2003 Austrian GP Saturday Qualifying

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The Saturday Qualifying session for Round 6 of the 2003 F1 season at the A1 Ring.

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00:00:00Rubens Barrichello, can he knock his teammate off?

00:00:02No, he is going to be second fastest.

00:00:04Michael Schumacher is the pole sitter.

00:00:06He's coming to the line.

00:00:07Let's see what Schumacher has for Fernando Alonso.

00:00:10P3, Alonso is on pole, and Renault rejoice.

00:00:14Rubens Barrichello has a chance of taking the pole here in Brazil

00:00:18in front of his hometown fans.

00:00:19He's going to come across the line.

00:00:21Yes!

00:00:22Ha-ha-ha!

00:00:23Now he's trying to go for a pole here at Imola.

00:00:26Practically the home from Brady.

00:00:27Yes!

00:00:2814,000ths of a second.

00:00:30He's had the last three poles here at Barcelona.

00:00:33He comes around.

00:00:35And he does it!

00:00:37Well, hello from the beautiful mountains of Austria.

00:00:59Welcome to coverage of final qualifying for the sixth round of the Formula One World Championship,

00:01:03the Austrian Grand Prix.

00:01:05I'm Rick DeBruy, joining me as always, David Hobbs and Steve Matchett,

00:01:08and the crowds are out today on an absolutely beautiful day in Austria, David.

00:01:13It is a beautiful day, and those mountains just look so inviting.

00:01:17I'd like to be in that camera position.

00:01:18Not at all.

00:01:20Way up there.

00:01:21That's my favorite position.

00:01:23Yeah, but you get a nice view of everything.

00:01:25Yeah, a great view.

00:01:26But I wanted a very strong seat, Gabelton.

00:01:29That's right.

00:01:29Just make sure you don't have to make a little bathroom break in the middle of the whole thing.

00:01:32All right, before we get to qualifying, we need to see what this track looks like.

00:01:35David, take us around the circuit with the Porsche TrackMan.

00:01:37Well, of course, set in the mountains at 2,000 feet, so pressure's down a little bit here.

00:01:41As you can see, it's pretty squared off three real drag strips.

00:01:45Actually, Castle Curve, where all the overtaking goes on.

00:01:47It's an uphill approach, difficult for the drivers to see, sitting low in the cars.

00:01:51Run downhill to the Remus Curve, and then right at the last minute, that goes uphill too.

00:01:55That's another difficult corner to see the apex.

00:01:57Another quick rush down to Gosser Curve, where Ralph Schumacher went off yesterday.

00:02:00As you can see, very tight entry, unwinds on the way out.

00:02:03Then the Nicky Lauda Curve, very steeply downhill, and the Powerhurst Curve, also downhill.

00:02:08Both left-handers putting a bit of strain on the right front tyre.

00:02:12Quick run down to Joachim Rint Curve, which is also a downhill curve,

00:02:15so you're not getting much help here from Canberra on the racetrack.

00:02:18And then the A1 Curve is very, very important, slippery this weekend,

00:02:21because that leads you on to that straight up to the Casper Curve, where the overtaking's going on.

00:02:25So you want to make a good run out of there.

00:02:27Real briefly, let's talk about the weather.

00:02:29We said it's very nice.

00:02:30It is indeed 68 degrees, track temperature of 91.

00:02:33Just a little humidity out there, very slight breeze, sunny, dry conditions,

00:02:38what we expect for today and the weekend.

00:02:40And the first man out on the track, Ralph Schumacher.

00:02:44That is because, don't forget, today's running is the reverse order of yesterday,

00:02:48and Ralphie had this little incident yesterday on his pre-qualifying lap,

00:02:53and got the thing crossed up, and quite honestly, didn't catch it early enough somehow.

00:02:57And then, of course, it went off into the gravel at the Gosser Curve there.

00:03:02Remus and Castle Curve have both had their gravel traps removed and replaced by asphalt,

00:03:06which obviously the drivers prefer.

00:03:08But as you can see, he got it all crossed up there, locked up that right front

00:03:11when he transferred the weight, trying to turn into the Gosser Curve.

00:03:14Ooh, and get it in the gravel, and unfortunately, it was beached.

00:03:18But Patrick Head, team chief, was not a happy camper.

00:03:22No, they said they could hear Patrick Head discussing that in the media centre from the pit lane.

00:03:27Yeah, 300 yards away.

00:03:28There you see that new asphalt at the exit of the Castle Curve,

00:03:31which everybody is using to their advantage.

00:03:33This is that downhill run to Remus.

00:03:36Then right at the end, just right here, it starts to go up sharply.

00:03:39So if you're sitting in that driver's seat, it's difficult to see that apex.

00:03:46A lot of elevation change here.

00:03:49It's almost even more so than it looks on television.

00:03:53Yes, this is a run down here.

00:03:54It's a downhill braking area.

00:03:55This is where he went off yesterday.

00:03:57Obviously not going to make the same mistake today.

00:04:00But, of course, today's times are the ones that count.

00:04:02Yesterday really just sets up the running order for today,

00:04:05and kind of everybody wants to be quick yesterday because they want to be last out today.

00:04:10Of course, Ralph has to be the track sweeper for today, unfortunately, first time around.

00:04:13Although this morning in the final practice session before this, he was fourth fastest.

00:04:21This is the Jochen Rint curve.

00:04:23Jochen Rint, of course, is the posthumous world champion in 1970.

00:04:26The only guy to do that, luckily.

00:04:30First qualifier comes across the line.

00:04:33Amazingly, Ralph Schumacher has the pole.

00:04:35There's Mario Tyson on the right of your picture, who's the chief engine man from BMW.

00:04:40He's got apparently a very happy camp at the moment with a number of issues with the Williams team

00:04:44because they feel their engine is one of the more, if not the most powerful engine out there.

00:04:49Yes, there is a lot of unrest in the BMW Williams camp.

00:04:53All right, now, Ralph Schumacher wasn't the only guy with a problem yesterday.

00:04:58This was Ralph Furman.

00:05:01Boy, he got on the grass at the A1 curve, a lot of people did, but he kept his foot in it.

00:05:04Unfortunately, he didn't do a very good job there of getting back on the track,

00:05:08but he did do a good job of making the mechanic work late, Steve.

00:05:12There's Eddie Jordan, not looking happy about that.

00:05:14Just a little bit of all the expense now, putting the car back together.

00:05:17The amazing thing was, though, that he actually finished officially the qualifying drive.

00:05:21He may have gone through a little askew, but that allowed him to start this qualifying session just ahead of Ralph Schumacher.

00:05:30And he's faster in the very first section.

00:05:34Wow, now, that is not a thing that the Williams camp's going to be happy to see on there, monitoring the pits.

00:05:39I'll tell you that.

00:05:41See Ralph Furman quicker than Ralph Schumacher in the first sector.

00:05:44In the warm-up just before the session that happened just 15 minutes before this started,

00:05:48Ralph Schumacher was second to last in the times.

00:05:51Now, that doesn't always equate to what's going to go on,

00:05:53but it almost seemed as if he was going around very tentatively.

00:05:56And I wonder if he was doing the same thing, just trying to make sure that he was going to get in the race.

00:06:01He's up a little bit there on Schumacher.

00:06:04I mean, down a bit.

00:06:05There's those final curves, Jochen Rint curves, still going downhill, pretty steeply.

00:06:14As you can see, the approach to this last corner is very steep.

00:06:16It is.

00:06:17That's going too wide, isn't it?

00:06:20Another foot to the left.

00:06:22We could have had a replay of what happened yesterday.

00:06:24Good Lord, he even lost a ton of time in the last two sectors.

00:06:27Lost a massive amount of time that time.

00:06:29He was up on the very first, up in the second,

00:06:32and he lost an awful lot in the final sector.

00:06:34Ralph Fuhrman now second fastest.

00:06:37We're going to take a quick break.

00:06:38Remember, you won't miss a second of qualifying action coming up.

00:06:41Both the minorities are going to make their runs, and, of course, everybody else.

00:06:44Stick around.

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00:07:01Welcome back to Austria.

00:07:02Justin Wilson in the minority just starting his qualifying lap,

00:07:06and, as you can see, slower than Ralph Schumacher, the first guy who was out today.

00:07:11Justin Wilson, who finally finished his very first race in Formula One in Spain, finishing 11th.

00:07:16There's that gossip curve there.

00:07:20And you're right, the road really doesn't help at all there, does it?

00:07:23No.

00:07:23It drops away.

00:07:24Now, these curves coming up here.

00:07:27This is the Mickey Lauder curve.

00:07:29This, see the road falling away there.

00:07:31Must be difficult to set the car up there.

00:07:33You've got a lot of understeers.

00:07:34You go down that corner.

00:07:35This one, it flattens out, and the road helps you a little bit there.

00:07:38A little bit of a crest, and then there's a right-hand sweeper before this straight.

00:07:42So, there's a lot of stuff to set these cars up for.

00:07:47Wilson is the first lap champion of 2003.

00:07:52He's been averaging, improving his qualifying position,

00:07:55an average of six spots in every opening lap of this season.

00:08:00But, qualifying-wise, he's still going to be back in the pack.

00:08:04Boy, that's a long way off.

00:08:06That's a long way off Ralph Schumacher's time, which is a 1.10,

00:08:10which is probably going to be a fair way off pole anyway.

00:08:16Yeah, so that's a 1.14 for Wilson.

00:08:19Now, don't forget, yesterday's times are just a little bit unrepresented

00:08:23what we're going to get today,

00:08:24because today's qualifying is done with race fuel on board,

00:08:28and it depends where these guys want to strategize their stops.

00:08:32Because yesterday, Michael Schumacher did a 1.7 and change.

00:08:36I don't think we're going to see any 1.7s today.

00:08:38Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:08:41Sliding right through there, but very twitchy coming into there.

00:08:44Well, that's again what we saw yesterday under the heavy braking.

00:08:48The weight transfer goes across the car, and he really...

00:08:52I think something must have boosted.

00:08:54Yeah, I wonder whether or not the transmission broke there under braking,

00:08:57and all of a sudden the weight transfer got him.

00:08:59Yeah, there's something big happened there.

00:09:03Jasper Stoppen, who finished sixth here back in 2001.

00:09:06That seemed like a lifetime ago, now that you look at this,

00:09:08and the Minardi as he pulls off.

00:09:11No oil leaking out anywhere, is there?

00:09:13No.

00:09:13Let's have another look at that.

00:09:15Ooh, big cross up there.

00:09:19But it's not where you'd expect it.

00:09:21I mean, it's not...

00:09:22No, I wonder whether or not the transmission changed down two ratios instead of one, David.

00:09:27Oh, yeah.

00:09:28It was snatched.

00:09:30Could be.

00:09:30Yeah, I guess it broke a ratio by changing down two gears.

