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00:00:00The Monaco Grand Prix on ITV. Fortune's change on the spin of a wheel.
00:00:04Red 3, the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher, is the favourite number to hit the jackpot.
00:00:10Let's join our two high rollers, shall we?
00:00:12Martin Brundle, again the Royal Television Society's Sports Pundit of the Year,
00:00:15and Murray Walker. Afternoon, Murray.
00:00:18Afternoon, Jim. Well, this is Monaco as I remember it,
00:00:22because it's two weeks later this year, and just look at that fabulous picture.
00:00:26The sun is shining, the sky is blue, it's hot, hot, hot.
00:00:30There's fantastic tension here, and like the punters at the Monaco Casino,
00:00:36I am looking for a miracle here in the very near future.
00:00:40The miracle will be if they all get round that first corner
00:00:44at the bottom left of the map on your screens, to the left of the letter F,
00:00:49because that is the notorious Saint-Denis, that you are looking at now.
00:00:54Soon, 22 cars will be arriving at that in one solid lump,
00:00:58with 800 horsepower propelling each of them.
00:01:01It's a very different grid this year.
00:01:04Michael Schumacher up front for the 25th time in his career,
00:01:09but next to him, Jarno Trulli, and behind Jarno Trulli in the second Jordan
00:01:14is Heinz-Harald Frensen, as we look at his serene Highness there,
00:01:20hearing the Monaco national anthem.
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00:02:01So, 77 last week, Prince of Rainier,
00:02:05one of the younger fellows as far as I'm concerned,
00:02:08and I was saying I'm looking for that minute miracle,
00:02:11and they are going to get all round the corner on the first lap,
00:02:15because the tension here is going to be absolutely terrific.
00:02:19It is now, but they need an enormous amount of concentration
00:02:23to last 78 laps of this race.
00:02:25Only eight cars finished last year.
00:02:27It's tremendously tiring, and as ever, strategy is going to be very, very important.
00:02:32We're expecting only one pit stop,
00:02:35but last year there was a very late pit stop from Heinz-Harald Frensen.
00:02:40He came in on his 57th lap,
00:02:42and I'm expecting quite a lot of them to come in round about lap 50 on this lap.
00:02:46Agree or disagree?
00:02:48Well, the optimum is just over half distance,
00:02:50so I think Michael Schumacher will be taking that route.
00:02:53He'll be expecting to get into the first corner first
00:02:55and scamper off into the distance.
00:02:58He can't really two-stop,
00:02:59because you never know when he might get caught out with a pace car situation
00:03:03and your advantage is eroded as you're trundling around behind a pace car.
00:03:07But he'll certainly be able to have a little bit less fuel on board on the start than the others.
00:03:11I imagine that the Jordans will be running quite heavy,
00:03:15and that could pose a great problem for the two McLaren drivers,
00:03:18who I believe may well have a faster car in race trim than the Jordans,
00:03:22and then there'll be quite a disorderly queue behind them, I'd imagine, Murray.
00:03:27Yeah, the real problem is the midfield.
00:03:29It's whether people like Jenson Button, who's down at 14th,
00:03:32Mikasalo, Wurz in front of him, Eddie Irvine, who's in 10th position,
00:03:36even Ralph Schumacher, who's an excellent 9th in the Williams BMW,
00:03:40are going to get round that first corner.
00:03:42Those were the eyes of Jarno Trulli.
00:03:44Here is David Coulthard, third on the grid,
00:03:48and in front of David Coulthard, the Scarlett McLaren of four times
00:03:53Monaco Grand Prix winner, Michael Schumacher.
00:03:57As I said, it's 78 laps. There is not a seat to be found here.
00:04:01There's not even standing room on the banks just beneath the Royal Palace,
00:04:05which overlook the Rascasse corner and the Antonino corner.
00:04:10That's turn 17, the last.
00:04:12The banks are solid with people, most of them wearing Ferrari red,
00:04:17because many, many of them are from Italy, looking for the man you see
00:04:21front left there with his new helmet livery, incidentally.
00:04:25Nearly all red instead of all blue, as it used to be in his Benetton
00:04:29and recent Ferrari days, Michael Schumacher with the yellow
00:04:32from the German flag behind.
00:04:35So, Michael Schumacher to the right, the yellow Jordan of Jarno Trulli.
00:04:39Behind that is Heinz-Harald Frentzen, and away they go on the formation lap.
00:04:45Green lights, there will soon be those five reds,
00:04:49and when they go out, it will be the start of the 78-58 Monaco Grand Prix,
00:04:54one of the most historic races in the calendar,
00:04:57the only real street circuit that is left.
00:05:00Yes, wouldn't it be nice to see Jaguar and Jordan have a good day today?
00:05:04I really wish they could get some points and tighten that championship up a little bit
00:05:07and turn it around, but you have to say, there are three drivers
00:05:10that have had the pace all through the weekend,
00:05:12the two Maka boys and Michael Schumacher,
00:05:15but it was Baron Keller who was fastest this morning, as I know you said earlier, Murray,
00:05:18and I spoke to him, and he's really pumped up.
00:05:20He said the car is so much better, but the track conditions now
00:05:24will be totally different to the 9.30 warm-up this morning.
00:05:27We've got a lot of temperature out there.
00:05:29This race is much later this year than normal,
00:05:31and it certainly has meant completely different weather conditions.
00:05:34You could almost always guarantee you'd have one wet day at the Monaco Grand Prix,
00:05:38but this year it's been glorious.
00:05:40The downside of that is the track temperature is over 40 degrees centigrade,
00:05:44and there was a quick shot of Coulthard sitting on the line there.
00:05:47They were blowing a fan that's normally used to cool the engine at him,
00:05:50and I know the drivers are getting immensely hot inside the cars.
00:05:54Well, they've exited the unique feature of Monaco,
00:05:58and that is the tunnel underneath the Grand Hotel,
00:06:01which replaced the old, original, much shorter tunnel.
00:06:05And Diniz has just left the line here in the Sauber,
00:06:08so he's the best part of a lap behind.
00:06:10Now, he's got to get to the back of the grid before the light procedure starts,
00:06:14otherwise he must go down the pit lane.
00:06:16Yeah, he won't be able, as they can if they start a bit earlier than that,
00:06:20to be able to take up his original position,
00:06:23which was 19th on the grid. That's where he qualified.
00:06:26He'll have to start from the back.
00:06:27I think he'll be all right, actually,
00:06:29because they're threading their way round the Rascasse now,
00:06:32and into Turn 16 and 17, the last on the circuit lap.
00:06:36Yes, on a circuit like this, it's very slow, relatively speaking,
00:06:39just a 90-mile-an-hour average,
00:06:41plus the temperature of the day we've been talking about
00:06:43as Michael Schumacher comes past our comedy box window
00:06:46here to take up his position.
00:06:48You get a lot of heat soak, and it can give you vapour in the fuel system,
00:06:52and that's probably why Diniz's car wouldn't start.
00:06:55Well, now, it's going to last about an hour and 40 minutes, this race.
00:06:59They're going to be changing gear about every two and a half seconds.
00:07:03Just think of that.
00:07:04Michael Schumacher's speed average over his pole position lap
00:07:08was 95 miles an hour around this circuit.
00:07:11Quite amazing.
00:07:13Yes, and if you remember last year here,
00:07:15the two Ferraris on the right-hand side of the grid,
00:07:17your left, their right, absolutely scammed.
00:07:20And somebody, it's a Benetton, I think, down there,
00:07:22has stalled the engine.
00:07:23So that must be Wurz, I would imagine.
00:07:25Stalled the engine, so that will be a restart situation, Mary.
00:07:28They'll have to restart, and Wurz will have to stay at the back of the grid.
00:07:32It's Alexander Wurz. He's 12th in position.
00:07:35You see the orange lights flashing there.
00:07:37That means the start, which didn't happen, has been aborted, if you follow me.
00:07:41And that will not be at all welcome.
00:07:44They're going to have to do another lap.
00:07:46Yes, and we've got some very, very hot Formula 1 cars sitting on the grid now.
00:07:50They were sitting there a good half minute, a slow lap round.
00:07:53So, as I was talking about, a lot of heat soak now coming up into the engines.
00:07:57That can cause problems.
00:07:59And I remember vividly the time when Michael Schumacher stalled his Ferrari on the grid,
00:08:05and when he was in pole position.
00:08:07So out come the mechanics, out come the trolleys,
00:08:10out come the starter motors, the electric starter motors,
00:08:13and the tension ebbs just a little.
00:08:17Yes, look, they're putting the fans on the McLaren.
00:08:19They know what they've got to do to get rid of that heat.
00:08:22And the mechanics haven't just dragged all of the equipment back to their garage.
00:08:26They've now got to go back.
00:08:28And the restart procedure Ferrari, of course, they're at the sharp end of the grid,
00:08:33which is at the extreme opposite end to where their garage is.
00:08:36So Ferrari with a big job to do to get back there and sort Michael Schumacher's car out.
00:08:41I wonder what's going through Michael's mind at the moment,
00:08:44because there is a precedent for this where Schumacher in pole position, as I just said,
00:08:49stalled on the grid and they had to abort the start.
00:08:52And he had to start from the back, as Alexander Wurz will have to.
00:08:56And Wurz is not going to be a very popular man on the grid for all the trouble he has caused.
00:09:01He's in enough trouble already.
00:09:02That's the dry ice going into the pods from the Ferrari and the other cars
00:09:07to try and keep those radiators cool to stop the heat soak
00:09:10or to reduce it to the minimum that Martin was telling you about.
00:09:13Wurz, as I was just saying, is under duress.
00:09:17He's having a very difficult time to keep his place in the Benetton team.
00:09:21And this won't help him.
00:09:23What will happen now is that that lap they've done will count as part of the race.
00:09:27Obviously, there'll be one less racing lap now.
00:09:29But this is a great chance for us to take a break.
00:11:41The restart is going to be in one minute's time.
00:11:45When I say the restart, I mean of the formation lap.
00:11:48Yes, 14.08 local time.
00:11:50We think they're preparing Wurz's spare car in the pits
00:11:54because it seems as if the car was actually smoking.
00:11:57You can see the gap down there.
00:11:58It's gone now where Wurz's car was.
00:12:00We think it was smoking as he came to the line.
00:12:03Engine smoke.
00:12:04So Wurz, I think, will have to start from the pit lane.
00:12:06No cost to him now.
00:12:07He would have had to start last anyway.
00:12:09So Wurz will start from the pit lane once the pack has gone.
00:12:13And remember, it's not going to be a 78-lap race now.
00:12:16It's going to be a 77-lap race.
00:12:23Hand clutches for the majority of the drivers.
00:12:26Some of them are using a top clutch still.
00:12:28Michael Schumacher went back to Fiorano in Italy on Friday
00:12:34when everybody else was having a rest day
00:12:36to practice his starts,
00:12:38to make sure, in a situation where they're not allowed to practice starts at Monaco,
00:12:43that he would be really ready for it when the lights go out here.
00:12:47Yes, they look like they're struggling to get Wurz's car done in time.
00:12:51They're obviously set up for Fisichella, by the looks of it.
00:12:53And they're significantly different in physical size, Fisichella and Wurz.
00:12:58They may struggle to get that car ready to join the start.
00:13:02You're absolutely right.
00:13:03You're absolutely right.
00:13:04I did my usual check on who's got the spare cars.
00:13:06A lot of the teams here have got four cars.
00:13:08McLaren and Ferrari, Jaguar have got four cars and so have Prost.
00:13:13But Benetton have not.
00:13:15And the car is set up for Giancarlo Fisichella.
00:13:18He's much shorter and stockier than the tall, lanky Alexander Wurz.
00:13:23It normally takes them about 12 minutes to change the car,
00:13:27to change the pedals, to change the seats,
00:13:29to change the safety belts and everything else that they have to do.
00:13:32I think they'll probably be all right.
00:13:34But now you see the pits are being filled up.
00:13:38The pit lane is being filled up because the circuit itself has been vacated.
00:13:43Well, the Italians call the spare car the muletto, the mule, I guess.
00:13:47But I'm not quite sure why we all call it the T-car.
00:13:49I didn't know that one, so I can't remember now.
00:13:51You would throw that one at me.
00:13:53It's training. It's the training car.
00:13:55It is the training car, Martin. Yes.
00:14:00Sorry to drop that hot potato on you.
00:14:02I was ready for it, actually,
00:14:04because somebody asked me exactly the same question yesterday.
