2008 Canadian GP

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Round 7 of the 2008 F1 season at Montreal.

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00:00:00They have made the continents their stepping stones in the pursuit of the Formula One World

00:00:05Championship.

00:00:06Six races so far, three men have won two each.

00:00:10Perfect symmetry.

00:00:11There's the English prodigy, last year's instant hero, this year's man on a mission.

00:00:16Ferrari's finish ace, the defending world champion, indifferent out of the car, in it

00:00:21a magician.

00:00:22Kimi's resilient teammate, held back by costly errors in the past.

00:00:26If they're behind him, he could be champion.

00:00:28Three winning drivers, only one championship.

00:00:31And a big step toward it will come today here in Montreal, as Fox Sports presents the Grand

00:00:36Prix of Canada, next.

00:00:37It's right now, boys.

00:00:38Right now.

00:00:39Victory for the first time in his career.

00:00:40Come on, mate.

00:00:41He's ruining that race.

00:00:42Let's get past him.

00:00:43They touch it, smoke coming off the tire.

00:01:06Thirty years ago, a young driver named Gilles Villeneuve became the first Canadian to win

00:01:10a Formula One Grand Prix.

00:01:12That was a miraculous victory in the first race on Villeneuve's new home track in Montreal,

00:01:17a track that now bears his name.

00:01:19Welcome to the 30th World Championship Canadian Grand Prix from the circuit Gilles Villeneuve,

00:01:24live on Fox.

00:01:25Hello, everyone.

00:01:26I'm Bob Varsha.

00:01:27Alongside David Hobbs and Steve Matchett, Peter Windsor is live in the garage area.

00:01:31The field of 20 is on their formation lap in preparation for the traditional, and in

00:01:36this case, critical standing start.

00:01:38We kick things off with the Bridgestone starting grid, headed by two of the young lions of

00:01:42the sport, Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica.

00:01:45As we move through the grid, let's check our Toyota storylines for today's Grand Prix.

00:01:50David Hobbs, kick it off.

00:01:51Well, of course, the most critical thing is yesterday, the track was breaking up during

00:01:54qualifying.

00:01:55They could sweep it between sessions, but of course, that's not going to be so easy

00:01:57today.

00:01:58And the gravel builds up off track with the rolled up rubber.

00:02:00It could be very, very dicey as the race progresses, which could lead to what, Steve?

00:02:04Well, if that happens, David, if it starts to break up, they will have the safety car

00:02:08effect, similar to a full course caution.

00:02:12They'll bunch up behind the safety car.

00:02:14That will affect fuel strategy.

00:02:16These guys will have to refuel at least once, if not twice.

00:02:19Bob?

00:02:20Keep an eye on the front row.

00:02:22Two of the young lions, as I mentioned, two men with very different memories of Montreal.

00:02:26Last year, Lewis Hamilton took his first career pole and victory for McLaren Mercedes here.

00:02:31Robert Kubica, on the other hand, suffered a massive crash in his BMW salver.

00:02:36On the second row, two former race winners and world champions in Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando

00:02:40Alonso, and arguably the hottest driver in the series, Felipe Massa's Ferrari is outside

00:02:45row three.

00:02:46The field is set.

00:02:47Here come the lights.

00:02:49the start.

00:02:50Rossberg going around the outside there, Alonso slipping back there, Massa got around Alonso.

00:03:10That's one of the corners that's breaking up, you saw that shiny line.

00:03:13Two drivers, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button, started from the pit lane after mechanical

00:03:17difficulties yesterday in qualifying.

00:03:20So Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren, leading this pack away.

00:03:24We'll point out the parts of the track that have been resurfaced overnight, particularly

00:03:29down in the hairpin, turn 10, we'll see that very tight hairpin as the cars careen down

00:03:34towards there now.

00:03:35As you can see, not a lot of run-up area here, the walls right alongside the track, a bit

00:03:40of run-up area straight in front of you where this camera is, but other than that, not many

00:03:43places to go off this track here.

00:03:45Hamilton getting off to a good start.

00:03:46On the softer tyres, you can tell that because he has those white stripes around the tyre,

00:03:50that denotes the softer compound of rubber.

00:03:52And here it is, guys, this is turn 10, the tight hairpin, you can see all the oil dry

00:03:57down there and on the inside line where the big Bridgestone B is, they have put some fast-drying

00:04:02epoxy resin all around the inside of there to try and prevent the track breaking up.

00:04:09Probably the biggest victim of that corner over the weekend has been Jarno Trulli in

00:04:13one of the factory Toyotas, a very experienced Italian, but he has had a horrible time coming

00:04:18to grips, literally, with this circuit.

00:04:19Boy, these two Toyota's have been absolutely side-by-side for this entire first lap.

00:04:23Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli.

00:04:26Heikki Kovalainen, the fin for McLaren Mercedes is up to 7th around the Honda of Rubens Barrichello.

00:04:33Interesting to see a mixture of the soft and the super-soft tyres, as you were saying,

00:04:37David, the super-soft tyres denoted by that white stripe around the tyres.

00:04:42At some point during the race, these guys will have to come into the pits to change

00:04:46tyres.

00:04:47It's a requirement of the sporting regulations and in Formula 1, each driver must use both

00:04:52compounds at some point during the race.

00:04:55On board, Felipe Massa's Ferrari.

00:04:57As we ride along with a man who has three poles, two victories and four podiums in the

00:05:10last four races, certainly a threat today in Canada, let's hear from Peter Windsor.

00:05:14Thanks, Bob.

00:05:15Yes, some surprise here in the pit lane that Lewis Hamilton chose to start on those super-soft

00:05:20Bridgestones.

00:05:21But the general feeling is that those tyres are going to be the least effective, and the

00:05:24argument is, they're saying, well, Lewis is going to get rid of them in this first stint,

00:05:28so when the track does deteriorate later on, he's going to be on the harder tyre.

00:05:32Also interesting to see Robert Kubica very nicely defend his position off the line.

00:05:36He was on the dirty side of the grid, Kimi Raikkonen made a great start, but Robert very

00:05:40nicely positioned the BMW to retain second place.

00:05:43Nico Rosberg up to fourth spot there, he qualified down in fifth, he got around Fernando Alonso

00:05:50early on in the yellow Renault, obviously Alonso, a two-time world champion, a winner

00:05:55here in 06.

00:05:56Just to give you an idea, a brief idea of the benefits and deficits of the two tyres.

00:06:03The super-soft tyre, the tyre with the white stripe round, should, should give a little

00:06:08bit more grip.

00:06:09Now, let's have another look at the start.

00:06:11Hamilton on the right, Kubica on the left.

00:06:16Drivers immediately jockeying for position, from high overhead, on a very blustery day

00:06:21here in Montreal, wind gusting to about 20 miles per hour.

00:06:25I just wanted to highlight the two cars over there at the pit lane exit, two cars choosing

00:06:29to start the race from pit out.

00:06:32Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel.

00:06:34Vettel crashed heavily just before qualifying, couldn't take part in qualifying, and Jenson

00:06:38Button had a gearbox problem, and he couldn't take part in qualifying either.

00:06:42Fernando Alonso there, going very wide as he goes through Turn 1 and into Turn 2.

00:06:49There goes Nico Rosberg round the outside of him.

00:06:52You can imagine what it's like in these open-wheel cars.

00:06:55You do not want to touch tyre to tyre.

00:06:58But wow, look at Hamilton's pace in the McLaren already.

00:07:02We are serving lap 3, 18.211, fastest lap and fastest in all three sectors around the

00:07:09track.

00:07:10Now there's a look at how the drivers' positions have changed from the starting grid.

00:07:15Rosberg, P4, up one from his starting position.

00:07:18Fernando Alonso, P5, down one from where he started.

00:07:21Just to finish that thought, guys, on the tyres, the super soft tyres, the ones with

00:07:25the white stripe, should basically give more grip, but not for very long.

00:07:30The harder compound tyres give a little bit less grip, but they're more durable, which

00:07:34means you can run them for longer in the race.

00:07:37So there are the two things you've got to contend with, that and the fuel load on the

00:07:40car, and trying to juggle exactly when to come in to replace the tyres and top up the

00:07:45fuel at the same time.

00:07:46On board now with Nick Heidfeld, who's chasing Rubens Barrichello.

00:07:49Nick Heidfeld in his BMW, Rubens Barrichello in the Honda.

00:07:53One of his best qualifying of the year so far for Rubens Barrichello.

00:07:56Nick Heidfeld qualified third here last year, and 32nd, whoa, tried, but he got off line

00:08:03there, and that corner is going to break up very, very badly.

00:08:06I think one of the reasons that Hamilton might be on those soft tyres is because you said

00:08:10they won't last as long as the harder tyres, which we have here on Heidfeld's car, but

00:08:14we also think that Hamilton may have qualified a bit on the light side, so he may be coming

00:08:19in earlier than most people for his fuel, his first fuel stop.

00:08:22Yeah, you're right, they did absolutely, and Hamilton again just set the fastest lap.

00:08:26This time, Hamilton in the McLaren leading the race, now in the 17s, 1.17.506, the only

00:08:32driver and car on track to be in the 17 seconds right now.

00:08:36One full second faster than Robert Kubica in the BMW's chassis, currently in second

00:08:41spot behind Hamilton's McLaren.

00:08:42Well, of course, the ideal for him would be to pull out enough so that he could stop,

00:08:46refuel, retire, and go off again without losing first position, but of course, he'd have to

00:08:51be a long way in front, and of course, the safety car that you mentioned earlier on,

00:08:55Steve, that could just negate any big lead anybody has, it's all just gone to naught.

00:09:00Yeah, absolutely, and as soon as that safety car is brought out, should it be brought out,

00:09:04of course, the cars have to bunch up, so any lead that these drivers gain over the opposition,

00:09:10say currently Hamilton over Kubica, nearly three seconds, well, that will be negated

00:09:14as they all line up one after the other behind the safety car, taking away any advantage.

00:09:19This time, Heidfeld tries the Honda once again, he's got him this time in the hairpin.

00:09:25Here's Kazuki Nakajima coming up in the Williams Toyota now, behind Rubens Barrichello's factory

00:09:30Honda, and then Mark Webber of Australia, who had a difficult qualifying yesterday.

00:09:36In knockout Formula 1 qualifying, you have to advance session to session by being quick.

00:09:41Webber was quick enough to move from session two to the all-important run for pole in session

00:09:45three, but he crashed while trying to get back to the pits, such was the state of the

00:09:49racetrack.

00:09:51He couldn't take part in the third qualifying session.

00:09:54Well, guys, we've just been talking about Hamilton and McLaren being fast, but Kubica

00:09:58in the BMW is also fast.

00:10:01The track is split up into three different timing segments, so if we talk about sector

00:10:05one, sector two or sector three, it's different parts of the track.

00:10:09Currently Kubica suddenly fastest in sector one, taking the fight back to McLaren.

00:10:15On board now is Mark Webber in 11th spot, right behind Nakajima in front of him in the

00:10:19AT&T Williams Toyota.

00:10:20In front of him is Rubens Barrichello and Nick Heidfeld in front of him, so it's a pretty

00:10:25close train of cars here rushing through the Canadian countryside around the island here.

00:10:30Down under that little bridge, heavy braking area now, and now this long lead down to tight

00:10:36hairpin.

00:10:37Here's your race leader currently in the McLaren, Lewis Hamilton.

00:10:41Just touching 200 miles an hour before they put the brakes on for this corner.

00:10:45Here comes Kimi Räikkönen.

00:10:46Nico Rosberg having a good run along, so holding off Felipe Massa still.

00:10:51Here comes Kovalainen in the second of the McLaren.