00:09:35Well, while they're taking a quick break, we are going to take a quick break as well.

00:09:38When we come back, we will have more from qualifying at Austria right here on Speed Channel.

00:09:43Welcome back to Speed Channel's coverage of qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix.

00:09:56There you see Fernando Alonso sitting in the garage waiting to go out.

00:10:00Just a moment ago, Jasper Stoppen had to abandon his qualifying effort because of some problem,

00:10:04but right now it is Cristiano de Mana out on the track.

00:10:07And these guys, yesterday, Toyota, just were not on their game at all, were they?

00:10:14And Obey Anderson, the president of Toyota Racing, said, you know,

00:10:20really, we don't really know what it was.

00:10:22We just didn't get it right.

00:10:25The setup just didn't work for us.

00:10:27Because they've got a very powerful engine, the Toyota,

00:10:29and it wasn't very quick down the straights compared to the Ferrari,

00:10:32and it still lost out on the corner, so they had the worst for both worlds.

00:10:36They obviously had too much drag on the thing, but they obviously didn't have the town force right.

00:10:40So he's doing 186 miles an hour.

00:10:41That's a mile an hour slower than Ralph Schumacher went,

00:10:45but he was quicker in that first sector than Ralph Schumacher.

00:10:48So he'll no doubt be fairly happy with that.

00:10:51De Mana lost it again in that second sector.

00:10:54De Mana was 19th fastest in the first session this morning.

00:10:57He was 16th fastest in the second session.

00:10:59In the warm-up just before this, he was 15th fastest,

00:11:02so he's definitely struggling with this.

00:11:04But he's also never been to this track before.

00:11:06In fact, he had never even been to Austria until he flew in the other day just before the race.

00:11:15Second fastest, though, although half a second slower than the BMW Williams.

00:11:18There is Obey Anderson we're talking about.

00:11:24And again, he doesn't look too...

00:11:25He always looks fairly impassive, but he doesn't look too happy at all, does he?

00:11:31Especially after last year.

00:11:33There was so much potential shown last year, and they just haven't lived up to it this year.

00:11:35He's running a bit wide.

00:11:40This is that A1 curve, which caught so many people out yesterday.

00:11:44Yeah.

00:11:45We had Michael Schumacher making a big wide sweep through there even,

00:11:48and an amazing twitch on his qualifying run coming off the A1 curve.

00:11:53A couple of engineers about pit stop strategy and fuel strategy to tomorrow.

00:12:01Most people thinking it's going to be a two-stop race.

00:12:04So about 55 kilos, 60 kilos of fuel, 120 pounds worth of fuel on board the car today.

00:12:10So take that into consideration with the qualifying times.

00:12:13There's Olivier Panis, who's getting ready for his run,

00:12:17who's been quicker this weekend than Cristiano de Mara, but not much.

00:12:21Well, coming up tomorrow, of course, we're going to be bringing you live coverage of the Austin Grand Prix.

00:12:26In fact, our live coverage will begin at 7.30 in the morning, Eastern Time, with the Acura Pre-Race Show.

00:12:31As always, it'll feature Peter Windsor.

00:12:33Peter's going to be previewing the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix

00:12:36and be giving us all the latest news from the paddock.

00:12:39Once again, that's tomorrow, starting at 7.30 in the morning, East Coast Time, 4.30 for all you West Coast folks,

00:12:45and that is only right here on Speed.

00:12:47A pretty big crowd turned out.

00:12:52What's the qualifying today?

00:12:53Obviously, as you can see, the weather is beautiful.

00:12:56Fair old breeze blowing, which is probably affecting these cars quite badly on some of these turns.

00:13:02And obviously keeping the temperature pretty reasonable.

00:13:05As I said before, we're a couple of thousand feet up here.

00:13:09And we can see the snow on the peaks not so far away.

00:13:12Next up is going to be the birthday boy, Heinz-Herald Frensen.

00:13:16Tomorrow is his 36th birthday.

00:13:20Ooh.

00:13:22Old Coop.

00:13:23That's tomorrow, but this is what happened yesterday with Heinz-Herald.

00:13:28This was in the morning practice.

00:13:30That's the A1 corner again.

00:13:32Goes right up onto that new.

00:13:33This used to be gravel last year, so he's no doubt very glad it's not gravel at the moment.

00:13:37For some reason or other, he didn't take that little road back.

00:13:39He decided to go up front with the grass.

00:13:40I'm going to give the mechanics a little extra work in pulling out some grass out of the 5-5s.

00:13:46Here he comes.

00:13:48Out of the Gossip Curve.

00:13:51Down to the Nicky Lauder Curve.

00:13:54This one must be a pig to set the car up for because you're predominantly a right-hand circuit.

00:13:59And you've got these two left-handers in there, which are quite high speed.

00:14:02And that first one going downhill there with the road falling away from you must be a bit of a set-up nightmare

00:14:07because it's quite a couple of quick corners leading onto this long, quick straight down to the Ockenring Curve.

00:14:12You've got to get them right because you can lose a lot of time through there,

00:14:15which is what we've seen so far.

00:14:16Practically everybody's been slower through that second sector than Ralph Schumacher was.

00:14:21Kijel Frensen finally starts the lap and Sauber, once again, I mentioned last race.

00:14:30You know, after last year, this has been a very quiet team.

00:14:32They just haven't seemed to have done an awful lot.

00:14:34Well, they always keep a very low profile.

00:14:37Completely opposite of Jordan.

00:14:38Eddie Jordan, of course, always out for a party and always trying to play up his team's hope.

00:14:44Well, Peter Sauber, very, very conservative guy.

00:14:47You hear very little about them.

00:14:49Well, of course, they're Swiss teams.

00:14:51They're only just over the border from their home country.

00:14:54So there's no doubt a lot of Sauber and Heinz Hauer friends and fans here.

00:15:00But they're certainly committed to the sport.

00:15:02I mean, that new wind tunnel is like $35, $40 million worth of wind tunnel they're having built.

00:15:08And that'll fit two full-size cars in it.

00:15:10And technology's always been their specialty.

00:15:13Now they lost Heinz Hauer Frensen, who was up in the first sector, lost something in the second.

00:15:20Yeah, I think, bearing in mind that the guys are very restricted of what they can do with the aerodynamics before the start of the race,

00:15:27I think these guys have had to trim the aero off the car to optimize the overtaking possibilities during the race.

00:15:36And that is compromising them through the Nickelodeon curve and the power horse curve.

00:15:42So Frensen is third fastest.

00:15:43Ralph Schumacher is still the fastest guy in the day.

00:15:45He was the first man out there.

00:15:48The question is, how long is his time going to hold up?

00:15:50We'll be back with more from Austria right after this.

00:15:52Welcome back to Speed Channel's coverage of qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix.

00:16:01Next guy on the track, Olivier Panisse.

00:16:04A little bit of that black rubber on there.

00:16:06Ooh.

00:16:06Now I've just done a couple of calculations looking at fuel load and pole time from last year, which is 1.08.

00:16:16These guys are running about 55, 60 kilos of fuel for a two-stop strategy.

00:16:21We expect them to be about 2.2 seconds slower than last year.

00:16:25Well, Ralph Schumacher's time is 10.2, which is spot on.

00:16:282.2 seconds slower than what pole is.

00:16:30So I'm guessing a two-stop strategy there.

00:16:44And he's still waiting to score his first points this year.

00:16:47In fact, he's only finished one race.

00:16:49Quickest so far on the first two sectors.

00:16:51So this could put him at the top of the timetables, albeit briefly.

00:16:56But he was 189 miles now through the trap.

00:17:06All right, here comes the Toyota.

00:17:08Can he knock Ralph Schumacher off the pole?

00:17:10Nope, doesn't do it.

00:17:11Everybody seems to lose in that third section.

00:17:13Boy, they lose badly.

00:17:17He does knock Christiana D'Amata down a spot.

00:17:20So right now it's Ralph Schumacher, Olivier Panisse in one and two,

00:17:23and Christiana D'Amata in third, third fastest for the day so far.

00:17:27And this third sector has been very slippy all weekend.

00:17:32And I wouldn't be surprised if these guys are just making sure they want to qualify.

00:17:36They don't want to screw up on that last corner down on the A1 there.

00:17:40I think probably, if anything, backing off a little bit there to make sure that they're on the grid.

00:17:44All right, here's the young man of the year, 21-year-old Fernando Alonso,

00:17:49the youngest pole sitter ever in the history of Formula One.

00:17:54And a very strong race two weeks ago in Spain.

00:17:57I mean, he finished just a handful of seconds behind Michael Schumacher

00:18:01and beat Rubens Barrichello fair and square.

00:18:04And, of course, Rubens Barrichello and Schumacher with a brand-new Ferrari.

00:18:08And there he is, three turns up.

00:18:12But is this a Renault track, Steve, with that engine?

00:18:15Renault say do not expect us to have anything like the performance that we had at Barcelona.

00:18:20The aerodynamics will help, but they just have not got the grunt in the lump.

00:18:23That's what the team are saying.

00:18:26But he did 188 miles an hour through the speed trap, which is right up there,

00:18:30so not that far off.

00:18:32Whoa!

00:18:33Yeah!

00:18:33Well, that'll do it.

00:18:34And Fernando Alonso, remember, with this single shot at qualifying,

00:18:38has blown the lap.

00:18:41Guess who's going to be starting from the back of the pack?

00:18:43That's that downhill left-hander that got him.

00:18:47Yeah.

00:18:47Well, Renault voicing their opinion of the situation there.

00:18:51I don't need to tell you what they were saying.

00:18:52No.

00:18:55No.

00:18:56What a shame.

00:18:57Just there.

00:18:58Just steps out on him there, doesn't it?

00:19:01Try to catch it, but...

00:19:03I would say if he's doing 188 down the straight,

00:19:05they've taken a lot of wing off that car,

00:19:07because that's the quickest he's done on the straight all weekend.

00:19:09They took too much wing off it, and it...

00:19:12Look at it.

00:19:13It's the back end that stepped out, not the front.

00:19:15Now, remember what happened to Kimi Räikkönen in Spain,

00:19:17where Räikkönen had the bad lap,

00:19:20didn't qualify well in it,

00:19:21but at the starting of the back of the grid,

00:19:23and as a result, ran into the back of a stalled Jaguar.

00:19:26Can you give me an exact quote of what those guys were saying?

00:19:34No, I don't think we need to go into that one too far.

00:19:36So, Fernando Alonso goes off.

00:19:39He finished his lap, apparently,

00:19:42so I guess that will give him the opportunity.

00:19:44Why would he finish his lap, though?

00:19:45That's the question.

00:19:46I guess he feels the car is ready, incapable.

00:19:49Seemed to me at that point,

00:19:50you might as well bring it in, work on it, check it out.

00:19:52You never know if any damage was done.