00:14:07They also asked me why... No, I won't tell you that now.
00:14:10Because they're coming through at the end of the formation lap,
00:14:13the second formation lap, for the start of the 17.7 lap
00:14:17Monaco Grand Prix of the year 2000 Y2K
00:14:22with Michael Schumacher in pole position,
00:14:25with Jarno Trulli, who said, and you heard him,
00:14:27I make a good start and I would hope to be leading into the first corner.
00:14:31Yes, but I think Trulli was nervous in the press conference
00:14:34straight after his front row qualifying yesterday.
00:14:36I thought he was nervous when I spoke to him.
00:14:38And the last thing he needed was a false start,
00:14:40because that's the period of time where it's most difficult
00:14:43to keep yourself under control.
00:14:45Yeah, and this is Michael Schumacher's 133rd Grand Prix.
00:14:50He has won 39 of them,
00:14:53only two less than the great Ayrton Senna,
00:14:56whose points, totally, he has already succeeded,
00:14:59beaten to become the second highest in history.
00:15:02And the Monaco Grand Prix is...
00:15:07Go, go, go!
00:15:09Schumacher gets away, Trulli slots in front of David Coulthard,
00:15:14and the grid order is maintained with Heinz-Harald Fritzsen in fourth position.
00:15:18But Mika Häkkinen is still in fifth position,
00:15:21so there is no change as they climb up to the Hotel de Paris.
00:15:24Ralf Messonnier, the left-hander, through Casino Square.
00:15:28Yes, everybody got away very poorly, and I'm not surprised.
00:15:31The red light was on for so long there.
00:15:34The red lights seem to be forever going out,
00:15:36and I'm sure all the drivers were chomping at the bit there.
00:15:39It's unusual, and normally it's just over three seconds and it's away.
00:15:42And there's Häkkinen making a good move on Fritzsen.
00:15:44Red flag!
00:15:46Wow!
00:15:47I think the computer is out, Murray.
00:15:49I think that's probably why it's a red flag.
00:15:50There's no data come up.
00:15:53Oh, look at that!
00:15:54Well, this is the worst possible thing that could happen at Monaco.
00:15:58First of all, we get an aborted start.
00:16:00Then we get the computer sticking and the race restarted again.
00:16:03Now we've got this kerfuffle, and let's have a look and see what it's the two arrows you see.
00:16:08That's Jos Verstappen in the orange arrows,
00:16:11who was nerfed from the inside there.
00:16:14I think it was Jenson Button gave him a little tap on the back wheel there
00:16:18as they went into Grand Hairpin there.
00:16:21But we've got no data on the computer at all
00:16:24as they've gone through the various sectors on this lap.
00:16:28And I suspect there's been some kind of power failure.
00:16:30Certainly the red flag was out long before this little car park.
00:16:34Well, the whole of Formula One, like the whole of our lives these days,
00:16:41seems to be controlled by computers.
00:16:43The cars trip a computer mechanism as they cross the line
00:16:48so that we all get their times and the gaps in between.
00:16:51And in many ways, the old way was the best, but not here today.
00:16:56Well, they're going to have to send men out with starters.
00:16:58They can't haul all of those cars off the track.
00:17:00They'll have to switch the cars off.
00:17:02They'll be fried in about a minute, which they've already had much more than.
00:17:06Parked there at Grand Hotel Hairpin.
00:17:09Nobody got away well.
00:17:11I think everybody was surprised just how long the red lights stayed on.
00:17:14Ralph, a reasonable start there,
00:17:16but sort of general chaos.
00:17:18They did well to all get through the first corner.
00:17:20But if they're still down there at the Grand Hairpin,
00:17:24they'll have to switch the engines off.
00:17:26And they can't just crane them off the circuit.
00:17:28They'll have to send men out there with starters, I would have thought.
00:17:30Well, if Jarno Trulli was a bit nervous, he thought, before Martin,
00:17:34he's going to be even more nervous now
00:17:37as we look at him sitting in the Jordan in the second position on the grid.
00:17:41Michael Schumacher, of course, has been there, done that,
00:17:43whatever it is in Formula One.
00:17:45And he's a very cool, calm, collected customer anyway.
00:17:48Well, there is the Jordan being...
00:17:50This is the third time that a Jordan has been involved in a real happening this year
00:17:55because Pedro de la Rosa went into the barrier very heavily this morning.
00:17:59That looks a bit like an arrows to me,
00:18:01but here's the car park that we were talking about,
00:18:04and they've switched them all off.
00:18:05They had to.
00:18:06As I said, the engines would just melt.
00:18:08And I really think they should allow the mechanics out there to start those cars up.
00:18:12Oh, David Coulthard climbing over the barrier.
00:18:16Yes, I'm sorry.
00:18:17An orange arrows that was being craned off the circuit.
00:18:21And the arrows team has had a very tough time here altogether
00:18:25because Verstappen's been off.
00:18:26You can see the blower there pushing cold air
00:18:29because there's an icebox there as well,
00:18:31pushing cold air into the engine compartment of Schumacher's Ferrari.
00:18:35Yes, because the overflow system on the radiator system is just like Eurocar.
00:18:39It's going to be a total loss system if they get any expansion.
00:18:43And obviously they can't get that water back in, can't get any water back in.
00:18:46In fact, at this point, if they're declaring a restart,
00:18:48they can't add anything to the car whatsoever,
00:18:51certainly by way of fuel or change the tyres.
00:18:54But I'm going to be very surprised.
00:18:57This is an unusual situation, I have to say,
00:18:59but I'm going to be very surprised if they basically make those drivers abandon those cars.
00:19:03That's Genet's car that you're looking at now,
00:19:05the Minardi of Marc Genet,
00:19:07who's straddling the cockpit.
00:19:08You can see his left leg is out and his foot is on the ground.
00:19:11His right leg is in the cockpit.
00:19:13There's a Prost down there.
00:19:15There's Jenson Button's car.
00:19:17There's the Sauber in the background.
00:19:20Behind the Sauber, there's one of the two BARs.
00:19:23And then finally, Mazzacane in the second Minardi.
00:19:26News from James Allen.
00:19:27Yes, Murray, I'm down here in the pit lane.
00:19:29There seems to be a lot of confusion, I've talked with Ferrari and McLaren.
00:19:31They have no idea why this race was stopped before the incident at the Lowe's hairpin.
00:19:35I'm now with Eddie Jordan.
00:19:36Have you shed any light on this?
00:19:37Well, it has to be that incident,
00:19:40because I can't believe that that incident wasn't already reported back.
00:19:45There's no other reason for it.
00:19:46And, you know, perhaps in hindsight,
00:19:48it looks as if there's no way the race could have continued.
00:19:51The place is completely blocked.
00:19:53And that's the only reason that I can possibly imagine as to why it was stopped.
00:19:56But the way we were looking at it, the red flags were up before the accident happened, Eddie.
00:19:59I think that's just a matter of...
00:20:01I think if you actually got your time switch out
00:20:03and had a look back and replayed the action,
00:20:05you'll find there's absolutely no reason for the race to be stopped,
00:20:08and that's why they would have done it.
00:20:09So let's talk a little bit about nerves now, Eddie,
00:20:11because your driver's on the front row.
00:20:12You've got another one on the second row of the grid.
00:20:13Obviously, you're pretty keyed up before the start.
00:20:15You've had an aborted start and now a second restart.
00:20:18How are they feeling right now?
00:20:20Well, I can only imagine that they are very uptight.
00:20:24Just want to get this thing started,
00:20:26because it's not helping anyone.
00:20:28It's not helping the viewers.
00:20:29It's certainly not helping us here in the pits.
00:20:30So you can imagine what it's doing to the drivers.
00:20:32It's also not helping the engines.
00:20:34The ambient here is extremely high,
00:20:36and there is no air flowing around the circuit.
00:20:39And what's actually happening is that you get this air
00:20:44that's very weak and very hard for the drivers.
00:20:47The adrenaline is going to play a big part in this race,
00:20:49and the fitness of the drivers is going to be key.
00:20:51Okay, we're looking at a replay of this incident.
00:20:53It's obviously a huge blockage. Back to you, Murray.
00:20:56Well, you can see what happened there.
00:20:57Jenson Button, the right-hand wheel,
00:21:01front wheel of Jenson Button Williams,
00:21:03went in between the two wheels,
00:21:05left-hand side of Pedro de la Rosa's arrows.
00:21:08I'm right opposite now.
00:21:10Josfa Stappan's arrows, which is 15th on the grid.
00:21:13Pedro de la Rosa was 16th on the grid,
00:21:15and his car isn't here.
00:21:17You've seen it craned off.
00:21:18So if they've got the third arrows ready,
00:21:22and remember, it was virtually destroyed this morning,
00:21:24and they've got no replacement.
00:21:26They haven't got four cars here.
00:21:27There he is, running in.
00:21:30He will have to turn out in the car
00:21:32that's been rebuilt since this morning,
00:21:34and that is Jenson Button running in.
00:21:36So Williams have got four cars here.
00:21:39I think Eddie Jordan was probably right.
00:21:41I think the first we saw of that incident
00:21:43was as a replay and not real time.
00:21:45There were certainly no red flags hanging out
00:21:48at Grand Hairpin before,
00:21:50as they had that incident on the corner there.
00:21:53So that could well have been the red flag situation.
00:21:57There certainly was no computer information up here,
00:22:00and we get the same stuff as the teams, by and large.
00:22:03Also, I'm very surprised that red light was on
00:22:05so long on the grid.
00:22:06So maybe there's other problems as well.
00:22:08There's the drivers all having to scamper back.
00:22:10We're going to find out what's happening.
00:22:11We'll be back very shortly.
00:22:27Le long manqueur des pieds pour venir retrouver
00:22:32le fils de départ pour Yacine Bidot.
00:22:42Là , il y a l'arrivée de Yacine,
00:22:44qui va certainement encourager Yacine Bidot.
00:22:57C'è, ieri si era fatto sotto questo sole,
00:23:00è un arrestino, è un gran premio pudistico
00:23:03per il povero Villano.
00:23:57YACINE BIDOT
00:24:01YACINE BIDOT
00:24:24And you're back with us.
00:24:26They're still recovering the arrows there.
00:24:28Many of the drivers have been running back to the pits
00:24:30as you saw just as you were leaving us.
00:24:32This is covered under Article 156 of the regulations.
00:24:36There's three types of race stoppage, really,
00:24:39and this is case A.
00:24:40Less than two full laps have been completed,
00:24:43and if the race can be restarted,
00:24:44then the following applies.
00:24:46The original start shall be deemed null and void.
00:24:49The length of the restarted race
00:24:51will be the full original race distance.
00:24:53Drivers who are eligible to take part in that race
00:24:56can start either in their race car
00:24:58or their T-car.
00:25:00This is an interesting one.
00:25:01Any driver who was forced to start from the back of the grid
00:25:04or the pit lane during the original start
00:25:06may start from his original grid position,
00:25:08which puts Wirtz back on the grid, effectively.
00:25:11And, well, it goes on.
00:25:13There's more detail.
00:25:14But he saw the Telstys.
00:25:16Yeah, but you've got to have rules.
00:25:18You've got to have a procedure.
00:25:19I mean, it all looks a bit of a fiasco at the moment,
00:25:21but there is a way of channeling this back in
00:25:23to try to become a motor race.
00:25:25But it's certainly struggling at the moment, isn't it?
00:25:28Well, here they are running back,
00:25:30and in the lead is Pedro Diniz.
00:25:32Behind him is Riccardo Zonta.
00:25:36And he's going up the inside, look.
00:25:37Yeah, and also out there are Nick Heidfelt,
00:25:41the cross driver.
00:25:42Jenson Button is already home.
00:25:45Pedro Diniz, as you see,
00:25:46is across the track into the crowd,
00:25:48and now they've got to get back into the pit lane.
00:25:50David Coulthard was out of his car very quickly indeed
00:25:54and taken his helmet off to cool down, no doubt.
00:25:57As Alexander Wurz there in the spare Benetton, I expect,
00:26:03is waiting to come out of the pit lane
00:26:05to start from his original position,
00:26:08having aborted the first one.
00:26:10And that's 12th position.
00:26:11Louise Goodman.
00:26:12James Robinson down at Williams.
00:26:14James, did Jenson say anything to you after that incident?
00:26:17No, he didn't.
00:26:18Obviously, he was straight out of the car,
00:26:19from what we could see.
