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In Monza, power is one of the priorities. My aim is to still be

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within 15 points in Abu Dhabi and I think there could be a chance. I

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want to keep concentrating on driving and enjoy the moment. I feel

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fit and ready, and I know I have a good car.

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Hamilton is being swamped, as Nico Rosberg makes a meteoric getaway.

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Hamilton has got some work to do, he is down in fourth position. Kevin

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Magnussen, Massa has got him already and now Lewis Hamilton will try to

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line up the McLaren. Rosberg has gone straight on. Nico Rosberg has

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made a big mistake. Hamilton is getting closer. He is through. That

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was another brilliant piece of racing. Hamilton has gained a

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massive amount on Rosberg. This is a psychological battle. Rosberg has

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carried on. Surely this is Hamilton's chance to take the lead

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of the Grand Prix. Hamilton is in front! And now a retirement from

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Alonso. On home turf as well. Daniel Ricciardo takes him. Ricciardo

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behind the Force India, he sold him a dummy and he takes fourth place.

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Can his team-mate show him how it can be done? He will have the inside

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line for the next chicane. He comes back on the inside and he has done

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it again. There is no doubt who has the psychological edge now, it is

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Lewis Hamilton. RADIO: Thanks, guys, that was a great result and a great

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recovery. The pressure builds as the Formula

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One wheel turns to the business end of the season. Welcome to qualifying

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under the night sky in Singapore. With these finely tuned young

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gentleman. What a prospect we have ahead, one of the more difficult

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races on the calendar? It is indeed, 23 corners under the

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humidity of the street circuit, bumpy and mentally demanding. You

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can expect to see few red faces at the end and that is not from

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embarrassment. Maybe a few surprises. Only six events until the

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world champion is crowned and Rosberg is leading the standings, so

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does he have the edge? He does because he is the one out in front.

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All of the rest have to catch up. If he keeps his nose clean and he

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finishes on the podium in all of those remaining races, I think the

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Crown will be his. Only six remaining to find out. The last race

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in Monza we were talking about the Ferrari president stepping down and

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it has happened. He was a big supporter and our father, and this

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Ferrari has been so successful in Ferrari with so many championships,

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and it was a big reference for Ferrari. We are in a big process of

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change. We hope that the changes will have a stronger Ferrari and we

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wish him good luck in the future. In business, and good luck to the new

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president. Those are the thoughts of Fernando Alonso. Was it the right

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time to go? Absolutely. The season and in fact the last number of

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seasons has not gone well, Luca is a proud man, not just in motor racing

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but previously in the World Cup, we know what he did. His legacy is

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intact and he has left at the right time. When we arrived all of the

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chat was about the team radio ban and the FIA have issued certain

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subjects which are not allowed. Like some of the ones we are seeing here,

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but essentially it is a ban on driver coaching. What are your

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thoughts? I have heard both sides of the story and I think it is a bit of

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a red herring. The fact is that we have radio available to give

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information to the drivers and I can understand it is making it to easy,

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but I think that view is nonsense, you still have to drive it quickly

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whether you are given the permission or not. Whether they are getting the

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information from the radio or in some other form, they will still get

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the information about making adjustments. In 2015 there will be

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more things that are not allowed to be discussed but there is more to

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come. The other big discussion has been three cars per team from Bernie

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Ecclestone, what are your thoughts on that? What does it mean for the

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smaller teams go to mark this is a typical Bernie Ecclestone situation.

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-- teams? It is disrespectful and it does not embrace the movement in

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Formula One, these three teams at the back signed a Concorde agreement

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and they have done everything correctly and they have contracts

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with staff, drivers, suppliers, and with sponsors and to single them out

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is disrespectful firstly, and it does not show the support that they

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should be getting from Bernie Ecclestone at this moment. One other

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thing: I think it is the manufacturers, those other people

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that have left in Formula One. -- those are. Teams run by supporters

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and people like myself, it is now the time for everyone to support

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those people. Strong views from Eddie. Let's find out what some of

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the team principals then. Three-car teams, do you support that idea? No,

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we believe it goes against the DNA of the sport and it is a depressing

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conversation for us to be having because it is a sign of a warning

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shot of things to come, and the state of some of the teams that I

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may be struggling in the sport at the moment, and I hope that is not

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the case. Running three cars would mean fewer teams on the grade which

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obviously we do not want. There is also the question of funding. There

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are many questions which could be raised and obviously we are very

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much in favour of supporting the sport, and if we had to run a third

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car we would do it. We want a minimum of ten teams. Fielding two

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cars, and keeping the fibre of who we are as a sport. We do not want to

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see four teams with three cars, that is not Formula One. We should try to

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have as many different teams as we can because in the third car, it is

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not a completely perfect system because you again have the danger

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that if you have one team which is extremely good compared to the

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others, their third car by definition will be better than the

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first and 2nd cars of other people and you may end up with a grid which

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is not ideal and maybe big names are further down the grid which they

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also cannot accept, so it is something to be careful about. Have

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you done the maths about how much more it would cost less to mark we

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have looked into it. -- cost? We might be obliged to run a third car

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if it happens but I think it is roughly 20 30 million. It is a of

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money. -- 20, 30 million. There is a clause which says that if there is

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only 19 cars on the grade then this can happen and we're not there yet.

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With 22 cars on the grid, this is how the championship looks. -- 19

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cars on the grid. Although Lewis has six wins he also has three

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retirements so Nico Rosberg with four victories Pat Symonds riding

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seat. Daniel Ricciardo is the top scorer from the last five races so

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he is in third. It is tight between Valtteri Bottas and Fernando Alonso.

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Sebastian Vettel has dominated previously in Singapore and he is in

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sixth. Mercedes are now getting closer to clinching the

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Constructors' Championship ahead of Red Bull. The tussle for third is

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being won by Williams. They have 15 points on Ferrari. And a single

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point separates McLaren from Force India in sick. So, very much a

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gruelling session ahead for the teams. And the drivers in this heat.

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And the humidity. Can anyone take it to Mercedes? Ferrari were showing

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good pace in free practice but insiders are expecting them to

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unleash more horsepower, Mercedes. They will be running in full

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qualifying mode. Red Bull will be on the back foot in the last two

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sectors. It is Formula One and anything can happen. That's right.

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And it was unusual for Mercedes not to be dominating the free practice

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session. Tom has the latest from the pit lane. It is only the fifth time

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that a Mercedes this year has not topped the final practice session

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and the team cannot give us a meaningful explanation, one engineer

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suggesting that Lewis and Nico deliberately drove slowly so as not

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to give the other driver the quick lap ahead of qualifying and that is

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how intense the relationship has become. For Fernando Alonso, topping

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two of the free practice sessions, he drove a brilliant lap to top the

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third practice session but it is unlikely that he will be able to

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maintain the pace because Mercedes will turn up their engines, and they

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will be battling it out in P-3. It is coming up in just a few seconds

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against the Singapore cityscape. Tom and Lee are in the pit lane and Tom

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and Ben other commentators. -- they are the commentators.

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COMMENTATOR: At the green countryside in Belgium and the

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woodlands of Monza, it is time for the concrete jungle of Singapore to

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provide the backdrop. We are going to lose six of the cars after this

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18 minute session. Tom has been scouting around to find information

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on the cut-off time. It looks like a 1.48.2 is what they are expecting

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the cut-off time to be. What will be fascinating is how many cars can get

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into Q2 on the prime time. If we take an average of the qualifying

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simulations that were done this morning, the difference between the

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tyres was 2.1 seconds and it has led Pirelli to say that they think only

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Mercedes can get through on the prime tyre. It will be close.

