00:00That's a big damn match on the back of the chair that Frank Bruno loved there.
00:03As away we go to start the race, second time this season we've started behind the safety car
00:10and as the drivers pull away, this is now lap one of the British Grand Prix.
00:15It's the 11th race in Formula One history to start behind a safety car.
00:19Not this main straight, an awful lot of straight.
00:21But what I want to see now, Martin, is what it's like for the rest of this track
00:24because it could be there are some much drier parts out there.
00:27Yeah, and the Sauber's allowed to feed straight onto the back of this pack
00:31otherwise they'll definitely get a lap down there.
00:33There's a bit more standing water.
00:36Nothing that the drivers, bless their little cotton socks, can't handle, frankly.
00:42And I suspect most of them are thinking, let's get going already.
00:46It's not that way down there.
00:49The cars and the tyres and the drivers are all conditioned for this type of moisture level
00:56on the racetrack, shall we say.
00:58Driver's Championship, 11 points between Rosberg and Hamilton.
01:01Sebastian Fettler, Kimi Rijken and Loxon, 96 points each.
01:05And Daniel Ricciardo is ahead of his team-mate Max Verstappen,
01:08but for how much longer Verstappen has beaten him three times in five races as team-mates?
01:12Safety car seems to be slow to get temperature.
01:14And trying to get some temperature for those tyres will be what every single driver is trying to do
01:21out on that piece of tarmac at the moment.
01:24Do you remember that feature I did with Kimi Rijken?
01:26I was in a Ferrari F1 car, he's in a Ferrari 488, a very fast car.
01:31You're poodling along in first and second gear,
01:33and a very fast road car is on its door handles trying to stay ahead of you.
01:39And Lewis is saying, he's got to go fast, right?
01:41He's not had the best of starts, though.
01:44Think about it.
01:45He's opening races of the season, of course, in Australia, in Bahrain,
01:50marred by bad starts.
01:53And himself down the field, and in the case of Bahrain,
01:56hit by Valtteri Bottas down in the serve one.
01:58It's in the west, have a different radius to the slicks,
02:05and in fact, different to each other as well.
02:06And his inters just about got up on top of the water.
02:09They saved that well, did Nico Hülkenberg.
02:12So they'll be doing the dials.
02:14They've got to...
02:15You go, look at them, there's the line.
02:17There we go again.
02:18That's how he's got about three times almost how old America round that was,
02:23but he was lucky to hit that service road.
02:28You've got to be embracing yourself at that point.
02:30You know, he's got the flat pulled in.
02:32He just touched, didn't he, with the corner of his front wing.
02:36This is Carlos Sainz, same corner.
02:40He didn't quite spit so much.
02:45The way he doesn't look particularly edifying to a Formula One race driver.
02:49What it has done is it promoted Kimi Reitlin up into six,
02:51and here's Felipe Nasser, and he's been looking to get past Valtteri Bottas
02:55ever since Bottas splashed in the puddles, and he's done so.
02:58And the Sadie's to pit as well.
03:02Put them off the set.
03:04Here you go, Sebastian Pebble, down the inside.
03:07No, cutting right across the track.
03:11Push me out of the track.
03:13Push me out of the track.
03:14I don't think Felipe Nasser would have liked that one little bit.
03:18You might be told to give that place back.
03:20You're not allowed to force another driver out of the track.
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