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Welcome to Monza. The sun has broken through the clouds and it is really | :00:17. | :01:12. | |
hotted up. If you missed free practice one, it was Lewis Hamilton | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
who topped the time sheets. No big surprise there. It was a surprise to | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
see Jenson Button popping up into second. The cars are making their | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
way out. Let's join Jenny and Tom in the pit-lane. We are waiting to see | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Daniel Ricciardo leave. He only did 12 laps this morning. Red Bull have | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
had to take his car apart, take the power unit apart to get at the ECU | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
works on the front brakes as well. works on the front brakes as well. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Four drivers stood out of the first practice session. Sergio Perez came | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
in for the last hour of it taking over from Daniel Juncadella. Good | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
news - Sebastian Vettel has been chumming it up with John Surtees. I | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
don't think he will be going out. Daniel Ricciardo is, though. Every | :02:16. | :02:27. | |
minute counts on this Friday free practice two session. Always a | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
favourite. As the cars make their way on to the Autodromo Nazionale Di | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Monza, let's join our commentary team. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
COMMENTARY: This is the second free practice session ahead of the | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Italian Grand Prix. This is one of my favourite races of the year, this | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
part of the season where we come to Monza, a track of great history and | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
these wonderful fast straights, high straight-line speeds, Allan, is it | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
amongst your favourites? It is. Nowhere has got more passion for a | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
sport - and a sport where they have contenders at the front end. Monza | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
has a great history about it. As a driver, you feel that history when | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
you come down into the first corner. You can see the banking on the | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
right, looping off to the right and up towards Curva Grande. The fans | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
are the ones that make it. They are only here for one thing - a Ferrari | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
victory. The cars are out on circuit already. So, we are three minutes | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
into the session. Nico Hulkenberg had some changes on his car and | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
Kamui Kobayashi is back at the wheel of the Caterham having missed out in | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
Spa. We are looking at Romain Grosjean, locking up the braking | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
into the second chicane. The approaches here in Monza are so | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
critical, the braking here, with the car that is running with low | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
downforce, getting your braking point right is such a critical part | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
of the story? Certainly is. Grosjean gave up his car this morning to | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Charles Pic, the test driver at Lotus. From that point of view, he's | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
trying to recover the one-and-a-half hours that he lost this morning. At | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
the second chicane, you brake very late. If you lock up, you are better | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
to release the brake and save the tyre and use the run-off area to | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
come back on. If you leave aside Frank Williams, | :04:54. | :05:15. | |
the longest-serving team principal is probably Christian Horner at Red | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Bull - and he is only about 41. Now, celebrating 50 wins with that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
success of Ricciardo, Daniel Ricciardo, at Belgium. That was the | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
50th win this Formula One for Red Bull and all of them under his | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
management. Alonso's manager as well... On board with Ricciardo. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Approaching Variante Ascari. Flick it left, then right. That was flat | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
out in previous years, as soon as you got on to the throttle, you are | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
hard and flat trying to carry all of the momentum down towards Curva | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Parabolica. Down three gears and you squeeze on the throttle. This green | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
area on the left - Ricciardo runs on to it, keeps his left wheels on the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
small drain. That's been a controversial part leading | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
small drain. That's been a this Grand Prix because that used to | :06:12. | :06:11. | |
be gravel. this Grand Prix because that used to | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Drivers will use it but they are allowed to put all four wheels off | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
it. Once they do that, it is in a situation where they could receive | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
penalties. A young fan there wearing a Juventus cap. Very much enjoying | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
the Formula One action. Juventus one of the Italian club teams based in | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
Turin. Enjoying the action. Nico Rosberg, who was very much the | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
picture of contrition yesterday in the press conference, having been | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
forced to apologise for the accident with Lewis Hamilton last time out in | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
Spa. Rosberg, I sense, is slightly uneasy. A lot of drivers have been | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
backing him and saying he had nothing to apologise for. Rosberg | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
himself, I wonder whether it's taken a bit of momentum out of his | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
campaign. He doesn't have the sparkle in his eyes and I wonder | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
whether Hamilton can use this to try and get back at him. Underlying this | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
battle on track between them is a fierce psychological battle? It is a | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
psychological battle. In Spa the points went to Nico Rosberg, but he | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
said to Lee McKenzie, "I have nothing to apologise for. It wasn't | :07:29. | :07:56. | |
my problem. At the end" -- it wasn't my problem." Hamilton | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
had the corner. It was a bit clumsy on Rosberg's behalf, so therefore he | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
did have - he had to take the biggest portion of the blame. I | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
think that it was just something that was about to happen. Lewis | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Hamilton has to take advantage of it. He can see for the first time | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
that the team were behind him and so therefore he's got to try and gain | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
the confidence out of it. Up until now, since the Monaco Grand Prix, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
that momentum has been going with Nico Rosberg. It was interesting | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
because yesterday Toto Wolff, who clearly felt that his authority had | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
been undermined by what happened in Spa, he felt there was an agreement | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
between the team and the drivers not to collide with each other and that | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
had been ignored. He made the strongest possible threat, didn't | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
he, speaking to us, saying that if they can't work together and find a | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
level and obey our rules, we will replace them. It is as simple as | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
that. The team comes above any particular driver. The stewards of | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the day, they felt that it was a racing incident under this new | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
situation of allowing the drivers to race. If it had been the beginning | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
of the season, it was possible Nico Rosberg would have had a penalty | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
underneath that. He didn't on this occasion. However, the Mercedes team | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
- Romain Grosjean going too quickly there, he locks up the rears - if | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
they cannot race together without crashing into each other... | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
TEAM RADIO: How is the balance? Still a bit tricky on the rear. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
Daniel Ricciardo giving some feedback. He lost time this morning. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
The track temperature has gone up. It was 39 degrees. Just ducked back | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
down to 38 degrees. To continue what we were saying about Toto Wolff? He | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
was saying to the guys look, Mercedes is more important than your | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
inter-team battle. Mercedes has to win each Grand Prix that it can win. | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
They were half a second a lap faster than anyone else and still they | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
managed to lose that. And also the previous Grand Prix as well. Daniel | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Ricciardo and Red Bull picked up victories. What they want is a | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Mercedes to win. After that, which one of their drivers achieves the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
World Championship, that is down to the sort of scrapping on track. They | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
have to remember it is not all about themselves. Yes, as Magnussen puts a | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
couple of wheels on to that artificial grass on the outside of | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the Curva Parabolica. Some straight-line speeds are creeping up | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
now. Nico Hulkenberg - 343 kilometres an hour. Magnussen goes | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
fastest. We are ten minutes into this free practice two session. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Maldonado also just finding there is not as much grip on the outside | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
there of that Curva Parabolica as there is elsewhere. Magnussen, | :11:05. | :11:21. | |
Hulkenberg, Perez, Kvyat, Ricciardo, Bianchi, Vergne - and that is the | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
team boss at Ferrari Marco Mattiacci. Alonso has used five | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
internal combustion engines. Tom Clarkson is down there. As you can | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
see from that graphic, Tom, we are going to start getting into theary y | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
where people who need to change their engine, they will start | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
getting into some penalties. Those penalties are complex and hard to | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
understand, aren't they? They are, James. Both Ferrari drivers using | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
brand-new power units at this race. They are absolutely clued up that | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
straight-line speed is crucial here. That has manifested itself during | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
these two practice sessions. This morning, they were back-to-back in | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
high and low downforce. This afternoon, Alonso and Raikkonen - | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Alonso heading down the pit-lane now - are both using low downforce. | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
Expect them to have a fast, relative to the other runners - expect them | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
to be as fast as they can possibly be in a straight line. Thank you, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
Tom. We saw a quick shot of Hamilton's car having a bit of work | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
done on it. Nico Rosberg is out on circuit, running the harder compound | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of the two Pirelli choices this weekend. Because of the very high | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
wheel rotation speeds here, at speeds of 340 kilometres an hour, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
they get a lot of heat in the shoulder of these tyres and they | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
have to be pretty conservative for that reason and bring the two | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
hardest tyres in the range, the hard and the medium. Allan is pulling a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
face at me as if to say I'm not so sure about that. They are being very | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
