Formula-1 2000 R07 Monaco Grand Prix Part 02

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00:00:00He is sensibly, I think, deciding not to bring the safety car out at the present moment.

00:00:05That blue flag was being waived for Riccardo Salter, who is down in 13th position.

00:00:11And there is...

00:00:13Filner being lapped. Filner being lapped by Michael Schumacher.

00:00:17So he's coming through third distance, just about. Well, over third distance actually, but...

00:00:22Look at the McLaren, right up tight behind Trulli there.

00:00:26It's Coulthard and Trulli.

00:00:28And this is where, again, we'll see the supreme ability and race craft of Michael Schumacher.

00:00:35Because he has this ability that Senna had.

00:00:38I know I'm continually making comparisons between the two of them,

00:00:41because they're two of the greatest of getting through traffic where others can't.

00:00:45Yes, Trulli's been very cautious around the yellow flags,

00:00:48and that's enabled the pack behind them to close up by three or four seconds.

00:00:53And Michael Schumacher now with a 31-second lead.

00:00:56So Trulli has been extra cautious through those yellow flags.

00:01:00James, what can you tell us?

00:01:02Martin, we're not a million miles away from a Michael Schumacher pit stop, I don't think.

00:01:05He was getting through that gaggle, which included Verstappen, Diniers, Filner, Zonta and Eiffel.

00:01:09He's carving through them at the moment like a hot knife through butter.

00:01:12Verstappen's the next one in his sight.

00:01:14And I would reckon they're all very close together on the road,

00:01:16only about three or four seconds separating the whole five cars.

00:01:19Once he's through there, it's probably a pretty good time to be thinking about making a stop.

00:01:23I'm not at all surprised, as you were saying before,

00:01:25if McLaren didn't just bring in perhaps Hakkinen at roughly the same time

00:01:29to try and give him some sort of opportunity to make an impression on this motor race.

00:01:32But Ferrari's starting to look as though they're getting ready.

00:01:34Well, we'll wait and see. Thank you, James.

00:01:36Lap 34 out of 78.

00:01:39Michael Schumacher leading by 31 seconds.

00:01:42Very close behind him. You're looking at it now.

00:01:44Trulli, Coulthard, then Frentzen and Hakkinen.

00:01:49Sixth position is still Ralf Schumacher.

00:01:51No changes from the start of the race.

00:01:53Rubens Barrichello has moved up to seventh position

00:01:57as a result of a Lacey gag out.

00:01:59Fisichella's now up to eighth.

00:02:01Eddie Irvine to ninth.

00:02:03So the Jaguar is in the top ten.

00:02:05Michael Schumacher is not slowing at all.

00:02:08He's made yet another fastest lap.

00:02:11Just six-tenths of a second off Micah Hakkinen's fastest lap time last year.

00:02:16A time of 1 minute 22.8.

00:02:19And as I said earlier on, I think he's now in a strong enough position

00:02:24to come in and make that stop and still get out in the lead

00:02:28having taken on more fuel and fresh tyres and wheels.

00:02:32As we look at Johnny Herbert in the Jaguar.

00:02:36He's down in 15th position. He's been lapped.

00:02:38So have Jacques Villeneuve, who's 12th,

00:02:41Riccardo Zonta, who is 13th,

00:02:43Nick Heidfeldt, who is in 14th position.

00:02:46And 15 are left out of the 22 who started.

00:02:49And there are going to be more retirements yet from this race, I forecast.

00:02:54Because Michael Schumacher, that you look at now,

00:02:57has just lapped Jos Verstappen in the arrows behind him,

00:03:01who is in 11th position.

00:03:04And he's coming up now very close to Micah Salo.

00:03:08I think, yes, Micah Salo is still in 10th position in the Sauber.

00:03:13Eddie Irvine is on a run now.

00:03:16He's just gone through the first sector fastest of all in that race.

00:03:20And it's heartening to realise that Jaguar are actually making progress with the car.

00:03:26They've got a new management structure.

00:03:28They've been doing an enormous amount of work on the engine with Cosworth

00:03:32and with the car itself.

00:03:34And it is starting to pay dividends.

00:03:36But they are very honest and say,

00:03:38we know we've still got a long, long way to go.

00:03:42And first of all, we need a wind tunnel,

00:03:44and that's probably a couple of years down the road.

00:03:47So there's a long furrow to plough,

00:03:49but it's nice to see them in Formula 1.

00:03:52Michael Schumacher leading lap 36.

00:03:55Yes, the Jordan and McLaren mechanics will be warming up their muscles

00:03:58and getting ready because their job this afternoon is going to be,

00:04:01as ever these days, really absolutely critical.

00:04:04Because if they do a good job, they can keep their man in front

00:04:07or leapfrog their man, whichever car they're working on.

00:04:10And a half a second or a second is going to make all the difference on the pit stop.

00:04:14Now, I was talking about Eddie Irvine.

00:04:16He is in ninth position of the Jaguar.

00:04:19And he's able to make that charge, not only because the car will do it,

00:04:23but because there is a four-second gap between him and Fisichella.

00:04:27So in comparative terms, Eddie Irvine's got a clear bit of track in front of him.

00:04:31That's a slow McLaren there, Murray.

00:04:33I don't know. I think it's Hakkinen.

00:04:35It's a slow McLaren. Lost a lot of speed as he's cruising through.

00:04:39Yes, look, Barrichello now up behind him.

00:04:41So Hakkinen limping. No sign of any smoke or anything like that.

00:04:44But clearly, Hakkinen, he'll have to pull right now.

00:04:47He'll have to let them through in the tunnel. It's so dangerous to hold your line.

00:04:50He doesn't do that.

00:04:52And, oh, Fisichella is going to have a face full of McLaren.

00:04:55But Micka staying on the inside there.

00:04:58And clearly some kind of major problem for Micka Hakkinen,

00:05:01who was running in fifth position.

00:05:04Well, Micka Hakkinen won this race in 1998,

00:05:07and he was second last year.

00:05:09But I can remember a lot of very unhappy Monaco's for him,

00:05:13and it looks as though this is going to be another one.

00:05:16But, uh...

00:05:18So he's slipping down through the field.

00:05:20He was in fifth position. He's been passed by Ralfs.

00:05:23Coulthard's got a seriously good run.

00:05:26Don't lose your front wing and don't hit the barrier.

00:05:29He had to get on the brakes for a second time there, did Coulthard.

00:05:32That's cost him dearly. He got so close to the back of Fisichella.

00:05:35I assume Fisichella got out of shape in the last corner.

00:05:37This is Coulthard so nearly losing his wing.

00:05:40There was a shunt there in a Renault Clio race or something earlier on.

00:05:44That's what all the cement dust is down there.

00:05:46It's very slippery.

00:05:47Sorry to interrupt you, Martin.

00:05:48Micka Hakkinen in the pits.

00:05:50You saw the tires and wheels being replaced, but they always do that.

00:05:54And I'm sure he didn't come in for that reason.

00:05:57There's a Jordan slowing as well now. Which one is it?

00:06:00Is it Jarno Trulli or is it Heinz-Harald Frentzen?

00:06:02Trulli. It's Trulli.

00:06:03It's Jarno Trulli.

00:06:04So this race is now on lap 37 really coming alight.

00:06:09Michael Schumacher out on his own,

00:06:11but it looks as though with Micka Hakkinen possibly out of the race,

00:06:15Ron Dennis in the earphones on the left

00:06:18is looking very concerned as he leans over the car.

00:06:21And there is Jarno Trulli running wide.

00:06:24And you see Ralph Schumacher in the Williams passing him.

00:06:27So Frentzen's passed him, David Coulthard's passed him.

00:06:31It must mean that David Coulthard in the McLaren is up into second place,

00:06:36that Frentzen is up into third place,

00:06:38that Ralph Schumacher is up into fourth position,

00:06:40that Rubens Barrichello is not just in the points,

00:06:43but he's in fifth position,

00:06:44and that Pitti Keller is in sixth place.

00:06:47Hakkinen is leaving the pits,

00:06:49so whatever they were fiddling around with under the cover of the car

00:06:54or in the footwell, they've managed to...

00:06:56Well, maybe.

00:06:57Oh, and that's Schumacher in the barrier.

00:06:59That was Schumacher.

00:07:00I thought I could hear something funny from Hakkinen's car.

00:07:03It was Ralph Schumacher clattering the barrier,

00:07:05and yet again, a wheel just relatively easily falling off the car.

00:07:10Here he comes.

00:07:11Look, he's been slightly unsighted really by Micka coming out of the pit lane.

00:07:14Not Micka's fault at all.

00:07:15Just gone too deep into Sandevoort.

00:07:17And as soon as you get up in the grey there,

00:07:19you're going straight into the tyre barrier.

00:07:21So now you're looking at second-placed man Coulthard

00:07:24and third-placed man Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

00:07:26Now we'll see what kind of pace Coulthard has got.

00:07:30In comes Jarno Trulli.

00:07:32We saw him touring on the race which looked so good for Jordan

00:07:36is suddenly looking not good at all.

00:07:38That is Ralph Schumacher in the background,

00:07:40just yards away from where he lives,

00:07:44removing his helmet as Jarno Trulli's Jordan is wheeled away.