00:26:20And he's just trying to get back.
00:26:21Obviously, he's just got in a spare car.
00:26:23But the pit lane technically is closed,
00:26:25so we're going to see if we can get him out or not.
00:26:27Probably won't.
00:26:28Bit of a tricky situation for him to have to deal with,
00:26:30for such an inexperienced driver.
00:26:32Do you think this is going to affect him?
00:26:34Is it going to rattle him?
00:26:35Have to wait and see.
00:26:36Thanks, James.
00:26:37I don't think it's going to rattle him.
00:26:38He's the most mature, calm, laid-back chap of 20 years old
00:26:43that I've ever met in my life.
00:26:45Most of the situations that Jenson is coming up against now
00:26:50are new to him,
00:26:51because this is very much his first season in Formula 1,
00:26:54and a very distinguished season it's been so far.
00:26:57This is only his seventh Grand Prix,
00:26:59and he has scored in two of them.
00:27:01And this is his first street race in Formula 1,
00:27:04and he's been performing extremely well already.
00:27:08He's only starting 14th on the grid, admittedly, out of 22,
00:27:12but he had all sorts of problems, as did most of them,
00:27:15because congestion is one of the big problems at Monaco.
00:27:18You've heard us talking about how difficult it is to get past cars,
00:27:23and James Allen is there in the pits.
00:27:25Situations like this, Murray,
00:27:26sometimes give rise to the funniest little things.
00:27:28All the sort of glamour and the glitz and the build-up
00:27:30that we always have at the build-up to the Grand Prix,
00:27:32and now we've had an aborted start,
00:27:34and one of the funniest things I've seen for a long time,
00:27:36there's one portable toilet at the end of the pit lane.
00:27:38Michael Schumacher decided immediately upon rejoining the grid
00:27:41he wanted to go to it,
00:27:42and shortly afterwards, Mick Hackett and Ralph Schumacher arrived
00:27:45and had to stand in an orderly queue
00:27:47while Michael sped to Petty,
00:27:49and then they all came back out again.
00:27:51It's a very, very strange day down here in the pits.
00:27:53So the Germans got to the loo as well, first of all,
00:27:56and David Coulthard is sitting as Scotland's representative in the McLaren.
00:28:03He's taking care of that problem, I presume.
00:28:05Yes, Coulthard wiping his face.
00:28:07Obviously, the beads of sweat, they come down,
00:28:09and they're salty, obviously, as you all know,
00:28:11and get in your eyes, and it's the last thing you need
00:28:13when you're driving around here.
00:28:16So, I tend to disagree with you, Mary,
00:28:19that Jenson won't be fazed by this.
00:28:21This is a third start for a difficult Grand Prix.
00:28:24He's caused one of the restarts with tripping over the arrows,
00:28:28but it's so easy to do down there in that hairpin.
00:28:32And a little bit of massage to the neck there of one of the Prost drivers.
00:28:37I think it looks like John Alessi from the Falky Bills,
00:28:43and it looks to me as though he's got a problem,
00:28:45and Alessi's starting seventh on the grid.
00:28:48That's just a bit of relaxation stuff, I think, isn't it?
00:28:50It is, it is, John Alessi.
00:28:51Incidentally, it gives me the opportunity to say,
00:28:53as I said at qualifying yesterday,
00:28:55that there's a pretty fraught situation at the Prost organisation
00:29:01because their technical chief, Alan Jenkins, has left,
00:29:06and the Entente Cordiale is not at all cordial.
00:29:10There's a very fraught atmosphere there,
00:29:12but to their credit, as a result of, ironically,
00:29:17something that Alan Jenkins found out in the aerodynamics area,
00:29:21the Prost is going very much better here than it has in the past,
00:29:25and Alessi has benefited that, seventh on the grid.
00:29:30Yes, Alessi going extremely well.
00:29:34Jarno Trulli, second on the grid.
00:29:38He's already started this race, or thought he'd started it,
00:29:40in the formation lap one, formation lap two.
00:29:44Third time lucky, we hope.
00:29:47The race restarting in five minutes' time, if all goes well.
00:29:52Yes, 31 minutes past the hour, the race will start,
00:29:55and it's a good chance for us to take another break
00:29:57so you can see more racing action later on.
00:30:07It's the first race of the season,
00:30:09and we've had several injuries,
00:30:11and we're at the 653rd race of the Roche Championship
00:30:17since 1950.
00:30:21We need to get ready for the next race,
00:30:25so we need to get ready for the next race.
00:30:27We need to get ready for the next race,
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00:33:26at the present moment, not to mention Malaysia, which we're looking forward to
00:33:30going to for the last Grand Prix of the year. Well, the spectators, and there are
00:33:35thousands of them, must be a record crowd here at Monaco. I have never seen the
00:33:39place as full as it is now. I've been coming here for a good few years. They've
00:33:45already had two lots of excitement and they're about to get a third. We're
00:33:49coming up to half, 30 minutes past the hour, one minute to go to the start of
00:33:55the third formation lap, and please everybody, join me in keeping your
00:34:01fingers crossed. We all desperately want to get this Monaco Grand Prix, the 58th
00:34:06of these great street races, on the road, quite literally. The last time I can
00:34:12remember three starts to a Grand Prix, I caused both the restarts in 1987. I remember it well, Austria.
00:34:17Austria 87. I had a coming together with Eddie Cheever on the first one and a
00:34:21suspension failure on the second one. I say to myself, what a hooligan that
00:34:26Malfello Bradwell is. I can't imagine what you used to say about me, Murray, when I
00:34:29couldn't hear you when I was down on the track. I dread to think. That was a very
00:34:33tricky one. Well, let's hope it doesn't happen again. 14, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37. We're
00:34:41coming up to 31, when Michael Schumacher will let in the hand clutch and away
00:34:46will go the Ferrari to lead the rest round. Well, if you thought it looked a
00:34:49bit skinny down the far end of the grid there, that's because we're expecting
00:34:53Wurz and Button, at least, to be starting from the pit lane. And Diniz, probably
00:34:59not even in the race at all. Because we've seen his car parked down at the
00:35:04station hairpin. Away goes Schumacher, but he's had some practice starts here today to add to those he's had in Fiorano on Friday.
00:35:13Yes, I think if Michael starts like that for the real thing, he'll be in fourth
00:35:17place by the first corner, but obviously he will not. He just wanted to get some
00:35:21temperature into those rear tyres. It's your best chance when you're pulling away to
00:35:25actually generate some temperature. And we think De La Rosa is also not starting
00:35:30the race. So let's remind ourselves what did happen when we thought the race had
00:35:35started. Michael Schumacher kept his first place as he went into Saint-Devote.
00:35:40Jarno Trulli did make a good start, but not as good as Schumacher. He was in
00:35:45second place. David Coulthard did not lose a place, nor did Fredson. And
00:35:49Micah Hackenham was still in fifth place. So some of them, and that's Alexander
00:35:54Wurz in the Benetton, the man who caused all the trouble in the first place.
00:35:58And he is going to be starting from the pit lane. That means to say that he will
00:36:02have to wait until all the other 21 cars and drivers have passed him before he
00:36:08can accelerate away up towards Saint-Devote. This is the famous chicane outside the
00:36:15tunnel. It's where Wurz went off a couple of years ago. We've got that
00:36:19fantastic shot of his nose of the Benetton, harpooning the bales between him
00:36:26and the armco barrier. There is Barry Keller. There is Alessi. There is Fisic
00:36:30Keller. That is Ralph Schumacher. Eddie Irvine is starting 10th on the grid. His
00:36:35teammate Johnny Herbert will be 11th. They're coming down to the Rascasse
00:36:39underneath the red bridge. Then there's a little curving right. That's Jensen
00:36:45Button sitting. He's going to be starting from the pit lane as well. You heard what
00:36:50James Robertson said to Louise Goodman. And the mechanics finally tighten down
00:36:55the side pod on Jensen Button's Williams BMW as Michael Schumacher.
00:37:02Now fingers crossed everybody. Fingers crossed. We must get the Monaco Grand Prix
00:37:07away this third time. Schumacher pole position. Jarno Trulli second on the grid.
00:37:13The silver and black McLaren behind Schumacher is David Coulthard. Yes and
00:37:18these clutches are just about the size of your fist now on a Formula One car.
00:37:22They're not really designed for a lot of restarts. This is putting them absolutely
00:37:26on the limit. One night and two and three and four and five and...
00:37:35Come on out! Go! Schumacher good again. Trulli, Trulli good again.
00:37:40And Fredsen slots in front of Hakenham. So the grid positions have been maintained.
00:37:45Are they going to get round Sanderbotten? Yes I think they are. Schumacher leads.
00:37:49Trulli, Coulthard, Fredsen, Micah Hakenham into Massenet into the Casino Square.
00:37:56Now they're coming up to the point where we had problems at the station hairpin.
00:38:01They turn into the Mirabeau, drop down towards the station hairpin and this is it.
00:38:07Yes Ralf Schumacher the main mover there. Ralf Schumacher getting a good start for the second time.
00:38:12And I think he has catapulted past John Alessi, Barrichello there behind Alessi.
00:38:17So Barrichello a poor start. Yeah Barrichello only qualified sixth on the grid.
00:38:21He's been passed by the mercurial John Alessi in the frost. Up into sixth position.
00:38:26A potential points position but we've still got 77 laps and a bit to go.
00:38:31As they come down to the chicane for the first time with Michael Schumacher in the lead.
00:38:36Johan O. Trulli is still there. David Coulthard treading on his gearbox.
00:38:39And they stream through absolutely critical this into the swimming pool section.
00:38:44They approach it at some 100 miles an hour.
00:38:47And this is the Rascasse and look at the gap already between Schumacher and Trulli.
00:38:52Yes critical there for Michael Schumacher. He needed Jarno Trulli to get away in front of Coulthard.
00:38:57That's going to give Schumacher such a breathing space.
00:39:00Unless Coulthard can do something about Trulli in these early laps.
00:39:03Otherwise you just settle into a rhythm but you've got to take such a risk to get past him.
00:39:07He needs the championship points but he also needs to try and win this motor race.
00:39:12And he's got to keep some pressure on Michael Schumacher if he can.
00:39:15And look at the lead Schumacher's got.
00:39:17Yes the worry man is Mikko Häkkinen. Worry because he's worried.
00:39:21He's in 5th position. He did not make up any places at the start.
00:39:25Look he's still locked in behind Heinz-Harald Frentzen as Schumacher leads.
00:39:29And he's increasing the gap between himself and Johan O. Trulli.
00:39:33And Mikko Häkkinen is looking all the time as he comes down to the station hairpin for a way round.
00:39:38Heinz-Harald Frentzen as...
00:39:40And if he does that too many times he'll lose his nosecoat Murray.
00:39:43And then he'll be half a minute behind him when he stops to have that change.
00:39:46Or worse still lose a front wishbone.
00:39:48So Häkkinen there having a bit of a wild stab up the inside of Frentzen.
00:39:52Frentzen having nothing of it into the hairpin there.
00:39:54And it's so difficult. You've got to be so focused on your piece of road.
00:39:57That staring in your mirrors through there watching out for people trying to overtake you.
00:40:01Is just not on the agenda.
00:40:03And Ralf Schumacher is in 6th position.
00:40:07Jenson Button who started in the pit lane is in 19th position.
00:40:11And there is Eddie Irvine in the Jaguar who has been passed by his team mate Johnny Herbert.
00:40:18Johnny Herbert was 11th on the grid behind Irvine.
00:40:21He's now 10th in the race ahead of Eddie Irvine.
00:40:25So there is Trulli. There is Coulthard.
00:40:28And Michael Schumacher is disappearing from sight as they go through.
00:40:32But it's very, very close behind them.
00:40:34Michael Schumacher as Häkkinen is looking again.
00:40:37And Frentzen coming up towards Zandervoort.
00:40:39But the German Heinz-Harald Frentzen in the Jordan Mugen which is going so well here.
00:40:47Knows this course very well indeed.
00:40:49He lives in Monaco as does Micah Häkkinen.
00:40:53And he knows that if he places his car correctly it's going to be virtually impossible for the Finn to get by.
00:40:58And now Micah Häkkinen is 5 seconds behind Schumacher.
00:41:02Yes, possibly Häkkinen's car is a little bit lighter to try and get him through the traffic early on.
00:41:07But one thing's for sure.
00:41:08He's certainly got a faster car and he can't do anything with it at the moment.