conservative. That was one of the problems this morning. Ferrari were | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
complaining about the fact they couldn't build any tyre temperature | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
into the tyre and they were struggling for grip. It is one of | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the things - the safety is due to the high top speeds, about 220mph, I | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
expect to see at the end of this straight now that Nico Rosberg is | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
going down, as Lewis Hamilton is clearly looking for something in | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
there! Those high top speeds put a lot of force into the tyre on to the | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
inner edge, so the construction is very stiff and that means the tyre | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
is very difficult to work. He is looking for something to make some | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
adjustments to his crash helmet. I thought he was looking for his | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
sweets! He has a sweet tooth. Ricciardo missing the chicane there | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
at turn one. That is the biggest stop of the year, that first chicane | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
here at Monza. You are coming from 345, 350 kilometres an hour to 70, | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
just over two seconds of retardation. It's a funny one. You | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
are approaching it and you can see the braking area coming to you for | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
such a long time. You are preparing yourself for it. That point of going | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
past the 150 and down to the 100 metre board, it passes so quickly. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
At 200mph, you are travelling at 90 metres per second. It does pass so | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
quickly, that you have to be so spot on. You don't find out if you have | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
braked too late until you get to the corner and the point of no return. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
You are going down through the gears to get the car stopped, you have the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
hybrid energy recovery system so there's a lot of different dynamics | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
going on and sit very tricky. -- it is very tricky. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
TEAM RADIO: Some locking on the right front. Rosberg has | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
TEAM RADIO: Some locking on the vibration from a flat spot on the | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
right front tyre. There is another big problem here in Monza. If you | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
have a big lock-up, as we look at the floor coming off Hamilton's car, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
the mechanics going to work. Hamilton is tinkering away in the | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
back of the garage. That looks like more than tinkering to me. | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
An hour and 14 minutes remaining on the clock. Rosberg is the fastest | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
man around here at the moment. That is just almost a second-and-a-half | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
slower than Hamilton went this morning in the first free practise | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
session. Using the harder compound tyres for everybody. Around about 40 | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
minutes into this session we'll see them come in and take the fuel out | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
and put on medium tyres and do a simulation. Those lap times will set | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
the fastest times of the day. Then what will happen is they will come | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
back in, send it out again on the same tyres to simulate the early | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
part of the Grand Prix. On a set of medium tyres in the opening part of | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
the Grand Prix, we expect this race, as was last year, probably to be a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
one-stop race. So this homework they will do in this session now is | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
critical if you will get the strategy right W the speeds so high | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
here, when you come into make a pit stop, it is a long pit stop here, | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
but you lose so much time relative to these cars travelling quickly. | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
You have to make the right calls on strategy here. You to have. The | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
average speed, as you said, is so quickly, but it has historically | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
been a one-stopper. If you do have to go towards a two stop, but with | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
the hardest of these tyres I would expect it to be one stop for most | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
people. There is an opportunity if you have straight-line speed to be | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
able to overtake. It is about doing the work so you keep the traction. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
It is the traction out of the first chicane out of the second. Rosberg, | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
we saw coming through now and then the stability as you come through | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
Curva Parabolica. Let's find out what the problem is | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
for Lewis Hamilton. Unfortunately the team don't know. What I can tell | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
you, as you can see here s the mechanics are under the car. It will | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
not fire, that is why he's not gone out on track. They have taken off | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
the floor to look at the engine to see what the problem is. As soon as | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
I have more, I'll come back to you. Hamilton needs a clean race weekend. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
He's not had one since the Spanish Grand Prix back in May. Monaco went | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
wrong with the incident where Rosberg brought out the yellow flags | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
which ruined Hamilton's final qualifying run. Since then, he's | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
been on the back foot, either his own mistakes, in places like Canada | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
and Austria and problems on the car, like the fire he suffered in | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Hungary. He's not been able to put together a really complete, clean | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
race weekend. So, he doesn't really need this, he wants to be out on | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
circuit. He'll stay calm. If this was happening tomorrow afternoon, | :18:22. | :18:22. | |
that would be a different matter! He was happening tomorrow afternoon, | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
does not want to lose this critical session. Rosberg has equalled his | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
time he did this morning. He's quickest of anyone in that first | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
sector. This looks like it will be even faster again for Nico Rosberg. | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
So, as much as he will get that information, it's still not as good | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
as getting it for yourself. Especially after Hamilton was | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
quickest this morning, that he would want to carry that momentum forward. | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
It looks like it will be a while before that car is out on track. An | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
hour and 11 remaining. Remember, you can get in touch with us here, we | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
love to hear from you. It has been a busy time for social media and | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
Formula One. Fascinating opinions since spa. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Spa. Sauber are yet to score a | :19:15. | :19:32. | |
Championship Point. Here is Massa, having changed to | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Williams. The team has been the fastest through the speed traps | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
through most of the season. Perez is for Force India. That will | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
help Williams be strong here. Going back to what we were discussing | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
about the tyre choice, you said it is conservative by pier really to | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
bring the hard and the medium. When the tyres are brought out it does | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
not necessarily help Williams too much. They tend to go better on the | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
softer end of the range tyres. They do go better. These tyres work | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
better at higher track and air temperatures. Therefore, the hotter | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
it gets, the more these tyres will come into their own, as Fernando | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Alonso popped up into quickest. That will be a fillip for him. It is few | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
tenths quicker than he managed this morning. The higher the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
tenths quicker than he managed this temperatures the better it will | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
work. That is the same for everybody. So Alonso is fastest. A | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
lap from Bottas as well. He's currently at sixth. It is Alonso, | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Button in second place. As I say, the real headline lap | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
times will be set in around half an hour from now when they run with the | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
medium compound tyre. As Massa hammers down the straight then and | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
across the start finish line at 341 kilometres per hour. Picks his | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
breaking point. Almost six G hits his chest. Flicks it right and then | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
left. Just in front of the car, just quivering as he brings it back under | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
control. A huge amount of talk out of this hybrid turbo power plant | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
that makes the car want to slide. This is an overtaking place on race | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
day. We have seen some pretty exciting wheel-to-wheel action. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Particularly Alonso and Vettel in recent years and ended up with one | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
of them on the grass on several occasions. Now through Lesmo two. On | :21:42. | :21:53. | |
to the straight which leads to the Ascari, named after a two-time | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
champion for Ferrari. The only Italian driver to win at the wheel | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
of a Ferrari. Builds up speed to the Parabolica | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
corner. This is characterised by not too many corners. It is chicanes and | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
the only corners worth a name is this and the other. When you have a | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
car underneath you, you can see, but his team-mate Valtteri Bottas is | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
going quickest right now. It looks like the Williams team have gone | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
back to their standard Friday speck, where they may get more fuel on the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Friday morning and then start to build things up through the course | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
of the weekend. But here is Bottas coming across. I expect him to go | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
faster than his team-mate and he doe. Impressively, Jenson Button is | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
up there again. He is. Jenson Button is currently in third. Williams this | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
morning announcing half-year figures. They are a listed company | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Here is the radio. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
TEAM You get to see what the gain is. | :23:20. | :23:35. | |
That is something they spoke about beforehand. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Sebastian Vettel actually forgot in the heat of the moment and got | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
reminded by his team engineer. Tom Clarkson is down outside the garage. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
I am. It is far from an ideal build up for Ricciardo. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
I am. It is far from an ideal build hat-trick this weekend. He did 12 | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
laps this morning. He's only done seven this afternoon. Let 's start | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
by talking about the brake ducks. The team put on new ones prior to | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
the start of practise this morning. They have been busy filing away at | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
them. They have reduced less drag than the ones they were using at | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
SpaA. They are trying to make -- at Spa. Let's look at this front wing - | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
