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An unusually long video from me where we follow Jean Alesi's drive to the podium at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix (his last ever) in a Sauber. The incredible feat was overshadowed by a 1-2 finish from Jordan.
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An unusually long video from me where we follow Jean Alesi's drive to the podium at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix (his last ever) in a Sauber. The incredible feat was overshadowed by a 1-2 finish from Jordan.
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I must state that in NO way, shape or form am I intending to infringe rights of the copyright holder. Content used is strictly for research/reviewing purposes and to help educate. All under the Fair Use law.
Content is both TRANSFORMATIVE and EDUCATIONAL in nature.
Content is in compliance with Content Quality section of YPP Policies as the editing adds creative value which makes content unique.
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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00:01Go, go, go, go!
00:03Hackenden leads away again.
00:05Irvine again comes up the left.
00:07Damon Hill has made an excellent start and leads!
00:10And leads!
00:10Damon Hill gets ahead of everybody at last source.
00:13Schumacher going round the outside.
00:15Oh, and Hacken is fine.
00:16And spinning Hackenden.
00:17Schumacher hit Hackenden.
00:19And Herbert has hit Hackenden.
00:21Now, I can't believe they're not going to have to stop the race again.
00:25Safety car's on the track.
00:26And the safety car is on the track.
00:28They're going to have to line up behind the safety car.
00:31That is a good decision, in my opinion.
00:34There is the safety car.
00:35There will be yellow flags round the course to warn the drivers to slow down.
00:40I'm just trying to remember.
00:44So, how many times, if ever, a Jordan has been right up in the front of a race?
00:48Didn't Fisichella lead at Hockenheim last year?
00:50Yes, he did.
00:51Yes, he did.
00:51I have a feeling there was somewhere else.
00:53But it's a rare occurrence.
00:55But the difference this time is that it's driven by a world champion, the world champion of 1994, Damon Hill,
01:02who has been longing and yearning and looking for an opportunity like this.
01:07To lead in a car that's worthy of his talent, of which he has so much.
01:11Well, the Jordan team have been working hard on that car, joined by Mike Gascoigne.
01:16And they've got it right.
01:17Look at Alessi up there in fourth place, Murray.
01:19He made a storming getaway, didn't he?
01:21Yeah, he does.
01:21He loves the wet, Jean Alessi.
01:24And the Sauber, which has got a power disadvantage, won't suffer as much as it would have done if it
01:29had been dry.
01:30So, into the bus stop at the end of the lap.
01:36I'm just looking at a replay on a diamond screen outside the country box.
01:40And the race is on!
01:41The race is on!
01:42There's the safety car.
01:43Damon Hill leads on lap three out of 44.
01:47Can Michael Schumacher in the Ferrari catch his old rival and get past him?
01:55Not if Damon Hill's got anything to do with it.
01:57The revived, much improved Jordan has also got a much improved Mugen Honda Japanese engine in it.
02:05And it's giving a lot of extra power.
02:07Damon's the man to use it there.
02:09Ferrari are second and third.
02:12And David Coulthard is the fastest man on the track in 15th place.
02:17He's catching Esteban Tuero, who is ahead of him.
02:23Won't take him long to get past.
02:24There's Villeneuve in fifth position.
02:26Look for Heinz Harald Frensen.
02:28It's not Frensen, it's Alessi.
02:31So Villeneuve has got ahead of Jean Alessi.
02:33We didn't see it happen.
02:35It means that Jacques Villeneuve in the, again, much improved Williams with the Mechachrome engine
02:41is now in fourth position.
02:44And again comes Damon Hill into lap four out of 44.
02:52One eleventh distance of the Belgian Grand Prix as Heinz Harald Frensen and Villeneuve go through.
02:59Yeah, so Alessi now back down to sixth place with Ralph Schumacher giving him a hard time in the other
03:04Jordan for good measure.
03:05So Alessi, having made a good start, doesn't appear to have the speed to cope with it.
03:09And in the battle for fourth, and here it is.
03:12The battle for fourth is led by Frensen, then Alessi.