00:41:11I was wrong about Donitz not starting.
00:41:13He's in 14th place.
00:41:15But Button and Wurz did start in the pit lane in 18th and 19th as you've already said, Mary.
00:41:20And De La Rosa is the only one actually not in the race.
00:41:24So 21 runners at the moment.
00:41:26Through the tunnel, into the chicane.
00:41:28There is Ralf Schumacher.
00:41:30And you can see the gap between himself and Micah Häkkinen and it's not very much.
00:41:35As Jean Alési follows Schumacher in 7th position.
00:41:39Ahead of Rubens Barrichello who has lost two places.
00:41:43Very disappointing for the Ferrari driver because he qualified in 6th place.
00:41:48He was fastest in this morning's warm-up.
00:41:51Declared himself happy with the handling and the balance of the Ferrari.
00:41:54But never, in spite of that, he has lost two places in this race.
00:41:58And losing them is not too difficult.
00:42:01Getting them back is mighty difficult.
00:42:03Yes, just to remind you why Häkkinen's down there.
00:42:05He had a poor first run in qualifying.
00:42:07And then traffic, really, for the next two.
00:42:10And a fairly mediocre last effort.
00:42:12Still struggling a little bit with traffic.
00:42:14So Häkkinen, lucky in a way to qualify 5th.
00:42:17But it's compromised his afternoon.
00:42:18And look, Michael Schumacher, as we thought, scampering away.
00:42:21A well over three and a half second lead already.
00:42:24And remember, Michael Schumacher has already won four of the six races this year.
00:42:29With the declared objective of taking Ferrari back to the top in terms of winning the driver's championship.
00:42:36Which they have not done since Jody Schechter did so for them in 1979.
00:42:41It's been a long, long haul.
00:42:43And there's news from James Allen.
00:42:45Yes, this is just what McLaren feared.
00:42:46Not least because they got Jarni Trulli in front of them.
00:42:48But more importantly, he's the only one of a leading gaggle that's on the super soft tires.
00:42:53And what we've seen throughout the weekend is that they go off the understeer terribly.
00:42:56Between the second and the seventh laps of running.
00:42:58So this is going to mean that Trulli's going to hold them up even more.
00:43:01While Schumacher is able to pull away.
00:43:02It's exactly what McLaren didn't want for that reason.
00:43:05You can see how close it is.
00:43:06And here are the top ten on lap four out of 78.
00:43:10Schumacher leading by three and a half seconds.
00:43:12Jarno Trulli is second.
00:43:14Half a second ahead of David Coulthard.
00:43:17And there they are.
00:43:18Fourth is Frentzen.
00:43:20Fifth is Hackett.
00:43:21Sixth is Ralf Schumacher.
00:43:22Seventh is John Alessi.
00:43:23Eighth is Rubens Barrichello.
00:43:25Ninth is Fisichella.
00:43:26Johnny Herbert is tenth.
00:43:27And Eddie Irvine in the second Jaguar is in eleventh position.
00:43:31Jenson Button is still down in nineteenth position.
00:43:35Coming up the hill towards us.
00:43:37It's Frentzen.
00:43:38And Hackett.
00:43:39And Schumacher.
00:43:40And Alessi.
00:43:41And then Barrichello.
00:43:42Here is Michael Schumacher.
00:43:45Four times a winner at Monaco.
00:43:47Yes, and his car has been so reliable.
00:43:49When you think back, other than that brake problem in Silverstone last year,
00:43:52I think the last time Michael Schumacher's car failed him
00:43:55and had any kind of engine blow-up was in Melbourne, 1998.
00:44:00So he never got a super reliable car.
00:44:02We also know that Jordans tend to run a very big fuel tank
00:44:06and they tend to run very long.
00:44:08So they're sitting quite pretty at the moment.
00:44:10Hackett, if anything, just falling slightly away from Frentzen.
00:44:13I don't know if he made a mistake on the last lap,
00:44:15but Hackett not exactly carrying Frentzen.
00:44:17He's nine-tenths of a second down.
00:44:19Well, Frentzen was fourth last year,
00:44:22and he came in on lap 57.
00:44:24Here he is coming towards us.
00:44:26Hackett can do nothing about him.
00:44:28Nor can Ralf Schumacher, Alessi, Barrichello, Fisichella,
00:44:32Johnny Herbert you just saw coming towards us in the Jaguar.
00:44:35And we're on lap five.
00:44:37Still an enormous distance to go.
00:44:39The crowd has settled down.
00:44:41It's very hot indeed.
00:44:43As I talked to you, the track temperature remains at 40 degrees
00:44:47as the leaders round the Rascasse.
00:44:50Now, Schumacher is putting up fastest lap after fastest lap.
00:44:54He's just gone round in one minute, 24.3.
00:44:58The fastest lap last year was two laps quicker.
00:45:00Nicker Hackett.
00:45:01Dream scenario for Michael.
00:45:03He took one and a half seconds out of the opposition on the last lap,
00:45:06two seconds out of Frentzen.
00:45:08So, Michael with the track to himself,
00:45:10and the car working beautifully.
00:45:12He's just enjoying himself.
00:45:14As far as he's concerned, there's nobody else around this afternoon.
00:45:16It's a private test at the moment.
00:45:18Yeah, and it's not as though he is a new boy.
00:45:21Far from it.
00:45:22He made his first sparkling appearance in 1991
00:45:25at the Belgian Grand Prix driving for Eddie Jordan.
00:45:29That lasted one race before he was snappled by Benetton.
00:45:33So, he's very much a veteran now,
00:45:36and four times the winner here.
00:45:38Well, Coulthard's got to get closer than that
00:45:40to have any chance of overtaking Trulli,
00:45:43but then he's really got two and a half opportunities.
00:45:46One's coming out of the tunnel into the new chicane.
00:45:48The other is after the casino down into Mirabeau.
00:45:52He's got to wear Trulli down,
00:45:54or you can have a very wild stab up the inside into Grand Hairpin,
00:45:57but there's a good 50-50 chance that one will end in tears.
00:46:01Michael Schumacher nearly six seconds ahead
00:46:03of the yellow Jordan there of Jarno Trulli.
00:46:06You can see how close David Coulthard is,
00:46:08but then Frentzen is three and a half seconds behind Coulthard's McLaren.
00:46:12Out of the Antonino corner,
00:46:15up towards Sainte-Dame-de-Mont they come.
00:46:18Frentzen has got Häkkinen snapping at his gearbox,
00:46:21but the Finn can do nothing about it.
00:46:24Ralf Schumacher coming up the hill towards us in the wheel.
00:46:27BMW is in sixth position.
00:46:30But this race is a long, long way from being finished.
00:46:34We're on lap seven now, another 71 laps to go.
00:46:38Yes, Coulthard wasn't able to run this car in the warm-up.
00:46:40It failed, so he had to run in the T-car,
00:46:42and he was still making adjustments to it on the grid,
00:46:45even after the reconnaissance lap to go round to the grid.
00:46:49So it seems to be working well,
00:46:51but obviously he can't move with the Jordan in front of him.
00:46:53Now, this is the sort of drive I've been waiting for a long time,
00:46:57to see Jarno Trulli have the opportunity to have.
00:47:01He was absolutely brilliant in karts.
00:47:04He went straight from karts to Formula 3,
00:47:07and he was the German Formula 3 champion,
00:47:10which may seem a bit odd for an Italian,
00:47:12but that was the series he was driving in.
00:47:14There's Michael Schumacher leading.
00:47:15And Jarno Trulli won the German championship
00:47:18and then went up to the Minardi team.
00:47:21He actually led the Austrian Grand Prix three years ago
00:47:25in one of his first drives for the Prost team.
00:47:28And now he's in a car that can, at minimum,
00:47:31give him second position if he stays where he is.
00:47:34But I'm also asking myself,
00:47:36how much longer can the two Ferraris go on
00:47:39being as reliable as they have been?
00:47:41As you heard from Martin,
00:47:43it's over 30 races since Michael Schumacher
00:47:45went out with any kind of a mechanical function.
00:47:49Yes, now McLaren have to get their thinking caps on,
00:47:52because it's clear,
00:47:53whilst they've got faster cars than the Jordans
00:47:55at this stage of the race,
00:47:57they have not got enough extra speed
00:47:59to just breeze past them.
00:48:01So now what they're going to have to do
00:48:02is change their strategy
00:48:04and find a gap in the back markers.
00:48:06And this is assuming the Jordan drivers
00:48:08don't make a mistake,
00:48:09but they're both young, strong, and very fit.
00:48:11So they're going to have to find a gap in the traffic
00:48:14where they can stop their man early,
00:48:16give him some free air,
00:48:17and see if they can leapfrog the Jordans that way.
00:48:20Because, as I said,
00:48:21unless Coulthard can pressurise truly
00:48:23into some kind of error,
00:48:24he's not got enough traction or straight line speed
00:48:27to simply breeze past.
00:48:29Which is the sort of thing that happened
00:48:31in the Ferrari team last year.
00:48:33They finished first and second last year.
00:48:35Michael Schumacher won in 1999,
00:48:38his teammate Eddie Irvine was second.
00:48:40And it was largely thanks to the fact
00:48:42that Ross Brawn, the Ferrari technical chief,
00:48:45changed Eddie Irvine's strategy during the race,
00:48:49and he was the only one of the top six
00:48:51who stopped twice,
00:48:52because he came in as late as lap 56.
00:48:55And as a result of that,
00:48:57and the fact that Mika Häkkinen
00:48:59had a problem at the Mirabeau,
00:49:01and stopped and had to get back onto the track again,
00:49:04Eddie Irvine finished in second position.
00:49:06So, there is the Jordan,
00:49:08followed by the McLaren,
00:49:11and that is Ralf Schumacher.
00:49:13So, Frentzen and Häkkinen,
00:49:16up the hill towards the Macedon.
00:49:18Yes, yet another new fastest lap of the race,
00:49:20as Michael Schumacher extends his lead
00:49:22as you saw, to 8.4 seconds,
00:49:24after just eight laps.
00:49:26That means he's going to be,
00:49:28if the McLarens can't spring it,
00:49:30means Michael's going to be,
00:49:31assuming he's on a one-stopper,
00:49:32which I'd be very surprised if he's not,
00:49:34then he's going to be cruising up behind this lot
00:49:36at some point later in the afternoon.
00:49:38Well, I've worked it out earlier on,
00:49:40that we could expect the leader,
00:49:43who I was expecting to be, Michael Schumacher,
00:49:46to lap the last man,
00:49:48who, at the present moment, is Nick Heidfeld,
00:49:51after about 21 laps.
00:49:53Now, we're on lap eight at the present moment.
00:49:55There was roughly a four-second gap
00:49:58between the fastest and the slowest
00:50:00in the warm-up, the half-hour warm-up this morning,
00:50:03and now you can see that Michael Schumacher
00:50:06is carving his way through the field.
00:50:08Just the one retirement so far,
00:50:10Pedro de la Rosa in the Arrows,
00:50:12who actually did not get away.
00:50:14You're on board with David Coulthard.
00:50:15You're running third in this Grand Prix this afternoon,
00:50:18and as you can see, all he's got
00:50:20is a face full of Jordan rear wing.
00:50:23And what would be so easy for Coulthard to do
00:50:25is on a corner like he's just gone round,
00:50:27just to clump the barrier,
00:50:28just turn in a fraction too early
00:50:29while you're slightly unsighted,
00:50:31and it'll just spin you around,
00:50:33and the pendulum around,
00:50:34and it's so, so easy to do
00:50:36when you're focused on the car ahead of you.
00:50:38And this is a perfect indication
00:50:40of the fact that it is of paramount importance
00:50:43to qualify well at Monaco.
00:50:46If you qualify well and get a good start,
00:50:48you get the situation that we've got now,
00:50:51because the pole position man is leading.
00:50:53The man who was second on the grid is second.
00:50:55The man who was third on the grid is third.
00:50:57The man who was fourth on the grid,
00:50:59and it's him, Heinz-Harald Frentzen,
00:51:01is fourth, and Micah Häkkinen is fifth,
00:51:04as we ride with David Coulthard
00:51:06chasing Jarno Trulli into the Portier,
00:51:09where Senna went off in 1988,
00:51:11into the tunnel and through the tunnel,
00:51:13and they go through this tunnel
00:51:15and exit it at over 160,
00:51:17building up to 180 miles an hour
00:51:19as Jos Verstappen exits the tunnel
00:51:22and goes across the chicane.