how beautiful is that! The front wing has no outlets. It is very | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
clean. It is beautifully clean. They tell me they have a smaller rear | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
wing on the car. I guess less downforce on the front to balance | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
the car. Ricciardo earlier this morning, he had the more | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
characteristic one with the little winglets and Sebastian Vettel tried | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
that wing we are looking at now. You need to try and get that balance. It | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
is a balance. It is a balance between the consistency between | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
front to rear, but about the ability for the front end of the car to be | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
precise. That is one of the keys of the Red Bull. They've had a front | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
end, it's always been very sharp for the driver. He can come to these | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
chicanes and put the front of the car in and change direction. The | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
front would pick up and a turn around, allowing them to get earlier | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
on to the throttle. Thank you very much for that. Lewis Hamilton | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
looking very relaxed down in the Mercedes pit garage, even though | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
there's a problem getting his car to fire up. Of coursely chatting to a | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
guest down there and seeming -- of course, chatting to a guest down | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
there and seeming very calm. No floor still on the Mercedes. Number | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
44 of Lewis Hamilton, the only driver who has not gone out and set | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
a time. There's the young Spanish driver who went out this morning. In | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
an experience-gathering exercise he managed to do 29 laps. Former | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
European F-3 champion. He's definitely a serious racing driver. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Just getting a chance to get a few laps in and get a bit of Formula One | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
experience with the Caterham team, now under new management, as they | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
say. Gutierrez is out on circuit. It's | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
not been a greater r year for him with the Sauber team. Has the best | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
start record though - if you take away places lost from places gained, | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
he's doing better than anybody else. He tends to | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
he's doing better than anybody else. bottom end of the grid. I suppose | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
you would argue it is easier for him than Rosberg or Hamilton starting | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
off the front row. That's a struggle statistic, to be honest, if you look | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
at that, whether it is the highlight of your year. It's been a bad season | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
for the Sauber team. They didn't have a very good beginning to 2013. | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
They got the car sorted out. Nico Hulkenberg wrestled it around at the | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
end of the year. They've not been able to achieve that through the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
course of 2014. And for Gutierrez, it seems to have been just | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
course of 2014. And for Gutierrez, from bad to worse. Adrian Sutil and | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
his team-mate has managed to get more out of it since the Grand Prix | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
back in July. He's been more competitive. We are in the middle to | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
the back of the grid, as opposed to the middle to the front, where they | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
thought they should be. They have brought through a number of young | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
drivers for Ferrari over the years, including Felipe Massa. And now | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
Ferrari have another team that they have lined up. There is Toto Wolff, | :27:38. | :27:48. | |
with Lauder. They were critical of Rosberg after the collision in Spa. | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
Rosberg said yesterday in a press conference that Lauder had | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
apologised for being so strong with his wording. | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
When you come out of that corner, it is a tricky one. The apex of the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
curve, it seems to be a little point and you've got to carry speed into | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
it, where there's positive camber on the road, you have to hit that apex. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Then, as soon as you get to the edge of the track, it drops off, on to | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
the curve and the road falls away of the track, it drops off, on to | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
from you. If you have any car imbalance and understeer or over | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
steer, then it amplifies it significantly and you see a lot of | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
people bouncing down the whole lent of that -- length of that. It is an | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
extremely tricky corner. It leads on to a big straight. And there is | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
another one. It will be very interesting when we | :28:49. | :29:07. | |
speak to Christian Horner later on, there's the 1964 world champion. The | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
only one to win on four and two wheels. It will be interesting to | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
talk to Christian Horner about the setting on this car. The car, | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
particularly the floor, has so much downforce. 30% of a Formula One's | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
car is generated by the floor. The Red Bull floor has always been good. | :29:29. | :29:36. | |
TEAM RADIO: We need to look at it on round two. | :29:37. | :29:37. | |
It's good. Have a look at that. Nico Hulkenberg, that is the corner | :29:38. | :29:49. | |
that Daniel Ricciardo came out as Hulkenberg started on the turn. It | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
is the right-left. You have low revs there. A smooth delivery because you | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
are in a low gear. That is one of the things that they'll try to | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
adapt, is that drivability, because that helps to control the wheelspin. | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
The wheelspin helps you control your tyre life. | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Romain Grosjean keeping cool in the pit-lane. The track temperature is | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
40 degrees now, the air temperature is 25. The sun is out. There are a | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
few grey clouds around. There is a grey cloud hanging over Lewis | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
Hamilton at the moment. He's not been able to go out on circuit. The | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
car will not fire up and the team are working on it. He is trying to | :30:37. | :30:48. | |
look as serene as he possibly can! A curtain of Mercedes mechanics are | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
blocking the view as they work on a sensitive area. They were covering | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
up the rear wing this morning. They are trying to protect the cameras | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
and the still cameras that the other team also be interested in looking | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
-- teams will be interested in looking at as well. It is also a bit | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
of a game - we have got something that we don't want you to know | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
about! So, we have just under an hour remaining. Rosberg, from | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
Alonso, from Button, from Magnussen - that's the top four. The Force | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
India comes in to the pit-lane. A set of the harder compound tyres on. | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
If you look at the right front, it had a bit of - you could see it was | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
starting to work. This morning, they didn't look good at all, as if they | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
had been driving around, as opposed to being loaded into the circuit. | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
The Renault engine is working hard in the back of Daniel Ricciardo's | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
Red Bull car. Magnussen has just gone - I beg your pardon, Magnussen | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
is a tenth up. Ricciardo in fourth. And where is he going to end this | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
lap up? The winner of the last two Grand Pries, the Australian is in | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
such great form at the moment, he ends up 11th at the end of that run. | :32:16. | :32:26. | |
We saw Giedo van der Garde a few moments ago, he is with Jennie. How | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
is this circuit handling? Very slippery. We started with a low | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
downforce configuration. It was all over the place. You know, it is the | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
characteristic of the track, you over the place. You know, it is the | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
always sliding, trying to find grip. It will get better and better during | :32:51. | :32:57. | |
the day. Talk about Curva Parabolica, is it different as a | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
driver? It is a bit different. You can use more on the exit. Before, | :33:01. | :33:07. | |
you went through the gravel and you lost a lot of time. Now, if you go | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
over the white line it is not a problem. You can enter the corner a | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
bit quicker and you can carry more speed. Some people are saying they | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
are making it too easy. Is it taking the fun and the excitement out of | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
that corner? It is safer, that's for sure. On the other hand, the years | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
before, if you make a mistake there, or if you push too hard, you will go | :33:30. | :33:37. | |
off. Now, you lose nothing. I was watching the cars come out of that | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
corner in the first session. You come out differently. So do you get | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
a faster speed coming along the start-finish straight? | :33:47. | :33:53. | |
You can carry more speed, which is normal. What are Sauber doing to | :33:54. | :34:03. | |
turn around their fortunes this season? Any more movements? I mean, | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
we are not too bad, I think. This morning was quite good. We found | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
good configuration with the wing level. Hopefully, we can put it | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
together this weekend. We need a bit of luck to get the points. Also, in | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
Singapore, we get an upgrade on the car so, hopefully, we need some luck | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
and score the points as soon as possible. Thank you very much. Giedo | :34:31. | :34:41. | |
van der Garde, a former World Kart Champion, now with Sauber. He was | :34:42. | :34:52. | |
15th fastest this morning. Now, keep your comments coming. Ben | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
says, "Do you think Now, keep your comments coming. Ben | :34:59. | :35:00. | |
have done enough to keep their Now, keep your comments coming. Ben | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
seats?" I don't think it is necessarily have they done enough - | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
there is an element that McLaren have to look and will be looking at | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
the future. But also it depends on who else is around. I'm sure that | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
everybody would like to try and grab a hold of Fernando Alonso, but if | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
he's contracted to Ferrari, there is no chance. I would say for both of | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
them, it is dependent on what other driver options there are for the | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
future as much as what they have done this year. I personally think | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
they will both stay. I think there is a solidity in doing that for | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
2015, the first year with Honda engines coming on board, so | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
therefore the team need to have some continuity. They will stay. Some | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
medium compound tyres being fitted to the Force India, heading off down | :35:49. | :35:57. | |
the pit straight. Adrian Sutil and Kevin Magnussen are in the medium | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
compound tyres. There was a graphic a moment ago - beautiful slide by | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
