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Good morning and welcome to Monza. As you can see it is a glorious day | :00:00. | :01:09. | |
in Italy. We are just outside Milan and it is always great to be here at | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
such an iconic circuit. The tifosi are here in their thousands to cheer | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
on their beloved Ferrari. As well as all the on track action we will be | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
live for 30 minutes after the chequered flag falls with drivers | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
passed, and present, and all the news coming out of Mercedes and | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
rumours of changes right at the top of Ferrari. Since Spa headlines have | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
been dominated by Mercedes after Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton came | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
together. Whether you think Nico Rosberg was the good guy or the bad | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
guy, he was the one standing on the podium and increasing his lead in | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
the Drivers' Championship. Now 29 points separate him and Lewis | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Hamilton. Daniel Ricciardo has three wins to his name which means he is | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
just 35 points behind Hamilton. Fernando Alonso is fourth, Bottas | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
fifth, Sebastian Vettel is yet to lead a race this year let alone win | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
one. In the constructors Mercedes have a huge lead, 411 points. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Williams are fighting to take third place from Ferrari. McLaren have | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
moved ahead of Force India since the last race but only by two points. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Standing in a sunny pit lane today, Tom Clarkson and Jenny Gunn. It is | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
not sunny where we are standing actually, we are in the shade. But | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
you are right, it is a balmy 23 degrees down here. For the teams, it | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
is the track temperatures they are concerned with, which is now 31 | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
degrees, nearly 10 degrees more than yesterday, so we could see the rear | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
tyres being worked harder, so we could see more oversteer. Visually | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
it could be quite good for us. But the emphasis this morning will be on | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
qualifying. 11 times in the last 14 years this race has been won from | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
pole position which makes it statistically more important to | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
start than Monaco from pole position. Lewis Hamilton only | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
managed to 16 laps yesterday afternoon, he had a problem, they | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
could not fire up his engine. And that was the engine they used in | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Hungary which caught fire, so they managed to repair it. It is a Friday | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
engine, he will not be using that today. He will have to use his | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
team-mate Nico Rosberg 's macro information to get the best of his | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
car. He says that is the -- that is fine, they have similar cars. He set | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
the fastest time of the whole day on the hard tyres yesterday, which is | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
pretty unusual. He will try his best to gain the time he missed out on | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
yesterday, preparing himself for the all-important qualifying. It is in | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
fact all-important because Lewis Hamilton has not had a clean | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
qualifying session since Spain and that was all the way back at the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
beginning of May, it is incredible. He will need a clean practice three. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
The cars are on track shortly, so let's head to the commentary booth. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
COMMENTATOR: Thank you, we have a lot to look forward to today. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Although we talk about the rivalry between Hamilton and Rosberg, there | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
is an opportunity for somebody else. Williams looked strong and they may | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
not qualify quite as sharply as they did in Austria, but we need to keep | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
an eye on them. Their long run pace is very good and they were the | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
quickest car yesterday intends of race pace. The key for them is being | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
in the fight in qualifying. We have seen them much better in that area | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
through the last few Grands Prix. Red Bull need to be good. They have | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
resurfaced the banked surface with concrete to keep it alive. We will | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
see some interesting images from that on the BBC Formula One coverage | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
over the course of the weekend. Stay with us for all the qualifying life | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
and the full race coverage on BBC One. First practice of the day, | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
practice three of the weekend, and one apiece for Lewis Hamilton and | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Nico Rosberg in terms of topping the times so far this weekend. But Lewis | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
did have that truncated session and ended up second fastest in second | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
practice yesterday. Kimi Raikkonen having a slightly stronger weekend | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
so far, and generally Ferrari have been looking better than they have | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
at some previous events. Raikkonen was third and Alonzo was fourth in | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
yesterday afternoon 's session. Rumours that they have improved | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
their power plant a bit, got a bit more performance. There are four | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
straights where you are over 200 mph here, so you need straight-line | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
speed and power. They have been a little bit more competitive so far. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Kimi Raikkonen, especially since Spa, when he seemed to find his feet | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
with this, and looks stronger in comparison to Fernando Alonso this | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
weekend. Always wonderful to see the cars out for the morning session | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
with light dappling through the trees. That is such a part of racing | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
at Monza, trees everywhere. It is part of a massive park, huge area, | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
something like three times the land area of Monaco. And we are just in | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
one tiny corner of this part. It is a beautiful area. When you come up | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
into Ascari chicane, the shadows of the trees blocked out the braking | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
area and the bumps coming up into it, so you have to be careful. The | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
rear of the car can easily lock-up and destabilise. We saw that with | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Sergio Perez yesterday morning and Friday when he locked the rear | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
wheels coming in. Shadows create that extra problem. Well, there is | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari. Jenny, any news coming from the | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Italian team? Absolutely. As the guys at the back of the carpet ready | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
to put that right flow is paint all over the car, the news is they have | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
played their joke and Ferrari, so both cars have changed their gear | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
ratios especially for Monza. There was some question as to whether they | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
had done it for Spa, but they have done it for this weekend. We thought | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
this might be one of them because it is such a fast paced circuit, so | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
that's exactly what they have done. Good information. This year they are | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
allowed to change ratios just a couple of times. It is a fixed ratio | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
gearbox nowadays. In the old days and in other forms of racing you can | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
change your ratio for each particular track. Daniil Kvyat, as | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
you can see from the graphic, is now on to his six engine, which means he | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
will have a ten place penalty on the grid for the race tomorrow. He will | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
go through qualifying as tomorrow but whatever he qualifies in, ten | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
prizes will be added. Back to gear ratios, you have been studying it? | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Yesterday when I was watching the on-board, Mercedes were only using a | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
skier once per lap down the main street, whereas pretty much | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
everybody else was using a skier three to four times per lap. -- they | :08:05. | :08:20. | |
were only using Aix gear -- eighth gear. There is no clear logic in | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
exactly why Mercedes are doing it at the moment. It means they change | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
here less, so from that point of view, they are going up and down the | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
gearbox less, so it might be a real liability thing. In terms of | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
performance it does not seem to be an advantage. Are they ending up | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
with different ratios, so Williams and Mercedes and Force India are not | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
all doing the same thing? Force India seem to have slightly longer | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
ratios, more in line with Mercedes but all of the other teams in to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
have the shorter ratio. It is one of those things, variables. Different | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
philosophies, different theories behind it. But it is a clear, clear | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
difference. On the start finish great, Rosberg going down the pit | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
lane, you will change to his final eighth gear right at the end of the | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
pit lane, whereas the other teams are right at the beginning, quite a | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
difference. Right now he is using first gear, doing the practice start | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
in the designated area at the end of the pit lane, here. Clutch bite | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
point check, making sure it is all activated. You did not make a | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
particularly good start from pole position in some ways last time out | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
at Spa -- he did not. And that poor start initiated the events that led | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
to him clipping Hamilton. The poor start was the total reason. He was | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
on pole. That's strange. He locked up the front right. He has done the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
practice start and instead of flash spot in the tyre, we saw Jenson | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Button doing a big one yesterday, instead of flat spotting the tyre | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and damaging them with 55 minutes ago, better to abort. Is this a bit | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
of an experiment for him? If he is on the front row tomorrow, did not | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
looked like he was hammering it down there, one of the hardest things for | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
the guys to judge is where to break, first lap, tyre is not fully a full | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
load of fuel, one of the toughest decisions of the whole weekend. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
RADIO: A slight delta on the temperature, more braking to get | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
them up. That will be the reason he locked the front. The difference in | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
temperature of side to side. One will be more efficient until the | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
whole car is up to temperature. The right front would be the one that | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
had more temperature into it causing that, on a slightly cold surface. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Coming back to it, it is very difficult, it was a problem in Spa. | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
RADIO: We will look into that. Should be fine, but we will check | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
that out. It feels pretty bad, to be honest. Long and soft. That is not | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
what you want, because you are breaking just under the bridge into | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Ascari. You need a solid feel and solid feedback, because these | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
braking areas are very short but very intense, pulling over five G, | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
putting 120 kilograms of force into it. The feedback through the foot is | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
something that is very critical and something I was always very | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
particular about. Clearly Kevin Magnussen has that sensation as | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
well. So it looks like years staying out there, but it is something they | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
will address presumably. -- looks like he is. It would normally be a | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
question of bleeding the breaks, but these days it is a bit more, dated. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
I guess it is to do with the hydraulic system. Yes, as he locks | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
up the front right, exactly as Nico Rosberg did. It is more on the | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
hydraulics side of things. Generally you plug it into a system that will | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
