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The 2nd Thursday Practice session for Round 6 of the 2008 F1 season at Monaco.
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00:00:00Right now, boys, right now, victory for the first time it is to win.
00:00:26Formula 1 drivers are accustomed to high speeds, but an occasional slow walk can be fun, too,
00:00:31especially when you're walking down the pit lane at the most famous temporary circuit
00:00:35on the planet.
00:00:37Ask any fan to name one Formula 1 race, and the answer will inevitably be Monaco.
00:00:43Welcome to Friday's second 90-minute practice in preparation for round six of the 2008 Formula
00:00:481 season live here on speed.
00:00:50I'm Bob Varsha with David Hobbs and Steve Matchett alongside Peter Windsor is down in
00:00:55the garage area.
00:00:57As you can see, the Mediterranean is every bit as blue, the Maritime Alps just as beautiful,
00:01:03and there is the town.
00:01:04Let's take a look at the highlights of this morning's opening 90-minute practice.
00:01:09On hand to watch, disgraced FIA president Max Mosley.
00:01:12His first appearance at a race since those horrible allegations.
00:01:16Sebastian Vettel in the new Toro Rosso, but he has a new transmission in the car that
00:01:20will cost him a five grid spot penalty.
00:01:23Rounds continue for David Coulthard in the RB4 chassis.
00:01:26This was an engine problem as David Coulthard pulls off to the right and lifted off by the
00:01:31crane.
00:01:32Look how the front dips down.
00:01:35And there was problems with drainage covers or water drainage covers on the track, brought
00:01:38out a red flag, and then they were off again.
00:01:40Yeah, took 16 minutes at 20 minutes to go, and then look at this on his out lap.
00:01:44Lamiano truly smites the wall a blow there, deranging badly the left rear suspensione.
00:01:52So that's his day done.
00:01:53Then Nick Heidfeldt pulled off in the casino square here, pushes it behind the bow out.
00:01:59What's wrong with my broken car?
00:02:01Now, now.
00:02:05Lewis Hamilton was quickest for most of the session for McLaren Mercedes.
00:02:08There you see him heading down the boulevard, Albert Premier.
00:02:13But Kimi Räikkönen with just under 10 minutes to go in the session with that radical new
00:02:18nostril on the front end of the Ferrari, pipped the British driver for top time in
00:02:24the session.
00:02:25One minute, 15.948.
00:02:28The top four cars covered by a third of a second.
00:02:32Those cars being both the Ferraris and the McLarens.
00:02:35Back to live action now.
00:02:36The 90-minute clock is ticking.
00:02:38Heidfeldt back out, as you see the morning times across the bottom of your screen.
00:02:43And this is an amazing place.
00:02:45We'll be talking about it all weekend.
00:02:47Temperature is four degrees higher than this morning.
00:02:53Well, it was just what I was about to say next.
00:02:57Beautiful day right now, although rain, in fact, thunderstorms are forecast for Friday,
00:03:02tomorrow's off day here in the Principality.
00:03:05And there is a chance of rain on Sunday.
00:03:08And boy, oh boy, unlike any other track in the world, rain in Monaco changes everything.
00:03:15Denny Hulm always used to say, rain at Spa, park it, because Spa had an ultra-high speed.
00:03:23But rain in Monte Carlo is not exactly attractive either.
00:03:26As you can see, walls somewhat close to the track side.
00:03:30Yeah.
00:03:31It gets incredibly slippy, this surface around here.
00:03:34It's very abrasive anyway.
00:03:36It's a curious mixture that is low grip.
00:03:39What you're looking at here, it's all public roads, of course.
00:03:43Anybody new to Formula One or new viewers to Formula One who have never seen the Monaco
00:03:47Grand Prix before, well, you're in for a real treat.
00:03:50There's no question of that, whatever happens at Monaco, because it is.
00:03:54It's unique in every respect.
00:03:55But as far as the surface that these guys are racing on, it's all public roads.
00:04:00And every afternoon when the sessions finish, the public roads are opened back up again.
00:04:05You can walk around the track, cars, road cars are on the track.
00:04:09As Michael Schumacher, world-famous motorcycle rider, who suffered the indignity of falling
00:04:14off in a recent event at Auxersleben in Germany, having passed three or four people en route
00:04:22to the falling off.
00:04:23So he was very happy about his motorcycle racing, but if I was Mrs. Schumacher, I'd
00:04:27be decidedly miffed.
00:04:29Yeah.
00:04:30Well, he had entered that race, we understand, under a pseudonym, but then for insurance
00:04:35reasons, he had to admit that he was, in fact, what he called himself, Ralph Schumacher.
00:04:38For insurance reasons, he had to change that, because the polish was going to be too much.
00:04:42Now, there you see.
00:04:43Steady on, lads.
00:04:44That's a good shot, Seb.
00:04:45Stuff that Steve was talking about minutes ago.
00:04:47All those white lines, the pedestrian crossings, the white line down the middle of the road.
00:04:52And of course, all these roads have got a camber, being streets.
00:04:56So obviously, when you get to the edge of the road, on the outside edge like that, the
00:05:00road starts to fall away as well.
00:05:02So everything is acting against you, plus, of course, buses, trucks, cars, taxis dropping
00:05:07their oil and diesel all over the track all the time, makes it very slippery.
00:05:10A multitude of poodles as well.
00:05:12Poodles?
00:05:13Look how I'm adding to the poodles, you know.
00:05:16But it is, yeah.
00:05:17To finish that thought about the grip, it's a strange mixture of incredibly low grip,
00:05:22but it is very abrasive, which causes problems for the tyre guys.
00:05:27Bridgestone, you may remember last year, there were all sorts of problems with that super
00:05:31soft compound tyre that they brought here, where it started to break up and wasn't very
00:05:35good at all.
00:05:37Bridgestone have developed a new super soft tyre just for Monaco.
00:05:40And again, more problems for the teams and the tyre constructors.
00:05:44No testing whatsoever happens, as you may imagine, on Monaco.
00:05:48They just arrive here once a year.
00:05:50This is the first time the guys have seen the track.
00:05:52The first time the guys have been on the track is today.
00:05:55So Bridgestone have been developing this tyre.
00:05:56They've been down Paul Ricard in the south of France developing the tyre.
00:05:59Same construction, I believe, that they were using last year, but different compound.
00:06:03It's a little bit harder to try and get the tyre to be more durable, but it is a fascinating
00:06:09event, Monaco, I must say.
00:06:10It's awfully difficult for everybody.
00:06:12Mechanics, engineers and drivers.
00:06:13It's just a nightmare to work, as you can imagine, but to win Monaco is just unbelievable.
00:06:20It's an inconvenience for the fans as well, but it is a must-do on every True Race fans
00:06:25list.
00:06:26You must go to Monaco.
00:06:27Maybe sit up there on the hillside in the background below the Royal Palace.
00:06:31Monaco Rosberg makes his way around, fifth in this morning's opening session.
00:06:35Let's welcome the fourth member of our broadcast team, Peter Windsor.
00:06:39Thanks, Bob.
00:06:41Great to be here.
00:06:42And already the pit lane buzzing with the confrontation that looks to be the 2008 Grand
00:06:47Prix of Monaco.
00:06:48And I speak, of course, between the battle between Ferrari and McLaren Mercedes.
00:06:52A lot of talk going into this race that perhaps the Ferrari's prodigious slow corner speed
00:06:58at the last two racetracks in Bahrain and Turkey would put them in good shape here at
00:07:01Monte Carlo.
00:07:02But McLaren have been saying for the last two or three weeks that Monte Carlo, a very
00:07:06different ballgame.
00:07:07Everybody running higher ride heights here because it's such a bumpy circuit.
00:07:11And they've always been saying that that is going to make this a very even playing field.
00:07:15But the McLaren also no longer has to compromise its setup.
00:07:18There are no really fast corners here, as in Bahrain or any of those other circuits.
00:07:23And it proves to be the case.
00:07:25This morning, Lewis Hamilton, fantastically quick.
00:07:27Kimi Räikkönen.
00:07:28We're on board with Kimi, as I speak, Kimi, too, looking beautifully smooth and very,
00:07:32very fast in the Ferrari.
00:07:33But this is not going to be a Ferrari walkover.
00:07:35They're the early signs from practice so far.
00:07:37Kimi Räikkönen on the harder of those two compounds that Stephen Bobb would just talk
00:07:44about.
00:07:45This is the Anthony Nogue's corner come up here.
00:07:46This is one of those really threading the old needle, just clipping that curb on the
00:07:50left.
00:07:51And from the edge of the curb to the barrier is only about a foot and a bit.
00:07:54And they're always halfway up the curb.
00:07:55They get really close to that barrier.
00:07:58Right there.
00:07:59You just saw a little bit of jinx from it from the car there is Saint-Denis, a tight
00:08:03right hander at the end of what is known as the straight, for want of a better word.
00:08:07It certainly isn't straight.
00:08:08Nothing is straight at Monaco.
00:08:09The Saint-Denis just sucks cars in.
00:08:12There is something about that corner with understeer.
00:08:14We haven't seen anybody go in there yet, but pretty much guaranteed before the end of the
00:08:19session, certainly before the end of the weekend, we will see people just go into that.
00:08:24The camber falls away.
00:08:25So you get no help off the camber, right, David?