00:07:49Now we're on lap 39, and here is the totally changed race situation,

00:07:54except for the fact that Michael Schumacher is leading it.

00:07:57He's 37 seconds ahead of David Coulthard,

00:08:01who has got Heinz-Harald Frentzen about a second behind him in third place.

00:08:05Fourth was Ralph Schumacher, but it's now Rubens Barrichello.

00:08:09So two Ferraris in the top four,

00:08:11looking very good for Constructors' Championship points,

00:08:14and David Coulthard is now the fastest man on the track.

00:08:17Yeah, we were right about that.

00:08:18He's just in 22.3.

00:08:20That's six tenths faster than Michael Schumacher's best lap so far this afternoon.

00:08:25And that's the first time he's been released,

00:08:27basically, with the Sinclair track ahead of him.

00:08:30You know, whack it in the barriers, David,

00:08:32because you're 36 seconds behind.

00:08:34It's going to be so difficult to put Schumacher

00:08:36under any kind of pressure from so far behind,

00:08:40but he's got to do it, he's got to keep going,

00:08:42and it's probably easy to keep your concentration in that situation,

00:08:44but Coulthard now absolutely on a charge.

00:08:47Yeah, David has taken so much stick in recent times

00:08:52in comparison with Micah Hacken,

00:08:54which I never thought was justified.

00:08:56He's about 38 Grand Prix less experienced than the Finn,

00:09:02and that is over two years,

00:09:04and David always says,

00:09:05I'm still comparatively young, I've got a lot of experience now,

00:09:08I've got a lot to come,

00:09:09and I believe I can win the World Championship.

00:09:12I believe he can too,

00:09:13but Michael Schumacher, that we are looking at now,

00:09:16is on his 40th lap.

00:09:18He's still got to come in.

00:09:20No one has come in amongst the leaders for a fueling stop.

00:09:25We've had Micah Hacken in with a problem,

00:09:27we've had Johnny Herbert in,

00:09:28we've had Jarno Trulli come in to retire,

00:09:31and there are now just 14 people left of the 22 who started.

00:09:37Something flicked out of the back of the Ferrari,

00:09:39but I would assume it's just debris that Michael Schumacher ran over,

00:09:42as Kluger does another new fastest lap of the race,

00:09:45some 1.8 seconds faster than Michael Schumacher,

00:09:49and the gap's beginning to come down,

00:09:51but it's still some 34 seconds.

00:09:54And the thing that they all have to watch out for now,

00:09:56we have to watch out for,

00:09:58is very quick news from James Allen.

00:10:01Yeah, very quickly.

00:10:02That certainly added an edge to the afternoon,

00:10:04as far as Ferrari are concerned.

00:10:05They're certainly sitting up and paying attention now,

00:10:07and as I say, Schumacher not a million miles away from the start.

00:10:09Some speculation just for you on the Hacken situation.

00:10:12We saw him lifting the top of the bodywork off when he came in.

00:10:15They seem to be looking at the brakes,

00:10:16particularly at the brake pedal,

00:10:17as if maybe there's some sort of problem with that.

00:10:19Thanks, James.

00:10:20Well, I was saying that what they need to look out for now

00:10:23is debris on the track,

00:10:25because that debris will be carbon fibre.

00:10:28It breaks with a razor edge,

00:10:30and you've only got to get a little bit of it in a tar carcass,

00:10:33and it can slice it and cause a puncture.

00:10:36So, Michael Schumacher leading.

00:10:39There is David Coulthard,

00:10:41who's reduced the gap to 34 seconds.

00:10:44He's lapping now a second faster than Michael Schumacher,

00:10:48who has got this enormous cushion of 30 seconds.

00:10:51And Heinz-Harald Frentzen is dropping back in third position,

00:10:55with Rubens Barrichello in fourth place,

00:10:57catching the Jordan.

00:10:59It's all coming alight now,

00:11:00and Fisichella is in fifth position in the Benetton.

00:11:03He's lapping slower than Barrichello.

00:11:05Eddie Irvine is now in the points.

00:11:08I say that again.

00:11:10Eddie Irvine's Jaguar is in the points.

00:11:13His teammate, Johnny Herbert,

00:11:15is down in 13th position, having been lapped.

00:11:18And I know everybody in Britain

00:11:20and in many places all around the world

00:11:22who are Jaguar enthusiasts

00:11:24want to see the Leaping Cat do as well in Formula 1

00:11:28as it did in world sports car racing.

00:11:30And we'll be hoping that Eddie Irvine can stay there

00:11:33to get a first world championship point for Jordan

00:11:36and the first for himself this year.

00:11:38Don't be confused by Hakanen there,

00:11:40back in more or less the pack he was running in.

00:11:42He's now a lap down after that lengthy stop.

00:11:45So Hakanen, more or less, as I say,

00:11:47rejoining in his original position, but one lap down.

00:11:50Yeah, and going extremely quickly.

00:11:53There's obviously nothing wrong mechanically with the car at the moment

00:11:56that affects his performance,

00:11:58because he's just gone through the first sector of the lap

00:12:01faster than anyone has been in the race.

00:12:03And Ralf Schumacher, whose face we saw contorted with pain

00:12:06when he took his helmet off,

00:12:08seems to have hurt his leg.

00:12:10He was limping as he went over the wall there.

00:12:13And when he subsequently took his helmet off,

00:12:15I could see that he was grimacing in pain.

00:12:17Yes, what that's going to be, he's calling the marshals' overlooks.

00:12:20I've got a problem here.

00:12:22What's that going to be is a piece of wishbones

00:12:24coming into the monocoque, burst through the monocoque

00:12:26as the car hit the wall and at least pierced the skin on his leg.

00:12:31Obviously, he hasn't broken his bone,

00:12:33otherwise he wouldn't be leaping over the barrier.

00:12:35And that despondent face you saw

00:12:38was of the most experienced Grand Prix driver currently of them all,

00:12:42Jean Alessi, who loves Monaco,

00:12:44who adores the challenges that it gives a driver

00:12:47and responds to them so well,

00:12:49and was in seventh position, but is now one of the seven retirements.

00:12:53New fastest lap of the race for Micah Hackett,

00:12:55and now running in clear air.

00:12:57But he's too far adrift to do anything with it.

00:12:59He may still get some points.

00:13:00It's that kind of afternoon.

00:13:02Michael Schumacher has had to seriously pick up his pace.

00:13:05Now he's got the news that Coulthard's been released,

00:13:08and off he goes.

00:13:09That's Irvine in for...

00:13:12It's Herbert, sorry.

00:13:13It's Herbert in for his second stop of the afternoon,

00:13:16and he looks like he's still got problems, doesn't he?

00:13:18He's a very, very slow stop again there, 9.4.

00:13:21Actually, not too bad.

00:13:22Not too bad there for Johnny.

00:13:23See the light flashing?

00:13:25The rear light has to flash,

00:13:27and the fuel filler cap has to stay up with the electronics

00:13:31to indicate that they are not organized in such a way

00:13:35that they can give you traction control.

00:13:37Curious Johnny had to come in again,

00:13:38because obviously he had the unscheduled stop

00:13:40where you'd think they would have tanked it up.

00:13:42Maybe they didn't get fuel in when he came in last time around.

00:13:44Coulthard, a new fastest lap of the race now,

00:13:46a 1.22.1.

00:13:48But Michael Schumacher's down there on a 22.2,

00:13:51so Schumi really has picked his pace up.

00:13:54Coulthard has now dropped Frentzen by a full seven seconds.

00:13:58Now, the prophecy that we were making about it being a long time

00:14:02before anybody in this race amongst the leaders came in for a fuel stop

00:14:06has proved to be correct,

00:14:08because none of the first ten have yet been in

00:14:12as the Ferrari surges past the arrows

00:14:17and down towards the hairpin.

00:14:19Michael Schumacher's on his 43rd lap now

00:14:23and has yet to come in.

00:14:25He came in on lap 42 last year, actually,

00:14:28but he's obviously staying out longer.

00:14:30He's 33 seconds ahead of Coulthard,

00:14:32a superb pusher.

00:14:34He's very comfortable indeed, provided he can keep running,

00:14:37even though Schumacher...

00:14:38Oh, even though Coulthard is marginally quicker than he is at the moment.

00:14:42That's Joss Verstappen, who's in 11th place.

00:14:45Heinz-Harald Frentzen is third,

00:14:47but cannot cope with the now much faster David Coulthard,

00:14:51who has been released to go as quickly as he can.

00:14:55Rubens Barrichello, fourth position in the Ferraris,

00:14:59catching Frentzen at the rate of about half a second a lap.

00:15:03Fifth is Fisichella.

00:15:04Sixth is Eddie Irvine still,

00:15:06and he's catching Fisichella's Benetton.

00:15:09Seventh is Micasalo, just to complete the remaining runners.

00:15:13Villeneuve is eighth.

00:15:14Sontar is ninth.

00:15:15Heidfeldt is tenth.

00:15:16Mika Häkkinen is eleventh and has been lapped.

00:15:20Joss Verstappen is twelfth.

00:15:21Jonny Herbert is in thirteenth position.

00:15:24All the rest have retired.

00:15:27Yes, Jonny is now two laps down,

00:15:28unfortunately, after his two pit stops.