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Rosberg is going on to a quick lap and immediately going wide down the

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first section of corners. But this is a great overhead shot as he gets

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into the lap. It is a fantastic track. Entering turn five over the

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red and white paint onto the tarmac. It is different from last year where

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they had to stay more to the right, so the drivers will exploit every

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opportunity to find sometime. Heavy breaking down into turn seven and

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then he has gone wide. That is a mistake already. A mistake from Nico

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Rosberg, using the harder compound tyre. He gets it into reverse, we

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know that he can do that and he did it effectively in Monza. It is new

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material, so I wonder whether he was caught out. He got a good start into

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Turn 1 and a big Sturt axed up -- and it should be a fairly

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straightforward 90 degrees right hand turn. Just as in Monza he tries

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to release the brake. The front left locks up and he gets off the brake

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and it has carried the momentum through. I would suggest that is

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purely down to the new material which has not bedded in as he would

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have expected. That is Mrs Rosberg. It is much easier to get into

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reverse gear, it appears, than it used to be. I remember watching you

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and other drivers struggling to get it into reverse but Nico has

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perfected it. There have been several improvements in Formula One,

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you used you have to go into neutral and do a complicated sequence to get

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into reverse but there is just now button on the steering wheel.

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Catlike reactions to his mistake, but that will unsettle him slightly.

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It gives confidence to your team-mates when they see you making

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a mistake, and when you see your team-mate making a mistake, the

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consequences of that is unsettling the flow of how you want the session

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to go. Very much in this part of qualifying, this is about joining

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the dots. You expect your car to be quick enough, certainly in a

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Mercedes, that you will get through to the next part of qualifying and

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be in the top ten shoot out. It is just about getting a nice, safe

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lap. Another one locking up down into Turn 1, was that Hamilton? It

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was possibly grow John. I am looking at the circuit map. --

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Valtteri Bottas has set the initial pace. All of the teams currently

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using harder tyres. We are watching Sergio Perez in the Force India.

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Force India locked into that battle with McLaren in the constructors.

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Just one point separating the two teams. McLaren and Force India, both

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of them bringing update packages to their cars this weekend. The last

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opportunity to do that, big update in terms of increasing the amount of

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downforce on the cards as we go into the latter point of the season.

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Probably will not see many new parts appearing on the cars because they

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will be focused on next year 's machinery. Sergio Perez backing off,

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obviously felt that he made a mistake. You are watching Kimi

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Raikkonen at the moment. You can see the time is ticking away for

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Fernando Alonso. Raikkonen has been struggling for pace compared to his

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team-mate. We're riding on board with him. There is a little bit of a

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drop here. This is the only bit of elevation change. Yes, over the

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Anderson Bridge. Fairly straightforward section of corners.

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Kimi Raikkonen a couple of years ago in the Lotus was using that corner

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to good effect. It is a very wide circuit for a street circuit. It is

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not like Monte Carlo, where qualifying, you cannot get in front

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of the guy in front and make yourself a little bit wider. Taking

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that shallow line. The opportunity to overtake getting into the last

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chicane. That will now open out into the fastest corner on the track. It

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is a short left. Sergio Perez watching the last part of the lap

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for Kimi Raikkonen. He finished third here last year driving for

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Lotus. He goes fastest. But Fernando Alonso behind him immediately going

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wicker. 148.2. But, that is better than the back of one second that we

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saw earlier. Now, Valtteri Bottas is on a good lap. He will be one to

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watch. Lewis Hamilton is also on a lap. Not the fastest of all in the

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first sector. Not much difference between what Hamilton has done and

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what Valtteri Bottas has just done. Keep an eye on this from Lewis

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Hamilton. He is on the harder compound tyres. Yes, the first car

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running on the option tyres, Pastor Maldonado, he is in seventh.

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Hamilton with the outside left locking up. It is something that we

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have seen through the free practice, bit surprising, normally

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it is the inside wheel that locks up. When you have the outside wheel

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taking most of the load and locking, it shows fundamentally

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there is too much brake balance, too much load on the front axle. You are

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asking too much of the tyres, trying to take longer to and the lateral

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load. Let's have a look, turned 22 and 23. He goes fastest. 47.8. Not a

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huge margin over Alonso. We expect Red Bull to be around that as well.

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Felipe Massa crossing the line. Williams not showing quite the same

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format we have seen in other circuits. Of course, Williams

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managed to out-qualify Mercedes in Austria earlier this year when they

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were using a similar combination of tyres. Nico Rosberg slowed it down a

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moment ago. Trying to get out of the way. Then the Lotus going past him

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and locking up. Not sure which car that was. I think he was so

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surprised to take over another car he did not slow down. Confident on

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breaking. Understood. There is nothing going forwards. Do not know

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what is going on. COMMENTATOR: To prove that, Romain Grosjean going

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down the escape road. But they can get back to the pits and try to fix

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it. Hamilton is fastest, Alonso second, Raikkonen third. Still a few

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cars yet to set a lap time. Esteban Gutierrez is one of those, trying to

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get the car going as much as possible. He was good this morning,

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10th fastest. That was a surprising result, but was everybody giving it

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their all? That is still a question from earlier this afternoon, the

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first session. Esteban Gutierrez across the line and that is second

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quickest. He is on the super-soft tyres. That is why he is amongst

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some of the front running teams, but that is a pretty good lap from

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Esteban Gutierrez. One minute 47. That should certainly be safety seen

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through into the next part of qualifying. Also shows a little bit

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of track evolution. Pastor Maldonado, out of the way there.

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Used to seeing that brake disc blowing through the inside of the

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wheel. Maybe they have taken away some of the covering from the brake

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disc to try to get some more cooling in there. But you can see it going

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under the breaking. Esteban Gutierrez half a second quicker than

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free practice. That could be down to fuel, or they could have turned up

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the engine for the qualifying. But I think it shows us that even though

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track conditions under the spotlight should be a little bit more

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favourable, certainly times very similar. Pastor Maldonado is in

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ninth position at the moment but he is already on the super-soft tyres.

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It will be tough for him with that lap time, 49.0 will not be enough.

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Romain Grosjean is seventh currently. Looking at Kimi Raikkonen

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going out on the super-soft, and also Red Bull going out on those.

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You will only get one flying that on those tyres. It is quite an abrasive

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asphalt, and tyre warm up is crucial. Nico Rosberg is now going

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out on the super-soft. Mercedes are not risking it. They are sticking

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with the super-soft like everybody else. That is interesting, experts

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Nico Rosberg on the back foot. He will be using an extra set in

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qualifying, whereas Hamilton does not need to. Certainly first round

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has gone slightly to Lewis Hamilton. We wait to see whether Nico Rosberg

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will get through. You only need somebody to put it in the wall, and

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calculation will go out of the window. We're watching Sebastian

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Vettel. Just hitting the wall as he exits the turn. Using all of the

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road. He is looking through his practice on form. It is a track that

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he has won at an he is looking to get his season back on track. DRS is

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wide open as he goes along there. This might cost him time, this

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traffic. The caterer now moving out of the way, but very late. That will

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definitely have cost him some performance. -- the Caterham. They

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are shadowing each other's every move. Cannot risk that. It is so

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close and some important here, you cannot risk not getting through to

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Q2. We saw the signal from Sebastian Vettel, he was not impressed. It was

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the Toro Rosso of Daniel Kubiak, trying to get out of his way. You

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take that position on the track, and you want to get the car in the

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braking zone. -- Daniel Let's have a look at that now. Just

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important. Nico Rosberg getting out of the way. Coming through the

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traffic now. He gets away with it. Sorry, that Caterham was going to

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get in his way. Ricciardo going fastest. 147.4. Using the super-soft

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tyres. Sergio Perez is up to fourth position. Force India struggling,

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trying to get into the top ten. That is crucial for them. Hulkenberg

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butting a good lap together, quicker than Ricciardo. That is surprising.