Ricciardo on the exit of the second Lesmo bend. We saw a graphic earlier | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
with Magnussen on a split time. He ended up fourth fastest mentd -- | :36:17. | :36:25. | |
fastest. TEAM RADIO: We will go to orange | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
echo one. Looks like we ran out at the end of that lap. Orange echo one | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
should help. They are talking about running out of hybrid energy, so | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
therefore they are adjusting the way they are recuperating the energy and | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
boosting the energy on to the McLaren so they use nit the most | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
efficient way over the course of the whole lap around here. If you can | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
gain two or three miles per hour on to a straight because you have got | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
an extra boost of hybrid, that carries all the way down the | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
straight so it gains you tenths. You can see the lap time on your display | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
just dropping like a stone and it is fantastic as a driver to watch that. | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
Ultimately, if you run out of that energy, you just lose the time and | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
that is one of the most frustrating sights to see. One of the most | :37:19. | :37:21. | |
exciting drivers to be in Formula One in the last 20 years was Juan | :37:22. | :37:31. | |
Pablo Montoya. We haven't seen him since 2006, but he is standing next | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
to Tom Clarkson. He is. This place has been very good to him. You won | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
your first Grand Prix here. You got that 160mph lap. Must be good to be | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
back? It is fun. I haven't been back since my last race! Was that 2006? I | :37:48. | :38:01. | |
came to Europe for the simulator for IndyCars. Any desire to be out there | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
now? No, I looked at the cars in the Williams garage and they still look | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
pretty sexy. The technology is amazing. I am happy where I am. Has | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
the sport - the same old faces around. We know each other from way | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
back! Do you feel the sport has moved on? It's changed with the | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
technology and things. Back here looks the same. It's changed - | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
things are bigger. People are used to working one place, working a | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
different place. It is fun to see all the old faces. Who have you | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
seen? First person yesterday was Frank. Today, I saw Ron. Was that an | :38:44. | :38:58. | |
interesting conversation? As always! I saw Ron at NASCAR. A lot of | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
mechanics at Williams. It's pretty cool. It all seems to be kicking off | :39:05. | :39:11. | |
at Mercedes. Excitement at Spa last time between Lewis Hamilton and Nico | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
Rosberg. Your thoughts on their battle? The fans need | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
Rosberg. Your thoughts on their need the action. They need the | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
racing. We are here to race. Any chance of you coming back here one | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
day? To watch, maybe! Good to see you. Thank you. Nico Rosberg goes | :39:29. | :39:38. | |
fastest with a set of medium compound tyres - 1:26.225. Valtteri | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
Bottas goes second - 1:26.058. Sutil gets it all wrong there. | :39:48. | :40:03. | |
Crossed up into the second chicane. On the earlier runs, Bottas was | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
losing time. On this tyre, he seems to have got it tidied up. I'm not so | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
sure that he is quicker in that middle sector. I think there was a | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
possibility of Rosberg didn't get the cleanest middle sector because | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
he's quickest in sector one and three. I think there is probably a | :40:23. | :40:35. | |
bit of tidying up to be done there. Clearly, the car has still got that | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
advantage, the Mercedes. The tyre difference hasn't been as much as | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
some would have expected. Sebastian Vettel is out there at the moment on | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
a set of the medium compound tyres. His best time on the harder one - | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
1:27.150. TEAM RADIO: Magnussen going faster | :40:54. | :41:02. | |
towards the end of his run. Expect a better lap. | :41:03. | :41:11. | |
TEAM RADIO: We are looking at 0.6 of a second advantage for the option, | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
roughly. He's done the maths for us. So far from the laps we have seen, | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
it looks like 0.6 of a second advantage medium to hard. If that is | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
the case, if that is carried through across the grid, that is good news | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
from a strategy point of view. This is probably just a one-stop race. | :41:31. | :41:40. | |
There is a possibility with them being that close of seeing a few | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
drivers starting outside the top ten on the harder compound tyre and | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
running a long first stint, something Sergio Perez did in 2012, | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
which brought him a podium. Rosberg missing the chicane there. Magnussen | :41:56. | :42:03. | |
really leaning on that McLaren. Rosberg, Bottas, Alonso, who has | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
gone out now on a set of the medium tyres, he is one of the only | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
front-runners who have not done a medium tyre run, Jenson Button is | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
also out on a set of medium tyres. It will be interesting to do the | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
comparison between Button and Alonso here. On the harder compound tyre - | :42:19. | :42:27. | |
Button has done a 1:26.762. Let's have a look at what Alonso did. It | :42:28. | :42:35. | |
was 1:26.7. If he carries through that advantage... It might take him | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
to the fastest time of the day. Here he comes. Coming down to the first | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
corner, you brake at 120 metres out, he locked up the rear there, had to | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
correct, and Alonso gets it left into that one and on to the throttle | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
now. You need to be clean on the throttle. A bit bumpy, Curva Grande, | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
you don't have to go to that right-hand apex, try to keep the | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
scrub out of the car. As you run down to the second chicane, again | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
over 200mph, but including that sort of oversteering moment at the first | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
chicane, he's a little off being quickest. Now Lesmo 1, trying to | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
roll the car in, not to go too wide on exit and then Lesmo 2, a tricky | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
one. You use all of that kerb. You still need to keep your right-hand | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
wheels on the track. Under the bridge down towards Variante Ascari, | :43:34. | :43:42. | |
Fernando Alonso still 0.08 off the mark. Rosberg has set the fastest | :43:43. | :43:50. | |
first sector. 46 minutes remaining. Down the straight comes Alonso into | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
the new revised Curva Parabolica. He is not a big fan of it, Alonso. He | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
doesn't get the wheels on to that artificial grass. He said yesterday | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
in a press conference, he thought that would be bad news. Not enough, | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
lost a little time in the final sector. He's off the benchmark of | :44:06. | :44:14. | |
Rosberg. Rosberg has gone into the pits. Alonso goes second, that is a | :44:15. | :44:23. | |
crowd-pleaser. That is not so much of a crowd-pleaser from Romain | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
Grosjean(!) He lost that on the entry into Lesmo 1. All that gravel | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
will have damaged the leading edge of the front wing and also the floor | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
and the gravel goes everywhere, it is a difficult thing to clean out | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
for the mechanics. We have got some more questions coming in. Nathan, | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
"What sort of speeds are they hitting this year at Monza?" We are | :44:51. | :45:01. | |
looking at 346 kilometres an hour. That was done by the Mercedes of | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
Rosberg, Bottas and Massa. Let's see if we can get an update on the Lewis | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
Hamilton situation. He's not yet set a lap time with 44 minutes | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
remaining. We are at the halfway stage in this free practice two. | :45:18. | :45:20. | |
Still, feverish work is going on. This is a race against time you may | :45:21. | :45:35. | |
be able to make out Too Wolff. They are looking at half an hour before | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
they can get him out. I have heard the car fire up. When I was here at | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
the beginning of the session it kind of whimpered. They had a hydraulic | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
sensor problem in the last session. The session continued, anyway. That | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
has been more of a problem. A hydraulics problem for Lewis | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
Hamilton. He is at the back of the garage looking relaxed. There's a | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
lot of work to be done if he's to get out at all. Toto Wolff, you | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
mentioned to me, his arms are crossed and I think he can feel the | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
frustration of it. This is not what he wanted after all the discussions | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
and things that were happening over the last couple of Grand Prix | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
weekends with the interteam rivalry and team situations. He would have | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
liked a clean weekend for both cars to run through. That is clearly not | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
happened. If he'll get out in half an hour, that will be 15 minutes of | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
this one-and-a-half hour session that there's potential for Lewis | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
Hamilton to recover some information. You can see that Wolff | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
has his right wrist and arm in a sling, following a cycling accident. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
He broke four bones down the right-hand side of his body a month | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
ago. He said in many social media messages and comments to the team | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
over the past week when they were suggesting what would be a suitable | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
punishment for Nico Rosberg for having transgressed and broken the | :47:05. | :47:13. | |
agreement in Spa, the funnist that was received was "Send him out on a | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
bike ride with Toto Wolff." It was a brave thing to do. What would you do | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
if you were running it? Alonso was asked if he would be the ambassador | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
for peace between the two of them. He declined that particular job | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
offer. I think he's happy to stick with Ferrari. This weekend will be | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
one of the ones that I think will decide what his feelings are towards | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
his long-term future. If he feels that is a place that will deliver a | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
Third World championship for him, or will he look elsewhere. There is a | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
sense that Ferrari is on the point of making a change. There is a | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
strong feeling and it is growing here in Italy, among our Italian | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
colleagues, that change is on the wind here with the chairman of | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Ferrari possibly moving on. Possible the CEO of the Fiat group, of the | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
last few year, coming in as part of the restructuring of that setup, now | :48:15. | :48:26. | |
they are merging Chrysler group. Where Mateschitz is in, whether he | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
takes on a general manager type role within the wider Ferrari struck | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
chufrmt it seems as though -- structure. It seems as though there | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
is change there. Alonso will take that into consideration. If he | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
thinks it is a change for the better, then I am sure he'll feel | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