00:15:31You're watching David Coulthard in second place,

00:15:33now 7.6 seconds clear of Frentzen.

00:15:37But that time around, Schumacher pegged him.

00:15:40They were just about identical in the low one minute 22,

00:15:43so Schumacher's now responded and pegged Coulthard

00:15:47to a 33.5 second lead.

00:15:49The danger, as you've heard from us,

00:15:52we're riding with Coulthard now through the chicane,

00:15:54down towards the Tabac.

00:15:56Yeah, the track gets fantastic grip in the second half of the race.

00:15:59You can see the tyre rubber that goes down,

00:16:01and you just get this wonderful traction,

00:16:03and the car really feels good.

00:16:04The track comes to you as the race goes on,

00:16:06and you really can't believe how easy it is to do

00:16:091.21s, 1.22s, when earlier on in the weekend

00:16:12a 26 or a 27 was frightening you silly,

00:16:15and the track just picks up so much grip.

00:16:18Yeah, now David Coulthard obviously wants to win this race, of course,

00:16:21but he won't be too unhappy with second position.

00:16:24If he stays there, it will give him six World Championship points,

00:16:28which will move him ahead of Mika Häkkinen

00:16:32to second in the World Championship,

00:16:34behind Michael Schumacher,

00:16:36who will dramatically have extended his lead.

00:16:38Yes, he looks pretty calm behind the wheel of Coulthard's McLaren there,

00:16:41but he did a new fastest lap of the race.

00:16:43You can now see he's over 1.21.9

00:16:45and took nine tenths out of Schumacher's lead.

00:16:48So, if he can carry that kind of pace,

00:16:50he can certainly keep Schumacher honest for the rest of the afternoon, Mary.

00:16:53Yeah, and just as Michael Schumacher is looking like

00:16:56extending his World Championship lead,

00:16:58the same thing applies to Ferrari,

00:17:00who won the Constructors' Championship last year,

00:17:04are leading it this year by ten points,

00:17:06but they've got both their drivers in the top four,

00:17:11so that's 13 points potentially at the moment.

00:17:14Ten for Michael Schumacher, three for Rubens Barrichello,

00:17:17whereas McLaren have only got this man, David Coulthard,

00:17:20on a potential six World Championship points.

00:17:23So, it's looking very, very strong,

00:17:25very good indeed for Ferrari,

00:17:27who've got so many Italian Tifosi fans here.

00:17:31Michael Schumacher responding again.

00:17:33He also now in the 1.21.9, as you saw on your screen.

00:17:36And that is a faster lap than Mika Häkkinen last year.

00:17:41So, as the fuel load is coming down,

00:17:43and Michael Schumacher's concentration is maintained,

00:17:47it's not intensified,

00:17:48he goes three, eight, four tenths of a second faster,

00:17:51and David Coulthard is faster again.

00:17:54He's just taken two tenths of a second out of Michael Schumacher's lead,

00:17:59but since that lead is 32 seconds, nearly 33 seconds,

00:18:04Schumacher's very strong indeed.

00:18:06Verstappen again running across the chicane

00:18:12as we look at Riccardo Zonta now,

00:18:15chased by Nick Heidfeldt's Prost.

00:18:18Heidfeldt is in 10th position, looking for 9th position.

00:18:22Riccardo Zonta's first race here at Monaco,

00:18:26and David Coulthard continues to push, push, push on lap 46.

00:18:3278 lap race, 32 still to go.

00:18:35As you say, Martin, if you're a driver, it must seem like going on forever.

00:18:39Yes, it's such a shame.

00:18:40Coulthard's got a couple of cars to clear here,

00:18:42but it's such a shame he didn't get around truly earlier on,

00:18:46because I think we could have seen a great duel this afternoon

00:18:49between Schumacher and Coulthard.

00:18:51They're matching each other virtually identically.

00:18:53This lap's going to cost Coulthard some time, that's for sure.

00:18:55The blue flags are being waived for car number 15.

00:18:59Look, it's so, so slow around Rascasse,

00:19:02and they both go into pits.

00:19:03That'll be a sigh of relief for Coulthard.

00:19:06Yes, he's lost time, but not nearly as much as he would have done

00:19:09if they'd kept going, because Heidfeldt was intent on getting past Zonta,

00:19:13and Zonta was intent on stopping him.

00:19:15They come in absolutely together now.

00:19:18Yes, it cost Coulthard 1.7 seconds that lap,

00:19:21so Schumacher now 34 seconds ahead again.

00:19:24And we're on lap 47 as Heidfeldt gets away now.

00:19:27Is he going to stay in the same relative position against Ricciardo Zonta?

00:19:32No, Zonta's away first.

00:19:35Heidfeldt gets through to a very good stop by both teams,

00:19:39a better one by...

00:19:40Oh, and that was where we've had the two offs already today.

00:19:44It's very sad.

00:19:45It's probably all underneath.

00:19:46There is Eddie Irvine coming towards us in the Jaguar in sixth position.

00:19:51He has now lapped Jos Verstappen's arrows

00:19:54as they go into Massenet and Casino Square together.

00:19:57Irvine is holding his position.

00:20:00He's 22 seconds ahead of the first man on the track who is not in the points,

00:20:05and that is Micasalo.

00:20:07So, fingers crossed everywhere for Jaguar lovers,

00:20:11because Eddie Irvine is still there, still in the points,

00:20:15as this race starts to run its course.

00:20:18With Michael Schumacher still to come in on lap 48 out of 78.

00:20:2330 laps to go.

00:20:25I think they're still working on Ralf Schumacher there with his cut leg,

00:20:29so they're stretching him away.

00:20:32Obviously quite a nasty cut there for Ralf.

00:20:34And Formula 1 being what it is, motor racing being what it is,

00:20:39I can imagine there are probably people on the phone already to Frank Williams

00:20:42saying if Ralf Schumacher can't take part in the next race,

00:20:46which is the Canadian Grand Prix in two weeks' time,

00:20:49and he's not looking too good there at the moment,

00:20:51I would be very happy to take his place.

00:20:54So, fingers crossed too for Ralf Schumacher.

00:20:58Yeah, familiar sight, isn't it?

00:21:00Unfortunately, a Schumacher being stretched off,

00:21:03looking somewhat in pain with his leg.

00:21:05Obviously, brother Michael had that last year.

00:21:07I would have thought it was much more severe for Michael last year,

00:21:10because Ralf was able to hobble over the wall.

00:21:13But still, nonetheless, it must be a pretty nasty cut for them

00:21:16to have to take such dramatic action.

00:21:18So, we're looking at Rubens Barrichello now in the Ferrari,

00:21:22chasing Micah Hakkinen's McLaren.

00:21:26Now we're with David Coulthard, second position,

00:21:2934 seconds behind Michael Schumacher.

00:21:32No sign yet of the Ferrari coming in.

00:21:35We can't see the pit lane very clearly from here.

00:21:39There's an enormous amount of pit furniture.

00:21:42But there are the Ferrari mechanics, as I speak,

00:21:45waiting to bring somebody in.

00:21:47Now, I think it must be Michael Schumacher,

00:21:51because there's no need to bring Barrichello in for traffic reasons.

00:21:54He's two seconds behind, 2.3 seconds behind Heinz-Harald Fredsen.

00:21:59Yes, getting the news that we think it is Schumacher.

00:22:01Barrichello's tucked up behind Hakkinen, who's trying to lap.

00:22:04So, Barrichello has got a little bit of a traffic problem,

00:22:08but nonetheless, we think it'll be Schumacher they'll bring in first.

00:22:11With a 33-second lead over the man you are watching now,

00:22:16David Coulthard from Twynham, Scotland.

00:22:18Here is Michael Schumacher.

00:22:21He's in the swimming pool section, in,

00:22:24past the diver statue,

00:22:27round the left-hander, keeps bearing left,

00:22:30breaks hard off for the Rascasse,

00:22:32which is about a 30-mile-an-hour corner.

00:22:35The mechanics are ready, the Ferrari mechanics are ready.

00:22:38Are you there, James?

00:22:40No, he's not.

00:22:42James?

00:22:43Yeah, I'm here, Murray.

00:22:44There's some scrub tyres going off of Michael Schumacher,

00:22:46and 52 kilos of fuel should take about 8.5 seconds stationary time in total.

00:22:51They're not rushing, a great stop by Ferrari.

00:22:53They've got it all perfectly right today.

00:22:55Yeah, Michael Schumacher exits the pit lane

00:22:58at that mandatory 60 kilometers an hour.

00:23:02He's got the new-style pit lane speed limiter working,

00:23:06and David Coulthard has not come through as I predicted.

00:23:10There is David Coulthard coming round

00:23:13into the so-called start-and-finish straight,

00:23:15which is actually a curve,

00:23:17and he's still in second place,

00:23:19but Michael Schumacher has retained his lead

00:23:22from some 33 seconds

00:23:25to some 11 seconds,

00:23:28so he's lost about 22 seconds

00:23:31as a result of coming in,

00:23:33slowing stationary for just 7.7 seconds

00:23:38as they put in the fuel,

00:23:39and he's got new tyres on now,

00:23:42and his concentration will not be affected.

00:23:44He can see a fifth Monaco Grand Prix victory in sight now,

00:23:49provided he just keeps going,

00:23:51because David Coulthard has still got to stop.

