00:00Two BMWs are yet to set a time, and they're both on their outlaps, so this is the beginning of
00:06their flying lap then.
00:07Let's enjoy this with Robert Kubica, the amazing first corner here at Shanghai.
00:12190 on the way in, 142 at the apex, miles an hour.
00:16The car wanted to push out to the outside, great place to stand this and watch the racing cars.
00:21This corner a bit like the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, dropping down the hill, making a tight turn.
00:27Watching the cars there yesterday, the back was all stepping out on all of them.
00:31Then the run down to the hairpin of turn six, 44 miles an hour on the apex, picking up the
00:37speed.
00:38Fast sweeping left-hander coming up, 160 miles an hour.
00:45A lot of work going on at the wheel.
00:47Asken's trying to step out on him, and a couple of left-handers ahead.
00:53Quite important corners, short straight, down to another tight left, before you begin to really let the car go.
01:01There we go.
01:02You have to clump across the kerb, kick to the back end of the car out, straighten to up.
01:05You always get more traction, better traction.
01:07When you're asking the rear tyres to turn, and to support the car, and to put the power into the
01:14racetrack, they give up on you.
01:16And just as it did with Kubica in the middle of that long ride onto the back straight.
01:22Just monitoring everything that's going on around you.
01:25Spotting your braking point.
01:27Look at that.
01:27It was about 80 metres before the corner.
01:30Doing 195 miles an hour.
01:33Tremendous Kubica then, towards the final corner.
01:37Go on, give it some excellent.
01:39That looked good.
01:40One of the things he does best, breaking precisely like that, Robert Kubica.
01:44But it's not all that quick.
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