more inclined to commit. If he feels it will destabilise the team, it | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
will make him more inclined to look around. Every driver does decide | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
there's a bit of mirror and hand signal communication between Vettel | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
and Alonso. The drivers decide what's best for them, as the team | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
decides on what is best for the team. But the fact of the matter is | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
Ferrari are nowhere near competitive enough. They have been there or | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
tlabts in previous years, but -- there abouts in previous years, but | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
only because they have been dragged to the World Championship, as the | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
team has been delivering. This season neither has been delivering | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
to the extent they need to. This is interesting, Kimi Raikkonen, faster | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
of anyone in section one. He was quickest of anybody into sector one | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
on this medium compound tyre run. And that's an interesting shot. Is | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
that his girlfriend? I presume it is. He was Maried to a former Miss | :49:48. | :49:55. | |
Finland, but I think that ended a few years ago. That is obviously the | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
current girlfriend of Kimi Raikkonen. It was a quick sector, | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
but not necessarily the fastest for top speeds. He was 200 mire, as he | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
-- miles per hour as he got down to the line. The fastest has been 325 | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
kilometres. Alonso and his team-mate is back on, | :50:16. | :50:24. | |
kilometres. tries to get a slip stream off the | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
Marussia ahead of him. Kimi Raikkonen watches, I am told | :50:28. | :50:41. | |
that was his girlfriend and she is pregnant with Kimi Raikkonen's first | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
child. Can you imagine what sort of father Kimi would be. Amazing fun or | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
hardly ever there. I am not sure which. Certainly be... I wonder if | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
it will mature him a little bit. 39 minutes on the clock. Fernando | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
Alonso, the team-mate, gets close to the back of the Marussia there. He | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
gets a tow from that Marussia. Takes him to 325kms per hour. The fastest | :51:11. | :51:18. | |
through the speed tracks. Vettel is fifth. Magnussen, sixth. | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
Raikkonen, having made that small mistake on that last map is having | :51:25. | :51:32. | |
another go. His first sector is not as good as his best. He'll be there | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
or tlabts. Whether he'll -- or thereabouts. | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
Alonso, 1. 26.5. He does run a couple of wheels up on | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
the artificial grass. Drives for the line on the Ferrari and beats his | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
team-mate, Alonso. He beats him by a couple of a tenths | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
of a secondch he's only one-tenth off Rosberg. Alonso's miss tlak, | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
underbraking into that first chicane on his qualifying simulation run was | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
enough to leave the door open for Kimi Raikkonen to beat him the here. | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
37 minutes remaining on the clock. Very early to say if he's got the | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
performance. The one thing that seems to be building is that Alonso | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
is able to replicate his teams. He's done a 26. 5.6.5 and the next was | :52:26. | :52:34. | |
1,000th of a second slower. Alonso has come into the pits a.s that. He | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
says he's -- pits after that. He says he has more in the pockets. | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
Raikkonen looks to be quicker generally, I would have said n the | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
last couple of Grand Prixes in Spa, he was a bit more competitive. He | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
seemed more at ease with the Ferrari and around here as well. You know, | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
he's not really adapted so well to the characteristics of this Ferrari | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
on his return to the mark. I would have said it seems to be coming more | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
towards him right now. Certainly would appear that way. Keep your | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
comments coming. Most of the cars are recovering to the pits. Not if | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
you are watching a repeat, of course, on Saturday morning, because | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
we will not be able to monitor them. But if you are enjoying this with us | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
live, do send us your thoughts and questions. We have one more. From | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
David, "we hear Mercedes could change their driver line-up. If it | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
does change, what could be the line-up for 2015? " That | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
does change, what could be the Toto Wolff quite said, he said if | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
they are not driving in the Mercedes spirit, then we would consider | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
changing our line-up. We put them on warning. That is different from | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
saying it is likely in anyway, shape or form to change. I think that is | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
probably the answer to that one. I don't think they would have hired | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
Fernando Alonso. There is the feeling there between them. If they | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
did end up needing another driver I would think Sebastian Vettel would | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
be high up the wanted list from the Mercedes side. But, we are a long, | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
long way from that at the moment. Ross Patten. Is it a benefit to have | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
two number one drivers for a team? Or do you prefer number one and | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
number two like they did at Ferrari? What do you prefer? What would you | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
do if you were a team boss? It is a very tricky one. You double up your | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
chances if you two number ones to go all out. But it does have risks. | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
Every single time that that situation has arisen, then it's | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
always created some drama mid-season, because ultimately there | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
can only be sort of one big fish in that particular pod. Somebody has | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
got to be the bigger one of the two. And so, therefore, there's an egg go | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
at stake as well too. If you look at it the other way, where where you | :54:54. | :54:59. | |
have a clear defined one and two, that has risked as well. That -- | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
risks at well. That is where Felipe Massa was not quite delivering and | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
they felt they needed to change him because ultimately he was not able | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
to bring in the points as much as Alonso was. It is probably worth | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
having a chat about what Ross would have done if he had been team prans | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
approximate of Mercedes this year. Do you think he would have let the | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
two race. He only had Jenson going for the title. Would he have chosen | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
a number one and number two. Had he let them race and they collided, | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
what do you think he would have done? Well Ross is a racer at heart. | :55:37. | :55:46. | |
When ever he ran this strategy he wanted to win. That is not in doubt. | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
His strategy of how to do it was different than to the current | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
Mercedes. What he would have done, is he would have shut down the doors | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
very, very quickly on all of the talk in the paddock and they would | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
have sorted everything out behind closed doors. This is a very | :56:04. | :56:09. | |
different way of doing things in the way that Toto Wolff and the current | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
board are doing. It is more open and free discussion. We like it, you | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
know everything that is going on. The other side of it, sometimes | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
things do boil a little bit over. There is a different way of doing | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
things. There's no right or wrong way. There is a different way. If | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
you win the World Championship, you win the World Championship, however | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
you do it. Meanwhile, we saw there Lewis Hamilton butting his crash | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
helmet on and -- putting his crash helmet on and climbing into the | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
cockpit. Good news. 35 minutes left to go of this session, just under | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
and Lewis Hamilton just climbed into the cockpit of his car. The car is | :56:51. | :56:56. | |
fixed now. It was an electronic fault that was giving the sensors | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
problems. So they could not fire the car up. They have since managed to | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
fire it up. Lewis Hamilton, if he will win this championship, he'll | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
have to do it the hard way. 29 points at the deficit against his | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
team-mate. Hopefully he'll get some meaningful time under his belt. He | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
has half an hour to get something done. He'll be relying, I would | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
imagine, on the data from his team-mate, Rosberg. That is what | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
Rosberg is doing at the moment. Here is his radio. | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
Great balance. That is Tony Ross his race engineer. Here comes Rosberg | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
then, across the line at 346km per hour and heading into the first | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
chicane. A big braking effect on that car and we have seen already a | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
few drivers making mistake. There'll be pressure tomorrow on qualifying, | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
particularly in the final runs to get it right and not do this, which | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
is the lock-up, where the front tyre becomes like a 50 p rather than a | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
nice perfect circle and you get the most savage vibration, I would | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
imagine if you have a big flat spot around Monza, given the high wheel | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
speeds. You have low downforce and it is bumpy into the braking areas, | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
so you have the high chance of lockups. If you get one, then the | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
vibration will start when you get halfway down, when you get above a | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
certain speed, probably 170 miles per hour, then you have another sort | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
of 300-400 metres of that vibration increasing as you get up to top | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
speed. Delighted to say that Christian Horner is joining us. | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
We've had the qualifying simulations, Christian, and your | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
drivers are sixth and ninth. What can you say to us about that? The | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
interesting thing is how close it is though. If you look at Sebastian's | :58:52. | :59:01. | |
time on a 26/p. It moves him -- 26/7. It moves him up to third. It | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
is tight and about getting that perfect lap. Made a mistake on | :59:08. | :59:13. | |
Parabolica on his quick run. He's making up for lost time. It is Alan | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
here. Do you expect to be further up than you already are? Do you think | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
you'll be pretty competitive now? Our race pace is better than our | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
short-run pace F we can qualify. If we can sneak a car on the second | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
run, that will be an amazing result and hopefully we can race well from | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
there. Obviously the last time out in Spa, another win for Daniel | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