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A very good lap from Nico Hulkenberg. Had some tough races

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recently, and he will want to put those behind him. Raikkonen, what

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can he do? He has qualified well in the past here. In 2008 he was third.

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But generally he has struggled. . He had only been in the top ten on one

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occasion in his fourth Grand Prix starts in Singapore, but he does

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race well here. It is a quick lap, he is up at the moment. Quick

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through the first two sectors. We can join him here. Coming through

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the first of what our three chicanes to end the lap. He has been lacking

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a little bit of front end by it. Is there any evidence that he has got

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some here? You can tell a lot by looking at his steering, how

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confident he is? Not so much more anywhere on this side. I think that

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Hulkenberg, one second quicker than he managed this morning in free

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practice. He will be happy with that. Let's have a look at what

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Raikkonen does. The time is improving rapidly. Seeing a big jump

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from what we saw earlier. The track conditions obviously are ideal. In

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the drop zone, Sebastian Vettel is there. Still waiting for him to put

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a lap together. He will be coming round in a moment to complete a lap.

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Jenson Button is second fastest. Jean-Eric Vergne has gone through

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fourth again. Here is Sebastian Vettel, he should leap up the order,

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and he goes fifth. Not as quick as Jean-Eric Vergne. The other Toro

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Rosso going seventh. In the drop zone, we have Adrian Sutil, Pastor

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Maldonado, Kamui Kobayashi, Jules Bianchi, Max Chilton and Marcus

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Ericsson. We ride on board with Alonso. Always impressive through

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that last turn. A massive power slide. Nice and tidy on this lap.

:24:28.:24:32.

Not as quick as Raikkonen. You know that Ferrari have got a quick car

:24:33.:24:37.

here today. Maybe they have gone for the qualifying setup. Hamilton is

:24:38.:24:42.

third fastest, that is enough to get through to the next stage of

:24:43.:24:47.

qualifying. Who is in danger at the moment? Felipe Massa is in danger.

:24:48.:24:53.

Only 16. Only 200th of a second between Felipe Massa and Adrian

:24:54.:24:56.

Sutil. There is danger for both of the Williams. Valtteri Bottas is

:24:57.:25:01.

only 14th, and he is only one tenth within the cut-off time. It is very

:25:02.:25:06.

tight in the 16 at the moment. 48.8 is what Felipe Massa has done. That

:25:07.:25:11.

is a big improvement for Valtteri Bottas. You would expect to see

:25:12.:25:15.

something similar coming up from Felipe Massa. We have only got just

:25:16.:25:19.

over one minute to go in this session. Valtteri Bottas will be

:25:20.:25:23.

relieved to have delivered that performance. Another quick note,

:25:24.:25:26.

Esteban Gutierrez has done a good job. 147.9. That should get the

:25:27.:25:37.

Sauber through, but the other one of those is in the drop zone. Felipe

:25:38.:25:40.

Massa going fast in the first sector. He should be, as we join him

:25:41.:25:46.

here, into that one. Let's see if he can take that. He had to finish this

:25:47.:25:51.

lap, he cannot afford to make a mistake and bail out now. That was a

:25:52.:25:56.

little bit of a lock-up. OK, he will not have lost too much. It looks

:25:57.:26:01.

like he got away with it. You do not want to do too much too these tyres.

:26:02.:26:06.

Getting into the more street circuit part of the lap. The chicane, the

:26:07.:26:14.

barrier, and those walls. He is on a decent looking lap, Felipe Massa.

:26:15.:26:17.

Podium finisher last time out. His first podium of the season with

:26:18.:26:22.

Williams. So far so good. Romain Grosjean is on a lap which look

:26:23.:26:26.

reasonable in the first sector. But he is already ahead of Felipe Massa

:26:27.:26:29.

in the standings. Romain Grosjean trying to get this part of

:26:30.:26:32.

qualifying. Pastor Maldonado, the other Lotus, is in the drop zone. We

:26:33.:26:37.

can see where Felipe Massa will put himself in the overall rankings. I

:26:38.:26:45.

think he is going to go safely through to the next part. That is

:26:46.:26:48.

11. A little bit of his team-mate, but safely through to the next page.

:26:49.:26:51.

That puts Romain Grosjean into the danger zone right now. I do not

:26:52.:26:56.

think Adrian Sutil will get another chance. They say that I need to go

:26:57.:27:02.

slowly. It is race tyres. These are all race tyres. By the way, Max

:27:03.:27:11.

Chilton has gone quicker than Jules Bianchi. But he is on a lap himself.

:27:12.:27:16.

Crucial labs coming up. Can Adrian Sutil screeds in? Yes he has. But

:27:17.:27:22.

Romain Grosjean is on a lap that should see him go quicker. Kamui

:27:23.:27:25.

Kobayashi coming across the line. He is currently faster than others.

:27:26.:27:32.

Will it stay that way? Jules Bianchi going faster than Kamui Kobayashi.

:27:33.:27:35.

Romain Grosjean coming through, he is safe. He goes 13th. That pushes

:27:36.:27:40.

Adrian Sutil back into the lower order. Disappointment for Sauber in

:27:41.:27:47.

their garage. But she should be happy, she gets to see her boyfriend

:27:48.:27:53.

soon! His day is done. Pastor Maldonado is the Only question here.

:27:54.:27:59.

I do not think he will be able to make it into the next part of

:28:00.:28:04.

qualifying. On the back foot since his crash on Friday. He has failed.

:28:05.:28:09.

A former front row start here, Pastor Maldonado, but not able to

:28:10.:28:13.

get into the top 16. Marcus Ericsson ending up in last position in the

:28:14.:28:17.

end by quite a margin. Do not know if he had a problem with the car,

:28:18.:28:21.

but he was not that quick on the final lap. We know that we have lost

:28:22.:28:26.

Adrian Sutil, Pastor Maldonado, Jules Bianchi, Kamui Kobayashi, Max

:28:27.:28:33.

Chilton and Marcus Ericsson. STUDIO: No great surprises about we went

:28:34.:28:36.

out, but what about Ferrari at the front? It was a big surprise. Will

:28:37.:28:43.

we be seeing Kimi Raikkonen transferring into something magic? I

:28:44.:28:46.

do not think so. I think that Ferrari go very good on the

:28:47.:28:50.

super-soft tyres. This is not going to stay for very long. They have

:28:51.:28:53.

both look pretty good as the week goes on, but what about Nico

:28:54.:28:57.

Rosberg? The mistake he made with the new breaks. Was that a bit of a

:28:58.:29:02.

surprise mark or is it down to the new technology? He has been making a

:29:03.:29:06.

number of mistakes, at Monaco we saw that. Yet again there were some more

:29:07.:29:14.

problems. He seriously has not got to grips with the new material. New

:29:15.:29:17.

breaks, new material. I do not know why they did it at this particular

:29:18.:29:19.

point, it should have been done earlier in the day yesterday for

:29:20.:29:23.

example. A little bit of a problem because what is going to happen in

:29:24.:29:26.

the race when he is carrying much more fuel and he is out there

:29:27.:29:30.

racing? We will have to see what happens. A psychological building

:29:31.:29:34.

block for Lewis Hamilton? All of these things count, however small,

:29:35.:29:39.

however minute. This is all positive for Lewis Hamilton. OK, Q2.

:29:40.:29:45.

COMMENTATOR: The second part of qualifying is underway. We are

:29:46.:29:48.

rating for Jean-Eric Vergne, actually everybody, to come out onto

:29:49.:29:52.

the circuit for this session. Kimi Raikkonen was fastest in the first

:29:53.:29:56.

part along with Fernando Alonso. If we look over practice so far this

:29:57.:29:59.

weekend and count that as the fourth session that we have seen on the

:30:00.:30:02.

track, three out of the four have been led by Ferrari. Are we seeing a

:30:03.:30:07.

little bit of a resurgence? We will wait and find out. Still a little

:30:08.:30:11.

way to go in all of this. But you were pretty accurate with the first

:30:12.:30:14.

cut-off time, what can we expect to see in the second session?