push all of the fluid completely through. You want to get the old | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
fluid out in case there is something with the fluid as well. Seems a bit | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
slippery at the first chicane, doesn't it? Talk us through this as | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
he came down. He has gone down through the gears, down to third | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
gear, and at that point he locked up the right front. I think we will see | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
lots of it, into the chicane and second chicane more than anywhere | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
else. Those two corners you have big, heavy braking. Both corners a | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
little bit bumpy. The problem is that you do not realise you are | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
going too fast, and you break later and your deceleration is not quite | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
good enough until you are at the point of turning. RADIO: The gears | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
are still not right. Box, box, box, just reduce the amount of shifting. | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Little bit of discussion about the gears on the Mercedes of Nico | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Rosberg. Just riding with Jenson Button. Kobayashi currently fastest, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
not often we see a caterer at the top, and now it is the other one -- | :13:17. | :13:35. | |
a Cape -- Caterham. Now Alan, you have done a special piece for our | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
coverage later today about the changes at Parabolica, how did | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
Button's line look? He was on the tarmac site. Luca arrived with his | :13:49. | :14:00. | |
son in tow, maybe a future Ferrari driver. Jensen, still a fast time, | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
eight tenths off the quickest we had yesterday in second free practice. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Ultimately I still think this is build-up from Jenson Button. So, | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
crossed the line goes Nico Hulkenberg now to go on to go onto a | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
quick lap. Jenson Button is fastest from Kirby Ashy, Ericsson and | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Magnusson, and again, Hulkenberg does not lock-up quite as much. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
RADIO: Bit more break warming if you can, mate. Tyres look good. The | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
issue you have around here, such long straights, everything cools | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
down. And then you have an intense activity when you hit the brakes. If | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
they are not at the optimum, 200 mph, where Hulkenberg was at that | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
speed coming into the second chicane, he is doing 90 metres per | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
second. So therefore it is all concertinas about one of braking and | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
everything has be at the optimum level. Alternatively you get these | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
little lock-ups and run wide. This is something we will see in the | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
first part of the session as opposed to the second part. Hulkenberg on a | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
reasonably good lap here at the moment, so we will keep an eye on | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
that. You can share your thoughts with us | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
by tweeting us or commenting on the BBC Facebook page. We have the | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Formula One website as well. So the best of your comments will be added | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
to that. It is good to have your contribution as we build up towards | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
qualifying here at Monza and it is live coverage on BBC One at 12. 10. | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
Join Suzi and the gang and looking over the controversies of the last | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
race at Spa. The contact between Hamilton and Rosberg which has been | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
talked about ever since. Button still fastest here. Hulkenberg with | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
that lap going second fastest and that man there is the guy who is the | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
engineer for Sergio Perez, but next year will be Sebastian Vettel's race | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
engineer. So a shift from team and he will be working with the four | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
time world champion. Vettel's engineer will be having a more | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
overall engineering role at Red Bull. He will be stepping out of his | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
current position where he has been active and sin on news with | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Sebastian Vettel and the success there into a bigger position. This | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
is all part of the restructuring after Adrian Newey. This is the | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
first race where he has not been directly active into the Red Bull | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
and they have to build for the rue ture and Rocky is a -- future and | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
Rocky is a big asset and they will want to move him up the ladder. He | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
was the engineer of Paul di Resta last year and Paul was a big, big | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
fan and says he is without doubt able to step into Rocky's shoes. | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
Adrian Newey won't be attending anymore Grand Prix this year. It | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
will be a new era for the team and Sebastian Vettel, of course, | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
struggling a bit. He is in a chassis, it is not a brand-new | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
chassis, it is one that's been recycled effectively and it is a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
different chassis to the one he ran at Spa. Button has gone faster on | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
that initial time he did. Vettel on this lap will keep an eye on. It | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
will be close in qualifying today and fractions of a second separating | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
the likes of Red Bull and Ferrari and maybe McLaren. Over the race | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
distance, Red Bull and Ferrari are looking stronger than McLaren, but | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
very, very even. So we could see Vettel versus Alonso again and they | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
have had their moments here in the past. Remember a couple of times | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
when Alonso made a fantastic move on Vettel. Vettel made a fantastic move | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
on Alonso and Vettel got done when he squeezed Alonso on to the grass. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
It is difficult to overtake around here even though the straights are | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
very long and normally you would expect, it is reasonably simple in | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
that respect, but it is hard. Therefore, qualifying will be | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
important and that gaggle in behind, to be honest including Mercedes in | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
the way that it looked yesterday, it is going to be tight and I think | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
qualifying will be a big, big factor today. There is important people | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
from Ferrari today. We look at Kobayashi. A classic lock-up and | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
rotation. Did he save it from spinning? Bounced across the big | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
sausage kerb. A lot of sparks. The car running low. It doesn't run over | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
the kerb too much. That's the McLaren. Magnussen had a brake pedal | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
that was too long and they have had to take the callipers off. You would | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
want to do a belt and braces approach on that if you weren't 100% | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
sure because once you go into qualifying, Ricciardo gets on to the | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
dirty side and loses rear grip. Another new graphic giving us a | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
corner time from entry to exit, 3.8 seconds corner time. Many years, you | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
have done a lot of driver coaching as well, Allan, it makes a big | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
difference, doesn't it to analyse what people are doing? Yes, it | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
certainly does. It is a part of the process of trying to understand | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
where you are actually gaining and losing, what's the important part is | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
that the middle is the exit is at the entry and to maximise all of | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
that and data and information is king in this game. A few more times | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
on the board now. It is Button fastest. Ricciardo is second. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
Hulkenberg is pushed down to third and Vettel is fourth and Perez is | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
fifth. It is McLaren on top and Red Bull looking strong, but we haven't | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
seen the real potential pace set efforts. Ters. One is Valtteri | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
Bottas and he is on a lap now. Let's watch the lap. Drops down to first | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
gear. Some of the teams are quickly into second because he wants to try | :20:38. | :20:52. | |
to maximise his acceleration. In through the second chicane. This one | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
is tricky. You use all of that kerb on the exit. So through there. Runs | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
out wide. I noticed that yesterday. He uses a fair bit of road. A chunk | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
of oversteer. It is a funny corner because you get a corn in oversteer | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
on entry and then you have got to spot the apex. There is certain | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
areas where the FIA said it is OK to run with all four wheels off. | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
However at Parabolica where he is coming to now, they have dictated if | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
you put all four wheels over the white line then you are in line for | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
a penalty. A touch of tyre lock on the right front. Let's see how much | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
road he uses? That would have been gravel last year, but he keeps it | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
within just about. He goes second fastest with that lap. Not as quick | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
as the McLaren though of Jenson Button. | :21:57. | :22:10. | |
TEAM RADIO: Gears are not learning. Cancel brain magic. It is a | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
wonderful language we're hearing in Formula One. Talking of engineers | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
talking to drivers. Tom, we have a feature that you made with Valtteri | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Bottas coming up later. Where Valtteri Bottas engaged in a | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
different occupation, but still being talked at by his race | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
engineer? That's right, they have got an interesting history these two | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
guys. They graduated to the Formula One team together in effect. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Jonathan became a race engineer for the first time last year as Valtteri | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
was promoted to the race team. So yes, nice feature with that, but I | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
caught up with Valtteri after practise yesterday and very quietly | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
confident of the car's long run pace. I said to him, "How does it | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
look?" He says we're aiming for the podium this weekend, it is just a | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
question of which step! That's good to hear. There is that confidence to | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Valtteri Bottas now he had a string of podiums, can he go better and | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
take his first win? It might be asking too much. Who knows. Red Bull | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
have managed to win against Mercedes. But the thing they have to | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
do is convert the opportunities and that's something that Red Bull have | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
done very well with Daniel Ricciardo when they have a sniff of a victory | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
then they have grabbed it with both hands. Williams had the faster car, | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
but haven't been able to maximise their performance from it. Here, I | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
think, is their best chance. I think they have got a good bit of speed in | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the car for qualifying and they have in the race pace as well. I think | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
around here they really have to look towards not just a podium step, but | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
something higher than that. We're watching Kimi Raikkonen. He was | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
third fastest yesterday. More promising for Ferrari, but we are | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
wary. They show well on Fridays and don't always deliver when it comes | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
to Saturday qualifying and Raikkonen coming off that fourth place finish | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
last time out at Spa, but the best grid position is fifth. He hasn't | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
been on the first couple of rows this season and that was it Bahrain. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
It is a long time since Kimi Raikkonen had a pole position. That | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
was in his first career in Formula One. You have to go back to 2008 | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
when he had a pole position and that was at the French Grand Prix and I | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
don't Ferrari will be in the battle for pole position, but they will | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
have the support of the crowd. Let's see what the lap is like. It is a | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
slow lap. I think he has a lot of fuel on board and everybody is still | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
