2001 Spanish GP Qualifying

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Qualifying for Round 5 of the 2001 F1 season at Barcelona.

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00:00:00It's a beautiful day in the Catalonia province in the northeastern corner of Spain, home of the

00:00:21Circuit de Catalunya, about 30 miles outside Barcelona, Spain, where the clock is ticking.

00:00:26You can't race the Spanish Grand Prix until you qualify.

00:00:30Round five of the Formula One World Championship.

00:00:34Hello, everyone.

00:00:34I'm Bob Varsha, along with Sam Posey, David Hobbs, and Steve Matchett.

00:00:38There is Rubens Batacchello preparing to climb into his Ferrari.

00:00:41We do have at least one car on track for this one-hour qualifying session to set the grid for tomorrow's race.

00:00:48There was rain early in the weekend weather forecast, but, David, it doesn't look like we're going to get it today.

00:00:53No, it's a very nice day here in Barcelona, but a pretty stiff breeze blowing right across the front straight.

00:01:01There you see the temperatures, track temperature perfect, humidity just great, so a good day for watching and a good day for driving.

00:01:07And, of course, this track is pretty complicated, has a very, very long front straight, but a lot of quite interesting turns and some elevation change.

00:01:15Sam, tell us about it.

00:01:16Well, David, it has exceedingly high grip, too, very abrasive surface, and it's particularly hard on the left front tire,

00:01:24which is heavily loaded through turn three there, which you see in the upper left, and the last two corners.

00:01:30Therefore, the race strategy tends to develop around keeping the left front tire operational,

00:01:34which is going to be tough here because of this year's new front wing regulations.

00:01:39An understeer is everybody's problem.

00:01:40You mentioned the big, long straightaway, a big factor on this track, and a track that's used for teams for winter testing,

00:01:49which would make you think that they know what they're doing here, except that the track changes so much minute to minute due to the wind.

00:01:55If we saw how much wind there is, it can affect whether or not you shift up into sixth, for example, on that short straight along the back.

00:02:02This is Jean Alessi on his first hot lap in the Prost, only car on the track.

00:02:06You saw many of the drivers standing around in the garages.

00:02:09It'll be a while before they get out there.

00:02:11We have a couple of changes to the driver lineup to talk about.

00:02:14We're also going to be talking about tires.

00:02:16This track is very abrasive, very hard on the Bridgestones and Michelins.

00:02:19But most important of all this weekend, Steve, is the return to the electronic era of Formula One.

00:02:25Mika Hakonek calls it gizmo time.

00:02:28Launch control, traction control, automatic, electronically controlled gear shifts.

00:02:33Here's Michael Schumacher practicing a start.

00:02:36Yeah, this is launch control.

00:02:37You'll see Michael's hand now, his right hand, activate a button on the left-hand side of the steering wheel, brings the revs up.

00:02:43Now, from this stage, all he has to do is select first gear, and the start is automated.

00:02:47All the peak revs are taken care of, and the gear changes make perfect look.

00:02:51Not a whiff of smoke coming from the rear tires, doesn't look very spectacular, but that is the most perfect textbook stock you're ever going to get from a computer.

00:03:00And then, of course, as it leaves and goes up to the gears, it does all that by itself as well.

00:03:04All pre-programmed in.

00:03:06Now, the teams have the option to use it or not use it.

00:03:09The FIA regulations allow for it, but they don't insist that the teams use it.

00:03:12Just give them the option.

00:03:14121.415.

00:03:16First blood drawn by Jean-Alesi in the pros.

00:03:18He went 120.741 in this morning's session, during which he ranked 13th of the 22 cars on track.

00:03:27Michael Schumacher was quickest this morning at a 118.634, obliterating the new track record of 120.2, set in yesterday's second one-hour practice by David Coulthard, who was very much the quickest man on Friday.

00:03:43Mickey Lauda and Jackie Stewart along the pit wall for Jaguar.

00:03:46There is David Coulthard getting ready.

00:03:48We'll be back.

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00:04:05Welcome back, live qualifying from Barcelona, Spain.

00:04:10This is Tarso Marquez, the Brazilian in the European minority.

00:04:15Only one time has been posted thus far.

00:04:17That by Jean-Alesi in the prost.

00:04:19Flashing downhill, this is corner 13.

00:04:22On to the start-finish straightaway, bouncing along the curbs, across the line.

00:04:27Second quick at 123.496.

00:04:30This morning, Marquez was 124.371, and had the 107% rule been in effect, he would be outside the qualifying zone for the race.

00:04:40This is Michael Schumacher going through tech inspection.

00:04:43He, he, he, weighing himself there, getting his tag.

00:04:48Most of these drivers are so light and small and wiry.

00:04:52It's hard to, we see them in scale with each other, but if you see them in scale with an ordinary person, they're very small.

00:04:59So athletic.

00:04:59Now, a moment ago, we saw Michael Schumacher practicing a start in his Ferrari, and it went very well.

00:05:05Not all of those practice starts went quite as well.

00:05:08Let's take you back again to yesterday, Jacques Villeneuve, Steve.

00:05:11Yeah, well, this is Jacques Villeneuve just going down the pit lane, apparently after doing a practice start,

00:05:15and just keep an eye on the explosion from the Honda engine.

00:05:19It's an explosion in a big way.

00:05:21You can see something Catherine wheeled along there.

00:05:23What a, what a, what a big incident.

00:05:25In fact, the engine destruction was so comprehensive that connecting rods came out the bottom of the block,

00:05:31pierced the floor and the ground.

00:05:34The car was basically lifted off the ground, nailed to the ground, if you will.

00:05:39They couldn't move it.

00:05:40They had to leave it there.

00:05:41They had to leave it there until the end of the session and then crank it away.

00:05:43The old car, well, they, they were never saying them Honda Conrods weren't strong.

00:05:47They pinned that car well and truly to the floor.

00:05:49That is putting a positive spin on it.

00:05:51Schumacher back in the Ferrari garage, trying to consolidate his season that began so well

00:05:59with a couple of victories, but it hasn't been going so well of late.

00:06:03It's Marquez wearing that helmet paint job, very reminiscent of his countryman, Emerson Fittipaldi.

00:06:10After Schumacher dropped out of the Imola Grand Prix with that, you remember that flat tire

00:06:15and the wheel all wobbling, and when John Todd was asked what happened, he said,

00:06:19I think I've given you enough explanation, it was a suspension, but he wouldn't elaborate

00:06:22any more than that.

00:06:24Something didn't work.

00:06:26Since there's no action on the track, we're going to take a quick break as the tech inspectors

00:06:31go to work on Marquez's Minardi.

00:06:33We'll be right back for more live coverage of qualifying from Spain.

00:06:36Welcome back to Spain.

00:06:48There is the crowd darling in round five of the world championship, Pedro de la Rosa,

00:06:53who makes his return to Grand Prix racing, replacing Luciano Berti in the Jaguar team alongside

00:07:00Eddie Irvine.

00:07:01Coming up tomorrow here on Speed Vision, we have the induction ceremonies for the International

00:07:05Motorsports Hall of Fame.

00:07:07At the pleasure of emceeing the ceremonies two weeks ago, the inductees, Neil Bonnet, Jimmy

00:07:11Bryan, Fred Offenhauser, and Mike the Bike Halewood, who was presented by our own David

00:07:16Hobbs.

00:07:16You'll want to see it.

00:07:17The International Motorsports Hall of Fame induction, tomorrow night, 10 p.m. Eastern,

00:07:22midnight Pacific, only on Speed Vision.

00:07:24That was a jolly good evening.

00:07:28That was, I must admit, great to see all those people.

00:07:30It was great.

00:07:31The gracious speeches there by a lot of those ladies who picked up the awards on behalf of

00:07:35their men, especially for the men, Mrs. Bonnet.

00:07:39Great, great.

00:07:39Susan Bonnet gave a great speech.

00:07:41As did Pauline Halewood, who wanted to see the show.

00:07:43This is Jasper Stappen in the Arrows with the Asiatek, forming the Peugeot V10.

00:07:50Yesterday, in practice, his teammate, Enrique Bernoldi, was the fastest car on the track in

00:07:55a straight line, topping out at about 197 miles an hour on the front straightaway.

00:07:59Interestingly, a relative of that engine, an ancestor, really,

00:08:29is still the lap record holder, the Giancarlo Fischichella record of 122.2, set in 1997 by

00:08:37the Jordan Peugeot.

00:08:39In the race?

00:08:40Yes.

00:08:42The outright lap record has been pummeled here thus far this weekend.

00:08:47It's been dropped by more than two seconds.

00:08:50Yes, the qualifying record last year was 120.9 by Schumacher.

00:08:55And, of course, as you said, it has dropped significantly.

00:09:00How much of that, Steve, do you suppose is due to traction control, and how much just

00:09:05to the progress of the year?

00:09:07Well, to set the scene with traction control, the teams are allowed to use it, as we said

00:09:11at the top of the show.

00:09:12You know, the FIA have consented that the teams are allowed to use it, but they don't have

00:09:16to use it.

00:09:16Remember, the last time it was used in Anker was seven years ago, and we all know how

00:09:20much computer technology has soared in the last seven years.

00:09:23What the engineers are using traction control for now is a much more sophisticated, precise

00:09:28way of using it than they were before.

00:09:30Certain corners they will activate the traction control, certain corners they will leave it

00:09:36off.

00:09:36The reason is, of course, you put traction control on and it saps engine power one way

00:09:40or another, and there are several ways of doing it.

00:09:42Yoss just taking provisional toll, but I don't think that's going to last for very long.

00:09:45The thing that's really speeded them up, of course, is the intense tyre war between

00:09:49Michelin and Bridgestone.

00:09:51Michelin having their first win two weeks ago with Imola, which I think is probably ahead

00:09:55of what people really thought they would be doing.

00:09:57But, I mean, as the year progresses, that tyre war is only going to intensify, and I

00:10:01actually think we're going to see big drops in lap times in a lot of the circuits.

00:10:05Yeah, and I think a lot of the performance out of the cars is from the tyres.

00:10:09It's very easy to overplay the role of traction control.

00:10:13It's more critical, I think, the drivers to get used to setting the gearboxes up.

00:10:16But what the engineers will do is a much more sophisticated way of doing it.

00:10:20Now, what they want to do, of course, is get the tyres to work with as much maximum power

00:10:24going through there as possible.

00:10:25And if they can do that by not using traction control on certain corners, they won't activate

00:10:29it.

00:10:29They won't switch it on.

00:10:30Well, of course, where it's really going to come into its own is races like last year's,

00:10:33that race at the Nervo Drain, when it's damp, that's when it'll really come to its own.

00:10:36Here's another of the driver changes.

00:10:38This is Luciano Berti, who was replaced at Jaguar by Pedro De La Rosa.

00:10:43Berti immediately picked up an offer from Alain Prost to replace Gaston Mazzucani, the Argentine

00:10:48driver in his team.

00:10:49And Berti goes to the top of the time chart.

00:10:52Four cars now on the board with Berti, the quickest.

00:10:57Berti has done decently for Jaguar, though.

00:11:00He had an 8th, a 10th, and an 11th in three of the four races, a DNF in the fourth.

00:11:07But quite an interesting shuffle on.

00:11:09They are really hot to have De La Rosa there at Jaguar.

00:11:11But Luciano Berti there out-qualifying Alain Prost there by only just over 10th of a second.

00:11:18But still in all, that's a good run for Berti, his first run in the prop.

00:11:23This is Fernando Alonso, the 19-year-old Spanish teenager.

00:11:27He, too, will be a real crowd darling this weekend.

00:11:30The interesting thing is Minardi, although they've run four races this year, had their first test this last week.

00:11:36So I don't know whether it's helped them much, but imagine that.

00:11:41They've gone racing without testing.

00:11:44Alonso slots into the number four spot, bumping one of the five drivers now on the board.

00:11:50Still not much action on the racetrack.

00:11:52All the heavy hitters still in the pit lane.

00:11:56So we'll take an opportunity to slip in another break, which will leave us lots of free time toward the end of the program

00:12:01when the really important laps are being run.

00:12:04So stand by.

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00:12:26Welcome back.

00:12:27Nearly one quarter of the way through this one-hour qualifying session for the Spanish Grand Prix.

00:12:31Bob Barsha, Sam Posey, David Hobbs, and Steve Mansfield with you here on SpeedVision.

00:12:36Enrique Bernoldi has put the arrows at the top of the time charts.

00:12:40Eight men have recorded times, but on track right now is David Coulthard, quickest man of the weekend thus far.

00:12:47That is up until this morning when Michael Schumacher went quickest.