00:08:27You're trying to turn right, and the car just slides away, just gets away from you.
00:08:31The road is very heavily cambered there.
00:08:33It's right in the middle of town, too.
00:08:35So it's a very, very much used piece of road, and it is definitely highly slippery and has
00:08:41a nasty camber.
00:08:42And it's tempting because they've cut the barriers back now, so it's wider.
00:08:46It looks quicker.
00:08:48Nice locator, David, right in the center of town.
00:08:50It's hard not to be in the center of Monaco.
00:08:52The entire principality is only three-quarters of a square mile.
00:08:56I was thinking about this this morning.
00:08:58Of the three big motorsports events going on this weekend, the Indianapolis 500, the
00:09:02Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, and the Monaco Grand Prix, you
00:09:08can take the entire country in which the Formula 1 race is taking place and put it comfortably
00:09:14inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
00:09:18Down the boulevard, past the royal box, headed for Saint-Devant.
00:09:27Christian Marder, for whom there is still a torchlight procession held every January
00:09:31here in the principality, will take a break and return with more of Friday's live second
00:09:3790-minute practice for Sunday's grandest Grand Prix of all.
00:09:41We'll be back.
00:09:44This coverage of the FIA Formula 1 world championship is brought to you by Bridgestone, a passion
00:09:50for excellence.
00:09:54Welcome back live to Friday's second practice on the streets of Monaco.
00:09:58Bob Varsha, Steve Matchett, David Hobbs, Peter Windsor with you.
00:10:02One hour, 17.5 minutes remaining in the session following Kimi Raikkonen, quickest in this
00:10:07morning's first practice.
00:10:10Former winner of this race, driving for McLaren Mercedes.
00:10:15The two-time defending champion, Fernando Alonso, was seventh in this morning's practice
00:10:20for Renault.
00:10:26Approaching Rescaz.
00:10:27A little restaurant on the corner.
00:10:28Folks sitting in there enjoying their afternoon tea, no doubt, as these cars scream by within
00:10:39arms reach, literally.
00:10:40Now, let's turn to our BMW track analysis.
00:10:43Tell us about Monaco, David.
00:10:44Well, it's one of the shorter tracks on the circuit, two miles, very hilly, and as we've
00:10:50already said, the roads are all cambered, it's very slippery, all sorts of nasty things
00:10:54to hit.
00:10:55Guardrail everywhere.
00:10:56Sainte-Denis, turn one, very fast uphill.
00:10:57Up the Beau Rivage, a steep climb up to Massenet, a very fast left-hand sweep, completely blind
00:11:03because of the guardrail.
00:11:04Start to drop down through Cassino, into Cassino.
00:11:07Now, halfway down there, there's a tip-top bar on the left.
00:11:09There's also a street comes in from the left, which causes a big bump and it'll swerve to
00:11:13miss that.
00:11:14Down to Mirabeau, a tight right-hander, then steeply downhill to the hairpin there, the
00:11:18tightest hairpin in Grand Prix racing, have to rearrange the front suspension for it.
00:11:23Carry on going downhill to Portier, that left-hand sweep that leads you into the tunnel, completely
00:11:27blind and, of course, on a bright, sunny day today, when you come out the other side, the
00:11:30flash of light must be enormous.
00:11:32The new chicane there, that left-right, then all along the front of the C there, through
00:11:35the harbour, and that P.C., and they've cut the guardrail back, increased the speed now,
00:11:40and in spite of the twisty nature and the narrowness of this track, the fastest lap
00:11:44here was Kimi Räikkönen, over 101 miles an hour, average, around here.
00:11:49That's a staggering speed.
00:11:50That is a staggering speed.
00:11:52Average speed of 100 miles an hour on a track where you spend so much of it at about 25.
00:11:57Yeah.
00:11:58Yeah.
00:11:59Now, David, I was chatting to a buddy of yours earlier, before practice, Tim Parnell,
00:12:08of course, one of the great team owners of all time, from whom I think you learnt just
00:12:12about everything you know about motorsport, which is wonderful.
00:12:15He's still looking very good, recently remarried.
00:12:17But I noticed, David, that he pronounced Saint-Devote, Saint-Devote, as I think from Saint-Devote
00:12:22in the David Hobbs vernacular.
00:12:25When we were discussing this, he said, yeah, this has always been one of David's issues.
00:12:29O-double-T-E in French is art, and O-T-E is oat.
00:12:33This is all from Tim Parnell, I have to say.
00:12:35It has nothing to do with PW.
00:12:37Tim Parnell, from bloody Derbyshire, what would he know about art or oat?
00:12:42All he knows about milking cows.
00:12:44That's right.
00:12:45I put this in the context of apex and apices, and podiums, and indexes and indices, and
00:12:52I just wondered if we could get a final decision from Mr. Hobbs on the use of the French language.
00:12:58Oh, debris in the track, looks like one of the bollards from the corners.
00:13:03As you know, Peter, I am a student of foreign languages, and they're all completely foreign
00:13:08to me.
00:13:09There it is.
00:13:10There's the bollard, or shall we say bollard.
00:13:13The Americans would say bollard, I would say bollard.
00:13:17Raikkonen was actually straying quite a fast lap to get there.
00:13:20He was the fastest so far in sector 2, and of course he got out of that as soon as he
00:13:24saw the bollard on the road.
00:13:26He'll be miffed.
00:13:27There are some mechanics running right to the brake inlet ducts.
00:13:30That left rear tyre looking a bit on the skinny side.
00:13:33With the little fans on it.
00:13:34Was it Raikkonen who...
00:13:36Ah, that's Phil Massa.
00:13:37Massa, the cone killer.
00:13:39Massacre, Massa.
00:13:43Just double check.
00:13:44Oh, yeah.
00:13:45Well, cones should not snap off like that.
00:13:49Well, as you can see, they run up fairly close to that barrier.
00:13:52This is Raikkonen now, coming on the scene of the crime.
00:13:55Of course, your actual Mario Andretti would never be happy going around here without scraping
00:14:00down the barrier at least a couple of times.
00:14:02He's always used to qualifying in Indianapolis, coming up this weekend.
00:14:06And he was very miffed if he didn't have white paint on the sidewalls of his tyre.
00:14:10That's right.
00:14:11Just take the lettering off.
00:14:12Absolutely.
00:14:15The local yellow graphic has gone away.
00:14:17This is that downhill run.
00:14:18This is that very tight hairpin.
00:14:20As you can see, incredibly tight.
00:14:21Still going downhill.
00:14:23This right under here is where Michael Schumacher hit the wall on the opening lap from pole position.
00:14:29Put himself out of the race.
00:14:31That's where Senna hit the wall, leading the race by a mile.
00:14:33Senna was leading by a mile and stuck at the fence.
00:14:35There's your tunnel.
00:14:36Of course, it's very well lit, but still, compared to the sunshine outside, it's still
00:14:40a bit gloomy.
00:14:41When we see those onboard shots and we see how the camera can hardly...
00:14:44Yes, the iris on the cameras are closed down so fast to cope with the changing light conditions.
00:14:49It must be horrible for the drivers.
00:14:51But I guess that's what they're paid for.
00:14:53They are.
00:14:54But luckily, they're not paid much.
00:14:56Jarno Trulli back on track with a repaired left rear suspension.
00:15:01Talking about Monaco being unique, we should also remember, of course, that the cars are
00:15:06absolutely unique here.
00:15:07There are many components that the teams will have designed, built, tested and put onto
00:15:12the cars for Monaco, never get used anywhere else.
00:15:16So, Chas, we're talking about the suspension around here to get around what I always used
00:15:19to call Lowe's hairpin.
00:15:20I think it's probably Fairmont now, Grand Hairpin.
00:15:22It depends what the name of that hotel.
00:15:24It used to be the station hairpin.
00:15:26The old station hairpin.
00:15:28But the lock is so tight to go around there that, as we've mentioned in other years' broadcasts,
00:15:32they have to put a special suspension on the car, modified to get sufficient lock to get
00:15:36around.
00:15:37But also wing components, suspension components, never get used anywhere else.
00:15:41Well, the other thing you can see from these onboard shots, you can actually see the suspension
00:15:44going up and down.
00:15:45I mean, they actually do have travel here because, or suspension travel, because they
00:15:49soften the cars right up to get good mechanical grip.
00:15:52Right.
00:15:53I always think, you know, if I was going to buy an F1 car, it would be a car that raced
00:15:57at Monaco, because its value must be more, just by virtue of the fact it's an absolute
00:16:02unique example from any team that'll never been used anywhere else.
00:16:06You can always tell a car that is set up for Monaco.
00:16:10Or even Monaco.
00:16:11Or Monaco.
00:16:14We'll get back to that.
00:16:19Flashing up the hill from Rascasse, through the Anthony Nogue corner and onto the boulevard,
00:16:24Giancarlo Fisichella, who had an absolutely brutal weekend two weeks ago at the Turkish
00:16:30Grand Prix, tried to gain some measure of redemption this week in Monaco.
00:16:36David Hobbs, Steve Matchett, Peter Winder alongside, I'm Bob Varsha.
00:16:39We hope you'll be with us every step of the way on this, the biggest racing weekend of
00:16:43the year.
00:16:44We'll see much of it here on Speed.
00:16:46There's that bump in the road, David, you were talking about earlier.
00:16:48Yes, exactly.