00:10:56And Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber.

00:10:58Rubens Barrichello holding his train of cars up.

00:11:01They'll all be getting pretty ticked off, the guys who are behind Rubens Barrichello

00:11:04fairly shortly.

00:11:06Final chicane on board with Kaz Nakajima past Champion's Wall.

00:11:10On the exit to that corner, you get as close to it as you dare to open the radius of the

00:11:14corner and get on the throttle quickly.

00:11:16But you have to be careful.

00:11:17If you hop the curb, you will shatter your car against that wall, and some of the best

00:11:21in the world have done it.

00:11:22Yes, sir.

00:11:23They have.

00:11:24It is incredibly difficult around here.

00:11:26As you see the car circulating to the track, any viewers new to Formula One, you'll notice

00:11:31that all subtly different.

00:11:33This is not a single-make formula.

00:11:35Each team is by right a constructor, and they must design, build, test, and race machines

00:11:41of their own construction.

00:11:43Each team a constructor in their own right.

00:11:45You can see just how narrow this track is.

00:11:48The St. Lawrence River is just beyond that wall on the left.

00:11:52Things have settled down a tad.

00:11:57We are now six laps into this race, scheduled for 70 on a beautiful day in the beautiful

00:12:03city of Montreal, Canada.

00:12:05We'll take a break and return with more live Formula One on Fox, the Canadian Grand Prix.

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00:12:32Welcome back live to Montreal, to the circuit Gilles Villeneuve, named for the patron saint

00:12:37of Canadian racing drivers, who won the very first Formula One race held on this track.

00:12:43His son became the 97 World Champion, Jacques Villeneuve, and today, the 30th edition of

00:12:48the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal is being led by Lewis Hamilton and McLaren Mercedes

00:12:53by nearly four and a half seconds over the BMW Sauber of Polish driver Robert Kubica,

00:12:58then Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari, Nico Rosberg, Fernando Alonso, and the man with whom you

00:13:04ride, the Ferrari of Felipe Massa.

00:13:07I just want to highlight the tire on the Ferrari there.

00:13:11Let me have another look at it.

00:13:12You'll see they're already starting to suffer a little bit of graining on that left front.

00:13:17You can see the difference in compound left to right as they load the tires up around

00:13:21here.

00:13:22And looking down into that Turn 10, we're watching Piquet and Glockner for P14.

00:13:30Down in Turn 10, the tight hairpin we're talking about earlier on, it's already, I believe,

00:13:34beginning to break out.

00:13:35There seems to be gravel, a little bit of marbles, which is rubber rolling off the tires,

00:13:40coming on the outside edge of that tight Turn 10.

00:13:44Nico, Nico, well, Nelson Piquet on board here, there, coming off that turn well.

00:13:54Moving up the inside.

00:13:57Timo Glock in the Toyota, pushing him over, but eventually giving way.

00:14:01Oh, no.

00:14:02Counterattacks.

00:14:03Oh, and he gets run into the grass for his trouble.

00:14:06Nelson Piquet's father, of course, won this race three times, in 82, 84, and 91.

00:14:10So Nelson trying to uphold the family honor here, side by side, down to that Turn 1.

00:14:15Slightly ahead.

00:14:16Let's stop.

00:14:17There's Flavio Briatore, the team principal for Nelson Piquet's team.

00:14:24Fernando Alonso, also one of his charges.

00:14:26There's a lot of black smoke dust coming out of the rims of these cars under brake, and

00:14:30it is a very heavy braking track around here.

00:14:34Because of the long tracks, because of the long straights around here, the drivers really

00:14:40slam the brakes on very hard, have a lot of dust coming out, because they're carbon carbon

00:14:46brakes.

00:14:47They're not steel.

00:14:48The rotor itself is made out of sinted carbon, as are the pads, also carbon.

00:14:51So that's why you get a lot of black dust coming out of these brakes.

00:14:55But you have to control the temperature of the brakes on a Formula 1 car very carefully,

00:15:00indeed.

00:15:01And, of course, what tends to happen...

00:15:02As you can see from that graphic there, it's a good bit quicker than Jarno Trulli.

00:15:05He's picked up those on those green sectors.

00:15:07The yellow one, he obviously lost a bit of ground, but all over Trulli now.

00:15:11If he could get by him, I'm sure he could put a lot of daylight between himself and

00:15:14Jarno Trulli.

00:15:15Now, just to finish that thought on brakes, David, you have...

00:15:17There's the dust again coming under the bridge, you'll notice it, but you...

00:15:20Because they're carbon brakes, you have to control the temperature, and the long straights

00:15:24tend to cool the brakes too much.

00:15:27And if they get too cool, you get a lot of heavy brake wear.

00:15:31Nelson Piquet Jr. came up through the GP2 ranks in Europe, sort of the stepping stone

00:15:36to Formula 1, as have a couple of other drivers in this race, notably Lewis Hamilton, the

00:15:41race leader, Nico Rosberg in fourth.

00:15:44He came as known as a very aggressive driver there, and you're seeing that now as he begins

00:15:48to come to terms with a Formula 1 car.

00:15:53Peter Windsor.

00:15:54And we're also seeing here the difference between these tires we've been talking about,

00:15:57the Super Soft and the Soft, without the white line on it that Nelson Piquet is running.

00:16:02It looks as if the Super Soft is starting to go off a little bit.

00:16:05We've seen Nico Rosberg, who's also on that tire, just on two slightly slower laps, and

00:16:09now he's going quicker again, just to try to get the grip back in again.

00:16:12Yeah.

00:16:13Bridgestone, the sole tire supplier in Formula 1, produce a range of four tires, hard, medium,

00:16:21soft and Super Soft, and Bridgestone alone choose the two compounds they'll take to each

00:16:26individual racetrack.

00:16:27So that's why here we refer to the Soft and the Super Soft, one relatively hard to the

00:16:32other.

00:16:33But that decision down to Bridgestone, not the teams.

00:16:37He's truly ahead on the road.

00:16:44Overtaking is not easy in Formula 1 at all.

00:16:47These cars are so evenly matched, and of course the aerodynamics make following behind the

00:16:51car difficult.

00:16:52Oh, here he goes.

00:16:53Down the inside.

00:16:54Renault truly tries to block him, and Piquet gets wide there on that dust and dirt.

00:17:00All that dust in the air.

00:17:01But still manages to pull it off.

00:17:02Wow.

00:17:03Well, there's a bit of a wheel-banging incident there, let's hope it hasn't done any damage

00:17:08to the suspension.

00:17:09Nothing wrong with banging wheels.

00:17:10There's that dust again.

00:17:12There's that loud of dust you were talking about.

00:17:14Particularly bad coming out of that Renault, too.

00:17:16It is, and Renault have been working on this throughout the weekend.

00:17:19Let's have another look at the move, David.

00:17:21Goes down the inside.

00:17:23Gets right on the inside.

00:17:24Wow.

00:17:25Renault truly closes the door, but it's a bit too late.

00:17:27Gives that left front a pretty good belt.

00:17:30And then he has to struggle with all that dust.

00:17:33These cars do not have traction control.

00:17:36The driver controls wheel spin with his right foot.

00:17:38Timo Glock having a look at his teammate, thinking he might get by him as well there.

00:17:42Right behind him is Adrian Sutil in the first of the Force India Ferrari cars.

00:17:47Oh, that's Henke Kovalainen of the McLaren getting wide.

00:17:52Nick Heidfeld of the BMW Sauber.

00:17:54It's a battle to get the power down.

00:17:56Boy, it's already breaking up there at Turn 10, Steve.

00:17:59Yeah, it is.

00:18:00It's what we're talking about before they...

00:18:02Heidfeld staying in here to get a good tow, trying to go around the outside, then he thinks

00:18:06of the inside.

00:18:07No.

00:18:08Wow.

00:18:09Heike's having a look at that.

00:18:10McLaren have been such a dominant force in Formula 1 for so long, and the relatively

00:18:14new team as a constructor, BMW, have just come on leaps and bounds in terms of chassis

00:18:20design.

00:18:21They've got good drivers, great engineers, and it's terrific to see BMW taking the fight

00:18:25to McLaren.

00:18:26We saw Kovalainen move away from that blue and white BMW Sauber.

00:18:31The McLaren Mercedes cars have been the quickest in a straight line all weekend.

00:18:35That last lap, Kovalainen touched 200 miles an hour on the Casino Straight before hard

00:18:41braking for the very slow final chicane.

00:18:43We'll be back.

00:18:47There is the Force India Ferrari of Adrian Sutil.

00:18:50He ground to a halt one lap ago, climbed out of the car and ran behind the wall, but

00:18:55as you see, the residual heat in those front brakes has set the car on fire, and they finally

00:19:00get an extinguisher on it.

00:19:01Well, that's just what we're talking about, Bob.

00:19:03A great visual example of the heat buildup in these carbon fiber brakes, carbon-carbon

00:19:08sintered brakes.

00:19:10They have a core temperature of like 400-500 degrees C, so that's closing in on 900 degrees

00:19:16F.

00:19:17As soon as you lose the cooling air, the ventilated air across those brakes, they are hot enough

00:19:22just to burst into flames, as we saw right there.

00:19:25As you see, yellow flags, local yellow only.

00:19:29No passing in that zone, but drivers are free to race after they pass the scene.

00:19:34It's imperative for a Formula One car design for brake cooling and engine cooling.

00:19:39There are no electronic fans on a Formula One car like you'd find in a road car, for

00:19:42example.

00:19:43They need to be running in clean air, cool air.

00:19:47Now we've got a safety car.

00:19:48I was about to ask, I don't know what they're going to do with Sutil's car, parked where

00:19:51it is.

00:19:52It is a dangerous location, but as you saw from that overhead shot, this track is so

00:19:57cramped, they haven't got a crane there to lift that car out of the way.

00:20:01They may have to throw a safety car, period, which we're used to here in Canada, in order

00:20:05to move that car.

00:20:06Kimi Räikkönen is absolutely chewing into that lead that Robert Kubica had.

00:20:12Look at the lead that Hamilton's got over Kubica, but Kimi Räikkönen just set the

00:20:16fastest lap.

00:20:17There it is, guys.

00:20:18And now the safety car is going out.

00:20:19There it is.

00:20:20Now, under safety car, period, you're not allowed to refuel.

00:20:23I was just looking, actually, at Hamilton's times, thinking, you know, it would be a good

00:20:27time to bring Hamilton in.

00:20:29We're right at that part of the race now, lap 17.

00:20:32The first safety car, excuse me, the first refueling period would be around now.

00:20:38I think McLaren dropped the ball a little bit.

00:20:40They should, in anticipation of that safety car coming out, I would have pitied my guy

00:20:45right there and then.

00:20:46It looked inevitable that they would bring a safety car out.

00:20:49Now, to understand how the safety car, period, works, all the cars will form up behind the

00:20:54safety car, as you see now, and then they will have to wait for a graphic from race

00:20:59control saying pit lane open.

00:21:02Only at that point are the drivers allowed to get into pit lane to be refueled.

00:21:08If they do that before, well, it's contrary to the sporting regulations and they will

00:21:12incur a penalty.

00:21:14Well, of course, the strategy for Lewis Hamilton now is completely shot.

00:21:17He started on those softer tires to get a good lead, which he had.

00:21:22Ferrari in the building.

00:21:23Now it's all come to naught.

00:21:24Pits are closed right now, and this is a rule that there is much talk may be changed in

00:21:29the near future.

00:21:30These drivers get so precise on their fuel that if a safety car comes out when you need

00:21:35to pit, there's no reserve.

00:21:38There's no extra lap you might do to coast around, and we've seen drivers suffer for

00:21:43it.

