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Good morning from Interlagos. The sun is shining. The wind has picked

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up. We are expecting temperatures to get into the 80s. Very different

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yesterday, a lot warmer. Hamilton impressed us. Half a second faster

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than Rosberg. A hours later in free practice to it was almost the exact

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reverse, Rosberg leading Hamilton by almost exactly the same gap.

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Hamilton has already been crowned champion but the battle for second

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is still up for grabs. 21 points separate the jury. -- two. Mercedes

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became champions in Russia. In the pit lane we have Tom

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Clarkson. What are conditions like? On the fees that this is perfect

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conditions for the team to warn cars for qualifying. Track temperature of

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40 degrees. The ambient is in the mid-20s which is great for me and

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Jenny. There is a bit of a tail wind which could make braking for Turn 1

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a little bit tricky. What will bother the teams as the green nature

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of the track, and what I mean is the robber was washed away yesterday in

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a huge storm last night. The track conditions are going to change as

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more rubber gets laid down. An ever-changing racetrack. That should

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make it very interesting for us. As always you can get involved in the

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session. We have the live feed up and running. We will endeavour to

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read out as many comments as possible. It is going to be a busy

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session. It is going to be a good session to get everyone going for

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qualifying. Mercedes had the edge yesterday and the question is

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whether anyone can get close to them. For qualifying pace it is

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going to be tough for anyone to get close to the Mercedes. The Williams

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are close enough to challenge the Ferraris, but the Ferraris pace

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looked good. Rosberg on a roll of four pole positions. Hamilton

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looking to take his 50th pole position. It has been a while. He

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has been waiting for that since the Italian Grand Prix, Monza, where he

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last took pole position, is 49. Plenty of fans in the grandstands

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already looking forward to a hot and sultry day. Looking at temperatures

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going a bit for Sunday. It looks as if the track is going to be very

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warm. As Tom was suggesting as we get to qualifying. It is likely to

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get hotter as we go through this session. Jenson Button looks happy

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enough but it was not a particularly inspiring day once again for

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McLaren. Engine failure, power unit sell your. That restricted Fernando

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Alonso. Jenson was 13th, but I do not expect there to be a week in

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form suddenly from that team. It is a tough circuit from them because

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there are two main sectors to accelerate up out of the last

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corner. A long steep uphill section and you need good acceleration, good

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hybrid work out of their -- fog. This final practice session before

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qualifying, crucial to do final checks. Towards the end of the hour

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it will be quite late before we see them put the soft tyre on and really

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go for it. them put the soft tyre on and really

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go for it. The soft tyre had about a 1 second advantage on that

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performance. Only able to get one lap out of the tyre. Hamilton tried

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to do a small that and go again but it was not quite quick enough. In

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longer run pace that gap did shorten. They are out onto the

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medium tyre and will be keeping those soft tyres for later.

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Raikkonen and Vettel did well yesterday. Raikkonen was fifth in

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the morning and fourth in the afternoon. Vettel was third. It

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looks as if Red Bull could be the best of the rest. We will have to

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wait and see. Power unit change. There might have gone back to one

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they used in Mexico at McLaren. Yes. The one that failed yesterday was

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the one in Boston in Texas. It is the latest specifications from Honda

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on that one but they added problem in Austen. Continuing the battle

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withdrawal Rosso in the constructors' championship. A

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difficult night for Romain Grosjean who lives in Paris. He must have a

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lot going through his head. He must exclude that and get on with

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driving. The boss of Ferrari keeps an eye on his team's progress to see

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whether Vettel and Raikkonen are going to be able to challenge those

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Mercedes at the top. Nasr put in a decent run yesterday. Sauber might

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not be as far off as some of the other tracks. Yes, I think when the

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circuit robbers in some people I am not too sure were at their peak

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yesterday. I would expect them to slip back in little bit. Nasr Max,

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this is his home crowd. Fully be mass has always been good round

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here. Sauber will be hoping for a lot from him this weekend because it

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is grated take battle for Toro Rosso. Now Sir Mike was 14th in the

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first session. A lot of family support. I am sure people who

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supported him through the years in his racing career. He comes from a

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racing family. I am sure they will be delighted to be with him this

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weekend. Hamilton in no hurry to come out on track. No sign of Lewis

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just yet. They are waiting to see how the track develops and come out

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later in the session. We can get more information from Mercedes

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because Tom Clarkson is with their technical director Paddy Lowe.

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Neither of your drivers are in their garage, it seems as if you are going

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to let other people clean the track for you. That is about it. Do you

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expect the track conditions to have changed? We expect hurts to have run

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onto the track with the rainwater so it is quickly cleaned up. Yesterday

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morning you did a lot of work for 20s extreme, various aerodynamic

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bits, did you make progress? Yes. We learned quite a bit. We do a lot of

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testing on Friday. Some of the things yesterday were perhaps more

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visible than usual. With the absence of normal track testing Friday

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Practice 1 is a very important session for that sort was a good

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day. Rosberg yesterday afternoon was the second clear of the next

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non-Mercedes car. Yes. His pace looked very strong but I think

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Ferrari were not performing at their best. They were talking about that

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so we may see them step forward today. We are not ruling that out.

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What is the programme for this morning? When will we see you?

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Shortly. They had a template over Nico Hulkenberg's head down to the

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front of the cockpit. There are regulations of where the driver can

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sit and the minimum height between that line between the role to plan

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the dashboard, in case the car is upside down, so that the driver's

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head is not exposed to the tarmac for example, therefore the driver

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has to sit in a box and at quite a low-level hate and they were

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checking that. Why this morning? They double check these things.

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Sometimes the FIA check them to make sure. Also as he has changed his

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eight position for example. I used to do that for certain circuits if I

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had to look into the apex of the corner. I do not think he has grown

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anything. It is to make sure that regulation is OK. Jennie, you have

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air update from Williams. Yes. Yesterday that the red flag came out

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and when it was out Bottas was summoned to the stewards for

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breaching regulations. He has been given a drop of three places on the

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grid for tomorrow. He also has two penalty points awarded to those

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licence. He was not particularly happy and did not think that should

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have been the case. He goes back three places. It will be keen to

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make the most of the situation and see where he can go. He was hoping

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to try to get onto the podium this weekend and beat his team-mates,

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which the Brazilians would not be happy about. He is disappointed.