00:51:24Yes, I was just about to say,
00:51:25amazingly, from the middle of the pack,
00:51:27Jos Verstappen's just done the fastest time of anybody
00:51:30in the race through the midsection.
00:51:31Now I know why he basically leapt across the chicane.
00:51:34He may or may not get penalized.
00:51:36The stewards will have a look
00:51:37and see if he got some kind of advantage,
00:51:39either made a place or retained a place,
00:51:41by doing that, and I don't think
00:51:43Verstappen will have a problem on that one.
00:51:45No, I don't think so.
00:51:46He was two seconds ahead of Deniz in the salvo,
00:51:49who is in 14th position.
00:51:51So, lap 11.
00:51:53We're about, we're exactly one-seventh of the way
00:51:56through the Monaco Grand Prix.
00:51:58Schumacher's now leading by nearly 11 seconds
00:52:01with another fastest lap.
00:52:03Lap after lap, Micah Schumacher
00:52:05is extending his lead over Jarno Trulli.
00:52:08There is the Jordan,
00:52:10followed by David Coulthard's McLaren.
00:52:13Then there is a gap of three seconds
00:52:15before the Frentzen and Hakkinen battle arrives,
00:52:18followed by Ralf Schumacher,
00:52:19who is a second behind Hakkinen.
00:52:21Alessi's still seventh.
00:52:22Barrichello is still a busy calendar night.
00:52:25Johnny Herbert is still ahead of Eddie Irvine,
00:52:27and Herbert is tenth.
00:52:29Yes, Michael Schumacher's done a new fastest lap
00:52:32for the last six laps of this motor race.
00:52:35We need, we all need,
00:52:37Coulthard to pass that Jordan,
00:52:39if only to give us a race this afternoon,
00:52:41because Michael's just going to be running and hiding.
00:52:44Well, this is a very, very long world championship.
00:52:47This is race seven.
00:52:49There are 17 races in the championship,
00:52:52and remember what happened to Michael Schumacher
00:52:55at the British Grand Prix last year
00:52:57when he had just lost the leadership
00:52:59of the world championship to Micah Hakkinen.
00:53:03But at the present moment,
00:53:05Schumacher is running away with it.
00:53:07He's 18 points ahead of Micah Hakkinen,
00:53:10and Schumacher is on a possible
00:53:11ten world championship points at the moment.
00:53:14Hakkinen is on a possible
00:53:15two world championship points at the moment.
00:53:18So if things stay as they are,
00:53:19and I don't suppose for a moment they will,
00:53:21Schumacher would be extending his lead
00:53:23over Micah Hakkinen by a further eight points,
00:53:26and it would be looking very grim indeed.
00:53:28Now, that is Johnny Herbert and Eddie Irvine
00:53:31just deciding he's not going to make the chicane,
00:53:34and I don't think he would suffer.
00:53:36I don't think Verstappen's going to do it,
00:53:38and I don't think Irvine will either.
00:53:40Yes, it's very easy to take that decision
00:53:42to scamper across that no-man's land.
00:53:44There should be big spikes in there
00:53:45that stops them going across it.
00:53:46It's too easy to take the soft option there.
00:53:49Yeah, the lines, those red and white lines of the chicane,
00:53:52not at the hairpin, Matt, but at the chicane,
00:53:55are just painted on the ground.
00:53:56There was a time when they actually had
00:53:58a raised wooden structure,
00:54:00and if you thumped that, you were in trouble
00:54:02with a puncture or a broken wheel or broken suspension,
00:54:05but they thought better of it.
00:54:06They just painted the lines on the track,
00:54:08and as you heard from Martin,
00:54:10if you cross the chicane and you benefit,
00:54:14that is, you pass a driver, you will be penalised.
00:54:17You can see they're running wide there quite deliberately,
00:54:20but if you just nip across and you don't gain from it,
00:54:24you are not penalised.
00:54:25Yes, but if they perceive that you would have lost a place
00:54:28because of your misdemeanour,
00:54:29they nailed a Formula 3000 driver yesterday.
00:54:32Well, he didn't gain a place,
00:54:33but surely he'd made a mistake
00:54:35and managed to keep his place somehow,
00:54:37so he got a ten-second stop-and-go penalty,
00:54:40which, with a 60km per hour, 40mph speed limit
00:54:43down the never-ending pit lane here,
00:54:45is quite a penalty indeed.
00:54:47And you're certainly not encouraged to do it regularly.
00:54:50So Micah Hackenham will be a gigantically frustrated man.
00:54:54He's now 17 seconds behind his World Championship rival,
00:54:58Michael Schumacher.
00:54:59Tucked in behind Frensen with Ralf Schumacher
00:55:02in the Williams BMW,
00:55:04confidently holding on to that sixth position
00:55:06and a points position.
00:55:08Now, where is Jenson Button in the other Williams?
00:55:10The answer is he's still in 19th position,
00:55:13because although he's riding underneath the rear wing
00:55:16of Gaston Mazzucane's Minardi,
00:55:19and this is the first time, too,
00:55:21that the Argentine driver has driven at Monaco,
00:55:23Mazzucane is not letting Button through,
00:55:26and as I said earlier on,
00:55:27if you don't get some help from the driver in front,
00:55:30it's going to be virtually impossible to get past.
00:55:32So why, you may say, do they hold a motor race
00:55:35at a place like this if you cannot pass?
00:55:37Well, many of the, in fact,
00:55:39most of the Grand Prix circuits these days
00:55:41are very difficult to pass on.
00:55:43The performance of the cars is similar.
00:55:45They're all top drivers,
00:55:47and the big problem is an aerodynamic one.
00:55:50Yes, but you've got to have different styles of racetrack.
00:55:53You can't, I mean, in the ideal world of safety
00:55:56and all of that sort of thing,
00:55:57you'd end up with a long straight,
00:55:59and all the spectators 500 metres away
00:56:01looking through binoculars.
00:56:02You've got to have different types of circuit,
00:56:04test the drivers.
00:56:05The qualifying here plays a much bigger part
00:56:08than at normal racetracks,
00:56:11but it's all part of a very special weekend,
00:56:13a very specific kind of racetrack,
00:56:16and it should be in the calendar, no doubt about that.
00:56:19Oh, yes, absolutely. Magic.
00:56:21Now, we are not seeing much of Michael Schumacher
00:56:24because he is out on his own so much.
00:56:26He's 12 seconds ahead now.
00:56:28He's just done yet another fastest lap.
00:56:31He's streaking away with this race.
00:56:34His fastest lap, which he has just done,
00:56:37is 1 minute 23.6,
00:56:40which is 1.2 seconds,
00:56:421.4 seconds slower
00:56:44than Micah Hacken at his fastest lap last year.
00:56:47As a matter of interest,
00:56:48Michael Schumacher has the lap record here.
00:56:50It's as long ago as 1994 in the Benetton,
00:56:54which is a 3.5-litre engine device,
00:56:57and there are 3 litres these days,
00:56:59and that was 1.21,
00:57:01so he's about 2.5 seconds slower
00:57:04than his own all-time lap record
00:57:06as Fredson, Hacken and Schumacher
00:57:08go through the chicane on lap 14 out of 78.
00:57:12Yes, that was back in the days, though,
00:57:14Michael's fastest time,
00:57:15when they had wide, uncut slicks,
00:57:18so around a circuit like this,
00:57:20it makes a tremendous amount of difference.
00:57:23So, the swimming pool section,
00:57:26and Missy Keller is putting on a bit of a charge now.
00:57:30He is in 9th position,
00:57:33tucked up behind Rubens Barrichello.
00:57:35Now, Barrichello is 8th in the Ferrari,
00:57:38cannot get past Alesis Prost,
00:57:40who cannot get past Schumacher's Williams,
00:57:43who cannot get past Mika Hakkinen's McLaren,
00:57:46and Mika Hakkinen is in 5th position.
00:57:49Missy Keller closing up
00:57:51right on the rear wing of Barrichello's Ferrari.
00:57:55I can't help but watch Hakkinen
00:57:57and think he's having another one of those days
00:57:59where he doesn't seem that interested.
00:58:01It's just a feeling you get on the season so far,
00:58:04in some respects,
00:58:05and Mika just doesn't look really on it
00:58:08in his normal way there.
00:58:09He's falling away again from the back of Fredson.
00:58:12In a way, though, I think that's what Coulthard
00:58:14should maybe do.
00:58:15Just back off a little bit,
00:58:16cool his tyres down,
00:58:17and come back and have another run at Trulli
00:58:20and try and distract him in that way.
00:58:23I think now they've settled into a rhythm.
00:58:25You just get in a trance
00:58:26following the car in front of you.
00:58:28You should really...
00:58:29I think if he just backs off a bit,
00:58:30cools the tyres,
00:58:31but then, you know,
00:58:32if they come up against back markers
00:58:33or Trulli makes a mistake,
00:58:34then he wouldn't be in a position to maximise on it.
00:58:37So, it's a difficult decision.
00:58:40You can understand that the McLaren people
00:58:42are not bringing Coulthard in,
00:58:44in spite of the fact that he can't get past Trulli
00:58:47in front of him,
00:58:48because we're only on lap 16.
00:58:50And even if he was on a one-stop strategy
00:58:53and they decided to change it to two,
00:58:55it would mean he'd be going out
00:58:56with a terrific fuel load
00:58:58and coming back into the race during traffic.
00:59:00Well, yes,
00:59:01they're nowhere near the window for stopping.
00:59:04I would have thought the window to stop
00:59:05would be somewhere 38, 40 laps into the race.
00:59:08Through to 55, 56.
00:59:10So, until we get, I would have thought,
00:59:12at least into the 40s,
00:59:13McLaren hamstrung on any kind of tactics they can play.
00:59:17Now, Shimaka knows that,
00:59:19Ferrari know that,
00:59:20McLaren know that,
00:59:21but they can do nothing about it.
00:59:23And Jordan will not be at all unhappy
00:59:26with this situation.
00:59:27Jordan have not been performing
00:59:29to their satisfaction this season so far.
00:59:32They were third in the championship last year,
00:59:35behind Ferrari and McLaren.
00:59:38This year, they're down in fifth position,
00:59:41but behind Benetton.
00:59:43But if they stay where they are now,
00:59:45they will be moving up
00:59:46and probably getting past Williams,
00:59:48who are currently an unexpected third.
00:59:51I asked Truly a question on the start line
00:59:53that I asked very specifically,
00:59:54did he think it would be more physically
00:59:56or mentally demanding?
00:59:58And he said both.
00:59:59I think he is one of the very fittest drivers
01:00:02physically in Formula 1.
01:00:03But I wonder if he was ready
01:00:04to take this sort of pressure.
01:00:06But three restarts
01:00:07and 17 on their 17th lap of the race
01:00:11and Truly shows no sign of bending whatsoever.
01:00:14But it's a long, long afternoon ahead of him.
01:00:16He is gigantically fit.
01:00:18I mean, he's taking part
01:00:19in the upcoming New York marathon.
01:00:21That's how fit he is.
01:00:22And he's also very fit mentally.
01:00:25I think we tend to lose sight
01:00:27of how long these drivers
01:00:29have all been racing
01:00:31in some kind of motorsport.
01:00:33For instance,
01:00:34Ralf Schumacher drove in karts
01:00:36for 14 years
01:00:38before he came up to Formula 3.
01:00:41And Ralf Schumacher is only 24 years old
01:00:43and Jarno Trulli
01:00:44will be in much the same situation.
01:00:46Now we're looking at the McLaren
01:00:49chasing the Jordan.
01:00:51Yes, now Truly is very slow at the moment.
01:00:53He was 1.6 seconds slower
01:00:55than Michael Schumacher on the last lap.
01:00:57And that's allowing the pack, look,
01:00:59to catch them at well over a second a lap.
01:01:01Now Coulthard is going to get a hurry-up call
01:01:03because he's soon going to have
01:01:05Fredsen, Häkkinen and Ralf Schumacher
01:01:07on his tail.
01:01:08And it's because Trulli
01:01:09just does not appear to have
01:01:11the pace of the others
01:01:12at this stage of the race.
01:01:13With Michael Schumacher
01:01:15leading on lap 17
01:01:17by 17 seconds.
01:01:18So he's been pulling away
01:01:20at the rate of a second a lap.
01:01:23And he's soon going to be in a situation
01:01:25where he can come in,
01:01:27stop, take on fuel
01:01:29and new tyres
01:01:31and get out still in the lead.