00:12:51As you can see, D.C. coming off a pole two weeks ago at Imola is working that car hard.

00:12:55He has finished every race so far this year, all four.

00:13:00He's the only man to have done that, and he's been on the podium each time.

00:13:04And it's really been a renaissance this year for David Coulthard.

00:13:08The reliability of McLaren, coupled with, frankly, the fact that his teammate, Mika Hakkinen,

00:13:13is just a little bit less than he has been in the past.

00:13:16Mika Hakkinen this morning, for instance, was eighth quickest.

00:13:20Maybe Coulthard was third.

00:13:21Whereas it used to be the other way around, didn't it, David?

00:13:26Absolutely.

00:13:26Hakkinen always seemed to have a couple of tents.

00:13:29Coulthard made an interesting revelation last week at the opening of his new hotel in Monte Carlo.

00:13:34On the eve of the Imola, the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola two weeks ago,

00:13:39he had emergency surgery on his left ear to remove an abscess that had developed,

00:13:44they think, because of an improperly fitted earpiece that set up a vibration

00:13:48and was causing him that problem.

00:13:51Wow.

00:13:51That was extraordinary that the night before a Grand Prix, he'd be there getting it worked on.

00:13:56But perhaps he had no choice.

00:13:57And he immediately lops 2.3 seconds off of quick time.

00:14:01That's quick.

00:14:03That compares right there with Michael Schumacher's morning time.

00:14:09Well, you know, Jack Brabham, in the year that he first won the championship, 1959,

00:14:14had to have a sliver of glass removed from his eye on the eve of his championship winning drive.

00:14:20And while Spanish television covers David Coulthard,

00:14:23you see Yarno Trullian, the Jordan Honda, has jumped right up to second spot,

00:14:27eight-tenths of a second slower than Coulthard.

00:14:29But so far this year, the Jordans have, so to speak, flattered only to the scene.

00:14:33They've been picking up where they left off at the end of last year,

00:14:37which has been very disappointing, despite the fact they now have the works Honda engines

00:14:42and should be right there on the pace.

00:14:44Well, going into the season, of course, they really wanted to be best of the rest,

00:14:46but the BMW team so far is showing everybody a clean pair of heels of being best of the rest

00:14:52and is obviously becoming very competitive with the best.

00:14:55Although BMW, which should have had this race all to themselves in a sense because of the huge straightaway,

00:15:02in fact, seems to be temporarily out to lunch.

00:15:06I mean, as of this morning, their best qualifier is back in the middle of the pack,

00:15:10Rolf Schumacher in ninth.

00:15:14You see David Coulthard coming in.

00:15:15We saw Yarno Trulli in the yellow Jordan on a cool-down lap.

00:15:18Cars posting hot laps as we speak.

00:15:21Jensen Button, Eddie Irvine, Giancarlo Fisichella,

00:15:24and Juan Pablo Montoya has gone out of the Williams BMW.

00:15:28Now, earlier we saw Jacques Villeneuve suffer an engine explosion.

00:15:31The Williams team, as you see Eddie Irvine right there,

00:15:34went through six engines last week in testing,

00:15:38trying to get their electronics package working properly.

00:15:41And just as Coulthard is the only driver to have finished all the races,

00:15:45Montoya is the only driver to have finished none of the races.

00:15:49I don't think having the engine go could have increased his confidence a lot for this weekend.

00:15:54And it's too bad, too, because Montoya won the Formula 3000 race here some years back

00:16:00and had every reason and did a lot of winter testing here.

00:16:03I think it was in 98.

00:16:05And he really could have looked forward to this race as possibly his first win,

00:16:09but they don't seem to have the electronics sorted out.

00:16:11The traction control obviously issues for them being a bit of a problem here this weekend,

00:16:16but no doubt they'll soon find their way through that maze.

00:16:19Eddie Irvine jumps to the third spot,

00:16:21albeit two seconds slower than our current Polster, David Coulthard.

00:16:26So it'll look for a lot of good time from the Ferraris here.

00:16:30Michael Schumacher out now.

00:16:31As far as the electronics are concerned,

00:16:33we have to remember, of course, that this is the first race that traction control

00:16:37and all the other electronics are allowed back in.

00:16:39And as we touched on in the show yesterday,

00:16:41you know, the electronics engineers, this is pretty much the first race of the season.

00:16:44All the work that they did in preparing the electronics for the control systems up to this race

00:16:49has more or less just been scrapped.

00:16:50In reality, they'll just be stored away for safekeeping

00:16:53for the off chance that traction control is banned again.

00:16:56But for them, for the electronics engineers, day one at the circuit.

00:16:59This is Rubens Barrichello coming around.

00:17:01Most of the heavy hitters are on track right now.

00:17:04Jacques Villeneuve off and on.

00:17:07Barrichello currently stands third in the world championship.

00:17:10Also on track right now, Ralph Schumacher, Pedro De La Rosa.

00:17:17You just saw Villeneuve.

00:17:19Kimi Räikkönen is out there.

00:17:20Mika Hakkinen as well.

00:17:23Terrific mix of turns on this track.

00:17:26But the best of all, the last two that lead out onto the straight,

00:17:31you've got to really take a deep breath and hustle through those

00:17:34because your exit speed, of course, affects your straightaway speed.

00:17:38So Barrichello just over two and a half tenths slower

00:17:40on that first 22-second segment.

00:17:44David, you know what's interesting about the sector times,

00:17:46when you keep an eye on this,

00:17:48is the third sector is comprised only of turns.

00:17:51It's the last three turns.

00:17:53So you get an idea of just the cornering capability of the car.

00:17:57Yeah.

00:17:58Mika Hakkinen's second quick, as you saw.

00:18:00This is Barrichello continuing his hot lap.

00:18:02Three tenths of a second slower than David Coulthard

00:18:05to the second intermediate.

00:18:06And now this is that third section Sam was talking about,

00:18:09all twisting and diving.

00:18:12And Barrichello really fighting with the steering wheel

00:18:14to control the understeer on that Ferrari

00:18:16through this section of the circuit.

00:18:20See, turn, turn, turn, and then this is still part of the sector.

00:18:24Third quick for Barrichello, bumping Kimi Räikkönen,

00:18:27who had just grabbed the third spot in the Sauber

00:18:29before the Brazilian came through.

00:18:31Kimi Räikkönen having an extraordinary weekend.

00:18:34I mean, he was fourth quickest this morning in the practice,

00:18:37fifth quickest this morning in practice.

00:18:39And I mean, he was like less than a tenth of a second slower than...

00:18:43And notice Juan Montoya has his car up in the sixth spot.

00:18:48As you see, cars coming back in now,

00:18:50having completed their first run.

00:18:52This is Michael Schumacher headed for the pit exit.

00:18:57We'll see what he can do.

00:19:00It was strange to see him practicing that start

00:19:03and making such a great start with no wheel spin at all.

00:19:07Here's the Villeneuve incident.

00:19:08Now, there's talk about paving over a lot of these gravel traps.

00:19:15I talked to the safety expert, John Fitch, during this week,

00:19:18and he told me they're doing it at Silverstone.

00:19:21Not in time for this year's race, but in time for next year's race.

00:19:25And I think you're going to see the beginning of the end

00:19:27of the gravel trap era,

00:19:30which I must say I think a lot of that was triggered

00:19:33by what happened to Michael Schumacher in Adelaide

00:19:36because that trap literally tripped his car

00:19:39and caused a completely unnecessary flip.

00:19:42Scary business.

00:19:43I just wonder about those paved areas.

00:19:46When you have some sort of a brake failure,

00:19:50at least they slow you down a little bit.

00:19:51Obviously, on the asphalt,

00:19:53you're just going to rocketing straight across that.

00:19:55Absolutely.

00:19:55I mean, if you can put the brakes on

00:19:56and use the tyres to scrub off speed, even in a spin,

00:19:59but if you've got no brakes...

00:20:00Yeah.

00:20:01Where do you scrub the speed off?

00:20:04I don't quite follow the argument.

00:20:05I don't.

00:20:06I must say, yeah.

00:20:07Well, perhaps with a spin.

00:20:08I mean, I think, you know, as with any safety issue,

00:20:11there are always compromises.

00:20:13I mean, for example, seatbelts.

00:20:15If you're going to go into the water

00:20:16off of a bridge in Florida somewhere,

00:20:18you're going to wish you didn't have your seatbelt on.

00:20:20In 95% of the cases, it's a better thing.

00:20:24And I think that's what you have to weigh up

00:20:26in the case of the gravel trap.

00:20:27It gets a line outside there, doesn't it?

00:20:30That line, I mean, every year they go to that corner

00:20:32and I always say, oh, my God, he's gone off the road.

00:20:34Right.

00:20:35They're right there.

00:20:37It's a magnificent circuit.

00:20:39Average speed around here, about 132.

00:20:42Well, it was one of the circuits built

00:20:43after the turn of the final decade of the millennium,

00:20:47I guess you'd say.

00:20:48And unlike places like Spa and Monza,

00:20:51which are so majestic and so unique,

00:20:54it's part of the new generation of tracks

00:20:56that fold in on themselves

00:20:58to take up the minimum amount of acreage

00:21:00and provide spectators with as long a view

00:21:03of the race cars as possible.

00:21:04But having said that,

00:21:05it's actually a pretty cool race track.

00:21:07Bob and I were there.

00:21:08It's opening at the Grand Prix debut

00:21:11a short 10 years ago.

00:21:12A short 10 years ago.

00:21:13Well, gentlemen, I haven't been there,

00:21:15but it's quite close to the Mediterranean, I gather,

00:21:18and the wind blows in off the sea.

00:21:20And that can affect the gear selection considerably,

00:21:24particularly along that backstretch,

00:21:26which sometimes the drivers keep their cars in fifth

00:21:29and sometimes with the following wind,

00:21:31they'll go for sixth.

00:21:32Yeah, and talking about it,

00:21:33and I can remember the 91 was the first race,

00:21:36I think, at the Barcelona circuit,

00:21:37and I was down in the pits working as a mechanic.

00:21:40The wind changed overnight.

00:21:41When we left the cars on one night,

00:21:42we came on the Friday.

00:21:43We came back in on the Saturday morning.

00:21:45The wind did change down the main straight.

00:21:46We were doing a sixth ratio gear change by torchlight

00:21:50because all the electrics had failed in the garage as well.

00:21:52So we used a little torches to change gear on sixth ratio.

00:21:56Not the ideal way to work.

00:21:58Well, there was a dab of wet paint here and there

00:22:00when they opened the racetrack.

00:22:01Michael Schumacher rockets to the top of the provisional grid

00:22:05over David Coulthard.

00:22:07We'll take a break and return with more live qualifying

00:22:09in just a moment.

00:22:16Welcome back.

00:22:17We're on board with Jasper Stoppen,

00:22:18who just went the quickest he's gone all weekend.

00:22:20A 120.73 second lap

00:22:23that puts him into the provisional 11th spot.

00:22:26A good run for the Dutchman.

00:22:27Tomorrow night here on Speed Vision,

00:22:29we'll have World Superbike racing for you from Sugo, Japan.

00:22:32Same-day coverage of Race 1 begins at 8 p.m. Eastern, 9 Pacific,

00:22:36hopefully to be followed by Race 2 at 9 Eastern, 10 Pacific.

00:22:40If you were with us last weekend in Australia,

00:22:42they didn't get that second race in,

00:22:43but hopefully they will get clear skies in Japan.

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00:22:50David Coulthard, currently second on the provisional grid.

00:22:54Three drivers have yet to get within the 107% rule.

00:22:57One of those is Jacques Villeneuve,

00:22:59who's had an off and on in the VAR.

00:23:01The other two, Pedro De La Rosa in the Jaguar,

00:23:03and Nick Heidfeld in the Sauber.

00:23:06Well, David Coulthard had some wake-up call

00:23:09about a minute and a half ago.

00:23:10Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:11Michael Schumacher put in a time

00:23:13that was four-tenths of a second faster

00:23:16than Coulthard had done.

00:23:17So now, can he reply?

00:23:19This is a key moment of presence being blocked right now,

00:23:21but hopefully not in a way that will hurt his lap time.

00:23:25A very quick response by Coulthard.

00:23:27We didn't see much of Michael Schumacher's lap,

00:23:30but it was pretty astounding.

00:23:31He was half a second quicker than David Coulthard,

00:23:34and this morning they had all been within

00:23:36a hundredth of a second or so of each other.

00:23:38So, obviously, David Coulthard responding

00:23:41absolutely immediately,

00:23:42but so far, not responding well enough.

00:23:45Well, that could have been the traffic.