Ricciardo and another win for the Red Bull team and for yourself as | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
team principal, that makes the magic 50. Quite an achievement in the time | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
you have run the team. How did you feel? What was the celebration like | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
after that? It was unexpected. It was a fantastic race to win. . | :59:57. | :00:09. | |
It was an amazing day and a great performance by Daniel, so something | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
It was an amazing day and a great all the team are tremendously proud | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of. You are getting towards the area | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
where you have used up all your engines. Presumably, in your | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
planning meetings in Milton Keynes, you have talked through all the | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
different possibilities in terms of penalties. How do you see the | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
remaining few races - how do you think they will affect the races and | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
the Championship, not just for you, but for other teams as well? We will | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
have to take a penalty at some point between now and the end of the year. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
There is a lot of debate as to when that should be and that depends on | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
engines available. I can only imagine that other teams must be in | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
a similar situation. Sebastian has had more reliability issues than | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
most. I would think that it is probably, this last third of the | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Championship will start to become reliability-critical. One final | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
question going back to what you said at the beginning. It is quite close. | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
We haven't seen what Rosberg and Hamilton has been able to do. It | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
looks like he is out there now. What is your outlook for this | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Championship, for this weekend? To try and get yourself on the front | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
couple of rows and see if you can pick up the pieces? You want to be | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
in a grandstand position for turn one. No, we have got to get as far | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
up the grid as we can. It is not that easy to overtake around here | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
because everybody is running similar top speeds. We have had to achieve | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
more wing out of the car to achieve that. We can see our race pace is | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
better. If we can get higher up the grid, maybe we can get put the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Mercedes under pressure. Thanks for talking to us. Christian Horner, the | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
team principal of Red Bull Racing. So, while Christian gets back to the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
day job, Lewis Hamilton is out and on a lap. His first sector - 28.113 | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
is not competitive, Allan. He is still on the harder compound tyre at | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
the moment. That is why. When he switches as one imagines he will, we | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
will get a sense of where his pace is. He is in seventh gear at the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
moment running down to Variante Ascari. He flicks the car in. Back | :02:42. | :02:53. | |
out on to the throttle. Talk about the gearboxes, new rules this year, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
much more restrictive. This is one race where you kind of, you would be | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
tempted to run a nice, long eighth gear? Well, I was looking at Lewis | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Hamilton and hopefully we will go on board later on, whether they do use | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
eighth gear. Coming up into Variante Ascari, he was sitting on seventh, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
so it was right at the end of the rev range of seventh gear. We | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
switched away from it. It will be - it is one of the points - how do you | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
play this game? It is not just about one race and where do you put your | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
priorities? Mercedes - Hamilton is going very slowly on the | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
priorities? Mercedes - Hamilton is side. He seems to have picked up a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
little bit. Lewis Hamilton dropped back as he came out of the first | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
chicane. Coming back up to speed. Hopefully, that is not another | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
problem for him. There's quite a bit of traffic in front of him on the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
racetrack that he is catching, so that may have contributed to it. We | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
will keep an eye on Lewis Hamilton, who is currently 12th fastest after | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
going out very late in this session, having had a problem with getting | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
the car to start in the pit-lane. He's lost an hour of practice | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
running. It is Rosberg, from Raikkonen, from Alonso, the top | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
three. 25 minutes remaining on the clock. Valtteri Bottas is fourth for | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Williams. Then it is Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel is sixth, as Romain | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Grosjean has ANOTHER look at the gravel on the outside of the Lesmo | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
bends. He was a regular on the podium towards the end of last year, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
his career had been completely revived and it's gone backwards this | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
year for him? Yeah, Romain Grosjean is trying to rag anything out of it. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
That was Lesmo 2 that he got it all crossed up again. The car looked | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
like a handful in Pastor Maldonado's hands. Every bump seems to be | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
amplified and the car hasn't ridden the bumps very well at all all | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
season. It is amazing how far off they are considering they were a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
race-winning team in the last couple of years. Raikkonen winning the | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
first Grand Prix of last season and now look at where Lotus are. Not a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
pretty picture at all. 24 minutes remaining on the clock. Hamilton is | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
a little faster this time in sector one, he is three-tenths of a second | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
slower than the benchmark sector one time set by Kimi Raikkonen. So, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Hamilton will set his. TEAM RADIO: Relative to Nico's prime | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
- half a tenth faster in the middle. He is a bit slower than was Rosberg | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
on the prime tyre. Hamilton is still running around on the medium, on the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
harder compound tyre. He's not gone to the faster tyre yet. It is very | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
close. Alonso in third place on a 1: 26.565 and then Vettel is down on | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
1:26.762. It is very, very close indeed. | :06:21. | :06:32. | |
Really interesting gaggle of cars there behind the front-runners. Will | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Hamilton do a benchmark time? He's gone into the pits. We will find out | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
whether the thing that slowed him down on the way out of that first | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
chicane was a problem, or whether he made a decision to back off because | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
of the traffic. Maldonado misses the second chicane. And Grosjean is into | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
the first chicane where he locked up the right front and had to go | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
through the run-off area there, bouncing over those sleeping | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
policemen. Where the car is unstable and inconsistent, it is tempting to | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
keep pushing it into the corner, but the chances of mistakes are | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
significantly higher. So, you are better to probably brake a few | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
metres earlier and be consistent and then try and build it from there. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Ultimately, as I said, it is very frustrating and your natural habitat | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
is to attack into the corner, but the Lotus isn't doing it. Look at | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
those lap times on the current stint for Kevin Magnussen. All the laps | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
within 1:30 range. A bit like target shooting, if you can get all the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
holes within a close range of each other, that is considered to be good | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
shooting. It is very much the same with driving an F1 car on a long-run | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
simulation. Looking at it, the first feeling was | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
that that was probably a good run in terms of consistency, but it is not | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
good enough in terms of. The Red Bulls will be quicker than that in | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
terms of pure pace and also the Williams. However, they are there or | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
thereabouts as Lewis Hamilton is weaving to try to give some | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
much-needed temperature into those medium tyres. These two laps are the | :08:23. | :08:34. | |
ones that I am interested in. I wonder whether he did his best time | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
on the harder compound tyre. Let's see what kind of improvement Lewis | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Hamilton can make then as the DRS snaps shut. Woah! He's gone a bit | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
deep into that first chicane. You could see the back of the car | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
stepping out. He's lost a bit of time, as did Fernando Alonso in a | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
similar situation. Not a great start time, as did Fernando Alonso in a | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
for Hamilton. It wasn't. It is a bit too much on the attack and it looks | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
like he is not necessarily pushing it on this one, he is looking to | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
build-up the temperature a bit more. It is possible the tyres weren't | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
just ideally up to temperature as he comes down here about 218mph, again | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
that right front lock up and having to correct as the rear comes round. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
It looks as though he hasn't damaged the right front tyre. He released | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
and unlocked the right front wheel as soon as he realised he had a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
problem. He wanted to save the tyre. Niki Lauda down there is watching on | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
and Hamilton has made a number of mistakes in crucial moments in | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
qualifying this year. He doesn't want another one of those. He wants | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
a clean day tomorrow here at Monza and try and qualify at the front of | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the grid to give himself a platform to challenge for the win on a track | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
where he's always gone well in the past. Rosberg is on the circuit. His | :09:54. | :10:05. | |
lap time is pretty quick. Seven-tenths of a second faster | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
lap time is pretty quick. the McLaren of Kevin Magnussen. They | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
have trimmed out the rear wing this morning, the Mercedes team. It's a | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
cleaner and fresher run for the air across the rear wing, taking a bit | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
of drag out of the car. Apart from some inconsistencies there, laps in | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
the 1:31s, generally you are looking at a second a lap faster, the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Mercedes, compared to the McLaren. Once again, it seems the Mercedes is | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
the team to beat. McLaren looked quite good this morning as Rosberg | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
backs off on this lap on the way down to the Curva Parabolica. How is | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Hamilton doing? This is more like it. His first sector has been good. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