00:23:54He is 13, 14 seconds ahead of Fredson,

00:23:57who's got Barrichello right behind him,

00:23:59and in the barrier there,

00:24:01I can't see whether it's Zonta or Villon.

00:24:03It's Zonta!

00:24:04Ricardo Zonta has gone off at the same place as the others.

00:24:08It's obviously very slippery there.

00:24:10He's gone into the barrier on the left at Saint-Devote.

00:24:14There he is away from the car,

00:24:16passing the broken Minardi.

00:24:18Well, he was in 10th position,

00:24:19so there are only 12 runners left now

00:24:24with some 28 laps still to go.

00:24:28Now, last year, I've said it,

00:24:30but I'll repeat it,

00:24:32that only eight cars finished.

00:24:34Retirements that we've had in order of retirement.

00:24:37De La Rosa really didn't start the race,

00:24:39and there is Zonta's car being craned away.

00:24:42I used to hate driving underneath that.

00:24:44You're putting so much faith in somebody else.

00:24:46Having tied that car up properly,

00:24:48and so often on a street circuit,

00:24:50you drive underneath a craned car.

00:24:52Louise, what can you tell us?

00:24:53Well, the drivers taking quite some time

00:24:55to make their way across the system

00:24:56or walkways and bridges back to the paddock,

00:24:58but Jenson Button is finally back here.

00:24:59Jenson, looked like some kind of mechanical problem

00:25:01with the car.

00:25:03Yeah, we had a...

00:25:04I'm not quite sure what the problem is exactly.

00:25:06They're looking into it,

00:25:07but the last four laps,

00:25:08I had a few problems on acceleration.

00:25:10When I went on the accelerator,

00:25:11the engine just died,

00:25:12or something just died,

00:25:13so we're not sure what the problem is,

00:25:15but it's the end of my race.

00:25:17Bit of a frustrating day all around, really.

00:25:19Yeah, I think the only good thing I've got out of it

00:25:21is a bit of exercise,

00:25:22running back to the pits,

00:25:24but there you go.

00:25:25I think it's my first experience of Monaco,

00:25:27and hopefully the rest will be better.

00:25:28I know you're desperate for a drink.

00:25:29Thanks for talking to us.

00:25:31As Eddie Irvine exits the pit lane,

00:25:34he came in in sixth position,

00:25:37and Nico Salo has just gone through,

00:25:39as I speak.

00:25:40So you just saw a flash of the Sauber going past there.

00:25:43So Nico Salo in the Sauber is up into the points.

00:25:48He's been there once already this season

00:25:50at the San Marino Grand Prix,

00:25:51but this is the battle on the circuit.

00:25:53It is Heinz-Harald Frentzen in third position

00:25:56in the yellow Jordan,

00:25:58pursued by Rubens Barrichello,

00:26:00who is looking to get onto the podium

00:26:02to make it not one, but two Ferrari drivers up there.

00:26:06And Barrichello urgently needs those points

00:26:09to improve his world championship point position.

00:26:12He's in fourth position in the championship at the moment,

00:26:16and he is lapping about four-tenths of a second faster

00:26:20with Mika Häkkinen in the background.

00:26:22But he's been lapped, don't forget.

00:26:24It's Michael not particularly fast

00:26:25since he put new tyres on and fuel on board

00:26:28to go through to the end of the 78 lapper.

00:26:31We're on lap 52,

00:26:32but he was 1.3 seconds slower.

00:26:35There's Fisichella makes his first

00:26:37and probably only stop of the afternoon

00:26:39from fifth place.

00:26:40Look at the brake dust as the air guns,

00:26:43the pressurized compressed air guns

00:26:46just disperse the whole lot of it.

00:26:49And Fisichella back out at 60 Ks as ever.

00:26:52It's special.

00:26:53The drivers ask for this place to be slower

00:26:55than anywhere else because it is so dangerous,

00:26:58and nobody's disadvantaged that way.

00:27:00So, lap 52, Michael Schumacher leads and has stopped.

00:27:05David Coulthard second and has not stopped.

00:27:08Fredson and Barrichello that you are looking at

00:27:11having a big battle for third position,

00:27:15for the first, second podium position.

00:27:17And behind them is Fisichella,

00:27:20who you've just seen come in from his pit stop.

00:27:23Mikasalo is up into the points

00:27:25as a result of Eddie Irvine stopping.

00:27:28But I think Irvine will retake that position,

00:27:31provided the Jaguar keeps going as well as it has been doing

00:27:34when Mikasalo himself comes in.

00:27:3612 runners left.

00:27:38One of them is still Johnny Herbert,

00:27:40who has been lapped twice.

00:27:43Everybody up to seventh position,

00:27:45that is Eddie Irvine, has been lapped.

00:27:48As coming towards us, up the hill,

00:27:50Heinz-Harald Fredson third, Rubens-Barrichello fourth.

00:27:53Off goes a tear-off visor strip

00:27:56from Heinz-Harald Fredson's helmet.

00:27:59He's obviously got it fogged up or packed some oil on it.

00:28:03And Rubens-Barrichello really pushing

00:28:06with Louise Goodman with Jarno Trulli.

00:28:09That's right, Murray. The retirees are arriving back thick and fast now.

00:28:12Jarno, I understand it was a mechanical problem with the car.

00:28:14Gearbox, is that right?

00:28:16Yes, it's right. We don't know if it's a mechanical or electronic problem,

00:28:19but it's a gearbox.

00:28:21Such a disappointment for you.

00:28:23Yeah, it's right for me and also for the team.

00:28:25I mean, second position was pretty easy to keep

00:28:28because luckily my car was perfect.

00:28:31I didn't push very much because I was on one stop very long first thing,

00:28:35so I was taking care of the tyres and tried to keep away David.

00:28:39And as soon as David was closing the gap,

00:28:41I was pushing away, pulling away easily.

00:28:44Bad luck.

00:28:45Yeah, interesting there. He says he was on a very long first stint.

00:28:48Presumably that's Barrichello's stop for Ferrari.

00:28:50Mechanics are getting ready for.

00:28:52So I'm sure that tells us something about Fredson too

00:28:55and that he is going to be on a long stint.

00:28:58No, Fredson coming in the pits.

00:28:59Jordan have either decided to do that

00:29:01or responded to the Ferrari mechanics coming out into the pit lane

00:29:05to make sure they can try and keep their man with track position.

00:29:08Now, can Rubens Barrichello, as a result of help from the Ferrari mechanics,

00:29:12get his place ahead of...

00:29:14Yeah, no.

00:29:16Fredson gets out ahead in the pit lane, ahead of Rubens Barrichello,

00:29:20so there is no change in terms of track position.

00:29:23The question is, has Fisichella...

00:29:25No, Fisichella has not gone through.

00:29:28Is that the Benetton?

00:29:29No, it's not.

00:29:30It was the Jaguar coming through.

00:29:32The Jaguar of Johnny Herbert,

00:29:34who has now unlapped himself from those two,

00:29:37but not from race leader Michael Schubach.

00:29:41A lap 53 then.

00:29:43Now, Barrichello knows this is his best chance to leapfrog that Jordan

00:29:47while they're on cold time,

00:29:49while there's a certain amount of unknown

00:29:51and he's just not close enough to have a look at the inside into Mirabeau.

00:29:55Fredson's a pretty wise hand as well,

00:29:57but this is surely his best chance to catch Fredson unaware somewhere.

00:30:02Well, Barrichello's had a second this year,

00:30:04he's had a third this year,

00:30:07and Heinz-Harald Fredson has just had a third place,

00:30:10so they'll both be pretty anxious to have that position.

00:30:13And they are.

00:30:14David Coulthard is now really pushing,

00:30:17but he's still got to come in.

00:30:19He's done the fastest lap of the race,

00:30:21a second quicker than Michael Schumacher,

00:30:24but don't forget that Schumacher on his 55th lap

00:30:26has had his soul stopped.

00:30:28David Coulthard, who is four seconds behind him now,

00:30:31has still got to come in.

00:30:33He's the only one of the top seven who has not yet stopped.

00:30:38Yes, Coulthard must now have...

00:30:40We're not seeing it, but he must now have Schumacher in sight.

00:30:43But as you rightly say, he's a full pit stop behind.

00:30:46We know that to be about 22 seconds.

00:30:48Coulthard's stop should be shorter than anybody's,

00:30:51because he's going the furthest,

00:30:52so he needs less fuel to get to the end of the race.

00:30:54But certainly, as the tread has gone off the tyres

00:30:56and the fuel load is down,

00:30:57Coulthard's got a very fast motor car underneath him.

00:31:00Now, the only real race in terms of position at the present moment

00:31:05is that between Fredson and Barrichello

00:31:08that we've been looking at,

00:31:09who came into the pits together and left together,

00:31:12because Schumacher is effectively a long, long, long way

00:31:16ahead of David Coulthard.

00:31:17You can see them virtually together on the track now,

00:31:19as Coulthard second comes into the Rascasse,

00:31:22which Michael Schumacher has just exited.

00:31:26But I say again, there is a...

00:31:28I think...

00:31:29And Schumacher's in trouble! Schumacher's in trouble!

00:31:31Front wheel off the ground, has he got a puncture?