using the hard tyre, Allan. What we did see yesterday when they switched | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
to the softer tyre which we will see later in the session, not quite as | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
big a difference. Sometimes we see between the two tyres and that's | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
partly there is not as many corners here at Monza, but we saw as | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Valtteri Bottas goes fastest, you can do more than one quick lap and | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
sometimes your second flying lap was quicker than your first. It is | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
around here, I think, it is going to be about building the temperatures | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
into the tyre and into the brakes. Valtteri Bottas there, he improved | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
on the first sector. Equalled his second sector and on the third | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
sector was slower. Therefore, his first timed lap today was not quite | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
totally up to temperature and if he had been able to put those together | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
on the one single lap, he would have been a tenth-and-a-half faster | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
again. Valtteri Bottas quickest. Now Button is second fastest. Hulkenberg | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
third. Massa fourth and Daniel Ricciardo is fifth and Tom, you are | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
at Red Bull? I am, Ben. I wanted to highlight this beautiful front wing | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
on the RB-10. It is naked. There are none of the add on flaps that we see | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
elsewhere in the pit lane. We know that Red Bull are running even less | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
rear wing here than in Spa two weeks ago and I suppose this is just to | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
help balance the car by having less downforce on the front, but doesn't | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
it look, the petals on a rose, just layered on top of each other. It is | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
very beautiful and it is helping their straight line speed. They did | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
run a similar wing last year and when I asked the team why they ran | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
it last year because, of course, there was more engine parity and | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
they said we were only 30 BHP down last year. Listening to that is | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Christian Horner. The car does look great with all the little add on | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
winglets? I was listening to his description of petals of a rose! It | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
is very descriptive from Tom there. We are trimming as much wing out of | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the car as we can to make it as efficient on the straights as we | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
can. You guys do a lot of number crunching overnight. Not only in | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
terms of how your car is set-up, but where everybody stands. What can we | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
expect to see in qualifying and indeed, the race? What you can see | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
is that the times are close and a tenth of a second can be moving you | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
three or four places. So I'm looking at the theoretical times here and | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
massively, massively close between the top six or eight cars. It will | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
be very tight. It is about getting the perfect lap in qualifying. And | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
that includes Mercedes, does it? They leave a bit up their sleeve. | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
I'm looking at the Williams, McLarens, they are all Mercedes | :27:34. | :27:42. | |
engines. At Allan here. Looking at yesterday's race pace times, you | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
looked as if you were one of the quickest, but do you have the | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
qualifying pace to utilise that for tomorrow? That's that, Allan. Our | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
race pace looks pretty good, but the problem is it is likely to be a one | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
stop race and that means you have got to do your overtaking on track | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
and with our lack of straight line speed that will be tough. If we can | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
get a car on the third row that would be a good starting position | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
for us and I don't think Daniel won a race from higher than fifth or | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
sixth yet. With the hybrid engines we are using now and it is the first | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
time we have come to Monza with this set-up on the car. Will it change | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
how the drivers go through the qualifying routine? They have got to | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
be careful in terms of how much, you know, they utilise if they are doing | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
consecutive laps. There is a little bit of management in that and you | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
will hear the engineers talking to them about what modes and recharge | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
modes that they need to be in. So power management is critical on a | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
track like this. And presumably with the tyres that we are seeing, we saw | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
people being able to set a second fast lap on the medium tyre | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
yesterday afternoon. Maybe people are staying out there longer in | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
qualifying and doing a couple of laps? The tyres are hard enough to | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
drive home on. So I think, you know, the times will keep falling. You can | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
see on this harder tyre at the moment, you know, cars are | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
continuing to go quicker and quicker and the softer tyre is not much | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
softer, you know, so again, long runs are no problem. One final | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
question. We have seen Daniil Kvyat... That's good. He loves a bit | :29:24. | :29:31. | |
of oversteer! It is good to watch. Jean-Eric Vergne showing how the | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
tyres are not that easy to drive. A quick general question. There has | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
been rumours, it is always that time of year, Monza, the drivers market | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
is always being talked about. You look set with what you have got in | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
terms of Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. I know there are | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
rumours surrounding Sebastian's future. Do you see any high-profile | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
changes taking place as we go through the rest of the year? As you | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
say, the music is always in full swing this time of year, but when it | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
stops I think they will all end up sticking in the seats they are in | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
and amongst the top teams I suspect. I would be surprised if there was | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
any real movement. OK, great, thank you for joining us. We look forward | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
to some input later on today? Thank you. | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
Big snap from Jean-Eric Vergne with the back of the car, we saw Sergio | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
Perez have a similar issue yesterday. It just gives us an idea | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
of getting that brake balance, which is so crucial here. Running uphill | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
into there, a lot of breaking load, so the rear of the car is quite | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
light anyway. Bit of a bump and the road camber is in towards the | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
right-hand side. So it's not as though when it does react it is | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
reacting identically left and right, so you tend to get a bit of a snap. | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
Kimi had won a bit like Bottas early in the session, dropped his front | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
right wheel into the drain and it hooked him an idiot. Kevin Magnussen | :30:57. | :31:07. | |
had some break issues. Any news? Not on Magnusson, but Nico Rosberg is | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
out of the car with a gearbox issue. The flaw is coming off the car, the | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
team on getting into the gearbox. They think if they can get into it | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
now they might not have to replace the gearbox. So session over for | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
him. Makes you wonder, Lewis Hamilton missed an hour of yesterday | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
afternoon session, Rosberg has effectively missed an hour this | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
morning. Who will suffer more, missing yesterday afternoon or this | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
morning? They are missing different things, because Rosberg got all of | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
the driving feel, and the setup time for the long run pace, and Lewis | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
Hamilton missed out on that for really Sunday afternoon, whereas it | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
looks like the other way round. Personally I would prefer to be in | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
Lewis Hamilton's situation, because I think psychologically having the | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
advantage going into and through qualifying is probably more | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
important right now for him after the run of, I would say, races he | :32:02. | :32:08. | |
has had, more than anything else. Interesting, Lewis Hamilton did not | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
finish last time out so he is allowed a new gearbox. So he is less | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
likely to have a problem. Jenny has some news from McLaren? Yes, be | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
wheel guns are out and they have put the tyres on Kevin Magnussen's car, | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
it was the front brakes he was not comfortable with. He has only put | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
into laps, Sue he came in and they changed the material -- so he came | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
in. Hopefully he will feel more comfortable now. But a long time to | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
miss out on this session. Interesting to know if you changed | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
to the same material that he had on before, because that sensitivity to | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
the brake pedal, especially around here, sometimes they play with | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
materials. We found out in Hockenheim Lewis Hamilton was doing | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
that quite a lot when he had his brake disk failure in qualifying. I | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
did ask the question, as you know I would, and I got resolute no | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
comment. I did say what did they use, and he said normally carbon | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
industry, but they change them round. So I gave up at that point. | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
The sensitivity and feedback in each one has got the characteristic. You | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
prefer them from certain circuits to circuit, and sometimes driver to | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
drive, but it is whether they need instant response or more consistency | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
through the whole braking range. Valtteri Bottas still fastest with | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
over half an hour to go in final practice. Fernando Alonso second | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
fastest, and Christian Horner was saying it was going to be close, but | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
it is mighty close, no difference at all between the lap Duff has done in | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
a Williams-Mercedes and the one Fernando Alonso has done in the | :33:53. | :34:02. | |
Ferrari -- between the lap Bottas has done. Hopefully Lewis Hamilton | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
will give us an idea. Grosjean has been struggling and this car has | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
looked a handful this weekend, they are struggling, even more than they | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
have been at other circuits. In high downforce trim I don't think the car | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
is very easy to drive, seems to be very difficult. Especially with any | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
bumps or curbs, when you take downforce off. That's coming through | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
the second Lesmo, down towards Parabolica. You can run out there, | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
but it is very bumpy. Then you take downforce off, it amplifies these | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
bumps, and the car reacts much more. Lotus have said they have stopped | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
development for 2014 and are looking towards 2015. I think the drivers | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
felt that happened two or three months ago in reality, because they | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
have not been able to extract any more out of it than they had in | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
Malaysia. Hulkenberg on another lap. Thanks for your questions and | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
comments coming in. Quirky badger asks, good Ross Brawn return to | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
Ferrari next season? That is amongst the gossip at Monza, but we wonder | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
whether that's actually going to be a fact. He has done an awful lot in | :35:15. | :35:18. | |
the past at Ferrari, but we don't know for sure yet whether he will | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
return. James Bartlett saying, do we believe Jenson Button deserves next | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
year 's drive, and does Magnusson deserve a second chance? Questions | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
all about the McLaren driver line-up and it is still uncertain. McLaren | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
in a situation. Peres is stopping. Curve grandee, just come through the | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
