was quite good. We found

:34:16. > :34:20.good configuration with the wing level. Hopefully, we can put it

:34:21. > :34:26.together this weekend. We need a bit of luck to get the points. Also, in

:34:27. > :34:30.Singapore, we get an upgrade on the car so, hopefully, we need some luck

:34:31. > :34:41.and score the points as soon as possible. Thank you very much. Giedo

:34:42. > :34:52.van der Garde, a former World Kart Champion, now with Sauber. He was

:34:53. > :34:58.15th fastest this morning. Now, keep your comments coming. Ben

:34:59. > :35:00.says, "Do you think Now, keep your comments coming. Ben

:35:01. > :35:04.have done enough to keep their Now, keep your comments coming. Ben

:35:05. > :35:07.seats?" I don't think it is necessarily have they done enough -

:35:08. > :35:12.there is an element that McLaren have to look and will be looking at

:35:13. > :35:16.the future. But also it depends on who else is around. I'm sure that

:35:17. > :35:22.everybody would like to try and grab a hold of Fernando Alonso, but if

:35:23. > :35:27.he's contracted to Ferrari, there is no chance. I would say for both of

:35:28. > :35:30.them, it is dependent on what other driver options there are for the

:35:31. > :35:34.future as much as what they have done this year. I personally think

:35:35. > :35:38.they will both stay. I think there is a solidity in doing that for

:35:39. > :35:42.2015, the first year with Honda engines coming on board, so

:35:43. > :35:48.therefore the team need to have some continuity. They will stay. Some

:35:49. > :35:57.medium compound tyres being fitted to the Force India, heading off down

:35:58. > :36:02.the pit straight. Adrian Sutil and Kevin Magnussen are in the medium

:36:03. > :36:07.compound tyres. There was a graphic a moment ago - beautiful slide by

:36:08. > :36:16.Ricciardo on the exit of the second Lesmo bend. We saw a graphic earlier

:36:17. > :36:25.with Magnussen on a split time. He ended up fourth fastest mentd --

:36:26. > :36:33.fastest. TEAM RADIO: We will go to orange

:36:34. > :36:40.echo one. Looks like we ran out at the end of that lap. Orange echo one

:36:41. > :36:44.should help. They are talking about running out of hybrid energy, so

:36:45. > :36:47.therefore they are adjusting the way they are recuperating the energy and

:36:48. > :36:51.boosting the energy on to the McLaren so they use nit the most

:36:52. > :36:55.efficient way over the course of the whole lap around here. If you can

:36:56. > :36:59.gain two or three miles per hour on to a straight because you have got

:37:00. > :37:03.an extra boost of hybrid, that carries all the way down the

:37:04. > :37:09.straight so it gains you tenths. You can see the lap time on your display

:37:10. > :37:14.just dropping like a stone and it is fantastic as a driver to watch that.

:37:15. > :37:18.Ultimately, if you run out of that energy, you just lose the time and

:37:19. > :37:21.that is one of the most frustrating sights to see. One of the most

:37:22. > :37:31.exciting drivers to be in Formula One in the last 20 years was Juan

:37:32. > :37:37.Pablo Montoya. We haven't seen him since 2006, but he is standing next

:37:38. > :37:41.to Tom Clarkson. He is. This place has been very good to him. You won

:37:42. > :37:47.your first Grand Prix here. You got that 160mph lap. Must be good to be

:37:48. > :38:01.back? It is fun. I haven't been back since my last race! Was that 2006? I

:38:02. > :38:10.came to Europe for the simulator for IndyCars. Any desire to be out there

:38:11. > :38:14.now? No, I looked at the cars in the Williams garage and they still look

:38:15. > :38:19.pretty sexy. The technology is amazing. I am happy where I am. Has

:38:20. > :38:23.the sport - the same old faces around. We know each other from way

:38:24. > :38:28.back! Do you feel the sport has moved on? It's changed with the

:38:29. > :38:33.technology and things. Back here looks the same. It's changed -

:38:34. > :38:38.things are bigger. People are used to working one place, working a

:38:39. > :38:43.different place. It is fun to see all the old faces. Who have you

:38:44. > :38:58.seen? First person yesterday was Frank. Today, I saw Ron. Was that an

:38:59. > :39:04.interesting conversation? As always! I saw Ron at NASCAR. A lot of

:39:05. > :39:11.mechanics at Williams. It's pretty cool. It all seems to be kicking off

:39:12. > :39:14.at Mercedes. Excitement at Spa last time between Lewis Hamilton and Nico

:39:15. > :39:20.Rosberg. Your thoughts on their battle? The fans need

:39:21. > :39:24.Rosberg. Your thoughts on their need the action. They need the

:39:25. > :39:28.racing. We are here to race. Any chance of you coming back here one

:39:29. > :39:38.day? To watch, maybe! Good to see you. Thank you. Nico Rosberg goes

:39:39. > :39:47.fastest with a set of medium compound tyres - 1:26.225. Valtteri

:39:48. > :40:03.Bottas goes second - 1:26.058. Sutil gets it all wrong there.

:40:04. > :40:08.Crossed up into the second chicane. On the earlier runs, Bottas was

:40:09. > :40:14.losing time. On this tyre, he seems to have got it tidied up. I'm not so

:40:15. > :40:17.sure that he is quicker in that middle sector. I think there was a

:40:18. > :40:22.possibility of Rosberg didn't get the cleanest middle sector because

:40:23. > :40:35.he's quickest in sector one and three. I think there is probably a

:40:36. > :40:39.bit of tidying up to be done there. Clearly, the car has still got that

:40:40. > :40:43.advantage, the Mercedes. The tyre difference hasn't been as much as

:40:44. > :40:46.some would have expected. Sebastian Vettel is out there at the moment on

:40:47. > :40:53.a set of the medium compound tyres. His best time on the harder one -

:40:54. > :41:02.1:27.150. TEAM RADIO: Magnussen going faster

:41:03. > :41:11.towards the end of his run. Expect a better lap.

:41:12. > :41:16.TEAM RADIO: We are looking at 0.6 of a second advantage for the option,

:41:17. > :41:21.roughly. He's done the maths for us. So far from the laps we have seen,

:41:22. > :41:24.it looks like 0.6 of a second advantage medium to hard. If that is

:41:25. > :41:30.the case, if that is carried through across the grid, that is good news

:41:31. > :41:40.from a strategy point of view. This is probably just a one-stop race.

