2004 European GP Qualifying

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Qualifying for Round 7 of the 2004 F1 season at the Nurburgring.

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00:00:00Last week at Monaco, Yarno Trulli earned his first ever Formula 1 Bowl and his first ever Grand Prix victory,

00:00:12preventing Michael Schumacher from becoming the first driver ever to win the first six races to begin a season.

00:00:18One corner to go for Yarno Trulli. One corner to his first career Formula 1 victory at 119 starts.

00:00:26Trulli has done it.

00:00:28Today we return to the site of another first, the Nürburgring in Germany,

00:00:32where last year saw Kimi Raikkonen capture his first ever pole position.

00:00:37Across the line.

00:00:40Kimi Raikkonen has the first pole of his career by 3,200.

00:00:44Yeah, Norbert, you tell him, baby.

00:00:48Will today bring us another first, or will Michael Schumacher continue his charge to be the first on yet another list,

00:00:55Qualifying for round seven of the 2004 Formula 1 World Championship begins right now.

00:01:00One of the great circuit names in all of motorsports is the Nürburgring,

00:01:28site of the round seven of the Formula 1 World Championship for 2004.

00:01:33But before you can race the European Grand Prix, you must qualify.

00:01:37Hello and welcome, everyone.

00:01:39I'm Bob Varsh, along with Steve Matchett and David Hobbs.

00:01:42You just saw a car being lifted up onto the flatbed.

00:01:44And that would be David Kultar, just the beginning of our story as we get set to determine the grid for Sunday's race in single-car qualifying.

00:01:54Let's take a look at the highlights now of the earlier session, which just took place.

00:01:59It all begins, of course, with the most recent winner, and that would be Yarno Trulli,

00:02:03who has lost his voice this week and is unable to communicate with his engineers.

00:02:07But he went on track and put up a disappointing lap at 1 minute 29.

00:02:11Jensen Button in the BAR Honda, the next man out because he was the runner-up in Monaco,

00:02:16a full one second quicker than Trulli.

00:02:18And then, Ralph Schumacher took to the track, who hadn't had a great weekend so far,

00:02:23and he cranks out of time just over a tenth second quicker.

00:02:26And then, of course, his brother comes along, Michael Schumacher,

00:02:29who missed practically all of yesterday's practice with hydraulic problems

00:02:33and cranks out a staggering lap, 128-2.

00:02:37That's nearly three seconds quicker than last year's pole.

00:02:39Alonso having a go here.

00:02:41Gets a bit wide on the Coca-Cola exit there, but is about eight tenths off.

00:02:46Kimi Ryker in last year's pole sitter comes along and cranked out a pretty good lap.

00:02:51I mean, anything that McLaren do now is pretty good compared to what's been going on at the beginning part of the year.

00:02:55Then the surprise of the session.

00:02:57This is Takuma Sato, and the BAR Honda blows everybody into the weeds at 127.6.

00:03:05That's the first time we've seen all weekend in the 127 zone.

00:03:09Then another surprise.

00:03:10David Coulthard went out, posted a lap fourth quick, just one second off that astonishing circuit by Sato.

00:03:16But on the cool-down lap, DC had to abandon his failed McLaren Mercedes.

00:03:22On track at the time was Giancarlo Fisichella.

00:03:24He was brought in under a red flag, given another shot.

00:03:28But Fisichella has problems of his own.

00:03:31He had to change an engine on Friday and will lose ten spots on wherever he qualifies.

00:03:35A rare engine failure for a Ferrari-built engine.

00:03:38Here's a look at the starting order as we invert the order from the first session of single lap times.

00:03:46Now the Minardis and Jordans will be the first four cars on track, and this could be very interesting as the lap times continue to drop new lap record after new lap record being set, and once again down to tire technology.

00:04:01That 27 is just staggering.

00:04:04Last year's pole was a 31.5.

00:04:07I mean, that is a huge drop.

00:04:09But again, as you say, it's tire technology and this, you know, a tremendous war between Michelin and Bridgestone.

00:04:16So we've seen a lot more rubber being laid down as well.

00:04:19We've had no rain over the weekend, which is a usual feature here at the Nürburgring.

00:04:23So that's helped the track to rubber in, and the times are beginning to fall very well indeed.

00:04:30Well, they are.

00:04:30It just makes you wonder what somebody's going to do in this second session.

00:04:33Here in the Eiffel Mountains, the weather is always known to be changeable.

00:04:36A Formula 3000 race was once snowed out in late April here at the Nürburgring, but we have beautiful weather conditions.

00:04:43About 64 degrees, make that 65 Fahrenheit, converting from Celsius.

00:04:49Track temperature up over 100 degrees.

00:04:51Great conditions for qualifying.

00:04:54Well, we have a moment, and DC gets cranked back into the paddock.

00:04:56Let's take a look at our Porsche track map, David.

00:04:58Well, this is the new Nürburgring.

00:04:59New, that is, of course, 1984.

00:05:01Another patch on the old one.

00:05:03But you go across the start-finish line, down to Castle S there.

00:05:06Very, very tight right-hander.

00:05:07Some overtaking going to go on there through the Mercedes Arena.

00:05:10Tricky long, long, long left-hand of that.

00:05:12Then he'll exit there through Turn 4.

00:05:14Downhill steeply through 5 and 6.

00:05:16Very tricky corners, though.

00:05:17It's a bit bumpy on the exit of the forward curve.

00:05:19Down to the Dunlop.

00:05:20And you've got to get this one right, because it's a long, long curve.

00:05:23And you really want to exit this one good, because that's a steep uphill climb through

00:05:26the Audi S, Michelin curve, and the bit curve.

00:05:29Very fast corners.

00:05:30Then the hand-to-back, obviously.

00:05:31And then the NGK chicanes is another really good spot for overtaking.

00:05:35And the final corner, another long corner where you run and keep the power on, but you

00:05:39don't want to give it too much welly.

00:05:40Otherwise, you'll find yourself in the grabber.

00:05:42We've seen plenty of spins all weekend, including four this morning, one of them authored by

00:05:47Michael Schumacher himself.

00:05:49He has spun in two of the four sessions held thus far.

00:05:53Now, just when you think everything has finally settled down, here's another story making its

00:05:57way through the paddock.

00:05:57The FIA wants to change the qualifying format in Formula One yet again.

00:06:02Now, this proposed format could take effect as early as the British Grand Prix at Silverstone

00:06:06in July.

00:06:08It calls for two 20-minute sessions in which each driver will have six laps in total, basically

00:06:13two hot laps per session.

00:06:15The grid will then be formed on drivers' aggregate times from the two sessions, not one single

00:06:20lap.

00:06:20Teams will be permitted to run whatever fuel level they wish, and cars will enter Park for

00:06:24May only after qualifying has been completed, which, of course, raises the prospect of bringing

00:06:29your car into the pit lane before it needs to go to Park for May and changing fuel levels,

00:06:35tire pressures, what have you.

00:06:38Now, while our first car, Jimmy Bruni in the minority, is on track, we're going to take a

00:06:43quick break, but you will not miss a second of the action.

00:06:47Bruni, followed by his minority teammate, Jolt Baumgartner.

00:06:51Stay with us.

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00:07:08Welcome back to the Nurburgring.

00:07:10Norbert Haug on the right, the former journalist who now heads up Mercedes-Benz racing programs,

00:07:16huddling with his crew, and there's the reason.

00:07:18David Coulthard had a problem.

00:07:19The guy in the middle there was Whitmarsh.

00:07:20He was now the sort of managing director of McLaren.

00:07:22But just saying, there's a big gang of people standing around the McLaren garage there talking

00:07:27to Dave Redding, who's the transmission electronics expert right there.

00:07:31And I'm going to suspect it's actually hydraulic problems or transmission problems.

00:07:35I mean, that's speculation.

00:07:36If that's the case, you might see some very frantic action in the pits as they try and

00:07:40ready the spare car.

00:07:41Well, there's the guys there working on the T-car in the middle setting the ride heights.

00:07:45If they manage to get the car back and the engine's okay, you might see them desperately

00:07:48trying to take that engine out of the chassis, the race chassis, and put it into the spare

00:07:51car.

00:07:52Now, notice, race control is investigating something Jimmy Bruni did.

00:07:56Watch the lights.

00:07:57See, the lights are red as Bruni leaves the pit lane.

00:08:01Welcome to qualifying 101, Jimmy.

00:08:05Well, I'd have to say in his defense, the number one mechanic who runs the car should be watching

00:08:09the pit lights before the car is waved out into the pit lane.

00:08:12I might have known a mechanic who'd be at the foot of all of the car.

00:08:15I'm going to say, it is the mechanic's responsibility.

00:08:17This is going to be an absolute disaster for Jimmy Bruni because now he'll have to start

00:08:20dead last.

00:08:21That's right.

00:08:22As though he were going to start anywhere else.

00:08:23Oh, man.

00:08:24Oh, is that right?

00:08:25I hadn't thought of that.

00:08:25Yeah.

00:08:27Which is a bit surprising, actually, that Jimmy Bruni has been slower in the last two or

00:08:31three sessions, including Monte Carlo.

00:08:33Well, his teammate Zolt Baumgartner, who looked like Jimmy Bruni was going to be a good bit

00:08:37quicker than old Zolt, but seems to fade him somewhat.

00:08:39We tend to make fun of the Minardi team, but they have launched the careers of a number

00:08:43of terrific drivers, and we thought Bruni was one of those, but I would imagine, perhaps

00:08:49up in the press room, they're going to point out the fact that he has been hanging out with

00:08:52the young lady who was his grid girl, so to speak, in the season opener at Melbourne,

00:08:57Australia.

00:08:57He brought her with him to Monaco.

00:09:00No word as whether she is with him again this weekend, but I would imagine some pundit might

00:09:06point to that and say he's sort of taken his eye off the ball, so to speak.

00:09:09He's a bit tired, perhaps.

00:09:12But, as you say, we do tend to joke a little bit about Minardi, but all the teams, when

00:09:17they have a new driver come on board like Jimmy Bruni or Zolt Baumgartner, for that matter,

00:09:21everybody's watching him in the pits pretty much because you can soon tell who's really

00:09:25got the talent behind the wheel, even though the car obviously doesn't allow them to really

00:09:29show it, but you can still see talent.

00:09:31But being outqualified by the pretty much rubbished up and down Zolt Baumgartner, there's Paul Stoddart,

00:09:40the team owner.

00:09:42Another pained expression.

00:09:44Imagine he feels better than this guy does right now, though.

00:09:46McLaren has just arrived back with David Coulthard aboard.

00:09:51We saw him talking over his radio to the pits there for quite a long period of time while

00:09:57he was parked inside the track.

00:09:58Let's see what Zolt Baumgartner of Hungary can do.

00:10:07You see the heat haze coming off the asphalt there.

00:10:10We're running about 15 degrees more track temperature.

00:10:14It's like 104 degrees now.

00:10:15Bear in mind, yesterday it was like 89 degrees, so we're seeing a lot more temperature in the

00:10:19tarmac, which is helping these lap times fall as well, increasing the grip coefficient between

00:10:25the rubber and the tarmac.

