1999 Brazilian GP

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Round 2 of the 1999 F1 season at Sao Paulo.

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00:00:00Hello, everyone, and welcome to the FIA Formula One World Championship Grand Prix of Brazil

00:00:25round two, the 1999 championship.

00:00:29We're live with you on Fox Sportsnet, watching one of the Williams on one of the pre-race

00:00:34warm-up laps here at Interlagos, a beautiful, sunny and warm day for racing.

00:00:40Welcome to our Toyota pre-race, perhaps the most, perhaps the half hour of television,

00:00:47the most information we can possibly pack into it.

00:00:50I'm Mike Joy alongside Derek Bell, five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and contributing

00:00:55editor to F1 Racing Magazine, which is required reading at our house.

00:00:59Peter Windsor will join us from the pit lane.

00:01:01Well, it's been a while since Australia, where Mika Hakkinen and his teammate David Coulthard

00:01:08scored no points at all.

00:01:10So, Peter, there's been an awful lot of work done since Australia to get ready for the

00:01:15second round here in Brazil.

00:01:17Absolutely right, Mike.

00:01:20Five weeks is a long time in Formula One, particularly when new regulations limit the

00:01:23amount of testing that can be done.

00:01:25The BAR team, it ended in tears after the Australian Grand Prix up against the FIA in

00:01:29that court hearing and they lost.

00:01:31Looks like $1 million or about that sort of money is going to have to be paid in legal

00:01:34fees for bringing that into the public airing.

00:01:36Back in England, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, possibly in doubt, Bernie Eccleston

00:01:40signed a contract with Brands Hatch.

00:01:41It doesn't mean the race is going to be at Brands, it means there's going to be a lot

00:01:44of talk and a lot of money being spent, I suspect, over the next few months.

00:01:48Michael Schumacher couldn't resist it, played soccer, went jogging, twisted his ankle.

00:01:52He looks pretty comfortable in the Ferrari right now, but I'm sure he's in a bit of pain.

00:01:55Pedro Diniz II, mountain biking, in his build-up to the race, fell off 18 stitches over his

00:02:00right knee.

00:02:01He is actually in a lot of pain.

00:02:02And poor Luca Badoa crashed in the Minardian testing.

00:02:05He's now out of this race, replaced by Stéphane Sarrazin, a very talented young French Formula

00:02:093000 driver.

00:02:10Going back to those testing days, some controversy over that.

00:02:14What constitutes a day?

00:02:15I'd like your input on this one, Derek.

00:02:17If it rains, you do three laps.

00:02:18Is that a testing day if you don't do any more running that day?

00:02:21Big dispute about that.

00:02:22Of course, Ferrari and McLaren, being Bridgestone-contracted teams, have access to more tyres and have

00:02:27more days.

00:02:28More on that argument, too.

00:02:29Back to you.

00:02:30The answer to that one, I think, is, as far as Bridgestone are concerned, it's a day.

00:02:32And as far as the team is concerned, they need every moment they can get.

00:02:35Well, if you don't get any work done, though, is it a work day?

00:02:38I guess that's the question.

00:02:43The race down under was Topsy-Turvy for several reasons.

00:02:46Not only for its location, but for its result.

00:02:51Let's have a look back at the opening round of the 1999 season.

00:02:55Mika Hakkinen sat on pole as Johnny Herbert and Rubens Paikello-Stewart burned down on

00:03:03the starting grid.

00:03:04Paikello took over the spare car.

00:03:06Michael Schumacher could not get going.

00:03:08The car would not select the gear.

00:03:11So the McLarens took off one-two as usual.

00:03:13But then everything became unusual.

00:03:15And David Coulthard parks his car with a problem.

00:03:17And that leaves the restart.

00:03:19Look at the restart.

00:03:20And poor old Mika Hakkinen has a problem with his car as well.

00:03:23And he has to pull in the pits, leaving Eddie Irvine in momentous occasion to get out there

00:03:27and actually take the lead of the race.

00:03:29Michael Schumacher had a burst tire and a major problem with his steering column.

00:03:34He continued.

00:03:35But it was Eddie Irvine that won.

00:03:36We were convinced we were going the right way.

00:03:38And apart from the McLarens, we proved we were.

00:03:41You know, it's fantastic to do a Ferrari after such a long time.

00:03:45And all the people have helped me.

00:03:48From Formula 4 all the way up, it's a big thank you to everybody.

00:03:53Eddie Irvine is still celebrating.

00:03:55And he is the world championship point leader over Frensen,

00:03:58Ralf Schumacher, Fisichella, Barrichello, and De la Rosa.

00:04:01Picked up a point for Arrows.

00:04:03None of these drivers expected to win the world championship.

00:04:05None of those three scored points at all.

00:04:07And look at Ferrari.

00:04:08A ten-point bulge on McLaren Mercedes with Jordan and Williams well up.

00:04:14So Ferrari takes that ten-point lead here to Brazil.

00:04:18Michael Schumacher warms up.

00:04:20And just going down that pit lane.

00:04:22It was a new pit lane that they brought in.

00:04:24And have to slow down on that corner.

00:04:27But of course, remember, they're only allowed to do nine-tenths of a lap.

00:04:30Pull in the pits, check the car over, and out they go again

00:04:32until they've decided the car is right.

00:04:34Then they can pull on the grid proper and stay there till the start of the race.

00:04:3724 minutes time.

00:04:40David Coulthard, of course, he had a very fast qualifying session yesterday.

00:04:45Well, when we come back, we'll have a look at qualifying.

00:04:48There were some home country heroics in the qualifying session yesterday.

00:04:53We'll show you those when we come back.

00:05:03This is Fox coming in after one of his warm-up laps.

00:05:07The Brazilian Grand Prix has a long and storied history

00:05:10both here at Interlagos and at Rio de Janeiro.

00:05:13Håkonen, the winner last year.

00:05:15Jacques Villeneuve, the year before.

00:05:17Michael Schumacher won in both his World Championship seasons.

00:05:20Ayrton Senna won his home Grand Prix twice.

00:05:23And Alain Prost was victorious here a total of six times.

00:05:30The World Champion, Mika Håkonen, waits as his team makes adjustments.

00:05:34Eddie Irvine, the point leader and winner in Australia.

00:05:38But now they come to a very different circuit.

00:05:41The Juan Carlos Pache circuit here in Brazil,

00:05:44named for the 1975 winner of this race.

00:05:48Derek, it's a unique circuit. We're at high altitude.

00:05:51What makes it so different?

00:05:52Well, it's very, very bumpy indeed.

00:05:54But this year they've changed the pit's layout substantially.

00:05:57The pit entrance is way back before that fast 170 mile an hour left-hander,

00:06:01which means the guys have to brake right across that turn to go in the pits.

00:06:05And the exit is way after the Curva do Sol.

00:06:08And the FIA have brought in a speed limit of 70 miles an hour

00:06:11for all that section all the way through.

00:06:14Anyway, now we're going to do a nice lap with Rubens Barrichello,

00:06:17the hero here. Here we turn into Turn 1 with him.

00:06:19He's got quite a lot of camber, so the cars can get,

00:06:22nip inside something, do some outbraking there.

00:06:24And you can see the pit lane I was talking about just now,

00:06:26this long pit lane.

00:06:27As he accelerates out through the Curva do Sol up to 185 miles an hour,

00:06:31down this back straightaway.

00:06:33A lot of bumps at the end there.

00:06:35You can't see it actually generated through the car,

00:06:37but it really is a very bumpy circuit as he works his way down

00:06:39through the Descido do Lago,

00:06:41flat out all the way through the next left-hand kink,

00:06:43and then down into Ferradura.

00:06:45Ferradura is an interesting corner in that it actually is a double apex corner.

00:06:49As you turn in, you cannot see the exit of the second part.

00:06:52And suddenly, whoops, there you are over the top,

00:06:55braking very severely as you go down into La Jarancha.

00:06:58First gear corner now.

00:06:59Be careful you don't get too much wheel spin as you go through here.

00:07:02Trying to get traction, trying to keep the car in

00:07:04as they work their way down to the tightest part of the circuit,

00:07:07Bica do Pato.

00:07:08And here it is, first gear, 40 miles an hour.

00:07:10Touching that throttle very lightly on the power.

00:07:13Second, third, fourth gear.

00:07:15Not full power as he goes.

00:07:16Now he's on full power.

00:07:17He can work himself down into braking area at Juncayo.

00:07:20Very bumpy.

00:07:21A high downforce circuit for the cars as well, of course,

00:07:24but you have those two very fast straights

00:07:26as we work our way down past the pits, past the pit entrance,

00:07:29pulling up 180, 190 miles an hour

00:07:32as you work your way down into Turn 1.

00:07:34That was Rubens Barrichello's fast lap.

00:07:39Stewart Grand Prix Technical Director Gary Anderson says,

00:07:42the high altitude and the thin air robs you of 10% of your downforce,

00:07:46so you have to have a very aggressive package here for this circuit.

00:07:50David Coulthard having a chat before he climbs back aboard.

00:07:54Let's have a look at some of the highlights

00:07:57of an interesting qualifying session for the home Brazilian crowd.

00:08:03Well, of course, it was really all about Rubens Barrichello.

00:08:06Look at the crowd, they were so enthused before the start

00:08:08as their local hero sitting in his Stewart Ford

00:08:11that must have been who ran so well in the previous race in Melbourne.

00:08:15But it was David Coulthard who gets first position, pole position,

00:08:18at the beginning of the session.

00:08:19Remember, they have an hour in which to do it, 12 laps.

00:08:22Then it was Mika Hakkinen that comes out

00:08:24and eclipses poor David once again

00:08:26to take that pole position away from him.

00:08:28David got very, very close indeed as the session went on.

00:08:31But it was the local hero, Rubens Barrichello,

00:08:34that pops out there and whips in that third place position.

00:08:37Everybody gets very excited.

00:08:38The crowds are roaring, wonderful stuff.

00:08:40But it was Giancarlo Ferrazzichiello

00:08:42that then whips into a fourth place position.

00:08:44Not much sign of the Ferraris yet,

00:08:46but they're on their way.

00:08:47And then Fizikello dropped back a little bit,

00:08:49but Michael Schumacher had quite a lot of handling problems.

00:08:52They changed the car dramatically spring-wise,

00:08:55and out he went, pops in third quickest time ahead of Rubens.

00:08:58Then Marc Genet in the Minardi, he goes off the road,

00:09:01hits the guardrail, out comes full course,

00:09:03yellow, so of course they slow the whole thing down.

00:09:06Here's Damon, just giving us just shows what it's like

00:09:09to get all that 780 horsepower in that Mugen Honda engine on the road,

00:09:12or perhaps not on the road, but at least he doesn't lose it.

00:09:15Damon finished in a very good position,

00:09:17but Alex Zanardi has had a dismal weekend,

00:09:19apart from blowing his engine up,

00:09:21he got fined $5,000 for speeding in the pit lane.

00:09:24Not a good weekend so far for Alex.

00:09:26Then Michael Schumacher comes out, he's got his car right,

00:09:29he goes out, and he pips Ruben,

00:09:31gets up into third place on the grid.

00:09:33Super job by Michael, but at the end of the day,

00:09:36it's Rubens Barrichello gets third place,

00:09:38and of course Donnie Herbert's also in the top ten.

00:09:41But let's just go down now to a very elated Jackie Stewart,

00:09:44who's talking with Peter Windsor.

00:09:51Yes, it was a fantastic qualifying session,

00:09:53for the Brazilians particularly, to see Rubens Barrichello

00:09:56hitting the McLarens that hard.

00:09:58I'm sure none of them believed that was going to happen.

00:10:01Let's see what Jackie Stewart thought.

00:10:03Well, we're thrilled, the whole team are thrilled,

00:10:05we worked very, very hard from around June of last year,

00:10:08we've reorganised our whole company,

00:10:10the chassis is working very well,

00:10:12the engine is working superbly, the new Ford Cosworth engine.

00:10:15We're hoping for good things.

00:10:17Mike, it's been a session to remember.

00:10:19Certainly McLaren in front, but some fantastic new names up there.

00:10:22Can't wait for the race. Back to you.

00:10:25A crowded grid here in Brazil,

00:10:27and an absolute mob around Rubens Barrichello.

00:10:29A little local colour there.

00:10:32Teams have figured out that if they can lay the rear wing back

00:10:36at high speed, that will lessen downforce and lessen drag,

00:10:41increasing top speed.

00:10:43But we've had wing failures in pre-season testing

00:10:46and in the race Villeneuve, last one at Australia.

00:10:49So the FIA has come up with a device

00:10:51and requires the team to have their rear wings tested at each race.