:41:41. > :41:46.There is a possibility with them being that close of seeing a few

:41:47. > :41:50.drivers starting outside the top ten on the harder compound tyre and

:41:51. > :41:55.running a long first stint, something Sergio Perez did in 2012,

:41:56. > :42:03.which brought him a podium. Rosberg missing the chicane there. Magnussen

:42:04. > :42:07.really leaning on that McLaren. Rosberg, Bottas, Alonso, who has

:42:08. > :42:11.gone out now on a set of the medium tyres, he is one of the only

:42:12. > :42:15.front-runners who have not done a medium tyre run, Jenson Button is

:42:16. > :42:18.also out on a set of medium tyres. It will be interesting to do the

:42:19. > :42:27.comparison between Button and Alonso here. On the harder compound tyre -

:42:28. > :42:35.Button has done a 1:26.762. Let's have a look at what Alonso did. It

:42:36. > :42:39.was 1:26.7. If he carries through that advantage... It might take him

:42:40. > :42:46.to the fastest time of the day. Here he comes. Coming down to the first

:42:47. > :42:51.corner, you brake at 120 metres out, he locked up the rear there, had to

:42:52. > :42:55.correct, and Alonso gets it left into that one and on to the throttle

:42:56. > :43:00.now. You need to be clean on the throttle. A bit bumpy, Curva Grande,

:43:01. > :43:03.you don't have to go to that right-hand apex, try to keep the

:43:04. > :43:08.scrub out of the car. As you run down to the second chicane, again

:43:09. > :43:12.over 200mph, but including that sort of oversteering moment at the first

:43:13. > :43:19.chicane, he's a little off being quickest. Now Lesmo 1, trying to

:43:20. > :43:26.roll the car in, not to go too wide on exit and then Lesmo 2, a tricky

:43:27. > :43:33.one. You use all of that kerb. You still need to keep your right-hand

:43:34. > :43:42.wheels on the track. Under the bridge down towards Variante Ascari,

:43:43. > :43:50.Fernando Alonso still 0.08 off the mark. Rosberg has set the fastest

:43:51. > :43:54.first sector. 46 minutes remaining. Down the straight comes Alonso into

:43:55. > :43:59.the new revised Curva Parabolica. He is not a big fan of it, Alonso. He

:44:00. > :44:02.doesn't get the wheels on to that artificial grass. He said yesterday

:44:03. > :44:05.in a press conference, he thought that would be bad news. Not enough,

:44:06. > :44:14.lost a little time in the final sector. He's off the benchmark of

:44:15. > :44:23.Rosberg. Rosberg has gone into the pits. Alonso goes second, that is a

:44:24. > :44:29.crowd-pleaser. That is not so much of a crowd-pleaser from Romain

:44:30. > :44:35.Grosjean(!) He lost that on the entry into Lesmo 1. All that gravel

:44:36. > :44:41.will have damaged the leading edge of the front wing and also the floor

:44:42. > :44:46.and the gravel goes everywhere, it is a difficult thing to clean out

:44:47. > :44:50.for the mechanics. We have got some more questions coming in. Nathan,

:44:51. > :45:01."What sort of speeds are they hitting this year at Monza?" We are

:45:02. > :45:07.looking at 346 kilometres an hour. That was done by the Mercedes of

:45:08. > :45:12.Rosberg, Bottas and Massa. Let's see if we can get an update on the Lewis

:45:13. > :45:17.Hamilton situation. He's not yet set a lap time with 44 minutes

:45:18. > :45:20.remaining. We are at the halfway stage in this free practice two.

:45:21. > :45:35.Still, feverish work is going on. This is a race against time you may

:45:36. > :45:40.be able to make out Too Wolff. They are looking at half an hour before

:45:41. > :45:46.they can get him out. I have heard the car fire up. When I was here at

:45:47. > :45:51.the beginning of the session it kind of whimpered. They had a hydraulic

:45:52. > :45:56.sensor problem in the last session. The session continued, anyway. That

:45:57. > :46:00.has been more of a problem. A hydraulics problem for Lewis

:46:01. > :46:04.Hamilton. He is at the back of the garage looking relaxed. There's a

:46:05. > :46:11.lot of work to be done if he's to get out at all. Toto Wolff, you

:46:12. > :46:15.mentioned to me, his arms are crossed and I think he can feel the

:46:16. > :46:19.frustration of it. This is not what he wanted after all the discussions

:46:20. > :46:23.and things that were happening over the last couple of Grand Prix

:46:24. > :46:27.weekends with the interteam rivalry and team situations. He would have

:46:28. > :46:31.liked a clean weekend for both cars to run through. That is clearly not

:46:32. > :46:36.happened. If he'll get out in half an hour, that will be 15 minutes of

:46:37. > :46:39.this one-and-a-half hour session that there's potential for Lewis

:46:40. > :46:45.Hamilton to recover some information. You can see that Wolff

:46:46. > :46:50.has his right wrist and arm in a sling, following a cycling accident.

:46:51. > :46:55.He broke four bones down the right-hand side of his body a month

:46:56. > :46:58.ago. He said in many social media messages and comments to the team

:46:59. > :47:04.over the past week when they were suggesting what would be a suitable

:47:05. > :47:13.punishment for Nico Rosberg for having transgressed and broken the

:47:14. > :47:20.agreement in Spa, the funnist that was received was "Send him out on a

:47:21. > :47:28.bike ride with Toto Wolff." It was a brave thing to do. What would you do

:47:29. > :47:33.if you were running it? Alonso was asked if he would be the ambassador

:47:34. > :47:36.for peace between the two of them. He declined that particular job

:47:37. > :47:41.offer. I think he's happy to stick with Ferrari. This weekend will be

:47:42. > :47:45.one of the ones that I think will decide what his feelings are towards

:47:46. > :47:51.his long-term future. If he feels that is a place that will deliver a

:47:52. > :47:54.Third World championship for him, or will he look elsewhere. There is a

:47:55. > :47:57.sense that Ferrari is on the point of making a change. There is a

:47:58. > :48:02.strong feeling and it is growing here in Italy, among our Italian

:48:03. > :48:07.colleagues, that change is on the wind here with the chairman of

:48:08. > :48:14.Ferrari possibly moving on. Possible the CEO of the Fiat group, of the

:48:15. > :48:26.last few year, coming in as part of the restructuring of that setup, now

:48:27. > :48:32.they are merging Chrysler group. Where Mateschitz is in, whether he

:48:33. > :48:35.takes on a general manager type role within the wider Ferrari struck

:48:36. > :48:40.chufrmt it seems as though -- structure. It seems as though there

:48:41. > :48:44.is change there. Alonso will take that into consideration. If he

:48:45. > :48:49.thinks it is a change for the better, then I am sure he'll feel

:48:50. > :48:52.more inclined to commit. If he feels it will destabilise the team, it

:48:53. > :48:59.will make him more inclined to look around. Every driver does decide

:49:00. > :49:03.there's a bit of mirror and hand signal communication between Vettel

:49:04. > :49:06.and Alonso. The drivers decide what's best for them, as the team

:49:07. > :49:10.decides on what is best for the team. But the fact of the matter is

:49:11. > :49:15.Ferrari are nowhere near competitive enough. They have been there or

:49:16. > :49:20.tlabts in previous years, but -- there abouts in previous years, but

:49:21. > :49:24.only because they have been dragged to the World Championship, as the

:49:25. > :49:30.team has been delivering. This season neither has been delivering

:49:31. > :49:36.to the extent they need to. This is interesting, Kimi Raikkonen, faster

:49:37. > :49:41.of anyone in section one. He was quickest of anybody into sector one

:49:42. > :49:47.on this medium compound tyre run. And that's an interesting shot. Is