00:10:32Now we're being told, Baumgartner, you see that the T-bar that contains the onboard camera

00:10:36atop the roll hoop is black.

00:10:39That means that is the spare car, the T-car, if you will.

00:10:43Zolt Baumgartner apparently has undergone an engine change, so he too will be relegated to

00:10:49the back.

00:10:50But in the case of Minardi, it's somewhat redundant.

00:10:52They are self-relegated on most occasions.

00:10:57Well, unfortunately, the guy who's really going to hurt with the regulations is Mark Webber,

00:11:02who did a quick time yesterday, and his quick sector was under a yellow.

00:11:08And they have given him, docked him a second.

00:11:11It's a rule I've never heard of before, but they're going to dock him a second off his time.

00:11:15Well, as he usually qualifies about the middle, he's going to be right back with these two

00:11:19guys on the back two rows.

00:11:22It's going to get a little crowded back there.

00:11:24There's going to be more people back there, not the front.

00:11:26Into the Coca-Cola curve, final corner, swinging onto the front straightaway, on the gas as

00:11:34soon as you dare.

00:11:39P-2, so he does not out-qualify his teammate.

00:11:43And that gets a wry smile from his team owner.

00:11:46Order has been restored at Minardi, but the trouble is just beginning at McLaren.

00:11:50Qualifying continues for the European Grand Prix here at the Nürburgring on a beautiful day.

00:11:58Off to the left of your screen there, you get a little glimpse of the first few yards

00:12:04of the mighty Nordschleife.

00:12:0714-mile circuit that was once the site of the German Grand Prix.

00:12:13Produced some of the most amazing races in history, many of them won by Sir Jackie Stewart.

00:12:20It was absolute magic around the Nordschleife.

00:12:22But this is the new Nürburgring.

00:12:27Pretty spectacular buildings, press rooms, etc. here.

00:12:31This is that left-right complex.

00:12:33The road's starting to go downhill here.

00:12:39Got to get a good exit there because it's a long run down to this Dunlop curve.

00:12:45Very tempted to go in there too deep.

00:12:47You really want to make sure that right from about the middle of the curve on,

00:12:50you make a real good exit to pull yourself up what is quite a steep hill here.

00:12:54It was a pretty horrible first qualifying lap for these guys.

00:12:59The CJ14 chassis has been all over the place.

00:13:02Very nervous.

00:13:03A lot of understeer on it.

00:13:04And it seems worse in qualifying than in practice.

00:13:06Which I'm kind of putting down to the amount of fuel they're putting on board to start the race.

00:13:12Remember the guys that qualify.

00:13:14Today will be the fuel that's in the car now will be the fuel they will start the race with.

00:13:19That front-end twitch there from Heidfeldt.

00:13:21The Jordan, all year we've been seeing that.

00:13:23When they brake and turn in, they have an awful job turning in.

00:13:28It just hunts around like bilio at the front-end.

00:13:32See, the kind of cure that they would like to do is to stiffen up the rear end on the car a little bit

00:13:37to try and take away that understeer on the front-end.

00:13:40But that just increases the breakaway of the back of the car.

00:13:46It loses traction that way.

00:13:48Again, it's always that magic word compromise on a car setup.

00:13:53Edmund looking on.

00:13:55Nick Heidfeldt was outdone in the first single car session by this man, Giorgio Pantano, the rookie.

00:14:02Just watch this car as it tries to maintain a straight line in the braking zone.

00:14:06Anywhere he tries to turn into it, it weaves its way through the corner like an old English threatening bit.

00:14:15See it there?

00:14:17And it all seems to come from the front.

00:14:26It's hard to keep the thing going straight down the straight.

00:14:29Right, that's what I'm saying.

00:14:30That dog won't hunt.

00:14:32Well, no, it either won't hunt or it is hunting.

00:14:34He's hunting all over the place trying to find somewhere to go.

00:14:40I was hoping we'd see that.

00:14:41Oh, exactly.

00:14:42Yeah.

00:14:42Stay on board and watch.

00:14:43Right from here is where you want to get the power on early.

00:14:45And of course, if the car won't point in, it's difficult to do it.

00:14:52Ah!

00:14:54Understeer there.

00:14:54This is the most fearsome corner, according to Ralph Schumacher.

00:15:05Pretty quick right-hander.

00:15:06Again, that's a very important corner to get right because all this next swoop through here is flat out.

00:15:10And you want to really be on it because right here, you might have a shot without breaking somebody and passing into the chicane.

00:15:17Up on the curb going in there, which is a bit dodgy.

00:15:25Coming on the curb going out is one thing, but putting your wheel up on the curb going in can be disastrous, as we saw Sarto do last week in practice at Monte Carlo.

00:15:33So, the Jordans are one and two for the moment.

00:15:40So, Pantano not managing to out-qualify.

00:15:42David Coulthard striding through the pits.

00:15:44David Coulthard will have to use the spare car to the sporting regulations.

00:15:49If a car stops out on the track during the first part in the provisional qualifying session in that first hour,

00:15:54the team are not allowed to regain that car.

00:15:57It must go to park for me and remain there.

00:15:58So, the mechanics are not able to start working on his original race car,

00:16:02so they'll have to put him into the tee car.

00:16:04This is Felipe Massa with the Sauber.

00:16:23That spare chassis at McLaren, just to give a little bit of clarification of what they're doing,

00:16:27the spare chassis is already set up for David Coulthard, which will ease them an awful lot.

00:16:31That'll save them having to change seatbelt settings and pedal settings in between the two drivers,

00:16:37so that's giving them a good heads-up on what's going on to get the car ready for the second qualifying session.

00:16:42But of course, by using a spare car, he's also using a different engine, so he's going to lose 10 spots.

00:17:00A lot of people are going to lose 10 spots.

00:17:03All right, Felipe Massa's teammate, Giancarlo Fisichella, is going to lose 10 spots because he changed his engine on Friday.

00:17:08I just don't like that at all.

00:17:10I really do not like this one-engine for Grand Prix weekend and the penalties that are imposed by the FIA for changing the engine.

00:17:15Third for Massa behind the two Jordans.

00:17:35There's a surprise.

00:17:38Well, I tell you what, that engine, the Ferrari engine, despite the little problems they've been having with it,

00:17:44it's the latest generation 2004-spec Ferrari lump, and it's not short of power.

00:17:49All season long, the Sauber's, the Ferraris, and the Honda's have been the engines to have.

00:17:54Well, that didn't help, bit of lockup down there, too fast on the entry to the Dunlop curve.

00:17:58Which is so easy, dude, because it looks so wide and open, and it's so tempting to go bollocking in there and find yourself really way too late.

00:18:07Peter Sauber gave a shrug.

00:18:11Felipe Massa has had to defend his position in this team of late.

00:18:15A bit more was expected of this young man after spending a year honing his skills testing for Ferrari.

00:18:20We'll have to see where his future lies.

00:18:24Now, the U.S. Grand Prix is right around the corner.

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00:18:46David Coulthard climbs in to check the fit of the spare car.

00:18:50He will be the fourth from last on track.

00:18:54In a moment, we'll be back with Christian Kleen and Mark Webber from Jaguar.

00:18:58Welcome back to final qualifying for the European Grand Prix,

00:19:15round seven of the 2004 Formula One World Championship.

00:19:17I'm Bob Varsha with David Hobbs and Steve Matchett.

00:19:21Ron Dennis, Martin Whitmarsh, and Norbert Hogg still going over David Coulthard's options in the McLaren garage.

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00:19:48Breeze has come up a little bit, and the temperature as well here at the new Nürburgring.

00:19:53As young Austrian rookie Christian Kleen takes to the track in the Jaguar.

00:19:58Now, he is still at the center of a controversy, real or otherwise,

00:20:06involving the loss of a quarter-million-dollar diamond that was implanted in the nose of his Jaguar.

00:20:11They see him going off the wall after colliding with the Jaguar, nosing it in to the Lowe's hairpin.

00:20:17That quarter-million-dollar diamond was not on the nose of the car when it came back to the garage.

00:20:22A huge search was launched.

00:20:24Jaguar is offering a $65,000 automobile in exchange for the darn thing,

00:20:28and a lot of us think it's all a hoax just to help publicize the new Ocean's 12 movie,

00:20:36or perhaps Jaguar, or perhaps all of them put together.

00:20:38I don't know, you know, a new Jag road car, quarter-million-dollar diamond, what do you do?

00:20:42Yeah, really.

00:20:44They're also saying that diamond was to be auctioned off for charity,

00:20:47so they're trying to get the guilt thing going, too.

00:20:49Christian cleaned fastest in that first sector, just.

00:21:01He has a sterling reputation at this track.

00:21:04According to their PR officers, he has won races here at the new Nürburgring,

00:21:08in Formula BMW, Formula Renault, and Formula 3.

00:21:17And, of course, we must not forget that Christian clean is the youngest driver out here by quite a long way.

00:21:24He is only 21 years old, and, of course, this is only his seventh Grand Prix.

00:21:28Track temperature continues to increase.

00:21:31We've gone up another couple of degrees on track, up to 106.

00:21:34Ambient temperature is still not very warm.

00:21:36I was looking at the Sauber, and they've got very little rad ducting and rad exit on the car.

00:21:41A lot of blanking panels on there to aid the aerodynamics,

00:21:44so they're clearly not worried about underbody temperatures at all around this track.

00:21:48Flashing across the line into P1 goes Christian clean over the two Jordans,

00:21:57the two Minardies,

00:21:59and a fairly surprisingly slow lap from Felipe Massa in the Sauber.

00:22:03Well, that 31-4 will have put him on the pole for last year.

00:22:0631-5-2-3 was pole for last year,

00:22:09so you can pretty well guarantee that everybody now who goes out after Christian clean

00:22:14is going to be quicker than last year's pole.

00:22:16Some of them a lot quicker.

00:22:19I'm guessing that Sauber has a lot of fuel on board.

00:22:21Right.

00:22:22And it's great conditions.

00:22:24I mean, this track is in fine condition.

00:22:25Yeah, we should see some good times today.

00:22:29A gorgeous day up here in the Eiffel Mountains,

00:22:31right on the western edge of Germany.

00:22:34Beautiful bit of countryside.

00:22:38Here comes Mark Webber,

00:22:40who is already a second down to the field

00:22:42after that penalty yesterday for setting his fastest segment time

00:22:46in one of the sessions under a yellow flag.

00:22:50So Webber's troubles continue.

00:22:55Bright spot on the horizon for him is the rumor,

00:22:58which is gaining strength,

00:23:00that he will be a Williams driver next year.

00:23:02Also rumors that they're big sponsor, HSBC.

00:23:10Britain's biggest bank.

00:23:11In fact, one of the biggest banks in the world

00:23:13is maybe jumping ship at the end of the year as well.

00:23:17Makes you wonder how long Ford Motor Company

00:23:20will stay in this Jaguar project.

00:23:24If they lose Webber,

00:23:25it's going to be really tough.

