:00:00. > :00:35.it's time for Inside F1 with Lee McKenzie and Eddie Jordan.
:00:36. > :00:44.Good evening and welcome, are final one of the season. After 18 races
:00:45. > :00:50.and 19 months, the Formula 1 circus has come to Abu Dhabi for the season
:00:51. > :01:00.finale. That may give you some background. We understand Mercedes
:01:01. > :01:05.have reported Ferrari to the FIA. Mercedes say Ferrari have been
:01:06. > :01:09.gaining an unfair advantage by using a new team to develop the current
:01:10. > :01:14.cap. I can understand the arguments, but there are two sides to every
:01:15. > :01:19.story. If I was a team fighting against Ferrari, I'd have the same
:01:20. > :01:28.complaint. There's no doubt about it, Ferrari have been using wind
:01:29. > :01:33.tunnel statistics and winning it for themselves. We will have to see what
:01:34. > :01:37.the steward opinion is on it. There's still a lot to be decided.
:01:38. > :01:44.It will take a long time to get the decision, but that's the way it is.
:01:45. > :01:48.I suppose it all comes to, when does the team you're helping actually
:01:49. > :01:56.become a rival? In an interview we had earlier today, they said they
:01:57. > :02:00.are soon going to set up their own wind tunnel facility, so somebody
:02:01. > :02:05.has been doing it for them. Has it been Ferrari? My guess is that so
:02:06. > :02:09.the insinuating. When we see the proof of that, if there is proof of
:02:10. > :02:13.that, that will throw some extra light on the subject. I would not
:02:14. > :02:16.think Mercedes would go full heartedly into the stewards and try
:02:17. > :02:22.get a situation they hadn't got some proof about. Other news today was
:02:23. > :02:27.that Ron Dennis, team boss at McLaren, cast some doubt over
:02:28. > :02:31.whether his driver Fernando Alonso would even be on the grid next year,
:02:32. > :02:37.that he might take a sabbatical, which was used to us. It was used to
:02:38. > :02:41.Fernando Alonso when I asked him if he was going to be on the grid next
:02:42. > :02:49.year. I have been answering the same question to all your colleagues. As
:02:50. > :02:54.Kevin to qualify some of his courts, because I don't know what he means
:02:55. > :02:59.with some of the things, but of course, we always want to improve
:03:00. > :03:03.and we will put the car and winter testing in the car and winter
:03:04. > :03:08.testing and we're hoping for the best. This is a strange turn up for
:03:09. > :03:14.the books. Why would Ron Dennis is a strange turn up for the books. Why
:03:15. > :03:18.would Ron Dennis say we need to ask him and we need clarification.
:03:19. > :03:22.Because this was a very strange comment. If given the trying to
:03:23. > :03:28.embrace the driver, a world champion of the style of charisma that
:03:29. > :03:34.Fernando Alonso has, oh you trying to put him down get him to stop
:03:35. > :03:40.because he's too expensive? What is Ron trying to say? Please explain,
:03:41. > :03:44.because readers are lost. Plenty of news kicking around, but the car is
:03:45. > :03:47.wrote the qualifying today as the sun was setting today. Here is Ben
:03:48. > :03:55.Edwards. A calm evening in Abu Dhabi was
:03:56. > :03:58.started with a puncture or Fernando Alonso just when McLaren looked for
:03:59. > :04:06.competitive than they have for some time. There was a miscalculation by
:04:07. > :04:24.Ferrari that saw the best in vessel backoff. -- Sebastian Vettel.