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That fight between Bottas and Raikkonen is pretty hot. He felt he

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had no choice because there were cars slowing ahead of them and he

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had to overtake the car as the red flag came out but the stewards felt

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otherwise. One of the stewards as my old team-mate from Toyota.

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Talk us through the section of the track he is on. He is on the long

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start and finish straight. It is always turning, always load on the

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right-hand side tyres. What you do not realise from the on-board camera

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is the fact that it is so steep up there and as he turns into this

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left-hander how much it drops down into that right and flattens out

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through the long left-hander. This corner is a little bit different to

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last year because there are new curbs put in so the cars cannot cut

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as much. We were talking about penalties. The only other penalties

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we know about is attend placement for Daniel Ricciardo because he has

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gone to the revised specification of Renault engine. That gives him a ten

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place penalty. We have a three place penalty for Bottas. We saw Perez

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coming out of the pits with a bit of wheel spin. The black marks all the

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way down the pit lane where the drivers have been coming out and

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doing little burn-outs and then they have to all the way to the end the

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pit lane before they can actually do their practice. It is unusual at the

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circuit but it is because as you exit the pit it is impossible. I

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feel some pulling to the left on the brakes. It has often been a bit of a

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problem to get the braking right for the braking right for Felipe Massa.

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This circuit is tampered to the right so the car tends to pull a

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little bit. In his first run, he is quickest at the moment, brake

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temperature side to side, if there is a little distortion, maybe 30

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degrees difference, it can make a difference. Rosberg getting closer

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to coming out but still no action from either of the Mercedes drivers.

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We have yet to see Jenson Button come out. Thank you for your

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comments. Simon asks, you have driven at Interlagos, which was

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tougher, the speed of F1 or at the longevity of the W C race? I think

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the longevity. This is quite a physical surface. It is a

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left-handed track. Normally the predominant number of circuits are

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right-handed. There are only four that are left-handed. We have just

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seen Perez come through there. This Turn 4 dipping down through turn

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five it is all working on the side that is not normally that

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well-trained. In Formula 1 the G-force these are quite

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significantly less so the drivers do not have the same fatigue level as

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before. One thing about sports car racing is overtaking with traffic

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and that was always tough because it is very narrow.

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That could be a problem in the first part of qualifying when you have all

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of the cars out there. It is easy to trip over a slower car. And the

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tyres can only do one lap at peak performance. You will see drivers

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bunching up to make sure they get a perfect exhilaration to start the

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lap because if they can gain that little bit out of the final corner,

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they carry it all the way to the first corner. Nasr has set the

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initial pace. Perez immediately goes second fastest but early stages in

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this final practice session as the track sits in the sunshine here in

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the southern part of Sao Paulo. Looking at a replay of Perez, the

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slow motion camera gives us a glimpse of that tiny lock-up which

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was hardly anything, but a great slow motion shot. Felipe Nasr, maybe

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a little error from him. This was coming up to Juncao. Doing a lot of

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fiddling around on the steering wheel. He had also locked up his

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front left when he was steering to the right. I can understand if he

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might have a break in balance. -- imbalance. You have to have total

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confidence on the brakes around here because there are a couple of big

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braking areas, into the first corner and into turn 4. We were looking at

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the track and the history and indeed the unpredictable weather. Is Brazil

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as special as a European race, Ryan is asking? You would have to say

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yes. And with the history as welcome it has been on the calendar since

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the early 70s. There is a huge passion and it is one of the

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significant tracks on the calendar. I think it is one that we should

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maintain and keep on the calendar. The Brazilians have a tremendous

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history in the sport and they are very passionate and bring a lot of

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enthusiasm. On Sunday morning, all of the grandstands will be bouncing

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with enthusiasm at 9am, five hours before the start. That is something

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that the sport needs. The circuit is named after Carlos Pace who was a

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driver in the early 70s and won the third time that Formula 1 came here

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in 1975 when he was driving for Brabham. He was tragically killed in

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a flying accident but is remembered through the name of the track, and

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of course Emerson Fittipaldi, who won the first two races here at

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Interlagos. Ferrari, this is Kimi Raikkonen. It was actually Niki

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Lauda who took the first Ferrari win around this track in 1976 and Carlos

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Reutemann won here the following year for the team. They are tied

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with McLaren in terms of victories here, they both have eight victories

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around Interlagos. And Ferrari has gone fastest. These lap times are

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not close to the fast times from yesterday. Rosberg did a 1:12.3

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yesterday. And last year he was very quick. He did an 1:10.4 to go

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fastest in FP3 and also took pole position. And his final time was

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very close to the ultimate lap time around here, something I expect

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could be beaten this year. But at the moment, they have not quite been

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able to achieve those times, partly because of the temperatures and the

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fact that the circuit does not seem to have rubber and in as well and

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they have also been some changes to some of the Kaunas where the drivers

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cannot cut as much -- to some of the corners. We are on board with the

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sensation of the season in many ways, Max Verstappen, all of 18

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years old but what great manoeuvres he has been pulling off throughout

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the season and consistent point-scoring latterly as well. He

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takes this vital corner that leads up the steep hill and flat out on

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the power. This is where he is down a bit with the Renault horsepower.

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That breaking point into turn 1, how difficult is it to get spot on? It

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is very tough because you break very late. There is a bit of a lift off

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at the moment to get some hybrid regeneration. But you breaking about

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50 metres from the corner. And as soon as you get to it, the road

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camber is towards the apex so the inside left front wheel is very

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unloaded and it is easy to lock-up. The difference between getting it

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right or not is about a 10th of a second and in that time you have

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done about nine metres. I was watching in the second practice

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yesterday. What was noticeable was that the Mercedes can break very

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late into that corner will stop they are running a lot of downforce. They

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are up there on the speed traps but not miles ahead of everybody. I

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think there downforce is helping them with their braking. It is for

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this middle sector. The first and third sectors are all about

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straight-line speed and acceleration but the middle sector that Sebastian

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Vettel has just come through is all about downforce and grip. They also

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accelerated so quickly between turn 1 and new Merrick two. Let's see if

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Sebastian Vettel can beat that time, yes, a little quicker but we are

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still not down to the rapid pace that we will see at the end of the

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session was thank you for your comments. Katie thinks you are

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taking styling tips from Eddie Jordan! I think he is taking them

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from me! And do drivers specially trained their neck muscles for these

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tracks? You don't actually have the same strike on your neck as before.

