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00:00Many of these drivers on the grid have nothing to lose to really just attack
00:04and that's why there's so much focus and tension down there.
00:10Charlie Whiting, race director from his gantry above the pit straight.
00:1418,000 horsepower under the control of Charlie's right thumb
00:18as he waits for the 24 cars to line up.
00:22Vettel on the left of your screen, Hamilton to the right
00:24and we wait for those lights.
00:26It's been the longest season, the closest season.
00:27We have four contenders who will be champion today
00:30as we leave the grid at Abu Dhabi.
00:34Vettel moves forward, Alonso comes through, Button's got the jump.
00:37Alonso down to fourth, Hamilton goes close but Vettel still leads.
00:41Button goes into third, Alonso is fourth and Weber is fit behind him
00:44but a crucial move there for Jenson Button already.
00:47McLaren's one and two.
00:49Yeah, Button got away extremely well on the inside
00:52and Vettel had to defend hard against another fast-starting McLaren
00:56as they're defending like crazy down into the turn five.
01:00We've got Tuna Saini side-by-side and they make contact.
01:02Michael Schumacher round.
01:03Will he...
01:04Oh, the fixmaster, that's Lutz.
01:05He's gone straight into him as well.
01:07There surely will have to be the safety car, won't it?
01:09Michael Schumacher's race is over.
01:10Lutz here as well.
01:11There's Vettel, Hamilton and Button, Alonso continue.
01:14The safety car has indeed been deployed.
01:16And so the race immediately...
01:19What a dramatic start.
01:21Vettel away, OK.
01:22Hamilton away but Button ahead of Alonso just as he wanted
01:24and that gave Weber the chance to have a go at Alonso
01:26but the safety car is out and the seven-time world champion
01:30just like the Tantanilucia is out as well.
01:33Two drivers gone, safety car out.
01:35And we've got some taking this opportunity
01:38to get their tyre change phase out of the way
01:41and that's Rosberg, Petro, Algesuari and others as well.
01:46Bruno Senna.
01:47It's Nika Rosberg that could become a nuisance
01:51along with Kubica later on.
01:53So, for the leaders that is.
01:55So, this is Michael Schumacher being defended hard by Barrichello.
02:00Rosberg tries to seize advantage.
02:02Michael Schumacher clearly doesn't know.
02:03There's just the lightest of touches.
02:07It really almost wasn't contact.
02:09But remember, these cars are in balance
02:11so you could push them around with your hand, frankly,
02:13when they're right on the point of sliding.
02:16And they all managed to miss him with the exception of...
02:20He had nowhere to go, didn't he, Liotte?
02:21No, he was kind of hemmed in, wasn't he?
02:23Yeah.
02:24The brake pedal might have been an option
02:25but I'm sure he was using that anyway.
02:29Let's have a look.
02:29There we go.
02:30It is just the sweetest of kisses on the back.
02:34And here we go.
02:36Oh, that's so scary.
02:37I don't like to see that.
02:39He was braking from about 180 miles an hour, wasn't he?
02:42That will catch Michael Schumacher's attention.
02:44Maybe like career.
02:45Here's the start again, though, Martin.
02:46Let's see if there was any contact then
02:47between Vettel and Hamilton
02:48as they came up to this first corner.
02:50Vettel turned in.
02:52Hamilton.
02:54We'd have to see a slightly closer.
02:56It looked to me as if Vettel's car was just drifting slightly.
03:00That sort of situation can give you a puncture, right, Charles?
03:04Which, as we've seen earlier on in the air.
03:05So there's Button having to get out of the way of
03:08and Alonso is trying to stop him coming through.
03:11That's still not going to tell us.
03:12Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Lewis' front wing's OK.
03:15He got a slightly better start.
03:17Certainly the first phase of the start was better.
03:20And he suddenly realises, because his front brake locks up,
03:23that Vettel is just going to turn in anyway.
03:27You're basically in charge of four contact patches.
03:30You've got to get them from the start to the finish.
03:32You'll change them at a certain point
03:33for four new contact patches.
03:35But that's what you're doing.