00:10:56They put this device, attach it horizontally to the rear wing,

00:11:00and then add 100kg, about 220lbs of weight.

00:11:04That equals the downforce that would be applied

00:11:07to that wing at 100mph.

00:11:09If the wing deflects more than one degree,

00:11:12they have to replace it with one that does not.

00:11:16Jackie Stewart looks over the stewards

00:11:18as we get ready to race in Brazil.

00:11:21When we come back, we'll have a look at some of the problems

00:11:24that befell the top teams in Australia.

00:11:28Formula 1 on Fox Sportsnet Live continues in a moment.

00:11:33Welcome back to the Grand Prix of Brazil,

00:11:35live with you on Fox Sportsnet.

00:11:38It's a beautiful day to go racing,

00:11:40temperature in the low 70s,

00:11:42some humidity but no chance of rain.

00:11:46And just a gentle breeze.

00:11:49We'll be with you all year long,

00:11:51usually at 10am your local time.

00:11:54With the Grand Prix of San Marino from Imola, May 2nd,

00:11:57Monaco and Spain in May,

00:11:59we will be live at the Grand Prix of Canada

00:12:01as the season rolls on.

00:12:0310am local time, usually.

00:12:04Check your local listings and live coverage

00:12:06of the Grand Prix of Japan at season's end.

00:12:09Look at the crowd around the stewards.

00:12:11They're doing a bit of chasing around inside the cockpit there,

00:12:14looking a little bit of concern,

00:12:15but probably nothing too major.

00:12:17But there always seems to be problems,

00:12:18all this money invested,

00:12:19and there always seems to be problems

00:12:20when they get on the grid.

00:12:22Baikela set to roll off from third position.

00:12:25Well, for many of these teams,

00:12:26it's a whole new start to the season.

00:12:28They did not get off to a good start in Melbourne.

00:12:31Here were some of the difficulties.

00:12:35For McLaren Mercedes,

00:12:36the 1998 season was all champagne and smiles,

00:12:39winning both constructor and driver's championships.

00:12:43But what a difference a year makes.

00:12:45In this year's opening race in Australia,

00:12:47neither McLaren nor Michael Schumacher

00:12:49scored any points at all.

00:12:51On Micka's car,

00:12:52we had a seized throttle mechanism on the engine,

00:12:57and on David's car,

00:13:00we had a hydraulic accumulator crack.

00:13:04And really, since Melbourne,

00:13:07we've just been working extensively

00:13:10on improving reliability of the car.

00:13:14It's a hydraulic area that we had,

00:13:15and unfortunately, so much of the car was damaged.

00:13:18It's a hydraulic area that we had,

00:13:19and unfortunately,

00:13:20so much of the car is controlled by hydraulics.

00:13:22There's a gearbox,

00:13:23and there's barrels for the engine throttle opening

00:13:26and all that sort of thing.

00:13:27Going into turn seven, it fails, and that's it.

00:13:30Their chief rival, Schumacher,

00:13:31also came up a goose egg in Oz.

00:13:34We had a neutral button

00:13:35which started to malfunction on the steering wheel,

00:13:37and we didn't really understand it at the beginning,

00:13:39but that's what happened on the grid.

00:13:41So Michael came onto the grid and selected gear,

00:13:44and in fact, the neutral button was broken.

00:13:46So Ferrari scored an important ten points

00:13:48with Eddie Irvine's breakthrough victory.

00:13:51New Williams driver Alex Zanardi,

00:13:53two-time kart champion,

00:13:54got a rude welcome back to Formula One.

00:13:58You lack consistency in the brakes.

00:14:01I think coming from Indy,

00:14:03with the steel brakes,

00:14:05always very consistent brake pedal,

00:14:07very consistent retardation.

00:14:09With the carbon brakes,

00:14:10you sort of haven't really got that all the time.

00:14:13So for many top contenders,

00:14:14it's a new start to the season here in Brazil.

00:14:21Well, it was a very intriguing,

00:14:23interesting moment there for Zanardi, I think,

00:14:25and the problems he has

00:14:26is something he's learning very, very rapidly

00:14:28for the next race.

00:14:29And the McLarens.

00:14:30There's Mika Hakkinen waving to the crowd,

00:14:31hoping reliability problems have been cured.

00:14:36For more on this issue of brakes,

00:14:39we'll go down to Peter Windsor,

00:14:40who is patrolling the pit lane.

00:14:43Peter, what are you doing there?

00:14:44Are you pumping?

00:14:45What is that, carbon?

00:14:49No, guys, I'm not doing my morning workout.

00:14:50This is one of the very lightweight carbon discs

00:14:52we've been talking about.

00:14:53This one made by Hitco, an American company,

00:14:55used by McLaren last year to win the World Championship

00:14:58and fitted here to the Williams.

00:14:59Very, very intricate piece of equipment.

00:15:01It operates at something like 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:15:03Glows red when it operates.

00:15:05And a team like Williams

00:15:06would bring about 20 sets of these to a Grand Prix.

00:15:09Bear in mind that each set costs around $13,000.

00:15:12You're looking at about a quarter of a million dollars

00:15:14per race purely on brake discs.

00:15:16That's not to mention pads, of course.

00:15:19The difficult thing is getting the heat away from these brakes.

00:15:21And the teams work very, very hard

00:15:23on the design of the ducting and the vanes and the airflow

00:15:26around the upright and the suspension assembly

00:15:28to get this heat away.

00:15:29Very, very hard work.

00:15:30Designed usually on computational fluid dynamic computers.

00:15:34In other words, they don't use a wind tunnel

00:15:36to get these airflows right.

00:15:37They put it all together on computer.

00:15:39This is what Alex Zanardi, of course,

00:15:41had a problem with in Melbourne.

00:15:42I doubt if that problem's going to happen again today.

00:15:44And I should add that one of the Williams mechanics

00:15:46just told me that when these discs have finished their race,

00:15:48when they've finished their life,

00:15:50they make very good clocks.

00:15:51Back to you.

00:15:53Well, I don't know about the clock,

00:15:54but certainly when you use those carbon brakes,

00:15:56you have to hit them so hard.

00:15:58They're so efficient.

00:15:59And the braking distance is so short.

00:16:01And that's what I think

00:16:02Alexander Zanardi's trying to problem.

00:16:04A little bit of adaptation time there.

00:16:06David Coulthard gets ready to race as we do here in Brazil.

00:16:09Formula One is coming back to the United States in the year 2000.

00:16:13We'll have an update for you when we come back.

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00:16:34Rubens Baikello, the home country hero,

00:16:37gets set to do battle here in Brazil

00:16:40after qualifying in third and having a tremendous day.

00:16:43He'll be one of those drivers that will lead us

00:16:45back to America in the year 2000

00:16:48and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

00:16:50where Formula One racing will take place

00:16:52and where a great deal of construction is now underway

00:16:55to meet Formula One requirements and to update the circuit.

00:17:00Brand new garages and pit suites

00:17:02are being built along the pit lane,

00:17:05along the front straightaway at the brickyard,

00:17:07concrete being poured,

00:17:09new retaining walls erected down inside turn one of the brickyard,

00:17:13and a new control tower is going up.

00:17:16What do the world's greatest drivers think of going to Indy?

00:17:20I guess Formula One has become much more popular

00:17:22over the recent years

00:17:24and will become even more popular after a while,

00:17:27but you obviously compare it then to IndyCar

00:17:31and they have their own stars

00:17:33and I wouldn't believe we are stars down there,

00:17:37so we may become stars at a time.

00:17:40And whether Formula One is going to be able to provide them that,

00:17:44it's a question mark, but I certainly hope so

00:17:47because if you gain their heart,

00:17:49the American fans are really great people

00:17:53and then they just hook to it,

00:17:56so I hope that will happen.

00:17:58To go to a race, whether it's got an infield circuit

00:18:02or whatever, is going to be interesting, going to be exciting

00:18:05and always the enthusiasm that North Americans get

00:18:11from competing over there is great

00:18:14and there's a big support for Formula One in America,

00:18:17it's all there and they need us to come over and race,

00:18:20so that's what we're doing.

00:18:21I just think the name itself and the fact that it's in the old venue

00:18:25is going to bring a lot of interest for the F1 guys

00:18:28and hopefully the American fans as well.

00:18:33Mika Hakkinen gets set for this Brazilian Grand Prix,

00:18:36the last USGP, 1991 in Phoenix,

00:18:38they called it the Iceberg Grand Prix

00:18:40and most Americans thought lettuce and auto racing,

00:18:43what a strange combination.

00:18:45What about it, we used to be at Watkins Glen for so many years,

00:18:47what a fantastic venue that was.

00:18:49And at Long Beach.

00:18:51Well, let's have a look at the starting lineup for today's Grand Prix of Brazil,

00:18:54round two in the FIA Formula One World Championship.

00:18:58It is an all Mercedes front row,

00:19:00big surprise, Mika Hakkinen beating David Coulthard

00:19:03by just about 15 hundredths of a second.

00:19:05But of course it was Ruben Barrichello, the local man here,

00:19:08who goes out and pit Michael Schumacher right in the dying moments of qualifying.

00:19:12Row three, Fisichella for Benetton

00:19:15and the point leader in the World Championship,

00:19:17Eddie Irvine on Ferrari.

00:19:19Then it became the two Jordans,

00:19:21Damon Hill just edging out Heinz-Hauer-Frenzel.

00:19:25Alexander Wurz and Johnny Herbert

00:19:28put both Benettons and both Stuarts in the top ten.

00:19:31Well, Ralf Schumacher ran very well in early qualifying, early practice,

00:19:34but at the end he was down there on the sixth row.

00:19:36And he came up not quite as well as he had hoped in the new crop.

00:19:39But better than his teammate, Jarno Trulli, one row back,

00:19:42and the Saubers had a tough day, with Alessi only managing 14th.

00:19:46Yes, and Denise managing the next row,

00:19:48not too happy with his time,

00:19:49but Alex Zanardi could not have been happy with his session,

00:19:51but he was very limited on time.

00:19:54Stéphane Sarrazin, the French driver,

00:19:56replaces Luca Badoer, injured in testing,

00:19:58and Pedro de la Rosa for aeros.

00:20:00And Takagi is right next to him,

00:20:02Torres, but didn't do that well.

00:20:04Marc Genet, of course, had that accident,

00:20:06but that cut short his qualifying session.

00:20:08Now, Jacques Villeneuve qualified mid-pack,

00:20:10but his times were disallowed.

00:20:12The fuel check showed his fuel a different spec

00:20:15than that which they started the weekend.

00:20:17The team feels that changing fuel cells,

00:20:19there may have been some residue in that brand-new fuel cell

00:20:22that interacted with the fuel.

00:20:24And finally, Riccardo Zonta will not start this race.

00:20:27He crashed on Saturday,

00:20:29and had a five-centimeter cut tendons

00:20:31between the third and fourth toe of his foot.

00:20:34He is out for this weekend,

00:20:35and may miss as many as the next two races.

00:20:41That's a look at the starting lineup,

00:20:43as Mika Hakkinen now gets set to strap in.

00:20:47Yes, he's just about to get himself wound up into this.

00:20:50He's always so calm.

00:20:51I've known him a long time, Mika,

00:20:53since his very early days in British motorsport.

00:20:55He's a very calm, cool customer,

00:20:56as most of the Scandinavians seem to be.

00:21:00And look at the big crowd,

00:21:01upper right of your screen, around Barrichello's car.

00:21:04Upper right, upper left as well,

00:21:07as the formation lap will be coming up,

00:21:10and then the start of round two of our world championship.

00:21:21Welcome back to Fox Sportsnet live coverage

00:21:25of our Toyota pre-race from the Grand Prix of Brazil.

00:21:30Well, Michael Schumacher will be looking

00:21:32to get this season off to a good start.

00:21:34His last two starts have been memorable, Derek,

00:21:36but for all the wrong reasons.

00:21:38Yeah, well, of course,

00:21:39if you remember the final round in 1998 in Japan,

00:21:42Michael could have won the world championship that day,

00:21:45but they didn't,

00:21:47Michael could have won the world championship that day,

00:21:50but they had a bad start at the first start,

00:21:52finger in the air, that means his car won't work.

00:21:55And of course, he had to start from the back of the grid.

00:21:57Paul Michael had the same problem again last time in Melbourne,

00:22:00just four weeks ago,

00:22:01when this first time was the clutch,

00:22:03this time it had to be the controls

00:22:05on the steering wheel that let him down.

00:22:08So Schumacher looking to get off to a good start

00:22:10for the first time in three races.

00:22:13His younger brother, Ralph Schumacher,

00:22:15does not have fond memories of Brazil.

00:22:17He is not finished in two attempts here,

00:22:19and last year went in the gravel trap

00:22:21on the first corner of the first lap.

