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00:00Chat for Kimi Räikkönen, coming through from the back.
00:03You know the procedure when the five lights go off, the 2008 World Championship will be underway.
00:09And it's going Australia!
00:11Cracking start, someone's stalling at the back.
00:14Lewis Hamilton's got a good start, Kubica looks electric on the run down to the first corner.
00:18But Hamilton goes defensive and pops him out.
00:20Kubica is right up his gearbox though.
00:22And Kovalainen, I think, and Massa were very close to each other.
00:26Where is Felipe Massa?
00:27Can't see him at the moment, there was contact further back as well.
00:30But Kovalainen, there is Massa, seems to have dropped some ground.
00:34Dropped a huge amount of ground, but I think there was a Toro Rosso pointing in the wrong direction too.
00:39In the first turn, Massa squabbling there with a red bull.
00:43That's Kimi Räikkönen, and Massa is nowhere to be seen.
00:46I saw him getting very close to Kovalainen into that turn one.
00:49And as we predicted, a tremendous difference in the quality of their start.
00:53Hamilton leads, Kubica's the second.
00:54Kovalainen in third, Rosberg in fourth.
00:57Felipe Massa is yet to appear.
00:58He's not in the top 16.
01:00And the safety car, well, I told you about the safety car and the chances of it being deployed.
01:04It's already out on the first lap here.
01:06Lewis Hamilton leads it then from Kubica, Kovalainen, Rosberg.
01:11Heidfeld is in fifth place.
01:12Trolley's sixth.
01:13Barrichello is up to seventh in the Honda.
01:15Kimi Räikkönen has had an amazing start.
01:18From 15th on the grid, he is now eighth.
01:20And he could well be a danger man for Hamilton from there.
01:23Alonso ninth, Koolfarb tenth, and Felipe Massa Martin is in 17th place.
01:28Mechanics go to work.
01:30Putting soft tyres back on it, I notice.
01:32I have wondered if they would swap to the harder rubber, but they obviously, they're running that soft tyre because they like it, obviously.
01:38Oh, and released to the park, right at the park of Nakajima.
01:41That was a bit nice, a good job they weren't racing.
01:43Most cars getting away reasonably well.
01:46And there it is.
01:47It's Kovalainen on the outside.
01:49And just the nearest tag, what it looks like, and it's all going off behind.
01:53That force India almost went over in the gravel trap.
01:58And I think it's going to be just a slight tag with his left front wing on the...
02:03No, it's...
02:03In fact, I think he just dropped...
02:05He either got a push from behind or he just plain dropped it.
02:08He looked like he wanted to avoid Kovalainen there, didn't he?
02:11Yeah, he did.
02:12Let's take another angle.
02:13So he never actually touched Kovalainen at all.
02:15The damage was done against the barrier.
02:17He dropped it by himself.
02:19That's the traction control.
02:20There is the flying force India that oh so nearly goes over with Fisichella on board.
02:25Safety car into the pit lane and restart here in Melbourne, led by Lewis Hamilton.
02:30Robert Kubica is second.
02:32Kovalainen's third.
02:33Fourth is Rosberg.
02:34Terrific for him.
02:35What a great platform for him to do something here this afternoon.
02:38And there's where Mark Webber is at the moment and that's how his left rear got damaged.
02:43Just the nearest touches.
02:45Normally the suspension is beefy enough to cope with, not with that, going into the wall.
02:50And then there's a good fight going on between David Coulthard 9, Fernando Alonso in 10.
02:56Does he make it into the braking area?
02:58That's from a long way back.
03:00He just came in there and that was an impressive overtake from way too far back.
03:06But it paid off, didn't it?
03:07And this is Massa then shaping up on Nakajima, is it?
03:12Doesn't look much like this.
03:13Lewis is passing a Renault then, so that is a replay actually, it says at the top of the screen.
03:19Comfortably lapping, a good half a second the lap quicker than anybody else in the field at the moment, including his teammate Heike Kovalainen in third place.
03:27And, well, Lewis would love to start and open his account with a win here in Albert Park to get 2008 underway.
03:34And look at this, Raikkonen very close now.
03:36Barrichello defending on the inside.
03:39Raikkonen surely can't go around the outside.
03:41Can he double back inside?
03:43And, oh, that's going to end up with a broken front wing if you try that one.
03:46He thought better of it.
03:48Traction to launch up the inside.
03:50And this is Massa having a look at the back of Nakajima and he's through.
03:56That's where he spun at the start of the race.
03:58Here's the McLaren boys, very steady.
04:00That's just above nine seconds.
04:02So, a standard two stop there and he's gone out back again on the hard tyres.
04:07There's a long way behind at the moment and they picked up a great slipstream.
04:11And, oh, and Rubens gave him just enough room but didn't go as defensive, did he?
04:17It's almost as if Rubens was thinking, I need to let this guy by now.
04:21It's costing me time as well.
04:23And he'll get past me eventually.
04:25I might as well let him go.
04:26That's got that sort of hallmark on it as far as I'm concerned.
04:30There's another look at it.
04:31Down the inside goes the reigning world champion.
04:36Oh, he's not happy.
04:38Poor old Yano.
04:39He was driving very well in the top six for Toyota.
04:43He's had to pop out of the car.
04:44Meanwhile, here's Massa and Sato, take two.
04:47And he gets him through turn 14.