00:16:49It's a street comes in, so with the camera of the street coming in and the camera of
00:16:52this street, you've got this huge bump down the hill.
00:16:56This is it.
00:16:57Look at the full lock.
00:16:58There's just no more movement on the wheel available.
00:17:01Not quite so bad around that section.
00:17:04Turn right and there's the tunnel.
00:17:06Now, if we sort of on board with this, this will give an idea.
00:17:08Oh, slow.
00:17:12Coming back to speed.
00:17:13Fisichella makes his way along.
00:17:17Oh, down along the harbour side.
00:17:19Whoops.
00:17:20Straight-lined it.
00:17:22Comes Lewis Hamilton out of the McLaren garage.
00:17:25That's the quickest way to deal with a Nouveau chicane, but unfortunately, it's not legal.
00:17:28Fisichella actually in that Ford Syndicate, he was 13th this morning in the first
00:17:32session.
00:17:33He's ninth at the moment.
00:17:34So, old Fisichella has really widened that old Ford Syndicate up.
00:17:38Looking pretty good at the moment.
00:17:41Adrian Sutil is 16th.
00:17:44Similar in his team car.
00:17:47Nelson Piquet there behind.
00:17:49The sporting manager for the Renault factory team, Steve Nilsson, came out last week and
00:17:53said, no question about it.
00:17:54Young Nelson has to raise his game.
00:17:57Think about that.
00:17:58We're only five races into his Formula One career and he's already under pressure.
00:18:03In danger of perhaps losing his job.
00:18:05We understand the Renault team may stage a shootout, a bit of a gong show later this
00:18:09summer.
00:18:10A test involving Piquet and their young rising stars, Romain Grosjean and Luca Filippi from
00:18:16GP2.
00:18:19Plunging down the hill goes Piquet and as he does, let's join Peter standing by with
00:18:24Williams Toyota team principal, Sir Frank Williams.
00:18:28Frank, a lot of Formula One people might say, oh, yet another Monaco Grand Prix.
00:18:33Difficult race.
00:18:34Difficult to get around.
00:18:35Your thoughts on coming back to yet another Monaco?
00:18:38All of those things you've just said, but it is really an electrifying place.
00:18:44We've all come back for a fix.
00:18:46It's very challenging.
00:18:47Everything happens very quickly.
00:18:48You need a lot of luck.
00:18:50It really is electrifying.
00:18:51Frank, what is the best sort of race driver for Monaco?
00:18:55You've had great drivers in your team over the years.
00:18:58Do you want the fast late breaker?
00:18:59Do you want the old woman who keeps it off the walls?
00:19:02Who's the Monaco Grand Prix winner from your point of view?
00:19:04Well, I think the rule applies to most racers, really, and it's still the same here.
00:19:09A driver's clever enough to always get the best out of his car without crashing it.
00:19:13Well said, as ever.
00:19:14Thank you very much.
00:19:15Sir Frank Williams.
00:19:17And Sir Frank used the perfect word to describe Monaco.
00:19:20Electrifying.
00:19:24Well, Nelson Piquet at 2.2 seconds off the pace is down in 19th.
00:19:28The only guy slower than him is Sebastien Bourdais in the Red Bull,
00:19:31but Sebastien actually went very quickly this morning.
00:19:35Here's Sebastian Vettel, also not having much luck.
00:19:38He's got that five grid spot penalty coming up.
00:19:41It's because this, well, the car that we saw him driving a moment ago,
00:19:44as we switch back to Hamilton, who is on a flyer, purple through sector one.
00:19:48Quickest of all in the first of the three time sectors at 19.7 seconds.
00:19:52Watch this around the swimming pool.
00:19:54Oh, it's just scary.
00:19:55It's like a slot car, isn't it?
00:19:57This is going to put him into the 15s.
00:20:00This morning, Kimi Räikkönen did a 15.9,
00:20:02but I think this is going to put him down into about the 15.7 range.
00:20:05I know what you mean about slot cars, David,
00:20:07but remember, a guy has to actually judge the corners, steer the car through.
00:20:1415.6.
00:20:1515.688. I'm sorry, I was wrong. I said 15.7.
00:20:18What is wrong with you?
00:20:19Oh, dear.
00:20:21It's early in the morning.
00:20:23There's a look at the running order.
00:20:24Hamilton, Alonso, Räikkönen and Massa.
00:20:27Alonso up there in second in the Renault.
00:20:30Then Kovalainen, Rosberg, who had a good morning session, fifth.
00:20:35Let's listen in.
00:20:50The car is very unstable.
00:20:53And also traction is not very good.
00:20:56To be honest, I don't like this weight distribution because
00:21:01on the braking, I don't feel the car proper.
00:21:04The car is drifting and sliding.
00:21:10Aside from that, it's actually fine.
00:21:14Not being able to trust the brakes has to be the absolute no-no at Monaco.
00:21:20That was Michael looking on.
00:21:21That's from the new pit lane complex we were talking about earlier on, Bob,
00:21:25looking down as the cars come down towards Graz.
00:21:29You have to remember, of course, that the pit boards that the guys are using,
00:21:31the engineers are using to signal to their drivers,
00:21:33has to be on the opposite side of that, on the start-finish straight.
00:21:37Because, well, it's just too high from that vantage point.
00:21:40As you can see, the drivers would never be able to see the pit boards.
00:21:42So they have to communicate via radio onto the opposite side of the pits,
00:21:45where the old pit complex used to be.
00:21:49Peter?
00:21:51Steve, I was very concerned there to hear Robert Kubica, as he likes to be known,
00:21:56saying that he wasn't happy with the weight distribution.
00:21:58And I'm wondering whether I should be getting down to see Ron Dennis
00:22:01to see if he's got any thoughts on how Robert can save yet more weight
00:22:05to change the weight distribution yet again on the BMW.
00:22:08Well, you know, Robert brings up a good point.
00:22:11Kubica's comments there about the weight is something we touched on at the top of this show,
00:22:15that there is no track time, there's no test time at Monaco.
00:22:19And, of course, the cars have changed.
00:22:21Just saw something lining the track there, down there, Sainte-Denis.
00:22:23The cars have changed year by year.
00:22:25So a lot of the data is relevant.
00:22:27But, of course, this is the first time that these cars,
00:22:30this generation of race cars have been let loose around Monaco.
00:22:34So it's always a catch-up stage with them.
00:22:37Here comes a Honda.
00:22:39A note about Lewis Hamilton's time.
00:22:41That 15.6 is faster than last year's pole.
00:22:45Or quicker, I should say.
00:22:47And he was on the harder of the two Bridgestone tire compounds this weekend.
00:22:51Well, the McLarens seem to like those harder compounds.
00:22:54Wherever they go, they seem to do better on the harder compound.
00:22:57That's not to say they won't be quicker here.
00:23:00Ford with Jensen Button.
00:23:02Down into Saint-Denis.
00:23:05Memorable moment for any Formula 1 driver.
00:23:07We'll take a break and return.
00:23:12Think about qualifying here.
00:23:14We talk often about how qualifying is important.
00:23:16But you see just how difficult it is to pass a slower car.
00:23:21Ferrari leading one of the McLarens onto the boulevard.
00:23:24Meanwhile, a Renault comes through pit-out.
00:23:28It is so difficult to pass here that you absolutely have to qualify as best you can.
00:23:34Well, if I didn't know better, I'd say this was a deliberate block.
00:23:37Because Massa waited until Hamilton called him up.
00:23:41Before he got to that Anginogue corner.
00:23:44How weird.
00:23:48You can't see a Ferrari going around Monaco that you don't recall.
00:23:51Michael Schumacher's little pirouette down in the Riscasse corner during qualifying.
00:23:57Back in 06, I believe.
00:24:00For which he took a 10 grid spot penalty.
00:24:03Still came up and finished in the points.
00:24:09Hard, hard on the brakes. Left, right.
00:24:11Just missing the arm cone.
00:24:15Yeah. Now watch this. Here comes the swimming pool.
00:24:18This is the bit that gets me.
00:24:20I mean, this left-right complex here.
00:24:22Just dancing around in here too.
00:24:24They leap over that curb where Massa just removed that arm cone.
00:24:27They leap over that curb where Massa just removed that post.
00:24:29And you can tell from the sound of the engine.
00:24:31No lift, really.
00:24:33No. Just point it and hope.
00:24:39Because you're going to hit that curb driver's left.
00:24:41So your wheels are going to come off the ground.
00:24:43You have to judge it so that you're going to come down, make contact, hope the tires grip.
00:24:49And you don't wind up hitting the wall driver's right.
00:24:53There's still something laying on the tarmac, on the asphalt, around Sanderbott.
00:24:56For a second I thought it may be a shadow from something else.
00:24:59One of the little bollards casting a shadow.
00:25:01But I don't think it is. It's something down there on the track.
00:25:03There it is.
00:25:05Now Lewis Hamilton, you know, he came second last year.
00:25:08It's the only time he hasn't won a race here that he's done it.
00:25:12So he obviously likes the place.
00:25:15Beautiful. That's why it's called the Côte d'Azur.
00:25:17You saw it right there, that beautiful azure blue water on the south coast of France.
00:25:24Yeah, clear as a bell.
00:25:26But talking about rain, and we were thinking about that earlier on in the show.
00:25:29That's one of the reasons why it's so unpredictable.