:49:48. > :49:55.that his girlfriend? I presume it is. He was Maried to a former Miss

:49:56. > :49:58.Finland, but I think that ended a few years ago. That is obviously the

:49:59. > :50:03.current girlfriend of Kimi Raikkonen. It was a quick sector,

:50:04. > :50:09.but not necessarily the fastest for top speeds. He was 200 mire, as he

:50:10. > :50:15.-- miles per hour as he got down to the line. The fastest has been 325

:50:16. > :50:24.kilometres. Alonso and his team-mate is back on,

:50:25. > :50:27.kilometres. tries to get a slip stream off the

:50:28. > :50:41.Marussia ahead of him. Kimi Raikkonen watches, I am told

:50:42. > :50:45.that was his girlfriend and she is pregnant with Kimi Raikkonen's first

:50:46. > :50:50.child. Can you imagine what sort of father Kimi would be. Amazing fun or

:50:51. > :50:57.hardly ever there. I am not sure which. Certainly be... I wonder if

:50:58. > :51:02.it will mature him a little bit. 39 minutes on the clock. Fernando

:51:03. > :51:10.Alonso, the team-mate, gets close to the back of the Marussia there. He

:51:11. > :51:18.gets a tow from that Marussia. Takes him to 325kms per hour. The fastest

:51:19. > :51:24.through the speed tracks. Vettel is fifth. Magnussen, sixth.

:51:25. > :51:32.Raikkonen, having made that small mistake on that last map is having

:51:33. > :51:39.another go. His first sector is not as good as his best. He'll be there

:51:40. > :51:44.or tlabts. Whether he'll -- or thereabouts.

:51:45. > :51:50.Alonso, 1. 26.5. He does run a couple of wheels up on

:51:51. > :51:54.the artificial grass. Drives for the line on the Ferrari and beats his

:51:55. > :51:59.team-mate, Alonso. He beats him by a couple of a tenths

:52:00. > :52:05.of a secondch he's only one-tenth off Rosberg. Alonso's miss tlak,

:52:06. > :52:09.underbraking into that first chicane on his qualifying simulation run was

:52:10. > :52:16.enough to leave the door open for Kimi Raikkonen to beat him the here.

:52:17. > :52:19.37 minutes remaining on the clock. Very early to say if he's got the

:52:20. > :52:25.performance. The one thing that seems to be building is that Alonso

:52:26. > :52:34.is able to replicate his teams. He's done a 26. 5.6.5 and the next was

:52:35. > :52:39.1,000th of a second slower. Alonso has come into the pits a.s that. He

:52:40. > :52:43.says he's -- pits after that. He says he has more in the pockets.

:52:44. > :52:47.Raikkonen looks to be quicker generally, I would have said n the

:52:48. > :52:52.last couple of Grand Prixes in Spa, he was a bit more competitive. He

:52:53. > :52:57.seemed more at ease with the Ferrari and around here as well. You know,

:52:58. > :53:01.he's not really adapted so well to the characteristics of this Ferrari

:53:02. > :53:07.on his return to the mark. I would have said it seems to be coming more

:53:08. > :53:11.towards him right now. Certainly would appear that way. Keep your

:53:12. > :53:15.comments coming. Most of the cars are recovering to the pits. Not if

:53:16. > :53:18.you are watching a repeat, of course, on Saturday morning, because

:53:19. > :53:24.we will not be able to monitor them. But if you are enjoying this with us

:53:25. > :53:29.live, do send us your thoughts and questions. We have one more. From

:53:30. > :53:33.David, "we hear Mercedes could change their driver line-up. If it

:53:34. > :53:39.does change, what could be the line-up for 2015? " That

:53:40. > :53:43.does change, what could be the Toto Wolff quite said, he said if

:53:44. > :53:47.they are not driving in the Mercedes spirit, then we would consider

:53:48. > :53:50.changing our line-up. We put them on warning. That is different from

:53:51. > :53:54.saying it is likely in anyway, shape or form to change. I think that is

:53:55. > :53:57.probably the answer to that one. I don't think they would have hired

:53:58. > :54:02.Fernando Alonso. There is the feeling there between them. If they

:54:03. > :54:05.did end up needing another driver I would think Sebastian Vettel would

:54:06. > :54:10.be high up the wanted list from the Mercedes side. But, we are a long,

:54:11. > :54:16.long way from that at the moment. Ross Patten. Is it a benefit to have

:54:17. > :54:21.two number one drivers for a team? Or do you prefer number one and

:54:22. > :54:26.number two like they did at Ferrari? What do you prefer? What would you

:54:27. > :54:30.do if you were a team boss? It is a very tricky one. You double up your

:54:31. > :54:35.chances if you two number ones to go all out. But it does have risks.

:54:36. > :54:41.Every single time that that situation has arisen, then it's

:54:42. > :54:45.always created some drama mid-season, because ultimately there

:54:46. > :54:49.can only be sort of one big fish in that particular pod. Somebody has

:54:50. > :54:53.got to be the bigger one of the two. And so, therefore, there's an egg go

:54:54. > :54:59.at stake as well too. If you look at it the other way, where where you

:55:00. > :55:03.have a clear defined one and two, that has risked as well. That --

:55:04. > :55:08.risks at well. That is where Felipe Massa was not quite delivering and

:55:09. > :55:11.they felt they needed to change him because ultimately he was not able

:55:12. > :55:16.to bring in the points as much as Alonso was. It is probably worth

:55:17. > :55:20.having a chat about what Ross would have done if he had been team prans

:55:21. > :55:27.approximate of Mercedes this year. Do you think he would have let the

:55:28. > :55:33.two race. He only had Jenson going for the title. Would he have chosen

:55:34. > :55:36.a number one and number two. Had he let them race and they collided,

:55:37. > :55:46.what do you think he would have done? Well Ross is a racer at heart.

:55:47. > :55:52.When ever he ran this strategy he wanted to win. That is not in doubt.

:55:53. > :55:55.His strategy of how to do it was different than to the current

:55:56. > :55:59.Mercedes. What he would have done, is he would have shut down the doors

:56:00. > :56:03.very, very quickly on all of the talk in the paddock and they would

:56:04. > :56:09.have sorted everything out behind closed doors. This is a very

:56:10. > :56:15.different way of doing things in the way that Toto Wolff and the current

:56:16. > :56:18.board are doing. It is more open and free discussion. We like it, you

:56:19. > :56:22.know everything that is going on. The other side of it, sometimes

:56:23. > :56:27.things do boil a little bit over. There is a different way of doing

:56:28. > :56:32.things. There's no right or wrong way. There is a different way. If

:56:33. > :56:38.you win the World Championship, you win the World Championship, however

:56:39. > :56:42.you do it. Meanwhile, we saw there Lewis Hamilton butting his crash

:56:43. > :56:46.helmet on and -- putting his crash helmet on and climbing into the

:56:47. > :56:50.cockpit. Good news. 35 minutes left to go of this session, just under

:56:51. > :56:56.and Lewis Hamilton just climbed into the cockpit of his car. The car is

:56:57. > :56:59.fixed now. It was an electronic fault that was giving the sensors

:57:00. > :57:04.problems. So they could not fire the car up. They have since managed to

:57:05. > :57:08.fire it up. Lewis Hamilton, if he will win this championship, he'll

:57:09. > :57:12.have to do it the hard way. 29 points at the deficit against his

:57:13. > :57:17.team-mate. Hopefully he'll get some meaningful time under his belt. He

:57:18. > :57:22.has half an hour to get something done. He'll be relying, I would

:57:23. > :57:27.imagine, on the data from his team-mate, Rosberg. That is what

:57:28. > :57:33.Rosberg is doing at the moment. Here is his radio.