:04:25. > :04:35.Hamilton set the pace for Nico Rosberg, while the battle to get
:04:36. > :04:44.into the top ten... Jenson Button contributors earlier form. The final
:04:45. > :04:49.session was a core. Nico Rosberg was faster on the initial run than
:04:50. > :04:53.Hamilton, while Peres was out brilliant third. It was a second
:04:54. > :05:03.attempt that defined the grid. Hamilton picked up the pace as they
:05:04. > :05:07.attempted to hold Rosberg's time. Kimi Raikkonen stole third from
:05:08. > :05:12.Peres, who nonetheless matched his career best starting position, while
:05:13. > :05:18.Daniel Riccardo completed the top six. Mercedes once again annexed the
:05:19. > :05:24.front row with Rosberg claiming front row in Abu Dhabi. It's going
:05:25. > :05:28.well, and also further reasons to be starting in front. I'm just pleased
:05:29. > :05:32.with that. At the moment, I'm faster than Lewis Hamilton and managed to
:05:33. > :05:38.turn it around. At the beginning of the season, it was costing me a lot
:05:39. > :05:41.always to lose out to him. But he was found a bit extra and now it's
:05:42. > :05:46.me that I had a bit extra. So I'm really happy about that. Today was
:05:47. > :05:51.ecstatic about that that because it felt also met there and I haven't
:05:52. > :05:55.often managed a lot like that. Usually on Saturday, the point still
:05:56. > :06:02.count for anything, but today was cool. Nico Rosberg gets his sixth
:06:03. > :06:07.consecutive pole position. Eddie, where has this performance come from
:06:08. > :06:14.and where was it when we needed it? Yes, where was it in the beginning
:06:15. > :06:20.of the season? As the car changed? Is it the tires? Is it pending
:06:21. > :06:23.fatherhood? We don't know, that's a nice thing about it is that he is
:06:24. > :06:29.very sensible and Harry is responding. He doesn't know any
:06:30. > :06:34.difference but that he's been able to find that little bit special.
:06:35. > :06:38.Lewis Hamilton unbelievably has not had a poor position since the
:06:39. > :06:42.Italian Grand Prix. But he didn't seem too down about it today. Yes,
:06:43. > :06:50.the first two weren't actually that rates. They weren't particularly
:06:51. > :06:58.comfortable laps, so I wasn't really surprised. It's not been the best
:06:59. > :07:04.run of qualifying, but still had three wins out of those, so I'll be
:07:05. > :07:09.working as hard as I can to improve. He's already in looking ahead to
:07:10. > :07:13.next year, but he also said it wasn't really comfortable in the
:07:14. > :07:16.Caribbean. He doesn't seem too worried, he has the World
:07:17. > :07:23.Championship under his belt. Do you think is take this route off
:07:24. > :07:26.or do you think the card isn't sitting him? Psychologically, I
:07:27. > :07:31.think he has what he wanted to achieve. He's jumped over the bar he
:07:32. > :07:36.said, he's the world champion, and that's really matters in a season of
:07:37. > :07:37.water racing. He is now in a mindset, he's talking about next
:07:38. > :07:45.year. Even if Nico Rosberg wins this race, of course it will dent his
:07:46. > :07:50.bride, but only for the evening and then the next day he will
:07:51. > :07:56.bride, but only for the evening and then the next day he'll again next
:07:57. > :08:01.year. Lewis knows he has come to the circuit, is not when you need pole
:08:02. > :08:06.position on, there is overtaking. There's lots of overtaking. What's
:08:07. > :08:10.his mind saying? He's saying, he still won three of the reasons he
:08:11. > :08:17.didn't get pole position in. He's definitely out to win this. Sergio
:08:18. > :08:19.Peres but that he was on for pole position am, for a third, but it was
:08:20. > :08:31.Kimi Raikkonen who got third. it works like you want, it's a hell
:08:32. > :08:35.of a lot easier. It doesn't if it's either someone else, but
:08:36. > :08:39.today has been a nice day and also yesterday. It looks like you were
:08:40. > :08:51.able to save tomorrow? We have options open, so
:08:52. > :08:55.will see how it plans out tomorrow. I have no idea what were going to
:08:56. > :09:00.do. If it comes to that, there's always a chance. We haven't seen it
:09:01. > :09:07.very often, but he's been strongest weekend. He's been very strong. One
:09:08. > :09:11.has to ask the question then, where could Sebastian Vettel be? Could he
:09:12. > :09:15.have taken Mercedes? But I do feel that Kimi Raikkonen is so strong
:09:16. > :09:22.here that I'm not surprised he's up there. Ferrari got it wrong with
:09:23. > :09:24.Sebastian Vettel today. It was a shocker. I have no idea why he
:09:25. > :09:25.didn't complete the lap, seem to use. You have to blame the
:09:26. > :09:34.team and you have to blame Sebastien. Something just didn't
:09:35. > :09:41.gel. I think they thought they'd is done enough, but they got it wrong.
:09:42. > :09:47.I think we can expect plenty more tomorrow and you don't want to miss
:09:48. > :09:50.tomorrow. We have all the coverage for you live. The race is at ten
:09:51. > :09:55.past 12 on BBC One. Eddie, thank you very much for your company
:09:56. > :09:57.throughout the year. Thank you for watching, we hope you've enjoyed it
:09:58. > :10:02.as much as we have. Good night.