01:01:33Which is a racing driver's dream of home.
01:01:35Michael Schumacher then 17 seconds
01:01:37ahead of Jarno Trulli
01:01:39who's got David Coulthard
01:01:41right behind him.
01:01:42There he is, David Coulthard.
01:01:44Fredsen is now catching
01:01:46David Coulthard.
01:01:47There is the Jordan
01:01:48and behind him is Micah Häkkinen.
01:01:50So things are closing up nicely
01:01:52and Micah Häkkinen is putting on
01:01:54a tremendous charge
01:01:55in fifth position.
01:01:56He's really pressuring
01:01:58Heinz-Harald Fredsen.
01:01:59Here he is.
01:02:00There is Fredsen now.
01:02:02There is Micah Häkkinen.
01:02:04They're going round the masonnay.
01:02:06So Jordan leads McLaren.
01:02:08Jordan leads McLaren.
01:02:10Ferrari leads the race.
01:02:11And Ralph Schumacher is sixth.
01:02:13Yes, it looks like
01:02:14they've all sort of had a meeting
01:02:15and said,
01:02:16how can we make this
01:02:18as easy as possible
01:02:19for Ferrari to win this race?
01:02:21Because it's just playing so much
01:02:23into Michael Schumacher's hands.
01:02:24He'll be grinning from ear to ear
01:02:26in the cockpit of the Ferrari
01:02:28at the moment.
01:02:29But as you've said before many times,
01:02:30Mary,
01:02:31anything can happen
01:02:32and it often does.
01:02:33Yeah.
01:02:34And into the pits
01:02:35comes the high wing Williams
01:02:37of Jenson Button
01:02:39from
01:02:4121st position.
01:02:43So it looks as though
01:02:44he's going to be a retirement.
01:02:45He was 19th.
01:02:47And yeah, this is Button
01:02:48going out of the race.
01:02:50And that's a comparatively
01:02:52new experience
01:02:53for Jenson Button too.
01:02:55He failed to finish in Australia
01:02:57and he failed to finish in Imola.
01:03:01And he's going to fail to finish
01:03:02for his first Monaco Grand Prix.
01:03:04What the problem was,
01:03:05I obviously don't know.
01:03:06So we now have two retirements
01:03:08on lap 19.
01:03:09The first,
01:03:10De La Rosa
01:03:11in the arrows.
01:03:12The second,
01:03:13Jenson Button
01:03:14in the Williams.
01:03:15That leaves 20 drivers.
01:03:16Nobody has been lapped yet.
01:03:18Nick Heidfeld in the Frost
01:03:20is 20th and last
01:03:21of the runners
01:03:22at the present moment.
01:03:23And it is truly
01:03:24too far.
01:03:26Fritzen,
01:03:27Hakkinen.
01:03:30It's a great shame
01:03:31for Jenson Button now.
01:03:32There's a lot of speculation
01:03:33which we've covered,
01:03:34of course, that Montoya
01:03:35coming back from America
01:03:36taking his seat
01:03:37at Williams next year.
01:03:39And just when you need
01:03:40some sparkling runs,
01:03:41he's just not been lucky.
01:03:43I think he's shown a lot of skill,
01:03:44a lot of maturity around here.
01:03:46But it's not been a great weekend.
01:03:47The last thing he needed
01:03:48was a first lap incident
01:03:50and then a retirement
01:03:51before he could really show
01:03:52any kind of skill
01:03:54around this,
01:03:55the most demanding,
01:03:56one of the most demanding
01:03:57racetracks in the world.
01:03:58And you're absolutely right,
01:03:59Martin.
01:04:00Although it's happening
01:04:01very slowly,
01:04:03Coulthard is staying
01:04:04right behind Trulli,
01:04:05but Fritzen is catching
01:04:07Coulthard
01:04:08with Mika Hakkinen
01:04:09right behind him.
01:04:10So we're very soon.
01:04:11There is Fritzen.
01:04:12There is Mika Hakkinen.
01:04:13There is Ralf Schumacher.
01:04:14Here is Jean Alési
01:04:16in the chromium-plated helmet.
01:04:18And very soon,
01:04:19we're going to...
01:04:20Oh, and out goes
01:04:21Alexander Wurz.
01:04:23Well, yet,
01:04:24when things start
01:04:25to go wrong for you,
01:04:26they go wrong
01:04:27all the time.
01:04:28And we're going to get
01:04:29another indication here
01:04:30of how good
01:04:31the Monaco marshals are.
01:04:32They are absolutely terrific.
01:04:34Here is a replay
01:04:35of Alexander Wurz
01:04:37at Saint-Denis,
01:04:38losing control
01:04:39of the Benetton,
01:04:40going nose first
01:04:41into the barrier
01:04:42and feet first
01:04:43out of the race
01:04:45as he walks back.
01:04:46And Wurz
01:04:47was down in 17th position,
01:04:49so that lets Mazzacane.
01:04:51Up here is Mazzacane,
01:04:52followed by Marc Genet,
01:04:54now 19th.
01:04:55Nick Heidfeld
01:04:56in 20th position.
01:04:58You're looking at
01:04:59Jos Verstappen
01:05:00followed by Pedro Diniz.
01:05:01They are 13th
01:05:02and 14th.
01:05:04And, uh...
01:05:06I'm just trying
01:05:07to work out well.
01:05:08Nick Heidfeld
01:05:09is now 64 seconds
01:05:11behind Michael Schumacher.
01:05:13And he is lapping
01:05:15about 1.6 seconds
01:05:18a lap slower
01:05:19than the Ferrari.
01:05:21So, in, uh...
01:05:23another
01:05:2410 laps or so,
01:05:26which is about where
01:05:27I expected it to be,
01:05:28the Ferrari is going
01:05:29to be lapping
01:05:30or coming up to
01:05:31lap Heidfeld.
01:05:32Yes, well,
01:05:33you saw truly going into
01:05:34the new chicane
01:05:35down at the beginning
01:05:36of the harbour
01:05:37as Michael Schumacher
01:05:38was leaving the harbour
01:05:39around the Rascasse restaurant
01:05:40heading in.
01:05:41He's just gone past
01:05:42that window down
01:05:43the pit straight
01:05:44and the other guys
01:05:45are still around
01:05:46so that's the kind of...
01:05:48We're about
01:05:50four or five laps
01:05:51I would guess
01:05:52at Michael having to
01:05:53start to lap people.
01:05:55And then, uh...
01:05:56shortly after that
01:05:57we should see
01:05:58Trulli
01:05:59and Coulthard
01:06:00in the same sort of
01:06:01situation.
01:06:02That might be a chance
01:06:03for Coulthard
01:06:04and indeed for Häkkinen
01:06:05to do something
01:06:06about the Jordans
01:06:07in front of them
01:06:08if they've got the speed.
01:06:09Remember that, uh...
01:06:10in the last Grand Prix
01:06:12we had the European Grand Prix
01:06:13at the Nürburgring.
01:06:14Micah Häkkinen
01:06:15made the absolutely
01:06:16incredible start
01:06:17from third position
01:06:18and went straight between
01:06:19his team-mate
01:06:20David Coulthard
01:06:21in pole position
01:06:22and Michael Schumacher
01:06:23who was second on the grid
01:06:24to take the lead
01:06:25although Michael Schumacher
01:06:26won the race.
01:06:27Well, here
01:06:28Micah Häkkinen
01:06:29started
01:06:30well down the field
01:06:31by his standards
01:06:32because he was only
01:06:33fifth on the grid.
01:06:34He wasn't able
01:06:35to do anything about it
01:06:36at the start
01:06:37and fifth is where
01:06:38he still is.
01:06:39So, Michael Schumacher
01:06:40is in the lead
01:06:41and Michael Schumacher
01:06:42is in the lead
01:06:43and Michael Schumacher
01:06:44is in the lead
01:06:45and Michael Schumacher
01:06:46is in the lead
01:06:47and Michael Schumacher
01:06:48is in the lead
01:06:49and Michael Schumacher
01:06:50is in the lead
01:06:51and Michael Schumacher
01:06:52is in the lead
01:06:53and Michael Schumacher
01:06:54is in the lead
01:06:55and Michael Schumacher
01:06:56is in the lead
01:06:57and Michael Schumacher
01:06:58is in the lead
01:06:59and Michael Schumacher
01:07:00is in the lead
01:07:01and Michael Schumacher
01:07:02is in the lead
01:07:03and Michael Schumacher
01:07:04is in the lead
01:07:05and Michael Schumacher
01:07:06is in the lead
01:07:07and Michael Schumacher
01:07:08is in the lead
01:07:09and Michael Schumacher
01:07:10is in the lead
01:07:11and Michael Schumacher
01:07:12is in the lead
01:07:13and Michael Schumacher
01:07:14is in the lead
01:07:15and Michael Schumacher
01:07:16is in the lead
01:07:17and Michael Schumacher
01:07:18is in the lead
01:07:19and Michael Schumacher
01:07:20is in the lead
01:07:21and Michael Schumacher
01:07:22is in the lead
01:07:23and Michael Schumacher
01:07:24is in the lead
01:07:25and Michael Schumacher
01:07:26is in the lead
01:07:27and Michael Schumacher
01:07:28is in the lead
01:07:29and Michael Schumacher
01:07:30is in the lead
01:07:31and Michael Schumacher
01:07:32is in the lead
01:07:33and Michael Schumacher
01:07:34is in the lead
01:07:35and Michael Schumacher
01:07:36is in the lead
01:07:37and Michael Schumacher
01:07:38is in the lead
01:07:39and Michael Schumacher
01:07:40is in the lead
01:07:41There is Matakane and Jeunet
01:07:42There is Matakane and Jeunet
01:07:43There is Matakane and Jeunet
01:07:44in the two Minardis
01:07:45in the two Minardis
01:07:46and Pedro Diniz leading that lot
01:07:47and Pedro Diniz leading that lot
01:07:48is in 14th position
01:07:49is in 14th position
01:07:50I was saying
01:07:51I was saying
01:07:52these drivers are superlatively fit
01:07:53these drivers are superlatively fit
01:07:54and there is absolutely
01:07:55you'll know better than I do
01:07:56and there is absolutely
01:07:57you'll know better than I do
01:07:58Martin, heaven knows
01:07:59Martin, heaven knows
01:08:00but there is absolutely
01:08:01no respite at all at Monaco
01:08:02but there is absolutely
01:08:03no respite at all at Monaco
01:08:04I think they're a bunch of wussies
01:08:05I think they're a bunch of wussies
01:08:06we used to change gear
01:08:072700 times around here
01:08:08so it's made pretty easy for them
01:08:09so it's made pretty easy for them
01:08:10in that respect
01:08:11but for sure the pace is very hot
01:08:12but for sure the pace is very hot
01:08:13Yeah, in those days
01:08:14you literally physically
01:08:15had to move the gear lever
01:08:16had to move the gear lever
01:08:17and coordinate the engine revs
01:08:18and the clutch
01:08:19to make sure that you didn't
01:08:20overrev and blow the engine up
01:08:21to make sure that you didn't
01:08:22overrev and blow the engine up
01:08:23there is no danger of that happening now
01:08:24there is no danger of that happening now
01:08:25the whole thing is controlled by electronics
01:08:26the whole thing is controlled by electronics
01:08:27the driver just pulls the paddle
01:08:28the driver just pulls the paddle
01:08:29under the steering wheel
01:08:30under the steering wheel
01:08:31and everything is looked after for him
01:08:32and everything is looked after for him
01:08:33a good grip out there at the moment
01:08:34a good grip out there at the moment
01:08:35I think they've gone through that phase
01:08:36James was talking about
01:08:37where the tyres lose a bit of grip
01:08:38where the tyres lose a bit of grip
01:08:39and then start coming back to the drivers
01:08:40and then start coming back to the drivers
01:08:41as they get nearer and nearer
01:08:42to slick conditions
01:08:43Michael Schumacher
01:08:44with a new fastest lap of the race
01:08:45with a new fastest lap of the race
01:08:46there is the Menardie
01:08:47there is the Menardie
01:08:48Yeah, sensibly
01:08:49Yeah, sensibly
01:08:50if he can just let it freewheel
01:08:51if he can just let it freewheel
01:08:52a little bit further
01:08:53he'll be well out of the race track there
01:08:54he'll be well out of the race track there
01:08:55and the marshals can quite easily
01:08:56and the marshals can quite easily