00:23:31Webber, one of the drivers that launched his career with Minardi.

00:23:33Look at this braking area, those ripples in the road.

00:23:36It's another one of the challenges to the drivers,

00:23:38trying to get the car stocked

00:23:39while you're bouncing along the pavement.

00:23:41Look at that.

00:23:47Significantly quicker than his teammate, Christian Kling.

00:23:50Well, a week ago in Monaco is Ralph Schumacher,

00:23:52who was second fastest,

00:23:54but because he changed engines in practice on Thursday,

00:23:56he had to go back ten spots.

00:23:58Mark Webber's case,

00:23:59he may have a great lap,

00:24:01but they're going to add a second to it.

00:24:03And based on yesterday's performances in practice,

00:24:05that could cost him ten or twelve spots on the grid.

00:24:08He goes B1 with a 130.7.

00:24:12When it becomes a 131.7,

00:24:14right now he drops to third.

00:24:16We'll see how far he falls.

00:24:18We'll take a break and come back.

00:24:20Monaco winner Yarno Trulli is next.

00:24:25Back at the Nürburgring,

00:24:27the Renault crew looks on,

00:24:28the brain trust along the pit wall

00:24:30as Monaco winner Yarno Trulli

00:24:33picked up his first pole

00:24:34and first Formula One victory on the same weekend

00:24:37is now on track.

00:24:38The only problem is

00:24:39he can't tell us how thrilled he is

00:24:41because he has completely lost his voice this week.

00:24:45Yarno Trulli was slow

00:24:47in the first of these qualifying runs

00:24:49just about 45 minutes ago.

00:24:52I can only assume

00:24:53that he must have a lot of fuel on board.

00:24:56Up six tenths.

00:24:57The Renaults have not been sterling

00:24:59around the Nürburgring,

00:25:00it must be said.

00:25:01Pretty much mid-packers

00:25:02in every session thus far.

00:25:04They've been struggling.

00:25:05I think all the teams,

00:25:06but particularly Renault,

00:25:07I was talking to Alan Permain,

00:25:09Trulli's engineer,

00:25:09yesterday,

00:25:10they're struggling to get a hand

00:25:11on tyre degradation,

00:25:13that choice between the hard

00:25:14and soft compound yesterday.

00:25:16And undecided as well

00:25:17whether or not that'll translate

00:25:18into a one- or two-stop strategy.

00:25:20Of course,

00:25:21they've now had to make the decision

00:25:22on tyre compound.

00:25:25But that's what they were doing yesterday.

00:25:27Hard compound,

00:25:28soft compound,

00:25:28long runs on fuel

00:25:29and short runs on fuel

00:25:30to have a look at how the rubber was wearing.

00:25:32Oh, my goodness me,

00:25:34look at that.

00:25:35They've obviously had a bit of a change

00:25:37of strategy from the first run.

00:25:381.6 seconds.

00:25:59A great drive.

00:26:00There's Fernando Alonso looking on.

00:26:03Just a couple of tenths quicker

00:26:04than there was this morning,

00:26:05the 29.1,

00:26:06and we're looking for possible people

00:26:08in the 27s.

00:26:11Yarno Trulli is racing for his career.

00:26:13His deal with that man,

00:26:13Flavio Briatore,

00:26:15for management,

00:26:15is up this year,

00:26:16as is his deal with Renault

00:26:18for the drive.

00:26:21And Briatore told the press this week

00:26:23that winning the biggest race

00:26:24of the season in Monaco

00:26:25does not guarantee Yarno Trulli

00:26:27will have a drive with Renault next year.

00:26:29Well, of course,

00:26:30another of Flavio's men

00:26:31is Mark Webber,

00:26:33and there's talk about him

00:26:34going to Williams, obviously,

00:26:35but there's also potentially talk

00:26:36of him going to Renault.

00:26:39And the thing you don't hear much about

00:26:41is, in my opinion,

00:26:43he should be thinking about

00:26:44going to Toyota,

00:26:45because Toyota is big in Australia.

00:26:48This is Giancarlo Fisichella's car.

00:26:55He is scheduled to be

00:26:56the next man on track,

00:26:57but that car, obviously,

00:26:58is going nowhere for the moment.

00:27:00They're taking it up to Park Vermeer,

00:27:02where the Weybridge is.

00:27:03Clearly, you can see it's on a dolly

00:27:04with the tire blankets around,

00:27:06so that's how they're pushing it along.

00:27:07A little skateboard underneath

00:27:09sitting on the FIA legality blank.

00:27:13Sauber may have made the decision

00:27:14not to even qualify,

00:27:16since they know they're going to

00:27:16give up 10 positions.

00:27:18They don't want to go to Park Vermeer.

00:27:19They want to set the car up

00:27:20for the race now.

00:27:25Considering Masa's run,

00:27:27a 1.31,

00:27:28if Fisichella is anywhere

00:27:29in that neighborhood,

00:27:30he's going to be starting

00:27:31toward the back anyway.

00:27:34Green light is on.

00:27:35Cristiano De Mata

00:27:36takes to the track

00:27:37in the Toyota.

00:27:42Shorty, as he was known

00:27:43in his champ car days,

00:27:44has a lot on his mind

00:27:46this weekend.

00:27:46This is the home race

00:27:47for the Toyota team,

00:27:49about 55 miles

00:27:50from their complex

00:27:51in Cologne, Germany.

00:27:54There are a lot of rumors

00:27:54that De Mata's

00:27:55pretty much running out

00:27:57the string with Toyota.

00:27:58There's Mike Gascoigne,

00:28:00their technical director,

00:28:02who has promised

00:28:03a new car on track

00:28:05by mid-summer.

00:28:06Yep, should be ready

00:28:07for Germany,

00:28:08so we're here.

00:28:08New chassis,

00:28:10which wants to be

00:28:11much lighter.

00:28:12Gascoigne saying

00:28:12the car is just

00:28:13too heavy.

00:28:16A lot of handling

00:28:17imbalance on the car.

00:28:18They've made

00:28:18some pretty drastic

00:28:19changes to the staff

00:28:21already in the wind tunnel

00:28:22at Toyota.

00:28:24Rubens Batacalo

00:28:24getting ready.

00:28:25That's Gascoigne's

00:28:26great strength,

00:28:27his technical director,

00:28:28but he really is

00:28:28by trade in aerodynamicist.

00:28:30There's Olivier Pannis.

00:28:39Had a bit of a run-in

00:28:40yesterday.

00:28:41He was on a hot lap

00:28:42when he was blocked

00:28:43by the Minardi

00:28:46third driver,

00:28:47Vaselineers of Belgium.

00:28:48Fernando Alonso

00:28:59buckling in.

00:29:03He's getting in

00:29:04quite early.

00:29:05He's four slots away.

00:29:08Well, getting himself

00:29:09ready, getting calmed down.

00:29:10More bumps.

00:29:19Heavy braking

00:29:20for turn one.

00:29:21It's potentially

00:29:22a good overtaking spot

00:29:23that, but those bumps

00:29:24really unsettle

00:29:25these cars on braking.

00:29:26And it's, again,

00:29:27it's a very wide approach

00:29:28with a very tight apex.

00:29:30So it's awfully difficult

00:29:31to, awfully easy rather

00:29:33to really overdo it

00:29:35going in.

00:29:37And then, of course,

00:29:37here leads to all sorts

00:29:38of trouble trying to come out.

00:29:40I saw yesterday

00:29:43that Toyota are running

00:29:44the car way too soft

00:29:45around here

00:29:47and a lot of bottoming

00:29:49going on

00:29:49between the plank

00:29:51and the track.

00:29:52And as you say, David,

00:29:52coming down that

00:29:53start-finish straight,

00:29:54there's a series

00:29:54of undulations there

00:29:55and you'll see

00:29:56when the camera

00:29:56picks it up

00:29:57down that front straight

00:29:58almost a series

00:29:59of spots like

00:29:59join the dots

00:30:00along the start-finish

00:30:01straight there

00:30:02where the plank's

00:30:02bottoming out.

00:30:03Well, Toyota have

00:30:04worked well on

00:30:04the chassis setup

00:30:05and they've made it

00:30:06stiffer and lifted

00:30:07the car.

00:30:10You see it

00:30:11going over those

00:30:12undulations

00:30:12into that

00:30:13fast complex.

00:30:15Can you believe

00:30:29how close

00:30:30they get

00:30:31to a corner

00:30:31like that

00:30:31and they're still

00:30:32absolutely flat stick

00:30:34before they lift.

00:30:35I mean,

00:30:35they just

00:30:36unbelievable.

00:30:38Stopping power.

00:30:38You don't ease

00:30:41on to Formula One

00:30:42brakes.

00:30:43You jump

00:30:43on them.

00:30:44Right.

00:30:50Cristiano DeMotta

00:30:51takes his place

00:30:52for the frustrated

00:30:55Toyota team.

00:30:57A look in slow-mo.

00:31:01You can see

00:31:02the tires

00:31:03flex.

00:31:05Formula One tires

00:31:06and race tires

00:31:08generally.

00:31:09are absolutely

00:31:09phenomenal pieces

00:31:10of engineering

00:31:11and chemistry.

00:31:12We'll be back

00:31:13in a moment.

00:31:14Next up,

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00:31:38Welcome back.

00:31:41As qualifying continues

00:31:43here at the

00:31:43Nürburgring,

00:31:44I'm Bob Varsha

00:31:44with David Hobbs

00:31:45and Steve Matchett.

00:31:46This is Olivier Pannis

00:31:47in the Toyota.

00:31:50Off to the left,

00:31:51the Schloss Nürburgring,

00:31:52which looked just about

00:31:53like that in those

00:31:54grainy old newsreel

00:31:55shots from the 1930s

00:31:56when Grand Prix racing

00:31:59came to the Eiffel

00:31:59Mountains here in Germany.

00:32:00The old Nordschleit

00:32:03was just an absolutely

00:32:04amazing circuit,

00:32:0514.5 miles long,

00:32:07175 corners,

00:32:09and every one of them,

00:32:10when I got there

00:32:11for the first time,

00:32:12every one of those

00:32:12corners is either

00:32:13on the top of a hill,

00:32:14the bottom of a hill,

00:32:15going up a hill,

00:32:16or going down a hill.

00:32:17I mean,

00:32:17it was quite extraordinary.

00:32:18Went through the trees a lot,

00:32:20surface changed tremendously,

00:32:21always damp under the trees,

00:32:23been raining one side,

00:32:25sunning the other.

00:32:26Just a fantastic place

00:32:27to have a race,

00:32:28and luckily,

00:32:29they still do race on there.

00:32:30They have a 24-hour

00:32:31sedan car race there

00:32:32in the summer.

00:32:34And you can drive up,

00:32:35pay a few Deutschmarks

00:32:36or Euros these days,

00:32:37and drive your own car

00:32:38or motorcycle

00:32:39around the place.

00:32:40Absolutely rollicking around.

00:32:41As fast as you want to go.

00:32:42Because if you disappear,

00:32:43they don't find you for days.

00:32:44You're buried in the hedge

00:32:45there somewhere.