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Where Raikkonen is now, it is just a long, big, fast left-hand bend so

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you can sit your head against the headrest on the right-hand side to

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take away the stress and strain. I was out on Turn 1 yesterday and it

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is incredible to watch the cars going through. People are talking

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about the kerbs this year, they are massive and have changed from last

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year. Rosberg and Hamilton both said they were not particularly enjoying

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them. It turns out that might be one of the reasons the cars are going a

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bit slower because they can't go over the kerbs as much as they have

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done, especially in turn eight and turn nine. It is adding on about 1.5

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metres to the length of the track. The drivers are not enjoying it. The

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circuit is the same for everyone. It has changed a little bit. There is a

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15 millimetre increase on the inside of the kerb.

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If everybody has to go around it, it is the same as any other corner. We

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just might not get lap records. Bottas goes third but a bit of way

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off from the Ferrari time. Paul asks if the higher track ten bridges will

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benefit Ferrari and if they can challenge Mercedes. -- track

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temperatures. 33 degrees was the maximum we saw yesterday but 12

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months ago... Lewis Hamilton has stopped. That is in turn ten. He

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hasn't actually completed a lap. RADIO: I've lost gears. He has found

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something. He has done the old reset and it appears to have worked. It is

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bizarre how these modern cars do this, so ruled by Ella Electronics.

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That was a bit of a concern. They will probably want to check it -- so

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ruled by electronics. It is not uncommon, they have had gearbox

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problems through the year, mostly for Rosberg, he has lost quite a lot

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of running time because of gay box issues. But the mechanics are so

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dominant. -- gearbox issues. Many of you will have seen that his crash

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helmet is designed slightly different, the yellow and green on

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the back. He always had yellow but of course very much in memory of his

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hero Ayrton Senna who he is trying to emulate by winning this race. How

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is he able to have a new helmet with the FIA regulations? I think as long

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as the design fundamentally stays as it is, he will get away with it.

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Drivers have been experimenting. Sebastian Vettel keeps the same

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design with some subtle changes. They are cottoning on a bit. I was

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quite old-fashioned, I had the same design from when I first started

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until my last race. It is a bit like a signature, the helmet is the

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driver's signature. It is the only visible part we can see. Jennie? A

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little interesting fact, they actually use the inside, the Phelps,

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they use the old offcuts from Hamilton's in Sebastian Vettel's

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helmet -- the felt. They have used the green part from Lewis

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Hamilton's helmet inside Sebastian Vettel's that is odd!

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Daniil Kvyat, a big slide and a bit of a wobble for the Russian. He has

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been putting together a solid second half to the season. He said earlier

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this weekend how it was a difficult start and a lot of that was down to

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reliably. He felt that Barcelona was the turning point. What was

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interesting, he said that last time in Mexico, when he was on for a

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podium before the safety car, he got that was his best weekend of the

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year so far. It all came together. He was a bit unlucky on the safety

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car but he felt he did his job. This is only his second season in Grand

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Prix racing. He is relatively inexperienced. He is experienced in

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comparison to the stabbing but it will come to him. And going from

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Toro Rosso last year with very little expectation to the total

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expectation of matching up with annual Ricciardo. Also Red Bull

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wanting to compete at the front. -- Daniel Ricciardo. His long runs

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yesterday, he was able to do an equivalent long run in terms of pace

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on the medium and soft tyre the Red Bull seems to switch on the medium

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tyre but about anybody else. Felipe Massa on the circuit at the moment.

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This is bigger Rosberg. Let's see if he has any problems with gear

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changes -- Nico Rosberg. We saw Hamilton come out and stop

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and go straight back into the pits. This is where he got to, Rosberg

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goes through without any problems. Can he hold onto pole position

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today? We will see if he can take it again, as he did last year and he

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has done on the last four occasions this season. That shot you see more

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of an idea of the climb up the hill past the buildings as he goes around

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the corner. It puts that load onto the right-hand side of the car. And

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now dropping down into the left-hander, quite late apex to get

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the line correct. And to carry the momentum and get onto flat throttle

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as soon as you can through the left-hander. You are doing about 205

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mph into turn 4. That was where Lewis Hamilton spun last year when

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he was trying to chase down Nico Rosberg. He worked his tyres card

:29:52.:30:02.

but on the second lap he overcooked them a bit. Rosberg went on to take

:30:03.:30:06.

victory. Let's hope we have a great race between them this weekend again

:30:07.:30:10.

because it looks like it will be between the Mercedes team-mates.

:30:11.:30:16.

Rosberg just on the way at the moment. A quick first sector. He has

:30:17.:30:23.

slowed down and will go again. He wants to get a maximum gap and

:30:24.:30:28.

straighten off the final corner. This was Daniel Kvyat a moment ago.

:30:29.:30:42.

What were we looking at? I think we will see quite a lot of out of

:30:43.:30:48.

qualifying itself. We have seen a bit more of the president of the FIA

:30:49.:30:51.

here at Grand Prix in the last couple of events. Bernie Ecclestone

:30:52.:30:56.

tucked in behind him. It is good that he has been attending more.

:30:57.:31:02.

There's a lot of discussion going on in Formula 1 at the moment. Both of

:31:03.:31:06.

them are looking to bring in an independent engine supplier into

:31:07.:31:10.

Formula 1 with a different specification of injured and I am

:31:11.:31:18.

sure part of that... Also being * the tragic events that took place in

:31:19.:31:24.

Paris. The FIA is based in Paris. I am sure he is being asked about that

:31:25.:31:36.

either journalists. Quite often slightly opposite ends of the

:31:37.:31:41.

spectrum in terms of what they are trying to achieve by both want this

:31:42.:31:45.

independent engine to be part of Formula 1. Whether it is putting

:31:46.:31:48.

pressure on the manufacturers to come up with cheaper versions of the

:31:49.:31:52.

current engines is another question. It is a statement that there might

:31:53.:31:57.

want the manufacturers to play ball so they have a wider competitive

:31:58.:32:01.

level across the Lord. Rosberg has gone quicker. The Red Bull scenario

:32:02.:32:07.

has brought all of this to a head wear a team like Red Bull could

:32:08.:32:11.

maybe leave Formula 1 and that is not in the interests of anyone.