01:08:57recover that car
01:08:58through the gap in the barrier there
01:09:00so it'll be covered under yellows
01:09:01so it'll be covered under yellows
01:09:02no safety car, no pace car needed there
01:09:03no safety car, no pace car needed there
01:09:04Extremely expensive jewellery shop
01:09:05Extremely expensive jewellery shop
01:09:06just to the left of where he's stopped
01:09:07just to the left of where he's stopped
01:09:08I don't suppose that'll interest him very much
01:09:09I don't suppose that'll interest him very much
01:09:10David Coulthard plunging down
01:09:11David Coulthard plunging down
01:09:12and having a look to the side
01:09:13and having a look to the side
01:09:14of Jarno Trollis-Jordan
01:09:15of Jarno Trollis-Jordan
01:09:16who calmly moves across to the right
01:09:17who calmly moves across to the right
01:09:18and puts any idea of David Coulthard
01:09:19and puts any idea of David Coulthard
01:09:20that he might have left through
01:09:21that he might have left through
01:09:22which he wouldn't have done out of his mind
01:09:23which he wouldn't have done out of his mind
01:09:24and you can see that Ralf Schumacher
01:09:25and you can see that Ralf Schumacher
01:09:26is now in the Williams BMW 6th position
01:09:27is now in the Williams BMW 6th position
01:09:28right on the tail of Mika Häkkinen's McLaren
01:09:29right on the tail of Mika Häkkinen's McLaren
01:09:30in 5th place
01:09:31in 5th place
01:09:32here is race leader Michael Schumacher
01:09:33here is race leader Michael Schumacher
01:09:34and in the all red look now
01:09:35and in the all red look now
01:09:36red Ferrari, red helmet
01:09:37red Ferrari, red helmet
01:09:38most frustrating thing about those slow corners
01:09:39most frustrating thing about those slow corners
01:09:40most frustrating thing about those slow corners
01:09:41when you're following a car very closely
01:09:42when you're following a car very closely
01:09:43is the guy in front of you
01:09:44is guaranteed to be on the throttle
01:09:45is the guy in front of you
01:09:46is guaranteed to be on the throttle
01:09:47a car length and a fraction ahead of you
01:09:48a car length and a fraction ahead of you
01:09:49you can't accelerate before he does
01:09:50you'll run into him
01:09:51you can't accelerate before he does
01:09:52you'll run into him
01:09:53so another Minardi going off at Sainte Devote
01:09:54so another Minardi going off at Sainte Devote
01:09:55Mazzacane as you can see
01:09:56Mazzacane as you can see
01:09:57Mazzacane as you can see
01:09:58so that'll be well and truly out of the race
01:09:59so that'll be well and truly out of the race
01:10:00so that'll be well and truly out of the race
01:10:01look they've just been ripping wheels off all weekend
01:10:02look they've just been ripping wheels off all weekend
01:10:03it's absolutely amazing
01:10:04I don't know whether it's just the new
01:10:05I don't know whether it's just the new
01:10:06I don't know whether it's just the new
01:10:07the way they make the suspension now
01:10:08the way they make the suspension now
01:10:09but they've just been falling off so easily
01:10:10but they've just been falling off so easily
01:10:11four group tyres
01:10:12four group tyres
01:10:13and there is Marc Genet out of the race
01:10:14and there is Marc Genet out of the race
01:10:15now Mazzacane is out of the race
01:10:16now Mazzacane is out of the race
01:10:17now Mazzacane is out of the race
01:10:18there he is
01:10:19there he is
01:10:20so it's an early bath for the Minardi team
01:10:21so it's an early bath for the Minardi team
01:10:22so it's an early bath for the Minardi team
01:10:23and their drive
01:10:24and their drive
01:10:25so now we have got 18
01:10:26so now we have got 18
01:10:2817 cars left of the race
01:10:2917 cars left of the race
01:10:30because De La Rosa is out
01:10:31because De La Rosa is out
01:10:32Button is out
01:10:33Woods is out
01:10:34Genet is out
01:10:35Mazzacane is out
01:10:3617 left
01:10:3717 left
01:10:38only 8 finished last year
01:10:39only 8 finished last year
01:10:4055 laps remaining
01:10:4155 laps remaining
01:10:42and I've said it before over the years
01:10:43and I've said it before over the years
01:10:44but when they hang a pit board out
01:10:45but when they hang a pit board out
01:10:46and you see 55 laps to go
01:10:47and you see 55 laps to go
01:10:48you cannot believe
01:10:49you cannot believe
01:10:50that you haven't done at least half distance
01:10:51that you haven't done at least half distance
01:10:52it seems
01:10:53it seems
01:10:54the early stages of this race
01:10:55the early stages of this race
01:10:56it speeds up
01:10:57it speeds up
01:10:58as you move through the afternoon
01:10:59as you move through the afternoon
01:11:00there's 4 seconds
01:11:01there's 4 seconds
01:11:02covering 2nd to 6th
01:11:03covering 2nd to 6th
01:11:04at the present moment
01:11:05covering 2nd to 6th
01:11:06at the present moment
01:11:0723 seconds 1st to 2nd
01:11:0823 seconds 1st to 2nd
01:11:0923 seconds 1st to 2nd
01:11:10that is a mark of the skill
01:11:11that is a mark of the skill
01:11:12of Michael Schumacher
01:11:13of Michael Schumacher
01:11:14I've always said
01:11:15that if he gets into a car
01:11:16that is the equal of the McLaren
01:11:17that is the equal of the McLaren
01:11:18which he hasn't had in the past
01:11:19which he hasn't had in the past
01:11:20heaven help us
01:11:21because he'll be on his way
01:11:22because he'll be on his way
01:11:23which is...
01:11:24which is...
01:11:26I don't stand in the garage
01:11:27I don't stand in the garage
01:11:28as I come with the team
01:11:29as I come with the team
01:11:30up onto the wall
01:11:31and I'm leaning pretty much
01:11:32just behind Ross Braun's shoulder
01:11:33and I'm leaning pretty much
01:11:34just behind Ross Braun's shoulder
01:11:35and he's said very very little
01:11:36to Michael throughout this race
01:11:37and he's said very very little
01:11:38to Michael throughout this race
01:11:39it really is something of a walk
01:11:40it really is something of a walk
01:11:41in the park for the German
01:11:42in the park for the German
01:11:43he's now approaching the area
01:11:44he's now approaching the area
01:11:45where he's got the 26 seconds
01:11:46where he's got the 26 seconds
01:11:47that he needs
01:11:48in order to make a stop
01:11:49in order to make a stop
01:11:50and be able to rejoin
01:11:51ahead of the 2nd placed man
01:11:52ahead of the 2nd placed man
01:11:53the same refuelling team
01:11:54the same refuelling team
01:11:55that we had at the last race
01:11:56that we had at the last race
01:11:57of the Nürburgring
01:11:58Nigel Stepney, the chief mechanic
01:11:59of the Nürburgring
01:12:00Nigel Stepney, the chief mechanic
01:12:01is back here
01:12:02is back here
01:12:03but he's not taking part
01:12:04but he's not taking part
01:12:05in the pit stops
01:12:06in the pit stops
01:12:07I had a word with Nigel Stepney
01:12:08I had a word with Nigel Stepney
01:12:09the English chief mechanic
01:12:10the English chief mechanic
01:12:11of Ferrari
01:12:12who took on the responsibility
01:12:13of handling the nozzle end
01:12:14of the fuel ring
01:12:15of the fuel ring
01:12:16a very demanding job
01:12:17a very demanding job
01:12:18and he's got a bit of binding
01:12:19and he's got a bit of binding
01:12:20around his leg
01:12:21but he's perfectly alright
01:12:22with that situation
01:12:23with that situation
01:12:24where Michael Schumacher
01:12:25ran over Stepney
01:12:26because there's so many of us
01:12:27would like to run him over
01:12:28and he beat us to it
01:12:29but I'm only joking
01:12:30because Stepney
01:12:31he can be a bit
01:12:32a bit abrasive can Nigel
01:12:33but he's a good guy
01:12:34does a brilliant job
01:12:35for the Ferrari team
01:12:36but I know they've got
01:12:37a few people to fill in for him
01:12:38and it's really nice
01:12:39to see him back at the races
01:12:40to see him back at the races
01:12:41So Michael Schumacher
01:12:42So Michael Schumacher
01:12:43is on his 26th lap
01:12:44is on his 26th lap
01:12:4549 laps left
01:12:4649 laps left
01:12:47if my arithmetic
01:12:48if my arithmetic
01:12:49is correct
01:12:50is correct
01:12:51and he's continuing
01:12:52to stride away
01:12:53with this race
01:12:54it's not so much
01:12:55a question of who wins
01:12:56provided Michael Schumacher
01:12:57keeps going
01:12:58to his fifth victory
01:12:59at Monaco
01:13:00to match that
01:13:01at Monaco
01:13:02to match that
01:13:03of the great Graham Hill
01:13:04of the great Graham Hill
01:13:05as who's going to be second
01:13:06as who's going to be second
01:13:07because things could
01:13:08very well change
01:13:09because things could
01:13:10very well change
01:13:11because we're getting
01:13:12to a situation now
01:13:13because we're getting
01:13:14to a situation now
01:13:15with Jarno Trulli,
01:13:16Coulthard,
01:13:17Frentzen, Hacken
01:13:18and Schumacher
01:13:19and Alessi
01:13:20between them
01:13:21on the track
01:13:22and things are going to depend
01:13:23on the skill
01:13:24and the speed
01:13:25and the dexterity
01:13:26and the dexterity
01:13:27of their pit crews
01:13:28when they come in
01:13:29with very hot engines
01:13:30stop
01:13:31up go the cars
01:13:32and David Coulthard
01:13:33and sorry
01:13:34Micah Hacken
01:13:35and having a look
01:13:36at Heinz-Harald Frentzen
01:13:37will have nothing of it
01:13:38so there are
01:13:39the fourth,
01:13:40fifth
01:13:41and sixth
01:13:42men together
01:13:43and Rubens Barrichello
01:13:44still down
01:13:45in that eighth place
01:13:46he can't do anything
01:13:47about Jean Alessi
01:13:48this race
01:13:49is going to depend
01:13:50in the end analysis
01:13:51on how good
01:13:52the pit crews are
01:13:53I have no doubt
01:13:54about that at all
01:13:55with 17
01:13:56of the 22
01:13:57starters left
01:13:58that is
01:13:59Ralph Schumacher
01:14:00and here is
01:14:01ah
01:14:02Frentzen
01:14:03Hacken
01:14:04Schumacher
01:14:05Alessi
01:14:06Barrichello
01:14:07in eighth position
01:14:08Fisichella
01:14:09in ninth position
01:14:10look back
01:14:11you just missed
01:14:12Jenny Irvine
01:14:13who is still
01:14:14in tenth position
01:14:15I say still
01:14:16somehow
01:14:17behind
01:14:18still
01:14:19somehow or other
01:14:20unseen by us
01:14:21he's gone ahead
01:14:22of Johnny Herbert
01:14:23yes
01:14:24Frentzen's made a slip
01:14:25going through
01:14:26Casino Square
01:14:27we haven't seen it
01:14:28it showed up
01:14:29on the computer
01:14:30he's a half a second down
01:14:31on the first sector
01:14:32of this lap
01:14:33so Frentzen
01:14:34the first to show
01:14:35any signs
01:14:36of slight cracking
01:14:37but ah
01:14:38it wasn't enough
01:14:39of a mistake
01:14:40to let Hacken
01:14:41through
01:14:42but Hacken
01:14:43is certainly
01:14:44having a good look
01:14:45as he went into
01:14:46Mirabeau
01:14:47up in Casino
01:14:48well we're looking now
01:14:49at Jacques Villeneuve
01:14:50in the Honda
01:14:51Powered B.A.R.