00:21:44As Steve mentioned.

00:21:45Well, last year, for one, somebody at the Honda has been.

00:21:48Yeah, now you are allowed to work on the car mechanically during this closed pit stop window.

00:21:55You are allowed to change tires or work on the car if it's been damaged mechanically.

00:21:59Now, you see, he's got onto the soft compound tires again.

00:22:03Remember back earlier on when we're talking about the driver's responsibility, they must

00:22:07use both compounds of tires.

00:22:09I think they were seeing Honda do exactly that.

00:22:12Unless they will do just one lap on those soft compound tires.

00:22:16If they're not happy with them, get rid of them, go back into the pits and put the hard

00:22:20tires on, and then you have complied with the sporting requirement to fulfill that regulation

00:22:25concerning tires.

00:22:26That's the Takuma Sato rule.

00:22:27That driver for the now defunct Super Aguri Honda team used that very strategy a year

00:22:32ago in this race.

00:22:34Wound up passing Fernando Alonso's McLaren Mercedes in the final corner for position

00:22:39headed to the checkered flag.

00:22:40He wound up sixth in the points for that little team.

00:22:42Now, nobody else is doing that.

00:22:44Nobody else is diving into the pits.

00:22:45But I'm just wondering about McLaren, whether or not they just timed that wrong.

00:22:51It could be that the pit lane was closed just as Lewis Hamilton was coming down towards

00:22:56pit in.

00:22:57It was very close.

00:22:59So if it was close, that would be the reason why McLaren didn't pull him in.

00:23:02But boy, they just missed their timing.

00:23:04They could have made such an advantage by getting Hamilton into the pits and taking

00:23:08on fuel.

00:23:09He died by the safety car.

00:23:12Nobody knows that better than Lewis Hamilton.

00:23:13Two weeks ago on the streets of Monaco, he touched the barrier, punctured a tire.

00:23:18That would have been a disaster for him.

00:23:20But he had a very short run to the pits to get the tire change.

00:23:23And just as he was exiting, the safety car came out for someone else's wreck.

00:23:27And he regained nearly all of the track position he lost behind the safety car.

00:23:32So far, only Button has pitted under the safety car.

00:23:35He will get a penalty.

00:23:39But if they didn't put fuel in the car, he won't.

00:23:40No, I don't believe that's the case, Bob.

00:23:42I think you're right.

00:23:43I think if he didn't refuel, he should be OK to sporting regulations.

00:23:47So now, what the teams are waiting for now will be that graphic.

00:23:51And we should see it on screen, too, from FOM that will say, Formula One management,

00:23:56that is, the safety car has been deployed.

00:23:58Then we should see another graphic to say pit lane open.

00:24:01And I can guarantee you guys, as soon as you see that pit lane open, there'll be a lot

00:24:05of cars diving into the pits for fuel and tire change.

00:24:09Getting back to the Lewis Hamilton story, the safety car saved him early in the Monaco

00:24:13Grand Prix.

00:24:14But then later on, he built up a 40-second lead on the field.

00:24:18Another accident on a bizarre wet-dry track.

00:24:21Out came the safety car, away went his 40-second lead.

00:24:24He still won the race.

00:24:26But it was a closely fought thing.

00:24:28Looking a bit dusty down there at turn 10, isn't it, just especially on the exit there?

00:24:34On board the safety car, Bernd Maylander, the controls, a veteran of the DTM, the German

00:24:40Touring Car Championship.

00:24:45How about that V8 sound?

00:24:47AMG Mercedes SL63.

00:24:50Here they come.

00:24:51Pits are open.

00:24:52Hamilton, Kubica, Raikkonen, Rosberg, Alonso.

00:24:56Now you're going to see a lot of furious action in the pits.

00:24:59There are going to be stack pit stops now, potentially, which is two teams.

00:25:04Each team have two cars, remember.

00:25:06So both Ferraris are in, and only one pit crew in Formula 1.

00:25:11Now they'll change tires onto the hard compound tires.

00:25:14They will refuel the cars.

00:25:16Here's Rosberg.

00:25:17The cars are pressurized, fed with fuel from fueling rigs, 12 liters a second.

00:25:23Oh, collision!

00:25:24Collision!

00:25:25Hamilton!

00:25:26Wow!

00:25:27Hamilton!

00:25:28Hamilton stopped.

00:25:29I think Kimi Raikkonen beat Hamilton to the punch.

00:25:32He stopped at the red light, and Hamilton ran to the back of him.

00:25:35Oh my goodness!

00:25:37This is Rosberg.

00:25:40There goes Kovalainen by Rosberg.

00:25:42Has broken his front wing.

00:25:44Boy, he has.

00:25:45Now, to the sporting regulations, you're not allowed to reverse the car in Formula 1.

00:25:51The marshals and the mechanics will have to get hold of the car.

00:25:54The cars are fitted with the reverse gear.

00:25:57You cannot reverse in the pit lane.

00:26:00But Lewis is out, guys.

00:26:01It's over.

00:26:02I think Lewis made a terrible mistake there.

00:26:04I think the red light was on, the Ferrari had stopped, and he didn't.

00:26:10Just the second retirement for Lewis Hamilton in 24 career starts.

00:26:16Kimi Raikkonen was pointing at the red light, I think, and Hamilton just brushed it off.

00:26:21He cannot believe it.

00:26:24Well, if you think back to last year's race, guys, when Massa was disqualified for jumping

00:26:30that red light, the red light at the end of the pit lane signifies the pit lane is closed.

00:26:36Now, let's have another look at this in replay.

00:26:39Raikkonen leaves.

00:26:40There's Kubica alongside.

00:26:42They get to the end of the pit lane and stop.

00:26:46Wow.

00:26:47Yeah.

00:26:48Kubica hasn't been touched.

00:26:51Here's Rosberg getting into the back.

00:26:53It just turned green.

00:26:56See it?

00:26:57The light is red.

00:26:58Collision.

00:26:59Collision.

00:27:00Well, green.

00:27:01Lewis Hamilton there could have run into the back of Robert Kubica, but he swerved to the

00:27:07left and ran to the back of Kimi Raikkonen.

00:27:09I'm not sure whether that was deliberate or whether he just thought he could go right

00:27:11around the outside of both of them.

00:27:14But that light was red.

00:27:16There's just no getting away from it.

00:27:19Well, of course, you know, the old blood's up.

00:27:26The red mist comes down.

00:27:27Look at the red light.

00:27:28There's Hamilton's father and manager, Anthony.

00:27:31Not looking happy at all.

00:27:33Williams team gets ready for Rosberg to come around again and put a new front wing on.

00:27:38But boy, oh boy, doesn't this play into the hands of Robert Kubica.

00:27:42Oh, wow.

00:27:44Now to finish the Jensen-Button story we talked about earlier, switching to the option tire

00:27:48for one lap and going back to his preferred tire, Jensen-Button visited the pits again,

00:27:53took off the options and slapped on the primaries.

00:27:59Safety car in this lap.

00:28:0220 laps in, cars officially out, Raikkonen, Hamilton and Sutil.

00:28:12There you see the running order, Heidfeld, Barrichello, Nakajima, Webber and so on.

00:28:17Keep in mind, Heidfeld and Kubica have yet to produce the first victory for the BMW Sauber

00:28:22team.

00:28:23This could be their day.

00:28:24Lewis Hamilton obviously wants nothing to do with the media in the McLaren garage.

00:28:28Oh, boy, oh, boy, big mistake.

00:28:30On the pole in one last year here, on the pole again this year, looking very, very good

00:28:34for a win, but it all came unglued.

00:28:37Dominantly on pole by six-tenths of a second over the field when the track was at its worst.

00:28:43What is wrong with the red light here?

00:28:45Last year, two drivers, one of them Philippe Massa, just jumped over the red light, but

00:28:48this year you can see they've got that great big flashing combination of lights.

00:28:53I mean, you can hardly miss it.

00:28:54Well, we saw it missed in Monaco two weeks ago.

00:28:57Remember, Giancarlo Fisichella missed the red light in Friday practice.

00:29:00Yeah, right, he did.

00:29:02Now, you see the safety car come in.

00:29:04Now, don't forget, all these guys at the front here have yet to stop.

00:29:10Nick Heidfeld, who's had a very troubled start through six races in Formula One this year,

00:29:15now gets to lead away as we restart here in Canada.

00:29:23Philippe Massa back to the pits while the race goes green.

00:29:33Whoa, that's Nakajima locking up big time there.

00:29:37You've got to be careful after these safety car periods.

00:29:39The tires cool off a lot.

00:29:41They don't have the grip.

00:29:42Oh, they're changing pit strategy for the Ferrari, loading him up with fuel.

00:29:49With 49 laps to go.

00:29:54Well, he can't make it to one stop.

00:29:56I mean, he's still got to stop again because he didn't change the tire compound, so he's

00:30:00going to have to make at least one stop to put those soft tires on.

00:30:04I wonder if they're reckoning there's going to be another safety car because of that track.

00:30:08Pretty safe bet in Montreal.

00:30:12The race, by the way, is officially a sellout.

00:30:15Some 300,000 fans expected over the three-day weekend.

00:30:19Big crowd here today, not a seat to be had in great weather.

00:30:25Coming into the weekend, we were told there was a strong chance of thundershowers today.

00:30:29No, a little too thundery at the moment, except in the Hamilton camp.

00:30:33There'll be a lot of thunder there between dad and lad, I think, for one thing.

00:30:39Excuse me, son.

00:30:40Uh, did you see that red light?

00:30:43No, dad, I didn't.

00:30:48Right, like young drivers talking to their fathers everywhere.

00:30:50Don't you think I'd have stopped if I saw it?

00:30:54There is Hamilton.

00:30:58Not the way he wanted his second Canadian Grand Prix to end.

00:31:02We'll take a break and return with more live Formula 1 here on Fox.

00:31:18Welcome back live to the circuit Gillesville, New Haven, Montreal.

00:31:21Round seven of the 2008 Formula 1 season.

00:31:24I'm Bob Varsha with David Hobbs, Steve Matchett, and Peter Windsor with you here on Fox.

00:31:28We'll also be bringing you the next three rounds of the championship in France, Britain, and Germany on Fox.

00:31:35The balance of the season, back on speed.

00:31:37Hope you'll join us every step of the way.

00:31:40Now the order is Heidfeld, Barrichello, Nakajima, Weber, Coulthard, Trulli, Glock, Fisichella, and Vettel.

00:31:46Then the first of the cars who stopped, and Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber is in a great position to bring that team its first victory.

00:31:54Behind him, the Renaults of Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet are in a great spot.

00:31:59And then Henke Kovalainen in the sole remaining McLaren Mercedes in the race.

00:32:10Watching Barrichello, Nakajima, Weber, and Coulthard.

00:32:13Here come the Toyotas of Trulli and Glock.

00:32:17Felipe Massa, we pointed out, pitted just as the track went green on the restart.

00:32:22They put a lot of fuel into the Ferrari.

00:32:25He is running last, but we'll have to see how far Felipe Massa goes on that big fuel load.

00:32:33Nick Heidfeld enjoying his moment in the sun at the moment, leading this race.

00:32:37Just done a very fast lap.

00:32:39Here's the two Toyotas duking it out side by side.

00:32:41Fisichella in the fourth India car.

00:32:43Oh, Vettel right behind him.

00:32:45Right behind him!

00:32:48Vettel, the youngest man in Formula 1, 21 years of age.

00:32:53A sensation when he came to the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis as a 19-year-old

00:32:58and scored points sitting in for Robert Kubica and the BMW Sauber.

00:33:03He's been stuck behind Fisichella for most of this race.