03:16Villeneuve has slipped back and that's Schumacher-Ralph.
03:19I think race order on lap 12 at the moment.
03:22Damon Hill is nine seconds behind Schumacher, 15 ahead of Frensen.
03:27Frensen is seven seconds ahead of Alessi.
03:29Alessi is four seconds ahead of Villeneuve in fifth place.
03:32Well, the man to watch at the moment, if we could have a look at him, is John Alessi who
03:36is in fourth position behind Frensen.
03:39He's just under seven seconds behind the Williams Mechachrome.
03:44And Alessi in the Sauber Petronus is catching Frensen.
03:49Not very quickly, but he is catching him.
03:52And Alessi in the wet is a fearsome driver.
03:55Very, very capable.
03:57There is Frensen, third place, that is.
04:01There is Alessi, fourth.
04:03Now Alessi has got the cap down another tenth of a second from 6.7 seconds to 6.6 seconds.
04:12He's the most experienced driver in Formula One, is Jean Alessi.
04:18This is his, he's coming up to 150 Grand Prix.
04:22This is his 148th.
04:24Having driven for years for Ferrari, won his only Grand Prix for Ferrari in Canada in most emotional circumstances.
04:33Car number 27, which was the great Gilles Villeneuve's number.
04:37And then Alessi left Ferrari, went to Benetton, two years.
04:42Now he's with Sauber.
04:43Seems to be very happy though.
04:46And going well.
04:48Now we're on lap 14.
04:49So there's still 30 laps to go.
04:51It's roughly one third distance.
04:53We haven't had any fuel stops yet.
04:57Yes, we've had Ralph Schumacher in.
04:59We've had Eddie Irvine in for a new nose cone.
05:03Esteban Tuero has been in.
05:06And so has David Coulthard.
05:09But we haven't had any of the expected tire and fuel stops.
05:15And Frensen has been in the gravel.
05:17Now Frensen was in third place.
05:19He should be.
05:19That now.
05:20Where is Alessi?
05:20That is Alessi.
05:22I can't tell you whether he's gone ahead of Frensen, but I suspect he has.
05:25I think he has.
05:26Because Frensen spent 10 seconds extra in the midsection than Alessi.
05:30And he was 6.6 behind as Verstappen makes his way back to the pits.
05:34So Frensen, we believe, has dropped back.
05:37But yes, Alessi takes third.
05:39We're expecting Frensen in the pits.
05:41To the pits and Alessi in.
05:43Now Alessi is third.
05:45Vissichella is sixth.
05:49And Damon Hill has rejoined, obviously, with Alessi in the pits.
05:53Still in second position as Heitz-Harold Frensen comes in.
05:57Two Jordans in the top three.
05:59Ralph Schumacher is moving up now to third place.
06:01Villeneuve going off.
06:02Frensen in the gravel trap we saw.
06:04I don't know what happened on Alessi's pit stop.
06:06But Ralph Schumacher has now moved up into third place.
06:0911th position.
06:12And Jacques Villeneuve is out of the race.
06:14There are just 11 runners left.
06:17Plus, I'm sorry, I missed Esteban Twera, which makes it 12.
06:21And let us not forget that David Coulthard in these appalling conditions.
06:25Oh, God!
06:26Michael Schumacher hits David Coulthard and is out of the Belgian Grand Prix.
06:32Maybe he should have been a bit more circumspect about trying to pass him.
06:36But he is out.
06:37And Mika Hakkinen, in the nicest possible way, will be delighted.
06:41The World Championship situation is now the same as it was when the Belgian Grand Prix started.
06:47And Damon Hill is in the lead.
06:49But that is not the case.
06:50David is not that sort of a chap.
06:52But anyway, whatever.
06:54Michael Schumacher is out.
06:56David Coulthard is out.
06:58Damon Hill, there he is, is in.
07:01Leading the Belgian Grand Prix.
07:03Good track.
07:04So, safety cars fill out.
07:06Damon Hill leads.
07:07Michael Schumacher showing every sign of being prepared to dive past.