00:25:31It's because, again, it is right on the coast.
00:25:33And the weather can change so fast, so rapidly.
00:25:36And it's not just the weather.
00:25:39And the teams spend an absolute fortune on trying to keep track of the weather.
00:25:42And on the whole they do a good job.
00:25:44But like you said, David, because of the mountains, because of the coastal location of it,
00:25:48it's incredibly difficult to be 100% accurate with the weather forecast
00:25:52as it comes towards race weekend and the start of the race.
00:25:57And it's not just the weather.
00:25:59It's the people.
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00:27:57Well, STR Technical Director Giorgio Ascanelli was asked about it, debuting this new car here.
00:28:02He said, well, we really didn't have any choice.
00:28:04We stopped making parts for the old chassis, and we barely have enough for the new one.
00:28:08So we were between a rock and a hard place.
00:28:10We decided we'd go with the new car.
00:28:12We'll be back.
00:28:16Welcome back to Monaco.
00:28:27On board with two-time world champion and two-time defending Monaco Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso,
00:28:38slides the Renault nicely into the pit lane.
00:28:41That was a very quick entry.
00:28:43They had that radio.
00:28:44It was a pretty inconvenient time to be talking, I would have thought.
00:28:47Exactly.
00:28:48Not that we could hear it, but, I mean, don't talk to me.
00:28:51Excuse me.
00:28:52Can you just hang on a minute?
00:28:53I'm quite busy out here just at the moment.
00:28:56Just watch this slide off Rascasse.
00:28:58Because, don't forget, we're seeing all this sliding this year from these cars
00:29:01because they don't have that traction control which they've had for the last decade or so,
00:29:05and it does make a difference.
00:29:06It'll make a big difference around here, Steve, when they bounce off those curbs.
00:29:09It'll make a big difference if it rains on Sunday.
00:29:11Oh, my gosh.
00:29:12Well, Norbert Haug, who's the director of Mercedes Motorsports,
00:29:16said he expects a lot more crashes this year because the drivers do not have traction control
00:29:22and electronic braking and so forth.
00:29:24We'll see if he's right.
00:29:26Quite right, too.
00:29:27They should get rid of that, being able to modify your diff, too, as you go per lap, I think.
00:29:32Before we leave the Renault team, let's hear from their director of engineering services.
00:29:36Pat Simmons is with Peter Windsor.
00:29:39Pat, early days, of course, in Monaco 2008, but how's it looking so far for Fernando Alonso?
00:29:44Oh, pretty good.
00:29:45We seem to be up there.
00:29:47Just put new tyres on, as I think many people have.
00:29:51And, you know, comfortably in the sort of top five there.
00:29:54So pretty happy, actually.
00:29:57It's a bit tempting from the outside looking in to say Monaco is a bit of an equalizer,
00:30:00higher ride heights, bumpy.
00:30:02It's all about drivers getting the best, hopefully, from a good raceable car.
00:30:05Fernando should be right up there.
00:30:07I guess that's a bit easy to say.
00:30:09I don't believe in equality.
00:30:11It's competition.
00:30:12How good is the Renault, then?
00:30:14How good a car is Fernando going to have come Q3, come the start of the race?
00:30:18Well, it's getting better all the time.
00:30:20And, you know, I think everyone's aware that during last year we lost our way a little bit aerodynamically.
00:30:26In spite of people always saying Monaco's a high downforce circuit,
00:30:29it's really not just about aerodynamics here.
00:30:32There's much more, and indeed the driver, as you alluded to, is very important.
00:30:37So I think he's going to be right up there.
00:30:39We look forward to seeing it.
00:30:40Thanks, Pat.
00:30:41Good luck.
00:30:42Attaboy, Pat.
00:30:43I don't want equality.
00:30:44I want the unfair advantage.
00:30:47Yeah.
00:30:48But, Peter, I think Peter brings up a good point.
00:30:50As we watch the cars negotiate their way, thread their way around Monaco,
00:30:54it is evident that there is only so much that the engineers and mechanics really can do.
00:31:00You know, they do have to run higher ride heights because it is so bumpy.
00:31:04That destroys the aero efficiency underneath the car.
00:31:07The solution to that, as we were saying, with all these unique components on the car,
00:31:11is to put as much downforce on the car as possible.
00:31:13Forget the drag coefficient.
00:31:15That's not really the issue.
00:31:16It's a matter of just trying to bolt the car to the ground.
00:31:18Give as much mechanical grip as possible.
00:31:21Give it to the driver and just hope that he can thread his way around
00:31:25and not smash it into the armco.
00:31:27That is, in essence, all you can do.
00:31:32Steve, that's absolutely right.
00:31:33But, you know, we were talking a little bit earlier about the absence of traction control
00:31:37and how Norbert Haug is expecting more accidents.
00:31:40Well, I think he's right.
00:31:42But he shouldn't be right.
00:31:43If you look at Kimi Räikkönen on a quick lap here with the onboard,
00:31:47or perhaps Lewis or anybody who really knows what they're doing around Monte Carlo,
00:31:50they're actually not sliding the car around very much.
00:31:53They look quite slow, actually.
00:31:54If you didn't know the lap time they were doing, you wouldn't think it was as quick as it was.
00:31:57So still the art of doing a great Monaco lap is not to be sliding around,
00:32:01bouncing off the edge of the guardrail.
00:32:03It's to be manipulating the car.
00:32:05And the great Monaco drivers, I believe,
00:32:07are always focusing on the exit of the corner rather than the entry.
00:32:10And it's the drivers who try to gain time by braking late,
00:32:13by just getting into the apex a little bit faster than they had been on the previous lap.
00:32:17These are the guys who are going to hit the wall.
00:32:18But the great drivers are the drivers that get the exits right.
00:32:21And that means getting them very, very straight and very, very flat,
00:32:24getting the load out of the car very efficiently and quickly.
00:32:27And it's surprising to me that perhaps drivers like Nelson Piquet Jr.
00:32:30don't spend more time looking at onboards
00:32:32of how drivers like Kimi Räikkönen actually put a quick lap together.
00:32:36Well, of course, the other thing you've got to get the car set up here, too,
00:32:39to rotate well, because there's so many rapid changes of direction from left to right.
00:32:44And you've got to be able to get the car to rotate.
00:32:46And the driver has to be ahead of that rotation.
00:32:48He has to be right on top of it.
00:32:50And then, as Peter said, then you get a really good exit speed.
00:32:53If you try and bollock your way into the corner, lock up the front, you're doomed.
00:32:57And you've got to get the car well set up so you can achieve those objectives
00:33:02to make the car rotate without it obviously rotating right around.
00:33:06Obviously, this is a good case in point.
00:33:08The car's got to have good rotation here.
00:33:10And then you've got to change the way it's going to transfer dramatically
00:33:13as you go around that left-hand tight hairpin to the next right-hand hairpin.
00:33:16So, you've really got to get these cars set up well.
00:33:19But the driver becomes much more important.
00:33:21There is absolutely no doubt about it.
00:33:23I remember...
00:33:24That onboard we saw at Adrian Sutil there.
00:33:26It seems to me that car doesn't have any front-end grip at all.
00:33:28Yeah.
00:33:29I saw it going through those corners.
00:33:30Just everywhere he had push, push, push.
00:33:32Well, funny enough, I was thinking back when Peter was talking about drivers
00:33:37What are we going to watch right now?
00:33:39Truly doing something bizarre.
00:33:41Watch out for the wall, the wall, the wall!
00:33:43Oh, he got it!
00:33:44Well, boy, he hit the wall again.
00:33:46Yeah.
00:33:47Well, he broke the left rear suspension this morning.
00:33:48He's having to go at the right rear suspension this afternoon.
00:33:50Yeah, feeding it around. That's how to do it.
00:33:53Well, of course, that's the trouble.
00:33:55Rushing that corner.
00:33:56Yes.
00:33:57Arrive there too fast at the first part of the corner.
00:33:59Gets it all wrong on the entry.
00:34:01And, of course, completely buggers up the exit.
00:34:03And when you ride over those curbs and you lift the underside of the car off the track.
00:34:07You ain't got no grip at all.
00:34:08It's not turning much when you're looking around.
00:34:10One not on.
00:34:11Oh, somebody's down in Sainte-Denis up against the fence.
00:34:14That Piquet in the Renault.
00:34:16There he got going again.
00:34:18Yeah.
00:34:19Funny enough, I was just going to say a couple of minutes ago.
00:34:22I must apologize.
00:34:23I'm sure that is actually a shadow down in Sainte-Denis.
00:34:26But I thought there was something laying on track.
00:34:28Well, there may be something laying on track in about three seconds from now.
00:34:31Let's have a look.
00:34:32Okay.
00:34:33Oh, slip, slip, slip, slip.
00:34:34That'll do it.
00:34:35Big hit.
00:34:36That wasn't an out lap.
00:34:37I'll tell you what.
00:34:38I'm amazed if the cars withstood that to be able to drive back to the pits.
00:34:41Boy, it looks like it'd get that left rear suspension big time, wouldn't it?
00:34:45Absolutely.
00:34:46Let's have a look at what he's doing.
00:34:47Perhaps we won't.
00:34:48A note on those top speeds you saw a moment ago on the graphic.
00:34:51291 Ks for Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren Mercedes.
00:34:55That's nearly 175 miles an hour.