00:19:55A situation, just to keep updated,

00:19:57with Jost of Stappen,

00:19:59fourth and fifth gear ratio is broken in the transmission.

00:20:02Ah, that makes sense.

00:20:03Exactly what Steve Matchett said.

00:20:05Sort of predicted.

00:20:07Nick Heidefelt up on everybody in the first sector

00:20:10by nearly three-tenths, which is good,

00:20:14but they all lose it in the last two...

00:20:16Oh, oh, oh!

00:20:17He lost a bit there.

00:20:19He went in wide there, locked her up.

00:20:22It's a horrible corner, that, isn't it?

00:20:24You can see the backhand gets all loose.

00:20:27Well, it's a very steep downhill.

00:20:28It doesn't look on the telly,

00:20:30but it's quite a steep downhill.

00:20:33Look at that.

00:20:33Wow, seven-tenths faster.

00:20:35Nick Heidefelt having a really good run.

00:20:37So much for losing on that corner.

00:20:39Yeah.

00:20:40Now, once again, it's this last section

00:20:42where everybody's had a difficult time

00:20:44trying to take on Ralph Schumacher.

00:20:45Went through here so quickly.

00:20:47Nick Heidefelt in the Sauber.

00:20:49Let's see how he's going to do.

00:20:50He grabs it by half a second.

00:20:54Now, that is good.

00:20:57Well, I don't want to take anything away from Sauber,

00:21:00but is that a three-stop fuel strategy?

00:21:02If so, you know, we're looking at about 15 kilos of fuel difference.

00:21:08Ah, fuel strategy and qualifying.

00:21:10What does it all mean?

00:21:11We're going to take a brief break.

00:21:13We'll come back with more from Austria.

00:21:15A very happy Sauber crew.

00:21:23Meanwhile, the Renault guys are hoping that Yarno truly

00:21:26can bring them more joy than Fernando Alonso did just a moment ago.

00:21:30Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head of that three-stopper

00:21:32because he's nearly two seconds quicker than his teammate,

00:21:34like Carl Frensen,

00:21:35and there's no way that Nick Heidefelt's two seconds quicker.

00:21:38Well, I don't think so.

00:21:39About 15 kilos to convert it to pounds.

00:21:42What makes it easier is like 30 pounds of ballast difference.

00:21:47That's quite a difference.

00:21:50Well, Yarno truly not bringing a lot of joy right off the bat.

00:21:53The first section slower.

00:21:55But it's still quicker than Ralf Schumacher,

00:21:57so he could be in second spot.

00:22:01I was going to try and clarify the situation with aerodynamics

00:22:04when we're thinking about trimming the wings

00:22:05and they take aerodynamic performance away from the car during this session.

00:22:09The teams are not allowed to adjust the rear wing.

00:22:13As soon as this session is over, they have to go to park for May.

00:22:15They can only trim the front wing,

00:22:17and they cannot change any physical components on the wing.

00:22:20They're only allowed to adjust the angle of it.

00:22:21So they're very restricted to what they can do.

00:22:24And in the race, you need to be able to overtake.

00:22:28And to do that, to optimize the straight-line speed,

00:22:30you have to take the arrow off.

00:22:33They're really cool between a rock and a hard place.

00:22:35It's all about setting up for the race, yeah.

00:22:37Yarno comes across the line,

00:22:38second fastest ahead of Ralf Schumacher,

00:22:40but behind Nick Heidfeld.

00:22:42And not far behind either.

00:22:45Just over a tenth.

00:22:48Fabio's shaking his head.

00:22:50I think he wanted a little bit more, obviously.

00:22:54He did almost exactly the same straight-line speed as his teammate, 188.

00:23:03And these guys are running a new version of their engine in this race.

00:23:07We know that.

00:23:08They wouldn't tell me what the components were that they changed inside.

00:23:12They said they've changed some internal components.

00:23:14We do have some more horsepower.

00:23:16We have made an advantage,

00:23:17but they wouldn't go into it any more than that.

00:23:20Well, do you think it's one of these things

00:23:22when they're pointing to the engine

00:23:24and they're so close in being a contender in the championship,

00:23:27this is one of the things where you just pretty much

00:23:28throw everything you've got at it and make it work.

00:23:31By the way, don't forget to stick around after qualifying

00:23:33because we'll be bringing you live coverage

00:23:35of the third round of the International Formula 3000 Championship.

00:23:39By the way, American Townsend Belt, he is starting on the second row.

00:23:43Best start ever for an American in F3000.

00:23:45In fact, we're going to see if he can turn that into a podium finish.

00:23:48And that is coming up at 9.30 Eastern Time

00:23:50right after this qualifying program right here on Speed.

00:23:54That is a great crowd for qualifying.

00:24:00It is.

00:24:02You see in the big yellow

00:24:04because next up is Giancarlo Fisichella.

00:24:07It's interesting.

00:24:08Fisichella has only scored points in one race this year,

00:24:11but he won it.

00:24:12Brazil.

00:24:13If you're going to do it, do it right.

00:24:14That's right.

00:24:17Nick Heitfeld is on the pole right now.

00:24:19Behind him, Jarno Trulli.

00:24:21Jarno Trulli, regrettably, does not have a great record.

00:24:24Here in Austria.

00:24:25He's done the race.

00:24:27This will be his seventh try.

00:24:29He's only finished it twice in tenth and seventh spot.

00:24:33So poor old Jarno looking for better days

00:24:36for the Austrian Grand Prix this year, no doubt.

00:24:40That's a great shot.

00:24:42Look at the lower element of the rear wing, the end plate.

00:24:44See how they just tucked in a little bit right down the bottom there

00:24:47and there's just a slight fin

00:24:49on the bottom of the end plates on the rear wing.

00:24:51They spent $48 million developing that four-degree angle difference right there.

00:24:56You can imagine if they didn't have that.

00:24:58There'd be so much drag,

00:24:59they wouldn't be able to drive down the end of the pit lane.

00:25:01It would be a horrible thing to drive.

00:25:03David Coulthard sitting in the car waiting to go out.

00:25:05Oh, a little change here.

00:25:08And the last chance to figure out.

00:25:09See, these guys, I think these guys,

00:25:11they're looking like they're running more aero.

00:25:13And I think they've been looking at that second time

00:25:15in the middle section, David,

00:25:17when we're looking about the Nicky Lauder curve,

00:25:19those two left-handers and the old Gerhard Berger curve.

00:25:22And I think Ferrari thinking,

00:25:23you know, we need to be able to put a little bit more downforce on there.

00:25:26If we can claw a couple of tenths back,

00:25:28you can put us on pole.

00:25:30It was Barrichello who was fastest after the second practice,

00:25:33although Michael Schumacher was fastest

00:25:35in the first session this morning.

00:25:37It's a little kick up here that makes it so difficult

00:25:53for the driver to see the apex.

00:25:58Just slightly faster than Nick Heifeld,

00:26:00and I mean just slightly.

00:26:04Well, this is a run down to Gosser.

00:26:08Steep run down here.

00:26:09This last bit of the road falls away very steeply.

00:26:11It does.

00:26:14Air quick in the Renaults at 189.

00:26:17All right, let's see the second section.

00:26:23Oh, close.

00:26:25Just lost a little bit, but not much.

00:26:26By the way, we hear that Ford is interested in helping out Jordan

00:26:29with some of the chassis developments.

00:26:32Dipping into the pot to perhaps help out this team.

00:26:35All right, let's see how well he does.

00:26:38Yeah, this is going to be really nip and tuck between him and Trulli for that.

00:26:41Oh, Wiggles right there.

00:26:42It goes through the last section.

00:26:46Ah.

00:26:48Lost about three-tenths of a second, but he's third fastest,

00:26:51and that will put him ahead of Ralph Schumacher.

00:26:53So Nick Heifeld is still the fastest runner out there.

00:26:56Then it's Jarno Trulli.

00:26:57Then it's that yellow car belonging to this guy right here, Eddie Jordan.

00:27:02Giancarlo Fisichella comes up third.

00:27:04We'll be back after this.

00:27:12Welcome back.

00:27:13Eddie Jordan yelling at his driver.

00:27:15Come on, boy.

00:27:15Come on.

00:27:16Do a little better.

00:27:16That last little wiggle there coming off the A1 got in there.

00:27:22I think otherwise he probably would have been second.

00:27:25Now we're on board with Antonio Pizzonia, the Jaguar driver,

00:27:29who's sort of been hanging on to his job,

00:27:30but been guaranteed now until the end of the year,

00:27:32which must be a real confidence booster for him.

00:27:35I know they wanted to get rid of him.

00:27:37At least he's employed.

00:27:38At least he's still employed.

00:27:39His teammates call him Pizza Man.

00:27:43Back in Formula 3000, he used to call him Jungle Boy.

00:27:45Call him anything you want, but he is still a Jaguar driver,

00:27:48and that's really important to him this year.

00:27:50Now his best qualifying so far this year has been a 15th.

00:27:57I have to say the car has been transformed, really,

00:28:01from what they were racing last year.

00:28:02The R3 was an absolute disaster, a real pig.

00:28:06This car is much, much better, much improved.

00:28:09Don't cost you.

00:28:10Don't cost you.

00:28:14Guy responsible for it, really, Malcolm Oslo,

00:28:17who's the ex-BAR designer.

00:28:19Well, if he gets these last two corners right,

00:28:21he could end up fourth.

00:28:23There's some quick runners to go yet,

00:28:25including his teammate.

00:28:27That's good.

00:28:29Nice and clean across the line.

00:28:30He gained some and finishes third.

00:28:32Actually, that was a very quick third sector.

00:28:36Boy, and that knocks Ralph Schumacher back another notch.

00:28:40Oh, dear.

00:28:40The BMW people must be, uh...

00:28:43Yeah, get well soon, Grant.

00:28:46We don't know who Grant...

00:28:47Who's Grant?

00:28:48Don't know.

00:28:50We assume Steve knows all these guys.

00:28:52I don't know Grant.

00:28:53For all we know, it could be the guy at the local pub.

00:28:55It could be.

00:28:56I'm sure he is.

00:28:57More than likely he is, yeah.

00:29:02All right, it's McLaren time.

00:29:03Kimi Raikkonen.

00:29:05Kimi Raikkonen, who last, two weeks ago,

00:29:07went off on his qualifying lap

00:29:09and started at the back,

00:29:10as we saw with his artist's results,

00:29:12which you mentioned earlier.

00:29:14He still leads the World Championship,

00:29:16but, oh, how much nicer it would have been

00:29:18to have gotten some points in Spain.

00:29:19He's up quarter of a second there

00:29:20on Heidfeld.

00:29:25Same speed as Ralph Schumacher, 191.

00:29:31A bit slower there.

00:29:35Handled the gospel down to the downhill curves.

00:29:38They were pretty confident yesterday.