07:12Lacey is third.
07:13Fredson is fourth.
07:15Dadees is fifth.
07:16Sorry, it's fifth.
07:18And those are the runners.
07:20Michael's long out of this race.
07:22Ralph Schumacher in the yellow.
07:23Jordan there having a nibble at Damon for no good reason, really.
07:28Because they're still very much under the yellows of the safety cars, you can clearly see.
07:32Well, you can imagine that Eddie Jordan will have been saying, hold positions.
07:39And specifically, Ralph, stay where you are.
07:42But as you rightly point out, Martin, there is a bit of a legal wrangle going on between Jordan and
07:49Ralph Schumacher about whether Schumacher can, as we believe, he wants to.
07:55The safety car is off.
07:57The race is on.
07:58Damon comes out of the bus stop, gives it all the throttle he can afford to.
08:03Now, what's Ralph Schumacher going to do?
08:06Down from La Source to Eau Rouge.
08:09A gigantic ball of spray.
08:11And Schumacher is certainly not deferring as they go out of La Source.
08:15And Damon runs wide.
08:18Schumacher tucks in behind him.
08:20Frensen is right up behind John Lacey.
08:23Who knows?
08:24And who knows what's going to happen here?
08:26Because Heinz Harald Frensen can see a podium position in the offing if he can get past the Sauber of
08:33a Lacey.
08:35But remember what's happened when Coulthard and Schumacher were in the positions that they were in.
08:41It's a very different situation now, though.
08:43I would say they're concerned about a Lacey finishing on the podium because they haven't done that this season.
08:51The highest finish that they've had this year was John Lacey in fifth position in Argentina.
08:57And the Sauber team is well down the pecking order in the World Championship.
09:03Now, we've got three teams who haven't scored at all.
09:06Prost, Stuart and Minardi.
09:08But Sauber are equal bottom with arrows at the present moment.
09:11Equal seventh on four World Championship points.
09:14And if they can get the four World Championship points for a Lacey finishing in third place,
09:20it would move them into sixth position ahead of Stuart.
09:23Behind Williams in fourth place.
09:26Yes, if Damon Hill can win this race, I think it'll...
09:28I bet he'll say it's one of his most satisfying.
09:30Of course, all of his other races were won in a Williams that was very dominant.
09:34And it was easy for people to say, yeah, but would he win in anything else?
09:38And he is going to answer them beautifully with this drive here on a treacherous afternoon.
09:43The round, smiling, respectable face there was Peter Sauber himself.
09:49The worried eyes of Eddie Jordan on the pit lane.
09:53A Lacey is right up there with them in third position in the Sauber.
09:57There he is.
09:58Sauber have not had a podium place this year.
10:01Fourth is Fredson, 7.6 seconds behind A Lacey.
10:05Denise is still on the same lap as the leaders.
10:09Trulli is sixth the lap down.
10:11David Coulthard and Nakano are seventh and eighth way back,
10:15but hoping there'll be some retirement so that they can score points.
10:18Yes, it's pretty much as I thought.
10:20A Lacey is going to keep the pressure on the two Jordans.
10:22I think they're ultimately faster, but they just don't want to have to attack those braking areas
10:27and risk locking a wheel or snatching the rear wheels on the downshift.
10:31So, A Lacey, it really is a thorn in their side.
10:35And a protégé of Eddie Jordan's back in Formula 3000 days.
10:39But Eddie Jordan, I'm sure, wishes he'd evaporate right now
10:42so that they can bring those two yellow Jordans cruising to the end of this race.
10:47But A Lacey just won't let them.
10:49It would have been John A Lacey, but now here he is, coming up the climb to Lake Holm.
10:56It was a very slow lap from Damon, the one before.
10:58He's moving over whenever he gets a chance to try to get onto the wetter part of the track,
11:02as is Ralph, sort of suggesting that the tyres are getting plenty warm enough
11:07and the cars are squirming around a little bit.
11:09And John A Lacey has been the quickest of the three of them on the last three laps.
11:14So, A Lacey applying the pressure.