:32:12.:32:16.

Rosberg has gone fastest. Do we have any mourners of what is going on?

:32:17.:32:28.

Hamilton has gone back out -- update. They are saying it is a

:32:29.:32:34.

sensor issue. I am at McLaren where if there was a reward for Pickard of

:32:35.:32:47.

the year it would be these McLaren mechanics. They are swarming all

:32:48.:32:53.

over Jenson Button's car. I am told there is nothing specifically wrong

:32:54.:32:58.

but they are working a lot around the front brakes in particular. This

:32:59.:33:05.

is bad news for Jenson. This is really harming his preparation for

:33:06.:33:11.

qualifying. He was complaining about under Steve on the first lap of his

:33:12.:33:16.

run and by lap three the rear had dropped off and he had oversteer

:33:17.:33:20.

bonne entry predominantly due to traction. The juicy what they were

:33:21.:33:25.

changing? There is nothing being changed on the back of the car. It

:33:26.:33:30.

is on the front. It looks around the brake. Area. The team official says

:33:31.:33:36.

they are doing lots of checks but it looks as if they are changing

:33:37.:33:40.

something specific to the brake duct. It could be the brake.

:33:41.:33:44.

Cooling. The energy that goes into it has an effect on tyre temperature

:33:45.:33:52.

and balance. Hamilton is up and running and going to go quick here I

:33:53.:33:57.

think. It is fastest. Immediately he goes about a 10th faster than his

:33:58.:34:02.

team-mate team-mate is out at the same time. Rosberg has put in a

:34:03.:34:07.

faster first sector so we might see a response immediately. Max

:34:08.:34:13.

Verstappen studying information as he gets ready to come back out again

:34:14.:34:19.

to continue to improve the car. Max Verstappen is in a strong fifth

:34:20.:34:26.

place at the moment. We will see of Rosberg can get up to beat

:34:27.:34:34.

Hamilton's time. Maldonado is in between the two Force Indias.

:34:35.:34:38.

Rosberg appears that the top of the chart. On the medium compound tyre.

:34:39.:34:45.

We think the soft tyres were just over a second. Nasr still has brake

:34:46.:34:57.

problems. He is not quite happy. He is still going quite slowly. To

:34:58.:35:01.

being out of the way of Grosjean. He has not had much luck here in the

:35:02.:35:06.

past, Grosjean, he has never scored any points, neither has Maldonado.

:35:07.:35:10.

Two experience drivers but it has never come together for them in

:35:11.:35:17.

Brazil. Hamilton has won nearly everywhere except the circuit.

:35:18.:35:21.

Remember how long it took Ayrton Senna to be victorious here. It

:35:22.:35:26.

seems to favour certain drivers. Hulkenberg is someone that

:35:27.:35:32.

historically has gone and delivered some pretty good results around this

:35:33.:35:40.

track. The driver with the most win s around here is Michael Schumacher.

:35:41.:35:46.

Vettel and Mark Webber as well. Felipe Massa has three pole

:35:47.:35:50.

positions and two directories. Very close to winning the world title at

:35:51.:35:58.

this venue. Massa did what Barry kill another managed. --

:35:59.:36:11.

Barichello. It is Bernie Ecclestone's turn to be grilled by

:36:12.:36:15.

the journalists. The wind is picking up a little bit. It is blowing up

:36:16.:36:19.

and down the start finish straight and it is definitely a little

:36:20.:36:23.

stronger. Not particularly strong but definitely more of a breeze than

:36:24.:36:28.

yesterday. Braking into one is tricky at the best of times. We have

:36:29.:36:35.

only seen Daniel Kvyat with the big lock-up so far. We saw quite a lot

:36:36.:36:39.

of people making mistakes and running wide but the circuit

:36:40.:36:43.

generally isn't slightly better condition. Also with the track

:36:44.:36:48.

temperature 45 degrees that is probably the switch on point for

:36:49.:36:53.

these medium tyres. The tyres are working a bit better. Perez is in

:36:54.:36:59.

the pits as work goes on around the back of his car, it looks like

:37:00.:37:04.

fairly conventional set-up work, playing with brake temperatures and

:37:05.:37:07.

tyre temperatures. Those carbon fibre units, they will adjust the

:37:08.:37:14.

amount of air going through them to adjust the brake temperatures, and

:37:15.:37:19.

it is such a crucial part of the eventual temperature of the wheel

:37:20.:37:23.

rim and the tyre itself. Also the way that the air flows through, the

:37:24.:37:27.

aerodynamics of the car coming from the front wing and flowing through

:37:28.:37:32.

the floor. It is cooling its temperatures for tyres, it is

:37:33.:37:39.

braking its aero. It is a very complex system what happens with the

:37:40.:37:45.

hot here. Max Verstappen, once again he is pushing on. I would think this

:37:46.:37:52.

circuit is going to suit him. He was brilliant at karting. That is where

:37:53.:37:55.

a lot of his success has been in the past. I have just had a surge. A

:37:56.:38:06.

surge from the turbo when he up shifted to eat gear. That was

:38:07.:38:19.

Vettel. Vettel giving decent feedback to Ferrari, as expected.

:38:20.:38:23.

Let us see what this lap time is like for a Verstappen. He stays

:38:24.:38:30.

fit. No improvement in lap time. The best has definitely gone from that

:38:31.:38:37.

tyre. It looked as if it were starting to have worked quite a

:38:38.:38:40.

little bit. The first person to go on to the first tyre is Daniel

:38:41.:38:45.

Kvyat. We will keep an eye on him and see what lap time he can

:38:46.:38:50.

achieve. Vettel improves his lap times likely but he is still three

:38:51.:38:56.

tenths down on Hamilton and six tenths down on Rosberg. Still a

:38:57.:39:00.

performance difference between Mercedes and Ferrari. Chris asks,

:39:01.:39:07.

when does a slipstream become dirty air and vice versa? I guess it

:39:08.:39:12.

depends if it is a straight or corner? It also depends what car you

:39:13.:39:17.

are following because some cars have dirtier air behind which can have a

:39:18.:39:21.

bigger effect and sometimes it affects the front and sometimes the

:39:22.:39:26.

rear depending on where you are. Certainly a slipstream down the

:39:27.:39:30.

street helps you approach the next corner to perhaps be able to open a

:39:31.:39:40.

club that a. Dirty Atmos -- air. Even though you are turning. You can

:39:41.:39:48.

still use the slipstream. If you have to lift that is when you lose.