:30:15.:30:18.

All I have been told is that you can shave another hard second off. High

:30:19.:30:29.

46s. Everyone was on super-softs, so it means a different strategy for

:30:30.:30:34.

the rest of qualifying. Normally you would not dream of using the option

:30:35.:30:41.

tyre for Q1. Anyone who gets into Q3, it is another second. We may

:30:42.:30:46.

only see one run in the first session to get themselves two in Q3.

:30:47.:30:52.

Coming off what I thought one of his best races so far, a great fight

:30:53.:30:57.

with Jenson Button at Monza. A really solid race result for him.

:30:58.:31:04.

Let's see what his lap time is like. That is quite a bit quicker than he

:31:05.:31:08.

managed in the first part of qualifying, six tenths faster than

:31:09.:31:12.

he did in Q1. More important is to get into the top ten, he used to

:31:13.:31:18.

drive for Ron Dennis of course when he was at McLaren last year. Kimi

:31:19.:31:22.

Raikkonen is the one to watch. He is on his way to 46 June he gets this

:31:23.:31:31.

sector right. -- 246, assuming that he gets.

:31:32.:31:34.

The last time he qualified in the top six was in Monaco. He goes

:31:35.:31:43.

fastest. That is three tenths faster than he achieved in Q1. Raikkonen is

:31:44.:31:47.

looking very competitive at this stage. We are still waiting to see

:31:48.:31:53.

some of the other front runners. What about Alonso? He is looking

:31:54.:31:57.

reasonably quick but fastest in the middle sector, not the first. Just

:31:58.:32:06.

shaving the wall as he comes out of turn 20 and 21 and through the last

:32:07.:32:09.

couple of corners. DRS is in operation. He goes fastest.

:32:10.:32:17.

Virtually identical lap time to his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, and isn't

:32:18.:32:22.

it great, for once, to see the two so evenly matched, we were hoping

:32:23.:32:28.

for this all season. He had to turn away. You absolutely right, when we

:32:29.:32:33.

saw that he would be partnered with Raikkonen, we thought it was the

:32:34.:32:37.

potentially strongest driver pairing. He has been the invisible

:32:38.:32:46.

man so far this season. A little bit of form in Spa, and he is coming

:32:47.:32:55.

alive in the streets of Singapore. Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the

:32:56.:33:00.

first sector and in with a shout in the middle sector, so it is down to

:33:01.:33:03.

the final sector to see if he can go any faster. It is only a question of

:33:04.:33:09.

getting in to the top ten, you do not have to throw it at the wall. He

:33:10.:33:25.

is fastest by only ten 1000ths. It is interesting, the times three

:33:26.:33:28.

seconds slower than the qualifying from last year because there is

:33:29.:33:32.

different technology being used on the cards. There is a lot less

:33:33.:33:36.

downforce as well. They look quick, you can see them moving around.

:33:37.:33:41.

Normally it would be one or two seconds slower than the previous

:33:42.:33:44.

season and it makes it look lifeless but around here you can see the

:33:45.:33:48.

drivers really working. That was the correction as he drops it down into

:33:49.:33:53.

the turn. I agree with you and you can see the power coming through,

:33:54.:33:56.

something just fell off the top of the kerb. He has the option to cut

:33:57.:34:03.

through the back, avoiding the sleeping policeman. But he would

:34:04.:34:09.

lose his time, of course. I don't see why it would have been a

:34:10.:34:12.

particularly good time, given the line that he was taking. Felipe

:34:13.:34:18.

Massa, and Williams are fighting Ferrari in the Constructors'

:34:19.:34:21.

Championship. Ferrari are second and third and Williams are 12 Vallverdu,

:34:22.:34:25.

so the prospect of losing a massive number of points to Ferrari, that is

:34:26.:34:30.

certainly rising here. We need to see some pretty special laps from

:34:31.:34:42.

Felipe Massa. -- 12 and 13th. He has never actually qualified lower than

:34:43.:34:46.

six so he has a good record around this track. Let's see what he can

:34:47.:34:51.

deliver on the next one. This is when the pressure really builds, one

:34:52.:34:57.

lap away from delivering all ruining what could have been a good lap, and

:34:58.:35:03.

they are struggling with the downforce. You have to put that to

:35:04.:35:09.

the back of your mind. That was a tentative turn into Lap 5, -- turn

:35:10.:35:14.

five. Wide open as they go through the kink at six. That is a personal

:35:15.:35:23.

best. Just under a second slower than the the fastest sector.

:35:24.:35:31.

Unsurprising, and this is where we know the Williams is fast. You can

:35:32.:35:36.

see the comparison is giving the target time to 10th place, both of

:35:37.:35:42.

them are doing enough to get into the top ten. Everyone else is going

:35:43.:35:46.

to improve as well in the final two minutes of the session, so there is

:35:47.:35:51.

still a lot to ask. We have seen him having difficulties locking up. He

:35:52.:35:54.

gets away with it on Mike the Mercedes that has a huge television

:35:55.:35:59.

screen on the steering wheel, Williams have a smaller dashboard

:36:00.:36:02.

that the likes of Red Bull and some of the others have. The feedback

:36:03.:36:09.

that the driver gets as he is going through the turns. Constantly

:36:10.:36:14.

glancing down, getting reassurance that what felt good is in fact good.

:36:15.:36:18.

This is not a bad lap, only a couple of tenths away from Alonso in the

:36:19.:36:23.

middle sector, who was the fastest. It looks as though Massa has got a

:36:24.:36:27.

good lap going, has he done enough approaching the fastest time on the

:36:28.:36:31.

circuit? A bit of understated, hard on the gas. -- understeer. That is a

:36:32.:36:41.

great lap just when he needed it. Bottas is having a great lap. Button

:36:42.:36:46.

is out of the top ten but he will also get another lap. Bottas was not

:36:47.:36:50.

as quick as Massa but he is in eighth. That might be more

:36:51.:36:58.

dangerous. Massa is still a brilliant one lap qualify, isn't he?

:36:59.:37:03.

We saw and Ferrari last year when he out-qualified Alonso a few times. He

:37:04.:37:08.

can still deliver that lap. Speed was never a problem but his

:37:09.:37:11.

consistency alongside Alonso, arguably one of the fastest,

:37:12.:37:16.

Grosjean again, that is a replay of the earlier running over the kerbs.

:37:17.:37:22.

You can see that that is part of the wooden plank underneath his car, a

:37:23.:37:26.

does not sound very technical but it is some sort of composite word, and

:37:27.:37:30.

the metal insert which is what you see sparking when they run along.

:37:31.:37:37.

That has just been knocked out. What is impressive here, as we look

:37:38.:37:41.

towards the final few seconds of the session, is just how close it is

:37:42.:37:45.

between the fastest man, Hamilton, 46.2, and the man, Kvyat, only three

:37:46.:37:53.

tenths away. I ran such a long lap, that is incredibly close. Let's see

:37:54.:37:59.

if he can get into the top ten, I do not think Gutierrez will make it

:38:00.:38:03.

because the Saubers simply not quick enough to challenge for a top ten

:38:04.:38:08.

starting position. He got into the top ten last year and in fact it was

:38:09.:38:14.

the first time in his career that he got into Q3. He has improved his lap

:38:15.:38:19.

time but it is still not enough. It is respectable given the car he has.

:38:20.:38:24.