00:31:34Michael, and it's happened at the very worst place

00:31:36that it could possibly happen,

00:31:38because he's only just passed the pits.

00:31:40He's got to do a whole lap like this.

00:31:43Now, you remember what I said earlier on

00:31:45about carbon fibre stuff getting into the tyres?

00:31:47Maybe that's happened.

00:31:48No, I don't think he's got a puncture.

00:31:49I think he's got a...

00:31:51Well, we'll have to wait and see,

00:31:52but I thought it looked more like a suspension failure than a puncture.

00:31:55I think he's got a suspension failure there, Murray.

00:31:57He's going to be out of the race with that one.

00:31:59Yes, indeed he is, and in which case,

00:32:01David Coulthard will take the lead,

00:32:04with Frentzen in second position and Barrichello in third.

00:32:07But first, we've got to see what happens

00:32:09in this really dramatic development

00:32:11to Michael Schumacher,

00:32:13who's on his 56th lap.

00:32:14I say it's happened at the very worst place,

00:32:16because even if it's a puncture,

00:32:18which is the least of his problems,

00:32:20he's still got to do a whole lap,

00:32:22probably with the back of his car dragging on the ground

00:32:25by the time he gets in.

00:32:26If it's a broken suspension,

00:32:28he will be out of the Monaco Grand Prix.

00:32:31Well, they...

00:32:33I'm hearing from the pits

00:32:35they're getting a suspension arm ready

00:32:37to go on to Schumacher's car,

00:32:39but that's going to take some time.

00:32:41Yeah, I mean, he held it well.

00:32:42I think he's got a left rear suspension failure

00:32:45that puts the right front up in the air like that.

00:32:47I don't think he had a flat tire,

00:32:49and I'm almost certain that Schumi's got a damaged rear suspension,

00:32:54so that's going to take them three or four minutes, I would have thought.

00:32:57And now they've chosen to make Coulthard stop at that point.

00:33:01Lovely bit of quick thinking by the McLaren team

00:33:05will bring David in for his sole pit stop.

00:33:08He was 43 seconds ahead of Heinz-Harald Frentzen,

00:33:12so there's going to be no problem in terms of David Coulthard

00:33:15losing what looks like is going very shortly

00:33:18to be the lead of the Monaco Grand Prix,

00:33:21with Heinz-Harald Frentzen moving up into second position,

00:33:24and we're looking at the Jordan now.

00:33:26Where is Rubens Barrichello?

00:33:28There's Michael still trying to recover to the pits, look,

00:33:31and I'm pretty sure there's something gone on the pull rod

00:33:34or the rear shock absorber mechanism on Michael Schumacher's car,

00:33:38so maybe he had a little thump of the barrier somewhere

00:33:41earlier on in the race,

00:33:42and that can so often catch you out later on,

00:33:46so Michael Schumacher there still limping back to the pits.

00:33:49In fourth position, he's been passed by Coulthard,

00:33:52he's been passed by Frentzen,

00:33:54he's been passed by his teammate Rubens Barrichello.

00:33:57The glittering prospect of a fifth victory here at Monaco

00:34:01has escaped him. James?

00:34:03You can never count on anything in Formula 1 racing.

00:34:05As he came in, the left rear wheel was bubbling.

00:34:07He's cut the engine, guys, so I think he thinks it's all over.

00:34:10This reminds me very much of 1998.

00:34:12You remember, he clashed with Alexander Wurz at the Lowes hairpin

00:34:15and threw away a certain ten points in victory

00:34:17because he damaged his left rear suspension in that incident.

00:34:19Mechanics furiously working in the back,

00:34:21but the engine is cut out,

00:34:22and certainly any chance of any significant points

00:34:24are gone for Michael Schumacher.

00:34:26Thank you, James.

00:34:27So let's assume that is the situation,

00:34:30and obviously the cameras and we will be keeping you in touch,

00:34:33but now on lap 57 with 21 to go,

00:34:36as the Ferrari mechanics wrestle frantically

00:34:39with that rear suspension problem,

00:34:41David Coulthard is in the lead,

00:34:43the man who won the British Grand Prix,

00:34:45the man who's had such a terrible season personally

00:34:48as a result of that appalling air crash

00:34:51is in the lead at Monaco,

00:34:5324 seconds ahead of Heinz-Harald Frentzen,

00:34:56and there is Frentzen pursued by Rubens Barrichello.

00:35:00So this is the battle for second position

00:35:02that you are looking at,

00:35:03and McLaren leads, and Jordan is second,

00:35:05and Ferrari is third.

00:35:06In fourth place, the Benetton of Fittikella.

00:35:09In fifth, fifth, fifth position,

00:35:11it's Eddie Irvine's Jaguar,

00:35:13and in sixth position is Mika Salo in the Sauber.

00:35:17Seventh is Mika Hakkinen, and he is...

00:35:20That's the Ferrari still in the pits.

00:35:22Michael Schumacher getting out of the car, I think, Murray.

00:35:25They're abandoning the race.

00:35:26The Ferrari is retiring from the race.

00:35:29Well, bitter goal for Michael Schumacher

00:35:33after having driven such a brilliant Monaco.

00:35:36Firstly, to take pole position.

00:35:38Secondly, to retain the lead at the first corner

00:35:42on the third attempt at starting the race

00:35:45after two aborted starts.

00:35:49He's out of the Monaco Grand Prix.

00:35:51His ten World Championship points possibility has disappeared.

00:35:55Mika Hakkinen, however, is out of the points at the present moment.

00:35:59David Coulthard is potentially on ten World Championship points,

00:36:03and if he gets those,

00:36:04he would be within 12 points of Michael Schumacher.

00:36:07All is not lost.

00:36:10And the top six at the present moment are

00:36:12Coulthard, Frentzen, Barrichello, Fisichella, Irvine and Salo.

00:36:16We're leaving Monaco, but we'll be back soon.

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00:38:05As usual, the Monaco Grand Prix has not disappointed us.

00:38:34It seemed static for such a long time, but as in the past, everything changed very quickly

00:38:41indeed.

00:38:42This is lap 60.

00:38:43You're looking at the battle between Heinz-Harald Frentzen in the yellow Jordan, and Rubens

00:38:48Barrichello, or you were, in the scarlet Ferrari for second place, and David Coulthard, that

00:38:53we're riding with now, up the hill and into Bassinet and Cassino Square, is 17 seconds

00:38:59ahead of that battle with Frentzen in second place.

00:39:02That gap is coming down very slightly indeed.

00:39:05I think Coulthard has responded, because his last lap time was actually one tenth of a

00:39:10second faster than that of Frentzen.

00:39:13Fisichella is in fourth place, so it's McLaren, Jordan, Ferrari, Benetton, Eddie Irvine in

00:39:21the Jaguar is still looking good for a points position, he's in fifth place, 18 seconds

00:39:26ahead of Mika Salo-Salva.

00:39:27Yes, Coulthard getting very close to the wall there, as he came out of Portier and

00:39:33then out-braking himself into the chicane, so Coulthard still pushing, James, what can

00:39:37you tell us?

00:39:38Well, he's certainly holding up at the front, Michael Schumacher, reasonably philosophical

00:39:41from the look of the way he was when he took his helmet off, I can tell you that was the

00:39:44left rear suspension that broke, but the word at Ferrari is that he did not hit the barriers,

00:39:49that's the way they are saying at the moment, he did not hit the barriers, so they're not

00:39:52quite sure why it broke.

00:39:55Maybe it was because it wasn't strong enough, which seems reasonable enough, he certainly

00:39:58didn't hit the barrier that we saw.

00:40:00Some say he didn't hit the barrier some other time in the weekend, we did see him wallop

00:40:04it in qualifying yesterday with the left rear, they crack-test these parts, I'd be surprised

00:40:08if they weren't new suspension parts, but it's very unusual to have a failure like that,

00:40:14but this is a tough racetrack, a lot of bumps, a lot of, you know, you do get very close

00:40:18to barriers sometimes without actually knowing you've touched them, Michael didn't realise

00:40:22he'd hit the barrier in qualifying, it was just such a gentle touch, but it still puts

00:40:26a lot of side-load in, Hakkinen is on a charge, he's trying to catch his fellow Finn Mikasalo,

00:40:31who's occupying 6th place at the moment, and a world championship point, and Hakkinen needs

00:40:37that, Michael Schumacher out of the race, Hakkinen needs to maximise, as does Coulthard

00:40:41up there currently on 10 points, but he doesn't need too many scrappy laps like he had last

00:40:45time around.

00:40:46There is Mikasalo that we're looking at now in the south, he's in 6th position, you just

00:40:51saw a flash of Mika Hakkinen, who's really responded, as he always does, to a challenge.

00:40:57That is Eddie Irvine going through in the Jaguar, he's 25 seconds behind Fissing Keller

00:41:04in 5th position, Irvine, but Salo has got Mika Hakkinen getting closer and closer to

00:41:09him.

00:41:10Hakkinen is lapping a full second a lap faster than Mikasalo, he's only 5 seconds behind,

00:41:17we're on lap 62 out of 78, so Mika Hakkinen is certainly in a very strong position to

00:41:23get one world championship point.