00:34:58Where do you do that around a place like Monaco?
00:35:03In the Friday second practice session, let's ride with Lewis Hamilton.
00:35:07And there you go.
00:35:10I just planned with you, Bob.
00:35:12Very close ratios here, as you can tell.
00:35:36P1 for Lewis Hamilton while we're in break.
00:35:38A one minute, 15.14 second lap.
00:35:41That is quicker than the fastest race lap in last year's event.
00:35:46Oh, Mark Webber using up the chicane.
00:35:49Looks like he needed to.
00:35:54There he goes.
00:35:55No harm done.
00:35:56Mark Webber had an interesting experience on a bike ride earlier this week.
00:36:00He was riding with Lance Armstrong, the five-time Tour de France champion,
00:36:04who's a close friend.
00:36:05We'll listen in to Robert Kubica's radio.
00:36:08It looks like the prime tire is the race tire is the better on the long runs.
00:36:12The option tire is not doing more than three laps on a proper condition.
00:36:15It's dropping too much.
00:36:17So we can do now with the option tire run and then the longer on primes.
00:36:28Getting back to Mark Webber.
00:36:29Also along on that ride was a marketing director for ING who was hit by a car.
00:36:37Webber had to tend to him on the scene.
00:36:3990 stitches to close the wound.
00:36:41I saw that. 90 stitches.
00:36:43That's a lot of stitching.
00:36:45Webber said afterward, I was a little more careful on my bike rides the rest of the week.
00:36:51Let's go to Peter Windsor.
00:36:53Well, Bob, difficult to know where to look down here in the Formula One paddock area
00:36:57for the Monaco Grand Prix.
00:36:58Lewis Hamilton devastating on the circuit.
00:37:00But then if I look just a couple of yards to my right,
00:37:03there is an art gallery just the other side of the fence.
00:37:05A beautiful new art gallery here right by the Formula One paddock.
00:37:08And I've been staring or it's been staring at me.
00:37:10I don't know which at a beautiful painting.
00:37:12I've got to say the artist appears to be Bill Jacklin of New York Fifth Avenue.
00:37:16And I guess that's just the contrast of Monte Carlo.
00:37:18On the one side, we have the real races out there on the streets.
00:37:21And on the other, this lovely shot of Fifth Avenue.
00:37:23And I can't help thinking what Formula One cars would look like running down Fifth Avenue.
00:37:29Wouldn't that be something?
00:37:30Oh, boy.
00:37:31Did you see that on board?
00:37:32That very brief on board shot of the rear suspension on Rossberg's car there.
00:37:37The amount of movement.
00:37:38It's just something you'd never see.
00:37:39Yeah.
00:37:40And talking about ambience, Peter, I remember working down in the pits at Monaco.
00:37:44The noise, something we talk about, is so loud.
00:37:48The fact that there's just nowhere for the noise to dissipate
00:37:51because it's so close in with the buildings.
00:37:53What's it like down there, Peter,
00:37:54as far as trying to just hear the people around you to try and have a conversation?
00:37:59Sorry, Steve.
00:38:00What was that you were saying about here?
00:38:01Very good.
00:38:02No, the reality is it is absolutely, well, electrifying, as Sir Frank Williams said.
00:38:08The noise is so great that it's actually beyond loud noise
00:38:11and you literally feel the floor moving every time they gun it out of Rascassa
00:38:16in full power accelerating through the gears.
00:38:18It just vibrates through the garage in which you happen to be standing at any given moment.
00:38:22It is beyond description, actually.
00:38:24It is absolutely amazing.
00:38:25And anybody who thinks that Formula One is boring or tedious,
00:38:28I think, should spend an hour or so right there watching practice for Monte Carlo.
00:38:32Boy, did you see that, Peter, there with Felipe Massa now on the soft tyres,
00:38:36but he's still eight tenths slower than Lewis Hamilton.
00:38:39So he's obviously trying to string a quick lap together here, I think,
00:38:42otherwise he wouldn't have put the soft tyres on.
00:38:44Although it's interesting to hear what Robert...
00:38:46Let's have another look at it.
00:38:47Yeah.
00:38:48This is it. The back end just comes...
00:38:50Wow!
00:38:51And it got saved by the kerb.
00:38:52Yeah.
00:38:54But...
00:38:55And you'll see that a lot as those cars exit that final corner
00:38:58and come on to the start-finish straight.
00:39:00I mean, the back end will really start to come round.
00:39:03Again, talking about that noise, you know, working down in the pits,
00:39:06even with the radios that you see these guys wearing all the while,
00:39:09there is so much ambient noise that you have to crank the radio up so loud
00:39:13to be able to hear that, really, it was impossible to use the radios
00:39:17to any degree of accuracy.
00:39:19And we used to rely a lot on hand signals.
00:39:21The chief mechanic, the engineers would talk to each other very close,
00:39:25and then to get the information back to the mechanics,
00:39:28the changes on the car, it was all done by signals
00:39:30because it was just impossible to hear anything.
00:39:35That incident of Felipe Massa's we just saw
00:39:38actually exemplifies perfectly, I think, what I was saying earlier
00:39:41about the two approaches to drive at Monaco.
00:39:44Felipe, by his own admission, is a late breaker,
00:39:46likes to charge into the apex.
00:39:48Kimi Räikkönen is the opposite.
00:39:49As David has said, it's all about rotation.
00:39:52But it's an example, I think, within the same team,
00:39:54it's not just getting the car set up, how good is the car,
00:39:57but Kimi does a much better job of rotating the car with the same setup.
00:40:01Kimi doesn't brake later when he wants to go quicker,
00:40:03he just does a cleaner rotation and has a much cleaner exit,
00:40:06whereas Felipe is always looking to brake later and get in too quick,
00:40:09and that's exactly what we saw him do there.
00:40:11They're the sort of mistakes that that approach leads to.
00:40:14It just doesn't work here.
00:40:17Both Williams cars in the top eight right now.
00:40:20Rosberg second, Nakajima eighth.
00:40:23Nico Rosberg, that was a pretty stout time, old Nico, turned in there.
00:40:27Uh-huh.
00:40:28Well, we know Felipe Massa's trying hard,
00:40:30and he couldn't get the Ferrari higher than third.
00:40:35That was quite a lap by Lewis Hamilton,
00:40:37who is currently four-tenths of a second quicker
00:40:40than second-place Rosberg on the time sheets.
00:40:42And even more stagnantly, he's a second quicker,
00:40:44just over a second quicker than his teammate Kovalainen.
00:40:48A peek in the Williams garages.
00:40:50A moment ago, we saw the Ferraris.
00:40:52There was a very scary situation at the Ferrari factory at Maranello.
00:40:57There was an outbreak of tuberculosis last week.
00:41:01The employees were told to keep working.
00:41:03A member of their carbon fiber shop was taken to the hospital,
00:41:06diagnosed with TB.
00:41:07They told the team to keep working.
00:41:08Keep working.
00:41:09And one of the team members, a Brit, said,
00:41:12We are not happy.
00:41:14Yeah.
00:41:15Well, that's life inside the gates of Maranello for you right there.
00:41:18Oh, my goodness.
00:41:19Incredibly infectious disease outbreak.
00:41:22You just tell folks, keep your heads down.
00:41:24We have a race this weekend, and it's Monaco.
00:41:27We'll be back.
00:41:31Welcome back.
00:41:32Here's a look at the Friday practice session to date.
00:41:35Max Mosley, grimly holding on to his office as FIA president,
00:41:38making a low-key appearance in Monaco.
00:41:40David Coulthard suffered problems.
00:41:43Didn't get a lap in the morning session.
00:41:45Not good at Monaco.
00:41:47And notice that weight distribution.
00:41:49The engine at the back with the nose dips at the front.
00:41:51Loose manhole led to a 15-minute red flag.
00:41:55Shortly after that, Jarno Trulli,
00:41:57in his haste to get to the top of the timesheets,
00:41:59wrecked the left rear suspension on his Toyota.
00:42:01And Nick Heidfeld had a mysterious problem at the back of the BMW Sauber.
00:42:06Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren Mercedes,
00:42:08quickest for much of the session.
00:42:11Then Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, points leader by seven,
00:42:15coming into round six of the championship.
00:42:17Pipped him for quick time of the morning, 90 minutes.
00:42:22On to the second session.
00:42:24Now with a little under 27 minutes remaining,
00:42:26Nico Rosberg on the 25th anniversary of his father K.K.'s victory
00:42:30in Monaco for Williams.
00:42:32Went to the top of the time charts.
00:42:34But then it was Hamilton's turn to save the day.
00:42:37Hamilton's turn to say, I can do that better.
00:42:40And he came through with a lap at 1 minute 15.140,
00:42:44well under last year's pole time.
00:42:46Shortly after that, Gordon Nelson, P.K. Jr.,
00:42:50added insult to injury by backing his Renault
00:42:54into the tire wall at Saint-Devote,
00:42:56ripping up the rear wing.
00:42:58Didn't seem to slow him down much on his way back to the pits, however.
00:43:01Oh, now Fernando Alonso has deranged the rear wing.
00:43:05Oh, boy, that's going to fly off, too. He needs to slow down a bit.
00:43:08And Mirabeau coming down the hills and coming up behind him.
00:43:14Oh, suspension's gone, too. Left rear suspension's on a drift.