00:29:40The positions were nothing very impressive,

00:29:42but the team, the drivers...

00:29:44Still quicker in that second sector,

00:29:45so it looks like Kimi Raikkonen

00:29:47and he's going to annex that top spot,

00:29:50certainly for the time being,

00:29:51but there's a lot of quick runners to go, yeah.

00:29:53Yeah.

00:30:00Got the blue filter on his onboard.

00:30:03Kimi Raikkonen comes across the line

00:30:05and he is fastest.

00:30:07So he was really quick in that last sector

00:30:09with those two difficult corners,

00:30:11the Rint curve and the A1 curve.

00:30:14All downhill corners.

00:30:15Very difficult.

00:30:17So Kimi Raikkonen, the fastest qualifier

00:30:20for the time being here in Austria.

00:30:22We're going to take a quick break.

00:30:23When we come back, though,

00:30:24it's his teammate, David Coulthard,

00:30:25who hits the track.

00:30:40Welcome back to Speed's coverage

00:30:42of the Austrian Grand Prix qualifying,

00:30:44and it's the other McLaren.

00:30:45Kimi Raikkonen qualified a moment ago.

00:30:47This one belongs to David Coulthard.

00:30:52And he's up by two tenths on his teammate.

00:30:56He's slower in the first section.

00:30:57Up in time, yes.

00:30:58He's slower.

00:31:00David has a great finishing record here,

00:31:02but his qualifying has kind of been so-so

00:31:04over the years.

00:31:06He won here two years ago.

00:31:08He had four consecutive second-place finishes.

00:31:11But if you look at his qualifying

00:31:12over the last few years,

00:31:14last year he was eighth,

00:31:15the year before that he was seventh.

00:31:16He had a couple of second qualifying spots,

00:31:19and then there was a 14th and a 10th before that.

00:31:22And there he's more than half a second off

00:31:24of his teammates' time.

00:31:26Are we talking different strategies here, Steve?

00:31:29I was going to say,

00:31:29it could be different field strategies.

00:31:30It could well be.

00:31:31That's going to be the question all year long,

00:31:34isn't it?

00:31:35And we'll never, ever know the answer.

00:31:38Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:31:39That's going to knock him.

00:31:40Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:31:41He'll be about seventh or eighth,

00:31:42probably, I think,

00:31:43with that little episode there.

00:31:45How about ninth?

00:31:46Even worse.

00:31:47There's DuPasquier from Michelin there.

00:31:50I was in my tyres.

00:31:51You're not supposed to do this.

00:31:52My tyres were fine.

00:31:53The driver was wrong.

00:31:54Four to the day of four and fine for the asphalt.

00:31:56They're not good on the grass.

00:31:58Ouch.

00:31:59Yeah.

00:32:00Woo.

00:32:01Yeah, it all went wrong there

00:32:02when he clipped the apex.

00:32:04Because these guys use those apex curves,

00:32:06and you've got to get it right

00:32:07if you're going to do it.

00:32:09So he ends up behind Cristiano de Mata.

00:32:11Oh, yeah.

00:32:12That face says it all right there.

00:32:14Yeah, well, Kimi Räikkönen

00:32:15wasn't going to be stuck near the back this time,

00:32:17so he got in a good qualifying time

00:32:19because he learned his lesson last week,

00:32:21or two weeks ago.

00:32:22All right, now it is Juan Pablo Montoya.

00:32:28He was quick.

00:32:29He was quick this morning

00:32:30in the pre-practice

00:32:32and all that sort of stuff, so...

00:32:33Yeah, the little warm-up session

00:32:34they had just before,

00:32:35he was the fastest guy.

00:32:36In the second practice today,

00:32:39he was second only

00:32:41to Rubens Barrichello.

00:32:42It's only his third time here, of course,

00:32:43don't forget.

00:32:44So he finished third last year.

00:32:46And not quite faster than Kimi Räikkönen.

00:32:50Think about this.

00:32:51Last year, he got five straight poles,

00:32:54and this year,

00:32:55Ralph has out-qualified him

00:32:56three of the five times,

00:32:57although Mike Gutt says

00:32:58he's going to get him this time.

00:33:01Track temperature has dropped a little bit.

00:33:03It's now sitting at 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:33:05It should be warm enough

00:33:08for these tyres to work fine.

00:33:10And the BMW guys,

00:33:11no doubt,

00:33:13happy with their engine.

00:33:14Both him and Ralph Schumacher

00:33:16doing 191 through the speed trap.

00:33:18Still the fastest time out there.

00:33:22Downs those last two tricky corners.

00:33:24Oh, this could be pretty good.

00:33:30Comes across the line,

00:33:31and...

00:33:32And second.

00:33:34Knocks Nick Hydefield back.

00:33:35He's behind Kimi Räikkönen.

00:33:37Mario Tyson smiling at that

00:33:38on the left of the screen there.

00:33:40Is that who you were looking at, Mario?

00:33:44There were other people in the picture.

00:33:45There were.

00:33:46You weren't distracted at all.

00:33:47Very impressed.

00:33:49So not bad.

00:33:50It's Kimi Räikkönen and McLaren

00:33:52who is fastest so far,

00:33:53but Juan Pablo Montoya

00:33:54in the Williams BMW

00:33:56is second fastest.

00:33:58So Michelin

00:33:59for one and two at the moment.

00:34:06So once again,

00:34:07we're going to take another quick break.

00:34:09When we come back,

00:34:11it's the big runners.

00:34:12A couple of BARs,

00:34:13a couple of Ferraris,

00:34:14and a Jaguar yet to come

00:34:15here on Speed.

00:34:19Welcome back to qualifying

00:34:20for the Austrian Grand Prix.

00:34:22Jean-Tot sitting there

00:34:23waiting to find out

00:34:24how his two drivers

00:34:25are going to do.

00:34:26Neither Ferrari

00:34:26has yet to go out.

00:34:28Ross Braant contemplating

00:34:29his fuel load.

00:34:32And that's the guy

00:34:33who's on the pole right now,

00:34:34Kimi Räikkönen in the McLaren.

00:34:35And Fernando Alonso,

00:34:39if you just joined us,

00:34:40he is last on the grid

00:34:41because he went way off.

00:34:46Yes, from jump to jump.

00:34:48Look at that.

00:34:48Did you see that?

00:34:49John Todd not wanted to be seen

00:34:51yawning on the television

00:34:51because he knows he's on the television

00:34:53because he can see the monitor

00:34:54just like we can.

00:34:55Heaven forbid.

00:34:55Either that or he was relaying

00:34:57some secret comment

00:34:58about his wing.

00:34:59And also I should mention

00:34:59Jace Verstappen

00:35:00is actually even behind

00:35:01Fernando Alonso

00:35:02because Verstappen

00:35:03didn't even finish his lap.

00:35:05The truck temperature

00:35:05continues to go down.

00:35:07We were at 91 degrees Fahrenheit

00:35:08at the start of this session.

00:35:10A couple of minutes ago

00:35:11to drop down to 82,

00:35:12as I said.

00:35:12And now again,

00:35:13it's down to 80.6.

00:35:15So this could well be playing

00:35:17to a degree.

00:35:19If it doesn't continue

00:35:20to drop too much,

00:35:22it might create

00:35:22a little more engine power

00:35:24that these guys

00:35:24are struggling with.

00:35:25All right,

00:35:27it's BAR time.

00:35:28Both of the BARs

00:35:29did very well yesterday.

00:35:31Both Jensen Button

00:35:32and Jacques Villeneuve,

00:35:33although Villeneuve

00:35:34just edged Button,

00:35:35which is why Button

00:35:36is going out first

00:35:38ahead of his teammate today.

00:35:41And don't forget,

00:35:41this morning

00:35:42in the second practice session,

00:35:43Villeneuve was sixth fastest.

00:35:46And Button,

00:35:47he was 14th.

00:35:53Michael Schumacher.

00:35:56Getting ready to go out.

00:36:01All the attention

00:36:01focused on him.

00:36:02He would definitely

00:36:03like to forget

00:36:04this entire race

00:36:05from last year.

00:36:05Yes, officially he won,

00:36:07but it turned into

00:36:09a huge embarrassment.

00:36:09And that is the only time

00:36:09he's ever won here.

00:36:10He hasn't got

00:36:11a stellar record here.

00:36:12So when you think about it,

00:36:13he's never won

00:36:14on his own merits.

00:36:15Not here, no.

00:36:17He was third in 98,

00:36:20second in 01,

00:36:22and first last year,

00:36:25although he would

00:36:25have been second there.

00:36:26He hasn't qualified

00:36:27well here either.

00:36:28He was on the pole

00:36:29here in 01,

00:36:29that's it.

00:36:30Otherwise,

00:36:30he's been between

00:36:31third and ninth.

00:36:3423-year-old Jensen

00:36:35Button out on the track

00:36:36right now.

00:36:37He wants to

00:36:37have a nice little

00:36:39performance

00:36:40so he can forget

00:36:40about what happened

00:36:41at Spain

00:36:41in that little incident

00:36:42with David Coulthard.

00:36:44Well, here he goes

00:36:45onto the main straight

00:36:47around the A1.

00:36:49Crosses the timing beam.

00:36:51Hunt has got a bit

00:36:51more horsepower

00:36:52this week,

00:36:53a little bit more

00:36:54than before,

00:36:55so they're cranking

00:36:56out more and more

00:36:56horsepower,

00:36:57but the engine

00:36:59needs to be

00:37:00a bit lighter yet.

00:37:02Is that really

00:37:02a turn right there?

00:37:04No one pays

00:37:05any attention

00:37:05to the curb markings,

00:37:06anything.

00:37:07It's how wide

00:37:08can I possibly go

00:37:09to make it work?

00:37:09Slightly slower

00:37:11in the first section,

00:37:11you see a little

00:37:12wiggle right there.

00:37:12A little bobble

00:37:13into the Remus curve.

00:37:14Now, these guys,

00:37:16for the most part

00:37:17this season,

00:37:17have been running

00:37:17three-stop strategies,

00:37:19so let's see

00:37:20whether or not

00:37:20that's going to

00:37:21play out today

00:37:22if they're working

00:37:22on that same strategy

00:37:23again.

00:37:23Remember,

00:37:24there's about

00:37:2450 kilos,

00:37:2530 pounds

00:37:26weight difference

00:37:27between a two

00:37:28and a three-stop

00:37:28fuel load

00:37:29that these guys

00:37:30are going to be

00:37:30carrying.

00:37:32So he was

00:37:33almost as fast

00:37:34as the two

00:37:34Williams cars,

00:37:35and he looked

00:37:36quick through

00:37:36that gossip curve.

00:37:37The incident

00:37:37to see what

00:37:38his second sector

00:37:38time.

00:37:39No, he's still

00:37:39up on it,

00:37:40but not much.

00:37:41They're good times,

00:37:42so he could end

00:37:44up second.