00:22:27Strategies for today and things that we'll be looking at

00:22:30and stories we'll be tracking throughout the 72 laps.

00:22:35Well, personally, I think this pit strategy

00:22:37is very, very important.

00:22:39I remarked just now that the pit road length

00:22:41is almost a third to half of the circuit,

00:22:44and they put a speed restriction to 70 miles an hour

00:22:46on the whole of that length,

00:22:47because they don't want the car spinning out

00:22:49as they come down out of the pits,

00:22:50down across the track in the end of the Senna S's,

00:22:53which means, of course,

00:22:54that these guys are very restricted

00:22:56as far as they are on their time in the pits.

00:22:59They don't want to spend too much time.

00:23:00There is oil there, you can see it,

00:23:01the line as they come down into turn one.

00:23:03It is on the outside,

00:23:04so the guy comes and goes around the outside

00:23:06is going to find it difficult.

00:23:07Remember, there is a lot of camber on that corner

00:23:09as they sweep down through the Senna S's,

00:23:11so you can overtake people.

00:23:12We saw a lot of it in previous years.

00:23:14And there you can see the pit lane.

00:23:15What they don't want is the car spinning out

00:23:17just where we were looking as they speed down,

00:23:19so they've given the 70-mile limit all the way out.

00:23:22Well, that's a long way to travel

00:23:24at such a reduced speed.

00:23:26The bumpiness of this circuit is always a factor.

00:23:29Mechanical simply means trying to save the car.

00:23:32Peter, they've made a lot of changes here,

00:23:34but what about the race surface itself?

00:23:38Yes, that's right.

00:23:39It's very, very bumpy at Interlagos.

00:23:40If you say Interlagos to any Grand Prix driver,

00:23:42the first thing they think of

00:23:43is the rough ride they're going to get.

00:23:44But this year, the organisers have done a good job

00:23:46resurfacing most of the track.

00:23:48Some of the bumps still remain, however,

00:23:50and throughout qualifying,

00:23:51a lot of the teams have experienced...

00:23:58Derek, you said you have to conserve the car,

00:24:00but in Formula One, if you conserve, you lose.

00:24:04So how do you find that balance?

00:24:05Well, I believe it's to do with the very experienced drivers

00:24:08have this mechanical sympathy.

00:24:09The famous man used to once call it,

00:24:11and that is what it's all about,

00:24:13is driving the car to the absolute limit,

00:24:14but actually not stressing it or over-stressing it.

00:24:17A lot of the younger drivers will over-stress the car.

00:24:20Tyre choice will be a factor here today.

00:24:22McLaren and Williams have gone with

00:24:24the harder compound Bridgestone tyres.

00:24:26Ferrari, Benetton, Jordan and Stewart

00:24:29have gone with the soft compound.

00:24:31Yes, let's remember that everybody is on Bridgestone tyres.

00:24:34Goodyear pulled out last year,

00:24:35and that's left Bridgestone,

00:24:36and of course we also have the four grooves

00:24:38in the front tyre for this year.

00:24:39You can see them there on Barry Kello's car.

00:24:42So it's very, very important, of course,

00:24:45that the guys pick the right tyres.

00:24:46It always amazes me that, of course,

00:24:48the two McLarens can go out there

00:24:51and run on this harder compound

00:24:53and still be very, very quick.

00:24:54Well, if the McLaren score points today,

00:24:56it will be their first of the season.

00:24:59Points are awarded 10-6-4-3-2-1,

00:25:02and neither David Coulthard or Mika Hakkinen

00:25:04nor Michael Schumacher is on that list from Australia.

00:25:09So Eddie Irvine, with 10 points,

00:25:11leads the world championship,

00:25:13and if he scores as much as a single point

00:25:15or as few as a single point here,

00:25:17he will lead the championship on to Imola.

00:25:20Obviously the main thing that's worrying these two guys

00:25:22and those McLarens is reliability.

00:25:24They've had the unreliability in Melbourne.

00:25:25They don't want it here.

00:25:26As far as getting off the grid is concerned,

00:25:28of course, Rubens has the slight advantage.

00:25:30He can go round the outside.

00:25:31They can go side-by-side round turn one if they have to,

00:25:35but they don't want to have an incident at that point either.

00:25:37We've seen that before.

00:25:39Round two of the FIA Formula One World Championship

00:25:42is set to start on Fox Sportsnet Live.

00:25:58Oh, Coulthard!

00:26:02Moral damage.

00:26:04And it's tragic for him.

00:26:06Rubens Barrichello moves into second place behind him there.

00:26:08Three abreast into the first turn,

00:26:10and one of the Jordans has to give an awful lot of ground.

00:26:15And Coulthard's car sits lifeless on the grid.

00:26:23So Hakkinen leads from Barrichello and the Ferraris.

00:26:28And then the two Benettons followed by the two Jordans.

00:26:39It's intriguing to see just how Barrichello can hang in there.

00:26:42What a sad thing for David Coulthard.

00:26:44He's been, you know, after the last race,

00:26:46when neither of them finished,

00:26:47I felt that he'd have another great opportunity

00:26:49to show his superiority here over Mika,

00:26:51but he hasn't done it yet.

00:26:52And one of the Jordans has come up and split the Benettons.

00:26:56Yes, that's a very good move.

00:26:58Nipping by there.

00:27:02Good bit of passing on the first lap,

00:27:04and quite a land rush into turn one

00:27:06as everyone went around the motionless chicane

00:27:09that was David Coulthard.

00:27:11Now they're just coming around to hit that long straightaway.

00:27:14Mika will not be looking in his mirrors at all.

00:27:16He'll be absolutely transfixed looking out in front.

00:27:19He doesn't want to get any distraction from behind,

00:27:21seeing where the next guy is.

00:27:22Little glimpse maybe on the straight,

00:27:24then after that he's going to concentrate the whole way.

00:27:27Schumacher hanging in there behind Barry Keller.

00:27:29Irvine dropping back just very slightly.

00:27:31Bit too wide there, Michael.

00:27:32Sliding a bit too much.

00:27:33Doesn't need that.

00:27:34That'll lose him some time as he hits this back straight.

00:27:38Derek, how much more of a wear concern

00:27:40for these teams that are on the soft tires?

00:27:42Well, that's something none of us know about.

00:27:44There must be more wear,

00:27:45but obviously they'll be doing two stops anyway.

00:27:48So I guess the tires will last.

00:27:49Nobody seems to complain about the tires wearing too badly.

00:27:55Rubens is staying right there with Mika Hakkinen

00:27:59as they go halfway around this second lap.

00:28:02Slow gear corner, slowing it right down.

00:28:05The Brazilian fans have dubbed him Rubinho.

00:28:10Now, the Brazilians are famous for attaching single names

00:28:14to their famous sports stars.

00:28:16Pele, of course, being the best example,

00:28:18but he has achieved that stature

00:28:21and it is just a tremendous outpouring of enthusiasm

00:28:25for him that we have seen all weekend.

00:28:27And to see him running second to Hakkinen

00:28:29and maintaining this sort of a gap,

00:28:31leading Schumacher,

00:28:32the fans here are just going crazy

00:28:35every time he comes past.

00:28:36We just heard that John Alese spun but continued,

00:28:39which is good.

00:28:40John Alese has not been happy with his car all weekend,

00:28:42complaining most profusely

00:28:43about the terrible handling of the car.

00:28:45Remember, they do run a Ferrari engine,

00:28:47albeit last year's specification.

00:28:49Look how neat and tidy Mika is around there

00:28:51and Rubens as well.

00:28:53This McLaren, somehow,

00:28:54the way they set this car up is phenomenal.

00:28:56It seems to take this incredible high speed.

00:28:58It's six miles an hour fast in the Ferraris down the straight,

00:29:02yet still goes around the corners well.

00:29:04And that's one thing, folks, that you'll notice

00:29:06is that the McLaren Mercedes shows...

00:29:09Well, here, let's have a look at the start once again.

00:29:12You see, Coulthard's car moved about a foot, stalled.

00:29:14Eddie Irvine made a very nice move

00:29:16to squeeze right through there.

00:29:18They were very, very lucky that they...

00:29:20None and nobody hit David's stuff at the front,

00:29:22but that is one of the advantages of having the grid

00:29:24really wide apart, set wide apart.

00:29:26They are trying to restart David Coulthard from the pits.

00:29:30This reliability problem is McLaren.

00:29:32I know this is probably not a reliability problem.

00:29:34It's something unknown that's happened in the past,

00:29:37but they have yet, I believe,

00:29:39they've yet to actually finish a Grand Prix test successfully

00:29:43since the beginning of the year.

00:29:44They've talked about it,

00:29:45but even Ron Dennis intermediated yesterday

00:29:47in his interview that he couldn't get it going.

00:29:49They still have not managed to restart that car.

00:29:52There he goes.

00:29:54Oh, finally.

00:29:55But he's three laps behind.

00:30:01Let's hope he does not come out to pit lane

00:30:03right in front of Håkonen.

00:30:05He should be out.

00:30:06He should be out and gone by then.

00:30:07There he is.

00:30:08But, of course, there is a restriction.

00:30:10Now you'll just see how slow he has to go.

00:30:12He's not allowed to let it go

00:30:13until I think that line there.

00:30:14Then he can accelerate.

00:30:17And, unfortunately for Håkonen,

00:30:18he could not accelerate quickly enough

00:30:20to become a buffer between Håkonen and Barrichello.

00:30:23There he goes.

00:30:24Oh, look.

00:30:25Håkonen slows down.

00:30:27Unbelievable.

00:30:28Håkonen's got the problem.

00:30:29These are some gremlins they've got in this McLaren.

00:30:31Far more than they've ever seen before.

00:30:33What a disaster.

00:30:34And Rubinho is leading his home Grand Prix.

00:30:37And what a din,

00:30:39a tremendous noise from this crowd.

00:30:41Let's ride with him.

00:30:48Wow.

00:31:00Well, that brings the best after his Barrichello now.

00:31:02Just watch this.

00:31:03Here we go.

00:31:04Look, he tips in to get a slipstream

00:31:05off the back of Håkonen

00:31:06and suddenly Håkonen slows down.

00:31:08That's why he pulled across.

00:31:09Rubens could so nearly have had an incident there as well.

00:31:17Here we go.

00:31:22Back to the front straightaway.

00:31:23I thought last season

00:31:25was the craziest season that could ever be.

00:31:28Look at that crowd.

00:31:29You can hear the crowd in the background.

00:31:31Unbelievable.

00:31:33I mean, the grandstands are shaking.

00:31:35Everything here is...

00:31:36Yeah, they haven't had a Brazilian leading

00:31:38since the great Ayrton Senna.

00:31:39And of course you had poor Rubens Barrichello's hat

00:31:44to sort of hide behind

00:31:45or in the shadow of the great Ayrton Senna

00:31:47for so many years.

00:31:48But here he is out in front in the lead

00:31:50in the Stewart 4.

00:31:51I mean, wonderful for the Stewart team.

00:31:53Now, Michael Schumacher, Ferrari is second.

00:31:56Mika Håkonen's car did not come to rest.

00:31:59He continues on in third place.

00:32:04Who knows what could have befallen Mika Håkonen

00:32:06who did not complete the third place car.

00:32:10Fox Sportsnet live coverage of the Grand Prix of Brazil

00:32:13continues after this.

00:32:16Welcome back to Fox Sportsnet live coverage

00:32:19of the Grand Prix of Brazil

00:32:20where Rubens Barrichello leads.

00:32:22Prior to today, he had only led eight laps

00:32:26in his Grand Prix career.

00:32:27But here on his home track,

00:32:29Mika Håkonen jumped out with the early lead,

00:32:31suffered a misfortune,

00:32:32and now runs third behind Barrichello and Schumacher.

00:32:35Yeah, Mika's actually doing very, very well indeed.

00:32:39He's caught up, Michael Schumacher,

00:32:41and he's really on the verge of going by him

00:32:43to take third place from Michael.

00:32:48David Coulthard is two laps down,

00:32:50but he's mad and showing it.

00:32:52He just set fastest lap of the race.

00:32:54So the second car you can see in your picture

00:32:56is David Coulthard who is two laps down,

00:32:58and Mika Håkonen is in fact in third,

00:33:01and about to probably arrest second place from Schumacher,

00:33:03which should be an interesting move.

00:33:05Fourth is Eddie Irvine in Ferrari.

00:33:07Fisichello is fifth.

00:33:09Frankson is sixth.

00:33:10Verts is seventh.

00:33:11Johnny Herbert is eighth.

00:33:12Olivier Pani from twelfth is up to ninth,

00:33:15and Johnny Herbert is tenth right where he started.