00:41:26I can't see him then catching Eddie Irvine, unless the Jaguar man is very unlucky indeed,

00:41:32because Eddie Irvine that we're looking at now is some 18 seconds ahead of Mikasalo,

00:41:38who has yet to be caught and passed by Mika Hakkinen.

00:41:41David Coulthard meantime is on his 63rd lap, and he's maintaining the gap between himself

00:41:48and Heinz-Harald Frenzel, we're looking at Coulthard now, and some 17 seconds, yes, I

00:41:54apologise, that's Mika Hakkinen trying to close, well he is closing up on Mikasalo.

00:41:59And out of the race goes Jos Verstappen, now that's the swimming pool section, and there's

00:42:05no crane there, I can tell you that, so somehow or other they've got to get that car off the

00:42:10racing line and across the track, and push it back towards the tabac.

00:42:15Safety car on standby again, so safety car is on standby, doesn't mean to say they're

00:42:19necessarily going to use it, as earlier in the race, and well we've seen two arrows in

00:42:23that wall in exactly the same situation today, haven't we, and he managed then to come to

00:42:28the inside rather than at Della Rosa, stuffed one there this morning, and er, Mark Webber

00:42:33stuffed one there in the 3000 races.

00:42:35Yes, it's the same colour scheme, you're absolutely right, there's a magnet in there for anything

00:42:38painted orange and black this weekend, but they've moved that car, the crowd applauding,

00:42:43and that's really on the inside there, but it's still, if you had a big slide coming

00:42:49out of tabac you'd still manage to run into it, so what are they going to do?

00:42:52They can't lift it off, because the crane won't reach that far I'm pretty sure, so they're

00:42:57either going to have to rely on the drivers remembering where it is after they've passed

00:43:02it the first time, or they're going to have to bring out wave yellows, which prevents

00:43:07any passing in that sector, I should think it'll probably be the latter, as now we're

00:43:14on lap 64, 14 to go, David Coulthard looking good, Frentzen, not necessarily looking good

00:43:21for second position, if Barrichello can do anything about it, he can catch him but he

00:43:26can't get past him I think, Fisichella meantime is lapping faster in fourth position than

00:43:32either Frentzen or Barrichello ahead of him, and he's only five seconds behind Ruben Barrichello,

00:43:38Ferrari, Eddie Irvine out on his own, Mikas Salo out on his own, except that he's now got

00:43:45Mika Häkkinen getting closer and closer, there is the proof, Mika Salo in the dark blue Sauber

00:43:51into the Rascasse, as Mika Häkkinen gobbles up the gap between him, and if he gets past,

00:43:57or rather when he gets past the Sauber, Mika Häkkinen is going to be in the points again,

00:44:02absolutely no love lost at all between these fellow Finns, Salo will want that point, he'll

00:44:07fight for it, but Häkkinen surely has the much faster car, yeah he has, but then someone's got

00:44:13to make the decision about whether to show Mika Salo the blue flags, because if he can maintain

00:44:20his car in a position where Mika Häkkinen can't get past, the law will be with him, yes they can't

00:44:25show him a blue flag, it's for position, they cannot force him, he can block all he likes to

00:44:29the end of the day, they cannot show him a blue flag, you know he knows somebody's trying to pass

00:44:34him, but they cannot force him to yield of course, well he will know it's Mika Häkkinen, he can see

00:44:39him in his mirrors, he will know that that's the man in the race that he would least like to pass

00:44:44him, they had a gigantic rivalry in the British Formula 3 championship years ago, and they've

00:44:50still carried that enmity forward, so Mika Salo, Sauber wanting a world championship point to add

00:44:57to the one that he has already this year, as a result of his sixth position in the San Marino

00:45:03Grand Prix at Imola, and Mika Häkkinen wanting that point, so that he can get a bit closer

00:45:08to Michael Schumacher, I don't suppose Mika Häkkinen knows that Schumacher's out of the race,

00:45:12but he will be after every point that he can get, fascinating to know what happened with Häkkinen's

00:45:18car earlier in the race, when he was so slow coming back to the pits, whatever it was, they fixed it in

00:45:23the pit stop, which is most unusual to have, to be so slow and then suddenly be so fast, but

00:45:29steady situation in the race at the moment, Häkkinen homing in on Salo

00:45:33for that final point at the moment, we're going to take a quick break

00:47:23so

00:47:37so

00:47:49lap 67 out of 78 at Monaco, race leader David Kuhlflad is being caught by Fredsen, but not

00:47:57nearly quickly enough for Fredsen, he's still 16 seconds ahead, this is the race on the track,

00:48:05it's the battle for sixth position between Finland's Mika Salo and Finland's Mika Häkkinen

00:48:11respectively in the Sauber and McLaren cars, who are being caught as you can see by David Kuhlflad,

00:48:19so Kuhlflad is coming up to lap his teammate Mika Häkkinen, now Kuhlflad's last lap was 1 minute 21.8,

00:48:28Mika Häkkinen's last lap was 1 minute 23.7, so Kuhlflad is lapping nearly two seconds a lap

00:48:34faster than Mika Häkkinen, who's going to be faced with a dilemma very shortly,

00:48:39can he get past Salo without holding his teammate up or should he let Kuhlflad through? Yeah,

00:48:45Kuhlflad doesn't need to be in the 1 minute 21s to win this race, mid 22s, late 22s would be

00:48:52absolutely fine, but I mean that's just a few tenths of the fastest lap of the race so far,

00:48:58Kuhlflad on a mission, Louise what can you tell us? I'm standing by here with Michael Schumacher,

00:49:02Michael any idea what caused that failure? Yeah, we had an exhaust failure, one of the pipe broke

00:49:08and basically cooked the suspension. It was such a crashing victory, it was on the cards.

00:49:14Yeah, but you know that's Formula One. I know you're anxious to find out news about your brother

00:49:19Ralph, any news on his injuries? Yeah, apparently he has a quite a deep cut into his leg,

00:49:26but nothing more than that, he has to have stitches,

00:49:30but no broken or no further problems, so quite lucky.

00:49:36Thank you Louise and thank you Michael Schumacher, good to know that Ralph's injuries are nothing

00:49:41worse than a cut, although I wonder whether that will have healed enough for the Canadian Grand

00:49:46Prix at Montreal in two weeks time, we have to go there a bit earlier, it being a long-haul event

00:49:52than we normally do, but David Kuhlflad's lean is still being whittled away very, very, very slowly,

00:49:59too slowly for Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Kuhlflad is on his 69th lap now and Mika Häkkinen as he

00:50:05disappears into the tunnel on the tail of Mika Salo-Sauber, still pressures his countryman,

00:50:12but still can't get past him as we look at Eddie Irvine still in that fifth position for Jaguar,

00:50:18still potentially on Jaguar's first world championship points, I think that's his

00:50:23teammate Johnny Herbert in front of him in 10th position, so both the Jaguars are running

00:50:28reliably and one of them is in the points potentially to get their first world championship

00:50:33points of their first Grand Prix season, Salo, Häkkinen, at and out of the Rascasse, through to

00:50:43complete their 69th lap and they, just as a matter of interest, are 74 seconds ahead of

00:50:51David Kuhlflad, the race leader, who's going to be on both of them pretty shortly, now look back

00:50:57and you may see, yes, there is David Kuhlflad, you can see the track gap there is between Mika Häkkinen

00:51:04in seventh place and his teammate David Kuhlflad, who is leading the race and is very nearly a full

00:51:11lap ahead of Salo and Häkkinen, but as Martin has rightly said, David Kuhlflad can afford to ease off

00:51:20quite a lot without being in danger of losing his lead, because it is now 17 seconds, Fredsen

00:51:29is lapping Martin only quicker than he is, but what would then matter is the time that Salo is lapping

00:51:35in comparison with Kuhlflad and it's about two seconds a lap slower, so David Kuhlflad could still

00:51:43go on for eight laps at a reduced speed and win the race and I reckon that's what he's going to do

00:51:48I think they're showing us Fisichella, because he's beginning to close in quite quickly now on

00:51:53Barrichello, certainly on the last lap by over 1.3 seconds, so Fisichella now trying to make a play

00:52:00for the final seat on the podium, Villeneuve in the BAR Honda, it's going to be significant

00:52:05if he gets lapped by Fredsen, they're basically the second Honda team lapping the worked Honda team

00:52:10and that will not go down at all well. Yes, Jordan are making the official Honda team look pretty

00:52:16shabby at the present moment and here is the race order on lap 71, as you look at Rubens Barrichello

00:52:24in third position and now Fredsen who is in second place 16.8 seconds behind race leader

00:52:30David Kuhlflad and four seconds ahead of fourth place Giancarlo Fisichella in the Benetton

00:52:37Eddie Irvine, and there goes the Jordan and Fredsen is now going to be passed by Rubens

00:52:44Barrichello who will move up into second position. Just a silly careless mistake there Murray, Fredsen

00:52:49just went in, cruised into the corner, ran fractionally wide and slapped the barrier, surely he's

00:52:54broken the rear suspension and the driveshaft I'd imagine, look at this, it just picks up a little

00:52:59bit of dirt and that's it and quite a whack actually, barrier yielded a little bit and that

00:53:04is Fredsen out of the race, what a silly careless mistake. So it means that the Ferrari is now on

00:53:10six world championship points and you are looking at it, this has eased the bitter blow for Ferrari

00:53:17and made things tougher for McLaren in the Constructors Championship because Kuhlflad is on

00:53:2310 points, Barrichello is on six, up into third position goes Fisichella in the Benetton, up into

00:53:30fourth place goes the Jaguar, Jaguar of Eddie Irvine, fifth is Salo, Mika Häkkinen is now in the points

00:53:38both the McLarens are in the points first and sixth. I think that Jordan will be manoeuvrable

00:53:43and they've got to pull it out of the way, I don't know which way they'll take it but the

00:53:47Jordan at least appeared to have its wheels pointing more in the right direction than

00:53:52Diniz's car earlier on in the race and the man who now needs to put a spurt on is Fisichella there

00:53:57in the blue Benetton because he's now got a chance of second place, I think without doubt Barrichello

00:54:03is ailing slightly and Fisichella homing in on him nicely, the gap now down to just 2.2 seconds.