00:37:47He's so far

00:37:47absolutely matching

00:37:49Montoya to the

00:37:50thousands.

00:37:51So if he gets

00:37:52through these

00:37:52last two corners,

00:37:53well, he could

00:37:54smack second spot.

00:37:55All right, last turn

00:37:56coming on.

00:37:56Whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:37:57a bit wide.

00:37:58Ah, it's lost

00:37:59him a little bit.

00:38:00Probably lost it

00:38:00right there.

00:38:01And he's fifth

00:38:02fastest.

00:38:03Lost a substantial

00:38:04amount.

00:38:04A lot there.

00:38:05He's behind

00:38:06Jarno Trulli ahead

00:38:07and Jarno Trulli ahead

00:38:07of Pisonia.

00:38:08Boy, he was doing

00:38:09so well.

00:38:10He was.

00:38:11He was right

00:38:12there.

00:38:13I think these

00:38:13guys, you know,

00:38:14they get so

00:38:15psyched up,

00:38:15they want to put

00:38:16a great lap

00:38:16time in, and

00:38:17they're just

00:38:17pushing too

00:38:18hard here,

00:38:18and if you do

00:38:19so, whoops,

00:38:20there it is.

00:38:21And this,

00:38:22because of the

00:38:22way qualifying is

00:38:23done this year,

00:38:24this is the only

00:38:25shot you have at

00:38:26it.

00:38:26If you don't get

00:38:27it on this lap,

00:38:28you don't get

00:38:28it.

00:38:34A little wiggle

00:38:34going through

00:38:35there.

00:38:36Meanwhile, it is

00:38:37time for his

00:38:37teammate, Jacques

00:38:38Villeneuve, to go

00:38:39out.

00:38:40You're talking

00:38:40about fuel

00:38:40strategy.

00:38:41Villeneuve was

00:38:42on a two-stop

00:38:42strategy in Spain

00:38:43and wasn't happy

00:38:45at all when the

00:38:45car gave up on

00:38:46him, so he

00:38:46couldn't take

00:38:47advantage of it.

00:38:48Yeah, that dirt's

00:38:49been dragged onto

00:38:49the track there,

00:38:50so for all these

00:38:51guys on the exit

00:38:52of that corner now,

00:38:53they've got that

00:38:53dust and dirt

00:38:54kicked up.

00:38:55It is.

00:38:56You can see it

00:38:56straight over

00:38:56Villeneuve's

00:38:57left front.

00:38:59Whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:39:00whoa, whoa.

00:39:00Boy, but I don't

00:39:01think he lost

00:39:02the line.

00:39:04He didn't let

00:39:05off at all.

00:39:05He didn't lift

00:39:05off one little

00:39:06bit.

00:39:07It's a contest to

00:39:08see who can go

00:39:08how wide at

00:39:09that turn.

00:39:09Yeah, but look

00:39:10at that.

00:39:10I think we've

00:39:11maxed it.

00:39:11Now he's locking

00:39:12up going to

00:39:13rings, so he's

00:39:13lost a bit more

00:39:14time there.

00:39:15He's trying to

00:39:15overdrive it.

00:39:16Button may out

00:39:17qualify him after

00:39:18all.

00:39:18I'll tell you

00:39:18what, I'd love

00:39:19to see the

00:39:19telemetry spike

00:39:20off the

00:39:20suspension loads

00:39:21there.

00:39:22You'll see

00:39:22a leap.

00:39:23Not a bad top

00:39:28speed, all

00:39:28things considered.

00:39:30He was very

00:39:31fast, a straight

00:39:31liner, so maybe

00:39:32he's taking a

00:39:33lot of wing

00:39:33out of this

00:39:34car.

00:39:35191 miles

00:39:36now.

00:39:37They are

00:39:38running a third

00:39:39element on the

00:39:40top of the

00:39:40wing, so, but

00:39:42it is trim fairly

00:39:43flat, David,

00:39:43but he could end

00:39:45up here.

00:39:45He could end

00:39:46up seventh or

00:39:47even eighth

00:39:48unless he really

00:39:49picks up a lot

00:39:49of time in this

00:39:50last sector.

00:39:51Remember, right

00:39:52now, Jensen

00:39:52Button, his

00:39:53teammate, his

00:39:53fifth fastest.

00:39:55He lost an

00:39:56awful lot in

00:39:56that first

00:39:57section.

00:39:57Let's see how

00:39:58he does.

00:39:58Another one.

00:39:59It could be

00:39:59tenth or

00:40:00eleventh.

00:40:00Oh, man.

00:40:02Tenth, you

00:40:02called it

00:40:03exactly, David.

00:40:05Now, Villeneuve,

00:40:06of course, don't

00:40:06forgets the

00:40:07winner of this

00:40:07race, 1997,

00:40:09his first time

00:40:09here.

00:40:10Won it.

00:40:11Well, let's

00:40:11see if he can

00:40:11do it from

00:40:12tenth this time.

00:40:13This is what

00:40:13it looked like.

00:40:14Oh, what an

00:40:15adventure for Jacques

00:40:16Villeneuve.

00:40:16He hung on, but

00:40:17only barely.

00:40:18He's now

00:40:18qualified tenth.

00:40:20He'll come back

00:40:20with the top

00:40:21three right

00:40:21after this.

00:40:26Back here at

00:40:26Austria, qualifying

00:40:27for the Austrian

00:40:28Grand Prix.

00:40:30What a slide.

00:40:31Oh, great.

00:40:31You see the way

00:40:32those wheels

00:40:33wobble at the

00:40:33back when they

00:40:34hit those

00:40:34curves.

00:40:35They looked

00:40:35like the good

00:40:36old days,

00:40:36didn't it,

00:40:36David?

00:40:37They looked

00:40:37like they're

00:40:37tied on with

00:40:38jelly or

00:40:38something.

00:40:39Now, here's

00:40:39Mark Webb.

00:40:40Whoa.

00:40:40Oh, that's

00:40:41too wide.

00:40:42That is

00:40:43definitely

00:40:43too wide.

00:40:44Everybody's

00:40:44going mad

00:40:45here in the

00:40:45line.

00:40:45They're going

00:40:46made.

00:40:48Mark's

00:40:48gone made

00:40:49mouth.

00:40:50Can I

00:40:50quote you

00:40:50on that,

00:40:51Steve?

00:40:51That's

00:40:51too wide.

00:40:52Very calm.

00:40:53That's

00:40:53too wide.

00:40:54That sounds

00:40:54like something

00:40:54Ross Braun

00:40:55would say.

00:40:56A little

00:40:56wide.

00:40:57A little

00:40:57wide,

00:40:58Michael.

00:40:59Oh, my

00:41:00goodness,

00:41:01he was so

00:41:02good yesterday

00:41:03too.

00:41:03Third

00:41:04fastest.

00:41:06He was

00:41:06eighth

00:41:07fastest in

00:41:07the second

00:41:07session.

00:41:11Well, you

00:41:12know, he's

00:41:12had great

00:41:12qualifying and

00:41:13hasn't had

00:41:13great races.

00:41:14You know,

00:41:14he only got

00:41:15his first

00:41:15points in

00:41:16the last

00:41:17race.

00:41:17Maybe he

00:41:18can have

00:41:18a mediocre

00:41:18qualifying and

00:41:19have some

00:41:19great points.

00:41:20You have to

00:41:21think all that

00:41:22rubbish that's

00:41:22been thrown

00:41:23up, particularly

00:41:23from Vilna's

00:41:24dramatic qualifying

00:41:25lap, all that

00:41:26dust on the

00:41:27track cannot be

00:41:28helping the

00:41:28condition of the

00:41:29circuit, is

00:41:29it?

00:41:29I think it's

00:41:30probably caught

00:41:31Weber out there.

00:41:32He's two

00:41:33seconds over at

00:41:34this point in

00:41:35time.

00:41:35Two seconds

00:41:36slower than

00:41:36Kimi Raikkonen's

00:41:37lap.

00:41:39But he decides

00:41:40to finish it.

00:41:41Look at the

00:41:43rubbish there.

00:41:44Wow.

00:41:45This is going

00:41:45to be horrible.

00:41:4615th fastest

00:41:47from going

00:41:48third fastest

00:41:49yesterday.

00:41:50Mark Webber

00:41:50has all kinds

00:41:51of problems.

00:41:52Now, I'll

00:41:53tell you what,

00:41:53this doesn't,

00:41:54whoa, this

00:41:54doesn't bode well

00:41:55for the Ferraris

00:41:56on that last

00:41:56run because that

00:41:57dirt on the

00:41:58XTA one is

00:41:59serious.

00:42:00But everybody

00:42:00seems to lose

00:42:01it before then

00:42:01anyway.

00:42:03Now, remember,

00:42:04both the Ferrari

00:42:04runners are still

00:42:05yet to go out.

00:42:06If I was Ross

00:42:06Braun, I'd be

00:42:07wanting to get

00:42:07this session

00:42:08stopped and get

00:42:09the track

00:42:09cleaned, quite

00:42:10frankly.

00:42:11You can look

00:42:11at him.

00:42:12They're wondering

00:42:13whether or not

00:42:13they can do

00:42:14anything about

00:42:14this, I'm

00:42:15sure.

00:42:15He was looking

00:42:16at you, Steve.

00:42:17Well, no.

00:42:17Here goes

00:42:17Barrichello.

00:42:20That's a bit

00:42:21tough.

00:42:21And you can

00:42:22see the dust

00:42:22picked straight

00:42:23up as

00:42:23Barrichello

00:42:24come on to

00:42:24the start

00:42:24finish straight.

00:42:26And it's

00:42:27going to take

00:42:27a couple of

00:42:28corners to

00:42:28get rid,

00:42:29scrub off

00:42:30that dust

00:42:30that he's

00:42:30picked up.

00:42:31But there's

00:42:31just nowhere

00:42:32to do it.

00:42:32You're losing

00:42:32time.

00:42:33Maybe that's

00:42:34what Rubens

00:42:34Barrichello's

00:42:35job is to

00:42:35do right now.

00:42:36Well, he's

00:42:37two tenths

00:42:37slower there

00:42:38on that first

00:42:38sector.

00:42:39Now, that

00:42:40you wouldn't

00:42:41have expected.

00:42:42Now, remember,

00:42:42he dominated

00:42:44this race last

00:42:45pull-sitter.

00:42:46He dominated

00:42:46almost the

00:42:47entire way

00:42:47up to the

00:42:47last hundred

00:42:48yards.

00:42:49He was

00:42:49fastest in

00:42:50the second

00:42:50session today.

00:42:53Action quicker

00:42:54there.

00:42:54One kilometer,

00:42:55192 miles

00:42:57an hour.

00:42:57Now, right

00:42:57now, Kimi

00:42:58Räikkönen is

00:42:59the pull-sitter.