00:43:18Look at that.
00:43:20Now, whereabouts did he do that?
00:43:22That would be Saint-Devote, who's the left, I would think.
00:43:24I think he did, well, Saint-Devote or Casino Square.
00:43:27Well, we're standing at the top of the shelf.
00:43:28We're going to have a look at it now.
00:43:29Casino Square.
00:43:30Here we are.
00:43:31Saint-Devote, I suspect.
00:43:32This is going to be it right now.
00:43:34It's a Renault corner thus far in this show.
00:43:37Well, we're saying at the top of the show that we expected somebody to find Saint-Devote
00:43:41before the end of the show, and both Renaults seem to have done it.
00:43:44Who said he didn't have Saint-Devote?
00:43:48Wow.
00:43:49Oh, dear.
00:43:50Lewis Hamilton coming by.
00:43:53Jensen Button.
00:43:54Where do you want him to go, dude? It's Monaco.
00:43:56Oh, it's Barrichello.
00:43:57I think that's more of a...
00:43:58I don't think he was telling him to get out.
00:44:00Well, I think he's just been there, done that, fella.
00:44:02Oh, jeez, old sport.
00:44:04Eh, okay.
00:44:05Or something like that.
00:44:06Yeah.
00:44:07Good seat still available on Thursday in Monaco.
00:44:15And so everybody heads for the pit lane under the red flag for a cleanup.
00:44:20Be sure to tune in Monday, Memorial Day, as the Rolex Sports Car Series heads to historic Lime Rock Park.
00:44:26The GT Class hits the road Monday, 2 p.m. Eastern, live and only on Speed.
00:44:33And that should be a good one.
00:44:35You and I have spent many a happy hour Memorial Day Monday up at Lime Rock.
00:44:40Absolutely.
00:44:41Good thing it's just the GT Class, not the DPs.
00:44:44Wayne Taylor, former series champions, have had such a rough start to the season.
00:44:49They had more problems at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca last weekend.
00:44:52And then on the way home, the Transporter caught fire, did extensive damage to the race car and everything else.
00:44:59You can just imagine what a setback that is for the team.
00:45:01Yeah, well, they had that nasty incident too in the Mexican race.
00:45:04Good luck to them in recovering.
00:45:06We'll take a break and return for more practice, hopefully under green, in Monaco.
00:45:14Lights are on, ready to go racing here in Monaco.
00:45:17That's first place, David Coulthard, Michael Schumacher right behind.
00:45:20The victory goes to David Coulthard.
00:45:22One corner to go for Jarno Trulli.
00:45:26One corner to his first career Formula One victory in 119 starts.
00:45:32Trulli has done it.
00:45:33Checkers in the air for Kimi Raikkonen, who makes it back-to-back victories for McLaren Mercedes.
00:45:40Fernando Alonso, who will achieve the dream of winning in Monaco and doing it in dominant fashion.
00:45:48Good job.
00:45:49Good job.
00:45:53I'm sure those two victories in Monaco seemed like a long time ago for David Coulthard.
00:45:58And Fernando Alonso holds the distinction, I believe I'm right in saying,
00:46:02he is the only driver in the long history of this race to win consecutive Grand Prix in Monaco for two different teams.
00:46:11Renault and McLaren Mercedes.
00:46:15Of course, it was in that race that things started to go sour
00:46:18between Alonso and his then-teammate Lewis Hamilton,
00:46:21who was very upset in the post-race podium interviews
00:46:27about being told by his team to hold station behind Alonso, who was leading at the time.
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00:46:52Here's Pedro de la Rosa, very experienced test driver for McLaren Mercedes.
00:46:57And there is Sebastian Bourdais sitting in the STR garage.
00:47:00We are back under green. Let's go to Peter Windsor.
00:47:03Well, Bob, I need to add, looking at the Renault accidents they've had at Sainte-Devote,
00:47:07how well-balanced the driver teams are at Ferrari, McLaren and BMW.
00:47:12Raikkonen and Massa at the other end of the scale from one another.
00:47:15The same goes for McLaren and BMW.
00:47:19Amazing to see Renault opting for two drivers of the same style.
00:47:22Both are late breakers. Both like to throw the car into the apex.
00:47:25Why didn't they keep Giancarlo Fisichella for the other car?
00:47:28He would have been a great teammate to Fernando in this TC-less era.
00:47:31And look at him right now. He's a second quicker than Adrian Sutil in a bad car.
00:47:35Sutil's not slow, and yet Giancarlo now languishing in the Force Indy car.
00:47:40A great shame, I think, that he's not there driving the Renault alongside Fernando.
00:47:43I think Giancarlo Fisichella would agree with you, Peter.
00:47:46And this, by the way, is the 200th Grand Prix for the Roman.
00:47:51Fisichella wearing a special commemorative helmet this weekend.
00:47:56So, we've had both Renaults into the tyre wall down at Sainte-Devote to their detriment.
00:48:00And there is the aforementioned Giancarlo Fisichella.
00:48:03I love it when a plan comes together.
00:48:05Absolutely brilliant.
00:48:07Adrian Sutil, his young teammate.
00:48:09Everybody thought that Sutil could easily be as quick or quicker than Fisichella this year.
00:48:14But it has not proven to be the case.
00:48:16And it's something that Sutil is going to have to watch.
00:48:21I know the car's not great, but at least you don't have to be at the back all the time.
00:48:25And the first thing, of course, is to be quicker than your teammate.
00:48:28Which he has not been this year.
00:48:30Fisichella coming in off a terrible weekend two weeks ago in Turkey.
00:48:34First practice on Friday morning, he ran the red light at the end of the pit lane.
00:48:39That cost him three grid spots.
00:48:42And then he went out in the race, decided he was going to win it in the first corner.
00:48:47And might have.
00:48:48But for the presence of every other car on the grid ahead of him, he chose the one of Kaz Nakajima
00:48:53to spear on his way to the gravel trap at turn one, ending his race before it began.
00:48:58And Nakajima's got two.
00:49:11Giving himself some room here.
00:49:12I'm not quite sure who that might be.
00:49:14Sebastian Vettel in front of him.
00:49:17So far, that's about the only guy.
00:49:19Well, Sebastian Vettel just not doing anything either.
00:49:22He's down there in 20th spot, just can't seem to improve.
00:49:26And of course, you said we heard him talk in that radio interview with his mechanic.
00:49:29You know, I don't know what to tell you.
00:49:31I don't know what to say to do to the car, which is not a good sign.
00:49:35No.
00:49:37It isn't.
00:49:38And that highlights again how useful it is to a team to have a driver that's got good mechanical knowledge
00:49:43and can translate how it feels to drive the car to his engineers to make the mechanical adjustments to the car.
00:49:51It's so frustrating for the mechanics and engineers when a driver, I have to say, you know,
00:49:56comes in like that and says, I don't really know what to do.
00:49:59It's such a big link out of the chain that's broken.
00:50:03And again, in my years of racing, when I was with Michael Schumacher,
00:50:08he was so good at doing that stuff to be able to come in and say, you know,
00:50:12I think we need a little bit more camber at the front, a little less camber.
00:50:15And you would make that change in five minutes, go out on track,
00:50:18and he would prove back to the engineers that that's what he needed.
00:50:22And that's progress, you know, and off you go again to the next race, the next test.
00:50:26And the car gets better and better and better as it develops.
00:50:29And again, it's so frustrating when you lose that link,
00:50:32when you have to sort of train the driver from scratch to talk to the engineers.
00:50:36When you found out when you were working with Schumacher, didn't you have to train him up?
00:50:41Well, he's done all right for himself now.
00:50:44Jackie Stewart, Sir Jackie Stewart, a three-time winner of this race.
00:50:48Do we score? Look at all this. Of course, I won this race two, three times.
00:50:52I can't remember how many times I did win, I know, but it was a lot.
00:50:55Of course, I won by the biggest margin ever, a victory,
00:50:58and of course, I won it in the rain a couple of times.
00:51:00All right, then.
00:51:01And now I'm with the Royal Bank of Scotland, of course, to pay me a few bob to...
00:51:04I'll tell you what, Jackie Stewart was my booth colleague on another network back in 1992,
00:51:10and he is the unofficial mayor of the Principality on that weekend.
00:51:14Absolutely.
00:51:15He was constantly jetting off to host this luncheon, or advise the prince about something,
00:51:20or go meet with the princesses, and on and on and on.
00:51:22Well, Jackie Stewart was in the booth with us at the US Grand Prix three years ago,
00:51:28and he was recounting a race that he was in.
00:51:30I mean, it was... and it was...
00:51:33Corner to corner to corner.
00:51:34It was the 1973 German Grand Prix, and every single car...
00:51:37Well, there's Carlos Parchi, and there's him, and I mean, good God, it was incredible.
00:51:42The recall.
00:51:44Yes, there was a driver there called Mike Boitler, who did about four Grand Prix,
00:51:48and, oh, there's Mike Boitler, you know, I mean, it's pretty organic.
00:51:52Well, he trained himself to do that, I'm convinced.
00:51:55Jackie Stewart will tell you, he is severely dyslexic.
00:51:58That year I did this race with him, he came into the booth,
00:52:01and, of course, I had an armload of charts and maps and stats and whatnot.
00:52:04He had a blank sheet of paper and a pencil, because he needs to write his own notes.