00:32:45A few years ago

00:32:46at this race,

00:32:47I had the pleasure

00:32:47of being driven around

00:32:49the old Nordschleife

00:32:50by former DTM champion

00:32:52Bern Schneider

00:32:53in an AMG Mercedes.

00:32:55And that was an absolutely

00:32:56religious experience

00:32:57I could tell you.

00:33:00Especially when the phone rang,

00:33:01right?

00:33:01Yeah, right.

00:33:02The phone rang in the car.

00:33:04So he starts driving

00:33:05with one hand

00:33:06at about eight tenths.

00:33:08Picks up the phone,

00:33:09speaks to it in German,

00:33:10and I don't know exactly

00:33:10what it said,

00:33:11but it sounded like,

00:33:12well, I'm a little busy

00:33:13right now.

00:33:13I'm taking a journalist

00:33:14around the Nordschleife,

00:33:15so I'll have to get back

00:33:15to you.

00:33:16Will that be all right?

00:33:17Click.

00:33:18And then both hands

00:33:19on the wheel.

00:33:21Well, that length of track

00:33:22as it was, David,

00:33:23as we see Panis cross the line

00:33:25in P2.

00:33:26Did you ever really feel

00:33:27that you knew the track,

00:33:28knew the layout?

00:33:29It's amazing how you did

00:33:30learn it.

00:33:31It was quite extraordinary

00:33:32how few laps,

00:33:34I guess you still,

00:33:36you know,

00:33:36as Bob says,

00:33:37a bit of a religious

00:33:37experience,

00:33:38you really concentrate

00:33:39like hell

00:33:39going around the Nordschleife.

00:33:41Of course,

00:33:41it changed so much

00:33:42from car to car.

00:33:44I went there,

00:33:44obviously,

00:33:45in a loads of leak,

00:33:45which is a pretty

00:33:46slow little car,

00:33:47but when I went back

00:33:48subsequently in much

00:33:49faster cars,

00:33:50all the corners

00:33:50were very different.

00:33:52Look at Marc Genet.

00:33:53There's Marc Genet

00:33:54with his hands

00:33:55in his pockets,

00:33:56test driver

00:33:56for the Williams team

00:33:57and a guy who

00:33:58probably logs

00:34:00more mileage

00:34:01than either

00:34:02of the racing drivers.

00:34:04Juan Pablo Montoya

00:34:05qualified here

00:34:06last year

00:34:07in fourth spot

00:34:08and finished second

00:34:09to his teammate

00:34:10Ralph Schumacher

00:34:11in the race.

00:34:12Not having such

00:34:13a great weekend

00:34:14so far,

00:34:15but as we saw

00:34:15from Ralph earlier on,

00:34:17things can change.

00:34:18Woo!

00:34:20That's that Mercedes

00:34:21complex.

00:34:21Long, long, long

00:34:22left-hander.

00:34:25You need very good

00:34:25mechanical grip there

00:34:26as well as some

00:34:27downforce.

00:34:29Down to sector one.

00:34:30I can't believe

00:34:30he won't be fastest.

00:34:31No!

00:34:33Boy, oh boy!

00:34:34Montoya said

00:34:35he's had terrible

00:34:35setup problems

00:34:36with this car yesterday.

00:34:38His quote was,

00:34:39I'm not on the same

00:34:40wavelength with my car.

00:34:41I thought it was

00:34:42going to be interesting.

00:34:44This is where he

00:34:45turfed old

00:34:46Michael Schumacher

00:34:47to the gravel

00:34:47last year.

00:34:48I still think

00:34:49there was no contact.

00:34:54Have a look at the wing.

00:34:55Look at the flex

00:34:56on the wing

00:34:57on the mountain pylons.

00:34:58That's been giving the

00:35:05team a lot of bother

00:35:05I think this season.

00:35:07Mm-hmm.

00:35:08And of course

00:35:08once you start getting

00:35:09that flex over the

00:35:10front wing,

00:35:11it really starts to

00:35:11screw the airflow up

00:35:12over the thing.

00:35:14And that's giving

00:35:15cause for understeer.

00:35:16And as we keep saying,

00:35:17this track really does

00:35:17induce a lot of

00:35:18understeer.

00:35:19Boy, oh boy,

00:35:22I want to hear

00:35:23behind

00:35:25Jano Chuli.

00:35:26Jano Chuli's time

00:35:28wasn't exactly

00:35:28well, Shacklin.

00:35:30Into the 29s.

00:35:32P2 by two-tenths.

00:35:34Now the crew shrugs.

00:35:39They'll be starting

00:35:39somewhere off of

00:35:41row one.

00:35:41You can be sure.

00:35:43Alonso is next.

00:35:47Welcome back

00:35:48as qualifying continues

00:35:49at the Nürburgring.

00:35:50Watching some of the

00:35:51host broadcaster replays

00:35:52of Juan Pablo Montoya's

00:35:55run to provisional

00:35:56second on the grid

00:35:57right now.

00:35:58Here comes Fernando

00:35:58Alonso of Spain

00:35:59in the Renault.

00:36:00Spain's only

00:36:04Grand Prix winner

00:36:04so far,

00:36:05Hungary last year.

00:36:07He had a pretty good

00:36:07session this morning

00:36:08coming up with a

00:36:09129.555,

00:36:11sixth quickest.

00:36:18And again,

00:36:19these guys like

00:36:19Sauber and Toyota

00:36:21not running an awful

00:36:22lot of rad exit

00:36:23duct on the car.

00:36:24Now they have got

00:36:24the louvers on those

00:36:25sharp gill louvers

00:36:26on the back of the

00:36:27bodywork behind the

00:36:28radiators,

00:36:29but they're very

00:36:29closed down.

00:36:30Which is going to be

00:36:31great news for the

00:36:32aerodynamicists.

00:36:33I'll love that.

00:36:37Bit of understeer

00:36:38going through there,

00:36:38but he got on the

00:36:39power good and early

00:36:40and was pretty

00:36:41positive about it

00:36:42as he got about

00:36:42two-thirds of the

00:36:43way around that

00:36:43corner,

00:36:44was able to just

00:36:44feed the power in

00:36:45pretty positively,

00:36:46which obviously is

00:36:47very important.

00:36:48This is quite steep

00:36:49uphill here.

00:36:49It doesn't look

00:36:49like this helicopter

00:36:50shot,

00:36:51but it is.

00:36:53And then right here

00:36:54we start going down

00:36:55again.

00:36:56And then this next

00:36:57right hand is flat

00:36:58out and starts to

00:36:59go up.

00:37:00And it's very

00:37:01important to get

00:37:02this sector fast

00:37:02because you might

00:37:03be able to do

00:37:04some overtaking

00:37:05here.

00:37:09That chicane,

00:37:10of course,

00:37:11is where he sent

00:37:12David Coulthard flying

00:37:13last year when he

00:37:14brake checked him.

00:37:15he may get to 2nd,

00:37:17but 3rd more likely.

00:37:20No,

00:37:20he got it.

00:37:21Quick through that

00:37:22Coca-Cola curve,

00:37:23but Flavio not too

00:37:24happy about it.

00:37:27So right now,

00:37:28it's an all-Renault

00:37:29front row,

00:37:30but we have a lot of

00:37:31cars still to come,

00:37:32all faster in the

00:37:34opening round of

00:37:35single-car qualifying.

00:37:36look at that right

00:37:39front come right off

00:37:40the ground in that

00:37:41corner.

00:37:42It drops away very

00:37:43sharp.

00:37:44It's a very steep,

00:37:45a very tight apex,

00:37:46and the road drops

00:37:47big time.

00:37:48And they all hang

00:37:49that right front wheel

00:37:50up in the air.

00:37:51Rubens Barrichello

00:37:52take it to the track.

00:37:53Now,

00:37:53all Rubens,

00:37:54boy,

00:37:54oh boy,

00:37:54I was looking at

00:37:55his face sitting in

00:37:56the cockpit just a

00:37:57few moments ago.

00:37:57This is a guy who's

00:37:58got some serious

00:37:59pressure because he's

00:38:01driving what is

00:38:02ostensibly the

00:38:04quickest car out

00:38:05there,

00:38:05and he's lying

00:38:07second in the

00:38:07championship,

00:38:08but a long way

00:38:09behind his team

00:38:10leader,

00:38:10and people are

00:38:12starting to talk

00:38:12about favoritism

00:38:13and other sorts of

00:38:14conspiracy theories

00:38:16going on,

00:38:16but Rubens does

00:38:18have a lot of

00:38:18pressure.

00:38:21The entire Ferrari

00:38:22team this

00:38:23weekend is mourning

00:38:24the loss of Fiat

00:38:25chairman Umberto

00:38:26Agnelli,

00:38:27who died this

00:38:28week of cancer

00:38:29at age 68,

00:38:32having succeeded

00:38:34his older brother

00:38:34Gianni Agnelli

00:38:36as Fiat chairman

00:38:37when Gianni died

00:38:37in January of

00:38:38last year.

00:38:40But both Rubens

00:38:41Barrichello and

00:38:42Michael Schumacher

00:38:43are close to

00:38:44the late Umberto

00:38:45Agnelli's son,

00:38:46Andrea,

00:38:47so things are a

00:38:48little quiet around

00:38:49the Ferrari garage

00:38:50this weekend.

00:38:52And Barrichello

00:38:52basically this weekend

00:38:54has been quicker

00:38:54than either

00:38:55Renault's,

00:38:57but at the

00:38:58moment he ain't.

00:39:00Well,

00:39:01I'm wondering

00:39:01about fuel

00:39:02strategy,

00:39:03David,

00:39:03how much

00:39:04these guys

00:39:04are putting in.

00:39:05Now, we know

00:39:05that Ferrari

00:39:06are capable

00:39:07of running

00:39:07two stops

00:39:08and three

00:39:08stop strategies

00:39:09with bad drivers.

00:39:10Barrichello

00:39:11running a two

00:39:11stop strategy

00:39:12a couple of

00:39:13races ago,

00:39:14and Michael

00:39:15being on the

00:39:16three stopper,

00:39:16and of course

00:39:17on two stop,

00:39:17you carry more

00:39:18fuel.

00:39:19Right.

00:39:20P3.

00:39:21So if he is

00:39:22heavy on fuel,

00:39:22that's a good

00:39:23performance.

00:39:23Yeah,

00:39:24absolutely.

00:39:25This is that

00:39:26great chess game.

00:39:26Ross Braun,

00:39:27the technical

00:39:28director of

00:39:28Ferrari,

00:39:29was saying

00:39:29yesterday in a

00:39:30press conference

00:39:30he would love

00:39:31to give out,

00:39:32if he could get

00:39:32all the teams

00:39:33to agree,

00:39:34to give out

00:39:35those fuel

00:39:36figures to us

00:39:37guys in the

00:39:37media and the

00:39:38journalists so

00:39:38that we could

00:39:38tell you exactly

00:39:39how much fuel

00:39:40we've all got

00:39:41on board.