00:42:59He's the

00:43:00fastest driver

00:43:00today.

00:43:03He's the

00:43:04guy that

00:43:04Rubens

00:43:04Barrichello is

00:43:05trying to

00:43:05knock off.

00:43:06And he is,

00:43:07unless he's

00:43:07got a great

00:43:08final section,

00:43:09he's going

00:43:09to have a

00:43:09hard time

00:43:09doing it.

00:43:10It's going

00:43:10to have to

00:43:10be a great

00:43:11final section.

00:43:11And, of

00:43:12course, he's

00:43:12going to get

00:43:12caught out by

00:43:13that dirt

00:43:13on the

00:43:14exit to

00:43:14the A1

00:43:15corner,

00:43:17which is

00:43:18about to

00:43:18come up.

00:43:19Let's have

00:43:19a look at

00:43:19the dirt

00:43:19in his

00:43:20view.

00:43:24In fact,

00:43:24going in

00:43:25that second

00:43:25section,

00:43:26he was

00:43:26slower than

00:43:26Montoya,

00:43:27so what's

00:43:27his place

00:43:28going to

00:43:28be?

00:43:28Fourth

00:43:29fastest

00:43:29behind

00:43:30Nick

00:43:31Heidfeld.

00:43:31Nick

00:43:32Heidfeld

00:43:32is going

00:43:32to be

00:43:33faster.

00:43:33Now,

00:43:3429.5.

00:43:35He was

00:43:35the quickest

00:43:36through that

00:43:36second

00:43:36sector,

00:43:37so I

00:43:37think,

00:43:38as we

00:43:38saw them

00:43:39changing

00:43:39the wing,

00:43:40they've

00:43:40gambled on

00:43:41putting more

00:43:41downforce on.

00:43:42I think

00:43:42probably Ross

00:43:43Braun was

00:43:43caught out

00:43:43with these

00:43:44three-stop

00:43:44strategies

00:43:45that guys

00:43:45were running

00:43:45earlier on,

00:43:46if that's

00:43:46the case,

00:43:48and they

00:43:48decided to

00:43:49put more

00:43:49wing onto

00:43:49it,

00:43:50try and

00:43:50optimize

00:43:50that middle

00:43:51section of

00:43:51the track,

00:43:52and it

00:43:52did show

00:43:53up.

00:43:53That was

00:43:53the quickest

00:43:53speed all

00:43:55day through

00:43:55that second

00:43:56sector.

00:43:58All right,

00:43:59it is time

00:43:59for Michael

00:44:00Schumacher.

00:44:01Is this

00:44:01going to be

00:44:01another pole

00:44:02in his

00:44:03career,

00:44:03or is

00:44:04he not

00:44:06going to

00:44:06get the

00:44:06pole,

00:44:06and if

00:44:07Schumacher

00:44:08doesn't get

00:44:09it,

00:44:09Kimi

00:44:10Raikkonen

00:44:10would get

00:44:10his first

00:44:11pole ever.

00:44:13Michael

00:44:14Schumacher

00:44:15on track

00:44:15in the

00:44:16Ferrari,

00:44:16the F2003

00:44:17GA.

00:44:20He went

00:44:20through there

00:44:21nicely,

00:44:21how's the

00:44:22split time?

00:44:26And the

00:44:27split is

00:44:30slower.

00:44:30Slower.

00:44:31Boom!

00:44:33Big slide

00:44:34going to

00:44:34Remus,

00:44:34that'll cost

00:44:35him more

00:44:35time.

00:44:35Slower,

00:44:36but it

00:44:36could be

00:44:36the fact

00:44:37he's got

00:44:37more wing

00:44:37on.

00:44:38And remember

00:44:39now,

00:44:39let's see

00:44:39what this

00:44:40second split

00:44:40time is,

00:44:41whether or not

00:44:41it drops

00:44:42in comparison

00:44:42to Raikkonen.

00:44:49His

00:44:49straight line

00:44:50speed,

00:44:50not as

00:44:51fast as

00:44:51his

00:44:51teammate.

00:44:54All right,

00:44:54second sector

00:44:55coming up.

00:44:55Remember,

00:44:55we're comparing

00:44:56these times

00:44:56to Kimi

00:44:57Raikkonen,

00:44:58who's on the

00:44:59pole right

00:45:00now.

00:45:01He's king.

00:45:01Oh,

00:45:01this is

00:45:02going to be

00:45:02very close.

00:45:03His last

00:45:04sector is

00:45:04going to

00:45:05have it

00:45:05all.

00:45:08Michael

00:45:08Schumacher

00:45:09in the

00:45:09Ferrari

00:45:10chasing

00:45:10the

00:45:10McLaren

00:45:11and a

00:45:11Kimi

00:45:11Raikkonen,

00:45:12who is

00:45:12on the

00:45:12pole right

00:45:13now.

00:45:14Now,

00:45:14remember

00:45:15yesterday

00:45:15where Schumacher

00:45:16slid,

00:45:16but he

00:45:16still managed

00:45:17to keep

00:45:17fast his

00:45:18time.

00:45:18All right,

00:45:18coming across

00:45:19the line,

00:45:19does he

00:45:20do it?

00:45:21Yes,

00:45:22he takes

00:45:22it by

00:45:2339

00:45:24hundredths

00:45:25of a

00:45:26second.

00:45:26And he

00:45:26goes,

00:45:27these days

00:45:28with the

00:45:28celemetry

00:45:28on board,

00:45:29he knows

00:45:29there's the

00:45:29crowd going

00:45:30wild,

00:45:31booed him

00:45:31last year,

00:45:32they certainly

00:45:32aren't booing

00:45:33now.

00:45:34Wow.

00:45:35Oh,

00:45:35Kimi

00:45:36Raikkonen so

00:45:36close to

00:45:37his first

00:45:37pole.

00:45:38He must

00:45:38have thought,

00:45:39I've got it,

00:45:40right to the

00:45:40last second.

00:45:4129.5,

00:45:43quickest

00:45:43sector time

00:45:44through the

00:45:44second sector,

00:45:4522.3,

00:45:46quickest on

00:45:47the day

00:45:47through the

00:45:47third sector.

00:45:48That's what

00:45:49did it,

00:45:49second and

00:45:49third

00:45:50section,

00:45:50Jean

00:45:51Tot,

00:45:51you did

00:45:52it,

00:45:52guy.

00:45:52Now,

00:45:52that is a

00:45:53risk,

00:45:53though.

00:45:53He's

00:45:54obviously

00:45:54put a

00:45:54little bit

00:45:55more wing

00:45:55on that

00:45:55because he

00:45:55lost some

00:45:56of his

00:45:56top speed

00:45:57from

00:45:57yesterday.

00:45:58And,

00:45:58of course,

00:45:58as we

00:45:59know,

00:45:59it's that

00:45:59top speed

00:46:00that you

00:46:00need to

00:46:01get by

00:46:01people in

00:46:02the race.

00:46:02I was

00:46:03going to

00:46:03say,

00:46:03let's talk

00:46:03about the

00:46:04race once

00:46:04they get

00:46:04rolling.

00:46:05If you're

00:46:05set up for

00:46:06the second

00:46:06two-thirds

00:46:07of the

00:46:07lap,

00:46:08what are

00:46:08you going

00:46:08to do

00:46:08in the

00:46:08first

00:46:09third?

00:46:09I'll

00:46:09tell you

00:46:09what,

00:46:10watch out

00:46:11for fireworks

00:46:12tomorrow

00:46:12at the

00:46:13Castor

00:46:13Curve

00:46:14lap

00:46:14one.

00:46:15Oh,

00:46:15my

00:46:15God,

00:46:16Raikkonen

00:46:17and

00:46:17Michael

00:46:18a pile

00:46:19of bent

00:46:19metal

00:46:19up there.

00:46:20Michael

00:46:20was

00:46:21thrilled

00:46:22with that.

00:46:23He was,

00:46:23this

00:46:25obviously

00:46:25means an

00:46:26awful lot

00:46:26to him.

00:46:27Look at

00:46:27the times

00:46:27there,

00:46:28191

00:46:29to 199

00:46:30in the

00:46:30first

00:46:31seven.

00:46:32And then

00:46:32the second

00:46:33second,

00:46:34it goes

00:46:34right down

00:46:35to

00:46:3514th

00:46:35spot.

00:46:37Just to

00:46:38clarify the

00:46:38fuel

00:46:38situation,

00:46:39the guys

00:46:39are not

00:46:40allowed to

00:46:41change their

00:46:41fuel

00:46:41strategy

00:46:42before

00:46:43their

00:46:43qualifying

00:46:43lap.

00:46:44So

00:46:44Ferrari

00:46:44were not

00:46:45able to

00:46:45adjust

00:46:45by pumping

00:46:47fuel in

00:46:47and out

00:46:47of the

00:46:48car.

00:46:48That is

00:46:48fixed

00:46:48before

00:46:49qualifying

00:46:49begins.

00:46:50The

00:46:50only thing

00:46:50they can

00:46:51do

00:46:51was to

00:46:52change

00:46:52the

00:46:52aerodynamics.

00:46:53one

00:46:54Pablo

00:46:54Montoya

00:46:55is

00:46:55right

00:46:55behind

00:46:55Michael

00:46:56Schumacher

00:46:56on the

00:46:57grid.

00:46:57The

00:46:57BMW

00:46:58has

00:46:58got

00:46:59a

00:46:59lot

00:46:59of

00:46:59grunt.

00:47:00Is

00:47:00he

00:47:00going

00:47:00to

00:47:00get

00:47:00to

00:47:00turn

00:47:01one

00:47:01right

00:47:01alongside

00:47:02him

00:47:02or

00:47:02alongside

00:47:04Michael

00:47:04Schumacher.

00:47:05I remember

00:47:05three years

00:47:06ago,

00:47:06Schumacher

00:47:07and

00:47:07Montoya

00:47:08went off

00:47:08at the

00:47:09Riemus

00:47:09curve

00:47:09together.

00:47:11Which

00:47:11cost

00:47:11Schumacher

00:47:12the

00:47:12race.

00:47:13It's

00:47:14going to

00:47:14be a

00:47:14dramatic

00:47:15start.

00:47:16It's

00:47:16going to

00:47:16be

00:47:17incredibly

00:47:17dramatic.

00:47:19And of

00:47:19course,

00:47:19you've

00:47:19got

00:47:19Nick

00:47:19Heidfeld

00:47:20in

00:47:20there,

00:47:20who's

00:47:21got

00:47:21the

00:47:21Ferrari

00:47:21engine

00:47:22last

00:47:22year.

00:47:22So

00:47:22he's

00:47:22got

00:47:23good

00:47:23power

00:47:23as

00:47:23they

00:47:23go

00:47:23up

00:47:24to

00:47:24turn

00:47:24one

00:47:25too.