He's coming through the second Lesmo bend. He is on it. He has a car, he | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
has two cars in front of him. One is a Caterham and one is a Toro Rosso. | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
He is up. Good middle sector. Rosberg's radio. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
TEAM RADIO: Try holding fifth through the Lesmos. Hamilton taking | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
a tow from Marcus Ericsson. He sweeps out to go round him and a bit | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
of correction on the wheel, but it is all fairly clean. Not quite | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
enough, he misses out, the middle sector was great. A bit of lost time | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
in the final sector, a bit of a correction into the Curva | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Parabolica, I felt, whether that cost him much, I don't know. I think | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
it was the Variante Ascari with the Caterham ahead of him that took a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
bit of air off the front when he was changing from the right to the left | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
and that compromised his exit there. It's also another thing - it is the | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
visual aspect of it. As you come into the braking - Hamilton is on | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
the pace. Now, we have to look to see how he can do on a long-run | :12:13. | :12:25. | |
pace. It is close at the front. There is a gap to Raikkonen of a | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
tenth of a second, or just under, and then you have Alonso, Bottas, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Button and Vettel all separated by two-tenths of a second. If we | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
replicate this tomorrow in qualifying, it will be thrilling. It | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
be. Ricciardo - when we saw Rosberg with the 1:31 - you get laps with | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
two seconds off. It's been a characteristic through the course of | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
this season and that will be lap five for Daniel Ricciardo, a 1: 34 | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
and bang, it comes down to 1: 29.837. | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
In fact, we are looking at Ricciardo's long-run pace, which is | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
OK. Vettel is the one to keep an eye on. He did a 29.6 on lap. He seems | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
to be on the same sort of long-run pace as Nico Rosberg and so too | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari. We need to keep an eye on him as well. | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
He is lapping 1:29. We don't know the fuel loads, of course. Mercedes | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
has single-lap pace. But Raikkonen is only just over a tenth slower | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
than Hamilton. It is pretty close. Hamilton now on a longer run. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
TEAM RADIO: Losing out, braking turn one is the issue. | :14:11. | :14:22. | |
TEAM RADIO: Focus on exits. Focussing on exits for Nico Rosberg, | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
as Lewis Hamilton gets caught behind the Toro Rosso. For Lewis | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
as Lewis Hamilton gets caught behind it was into turn one, but Hamilton | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
was on a very quick lap through there and he had a nice run, but | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
that has all gone. Let me put a cat amongst the pigeons. Valtteri Bottas | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
has done a 28.938. That is significantly quicker in the long | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
run than anybody else. I don't think we can discount the Williams, even | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
though Bottas is down in fifth in the overall top speeds. This is | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Bottas. That 28.938 is a stunning time. He followed it up with a | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
29.251. So, that is another fast time as well. He will do another | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
one, the front wing is just bobbling around a little bit. | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
half of this year. There are reasons for that. But the back story is they | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
are investing in success. They want to win again thand are going for it. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Look at -- and they are going for it. Look at that! They have brought | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
in some new faces and they have got the most out, and this guy here, | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Pete, who is one of the team management figures. Came across from | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
McLaren. A New Zealander, who has put some discipline into crew there | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
at Williams and got everything working well. Here is Vettels a long | :15:57. | :16:08. | |
run then. Not bad -- here is Vettel's long run then. Not bad. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
After it has done an lap and then they go and make the run. Not | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
looking too bad for Red Bull, for Ferrari or Williams. It is getting | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
exciting. It is very, very close at the front of the qualifying. It | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
could throw things up as well, by people who are probably faster, as | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Vettel gets crossed up as he goes right-to-left. That is not the place | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
you want to put in opposite lock. In long-run pace and there could be a | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
few little surprises. long-run pace and there could be a | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
are the ones to watch right now. What Bottas has done in previous | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
races and what he's done now in the long run. It is | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
races and what he's done now in the weekend, as we can see | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
races and what he's done now in the getting a tow from one of the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Saubers on the way down to turn one. They are starting to explore that. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Hamilton was doing it a minute ago. We have seen Ferrari, in previous | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
years, working as a team. You have more chance of being struck by | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
lightning than see Raikkonen do that tomorrow. Do you think it was | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
working as a team or for Alonso? It was Alonso was the one who would | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
benefit out of Felipe Massa drafting him out the straights. It has been | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
something that historically in the downer form las he did around here | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
because it had the benefit. I have never found anything more than a | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
confusion to the rest of the actual session. There was so much talking | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
about it in debriefing meetings. Alonso got frustrated about it. I | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
will be interested to see if they start to practise | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
will be interested to see if they morning. Asking Kimi | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
will be interested to see if they you draft me so I can follow you. It | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
It got plenty of coverage. The 12 minutes remaining in this free | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
practise 2 session, ahead of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix from | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
Monza. A popular destination. It is under threat, the commercial boss of | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Formula One said they need to come up with a better financial package | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
from Monza f they will main the Italian Grand Prix on their place. | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
They are keen to have the race elsewhere, in Florence. It is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
beautifully situated. It would be very different and not quite the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
same as being at this historic venue, Monza, which has been part of | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the spine of Formula One for decades and decades. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Rosberg, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso, Bottas, Button - is your top | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
six. There is the young Russian, in the Toro Rosso. That is pretty good | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
consistency. He's on a similar pace of Kevin Magnussen, looking at that | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
run, very consistent laps in the one minute 30 range. He's the benchmark. | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
Just looking at what he as 19 has been able to do, he has now turned | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
20. As we look at Gutierrez, some smoke from his brake disks. What | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
he's been able to do as a younger and -- youngest and get on top of | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
these cars and master them and no problems. Fiat did race in the | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
Formula Three as well as the GP 3. He won the overall title. In | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
European Formula Three. We hear Ricciardo. We are getting some rear | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
locking. It means the rear brakes are locking. Therefore you push | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
distribution further towards the front. That is just at the first | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
part of the braking, where you put in about 125 kilograms of force on | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
the pedal. That F-3 is the come pionship racing | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
this current year. If you look at result by result, therefore I think | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
that was a big part of the reason that Toro Rosso, Red Bull, felt they | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
could take a risk on someone who is just still 16 years old. And doing a | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
better job is a French driver, who is one of the gravity drivers, | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
managed by the team principal at McLaren. I understand Mercedeses are | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
about to or have -- Mercedes have are about to sign him up. They | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
missed out in the auction for Max. They could not offer him a race for | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
2015, where Toro Rosso could. They have signed up a very, very | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
promising young driver and we will keep an eye on progress there. | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Nine minutes to go and Lewis Hamilton is not happy. He's been | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
complaining about traffic. Before he goes out for his final run, they've | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
had a front wing off. It's not responding as he wanted. There is: | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
It seems he less than happy at the minute. It has not been a | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
trouble-free session for Lewis Hamilton. Of course late going out | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
after a problem getting the car to fire up. He has only done ten laps | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
in comparison to his team-mate, Nico Rosberg, who has done 35. And the | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
man who has done the most so far in this session, is Sergio Perez, who | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
has done 36. Hamilton will of course have access to the data that's been | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
gathered by Rosberg, who is doing long runs at the moment on the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
medium compound tyre. They have not got a lot of data on the harder | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
compound tyre in terms of long runs. If we look at the medium tyre, it | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
whats done 24 laps for Nico Rosberg right now. And the same with | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Valtteri Bottas, who has done 21 laps and Bottas is just banged in a | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
29-lap time from there. I don't think there's a problem with the | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
medium tyre going off. There's no problem with the hard tyre. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Absolutely. You want to know at what pace it runs at. That is the crucial | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
thing. You run the medium so long as you can and put the hard on when you | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
have to. It is interesting for Lewis Hamilton | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
to be that close after such a truncated session. He's certainly | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
competitive, as we were hear from Tom. So, tomorrow is going to be | :23:02. | :23:13. | |
really, really interesting. There is quite a sparse crowd here today at | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Monza. We don't generally get huge crowds on Fridays at a lot of venues | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