:39:49.:39:53.

We have 25 minutes to go in this final practice session from

:39:54.:40:08.

Interlagos in Brazil. Hamilton has the fastest first sector of anybody.

:40:09.:40:13.

He has not changed tyre. He is still on a 7 lap used medium tyre. It is a

:40:14.:40:20.

quick lap coming up by Hamilton. Daniel Ricciardo was on circuit at

:40:21.:40:24.

the moment. He will have a ten place grid penalty because of the

:40:25.:40:28.

engineers using this weekend, a revised tarmac in June, so they are

:40:29.:40:33.

looking for more performance from that. Hamilton was on a quick lap

:40:34.:40:39.

but he has gone off. It looks as if it is when you come down towards the

:40:40.:40:44.

end of the lap, in the last sector. He is well and truly off the

:40:45.:40:49.

circuit. It is the crossover between Sector 2 and Sector 3. You can lose

:40:50.:40:57.

because it is a traction corner proceeding that I do have to change

:40:58.:41:01.

direction so you can lose the stability of the rear. I have seen

:41:02.:41:05.

quite a few people get on oversteer moment as they go from one direction

:41:06.:41:09.

to the other and the circuit drops down and away from you. He is not

:41:10.:41:14.

having the perfect day so far. He managed a few laps together and went

:41:15.:41:19.

fastest. That has been beaten by Rosberg. Let us see if we can pick

:41:20.:41:24.

it up. It was quite early in the corner he lost the car. Just as he

:41:25.:41:30.

got towards the apex. This is where you heat up the rear tyres quite a

:41:31.:41:35.

lot. It was just as he turned down. Unusual to see the back-end braking

:41:36.:41:40.

away. That does not happen very often to Hamilton that he cannot

:41:41.:41:45.

save it. Especially in this year's Mercedes. He was trying to get a

:41:46.:41:49.

gear so there may have been some influencing factor as well. Jenson

:41:50.:41:55.

Button on track as well. Nobody has done a time on the soft tyre yet.

:41:56.:42:01.

Button is still on the medium compound. The man who won here in

:42:02.:42:09.

2012 gets to grips with this McLaren Honda. That was the last victory for

:42:10.:42:16.

McLaren. It is too long. Let us hope that Honda come up with the goods

:42:17.:42:19.

and McLaren can match that next year and bridges a race winning car.

:42:20.:42:23.

Someone asked when we think the hybrid engines will be as fast if

:42:24.:42:29.

not faster when pre-hybrid. They are, the engines themselves are much

:42:30.:42:36.

more powerful than the V8s of the previous era. I suppose you're

:42:37.:42:39.

talking about overall lap time and here there is a chance they could be

:42:40.:42:44.

faster than that previous era and it will not be long before they are on

:42:45.:42:49.

the pace. The engines are definitely stronger. Joining us from the pit

:42:50.:42:54.

wall is Christian Horner team principal of Red Bull. You have had

:42:55.:42:59.

the chance to analyse Daniel Ricciardo's engine. What have you

:43:00.:43:03.

learned? A lot of data has been looked at. We have decided to stick

:43:04.:43:08.

with that engine for the rest of the weekend. It is a very modest

:43:09.:43:18.

upgrade. It is difficult to verify how much of an improvement it

:43:19.:43:22.

actually is. Presumably Daniel Kvyat will stick with the older engine?

:43:23.:43:29.

Absolutely. Danny is about to go out on the soft tyre. Talk us through

:43:30.:43:32.

the analysis of the tyres from yesterday. Last year the soft tyre

:43:33.:43:39.

was foldable. Yesterday looked as though you were getting more laps

:43:40.:43:44.

out of it. Absolutely. Daniel Ricciardo has done a lot more on the

:43:45.:43:48.

harder tyre today. Very consistently so. With his penalty he is focused

:43:49.:43:54.

more on the race because he has to take that ten place penalty wherever

:43:55.:43:59.

he qualifies. Daniel Kvyat had a big lock-up on his first run which

:44:00.:44:04.

effectively destroyed that set. That is why he has gone out earlier than

:44:05.:44:09.

planned on the softer of the two compounds. Based on what you have

:44:10.:44:14.

seen so far, two stopped or three strop? On the cusp of two.

:44:15.:44:23.

Overtaking is not impossible. Some may try to brave it out on the two

:44:24.:44:28.

stop. One thing I noticed from the long runs that Daniel Kvyat did

:44:29.:44:31.

yesterday between the soft and the medium he was able to equal his

:44:32.:44:36.

average lap time over about ten laps with the medium. It seems as if you

:44:37.:44:40.

are making that tyre work may be better than the soft. Is that fair?

:44:41.:44:46.

I think so. We are relatively gentle on the tyres. Nothing escapes your

:44:47.:44:58.

eagle eye. It is a good observation. On the kerbs, have they been

:44:59.:45:04.

reporting much? It seems to be affecting the lap time? They are

:45:05.:45:08.

being more tentative with the kerbs, particularly with turn ten.

:45:09.:45:15.

We have had a couple of spins. Nothing too Major. You are doing a

:45:16.:45:20.

little bit of work around the front brake. On Daniel Ricciardo's car.

:45:21.:45:22.

Why? Just trying to make sure there is

:45:23.:45:32.

enough cooling in the breaks, just fine-tuning and getting everything

:45:33.:45:36.

as comfortable as possible. You work fourth and fifth last time out in

:45:37.:45:43.

Mexico. What can we expect today? I think Mercedes will be on the front

:45:44.:45:49.

row, Ferrari and Williams, when they turn it up in qualy it will be

:45:50.:45:54.

difficult to get on terms with them. We are probably looking, if we

:45:55.:46:01.

can sneak third row, that would be great but more likely fourth row.

:46:02.:46:06.

Thank you for joining us and best of luck. Christian Horner, team

:46:07.:46:12.

principal of Red Bull making preparations towards qualifying.