11:16Now, the tyre war I always talk about.
11:21Jordan used Goodyear.
11:23Salva used Goodyear.
11:25Fredson, who is fourth, is in a Williams that uses Goodyear.
11:28Denise is in the arrows, fifth position, Bridgestone.
11:32Trulli is in the crossed, sixth position, Bridgestone.
11:35Now, this is interesting.
11:37Coulthard was four seconds quicker than the leaders on that lap.
11:40So, quite clearly, his Bridgestones are quite happy with these conditions.
11:43That means the conditions are changing.
11:45And I think these three are struggling with those softer wets getting a little bit too hot.
11:50Fifth thing left.
11:51Lap 40.
11:52Four laps to go after this one.
11:54The gap between A Lacey and Hill, third and first, is 2.2 seconds.
12:00Michael Schumacher driving in his team leader's wheel tracks.
12:04These are the only three men in the race from the point of view of victory
12:09because Heinz Harald Frensen is a long way back in fourth position.
12:14There is Coulthard in his wheel tracks.
12:18It's out of Rivage into the left-hander on the approach to the massively fast Pouin corner, 150 miles an
12:27hour.
12:28A Lacey's slowing. A Lacey must have made some kind of mistake
12:31because A Lacey's dropped behind Coulthard and had a very bad midsection somewhere.
12:36Maybe we'll see a replay, maybe it blocked a wheel or something.
12:39But A Lacey now falling back and taking the pressure off the two Jordans.
12:43And is it again for the second year in succession going to be a cruel denial of a podium place
12:50for Jean A Lacey
12:51who was in second place to Michael Schumacher for most of the Belgian Grand Prix here at Spa last year?
12:58Well, he's still in third place. Coulthard's gone past him but it hasn't affected the top three.
13:03I think it'll just be a slight mistake there from A Lacey.
13:06Ron Dennis already congratulating Eddie. I think that's probably a touch early
13:11but I don't think we're very far away from some...
13:14Past Jarno Trulli there safely. Again to lap the Italian who is in sixth position and has been lapped twice.
13:22And Ralph Schumacher has done the same thing. And look at John A Lacey!
13:26It's not John A Lacey, it's Trulli. His engine's sounding a bit sick, I have to say.
13:29When he came past the pits last time round but truly cruising home to collect that last point at the
13:35moment.
13:36Yeah, A Lacey is actually four seconds behind Ralph Schumacher.
13:41He made a perfect second start. The restart really played into his hands, got onto those...
13:46Remember, he got onto those intermediate tyres. The Jordan team coming to the pit wall.
13:52They're really going to enjoy this one. Jordan know how to party at the best of times.
13:56And tonight is going to be something absolutely incredible.
13:59Get ready in Britain and Ireland all round the world to stand up and cheer as Damon Hill comes home
14:07with insight of victory at the Belton Grand Prix.
14:11His 22nd victory into the bus stop. He is yards away from the finish followed by his teammate Ralph Schumacher.
14:19And Damon Hill wins in Belton. Fantastic!
14:27Schumacher second, A Lacey third.
14:30Wow, what an unbelievable race!
14:35And...
14:37Ralph Schumacher not looking exactly overwhelmed, unlike his brother when he wins, but what a joy, David.
14:45He certainly doesn't look like a man who's finished higher than he's ever finished before.
14:49The best he's finished before was third place.
14:52Yes, A Lacey there. That's a good run from John today, and he knows it, look.
14:57Yes, I think Ralph Mayfield, his first win, got away from him there.
15:01And I really think Damon had him covered, personally.
15:04Yeah, yeah.
15:06And so will Britain be after a quite incredible, truly magnificent, Belgian Grand Prix,
15:12which saw Damon Hill back at the top.
15:16So that's this meeting is well-being, and the David St.
15:16I think we are going to call the B9C, I really think everyone's looking for the fun,
15:16Do we have plans for this?
15:16Well, we've had a plan for this.
15:16But we're being prepared for this.
15:16Not to see you, like, or what we're doing.
15:17We're going to go to a great deal.
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