00:54:10Yeah and on the last lap Fisichella was two seconds faster than Rubens Barrichello so he's

00:54:16going to be right up with the Ferrari, here is the order, Coulthard leads, Barrichello second,

00:54:21Fisichella that you're looking at closing up on the second place Ferrari in third position,

00:54:27Fredsen is out of the race, fourth then is Irvine, fifth is Salo, sixth is Häkkinen, seventh is

00:54:33Jacques Villeneuve, eighth is Heidfeld, ninth is Johnny Herbert, eight cars finished last year,

00:54:39nine are running this year and we are on lap 72 out of 78, all to play for and still some time to

00:54:47play, out of the tunnel Ferrari, Rubens Barrichello second place, where is Fisichella? He was only

00:54:56two seconds behind him when we last looked at him as he closed up, both Fisichella

00:55:02and there is Häkkinen looking now for fifth position and two world championship points by

00:55:07getting ahead of Salo who continues steadfastly to stay ahead of the McLaren whilst David Coulthard

00:55:14nearly a lap ahead of them on the track, closes up on his teammate Coulthard, Barrichello, Fisichella,

00:55:21Irvine, Salo, Micka Häkkinen, that's what we're looking at. Yeah well Coulthard can afford to relax now to the

00:55:2624 second lead but you saw what happened there with Fredsen if you relax and we've seen it happen

00:55:31with Senna, with Schumacher over the years, even the greatest drivers around here they're all capable

00:55:36of a slight lap, half a meter out and you're having a silly accident into the wall so Coulthard

00:55:42now backing off quite a lot now down into the one minute 23s but he's got a 23 second lead at the

00:55:48end of the last lap with six to go including this one now Fisichella just 1.9 seconds behind

00:55:55Barrichello and it absolutely amazes me that Häkkinen having just zoomed up to the back of Salo

00:56:00can't get anywhere near him now. Yeah it's not, you'd expect it to be harrying and I remember one

00:56:06of the most exciting races I've ever seen was the closing stages of the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix

00:56:12here in Monte Carlo when Ayrton Senna got ahead of Nigel Mansell who'd come in to change a wheel

00:56:19thinking he'd got a puncture when in fact it was just a loose wheel nut and Mansell came out, caught

00:56:25Senna's McLaren and harried it every inch of the way for the last six laps, he practically drove

00:56:32over the top of it but Senna just knowing the track as well as he did, a six times winner,

00:56:38stayed where he was, refused to let Mansell get past and won the race and subsequently became

00:56:44a six times and only six times winner at Monaco. So David Coulthard now is on his 74th lap,

00:56:53four laps to go at the end of this one and the battle that you're looking at is the major one

00:56:59of the circuit with nine cars left out of the 22 starting. Yes Eddie Irvine just 15 seconds down

00:57:05the road from that battle in a great fourth place so hopefully his Jaguar will see it to the end

00:57:10and get some reasonable points this afternoon. Hakan and Nara redoubling his efforts to put

00:57:14Salo under pressure and gain an extra world championship point. Frentzen, he's going to have

00:57:19some explaining to do to Eddie Jordan on that one. Well I know that Jackie Stewart's son Paul

00:57:25Stewart in England will be watching this race, he hasn't been with us for some time. It gives me an

00:57:32opportunity to say Paul that we are missing you in Formula One, get well soon and come back and

00:57:38your reward here we sincerely hope is going to see your man Eddie Irvine come home in fourth position

00:57:46for Jaguar's first world championship points. The points that you and your father Jackie and

00:57:52everybody else when it was the Stewart team have done so much to enable them to be possible today.

00:57:58So Salo and Hakkanen with Hakkanen closing up now but knowing that he mustn't be rash because

00:58:06at least he's in the running for one world championship point now but he can only get it

00:58:11if he pressures Mika Salo to do something wrong. If he does something wrong himself, Mika Hakkanen

00:58:16that is, he will prejudice the chance of getting even one world championship point which could

00:58:22decide the world championship in the end analysis. Last year the winner Mika Hakkanen was only two

00:58:29points ahead of Eddie Irvine in the Ferrari at the end of 16 hard-fought races. Every point

00:58:36counts in Formula One. And Hakkanen out-braking himself into the chicane going straight across

00:58:41again I don't think he'll get a penalty on that one. I wonder if he's got a similar problem to

00:58:45what he had earlier on but is he picking up speed or is Hakkanen cruising now? I think he's

00:58:50well he's slowed down there. Maybe he's got a brake problem which was the

00:58:55what caused him to overshoot the chicane. He's certainly visually going a lot slower there.

00:59:03Just listening to the engine. And he's got David Coulthard right up behind him now.

00:59:08There is the race leader Coulthard closing up on the sixth place man Mika Hakkanen. They're both

00:59:15in the points. Now Mika Hakkanen is 49 seconds ahead of Jacques Villeneuve. So if Hakkanen can

00:59:23just keep going he's going to be in for one world championship point. We're riding with Coulthard now

00:59:29and you will see the other McLaren of Mika Hakkanen now as it drops down to the Mirabeau,

00:59:36the right-hander. There he goes from the Mirabeau down to the Grand Hotel hairpin. This is it coming

00:59:43up. David Coulthard lap 76. Two to go at the end of this one. Leading by 20 seconds from Rubens

00:59:50Barrichello. Curiously there was some some kind of moisture on the camera lens of Coulthard's car

00:59:56so I would imagine Hakkanen's cars pumping something out of the back. And Ron Dennis stoically looking

01:00:03at the monitors in the McLaren pit lane area as we ride with David Coulthard coming up to his

01:00:09teammate Mika Hakkanen and looks in the mirrors moves over lets him through. No thanks he didn't

01:00:13move over he stayed on the racing line and made Coulthard go offline so Hakkanen there doing

01:00:19the least he really had to do. But it wasn't enough to stop David Coulthard going through

01:00:27so he's coming through to complete his 76th lap now. There are just 4.1 racing miles between David

01:00:36Coulthard and his second Grand Prix victory of the year 2000 having won the British Grand Prix

01:00:44and he will move ahead of Mika Hakkanen if they stay where they are to second in the World

01:00:49Championship. Some 12 points behind Michael Schumacher. I said earlier on all is not lost

01:00:56for McLaren all is not gained for Ferrari. Rubens Barrichello is looking good now because although

01:01:04Fisichella is closing up there he is in the background there's only three tenths of a second

01:01:09between them in terms of their lap times to the advantage of Fisichella and the Italian is not

01:01:16going to be able to catch the Brazilian unless Barrichello has a problem between now and the end

01:01:22of the race which is the next lap but one that's Fisichella, Coulthard, Barrichello, Fisichella,

01:01:29Irvine is fourth, still there, still there, the Jaguar is still in fourth position, Salo is still

01:01:35fifth, Hakkanen is still sixth, Villeneuve has been lapped and is seventh, Heidfeld is eighth,

01:01:41ninth is Johnny Herbert two laps down it looks as though both the Jaguars are going to finish

01:01:46and Heinz-Harald Frentzen is out of the race so there are only nine runners left as David Coulthard

01:01:54comes through now a full lap ahead of Micah Hakkanen to start his 78th and last lap of the

01:02:05Monaco Grand Prix well he has refused to give in I said earlier on that he's always pointed out

01:02:14that he's younger than Hakkanen and he's got a lot less race experience than Hakkanen he's convinced

01:02:20he can be world champion and he has driven an absolutely magnificent race yes I think those

01:02:26days now of comparing himself with Hakkanen in that sort of lower light he has to get out of

01:02:32really he's now in a great position if he can get to the end of this lap in the world championship

01:02:37and he's certainly been very pumped up all weekend he said I was so disappointed when

01:02:41qualifying ended I'm just loving driving the cars giving me a lot of confidence here all weekend

01:02:45and he went into the race with supreme confidence and it certainly paid off for him

01:02:50would have been nice to see him and Schumacher head-to-head earlier on in the race to see

01:02:54which of the two cars and drivers had the real pace but Coulthard now just a few corners from

01:03:00home Murray and yet again the man who started in pole position is not going to win the race

01:03:07it's beginning to look as though there is a bit of a jinx on getting pole position the thing that

01:03:12they all strive for that didn't worry David Coulthard well it did for a while but it won't

01:03:17be worrying him now into the Rascasse for the 78th and last time out of it and the McLaren mechanics