:46:13.:46:17.

This is Fernando Alonso who missed out on a number of laps yesterday

:46:18.:46:21.

with a power unit failure, spinning on his own oil. He is getting some

:46:22.:46:27.

more laps on this occasion, just a bit quicker than Jenson Button.

:46:28.:46:32.

Alonso has done 12 laps, some have done up to 14. Bottas has completed

:46:33.:46:41.

18. It is a shorter lap at 2.6 miles or 4.3 kilometres so they get

:46:42.:46:45.

through a few more laps than at other circuits will stop that was a

:46:46.:46:52.

big attraction limited slide. That will be a factor tomorrow with the

:46:53.:46:57.

cooler track temperatures yesterday, it wasn't really an

:46:58.:47:00.

issue, we did not see the drop-off from the tyres that we had last year

:47:01.:47:06.

but with the temperatures increasing, you are seeing a bit

:47:07.:47:10.

more where and some training on some of the cars. That might lean towards

:47:11.:47:18.

a three-stop race if it continues like this. Daniil Kvyat has gone

:47:19.:47:25.

third on that set of soft tyres. But it is not as big a jump as he might

:47:26.:47:35.

have liked. He has been talking over the radio and he is still struggling

:47:36.:47:42.

for grip in the final sector. That is where he is now. Out of the

:47:43.:47:49.

hairpin and the flat out left-hander into 11 and the final reel corner as

:47:50.:47:52.

they accelerate onto the long uphill drag. Trying to get a second lap out

:47:53.:48:01.

these tyres. His middle sector was not great. A fraction faster,

:48:02.:48:09.

doesn't change his position. I am surprised the tyres held up for a

:48:10.:48:14.

second reasonably good lap and temperatures of 46 degrees. It

:48:15.:48:19.

suggests he did not get the first sector right on the first lap.

:48:20.:48:24.

Rosberg and Hamilton were able to improve on that next lap on the

:48:25.:48:29.

first sector but in the middle sector, with all the corners, the

:48:30.:48:35.

tyre did not have the grip. When he maximises the build-up of the

:48:36.:48:39.

temperature for the first lap, he will be able to exploit it a bit

:48:40.:48:44.

more. The fans are certainly enjoying themselves. Just 16 minutes

:48:45.:48:54.

left in this final practice. One person says, shame to here Kristian

:48:55.:49:03.

Herman -- Christian Horner saying overtaking is not always possible,

:49:04.:49:07.

and it should be possible everywhere. It does depend on the

:49:08.:49:11.

layout but generally it is good to hear. That race that springs to mind

:49:12.:49:18.

when Sebastian Vettel won the World championship having dropped to the

:49:19.:49:27.

tail of the field. It is a circuit that has given some fantastic

:49:28.:49:32.

overtaking, I remember Juan Pablo on the diving down the inside of

:49:33.:49:36.

Michael Schumacher into the first corner -- Juan Pablo Montoya. It is

:49:37.:49:43.

reasonably wide as well and you can get away with going into a corner a

:49:44.:49:50.

bit too fast. I think it is something that from the Red Bull

:49:51.:49:54.

point of view is very much triggered by their straight-line speed,

:49:55.:49:59.

whether they have enough to stay in the toe at the beginning and then

:50:00.:50:03.

use DRS to overtake. It looks like it will stay dry for qualifying but

:50:04.:50:09.

there might be thunderstorms later this afternoon and the weather can

:50:10.:50:16.

change quite rapidly here. On Sunday, a similar story, a bit more

:50:17.:50:22.

cloud, it will be cooler. The rain might come in after the race but

:50:23.:50:26.

every chance of a shower before that. 2012 was the last rain

:50:27.:50:32.

affected race. We have had other sessions with rain at 2012 was the

:50:33.:50:37.

last time in the race and that was the last time we had a safety car

:50:38.:50:43.

around this track. It has a fairly high level of probability for safety

:50:44.:50:48.

car. There are a couple of places where if a car stops, a safety car

:50:49.:50:54.

would be required to move it out of the way. Coming back out on the soft

:50:55.:51:02.

tyre is Daniel Ricciardo. This will be his qualifying simulation,

:51:03.:51:04.

everybody else is leaving it quite late before putting on the soft

:51:05.:51:11.

tyres. You only get two laps. Maximum. With it being a short

:51:12.:51:19.

circuit, the bigger factor is not necessarily how close to the end of

:51:20.:51:22.

the session, it is whether you go out in a group and you might have

:51:23.:51:27.

traffic. Not for Ricciardo because he is the only person on the circuit

:51:28.:51:34.

at the moment! It would be just his luck if he came round the last

:51:35.:51:39.

corner and there is a stream of cars coming onto the circuit. The track

:51:40.:51:44.

temperature is now 47, we might get up to 50 for qualifying. He builds

:51:45.:51:51.

up for the lap and this is really where his next lap begins. You try

:51:52.:52:00.

to square off the final corner and go a bit slower into the corner to

:52:01.:52:05.

maximise your speed out and carry it all the way to the start of the lap

:52:06.:52:11.

and into Turn 1. He stayed in third gear, a nice clean run. Kisses the

:52:12.:52:17.

kerb on the right. That allows him to come through towards turn for.

:52:18.:52:29.

And he was flat through there. In fourth gear, down to the bottom of

:52:30.:52:33.

the track. Very nice because the kerb rolls away from you. It is easy

:52:34.:52:39.

to lose a bit of time. Now through one of the best corners on the

:52:40.:52:46.

circuit, very quick, you can cut -- can't cut it any more. It is all

:52:47.:52:52.

about balance. A very technical section. Ricciardo desperate not to

:52:53.:52:59.

waste time. This is where Hamilton went off earlier. A bit of Opus Dei

:53:00.:53:05.

on the entry but kept in it. Too much understeer there, did not at

:53:06.:53:10.

the apex and he has lost a bit of time and momentum up the hill. Let's

:53:11.:53:18.

see what it is like. This will be quicker than earlier on the soft

:53:19.:53:25.

tyre, second fastest, 1:13.5. Still not faster than Mercedes have done

:53:26.:53:29.

on the harder tyre so it goes to show that even with a bit more of a

:53:30.:53:35.

second from the soft tyre, he still can't go faster than the Mercedes.