00:39:41Because,

00:39:42well,

00:39:42you know what

00:39:42it's like

00:39:43during the race,

00:39:43we're all

00:39:43trying to second

00:39:44guess what

00:39:44everybody else is

00:39:45doing.

00:39:45Sometimes we're

00:39:46getting it right,

00:39:47sometimes we're

00:39:47getting it wrong,

00:39:47but to have

00:39:48those figures

00:39:49from the teams

00:39:50would make it

00:39:50a wonderful

00:39:50spectacle.

00:39:51There's Pierre

00:39:52Depasquier who

00:39:53heads up

00:39:53Michelin's

00:39:54tire program

00:39:54talking with

00:39:55David Coulthard.

00:39:56You saw

00:39:56Michael Schumacher

00:39:57watching the

00:39:58timing monitor

00:39:58to see how

00:39:59that strategy

00:40:00worked out

00:40:00for Rubens

00:40:01and he beat

00:40:02Juan Pablo

00:40:02Montoya for

00:40:03third by

00:40:04one one

00:40:04thousandth of

00:40:05a second.

00:40:08This is

00:40:08Kimi Raikkonen

00:40:09who is very,

00:40:10very quick,

00:40:11no matter how

00:40:12the car is,

00:40:13around the

00:40:14Nürburgring.

00:40:14Pole last

00:40:16year and

00:40:16absolutely had

00:40:18the race

00:40:18locked up,

00:40:19disappearing

00:40:20to the distance.

00:40:21So we had

00:40:21a cloud of

00:40:22smoke like

00:40:22that,

00:40:23only it was

00:40:23engine smoke.

00:40:26The fin

00:40:27is trying

00:40:28hard here.

00:40:32Well,

00:40:33that is

00:40:33certainly

00:40:33good enough

00:40:34for that

00:40:34first sector

00:40:35to be good

00:40:35enough

00:40:35for a

00:40:35second spot.

00:40:38It's the

00:40:39second fastest

00:40:40first split

00:40:41we've seen,

00:40:41but he did

00:40:42go off that

00:40:42little bit,

00:40:43raising that

00:40:43dust.

00:40:44We'll see

00:40:44how much

00:40:45it costs

00:40:45him.

00:40:46This car

00:40:47should work

00:40:48well on

00:40:48aerodynamics,

00:40:49Bob.

00:40:49I mean,

00:40:50unlike at

00:40:50Monaco where

00:40:51the car just

00:40:52wasn't riding

00:40:53the curbs

00:40:53well at all,

00:40:54that's not

00:40:54so much

00:40:55of an issue

00:40:55here.

00:40:56And Adrian

00:40:57Newey,

00:40:57of course,

00:40:57one of the

00:40:57sports great,

00:40:58great aerodynamicists.

00:41:00I mean,

00:41:01the car's got

00:41:01great lines

00:41:02on it.

00:41:02I think

00:41:08that's what

00:41:09the engineers

00:41:09said to

00:41:10one another

00:41:10in the wind

00:41:11tunnel last

00:41:11fall.

00:41:12This car

00:41:12should work

00:41:13very well.

00:41:14Yeah,

00:41:14well,

00:41:15yeah,

00:41:15we all know

00:41:16what happened.

00:41:18This may be

00:41:19a disappointment

00:41:19for Raikkonen.

00:41:24P2,

00:41:25great third

00:41:26sector.

00:41:27He was

00:41:27looking at

00:41:28fifth on the

00:41:28cume through

00:41:29the two

00:41:29first segments.

00:41:30Ron Dennis

00:41:31smiling.

00:41:32Let's have a

00:41:32replay of that.

00:41:35Wow.

00:41:35I told you

00:41:36he was good

00:41:37around here.

00:41:38That is a

00:41:39great drive

00:41:40by Kimi

00:41:41Raikkonen

00:41:42to P2

00:41:43for the

00:41:44moment.

00:41:46Darno

00:41:47truly remains

00:41:48the provisional

00:41:48pole sitter.

00:41:50We'll take a

00:41:51quick break

00:41:51and return

00:41:52in a moment.

00:41:52Jensen

00:41:53Button,

00:41:53who was

00:41:54fastest this

00:41:54morning,

00:41:55will be out

00:41:56next.

00:41:59Welcome back

00:42:09to the

00:42:10Nürburgring

00:42:10qualifying for

00:42:11the European

00:42:11Formula One

00:42:12Grand Prix.

00:42:13This is

00:42:13Jensen

00:42:14Button

00:42:14in the

00:42:16BAR Honda.

00:42:17Join us

00:42:18tomorrow morning

00:42:18for live

00:42:19coverage of

00:42:20the Grand

00:42:20Prix beginning

00:42:20at 7.30 a.m.

00:42:22Eastern with

00:42:22the Acura

00:42:22Pre-Race Show

00:42:23featuring Peter

00:42:24Windsor.

00:42:25This week,

00:42:25Peter will give

00:42:26us a recap

00:42:26of the Monaco

00:42:27Grand Prix

00:42:27and all the

00:42:28bizarre events.

00:42:29We'll hear

00:42:29from all

00:42:29the drivers

00:42:30involved in

00:42:30that.

00:42:31Again,

00:42:31that's tomorrow

00:42:32morning at

00:42:327.30 a.m.

00:42:33Eastern,

00:42:33live,

00:42:34only here on

00:42:34Speed.

00:42:35However,

00:42:36the event is

00:42:37subject to

00:42:37Blackjack.

00:42:40Jensen

00:42:40Button on the

00:42:41front row in

00:42:42Monte Carlo

00:42:42last week

00:42:43and finished

00:42:44second.

00:42:46In fact,

00:42:46I think

00:42:46Jensen

00:42:47Button has

00:42:48finished every

00:42:49race this

00:42:49year.

00:42:51In the

00:42:52points.

00:42:52Right.

00:42:53only seven

00:42:55points behind

00:42:56Reuben

00:42:57Barracalla for

00:42:57second in the

00:42:58world championship

00:42:58at the moment.

00:42:59That's what the

00:43:00teams will tell

00:43:01you.

00:43:01It's important

00:43:01to be reliable

00:43:02first and then

00:43:04work on winning.

00:43:06Yeah,

00:43:06absolutely.

00:43:07But it was a

00:43:08surprise there.

00:43:08He's slower than

00:43:09Jano True in that

00:43:10first sector.

00:43:10the next man on

00:43:14track was

00:43:15scheduled to be

00:43:15David Coulthard,

00:43:16but as you saw

00:43:17before the break,

00:43:18he is standing

00:43:18around the

00:43:19McLaren garage,

00:43:20obviously not

00:43:20going out.

00:43:22So he, too,

00:43:23will start toward

00:43:24the back.

00:43:26I would imagine

00:43:27the organizers are

00:43:28flipping through the

00:43:28rule book to decide

00:43:29who's going to

00:43:30start where on

00:43:30those last three

00:43:31rows.

00:43:371,600s off

00:43:39through the

00:43:39second intermediate.

00:43:41See if he can

00:43:42come up with a

00:43:43Raikkonen-like

00:43:43third one.

00:43:47Nice shot of the

00:43:48wheel there,

00:43:48having some

00:43:49steering input.

00:43:57Two, three,

00:43:581,100s.

00:43:59David Richards,

00:44:00the team manager,

00:44:02not happy with

00:44:03that.

00:44:04He splits

00:44:05Raikkonen and

00:44:06Alonso.

00:44:10Ah, there it is.

00:44:14That'll do it.

00:44:14That's where he

00:44:16lost, uh,

00:44:17that's why that

00:44:18first sector

00:44:19wasn't quicker.

00:44:21There goes David

00:44:22Coulthard's car

00:44:23following

00:44:24Giancarlo Fisichella's

00:44:26toward Barclamain.

00:44:28If you're just

00:44:28joining us,

00:44:29David Coulthard

00:44:30in the first round

00:44:32of single car,

00:44:33put up a great lap

00:44:34and then did this.

00:44:35Stopped on course

00:44:36in a smoky heap

00:44:37and climbed out.

00:44:41So that was the

00:44:42end for that

00:44:42machine.

00:44:44They went back,

00:44:44went to work

00:44:45feverishly on the

00:44:46T-car,

00:44:47but now have

00:44:48apparently decided

00:44:49not to take that

00:44:50car out.

00:44:52They'll simply

00:44:53take their time

00:44:53to prepare it

00:44:54before sending it

00:44:55off to park for May

00:44:56and they will

00:44:57choose whether to

00:44:58start on the grid

00:44:59or in the pit lane

00:45:00tomorrow.

00:45:06So three drivers

00:45:08remain.

00:45:09Ralph Schumacher,

00:45:10Mike Schumacher

00:45:11of course,

00:45:12the local favorites

00:45:13and the astonishing

00:45:15leader of the

00:45:16first session,

00:45:17Takuma Sato.

00:45:18Stay with us.

00:45:26The first of the

00:45:27last three drivers,

00:45:29the fastest

00:45:29from the first round

00:45:30of single car

00:45:31is now on track.

00:45:32Michael Schumacher

00:45:33studies the insides

00:45:35of his eyelids

00:45:36following the

00:45:37Hobbs tradition

00:45:38of preparation

00:45:39for an intense

00:45:40physical and

00:45:41mental effort.

00:45:43This is Ralph

00:45:44Schumacher.

00:45:46I want to see

00:45:47the performance

00:45:48of this car,

00:45:48Bob,

00:45:48because there was

00:45:49a lot of concern

00:45:50in the gyros

00:45:50just before

00:45:51Ralph Schumacher

00:45:52rolled this FW26

00:45:53out into the pit lane.

00:45:54A lot of mechanics

00:45:54study in the back

00:45:55of the car

00:45:56whether or not

00:45:57they consider

00:45:58there might be

00:45:58some sort of problem,

00:45:59but of course

00:45:59they want to get

00:46:00the car,

00:46:00have to get

00:46:01the car out

00:46:01to qualify,

00:46:02so let's see

00:46:02whether or not

00:46:03it holds together.

00:46:06Mario Tyson,

00:46:07we just saw his face

00:46:08there,

00:46:08looking on very

00:46:09enigmatically.

00:46:10Down at that

00:46:11turn one,

00:46:11no lockup,

00:46:12nice and clean

00:46:13through there.

00:46:14This is where

00:46:15Jensen got it

00:46:16just slightly wrong,

00:46:17went a bit wide.

00:46:17Everybody was

00:46:18doing that on Friday.

00:46:20They all go very

00:46:21wide there.

00:46:21He had to lift

00:46:22right there.

00:46:27Check the first

00:46:28split.

00:46:28It's going to be

00:46:29close.

00:46:31Two tenths.

00:46:36I mentioned

00:46:37during the show

00:46:38covering practice

00:46:39yesterday that

00:46:40the little village

00:46:42near Kirpeth

00:46:43in Germany,

00:46:44not far from

00:46:45this racetrack

00:46:45where Michael

00:46:46and Ralph Schumacher

00:46:47grew up and cut

00:46:48their racing teeth

00:46:48in go-karts

00:46:50on a track

00:46:50owned by their

00:46:51family.