chicane. RADIO: Do not change gear for the moment or try to change | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
gear. Well he has just tried to do that, he is stuck in second gear, | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
trying to go down, looks like it is in between two gears. He came out of | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
the first chicane, and clearly when he tried to activate into the next | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
year he stopped. I presume that now if they cannot move this car quickly | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
they will have two red flag the session. They may try to push the | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
car if it is in neutral. Interesting that two Mercedes engined cars have | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
apparently had some gearbox problem. We don't know what the problem is on | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
Peres, but worrying times for Force India, they will not want to lose | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
the car at this stage. Marshal is trying to push it out of the way, | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
there is a gap a bit further away. Hopefully they will be able to move | :36:37. | :36:38. | |
that without stopping the entire session. So Sergio Perez, who has so | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
far not done huge amount, he has done some ten laps in this session | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
so far, and he is a fastest. Let's get some news from Jenny. The Sauber | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
of Adrian Sutil in the sick bay at the moment, when he went out for his | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
install that they found a hydraulic leak, so they have had to take it | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
off. They have done a fast turnaround, Adrian Sutil getting | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
ready in the background. Another five or ten minutes before he gets | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
out, but another frustrating weekend, potentially in the bag. The | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
macro. Indeed. -- potentially in the bag for Sauber. Certainly does not | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
look easy for them, and also to Sergio Perez, he missed 30 minutes | :37:23. | :37:31. | |
of Friday morning practice with Juncadella taking his position. | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
Ultimately he has only done ten laps in this one. Now he is out with | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
critically the last 30 minutes to go, which is his qualifying | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
simulation. Coming back to McLaren, Button, Magnusson, any changes next | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
year? McLaren are looking towards the future with their engine | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
changing to Honda, they have to build a plan for the future. Kevin | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
Magnussen has speed. He has had issues. And remember in the first | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
Grand Prix of the season he had second place, so therefore he can do | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
the job. I think he has done enough to continue. Jenson Button has | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
scored the majority of the points, so he is the elder statesman on the | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
grid. Ultimately he has got the points for McLaren Missy and that is | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
very important when they need the stability, going into one big part | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
of their team changing, the engine side -- the points for McLaren this | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
year. I think they will be the drivers on the grid for the first | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
race of 2015. Nico Rosberg looked cool, despite the fact he is losing | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
track time in this session. There is Jenson Button. Another question has | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
come in from Rachel Bridge, she says how come Jenson Button always shows | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
great pace in free practice sessions but falls apart in qualifying? I'm | :38:46. | :38:53. | |
not sure I would necessarily say he falls apart in qualifying, but the | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
pace is not always converted into a challenging top ten in qualifying | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
itself. I think Jenson Button's area of clear strength is in the race. He | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
has a quick brain and he works out when there are opportunities, | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
especially if a safety car or changing weather conditions arise. | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
The area he has struggled a bit on in the past few years is the pure, | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
outright one lap pace. But also McLaren does not build temperature | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
very well into the front tyres, which is hampered, which hampers you | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
in qualifying. I would not necessarily put it all down to | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
Jenson's door, but his area of real strength in my opinion, is when he | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
gets the 53 lap race. Finished second three times in the last five | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
years, never had a race victory here, but some solid performances. | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
Good battle with Fernando Alonso in 2010, nip and tuck. Alonso went on | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
to snatch victory for Ferrari. He himself has a brilliant record of | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
being on the podium every time since he has joined the Italian greats. | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
Whether he will be able to do it this weekend we will see. Alonso | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
showing good pace at the moment. With Jenson Button through the final | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
corner. Lewis Hamilton is on a lap at the moment which should put him | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
to the top of the times. Jenson Button currently fourth fastest and | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
he goes fastest, but Lewis Hamilton is going to eclipse his time. RADIO: | :40:23. | :40:30. | |
Misbehaving, you need to double-check it. I think he was | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
talking about part of the energy recovery system that operates | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
underbraking. Let's see what Hamilton's time is, a big jump | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
faster, the fastest lap of the weekend. He is still on the harder | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
compound tyre. Nobody has switched to the softer tyre yet, and that | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
gives you an understanding that Mercedes still have the edge in | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
terms of sheer pace. Definitely, and that's the first time they have | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
dropped into the 25's, eclipsing his fastest time of yesterday which was | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
in the first free practice on the same tyres. They are starting to | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
wind it up now. RADIO: We see there was a problem without shift but | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
after that it was OK. Sorting it out. Daniel Ricciardo goes fifth, | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
slight improvement in time, but position stays much the same. | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
Hamilton on top from Button, Bottas, Alonso and Ricciardo. Patrick Head, | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
still very involved with the overall company of Williams, but less | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
hands-on with the Formula One team. Keeping a close eye on what is going | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
on. A long time since Williams had a victory here at this Monza circuit. | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
They have had a good record over the years but you have to go back to | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
2001 when Juan Pablo Montoya won here. And he has been at Monza this | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
weekend. In fact he was the last Williams driver to have pole | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
position here, in 2002. Sebastian Vettel popped himself up into | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
seventh place with that time, a little bit quicker than he had | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
previously done, but still 1.1 seconds off the lap time of | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
Hamilton. Ericsson making a mistake at Ascari. Very easy, just a little | :42:12. | :42:18. | |
lock-up, and suddenly you are off. Toby Ashy, his team-mate, has he had | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
similar problems? -- Kobayashi. This is into the first chicane. He didn't | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
even try to make the corner. It is about looking after the tyres as | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
much as anything. If you lock-up, you have to get off the brake pedal | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
and allow the tyre to rotate. Otherwise you get a flat spot. | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
Jenson Button held on to the pressure yesterday and he put it | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
right through to the canvas of the tire very quickly. And that tyre | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
then becomes unusable. So from that point of view you are better to | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
abort the corner, because the corner has gone anyway by then. Pastor | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
Maldonado is currently 15th, but there is a bit of a danger for | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
Lotus, looking at the pace, Mauritius are not far be hanged. It | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
might be a concern. -- Marussia. They were saying Bianchi's pace, | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
there was a bit of contact with Grosjean macro but it was a racing | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
incident. Bianchi ended up with a punch as a result. But his pace was | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
very much on a target with what Lotus were doing in that race. They | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
wonder whether they might be able to do something to challenge. A faster | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
from Maldonado. We are still waiting to see what anyone else can do. | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
RADIO: Breaks don't feel like they are working very well, DRS not | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
working. DRS not working, and the brakes. Lap time suggested it is not | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
too bad, but he missed the first chicane off camera about a lap ago | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
for Lewis Hamilton. So maybe he has some sensitivity. His brain now is | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
tuned straight into what he needs for qualifying. This is the first | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
chicane, comes down the gears, locks up both front wheels. On the white | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
line a little bit, and then went through the chicane area. Fernando | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
Alonso has just gone out on the medium compound tyres, so the first | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
flying lap we will see is from Fernando Alonso on the softer of the | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
two tyres. This may not be his best lap as we saw yesterday, sometimes | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
they were doing their best lap of the one quick lap, slowing down to a | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
recovery lap, to regenerate all the hybrid power, and then go again. | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
Yes, Lewis Hamilton has now done his fastest first sector on a lap off | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
camera now, and the fastest person crossing the start finish line, just | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
over 200 mph. It has now been eclipsed by Alonso on these medium | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
tyres. Yes, they are working well for him in that first sector, as | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
Daniel Ricciardo gets right out of the way of Fernando Alonso. Seen | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
plenty of wheel-to-wheel dicing between those two this season. | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
Looking good so far. Nice through Lesmo, a 4-wheel power slide, it | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
looked very neat and tidy through Lesmo two. Now he has the Ascari | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
chicane, you need to carry a lot of speed into it, but not too much to | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
bounce over the curve, and a little bit quicker. And then he needs a | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
clean exit out for the one kilometre run down towards Parabolica. | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
The power delivery of the Ferraris is looking good. It seems to be | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
putting the power down more smoothly. Lets see what his corner | :45:37. | :45:43. | |
time is like. Runs wide. Just on the limit. That's 13 kilometres an hour | :45:44. | :45:57. | |
faster than Maldonado and the same as another driver. It is not enough | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
to put him ahead of Lewis Hamilton. He lost two tenths between Ascari | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
and through the last corner and Parabolica in comparison to Lewis | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
Hamilton. Let's just, we're riding on board with Alonso now. This lap | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
maybe a kind of regeneration lap and then he may well go again. We will | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
have to wait and see. As we heard from Christian Horner with these | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
hybrid systems, you can't go and do two flat out-laps one after the | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
other? Well, you can do it, but you don't have the maximum boostment you | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
don't have the amount of extra energy that you ideally need. You're | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
better to store the energy up on your out-lap go for it on one lap | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
and build the energy store up to maximum and go again while your tyre | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
has got life in it. Kimi Raikkonen has gone out on the medium compound | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
tyre. Max Chilton is still on the harder compound tyre, but he put in | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
a couple of personal best sector times. That's why we're keeping an | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
eye on him. His team-mate, Jules Bianchi is a fraction faster at this | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
point. Kimi Raikkonen is on a lap at the moment. On the medium compound | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