03:36You're a heat management expert
03:38while somebody's trying to steal your piece of tarmac
03:41at a couple of hundred miles an hour.
03:42Vettel's already accelerated.
03:43Hamilton, Button, tyres getting up to temperature again.
03:47Careful to make no mistakes.
03:48They go along this pit straight.
03:49This is for the sixth time.
03:51Four laps behind the safety car.
03:54So Vettel pushing his luck with the safety car rules
03:56that cost him so dearly back in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
04:00There's Rosberg, who's, for some reason,
04:04well, 16th, when did I say, sort of 17th,
04:06so he's taken a place already.
04:07He hasn't got the straight line speed,
04:09and he's down on the Ferrari, certainly,
04:11as Sutil comes to on the inside of Kubica.
04:13That's Kubica going around the outside of Sutil.
04:15And he's managed to get it as well.
04:16He's got a place.
04:17He's up into ninth.
04:18Rubens Barrichello, seventh.
04:19And Hülkenberg, here's a go there for Kobayashi
04:21coming through the inside of Barrichello.
04:22Lovely move there.
04:23He's had to go a little bit wide.
04:24Back comes Barrichello.
04:25Wise old head against the U-man.
04:27Kubayashi's brilliant, isn't he?
04:29It's like he gets to the normal braking point
04:30and then goes,
04:31now which one was the brake again?
04:33That's right, it's on the left.
04:34Here's Mark Webber.
04:35Now, is this a little problem for Mark Webber
04:36as he went across on the kerb,
04:38running very close,
04:39very, very, very close then to the armcoat?
04:42He touched it.
04:44But it's no problem.
04:44There's no lateral load going on.
04:46That was a bit more of a touch of the front I was talking about.
04:50The rear definitely clouted it, didn't it?
04:53Now, this is Nico Rosberg
04:54coming through on the inside of Nico Hülkenberg.
04:56Two young Germans together.
04:58And did Hülkenberg hang on?
05:00He's got to play and push him as much as possible.
05:02Now, this is Massa.
05:04Under Stair City.
05:05That means the front tyre's sliding across the track.
05:08Losing the rear tyre, mate.
05:09Losing the rear tyre.
05:10Away, and that was well done.
05:12Seemed to be no major problems there.
05:14But the problem he's got
05:15is he's going to slot in
05:17behind Kubica,
05:20Sutil,
05:21maybe even Nico Rosberg.
05:23There's no blue flags.
05:24He's not obliged to by regulation.
05:26He's coming through, though.
05:26He's done it.
05:27So Webber is through.
05:28He was gifted, wasn't he?
05:29But that's the only way.
05:30The next lap would mean,
05:31I think,
05:32that I'd have put P45 on Al Juswari's pitboard
05:34if he didn't do that.
05:36Because if you look at the sector times
05:38of all those that have got fresh tyres,
05:40they're really fast,
05:41particularly in the middle part of the lap.
05:43And Webber's absolutely flying.
05:44Jenson Button,
05:46he's only 4.9 off the lead
05:48as Bruno Senna recovers
05:49from one of the many runoff areas here.
05:52They're coming up against Petrov,
05:53who's already changed his tyres.
05:55Of all the things I expected this afternoon,
05:57it wasn't necessarily that
05:58Fernando Alonso was leading
05:59a big move on Vitaly Petrov
06:01for the championship positions.
06:03OK, I know and I see you're doing your best,
06:06but really it's critical to pass it.
06:08I know you're doing your best.
06:09And here comes Alonso coming through
06:12on the inside of Petrov
06:13but he's careful not doing it.
06:13Oh, he's almost going off the track.
06:14He has gone off the track.
06:16He cannot gain position though.
06:17And he's still held up.
06:19Vettel retains the lead
06:20and critically ahead of that Sauber
06:22that they were trying to monitor.
06:23He's almost came together there.
06:24He's got to watch out though.
06:25It's Kobayashi all trying the inside maybe.
06:27He's having a look.
06:28Vettel though has kept ahead.
06:30That could have been a world championship
06:33making the pit stop.
06:34Kubica getting in the slipstream
06:36and around the outside of Kobayashi
06:39and Kobayashi thinks about
06:41coming back up the inside.