:57:34. > :57:40.Great balance. That is Tony Ross his race engineer. Here comes Rosberg

:57:41. > :57:45.then, across the line at 346km per hour and heading into the first

:57:46. > :57:49.chicane. A big braking effect on that car and we have seen already a

:57:50. > :57:53.few drivers making mistake. There'll be pressure tomorrow on qualifying,

:57:54. > :57:59.particularly in the final runs to get it right and not do this, which

:58:00. > :58:04.is the lock-up, where the front tyre becomes like a 50 p rather than a

:58:05. > :58:10.nice perfect circle and you get the most savage vibration, I would

:58:11. > :58:15.imagine if you have a big flat spot around Monza, given the high wheel

:58:16. > :58:19.speeds. You have low downforce and it is bumpy into the braking areas,

:58:20. > :58:24.so you have the high chance of lockups. If you get one, then the

:58:25. > :58:28.vibration will start when you get halfway down, when you get above a

:58:29. > :58:34.certain speed, probably 170 miles per hour, then you have another sort

:58:35. > :58:40.of 300-400 metres of that vibration increasing as you get up to top

:58:41. > :58:44.speed. Delighted to say that Christian Horner is joining us.

:58:45. > :58:47.We've had the qualifying simulations, Christian, and your

:58:48. > :58:51.drivers are sixth and ninth. What can you say to us about that? The

:58:52. > :59:01.interesting thing is how close it is though. If you look at Sebastian's

:59:02. > :59:07.time on a 26/p. It moves him -- 26/7. It moves him up to third. It

:59:08. > :59:13.is tight and about getting that perfect lap. Made a mistake on

:59:14. > :59:19.Parabolica on his quick run. He's making up for lost time. It is Alan

:59:20. > :59:24.here. Do you expect to be further up than you already are? Do you think

:59:25. > :59:29.you'll be pretty competitive now? Our race pace is better than our

:59:30. > :59:34.short-run pace F we can qualify. If we can sneak a car on the second

:59:35. > :59:38.run, that will be an amazing result and hopefully we can race well from

:59:39. > :59:42.there. Obviously the last time out in Spa, another win for Daniel

:59:43. > :59:45.Ricciardo and another win for the Red Bull team and for yourself as

:59:46. > :59:50.team principal, that makes the magic 50. Quite an achievement in the time

:59:51. > :59:56.you have run the team. How did you feel? What was the celebration like

:59:57. > :00:09.after that? It was unexpected. It was a fantastic race to win. .

:00:10. > :00:11.It was an amazing day and a great performance by Daniel, so something

:00:12. > :00:14.It was an amazing day and a great all the team are tremendously proud

:00:15. > :00:23.of. You are getting towards the area

:00:24. > :00:27.where you have used up all your engines. Presumably, in your

:00:28. > :00:30.planning meetings in Milton Keynes, you have talked through all the

:00:31. > :00:39.different possibilities in terms of penalties. How do you see the

:00:40. > :00:43.remaining few races - how do you think they will affect the races and

:00:44. > :00:48.the Championship, not just for you, but for other teams as well? We will

:00:49. > :00:52.have to take a penalty at some point between now and the end of the year.

:00:53. > :00:58.There is a lot of debate as to when that should be and that depends on

:00:59. > :01:04.engines available. I can only imagine that other teams must be in

:01:05. > :01:08.a similar situation. Sebastian has had more reliability issues than

:01:09. > :01:13.most. I would think that it is probably, this last third of the

:01:14. > :01:17.Championship will start to become reliability-critical. One final

:01:18. > :01:24.question going back to what you said at the beginning. It is quite close.

:01:25. > :01:29.We haven't seen what Rosberg and Hamilton has been able to do. It

:01:30. > :01:32.looks like he is out there now. What is your outlook for this

:01:33. > :01:39.Championship, for this weekend? To try and get yourself on the front

:01:40. > :01:45.couple of rows and see if you can pick up the pieces? You want to be

:01:46. > :01:51.in a grandstand position for turn one. No, we have got to get as far

:01:52. > :01:55.up the grid as we can. It is not that easy to overtake around here

:01:56. > :01:59.because everybody is running similar top speeds. We have had to achieve

:02:00. > :02:04.more wing out of the car to achieve that. We can see our race pace is

:02:05. > :02:09.better. If we can get higher up the grid, maybe we can get put the

:02:10. > :02:16.Mercedes under pressure. Thanks for talking to us. Christian Horner, the

:02:17. > :02:20.team principal of Red Bull Racing. So, while Christian gets back to the

:02:21. > :02:27.day job, Lewis Hamilton is out and on a lap. His first sector - 28.113

:02:28. > :02:32.is not competitive, Allan. He is still on the harder compound tyre at

:02:33. > :02:37.the moment. That is why. When he switches as one imagines he will, we

:02:38. > :02:41.will get a sense of where his pace is. He is in seventh gear at the

:02:42. > :02:53.moment running down to Variante Ascari. He flicks the car in. Back

:02:54. > :02:57.out on to the throttle. Talk about the gearboxes, new rules this year,

:02:58. > :03:02.much more restrictive. This is one race where you kind of, you would be

:03:03. > :03:07.tempted to run a nice, long eighth gear? Well, I was looking at Lewis

:03:08. > :03:13.Hamilton and hopefully we will go on board later on, whether they do use

:03:14. > :03:17.eighth gear. Coming up into Variante Ascari, he was sitting on seventh,

:03:18. > :03:22.so it was right at the end of the rev range of seventh gear. We

:03:23. > :03:27.switched away from it. It will be - it is one of the points - how do you

:03:28. > :03:33.play this game? It is not just about one race and where do you put your

:03:34. > :03:35.priorities? Mercedes - Hamilton is going very slowly on the

:03:36. > :03:38.priorities? Mercedes - Hamilton is side. He seems to have picked up a

:03:39. > :03:42.little bit. Lewis Hamilton dropped back as he came out of the first

:03:43. > :03:48.chicane. Coming back up to speed. Hopefully, that is not another

:03:49. > :03:52.problem for him. There's quite a bit of traffic in front of him on the

:03:53. > :03:56.racetrack that he is catching, so that may have contributed to it. We

:03:57. > :04:01.will keep an eye on Lewis Hamilton, who is currently 12th fastest after

:04:02. > :04:07.going out very late in this session, having had a problem with getting

:04:08. > :04:11.the car to start in the pit-lane. He's lost an hour of practice

:04:12. > :04:15.running. It is Rosberg, from Raikkonen, from Alonso, the top

:04:16. > :04:20.three. 25 minutes remaining on the clock. Valtteri Bottas is fourth for

:04:21. > :04:27.Williams. Then it is Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel is sixth, as Romain

:04:28. > :04:35.Grosjean has ANOTHER look at the gravel on the outside of the Lesmo

:04:36. > :04:39.bends. He was a regular on the podium towards the end of last year,

:04:40. > :04:47.his career had been completely revived and it's gone backwards this

:04:48. > :04:55.year for him? Yeah, Romain Grosjean is trying to rag anything out of it.