Rosberg has just improved the benchmark for the first sector, down

:38:25.:38:32.

to 22. Taking one and a bit tenths away from the previous best. Rosberg

:38:33.:38:36.

is on it used set of super-soft tyres and Hamilton has decided not

:38:37.:38:39.

to come out. Raikkonen has done enough. But of course you have to

:38:40.:38:45.

see whether Rosberg will improve on his time. Button is one of the ones

:38:46.:38:51.

you had to keep an eye on. He has fractionally improved his lap time

:38:52.:38:55.

but it is not enough for Jenson Button, he is out. Magnusson is

:38:56.:38:59.

currently in the top ten but Jean-Eric Vergne was disappointing

:39:00.:39:03.

in the end, only 12, after such great pace in the Toro Rosso. His

:39:04.:39:07.

team-mate is currently in there. Magnusson is trying to improve and

:39:08.:39:11.

it is a slight improvement. He is in the top ten. It is not looking as

:39:12.:39:15.

though anyone is likely to knock him out. Is he on a flying lap? He is

:39:16.:39:22.

not. That is a quick lap from Rosberg and suddenly Mercedes have

:39:23.:39:26.

unleashed their real performance. Grosjean is 16th and out. Daniil

:39:27.:39:35.

Kvyat has made it through, that is another stunning performance by

:39:36.:39:39.

Daniil Kvyat, the Russian. We are getting towards the first ever

:39:40.:39:42.

Russian Grand Prix and Kvyat has out-qualified Jenson Button, who has

:39:43.:39:48.

two settle for 11th in the end. He also out-qualified Jean-Eric Vergne.

:39:49.:39:55.

-- he has to settle for it. We are out, 20 ms. Yes. 20 ms, there might

:39:56.:40:07.

be a tiny margin, but it makes all of the difference. The drivers are

:40:08.:40:12.

out at this stage of qualifying: Jenson Button, Jean-Eric Vergne,

:40:13.:40:16.

Nico Hulkenberg, Esteban Gutierrez, Sergio Perez, and Romain Grosjean.

:40:17.:40:28.

RADIO: I cannot believe it! It is understandable, it is the same issue

:40:29.:40:34.

as in P3. I don't care, it is too much. Of course. Roman Grosjean

:40:35.:40:40.

sounds as though he has had enough. From one Frenchman to another. It

:40:41.:40:47.

does get very frustrating because he has had a horrible season so far, we

:40:48.:40:50.

thought we had a big improvement last year and it has not carried

:40:51.:40:54.

forward, the engine is seriously down in this particular car at the

:40:55.:40:57.

moment so I understand his frustration. Tough times, Rosberg

:40:58.:41:02.

finally showing his hand and on the used tyres. That is what caught my

:41:03.:41:08.

attention. If it is a used tyre, then that is a sensational time and

:41:09.:41:12.

he has put the marker down. The tables had turned earlier when he

:41:13.:41:15.

missed the breaking point and he showed a bit of weakness but he has

:41:16.:41:20.

certainly taken it back now, and it is game on for the qualifiers. Going

:41:21.:41:25.

well for Rosberg but not quite so for Jenson Button who does not make

:41:26.:41:30.

it through to Q3. He was 11th. So close to still being out there, 20

:41:31.:41:40.

million -- 20 ms. A couple of tenths from the Venetian I had. It was

:41:41.:41:43.

always going to be tricky after that. The times always going to be

:41:44.:41:49.

close. It is the shoot out now. Here is Q3. The final part of qualifying

:41:50.:41:54.

is due to start in a few seconds. The light is on at the end of the

:41:55.:42:01.

pit lane. It is crucial to get in pole position on a street circuit,

:42:02.:42:06.

it gives you a crucial advantage. We were worried about the Mercedes for

:42:07.:42:09.

a while but they delivered quicker lap times. -- about the Ferraris.

:42:10.:42:17.

Two rookies do watch out for, Kevin Magnussen has just gone out on the

:42:18.:42:22.

circuit and Daniil Kvyat, we also saw a very rapid lap from Nico

:42:23.:42:26.

Rosberg, perhaps showing the true pace of the Mercedes. Down into the

:42:27.:42:33.

1.45 bracket. It will be about Rosberg against Hamilton. The

:42:34.:42:38.

Ferraris will look to outpace the Red Bulls in qualifying. Nico

:42:39.:42:41.

Rosberg heads out and Hamilton is waiting for the signal to come out

:42:42.:42:45.

as well. Riccardo moves onto his lap, let's watch him through the

:42:46.:42:49.

first few critical corners as he passes below the East Coast Parkway,

:42:50.:42:54.

the main road which is still in operation of course. Coming up to

:42:55.:42:57.

ten o'clock in the evening in Singapore. Using all of the road

:42:58.:43:06.

that is available in to turn five. The driver will already have a feel

:43:07.:43:09.

for the performance of the tyres, and he will be mentally adjusting

:43:10.:43:13.

how to attack the braking zone. Nice and early on the power. Renault

:43:14.:43:19.

power in the back of the Red Bull of course which throughout the year has

:43:20.:43:23.

suffered a bit to the Mercedes power units but this track is not so

:43:24.:43:26.

crucial in terms of horsepower. That is what Red Bull are hoping that

:43:27.:43:31.

they can take a bit of an edge from. Raikkonen is quicker than him in the

:43:32.:43:36.

first sector, Kimi Raikkonen again with another great first sector from

:43:37.:43:41.

him. Massa is at the front of all of the cars at the moment and he is

:43:42.:43:45.

setting the initial pace but then we get a comparison once everyone comes

:43:46.:43:49.

through the second sector. Riccardo will become paired to Massa. It was

:43:50.:43:53.

interesting that Raikkonen was the quickest. He has just gone eight

:43:54.:43:59.

tenths quicker than Alonso which is what we would expect because of the

:44:00.:44:02.

power element of the three sectors of the racetrack. Massa is quickest

:44:03.:44:07.

in the middle sector, he is going quicker than Raikkonen and

:44:08.:44:11.

Ricciardo. He has already found some form. A bit of work to do after

:44:12.:44:15.

Friday practice to stabilise the car. 26.0. A couple of tenths down

:44:16.:44:25.

on what Rosberg did but faster than they would have anticipated. That is

:44:26.:44:29.

impressive from Felipe Massa. Look how close it is. Just a few

:44:30.:44:34.

hundredths of a second. Raikkonen behind them this time, third

:44:35.:44:39.

fastest. Bottas has just popped up into fourth, again not quite as

:44:40.:44:43.

quick as his team-mate Felipe Massa. He got the podium in Italy and that

:44:44.:44:47.

has boosted him, he is suddenly delivering great lap times.

:44:48.:44:56.

Alonso going third quickest. He beat his team-mate by a few hundreds of a

:44:57.:45:01.

second. Hamilton is about to cross the line. Busy fastest? No! Only

:45:02.:45:09.

six. Mercedes struggling to get the super-soft tyres to work too full

:45:10.:45:12.

effect. They have got one more run to go, but that is a huge surprise.

:45:13.:45:17.

Hamilton in six, and Rosberg in seventh. I never expected that, did

:45:18.:45:24.

not see any big mistake. Let's see if we get any replays. But Felipe

:45:25.:45:28.

Massa in the Williams. Surely with the problems they have had, they

:45:29.:45:33.

cannot stay on pole position in Singapore. But in the first round of

:45:34.:45:36.

practice, you can see the surprise in the face of Claire Williams. They

:45:37.:45:40.

were certainly expecting to struggle, talking about being happy

:45:41.:45:43.

if they made it into the top ten shoot out. Well, Alonso and

:45:44.:45:50.

Raikkonen, they have certainly been a lot closer than we have seen.

:45:51.:45:57.

Fantastic to see Ferrari that fast. Hamilton and Rosberg, back in sixth

:45:58.:46:01.

position and seventh. That is a real shock. I wonder if we will see a

:46:02.:46:08.

complete turnaround. Vettel is only in eighth position, and then there

:46:09.:46:12.

is Ricciardo and Vettel, big differences between them. And then

:46:13.:46:17.