00:23:48Yeah, although I think that Verstappen

00:23:49was giving him plenty of room,

00:23:51but nevertheless, you know,

00:23:53when you run up on somebody on the track,

00:23:54as you know, Sam,

00:23:56I mean, you just catch him at the wrong time,

00:23:58it really puts you off your stride,

00:24:00even if they don't have to get in the way.

00:24:02But this is not going to happen.

00:24:05Four-tenths of a second off,

00:24:07just about what he was when he began that lap.

00:24:09So he still remains in second spot.

00:24:14Mika Harkonnen is in there

00:24:18in third or fourth spot at the moment,

00:24:19but he'll respond again, no doubt,

00:24:20as will Barrichello,

00:24:22who now is starting to slide down

00:24:23the time sheet somewhere.

00:24:24Now, Coulthard is going for

00:24:25what appears to be a second flyer.

00:24:28Do you agree, Steve?

00:24:29I think he is, yeah.

00:24:30He's still very much on the pace,

00:24:31and whether or not he's just trying

00:24:32to test things out and come back in

00:24:34and take those tires off,

00:24:35but I get the impression he's still in the

00:24:36flying lap trying to get a second time out.

00:24:39I know it's annoying for those of you

00:24:41who don't get to see it.

00:24:42We occasionally get emails

00:24:43from some of our viewers

00:24:44asking why we don't show this or that.

00:24:47Well, the point is,

00:24:48these pictures come to us

00:24:49from a host broadcaster,

00:24:50in this case Spanish television.

00:24:52We have no control over these cameras,

00:24:54so what we get is what you get.

00:24:57If we did have control,

00:24:59we would point the cameras

00:25:00at exactly what the audience wishes to see.

00:25:04Now, Olivier Panné has had a great year this year,

00:25:06eighth at the moment,

00:25:08well quicker than his teammate,

00:25:11Jacques Villeneuve.

00:25:11In fact, he's been quicker than him

00:25:12in the last, well, if he's quicker this time,

00:25:14it'll be three races in a row,

00:25:16and he was having a pretty good run

00:25:17a couple of weeks ago in Imola.

00:25:19We saw him getting passed by Barrichello earlier on,

00:25:22but he had a good run last couple of weeks ago.

00:25:25It was Eddie Irvine who astonished everyone

00:25:27by taking the fuel out,

00:25:28slapping on some fresh Michelins,

00:25:30and going second quickest in Friday practice.

00:25:36But as David Coulthard,

00:25:37quickest on the day, pointed out,

00:25:39on Friday, it really doesn't matter.

00:25:41No, it really doesn't matter a heck of a lot.

00:25:44Today, it's tomorrow that really counts,

00:25:47although, of course,

00:25:48the qualifying is such an important part of the weekend.

00:25:51I'd say what's happening right now

00:25:53does matter a good deal,

00:25:54because this is a tricky track to pass on,

00:25:57because those fast turns that lead out onto the straight

00:25:59are such that if you try to get close behind another driver,

00:26:03you get into the turbulent air and lose grip.

00:26:09David Coulthard there,

00:26:10trying to explain with a nod of his head.

00:26:13Yeah, I think the thing is, you know,

00:26:14David, they all do that, don't they?

00:26:16All the cars react like that

00:26:18whenever you see a driver.

00:26:19So, no, I always used to do that.

00:26:21Here comes Irvine to the line.

00:26:23Nearly two and a half seconds off of Schumacher's time.

00:26:26Meanwhile, his teammate Pedro De La Rosa,

00:26:28who's shown in Friday practice,

00:26:30is very slow.

00:26:31He's down toward the bottom

00:26:32of the running order right now.

00:26:34Mika Hakkinen is on a quick lap right now,

00:26:37I believe.

00:26:38De La Rosa was 21st in the session before this.

00:26:42This morning, yes.

00:26:43That's a view we haven't seen of this track before.

00:26:46Nifty one, too.

00:26:47Yeah, great view of the track

00:26:48and, of course, the surrounding countryside.

00:26:50Ron Dennis there on the right.

00:26:51Ron Dennis.

00:26:52On the left, that's Adrian Newey on the right,

00:26:54I believe, just looking at bald patches

00:26:56and, I was going to say, spreading waistlines.

00:26:58Very similar.

00:26:59Ron Dennis worth about $200 million at last count.

00:27:04Not bad.

00:27:06But not as good as Bernie Ecclestone,

00:27:08who owns the commercial rights to Formula One,

00:27:10who is cited as the fastest rising,

00:27:15how shall I say this,

00:27:16the quickest rise in personal wealth.

00:27:18He's now about the third richest man in England,

00:27:20worth $4.3 billion,

00:27:23almost exclusively off of his Formula One earnings.

00:27:26The most nouveau of nouveau riche, maybe.

00:27:29Is Mika's wife.

00:27:30We had a couple of emails talking about emails coming in.

00:27:33People are a little bit unsure

00:27:34when we talk about fully automatic transmissions.

00:27:37People say, you know,

00:27:38why automatic transmission on these cars?

00:27:40What are you talking about?

00:27:41Why would people want to possibly do that?

00:27:42It's not really a fully automatic transmission.

00:27:45It remains the same manual six or seven speed

00:27:47manual ratio gearbox,

00:27:49but the change mechanism is now fully automatic.

00:27:53So what they do,

00:27:54the cars are built with a system

00:27:55very similar to a motorcycle selector.

00:27:57It's a rotary selector

00:27:59powered by 3,500 PSI hydraulic fluid.

00:28:03That's what makes the changes.

00:28:04And the fully automatic selection

00:28:05means that you can program the gearbox

00:28:07to go from sixth to second or fifth to third,

00:28:09whatever the engineers and the drivers decide

00:28:11is the best solution,

00:28:12and program that onto a switch onto the serial.

00:28:14That's what we're talking about

00:28:15when we say fully automatic gearboxes,

00:28:17not what we, you know,

00:28:18not automatic systems

00:28:20in the way of a road car would work.

00:28:22Steve, we recently interviewed Dan Gurney

00:28:24and he talked about shifting the car quickly

00:28:26by the special technique.

00:28:28How quickly,

00:28:29of course, that's 30 years ago.

00:28:30How quickly are these cars shifted today?

00:28:33They're about 30 to 40 milliseconds

00:28:35from gear change to gear change.

00:28:39That's quick enough.

00:28:40Juan Montoya heads to the pit lane

00:28:42in the Williams BMW.

00:28:43There's Mika Hakkinen

00:28:44being pushed backwards into the garage.

00:28:46Ralph Schumacher jumps up to fourth,

00:28:49Hakkinen is third.

00:28:51Schumacher leads.

00:28:52We'll be back.

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00:29:09We're back live and qualifying

00:29:11for the Spanish Grand Prix.

00:29:12Bob Varsha, David Hobbs,

00:29:13Steve Matchett, and Sam Posey with you.

00:29:15This is Jensen Button.

00:29:16While we were away,

00:29:17Rubens Botticello jumped to fourth

00:29:19on the provisional time sheet

00:29:20and Pedro De La Rosa,

00:29:22much to the delight of a big crowd

00:29:24here on him for qualifying,

00:29:26managed to squeeze his way into the field

00:29:28in the Jaguar up into 19th place,

00:29:30leaving only Nick Heinfeld

00:29:32and the Sauber

00:29:33outside the 107% rule.

00:29:36And that's ironic

00:29:36because Heinfeld was fifth quick this morning.

00:29:39Jensen Button has an injured shoulder

00:29:41which prevented him

00:29:42from attending the practice sessions.

00:29:46suffered some injury to his left shoulder

00:29:50which he says makes the car difficult for him to drive.

00:29:53In addition to all the electronic driver aids

00:29:55being added to these cars,

00:29:57there's also some things being taken away.

00:29:59Among them,

00:29:59the power steering

00:30:00that's ubiquitous in Formula One these days

00:30:02and power-assisted braking.

00:30:06The idea being that the steering and braking inputs

00:30:09can also be controlled by computers

00:30:10and that is not permitted.

00:30:12What the teams want to try and avoid

00:30:15or the FIA want to try and avoid

00:30:17on the power steering situation,

00:30:18they don't want the teams

00:30:19to be able to use the electronic signal

00:30:21which determines if you're turning right or left

00:30:24and to what degree you're turning right or left.

00:30:26The FIA do not want the teams to use that

00:30:28to control the differential,

00:30:30to be able to lock up

00:30:31one side of the diff or the other

00:30:33which will cause torque steer on the rear

00:30:35which effectively is the McLaren brake system

00:30:37that was banned a couple of years ago.

00:30:39You remember when McLaren had that on the car?

00:30:40That's what they're trying to avoid.

00:30:42They do not want the teams

00:30:43to make use of that signal

00:30:44coming off the steering rack.

00:30:46That's Fernando Alonso.

00:30:47That's a little bit of a Jean-Alesi look about him

00:30:49in the car, doesn't he?

00:30:50Right now the rules makers are caught

00:30:52between a rock and a hard place, I think.

00:30:55They are trying to ban driver's aid

00:30:58so that we'll see the drama of the driver at work

00:31:01and yet at the same time

00:31:02they are acknowledging

00:31:03that they can't police the electronics

00:31:05and therefore they better let them in.

00:31:07Well, last week on our speedvision.com website

00:31:10Morris Hamilton wrote a column

00:31:11in which he said

00:31:12don't be fooled by all this smoke

00:31:13about how we're improving

00:31:15automotive technology and whatnot.

00:31:16The sole reason why

00:31:18the electronic driver aids

00:31:19are back on the cars

00:31:20is because the rules keepers

00:31:22cannot police them.

00:31:24And so that's a very important situation.

00:31:26You know, the teams are also caught.

00:31:28The teams, I don't think the teams

00:31:29particularly want to use

00:31:30traction control and electronics

00:31:31because it's another expense

00:31:33that they don't want to cover

00:31:34and it's another potential

00:31:35that something can go wrong.

00:31:37If it's on the car, it can fail.

00:31:38But because the rules allow for it,

00:31:41what are the teams to do?

00:31:42If they can get the traction control systems

00:31:44to work, they will go quicker.

00:31:45And that is what they're in business to do.

00:31:48Now, if at some stage

00:31:49the FOI can say

00:31:50boys, we've worked it out,

00:31:51we can ban traction control tomorrow

00:31:53and there's no risk,

00:31:54no ambiguity of cheating.

00:31:56It's not possible to cheat.

00:31:57I bet 99.9% of all the teams

00:32:00will say, take it off, boys.

00:32:01We don't want it.

00:32:02But the situation is now,

00:32:03it's on.

00:32:04We've got to make

00:32:05the best of the situation.

00:32:07But Steve,

00:32:07what about the argument

00:32:09that Formula One

00:32:10should represent

00:32:10the cutting edge of technology

00:32:12and that most of the cars

00:32:14in the, you know,

00:32:15in the spectator area

00:32:16have some form

00:32:16of traction control?

00:32:18Does that start to make

00:32:19it an awkward situation?

00:32:21Yeah, I think this comes down

00:32:22to a personal preference.

00:32:23For me, looking at the situation

00:32:24from a mechanic,

00:32:24I like the electronics,

00:32:26you know,

00:32:26I think that's what Formula One is.

00:32:27It's a technical sport.

00:32:29I can understand the people

00:32:30who say they're taken away

00:32:31from the drivers.

00:32:32Yes, I can see that.

00:32:33But it's not purely

00:32:34a driver's championship.

00:32:36If that was the case,

00:32:37the cars must be clones

00:32:38of each other.

00:32:39You must be able

00:32:39to take Hakenham

00:32:40from his Mercedes

00:32:41and put him into a Minardi

00:32:42and produce the same lap time

00:32:44to say it's a pure

00:32:44driver's championship.

00:32:46Because the McLaren

00:32:46and the Ferrari are quicker,

00:32:48it's a team sport.

00:32:49That's where I think it is.

00:32:52This is Enrique Bernoldi,

00:32:54Nick Heidfeld remains

00:32:55the only driver

00:32:56outside the 107% role

00:32:57and he has completed

00:32:58just two laps.

00:33:00Who said they can't

00:33:02slide these cars?

00:33:03I don't think his traction control

00:33:05is working just the way

00:33:06it's supposed to.

00:33:08That's exactly what

00:33:09is supposed not to happen.

00:33:11Of course, Patrick Head,

00:33:12the chief designer

00:33:14and the partner in Williams,

00:33:15of course,

00:33:16says quite clearly

00:33:17that he just loves

00:33:18to see these cars

00:33:19tracking sideways like that.

00:33:21a huge power slide

00:33:23because that makes

00:33:23him feel the driver.

00:33:24Wow, look at that.

00:33:25Fourteenth for Bernoldi.