00:33:19Well, I must just say this, Mike.

00:33:21You've seen that car go round and round.

00:33:22You saw the burning, the fire that they had

00:33:24in both the cars on the grid in Melbourne

00:33:26on both the Fords, the Stuart Fords.

00:33:28And this morning after warm-up,

00:33:29the car was left there with the engine running very quietly,

00:33:32and suddenly the paint started to bubble on it.

00:33:34Is it overheated?

00:33:35Is it going to catch alight again?

00:33:37So we don't quite know what it was,

00:33:38but it seems to be running at the moment absolutely fine.

00:33:42In fact, Derek, it seems their problems come

00:33:44when the car is hot and comes to rest and keeps running.

00:33:48Schumacher locking up the brakes there pretty bad.

00:33:50No, it's not. I'm sorry.

00:33:51That's the...

00:33:52Whoa, look at the Williams.

00:33:54The VAR, that's Villeneuve going up really, really...

00:33:57I've got it wrong again.

00:33:58It's the Arrows.

00:33:59I can't have seen much of them this weekend.

00:34:01The Arrows having a lurid time on the braking.

00:34:08He's now...

00:34:09He's driving absolutely immaculate at the moment, Rubens.

00:34:11I mean, everybody said what a great driver he is.

00:34:13We've seen in his former three days

00:34:15he beat Coulthard quite convincing in F3.

00:34:17A great talent, but he's not been out there

00:34:20in a really competitive car,

00:34:21and he's so happy at the moment.

00:34:23Word from Peter Windsor is that the McLaren folks

00:34:25have no clue what misfortune has befallen them here.

00:34:28There's Jackie and Paul Stewart,

00:34:30a beam at Barrichello's lead.

00:34:33And it must be.

00:34:34It's also interesting to note, of course,

00:34:36that Stewart, they have this young aerodynamicist.

00:34:41Well, let's just ride along at the moment.

00:34:43Let's just ride.

00:34:58Now, I just have to remark

00:34:59that they had an aerodynamicist called Egbal Hamady,

00:35:02and he actually is a college pal of Adrian Newey's,

00:35:04and he is an aerodynamicist

00:35:05that has actually done the work

00:35:06that made this Stewart car go well.

00:35:08He now doesn't work for anybody

00:35:10because he couldn't get on with Gary Anderson

00:35:11because Gary didn't want to have a wind tunnel,

00:35:13so he left the team,

00:35:14and he's actually out of work at the moment,

00:35:16but he has nonetheless done a great job

00:35:18on that Stewart car.

00:35:19It's hard to say where the Stewart has gained most.

00:35:22Aerodynamics, handling, horsepower,

00:35:24but they have gained in all those areas.

00:35:26Well, Ford have really come to the plate now.

00:35:29They've got the possible engineering

00:35:30under their banner,

00:35:31and they're really working with them

00:35:33in producing this very, very powerful engine, obviously.

00:36:04...position.

00:36:07March today, and then two laps down, David Coulthard.

00:36:12That's Coulthard, that silver car,

00:36:14right behind the race leader, Barrichello,

00:36:17but two laps in a rear.

00:36:21Just remember, of course,

00:36:22that Stewart and the Ferrari are both on soft tires

00:36:25as opposed to the McLaren, which is on hard.

00:36:28Now, Barrichello's pace has eased a bit

00:36:31from the opening laps, Derek.

00:36:32Well, that's inevitable.

00:36:33Oh, somebody's off the road.

00:36:34One of the Benetton's at spurts, is it?

00:36:36Can't really see him too well.

00:36:38Had a nasty moment off the road there,

00:36:40coming out of the, through the center S's.

00:36:45Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear.

00:36:47Look at this maneuvering going on here.

00:36:51One of the Jordans is going rather slow.

00:36:53Yes.

00:36:54I think that's what caused the havoc.

00:36:58It was Ralph Schumacher and John Lacy

00:37:02that got very close together.

00:37:07Then it was Frentzen, whose car was very slow,

00:37:10just kind of idling around.

00:37:14So, Berts and Hill, we're told,

00:37:16did clip each other and made pits.

00:37:27Preparation of the Benetton pits,

00:37:29they're going to fit a new nose cone

00:37:31to Alexander Berts.

00:37:32Now, there is Berts off course

00:37:34after contact with Damon Hill.

00:37:36That might not have improved

00:37:37the underneath of his car very much.

00:37:39He certainly picked up a lot of rubble

00:37:40as he went through.

00:37:44Barrichello will be concentrating

00:37:46like you cannot believe out there.

00:37:48He won't be thinking about the crowd,

00:37:49he won't be, he'll be absolutely concentrating

00:37:52on getting the most out of that car all he can,

00:37:54praying and hoping he can get into his next pit stop

00:37:56or his first pit stop

00:37:57without any problems whatsoever.

00:37:59Look how neat he is, beautiful.

00:38:00Tough break for Olivier Cagny,

00:38:02that's one reason he got from 12th up to 9th

00:38:04so quickly, he jumped the start.

00:38:0610 seconds penalty.

00:38:11Well, will this be Hill or Frentzen?

00:38:13This will be Hill,

00:38:14coming in after the contact with Berts.

00:38:20This is more like a safety change,

00:38:22unless Berts saw something up toward with the tires.

00:38:28A report from the pit says that Damon

00:38:30feels something may have been damaged

00:38:32in the steering in that contact.

00:38:36When you just think what grip these cars have,

00:38:39he says he still doesn't like it, obviously.

00:38:41He's not happy because I presume

00:38:42something like the steering wheel

00:38:43is not in a straight, you know,

00:38:44is not actually in a straight position.

00:38:46And so he knows there was something astray with it.

00:38:49Well, Jordan picked up six points in Australia

00:38:54and their chances have been lessened today

00:38:57with suspension damage for Damon Hill.

00:39:02Now, David Coulthard has dropped back

00:39:04in the running order.

00:39:05He is still two laps down,

00:39:07but Schumacher has gone past Coulthard

00:39:10with Hakkinen in pursuit.

00:39:12Well, Coulthard let Hakkinen go by, of course,

00:39:14because he was two laps down.

00:39:16David, all he does is seem to let

00:39:17Mika Hakkinen go by.

00:39:19Here we go, this will see what happens here.

00:39:21David pulls over, lets him go around.

00:39:25And Damon Hill's car is being retired,

00:39:27but Jordan's being pushed into the garage.

00:39:30Alec Zanardi has come fifth time.

00:39:34He has had an awful weekend for Alex this weekend.

00:39:36He missed half a session,

00:39:37and then it was raining as well.

00:39:39Then he had the blow-up in the spare car yesterday.

00:39:42And he got a $5,000 fine for speeding in the pit.

00:39:44That's about the only place

00:39:45that he has speeded all weekend.

00:39:46Trouble on the right rear for Zanardi.

00:39:50Perhaps he was involved in some contact as well.

00:39:53Wouldn't it be wonderful for Barry Keller

00:39:55to win on his 100th star, eh?

00:39:57He's done 99.

00:39:58And where better to win than at home?

00:40:00Oh, nothing like it.

00:40:01What a hero.

00:40:05Well, sorry.

00:40:06But behind him, his mirrors are starting to

00:40:09move larger there with Schumacher and Hakkinen.

00:40:12They are eating into that gap.

00:40:13It did sit at 3.5 seconds a bit ago.

00:40:16It's now down to 2.8

00:40:19in a space of about 3 to 4 laps.

00:40:21Look at it.

00:40:22Michael's got Hakkinen's attention all the time here.

00:40:25He's going to have to give up in a minute.

00:40:27Remember that the McLaren yesterday in qualifying

00:40:30was 6 to 7 miles an hour quicker down the straightaway,

00:40:33which is a lot.

00:40:34So it shows that it's pulling.

00:40:35It's actually pulling more wing,

00:40:37but it flows through the air quickly as well.

00:40:40It's just absolutely phenomenal

00:40:41why they can get that car to work over the bumps

00:40:43and the high speed corners.

00:40:44Now, when you think all other things being equal,

00:40:47a soft tire Schumacher would be faster right now

00:40:49than Hakkinen on the hard tires.

00:40:51Well, it hasn't totally been proven at all

00:40:53that that is the case.

00:40:55But I must admit, you would think so.

00:40:57Remember that the McLaren really is about 6 to 7 tenths

00:41:00a lap quicker, but he can't get ahead of Michael

00:41:02to prove that point.

00:41:03Meanwhile, Barry Keller is slightly pulling away.

00:41:08Johnny Herbert.

00:41:11What a good move, Johnny.

00:41:13Around the outside, which left in the inside,

00:41:15coming down the hill.

00:41:16Great piece of driving.

00:41:19But as I say, this is the view they have

00:41:22as they come down the main straightaway,

00:41:23and as they go into that first turn,

00:41:25there's a lot of camber here.

00:41:27It's a lovely corner.

00:41:29All right, the lead is stabilized somewhat

00:41:31at about 2.8 seconds.

00:41:33Schumacher is sliding.

00:41:34Look at him sliding over the place of these turns.

00:41:37Of course, that doesn't do the tires any good,

00:41:39and they just cannot get this Ferrari to work this weekend.

00:41:41They ran it very, very hard in early qualifying yesterday,

00:41:43but they lost a lot of time with it.

00:41:45Look at Mika having a look to go by.

00:41:47He's going to go shortly.

00:41:49Haakonen fainted a look there as they came down the hill.

00:41:52Not a good place for it, no.

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00:41:58of the Grand Prix of Brazil.

00:41:59Rubens Barrichello leading for Dackie Stewart.

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00:42:23Oh.

00:42:24Johnny Herbert's playing right down there.

00:42:26He's just hoping nothing's happening.

00:42:28It's likely to happen similarly to Rubens right up front,

00:42:31but Johnny Herbert hasn't had a good weekend.

00:42:33But he's still running, but not very well.

00:42:36Herbert had come to seventh place.

00:42:39Look at this now.

00:42:40We've got Schumacher here.

00:42:42Zanardi just let them through.

00:42:43Schumacher followed closely by Mika.

00:42:45Now, Mika has to stay right behind him

00:42:47through this next section of the track.

00:42:49He really has to stay close to get the slipstream

00:42:51down the main straightaway,

00:42:53and then zip by him coming into turn one.

00:42:55And Mika, I think, knows this.

00:42:56But, of course, remember, he can afford to wait,

00:42:58possibly, to a pit stop.

00:43:02Oh, that was a pretty good move down the inside there.

00:43:04That was a very close move by Pani

00:43:06as he overtook one of the Menardis.

00:43:10The driver who's made the most progress, Derek,

00:43:12John Alacey, spun back to 19th

00:43:15as Johnny Herbert moves back to the pits.

00:43:17He has now come to seventh place.

00:43:19Now, some of those positions were gained

00:43:21due to pit stops and retirements

00:43:23by Verts, Damon Hill.

00:43:25Oh, look. Sorry.

00:43:26Hackingham had a look on the outside.

00:43:28Down the inside, then the outside.

00:43:30Sorry about that, Mike.

00:43:32Also, Olivier Pani served his penalty,

00:43:34and Johnny Herbert just pulled over.

00:43:36But, Alacey is up to seventh spot after spinning,

00:43:39and that is a rare bit of fortune, indeed.

00:43:41There's the lead.

00:43:43Barrichello in that white Stuart Ford.

00:43:45The red Ferrari of Schumacher

00:43:47and the black and silver of the McLaren Mercedes

00:43:49of Mika Hakkinen.

00:43:52Eddie Irvine's Ferrari sits fourth.

00:43:55Fisichella's Benetton is fifth.

00:43:57Heights' Harold Frenson for Jordan is sixth.

00:44:00Look how quick that shoots.

00:44:02The McLaren is into the corner

00:44:04underneath the tail of the Ferrari.

00:44:06Johnny Herbert had hydraulic problems, we understand.

00:44:08That's why he is going very, very slowly.

00:44:10But that McLaren is going to zap

00:44:12by Michael Eaddy's time at all.

00:44:14That is for certain.

00:44:16He's just got to get out of there straight.

00:44:17The problem is, you have that long, long,

00:44:19uh, you've got a braking session area

00:44:21they come into, then the long, long left-hander.

00:44:23And there's a lot of turbulence,

00:44:24and it really upsets the balance of the car.

00:44:26And so, for all me,

00:44:28he cannot get too close behind Schumacher's car

00:44:30because of that turbulence.

00:44:31This is where he needs to be ten foot behind him,

00:44:33and he isn't.

00:44:34Even if he's six mile an hour faster,

00:44:35he's not managing to make the most of it

00:44:36down this straightaway.

00:44:38You say that long, straight braking zone,

00:44:40but with these carbon brakes,

00:44:42it's unbelievable how deep they go into the corner

00:44:44before they actually apply the brake.