:04:56. > :05:02.That was Lesmo 2 that he got it all crossed up again. The car looked

:05:03. > :05:08.like a handful in Pastor Maldonado's hands. Every bump seems to be

:05:09. > :05:13.amplified and the car hasn't ridden the bumps very well at all all

:05:14. > :05:18.season. It is amazing how far off they are considering they were a

:05:19. > :05:27.race-winning team in the last couple of years. Raikkonen winning the

:05:28. > :05:32.first Grand Prix of last season and now look at where Lotus are. Not a

:05:33. > :05:37.pretty picture at all. 24 minutes remaining on the clock. Hamilton is

:05:38. > :05:43.a little faster this time in sector one, he is three-tenths of a second

:05:44. > :05:47.slower than the benchmark sector one time set by Kimi Raikkonen. So,

:05:48. > :05:56.Hamilton will set his. TEAM RADIO: Relative to Nico's prime

:05:57. > :06:04.- half a tenth faster in the middle. He is a bit slower than was Rosberg

:06:05. > :06:10.on the prime tyre. Hamilton is still running around on the medium, on the

:06:11. > :06:16.harder compound tyre. He's not gone to the faster tyre yet. It is very

:06:17. > :06:20.close. Alonso in third place on a 1: 26.565 and then Vettel is down on

:06:21. > :06:32.1:26.762. It is very, very close indeed.

:06:33. > :06:37.Really interesting gaggle of cars there behind the front-runners. Will

:06:38. > :06:40.Hamilton do a benchmark time? He's gone into the pits. We will find out

:06:41. > :06:44.whether the thing that slowed him down on the way out of that first

:06:45. > :06:48.chicane was a problem, or whether he made a decision to back off because

:06:49. > :06:52.of the traffic. Maldonado misses the second chicane. And Grosjean is into

:06:53. > :06:58.the first chicane where he locked up the right front and had to go

:06:59. > :07:03.through the run-off area there, bouncing over those sleeping

:07:04. > :07:07.policemen. Where the car is unstable and inconsistent, it is tempting to

:07:08. > :07:15.keep pushing it into the corner, but the chances of mistakes are

:07:16. > :07:18.significantly higher. So, you are better to probably brake a few

:07:19. > :07:24.metres earlier and be consistent and then try and build it from there.

:07:25. > :07:30.Ultimately, as I said, it is very frustrating and your natural habitat

:07:31. > :07:35.is to attack into the corner, but the Lotus isn't doing it. Look at

:07:36. > :07:43.those lap times on the current stint for Kevin Magnussen. All the laps

:07:44. > :07:47.within 1:30 range. A bit like target shooting, if you can get all the

:07:48. > :07:51.holes within a close range of each other, that is considered to be good

:07:52. > :07:58.shooting. It is very much the same with driving an F1 car on a long-run

:07:59. > :08:04.simulation. Looking at it, the first feeling was

:08:05. > :08:09.that that was probably a good run in terms of consistency, but it is not

:08:10. > :08:13.good enough in terms of. The Red Bulls will be quicker than that in

:08:14. > :08:18.terms of pure pace and also the Williams. However, they are there or

:08:19. > :08:22.thereabouts as Lewis Hamilton is weaving to try to give some

:08:23. > :08:34.much-needed temperature into those medium tyres. These two laps are the

:08:35. > :08:42.ones that I am interested in. I wonder whether he did his best time

:08:43. > :08:46.on the harder compound tyre. Let's see what kind of improvement Lewis

:08:47. > :08:51.Hamilton can make then as the DRS snaps shut. Woah! He's gone a bit

:08:52. > :08:54.deep into that first chicane. You could see the back of the car

:08:55. > :08:56.stepping out. He's lost a bit of time, as did Fernando Alonso in a

:08:57. > :09:01.similar situation. Not a great start time, as did Fernando Alonso in a

:09:02. > :09:05.for Hamilton. It wasn't. It is a bit too much on the attack and it looks

:09:06. > :09:09.like he is not necessarily pushing it on this one, he is looking to

:09:10. > :09:14.build-up the temperature a bit more. It is possible the tyres weren't

:09:15. > :09:19.just ideally up to temperature as he comes down here about 218mph, again

:09:20. > :09:24.that right front lock up and having to correct as the rear comes round.

:09:25. > :09:28.It looks as though he hasn't damaged the right front tyre. He released

:09:29. > :09:32.and unlocked the right front wheel as soon as he realised he had a

:09:33. > :09:37.problem. He wanted to save the tyre. Niki Lauda down there is watching on

:09:38. > :09:40.and Hamilton has made a number of mistakes in crucial moments in

:09:41. > :09:45.qualifying this year. He doesn't want another one of those. He wants

:09:46. > :09:49.a clean day tomorrow here at Monza and try and qualify at the front of

:09:50. > :09:53.the grid to give himself a platform to challenge for the win on a track

:09:54. > :10:05.where he's always gone well in the past. Rosberg is on the circuit. His

:10:06. > :10:11.lap time is pretty quick. Seven-tenths of a second faster

:10:12. > :10:15.lap time is pretty quick. the McLaren of Kevin Magnussen. They

:10:16. > :10:25.have trimmed out the rear wing this morning, the Mercedes team. It's a

:10:26. > :10:30.cleaner and fresher run for the air across the rear wing, taking a bit

:10:31. > :10:37.of drag out of the car. Apart from some inconsistencies there, laps in

:10:38. > :10:41.the 1:31s, generally you are looking at a second a lap faster, the

:10:42. > :10:46.Mercedes, compared to the McLaren. Once again, it seems the Mercedes is

:10:47. > :10:51.the team to beat. McLaren looked quite good this morning as Rosberg

:10:52. > :10:54.backs off on this lap on the way down to the Curva Parabolica. How is

:10:55. > :10:59.Hamilton doing? This is more like it. His first sector has been good.

:11:00. > :11:04.He's coming through the second Lesmo bend. He is on it. He has a car, he

:11:05. > :11:12.has two cars in front of him. One is a Caterham and one is a Toro Rosso.

:11:13. > :11:17.He is up. Good middle sector. Rosberg's radio.