00:33:26That isn't too bad at all.

00:33:28Patrick said that he thought,

00:33:29I'm sorry,

00:33:30but he loves to see

00:33:30all that sliding around.

00:33:32Yeah.

00:33:32He said that what you should have

00:33:35is a car that weighs

00:33:36about a thousand pounds

00:33:37and has 800 horsepower.

00:33:38Yeah, of course,

00:33:40that's what Gilles Buren

00:33:41have always said.

00:33:42Here comes Michael Schumacher

00:33:43just warming up.

00:33:44David Coulthard

00:33:45also on track right now.

00:33:47Schumacher has made

00:33:48absolutely the most use

00:33:49of his time on the track.

00:33:51I mean, he's had just one run,

00:33:53put it on the pole.

00:33:54He's well clear of everybody.

00:33:55He's obviously going

00:33:56pretty slowly here

00:33:57to let somebody in front

00:33:58get farther up the road.

00:34:00Get farther up the road.

00:34:02We're saving his tires.

00:34:03This track is very abrasive.

00:34:05He may want that little bit

00:34:06of edge on the Bridgestones

00:34:07to last as long as possible.

00:34:08This turn right here

00:34:10is one of the ones

00:34:11that's so hard on the tires.

00:34:15And this one.

00:34:16Yeah.

00:34:18So here he goes.

00:34:21It'll be interesting to see

00:34:22how he does in comparison

00:34:24with his own pole time

00:34:26and whether he gains

00:34:28or loses in that

00:34:29turns-only third sector.

00:34:32I hope to stay with him here.

00:34:34This is this one

00:34:35where they get so close

00:34:36to the edge of the road.

00:34:37Look.

00:34:37Oh, boy.

00:34:39He was to have had

00:34:40a new chassis

00:34:40for this race.

00:34:42It was finished earlier

00:34:43in the week.

00:34:44A little bit slower

00:34:45on that first sector.

00:34:47Quite a bit slower, really.

00:34:50Considering it's such a short sector,

00:34:51right?

00:34:51Yeah.

00:34:51Michael Schumacher has two victories

00:34:54at this track in 95 and 96,

00:34:56but maybe his best drive ever

00:34:58came in 1994.

00:35:00Remember that race

00:35:01when he lost all gears

00:35:02but fifth in the car?

00:35:04He's flying around,

00:35:04driving this racetrack

00:35:05with all the stop and start

00:35:07in fifth gear only

00:35:08and finished second.

00:35:09I believe you were there

00:35:12in the pits watching him do it.

00:35:13Oh, here we go.

00:35:14He's made up the time.

00:35:16Wow.

00:35:16Sensational.

00:35:17A fantastic second sector

00:35:19by Michael Schumacher.

00:35:19All right, now he's in this third

00:35:21turns-only section.

00:35:23The last two turns

00:35:25of which, of course,

00:35:26are very, very quick.

00:35:28Watch this last right-hander.

00:35:30Amazing corner.

00:35:35To the line.

00:35:37Yep.

00:35:38Yep.

00:35:38Just barely improving.

00:35:41Now, David Coulthard, we believe,

00:35:43is out on the track

00:35:43at the same time.

00:35:45As is Mika Hackinen

00:35:46at this point.

00:35:48So, let's go back

00:35:49to the other two

00:35:50and not spend too much time

00:35:51on Schumacher

00:35:52the slowing down lap.

00:35:53Yes, yes, we know

00:35:54Jean-Todd is paying attention.

00:35:55There's Jean-Todd watching

00:35:56one of the players.

00:35:59Here you see him.

00:36:00David Coulthard.

00:36:01Now, he's got...

00:36:02Ooh.

00:36:02Okay, Jack gave him

00:36:03play room there.

00:36:04He is second quick.

00:36:06That's a lap he just completed.

00:36:10That's his best time.

00:36:11He hasn't improved.

00:36:12Okay, so this...

00:36:13So, he's still 4 tenths lower.

00:36:14Now, he still has a hot lap

00:36:15to come, though.

00:36:16So, he has eight laps

00:36:18in the books thus far.

00:36:19This will be his ninth

00:36:20of the 12 allowable.

00:36:2213 minutes

00:36:23and 10 seconds left to go.

00:36:30I think this is slowing down.

00:36:32I believe it is.

00:36:33I think he already

00:36:33tried a lap

00:36:34and did not improve.

00:36:35Hackinen didn't improve

00:36:36either because he was

00:36:37out of track

00:36:37at the same time.

00:36:38Barichello is still

00:36:39going to have to go out again.

00:36:41Ralph Schumacher

00:36:42up there in fifth spot.

00:36:43That's his best run

00:36:44of the weekend so far.

00:36:45Look at that.

00:36:46Kimi Räikkönen

00:36:46still in heat.

00:36:48And Pannis

00:36:49out-qualifying

00:36:50Villeneuve

00:36:50once again.

00:36:52That's Barichello.

00:36:53Barichello.

00:36:56David Coulthard

00:36:57right there.

00:36:58He's returning

00:36:58to the track.

00:36:59Recall a year ago,

00:37:00this was the first race

00:37:01just days

00:37:02after the plane crash

00:37:04in which he cracked

00:37:05a rib

00:37:05and his two pilots

00:37:07were killed.

00:37:08He came to the race,

00:37:10drove to the podium

00:37:11in the event

00:37:11despite the pain

00:37:12in his chest

00:37:13and in his heart

00:37:14and then did not

00:37:16mount the podium

00:37:16out of respect

00:37:17to the two pilots

00:37:19killed in the plane crash.

00:37:21Jackie Stewart,

00:37:22Nicky Lauda.

00:37:24There's six

00:37:25world championships.

00:37:27Nick Heidfeld

00:37:28has joined the ranks

00:37:30of the breathing.

00:37:30He is up into 11th.

00:37:33And that must be

00:37:34a huge relief

00:37:34for the young German

00:37:35and tremendous relief

00:37:36but those Salvas

00:37:37are going so well.

00:37:39Heidfeld

00:37:39and Raikkonen.

00:37:41Peter Salva

00:37:42must be absolutely

00:37:43ecstatic

00:37:43with the year so far.

00:37:44Think.

00:37:45Have that Ferrari

00:37:46engine in gear

00:37:47by Raikkonen.

00:37:48Young Finn

00:37:49is 7th.

00:37:55Raikkonen.

00:37:56No improvement.

00:37:59118.

00:38:01683

00:38:02improves

00:38:03his previous best

00:38:03by about

00:38:040.13

00:38:05seconds

00:38:05but it does not

00:38:07move him up the grid.

00:38:07And right now

00:38:08there are

00:38:09about 12

00:38:11to 15

00:38:12cars on track

00:38:13with about

00:38:1611 minutes

00:38:17and change

00:38:17to go.

00:38:18there's one of them

00:38:18and there's one of them

00:38:18that's off the track.

00:38:20There he is.

00:38:20That's Verstappen.

00:38:23Flying Dutchman.

00:38:24Going to drag a lot of gravel

00:38:25onto the exit of that corner.

00:38:30Currently the 16 spot.

00:38:31He's been out qualified

00:38:32by his rookie teammate

00:38:33Enrique Bernoldi

00:38:34to this point.

00:38:35This is Jarno Trulli.

00:38:37Jarno Trulli needs to pick up

00:38:38the pace a little bit.

00:38:40Boy, he's sure trying to.

00:38:42Pretty good lap.

00:38:44That's an improvement.

00:38:45He goes up one row

00:38:46from eighth to sixth

00:38:48for the moment.

00:38:49Trulli was as high as second

00:38:51in this morning's practice

00:38:52before being bumped back

00:38:54to an eventual sixth place finish.

00:38:56So he's bumped his teammate

00:38:57Frensen to seventh there.

00:38:59Räikkönen now down to eighth.

00:39:02Trulli suffered a broken clutch

00:39:04in the morning session

00:39:05of Friday practice

00:39:06and got just five laps.

00:39:09Eddie Irvine back in 14th.

00:39:16Montoya must have more

00:39:18in him yet.

00:39:19Down in 12th.

00:39:21Schumacher, of course,

00:39:22qualified on the pole

00:39:23for the first three races

00:39:24of the year

00:39:24and then dropped suddenly

00:39:25and inexplicably to fourth

00:39:27two weeks ago at Imola.

00:39:29So this is a return to form.

00:39:34To the line.

00:39:35It's going to be a quick lap.

00:39:37Third.

00:39:38Yeah, so he jumps into third.

00:39:39He pushes Hocken and Bob, right?

00:39:41Back to the end.

00:39:46Boy, they are punched

00:39:47very, very closely

00:39:48at the top of the time charts

00:39:49right now.

00:39:50His wife, Erja, looks on.

00:39:51Mechanics checking his watch

00:39:52and well he might

00:39:53with ten minutes left to go.

00:39:54So both Hocken and Coulthard

00:39:57have got one more run left.

00:39:58Is that right?

00:39:59That puts three drivers

00:40:00in second, third, and fourth.

00:40:01Coulthard, Barrichello

00:40:02and Hocken in all

00:40:03on one minute,

00:40:0418.6 seconds.

00:40:05Here's Verstappen's off.

00:40:10Now in a situation like that,

00:40:11do you think

00:40:11a big paved area

00:40:13would slow it down

00:40:14more than that gravel?

00:40:15I think probably

00:40:16it would there, you know.

00:40:17Spinning like that.

00:40:18I think scrubbing speed off

00:40:19in a spin works very well

00:40:21but it's going straight off

00:40:22the road.

00:40:22What happens in a situation

00:40:24exactly, you know,

00:40:25a couple of years ago

00:40:25when Schumach went

00:40:26straight off in Silverstone?

00:40:27Yeah.

00:40:29I don't know.

00:40:30Swings and roundabouts,

00:40:31I guess.

00:40:31Everything's got its

00:40:32crosses and minuses points.

00:40:34The fact is that

00:40:35once you've got

00:40:36machines moving

00:40:37at 170, 180 miles an hour

00:40:39plus, there is no

00:40:40absolutely 100%

00:40:41safe way out.

00:40:42There just can't be.

00:40:43I think that's a very valid

00:40:44point, David.

00:40:45I mean, we've seen

00:40:46in the accidents,

00:40:46you know, we saw

00:40:47with the Villeneuve's accident

00:40:48at the start of the season.

00:40:49There's so much momentum,

00:40:50kinetic energy

00:40:51built up into these things

00:40:52that once you get up to speed,

00:40:54boy, it's almost

00:40:54impossible to control.

00:40:57That's why I think

00:40:59we have to start looking

00:41:00at what it is

00:41:01that you hit.

00:41:02When you hit,

00:41:03you have to admit

00:41:04you're going to hit things

00:41:05and the day of the

00:41:06conventional guardrail

00:41:07may be over again.

00:41:09Talking to John Fitch,

00:41:10they have some sliding

00:41:11barriers and barriers

00:41:13that absorb energy

00:41:15better than the existing ones,

00:41:16whether they're the answer

00:41:17or exactly we are not sure.

00:41:19Yeah, because the other answer,

00:41:20of course,

00:41:20is to move everything

00:41:21so far back

00:41:22so that you don't hit it harder.

00:41:24But, of course,

00:41:24then the crowd

00:41:25is sitting half a mile away.

00:41:26Interesting to note

00:41:27as we look down

00:41:28the time sheets,

00:41:29Michael Schumacher

00:41:30has turned just six laps

00:41:32and has used only half

00:41:33of his allotted laps

00:41:34and we're coming up

00:41:35on eight minutes right now.

00:41:36Eight minutes to go

00:41:37in the session.

00:41:39Jack Villeneuve also has

00:41:40a few laps in hand.

00:41:41He's turned just seven

00:41:42to this point.

00:41:44And also,

00:41:44Villeneuve anxious to

00:41:46get himself up the time sheet.

00:41:48There he is,

00:41:49up to seven.

00:41:51Bumping Heinz-Harald Frensen.

00:41:53Well, in a sense,

00:41:54ever since Montoya

00:41:55shouldered past Schumacher

00:41:57in Brazil,

00:41:57it seems as if Schumacher

00:41:59was kind of down,

00:42:01a bit down and out

00:42:02a little bit.

00:42:03This is a perfect reply.

00:42:05I mean,

00:42:05he's right back

00:42:06on top of the heap

00:42:07right now.

00:42:08Nobody seems to be

00:42:09able to touch him.

00:42:10I mean,

00:42:10Koldhart's had a couple

00:42:11of really hard runs

00:42:12and he's still

00:42:13four tenths away

00:42:14and changed.

00:42:15Yeah,

00:42:16and Harkonnen

00:42:16is the same.