Kevin Magnussen at the lower end. There is the team manager taking a

:46:18.:46:20.

drink of water, not looking particularly concerned. Playing it

:46:21.:46:26.

cool. Anything on the balance? If there is any more front wing, put it

:46:27.:46:31.

in. COMMENTATOR: That would suggest that they were almost maxed out on

:46:32.:46:34.

the front wing. That would also suggest that he is struggling for

:46:35.:46:39.

front end grip. Look at his hand coming out of the top of the

:46:40.:46:42.

cockpit, having to cut. Certainly some more time to come from

:46:43.:46:48.

Mercedes. Just wanting a little bit more load on the front axle. Nico

:46:49.:46:51.

Rosberg coming through there, cutting the corner through that one,

:46:52.:46:59.

avoiding the sausage curb before letting it rolled into the apex of

:47:00.:47:04.

Turn 3. Felipe Massa, the only man that has beaten a Mercedes to pole

:47:05.:47:09.

position so far. He did it in Austria earlier on this season,

:47:10.:47:14.

Williams were 1-2 on the grid on that occasion. Mercedes, you would

:47:15.:47:17.

not choose to do this, because you might get a situation where somebody

:47:18.:47:21.

crashes, and then you are denied an opportunity. You would certainly not

:47:22.:47:25.

choose to put in a gentle run first, you would be going for it. Yes, the

:47:26.:47:31.

last lap of qualifying, there is no banker. That could be your lap. You

:47:32.:47:35.

want to deliver. But with the replay of Hamilton getting well over the

:47:36.:47:40.

bank of the kerb, and also down on the exit of 16 before 17, there is

:47:41.:47:45.

more time to come from that. Can he go faster? Yes he can. Only .18 the

:47:46.:47:52.

second between the top five the moment. Hamilton is two tenths of a

:47:53.:47:59.

second off the fastest. What that shows for me, that is a very

:48:00.:48:02.

technical lap. At the beginning of the season, teams were having all

:48:03.:48:07.

sorts of problems. Test days, only doing a couple of laps. It shows the

:48:08.:48:11.

rate of development and never give up spirit that these top Formula One

:48:12.:48:15.

teams obviously have. They have the financial resources and the people,

:48:16.:48:18.

but they never except that what they start with is where they are at.

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They are constantly looking to learn and improve. Now, it is down to one

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flying lap from each of the front runners to see who is going to start

:48:30.:48:33.

from pole position here in Singapore. Lewis Hamilton, of

:48:34.:48:36.

course, was on pole position last time out. They had a little bit of a

:48:37.:48:40.

gap in his pole position winning sequence. His first pole position in

:48:41.:48:43.

eight events. It looks like he will have to work hard to take this one.

:48:44.:48:49.

Interesting, Daniel Ricciardo is well out halfway around the lap.

:48:50.:48:55.

Raikkonen, Felipe Massa, Rosberg, Vettel and then Hamilton. Hamilton

:48:56.:48:58.

is choosing to put himself in the middle of this top ten shoot out.

:48:59.:49:02.

Not wanting to be the first man out on track. Some circuits, the last

:49:03.:49:08.

lap is usually when the circuit has evolved to become best, but when you

:49:09.:49:11.

have the rest of the yellow flag coming out, and incident, I think I

:49:12.:49:17.

would be keen to get myself out on track and get track position,

:49:18.:49:22.

control the qualifying session. Although he is in sixth, he is

:49:23.:49:26.

crucially in front of Nico Rosberg, the man that he is effectively

:49:27.:49:30.

battling the Championship for. On board with Fernando Alonso. Looking

:49:31.:49:33.

at the information we get on the tyres that comes through from the

:49:34.:49:39.

application, and implies that Nico Rosberg could be using a used set of

:49:40.:49:43.

super-soft tyres. Hamilton could be on a new set. It is always difficult

:49:44.:49:47.

to know if that is accurate, but it might give Hamilton a slight edge.

:49:48.:49:53.

All of the cars backing up into each other. Alonso has Hamilton in front

:49:54.:49:57.

of him. You do not want to have sight of another card distracting

:49:58.:50:01.

you. You would prefer to have what Raikkonen has, a whole bunch of

:50:02.:50:05.

space, well, he did have that until he let some cars forwards. Does he

:50:06.:50:10.

have a problem? Why is he going so slow? Offline, getting dirt on his

:50:11.:50:19.

tyres. I cannot get power. We need to stop. We need to stop somewhere

:50:20.:50:23.

safe another way. COMMENTATOR: Would you believe it, Raikkonen was in

:50:24.:50:29.

with a shout, putting in a great performance and it has gone wrong

:50:30.:50:34.

for him. That is a real shame. We were looking forward to seeing who

:50:35.:50:39.

would come out on top. It is obviously in his interests to park

:50:40.:50:43.

the car somewhere where there could be a yellow flag and take the

:50:44.:50:46.

marshals a little bit of time. If nobody gets chance to improve he

:50:47.:50:50.

secures fourth on the grid. It would be unsporting to do that, but you

:50:51.:50:56.

know, it would not be the first time if we question where a driver parks

:50:57.:51:01.

up. I suspect that Kimi Raikkonen will be parking up off the track and

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it will not be an issue. We have seen a lot of strange things happen

:51:06.:51:09.

in Singapore in the past. We believe that all cars are on new tyres,

:51:10.:51:13.

there should not be any difference in performance. It is purely down to

:51:14.:51:17.

the drivers. And I can tell you that Ricciardo, not the best as he could

:51:18.:51:21.

have been through the first sector but he is quick through the second

:51:22.:51:26.

in the Red Bull. Nico Rosberg not the fastest in the first sector.

:51:27.:51:29.

Nobody seems to be doing a better lap in the first sector at the

:51:30.:51:33.

moment, whether the track is not as quick as it was. But we could still

:51:34.:51:37.

see some big changes. Ricciardo looking at a front row start, but

:51:38.:51:42.

will that be the same at the end of the session? Looking good as he

:51:43.:51:46.

comes towards the final segment. Just getting as close to the wall as

:51:47.:51:51.

you like. The last corner for Daniel Ricciardo. Where will this put him?

:51:52.:51:57.

Across the line and he is fastest? ! 145.8. Will he hold onto that?

:51:58.:52:02.

There's a huge amount of Australian support in Singapore and you can

:52:03.:52:06.

hear it from the grandstand. Daniel Ricciardo is the fastest at the

:52:07.:52:09.

moment. We had never had a pole position. This is the problem, under

:52:10.:52:14.

breaking into the first turn, Hamilton. He gets away with it. But

:52:15.:52:19.

a unsettled again. Does not have enough front load on the car. Nobody

:52:20.:52:25.

lighting up the timing screens, Ricciardo looking good. Rosberg into

:52:26.:52:29.

the last corner. He comes across the line and he has done it! He goes

:52:30.:52:37.

fastest! What about Hamilton? What does he do? He has done it by 7000th

:52:38.:52:45.

of a second! How close is that? Vettel crossing the line in fourth.

:52:46.:52:50.

Mercedes have got one - two. Alonso has gone into fifth. His customary

:52:51.:52:55.

fifth place at the end, Fernando Alonso, after promising so much

:52:56.:53:00.

more. Felipe Massa after him. Raikkonen denied the chance to do

:53:01.:53:04.

anything. Still a couple of cars to cross the line. Kevin Magnussen into

:53:05.:53:10.

ninth position. Valtteri Bottas is not going fast. Look at the reaction

:53:11.:53:13.

there. They were under pressure, but they have still delivered the top

:53:14.:53:19.

two. Terry Barter is back into the pit, it is all over. -- Valtteri

:53:20.:53:26.

Bottas is into the pit. Hamilton with another pole position, his

:53:27.:53:33.

third in Singapore. In case you did not make that, it is P1. Lewis

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Hamilton has beaten you by 7000th of a second. Dammit!