tyre, but nobody else has gone out on that tyre yet. Max Chilton does | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
improve. He goes ahead of his team-mate by 100ths of a second. | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
That's all the difference there is between Max Chilton and Bianchi. Max | :47:19. | :47:28. | |
Chilton raced here in three Formula 3. He felt comfortable at this Monza | :47:29. | :47:35. | |
circuit. Looking into the pit garage of Jenson Button as he waits for the | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
opportunity to come out and do his qualifying simulation run. Alonso | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
did a 1 minute 40 and now he is back on it again. | :47:46. | :47:53. | |
TEAM RADIO: Left switch. Left switch. He has got to turn through | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
the first corner, I think he was on, whichever that left switch is. But | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
he just dragged that into the second chicane there and lost the rear a | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
little bit as we watch Gutierrez coming up on Sutil. His eyes were | :48:09. | :48:11. | |
dragged to where his team-mate was going to go and an odd situation | :48:12. | :48:17. | |
there, but Alonso was really pushing the edge of the limit with this | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
second run on the tyre. He has got that Ascari chicane. Comes to the | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
middle of circuit. Underbraking and he is three tenths slower than he | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
was on his flying lap. He is not getting the sector times on this | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
flying lap. He is not as quick as he was than on his first flying lap. | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
Maybe that's to do with track temperatures, but it doesn't seem to | :48:43. | :48:44. | |
be delivering second time around. This is useful information for all | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
the teams, of course. Yes. And he is going into the pits, so he has | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
aborted the lap and popping into the pits. Kimi Raikkonen is the one to | :48:55. | :48:57. | |
watch now. He is on his lap with his first flying lap on the softer tyre | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
with the white side walls, the medium compound. Into Parabolica. A | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
bit of understeer there. The front of the car didn't hook in. It | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
transferred to oversteer as he has gone on the power. The paint looks | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
to be slippery still, but there is more rubber going don't to it as | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
Kimi Raikkonen's third. Just over half a second behind Hamilton. Yes, | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
and Four tenths slower than his team-mate at the same time on the | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
softer tyre. He won't be happy about that, I don't think, he lost a bit | :49:30. | :49:32. | |
to Fernando Alonso in similar conditions. So not ideal for Kimi | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
Raikkonen. But we will see what he can do if he does another second run | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
on those tyres. Lewis Hamilton in the car all happy, but Nico Rosberg | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
is unable to do anymore laps as his car is being worked on. It is | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
affecting Nico Rosberg's preparation for qualifying and although Hamilton | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
had the problems yesterday, it is Nico Rosberg who is having to stand | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
on the sidelines as he waits for the car to be fixed and Sergio Perez is | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
back after having abandoned his car out on track and looking concerned | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
and hoping that they won't have to execute a gearbox change on his car | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
which would give him a penalty on the grid. Valtteri Bottas is | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
currently fifth fastest. Are Williams going to sacrifice any of | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
their race pace that they showed strongly on Friday afternoon for | :50:23. | :50:24. | |
qualifying pace? That's got to be the question. It doesn't look as if | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
they have got the frontline qualifying pace, but let's wait and | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
see when they put the softer tyre on. Here is Adrian Sutil in the | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
Sauber and a team that's been fighting at lower end of the order | :50:37. | :50:39. | |
and once again, there is Sutil fighting with the handling of the | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
car! Yes, this is another team that has not been able to transform the | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
form that they had at the end of 2013 into 2014 and not been able to | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
pick it up. They gained a little bit from the German Grand Prix onwards, | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
but it has only been marginal. At the beginning of the season they | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
were struggling. Now, they're firmly into the bottom end of, I should say | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
between tenth and 15th, but there is no way of them getting into the top | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
ten. They are reasonably matched the two Sauber team-mates. Sutil has the | :51:16. | :51:25. | |
upper hand. 7-5 in favour of the more experienced of the two drivers. | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
Gutierrez the lighter weight, but Sauber have been able to save weight | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
on the car. It started the season heavy, but they managed to get it | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
down to the weight limit. You can see on that lap, he has not done | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
anything special. He is on the harder compound tyre. We are seeing | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
Hulkenberg come out on the softer tyre. Bianchi's time is only a | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
fraction slower than Maldonado as well. So it will be close at that | :51:53. | :51:59. | |
back group as we are seeing up at the front as well. The Caterhams | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
seem to be struggling. Grosjean in between the two Caterham drivers. | :52:07. | :52:16. | |
There is a few former Ferrari drivers around. That was Fishkella | :52:17. | :52:27. | |
there on microphone. Unlike Friday afternoon, you are only going to get | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
one flying lap out of these tyres. That seems to be the case. It puts a | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
lot of pressure on the driver to maximise that first flying lap | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
especially the brake nothing the first and the second chicanes. They | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
can't afford a lock-up because you know if you have to abort and go | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
again you have lost a couple of tenths. Ferrari are second and third | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
and they are waiting for Hamilton to use the softer tyre. There is Ron | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
Dennis. They have a little bit of time. Button and Magnussen will be | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
coming out on circuit. Hulkenberg has gun to the tyres already -- gone | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
to the tyres already. When he was driving for Sauber he qualified | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
third at this track. It shows you the difference between a year. | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
Sauber is struggling to get anywhere near the top ten, but he was third | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
here last year on the grid and finished in fifth place. He is back | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
with Force India. He is having a good year. There is only one race he | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
failed to score points. Let's see what this lap is like Allan. He is | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
exiting Ascari. Uses the road. It's kind of an average lap. It is not a | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
fantastic lap I have to say. He is three tenths off in the middle | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
sector and he is another three tenths after in comparison to Lewis | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
Hamilton on the used hard tyre. Hamilton did 16 laps on that tyre. | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
Nice and clean out of Parabolica to cross the line. And he goes a little | :54:04. | :54:11. | |
bit quicker, but not much. Not the gain that you would have expected in | :54:12. | :54:14. | |
his last sector. He was a fraction slower than he had been on the hard | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
compound tyre. No real gain found by Hulkenberg despite going to the | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
softer of the two compounds. Maybe he will back off and try to go once | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
more. Felipe Massa, who, of course, has always been a fans favourite | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
here when he was driving for Ferrari, now he drives for Williams, | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
but there is a lot of affection for the Brazilian and now McLaren begin | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
to send their cars. Jenson Button is on his way. Alonso has gone back on | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
to the track. Daniel Ricciardo is out on circuit now with the softer | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
tyre on. Yeah, he is going to do a practise start. We will try and | :54:51. | :55:01. | |
close in and see how this sounds. Magnussen following him through. | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
Yeah, he was quick to get on with the programme and get out on to the | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
circuit. Remember, when he did that at the beginning of the session, he | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
struggled for a couple of laps to get the brakes and everything up to | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
temperature. He would want to make sure he kept residual temperature | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
into the tyres and not sit too long at the end of the pit lane. Daniel | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
Ricciardo, the man who has been such a star of recent ehaven'ts. Top | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
points scorer in the last six Grand Prix, three victories to his credit | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
and looking for a hat-trick this weekend. He won the last two Grand | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
Prix, one in Hungary and one in Spa. This is a power circuit and although | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
he has been able to pick up great results on power circuits due to | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
problems for other teams, it is unlikely that we will see the Red | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
Bull near the front in qualifying. He is trying to maximise the | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
temperatures into everything. He takes a different line than he will | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
on the flying lap out of Parabolica so he starts it with the maximum | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
speed crossing the start/finish line. This qualifying for Red Bull | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
is critical. If they get this right, they have got half a chance | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
tomorrow. If they don't, if they can't maximise their qualifying | :56:22. | :56:24. | |
speed and get in the mix, it will be hard for them with the strategy | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
looking to be a one stopper and their straight line speed. Hamilton | :56:31. | :56:41. | |
is fastest at 352 kilometres per hour. We have hit the 220mph mark at | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
this speed trap going down towards the first chicane, but Red Bull | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
giving up 14 kilometres an hour despite the little skinny wings that | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
they are running. This is where that hurts them. They can't take the | :56:58. | :57:02. | |
corners as fast because there is less downforce. The rear flap opens | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
up as he approaches Ascari and sector times, he is improving on | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
what he did on the hard tyre. He is getting a gain in performance | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
through both of the first two sectors, but he wouldn't be doing | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
enough to reach those top times, I think. Hamilton's time set on the | :57:19. | :57:25. | |
hard tyre, but Hamilton has come out on the medium compound tyre. He runs | :57:26. | :57:33. | |
very, very wide. Just allows the car to keep two wheels over that white | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
line on to the green and all the way over the kerb. It goes seven tenths | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
down. Hamilton's hard tyre time. Jenson Button will look at these. He | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
is going quick in the middle sector. So we have had Daniel Ricciardo | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
popping up fourth, but Jenson Button is on one here. What is worrying for | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
Red Bull, he is five tenths slower than Alonso, but that's a big | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
difference between Ricciardo and the Red Bull and Alonso and the Ferrari. | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
Big hitters from Ferrari. I want to see them replicate those times in | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
qualifying. The boss of Ferrari keeping an eye on what's going on | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
here this weekend. He is the President of Ferrari and there is a | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
lot of gossip about whether he will be holding that position for a great | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
deal longer. Jenson Button has gone third fastest on his medium compound | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
tyre. Faster than the Red Bull. It does look as if McLaren could | :58:27. | :58:28. | |
challenge Red Bull in terms of positions in the top ten here. Lewis | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
Hamilton though, let's see what he can do. He has gone fastest in the | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
middle sector. First sector though, not the quickest of all | :58:38. | :58:40. | |
interestingly. Let's just see where this brings him. It should be an | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
improvement in time. On the softer tyre. And it's not. It is a | :58:46. | :58:53. | |
1.25.745. We have got radio. TEAM RADIO: How is the balance? I | :58:54. | :59:01. | |
struggled with the rear in the low speed. I couldn't quite make much in | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
the first sector. Some feedback from Ricciardo. We saw this in Austria | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
where the Mercedes didn't pick up as much speed on the softer tyre as we | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