04:51Yeah, it's a shame that we lose a point like that.
04:55Oh, he's a driver.
04:57Massa makes massive contact there with David Coulthard.
05:00A huge incident there into turn one as the Ferrari driver tried to go past the Red Bull driver.
05:06Under safety car conditions here.
05:08That could be quite interesting.
05:09Let's take another look at it.
05:10I think that Felipe will feel that he had the high ground there.
05:16That he had the right to stay on the inside of the corner.
05:20DC quite clearly didn't know he was there.
05:22Your peripheral vision in these cars is very poor.
05:26And clearly hadn't spotted that Massa was coming out of the inside of him at quite the rate that he was.
05:32But I don't believe Massa was wrong in holding his ground there.
05:36He has a much lighter car than Kovalainen.
05:39He tries to go around the outside.
05:40And he's been trying to pass him for a few laps before the safety car was deployed.
05:45He saw the restart as an opportunity.
05:46But so far, Kovalainen has denied him.
05:49The green flag's waver down the inside.
05:51Goes Räikkönen, but he's overcooked it.
05:54The world champion is in the gravel trap.
05:57What is going on for Ferrari today?
05:59That's another disaster for them.
06:01And Räikkönen looked like he was about 50 metres too late on the rate.
06:05Kovalainen suddenly opened the door for him.
06:08Räikkönen took it, but he was just too hot as he went in there.
06:11While Massa and the other Ferrari compounding that team's misery.
06:15He's pulling off to the side of the racetrack.
06:17Maybe he doesn't like the feel of that left front suspension after he whacked David Coulthard.
06:21First sector, we ride on board then with him.
06:25Heidfeld, the Rosberg fourth, Barrichello fifth, and Bordet in sixth place.
06:31Glock's keeping an eye on him, but nowhere near close enough.
06:35Kimi needs good exit here to have a chance down into his least favourite.
06:39Turn three, he is closer.
06:41Surely this time he will just pound down the inside.
06:44He won't, he's going to lose it.
06:46Stick a wheel on the grass.
06:47What's he doing out there?
06:49The anti-stall kicks in.
06:51He selects first gear and off he goes.
06:54That's two errors then today.
06:56Two critical errors from the current world champion.
07:00Look, he could have...
07:01He's just gone wide.
07:03I think his eye was on the apex.
07:05Stuck the left rear on the grass.
07:07Barrichello...
07:08Enormous shots for Timo Glock in the Toyota.
07:11That's certain to bring out the safety car again.
07:13Here's though Timo Glock certainly winded.
07:16There you go.
07:17Exactly as you predicted.
07:18Off at turn 12.
07:19Almost catches some air.
07:20Does catch some air.
07:21And, well, he certainly felt that.
07:25But at least that makes nine.
07:27This is Raikkonen and...
07:29Alonso on Kovalainen.
07:30Alonso goes past Kovalainen.
07:32Hopefully a look at it.
07:33OK, so Kovalainen is getting...
07:35Oh, getting held up.
07:36Is he going to go run wide down into 13?
07:38So he took a place.
07:40And that's where Alonso got past him.
07:42So they were passing...
07:43Or trying to pass Bordet.
07:46And there's the other incident then.
07:48There's the front wing of Nakajima going off.
07:53That's a limping, prancing horse without doubt.
07:57Fantastic performance from Sebastian Bordet.
08:00In the Toro Rosso.
08:01Lapping faster as Kimi Raikkonen finally rolls in.
08:05Oh, Bordet.
08:06Bordet slows.
08:09Poor old Sebastian Bordet.
08:11Just three laps away from five World Championship points on his debut.
08:16The Toro Rosso has let him down.
08:19And, well, he must be absolutely gutted.
08:22Because he's driven his socks off today.
08:24What's going on here?
08:25Kovalainen taking the long way round.
08:27Will he get a better drive out of the corner?
08:29And you're just about allowed to do that, Mr. Alonso.
08:33But it didn't do any good because Kovalainen makes it stick.
08:37How satisfying will that be?
08:39Fantastic pass.
08:41By the man who took the seat at McLaren.
08:43Of Fernando Alonso.
08:45And there's pretty much a straight swap between them.
08:47Alonso comes back at him.
08:48But Kovalainen's got problems.
08:50He didn't get drive out of the corner.
08:51And now Alonso's got the satisfaction.
08:54He takes the place back again.
08:55And the chequered flag.
08:57And, well, Lewis Hamilton's driven absolutely beautifully.
08:59He takes his fifth career victory.
09:02The first for McLaren here since 2003.
09:05None of his main rivals have scored a point here this afternoon.
09:09And what a satisfying start to the season for Lewis Hamilton.
09:12Second is Nick Heinfeld.
09:14Third is Nico Rosberg.
09:16Showed its speed during free practice.
09:20And there is Lewis Hamilton.
09:21He wants to just congratulate his mechanics.
09:24Leaps into them.
09:26Showing his joy.
09:27A massive outpouring of emotion for him.
09:29Mid of 605 kilograms.
09:32Two karting mates.
09:34They were teammates for years.
09:36Great to see you again.
09:38There they go.
09:40It's been a spectacular day here at Albert Park, Melbourne.
09:45Most of the main rivals failed to pick up any major points.
09:48For Lewis Hamilton, it was a perfect 10.
09:51He's going to be very hard to beat in 2008.
09:54He's going to be very hard to beat.
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