:53:40.:53:45.

We like some radio. That was a fantastic session! Looking at that

:53:46.:53:53.

moving around for pole position. Look how close it is. Astonishing.

:53:54.:53:59.

That was tremendous. So close. Daniel Ricciardo was third fastest

:54:00.:54:03.

in the end. He said earlier this weekend, Ricciardo, that if he could

:54:04.:54:07.

qualify within .2 of a second of the Mercedes, he believes he can raise

:54:08.:54:12.

them. He has done just that. Yes, the consistency for the Red Bull is

:54:13.:54:16.

pretty impressive. Hamilton is on pole position. His 37th career pole

:54:17.:54:24.

position. Ricciardo and Vettel making it an all Red Bull second

:54:25.:54:28.

row. Raikkonen was denied a last chance there. Valtteri Bottas and

:54:29.:54:35.

Kevin Magnussen rounding out. Jenson Button will be 11, not allowing for

:54:36.:54:39.

any penalties that might be applied. Jean-Eric Vergne Inn in 12,

:54:40.:54:43.

Hulkenberg, Esteban Gutierrez finishing just ahead of Sergio

:54:44.:54:47.

Perez. Romain Grosjean is a disgruntled 16th. Adrian Sutil,

:54:48.:54:51.

Pastor Maldonado, Jules Bianchi, Kamui Kobayashi, Max Chilton and

:54:52.:54:55.

Marcus Ericsson finishing it off. Lewis Hamilton, just matching the

:54:56.:55:00.

advantage here in the final moments of qualifying. -- snatching the

:55:01.:55:04.

advantage. A lot to look forward to in the race itself, but he has

:55:05.:55:07.

delivered another pole position this year. His third pole position in

:55:08.:55:11.

Singapore, and he has done it by just 7000th of a second.

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STUDIO: Just moments after qualifying, Lewis Hamilton getting

:55:17.:55:24.

pole position, the heavens have opened and we are all getting a

:55:25.:55:29.

little bit wet. It is a good job this did not happen when you were

:55:30.:55:34.

trying to do your hot lap. I know, this is crazy, it is amazing. Looked

:55:35.:55:38.

like it was hard work. 7000th of a second, it does not get much closer.

:55:39.:55:43.

Absolutely, it was a tough session, very exciting. To see so many teams

:55:44.:55:48.

so close, Ferrari going ahead after good laps. Then I did a good lap, I

:55:49.:55:53.

think I was in there at p six, Nico Rosberg was P seven. I think there

:55:54.:55:57.

was that at the end. I knew that I had to do a good lap. I was already

:55:58.:56:03.

down through Turn 1, I locked up. We can see that now, can you talk us

:56:04.:56:06.

through. Our hearts were in our mouths when you had that lock-up.

:56:07.:56:11.

Got a good exit, on the DRS, coming up to Turn 1 and you hope that the

:56:12.:56:15.

brakes are ready. But it was a good lock-up. A bit like it was OK, and

:56:16.:56:26.

it put me out of place. Already on my dashboard, just above from the

:56:27.:56:28.

left of the dear number, it says that I am down. At this point I am

:56:29.:56:32.

like how am I going to get that back? Going down the straight, and I

:56:33.:56:35.

was thinking, you could see that I am not point to two down. But I kept

:56:36.:56:39.

going, and I thought maybe I could regain it. The rest of the lap was

:56:40.:56:44.

pretty sweet. Put us inside the cockpit, how do you keep yourself

:56:45.:56:48.

calm? Two tenths of a second is a lot to lose in one corner. Normally

:56:49.:56:53.

when it happens you try to get it back and you overdrive, you make

:56:54.:56:56.

more mistakes and it never comes back. I get it back and you

:56:57.:56:58.

overdrive, you make more mistakes and it never comes back. I guess

:56:59.:57:02.

today a couple of places where I lost time, so I was able to fix

:57:03.:57:10.

those corners. Turn 13 here. This one was nice and easy. The tyres

:57:11.:57:14.

were not overheating at this point, which they usually are, so I could

:57:15.:57:18.

get a good exit. Into the next corner, normally it is second gear,

:57:19.:57:22.

but I managed to do it in third. It is a wide exits you can carry a lot

:57:23.:57:26.

of speed through there. And then on the previous lap I locked up here

:57:27.:57:30.

and lost just over one tenth of a second so I made sure that I did not

:57:31.:57:33.

do that. After that I knew that I was on a good lap. When you were

:57:34.:57:38.

looking there, you seem to be very aggressive with the wheel. Is this

:57:39.:57:42.

going to be a bad omen for you tomorrow with the use of tyres? Your

:57:43.:57:48.

tires wearing out? Was very aggressive but you need to be going

:57:49.:57:52.

max in qualifying. I had the max front wing, and you want to have a

:57:53.:57:58.

front end. As the track eats up the rear get stronger as stronger. As

:57:59.:58:02.

Nico Rosberg mentioned, in qualifying, you have that understeer

:58:03.:58:05.

and you need to make sure you have the capacity to give yourself some

:58:06.:58:08.

front end. Tomorrow, you can take out a lot of wing, you can block

:58:09.:58:13.

that it, you can move the brake balance wherever you have two so you

:58:14.:58:16.

can look after the tyres. Would you say that this track in Singapore is

:58:17.:58:21.

one where you really have to concentrate 100% for the whole that

:58:22.:58:26.

for every single lap? Is it tough? Are you saying that we do not

:58:27.:58:30.

concentrate every lap usually! LAUGHTER

:58:31.:58:34.

But you know what I mean, do you have do have maximum concentration?

:58:35.:58:38.

You do, you have to do that on all street circuits. But this is a long

:58:39.:58:42.

track, 24 corners. Some really long laps and it is difficult for the

:58:43.:58:46.

tyres. Like Monaco, but it is a bit more intense because it is longer.

:58:47.:58:53.

And obviously it is so hot. So yes, focuses everything. Congratulations

:58:54.:58:56.

on pole position and we wish you all the best for tomorrow. I am sure

:58:57.:59:03.

that you want to get in the drive. -- dry. Let's hear from Nico

:59:04.:59:09.

Rosberg. We heard you saying dammit on team radio, does that sum up how

:59:10.:59:13.

you are feeling? It was very frustrating. 7000th of a second,

:59:14.:59:18.

come on! It was a battle for me in qualifying because I did not feel

:59:19.:59:21.

comfortable with the car at all. We had some new breaks in the car, and

:59:22.:59:24.

they were different, and it took some time to get into it. The

:59:25.:59:28.

balance of the car was totally different. A lot more understeer

:59:29.:59:30.

than this afternoon because the track was colder. The others adapted

:59:31.:59:35.

quicker, and it took me a long time to get into it. In the end, I felt

:59:36.:59:38.

comfortable and I was able to push flat out but it was just 7000th, a

:59:39.:59:42.

better job, and that is the way that it is. But it is disappointing

:59:43.:59:46.

because if I think back to my lap, that corner, I could have done it,

:59:47.:59:50.

but 7000th, they were saying it is about 30 centimetres, it is that,

:59:51.:59:55.

after a whole lap. The same car. It is incredible. It sums up how close

:59:56.:00:03.

those two are, doesn't it? It is phenomenal around this race track.

:00:04.:00:06.

