00:00Probably still a smile on his face because, as you said, John, this is what Grand Prix racing is all about.
00:08And looking forward to next year, I think we're going to see a real vintage year of Grand Prix racing.
00:14Renault with Ayrton Senna now replacing Alain Prast, undoubtedly going to be very, very strong again.
00:20But with Peugeot joining McLaren, the battle between these two French giants, for me, is going to be really the highlight of the year.
00:28But not let's forget what Benetton are going to do.
00:30They have not yet announced which engine they will use, but it does look increasingly likely they will stay with Ford.
00:37Ferrari also have finally managed to begin to put together the semblance of a sensible team.
00:45And with Berger and Alain Z remaining on the team driving force, if we have got four teams at the front, all capable of winning,
00:54well, who said Formula One had become uninteresting?
00:57I certainly look forward to it with great relish.
01:01Also, John, behind those four teams, there's going to be at least another four teams that is going to challenge for, let's say, positions 9 to 16.
01:12Because Lotus, Footwork, Jordan, they're all teams, Sauber, Ligier, that are going to be knocking on the door from time to time.
01:22Well, I hope that they are, but I do have to imagine that the top four teams will still fundamentally retain the advantages that they currently have.
01:30And for one of those, let's say, the middleweight teams to break into the top four is very, very difficult.
01:39And the kind of commitment that it takes, both of financial and in terms of human resources, is enormous.
01:46And sometimes I wonder just how is a team in that second division going to make its way into the first division, let alone into the premier division.
01:56Michael Schumacher pressing the buttons to raise the nose and pressing the buttons for the automatic downshift, where the driver puts his foot on the brake and the gearbox changes down all by itself.
02:12We also saw in that shot, of course, Andrea De Cesaris, who appears to be out in Kia Katayama's Tyrol, and now Senna on his second set of tyres, out to renew his challenge on what he believes is a very possible.
02:24He has certainly been positive, clear-minded, and before this session started, clearly said he thought pull position was possible here this weekend.
02:34Schumacher going off a little bit, but being very close to Gerhard Berger.
02:39But I bet you a pound or a penny, his foot never lifted one fraction.
02:45Well, she did.
02:48And this is the part of the circuit where most people lose time, where Gerhard Berger lost time to Alain Prost.
02:57And remember, Prost is out on the circuit as well.
03:02Now Schumacher, the climb onto that very fast left-hander.
03:09The button we see, the blue button, is to raise the nose down the straight, to give him a little bit of top speed.
03:18And then the green one, I gather, is for the automatic downshift.
03:22Indeed, and the one thing you've got to do is not confuse the buttons, and that is a part of what driving a current Grand Prix car is about.
03:30It's a totally different game to those days when you had manual gear changes, there was no such thing as aerodynamic, movable aerodynamic devices, and that is precisely...
03:40And that is literally the way that the raceOGol did are before we have to roll down the side.
03:46But we have a lot more fans and появ Palestine, it's not a thing for us, which we have to throw this into, but...
03:50...ww.
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