00:33:06I was looking at the scoring earlier on.

00:33:07He's been stuck behind him and obviously just cannot get around him.

00:33:10But he consistently laps quicker.

00:33:12But of course, it just shows how difficult it is to overtake in these Formula 1 cars.

00:33:16Excuse me, I've made Sebastian older than he is.

00:33:19He's still 21.

00:33:20His birthday's coming up on July 3rd.

00:33:23He is 20 years old.

00:33:27From Zurich, Switzerland.

00:33:28Started from the pit lane in this race.

00:33:4819,000 RPM.

00:33:50Which of course is a rule.

00:33:52He can't rev more than 19,000.

00:33:53Otherwise, by now, they'd be up around the 22,000 mark, probably.

00:33:57Not bad for a 2.4-liter, normally aspirated V8 making about 900 horsepower.

00:34:04We're now serving lap 26.

00:34:06Again, those guys that haven't been into the pitch yet, haven't refueled.

00:34:10We must be getting into that window of the race where those guys are going to need to

00:34:13come in.

00:34:15We're now serving lap 26 again.

00:34:22Those guys that haven't been into the pitch yet, haven't refueled, we must be getting

00:34:26into that window of the race where those guys are going to need to come in.

00:34:35And that's basically...

00:34:36They have a pretty good lead.

00:34:37They've got like a 20 second lead over Kubica, who is the first of the guys who has stopped.

00:34:43He's nearly 21 seconds behind.

00:34:45He could just about hold that in a pit stop.

00:34:52Off the hairpin they come.

00:34:53We'll take another break.

00:34:55This is the Canadian Grand Prix on Fox.

00:35:01Back live in Montreal, Nick Heidfeld, pits from the race lead and you see the official

00:35:06notice that that collision at the end of the pit lane, Kimi Räikkönen, Nico Rosberg

00:35:12and Lewis Hamilton is being investigated.

00:35:15There may be penalties forthcoming, although I think it's safe to say the biggest penalty

00:35:19has already been administered.

00:35:20Räikkönen and Hamilton out of the race.

00:35:22Rosberg well delayed.

00:35:24Lot of fuel going into Heidfeld's car.

00:35:29Mark Webber also pits the Red Bull Renault from fourth.

00:35:31Now a lot of fuel into the car.

00:35:33Good to go.

00:35:34But...

00:35:35And here's his team, he's going to come out in front of Kubica.

00:35:40He just comes out in front of Kubica.

00:35:43Kubica in the sister BMW has already been into the pits once.

00:35:47Wow!

00:35:48Look how close that is, guys.

00:35:49Look at the timing from BMW in the pits.

00:35:52Absolutely superb.

00:35:54They just got enough fuel in to get the guy out in front of his teammate.

00:35:58For those of you who aren't familiar with Formula One on speed, you should know Steve

00:36:02Matchett speaks from his years of experience as a world championship winning mechanic.

00:36:07Robert Kubica will be absolutely spitting blood because he got held up behind Sebastian

00:36:12Vettel there for lap after lap.

00:36:14Meanwhile, Heidfeld, who chose not to stop in that first incident, pulled out a 27-second

00:36:19lead over him and came out in front.

00:36:21And Kubica is going to have it.

00:36:23The irony of it will be if Heidfeld wins this race and Kubica does not, he'll be absolutely

00:36:28fuming.

00:36:29Now, Kubica will have the chance, going deeper, to Hopscotch's teammate.

00:36:37Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out.

00:36:40But it was fascinating.

00:36:41A little bit of pit strategy there.

00:36:43David, you were talking earlier on about the gap that these frontrunners had.

00:36:47Heidfeld, in this case, to Kubica, was about 20 seconds before he went to break.

00:36:52When Nick Heidfeld came into the pits, he had about 25 seconds, and it was just nip

00:36:57and tuck.

00:36:58And there he does.

00:37:00He goes through.

00:37:01And here comes Alonso.

00:37:03The two-time world champion can't quite get it done.

00:37:07I said Hopscotch.

00:37:08I meant leapfrog, of course, just to get my childish games correct.

00:37:13Now note this corner as Alonso flashes through in his pursuit of Nick Heidfeld.

00:37:19On board with Alonso.

00:37:20Now, I have to bear in mind at this stage of the race how important to the performance

00:37:28of the car the fuel load is, the weight of the fuel that they're carrying on board.

00:37:32Remember, the guys that have just come into the pits will be very heavy with fuel, and

00:37:37weight is everything to the performance of a race car.

00:37:40No more so than in Formula One, where about 20 pounds of fuel...

00:37:45Let's just listen to Alonso.

00:37:46Heidfeld to the end.

00:37:47Heidfeld is going to the end, Fernando.

00:37:50There it is, guys.

00:37:51And what that means, Heidfeld fuelled enough for the full race distance.

00:37:56But because he's carrying that fuel, his car will be significantly heavier, and therefore

00:38:01compromised on performance.

00:38:03Again, about 20 pounds of fuel in weight is about half a second, 0.4 to 0.5 of a second

00:38:09per lap performance deficit.

00:38:12Now moving to the race lead with Heidfeld's pit stop, the factory Honda, the much maligned

00:38:16Honda factory car of Rubens Barrichello, who leads the race, his first time in a Formula

00:38:22One Grand Prix lead since the 2005 United States Grand Prix.

00:38:26That's a span of 51 races.

00:38:29Oh, Kubica just scything along through traffic.

00:38:32Well, of course, don't forget Robert Kubica coming past here, a lot lighter than his teammate

00:38:37Heidfeld.

00:38:38And Heidfeld is going to be good to go to the end of the race, but of course, Robert

00:38:41Kubica is going to make another stop.

00:38:43So he now has to pull out a huge lead over his teammate if he wants to win this race.

00:38:48And I think there was no doubt in Nick Heidfeld's mind that Kubica was going to make that pass.

00:38:53Yeah.

00:38:56Wow, again.

00:38:57There's that dust.

00:38:58Yeah, it's a very, very heavy braking zone.

00:39:03Eighth, ninth and tenth on the track.

00:39:06Remember, World Championship points go only to the top eight finishers.

00:39:14Now, moments ago, Fernando Alonso's teammate, Nelson Piquet Jr., was the victim of a rookie

00:39:20mistake.

00:39:21Heavy braking for turn three and around she goes.

00:39:24Over the curb, does all sorts of damage to the underneath of the car, which, of course,

00:39:27is so crucial to their aerodynamic effectiveness.

00:39:31Now, watch what happens after traffic passes.

00:39:33He backs it up.

00:39:34Here comes Felipe Massa.

00:39:35Oh, boy.

00:39:36And Piquet was actually able to get that car off the wall and back to the pits.

00:39:42He currently runs 16th.

00:39:47Check that.

00:39:48He's only got one pit stop in hand thus far.

00:39:50He may not have gone to the pits.

00:39:53There's the St. Lawrence.

00:39:54I told you how close it is to the racetrack.

00:39:57Not much room on this man-made island, originally created for the Expo 67 World Fair.

00:40:03Of course, later, host to the 76 Summer Olympic Games.

00:40:09Only on Fox.

00:40:10Check your local listings.

00:40:12Back live at the Circuit Journal Villeneuve.

00:40:16Nick Frey looking on in the Honda pits.

00:40:18His man, Rubens Barrichello, right now is leading the Grand Prix.

00:40:23Right behind him, David Coulthard.

00:40:25So, the two senior drivers in Formula 1, in terms of age, are running 1-2.

00:40:3036 and 37 years of age, respectively.

00:40:32Boy, that was a good pass there.

00:40:34Felipe Massa put on Mark Webber there, going under the bridge there.

00:40:37You don't often see a lot of overtaking there.

00:40:39That was, of course, for P13.

00:40:41But, long way to go yet.

00:40:42I'm sure that Massa will end up in the points, even if he only gets, like, one or two.

00:40:46While we were in break, Kaz Nakajima and the Williams Toyota pitted from third place,

00:40:51having been passed by David Coulthard in the run down to the pit in.

00:40:54They could have fueled him to go the rest of the way

00:40:57and switch to the other tire compound that they must use in this race.

00:41:02They chose not to.

00:41:03He's now running 12th with another stop to come.

00:41:08Peter Windsor.

00:41:10Well, news from the Ferrari pit, Bob, is that Felipe Massa had to come in again

00:41:14because they didn't get all the fuel in in that first stop.

00:41:16That was a real disappointment for Felipe.

00:41:18But, as you say, driving very well now.

00:41:20We should look for him to be in the points come the end of the race.

00:41:23Massa up to 13th and the only Ferrari still in the race after Raikkonen

00:41:27was crashed into by Lewis Hamilton at pit out.

00:41:31I want to go back to something I said earlier about Formula 1 cars having 900 horsepower,

00:41:36about the same horsepower as you find in the average NASCAR sprint cup machine,

00:41:41if you're more familiar with stock cars than Formula 1.

00:41:43But, when you consider that these cars have about the same horsepower,

00:41:46but where a stock car weighs 3,400 pounds,

00:41:49a Formula 1 car weighs about 1,340 pounds.

00:41:54So, you can see the difference in power to weight ratio.

00:42:01Also, a lot more tire, a lot more highly refined aerodynamics in Formula 1.

00:42:06Here's Giancarlo Fisichella.

00:42:08Very close to the wall.

00:42:09He touched the wall.

00:42:10I would say that was more than close, Bob.

00:42:15Using the wall for steering and braking.

00:42:17It's the Mario Andretti white wall syndrome.

00:42:21Just takes the white letters off the tire.

00:42:26Here comes David Coulthard as Rubens Barrichello pits from the race lead in the Honda.

00:42:30Coulthard takes over in the Red Bull Renault.

00:42:35Classic Formula 1 pit stop.

00:42:3716 crewmen fall on the car.

00:42:40About eight and a half seconds of fuel.

00:42:42The soft compound tires on the car.

00:42:44Barrichello refueled and good to go.

00:42:46I think he's good to go for the full race distance at this point.

00:42:50Now, there's the guy we were talking about before.

00:42:52Massa in the Ferrari who had the technical failure in the pits earlier on.

00:42:57Each driver has their own fuel rig operated by the same mechanics.

00:43:02And I think just in the stress of doing that fast pit stop,

00:43:05together with Räikkönen, his teammate who came in ahead,

00:43:07didn't get the full fuel delivery into the car,

00:43:11which forced Massa to pit again on the next lap.

00:43:14Wow!

00:43:15The old tail coming out.

00:43:19That's where Nelson Piquet lost it earlier on.

00:43:24You're right, Bob.

00:43:25Talking about these cars, the Formula 1 cars and the aero-efficiency on the cars.

00:43:29Untold millions of dollars spent in development work on these Formula 1 cars

00:43:34to create the slippiest shape possible to the regulations.

00:43:38They have downforce on the car.

00:43:40David Coulthard coming in from P1.

00:43:43Downforce on the car.

00:43:44Way in excess of the weight of the car,

00:43:46which really forces the car down onto the track.

00:43:49But they do spend absolutely millions of dollars

00:43:52constantly refining Formula 1 car design.

00:43:56On go the options.

00:43:57Here's our fuel rig guys right here using the pressurized rig behind.

00:44:01Here's the spare rig for the other driver right here.

00:44:0412 litres a second.

00:44:06Again, about 3.4 gallons a second of fuel.

00:44:108.8 seconds is all he needed to get him the rest of the race distance.

00:44:13So DC should be good to go.

00:44:15Dave Coulthard.

00:44:20Sebastian Vettel also pits from 12th.

00:44:29On board now is Sebastian Vettel after his pit stop in the Toro Rosso with the Ferrari engine.