00:42:17But, I mean,

00:42:17look at those times there

00:42:18between the second

00:42:19through fifth

00:42:21are pretty close together.

00:42:23I think the shift,

00:42:26the balance shift

00:42:27is so interesting

00:42:30to see McLaren

00:42:31come to the floor,

00:42:32then Ferrari

00:42:32come to the floor,

00:42:33and Williams

00:42:34come to the floor,

00:42:34and then the shifts

00:42:35are the ebbs and flows

00:42:36of power.

00:42:37You know,

00:42:37there's such big

00:42:38organisations as well

00:42:39that you can't

00:42:40count them out.

00:42:41You know,

00:42:41it's so easy

00:42:41for somebody to say,

00:42:42oh boy,

00:42:43Ferrari are on a downer,

00:42:44or McLaren are on a downer,

00:42:45it looks like the season's

00:42:45all over.

00:42:46The next race,

00:42:47click,

00:42:47they're straight back up there,

00:42:48straight on the pace.

00:42:50Yeah,

00:42:51and of course,

00:42:51Williams,

00:42:52they are having

00:42:52trouble with

00:42:53getting their

00:42:54electronic system

00:42:55sorted out.

00:42:55They're going to be

00:42:56back for the big time.

00:42:57Nick Heidfeld,

00:42:58in the spare,

00:43:00evidently had a problem

00:43:01with the primary.

00:43:03Heidfeld has finished

00:43:04fourth,

00:43:05third,

00:43:05and seventh.

00:43:07So now Heidfeld

00:43:07is climbing the charts

00:43:09with a bullet.

00:43:09He barely got into the field,

00:43:11and now he's up to tenth.

00:43:13But he is still

00:43:14behind his teammate,

00:43:16Kimi Raikkonen,

00:43:16who is ninth.

00:43:18Big crowd there

00:43:19at that first turn.

00:43:21Mm-hmm.

00:43:21Because it's a beautiful spot,

00:43:24the Barcelona track is only,

00:43:25I mean,

00:43:26this track here is only

00:43:27just outside of Barcelona,

00:43:28so it's a great facility

00:43:30to visit.

00:43:31It's in the town

00:43:32of Montmeló,

00:43:33about 30 minutes,

00:43:34as I mentioned,

00:43:34from Barcelona.

00:43:36Bit of an industrial area,

00:43:37but not a bad area.

00:43:39Dry,

00:43:39not far from the beautiful

00:43:40beaches of the Mediterranean.

00:43:41Humidity,

00:43:45only about 45%.

00:43:47Once again,

00:43:50we're back to the

00:43:51two Ferraris

00:43:53and two McLarens

00:43:54topping the time sheets.

00:43:57So really,

00:43:57not much has changed

00:43:58with the arrival

00:43:59of traction control.

00:44:01Ralph Schumacher,

00:44:02who we're looking at there,

00:44:03last winner

00:44:04of the last Grand Prix,

00:44:05currently sits in

00:44:06fifth spot.

00:44:07I bet he's glad

00:44:09to be in the five spot.

00:44:10The Williams team

00:44:11has struggled mightily.

00:44:12They've had good

00:44:13and bad tests

00:44:14at this racetrack.

00:44:16Everybody tests here,

00:44:18of course,

00:44:18during the winter,

00:44:19and you'd think

00:44:20they would achieve

00:44:21a degree of perfection,

00:44:22but because the wind

00:44:23changes so much

00:44:24and the track

00:44:25changes so much,

00:44:27the testing doesn't

00:44:28really pay off

00:44:29the way it might

00:44:30at another track.

00:44:30I think it is

00:44:31the wind,

00:44:32Sam,

00:44:32personally,

00:44:33you know,

00:44:33it ebbs and flows

00:44:35just like the team

00:44:35was talking about before

00:44:36because of its

00:44:37close proximity.

00:44:38You can see

00:44:38the mountains around,

00:44:39but with the wind

00:44:40coming off the sea

00:44:41and the way

00:44:41that the wind circulates,

00:44:42the wind doesn't

00:44:43just change up

00:44:43and down the main street,

00:44:44it also blows

00:44:45laterally differently

00:44:46as well.

00:44:46You know,

00:44:47the circuit's changing

00:44:48within the hour.

00:44:49And as you can see,

00:44:50it's a fairly dry

00:44:51bit of countryside,

00:44:52so when the wind

00:44:52does blow,

00:44:53I'm sure there was

00:44:54a fairly brisk breeze

00:44:55at the beginning,

00:44:55it blows a lot of sand

00:44:56onto the track.

00:44:57Five minutes to go

00:44:58and no commercials

00:44:59between now

00:45:00the record flag.

00:45:02Michael Schumacher leads.

00:45:04This is Enrique Bernoldi

00:45:06in the Arrows Asia Tech.

00:45:09Given where the arrows

00:45:10are in speed,

00:45:11we've seen a lot of them

00:45:13on camera.

00:45:15Oof.

00:45:16Those left side wheels

00:45:17just beyond the curving.

00:45:18They get right out there.

00:45:19Oh, boy.

00:45:20Remember when you and I

00:45:21came here after the tragic

00:45:22events at Imola, David,

00:45:23and they had put that

00:45:24Mickey Mouse chicane

00:45:26made of hay bales

00:45:27and plastic cones

00:45:28right at the top of the hill.

00:45:30Dreadful looking thing.

00:45:32It looked as dangerous

00:45:32as Hector makes it.

00:45:34Drivers weaving their waves

00:45:35on the quick of the road.

00:45:37Yep.

00:45:40It's the final corner

00:45:41to 13th.

00:45:43And then this huge

00:45:45straightaway.

00:45:46I don't think that

00:45:47will mean much.

00:45:48No improvement

00:45:49for Bernoldi.

00:45:51Remains in 15th.

00:45:54Not a lot of action.

00:45:54Gianna Lacy shown on track.

00:45:57Bernoldi, you've seen.

00:45:58Luciano Berti is out there.

00:46:00The lack of traction control.

00:46:02It's kind of a power slide

00:46:03of sorts.

00:46:04A power catch, maybe.

00:46:07Interestingly,

00:46:07Luciano Berti,

00:46:08who was replaced

00:46:09by Pedro De La Rosa

00:46:10at Jaguar,

00:46:11is currently higher

00:46:12on the grid.

00:46:13Although we should point out

00:46:14that this morning,

00:46:15as you watch Mika Hakkinen,

00:46:16this morning,

00:46:17De La Rosa

00:46:17had a bizarre incident.

00:46:19He was leaving

00:46:19the pit lane.

00:46:21The Jaguar suddenly

00:46:21speared to the right

00:46:23into the pit wall

00:46:23with what we are told

00:46:25was a power steering

00:46:26malfunction.

00:46:28And, of course,

00:46:28you remember two weeks ago

00:46:29Kimi Raikkonen

00:46:30slid off the road

00:46:31and I said,

00:46:32wow, something must have

00:46:34broken for it

00:46:35to just go off

00:46:35on that relatively

00:46:36straight bit.

00:46:37And it was a very

00:46:37uneventful situation

00:46:39and apparently

00:46:39what had happened

00:46:40is the steering wheel

00:46:41had come off

00:46:42in his hand.

00:46:43And it must have been

00:46:44on right beforehand.

00:46:46Otherwise,

00:46:46nothing would have worked

00:46:47because the wheel

00:46:47is not on right.

00:46:48Of course,

00:46:49nothing would have worked.

00:46:50Electrical connections

00:46:50go through a multi-pin plug

00:46:52straight down the center

00:46:53of the steering column.

00:46:54So it's the quick-release

00:46:55mechanism that really

00:46:56attaches all the electronics

00:46:57on the wheel

00:46:58to the column

00:46:58from the column loom

00:47:00straight onto the computers.

00:47:01This ought to be fun now.

00:47:02Schumacher,

00:47:03Cooltide,

00:47:04Barrichello,

00:47:06Hakkinen,

00:47:06Ralph Schumacher,

00:47:07Yarno Truby,

00:47:08Jacques Villeneuve,

00:47:09all in the top seven,

00:47:10all have laps to burn

00:47:11and we're in the final

00:47:12minutes of this session.

00:47:13They have laps to burn

00:47:14but not time to burn.

00:47:15They certainly don't have

00:47:16much time to burn.

00:47:16Two minutes and ten seconds now.

00:47:18So as you see

00:47:19one of the McLarens

00:47:20going out,

00:47:21this is it.

00:47:21They need to get on with it

00:47:22and of course the trouble

00:47:23is that they're all

00:47:24going to go out together

00:47:25which is going to

00:47:27mean a lot of traffic

00:47:28I think.

00:47:29I once had a steering wheel

00:47:31coming loose

00:47:31on a Ferrari

00:47:32I was driving

00:47:33at Sebring

00:47:34and I found

00:47:35if I held the wheel

00:47:36down,

00:47:37the bolts

00:47:37continued to

00:47:38engage through

00:47:39the spacer

00:47:40which it could put

00:47:41in the wheel.

00:47:41but if I pulled

00:47:43the wheel up

00:47:44toward me

00:47:44the whole thing

00:47:45rattled and felt

00:47:46loose

00:47:46so I kept

00:47:47pushing down

00:47:48hard the whole way.

00:47:49Improvement

00:47:49for Luciano Berti

00:47:50from 17th to 13th

00:47:52and here come

00:47:53the heavy hitters.

00:47:564.05 freeway

00:47:57at Russia.

00:47:58And there's

00:47:58Eddie Irvine

00:48:00coming out now

00:48:01to try and

00:48:02get back

00:48:03in front of Berti.

00:48:05And you know

00:48:05they're all sitting

00:48:05in the car

00:48:06saying

00:48:06big slide.

00:48:10Somebody lit up

00:48:11the right front

00:48:11going down

00:48:12into turn one.

00:48:13One of the Jaguars.

00:48:15How much

00:48:15was Eddie then?

00:48:16That was Eddie

00:48:16just coming out

00:48:17of the pit lane.

00:48:18I believe that was

00:48:19De La Rosa.

00:48:20There he is

00:48:20getting passed.

00:48:24Is Eddie

00:48:25up the road?

00:48:25I was about to say

00:48:26when you're coming

00:48:27out for your last

00:48:27blast

00:48:28and the 4-5

00:48:30other quickest

00:48:31guys in the session

00:48:32are going out

00:48:32with you

00:48:33that has to

00:48:34provoke a certain

00:48:35amount of

00:48:36rethinking

00:48:36I would think.

00:48:39The chances

00:48:41of all these

00:48:42guys getting

00:48:42a clear lap

00:48:43I should say

00:48:44is slim to none.

00:48:45Exactly.

00:48:45Somebody's going

00:48:46to get badly

00:48:47pulled.

00:48:53Right.

00:48:54Yeah.

00:48:54I mean

00:48:55these guys

00:48:55they've got to

00:48:55hurry up.

00:48:56They can't

00:48:56mess around

00:48:57waiting for the

00:48:57track to clean up

00:48:58otherwise

00:48:58Well exactly.

00:48:58You have to

00:48:59get around

00:48:59to get around

00:49:00to the finish

00:49:01line.

00:49:02They've got

00:49:0233 seconds.

00:49:04Now this is

00:49:04David Coulthard

00:49:05firing the

00:49:06first shot

00:49:06of this

00:49:07last round

00:49:07of hot laps.

00:49:09We'll know

00:49:09in a second

00:49:10whether he's

00:49:11dialed in

00:49:12anything that

00:49:12could broach

00:49:14that gap.

00:49:18He's in the

00:49:19ballpark.

00:49:20Yeah.

00:49:21Not too

00:49:22promising though

00:49:23because he

00:49:23could pick

00:49:24that up

00:49:24in the next

00:49:24two sectors.

00:49:27That's

00:49:27three hundredths

00:49:28off his earlier

00:49:29pace to that point

00:49:30but maybe he's

00:49:31trying something

00:49:31a little

00:49:31different

00:49:32this time.

00:49:35Well he had

00:49:36to pass

00:49:36a car there.

00:49:37I'd say

00:49:38Schumacher

00:49:38is pretty

00:49:39safe right

00:49:39now.

00:49:42Yeah I'm

00:49:42sure that

00:49:43Schumacher

00:49:43has probably

00:49:44only gone

00:49:44out as a

00:49:45bit of a

00:49:47defensive

00:49:47measure.

00:49:50Getting

00:49:50a lot worse.

00:49:52I don't think

00:49:52that car

00:49:52held him up.

00:49:53He didn't

00:49:54have dropped

00:49:54that much

00:49:55in that

00:49:55short

00:49:55second.

00:49:56So that's

00:49:58it.