had been expecting and that brought Williams into the picture there. | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
Maybe that's going to allow Ferrari into the picture more in qualifying | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
at least for this Monza Grand Prix. That's one to watch. It shows | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
Alonso's time there. It is competitive. Valtteri Bottas popped | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
up into third place on his run. It still leaves Hamilton fastest on the | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
hard tyre and on the soft. From a race point of view he has both | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
options covered. Significantly quicker than anyone on the hard. | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
Massa has gone quickest on the first sector and quick in terms of the | :59:51. | :59:53. | |
straight line speeds. Massa coming up. Here we are on board with him | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
and he is still quickest as he enters into Ascari. This is fastest | :59:58. | :00:06. | |
than Hamilton's time. Hamilton has done a time. Massa is always rapid | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
over the one lap. There is no doubt about his single lap pace. He | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
outqualified Alonso here the last couple of years and he is teetering | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
a little bit there through Parabolica. He dropped a little bit | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
off on Ascari. He has got his personal best in sector one. It is | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
only enough for fourth place. Just half a tenth behind Valtteri Bottas. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
A very impressive lap from Alonso holds him in second place at the | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
moment. Ferrari, we were not expecting to see quite this level of | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
performance, but it is impressive. Button on another lap, holding on to | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
fifth place at the moment. His second lap on these tyres. The first | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
one popped up into third place. Remember we have seen everybody else | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
dropping back three tenths, give or take, on the second run. Let's see | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
if Button can do a bit more with it than the rest. He has a better first | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
sector than he had before, but the middle sector is not an improvement, | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
so let's see. It is a slight improvement, but it does not change | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
his position, still fifth, a 10th slower than Philippe Massa. One to | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
watch in a moment will be Sebastian Vettel, who has just gone on to his | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
flying lap. Ricciardo's flying lap was not so impressive, but can | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Sebastian Vettel get closer to the Ferraris? Making the comment that | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
the brakes are not very good, same as his team-mate. We don't know | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
whether it is another manufacturer or not, changing the brake material | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
at the start of the session because he did not feel a good consistency | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
or feedback from the pedal. Interesting, Hamilton not bad happy. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Rosberg has been saying all year he is not 100% happy with the braking. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Of course he is missing out on this chance to get some experience on the | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
softer tyres, a real feel for what it is like at the limit | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
underbraking. Riding with Bottas, he has gone for another quick lap. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Improving slightly, is it enough to go ahead of Alonso? Still third for | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
him. Missed out on the final sector, there. He was 1000th of a second | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
slower than he had been on his previous lap. He gained in the first | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
two sectors but lost over a 10th in the final sector, is that the tyres | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
giving up at the end? I think it is not being able to get the first | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
sector absolutely spot on, on the first lap, as opposed to anything | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
else. He seemed to be gaining on the first sector on the second lap. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Vettel has gone six, so not a lot quicker than Ricciardo, but a little | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
bit. There is an interesting... Nice to see the relationship between | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
Alonso and him. How real is that, we wonder. I think it is a genuine | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
emotion. Both are very Latin, we are in Monza, home ground of Ferrari. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
There will be an element of relief as well that they are somewhat | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
competitive. Ferrari came into this with all of the statements... As | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Hamilton fires it through Ascari. All of the statements that this | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
would be a hard weekend for them. Hamilton has the fastest middle | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
sector of anybody, so he could improve on his second flying lap on | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
these tyres. Button going quicker again, a third flying lap, I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
believe, for Button. Hamilton currently fastest. Could he go a bit | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
quicker? Yes. So he does gametime on the softer compound tyre, but only | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
his second flying lap. Button on his third flying lap, let's see whether | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the McLaren can gain some more. Nico Rosberg trying to learn as much as | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
he can from all of the sector times appearing on the screens. Ron Dennis | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
will have seen the improvement. Kevin Magnussen currently 11th, on a | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
lap at the moment. Definitely a bit off Jenson Button at this stage. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
29.6 in the middle sector, it is reasonable. Let's see whether Kevin | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Magnussen will make an improvement from his current 11. Oh, he really | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
runs it wide that time. He did, he got a kick right at the point where | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
he needed to pull the car back and lost a bit. Jenson Button is behind | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
him, and Jenson Button will be coming across the line in a second | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
or two. I don't think it will be a quick lap overall, but definitely a | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
quicker first section. Kvyat on a lap, this puts intense at the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
moment, impressive. He goes eighth. But remember he will have a temper | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
his penalty on the grid because of going to his six engine. -- he will | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
have a ten place penalty. And that was Kevin Magnussen, presumably that | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
was the lap we picked up, but we had not seen that. We did see this | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
mistake through Parabolica. Very quick entry, lost the rear early, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and got a bit wide and lost it again as he was trying to get back onto | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the fossil. Just a little bit too fast on entry -- onto the throttle. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Is that a classic case of over driving the car? A classic case. One | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
minute before you start to go into qualifying and you throw caution to | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
the wind. You can do that because there is the run-off area, a get out | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
of jail free card. Without doubt I would take that risk as well. Look | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
at the speed trap, Hamilton with quite a big margin over the other | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Mercedes powered car, Valtteri Bottas. Just shows you how they have | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
balance out the power against the downforce on the cars, so running | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
very low drag setups. The chequered flag is now out on this session. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
RADIO: Kevin, relative to Jensen, losing a couple of tenths in each | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
sector, we will try to give you more feedback. Bit of work to be done, | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
but that's what it's all about in practice, see if they can convert | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
that when it comes to qualifying itself. Hamilton has ended up | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
fastest in this third practice session of the weekend. One minute | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
25.5 is the time he achieved. We were never able to see what Nico | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Rosberg could have done. Interestingly, Sebastian Vettel was | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
fastest here last year in practice doing, on a 1:20 4.3. Just over a | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
second away from what was achieved here 12 months ago. Hamilton | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
fastest, Alonso second, and that's an impressive lap time from Fernando | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Alonso. It really shows that Ferrari could challenge for a high starting | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
position. And Nico Rosberg, he will see how close the times and it will | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
be a concern because it means that if you make a little mistake here, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
even driving a Mercedes, you could easily be pushed down the order by | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
the likes of Bottas, Massa, maybe even Button. Hamilton certainly | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
getting the rub of the green so far today, as he has ended up fastest in | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
this first session. Alonso second, Bottas third, Massa has been fourth | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
fastest. Of course none of this counts towards the grid as yet, it | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
is qualifying that matters. The times are very close between Button | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
and Vettel. Kevin Magnussen seemed to be struggling a little bit for | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
pace coming he was 11th fastest out of what would be qualifying free, of | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
course. Gutierrez, that is actually quite impressive in the Sauber. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Remember that Sergio Perez never had an opportunity to put the softer | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
tyres on. Jules Bianchi did well, faster than both of the Lotus | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
vehicles. Very impressive. A bit quicker than his team-mate Chilton. | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Nico Rosberg not getting any times in as a result of gearbox problems. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
He did three installation laps earlier in the session but nothing | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
more. Hamilton ends up fastest in final practice and Rosberg has | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
problems at the start of the qualifying day here at Monza. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
A difficult morning for Nico Rosberg, but I imagine quite a few | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
smiles inside Williams at the moment. The chief technical officer | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
joins me. Tell us about the mood in the camp after what you saw on track | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
this morning? Pretty good. We expected to be pretty competitive | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
here. It is very close, isn't it? From behind the Mercedes, Ferrari | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
and ourselves battling, McLaren joining in this weekend. So it is | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
going to be tight. How much of a surprise is it that we seem to be | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
coming to the circuit and teens which we didn't necessarily imagine | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
would be performing so well, even though they do have the engine for | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
somewhere like Monza, have suddenly turned up and seem to be | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
competitive? That is the thing, it is Monza, it is different to most of | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
the circuit. It is power, drag, that are really important here. Downforce | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
maybe not. Maybe that's an overstatement. But you will see a | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
slight change in the pecking order on a circuit like this. Even when we | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
have gone to circuits when we thought power was important like | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Canada or Spa, Red Bull seem to have done well, although circumstances | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
last week in Spa may be played into their hands. I think it did. Spa is | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
a bit of a con demise on both, you need a car with good downforce in | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
high-speed corners. Red Bull still have a very good chassis. The three | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Bottas said yesterday that he would be aiming for the podium, as always, | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
it would just depend what steps. Is that how high confidence is with | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Valtteri at the moment? Absolutely, and that is the confidence of | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Williams, and that is what we are racing for, podium positions. A | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
couple of times this year I feel we have not been able to pick up when | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Mercedes have not had their best days. We have got to make sure we | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
are not in that position, make sure we are always there, always behind | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
and ready to just take those points. I hope for a win before the end of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the season. We know how strong Felipe is around here, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