00:47:25I

00:47:25was

00:47:25just

00:47:26saying

00:47:26how

00:47:26they

00:47:27had

00:47:27been

00:47:27pretty

00:47:27quiet

00:47:28this

00:47:28year.

00:47:28Now

00:47:28they've

00:47:28popped

00:47:29up

00:47:29on

00:47:29the

00:47:29grid.

00:47:29Although

00:47:29as

00:47:30we

00:47:30mentioned

00:47:30we

00:47:31don't

00:47:31know

00:47:31what

00:47:31the

00:47:31fuel

00:47:32strategy

00:47:32is

00:47:32and

00:47:33how

00:47:33that

00:47:33plays

00:47:34into

00:47:34all

00:47:34this.

00:47:3554th

00:47:36poll

00:47:36of

00:47:36Michael

00:47:37Schumacher's

00:47:37career.

00:47:38But

00:47:38all

00:47:38those

00:47:38top

00:47:39seven

00:47:41the

00:47:42top

00:47:42eight

00:47:42all

00:47:43on

00:47:44the

00:47:44same

00:47:45second

00:47:45they've

00:47:45got

00:47:46to

00:47:46have

00:47:46roughly

00:47:47the

00:47:47same

00:47:47fuel

00:47:47and

00:47:47there

00:47:48can't

00:47:48be

00:47:48any

00:47:48real

00:47:48difference

00:47:49in

00:47:49the

00:47:49fuel

00:47:49strategy

00:47:50in

00:47:50those

00:47:50top

00:47:51eight

00:47:51cars

00:47:52it

00:47:52can't

00:47:52possibly

00:47:52be

00:47:52behind

00:47:55his

00:47:55teammate

00:47:55but

00:47:56he's

00:47:56actually

00:47:56only

00:47:57six

00:47:57tenths

00:47:58of a

00:47:58second

00:47:58off

00:47:58so

00:47:58there

00:47:59can't

00:47:59be

00:47:59any

00:47:59difference

00:47:59in

00:47:59their

00:47:59fuel

00:48:00strategy

00:48:00can

00:48:00it

00:48:00and

00:48:02there's

00:48:02quite

00:48:02a

00:48:02mix

00:48:07showing

00:48:08up

00:48:08at

00:48:08the

00:48:09moment

00:48:09during

00:48:09qualifying

00:48:10runs

00:48:10how

00:48:11that'll

00:48:11play

00:48:11out

00:48:11with

00:48:12the

00:48:12race

00:48:12durability

00:48:13of the

00:48:13brother

00:48:13tomorrow

00:48:14of course

00:48:14remains to be

00:48:15seen

00:48:15but

00:48:15you can't

00:48:16say at

00:48:16the moment

00:48:16that either

00:48:17tire supplier

00:48:18has come up

00:48:19with the

00:48:20top

00:48:20the way

00:48:22it turned

00:48:23into that

00:48:23Remus

00:48:23curve

00:48:24that was

00:48:25within an

00:48:25absolute

00:48:25eighth

00:48:26of

00:48:26getting

00:48:28away

00:48:28from

00:48:28him

00:48:29but

00:48:29those

00:48:33are the

00:48:33McLaren

00:48:34guys

00:48:34were they

00:48:34watching

00:48:35Michael

00:48:35gee

00:48:36Michael

00:48:38Schumacher

00:48:39has the

00:48:40pole

00:48:40position

00:48:40came across

00:48:41the line

00:48:42pumped his

00:48:42fist in

00:48:43the air

00:48:43you can

00:48:43see

00:48:44this is

00:48:44one

00:48:44pole

00:48:45that he

00:48:45is happy

00:48:45to get

00:48:46and his

00:48:48team

00:48:48even happier

00:48:49we're going

00:48:49to take a

00:48:50brief break

00:48:50we'll come

00:48:51back with

00:48:51more from

00:48:51Austria

00:48:52right after

00:48:52this

00:49:06back

00:49:07back here

00:49:07at Austria

00:49:07where

00:49:08Michael

00:49:08Schumacher

00:49:08this guy

00:49:09right here

00:49:09has claimed

00:49:11the pole

00:49:1154th pole

00:49:12of his

00:49:13career

00:49:13184

00:49:15starts

00:49:15I mean

00:49:16that's not

00:49:16bad

00:49:16that's close

00:49:17to a third

00:49:18of them

00:49:19pole

00:49:19positions

00:49:20I mean

00:49:21and he's

00:49:21now 11

00:49:22behind

00:49:23equalling

00:49:25center

00:49:26poles

00:49:26and that

00:49:27of course

00:49:27is the

00:49:28famous

00:49:28Willie Webber

00:49:29Willie Webber

00:49:30is the

00:49:30manager

00:49:31Michael

00:49:32Schumacher

00:49:32Ralph

00:49:32Schumacher's

00:49:33manager

00:49:33there is

00:49:34on the

00:49:34left

00:49:34he has

00:49:35made

00:49:36himself

00:49:36a pretty

00:49:36penny

00:49:37out of

00:49:37that

00:49:37guy

00:49:37out of

00:49:39his brother

00:49:39too

00:49:40out of

00:49:40his brother

00:49:40too

00:49:40yeah

00:49:41just a few

00:49:44bucks

00:49:44and think

00:49:44about the

00:49:44changing

00:49:45fortunes

00:49:45of Kimi

00:49:46Räikkönen

00:49:46last race

00:49:47he had

00:49:47the bad

00:49:48qualifying

00:49:48ended up

00:49:49at the

00:49:49back

00:49:49of the

00:49:49grid

00:49:50ran

00:49:50into the

00:49:50back

00:49:51of

00:49:51Antonio

00:49:51Bisonia

00:49:52didn't

00:49:52get

00:49:52any

00:49:52points

00:49:53and now

00:49:54he's

00:49:54second

00:49:55fastest

00:49:55only

00:49:58just

00:49:59second

00:50:00109

00:50:01150

00:50:02to a

00:50:03109

00:50:04189

00:50:05I mean

00:50:06will

00:50:06this

00:50:06shot

00:50:06shows

00:50:07the

00:50:07gills

00:50:07on the

00:50:08side

00:50:08of

00:50:08the

00:50:08car

00:50:08there

00:50:09they

00:50:09are

00:50:09look at

00:50:09those

00:50:09wonderful

00:50:10body

00:50:10styling

00:50:10gills

00:50:11they put

00:50:11on

00:50:11their

00:50:11cooling

00:50:12vents

00:50:12they can

00:50:13take

00:50:13on and

00:50:14off

00:50:14the

00:50:14rear

00:50:14body

00:50:14work

00:50:15of

00:50:15the

00:50:15F2003

00:50:16they were

00:50:17only

00:50:17running

00:50:17those

00:50:18cooling

00:50:18vent

00:50:18the

00:50:18gills

00:50:19on the

00:50:19right

00:50:19side

00:50:19of

00:50:20the

00:50:20chassis

00:50:20at

00:50:20the

00:50:20last

00:50:20race

00:50:21in

00:50:21Barcelona

00:50:21but

00:50:21they've

00:50:23now opted

00:50:23to run

00:50:23them on

00:50:24the

00:50:24left

00:50:24side

00:50:24as well

00:50:25and

00:50:26that's

00:50:26one

00:50:26of

00:50:26the

00:50:26very

00:50:27few

00:50:27things

00:50:27that

00:50:27the

00:50:28teams

00:50:28are

00:50:28allowed

00:50:28to

00:50:29modify

00:50:29on

00:50:29the

00:50:29body

00:50:29work

00:50:30they

00:50:30can

00:50:30change

00:50:30the

00:50:31radiator

00:50:31cooling

00:50:31that

00:50:32is

00:50:33about

00:50:33it

00:50:34don't forget

00:50:35coming up in just a moment

00:50:36Peter Windsor in the news conference asking the drivers all the questions

00:50:39want to hear about what Kimi Raikkonen thinks about

00:50:41almost getting his first pole

00:50:43blue skies in the background

00:50:45well actually that's a mountain in the background but there are blue skies

00:50:47as you can see from the sun shining

00:50:49but behind the mountain

00:50:50there's a serious

00:50:51we know behind the mountain there's blue skies

00:50:52serious possibility tomorrow

00:50:54of

00:50:55Reagan

00:50:55or

00:50:57rain

00:50:58yeah

00:50:59and there is the rain meister

00:51:01but

00:51:02well don't forget first and second in the championship will be starting first and second

00:51:08on the grid that'll be Kimi Raikkonen who's leading the championship will be in the

00:51:12outside

00:51:12Michael Schumacher who's second in the championship will be starting from the pole

00:51:16who's got the best launch control on these cars

00:51:19yes exactly

00:51:20now remember

00:51:20control the best grit

00:51:22the best grunt

00:51:23Tad Schapsky

00:51:24Renault's software guru

00:51:26hang the layout

00:51:27let's listen to this

00:51:27on the A1 Grand Prix of Austria

00:51:29welcome to our fastest three qualifiers

00:51:30to

00:51:32Juan Pablo Montoya for BMW Williams

00:51:34Kimi Raikkonen second quickest West McLaren Mercedes and on the pole for Scuderia Marlboro Ferrari

00:51:40Michael Schumacher

00:51:41Michael a great lap a little bit down after sector one there

00:51:44yeah a little wobble a little rear locking which caused me going wide but I was still lucky because I was able to catch it just at the apex again and didn't lose too much and then I had a good lap from there on

00:51:59Rubens was a little bit down on his lap was that a concern for you going into your qualifying lap

00:52:05I didn't see actually the sectors I just heard then afterwards the result

00:52:10no I mean honestly this weekend our car was balanced all weekend perfectly well with the engineers together we did a great job finding the balance straight from Friday morning onwards and no I thought that I could do better

00:52:25significantly quicker than anybody else yesterday in terms of cars versus car but today it looks very close how do you see the race tomorrow

00:52:33honestly what we have seen yesterday I would put down to maybe set up issue I guess the huge difference we have seen is not honestly true

00:52:43at least that's my guess from what I have seen and what I see today so it should be an interesting situation tomorrow

00:52:50Kimi still leading the world championship

00:52:53bit of an unfortunate event in the Spanish Grand Prix on the start line there but bouncing back very strongly here in Austria

00:52:58yeah it was good qualifying for us unfortunately didn't get the first place but the front row is okay and we see what we can do in the race

00:53:09tell us about the car how you've been working with it this weekend how does it feel what's the balance like

00:53:14yeah and yesterday we had some problems or difficulties with setups and we have improved the setup all the time

00:53:21and especially from this morning we have seems to be found the right way and in qualifying the car was good to drive and I'm quite happy with it now

00:53:30what do you think will be the strong points for your package tomorrow

00:53:34hopefully everything but I don't know what the other teams are doing and they don't know what we are doing but

00:53:40we will see tomorrow in the race what is going on but we give our best shot then hopefully is enough