00:44:35I'll correct that. Vettel was 4th when he entered the pits.

00:44:38Now he's coming back.

00:44:39Coming across at dead last. One of the guys that starts in pit lane.

00:44:42Yeah.

00:44:44He may get back up there again.

00:44:46Another round of pit stops to come, remember.

00:44:49Now we're looking at a Toyota 1-2 on track.

00:44:52But remember both Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock in the Toyotas have yet to pit.

00:44:59Toyota spend probably as much or more than most of these teams on this racing,

00:45:03on Formula 1 racing.

00:45:04Hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:45:06Boy, they could do with a win in the worst possible.

00:45:08If only they could stop the race now.

00:45:10The guys back in Japan are saying,

00:45:12can we please stop this race now?

00:45:14Yeah, you're right. Hundreds of millions.

00:45:16I would say approximately 700-800 million dollars per season

00:45:20the top teams are pouring into Formula 1 development.

00:45:23Incredible amount of money.

00:45:25Incredible investment in this sport.

00:45:27It's a lot of money when you're not getting results as Toyota hasn't.

00:45:30It's a real mystery why one of the world's most successful racing manufacturers

00:45:34hasn't been able to cut it quite yet in Formula 1.

00:45:37We'll return to Formula 1 on Fox.

00:45:45Welcome back to the Ile Notre Dame in the circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada.

00:45:49Round 7 of the 2008 Formula 1 season.

00:45:51You're watching it live on Fox with Peter Windsor, David Hobbs and Steve Matchett.

00:45:55I'm Bob Varsha.

00:45:56While we were away, Jarno Trulli pitted the race-leading Toyota

00:46:00and fell all the way down to 12th.

00:46:02Right now the race being led by his junior teammate, Timo Glock of Germany.

00:46:06And right behind him, Robert Kubica, who's already made one pit stop in his BMW Sauber.

00:46:12Yeah, Glock now the only guy that really needs to come into pit.

00:46:16And we've seen, as you rightly say, Bob, truly his teammate in the other Toyota TF108 chassis

00:46:21has been in to refuel.

00:46:22So Glock must do that very, very shortly,

00:46:25because he's going to be on the cusp of actually running out of fuel if he runs much deeper.

00:46:30So that will then give the lead back to Kubica.

00:46:34And that battle then will open up Kubica and Heidfeld in the two BMW chassis.

00:46:40Elsa Piquet Jr. has pitted his Renault and fallen to last on the field.

00:46:44On board with Fernando Alonso in the other Renault.

00:46:47And oh, he almost got into it.

00:46:53Those two had a coming together two weeks ago in Monaco

00:46:56in the hairpin turn there by the hotel.

00:47:00Started just about like that.

00:47:02Alonso didn't get on the brakes, dove underneath to try to avoid and ran into him.

00:47:06Oh, Piquet's race appears to be over.

00:47:11Well, Timo Glock went by yet again.

00:47:14I mean, he must be running on fumes by now.

00:47:17And Kubica must be fuming behind him because he's holding Kubica up badly.

00:47:21He's falling back into the clutches of his teammate, Nick Heidfeld,

00:47:24who, of course, is going to run to the end,

00:47:26whereas Robert Kubica is going to have to make a stop.

00:47:28And if he makes a stop and comes out, he'll be behind.

00:47:31He'll drop back down to about seventh.

00:47:38You see the gap differential.

00:47:40Kubica to teammate Heidfeld.

00:47:50Down to that turn ten where it is starting to break up.

00:47:53You can see it on the exit especially.

00:47:56But I am surprised, David, that the track has lasted as well as it has so far.

00:48:02We need to increase the gap to Nick.

00:48:10We need ten more laps. Big push.

00:48:15Open that gap for that all-important pit stop.

00:48:18This could be a big day for BMW Sauber.

00:48:20They have yet to win in Formula One.

00:48:23It's on their list for this year.

00:48:25Earlier, Peter Windsor spoke with Robert Kubica.

00:48:29And that all-important first win, when it might come, whether it might be here.

00:48:35Of course, the win is the goal, the target of the team for this year.

00:48:40This was set up the target before the season.

00:48:43But, of course, looking now, I think realistically we are not up to the pace to win.

00:48:50But the consistency is there.

00:48:52We don't have any technical problems in six races.

00:48:56We have done a good job.

00:49:00Yes, they have under Dr. Mario Tyson who heads up the project for BMW.

00:49:04They've been creeping up, the performance getting better and better.

00:49:09Pretty much the number three team in Formula One behind Ferrari and McLaren Mercedes in some order.

00:49:17Everybody's been expecting BMW Sauber to break through.

00:49:20The Sauber in BMW Sauber, of course, is team founder Peter Sauber,

00:49:24who sold a controlling interest in the team to BMW a couple of years ago.

00:49:30Now, with Kubica in first, his teammate Heidfeld in second.

00:49:34With Timo Glock diving for the pits on the previous lap.

00:49:36Fernando Alonso now up to third.

00:49:38And Renault can really use that.

00:49:40Here's the battle.

00:49:42Oil transfer, oil transfer.

00:49:43Brakes are okay for now.

00:49:45Oil transfer, guys, is the ability for the driver to transfer oil from an auxiliary tank on board

00:49:53and pump it into the engine.

00:49:55Formula One engines, like all road car engines, they all use oil.

00:49:59And as the oil level starts to drop...

00:50:01Oh, problems getting the fuel rig off the car.

00:50:03That's what we're highlighting there.

00:50:05Hey, dude, everybody's doing their best job possible.

00:50:07Don't do that to your team and put your hand up in frustration.

00:50:11Don't do that to your team and put your hand up in frustration.

00:50:14Everybody's working towards the same goal.

00:50:16Goal guy, get out there and drive the car.

00:50:18Getting back to that thing about the oil tank.

00:50:21You're not allowed to add oil to the car during a pit stop.

00:50:26Well, the way the teams get around that, because they are incredibly ingenious,

00:50:30they have an auxiliary oil tank on board.

00:50:34Oh, it's Alonso trying to get past BMW

00:50:37and just overshooting, out-braking himself round that Turn 10.

00:50:43Now Alonso trying to clean up the tyres, David,

00:50:46because of that rubbish down at Turn 10.

00:50:50If you are losing time with Alonso, let him by.

00:50:53If you are losing time, let him by.

00:50:59Why would he want to do that?

00:51:03Alonso's behind.

00:51:07I think they think that Alonso's got to stop again.

00:51:10In case he's just harrying him too much.

00:51:13Concentrating on his mirrors too much and not concentrating on the job in hand.

00:51:16When you're being followed very closely like this, under constant threat,

00:51:20you do have too much look in the mirror all the time,

00:51:23and it's very disconcerting. It does put you off and does actually slow you up.

00:51:28As opposed to, you'd think it would speed you up a bit because the guy's right there.

00:51:31Oh, he's lost it. Alonso lost it.

00:51:35Wow, just as the shot changed, we saw the back end fly around.

00:51:38That's going to bring out a safety car, surely.

00:51:41Squarely in the middle of the track.

00:51:44Well, let's double check he hasn't stalled it. No, he hasn't stalled it.

00:51:47The fire's still there.

00:51:49Well, come closer to the camera, to that open space, and get it turned around.

00:51:53The crew is on their feet, ready to go to work, if their man can get this car back.

00:51:58He's going backwards so he can see what's coming around that corner, I think.

00:52:01Or is he going to park it?

00:52:03It's over. I think it's over.

00:52:07So now it should be okay. We'll avoid the safety car.

00:52:10He managed to get the car. Thankfully, he didn't stall the car.

00:52:13These cars do have an anti-stall device programmed into the electronics,

00:52:18which should prevent that happening.

00:52:22Is it still going, mate?

00:52:24I think it's my gearbox.

00:52:28Broke the gearbox.

00:52:29Another little time-shifted radio call there from track,

00:52:32because you can see the drivers already climbing out of the car.

00:52:36There's the view in the mirrors of Robert Kubica,

00:52:38who no longer has to worry about whether Alonso is pushing him a little too hard.

00:52:43We'll be back. Formula One on Fox.

00:52:49Welcome back to live.

00:52:50Oh, front wing off as Kaz Nakajima brings the Williams Toyota to the pit lane and crashes.

00:52:57Well, here he is coming down to turn 10, the hairpin.

00:52:59Oh, this is what happened.

00:53:00Does he weaken it?

00:53:02Bang.

00:53:03Oh, on Button's Honda.

00:53:05Now, you'll see if we stay on board, we probably won't.

00:53:08Yeah, he gets trapped under the car.

00:53:10Here's the wing.

00:53:11He has no steering because the front wing is the end plate of the front wing,

00:53:14jammed underneath the suspension, so just no steering.

00:53:18Nothing he could do about that.

00:53:19It's just one of those awful incidents.

00:53:21Just push him straight back and he'll be out of the way.

00:53:27Oh, boy. Terrible shame.

00:53:28You see it there.

00:53:29Just falls under the left front corner of the car.

00:53:32And, well, it's all over at that point.

00:53:34Always at the worst possible moment.

00:53:36Oh, boy. It's just one of those unfortunate things.

00:53:38If you're going to lose your wing, you want it to just fly away off to the side of the track.

00:53:43Terrible, terrible luck.

00:53:44Boy, he was doing pretty well there.

00:53:45He was lying in eighth spot.

00:53:46Could have got himself a point.

00:53:48He becomes the sixth car out of the race, leaving 14 on track.

00:53:53Again, that was down into that turn 10, the tight hairpin.

00:53:55It's so easy to outbrake yourself,

00:53:57especially with the increasing buildup of rubbish down there.

00:54:01Now, on board with the race leader, Robert Kubica.

00:54:05You remember, he said to his pit,

00:54:07how many lap I got?

00:54:08And they said, 10.

00:54:09Push, push, push.

00:54:10Which is exactly what he's doing.

00:54:12Now, here are the BMW Sauer mechanics.

00:54:15Wow.

00:54:16What a position for these guys to be in.

00:54:18They are currently running one and two,

00:54:20and their drivers are racing each other.

00:54:22Now, remember, the mechanics of both cars

00:54:25come together to form one united pit crew.

00:54:28So you don't have that situation with two competing car crews together.

00:54:32The team is working together for a team result right now.

00:54:36And all the mechanics on the cars have to come together

00:54:39to get the best result.

00:54:44Here he comes, guys.

00:54:45Now, he only needs about five seconds of fuel.

00:54:48Remember, it's 12 litres a second,

00:54:51about three gallons a second.

00:54:54Have to come down to that legality speed limit.

00:54:58There's Mario Tyson, the team principal from BMW.

00:55:01For his first ever win, and BMW's first ever win,

00:55:05they need a calm, controlled pit stop.

00:55:08And by the way, these guys are recognized,

00:55:10BMW Sauer, as the best in the pit lane.

00:55:13Here comes Nick Heidfeld.

00:55:15Now, it's a long pit out here.

00:55:17Remember, you're on board with Nick Heidfeld.

00:55:19Nick Heidfeld.

00:55:20Heidfeld on board. Here we come.

00:55:22I think he's beating him out.

00:55:23He's got it, guys. He's got it.

00:55:26He's got it.

00:55:29And now it is a straight battle to the end of the race.

00:55:33What a moment for Robert Kubica.

00:55:36Recall, I mentioned earlier, a year ago at this racetrack,

00:55:39he suffered a massive accident.

00:55:41Here it is.

00:55:43Top of your screen, out from behind the big screen,

00:55:46off the track, hard into the wall, tumbling.

00:55:49We all held our breath. Look at that impact.

