00:003,788 miles completed this season, only another 190 to go, and for Nico Rosberg, a world championship that once upon a time might have seemed a million miles away, is now very much within his grasp.
00:15He goes into this title decider with the upper hand, 12 points is the lead, a podium finish is more than good enough for him, Lewis Hamilton really has to win this race, and hope that his team mate finish one world championship, and we are ready for the title decider, the season finale, it's lights out, and away we go, both Rosberg and Hamilton get away well, as does Kimi Raikkonen as well, and Raikkonen takes third place, Hamilton goes into the first turn in the lead from Rosberg,
00:45and Raikkonen, and then comes Daniel Ricciardo, Verstappen has spun, Verstappen spun in a lot of those picked up places, behind Sergio Perez, dreadful start, from Max Verstappen, there's a Salva right at the back, going off battling with Kevin Magnussen, but it is Lewis Hamilton, from Nico Rosberg, from Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo, and Saban...
01:02Realising that the top five are covered by three seconds, does he fancy just backing his team mate up, but DRS is now...
01:11The two Ferraris, Ricciardo did not get off the line well, and nor did Verstappen for that matter, but he's come back up the inside of, yeah, contact...
01:21Contact, contact then, with Helkenberg, as you pointed out, Crofty, as we were told, and that sent...
01:29When a car's really on the edge of adhesion, your car's sliding at all times, as soon as you just push one end or the other, it's going to go round, it's like a pendulum...
01:41I don't think this season, but he's certainly had it in the past, this is Bottas and Massa...
01:48And whether those, er, problems...
01:51Whether those problems affected Maltteri Bottas to the extent where he locked up, didn't he, that Massa could get past...
01:56I thought initially he was letting him through, but he wasn't...
01:59No, it's just struggling...
02:01And will he stay there long enough, as he once again, Martin, in the braking zone, seems to move over a little bit...
02:06There's Ricciardo and Raikkonen, going wheel to wheel, through the chicane, Raikkonen just gets out ahead, keeps that place ahead of the Australian...
02:13And the Aussie will now get another dose of DRS...
02:16Martin Martin in Formula One, let's have a look again...
02:19Yeah, it's already gone, isn't it?
02:21Right, front's starting to, er...
02:24So it's either going to be, it looks like lower wishbone, probably...
02:27Lower wishbone failure...
02:29Ah, no, it's...
02:31Yeah, up with the hub, something in there, front upright maybe...
02:35Let's have a look...
02:36Yeah, look, it's already going, it's already going...
02:38I'm told just before this, he's hit the, eh, the curve quite hard...
02:42Through that chicane, Martin...
02:44Yeah...
02:45Put a peak load through it, and he just wouldn't, er, wouldn't take it...
02:50Sylvia Hoffa, the, er, press officer, down at McLaren...
02:55On your bike some, as they say...
02:59And, er, he can put his, er, foot on the pedal...
03:04And wheel himself, packed down to the paddock...
03:07Just sums up Daniel Ricciardo, er, Danny Kriot's season, that, doesn't it, you know?
03:12At least he is coming back next year, and he's not completely on the bike...
03:15Do we now see Nico Rosberg try and make a move on Max Verstappen?
03:20Many have tried to make a move on Max Verstappen...
03:22He's going for it now, from a long way back!
03:24Verstappen on the outside, Rosberg on the inside...
03:27They come close, but they don't quite touch...
03:29Verstappen, now under pressure again...
03:31That's a brilliant exit from Nico Rosberg...
03:34And as they swoop round that left-hand kink...
03:36Rosberg puts himself up into second place...
03:39Fabulous move there, from the championship leader...
03:41Verstappen's going to come back at him...
03:43The crowd rise to their feet in the grandstands...
03:46Rosberg fends off Verstappen...
03:48Holds on to second place...
03:50And now, can he start to put his foot down a little bit more?
03:53And that call from the pin wall of critical...
03:56Becomes just a little bit calmer...
03:58Yeah, I think he saved all his battery up...
04:00And a bit of DRS...
04:01Kept him a long way back in the braking zone...
04:03Is he in any pain later on?
04:04Here he goes, down the inside...
04:06Max Verstappen...
04:07Sergio Perez knows he's coming...
04:08He leaves him some room...
04:09And to be honest...
04:10Doesn't defend hugely against him...
04:14Whether he thought it was just worth letting him go or not...
04:16I'm not quite sure...
04:17But it wasn't the most aggressive...
04:19The shape on the exit...
04:20That critical hairpin of turn seven...
04:22And...
04:23Sergio Perez is coming back...
04:25And Daniel Ricciardo again...
04:26Ricciardo breaks that little fraction later...
04:29Stays ahead of Sergio Perez...
04:31This is the battle...
04:32For fifth place...
04:33And Kimi Raikkonen...
04:35At the moment, down in seven...
04:37Is going to have to hang on...
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