00:52:09He is so dyslexic that he can't read clearly,
00:52:13and so he has trained himself to have this phenomenal memory for things.
00:52:17He did that race, as you say, just quoting corner to corner, race after race,
00:52:21as though it were yesterday.
00:52:25David, can I just get you to cast your mind back to lap seven of the Mallory Park
00:52:29wet sports car race, when you were driving the Lola T70,
00:52:33and ask who was running in ninth place when you were in third?
00:52:37You can ask.
00:52:39You can ask, exactly.
00:52:41I don't even remember doing a wet race at Mallory Park.
00:52:45Where's Mallory Park?
00:52:49My finest moment was when I overtook your hero at Alton Park
00:52:53in that same Lola T70, and I overtook Jimmy Clark,
00:52:56floundering around in that Lotus 30.
00:52:58Nobody ever overtakes Jimmy Clark.
00:53:01I overtook Jimmy Clark.
00:53:03Jimmy Clark let you pass because he had a problem with the car.
00:53:06I blew him into the weeds, but of course he was driving a Lotus,
00:53:08and I was driving a Lola.
00:53:10I think you also passed Jimmy Clark getting to the bathroom window
00:53:14that time in 1963, when you wanted to get out of the bar tab.
00:53:18Exactly, the bar tab here at Monte Carlo, which was extraordinarily high,
00:53:22even for those days.
00:53:23The window or the tab?
00:53:24Both.
00:53:25You had to stand on the toilet seat to get out the window.
00:53:29Mrs. Hobbs, myself, and Mr. Clark.
00:53:32Well, that's the kicker, was that Margaret was with you
00:53:34going out the bathroom window.
00:53:37I had to get in the jet's toilet.
00:53:41Oh my goodness.
00:53:44All soon to be revealed.
00:53:50See how the car reacts down into Sandoval.
00:53:53That's pretty good.
00:53:55Peter Sauber on hand this weekend.
00:53:58Honored recently by the same organization
00:54:00that gave the annual Lorenzo Bandini trophy
00:54:03to Robert Kubica.
00:54:05Here he appears.
00:54:11The really cool thing about the ceremony was
00:54:13Kubica drove up in his Formula One car.
00:54:16What, 11 miles, or 11 kilometers?
00:54:18About 11 kilometers, yeah.
00:54:20Now, Robert Kubica has jumped into 6th spot.
00:54:22He is a mere 1.1 second off Hamilton's time,
00:54:24but he's still using the hard tires.
00:54:27How many tourists do you think are going to be standing
00:54:29on that little piece of sidewalk they go over
00:54:31every time down at Deportier,
00:54:32looking down at the rubber buildup?
00:54:36Well, that's another cool thing I think about.
00:54:38You know, if anybody asks me,
00:54:40which race should I go to?
00:54:41There are two, really.
00:54:42I would always say Monaco and Monza.
00:54:44Monza, because, well, it's the heart of Italy
00:54:47and the support from the DeFos is just amazing
00:54:49to experience that.
00:54:50You're in Ferrari's backyard there, really.
00:54:52But Monaco, because it's such a unique event,
00:54:55as we were saying before,
00:54:56and every night, as we were saying,
00:54:58the circuit is opened up to the public.
00:55:00It's back to public roads.
00:55:01You can walk around, have a drink in the bars,
00:55:03have dinner in the restaurant,
00:55:04go down and see the guys working on the cars
00:55:07as close as you can get.
00:55:08It really is very, very special,
00:55:10but ferociously expensive if you want to stay in Monaco.
00:55:13But if you want to watch open racing,
00:55:15the best place to go, I still think, is Spa.
00:55:18The weather can be a bit dodgy,
00:55:20but it's a long way around.
00:55:22It's over a four-and-a-half mile lap.
00:55:24But, of course, once you get in the infield there,
00:55:25you can walk from corner to corner.
00:55:27Really, it's not very far at all.
00:55:28Well, you know, every race has its pros and cons.
00:55:31And not many people go to Spa, either, is there?
00:55:33It's just one of those races
00:55:34that doesn't have a huge crowd,
00:55:35but it's a fantastic place to watch
00:55:37these cars perform at their highest speed.
00:55:41Monaco, you get expensive.
00:55:42But Monaco, this is just, well, exhilarating.
00:55:45Yeah, it is a huge experience.
00:55:47And, of course, to the teams
00:55:48for their marketing departments, commercial departments,
00:55:50this is the big event of the year,
00:55:52where they wine and dine clients,
00:55:54future clients, past clients,
00:55:55to try and get them back on board again.
00:55:57So, for the teams, for the drivers,
00:55:59for the engineers, and, of course,
00:56:00for the spectators, everybody,
00:56:02it's just a wonderful, wonderful event.
00:56:05Now you've got me thinking about my favorite circuit.
00:56:07I'm going to buy some time.
00:56:08Peter Windsor, what's your favorite?
00:56:10Well, Bob, I was just going to say
00:56:11how much I am annoyed by the fact
00:56:14that we're not going to Indianapolis this year.
00:56:16I'm not saying it's my favorite circuit,
00:56:17but what a Grand Prix that was.
00:56:18Yes.
00:56:19Formula One should be in the United States.
00:56:21And it's terrible, as May turns to June,
00:56:23that we're going to Canada
00:56:24and we're not coming to the United States.
00:56:26And I feel sick about it.
00:56:27And I'm rather sick of all the team owners saying,
00:56:29oh, we've got to be in America.
00:56:30We love America.
00:56:31That's where we should be.
00:56:32And yet none of them actually are out there
00:56:34actively trying to promote Formula One
00:56:36in the United States.
00:56:37Right.
00:56:38The drivers should be out there.
00:56:39The top three in the World Championships
00:56:40should be out there doing long media conferences,
00:56:42selling Formula One to the American public
00:56:44and to the sponsors out there.
00:56:45And Formula One as an economy is not doing that.
00:56:47And I think they're very remiss in not doing that.
00:56:49Well, the only team I'll give an exception to for that, Peter,
00:56:52and I agree with you to a large extent,
00:56:53was BMW, of course, when they were at Las Vegas in January,
00:56:56put that display on with their pit lane park.
00:56:58And it was a great experience.
00:57:00There were a lot of people there
00:57:01and a lot of people enjoyed it.
00:57:02But I agree with you 100% that there should be more teams.
00:57:05These guys have got the resources
00:57:06to put that sort of pit lane park together.
00:57:08There should be more teams doing it.
00:57:10I would imagine, and there's such room at Las Vegas,
00:57:12if it could be alongside BMW, why not have McLaren?
00:57:15Why not have Ferrari?
00:57:16Why not have these guys all together?
00:57:18Of course, that might be a problem
00:57:19with the commercial side of the sport.
00:57:21But the Eccleston put his hand up and said,
00:57:23well, I need a piece of that.
00:57:24Well, of course, the thing is, it's the biggest market
00:57:26for certainly Ferrari, BMW, Toyota, Honda,
00:57:30and Mercedes.
00:57:32It's their biggest single market,
00:57:33and they should be here.
00:57:34There's absolutely no question of doubt.
00:57:36And also, I can't believe the amount of people
00:57:38I run into in airports and everywhere else
00:57:40just yesterday on the way here.
00:57:42Everybody knows who you are and where we go.
00:57:46Less than 10 minutes remaining.
00:57:48We'll be back in a moment to Monaco.
00:57:52Welcome back.
00:57:54Just under six minutes remaining
00:57:56in Friday practice for Sunday's
00:57:58sixth round of the 2008 Formula One season
00:58:00here on Speed.
00:58:02The magic Monaco.
00:58:04Bob Varsha, David Hobbs, Steve Matchett,
00:58:06Peter Windsor with you.
00:58:08Rubens Barrichello in the Honda
00:58:10making his way around.
00:58:12Jumped up to eighth.
00:58:13Not bad for them.
00:58:14That was his best lap so far,
00:58:16his personal best lap.
00:58:17Jenson Button still down in 12th.
00:58:19There's Lewis Hamilton
00:58:21working around the piscine.
00:58:22That's what I mean about that rotation.
00:58:24Yep.
00:58:27Hamilton remains the fast man in the session
00:58:29at a 1.15.140.
00:58:31Nico Rosberg still second.
00:58:33Ooh, Raikkonen.
00:58:34Getting close to Walde in the tunnel.
00:58:38He's on the soft compound tires.
00:58:39We were having a replay there
00:58:40as you went through the tunnel.
00:58:41Just wondering what we were going to see.
00:58:46There's his father, Anthony.
00:58:50On hand in London last week
00:58:52to accept an award
00:58:54on behalf of his son.
00:58:56Best of Britain Awards,
00:58:58I think they're called.
00:58:59That's a grandstand in the background,
00:59:01by the way.
00:59:02Wait until you see that
00:59:03full of people on Sunday.
00:59:04It's amazing.
00:59:11Notice they've got the yachts pushed back.
00:59:14Usually they don't do that
00:59:15until race day,
00:59:16but now they've got them
00:59:17creating some space.
00:59:18Oops.
00:59:20An incident here.
00:59:21People just going slowly.
00:59:25Everybody looking for track space.
00:59:27Only three cars in the garage area right now.
00:59:30Everybody else is on track.
00:59:32No doubt trying a qualifying simulation or something.
00:59:40You can see just how tight
00:59:42the confines are here at Monaco.