00:55:53An absolutely massive accident for Kubica on the BMW chassis,

00:55:57but a great testament to the strength of the car

00:56:00that it stood up so well.

00:56:01The survival cell, the monocoque that contains the driver,

00:56:05did an absolutely superb job.

00:56:07Robert Kubica, just a sprained ankle,

00:56:10the injuries he had in that accident.

00:56:12He missed one race and then back into the fray.

00:56:15But earlier on, Bob, you were talking about...

00:56:17Oh, let's listen to this radio.

00:56:20Position one. Position one.

00:56:24Bring it home.

00:56:27Please, BMW, I'm saying, please bring it home.

00:56:30Please bring it home, yeah.

00:56:31But you're right, guys.

00:56:32Bob, you were talking about BMW earlier on.

00:56:34We're having another look.

00:56:35This is a replay of what we've just seen

00:56:37with Nick Heidfeld on to the left.

00:56:40This track owes Robert Kubica a victory,

00:56:43with all due credit to Nick Heidfeld,

00:56:45who's been with the team a long time.

00:56:47In fact, before it was BMW Sauber,

00:56:50when it was just the Sauber team.

00:56:54On board with Felipe Massa.

00:56:56History awaits in Montreal,

00:56:58with 20 laps to go in the Canadian Grand Prix on Fox.

00:57:04By Chevrolet.

00:57:05Welcome back live to the circuit, Gilles Villeneuve,

00:57:07where Felipe Massa brought the crowd to its feet

00:57:10down in the hairpin moments ago.

00:57:12A big part of any Formula One crowd is Ferrari fans,

00:57:16the legendary Tufosi.

00:57:18Watch this.

00:57:19Kovalainen trying to get around Barranquillo,

00:57:21then into the picture comes Felipe Massa

00:57:23and slips around both of them.

00:57:25Crowd going absolutely berserk.

00:57:27And then, of course, there's the Ferrari fans,

00:57:29the legendary Tufosi.

00:57:31Kovalainen, unbelievable reaction from the crowd

00:57:34and from the pits.

00:57:35Kovalainen, another look at it here,

00:57:37as you see Massa diving down the inside.

00:57:39Kovalainen just couldn't get the traction down.

00:57:41The car's sliding.

00:57:43Massa's Ferrari chassis, and away.

00:57:46And the place went crazy.

00:57:51Two passes in one corner by a very daring driver.

00:57:55And no, it wasn't just the Ferrari fans.

00:57:57Two passes in one corner by a very daring driver.

00:58:00And no contact.

00:58:02Now, back to live pictures.

00:58:03This is Giancarlo Fisichella's Force India Ferrari.

00:58:07And that's how he got there.

00:58:14Oh, boy.

00:58:19And the Italian, who celebrated his 200th Formula One start

00:58:23two weeks ago in Monaco.

00:58:25That race didn't go terribly well either.

00:58:27Ferrari in the pit lane for Felipe Massa now.

00:58:30Boy, all that hard work, that terrific overtaking manoeuvre

00:58:33down in Turn 10.

00:58:35Here he comes.

00:58:36Here comes Massa.

00:58:40Kovalainen, Button, Weber all pit behind him.

00:58:43Now, guys, I'm going to say that all these guys are pitting early.

00:58:46Think back to what we were saying about Lewis Hamilton

00:58:48when he just missed out on that safety car period.

00:58:51You saw the world feed just show a shot of the safety car.

00:58:54Maybe because of Fisichella's accident,

00:58:56they were contemplating bringing it out.

00:58:58There has not been a safety car period announced.

00:59:00We have no graphic, which we would see at the top.

00:59:03But I'm sure, thinking back to Hamilton's problems,

00:59:06I'm sure that was a team's reaction saying,

00:59:09get in now before that safety car's pulled out

00:59:11if they're going to do it.

00:59:13Boy, credit to these corner workers,

00:59:15who come from the United States, Canada, Britain and elsewhere.

00:59:18Is that a dangerous situation for a car? Confirmed.

00:59:25Couldn't quite make out Rosberg's response,

00:59:28or what he wanted to know.

00:59:30I think they wanted to think

00:59:32they might want to pull the safety car out,

00:59:34but that train seems to have done the job perfectly well.

00:59:42These are hard-working track workers.

00:59:44Another look at Fisichella.

00:59:46Fisichella, I remember, a little earlier in the race,

00:59:49we saw tapping both the wheels against the side there.

00:59:53He's not having a good day with the handling.

00:59:55Well, it's all over right there.

00:59:58But these cars, I mean,

01:00:00they're absolutely on a knife edge of adhesion at all times.

01:00:03They look so smooth and controlled

01:00:05when the driver and the chassis are working in harmony,

01:00:08but there's such performance from these cars.

01:00:10Bob, you had it right earlier on

01:00:12when you were talking about the horsepower,

01:00:14the weight ratio of the car, the downforce

01:00:16and the slipstream effect of the cars.

01:00:18They're absolutely balanced on a knife edge all the time.

01:00:21Here's the battle for fourth.

01:00:23Barrichello and Glock,

01:00:25two drivers who desperately need some championship points.

01:00:28And thinking of points,

01:00:30with what we've seen thus far in this Canadian Grand Prix,

01:00:33the leaderboards in the World Championships

01:00:35for drivers and constructors are going to be rearranged.

01:00:38Right now, BMW's in position

01:00:40to jump back into second in the Constructors' Championship.

01:00:43They lost that position to McLaren-Mercedes two weeks ago.

01:00:46And Robert Kubica,

01:00:48if he can pull off his first career victory,

01:00:50will jump to the head of the drivers' table.

01:00:52The first time ever a BMW Sauber driver has done that,

01:00:55and certainly the first time ever

01:00:57for a Formula One driver from Poland.

01:01:00Of course, there's only been one of those,

01:01:02and you're watching him here today.

01:01:06There have been lots in Scotland,

01:01:08and here's one on David Coulthard.

01:01:11Currently third.

01:01:12I mean, he has had an outstanding race.

01:01:14He started off back in 13th spot.

01:01:17Not what we expected at all from David Coulthard.

01:01:20The running order and the pit stop record

01:01:22across the bottom of your screen.

01:01:24We'll be back in a moment to Montreal on Fox.

01:01:31Welcome back live to beautiful Montreal

01:01:33and the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix

01:01:35live here on Fox with Peter Windsor,

01:01:37Steve Matchett, and David Hobbs.

01:01:39I'm Bob Barsha.

01:01:40You're watching David Coulthard,

01:01:42who has parlayed a one-stop strategy

01:01:44in his Red Bull Renault

01:01:45into a potential podium finish in today's race.

01:01:48A great drive for the senior driver

01:01:51in Formula One at age 37.

01:01:54His teammate, Mark Webber, down there in 8th.

01:01:56Good enough for one point so far,

01:01:58but not how he hoped the day would work out at all.

01:02:01He qualified well in front of David Coulthard,

01:02:03but I think all that chaos in pit lane

01:02:05when Hamilton ran into the back of Kimi Räikkönen

01:02:08held him up badly.

01:02:09Jeff Willis, Christian Horner,

01:02:11and the rest of the Red Bull Renault brain trust

01:02:13on the pit wall.

01:02:14On board with Nico Rosberg.

01:02:17Currently 9th.

01:02:18One spot out of the points.

01:02:3313 laps to go.

01:02:3412 the next time race leader Robert Kubica

01:02:36flashes under the flag stand.

01:02:40David Coulthard is one year older

01:02:42than seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher

01:02:44was when he retired.

01:02:46Yet DC insists that he would like to keep driving

01:02:49in Formula One.

01:02:50He saves the car there from an awkward moment.

01:02:52Well, he got into that gravel.

01:02:53It's all rolling up there big time now

01:02:55on the outside of these turns.

01:03:01Tires appear to be in pretty good shape.

01:03:03Well, you see the white stripe on his left front tire

01:03:06is starting to disappear,

01:03:08wearing the tread down quite a bit

01:03:10on this softer compound.

01:03:13Hot day.

01:03:14It's been a decade that Formula One cars

01:03:16have been using that grooved dry weather tire.

01:03:19Next year, we will go back to slick tires.

01:03:22No grooves.

01:03:23No painted stripes.

01:03:25We're on board with Robert Kubica

01:03:27underneath that bridge.

01:03:31Now that dash down towards the hairpin

01:03:33where he crashed a year ago.

01:03:36Hit the wall right there.

01:03:39So these guys have been taking care here

01:03:42to steer clear of all that rolled up gravel

01:03:44and rubber and stuff

01:03:45and keep himself out of trouble.

01:03:47They have been so conservative in their expectations

01:03:50as they've developed the car,

01:03:52saying, we want to get in the points,

01:03:53we want to finish,

01:03:54we want to have a pole,

01:03:55and they've achieved that.

01:03:56And then they said this year,

01:03:58well, a win is on the cards.

01:04:00We'll be back to Montreal live here on Fox.

01:04:09Back live along the mighty St. Lawrence River,

01:04:11across from downtown Montreal

01:04:13on the Ile Notre Dame.

01:04:15Circuit Gilles Villeneuve,

01:04:16place host for the 30th year

01:04:18to a Formula One Grand Prix.

01:04:20Here's a view of Nico Rosberg

01:04:21trying Sebastian Vettel

01:04:23on the outside in the final chicane

01:04:25for eighth and the final championship point.

01:04:28Note, Rosberg balked and gave up ninth place

01:04:32to the oncoming McLaren Mercedes

01:04:34of Heike Kovalainen.

01:04:38Nico Rosberg has to try to recoup.

01:04:40He was going for one place.

01:04:41Instead, he lost one.

01:04:43Boy, I'm not quite sure why...

01:04:44Oh!

01:04:46Well, that makes Rosberg's job easier.

01:04:50Yeah.

01:04:51All slippy and sliding on the gravel.

01:04:54Yeah.

01:04:55This could be an interesting final nine laps.

01:04:58Yeah, you're absolutely right, Bob.

01:04:59It could.

01:05:00Massa just blows by Rubens Barrichello

01:05:03for sixth place.

01:05:08Wow!

01:05:09Oh, that was...

01:05:11The old Wall of Champions.

01:05:12There you go, another kiss there.

01:05:14You're talking about this marble build-up offline.

01:05:17There it is.

01:05:18Look at the foreground there of that shot.

01:05:20As each lap goes by,

01:05:21there's more and more gravel

01:05:23that gets pushed off the side of the road,

01:05:25out of the tarmac,

01:05:26and, of course,

01:05:27marbles rolling off from the tyres.

01:05:29There's Massa making the move.

01:05:32Two Brazilian drivers.

01:05:36And the more build-up there is

01:05:37of rubber and gravel.

01:05:38Look at that there around the front of the shot.

01:05:40A huge amount of marbles and gravel build-up.

01:05:43The racing line gets narrower and narrower

01:05:46as each lap ticks by.

01:05:49I tell you, once you get in that stuff,

01:05:50I mean, you're doomed.

01:05:51I mean, there is no grip at all.

01:05:53No, it's over, isn't it?

01:05:54It's not even like there's a bit of grip.

01:05:57It's like when you get too far off here on the left.

01:06:00Whoa!

01:06:08Jarno Trulli trying to hang on to that fifth spot

01:06:10from Felipe Massa.

01:06:11As you can see off that graphic,

01:06:13Massa pulling it, oh, enormously.

01:06:18While we're on board the Toyota,

01:06:19it's worth recalling our Toyota storylines

01:06:21at the start of the race.

01:06:22Would the track be a factor in the race?

01:06:24Well, it turns out, not really.

01:06:26How about the safety car periods?

01:06:28Most definitely,

01:06:29as that one safety car scrambled the order.

