00:00Sebastian Vettel there with a new red helmet on the right hand side of the grid, Alonso alongside, Massa just behind, Mark Webber, Jenson Button behind Massa on the right, all the cars are assembled, medical car is ready, and we wait now with a near capacity crowd here at Hockenheim, is this the race then when Ferrari take the fight to Red Bull or McLaren, we're away at Hockenheim, Vettel's clear, Alonso makes a move,
00:29look at the punt there, almost coming together, Alonso's coming through on the inside, Massa's though jumped into the lead, astonishing start, two Ferraris, one and two and Vettel's third, what a start, Kvitz is right in there for Renault too, so Ferrari won two, then Vettel heavily lost out there, Webber got off the line poorly, but remains in fourth place, no contact in turn two, what a jump there by the Ferraris, straight into the lead, Schumacher's made a great start as well, really up into eight, he's jumped through face already,
00:58but here comes Lewis Hamilton, down to turn six, the hairpin for the first time, makes his move on Webber, on the inside, they've got to be very careful not touching, Webber runs wide and Hamilton's gained the place, he's up in the fourth,
01:10yep, he used that 10km per hour advantage, oh, he's lost the rear wing, that's Buemi, Buemi and the Toro Rosso have lost his rear wing, and that's going to cause problems there, Deveree, there'll certainly be a yellow flag,
01:23so not good for Red Bull at all, they're off the front, and they're sliding backwards now, because Vettel is third and Webber is fifth, now let's look at the start Martin, because this was astonishing,
01:33yeah, I think Vettel just spent too much time trying to squeeze Alonso into the wall, and it's cost him two places in the end, he just got too aggressive there, and it was Button who had to actually get right out of the throttle, cost him dearly,
01:47he got a tremendous run into turn one, and the Ferraris are clear already, watch this, and Vettel in front of us is only thinking about nailing Alonso to the pit wall,
01:58and Massa's, thank you very much, I'll have some of that, I've got a perfect line through turn one, I'll even run wide just in case.
02:06So Felipe Massa, leading for the first time in 2010.
02:09So this is where Hamilton does Mark Webber for fourth, and it's at the back then, so the two Toro Rosso's get together,
02:19and then straighten the car up, as you should do on the road, all the braking and downshifting done before the corner, turn in, apply the throttle,
02:27and he ever put the throttle on when he wants to keep putting more and more throttle on to go to full throttle,
02:31and this is an easily flat-out right-hander, and the Mercedes-Benz curve, that's somewhat tighter than it looks,
02:39it just keeps turning left, that one, before it catacults you into a flat-out right,
02:44and Jano truly is going to find himself with his mirrors full of charging Ferraris,
02:52and he's sensibly, as you'd expect, the driver of his experience, getting right out of the way.
02:57So if Alonso wants to finish ahead of Massa, he's going to have to overtake him.
03:03That's a very obvious thing to say, but the team can't interfere in that process.
03:09I remember seeing that in two years ago, Hamilton coming up behind Kovalainen, managed to run wide by mistake.
03:15Oh, and he's locked the right front quite badly into turn two, that'll put Alonso hot on his tail.
03:20Now, I think it's Jenson Buckley, what's he going to manage then?
03:25Because he's still, he's leading the race out in front, but all the time, those behind him chasing are on fresher rubber,
03:33and it should be quicker as well, and where's he going to come out?
03:36Massa out of shape again into the hairpin, he's not as happy on these tyres at the moment.
03:41Alonso looking much more confident at this phase of the race.
03:46But mind you, it's too much rear bias, it's the back end that's locked up here,
03:51and the hard braking with a downshift or two going on as well in there.
03:55And the next, so he's locking both ends up, he's just not happy with the overall level of grip.
04:01Here comes Kuvica, and he's ahead of Michael Schumacher,
04:05who has stopped as well, so Kuvica's out ahead of Michael Schumacher.
04:10They're dueling wheel to wheel, remember they did that in Canada, coming straight out of the pit.
04:13Schumacher's right behind him now.
04:15So he didn't quite make the position change, Michael Schumacher, with that earlier stop.
04:19And Kuvica then a little bit behind now, but he has the high ground in the braking zone.
04:23There's a lot of grip all the way over the track.
04:25He can just close Michael out, slow down on the apex, don't let him come back at you.
04:30And that's exactly how he had to do that.
04:33All the best on his recoveries, missed the last few races.
04:35Look at them, look at them.
04:37It's the wobbly camera on the wobbly engine cover, I'm reliably informed.
04:41Well, you hope it is for Jenson Button, see?
04:42Yeah, it is.
04:44And the ring in the neck of that Ferrari in the lead is Felipe Massa.
04:47Alonso looks slightly more under control.
04:52Lewis Hamilton just noticing his 8.4 seconds down on Vettel in fifth.
04:57Rosberg yet to stop in sixth.
04:59He's one and a half seconds down on him.
05:00And here's this train then.
05:02It's helping Alonso nicely.
05:04Massa wrong-footed there in turn two.
05:07Alonso in the slipstream now.