00:44:46They brake, unlike most of us,

00:44:48they brake into the corner with left foot braking

00:44:50and then get on it.

00:44:52The cool car was a little wide and scrappy

00:44:53as he came out to the top.

00:44:54They lost some time to hack at him,

00:44:56but remember, of course, that the second McLaren,

00:44:58there is two laps behind him.

00:45:00Where's Eddie Irvine?

00:45:01The fourth-placed car looking for him

00:45:02in the upper right corner of the screen.

00:45:08Long way back.

00:45:11Fisichella, 24 seconds off the lead.

00:45:14Just two seconds ahead of Prentz.

00:45:18How important is it for Schumacher

00:45:19to lead all the way to the pit stop,

00:45:21to lead Haken?

00:45:23Well, what he's doing is,

00:45:24he's probably going to make Haken go in

00:45:27because Haken will be sliding around

00:45:28a little bit more on those tires

00:45:30because he is in the slipstream in the air

00:45:32and therefore it's making Haken's car

00:45:34slide a bit more.

00:45:35Michael, we know, he's sliding a lot,

00:45:36so I'm sure he's going to go in for,

00:45:38you know, a two-stop strategy.

00:45:40And McLarens may be trying to go in on one

00:45:43because they are running the harder compound.

00:45:44Who knows?

00:45:46I'm amazed, Derek, that these two

00:45:48have not been able to gain any ground

00:45:50on Barrichello.

00:45:51No, but of course, we saw that Barrichello

00:45:53was quicker in qualifying

00:45:55and has been quicker during the sessions all weekend.

00:45:57Odesbert, off the road.

00:46:00Keep him turning.

00:46:01He's been off a bit today, hasn't he?

00:46:03Whoa!

00:46:04Not a good place to pull back on again

00:46:05as they sweep down through there.

00:46:07You know, at this point last season,

00:46:09he was the young star of the season.

00:46:11He was performing brilliantly

00:46:12on tracks he'd never seen.

00:46:14And this season, he's in trouble.

00:46:16He's not really coming up with the goods

00:46:18at the moment, but, you know,

00:46:19they're running these Supertech Renault.

00:46:21Renault designed the engines,

00:46:22Meccachrome built them,

00:46:24and Supertech marketed them.

00:46:26Someone on the line,

00:46:27somebody's making a lot of money

00:46:28and they're not doing a very good job

00:46:29on these engines, which is stress.

00:46:30They say they're between 80 and 90 horsepower

00:46:32down on power.

00:46:33And you can reckon

00:46:34it's worth about half a second

00:46:35per 30 horsepower.

00:46:37So that's about

00:46:38one and a half seconds down

00:46:39they are actually

00:46:40on what they should be

00:46:41if they have the same power

00:46:42as the cars in front.

00:46:43Michael locking up tyres.

00:46:44He's gone out too wide.

00:46:45You can see he lost it going in there,

00:46:46had to get it back under control.

00:46:48Now Mika's going to be really close

00:46:50going through here

00:46:51and he's got to stay close to Michael

00:46:52so he can capitalise on it

00:46:53for the main straight.

00:46:54Michael will not give him room

00:46:55down the inside

00:46:56and Mika knows it.

00:46:57Haakonen had an opportunity

00:46:58when Schumacher locked up that inside

00:47:00but it was not,

00:47:01it wasn't a passing place.

00:47:03Yeah, there wasn't room.

00:47:04There was not room

00:47:05and Michael is not going to give him room either.

00:47:07But I would think Mika now

00:47:08is fairly close,

00:47:09is very close

00:47:10going on to the straight.

00:47:11Now this is where we might see

00:47:12Mika that bit closer.

00:47:13Just a little bit closer.

00:47:15No, the Ferrari's got good

00:47:16straightaway speed.

00:47:18The pit board

00:47:19showing Michael

00:47:20he's three and a half seconds back

00:47:21of Rubens Barrichello,

00:47:22the race leader.

00:47:28As if he needs to learn.

00:47:2919 complete,

00:47:3051 to go.

00:47:34This is the best battle

00:47:35on the racetrack.

00:47:38Schumacher still dropping

00:47:39that little bit of time

00:47:40to Barrichello you see

00:47:41in the forefront of your picture.

00:47:43Haakonen does want to get by

00:47:44because he would like to be

00:47:45much closer to Barrichello

00:47:46because Barrichello is running well

00:47:47but there's no doubt about it

00:47:49Haakonen is quicker.

00:47:54Haakonen again with a look

00:47:55each time they come

00:47:56down that hill.

00:47:58It's amazing,

00:47:59sorry Mike,

00:48:00just how close you can get

00:48:01to Michael in those corners.

00:48:02Remember they are

00:48:03third gear corners,

00:48:04slow speed corners

00:48:05and that's even lower than that

00:48:06at the second gear corner

00:48:07so of course

00:48:08aerodynamic flow

00:48:09would not affect him

00:48:10through there.

00:48:11Ferrari is still

00:48:12handling really quite well.

00:48:15One thing that

00:48:16Formula One

00:48:17wanted to do

00:48:18by adding the extra

00:48:19groove in the front tyres

00:48:20is to reduce grip,

00:48:22have the cars slide around

00:48:23a bit more

00:48:24hoping this would increase

00:48:25passing opportunities

00:48:26as Mika's wife

00:48:27Aria looks on.

00:48:29Those are not

00:48:30extras in the new

00:48:31Star Wars movie

00:48:32in the background

00:48:33with those Darth Vader outfits.

00:48:37And it seems

00:48:38they've done that

00:48:39in situations

00:48:40where a driver

00:48:41puts a foot wrong

00:48:42where he either

00:48:43locks the brake

00:48:44or enters the car

00:48:45with a slide

00:48:46or gets on the throttle

00:48:47a little early.

00:48:48That's where

00:48:49just in the last lap

00:48:50we've seen both Schumacher

00:48:51and Mika Haakonen

00:48:52slide the car around

00:48:53but it's

00:48:54fun to look at

00:48:55but it's not efficient

00:48:56is it?

00:48:57No, it certainly isn't.

00:48:58We love to see

00:48:59sideways driving

00:49:00but really

00:49:01it doesn't do the car

00:49:02any good

00:49:03and it certainly

00:49:04destroys the tyres.

00:49:05You can see as

00:49:06Mika's braking there

00:49:07the heat haze

00:49:08and the actual

00:49:09carbon dust in the air

00:49:10so it actually

00:49:11obliterated Haakonen's

00:49:12car behind.

00:49:14There's 13.9 seconds

00:49:15between Haakonen

00:49:16and Irvine.

00:49:17That is a long way

00:49:18which means it's about

00:49:1917 seconds

00:49:20between Barry Kellogg

00:49:21and Irvine.

00:49:24Well, is Eddie Irvine

00:49:25the equal of Michael Schumacher?

00:49:27Not today.

00:49:28He scored his 10 points

00:49:29last week

00:49:30on his wonderful

00:49:31breakthrough win.

00:49:32Good for Eddie

00:49:33but today

00:49:34different day

00:49:35different circumstance

00:49:36and right now

00:49:37Irvine sits

00:49:38mired in 4th place

00:49:39as Akella is 5th

00:49:40Frenson is 6th.

00:49:43Excuse me

00:49:44John Alesi

00:49:45has moved up to 5th.

00:49:46He has had a remarkable

00:49:47drive since spinning.

00:49:49Jarno Trulli

00:49:50has come to the pits.

00:49:53But Alesi

00:49:54up to 5th.

00:49:55That's astonishing.

00:49:56Absolutely astonishing

00:49:57drive considering how

00:49:58unhappy he's been

00:49:59all weekend.

00:50:00He's been so unhappy

00:50:01with the whole program.

00:50:02Villeneuve's up to 12th now

00:50:03but I think that's more

00:50:04through attrition

00:50:05than anything else.

00:50:06He's had a dismal

00:50:07weekend in the VAR

00:50:08plus of course

00:50:09Riccardo Zonta

00:50:10crashed so heavily

00:50:11yesterday morning

00:50:12in warm-up

00:50:13before the qualifying.

00:50:14He went off where

00:50:15they didn't expect

00:50:16anybody to go off

00:50:17and they're not at all sure

00:50:18that maybe something

00:50:19on the VAR car

00:50:20didn't break

00:50:21which made him go

00:50:22he did have a very

00:50:23very deranged

00:50:24front suspension

00:50:25as he disappeared

00:50:26on the grass.

00:50:27And poor Zanardi

00:50:28mired back in 18th

00:50:29maybe long for the

00:50:30ovals before

00:50:31too long.

00:50:32Johnny Herbert's

00:50:33problem we are told

00:50:34is a lack of gears.

00:50:35He has only one

00:50:36functioning gear

00:50:37in the transmission.

00:50:38Can't do much

00:50:39with one gear.

00:50:40Well how soon

00:50:41before pit stops?

00:50:42We'll answer that

00:50:43question when we

00:50:44come back

00:50:45hopefully.

00:50:4621 laps are

00:50:47complete in the

00:50:48Grand Prix of Brazil

00:50:49on Saturday

00:50:50night.

00:50:51Welcome back

00:50:52to the Grand Prix

00:50:53of Brazil

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00:50:56Welcome back

00:50:57to the Grand Prix

00:50:58of Brazil

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00:51:00Net.

00:51:01Mike Joy

00:51:02with Derrick

00:51:03Bell and Peter

00:51:04Windsor.

00:51:05Let's have another

00:51:06look at the start

00:51:07and the problems

00:51:08that befell

00:51:09David Coulthard

00:51:10from second

00:51:11starting position.

00:51:12On the right

00:51:13side of your screen

00:51:14front row.

00:51:15David just moved

00:51:16forward and that

00:51:17was it.

00:51:18Whether it must

00:51:19have jumped out

00:51:20of gear.

00:51:21One assumes it

00:51:22jumped out of gear

00:51:23or else it just

00:51:24stalled because

00:51:25this does happen

00:51:26with these funny

00:51:27clutches.

00:51:28Once they're working

00:51:29they are magnificent.

00:51:30So both

00:51:31Michael Schumacher

00:51:32and Eddie Irvine

00:51:33did a great job

00:51:34to get through

00:51:35and Coulthard is

00:51:36currently 19th

00:51:37two laps

00:51:38behind

00:51:39Rubens Barrichello

00:51:40the race leader.

00:51:41It's interesting

00:51:42to see how

00:51:43Michael Schumacher

00:51:44is gradually easing

00:51:45away a bit from

00:51:46Mike from

00:51:47Mike Hacken

00:51:48although

00:51:49that's not

00:51:50the place

00:51:51and the time

00:51:52to do it.

00:51:53That shows

00:51:54the experience

00:51:55of some of

00:51:56these drivers

00:51:57at the back

00:51:58of the grid.

00:51:59This is pretty

00:52:00close coming up

00:52:01here.

00:52:02Look how close

00:52:03they are as

00:52:04they come up.

00:52:05Here he goes

00:52:06down the inside.

00:52:07No.

00:52:08Michael's too

00:52:09wise and

00:52:10worried to let

00:52:11that happen.

00:52:12But Mike

00:52:13Meeker certainly

00:52:14had a good look

00:52:15at him as he

00:52:16went through

00:52:17there.

00:52:18Not at the

00:52:19corner but at

00:52:20the end of the

00:52:21straightaway.

00:52:22Boy,

00:52:23Hacken is all

00:52:24over Schumacher.

00:52:25Uh-oh.

00:52:26Coulthard's

00:52:27had it again.

00:52:28No,

00:52:29he's running

00:52:30again.

00:52:31Whatever it was

00:52:32has now

00:52:33restarted itself.

00:52:34He pulled

00:52:35himself across

00:52:36into the pit

00:52:37exit lane.

00:52:38They do

00:52:39have a few

00:52:40little problems

00:52:41yet with this

00:52:42McLaren.

00:52:43A lot of

00:52:44issues,

00:52:45the fact that

00:52:46the car

00:52:47has changed

00:52:48so much.

00:52:49They moved

00:52:50the driver back

00:52:51in the cockpit

00:52:52but of course

00:52:53and they've got

00:52:54the car lighter.

00:52:55But by doing

00:52:56that it's set up

00:52:57a lot more

00:52:58vibration in the

00:52:59car.

00:53:00And this is

00:53:01what seems to

00:53:02be causing

00:53:03these problems.

00:53:04The vibrations

00:53:05are actually

00:53:06overheating

00:53:07things and

00:53:08allowing them

00:53:09to break.

00:53:10John

00:53:11Alacey has

00:53:12just set the

00:53:13fastest lap of

00:53:14the race.