00:59:48Adrian Sutil
00:59:50trying to raise his game
00:59:52with Force India.
00:59:57Yes, as Peter alluded to earlier,
00:59:59Paul G and Carlo Fisichella
01:00:01kind of got the bum's rush a bit from Renault
01:00:03and here he's driving for the Force India.
01:00:05I mean, it may well come good.
01:00:06You know, they're putting a lot of money in
01:00:08and they've got
01:00:09gas going, it's still there.
01:00:11Sutil, that's what that yellow flag was for.
01:00:14There again, that's that entry.
01:00:16There again, that's that entry exit issue.
01:00:18Just went in too wrong, got the kerb.
01:00:20Because then once you point in the wrong direction,
01:00:22there's no way to correct.
01:00:24There's no way to go to try and pull it around.
01:00:26Can't steer and can't stop.
01:00:27Most circuits, you know, you'd be on the grass
01:00:29and you'd pull it back onto the grass.
01:00:31Everything would be OK.
01:00:32You'd slow down.
01:00:33But of course here, it's not an option.
01:00:35Look closely at Fisichella
01:00:36if the camera stays on him.
01:00:38He has a special uniform and helmet
01:00:40to commemorate his 200th Grand Prix
01:00:42and perhaps he won't see it.
01:00:47Or perhaps he will.
01:00:50This Force India squad is really coming on
01:00:54in anticipation
01:00:56of a Grand Prix in India
01:00:58tentatively scheduled for the year 2010.
01:01:01Boom!
01:01:02Oh, oh, oh.
01:01:03This won't be the quick lap, that's for sure.
01:01:05I'm sorry, I forgot the road went right down there
01:01:07at Turn 1.
01:01:09Wanted to have a close look at the chapel.
01:01:11Well, I tell you what, he recovered pretty well
01:01:14from that because, you know,
01:01:15once these cars brake so late
01:01:18that if you do cock it up,
01:01:20it's kind of too late.
01:01:22But he somehow managed to pull that out.
01:01:27Very steeply downhill here.
01:01:31That's one of the things that make that downhill
01:01:33happy in there.
01:01:34So bad, of course, is the road just falls away
01:01:35like, you know, nobody's business.
01:01:37So there's absolutely no help at all.
01:01:38The car wants to push to the outside.
01:01:41But in the tunnel here, if you get too far to the left,
01:01:43the road surface moves away
01:01:45because of the crown in the road.
01:01:51I don't know whether he's doing a run of times here
01:01:54to checking on some tyre wear or...
01:01:57Well, we heard the BMW engineers and drivers
01:01:59talking earlier on about the difference
01:02:00between the hard and the...
01:02:01They didn't like the soft, did they?
01:02:02No, didn't like the soft.
01:02:03It was suggesting, you know, three laps.
01:02:05Let's listen.
01:02:08OK, Lewis, you just have time for two more timed laps.
01:02:12And do please bring the car back into the pit.
01:02:16With everything attached?
01:02:17Yes, please.
01:02:18We would like to go to dinner tonight, if possible.
01:02:22That Beau Rivage is a fantastic.
01:02:24And you saw that early shot of the old times,
01:02:26you know, when you went up there,
01:02:28there was just a wall on the left and a lamp post,
01:02:30I mean, just right there.
01:02:31And that is where Senna said,
01:02:33I could watch the race,
01:02:34I would go up Beau Rivage
01:02:36and glance over at the big screen
01:02:38Unbelievable.
01:02:42Talking of BMW and those hard tyres,
01:02:44here we are with the hard tyres on.
01:02:45Yeah, BMW suggesting, weren't they,
01:02:47that the soft tyre, three laps,
01:02:49is about all it's good for.
01:02:50And again, remember that Bridgestone have developed
01:02:52that brand new, super soft, soft tyre,
01:02:55what is known as the option tyre for this race.
01:02:57So, you know, again,
01:02:59as we were talking about at the last race
01:03:01at Turkey, you know,
01:03:02it's just a matter of time
01:03:03before you get to the soft tyre.
01:03:05Now, again, as we were talking about
01:03:07at the last race at Turkey,
01:03:08you need more rubber down on the track.
01:03:10The more rubber that goes down today,
01:03:12and on Saturday, and on Sunday,
01:03:14well, the track will come alive,
01:03:17I suppose, more and more grip.
01:03:18But it is difficult to get a baseline
01:03:21on the car around here.
01:03:22Well, Hamilton set his quick lap
01:03:23on the soft tyres,
01:03:25and he's doing a run on softs at the moment.
01:03:30So maybe they're making the softs work
01:03:32better here than the BMWs.
01:03:34And, of course, we've seen,
01:03:35as the year has been,
01:03:36that Ferrari just can really make
01:03:38those soft tyres work pretty well anywhere,
01:03:40and for long periods of time.
01:03:43Yeah, and if you can do that,
01:03:44you know, you're in the pound seats
01:03:46as they say, aren't you?
01:03:47If you can run the car on soft tyres
01:03:49for a long run with fuel on board,
01:03:51you're going to be in the Euro seats here.
01:03:53Yeah, Euro seats.
01:03:54Checkered flag, the session is over.
01:03:57Only three cars in the garage at the moment,
01:03:59Rosberg, Fisichella and Sutil.
01:04:02Everybody will be there at the end of this lap.
01:04:04Well, there again, you see,
01:04:05we don't know how many laps Massa
01:04:06put together there,
01:04:07but that last lap was 1.2 seconds
01:04:09off Hamilton's quickest lap,
01:04:10so maybe they're finding the same thing,
01:04:12that the soft tyres are not
01:04:14very consistent over a multitude of laps.
01:04:17Not durable.
01:04:18And both of the Ferraris are on the soft now.
01:04:26Are you going to come in the pits now?
01:04:29No.
01:04:31Hasn't seen the checkers yet, I guess.
01:04:33This could be...
01:04:36OK, is he going to stick one in right now?
01:04:39Well, he can't.
01:04:40He's already taken the checkered flag once.
01:04:42Has he taken it once?
01:04:43Yeah, he just took it right there.
01:04:48It'll be a penalty if he goes around again.
01:04:52As we saw several of the GP2 runners
01:04:54in Turkey two weeks ago.
01:04:57Don't forget, we'll have not one,
01:04:59but two GP2 races here in Monaco.
01:05:02Oh, goody.
01:05:03In a change from past practice.
01:05:04I know David cannot wait.
01:05:08We have new faces in GP2,
01:05:10more new names to learn.
01:05:12More new faces, a new name.
01:05:13And it's coming your way at 6 a.m. Eastern time
01:05:16on Race Day Sunday here on Speeds.
01:05:19Don't miss the GP2 championship around Monaco.
01:05:22That ought to be very entertaining.
01:05:24We'll be back in a moment.
01:05:27Welcome back to Monaco.
01:05:29Friday practice is now complete.
01:05:31Lewis Hamilton, fastest of all over both sessions.
01:05:34Here's a look at the second session times.
01:05:36David, Steve?
01:05:37Well, as you said, Hamilton tops the time,
01:05:39she said, at 1.15.1,
01:05:40which is just a hair under 100 miles an hour.
01:05:42Nico Rosberg doing a great job in the Williams next,
01:05:44then the two Ferraris, Reikland and Massa.
01:05:46But look, quite a long way behind.
01:05:48Then Kovalainen, even further behind,
01:05:50in the second, McLaren and Kubica
01:05:51in the first, the BMWs.
01:05:52Alonso in the first, the Renaults,
01:05:54after smiting the wall
01:05:55and Jenson Button doing a better job in the Honda
01:05:57than he probably thought he might be around here.
01:05:59Yeah, he did.
01:06:00Kaz Nakajima for Williams there in 9th
01:06:02and Rubens Barrichello in the sister Honda in 10th.
01:06:04Timo Glock there in Toyota.
01:06:06Mark Webber and David Coulthard,
01:06:08the two runners in the Red Bull chassis.
01:06:11Nelson Piquet, Jr.,
01:06:13finding the wall down at Sanderbot.
01:06:15Fizikela, Trulli, Bordet and Sutil and Vettel.
01:06:19E20.
01:06:20Bit of a surprise to see
01:06:21former winner Jarno Trulli back there.
01:06:23That'll do it for our coverage
01:06:24of Friday practice from Monaco,
01:06:26but stay with Speed
01:06:27for Formula 1 action all weekend long.
01:06:29Join us again tomorrow, for example,
01:06:31midnight Eastern,
01:06:32as we look back and analyze
01:06:33the previous round of the championship,
01:06:35the Turkish Grand Prix,
01:06:36on Formula 1 Debrief.
01:06:37Saturday morning, qualifying from the Principality,
01:06:40beginning at 8 a.m. Eastern.
01:06:42Then join David, Steve, Peter and myself
01:06:44bright and early Sunday morning,
01:06:456 a.m. Eastern time,
01:06:47for the GP2 Championship races.
01:06:49Two of them in a break with tradition from Monaco.
01:06:52Immediately following GP2 at 7.30,
01:06:54live coverage of the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Monaco,
01:06:57beginning with the Acura Free Race Show.
01:06:59For David Hopps, Steve Batchett and Peter Windsor,
01:07:01I'm Bob Barsha.
01:07:02See you tomorrow on Debrief.
01:07:04So long, everyone.
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