01:06:32Jarno Trulli,

01:06:33Definitely, as that one safety car scrambled the order.

01:06:36Jarno Massa, five seconds behind now.

01:06:39He overtook Barrichello.

01:06:45I am struggling a lot with the brakes.

01:06:53Oh, you do not want to struggle

01:06:55with your brakes in Montreal.

01:06:56No, and as we're saying at the top of the show,

01:06:58it is a very hard braking track around here.

01:07:01You get a lot of heat built into these brakes.

01:07:04And, of course, that includes, I think,

01:07:06you have a lot of wear in the brakes.

01:07:08It really does affect the performance of the cars

01:07:11towards the end.

01:07:12They're on, I say, a knife edge of adhesion.

01:07:14They're on a knife edge of reliability, too.

01:07:16You want to join us for the French Grand Prix.

01:07:18Practice and qualifying on speed as normal.

01:07:21We have a race on Sunday on Fox.

01:07:23Getting back to our Toyota storylines,

01:07:25that safety car that came out just at the right moment

01:07:28to benefit one-stop cars,

01:07:30like David Coulthard right there.

01:07:32Allowing him to consolidate track position.

01:07:34Coulthard in position for a podium,

01:07:36which would be his first points of the year.

01:07:39And we also said to keep an eye on that front row

01:07:42of Lewis Hamilton,

01:07:43who dominated the race easily from the start.

01:07:55And alongside Lewis Hamilton

01:07:57was equally young 23-year-old Robert Kubica,

01:08:00who was in position to pick up his first race victory.

01:08:04Now, that's Rubens Barrichello up ahead on the road.

01:08:06Sebastian Vettel in the Scuderia Toro Rosso Ferrari.

01:08:09And don't forget that Sebastian Vettel

01:08:11started in the pit lane after that nasty crash on Friday.

01:08:15He never got into qualifying.

01:08:17Started in the pit lane.

01:08:19Now duking it out for a couple of points.

01:08:21And this continues a tradition in Canada.

01:08:24The races are crazy.

01:08:26We see lots of safety cars.

01:08:28And we have also seen the man who started

01:08:30at the back of the field score points.

01:08:33That's unheard of in Formula 1.

01:08:34But it's happened in Canada

01:08:36for three straight years coming into this year.

01:08:39We can make it four now.

01:08:45Welcome back to Montreal.

01:08:46Five laps remaining in the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix.

01:08:50You're riding with Heikki Kovalainen.

01:08:52Up ahead on the road, Sebastian Vettel.

01:08:54In front of him, Rubens Barrichello.

01:08:57And it's tempting to say that Barrichello

01:08:59is as old as the combined ages of the two men behind him.

01:09:02But that's not quite true.

01:09:04But when Sebastian Vettel was born

01:09:06almost 21 years ago next month,

01:09:08Rubens Barrichello was a superstar in go-karts

01:09:11in his native Brazil and a sophomore in high school.

01:09:19This is 7th, 8th, and 9th.

01:09:22And points go down to 8.

01:09:23So it's absolutely critical for Vettel

01:09:25to keep Kovalainen back.

01:09:27And obviously better still for Vettel

01:09:29to get around Barrichello.

01:09:30Kovalainen, the only remaining McLaren Mercedes in the race,

01:09:33needs to exercise some damage control here.

01:09:36His teammate Lewis Hamilton is out from the race lead.

01:09:40Careful, careful, boys.

01:09:42McLaren obviously very anxious for Kovalainen

01:09:44to score massive points here

01:09:45because they're going to lose out big time

01:09:47to BMW in the Constructors' Championship.

01:09:50There's David Coulthard all alone in 3rd place.

01:09:54Nick Heidfeld 6 seconds ahead.

01:09:56Timo Glock and the Toyota 17.5 seconds behind.

01:10:00The crews have done their work.

01:10:02It's all in the hands of the drivers now.

01:10:05Massa all over Jarno Trulli's Toyota for 5th.

01:10:09Here's Kovalainen going to drive Vettel.

01:10:11Oh, oh, oh, it's good.

01:10:13Wow!

01:10:14Oh, and he's going to blow the corner.

01:10:16Well, he saved it.

01:10:17I was going to say, this could end in tears,

01:10:19but they both kept their heads.

01:10:20Yeah.

01:10:21I don't know why Kovalainen keeps trying

01:10:23the young man down the outside in Turn 1.

01:10:27You've got to watch Kovalainen here.

01:10:29There's that heavy braking zone

01:10:31as you go underneath that bridge.

01:10:33The last chicane as they fly down towards the hairpin.

01:10:38You've got to be very close on the car in front

01:10:40to be able to make it move.

01:10:42Kovalainen's dropping back a little now.

01:10:43Yeah, you see, this is unfortunate.

01:10:45Kovalainen's not too quick through this sector here.

01:10:47And then when he comes down to...

01:10:49He picks up a little bit of space here,

01:10:50but he's not as quick through that Turn 10,

01:10:52that last hairpin, as you'd expect him to be.

01:10:54Yeah.

01:10:55Because his quicker car in the straight line

01:10:57should be able to pick him off

01:10:58going into that last chicane,

01:10:59but can't quite manage it.

01:11:01Now we're down into Turn 10 from the rear view.

01:11:03This is where he needs to pick up time, right there.

01:11:10Oh!

01:11:11Now, wait a minute.

01:11:12Oh!

01:11:13That's cutting the chicane

01:11:14and gaining competitive advantage, one might argue.

01:11:18And if so, perhaps Sebastian Vettel

01:11:20will be required to hand over the position.

01:11:24Yeah, you're right.

01:11:25I suppose if he'd passed him there,

01:11:27would he be required...

01:11:30Whoa!

01:11:31The two Toyotas now under attack

01:11:33from the solo Ferrari of Felipe Massa.

01:11:36Massa got by Jarno Trulli,

01:11:38who was blocked by his teammate, Timo Glock.

01:11:44Oh!

01:11:47Massa will say,

01:11:49Now I'll take the younger man, if I can.

01:11:51There's some frantic action, guys,

01:11:52in these closing three laps.

01:11:54There's a lot of pride at stake here,

01:11:56both from Drivers' Championship

01:11:57and Constructors' Championship.

01:11:59And, of course, this is the great Ferrari house

01:12:02battling it out with Toyota.

01:12:06And, of course, so vital Ferrari,

01:12:08who are leading the Constructors' Championship

01:12:09at the moment by quite a long way from McLaren,

01:12:12who will pick up very few points at the moment.

01:12:15But, obviously, BMW are going to pick up

01:12:17a lot of points here.

01:12:18Well, if they finish in this order, David,

01:12:20BMW will leapfrog McLaren

01:12:22to take over second spot

01:12:23in the Constructors' Championship.

01:12:25And if Massa completes that pass,

01:12:27he will leapfrog his teammate, Kimi Räikkönen,

01:12:30the reigning world champion

01:12:31in the Drivers' standings.

01:12:32And that's huge.

01:12:33Oh, Glock!

01:12:34Oh, Glock comes right on track.

01:12:36This is in replay.

01:12:38I knew he had balked, Trulli,

01:12:39but I didn't know it was quite that egregious.

01:12:41Oh, boy, oh, boy.

01:12:42Glock made a terrible mistake here

01:12:43and blocked his own teammate.

01:12:45Trulli will be furious with his teammate.

01:12:47Wow!

01:12:48And rightfully so.

01:12:49And Massa, of course,

01:12:50just grabbed the moment while it was off of him.

01:12:55Should love to be a fly on the wall

01:12:56in the Toyota Motorhome after this one.

01:12:58Yeah.

01:13:02But, remember, Trulli complained

01:13:03he was fighting the brakes, too.

01:13:06Up at the top of the screen

01:13:07in that white box in a moment,

01:13:08it'll tick over to one lap remaining

01:13:10for race leader Robert Kubica.

01:13:13It was about 45 seconds ahead of this battle.

01:13:16And there it is.

01:13:17There it is, guys.

01:13:18You're right.

01:13:19Well, we're watching this battle,

01:13:21and it's very exciting.

01:13:22I've got to tell you,

01:13:23I'm absolutely thrilled

01:13:24with what's happening up the front here.

01:13:26BMW have just done such a stellar job.

01:13:29Absolutely fantastic.

01:13:30They've been so conservative,

01:13:32but so good at developing the car.

01:13:34What's happened?

01:13:35Is that Coulthard?

01:13:36Or is that Webber?

01:13:37That's Webber.

01:13:38Webber.

01:13:39Was it tire smoke?

01:13:40I think that was tire smoke.

01:13:41He must have had a spin,

01:13:42and that was a restop.

01:13:45Yeah.

01:13:46Tough day for the Australian.

01:13:47Oh, wow.

01:13:51Meanwhile, up front,

01:13:52we've had seven different race leaders today.

01:13:54Hamilton, Heidfeld, Barrichello,

01:13:56Coulthard, Trulli, Gluck, and Kubica

01:13:58has just won short

01:13:59of the all-time Formula One record

01:14:01for a single race

01:14:02set in the slipstreaming wars

01:14:04of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

01:14:06back in 1971.

01:14:09And here's your man

01:14:10in the BMW chassis.

01:14:11So now we're really asking the resurgence,

01:14:14a new power with Ferrari, McLaren,

01:14:16and now BMW coming to the fore.

01:14:19Back in 1982, here in Montreal,

01:14:21BMW took their first Formula One victory

01:14:24as an engine supplier

01:14:26when Nelson Piquet won driving a Brabham.

01:14:29Today, they will pick up

01:14:30their first-ever victory as a constructor

01:14:33and the first for Robert Kubica,

01:14:36the rightful winner

01:14:37of the Canadian Grand Prix.

01:14:39Fantastic.

01:14:40Fantastic result.

01:14:42Well done, boys.

01:14:43Well done.

01:14:45Well, that Robert Kubica

01:14:46burst on the scene in 2006

01:14:48at the Hungarian Grand Prix

01:14:50and was immediately

01:14:52right on the pace

01:14:54and has been giving Nick Heidfeld

01:14:55fits ever since.

01:14:56Last year, he had a bit of a slump,

01:14:58didn't apparently get on very well

01:14:59with his engineer,

01:15:00but boy, this year,

01:15:01he has been strong

01:15:02absolutely everywhere.

01:15:04And I'm sure there are

01:15:05BMW car club members

01:15:07all across the country

01:15:08who are going to run out the driveway

01:15:09and tootle the horn on their bimmers.

01:15:13Timo Glock picks up a career best

01:15:15in his rookie season

01:15:16that began with a huge crash

01:15:18in Melbourne, Australia.

01:15:20Felipe Massa brings Ferrari home

01:15:22unofficially in fifth

01:15:24and Jarno Trulli, sixth,

01:15:26ahead of Rubens Barrichello

01:15:27and Sebastian Vettel.

01:15:28Let's listen in.

01:15:30Robert, bravo.

01:15:32Bravissimo.

01:15:33Bravissimo.

01:15:34That's a historical win, Robert.

01:15:36You are leading the championship now.

01:15:41Thank you, guys. Thank you.

01:15:46Ever the man of few words,

01:15:48Robert Kubica

01:15:51raises BMW

01:15:55to its greatest heights ever

01:15:56in Formula One.

01:15:58Arguably their greatest heights ever

01:16:00in worldwide motorsport.

01:16:02Winners of the Canadian Grand Prix

01:16:04will take a break

01:16:05and return to Montreal

01:16:07as the Polish flags wave

01:16:08in the grandstand.

01:16:12The FIA Formula One

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01:16:23Back in Montreal,

01:16:24we don't have a victory lane

01:16:26in Formula One.