00:46:53That town

00:46:54is slated

00:46:55to be bulldozed

00:46:56to make way

00:46:57for a big

00:46:57open pit coal mine,

00:46:59which I'm sure

00:46:59is the subject

00:47:00of some

00:47:01interest to

00:47:03Michael and Ralph

00:47:03considering they

00:47:04buried their

00:47:05mother Elizabeth

00:47:05there last year

00:47:06after she died

00:47:07on the San Marino

00:47:08Grand Prix weekend.

00:47:12Well,

00:47:13Schumacher

00:47:14ain't going to

00:47:14make the front row.

00:47:17Qualified third

00:47:18here last year

00:47:19and of course

00:47:20went on to win

00:47:20the race.

00:47:22Leading a

00:47:22Williams 1-2

00:47:23but right now

00:47:24he's looking at

00:47:25row four.

00:47:31Seven.

00:47:32Inside row four

00:47:33three tenths

00:47:34off Yarno

00:47:35Trulli's time.

00:47:37Yeah.

00:47:39Smooth.

00:47:40There's Mario

00:47:40Tyson not looking

00:47:41very happy.

00:47:43There is Takuma

00:47:44Sato who posted

00:47:45a lap at

00:47:451-27

00:47:46in the opening

00:47:48round of

00:47:48single car.

00:47:49I wonder how much

00:47:50fuel these guys

00:47:50have got on him

00:47:51and his teammate

00:47:52Montoya whether or

00:47:53not these guys are

00:47:53running heavy fuel

00:47:54as well.

00:47:56Again, fuel is an

00:47:57issue here.

00:47:58They seem very

00:47:59split between what

00:48:00to do, two or

00:48:01three stops.

00:48:02Pretty much

00:48:02throughout the season

00:48:03so far it's been

00:48:04three stops and a

00:48:05very early short

00:48:06stop in that

00:48:06three-stop strategy.

00:48:07Here the engineers

00:48:08are just not sure

00:48:09what to do.

00:48:10Here comes

00:48:12Michael in the

00:48:13Ferrari.

00:48:15The string of

00:48:16five straight

00:48:17victories to

00:48:18open the season

00:48:19broken last

00:48:20Sunday in

00:48:20Monaco.

00:48:22That bizarre

00:48:22crash in the

00:48:23tunnel with

00:48:24Juan Pablo

00:48:25Montoya.

00:48:26Well, Michael

00:48:26said he was

00:48:26warming his

00:48:27brakes for a

00:48:28restart in a

00:48:29bizarre piece of

00:48:30strategy during

00:48:31which he did

00:48:32not pit under

00:48:33the yellow flag

00:48:34while the two

00:48:36cars that

00:48:36eventually finished

00:48:371-2 in the

00:48:37race, Yarno

00:48:38Trulli and

00:48:38Jenson Button

00:48:39did.

00:48:39Michael Schumacher

00:48:40ahead at the

00:48:41first intermediate.

00:48:43This is the

00:48:44important corner

00:48:45right there.

00:48:46Got to get the

00:48:47power on up

00:48:47this hill.

00:48:49And Michael,

00:48:50the Ferrari,

00:48:51the Bridgestones

00:48:52all seem to be

00:48:53very good on

00:48:53these fast

00:48:54sweepers.

00:48:55Yeah.

00:48:56This is a new

00:48:56chassis for

00:48:57Michael Schumacher

00:48:57too.

00:48:58They changed the

00:48:59chassis after

00:48:59that slight

00:49:00shunt in the

00:49:00tunnel at

00:49:01Monaco.

00:49:02Ferrari

00:49:02said he just

00:49:03nipped one of

00:49:03the suspension

00:49:04mountings enough

00:49:05to give them

00:49:05concern.

00:49:07Five tenths

00:49:07ahead.

00:49:08See the

00:49:15chicane.

00:49:17This Ferrari

00:49:18looks so good

00:49:19over curbs and

00:49:20bumps.

00:49:22About four or

00:49:23five years ago

00:49:24it looked terrible

00:49:24over the bunk

00:49:25but it looks

00:49:25great now

00:49:26coming up to

00:49:27the line.

00:49:31Listen to that

00:49:32crowd.

00:49:33Luca Badua,

00:49:34their test

00:49:34drivers standing

00:49:35there watching

00:49:36the monitors,

00:49:36the air

00:49:37horns,

00:49:37the fireworks,

00:49:39the flags.

00:49:42But these guys

00:49:43are to come

00:49:43with the

00:49:44kumasato.

00:49:45Yes,

00:49:45Mario looking

00:49:46on there.

00:49:48So,

00:49:48look at Michael

00:49:52down in the

00:49:53Dunlop curve

00:49:54I believe.

00:49:54This is where

00:49:55he spun off

00:49:56last year

00:49:56in the

00:49:56contretemps

00:49:57with Juan Pablo

00:49:58Montoya

00:49:58and there

00:49:59are his

00:50:00legions.

00:50:05That's fun

00:50:05to watch.

00:50:06Now,

00:50:06this could be

00:50:07interesting.

00:50:08Takuma

00:50:08Sato

00:50:08blew everyone

00:50:10in the weeds

00:50:11in the

00:50:11BAR Honda

00:50:12in the opening

00:50:13lap of

00:50:13single car.

00:50:14Let's see

00:50:14what he

00:50:14can do

00:50:15here.

00:50:15I would

00:50:16love this

00:50:16guy on

00:50:17this team

00:50:17to take

00:50:17pole position.

00:50:22And what

00:50:22a thing

00:50:23it would

00:50:23be in

00:50:24his native

00:50:24Japan.

00:50:25Oh,

00:50:25my goodness

00:50:26mate.

00:50:27A Japanese

00:50:28driver with

00:50:28a Honda

00:50:29engine on

00:50:30pole.

00:50:30Well,

00:50:30he's looking

00:50:31pretty strong

00:50:31so far.

00:50:33Nope.

00:50:34Nope.

00:50:341400s off

00:50:36at the

00:50:36first intermediate.

00:50:39Once again,

00:50:40we don't know

00:50:41what they've

00:50:41done with

00:50:41fuel.

00:50:42Right.

00:50:42Right now,

00:50:44he is second

00:50:44so he's

00:50:45in the

00:50:45ballpark.

00:50:46And I

00:50:46tell you,

00:50:47this Honda

00:50:47engine has

00:50:48been the

00:50:49engine to

00:50:49have.

00:50:50That or

00:50:50the Ferrari

00:50:50lump in

00:50:51the back

00:50:51of your

00:50:51chassis

00:50:52is what

00:50:52you're

00:50:52after.

00:50:55Because

00:50:55Honda

00:50:55having a

00:50:56lot of

00:50:56input now

00:50:57into the

00:50:57car itself,

00:50:58into the

00:50:58team,

00:50:59the

00:50:59gearbox,

00:51:00the

00:51:00aerodynamics.

00:51:08They don't

00:51:08just want

00:51:09to be an

00:51:09engine

00:51:09supplier and

00:51:10I think

00:51:10that's

00:51:10the tack

00:51:11BMW

00:51:12going to

00:51:12take.

00:51:13That's a

00:51:13little bit

00:51:13too slow

00:51:14there.

00:51:15Oh,

00:51:15and he's

00:51:16catching

00:51:16Michael.

00:51:18He looks

00:51:18pretty solid

00:51:19for second

00:51:20place right

00:51:21now,

00:51:21but I

00:51:21don't know

00:51:22if he'll

00:51:22be able

00:51:23to get

00:51:23to

00:51:23Schumacher.

00:51:24We'll hear

00:51:25about it

00:51:25from

00:51:25pit lane

00:51:26as he

00:51:26pulls

00:51:26in.

00:51:29Come on,

00:51:30son.

00:51:33No!

00:51:34Well,

00:51:35that's not

00:51:35bad.

00:51:36That's a

00:51:36great

00:51:37performance.

00:51:37John

00:51:39taught

00:51:39the

00:51:39Ferrari

00:51:40team

00:51:40managers

00:51:40wearing

00:51:41that

00:51:41scarf

00:51:41all

00:51:42weekend.

00:51:43Maybe

00:51:43a

00:51:44touch

00:51:45of

00:51:45something.

00:51:45Just

00:51:46last week

00:51:46he had

00:51:46that

00:51:47unbelievable

00:51:47start

00:51:48at

00:51:48Monaco.

00:51:48If

00:51:48he

00:51:49makes

00:51:49another

00:51:49of

00:51:49those

00:51:49here,

00:51:50he

00:51:50could

00:51:50launch

00:51:50himself

00:51:51in

00:51:51front

00:51:51of

00:51:51Michael

00:51:52Schumacher.

00:51:53Well,

00:51:54order

00:51:54has been

00:51:55restored

00:51:55as far

00:51:56as these

00:51:56folks are

00:51:57concerned.

00:51:58He

00:51:58picks up

00:51:58his

00:51:5860th

00:51:59pole

00:51:59position

00:52:00today,

00:52:00Michael

00:52:00Schumacher.

00:52:01So,

00:52:02another

00:52:02five

00:52:03to

00:52:03equal

00:52:04center.

00:52:04Dave

00:52:07Richards

00:52:07must

00:52:08be

00:52:08pretty

00:52:08pleased

00:52:08with

00:52:09that

00:52:09when

00:52:09you

00:52:09consider

00:52:09the

00:52:09performance

00:52:10of

00:52:10beer

00:52:10over

00:52:11the

00:52:11last

00:52:11two

00:52:11or

00:52:11three

00:52:12years.

00:52:12This

00:52:12season

00:52:13has

00:52:13seen

00:52:13a

00:52:13dramatic

00:52:14change

00:52:14in

00:52:14their

00:52:15fortunes.

00:52:15So,

00:52:17it's

00:52:17a

00:52:17German,

00:52:18a

00:52:18Japanese,

00:52:19an

00:52:19Italian,

00:52:21a

00:52:21Finn,

00:52:22and a

00:52:22Brit,

00:52:23followed

00:52:23by a

00:52:23Spaniard

00:52:24and a

00:52:24Brazilian.

00:52:26Wouldn't

00:52:26it be

00:52:27great

00:52:27to have

00:52:28an

00:52:28American?

00:52:30We'll

00:52:30take a

00:52:31break

00:52:31and be

00:52:31back.

00:52:32Qualifying

00:52:32is now

00:52:33complete

00:52:33for the

00:52:33European

00:52:34Grand

00:52:34Prix,

00:52:35but we

00:52:35have

00:52:35lots

00:52:36more

00:52:36to

00:52:36come,

00:52:37so

00:52:37stay

00:52:37with

00:52:37us.

00:52:38Peter

00:52:38Windsor

00:52:38will

00:52:38be

00:52:39up

00:52:39in

00:52:39the

00:52:39interview

00:52:39room

00:52:40next

00:52:40with

00:52:40the

00:52:40top

00:52:41three

00:52:41drivers.