06:42Now Mark Webber, what's gone wrong again?
06:44Oh, that's what's gone wrong.
06:45Lewis Hamilton coming through
06:46the inside of Kobayashi
06:48and has he judged this correctly?
06:49He's gone through the inside line
06:51and again he's managed to pull that one off.
06:53That doesn't look too good for Yano,
06:54truly does it?
06:55I think we've got a Lewis in the car
06:57giving up, how did you do this to me?
06:59This is rubbish.
07:00It's costing me dead.
07:01Oh, he's going through on the inside.
07:02He's got to measure it though.
07:03Hamilton again getting close
07:05and then running wide once more.
07:07Use the best of your talent.
07:10We know how big it is.
07:11Use it.
07:15Another camera.
07:17That's Lewis Hamilton
07:18dealing with quite a few,
07:19I remember yesterday
07:19and qualifying with Massa.
07:22His response was to Lee
07:23when they're injured on me.
07:25It's just Timo Glock, isn't it?
07:26Her virgin.
07:27He's done it.
07:28Oh, he's run a little bit wide there.
07:30Now that could be,
07:31could have been a little bit of a problem.
07:33Remember,
07:33Rosberg won in Singapore, wasn't it?
07:35Have a go at Alonso if you can, Mark.
07:37See if you can get past him.
07:38Come on.
07:38And this is Alonso getting massively deep
07:41into turn 18,
07:43I think that is.
07:44attently at the monitors.
07:45There is the pit board held out
07:47for the final lap
07:48for Sebastian Vettel.
07:50Ten pole positions.
07:52Ten pole positions.
07:52Ten pole positions.
07:52Ten pole positions.
07:52Ten pole positions.
07:53Four victories.
07:54This is going to be number five of 2010.
07:57And it's going to be the most crucial.
07:59He lost last year's championship.
08:00He did have a chance of that
08:01but made some mistakes.
08:03He made a lot of mistakes this year
08:04and looked like he'd blown it again.
08:06But somehow Sebastian Vettel's speed.
08:09He's at ten pole positions.
08:11Every time the safety car comes in,
08:13his restarts have been mighty.
08:16His confidence, his speed,
08:17his commitment, his skill.
08:19And he's got to somehow tame
08:22and get rid of those mistakes.
08:24But even so,
08:25it looks like he's got it now.
08:26The order came from Dietrich Matoschitz.
08:28It needs to be better this year.
08:29We want the championship.
08:30Well, they got the constructors in Brazil.
08:32And now Sebastian Vettel wins in Abu Dhabi
08:34to be driver's champion for 2010.
08:37It's a double for Red Bull.
08:40What a season.
08:41We know from 2008.
08:43Don't count on it just yet
08:44until everybody goes over the line.
08:45The two McLaren's liners
08:47have stirred the Hamilton from button.
08:49Petrov now coming across for sixth place.
08:51There is the checkered flag.
08:52Alonso going for it.
08:53And they've done it.
08:54They will celebrate.
08:56And now the party really can begin.
08:59And if there's one team
09:00who knows how to party,
09:01it's Red Bull.
09:02Zartmeister.
09:03Oh, thank you, boy.
09:06Unbelievable.
09:09Unbelievable.
09:11I love you.
09:12Sebastian Vettel,
09:13you are the world champion.
09:16The world champion.
09:17Well done.
09:18Enjoy it.
09:18You are the man.
09:20Yes!
09:22Look at this.
09:23This is Alonso
09:24blaming Petrov
09:25for losing him the world title.
09:28Get real, son.
09:29What is he?
09:31You can't expect him to jump out of the way.
09:33Of course he's going to hold track position.
09:34He probably feels he could do a backflip
09:35straight back into the cockpit
09:36and he'd fit like a glove.
09:41Lewis Hamilton knows that feeling.
09:43But for Sebastian Vettel,
09:45never before in his Formula One career
09:47leading a championship,
09:48he's got it just right.
09:50the perfect time to hit the front
09:52and to take the title
09:54and what a year of his team.
10:21I don't think that's it.
10:22Thanks to Hitler.
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