out-qualifying Fernando in the last couple of years, he loves this | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
circuit. What is his feeling? Good. The car is well balanced and we have | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
a nice, I is between speed and grid. He was right with Valtteri and there | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
was nothing to change between them. Are we expecting any surprises this | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
afternoon, do you think? I don't think so. I think we are sort of | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
shooting for the second row. It is tight, as I said earlier, but I | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
don't think there will be any big surprises. Just explain what happens | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
with the team between now and qualifying starting, because there | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
is not long. There isn't. We go through everything we have done this | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
morning, we have done more setup work and we decide on the final bit | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
of tuning, make sure we discuss every lap, think about the traffic | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
in qualifying, make sure we have the tyres that right. It is absolute | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
attention to detail now. Thank you very much for joining us this | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
morning. We are going to walk around here, because Allan McNish is here | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
at the back of the Williams garage, which is pretty tight, especially | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
with everybody trying to work on the tyres. Pirelli getting down to | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
business behind us. Interesting session, and some misfortune for | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
some of the bigger names. Nico Rosberg lost out today, it was Lewis | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Hamilton who lost out yesterday, both of them lost different things. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Nico Rosberg lost the critical qualifying simulation and Lewis | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Hamilton lost the feel for what the tyres are going to be like in the | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
long run. Personally I think Lewis Hamilton has more of a psychological | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
advantage, because he is tuned in for qualifying, and knows what the | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
car will need to be like in a slightly hotter condition. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Alternately for Mercedes it has been perfect, there have been some | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
problems -- ultimately. As Pat said, Williams have got to be there when | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
those problems do arise. Right here I think is the best option, best | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
chance of a victory. Paddy Lowe is with Tom Clarkson at the moment. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
What else can you tell others about the gearbox problem of Nico Rosberg? | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
An electronic problem which is affecting the gear shifts. It kind | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
of works, but it doesn't set itself up properly. The all-important | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
question, will you have to replace the gearbox and will he get a | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
penalty? No, we don't think he will get a penalty, we are just changing | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
part. Pretty confident it will be fine for qualifying. Who has the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
bigger task? Lewis Hamilton missed an hour yesterday afternoon, Nico | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Rosberg effectively missed an hour this morning, whose shoes would you | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
rather be in? It is not great for either of them to miss time. Very | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
disappointed to have lost that time for them. Difficult to call. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Probably worse to lose today, to be honest. Why is it that you are | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
having these technical issues at this race track? It has not been a | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
clean weekend. Is it related to the high top speeds we are seeing, three | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
quarters of the lap at full throttle? Totally unrelated to the | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
circuit, they are just two issues that we haven't ever seen before. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
One of them and engine faults, could have happened on any of the other | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
seven Mercedes engines, unfortunately happened on Lewis's. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Gearbox issue not something we have seen before, but we will sort it | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
out. Quick look at a qualifying, the times look close this morning, I | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
assume you are keeping your powder dry? We ran a pretty normal strategy | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
to be honest. As we have done through the weekend. So yeah, I | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
think we will see where we end up this afternoon. Lewis had a very | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
good run on the prime tyres and the option, so we are reasonable | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
confident we can get a result this afternoon. They don't seem to get it | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
right in twos, it seems to be either Lewis Hamilton's day or Nico Rosberg | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
pars. But at least it doesn't sound like Nico Rosberg will get a | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
penalty. They will obviously do everything they can to avoid that | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
penalty. Lewis Hamilton had 18 run. He didn't gain the lap time | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
advantage I expected on the option, it looked to be a little less. But | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
it was a clean lap that he did get, nice in the breaking into the second | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
chicane, here. Go down the gears, hit the kerb on the left, tried to | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
hit the kerb on the right but be careful not to go to far over before | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
the exit and you run up into Lesmo one, and then Lesmo two. You can see | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
the shadows on the track from the trees around here. We know they made | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
some changes to Parabolica, how do you think the drivers have been | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
handling it? Well, they have been attacking into | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
it more. But the Ascari chicane is the one now. As he comes through | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
here nice and cleanly, the important part is to be smooth on this exit. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
You can run all four wheels off, but now with Parabolica you will see | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
that you can attack much, much more into it. And this is where Lewis | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Hamilton, I was standing on the right-hand side yesterday, he was | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
deep on the brakes and he got down into fourth gear and squeezed on the | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
throttle. We have seen people using the run off area and that's allowed. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
Lewis Hamilton will need to do more if he is going to get pole position | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
this afternoon. He will be looking for a clean qualifying and hopeful | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
pole position because that's not happened since back to the beginning | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
of May at the Spanish Grand Prix. When Lewis is in a bad place, he | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
goes back to his family and friends. Anthony Hamilton is speaking to | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Jennie. Anthony Hamilton. It is good to see you and you are probably | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
pleased to be here to watch your son? Yes, it is nice to be in sun | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
for a change. I saw you smiling away when Lewis posted that fast time. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
How is he feeling? He is in a really good space actually. I think he is | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
feeling really good. I think performances this weekend will be | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
reliable I would like to think. 29 points is the difference. How big do | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
you think that is? You know, it is not huge, is it? It looks like it is | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
a mountain to climb, but there is seven races left and you have got to | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
be positive every time you go out on the track and that's probably one of | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Lewis' strengths. This weekend, I think he has come back with a view | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
that there is all to play for still. You have had a lot to deal with this | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
season together. He confides in you a lot. Silverstone was a big hurdle. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
How has the last two weeks been for you and him? They have been normal | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
weeks to be quite honest. Life is full of turbulent ups and downs and | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
positives. He had a really good couple of weeks and so have we. I | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
would like to think every time Lewis comes to the race, it is a new start | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
and that's what it has got to be, you can't afford to carry all the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
stuff from the past. Do you think he can be a world champion this year? | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Are you still believing? I am Lewis' biggest believer. I think we're | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
going to win it this year. Well, best of luck. If you don't think | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
like that well you will never win anything. You have got to be | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
positive. He has got to nail this qualifying session. I think he will | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
be fine. I think he will be good today. Thank you very much. Nice to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
see you. Nice to see you too. Lots of optimism in the Hamilton camp. It | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
was a tough qualifying session for Sergio Perez. Did his car get stuck | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
in second gear? He couldn't go down or up. It is not as if you have got | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
a stick shift. Once it is in that position there is little the driver | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
can do and that put him out of it. He lost Friday morning as well. He | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
gave his car to a test driver. In reality only did 13 laps yesterday | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
morning and this is a setback for them. These guys are quick in the | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
straights and they have got a good raceable car. They are in a huge | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
battle with McLaren. McLaren sneaked past them and this is a battle that | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
will rumble on until the end? Clearly, I have to say McLaren have | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
been the one that have been moving forward. Around here they are more | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
competitive. Jenson Button has been really good today. Yesterday, he had | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
the legs on Kevin Magnussen, but he was putting in some nice, neat times | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
and the thing for me that was impressive, he was able to do it in | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
the second and third lap on the tyre whereas others were dropping off. | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
That bodes well for him and he is revelling in something that he feels | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
in the car now. We're standing in the glorious sunshine here in Monza, | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
but it has been stormy, not only at Spa, but since Spa. Yesterday, Toto | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
Wolf has been explaining since that battle. What are the rules of | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
engagement this weekend? Don't hit your team-mate! Judging by your pace | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
during practise, you look to have an aadvantage over one lap which means | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
your car will be on the front row of the grid. If it happens again, what | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
happens then? Well, you know, we are optimistic and we had a good | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
discussion. I doubt it will happen again. So you know, there has been | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
lots of speculation what would happen, if it would happen, let's | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
not discuss that yet. It is too controversial. Speculation driven by | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
you because you said to the BBC yesterday actually that if they | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
cannot do the job properly for you in the spirit of Mercedes-Benz you | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
will look to change the driver line-up? The question is what would | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
you do if they continue to crash into each other and my response was | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
if they continue to crash into each other then we have to think about | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
the line-up. How important is a German driver for Mercedes? We are a | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
global company and we have big markets and a brand which is shining | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
all over the world and this is why it is not important which | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
nationality is sitting in the car. A lot has been made of the way the | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
drivers are dealing with it on track. Can we talk about the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
management and the way you guys dealt with it? First of all how | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
would you describe your management style? Well, you know, it is always | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
very difficult to describe your own management style. You know, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
everybody has ups and downs. Sometimes you are emotional and you | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