01:16:27We have what's called

01:16:28the Parc Fermé,

01:16:29where the top three finishing cars

01:16:31pull in,

01:16:32their drivers climb out

01:16:34for the post-race weight checks

01:16:37and then the podium ceremonies.

01:16:39And this is a moment

01:16:40that this 23-year-old Polish driver

01:16:42by the name of Robert Kubica

01:16:44will remember for the rest of his life.

01:16:48Dr. Mario Tyson, the team principal,

01:16:50congratulates his astonishing young driver.

01:16:53He goes over to congratulate his teammate,

01:16:56Nick Heidfeld,

01:16:57for the big boost today.

01:16:58What a team result.

01:16:59I mean, absolutely outstanding.

01:17:01Incredible.

01:17:02Absolutely incredible.

01:17:06There it is.

01:17:07You can see BMW now,

01:17:0870 points in second place,

01:17:10just behind Ferrari.

01:17:13Oh, wow.

01:17:14That is really very close.

01:17:15Here's Davy Coulthard.

01:17:16Yeah, he's running down the pit lane.

01:17:18Coulthard, you like him,

01:17:19shouldn't be running like that.

01:17:20Give yourself a heart attack.

01:17:22Running in the pit lane

01:17:23but walking on a cloud.

01:17:24That was a huge performance

01:17:26that he's been telling everyone who will listen

01:17:28he is still capable of.

01:17:29Here are the final results

01:17:31presented by Bridgestone.

01:17:32Oh, there you see it.

01:17:33The two BMWs,

01:17:34Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld,

01:17:35first and second.

01:17:36Davy Coulthard,

01:17:37a wonderful result for third.

01:17:39Timo Glock at the first,

01:17:40the Toyotas.

01:17:41Felipe Massa,

01:17:4240's way back to the field,

01:17:43to fifth.

01:17:44Jarno Trulli,

01:17:45another good result for Toyota.

01:17:46Both of Rubens Barrichello,

01:17:47a wonderful result for him.

01:17:48And of course,

01:17:49Sebastian Vettel,

01:17:50the youngest driver in the field,

01:17:51eighth.

01:17:52These guys,

01:17:53nine through to 14,

01:17:54all out of the points.

01:17:55They're down to eighth,

01:17:56but nevertheless,

01:17:57some terrific racing.

01:17:58Kovalainen and Rosberg there,

01:17:59Fizzi Keller there,

01:18:00Kaz Nakajima,

01:18:01Fernando Alonso,

01:18:02Ferrano,

01:18:03his mate right behind him,

01:18:04Piquet,

01:18:05Lewis Hamilton,

01:18:06Adrian Sutil,

01:18:07P20.

01:18:08Seven rounds of the championship

01:18:09are now complete.

01:18:10Here are the drivers' standings.

01:18:11Oh, wow,

01:18:12just look at that.

01:18:13Kubica at 42,

01:18:14then Hamilton and Massa on 38.

01:18:16Räikkönen still on 35.

01:18:17Nick Heidfeld jumps to 28.

01:18:19Kovalainen didn't pick up anything today,

01:18:21nor did Mark Webber.

01:18:22Jarno Trulli did,

01:18:23Alonso did not.

01:18:24Niko Rosberg did not.

01:18:26Kaz Nakajima did not.

01:18:27David Coulthard did pick up.

01:18:29Vettel picked up one,

01:18:30and Barrichello picked up a couple,

01:18:32as did Timo Glock.

01:18:34How about the constructors, Steve?

01:18:35Wow, well, this result has blown it wide open.

01:18:38Ferrari out there in the lead with 73,

01:18:40but just three points behind BMW Sauber.

01:18:43McLaren Mercedes in third spot with 53.

01:18:46Behind them in fourth spot,

01:18:47Red Bull Renault 21.

01:18:49Toyota,

01:18:50Williams Toyota behind them in sixth spot,

01:18:52and just two teams yet to score.

01:18:54Unfortunately,

01:18:55Subaru Cori Honda won't score there

01:18:56out of the championship.

01:18:59Well, it's a day that Robert Kubica

01:19:00will remember forever,

01:19:01but everybody will be talking about

01:19:03the pit lane gaffe that took

01:19:05the reigning world champion

01:19:06and his presumptive successor

01:19:08out of this race.

01:19:13Back in Montreal,

01:19:14Nick Heidfeld takes a final sip of water

01:19:17and then heads for the podium.

01:19:19There is race winner Robert Kubica,

01:19:21and in a moment,

01:19:22for the first time in history,

01:19:23the Polish national anthem

01:19:25will play from a Formula One podium.

01:20:51Polish anthem for Robert Kubica,

01:21:13the German anthem for BMW.

01:21:15The winning constructors.

01:21:18A long way from Krakow.

01:21:21As a young man,

01:21:22Robert Kubica moved from his native Poland

01:21:25where there wasn't the sort of motorsport

01:21:27that he felt would take him

01:21:28to the top of the world.

01:21:30He moved to Italy,

01:21:31fluent in Italian after living there

01:21:33for many years.

01:21:34Now he proudly displays the red and white

01:21:37of the Polish national banner

01:21:39as he stands atop a Formula One podium.

01:21:42Congratulations to Dr. Mario Tyson.

01:21:46He has done an outstanding job at BMW.

01:21:48I mean, he's been working on this.

01:21:50I had dinner with him,

01:21:51what, six years ago at the US Grand Prix

01:21:54with him and Rick Hendrick,

01:21:55and right then and then,

01:21:57you just knew this guy

01:21:58was going to win some events.

01:22:00I think there are a few tears

01:22:01down there in the pit lane

01:22:02among the BMW Sauber faithful,

01:22:04and there is David Coulthard.

01:22:06A lot of validation

01:22:08for the senior driver in Formula One

01:22:10with championship points today in Canada.

01:22:13He says it's a very different sport

01:22:14than it was when he came in in 1994.

01:22:17We'll hear from the winner in a moment.

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01:22:37Welcome back.

01:22:38The circuit here in Montreal

01:22:40has been turned back over

01:22:42to the spectators,

01:22:43and you see a lot of red.

01:22:44Normally, that would be Ferrari red.

01:22:46I think a lot of it today is Polish red

01:22:49for race winner Robert Kubica.

01:22:52Absolutely.

01:22:53And BMW, even in North America,

01:22:56the North American branch

01:22:57have been so supportive.

01:22:58Here's Peter Windsor in the interview room.

01:23:00Canadian Grand Prix,

01:23:01third for Red Bull Racing,

01:23:02David Coulthard,

01:23:03second for the BMW Sauber team,

01:23:05Nick Heidfeld,

01:23:06and heading a one-two for the BMW Sauber team

01:23:09and taking the lead in the World Championship

01:23:10with his first-ever Grand Prix win from Poland,

01:23:13Robert Kubica.

01:23:14Robert, that must sound great to you,

01:23:17but let's just go back to the pit lane.

01:23:18There you were after your first pit stop

01:23:20alongside Kimi,

01:23:21waiting for the red light,

01:23:22and suddenly, I guess you were aware

01:23:24of what happened to Kimi and Lewis Hamilton.

01:23:26Yeah, we were pitting everybody together

01:23:29in the same lap behind the safety car,

01:23:31and the red light was still on

01:23:33in the exit of the pit lane,

01:23:34similar to last year when I stopped.

01:23:37Kimi stopped side-by-side to me,

01:23:40and I just heard a big shunt,

01:23:42and I saw Kimi's car moving,

01:23:45and I realised it was Lewis.

01:23:47So then I just kept concentrating

01:23:49to wait for the green light,

01:23:51and managed to pull away well.

01:23:54Then I was stuck behind slower cars,

01:23:58couldn't make an overtake manoeuvre,

01:24:01and the last car that went in

01:24:05for the first pit was Glock.

01:24:08And then I had, I think,

01:24:09eight laps to make, I think,

01:24:11a 16 or 17-second margin

01:24:13to come back after my pit stop

01:24:15in front of Nick.

01:24:16And yeah, this was my seven laps

01:24:19of qualifying.

01:24:21I never struggled so much.

01:24:23I was pushing very hard.

01:24:24I knew that I had to make

01:24:26around a 21-second gap,

01:24:27and I managed to do 24,

01:24:29so it was a really great race.

01:24:31It was indeed a great race.

01:24:32What were the track conditions like

01:24:34in that second half of the race

01:24:35when you were pushing so hard?

01:24:36And indeed, how difficult was it

01:24:38to maintain your patience

01:24:39when you were in that traffic?

01:24:41Well, it was not easy.

01:24:42You know, it's always chaotic

01:24:43when the safety car is coming in,

01:24:45and I was a bit unlucky

01:24:47because I missed three seconds.

01:24:50I would come in,

01:24:51the pit lane would be still open,

01:24:52but when I was approaching

01:24:54the pit lane entry,

01:24:56the yellow lights started flashing,

01:24:59and so I couldn't go into pit lane.

01:25:02So I was a bit unlucky,

01:25:04but then I was struggling

01:25:06behind slow cars

01:25:07with Alonso being behind me,

01:25:09trying to overtake,

01:25:10and also the drivers were fighting,

01:25:12so I was losing a lot of lap time

01:25:14to the leaders,

01:25:16but finally I managed

01:25:17to make a good gap,

01:25:19and the last laps

01:25:20were very, very difficult.

01:25:22I mean, I was not pushing.

01:25:24The team was saying,

01:25:25stay calm, don't push too much,

01:25:27and I was not pushing already

01:25:29for 10, 15 laps,

01:25:30but it was just amazing.

01:25:31As soon as you go offline,

01:25:33you have tarmac destroyed,

01:25:35and it was like on the sand,

01:25:37so it was very, very difficult.

01:25:39Could I ask you now

01:25:40just to describe your emotions?

01:25:42Well, at this point, we'll jump in.

01:25:44A great moment for Robert Kubica,

01:25:45who came into the day

01:25:47knowing that the possibility was there

01:25:49that he could take over

01:25:50the world championship lead

01:25:51without a victory,

01:25:52but that certainly

01:25:53would be nothing compared

01:25:54to what he has been able to do today,

01:25:56win his first ever Formula One race.

01:25:59Final thoughts, David Hobbs?

01:26:00Well, it was an absolutely

01:26:01outstanding race,

01:26:02and I just cannot believe

01:26:03the mistake that Lewis Hamilton made,

01:26:05but it's a pretty big

01:26:06red light flashing there.

01:26:07How about you, Steve, quickly?

01:26:09Fantastic result.

01:26:10It encapsulates to me

01:26:11what Formula One is all about,

01:26:12a new team coming to the fore.

01:26:14And that'll wrap things up

01:26:16from the Canadian Grand Prix

01:26:17in Montreal.

01:26:18The Formula One teams

01:26:19will pack up,

01:26:20fly home to Europe,

01:26:21and head for France.

01:26:22Join us in two weeks

01:26:23for coverage of the

01:26:24French Grand Prix weekend

01:26:25from the Circuit des Nevers

01:26:27in Manicours.

01:26:28Our coverage begins

01:26:29Friday, June 20th

01:26:30at 8 a.m. Eastern

01:26:31with live coverage

01:26:32of the second free practice session

01:26:33on Speed.

01:26:34Saturday, the 21st,

01:26:35also on Speed,

01:26:36join us for coverage

01:26:37of three rounds

01:26:38of knockout qualifying

01:26:39beginning at 8 a.m.

01:26:40Finally, Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern,

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01:26:49We thank you for joining us

01:26:50here today for David Hobbs,

01:26:51Steve Matchett,

01:26:52and Peter Windsor.

01:26:53I'm Bob Farsha.

01:26:54We'll see you again

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