Star Sports | Formula One 2012 Main Race : Japanese Grand Prix (2) - video Dailymotion

7/10/2012

Transcript

00:00...as they did that. That's what proper racing's about.

00:02Look at this, side by side into Turn 1, and Kimi Räikkönen has just carried too much speed into there,

00:07and Lewis Hamilton just heads the line, and Kimi has to turn out of the corner.

00:10Here they come, just, it was so close into Turn 1, and Lewis just got his nose in front into Turn 2,

00:17and Kimi had to concede. That was great racing by the pair of them.

00:19Well, don't forget, that would have been at the best part for Räikkönen, at least, of 300 kilometres an hour.

00:24Even at the slowest point of this corner, you're doing over 160 kilometres an hour.

00:28That was millimetre-perfect racing.

00:31He'll be heading for a podium. Meanwhile, Romain Grosjean continues his battle with Hekki Kovalein,

00:37and eventually makes a DRS move stick.

00:40It's taken a surprisingly long time for a car which is so quick round the corners

00:44to actually find the straight line speed to be there.

00:46Coming out a spoon curve, heading up to that big duddy of a corner.

00:49As you see, he's in the slipstream here, and Romain Grosjean just goes to the inside to block,

00:53but he's just got more speed. He just goes past, and he's clearly passed before the corner.

00:57Good move there by Bruno Senna.

00:59Well, that is proper racing, and Bruno Senna will have...

01:02...Kabayashi and Button for the podium, close enough to deploy the DRS.

01:06There's the wing open on Button's car.

01:08The rev limit, though, has been reached, and Kabayashi has stayed ahead down into Turn 1.

01:14One lap to go.

01:16Can Jenson Button try a manoeuvre once they've gone under the flyover into the hairpin?

01:22That's his one and only chance.

01:23Is Kamui Kabayashi going to be able to hold on?

01:26Holds the racing line down into the hairpin.

01:29And Button can't do anything about it there.

01:31Button still has the quickest car, though, but this was the bit of track.

01:35Oh, just look at the tension on the south of Bitwall.

01:37Manisha Cattenborn, well, she is hoping, and Fred's performance on home ground.

01:43But Sebastian Vettel, great, great win.

01:46Great job, Seb, well done.

01:48Fantastic, great drive, well done.

01:51Good job, mate, very good job.

01:53Yes, baby.

01:55It flows, and the Cordon Rouge flies high on the Suzuka podium.

02:02We're going to be heading across to Checkered Flag.