00:53:15The

00:53:16longest battle

00:53:17for 6th

00:53:18place between

00:53:19Fisichella,

00:53:20Ralf Schumacher

00:53:21and Frensen.

00:53:22And of course

00:53:23don't forget

00:53:24that of course

00:53:25Alacey also

00:53:26spun on his

00:53:27way.

00:53:28There's Norbert

00:53:29Howell of

00:53:30Mercedes sitting

00:53:31next to

00:53:32Mario Illion,

00:53:33the engine

00:53:34man or

00:53:35the engine

00:53:36fabricator

00:53:37of the

00:53:38Mercedes

00:53:39engine.

00:53:40Based in

00:53:41England

00:53:42nonetheless.

00:53:43Well Damon

00:53:44Hill is out

00:53:45of the race

00:53:46now.

00:53:47He's

00:53:48in the

00:53:49lead.

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01:10:11welcome back to Fox Sports coverage of the Grand Prix of Brazil the leader in

01:10:16the world championship Eddie Irvine is in and he gets an 11.6 second stop from

01:10:20Ferrari

01:10:23McLaren are getting ready now Mika Häkkinen is coming in this lap we

01:10:27anticipate unless that's him going by right now I think it is but he had some

01:10:32pretty bad laps there with traffic now Michael Schumacher is 30 seconds behind

01:10:36Mika Häkkinen on the track Mika has to make a stop and a stop

01:10:41generally takes over 30 seconds overall here comes Irvine but remember he's now

01:10:46gonna hold Mika Häkkinen up which is very good stuff very good thing for

01:10:50very good bit of work by Ferrari to bring him in to actually hold Häkkinen up now

01:10:55so he loses time on maybe what would be his going in lap now if it isn't his

01:10:59going in lap this will encourage Mika to go in because he might not find it that

01:11:03easy to get by the Irvine Eddie will be slowing him down thereby giving him a

01:11:07bigger gap 32 seconds to Schumacher that just proves the point so he has to

01:11:11go in and some of that though Derek was made up on the racetrack Häkkinen has

01:11:14just set the fastest lap of the race while we were away Giancarlo Fisichella

01:11:19made his pit stop the car would not select a gear

01:11:25this is really what the race is all about because remember the Barry Keller

01:11:29will have one more stop to make although he will take the lead following this

01:11:33stop he's got to come in, tire marks everywhere

01:11:37because Eddie is not helping him very much as nobody anticipates

01:11:41now he should peel off right here to the pit lane and does so yeah locking the

01:11:45tires up as he does so speed limit now just how quick can they be remember

01:11:50Schumacher was 10.3 seconds McLaren Mercedes will have to beat that to get

01:11:55Häkkinen ahead of Schumacher on the racetrack

01:12:04a win and three fourth places in Brazil great stop those two seconds quick a

01:12:10second quicker than Schumacher not enough probably to put him in front of

01:12:13Michael remember I think Rubens will still be in the lead it could be just

01:12:18enough in fact they should be pretty close when Häkkinen rejoins the circuit

01:12:23well no sign of Schumacher

01:12:29I think he's going to come out in front of Michael, here he comes

01:12:33Schumacher, but he's not going to be up, oh no, Mika Häkkinen's got that lead now

01:12:38we'll see what it's all about that was a wonderful pit stop

01:12:44well McLaren Mercedes have given Mika Häkkinen the lead

01:12:51that was a great pit stop, that was a great pit stop

01:12:56some of that speed, Derek, is perhaps because with the two extra laps he needed

01:13:02less fuel than Michael Schumacher but nonetheless it was a tremendous effort

01:13:05and most importantly it got Häkkinen in the lead

01:13:12it has been a strange day here in the Grand Prix of Brazil coming off the grid

01:13:17David Coulthard stalled he eventually got going again but not for long he is

01:13:21out of the race his teammate Mika Häkkinen led and a

01:13:25sudden problem either getting power or gear lost the lead to Rubens Barrichello

01:13:31and second to Michael Schumacher when Barrichello made his first of an

01:13:35anticipated two pit stops Schumacher took the lead Schumacher went in handing

01:13:39the lead to Häkkinen and Häkkinen built up enough of a cushion that on the pit

01:13:43stop he came on track in front of Michael Schumacher that's where we are

01:13:47right now with Häkkinen the leader for McLaren and Schumacher second for Ferrari

01:13:53now we'll probably see Häkkinen really getting in some quick laps because he is clear and on his own on fresh tires

01:14:03Barrichello must have pulled on his, Rubens Barrichello off the track, oh tragedy

01:14:07half the crowd will now go home of course but that was a tragedy because he was driving so well

01:14:12a wonderful weekend so far for him

01:14:14Johnny Herbert is already out of the race

01:14:18and Jackie Stewart the first half of this race was a tremendous high note for the

01:14:22Stewart team as Barrichello led about twice as many laps as he had in his

01:14:27entire Grand Prix career to date but now that car is out of the race pretty much

01:14:33the same location where Sarazin crashed earlier you see Sarazin's car to the left

01:14:37behind the cone and a spin by the remaining salver Pedro Diniz and I think

01:14:43he's stuck there at the curbing Derek

01:14:45not a good spot to be, quite difficult to find reverse sometimes

01:14:48and he's probably stalled it as well, so they're going to have to do something pretty major about that

01:14:52and I wouldn't want to be one of those border workers walking out to that position to move him either

01:14:56it's a very fast section as they come onto the back onto the main straightaway

01:15:00and you see how the curbing comes to the grass and it looks as if the nose is hung up on the curb

01:15:05and the rear tires can't get enough purchase to propel the car up and over

01:15:08the chassis is hung right there at that location

01:15:14so that leaves us no salver

01:15:16let me just say something, Schumacher is not three seconds behind now

01:15:19he's much closer, 1.8 seconds he's found

01:15:22there's that spin again, from the arrows, look at him go over and then clonk

01:15:27outside we've now just lost two Brazilian drivers in two laps

01:15:30but Schumacher is working in a little bit on Hakan

01:15:33which I didn't expect to see, I thought Hakan would ease away

01:15:36but the race is still not over yet

01:15:39we're down to 1.8 seconds from three seconds

01:15:42when we came back from the break

01:15:50Mika Hakkinen leads, he's led nine of the 44 laps

01:15:55three lead changes, three different leaders in this race

01:15:5813 cars remain running on the circuit

01:16:02there is the gap now, 1.98 seconds

01:16:06from Hakkinen to Schumacher, so it's beginning to open up

01:16:09but only fractionally

01:16:14I think it's the traffic that's actually creating this gap

01:16:17making the gaps change, see Hakkinen's got these guys to overtake

01:16:20now these will hold Mika up, those two will definitely hurt Mika

01:16:23coming down the hill, Mika seems to be salted by

01:16:26cars getting in his way, look at him, he's really lost a seal

01:16:29that's Genet just ahead, arguably the least experienced

01:16:32of the Formula One regulars

01:16:35Hakkinen to the inside, and underneath Takagi's arrows

01:16:38is he going to make it? Barely

01:16:41I didn't think Takagi saw him at all

01:16:44Mika was going there, so if he did move, it wasn't a big move

01:16:47it was going to be a little tap and he would deck off the road

01:16:50he didn't want to get taken off himself

01:16:53Schumacher's 1.4 seconds on the last lap

01:16:56and he's having trouble with the traffic as well

01:16:59he's gotten past Mika today

01:17:02you go across that curb anyway as you go through there

01:17:05then it drops away, a bit of understeer as you go out of there

01:17:11catching up with one thing but overtaking another

01:17:14and now Hakkinen has opened that lead back up again

01:17:1846 of 72 laps complete

01:17:21and now you see 2.3 seconds

01:17:24there's the difference first to second

01:17:30Williams just zipping into the garage

01:17:33is that Zanotti?

01:17:41well, it's been a long day

01:17:44well, it's been a dismal weekend

01:17:47so maybe his season starts at Imola

01:17:50maybe he can't wait to get home to Italy to make his start

01:17:53but it's very unfair, you must not judge him

01:17:56Michael Andretti had this problem as well when he came up to do Formula 1

01:17:59and that was a totally different situation

01:18:02albeit with a team with a new engine etc

01:18:05and here we have a similar deal and it's not easy for Zanotti

01:18:08at all

01:18:11his entire experience in Formula 1 means absolutely nothing

01:18:14the cars have changed so radically since he last drove

01:18:17on this circuit that any experience he had

01:18:20except for learning the line around the tracks

01:18:23is just not of any use

01:18:26if the race was to stop now, Irvine would still be leading the world championship

01:18:29that would give him a buzz, he said he wanted a couple of points

01:18:32and Ferrari would have a 20 to 10 lead

01:18:35in the constructors championship

01:18:39because of Irvine's points, 26 to 10

01:18:49so now it's 3.2 seconds

01:18:55well, Haakonen is back in his accustomed place

01:18:58I can't wait to hear what happened when that car either lost power

01:19:01or lost gear

01:19:04Barrichello is going to go to the wall to salute the fans

01:19:07after they have given him just a tremendous, just rousing response

01:19:10here in his home Grand Prix

01:19:13they're not waving very much, I think they're almost in tears, that's probably why

01:19:16that is very sad for him in his home Grand Prix

01:19:19but he certainly put on a wonderful show, didn't he?

01:19:22starting from 3rd and led the race

01:19:25and look at the attrition here, 10 cars out of the race

01:19:28and of course Zonta did not start, so that's half the field

01:19:31Zonta injured in a practice crash

01:19:34and may miss, well, apparently will miss

01:19:37Imola and perhaps even Monaco

01:19:40just a terrible break for Riccardo Zonta

01:19:43torn, or cut tendons in his foot

01:19:46and of course he was the McLaren test driver too

01:19:49so the McLarens must be feeling it

01:19:52I mean, not that he is now, but he was their test driver

01:19:55and they're very close to him

01:19:58Well, Mika Hakkinen at 3.4 seconds

01:20:01extending his lead on Schumacher

01:20:04and maybe, Derek, we will end the day

01:20:07much as we did one year ago

01:20:10with the McLarens racing off into the sunset

01:20:13but this time not with the constructors nor drivers

01:20:16pointly

01:20:28Zanardi had a gearbox problem, we understand

01:20:31that's what put him out of the race

01:20:34little brake lock up there from Mika

01:20:41and now you see Mika in frame

01:20:44and Schumacher's red Ferrari not in sight

01:20:47as the gap widens

01:20:50Barrichello was 3rd when he fell out of the race

01:20:54and there's a look at the top half dozen

01:20:57the drivers in the championship points

01:21:00earning positions here in Brazil

01:21:03Fox Sportsnet's coverage

01:21:06of the Grand Prix of Brazil will continue

01:21:09after this word

01:21:14Welcome back to the Grand Prix of Brazil

01:21:17where Mika Hakkinen leads Michael Schumacher

01:21:20in this second round of the World Championship

01:21:24and he does it quite like Jim Rome does

01:21:27shooting straight from the lip and taking no prisoners

01:21:30nobody does it better, catch Jim Rome on the last word

01:21:33weeknights on Fox Sportsnet

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01:21:39having a look at Eddie Irvine