We know that Lewis Hamilton thinks he dropped a little bit of time but

:00:07.:00:09.

if you look at both of the laps, you can see that Nico Rosberg, it was

:00:10.:00:13.

not the perfect lap. I think they are very much nip and tuck. Joining

:00:14.:00:18.

them here, and it looks like they carried too much speed, hitting it

:00:19.:00:21.

harder than Lewis Hamilton and that might have compromised him as he

:00:22.:00:30.

went down into, when you see that lock-up, he gets away with it. I

:00:31.:00:33.

think if you see that Jews in terms of locking up, he did that into the

:00:34.:00:36.

first turn, and Nico Rosberg doing it into 13. But less than half a

:00:37.:00:39.

litre separating them. They really wanted that race, they both want

:00:40.:00:44.

that Championship, and it is looking good. It was such a tight session,

:00:45.:00:49.

three tenths of a second separating the top six. But they came in there,

:00:50.:00:52.

and a handshake seemed very genuine. Absolutely. There were a couple of

:00:53.:01:01.

human touches, so to speak, going on. Evidence that maybe the wounds

:01:02.:01:06.

are healing and maybe we need to get on in a more professional manner

:01:07.:01:12.

because they have too. Don't be surprised if they have a little

:01:13.:01:16.

pact. If I was the team boss I would be saying, no heroics until Lap 3.

:01:17.:01:24.

Daniel, fantastic local support for you today, you looked as though you

:01:25.:01:29.

were enjoying it. I was. I really enjoy street circuits, they are good

:01:30.:01:33.

fun. Bouncing off the Kurds and brushing the walls, it giving Mark

:01:34.:01:40.

heart attack back home! It is good. We all enjoy this one. -- curbs. It

:01:41.:01:48.

was impressive how early you were getting on the power, and we join

:01:49.:01:52.

you at turn seven. Let the viewers hear the apex. Torque us through the

:01:53.:02:03.

lap. -- talk. I was pretty clean with how it was. Just wanted to stay

:02:04.:02:11.

clean. It is looking pretty tidy through here. The car looks pretty

:02:12.:02:18.

settled, it was pretty nice over the kerbs. It was good fun. All about

:02:19.:02:24.

getting a clean exit, I have not perfected it all weekend but I did

:02:25.:02:29.

well there. This is where I thought I could have made time but I didn't.

:02:30.:02:36.

That is what cost me here. I could not really get the power down as

:02:37.:02:40.

well as I would have liked and we struggled a bit for grip from here

:02:41.:02:47.

on until the end. But yes, it is still good fun. I have do say that

:02:48.:02:53.

the momentum seems to have slowly changed in your favour. The momentum

:02:54.:02:59.

towards Mercedes, do you feel you have broken into that now and you

:03:00.:03:04.

can take them on? I think this is definitely a circuit where we could

:03:05.:03:10.

really fight them. You know, obviously we did not end up on pole

:03:11.:03:13.

position but we got a couple of tenths. We are the one team that can

:03:14.:03:20.

really challenge them. If we can be within a couple of tenths come we

:03:21.:03:24.

should be able to close it up to the race. Tomorrow could be tasty. -- a

:03:25.:03:32.

couple of tenths, we should. There will be differences in tyres and so

:03:33.:03:36.

on, how do you see specifically tomorrow going? Tomorrow is our best

:03:37.:03:41.

chance of getting not only to cars on the podium, but two cars

:03:42.:03:49.

hopefully high on the podium. Sebastien is just behind me, and I

:03:50.:03:53.

believe that our race pace can be strong so ideally we will get one of

:03:54.:03:57.

the Mercedes on the start, and split them up a bit and try to maybe

:03:58.:04:01.

forced them into trying a different strategy and capitalising one way or

:04:02.:04:07.

another. Thank you for joining us. You looked out in the second round.

:04:08.:04:15.

We can hear from Sebastian now. It has not been straightforward, fourth

:04:16.:04:20.

place tomorrow, how do you feel? I am not happy because I feel I could

:04:21.:04:25.

have been higher. The pole position was up for grabs. Not the best of

:04:26.:04:29.

final laps so everybody had the feeling after that long lap that it

:04:30.:04:33.

was a bit here and there. I am not entirely happy. Obviously you think

:04:34.:04:39.

this is a missed opportunity, was it a mistake from your point of view or

:04:40.:04:43.

just not settled in the car? It never helps if you don't have enough

:04:44.:04:48.

laps, you always want another try but it is what it is, it is the same

:04:49.:04:52.

for everyone and obviously we did not have two sets of tyres in the

:04:53.:04:58.

last part of Q3. It is not great but it was probably more down to me, to

:04:59.:05:03.

be honest. He seems a bit down but he did not get any free running in

:05:04.:05:09.

practice 2. That would have set him back. And he had to do an engine

:05:10.:05:16.

change. Don't be surprised, he is my dark horse to win tomorrow. Daniel

:05:17.:05:20.

seems to have a plan for the Red Bulls to get among the Mercedes, can

:05:21.:05:24.

that happen in the race tomorrow? The big thing that Red Bull know is

:05:25.:05:28.

that the Mercedes drivers have been told not to get involved in any

:05:29.:05:32.

wheel-to-wheel action in the first couple of laps and that leaves them

:05:33.:05:37.

vulnerable and Red Bull can be more aggressive. Race wins is what it's

:05:38.:05:41.

all about for Red Bull at the moment. It is music to their ears.

:05:42.:05:45.

Then Edwards has the grid for tomorrow's race. -- Ben. Lewis

:05:46.:05:53.

Hamilton will start from pole position and Nico Rosberg will start

:05:54.:06:00.

on the dirtiest side of the grid. Fernando Alonso is fifth on the grid

:06:01.:06:04.

for the third time in four years and Massa starts in sixth. Kimi

:06:05.:06:09.

Raikkonen lines up seventh ahead of the other Williams, Valtteri

:06:10.:06:14.

Bottas. 2014 F1 rookies Magnusson and Kvyat share row five. Jenson

:06:15.:06:21.

Button is 11th ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne, Force India's Hulkenberg is

:06:22.:06:22.

13. What a tantalising prospect the

:06:23.:06:43.

line-up is for Singapore 2014, don't you think? Ferrari were looking good

:06:44.:06:50.

today and Kimi seems to be on it. He was great today, Alonso and

:06:51.:06:54.

Raikkonen, in this kind of form they will be strong. Ferrari showed signs

:06:55.:06:59.

that they meant business, and they really feel that maybe they can put

:07:00.:07:03.

a very good end of the season together for themselves. Kimi

:07:04.:07:05.

Raikkonen was at least a second quicker than he has been all season.

:07:06.:07:11.

It was not just a freak, he was doing it in qualifying yesterday and

:07:12.:07:14.

today he was very positive and strong and we need to see more about

:07:15.:07:18.

because people are questioning whether he is good enough to be

:07:19.:07:21.

alongside Alonso in the Ferrari team, should they get rid of him? On

:07:22.:07:25.

this kind of performance he absolutely deserves his place.

:07:26.:07:30.

Valtteri Bottas came in and he seemed disappointed but Williams did

:07:31.:07:33.

not imagine they would be great in qualifying. He has been outqualified

:07:34.:07:39.

by mass. That is the reason he has been disappointed, they are so

:07:40.:07:43.

competitive and they judge it by the ultimate pace and Massa was stronger

:07:44.:07:47.

today. Williams have to be happy overall because they were two

:07:48.:07:51.

seconds away on free practice on Friday, so all credit to the

:07:52.:07:54.

engineers, they have calmly looked at the data and reconfigured the

:07:55.:07:59.

setup of the car. They have come back and I think they have put in a

:08:00.:08:04.

solid performance. Kvyat and Magnusson were strong? Yes. And

:08:05.:08:11.

Jenson Button had a tardy qualifying session, so there are no surprises

:08:12.:08:15.

there. We will have all of the best bits tomorrow on BBC1 at five

:08:16.:08:21.

o'clock. Lewis Hamilton was the star performer today under the Singapore

:08:22.:08:25.

night sky to take pole position. The question is, will he be able to

:08:26.:08:28.

shine tomorrow? Thank you for joining us. We will see you

:08:29.:08:29.

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