01:14:52he is in
01:14:53fifteenth position
01:14:54pursued
01:14:55by his teammate
01:14:56Riccardo Zonta
01:14:57racing at Monaco
01:14:58for the first time
01:14:59and back again
01:15:00now
01:15:01Zonta is
01:15:02last for one
01:15:03and there
01:15:04you've just seen him
01:15:05exiting the pool
01:15:06and here is
01:15:07Schumacher
01:15:08entering
01:15:09and now
01:15:10leaving it
01:15:11so the gap
01:15:12between the first
01:15:13and the last
01:15:14on the track
01:15:15is getting smaller
01:15:16and smaller
01:15:17Michael Schumacher
01:15:18is going to have
01:15:19a traffic problem soon
01:15:20are the Ferrari people
01:15:21going to bring him in
01:15:22well it's lap
01:15:23twenty-seven now
01:15:24the earliest
01:15:25I would have expected him
01:15:26is round about
01:15:27lap thirty-five
01:15:28so we're going to be
01:15:29seeing Schumacher
01:15:30deal with traffic
01:15:31which could give the
01:15:32others the opportunity
01:15:33to close up
01:15:34yeah they've got to get
01:15:35through too
01:15:36but I think
01:15:37Michael's as good
01:15:38as any of them
01:15:39through the traffic
01:15:40and they certainly
01:15:41won't be bringing him
01:15:42in early
01:15:43there's absolutely
01:15:44no need
01:15:45for a strategy
01:15:46that's absolutely
01:15:47for sure
01:15:48and
01:15:49as I was saying
01:15:50earlier on
01:15:51getting that pole
01:15:52position is so
01:15:53important here
01:15:54Schumacher got it
01:15:55he got a superb
01:15:56start
01:15:57he's had a clear
01:15:58track
01:15:59everybody else
01:16:00is fighting each
01:16:01other behind him
01:16:02and
01:16:03oh and
01:16:04Heinz-Harald Frentzen
01:16:05is looking a bit
01:16:06ragged there
01:16:07or was
01:16:08as he came
01:16:09round Sainte-Devote
01:16:10because Mika Häkkinen
01:16:11is pushing
01:16:12extremely hard
01:16:13yeah Frentzen
01:16:14is struggling
01:16:15with the rear tyres
01:16:16maybe they're going
01:16:17over pressure
01:16:18a little bit
01:16:19or certainly
01:16:20can be going off
01:16:21the rubber
01:16:22compound breaking
01:16:23down a bit
01:16:24but he's now
01:16:25surely struggling
01:16:26as Johnny Herbert
01:16:27is in for
01:16:28what must be
01:16:29an unscheduled
01:16:30stop
01:16:31the mechanics
01:16:32are not ready
01:16:33and he's not on
01:16:34his mark
01:16:35so I would
01:16:36imagine
01:16:37Johnny's got
01:16:38some other
01:16:39kind of problem
01:16:40than needing
01:16:41a new set
01:16:42of tyres
01:16:43which have been
01:16:44leaking oil pipe
01:16:45or something
01:16:46more serious
01:16:47but they seem
01:16:48to be changing
01:16:49the wheels
01:16:50and getting him
01:16:51out again
01:16:52but anyway
01:16:53he's slipped
01:16:54right back
01:16:55to the rear
01:16:56of the field
01:16:57yes Barrichello
01:16:58and Fisichella
01:16:59now beginning
01:17:00to home in
01:17:01on the back
01:17:02of Alessi
01:17:03Rubens quickest
01:17:04in the warm-up
01:17:05this morning
01:17:06as I said
01:17:07I think he's
01:17:08going to be
01:17:09a bit disappointed
01:17:10that he's not
01:17:11really shown
01:17:12up for the
01:17:13race
01:17:14so obviously
01:17:15there was not
01:17:16an engine
01:17:17problem
01:17:18I hasten
01:17:19to say
01:17:20and I say
01:17:21Frentzen
01:17:22is now four
01:17:23seconds behind
01:17:24Coulthard
01:17:25but he's
01:17:26holding up
01:17:27Hakkinen
01:17:28and Schumacher
01:17:29and Alessi
01:17:30who are all
01:17:31within three
01:17:32seconds
01:17:33now Johnny's
01:17:34about to be
01:17:35lapped
01:17:36so he's going
01:17:37to have to
01:17:38yield quite
01:17:39quickly to
01:17:40the ferocious
01:17:41Coulthard
01:17:42cleared
01:17:43the Herbert Jaguar
01:17:44as he was coming
01:17:45out of the pits
01:17:46but Frentzen
01:17:47Hakkinen
01:17:48and Co
01:17:49are all going
01:17:50to arrive
01:17:51and I think
01:17:52Johnny
01:17:53will, that's
01:17:54Wurz
01:17:55recovering himself
01:17:56back to the
01:17:57paddock
01:17:58but Johnny
01:17:59will have to be
01:18:00pulling over
01:18:01I think
01:18:02and letting
01:18:03that little
01:18:04train
01:18:05through
01:18:06into the
01:18:07tunnel
01:18:08the leader
01:18:09out of it
01:18:10but
01:18:11Frentzen
01:18:12and Coulthard
01:18:13Jordan
01:18:14and McLaren
01:18:15second and
01:18:16third
01:18:17come towards
01:18:18the tabac
01:18:19now Frentzen
01:18:20fourth
01:18:21Hakkinen
01:18:22fifth
01:18:23Schumacher
01:18:24sixth
01:18:25Alessi
01:18:26seventh
01:18:27Barrichello
01:18:28eighth
01:18:29Fisichella
01:18:30ninth
01:18:31Johnny Herbert
01:18:32has been
01:18:33lapped
01:18:34and the gap
01:18:35between Fisichella
01:18:36and Eddie Irvine
01:18:37who is tenth
01:18:38is some
01:18:40they're on their way
01:18:41just closing up
01:18:42all the time
01:18:43isn't it
01:18:44so Frentzen
01:18:45struggling
01:18:46the rear grip
01:18:47as we know
01:18:48and we're getting
01:18:49a little bit of
01:18:50traffic jam
01:18:51there behind him
01:18:52Coulthard
01:18:53now five
01:18:54seconds ahead
01:18:55of that little
01:18:56battle
01:18:57you can see
01:18:58virtually
01:18:59the whole of
01:19:00the uphill section
01:19:01before they
01:19:02pop over the
01:19:03blind crest
01:19:04into Casino
01:19:05where they are
01:19:06now
01:19:07and Coulthard
01:19:08from my point of view
01:19:09absolutely nothing
01:19:10he can do about it
01:19:11provided
01:19:12Jarno Trulli
01:19:13stays his ground
01:19:14Keats Poole
01:19:15occupies the part
01:19:16of the track
01:19:17that David Coulthard
01:19:18would like to be in
01:19:19to get past him
01:19:20it's the battle
01:19:21behind Frentzen
01:19:22with Hakkinen
01:19:23Schumacher
01:19:24and Alessi
01:19:25that is interesting
01:19:26me most
01:19:27we're looking at it
01:19:28now
01:19:29and you can see
01:19:30that the Williams team
01:19:31have opted
01:19:32like the rest of them
01:19:33for the maximum
01:19:34downforce
01:19:35of this circuit
01:19:36downforce is everything
01:19:37but Williams
01:19:38have gone for it
01:19:39a unique way
01:19:40by putting that
01:19:41high wing
01:19:42and Fisichella
01:19:43has a look at
01:19:44Rubens Barrichello
01:19:45and fails to
01:19:46scramble through
01:19:47on the exit
01:19:48from the tunnel
01:19:49into the chicane
01:19:50but nothing
01:19:51ventured
01:19:52nothing gained
01:19:53can you imagine
01:19:54being an Italian
01:19:55driver
01:19:56watching a Ferrari
01:19:57loom up on your nose
01:19:58as you're about
01:19:59to barge him
01:20:00out of the race
01:20:01but the Prost
01:20:02going down
01:20:03the escape route
01:20:04is that Alessi
01:20:05or is that Heidfeld
01:20:06there's some sort
01:20:07of kerfuffle
01:20:08between Alessi
01:20:09Barrichello
01:20:10and Fisichella
01:20:11there
01:20:12although Alessi
01:20:13was a second or so
01:20:14ahead of the Ferrari
01:20:15but it looks to be
01:20:16yes
01:20:17Rubens Barrichello
01:20:18is ahead of
01:20:19Jean Alessi
01:20:20he's up into
01:20:21seventh position
01:20:22he's got four seconds
01:20:23between himself
01:20:24and Ralf Schumacher
01:20:25and we'll soon see
01:20:26whether the Ferrari
01:20:27can make up
01:20:28that ground
01:20:29making up is one thing
01:20:30getting past
01:20:31is quite another
01:20:32and Mika Häkkinen
01:20:33is again
01:20:34pushing
01:20:35he's just gone
01:20:36through the first sector
01:20:37fastest of all
01:20:38and you can see him
01:20:39right behind
01:20:40Heinz Brandt
01:20:41Heinz Heldt
01:20:42Fredsons Jordans
01:20:43yes I think
01:20:44there's so much more
01:20:45pace in those McLarens
01:20:46than they're able to show
01:20:47at the moment
01:20:48particularly now
01:20:49in the early part of the race
01:20:50I think it was
01:20:51nip and tuck
01:20:52with the Jordans
01:20:53but right now
01:20:54I think both McLarens
01:20:55have got a lot of speed
01:20:56in their pockets
01:20:57and they just
01:20:58cannot use it
01:20:59which is a shame for us
01:21:00and a shame for
01:21:01the race later on
01:21:02Michael Schumacher now
01:21:03a new fastest lap
01:21:0432.948
01:21:06his lead is
01:21:0728 seconds
01:21:08plus
01:21:09whatever
01:21:10these guys do
01:21:11and that's a
01:21:12Sauber with a
01:21:13bent left rear
01:21:14that's obviously
01:21:15out of the race
01:21:16and that's a
01:21:17tricky position
01:21:18to
01:21:19to
01:21:20recover that car
01:21:21from
01:21:22he's obviously
01:21:23hit the
01:21:24Sandevot barrier
01:21:25that's effectively
01:21:26on the racing line
01:21:27I don't think
01:21:28there's a crane
01:21:29that'll reach that far
01:21:30is there
01:21:31he's putting a
01:21:32strap
01:21:33through the
01:21:34rollover hoop
01:21:35look
01:21:36so
01:21:37I just wonder
01:21:38if they may
01:21:39if the crane will
01:21:40reach that far
01:21:41it's easy to
01:21:42recover that car
01:21:43but I would have
01:21:44thought that's
01:21:45stretching a little bit
01:21:46you've seen the crane
01:21:47in action down
01:21:48at Sandevot
01:21:49many times
01:21:50and the
01:21:51double wave
01:21:52yellows there
01:21:53meaning Marshall's
01:21:54on track
01:21:55I'm wondering
01:21:56whether they're
01:21:57going to bring
01:21:58the safety car
01:21:59out because
01:22:00that's a very
01:22:01dangerous place
01:22:02round
01:22:03Sandevot
01:22:04at about 70 miles
01:22:05an hour
01:22:06I'd rather them than me
01:22:07they've got to
01:22:08wheel that car
01:22:09backwards downhill
01:22:10into the range
01:22:11of that crane
01:22:12I would guess
01:22:13but it hasn't made
01:22:14any changes
01:22:15to the people
01:22:16at the front
01:22:17safety car
01:22:18standing by
01:22:19it says on the
01:22:20computer here
01:22:21safety car
01:22:22standing by
01:22:23which means
01:22:24just about
01:22:25nothing really
01:22:26except they're
01:22:27obviously
01:22:28considering
01:22:29they'll see
01:22:30remember we've
01:22:31got the
01:22:32underbelly will be
01:22:33on the deck
01:22:34that may not be
01:22:35such an easy car
01:22:36to move
01:22:37although the
01:22:38Marshalls here
01:22:39tend to lift
01:22:40them up and
01:22:41throw a little
01:22:42trolley underneath
01:22:43at least they've
01:22:44got gravity
01:22:45working with
01:22:46them to help
01:22:47get that
01:22:48down the hill
01:22:49into the range
01:22:50of the crane
01:22:51and meanwhile
01:22:52Coulthard
01:22:53as ever
01:22:54pressing the
01:22:55back
01:22:56it's Charlie
01:22:57Whiting
01:22:58who is the
01:22:59race director
01:23:00the blue flags
01:23:01waving there
01:23:02which means
01:23:03that someone is
01:23:04behind you
01:23:05who wants to
01:23:06and is entitled
01:23:07to get past
01:23:08but Charlie
01:23:09Whiting
01:23:10is the race
01:23:11director
01:23:12and he's
01:23:13going to
01:23:14help him
01:23:15to get
01:23:16down the hill
01:23:17into the range
01:23:18of the crane
01:23:19and he's
01:23:20going to
01:23:21help him
01:23:22to get
01:23:23down the hill
01:23:24into the range
01:23:25of the crane
01:23:26and he's
01:23:27going to
01:23:28help him