are less emotional. The most important thing is to be authentic | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
and to continue to manage things the way you have always do it. Sometimes | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
you will do it in a good way. Sometimes you will find out | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
afterwards it wasn't perfect. We are all very emotional about the sport | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
and emotions have driven us to where we are today. Motivation is part of | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
an emotion and it is a strong emotion and this is why I believe | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
generally that's important for the team. And if you could go back in | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
time two weeks, would you have done anything differently in the | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
aftermath of the Spa race? I'm not sure I would have answered your | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
question back in Spa! You know, that was a very intense moment. Could I | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
have reacted? I could have made a face less like that's me! Good luck, | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
thank you. Thank you. Toto Devil Face Wolff. Mercedes are a global | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
brand and yet they seem to want to interact with the public, Twitter. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
This weekend they are using a hashtag no sparring and they asked | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
last weekend what the public thought of what happened on track between | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Nico and Lewis. Do you think that's right? They said to the public if | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
you were running the team, what would you do? Personally, I thought | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
that was a risky strategy because they might have got back information | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
they didn't want to hear! But Toto is an open person and Nicky lauder | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
is an open person. Toto says what he feels. It is run by emotion and we | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
are here because someone has got the passion and drive and I don't think | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
he can change his natural way of doing things and there's his | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
management style and it allowed great racing. No questions about it. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
But there does have to be a calming hand on the situation every now and | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
again and for me, the lines to say if they keep crashing into each | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
other then we might have to look at the driver line-up was a shot across | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
the bows to remind both drivers who the actual boss was and what the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
most important thing was which was a Mercedes-Benz Carwyns the grand -- | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
car wins the Grand Prix. The man in charge of Ferrari and when he turns | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
up at Monza, it is like the king has arrived. He has his security. He is | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
mobbed. Everybody here loves him. It is difficult to put that into | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
prospective how big a name that he is even though he is a team boss. He | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
goes on to the pit wall. He walks across to the garage and gets into a | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
big conversation. There is a lot of love between Fernando Alonso and the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
boss. Whenever we get to Monza there is always talks of rumours | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
particularly with Ferrari and the rumour in Ferrari HQ is president | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
boss may not be so for too much longer. Has it got gravitas? We can | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
hear from an Italian journalist and he can tell us his thoughts about | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
what is happening in Ferrari. We're hearing talk about changes at | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
the top of Ferrari. The stories are coming from the Italian media. What | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
can you tell us? I tell you that it seems that it is true this time | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
after said the same story for many, many years, without the boss moving. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
It time it seems that it is the right time for him to move. I don't | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
know if he will resign or if he will be resigned, but anyway it seems the | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
end of the story. Nevertheless, he is coming here today tomorrow and he | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
will deny everything, but it seems after more than 20 years it is | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
logical. He wants to have, I don't say other challenges like everybody, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
like all the sportsmen say, but adult quality of life I suppose. | :25:26. | :25:39. | |
Fiat wants to continue him as boss waiting for another man to put in | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
that top position, but it will take a while between the two nominations. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
You know, it's a big mess because he has been a big part of Ferrari. He | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
is the hero of the modern Ferrari. Can you put a time scale on this? | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Can we expect an announcement tomorrow? No, I don't think the time | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
is fixed. He wants to be the man that announces the best results ever | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
by the economical point of view of Ferrari on the level of investment, | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
turnover, profits and he will do that before the Paris Motor Show | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
that starts at the beginning of October. So he wants to take first | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
this satisfaction and then, I think, the time will be mature to find | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
another solution between October and Christmas time. How will his | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
departure affect the Formula One team? I think that nothing will | :26:52. | :27:06. | |
change. Even Ferrari died and the Formula One team continued. They | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
will continue because you cannot change a manager every two weeks | :27:11. | :27:30. | |
like they do in football teams, but we don't know. He needs to create | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
his own experience and then we will be in a position to judge him in a | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
year. It is difficult to judge a man in a hysterical way after two | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
months. Formula One, it is a sport of long times. It would be unfair to | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
say the next man is good or is not good. | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
We should listen with care to what he says. Interesting as well, he | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
likens it to football, you can't be changing managers all the time. But | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Luca has been there for a long time? He is a stalwart of not just | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
Ferrari, but Formula One. He helped direct the position that Formula One | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
has gone in the past with a very, very strong hand and a lot of | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
passion and heart, but ultimately, it sounds like there is a little bit | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
more to this story than there has been in previous years. He will be | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
difficult to replace. Big shoes to fill? Yes, very, very big shoes. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Ferrari haven't been winning for a long time. Somebody who won his | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
World Championship with McLaren 40 years ago, can you believe, is this | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
man. How alive are the memories standing at such an iconic circuit | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
like Monza? It is always very special to be in Monza. I think | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
everybody who comes to Monza has extra emotions because the place, | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
the Italian fan, the Ferrari history, it is always great to be | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
here. Can you believe it is 40 years since you won that championship? | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
Well, it was 40 years, but it feels like a few years ago and again, it | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
was a battle between Ferrari and McLaren. It was Nicky Lauder. You | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
have still got a lot of passion. You are still young at heart, tell me | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
the name is still going on. You have your nephew leading the American | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
Sports Car Championship. But tell us about your grandson? It is great to | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
have both racing and doing well. They have pressure because of the | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
name and they have to perform. One is doing the Formula Renault in | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
England and I hope he can clinch the championship. I'm proud to have my | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
grandchild doing well. Now, I feel old! I did his first interview when | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
he was six years old. What did you make last week at Spa of the | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
incident between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton and who is the | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
strongest to win this? They are pushing a little too hard. | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
At the beginning of the race, if it was the last lap, the last corner, | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
yes, but they are pushing the envelope. They want to win the | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
championship. And I think that's part of the show. Mercedes left it | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
open for the deciders to decide what to do -- for the drivers. Great for | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
the racing fans, great for the championship. Lewis is more | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
emotional. He is a fantastic driver. Nico is more cool, consistent. But | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
each has his own style and it's great for motorsport to have these | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
guys. I like the new Formula One, a lot of overtaking this year, more | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
than ever. I enjoy it. It has been lovely to be to you, thank you very | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
much for joining us today. In fact Lewis Hamilton has not have easy | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
qualifying sessions. We have to go back to Spain in May since he had a | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
concession. Let's look at some of these ones. Monaco, we all know what | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
happened. Yes, this was Nico Rosberg coming down into the corner, he | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
basically locked up, and it meant a yellow flag, you can see Nico | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
Rosberg on the left, he could not go faster. He felt Nico Rosberg, his | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
team-mate, did this on purpose, and it rattled him. Moving on to Canada. | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
We think of this as Lewis Hamilton's playground. Yes, stop | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
start with chicanes. He didn't quite execute it as he had. This was the | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
big spin in Austria. In reality in the previous run he was already | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
quickest, and attacked too much in turn eight, and got a penalty taken | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
away. It was a big, big disaster. Ultimately I think Silverstone was | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
the one. That was a low point. You can see Nico Rosberg going past | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
Lewis Hamilton, he aborts, he thought he had done enough on a wet | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
track. He had not. And also he gave his team-mate a draft down the | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
straight to help him to pole position. He said this was the worst | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
weekend of his life will stop ultimately the brake failure in | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
Hockenheim, he could not do anything about that. You are in the lap of | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
the gods. Off into the barrier. Great recovery in the race but it | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
was a recovery. Ultimately we get to Budapest, Fire on the first lap of | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
qualifying. You just see his frustration, and he cannot believe | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
it has gone wrong once again. So he goes off, has a lovely holiday, | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
comes back after the break, and he must be having thoughts heading into | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
this qualifying session, can it be right? How mentally strong is he? | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
Very strong mentally when things are going his way, when things have gone | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
against him then it seems to boil up inside him. Sometimes it overflows | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
in terms of his reactions, and in terms of the way he attacks. I think | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
his father said pretty well, this could be a good weekend for him, as | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
Nico Rosberg lost in the practice session this morning, and the last | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
preparation before going into qualifying. How much will that be on | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
the mind of Nico Rosberg? He has a solid mind but it is definitely | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
there. The key is to start on pole position and the run into the first | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
corner. It will certainly be exciting. I hope we don't have to | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
see Toto Wolff's devil face any more. We have live qualifying and | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
the build-up coming up in just 40 minutes on BBC1. It has been a long | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
time since Lewis Hamilton has had a poor position, could it be very | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
shortly? -- pole position. Thanks for watching, good I. | :34:00. | :34:01. |