01:21:42this would be a battle for 3rd place

01:21:45Irvine

01:21:48and that was Villeneuve

01:21:51here's Frentzen and

01:21:54zips by Irvine

01:21:57what a good move

01:22:00so that puts Frentzen up to 3rd place

01:22:03what a good drive from this guy again

01:22:06Irvine won the Australian Grand Prix

01:22:09Reversal of roles here

01:22:122.8 seconds

01:22:15I just saw the red car

01:22:19he's still 2.8 behind

01:22:22that was Ralph Schumacher's Williams

01:22:25and here's Villeneuve climbing out

01:22:28remember he started the race

01:22:31from the back of the grid after a fuel irregularity

01:22:34there is Damon Hill

01:22:37now he's doing donuts

01:22:40Damon was very vocal

01:22:43I'm sorry it's an apple

01:22:47Damon was very vocal

01:22:50about the collision between he and Alexander Burtz

01:22:53he felt he had fairly outbraked Burtz

01:22:56and Alexander turned in on him

01:22:59the collision that eventually took both cars out of the race

01:23:07Haakonen leads, Schumacher 2nd

01:23:10Irvine's Ferrari is 3rd

01:23:13Frentzen is 4th, Ralph Schumacher

01:23:16is 5th

01:23:196th is Olivier Panin

01:23:22and it's been a while since Prost was up in the points

01:23:25Villeneuve was 7th when he climbed out

01:23:28that will move Alexander Burtz up to 7th

01:23:31Pedro de la Rosa is 8th

01:23:34Marc Genet is 9th

01:23:37and Tora Takagi is 10th

01:23:40and I said retirement for both cars

01:23:43and Burtz after a couple of excursions through the gravel

01:23:46was able to make repairs and continue

01:23:49Michael Schumacher is losing about half a second lap to Mika

01:23:52I think it's the fact that Michael knows

01:23:55that he isn't going to overtake Mika the way he's running today

01:23:58and so he's rather resigned himself

01:24:01to getting 2nd place points this part of the year

01:24:04which is very very important for him

01:24:076 second interval between Haakonen and Schumacher

01:24:10you saw down there at the tail end of that run down

01:24:13Villeneuve out of the race

01:24:16and it's been a horrible weekend

01:24:19for Jacques, he qualified

01:24:22and got his time disallowed

01:24:25left the circuit in a huff after practice the other day

01:24:28didn't get to go to his birthday celebration

01:24:31I'll bet Peter Windsor was there

01:24:34and had a bit bite of cake as it is Peter's birthday today

01:24:37actually seeing

01:24:40and talking about the VAR team

01:24:43and Jacques Villeneuve pulling off makes one think

01:24:46remember that really was Ken Tyrell's team

01:24:49and Ken Tyrell retired at the end of last year

01:24:52he didn't look very happy with VAR structure

01:24:55he was part of it for a while but of course

01:24:58we heard he had a major operation, a cancer operation

01:25:01at Mayo Clinic just in the last few days

01:25:04he's done a tremendous amount for motorsport over the years

01:25:07and I'll certainly never remember what you've done for younger drivers

01:25:10particularly Jackie Stewart, didn't do much for me

01:25:13he was one of the great gentleman car owners

01:25:16of this sport and he is missed

01:25:19along the pit lane

01:25:2255 seconds, 2nd to 3rd

01:25:25Michael Schumacher back to Eddie Irvine

01:25:28at the start of this race David Coulthard stalled

01:25:31eventually got going again but retired

01:25:34Mika Hakkinen took the early lead

01:25:37some unknown brief mechanical problem

01:25:40sent him to the side of the course and allowed

01:25:43Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher to slip past in the 1st and 2nd

01:25:46Barrichello pitted, Schumacher picked up the lead

01:25:49he pitted, Hakkinen got the lead

01:25:52and in pitting Hakkinen was able to retain the lead and now

01:25:55pull away from Michael Schumacher

01:25:58the race has been heavy, half of the field is

01:26:01either by the side of the course or in the garage

01:26:04there a look at the cars

01:26:07out of race

01:26:13you're watching Eddie Irvine and Heinz-Errol Frentzen

01:26:16in the Jordan and add an arrow

01:26:19to the attrition list

01:26:22that's rather a nasty place to park

01:26:25you come over there, you're braking

01:26:28as long as you're on your line, you're ok

01:26:31but you wouldn't want to be slipping down the inside of anybody

01:26:34Pedro de la Rosa was the 8th place car

01:26:37wasn't a bad drive for him at all actually

01:26:40he quietly got on with it in Melbourne as well

01:26:43he's done a good job here too but of course

01:26:46mechanical failures let him down

01:26:49and he took a car that was a stone all weekend

01:26:52partly through attrition but as you say

01:26:55also through a good steady drive

01:26:58so that leaves only Takagi as the lone arrows

01:27:01and he is the caboose in the train

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01:27:43and what a strange season it's been through 2 races

01:27:46yes, well the one person I feel very sorry for right now

01:27:49well there's several out there, Rubens Barrichello I guess

01:27:52being the most important one and John Alessi being another but

01:27:55poor David Coulthard, he's contributed so much to this team

01:27:58has done for several years and he goes out of the race

01:28:01in such an ignominious fashion today, mechanical problems

01:28:04and it's such a pity for him

01:28:07and he sees his teammate Mika Hakkinen, he must wonder what he has to do

01:28:10to get himself to win races, because he has the skills

01:28:13he's only like a tenth of a second slower than Mika in qualifying

01:28:16I mean, he's right there, but things didn't go right for him

01:28:19and for a brief moment, as Hakkinen comes up on Marc Genet

01:28:22to lap him for a second time, for a brief moment

01:28:25it appeared as if both McLarens might fall

01:28:28by the wayside again

01:28:31Genet leaves a lot of room for Mika Hakkinen

01:28:34and Derek, there's activity in the Ferrari pit

01:28:37Irvine looks like Irvine might be slipping, which of course is very bad for him

01:28:40because in fact he is only about three seconds ahead

01:28:43of Heinz-Hauer-Frenchman, as we saw just now

01:28:46not good at all

01:28:49and we thought he was going to pick up some points today

01:28:52but it doesn't look like he's going to get going, yes he is, off he goes

01:28:55what did they do there?

01:28:58they did some adjustments to the front wing on the first stop

01:29:01I saw that, but that wouldn't affect him coming in now

01:29:04well, very strange

01:29:10they were working with an air hose

01:29:13in the area of the radiators

01:29:16they did not fuel the car, nor change tires

01:29:19the car is obviously overheating, he's got a lot of grass and dust

01:29:22which there must be a lot, a lot of people have been off the road

01:29:25and I think he probably got a lot of straw and dust in there

01:29:28and that just overheated it

01:29:31well Irvine, it appears

01:29:34will leave here with the world championship point lead

01:29:37as he comes back on track in fifth place

01:29:40behind Ralf Schumacher, but ahead of Olivier Panis

01:29:43viewing the circuit as we are right now

01:29:46makes you think that when the cars braked at that point last year

01:29:49they really dived all over the road

01:29:52the circuit has been vastly improved surface wise

01:29:55and I must admit that the drivers did complain about this track

01:29:58being the worst probably in the world on bumps

01:30:01it does seem substantially better now

01:30:04look at this McLaren

01:30:07there's no visible upset of the car

01:30:10a little bumpiness coming down that straightaway

01:30:13but through the corner the car looks very smooth

01:30:16well of course that's the McLaren

01:30:19they tried to run the cars

01:30:22and get the suspension fairly soft to ride the bumps

01:30:25and when you ride the bumps, soften the suspension

01:30:28it means that the car can then rock around

01:30:31you saw Michael Schumacher there come up

01:30:34and pass Marc Genet

01:30:37in the minority, now two laps back

01:30:40and again we'll have a look here at the retirees

01:30:43and this is a very long list

01:30:46only ten drivers

01:30:49are still making laps

01:30:52only ten drivers are still making laps

01:31:01back in fifth after that stop

01:31:04welcome back to Fox Sportsnet

01:31:07live coverage of the Grand Prix of Brazil

01:31:10Mike Choi with Derek Bell and Peter Windsor

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01:31:19and taking on Frankfurt this Saturday at 1pm ET

01:31:2210am Pacific, live on Fox Sportsnet

01:31:28you're watching world champion Mika Hakkinen

01:31:31extend his advantage to 6.6 seconds over Michael Schumacher's Ferrari

01:31:34Heinz-Harald Fremsen for Jordan is up for third

01:31:37Ralph Schumacher in fourth

01:31:40Eddie Irvine after that unscheduled pit stop is fifth

01:31:43and Olivier Panin is in sixth

01:31:46for Prost, Alexander Wurtz is seventh

01:31:49Tora Takagi has passed Marc Genet

01:31:52that is the battle, as it were, for eighth place

01:31:55and Genet is now on the tail end of this dog

01:31:58as we roll toward the concluding laps

01:32:01shouldn't really say it

01:32:04Ferrari is the only team to have both cars running at this stage of the race

01:32:07they do have the most astonishing

01:32:10reliability record one has to admit

01:32:13it makes you just wonder just what is going through Mika Hakkinen's mind

01:32:16he's been in this position so many times before

01:32:19but he's actually got Michael Schumacher drifting back from him

01:32:22now this is Panin and Derek

01:32:25we don't get a chance to see him often but he is 16 seconds ahead of Wurtz

01:32:28and Panin is going to give Prost a championship point today it seems

01:32:31well they've done a tremendous amount of work since the last Grand Prix

01:32:34they said the car is coming on very well

01:32:37they've got an incredible new suspension

01:32:40a revolutionary suspension system they're working on for the future

01:32:43they won't be using this year

01:32:46but Panin had that awful accident in Canada two years ago

01:32:49and he's now starting to work his way back into the front of the grid

01:32:52good for Panin, great drive today

01:32:55well as we head for Imola

01:32:58the flip side of the Ferrari coin has to be B.A.R.

01:33:01in two races now only one car Villeneuve started today due to Zonta's injury

01:33:04but that's three starts for B.A.R. and not a single finish

01:33:07what will they and these other teams be working on as we head for Imola

01:33:10well I'd be more worried if I was the sponsor

01:33:13if I was putting all this millions, 350 million over five years or something

01:33:16I'd be a little concerned but you know this is Formula 1

01:33:19it does take time but you know Tyrrell had better results than they're having at the moment

01:33:22I hate to say it as much as we talk about the B.A.R. team

01:33:25and who's behind it and the brains in it

01:33:28but you can't go into it, you have to pay your dues on the way up

01:33:31and with all of the star talent they have

01:33:34both in design and engineering

01:33:37behind the wheel and the management and all the operation of that team

01:33:40they have yet to get a single result

01:33:43the McLaren Mercedes team gets a break

01:33:46as they watch Mika Hakkinen roll on

01:33:49toward the finish of this one

01:33:52and up into what could be

01:33:55third perhaps fourth place in the world championship standing

01:33:58it is a new season Derek

01:34:01it is a new season Derek but still

01:34:04I'm a bit surprised at just how much attrition we have had over these first two races

01:34:07but it does happen at the beginning of the season

01:34:10but one thing we haven't noted so far

01:34:13is a lot of this track

01:34:16they drive sort of anti-clockwise

01:34:19you know what I'm saying

01:34:22you're actually driving around the track anti-clockwise

01:34:25the track is an anti-clockwise circuit

01:34:28but all our Grand Prix circuits in Europe are all clockwise

01:34:31and of course that means that these guys' necks get very tired

01:34:34and if you can see Hakkinen's neck as he comes to

01:34:37he's actually leaning his head against the headrest as he comes down that straight

01:34:40and I remember Damon talking last year about how difficult it was

01:34:43because your neck is not used to the G-forces

01:34:46leaning the other way

01:34:49ten laps to go

01:34:52Michael has taken about three quarters of a second off Mika

01:34:55nine cars running

01:34:58only eight cars finished in Australia

01:35:01teething problems perhaps

01:35:04in this new season

01:35:07see look at his head resting on that right hand side

01:35:10see the way he's resting it even in that short bit of track

01:35:13he's resting it on the right hand side of the cockpit

01:35:16this is Ralf Schumacher

01:35:19who is having by far his best Brazilian Grand Prix

01:35:22up for fourth place

01:35:25I tell you what there's nothing worse than when your neck gets tired

01:35:28and you have to lean your head against something

01:35:31it's so tiring it really finishes you off

01:35:34now watch for Eddie Irvine who came into frame there just a bit ago

01:35:37he's erasing some of that gap that Schumacher has

01:35:40but it still sits at 4.7 seconds

01:35:43still pretty substantial

01:35:46I think it's

01:35:49it's very hard to estimate the fatigue

01:35:52that these drivers go through in a two hour race

01:35:55for folks who are used to a 70 mile an hour commute

01:35:58and driving a car that perhaps handles

01:36:01corners at its optimum, your family sedan

01:36:04if it's a good one at eight tenths of a G

01:36:07and going through this corner right here

01:36:10these drivers are pulling three Gs, lateral force

01:36:13but it's not as high as some of the tracks

01:36:16it's not a low G circuit but it's lower than most

01:36:19but of course what is taking its toll

01:36:22is this anti-clockwise drive

01:36:25Ralf Schumacher is being caught up by Eddie Irvine just fractionally

01:36:28Irvine on top of the screen in the red Ferrari

01:36:31Irvine on fresher tires

01:36:34but Schumacher, Ralf has driven an inspired race

01:36:37he's driven a very good race

01:36:40he's done a great job, he was third as you know

01:36:43in the Grand Prix four weeks ago

01:36:46and there he is fourth again, far more than Frank Williams could ever wish for

01:36:49he said he started 11th on the grid, he did

01:36:52Zanardi of course started 16th on the grid

01:36:55but he's done a super job these last two races

01:36:58I mean you would think this is the lad that a year ago was having people off