:11:18. > :11:24.TEAM RADIO: Try holding fifth through the Lesmos. Hamilton taking

:11:25. > :11:34.a tow from Marcus Ericsson. He sweeps out to go round him and a bit

:11:35. > :11:40.of correction on the wheel, but it is all fairly clean. Not quite

:11:41. > :11:45.enough, he misses out, the middle sector was great. A bit of lost time

:11:46. > :11:47.in the final sector, a bit of a correction into the Curva

:11:48. > :11:53.Parabolica, I felt, whether that cost him much, I don't know. I think

:11:54. > :11:57.it was the Variante Ascari with the Caterham ahead of him that took a

:11:58. > :12:03.bit of air off the front when he was changing from the right to the left

:12:04. > :12:09.and that compromised his exit there. It's also another thing - it is the

:12:10. > :12:12.visual aspect of it. As you come into the braking - Hamilton is on

:12:13. > :12:25.the pace. Now, we have to look to see how he can do on a long-run

:12:26. > :12:31.pace. It is close at the front. There is a gap to Raikkonen of a

:12:32. > :12:36.tenth of a second, or just under, and then you have Alonso, Bottas,

:12:37. > :12:41.Button and Vettel all separated by two-tenths of a second. If we

:12:42. > :12:52.replicate this tomorrow in qualifying, it will be thrilling. It

:12:53. > :13:00.be. Ricciardo - when we saw Rosberg with the 1:31 - you get laps with

:13:01. > :13:04.two seconds off. It's been a characteristic through the course of

:13:05. > :13:12.this season and that will be lap five for Daniel Ricciardo, a 1: 34

:13:13. > :13:23.and bang, it comes down to 1: 29.837.

:13:24. > :13:29.In fact, we are looking at Ricciardo's long-run pace, which is

:13:30. > :13:37.OK. Vettel is the one to keep an eye on. He did a 29.6 on lap. He seems

:13:38. > :13:40.to be on the same sort of long-run pace as Nico Rosberg and so too

:13:41. > :13:48.Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari. We need to keep an eye on him as well.

:13:49. > :13:57.He is lapping 1:29. We don't know the fuel loads, of course. Mercedes

:13:58. > :14:05.has single-lap pace. But Raikkonen is only just over a tenth slower

:14:06. > :14:10.than Hamilton. It is pretty close. Hamilton now on a longer run.

:14:11. > :14:22.TEAM RADIO: Losing out, braking turn one is the issue.

:14:23. > :14:28.TEAM RADIO: Focus on exits. Focussing on exits for Nico Rosberg,

:14:29. > :14:32.as Lewis Hamilton gets caught behind the Toro Rosso. For Lewis

:14:33. > :14:36.as Lewis Hamilton gets caught behind it was into turn one, but Hamilton

:14:37. > :14:43.was on a very quick lap through there and he had a nice run, but

:14:44. > :14:50.that has all gone. Let me put a cat amongst the pigeons. Valtteri Bottas

:14:51. > :14:53.has done a 28.938. That is significantly quicker in the long

:14:54. > :14:57.run than anybody else. I don't think we can discount the Williams, even

:14:58. > :15:03.though Bottas is down in fifth in the overall top speeds. This is

:15:04. > :15:09.Bottas. That 28.938 is a stunning time. He followed it up with a

:15:10. > :15:15.29.251. So, that is another fast time as well. He will do another

:15:16. > :15:27.one, the front wing is just bobbling around a little bit.

:15:28. > :15:31.half of this year. There are reasons for that. But the back story is they

:15:32. > :15:36.are investing in success. They want to win again thand are going for it.

:15:37. > :15:40.Look at -- and they are going for it. Look at that! They have brought

:15:41. > :15:45.in some new faces and they have got the most out, and this guy here,

:15:46. > :15:53.Pete, who is one of the team management figures. Came across from

:15:54. > :15:56.McLaren. A New Zealander, who has put some discipline into crew there

:15:57. > :16:08.at Williams and got everything working well. Here is Vettels a long

:16:09. > :16:15.run then. Not bad -- here is Vettel's long run then. Not bad.

:16:16. > :16:20.After it has done an lap and then they go and make the run. Not

:16:21. > :16:24.looking too bad for Red Bull, for Ferrari or Williams. It is getting

:16:25. > :16:28.exciting. It is very, very close at the front of the qualifying. It

:16:29. > :16:33.could throw things up as well, by people who are probably faster, as

:16:34. > :16:38.Vettel gets crossed up as he goes right-to-left. That is not the place

:16:39. > :16:39.you want to put in opposite lock. In long-run pace and there could be a

:16:40. > :16:45.few little surprises. long-run pace and there could be a

:16:46. > :16:48.are the ones to watch right now. What Bottas has done in previous

:16:49. > :16:52.races and what he's done now in the long run. It is

:16:53. > :16:56.races and what he's done now in the weekend, as we can see

:16:57. > :17:00.races and what he's done now in the getting a tow from one of the

:17:01. > :17:04.Saubers on the way down to turn one. They are starting to explore that.

:17:05. > :17:10.Hamilton was doing it a minute ago. We have seen Ferrari, in previous

:17:11. > :17:14.years, working as a team. You have more chance of being struck by

:17:15. > :17:19.lightning than see Raikkonen do that tomorrow. Do you think it was

:17:20. > :17:22.working as a team or for Alonso? It was Alonso was the one who would

:17:23. > :17:28.benefit out of Felipe Massa drafting him out the straights. It has been

:17:29. > :17:32.something that historically in the downer form las he did around here

:17:33. > :17:35.because it had the benefit. I have never found anything more than a

:17:36. > :17:41.confusion to the rest of the actual session. There was so much talking

:17:42. > :17:45.about it in debriefing meetings. Alonso got frustrated about it. I

:17:46. > :17:49.will be interested to see if they start to practise

:17:50. > :17:51.will be interested to see if they morning. Asking Kimi

:17:52. > :18:00.will be interested to see if they you draft me so I can follow you. It

:18:01. > :18:05.It got plenty of coverage. The 12 minutes remaining in this free

:18:06. > :18:13.practise 2 session, ahead of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix from

:18:14. > :18:17.Monza. A popular destination. It is under threat, the commercial boss of

:18:18. > :18:24.Formula One said they need to come up with a better financial package

:18:25. > :18:32.from Monza f they will main the Italian Grand Prix on their place.

:18:33. > :18:36.They are keen to have the race elsewhere, in Florence. It is

:18:37. > :18:41.beautifully situated. It would be very different and not quite the

:18:42. > :18:45.same as being at this historic venue, Monza, which has been part of

:18:46. > :18:50.the spine of Formula One for decades and decades.

:18:51. > :18:58.Rosberg, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso, Bottas, Button - is your top

:18:59. > :19:03.six. There is the young Russian, in the Toro Rosso. That is pretty good

:19:04. > :19:08.consistency. He's on a similar pace of Kevin Magnussen, looking at that

:19:09. > :19:18.run, very consistent laps in the one minute 30 range. He's the benchmark.