00:49:59He has

00:49:59enough time

00:50:00to make

00:50:00it up now.

00:50:01He's only

00:50:01got two

00:50:01more corners.

00:50:03Unless we

00:50:03hear from

00:50:04Hockenden.

00:50:09The line

00:50:10he comes

00:50:11pretty quick.

00:50:11Checkered

00:50:11flag is

00:50:12waving.

00:50:12The session's

00:50:13over.

00:50:13Hot laps

00:50:14will count

00:50:14however.

00:50:15No

00:50:16improvement

00:50:16for

00:50:16Coulthard.

00:50:18He remains

00:50:19in the

00:50:20second spot

00:50:20for the

00:50:21moment but

00:50:21Mika

00:50:22Hockenden

00:50:22is still

00:50:23on track.

00:50:23There he

00:50:24comes.

00:50:25Here he

00:50:25is.

00:50:25Last guy

00:50:26who could

00:50:26unseat

00:50:27Schumacher.

00:50:29Whoa.

00:50:30Jumps

00:50:30into second

00:50:31though.

00:50:31He displaces

00:50:32Coulthard.

00:50:34Now Rubens

00:50:34Barrichello

00:50:35is still

00:50:35out there.

00:50:36Barrichello

00:50:36has been

00:50:36bumped.

00:50:38Here he

00:50:39comes.

00:50:40That was

00:50:41a terrific

00:50:41lap.

00:50:41Oh he

00:50:42heads for

00:50:42the pit

00:50:42lane.

00:50:43So that

00:50:43wraps up

00:50:44Schumacher's

00:50:4536th pole.

00:50:47But that

00:50:47time of

00:50:48Hockenden's

00:50:48air was

00:50:49extraordinary.

00:50:49He's only

00:50:50800 to

00:50:51the second

00:50:51slower than

00:50:52Michael

00:50:53Schumacher.

00:50:53So that

00:50:54was a very

00:50:54very good

00:50:55effort by

00:50:56Mika

00:50:56Hockenden

00:50:57on the

00:50:57last lap.

00:50:58I wish

00:50:58we'd seen

00:50:58that lap.

00:50:59And the

00:50:59best moment

00:51:00David that

00:51:01he has

00:51:01had all

00:51:02year.

00:51:02It's the

00:51:03first time

00:51:03he's really

00:51:03been on

00:51:04the edge

00:51:04and the

00:51:04first time

00:51:05he's out

00:51:05qualified

00:51:06or outpaced

00:51:07his teammate

00:51:08Coulthard.

00:51:09eight

00:51:10hundredths of

00:51:11a second

00:51:11off.

00:51:11I mean

00:51:11that is

00:51:12pretty

00:51:12close.

00:51:13Then

00:51:13Coulthard

00:51:14Barrichello

00:51:14half a

00:51:15second

00:51:15off.

00:51:16Ralph

00:51:16Schumacher

00:51:16still in

00:51:17fifth spot

00:51:17there.

00:51:18Llano

00:51:18truly up

00:51:19to

00:51:19sixth.

00:51:20Villeneuve

00:51:20has now

00:51:21gone up

00:51:21to seventh.

00:51:22Interesting.

00:51:22Hockenden

00:51:23was second

00:51:23at San

00:51:24Marino

00:51:24two weeks

00:51:25ago.

00:51:27Michael

00:51:27Schumacher.

00:51:28Schumacher

00:51:28did not

00:51:29use his

00:51:30full complement

00:51:30of laps.

00:51:31He used

00:51:31just

00:51:31eight.

00:51:32He

00:51:32didn't

00:51:32he seemed

00:51:34to be

00:51:34in a

00:51:35class

00:51:35by himself.

00:51:37I guess

00:51:38it appears

00:51:38that the

00:51:39German train

00:51:40is back

00:51:40on track.

00:51:41We'll take

00:51:41a quick

00:51:42break and

00:51:42return to

00:51:43hear from

00:51:43our top

00:51:44qualifiers

00:51:45from Spain.

00:51:46Stay with

00:51:46us.

00:51:57Welcome

00:51:58back.

00:51:58Michael

00:51:58Schumacher

00:51:59on the

00:51:59right.

00:52:00David

00:52:00Coulthard

00:52:00on the

00:52:01left.

00:52:01We've

00:52:01just

00:52:02had

00:52:02their

00:52:02official

00:52:03weigh-ins

00:52:03checking

00:52:05the

00:52:05charts

00:52:05and

00:52:06being

00:52:07a bit

00:52:07sparing

00:52:07in

00:52:08their

00:52:08conversation.

00:52:09You see

00:52:09the sign

00:52:09attached

00:52:10to the

00:52:10FIA

00:52:10desk

00:52:10where

00:52:11they

00:52:11were

00:52:11said

00:52:1115

00:52:12minutes.

00:52:12That's

00:52:12the

00:52:12amount

00:52:13of

00:52:13time

00:52:13the

00:52:13teams

00:52:13are

00:52:14allowed

00:52:14to

00:52:15check

00:52:15the

00:52:15legality

00:52:15of their

00:52:16cars

00:52:16throughout

00:52:16the

00:52:17weekend

00:52:17because

00:52:17otherwise

00:52:18the

00:52:18cars

00:52:19would

00:52:19sit

00:52:19on

00:52:19there.