:53:36.:53:39.

Evidence that Mercedes are in great shape. The Sauber on track is Felipe

:53:40.:53:49.

Nasr on the soft tyre. He is going for a qualifying simulation and he

:53:50.:53:53.

also has a pretty clear lap. A few Moore cars on track, six, that he is

:53:54.:54:02.

clear coming down into Turn 1. Just a hint of lock-up which is enough to

:54:03.:54:07.

make him miss the apex. And a big slide in Turn 3. He was trying to

:54:08.:54:14.

take it flat out but it is not as easy this year as previously. This

:54:15.:54:20.

will not be a great first sector. Not even his best of the session.

:54:21.:54:24.

And he was on the harder tyre earlier. A few mistakes through the

:54:25.:54:32.

Senate as. He will try to get it back -- Senna S. It is not going to

:54:33.:54:44.

be the lap he wanted. This is quite an important lap for Felipe Nasr and

:54:45.:54:51.

everybody in that mid-grid area. Because the circuit is so short, the

:54:52.:54:56.

distance between positions is small, especially for them because

:54:57.:55:01.

they could get something out of the weekend. They have been performing

:55:02.:55:07.

better, 14th at the moment for Nasr but this lap will not be one of his

:55:08.:55:12.

best. It will move him up, but to seventh place with a load of cars

:55:13.:55:19.

yet to put the soft tyre on. Sauber have a pretty good record here.

:55:20.:55:23.

Hamilton is on track on the soft tyre will stop this was the mistake.

:55:24.:55:28.

A lot of drivers yesterday did that. It is just when they are starting to

:55:29.:55:37.

up the shift and there is a lot of torque through the rear wheels.

:55:38.:55:45.

Later on he had the big snap and he lost the time. This is the second

:55:46.:55:56.

lap on it. Hamilton has just taken six tenths out of everybody in the

:55:57.:56:00.

middle sector. He is on for a storming lap as Ricciardo comes

:56:01.:56:04.

through. Hamilton is fastest onto 1:12.0. Some way off what we saw

:56:05.:56:11.

last year but the fastest lap of the weekend so far. Hulkenberg is coming

:56:12.:56:19.

up the hill. 11th at the moment. This will jump him up the order to

:56:20.:56:27.

third. He gained 1.3 seconds but probably on a little less fuel than

:56:28.:56:37.

earlier. Yesterday about one second was the difference between the

:56:38.:56:42.

medium and the soft. Hamilton might not have got the best out of the

:56:43.:56:49.

medium tyre but 1:12.0... Rosberg will have to do a good lap to get on

:56:50.:56:54.

terms. Looking at the speeds across the start finish line, it is Massa,

:56:55.:57:00.

Raikkonen, Grosjean and then Kvyat and Hamilton. It gives you an idea

:57:01.:57:06.

that the Mercedes is running plenty of downforce. Nico Rosberg is about

:57:07.:57:14.

to start his lap. He is on those soft tyres so we will know the

:57:15.:57:18.

difference between Hamilton and Rosberg soon. Verstappen kept it

:57:19.:57:28.

need through Turn 3. Plunging downhill for a moment and levelling

:57:29.:57:31.

off and beginning to climb back up the hill again. Into Ferradura, this

:57:32.:57:40.

wonderful corner. Tightening up, this is where his karting pedigree

:57:41.:57:51.

comes in. Turn ten, it is easy to lock-up and inside wheel. You tend

:57:52.:57:56.

to turn the wheel straighter than you would like. He was held up on

:57:57.:58:05.

this lap. Rosberg has set the fastest first sector, quicker than

:58:06.:58:12.

Hamilton. Let's watch Max Verstappen up the hill to complete his lap. He

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goes into fifth place for the moment. Perez following but we are

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keeping an eye on Rosberg. Laws though -- Alonso jumps up to

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seventh. That is pretty good. Rosberg, he missed out. Where did he

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lose that time? He was one tenth of Hamilton in the second and third

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sector. That is where the time went. Somebody locked up ahead of

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Carlos Sainz but he has gone eight. Not as quick as Verstappen but less

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track experience. Maldonado has been exciting to watch as ever, a bit of

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a lock-up going gone. He was a bit off Grosjean yesterday and the team

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were hoping he could find some pace this morning. Lotus has not looked

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that stable when you are on board with Maldonado and also Romain

:59:15.:59:19.

Grosjean, they were always fighting with the steering wheel. The car

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looks to have gripped but when it loses it, it is quite reactive and

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difficult to drive. A perfect place to pick up a total and he goes into

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fifth. -- a tow. A very good answer to the question we had earlier about

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the effect of the slipstream. Very beneficial for Maldonado. Whether he

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can do that in qualifying is another matter. Just over five minutes left

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in final practice. Felipe Massa is 10th but that is not really where

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you would expect the Williams. Sebastian Vettel is third but a big

:00:02.:00:07.

gap between him and Mercedes, nearly seven tenths off the top. Bottas

:00:08.:00:14.

goes fifth, more promising Fon Williams but a big gap again to

:00:15.:00:17.

Mercedes and he is right in there with Hulkenberg in the Force India

:00:18.:00:22.

who loves this track and that is a pretty outstanding lap but just a

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couple of tenths quicker than Perez so Williams might have their hands

:00:27.:00:27.

full with Force India. Verstappen has been pushed down to

:00:28.:00:37.

ten with all these improvements around him. Felipe Massa is having a

:00:38.:00:44.

bit of a tough weekend so far. But it has improved slightly but he is

:00:45.:00:48.

only in the 18th so that is not great. He will be disappointed with

:00:49.:00:54.

that. He has the Saubers head of him. That is the guys that are

:00:55.:00:58.

usually fighting to get out of qualifying one. That was a good lap.

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He has obviously phoned some pounds. Verstappen. Fully be Massa is

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building up for another lap again. Thirsty. I do not think it is

:01:18.:01:24.

because he is thirsty. It is because of the driver weight. He might be on

:01:25.:01:28.

the limit of being the correct driver weight that are measured out

:01:29.:01:33.

at the sessions so he will be drinking quite a lot. I wonder if

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Maldonado is going to be able to find any more pace. It does not look

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like it. His first sector is not as quick as it was. You could see it

:01:43.:01:49.

sliding around more. Struggling to get the power down. That is what

:01:50.:01:54.

goes away, the ability to get the traction off the corners.