:19:19. > :19:24.Just looking at what he as 19 has been able to do, he has now turned

:19:25. > :19:29.20. As we look at Gutierrez, some smoke from his brake disks. What

:19:30. > :19:35.he's been able to do as a younger and -- youngest and get on top of

:19:36. > :19:42.these cars and master them and no problems. Fiat did race in the

:19:43. > :19:52.Formula Three as well as the GP 3. He won the overall title. In

:19:53. > :19:58.European Formula Three. We hear Ricciardo. We are getting some rear

:19:59. > :20:02.locking. It means the rear brakes are locking. Therefore you push

:20:03. > :20:08.distribution further towards the front. That is just at the first

:20:09. > :20:16.part of the braking, where you put in about 125 kilograms of force on

:20:17. > :20:25.the pedal. That F-3 is the come pionship racing

:20:26. > :20:30.this current year. If you look at result by result, therefore I think

:20:31. > :20:34.that was a big part of the reason that Toro Rosso, Red Bull, felt they

:20:35. > :20:40.could take a risk on someone who is just still 16 years old. And doing a

:20:41. > :20:48.better job is a French driver, who is one of the gravity drivers,

:20:49. > :20:52.managed by the team principal at McLaren. I understand Mercedeses are

:20:53. > :20:56.about to or have -- Mercedes have are about to sign him up. They

:20:57. > :21:01.missed out in the auction for Max. They could not offer him a race for

:21:02. > :21:06.2015, where Toro Rosso could. They have signed up a very, very

:21:07. > :21:14.promising young driver and we will keep an eye on progress there.

:21:15. > :21:21.Nine minutes to go and Lewis Hamilton is not happy. He's been

:21:22. > :21:25.complaining about traffic. Before he goes out for his final run, they've

:21:26. > :21:35.had a front wing off. It's not responding as he wanted. There is:

:21:36. > :21:39.It seems he less than happy at the minute. It has not been a

:21:40. > :21:42.trouble-free session for Lewis Hamilton. Of course late going out

:21:43. > :21:48.after a problem getting the car to fire up. He has only done ten laps

:21:49. > :21:54.in comparison to his team-mate, Nico Rosberg, who has done 35. And the

:21:55. > :21:58.man who has done the most so far in this session, is Sergio Perez, who

:21:59. > :22:03.has done 36. Hamilton will of course have access to the data that's been

:22:04. > :22:07.gathered by Rosberg, who is doing long runs at the moment on the

:22:08. > :22:17.medium compound tyre. They have not got a lot of data on the harder

:22:18. > :22:21.compound tyre in terms of long runs. If we look at the medium tyre, it

:22:22. > :22:26.whats done 24 laps for Nico Rosberg right now. And the same with

:22:27. > :22:32.Valtteri Bottas, who has done 21 laps and Bottas is just banged in a

:22:33. > :22:36.29-lap time from there. I don't think there's a problem with the

:22:37. > :22:40.medium tyre going off. There's no problem with the hard tyre.

:22:41. > :22:44.Absolutely. You want to know at what pace it runs at. That is the crucial

:22:45. > :22:47.thing. You run the medium so long as you can and put the hard on when you

:22:48. > :22:54.have to. It is interesting for Lewis Hamilton

:22:55. > :23:01.to be that close after such a truncated session. He's certainly

:23:02. > :23:13.competitive, as we were hear from Tom. So, tomorrow is going to be

:23:14. > :23:18.really, really interesting. There is quite a sparse crowd here today at

:23:19. > :23:23.Monza. We don't generally get huge crowds on Fridays at a lot of venues

:23:24. > :23:28.around the world. We can say Silverstone and, obviously Austria

:23:29. > :23:32.was a fantastic crowd. Australia and Canada, they tend to do well. It is

:23:33. > :23:39.a struggle here. Ticket sales are 30% down this year. Obviously Italy

:23:40. > :23:44.emerge from afy man shalling crisis -- from a financial crisis, as is

:23:45. > :23:48.most of Europe. The ticket prices are high here. It will be

:23:49. > :23:56.interesting to see how many turn up here. We expect them to be down on

:23:57. > :24:01.the 2013 figure, which is a shame. When it is in full voice, it is

:24:02. > :24:04.magic. It takes for Ferrari to be competitive for that to happen,

:24:05. > :24:08.doesn't it? It does. If they are competitive, then they will come out

:24:09. > :24:12.in droves. If they are not, then they will walk away after the first

:24:13. > :24:16.lap. Remember when Ferrari went out one year here and the crowd seemed

:24:17. > :24:21.to get up and disappear off the grand stands. They had no --

:24:22. > :24:25.Grandstands, they had no interest. These days the ticket would cost you

:24:26. > :24:31.over ?200, you probably wouldn't walk away. Go and do something else.

:24:32. > :24:35.I take your point. Sit and shrug your shoulders and be unhappy!

:24:36. > :24:39.Absolutely right! Jenson Button struggling to get past

:24:40. > :24:48.the car in front of him, which is, I think one of the Toro Rossos.

:24:49. > :24:52.Toro Rosso is moving around a bit. It has terrific straight-line speed.

:24:53. > :24:57.Watch this! This is an interesting case study for Sunday, how hard it

:24:58. > :25:01.is to overtake. Christian Horner said to us earlier today that it is

:25:02. > :25:08.not the easiest place to overtake. This is a graphic illustration. Even

:25:09. > :25:13.though Toro Rosso are running... And look, cannot get past him even with

:25:14. > :25:19.the DRS. The Toro Rosso has generally been quick. This will take

:25:20. > :25:29.a big out-braking. Oh, carry on Jenson. He couldn't get it stopped

:25:30. > :25:31.for the zigzag. He had to drive, locked up tyre and got vibration

:25:32. > :25:43.from it. Here he comes. Last of the late brakers, Jenson Button.

:25:44. > :25:50.He had a feeling he would do that and that he is what he did. A good

:25:51. > :25:55.reading of car language. Jenson Button has spotted that. OK, there

:25:56. > :25:59.is only four minutes to go, but frustration that he had been stuck

:26:00. > :26:04.one lap behind a car that was slower than his Larne. With the lack of --

:26:05. > :26:08.of his McLaren. With a lack of speed, there was not much he could

:26:09. > :26:12.do about it. He did not have enough grip and stability to overtake him

:26:13. > :26:16.either. Surprising from Jenson Button. It highlights the

:26:17. > :26:21.frustration that drivers feel if they cannot get past another driver.

:26:22. > :26:36.In terms of how they grip, definitely something to look at.

:26:37. > :26:44.Yes, Jenson, you definitely something to look at.

:26:45. > :26:49.grip. When you pulled out of the slipstream of Kvyat. Travelling at

:26:50. > :26:53.250 miles per hour at that point. If you are a split second late on the

:26:54. > :26:57.brakes then you've done a heck of a distance, as well as not having the

:26:58. > :27:02.grip to stop the car. Lewis Hamilton is back out on circuit. His first

:27:03. > :27:06.second is second slowest at the benchmark. He's carrying more fuel

:27:07. > :27:10.at this point. Still using the medium compound tyre. Nico Rosberg

:27:11. > :27:13.has come into the pits and back out on the hard tyre. You were saying

:27:14. > :27:16.about wanting to understand what the difference is between the medium

:27:17. > :27:22.tyre. Rosberg has done his long run and it was a long run, about 22-23

:27:23. > :27:29.laps, ultimately on those medium tyres. Now he's got the hard tyre to

:27:30. > :27:33.see what the offset is like. They are doing back-to-back comparisons.