00:52:20One

00:52:20team

00:52:20for

00:52:20example

00:52:20would

00:52:20have

00:52:21one

00:52:21car

00:52:21on

00:52:21there

00:52:21for

00:52:21an

00:52:21hour

00:52:22if

00:52:22they

00:52:22could

00:52:22make

00:52:23as

00:52:23much

00:52:23use

00:52:23as

00:52:23possible

00:52:24at

00:52:24the

00:52:24time

00:52:24and

00:52:25what

00:52:25happens

00:52:25a

00:52:25great

00:52:26backlog

00:52:26of

00:52:26cars

00:52:27queues

00:52:27up

00:52:27down

00:52:27the

00:52:28pit

00:52:28lane

00:52:28as

00:52:28all

00:52:28the

00:52:28teams

00:52:29want

00:52:29to

00:52:29get

00:52:29on

00:52:29and

00:52:29check

00:52:29the

00:52:30legality

00:52:30of

00:52:30their

00:52:53back

00:52:53to

00:52:53the

00:52:53park

00:52:53fair

00:52:54mate

00:52:54to

00:52:54have

00:52:54a

00:52:54close

00:52:54look

00:52:55at

00:52:55the

00:52:55car

00:52:55like

00:52:55he

00:52:55always

00:52:56does

00:52:56of

00:52:56course

00:52:56his

00:52:57crew

00:52:57has

00:52:57immediately

00:52:57covered

00:52:58up

00:52:58the

00:52:58Ferrari

00:52:59interesting

00:53:01the way

00:53:01qualifying

00:53:02came out

00:53:03after all

00:53:04the stew

00:53:04about

00:53:05traction

00:53:05control

00:53:06and

00:53:06electronic

00:53:06aids

00:53:07and so

00:53:07forth

00:53:07it's

00:53:08about

00:53:08the

00:53:08same

00:53:09kind

00:53:09of

00:53:09grid

00:53:09we've

00:53:09seen

00:53:10in

00:53:10the

00:53:10last

00:53:10couple

00:53:10of

00:53:10races

00:53:11big

00:53:11surprise

00:53:11well

00:53:13it's

00:53:13a great

00:53:14relief

00:53:14I

00:53:14think

00:53:14to

00:53:15see

00:53:15that

00:53:15the

00:53:15traction

00:53:15control

00:53:23be a

00:53:23great

00:53:23shame

00:53:23if

00:53:24all

00:53:24of

00:53:24a

00:53:24sudden

00:53:24things

00:53:25were

00:53:25overturned

00:53:25and

00:53:26it

00:53:26all

00:53:26went

00:53:26out

00:53:28of

00:53:28shape

00:53:28but

00:53:28I

00:53:53McLaren

00:53:53too

00:53:53but

00:53:53it

00:53:54seemed

00:53:54excessive

00:53:54with

00:53:55the

00:53:55Ferrari

00:53:55kind

00:53:57of

00:53:57interesting

00:53:57I

00:53:59think

00:53:59what

00:53:59the

00:53:59engineers

00:54:00have

00:54:00to

00:54:00do

00:54:00is

00:54:01soften

00:54:01up

00:54:01the

00:54:02front

00:54:02of

00:54:02the

00:54:02car

00:54:02to

00:54:02try

00:54:03and

00:54:03get

00:54:03a

00:54:03little

00:54:03bit

00:54:03more

00:54:03grip

00:54:04out

00:54:04of

00:54:04these

00:54:04front

00:54:04tires

00:54:05to

00:54:05try

00:54:05and

00:54:05cure

00:54:05that

00:54:06hideous

00:54:06understeer

00:54:07that

00:54:07they're

00:54:07all

00:54:07suffering

00:54:08from

00:54:08if

00:54:08you

00:54:08make

00:54:08the

00:54:09front

00:54:09too

00:54:09stiff

00:54:09and

00:54:10the

00:54:10lack

00:54:10of

00:54:11downforce

00:54:11on

00:54:11the

00:54:11front

00:54:12wings

00:54:12is

00:54:12because

00:54:23I

00:54:23think

00:54:23that's

00:54:23one

00:54:24of

00:54:24the

00:54:24engineer

00:54:25solutions

00:54:25to

00:54:25it

00:54:25is

00:54:26just

00:54:26try

00:54:26and

00:54:26soften

00:54:26up

00:54:27the

00:54:27front

00:54:27a

00:54:27little

00:54:27bit

00:54:27and

00:54:29of

00:54:30course

00:54:30it's

00:54:30the

00:54:30tires

00:54:31that

00:54:31wind

00:54:32up

00:54:32paying

00:54:32the

00:54:32penalty

00:54:32tremendous

00:54:34amount

00:54:34of

00:54:35traffic

00:54:35as we

00:54:35just

00:54:35saw

00:54:36there

00:54:36on

00:54:36that

00:54:36last

00:54:37lap

00:54:38while

00:54:38everybody

00:54:38is

00:54:38trying

00:54:38to

00:54:38qualify

00:54:39all

00:54:39bunched

00:54:40up

00:54:40together

00:54:40there

00:54:40because

00:54:41of

00:54:41the

00:54:41tire

00:54:42situation

00:54:42we

00:54:42will

00:54:42probably

00:54:43see

00:54:43tomorrow

00:54:43a

00:54:44two

00:54:44stop

00:54:44no

00:54:45matter

00:54:45what

00:54:46strategy

00:54:47very

00:54:47hard

00:54:48to

00:54:48think

00:54:48of

00:54:48going

00:54:48through

00:54:49this

00:54:49on

00:54:49just

00:54:49one

00:54:49yes

00:54:50Michael

00:54:51Schumacher

00:54:51is still

00:54:52buying

00:54:52his

00:54:52belts

00:54:52in

00:54:52the

00:54:53boys

00:54:53department

00:54:53these

00:54:54guys

00:54:54are

00:54:54incredibly

00:54:55fit

00:54:55this

00:54:57is

00:54:57a

00:54:57new

00:54:57seven

00:54:58minutes

00:54:59past

00:54:59two

00:54:59it

00:54:59says

00:55:00great

00:55:00somebody

00:55:01pointed out

00:55:02this

00:55:02morning

00:55:02that

00:55:02it

00:55:02kind

00:55:03of

00:55:03looks

00:55:03like

00:55:03Indy

00:55:04was

00:55:04that

00:55:04you

00:55:04Steve

00:55:05or

00:55:05Bob

00:55:05yeah

00:55:06with

00:55:06that

00:55:06slightly

00:55:07miniaturized

00:55:08Indianapolis

00:55:09there

00:55:10used

00:55:10to be

00:55:11a

00:55:11walkover

00:55:11bridge

00:55:12across

00:55:12just

00:55:12about

00:55:13this

00:55:13part

00:55:13of

00:55:13this

00:55:13front

00:55:14straight

00:55:14away

00:55:14but

00:55:15they've

00:55:15removed

00:55:15it

00:55:15and

00:55:16it's

00:55:16welcome

00:55:16to

00:55:17the

00:55:17top

00:55:17three

00:55:17qualifying

00:55:18drivers

00:55:18for the

00:55:18Spanish

00:55:19Grand Prix

00:55:192001

00:55:19it's

00:55:20Michael

00:55:20Schumacher

00:55:20Mika

00:55:21Hakkinen

00:55:21and David

00:55:22Coulthard

00:55:23and

00:55:23first

00:55:23a quick

00:55:24question

00:55:24to all

00:55:24three

00:55:24of you

00:55:25hands

00:55:25up

00:55:25if

00:55:25you're

00:55:25using

00:55:25traction

00:55:26control

00:55:26in that

00:55:26session

00:55:27we're

00:55:29using

00:55:29traction

00:55:29control

00:55:30then

00:55:30we

00:55:31started

00:55:31disconnect

00:55:32in

00:55:32the

00:55:32last

00:55:32run

00:55:33so

00:55:33it

00:55:33helped

00:55:34a bit

00:55:34I haven't

00:55:36heard

00:55:37the

00:55:37hands

00:55:37up

00:55:37since

00:55:38I

00:55:38was

00:55:38at

00:55:38primary

00:55:38school

00:55:39we

00:55:39start

00:55:40with

00:55:40the

00:55:40jolly

00:55:40start

00:55:41the

00:55:41car

00:55:42has

00:55:42looked

00:55:43super

00:55:44weekend

00:55:44it's

00:55:44obvious

00:55:45that

00:55:45Ferrari

00:55:45are

00:55:46over

00:55:46their

00:55:47slump

00:55:47and

00:55:48back

00:55:48on

00:55:48the

00:55:48pace

00:55:49and

00:55:49up

00:55:49to

00:55:49date

00:55:49with

00:55:49these

00:55:49new

00:55:50regulations

00:55:50well

00:55:52I

00:55:53haven't

00:55:53seen

00:55:53that

00:55:53we

00:55:53have

00:55:54been

00:55:54in

00:55:54a

00:55:54slump

00:55:54situation

00:55:55media

00:55:56likes

00:55:57to

00:55:57see

00:55:57that

00:55:57way

00:55:57very

00:55:58often

00:55:58anyway

00:55:59fact

00:56:00is

00:56:00we

00:56:00back

00:56:00up

00:56:01where

00:56:01we

00:56:04want

00:56:04to

00:56:04be

00:56:04and

00:56:05we

00:56:05have

00:56:05worked

00:56:06hard

00:56:06as

00:56:06usual

00:56:07is

00:56:09pretty

00:56:10much

00:56:11good

00:56:13hope

00:56:13for

00:56:13the

00:56:14rest

00:56:14of

00:56:14the

00:56:14weekend

00:56:14because

00:56:15we

00:56:15have

00:56:15been

00:56:15working

00:56:16very

00:56:16precisely

00:56:17to

00:56:20prepare

00:56:20every

00:56:20eventuality

00:56:21for

00:56:22the

00:56:22weekend

00:56:22and

00:56:23things

00:56:24look

00:56:24good

00:56:24but

00:56:25then

00:56:25as

00:56:25you

00:56:25see

00:56:26things

00:56:26are

00:56:26very

00:56:26tight

00:56:26now

00:56:28certainly

00:56:29today

00:56:29you

00:56:29seem

00:56:29to

00:56:29be

00:56:29conserving

00:56:30tires

00:56:30you

00:56:31didn't

00:56:31go

00:56:31out

00:56:31for

00:56:31a

00:56:31last

00:56:31run

00:56:32this

00:56:32morning

00:56:32you

00:56:32only

00:56:32done

00:56:338

00:56:33laps

00:56:33this

00:56:34afternoon

00:56:35are

00:56:35you

00:56:35worried

00:56:35about

00:56:36tyre wear

00:56:36no

00:56:38I

00:56:38mean

00:56:38basically

00:56:39you

00:56:40want

00:56:40to

00:56:40prepare

00:56:41everything

00:56:41in

00:56:42the

00:56:42best

00:56:42order

00:56:42for

00:56:43the

00:56:43race

00:56:43and

00:56:44that's

00:56:45what

00:56:46we

00:56:46did

00:56:46but

00:56:47it's

00:56:47not

00:56:47really

00:56:47the

00:56:48case

00:56:48that

00:56:48we

00:56:49worried

00:56:49it's

00:56:49simply

00:56:50we

00:56:50want

00:56:50to

00:56:50have

00:56:50the

00:56:50best

00:56:51performance

00:56:51thanks

00:56:52Michael

00:56:53make a

00:56:54superb run

00:56:54there

00:56:54in the

00:56:54last

00:56:55moments

00:56:55you

00:56:55managed

00:56:56to

00:56:56put

00:56:56I

00:56:56think

00:56:56about

00:56:560.4

00:56:57there

00:56:57was

00:56:57that

00:56:57did

00:56:58you

00:56:58get

00:56:58the

00:56:58maximum

00:57:03it

00:57:03helped

00:57:03me

00:57:03a

00:57:03little

00:57:04bit

00:57:04in

00:57:04some

00:57:05problems

00:57:05where

00:57:06I

00:57:06had

00:57:06some

00:57:06understair

00:57:07so

00:57:07it

00:57:07was

00:57:08good

00:57:08but

00:57:08generally

00:57:09it

00:57:11was

00:57:12big

00:57:12push

00:57:12you've

00:57:15won

00:57:15the

00:57:15last

00:57:15three

00:57:15races

00:57:16here

00:57:16does

00:57:16it

00:57:16give

00:57:16you

00:57:16extra

00:57:17confidence

00:57:17going

00:57:17into

00:57:18tomorrow's

00:57:18race

00:57:18oh

00:57:19yeah

00:57:20plenty

00:57:20of

00:57:20yes

00:57:23in

00:57:26one

00:57:26sense

00:57:26I

00:57:27mean

00:57:27obviously

00:57:27you

00:57:28have

00:57:28a

00:57:29completely

00:57:29different

00:57:30approach

00:57:30to

00:57:31Grand Prix

00:57:32one

00:57:32sense

00:57:32because

00:57:33you

00:57:33have

00:57:33extremely

00:57:34nice

00:57:35memories

00:57:36about

00:57:36the

00:57:37place

00:57:37so

00:57:39yes

00:57:40I

00:57:40suppose

00:57:40there

00:57:41is

00:57:41a

00:57:41little

00:57:42bit

00:57:42different

00:57:42attitude

00:57:45and

00:57:45feeling

00:57:47about

00:57:48this

00:57:48Grand Prix

00:57:49and

00:57:49I

00:57:50believe

00:57:50it's

00:57:52going

00:57:52to

00:57:52probably

00:57:52help

00:57:52me

00:57:53also

00:57:53a

00:57:53little

00:57:53bit

00:57:53tomorrow

00:57:53now

00:57:55starting

00:57:55second

00:57:55which

00:57:56is

00:57:56on

00:57:56the

00:57:56traditionally

00:57:57dirty

00:57:57side

00:57:57in

00:57:58Barcelona

00:57:58but

00:57:59will

00:57:59the

00:57:59introduction

00:57:59of

00:58:00launch

00:58:00control

00:58:00make

00:58:01that

00:58:01less

00:58:01of a

00:58:01problem

00:58:02this

00:58:02year

00:58:02it's

00:58:08it's

00:58:09not

00:58:09gonna

00:58:09it's

00:58:09not

00:58:10gonna

00:58:10if

00:58:12you

00:58:12have

00:58:12two

00:58:12equal

00:58:12cars

00:58:13another

00:58:13car

00:58:14is

00:58:14on

00:58:14a

00:58:14clean

00:58:14side

00:58:15and

00:58:15another

00:58:15side

00:58:16is

00:58:16dirty

00:58:16side

00:58:16you

00:58:17know

00:58:17obviously

00:58:18the

00:58:18dirty

00:58:18side

00:58:19is

00:58:19always

00:58:19a

00:58:19negative

00:58:19thing

00:58:20but

00:58:22obviously

00:58:22it's

00:58:23impossible

00:58:23to

00:58:23know

00:58:24how

00:58:25equal

00:58:26we

00:58:26are

00:58:26with

00:58:27the

00:58:27Ferrari

00:58:28so

00:58:29tomorrow

00:58:30we

00:58:30will

00:58:31see

00:58:31how

00:58:32we

00:58:32will

00:58:32do

00:58:33to

00:58:33start

00:58:33down

00:58:35David

00:58:36you

00:58:36did

00:58:36four

00:58:36very

00:58:37good

00:58:37laps

00:58:37today

00:58:37all

00:58:37within

00:58:38fifteen

00:58:38hundred

00:58:38for each

00:58:39other

00:58:39you

00:58:39must

00:58:40feel

00:58:40therefore

00:58:40that was

00:58:40the best

00:58:41that could come

00:58:41today

00:58:41excuse me

00:58:43well no

00:58:43actually quite

00:58:44quite the opposite

00:58:45because

00:58:45my first run

00:58:47was a sort of

00:58:48baseline

00:58:48tidy run

00:58:49and every run

00:58:50thereafter

00:58:51was

00:58:51little

00:58:53difficulties

00:58:54and mistakes

00:58:55and certainly

00:58:55my last run

00:58:56I lost

00:58:58a lap

00:58:59with the

00:58:59Sauber

00:58:59which had to

00:59:00pass me

00:59:01in its lap

00:59:01so I can only

00:59:02presume that

00:59:02he felt I held

00:59:03him up

00:59:04and was

00:59:05returning the

00:59:05favour

00:59:06so

00:59:07no I don't

00:59:08feel I got

00:59:08the maximum

00:59:09out of the

00:59:09car

00:59:09I think

00:59:11that

00:59:11where

00:59:12Michael

00:59:13was

00:59:14achievable

00:59:15if you

00:59:15were able

00:59:16to hook

00:59:16all your

00:59:16corners

00:59:17together

00:59:19but

00:59:20ultimately

00:59:20this is where

00:59:22I ended up

00:59:22so I have

00:59:23to make

00:59:23do of this

00:59:23and look

00:59:24to the

00:59:25race

00:59:25tomorrow

00:59:25Dave

00:59:26you're

00:59:26starting

00:59:27third

00:59:27normally

00:59:27you would

00:59:28have said

00:59:28to me

00:59:28well if

00:59:29I can

00:59:29get a

00:59:29good start

00:59:29I can

00:59:30get past

00:59:30the other

00:59:30two

00:59:31is that

00:59:31still

00:59:31possible

00:59:32none of us

00:59:34know as we

00:59:35sit here

00:59:35today just

00:59:35how the

00:59:36traction control

00:59:36at the start

00:59:37is going to

00:59:37work

00:59:37I think

00:59:38that being

00:59:39on a

00:59:39clean

00:59:39part of

00:59:40track

00:59:40it has

00:59:41got to

00:59:42be

00:59:42potentially

00:59:42better

00:59:43because

00:59:43the system

00:59:43works out

00:59:44how much

00:59:44grip is

00:59:45available

00:59:45and I'll

00:59:46optimise

00:59:49the reaction

00:59:50to the

00:59:50lights

00:59:50there could

00:59:52well be

00:59:53a lot of

00:59:54cars sitting

00:59:54on the

00:59:54grid

00:59:55tomorrow

00:59:55not moving

00:59:55anywhere

00:59:56because the

00:59:57systems don't

00:59:57work quite

00:59:58the way we

00:59:58expect them

00:59:59to

00:59:59Michael

01:00:00similar

01:00:00question

01:00:00to you

01:00:01do you

01:00:01feel it's

01:00:01just a

01:00:02case of

01:00:02watching the

01:00:03lights go out

01:00:03and pressing

01:00:04the throttle

01:00:04and a nice

01:00:05win for you

01:00:05here in

01:00:06Barcelona

01:00:06well if it

01:00:09would be

01:00:09that easy

01:00:10we'd probably

01:00:10go home

01:00:11right now

01:00:12and celebrate

01:00:12but there's

01:00:14about more

01:00:14than 60 laps

01:00:15to go

01:00:15which is going

01:00:16to be tough

01:00:16and strategy

01:00:17will play a

01:00:18big

01:00:18factor

01:00:20as we have

01:00:21set launch

01:00:21controls

01:00:22and see how

01:00:23they work

01:00:23between

01:00:24individual

01:00:24teams

01:00:25will be

01:00:25interesting

01:00:25tomorrow

01:00:26the first

01:00:26race

01:00:27we do

01:00:28on the

01:00:28race

01:00:28proper race

01:00:29condition

01:00:29with all

01:00:30these

01:00:30new

01:00:30systems

01:00:31so it

01:00:31will be

01:00:32quite

01:00:32interesting

01:00:33to see

01:00:33what is

01:00:34the effect

01:00:34for who

01:00:35we're now

01:00:37word in your

01:00:37own language

01:00:37from Michael

01:00:38and Mika

01:00:38and Michael

01:00:39first

01:00:39all right

01:00:40we'll take

01:00:40a break

01:00:40while Michael

01:00:41Schumacher

01:00:41addresses the

01:00:42press in

01:00:43German

01:00:43and be

01:00:43back for

01:00:44more

01:00:44post-qualifying

01:00:45coverage

01:00:46from the

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01:00:46Grand Prix

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01:01:10don't forget

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01:01:11tomorrow

01:01:11we'll have

01:01:12the race

01:01:12itself

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01:01:14coverage

01:01:14begins at

01:01:147.30 a.m.