00:53:46Juan Pablo six quickest yesterday but you did say that you had your feeling back for the car can you talk a little bit more about that

00:53:53well I think yesterday was you know a good day the car was starting to get better you know we had a really good balance

00:53:59but you know it wasn't quick enough and even the car felt good today

00:54:03first session was the same you know good balance but it was just you know about to be quick but

00:54:09we did some changes pretty radical changes in the car and

00:54:13made a hell of a difference and you know the car since then it got so much quicker

00:54:17and I think we got a good strategy for the race and

00:54:21in the long runs we look very competitive compared with Ferrari and McLaren so we should

00:54:25be an interesting race tomorrow quite a lot of drivers seem to run a bit too wide at turn one

00:54:30today in qualifying yeah actually you know I lost over a tenth there from my sector in the warm-up

00:54:36because I went in the warm-up and I had a bit of a moment even was quicker it was too far on the limit

00:54:42and I thought you know it's you know everybody's making mistakes there and you know I knew how to do

00:54:47you know a decent first sector without you know compromising the lap and that's what I did and looking at

00:54:52you know with Michael and Kimi that's where I lost all the time but even like that you know it's p3 and

00:54:57I'm pretty happy about that Michael since this race last year we have a new rule which says that

00:55:02no team orders should be applied that affect the result of the race now we saw you and Rubens actually

00:55:08touching wheels the previous race at the first corner in the Spanish Grand Prix can you just talk

00:55:13us through your interpretation of that new rule under the heading of how do you also drive in the best

00:55:18interests of the team you see the thing is in my mind is to win the race and that's the only thing

00:55:26that counts and that's what I'm going for that's what our strategy is based on and then team strategy

00:55:32is history fine but nonetheless team strategy does come into place still we see different cars on

00:55:40different strategies even within the same team sometimes yeah possible but I think we made a very

00:55:45clear statement after what happened last year and we will stick to that statement and whatever is

00:55:53allowed from there I mean everybody will do the same whenever it's in their interest

00:55:57some prediction of rain tomorrow your thoughts on that

00:56:02well no thoughts honestly I think we we will be prepared for all circumstance honestly we have now

00:56:10the two choices of of ties which I think is a very wise decision from from the FIA to make the sport a

00:56:18bit safer in that respect and so I have no doubt whatever weather condition we will face now if we could have

00:56:26some words from you each in your own language starting with Michael Michael Schumacher is on the

00:56:30pole it's very simple you win the race you don't have to worry about team orders at least if you're Michael Schumacher

00:56:36Michael Schumacher we're going to take a brief break we'll come back with more from Austria right after this

00:56:44welcome back to Speed Channel's coverage of qualifying for the Austin Grand Prix and this

00:56:57is how you get a pole position

00:56:59you saw that little twitch there as he went into the Castro curve

00:57:05long run down to the Remus

00:57:07this little blue another quick rotation there but as he said he caught it didn't really lose much time

00:57:16but at that point he was he was slower by just over a tenth of a second

00:57:23but then in the second sector he was very quick he was slightly quicker in the straight line than the

00:57:29McLaren although not as quick as his teammate but he was very quick through these two downhill left-handers

00:57:37not quite as wide as Rubensburg guy there he's using all the curb there wasn't he at this point he's still

00:57:49400 to 500 of a second slower than Kimi Raikkonen and in these last two corners he just nailed absolutely spot on

00:57:57on yeah

00:58:02fist in the air like he had a victory that was his 54th pole 163rd pole for Ferrari

00:58:10of course it looked like it looked like it looked like it was all done didn't it to those last two corners he must have just

00:58:17just got those two absolutely aced and he was obviously

00:58:20ecstatic about it now of course is his 54th pole and the crowd too

00:58:26very very very pro Schumacher there are those the same guys that booed him last year

00:58:31you'd never know it for what they look like today

00:58:33John Todd with a smile on his face there like the cat that got the cream

00:58:37remember Kimi Raikkonen was so close to his very first bowl thought he had it through the first

00:58:42two seconds right till the right till the end there

00:58:45and instead Michael Schumacher who else took it away from Kimi Raikkonen

00:58:51remember coming up next immediately following qualifying at 9 30 this morning eastern time we're

00:58:56going to have live coverage of the third round of the international formula 3000 championship no big

00:59:02surprise from right here in Austria the A1 ring and tomorrow live coverage of the formula one

00:59:08Austrian Grand Prix we're going to get started with the Acura pre-race show that'll happen at 7 30 in

00:59:13the morning as always Peter Winslow will bring us the latest news and gossip from the paddock but

00:59:18first let's take a look at last year's Austrian Grand Prix remember it was Rubens Barrichello who is

00:59:23starting from his fifth career pole no that's not Rubens but sure she was glad to be there

00:59:29the fifth career pole for Rubens and he led Schumacher into turn one and watch Nick Heidfeld in the

00:59:35Sauber he got a great jump moving pat right here you can see it right there moving around the Williams

00:59:40in the third everybody's streamed through turn one there a little bit of drama a couple of a couple of

00:59:46cars going off

00:59:47look at the way the two Ferraris are pulling away from the field

00:59:53yeah

00:59:53Kimi Raikkonen there blowing a Mercedes for the fourth time in last year's first six races and

01:00:00then Olivier Panis had a driveline failure but it seems to be more than driveline failure lots of

01:00:05debris coming out of the car there and that brought out the safety car now the restart was really ugly

01:00:12watch this Nick Heidfeld spins across the grass right there and takes out an unsuspecting Takuma

01:00:17Sato just nails him well he went across the bowels of Montoya there missed him by an answer

01:00:23Sato was taken for x-rays turned out only had a bruised leg hard Michelin tire one-stop strategy

01:00:28allowed Juan Pablo Montoya to take fuel only and get ahead of his teammate Ralph Schumacher

01:00:35after an exchange of pit stops at the finish though well we thought it was going to be all

01:00:39Barrichello yeah we thought he pulled over and let Michael Schumacher go by and it was ugly

01:00:49it was very ugly there is that same crowd that's just been waving ecstatically being the old thumbs

01:00:54down and then there was this this is what really got them in trouble last year

01:01:00it wasn't so much the team strategy although that everybody hated that it was when Michael

01:01:04Michael Schumacher gave the trophy to Rubens and let Rubens go up to the top step a major break in

01:01:12formula one protocol don't be doing that again this year boys beautiful countryside today will it rain

01:01:18tomorrow we'll be back with more right after this

01:01:25back here at Austria where Michael Schumacher has just shown him how it's done getting yet another

01:01:29pole another feather for his cap but he only did it the last possible moment and we see the cars

01:01:37being pushed into cars that's that right front wheel which if you remember yesterday had an incredible

01:01:42flat spot on it there's Montoya there's that camera that we'd uh wouldn't want to be stuck in

01:01:49it'd be fun to go up there and look at it briefly but i don't think i want to stay up there the whole race

01:01:53well you are who is uh destined to end up 10th but he won't be uh having a very good debrief at

01:02:02the moment with patrick head sir frank and mario tyson

01:02:07and then ralph firman who had his off yesterday whoa went a little wide right there

01:02:13de mott actually improved his situation he ended up 13th on the day yeah a lot better than i was

01:02:17running yesterday there's the staff and in the minardi which lost his gears and here's what really

01:02:23mattered this was fernando alonso going off into the gravel which uh i think he said fernando what

01:02:37nick heidfeld of course had a very good qualifying run ended up in p4 yeah that's the best qualifying

01:02:43for sauber in austria since 1998 when john lacy was on the front row from you yell at him eddie

01:02:48and fishy keller there being yelled at by eddie jordan who actually up to finished up ninth

01:02:52probably would have been seventh if it hadn't been for that

01:02:57and for reikon in so close so near yet so far well he's still pretty pretty close he's still on the

01:03:04front row quicker for three quarters of the way around the track except the last little sector then

01:03:09his teammate david coultard uh really overdrove there on pablo montoya who ended up third

01:03:14let us know if we're boring you

01:03:20now there was a session before this qualifying session that's the brief warm-up let's give you

01:03:25some of the highlights from that jensen button he was the fastest guy early on remember he had done

01:03:30so well yesterday and was really expected to do very well today ralph schumacher went for a trip at

01:03:35the a1 corner where so many people have been off the road this weekend and his brother going through the

01:03:41same corner in a much more controlled fashion he uh briefly snatched the fastest time in the warm

01:03:47this morning just by just over a quarter of a second and nick heifeld gave us just a brief

01:03:51taste of what was to come when once again this is no warm-up before qualifying he was the fastest

01:03:57man for a brief time although it was a very brief time because not long afterwards mclaren and david

01:04:03coultard came across and he snagged the fastest but even he couldn't hold on to it he could not because

01:04:10his teammate kimmy raikkonen seen here going around that last corner snatched uh p1 away from david

01:04:18coultard although he used to blot his copper but moments later with this little spin didn't did not

01:04:23stall the car and once again this was the morning warm or the warm-up right before qualifying and

01:04:28juan pablo montoya ended up being the fastest guy in this session although it didn't relate

01:04:33in terms of getting a pole position

01:04:34welcome back qualifying is over in austria and we have a special treat for you how about going for

01:04:42a lap around the a1 ring with the fastest man in austria crank up the surround sound you're riding

01:04:48you're riding with michael schumacher

01:04:58so

01:05:00so

01:05:08so

01:05:10so

01:05:14so

01:05:24so

01:05:26so

01:05:30so

01:05:40ooh baby what a ride

01:06:00yeah wasn't it michael schumacher the fastest man at the a1 ring kimmy raikkonen just missed it

01:06:07right behind him montoya looking a lot happier than it was yesterday and this morning nick hyde

01:06:11felt there great qualifying from him and rubens barichella must be wondering yes exactly what went

01:06:15wrong back there in fifth spot piano truly jensen button not a great run but better than his teammate

01:06:21and check out antonio pazonia out qualified mark weber yeah for the first time this year fisher

01:06:26keller there had that big bobble on the last corner probably would have gone him into eight spot

01:06:30then as i'm going on down olivier panis again looking a lot better than yesterday as his

01:06:34teammate christiano damara jack villano had a wild run there davy cooltout also had a wild run

01:06:39didn't do much good of course alonso went off the road there and mark weber back in 17th he was

01:06:45bouncing all over the place and for stopping never actually finished the lap because of transmission

01:06:50problems that wraps up qualifying for the austrian grand prix work michael schumacher has gotten

01:06:54the poll don't forget tomorrow morning it's 7 30 our live coverage of the austrian grand prix

01:06:59starts with the acura free race show but coming up right now we have live coverage of the third round

01:07:04of the formula 3000 championship so for david hobbs and steve match and i'm rick debruel

01:07:09we expect to see you back here in just a couple of seconds for the formula 3000 race don't go any

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