00:52:45Welcome

00:52:55back to

00:52:55the

00:52:55Nürburgring

00:52:56in

00:52:57Germany

00:52:57where

00:52:57order

00:52:58has

00:52:58been

00:52:58restored

00:52:59in

00:52:59the

00:52:59eyes

00:53:00of

00:53:00the

00:53:00Ferrari

00:53:01fans.

00:53:02Michael

00:53:02Schumacher

00:53:03on

00:53:03pole

00:53:04with

00:53:04authority

00:53:05as the

00:53:05saying

00:53:05goes.

00:53:06Six

00:53:06tenths

00:53:06of a

00:53:07second

00:53:07over

00:53:07the

00:53:08first

00:53:08Asian

00:53:09born

00:53:09driver

00:53:09ever

00:53:11to

00:53:11start

00:53:11on

00:53:11the

00:53:11front

00:53:11row

00:53:11of

00:53:12a

00:53:12Grand

00:53:12Prix

00:53:12in

00:53:13Takuma

00:53:13Sato

00:53:14who

00:53:14was

00:53:14out

00:53:14qualified

00:53:15his

00:53:15teammate

00:53:16Jenson

00:53:16Button

00:53:16at

00:53:17BAR

00:53:17Honda

00:53:17for

00:53:18the

00:53:18third

00:53:18time

00:53:18in

00:53:19seven

00:53:19races.

00:53:20Obviously

00:53:21a very

00:53:21good

00:53:22qualifier

00:53:22and

00:53:23as we

00:53:24saw

00:53:24last

00:53:24week

00:53:25in

00:53:25Monte

00:53:26Carlo

00:53:26is

00:53:26a

00:53:27good

00:53:27starter.

00:53:28Poor

00:53:28old

00:53:28starter

00:53:29has

00:53:29had

00:53:29a bit

00:53:29of

00:53:29bad

00:53:29luck

00:53:29this

00:53:30year.

00:53:30He's

00:53:30blown

00:53:30three

00:53:31engines

00:53:31when he

00:53:32was

00:53:33within

00:53:33four

00:53:33laps

00:53:34at

00:53:34the

00:53:34end

00:53:34of

00:53:34the

00:53:34race

00:53:35in

00:53:35the

00:53:35point

00:53:35scoring

00:53:36position.

00:53:37And

00:53:37it's

00:53:37pretty

00:53:37hard

00:53:38to

00:53:38abuse

00:53:38the

00:53:38engine

00:53:38these

00:53:45so I

00:53:45don't

00:53:45think

00:53:46you

00:53:46can

00:53:46say

00:53:46that

00:53:46he

00:53:47has

00:53:47heard

00:53:47it.

00:53:47He's

00:53:48just

00:53:48had

00:53:48the

00:53:49bad

00:53:49luck

00:53:49of

00:53:49having

00:53:49it

00:53:50go

00:53:50three

00:53:51times.

00:53:51Of course

00:53:52last week

00:53:52was very

00:53:52early on

00:53:53in the

00:53:53race

00:53:53when it

00:53:53went

00:53:54big

00:53:54time.

00:53:55There

00:53:56you

00:53:56see

00:53:56the

00:53:56surrounding

00:53:57mountains.

00:53:57The

00:53:58Nord

00:53:58slice

00:53:58is

00:53:58just

00:53:59where

00:53:59we're

00:53:59looking

00:54:00at

00:54:00right

00:54:00now.

00:54:00Just

00:54:01going

00:54:01off

00:54:01that

00:54:01road

00:54:01going

00:54:02up

00:54:02the

00:54:02left

00:54:02side

00:54:02of

00:54:02your

00:54:03picture.

00:54:03That

00:54:04is

00:54:04the

00:54:04old

00:54:04Flansgarten

00:54:05there

00:54:05on the

00:54:06left

00:54:06of

00:54:07the

00:54:07flying

00:54:07place.

00:54:09The

00:54:09Flugplatz

00:54:09rather.

00:54:10Flugplatz

00:54:10right.

00:54:11Flugplatz

00:54:11and you

00:54:12disappear

00:54:13over the

00:54:13top of

00:54:13that

00:54:13hill

00:54:14and

00:54:14start

00:54:14going

00:54:14down

00:54:14the

00:54:14Fox

00:54:15route.

00:54:16Jackie

00:54:16Stewart

00:54:16once

00:54:17won

00:54:17a

00:54:17race

00:54:17in

00:54:18the

00:54:18rain

00:54:18on

00:54:18the

00:54:18old

00:54:18Nordschleife

00:54:19by

00:54:19four

00:54:20minutes

00:54:20over

00:54:21the

00:54:21field.

00:54:22He

00:54:22pulled

00:54:22in

00:54:22got

00:54:22out

00:54:23of

00:54:23the

00:54:23car

00:54:23hugged

00:54:23his

00:54:23wife

00:54:24Helen

00:54:24got

00:54:24a

00:54:24drink

00:54:24and

00:54:25then

00:54:25second

00:54:26place

00:54:26came

00:54:26along.

00:54:34pole

00:54:34position

00:54:35and

00:54:35in

00:54:35front

00:54:35of

00:54:36the

00:54:36home

00:54:36fans

00:54:36of

00:54:36course

00:54:37it

00:54:37means

00:54:37more.

00:54:38Let's

00:54:38take a

00:54:38look at

00:54:38some

00:54:39of

00:54:39the

00:54:39numbers.

00:54:39Schumacher

00:54:40by

00:54:40six

00:54:40tenths

00:54:41over

00:54:41Takuma

00:54:41Sato

00:54:42then

00:54:42Truly

00:54:43Raikkonen

00:54:43and

00:54:44Button

00:54:44who

00:54:45must

00:54:45be

00:54:45a

00:54:45bit

00:54:45bemused

00:54:46to

00:54:46be

00:54:46out

00:54:46qualified

00:54:47by

00:54:47three

00:54:47tenths

00:54:48by

00:54:48his

00:54:48teammate

00:54:48Sato.