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Maldonado's lap not as quick. A lot of front locking. Grosjean is ahead

:02:01.:02:14.

of Maldonado, but only just. Vettel has done a better sector than his

:02:15.:02:19.

previous best. Is there any chance? Ferrari has been looking good on its

:02:20.:02:24.

soft tyres. He did a good long stint on them yesterday. The second sector

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is not better than he had previously done. I do not think it is going to

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be better. It does not look like it. The middle sector is very tough

:02:35.:02:38.

because it puts so much energy into the tyre and the performance

:02:39.:02:43.

drop-off is quite high. Vettel, it is not quicker than before. It

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proves that they are able. Jenson Button has so much under steel at

:02:52.:02:54.

the moment. He has been cleaning about understeer at the beginning of

:02:55.:03:01.

runs. He seems to struggle with the front. Remind us how you can see

:03:02.:03:07.

that in the car. The steering lock, when he turns the steering, quickly

:03:08.:03:13.

it goes towards the apex. When you are at 90 degrees you tend to have

:03:14.:03:18.

too much understeer which means you cannot maintain the car in all of

:03:19.:03:22.

the slow corners. That means you are later going on to the throttle which

:03:23.:03:27.

means you put more Lord onto the tyre and you overheat the rear tyre

:03:28.:03:31.

and your traction gets worst. Ever decreasing circles that lay. It

:03:32.:03:38.

looks as though most people have done their flying lap and their

:03:39.:03:43.

qualifying simulation. If this was qualifying we would have lost both

:03:44.:03:50.

Saubers, Jenson Button and both of the Marussias from the first part of

:03:51.:03:54.

qualifying. It does not always work like that. Things can change.

:03:55.:04:00.

Stevens is a little bit quicker than Rossi although Rossi has done a

:04:01.:04:05.

better lap. Stevens is doing well because Rossi has at least given the

:04:06.:04:09.

circuit in the past. Stevens has been a little bit quicker. Maldonado

:04:10.:04:15.

has been out wide somewhere. We saw that from one of our other angles.

:04:16.:04:19.

No damage done. He has gone back on track. Sainz is in 50s by all of

:04:20.:04:26.

those improvements around him. Massa is back into the pits. It looks as

:04:27.:04:30.

though Sauber going to struggle to get out of Q1. We hope they can

:04:31.:04:39.

fight for it at least got a few cars going out onto circuit with a few

:04:40.:04:42.

seconds to go, purely to do a practised art at the end of the pit

:04:43.:04:49.

lane. Bottas in the Williams. Fifth in the standings at the moment.

:04:50.:04:54.

Williams with that podium finish for Bottas last time out in Mexico. A

:04:55.:04:59.

good reading of the strategy. Are they going to be able to get on the

:05:00.:05:04.

podium again? A tough race last year, but Max, the seat belt strap

:05:05.:05:09.

was loose, which is very unusual. He had a long pit stop as they tried to

:05:10.:05:16.

cure that. They seem to have a set of tyres that did not come in at all

:05:17.:05:20.

and he ended up finishing intense as his team-mate ended up in third with

:05:21.:05:25.

the other Williams. It was the day of mixed fortunes for the team here

:05:26.:05:30.

last year. Across the line, chequered flag, end of session, but

:05:31.:05:35.

the actual complete this in fifth. One of the drivers doing a practised

:05:36.:05:40.

art was this man, Raikkonen. Another one was was Rosberg. He complained

:05:41.:05:49.

about torque delivery. That is something he was talking about

:05:50.:05:54.

yesterday. They do not seem to have got the consistency in their starts

:05:55.:05:58.

they would like. Hamilton had problems earlier in the season and

:05:59.:06:03.

Rosberg on a couple of occasions. Yesterday Rosberg was complaining

:06:04.:06:07.

about that. They do not have any problems in terms of pace, the

:06:08.:06:11.

quarters of a second faster than in a buddy is here today and surely

:06:12.:06:18.

pole position. A big oversteer connection but he managed to get it

:06:19.:06:23.

sorted and back on the track. A big advantage for Mercedes. It looks as

:06:24.:06:26.

though is going to be a fight between the two of them. Hamilton

:06:27.:06:31.

trying to break the sequence that Rosberg is on of scoring pole

:06:32.:06:40.

positions at the last four events. Vettel is for fast this. They have

:06:41.:06:48.

to focus on race pace and see if there is some way to get more out of

:06:49.:06:52.

the long stints on the tyres to give them an advantage. If it is between

:06:53.:06:57.

the two strop and the Maxtor, perhaps they at -- Ferrari will go

:06:58.:07:10.

for two. Vettel was bowed fastest. -- third. Not necessarily a good

:07:11.:07:27.

track for Toro Rosso, but that was a good lap for Verstappen which put

:07:28.:07:31.

him ahead of Daniel Ricciardo and Daniel Kvyat, both of the Red Bulls

:07:32.:07:36.

outside of the top ten, which shows you how important the power unit is

:07:37.:07:45.

at Interlagos. Alonso, a good lap from him. The two Spaniards

:07:46.:07:53.

together. Jenson Button struggling with understeer. There is no doubt

:07:54.:08:04.

that Mercedes are a step ahead of everybody else. Hamilton and Rosberg

:08:05.:08:10.

separated by less than a 10th of a second. It promises to be a very

:08:11.:08:14.

intriguing battle to see which of them will take proposition in a few

:08:15.:08:18.

hours. An interesting session for Hamilton.

:08:19.:08:24.

Not easy. Gear box problems and a spin but showing great speed and he

:08:25.:08:28.

topped the time sheets. The temperature is continuing to rise.

:08:29.:08:35.

The cloud is building. There is some talk of thunderstorms this

:08:36.:08:38.

afternoon. If you have ever watched Formula 1 at Interlagos before you

:08:39.:08:41.

will know how quickly things can change and that is one of the many

:08:42.:08:45.

things that makes it exciting round here. We have qualifying live for

:08:46.:08:54.

you. We will have Sebastian Vettel giving his thoughts on the season.

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Thank you for your company. Goodbye.

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