01:37:01he was spinning off himself

01:37:04what a contrast in his driving skills now, very controlled

01:37:07very matured and he has the opportunity today

01:37:10one of three drivers who scored points

01:37:13in both the races this season to date

01:37:16Eddie Irvine, Mike Searle-Frenzen, the others

01:37:19interesting that Frenzen and Schumacher should be one position apart

01:37:22after swapping rides, even in Australia

01:37:25they ran pretty much together a good part of the race

01:37:28just look at all three of them, there's Frenzen, there's Schumacher

01:37:31and then there's Eddie Irvine and they finished 1, 2, 3 in the last race

01:37:34and they're finishing actually in the opposite order now

01:37:37look at this

01:37:40he looks like he's had a tough weekend, that mechanic

01:37:43he's got that look, this has been a tough one

01:37:46yep, this consulate, Jackville and Irvine team

01:37:52Mika Hakkinen continues to hold sway over Michael Schumacher

01:37:55now the gap is 6.3 seconds

01:38:00but Frenzen, Schumacher, Irvine

01:38:03those three may all get caught up before this is over

01:38:06not to these two, but to each other

01:38:14I just wonder what kind of Schumacher has been in front of Mika through all this

01:38:17I guess that's how it would have stayed

01:38:20but it didn't do the job to get by

01:38:23well, Mika set fast laps after Schumacher pitted

01:38:26so leaving him out those two extra laps was certainly good strategy

01:38:29and then the quick pit stop by the McLaren crew

01:38:33who earned Hakkinen the lead

01:38:36and he has been able to drive away from Michael Schumacher

01:38:39to this now pretty steady gap of about 6 seconds

01:38:51the next three weekend, three weeks until the next race at Imola

01:38:54which of course is in Italy, is a home circuit for them

01:38:57and both of these drivers, Schumacher pulls a tear off

01:39:00both of these drivers will be scoring their first points of the season

01:39:04now a little further back, Irvine is catching

01:39:07up to Ralf Schumacher

01:39:10and he's taking big bites out of that differential

01:39:19seven laps remain

01:39:22and that's the third, fourth, fifth battle, yes Terry

01:39:25yeah it is really well, I think it's the fourth, fifth battle

01:39:28the one is, Ralf is 1.6 seconds ahead of Eddie

01:39:31and he's really pressing on

01:39:34taking him is going to be a problem if he gets that close

01:39:37he's been catching up with the last couple of laps

01:39:40Ralf has eased it up a little bit

01:39:43now everyone from 10th place on back is out of race

01:39:46only nine cars are running

01:39:49Eddie Irvine may achieve his goal

01:39:52which was to leave here with the championship point lead

01:39:56he needed to score only one point to do that

01:39:59but Eddie is going to get a few

01:40:026.2 seconds again, fractional gains for Hockenton

01:40:05on each lap except when in traffic

01:40:10and again McLaren ran this race on hard tires

01:40:13Ferrari on soft tires, you see Schumacher doing a good bit

01:40:16of sliding around there in that second place car

01:40:19but hard to say if that is the difference

01:40:22now Ralf Schumacher back to Eddie Irvine

01:40:25under a second

01:40:28so Irvine on those new tires and then that stop

01:40:31which cost him third place

01:40:34and brought him right back up in an opportunity

01:40:37to regain fourth before this race ends

01:40:40forget of course that the Ferrari is a quicker car than the Williams

01:40:43so he should be catching up

01:40:46getting past him

01:40:49and of course the camera would switch

01:40:52and we've seen Michael go around and he's six seconds behind

01:40:55and half a minute ahead of Kyles Harold

01:40:58why can't we do something else and watch the other two

01:41:01yes we remind you that the world feed video

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01:41:16five laps to go

01:41:19Haakinen continues to lead Schumacher

01:41:22Branson as Ralf Schumacher tries

01:41:25to hold off Eddie Irvine

01:41:28we'll be right back

01:41:31Welcome back to the Autodromo

01:41:34Jose Carlos Pace

01:41:37in Sao Paulo Brazil

01:41:40you're watching Eddie Irvine

01:41:43chase down fourth place

01:41:46Ralf Schumacher

01:41:49going deep

01:41:52Chris Meyers

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01:42:04Eddie Irvine is there

01:42:07can he overtake Ralf Schumacher

01:42:10for fourth place

01:42:13they don't seem to be able to stay close together

01:42:16Eddie has got to be behind

01:42:19the car is certainly quicker

01:42:22the Ferrari has 80 more horsepower

01:42:25in traffic Michael Schumacher

01:42:28has erased one second

01:42:31of Mika Haakinen's lead

01:42:34ironic that it was Eddie Irvine

01:42:37who was quoted this week as saying

01:42:40what we really need in Formula 1

01:42:43is a device on the rear wing

01:42:46that would create turbulence, drafting and passing opportunities

01:42:49and slow these cars down

01:42:52if he has it, we certainly won't get it in Formula 1

01:42:55that's Eddie all over

01:42:58there's no way that Mika has bothered about a 3.5 to 4 second lead

01:43:01he's just going to drive around

01:43:04keep it clean

01:43:07Michael's sector times have been quicker than Mika's

01:43:10for a long time

01:43:13he's going to lap Tora Takagi here

01:43:16who will have an 8th place result

01:43:19really bouncing over the kerbings

01:43:22they do run very tight over that corner

01:43:25all the way through there

01:43:28he moves past Takagi

01:43:31puts him, I believe, two laps down

01:43:34Takagi now is the 8th place car

01:43:37he just got a 1.18.4 which is the quickest lap of the race

01:43:40he's not hanging about

01:43:43perhaps number 19 on the side of the arrows of Takagi's car

01:43:4719 days to Tom Walkinshaw's big announcement

01:43:50whatever that is

01:43:53it better be something big

01:43:56they've got a lot of things to catch up on

01:43:59ask us in 3 weeks, we'll let you know

01:44:02they go right across that kerb

01:44:05the next one they don't

01:44:08it's a throw away corner

01:44:11they can afford to do it

01:44:17back in 4th place

01:44:20Denny Irvine enjoying just the problem he discussed earlier in the week

01:44:23getting too close to Ralf Schumacher

01:44:26he loses all the downforce on the front of the car

01:44:29what you NASCAR fans will recognize

01:44:32as an aerodynamic understeer

01:44:35to those of you with degrees

01:44:38degrees of what, we don't know

01:44:41but he's still clocking in quickest times of the race

01:44:45he starts his final lap

01:44:48just to show Schumacher that he is still a master in that McLaren car

01:44:51he had a big scare mid-race

01:44:54when the car either refused to pull downhill

01:44:57or select a gear, he pulled over

01:45:00let Barrichello by for the lead

01:45:03and let Schumacher pass for 2nd

01:45:06before the car picked up again and got running

01:45:09but thanks to the McLaren crew and some very sharp race strategy

01:45:13Mika Hakkinen is on his final lap

01:45:16in hopes of winning his 10th Grand Prix

01:45:19in 114 starts

01:45:31McLaren looking for their 94th Grand Prix victory

01:45:37and the first points of the season for McLaren

01:45:40he gets his fastest lap, 2 laps in the end as we just said

01:45:43amazing, just to show to Michael that he can turn it on at the end

01:45:46when he has to, but there was no need to show it

01:45:53final corner

01:45:56brought straight away

01:45:59and the defending world champion Mika Hakkinen

01:46:02scores in Brazil

01:46:06excellent driving by Mika, excellent control driving

01:46:09and Michael Schumacher fought with his car all day

01:46:12and rung from it

01:46:15every ounce of performance that was there

01:46:18and then some for a hard earned 2nd place

01:46:21and his first points of the young season

01:46:27well the battle for the world driving championship

01:46:30for 2 of the 3 expected main contenders

01:46:33has begun, with Hakkinen picking up the 10 points

01:46:36here in Brazil, and Michael Schumacher scoring 6

01:46:42but I still feel a lot of this was down to that amazing bit of pit work

01:46:45in and out of the pits, I know he's only a second quicker than Michael

01:46:48but he obviously came in remarkably cleanly

01:46:51and very very well and got away quicker

01:46:54and of course that gave him that extra gap when he came out

01:46:57now Heinz-Harald Frentzen did finish in 3rd place

01:47:00but his car has stopped out on the course

01:47:08so we'll be back with the celebration

01:47:11and the explanations, live on Fox Sportsnet

01:47:14from Brazil

01:47:17welcome back to Fox Sportsnet

01:47:20live coverage of the Grand Prix of Brazil

01:47:23there is winner Mika Hakkinen, climbing out of his McLaren Mercedes

01:47:26joining Michael Schumacher in Park Fermet

01:47:29and Heinz-Harald Frentzen's car is going to have to be towed in

01:47:32as it stopped out on course

01:47:38David Coulthard

01:47:41supervising the removal of his car

01:47:44Hakkinen for McLaren, Schumacher for Ferrari

01:47:47Heinz-Harald Frentzen for Jordan, Ralf Schumacher

01:47:50picking up points

01:47:53Eddie Irvine, the point leader

01:47:56and the point for Prost

01:47:59Alexander Wurz, Toro Takagi

01:48:02and Marc Genet

01:48:05the cars running at finish

01:48:08Takagi and Genet 3 laps down

01:48:11at the finish

01:48:17and here are the cars that did not finish

01:48:20and that is a long list indeed

01:48:26I think the most disappointed that could be Barry Keller

01:48:29it was a wonderful job they were doing with that Stuart Ford

01:48:32in front of his home crowd

01:48:35and he did drive superbly well

01:48:38Damon Hill was pretty upset wasn't he

01:48:41yes

01:48:44so it wasn't the best of days for the Brazilians

01:48:47at their home Grand Prix

01:48:50first 3 cars come into Park Fermet

01:48:53Heinz-Harald Frentzen

01:48:56who climbed from his car on the cool down lap

01:48:59he was on the same lap as the leaders

01:49:02just as well he didn't have to do an extra lap

01:49:05well there is a familiar sight

01:49:08the silver and black of McLaren and Mercedes

01:49:11and the red of Ferrari

01:49:14finishing 1-2

01:49:17here is the standings

01:49:20Michael Schumacher

01:49:23picks up 10 with today's win

01:49:26Heinz-Harald Frentzen with 10

01:49:29after the 2 rounds

01:49:32Michael Schumacher earns 6 points today

01:49:35as they are holding up

01:49:38the ceremony

01:49:41for Heinz-Harald Frentzen

01:49:44this is Ron Dennis' wife

01:49:47not that one

01:49:50I didn't want to interrupt

01:49:53Mika Hakkinen's wife is just a bit further up

01:49:56Alexander Virts walking up the pit road

01:49:59having had a fair amount of time on the grass

01:50:02grass and the gravel

01:50:05is that John Lacey's car going to be brought back

01:50:08neither he nor Pedro Diniz finish

01:50:11I think that's Diniz's

01:50:14but you can see how low the nose is

01:50:17once you go off the road with that

01:50:20drop your wheels off the kerb

01:50:23that is it

01:50:26Mika Hakkinen's wife has supported him tremendously

01:50:29over the years

01:50:32as of course they all do

01:50:35when you are a racing driver

01:50:38they put up with a lot of pain

01:50:41here is Frentzen

01:50:44in that yellow uniform

01:50:47at a car that would run 72 laps today

01:50:50and no more

01:50:53there is Heinz-Harald again on the rostrum

01:50:56as he was in Melbourne

01:50:59what a tremendous start for the season

01:51:02for him with a new team

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01:55:17In those couple of laps, but I had traffic. I mean all the time. I was really unfortunate. I mean

01:55:25Really going for it. I was really enjoying driving and I'm flat out but I mean just I got a lot of traffic and I lost

01:55:31a lot of time and

01:55:33Probably I could have go one second quicker, but I think I just went half a second quicker just because of traffic

01:55:40Otherwise

01:55:43There there is always a little bit reserved during a race

01:55:47Bigger, thank you. Michael. Are you happy or disappointed to be second? I

01:55:52Could have been worse could have been third or fourth and no to be honest

01:55:58We seem to be more competitive in a moment

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01:56:13us

01:56:16Eddie Irvine has the driver's point lead over Hocken and Frenson the Schumacher brothers and

01:56:22Fisichella

01:56:23Well Mika Hocken. What was that problem Derek?

01:56:25Well, the problem was that he was shifting up to the gears and he lost a gear

01:56:30So he went another gear higher

01:56:31Which meant that he didn't have the revs found the revs found the gear and then had to go back and then sort it all

01:56:36Out, but then it worked thereafter boy. What a tough moment for Mika Hocken and but he

01:56:42Managed to get back to speed and great McLaren pit work got him the lead the Grand Prix of San Marino

01:56:48Sunday May 2nd is our next telecast on Fox Sportsnet and email us with your comments about our broadcast

01:56:55For Derek Bell and birthday boy Peter Winter. I'm Mike joy

01:56:58Hoping you've enjoyed the Grand Prix of Brazil as we congratulate Mika Hocken and in McLaren Mercedes on their victory in Brazil

01:57:05You've been watching Formula One racing on Fox Sportsnet

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