00:54:49Yeah

00:54:49I should

00:54:50say

00:54:50so

00:54:51and

00:54:51I'm

00:54:52sure

00:54:52that

00:54:52the

00:54:52Brits

00:54:53will

00:54:53be

00:54:53going

00:54:53into

00:54:54mourning

00:54:54over

00:54:54that

00:54:55in

00:54:55the

00:54:55papers

00:54:55tomorrow

00:54:56we'll

00:54:57have to

00:54:57see

00:54:57what

00:54:57happens

00:54:58in

00:54:58the

00:54:58race

00:54:58of

00:54:58course

00:54:59I'm

00:54:59sure

00:54:59our

00:55:00friends

00:55:00James

00:55:00Allen

00:55:01and

00:55:01Martin

00:55:01Brundle

00:55:01on

00:55:02ITV

00:55:02are

00:55:02appropriately

00:55:03somber

00:55:03over

00:55:04the

00:55:04occasion

00:55:04Fernando

00:55:05Alonso

00:55:05in

00:55:06the

00:55:06Renault

00:55:06takes

00:55:066th

00:55:06spot

00:55:07there

00:55:070.9

00:55:07off

00:55:08the

00:55:08pace

00:55:08and

00:55:08Rubens

00:55:09Barrichello

00:55:09in

00:55:09the

00:55:09Ferrari

00:55:10just

00:55:10tips

00:55:10over

00:55:11the

00:55:11second

00:55:11mark

00:55:11so

00:55:11he

00:55:12must

00:55:12be

00:55:13going

00:55:13for

00:55:14a

00:55:14two

00:55:14stop

00:55:14up

00:55:14right

00:55:15Juan

00:55:16Pablo

00:55:16Montoya

00:55:17and

00:55:17Ralph

00:55:17Schumacher

00:55:17got to

00:55:18be

00:55:18disappointed

00:55:19both

00:55:19a

00:55:19second

00:55:20off

00:55:20the

00:55:20pace

00:55:20there

00:55:218th

00:55:22and

00:55:229th

00:55:22that's

00:55:23well

00:55:23buried

00:55:23in

00:55:23the

00:55:24pack

00:55:24and

00:55:24Toyota

00:55:25Olivier

00:55:25Pan

00:55:26is

00:55:26quite

00:55:26frankly

00:55:2610th

00:55:27probably

00:55:27a bit

00:55:27happier

00:55:27as

00:55:28would

00:55:28be

00:55:28Cristiano

00:55:29De Maher

00:55:29in

00:55:2911th

00:55:30Mark

00:55:30Webber

00:55:30of course

00:55:3012th

00:55:31now

00:55:31but

00:55:31of course

00:55:32he's

00:55:32going

00:55:32to lose

00:55:32a

00:55:32second

00:55:33so

00:55:33he's

00:55:33going

00:55:33to

00:55:33be

00:55:333.446

00:55:35seconds

00:55:36because

00:55:36of that

00:55:36infringement

00:55:37of the

00:55:37rules

00:55:37on

00:55:38Friday

00:55:39Christian

00:55:40Cleen

00:55:40his

00:55:40teammate

00:55:40obviously

00:55:41will

00:55:41move

00:55:41up

00:55:41to

00:55:4112th

00:55:42Eidfeld

00:55:43and

00:55:43Pantano

00:55:43there

00:55:44and

00:55:44the

00:55:44two

00:55:44Jordans

00:55:4514th

00:55:45and

00:55:4515th

00:55:46well

00:55:46yeah

00:55:46there

00:55:46or

00:55:47there

00:55:47about

00:55:47that's

00:55:47about

00:55:47where

00:55:48we

00:55:48expect

00:55:48them

00:55:49to

00:55:49be

00:55:49here's

00:55:50the

00:55:50interesting

00:55:50part

00:55:51Giancarlo Fisichella

00:55:52David

00:55:52Korka

00:55:53at the

00:55:53back

00:55:53let's

00:55:54go

00:55:54to

00:55:54Peter

00:56:07Michael

00:56:08a

00:56:08great

00:56:08lap

00:56:09I

00:56:09guess

00:56:09one

00:56:10of

00:56:10the

00:56:10upsides

00:56:10from

00:56:10your

00:56:11Monaco

00:56:11weekend

00:56:11was

00:56:12not

00:56:12having

00:56:12to

00:56:12go

00:56:13out

00:56:13first

00:56:13in

00:56:13pre

00:56:13qualifying

00:56:14for

00:56:14a

00:56:14change

00:56:14indeed

00:56:16it

00:56:16does

00:56:16help

00:56:17I

00:56:17mean

00:56:17being

00:56:17the

00:56:19cleaner

00:56:19of

00:56:19the

00:56:19circuit

00:56:19in

00:56:20some

00:56:20circuits

00:56:20it's

00:56:21more

00:56:21extreme

00:56:21than

00:56:21in

00:56:22others

00:56:22but

00:56:22it

00:56:23does

00:56:23help

00:56:24to

00:56:24position

00:56:24yourself

00:56:24for

00:56:25the

00:56:25last

00:56:25run

00:56:26being

00:56:27sort

00:56:27of

00:56:27the

00:56:27last

00:56:27couple

00:56:28of

00:56:28cars

00:56:29out

00:56:29and

00:56:29it

00:56:29helped

00:56:30today

00:56:30tell

00:56:37getting

00:56:38back

00:56:38into

00:56:38a

00:56:38racing

00:56:38car

00:56:38five

00:56:39days

00:56:39after

00:56:39Monaco

00:56:40wasn't

00:56:40a

00:56:40bad

00:56:40thing

00:56:40either

00:56:41that's

00:56:42true

00:56:42to have

00:56:43just a

00:56:43couple

00:56:44of

00:56:44days

00:56:44available

00:56:44and

00:56:45be

00:56:45back

00:56:45in

00:56:45racing

00:56:45business

00:56:46rather

00:56:46than

00:56:46testing

00:56:47and

00:56:47just

00:56:49get

00:56:50back

00:56:50into

00:56:50the

00:56:50rhythm

00:56:50forget

00:56:51about

00:56:51what

00:56:51has

00:56:52happened

00:56:52before

00:56:52can't

00:56:53change

00:56:53it

00:56:53anyway

00:56:53and

00:56:55honestly

00:56:55by

00:56:56Sunday

00:56:56night

00:56:56after

00:56:57a

00:56:57couple

00:56:57of

00:56:57drinks

00:56:57with

00:56:58some

00:56:58of

00:56:59my

00:56:59driver

00:56:59mates

00:56:59it

00:57:00was

00:57:00pretty

00:57:00easy

00:57:01going

00:57:01Thank

00:57:02you

00:57:07Sure

00:57:08I mean

00:57:08luckily

00:57:10track

00:57:11condition

00:57:12was

00:57:12stayed

00:57:12very

00:57:13similar

00:57:13as

00:57:14the

00:57:14first

00:57:14qualifier

00:57:15and

00:57:15I'm

00:57:16so

00:57:17delighted

00:57:17to be

00:57:18here

00:57:18after

00:57:19my

00:57:20best

00:57:21grid

00:57:22in

00:57:22Barcelona

00:57:22I

00:57:24really

00:57:24wanted

00:57:24to be

00:57:25front

00:57:25low

00:57:26on

00:57:26the

00:57:26grid

00:57:26and

00:57:27I'm

00:57:27totally

00:57:27happy

00:57:28today

00:57:28Well

00:57:29you're

00:57:29alongside

00:57:30Michael

00:57:30at the

00:57:30start

00:57:30at

00:57:31Monaco

00:57:31we all

00:57:31saw

00:57:31that

00:57:32now

00:57:32here

00:57:32you

00:57:32are

00:57:32alongside

00:57:33him

00:57:33again

00:57:33Yeah

00:57:34to be

00:57:35honest

00:57:35this

00:57:36year

00:57:36we

00:57:36are

00:57:37up

00:57:37on

00:57:37the

00:57:37grid

00:57:38both

00:57:38Jenson

00:57:39and

00:57:39I

00:57:39and

00:57:39teams

00:57:40are

00:57:40doing

00:57:40fantastic

00:57:41job

00:57:41Unfortunately

00:57:42Monaco

00:57:43I had

00:57:44to

00:57:44stop

00:57:44quite

00:57:44early

00:57:45on

00:57:45the

00:57:45race

00:57:45I

00:57:46couldn't

00:57:47really

00:57:47enjoy

00:57:47the

00:57:48race

00:57:48with

00:57:49big

00:57:50competitors

00:57:50but

00:57:51today

00:57:51I

00:57:52think

00:57:52we

00:57:53achieved

00:57:53what

00:57:53we

00:57:54wanted

00:57:54and

00:57:55tomorrow

00:57:55we'll

00:57:56be

00:57:56really

00:57:57looking

00:57:58forward

00:57:58to

00:57:58going

00:57:59side

00:57:59by

00:57:59side

00:58:00with

00:58:00really

00:58:01good

00:58:01competitor

00:58:02Well

00:58:02congratulations

00:58:03Yano

00:58:04I guess

00:58:05one of the

00:58:05downsides

00:58:06to winning

00:58:06Monaco

00:58:06is all that

00:58:07speech making

00:58:07and talking

00:58:08to journalists

00:58:08afterwards

00:58:09you've lost

00:58:09your voice

00:58:10and of course

00:58:11you had that

00:58:12pre-qualifying

00:58:12having to go up

00:58:13first but a great

00:58:14recovery lap

00:58:14in qualifying

00:58:15Thank you

00:58:16I mean it's so

00:58:17difficult for me

00:58:18today to express

00:58:19my happiness

00:58:20because I've

00:58:20lost my voice

00:58:21I just

00:58:22just would like to

00:58:23say that

00:58:24I couldn't believe

00:58:25that I'm

00:58:26third

00:58:26and especially

00:58:27I want to

00:58:29thank all

00:58:29my mechanics

00:58:30because they've

00:58:32done a great job

00:58:33this morning

00:58:33I had a problem

00:58:34and they made

00:58:35the car

00:58:37okay for the

00:58:38qualifying

00:58:38so I'm so happy

00:58:39thank you

00:58:41Michael

00:58:42you've been in

00:58:42racing a long

00:58:43time but

00:58:43talk a little

00:58:44bit still about

00:58:45the thrill of

00:58:45racing in front

00:58:46of your home

00:58:46crowd here at

00:58:47the Nürburgring

00:58:47It's always

00:58:49something special

00:58:49you never get

00:58:50used to that

00:58:51because it's

00:58:52this extra

00:58:52motivation

00:58:54you get out

00:58:54from all the

00:58:55enthusiasm

00:58:56you see out

00:58:57on the

00:58:58grandstands

00:58:58so it's

00:59:00a race I really

00:59:01look forward to

00:59:02a little bit

00:59:03especially for

00:59:04what happened

00:59:04in Monaco

00:59:05to come back

00:59:06and hopefully

00:59:08if we can do

00:59:08win the race

00:59:09here

00:59:09thank you very

00:59:11much now if we

00:59:12could have some

00:59:12words from you

00:59:13in your own

00:59:13language starting

00:59:13with Michael

00:59:14well that was

00:59:15interesting and

00:59:16I must say

00:59:17Jarno Trulli is

00:59:17a great guy

00:59:18a terrific racing

00:59:19driver but he

00:59:20is getting some

00:59:21really bad

00:59:21fashion advice

00:59:22he's got to

00:59:23quit talking to

00:59:24David Beckham

00:59:25we'll be back

00:59:26in a moment

00:59:27welcome back

00:59:34qualifying is

00:59:35complete

00:59:35Michael

00:59:36Schumacher

00:59:36has his

00:59:3760th career

00:59:38pole bringing

00:59:38him within

00:59:39five of the

00:59:40late Ayrton

00:59:40Senna's

00:59:41Formula One

00:59:41record

00:59:41let's watch

00:59:42the lap

00:59:43that did

00:59:43it for him

00:59:44and as we

00:59:46always say

00:59:47this chassis

00:59:48David just

00:59:49looks so

00:59:50smooth

00:59:50everything about

00:59:51it looks

00:59:52great

00:59:52going into

00:59:54that turn

00:59:54one there

00:59:54lifted the

00:59:55wheel least

00:59:55of anybody

00:59:56perhaps

00:59:56all the way

00:59:57through that

00:59:58long Mercedes

00:59:59complex

00:59:59car looking

01:00:00really rock

01:00:01solid

01:00:01comes out

01:00:02of this

01:00:02right-hander

01:00:03and launches

01:00:04himself down

01:00:04to that

01:00:04first time

01:00:05sector

01:00:05and obviously

01:00:08picks up a

01:00:08couple of

01:00:09tenths

01:00:09and look at

01:00:10the way it

01:00:10goes through

01:00:10this complex

01:00:11it changes

01:00:12directions so

01:00:13well that

01:00:13Ferrari

01:00:14and then when

01:00:14it does

01:00:14exit the

01:00:15corner

01:00:16goes up

01:00:16on the

01:00:16curb

01:00:17you know

01:00:17whether you're

01:00:18an in-car shot

01:00:18or outside

01:00:19the thing

01:00:20looks just

01:00:20beautiful

01:00:21rides the

01:00:22curbs

01:00:22rides the

01:00:23bumps

01:00:23really really

01:00:24well

01:00:24they've

01:00:24improved

01:00:25the car

01:00:25enormously

01:00:26over the

01:00:26last couple

01:00:26of years

01:00:27and makes

01:00:27a great exit

01:00:28out of that

01:00:28Dunlop

01:00:29curve

01:00:29all the way

01:00:29up this

01:00:30hill

01:00:30to that

01:00:30first

01:00:31very fast

01:00:32left-hander

01:00:32all the

01:00:33Bridgestone

01:00:34runners seem

01:00:34to be running

01:00:35a little bit

01:00:35more negative

01:00:36camber

01:00:36there's the

01:00:37shot I'm

01:00:37after right

01:00:37there you

01:00:38see the

01:00:38top of the

01:00:38wheels

01:00:39leaning in

01:00:39relative to

01:00:40the outside

01:00:40to the bottom

01:00:41edge

01:00:41they haven't

01:00:42been running

01:00:43that much

01:00:43negative

01:00:43camber all

01:00:44season but

01:00:45it's certainly

01:00:46helping the

01:00:46car around here

01:00:47helping all the

01:00:48Bridgestone

01:00:48runners but

01:00:48certainly

01:00:49Ferrari

01:00:49maximising

01:00:51best use

01:00:51out of those

01:00:52tyres

01:00:52and then

01:00:52breaking over

01:00:53those bumps

01:00:54into the

01:00:54chicane where

01:00:54we've seen a

01:00:55lot of cars

01:00:55undulating badly

01:00:56I'd like to

01:00:57see that car

01:00:57the super

01:00:58slow-mo's

01:00:59it went over

01:00:59the curb

01:01:00there at

01:01:00the chicane

01:01:01and then of

01:01:01course

01:01:02manages this

01:01:03last corner

01:01:03the Coca-Cola

01:01:04corner is

01:01:04180 degrees

01:01:05and really

01:01:06sort of

01:01:06opens up

01:01:07rarely touching

01:01:09that white line

01:01:10at the track

01:01:10side

01:01:11Michael Schumacher

01:01:12reasserts his

01:01:13authority

01:01:13in Formula One

01:01:15qualifying

01:01:15and there's

01:01:16one of his

01:01:16big fans

01:01:17no doubt she

01:01:18is going to be

01:01:19leaving the

01:01:19Nurburgring happy

01:01:20we'll be back

01:01:21in just a

01:01:22moment

01:01:22welcome back

01:01:27to Germany

01:01:27where qualifying

01:01:28is complete

01:01:29for the European

01:01:29Grand Prix

01:01:30now turn up

01:01:31the volume

01:01:31and enjoy

01:01:32the sounds

01:01:33of speed

01:01:34you know

01:01:42you

01:01:42uh

01:01:44you

01:01:45you

01:01:54I don't know.

01:02:24I don't know.

01:02:54I don't know.

01:03:24I don't know.

01:03:54I don't know.

01:04:24I don't know.

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01:05:20I don't know.

01:05:22I don't know.

01:05:24I don't know.

01:05:26I don't know.

01:05:28I don't know.

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