around the world. We can say Silverstone and, obviously Austria | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
was a fantastic crowd. Australia and Canada, they tend to do well. It is | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
a struggle here. Ticket sales are 30% down this year. Obviously Italy | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
emerge from afy man shalling crisis -- from a financial crisis, as is | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
most of Europe. The ticket prices are high here. It will be | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
interesting to see how many turn up here. We expect them to be down on | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
the 2013 figure, which is a shame. When it is in full voice, it is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
magic. It takes for Ferrari to be competitive for that to happen, | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
doesn't it? It does. If they are competitive, then they will come out | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in droves. If they are not, then they will walk away after the first | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
lap. Remember when Ferrari went out one year here and the crowd seemed | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
to get up and disappear off the grand stands. They had no -- | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Grandstands, they had no interest. These days the ticket would cost you | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
over ?200, you probably wouldn't walk away. Go and do something else. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
I take your point. Sit and shrug your shoulders and be unhappy! | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Absolutely right! Jenson Button struggling to get past | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
the car in front of him, which is, I think one of the Toro Rossos. | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
Toro Rosso is moving around a bit. It has terrific straight-line speed. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Watch this! This is an interesting case study for Sunday, how hard it | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
is to overtake. Christian Horner said to us earlier today that it is | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
not the easiest place to overtake. This is a graphic illustration. Even | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
though Toro Rosso are running... And look, cannot get past him even with | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the DRS. The Toro Rosso has generally been quick. This will take | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
a big out-braking. Oh, carry on Jenson. He couldn't get it stopped | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
for the zigzag. He had to drive, locked up tyre and got vibration | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
from it. Here he comes. Last of the late brakers, Jenson Button. | :25:32. | :25:43. | |
He had a feeling he would do that and that he is what he did. A good | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
reading of car language. Jenson Button has spotted that. OK, there | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
is only four minutes to go, but frustration that he had been stuck | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
one lap behind a car that was slower than his Larne. With the lack of -- | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
of his McLaren. With a lack of speed, there was not much he could | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
do about it. He did not have enough grip and stability to overtake him | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
either. Surprising from Jenson Button. It highlights the | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
frustration that drivers feel if they cannot get past another driver. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
In terms of how they grip, definitely something to look at. | :26:22. | :26:36. | |
Yes, Jenson, you definitely something to look at. | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
grip. When you pulled out of the slipstream of Kvyat. Travelling at | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
250 miles per hour at that point. If you are a split second late on the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
brakes then you've done a heck of a distance, as well as not having the | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
grip to stop the car. Lewis Hamilton is back out on circuit. His first | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
second is second slowest at the benchmark. He's carrying more fuel | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
at this point. Still using the medium compound tyre. Nico Rosberg | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
has come into the pits and back out on the hard tyre. You were saying | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
about wanting to understand what the difference is between the medium | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
tyre. Rosberg has done his long run and it was a long run, about 22-23 | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
laps, ultimately on those medium tyres. Now he's got the hard tyre to | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
see what the offset is like. They are doing back-to-back comparisons. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Rosberg on the hard. They have two-and-a-half minutes remaining on | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
the clock. The data will be limited on the harder tyre. It is better | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
than nothing. We know it will be durable enough This is very much | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
looking like a one-stop race for Sunday. We know the | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
looking like a one-stop race for tyre will good for up to 23, 24 | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
laps. That should not be too much of a drama to make the Grand Prix, the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
53 laps of this Grand Prix with only one stop. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
It will be a one-stopper by the looks of things. Also if you look at | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
how it was so difficult for Jenson Button to overtake as well, it | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
suggests that you need to be on circuit, you can be coming from | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
behind. Has a little look at a Rosberg moment. A right lock-up and | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
doing what was done a minute ago. If you do that in a race and gain a | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
position you have to give that position back. I think we'll see | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
some of that on Sunday. There's been a bit of it throughout this | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
championship this year. There's no reason why it should change. | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
Particularly when you miss a braking point, which is easy to do, with the | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
low force set up on these cars, then it is obviously, in a race | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
situation, if you gain from it, you have to give the place back. Talking | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
situation, if you gain from it, you about the low downforce, Monza is | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
situation, if you gain from it, you out liar in the championship. The | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
only place they have to have a low down package. The team will devote | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
about two weeks to this. It used to be more in the days when Hockenheim | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
had more. Put more effort and resource into | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
it. Nevertheless, to build a Monza specification kit, I am told by | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
friends and contacts who are engineers, you need to bring along | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
five front wings and four rear wings. Each one costs ?30,000 and | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
takes a few hundred man hours to build. You are looking at ?300,000 | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
just for the front and rear wings. Here is Ricciardo's radio. We can | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
see some issues. We are working on it. On the lap earlier as well. | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
Should clear for the next lap. It should clear, based on previous | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
experience. It sounds like it is related to the power plant which has | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
not been ideal and it needs to re-set itself, maybe passing the | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
beacon, which is on the start and finish. And that is a reset for the | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
car. It tells it where it is on the circuit from then on. Sebastian | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
Vettel is the first personvy seen who has gone off the -- person I | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
have seen who has gone off the Parabolica. He cannot get back in. | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
It will be interesting to see if he had any timing at all. I doubt it. | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
Coming back to Ricciardo, there is a chance it needed a reset, that is | :30:22. | :30:22. | |
why it would be OK on the next lap. Rosberg, from Hamilton, from | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
Raikkonen, from Alonso, is the top four. That will cheer the Italian | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
fans a little bit. Mercedes are not out of touch because Raikkonen is | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
less than a tenth of a second, half a tenth in fact, behind Lewis | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
Hamilton, so some encouragement for the Ferrari team. A nice bit of tape | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
on the lock-up of Jenson Button that we saw earlier. The session is over. | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
It's been an interesting session, not from Lewis Hamilton's | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
perspective because he lost most of it with getting the car to fire up | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
and he lost an hour, basically, Allan, which he has recovered from | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
OK. He's done 16 laps. He will be reliant on the data from Rosberg? | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
The problem that he has is that he's not got the feel for that medium | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
tyre over the long run, how he needs to adapt his driving style so coming | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
into the race on Sunday, he will be learning that as he goes along, | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
whereas Nico Rosberg will have that in his pocket. It is not necessarily | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
the tyre pressures, as you see Lewis Hamilton locking up and aborting the | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
chicane at turn one, it is not tyre pressures, or the car set-up, it is | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
the driver feel and the sensitivity that he has to have on the brakes | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
and in the throttle. They aren't on top completely of the reliability | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
side of things, Mercedes? It shows you that that is going to still play | :31:55. | :32:02. | |
a factor, as it is for? Yes, it is the first year of a completely new | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
format and the Mercedes is quick but it does have its issues. However, I | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
have to say it is quick in the short runs, I don't think they are the | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
quickest in the long runs, that is down to Williams. You have Williams | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
quick on the long runs, Ferrari look pretty good, Red Bull, too. What are | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
your thoughts? Williams, quickest in the long runs, Mercedes are second | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
quickest. They have more in their pockets. Red Bull and Ferrari are | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
equal. Kimi Raikkonen is a bit stronger. Then you have McLaren. The | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
problem for McLaren is, if they have a lack of grip and locking-up | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
issues, that will be hard work. Rosberg edging his team-mate | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
Hamilton on the weekend after they recovered from their differences at | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
the Belgium Grand Prix and put a sticking plaster over them. How long | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
will that stick? We will find out. Raikkonen edges out Alonso, but | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
Williams, they look very much like the danger men this weekend for the | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
Italian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton loses over an hour of | :33:09. | :33:22. | |
that practice session. He was fastest this morning and second this | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
afternoon to his team-mate and that battle continues. It looks like | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
Williams and Red Bull have some decent race pace around here and so | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
too the Ferraris. The pressure in the building behind me is incredibly | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
intense. There are rumours of changes at the top of Ferrari. You | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
can find out more on Inside F1 with me tonight. We have a packed day of | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
live action for you tomorrow. From Monza, thank you for your | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
company. Bye-bye. | :33:58. | :34:02. |