05:09Alonso, Massa needs to pick up his own slipstream from the back marker.
05:12Is there room for Alonso to squeeze through the middle?
05:16Look at this, Massa's dropped back there, but Alonso seems to be coming through.
05:18But Massa's got the line, has he?
05:20He has, and still the back marker's also rolled.
05:22Oh, my word, Vettel almost went into one of the back markers.
05:25Still no nose to tail.
05:27Chance now into the Mercedes-Benz curve, but he's gone to the inside.
05:30He had to lift off.
05:32He should have just eased it and then slid up the inside into this left-hander.
05:37I think Alonso missed his chance there slightly.
05:41This is Petrov rejoining with Schumacher and Kobayashi there.
05:46And he had to duck out there to Kobayashi.
05:48Dispression part, better part of Valor as Petrov rejoins.
05:51But these two did go on the contrary strategy with that.
05:57De La Rosa's having a look on the inside.
05:58Are they going to come together, or has he got through?
06:01De La Rosa looks to have done it.
06:02He's done it.
06:02What a beautiful move there.
06:04As we see, what's that, Sutil.
06:06Oh, and Sutil's just come into the pit lane.
06:07So this is obviously a replay.
06:09More handling woes for the force in the Argonne.
06:11OK.
06:12So, Fernando is faster than you.
06:18Can you confirm you understood that message?
06:21I think we understood it, don't we?
06:25You know, you really have to trust in your engineer and your group of guys around you,
06:29that you're all in the battle together.
06:31There's a picture there of Andrea Stella, who is Fernando Alonso's race engineer.
06:36And guess what's happened?
06:37There is a crucial move in the championship.
06:39Never mind the race here in Germany.
06:41Fernando Alonso goes past or through Felipe Massa, his Ferrari teammate, and into the lead in Hockenheim.
06:50And there is the move that so many people thought would happen.
06:53A lot of people are predicting that Alonso would have been favoured a lot earlier.
06:59OK, mate.
07:00Good lad.
07:00Just stick with him now.
07:02Sorry.
07:04Say no more.
07:05I'm also thinking this has just got a slight touch of Austria 2002, where the fans won't appreciate it.
07:12What about Austria 2002, as you say?
07:14Because Ferrari are so, so wary of repeating anything like that.
07:19There is a slight difference back then in that Michael was miles ahead in the championship.
07:24It was clear cut who was the number one driver.
07:27But Michael didn't need, they didn't need to do that back then.
07:30Now they do.
07:31They've had three dismal races.
07:33Now this is Di Grassi.
07:34What's happened?
07:35Oh, my word.
07:37It sums up their weekend, really.
07:39And there's a more than half minute between Weber and Kubica.
07:41So as long as his Renault engine holds together and Robert Kubica's Renault doesn't challenge him too much,
07:47then he should be safe in sick.
07:48Oh, it's coming together there.
07:50Coming together with Barrichello and Kobayashi, was it?
07:53What are we seeing here?
07:54That's why he misjudged it, didn't he?
07:56He could have been a lot closer.
07:57There's a bit of debris there on the road, wasn't it?
07:59He's been saying for the last few weeks and said it again here in Germany,
08:03I can win.
08:03I will win this world championship.
08:05Well, he's certainly taken a big step towards it because he's won here in Germany.
08:09Ah, a great day.
08:10This is a great day.
08:12Don't forget to look after the gearbox and look after the engine.
08:17We need those very, very, very good job this weekend.
08:21You have been bloody fast the whole weekend.
08:23In any condition.
08:25Our positions are doing on the race.
08:28What happened to Felipe?
08:30It means one year or something.
08:3330 seconds.
08:34No, it was okay.
08:35It was okay.
08:36Felipe Massa is back.
08:38Eh?
08:39Back in business.
08:40Good point.
08:41And very, very, very magnanimous.
08:43You won't have any idea what that word means, so I'll explain it to you later.
08:46What was a cursory embrace, I would say?
08:52Well, two things is all I can say.
08:54One, it was clearly unlawful.
08:56And for me, it was theft.
08:57They stole from us the opportunity of having a wheel-to-wheel contest between those two drivers.
09:02Ferrari should be ashamed of themselves.
09:04I have to say, that was probably the clearest team order I've ever seen.
09:07Especially when they've got a team apologizing to a driver.
09:10So, it'll be interesting to see what the stewards make of it.
09:15Because, you know, it was as clear as 2002, which was why the regulation was brought in.
09:20You know, we felt that Felipe was a little bit slower.
09:23And Vettel was catching up with the test, so that was the reason why.
09:26Show us the evidence.
09:28There isn't evidence.
09:28I'd love to show you, Eddie.
09:29I've seen Felipe being in first position.
09:32And I felt obviously happy, as he's a good friend of mine.
09:35Then hearing Alonso won the race, I was wondering, well, what kind of strategy was that?
09:40I can't wait to see the overtaking move with Felipe.
09:43So, Ferrari have stepped up.
09:46They've promised much, but failed to deliver.
09:50But it's happened today.
09:52But it's not all champagne for Felipe Massa.
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