:27:34. > :27:35.Rosberg on the hard. They have two-and-a-half minutes remaining on

:27:36. > :27:39.the clock. The data will be limited on the harder tyre. It is better

:27:40. > :27:43.than nothing. We know it will be durable enough This is very much

:27:44. > :27:46.looking like a one-stop race for Sunday. We know the

:27:47. > :27:51.looking like a one-stop race for tyre will good for up to 23, 24

:27:52. > :27:56.laps. That should not be too much of a drama to make the Grand Prix, the

:27:57. > :28:00.53 laps of this Grand Prix with only one stop.

:28:01. > :28:06.It will be a one-stopper by the looks of things. Also if you look at

:28:07. > :28:10.how it was so difficult for Jenson Button to overtake as well, it

:28:11. > :28:15.suggests that you need to be on circuit, you can be coming from

:28:16. > :28:22.behind. Has a little look at a Rosberg moment. A right lock-up and

:28:23. > :28:26.doing what was done a minute ago. If you do that in a race and gain a

:28:27. > :28:29.position you have to give that position back. I think we'll see

:28:30. > :28:33.some of that on Sunday. There's been a bit of it throughout this

:28:34. > :28:36.championship this year. There's no reason why it should change.

:28:37. > :28:42.Particularly when you miss a braking point, which is easy to do, with the

:28:43. > :28:45.low force set up on these cars, then it is obviously, in a race

:28:46. > :28:51.situation, if you gain from it, you have to give the place back. Talking

:28:52. > :28:53.situation, if you gain from it, you about the low downforce, Monza is

:28:54. > :28:56.situation, if you gain from it, you out liar in the championship. The

:28:57. > :29:01.only place they have to have a low down package. The team will devote

:29:02. > :29:05.about two weeks to this. It used to be more in the days when Hockenheim

:29:06. > :29:12.had more. Put more effort and resource into

:29:13. > :29:17.it. Nevertheless, to build a Monza specification kit, I am told by

:29:18. > :29:22.friends and contacts who are engineers, you need to bring along

:29:23. > :29:26.five front wings and four rear wings. Each one costs ?30,000 and

:29:27. > :29:31.takes a few hundred man hours to build. You are looking at ?300,000

:29:32. > :29:36.just for the front and rear wings. Here is Ricciardo's radio. We can

:29:37. > :29:43.see some issues. We are working on it. On the lap earlier as well.

:29:44. > :29:46.Should clear for the next lap. It should clear, based on previous

:29:47. > :29:52.experience. It sounds like it is related to the power plant which has

:29:53. > :29:56.not been ideal and it needs to re-set itself, maybe passing the

:29:57. > :30:01.beacon, which is on the start and finish. And that is a reset for the

:30:02. > :30:04.car. It tells it where it is on the circuit from then on. Sebastian

:30:05. > :30:11.Vettel is the first personvy seen who has gone off the -- person I

:30:12. > :30:15.have seen who has gone off the Parabolica. He cannot get back in.

:30:16. > :30:21.It will be interesting to see if he had any timing at all. I doubt it.

:30:22. > :30:22.Coming back to Ricciardo, there is a chance it needed a reset, that is

:30:23. > :30:33.why it would be OK on the next lap. Rosberg, from Hamilton, from

:30:34. > :30:37.Raikkonen, from Alonso, is the top four. That will cheer the Italian

:30:38. > :30:42.fans a little bit. Mercedes are not out of touch because Raikkonen is

:30:43. > :30:46.less than a tenth of a second, half a tenth in fact, behind Lewis

:30:47. > :30:52.Hamilton, so some encouragement for the Ferrari team. A nice bit of tape

:30:53. > :30:59.on the lock-up of Jenson Button that we saw earlier. The session is over.

:31:00. > :31:02.It's been an interesting session, not from Lewis Hamilton's

:31:03. > :31:07.perspective because he lost most of it with getting the car to fire up

:31:08. > :31:13.and he lost an hour, basically, Allan, which he has recovered from

:31:14. > :31:16.OK. He's done 16 laps. He will be reliant on the data from Rosberg?

:31:17. > :31:21.The problem that he has is that he's not got the feel for that medium

:31:22. > :31:26.tyre over the long run, how he needs to adapt his driving style so coming

:31:27. > :31:29.into the race on Sunday, he will be learning that as he goes along,

:31:30. > :31:34.whereas Nico Rosberg will have that in his pocket. It is not necessarily

:31:35. > :31:39.the tyre pressures, as you see Lewis Hamilton locking up and aborting the

:31:40. > :31:43.chicane at turn one, it is not tyre pressures, or the car set-up, it is

:31:44. > :31:47.the driver feel and the sensitivity that he has to have on the brakes

:31:48. > :31:54.and in the throttle. They aren't on top completely of the reliability

:31:55. > :32:02.side of things, Mercedes? It shows you that that is going to still play

:32:03. > :32:07.a factor, as it is for? Yes, it is the first year of a completely new

:32:08. > :32:11.format and the Mercedes is quick but it does have its issues. However, I

:32:12. > :32:14.have to say it is quick in the short runs, I don't think they are the

:32:15. > :32:22.quickest in the long runs, that is down to Williams. You have Williams

:32:23. > :32:27.quick on the long runs, Ferrari look pretty good, Red Bull, too. What are

:32:28. > :32:31.your thoughts? Williams, quickest in the long runs, Mercedes are second

:32:32. > :32:36.quickest. They have more in their pockets. Red Bull and Ferrari are

:32:37. > :32:40.equal. Kimi Raikkonen is a bit stronger. Then you have McLaren. The

:32:41. > :32:46.problem for McLaren is, if they have a lack of grip and locking-up

:32:47. > :32:49.issues, that will be hard work. Rosberg edging his team-mate

:32:50. > :32:56.Hamilton on the weekend after they recovered from their differences at

:32:57. > :33:03.the Belgium Grand Prix and put a sticking plaster over them. How long

:33:04. > :33:06.will that stick? We will find out. Raikkonen edges out Alonso, but

:33:07. > :33:08.Williams, they look very much like the danger men this weekend for the

:33:09. > :33:22.Italian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton loses over an hour of

:33:23. > :33:26.that practice session. He was fastest this morning and second this

:33:27. > :33:29.afternoon to his team-mate and that battle continues. It looks like

:33:30. > :33:35.Williams and Red Bull have some decent race pace around here and so

:33:36. > :33:39.too the Ferraris. The pressure in the building behind me is incredibly

:33:40. > :33:45.intense. There are rumours of changes at the top of Ferrari. You

:33:46. > :33:49.can find out more on Inside F1 with me tonight. We have a packed day of

:33:50. > :33:57.live action for you tomorrow. From Monza, thank you for your

:33:58. > :34:02.company. Bye-bye.