01:01:15Eastern Time

01:01:16of course

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01:01:18Speed Vision

01:01:18as we look

01:01:19at last

01:01:19year's race

01:01:20it was not

01:01:20one of

01:01:21Michael

01:01:21Schumacher's

01:01:22most memorable

01:01:23although he did

01:01:23start from

01:01:24pole

01:01:24drove right

01:01:25across the

01:01:26racetrack

01:01:26to get ahead

01:01:27of arch-rival

01:01:28Mika Hakkinen

01:01:29and led away

01:01:30Ralph Schumacher

01:01:34there made a

01:01:34terrific run down

01:01:35the inside

01:01:36nearly getting

01:01:37into second spot

01:01:38there

01:01:38although Michael

01:01:39Schumacher

01:01:40managed to hold

01:01:41on to the lead

01:01:41this is his first

01:01:42pit stop

01:01:42the lollipop man

01:01:44pulls the sign up

01:01:44too soon

01:01:45Nigel

01:01:46Michael Schumacher

01:01:47drives off

01:01:48and runs over

01:01:49Nigel Stepney

01:01:49his fuel man

01:01:50but he manages

01:01:52to stay ahead

01:01:52of Hakkinen

01:01:53on the road

01:01:54by just that much

01:01:55then the two

01:01:56pitted together

01:01:57Schumacher

01:01:58had a replacement

01:01:59refueler

01:01:59there was trouble

01:02:00getting the nozzle

01:02:01in and out

01:02:02Schumacher

01:02:02loses the lead

01:02:03in the pits

01:02:04to Hakkinen

01:02:04Michael Schumacher

01:02:07still in the pits

01:02:08there as they have

01:02:09trouble getting

01:02:10that nozzle out

01:02:11coming up

01:02:12for third place

01:02:13here

01:02:13Michael Schumacher

01:02:14in the Ferrari

01:02:15squeezes his brother

01:02:16aside

01:02:17in the BMW

01:02:19Williams

01:02:19letting Rubens

01:02:20Barrichello

01:02:21through

01:02:22into third spot

01:02:23up front

01:02:24it was Hakkinen

01:02:25and Coulthard

01:02:26and I should

01:02:26correct myself

01:02:27David Coulthard

01:02:28went to the podium

01:02:29but refused

01:02:30to spray the champagne

01:02:30in the memory

01:02:32of his fallen pilots

01:02:33we'll be back

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01:02:44welcome back

01:02:47let's take a look

01:02:47at Friday practice

01:02:48highlights

01:02:49this is David

01:02:49Coulthard

01:02:50who ruled the day

01:02:51quickest in the

01:02:52first session

01:02:52at 1 minute

01:02:5320.388 seconds

01:02:55he would also be

01:02:56quickest in the

01:02:57second hour

01:02:58one Pablo Montoya

01:03:01one Pablo Montoya

01:03:01here

01:03:01having a quick spin

01:03:03on his Michelin

01:03:04shard

01:03:05BMW Williams

01:03:05not getting too

01:03:06trapped in the

01:03:07drought

01:03:07he ended up

01:03:0713th

01:03:08yesterday

01:03:09just

01:03:10nearly backed

01:03:11into somebody

01:03:11there

01:03:11Ruben

01:03:12Barrichello

01:03:12also had a

01:03:13quite a big off

01:03:14here

01:03:14going through

01:03:15the gravel

01:03:15trap

01:03:15which we were

01:03:16talking about

01:03:16earlier on

01:03:17come back

01:03:17onto the

01:03:17track

01:03:18he ends up

01:03:18third

01:03:19quickest

01:03:19yeah

01:03:19Jacques Villeneuve

01:03:20here with a

01:03:21Honda

01:03:21big blur

01:03:22apparently down

01:03:22to traction

01:03:23control

01:03:23apparently pinned

01:03:25the thing to

01:03:25the floor

01:03:26as well

01:03:26all sorts of

01:03:26explosions and

01:03:27sparks going

01:03:28off there

01:03:28quite a moment

01:03:29and later on

01:03:32we saw

01:03:33Barrichello

01:03:34now listen to

01:03:35the up changes

01:03:36he takes his

01:03:36hand off the

01:03:37steering wheel

01:03:37right hand

01:03:38would normally

01:03:38change up

01:03:39he takes his

01:03:40visor off

01:03:41Picard does it

01:03:45all for him

01:03:45look mum

01:03:46no page

01:03:47that's amazing

01:03:49this is incredible

01:03:50second session

01:03:51now this is

01:03:52Kimi Raikkonen

01:03:53demonstrating

01:03:53what the

01:03:54launch control

01:03:55software can do

01:03:56a wheel spin

01:03:58less getaway

01:03:59but David

01:04:00Coulthard

01:04:01finally posted

01:04:02a 120.107

01:04:04lowering the

01:04:04track record

01:04:05for all

01:04:06of 24 hours

01:04:07we'll be back

01:04:08for the race

01:04:09tomorrow

01:04:09welcome back

01:04:15there's the

01:04:15beautiful new

01:04:16pylon

01:04:16at the

01:04:17circuit

01:04:17de

01:04:17catalonia

01:04:18in

01:04:18barcelona

01:04:19here's a

01:04:19look at

01:04:19former

01:04:20winners

01:04:20of the

01:04:20spanish

01:04:21grand prix

01:04:22mika

01:04:22hakenen

01:04:22has won

01:04:23the last

01:04:23three years

01:04:24on the

01:04:24trot

01:04:24each year

01:04:25with his

01:04:25mclaren

01:04:26teammate

01:04:26david

01:04:26coulthard

01:04:27in second

01:04:27jack

01:04:28villeneuve

01:04:28a great

01:04:29win in

01:04:2997

01:04:29his world

01:04:30championship

01:04:31year

01:04:31michael

01:04:32schumacher

01:04:32has won

01:04:33it twice

01:04:33in 9

01:04:33and 5

01:04:34and 96

01:04:34but i

01:04:35insist

01:04:35his best

01:04:36drive

01:04:36ever

01:04:36was 94

01:04:37when he

01:04:38did it

01:04:38all with

01:04:38fifth gear

01:04:39finishing

01:04:39second

01:04:40we'll be

01:04:40back

01:04:40welcome back

01:04:51to spanish

01:04:51grand prix

01:04:52weekend

01:04:52here on

01:04:52speed vision

01:04:53time to

01:04:54relive the

01:04:54pole lap

01:04:55authored by

01:04:56michael schumacher

01:04:57remember where

01:04:58he stood at

01:04:59the time

01:04:59that he ran

01:05:00this lap

01:05:00he was

01:05:00already on

01:05:01the pole

01:05:01and had

01:05:03many laps

01:05:03in the bag

01:05:05so to speak

01:05:05but not as

01:05:06many as he

01:05:06could have

01:05:07used

01:05:07exactly

01:05:08it was a

01:05:10clean lap

01:05:10david

01:05:11yeah the

01:05:12car looking

01:05:12very very

01:05:13steady at

01:05:13this stage

01:05:14leaving himself

01:05:15plenty of

01:05:16room

01:05:16he's not

01:05:17climbing the

01:05:18curves too

01:05:18badly

01:05:18the car

01:05:19looks good

01:05:19looks in

01:05:20control

01:05:20very smooth

01:05:21as michael

01:05:22schumacher

01:05:23of course

01:05:23always is

01:05:24these tight

01:05:25corners

01:05:25like a

01:05:26downhill

01:05:26corner

01:05:27like that

01:05:28one there

01:05:28that's the

01:05:29sort of

01:05:29corner that

01:05:29really is

01:05:30going to

01:05:30induce

01:05:30understudio

01:05:31if you're

01:05:31going to

01:05:31get it

01:05:32right steve

01:05:32absolutely

01:05:33it is

01:05:33yeah and

01:05:34michael schumacher

01:05:35and the

01:05:35car are

01:05:35working well

01:05:36on this

01:05:36pole lap

01:05:37and michael

01:05:37and ferrari

01:05:38are very

01:05:38happy with

01:05:39the way

01:05:39that the

01:05:40traction

01:05:41control

01:05:41testing work

01:05:42has gone

01:05:43as well

01:05:43michael is

01:05:43a driver

01:05:44that's very

01:05:44happy to

01:05:45use it

01:05:45unlike

01:05:45some

01:05:46feel

01:05:46never again

01:05:46doesn't

01:05:47like it

01:05:47can understand

01:05:48that to

01:05:48a degree

01:05:49yeah

01:05:49michael

01:05:49quite happy

01:05:50to use

01:05:50the system

01:05:51and he's

01:05:51got it

01:05:51to work

01:05:52very well

01:05:52showing here

01:05:53and they've

01:05:53done obviously

01:05:53thousands of

01:05:54kilometers of

01:05:55testing with

01:05:55the traction

01:05:56control electronics

01:05:57as well

01:05:57a little bit

01:05:58of steering

01:05:59input there

01:05:59obviously a

01:06:00little bit

01:06:00I mean a

01:06:00massive amount

01:06:01of steering

01:06:02input

01:06:02but looking

01:06:03very smooth

01:06:04as we so

01:06:05often see

01:06:06not the

01:06:06fastest car

01:06:07in a straight

01:06:07line

01:06:08but when the

01:06:08lap was

01:06:09complete

01:06:09it was

01:06:10the quickest

01:06:10we'll be

01:06:11back

01:06:11speed

01:06:15vision's

01:06:15coverage

01:06:15of

01:06:16formula

01:06:16one

01:06:16is

01:06:17sponsored

01:06:17by

01:06:17mazda

01:06:18makers

01:06:19of

01:06:19cars

01:06:20equipped

01:06:20with

01:06:21zoom

01:06:21well

01:06:23what life

01:06:24is like

01:06:24to beat

01:06:25michael

01:06:25schumacher

01:06:26he wins

01:06:26seven

01:06:26poles

01:06:27in a row

01:06:27misses

01:06:27one

01:06:28two

01:06:28weeks

01:06:28ago

01:06:28picks

01:06:28up

01:06:29one

01:06:29here

01:06:29in

01:06:29Spain

01:06:29and

01:06:29the

01:06:30first

01:06:30question

01:06:30out of

01:06:30the

01:06:30mouth

01:06:31of

01:06:31the

01:06:31interviewer

01:06:31is

01:06:31how's

01:06:32it

01:06:32feel

01:06:32to end

01:06:32your

01:06:33slump

01:06:33on

01:06:33top

01:06:34again

01:06:34with

01:06:34Mika

01:06:35Hakkinen

01:06:35David

01:06:35Coulthard

01:06:36and Rubens

01:06:36Barichello

01:06:41pushing

01:06:41French

01:06:42down

01:06:42to

01:06:428

01:06:43so

01:06:43the

01:06:43Jordan

01:06:43team

01:06:43not

01:06:44looking

01:06:44too

01:06:44good

01:06:44again

01:06:44Eddie

01:06:45Irvine

01:06:45down

01:06:46in

01:06:4630

01:06:46Luciano

01:06:47Berti

01:06:47having

01:06:47a good

01:06:48run

01:06:48in his

01:06:48acer

01:06:48tomorrow

01:06:50the start

01:06:50will be

01:06:51critical

01:06:51and it

01:06:51will be

01:06:52all about

01:06:52launch

01:06:53control

01:06:53and that

01:06:54about

01:06:54wraps up

01:06:55our

01:06:55coverage

01:06:55of

01:06:55qualifying

01:06:56for the

01:06:56Spanish

01:06:57Grand Prix

01:06:57Michael

01:06:58Schumacher

01:06:59has

01:06:59pole

01:06:59position

01:07:00we'll be

01:07:00back

01:07:01tomorrow

01:07:01at

01:07:017.30

01:07:02a.m.

01:07:02eastern

01:07:02for our

01:07:03pre-race

01:07:03coverage

01:07:04then of

01:07:04course

01:07:04the Grand

01:07:05Prix

01:07:11log on

01:07:11to

01:07:12speedvision.com

01:07:13for David

01:07:13Hobbs

01:07:14Steve

01:07:14Matchett

01:07:14and Sam

01:07:15Posey

01:07:15I'm Bob

01:07:16Barsha

01:07:16we'll see you

01:07:17Sunday morning

01:07:18race day

01:07:19at the

01:07:19Spanish

01:07:19Grand Prix

01:07:20so long

01:07:21everyone

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