01:03:25will lean out and applaud him home there they are and David Coulthard wins the Monaco Grand Prix

01:03:31magnificently Rubens Barrichello is only 17 seconds behind him there he is coming into

01:03:38second position with Giancarlo Fisichella's Benetton in third place and Eddie Irvine is

01:03:45almost home in the Jaguar this is going to be the first world championship points finish for Jaguar

01:03:53if Irvine comes home and it's going to be very very well deserved where is he he was 45 seconds

01:04:01behind David Coulthard and the McLaren mechanics gather in the pit lane congratulate each other

01:04:08and I'm still looking for Irvine who has not yet gone past us there he is there is Eddie Irvine

01:04:16into the swimming pool complex for the last time I won't say he could coast home now but he could

01:04:23because he couldn't but he is going to have the enormous privilege and satisfaction of giving

01:04:29Jaguar as last year's second in the world championship Irvine their first world championship

01:04:36points he finishes for three points for Eddie Irvine and Jaguar yes collective sigh of relief

01:04:42there from the paddock I think the Jaguar situation was looking pretty dire but that'll be a fillip

01:04:48for them good news for for that team there's the point to marry Michael Schumacher is as I forecast

01:04:56still leading the world championship he's 12 points ahead of Coulthard as opposed to 18 points

01:05:02ahead of Hakanen Mika Hakanen has been passed by his teammate and is now third in the world

01:05:08championship 17 points behind Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello is only seven points behind

01:05:15Mika Hakanen so it is a Ferrari driver McLaren driver McLaren driver Ferrari driver in the top

01:05:21four Giancarlo Fisichella as a result of that third position here is in fifth position and

01:05:29Ralph Schumacher who failed to score points has dropped down from fifth position to sixth place

01:05:35I hope Coulthard's car passes scrutineering at the end of the race remember he got thrown out

01:05:40of the Brazilian Grand Prix after the second place there six points he could well have used

01:05:45at the moment to keep Michael Schumacher under pressure but nonetheless he'll happily accept the

01:05:4910 he's got today going past the Rascasse bar there where he occasionally drops in for a drink

01:05:54when he's got a bit of free time here in Monaco Coulthard now will go to the line and it's a

01:06:01wonderful wonderful podium procedure it's so unusual and it's a great feeling and a dream

01:06:06ticket really for a British driver to win the British Grand Prix and then shortly afterwards

01:06:11the Monaco Grand Prix they would be the two top ones on your list if you had to choose two to win

01:06:19well McLaren are five points closer to Ferrari in the Constructors Championship

01:06:27as a result of David Coulthard's win and Micka Hakkinen's sixth position and Rubens Barrichello's

01:06:33second position for Ferrari so they are still if I'm right five seconds behind as Fisichella

01:06:39congratulates David Coulthard well it's a richly deserved win for David he's worked

01:06:45tremendously hard for it he was in a very strong position when the race started not as strong as he

01:06:52would have liked to have been in third position on the grid and the Benetton people are already

01:06:58pouring the champagne because that's a podium place for them and they had a second place with

01:07:05Fisichella in Brazil but it's only their second podium position of the year and the Benetton team

01:07:11which is now owned by Renault of course is slowly being rejuvenated under the leadership of Flavio

01:07:18Briatore. David Coulthard is congratulated by Pasquale Lattenedo as he gets up into the Royal

01:07:26Box is it Prince Rainier himself or Prince Albert that's going to give him the award well Ferrari

01:07:33are as I worked it out in the end five points still ahead of McLaren 68 to 63 Williams are still

01:07:40in third place ahead of Benetton are only one point behind them and David Coulthard receives

01:07:46the winner's trophy from his serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monte Carlo Rubens Barrichello second

01:07:55Giancarlo Fisichella a local a local boy is third and Eddie Irvine just misses going up there

01:08:05well done David the man from Twynham has done it again that is David's eighth world championship

01:08:14win he won for Williams and he's now won time and time again for McLaren and has moved up to

01:08:21second in the world championship Ron Dennis on the right

01:08:29and to the third place driver Scotland Brazil Italy Ireland Finland Finland good spread of

01:08:39countries for the top six drivers McLaren Ferrari Benetton Jaguar Sauber and McLaren

01:08:49again only one constructor has got both his cars its cars in the top six point scoring places

01:08:56and the national anthem for David Coulthard's victory

01:09:26David Coulthard lives here in Monaco he has got far to go home his

01:09:41fiancée Heidi Wicholinski will be here very proud I'm quite sure

01:09:47and since McLaren share the national anthem with David Coulthard we are not I think going to hear

01:10:00it again the winner of the Monaco Grand Prix David Coulthard 16 seconds ahead of Rubens

01:10:07Barrichello who was two and a half seconds ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella Eddie Irvine a

01:10:13magnificent fall for Jaguar's first world championship points two world championship

01:10:18points for Sauber and for Mikko Salo who managed to stay ahead of his countryman Mikko Häkkinen

01:10:25right to the end Mikko Häkkinen was lapped and the lap record the sorry the fastest lap in the race

01:10:33Mikko Häkkinen one minute 21 points five so he really got cracking at the end seven tenths of a

01:10:40second faster than his own fastest lap last year Norbert Haug the Mercedes-Benz competition chief

01:10:48congratulate Joe Ramirez one of the most popular men in Formula One on the right who has been in

01:10:56Grand Prix racing for so very long I've seen a superb win great for McLaren great for David

01:11:04and not too bad for Ferrari in spite of Michael Schumacher's problems

01:11:10thanks very much indeed Mario thanks to Martin Brundle as well last time David Coulthard was

01:11:15on the podium he had a rather subdued celebration he has given it the full Monty this time round

01:11:21though a terrific win for David Coulthard a lot more to come from us here in Monte Carlo we have

01:11:26a competition we'll get Tony Jardine's view of the race and we'll reflect a British victory at the

01:11:32Monaco Grand Prix

01:12:02so

01:12:32foreign

01:13:02foreign

01:13:33oh

01:13:39let me go

01:14:02So, we have concluded with an Italian on the podium, an almost Italian, a Brazilian, who

01:14:17has brought the Italian on the podium, and with a McLaren pilot who had never won here

01:14:24at Monmecano.

01:14:25His girlfriend, Heidi, took the trophy and showed it to the photographers and everyone.

01:14:31So, happiness and joy for everyone here.

01:14:35Ok, we have finished the classification, as you know, third Giancarlo Fisichella,

01:14:41on the podium, second Rubens Marichello for Ferrari, first David Coulthard, fourth

01:14:45Irvane, fifth Salo, sixth Hockenheim, seventh Villeneuve, eighth Eindhoven, ninth

01:14:51Herbert.

01:14:52So, I just wanted to remind you which are the points of the championship, because

01:15:00now something has changed.

01:15:01The direct supervisor of Schumacher is no longer Hockenheim, but Coulthard.

01:15:0534 points for the score 46 for Ferrari.

01:15:09So, let's start from Schumacher, always free, 46 points.

01:15:13Hockenheim 34, Hockenheim 29, Marichello 4 with 20 points.

01:15:18Fisichella, who is really a magnificent reason for continuity, has 14 points in the

01:15:24championship and is fifth.

01:15:27With this we end today's program of the 53rd Grand Prix of Monaco.

01:15:34Next year we will race again in May, towards the end of May.

01:15:39We wish you a good return to Italy.

01:15:42We pray for the flags and we will continue to do the same.

01:15:47Ok?

01:15:48Thank you all for participating.

01:15:50Thank you, Gabriele.

01:15:51Have a good evening.

01:15:52Have a good competition.

01:15:56The second win of the year, your eighth win overall, I believe, completing your own personal

01:16:05Grand Slam.

01:16:06Absolutely.

01:16:07I've always said there's a few big Grands Prix for me personally that I'd like to win,

01:16:12and that's Spa, because it's my favorite track.

01:16:15The British Grand Prix, of course, because it's my home Grand Prix.

01:16:17The Italian Grand Prix, because there's nothing quite like an Italian crowd for Formula 1.

01:16:22And Monaco, because it's technically one of the most challenging and difficult tracks

01:16:25for any driver.

01:16:26And, ok, I've benefited today from problems with Michael and with Jarno, but that's Monaco.

01:16:33And I've had, I think, my fair share of bad luck over the years, so I'm quite happy to

01:16:37take this win today.

01:16:38You said it was a lucky win, but when you were that far behind Jarno and Michael, did

01:16:46you think you could get through either of them?

01:16:48Yeah, I thought there was an opportunity to get past Jarno.

01:16:50It was just a question of how far down the road Michael would be.

01:16:53The car felt good.

01:16:54I have to say, Pat and Paul, my two engineers, did a great job on setup and made an adjustment

01:16:59on the grid, and that really helped the balance.

01:17:01So I was able to run quick lap times as and when I wanted to.

01:17:04Ok, Michael had a big lead, but obviously that took a toll on his car.

01:17:09And you've got to have the reliable car, and you've got to keep away from the barriers.

01:17:12And today I was able to do that, and McLaren gave me the car to do that.

01:17:15Now interestingly, Michael actually went out with a suspension failure.

01:17:18I know in the past McLaren have bought tougher suspension components.

01:17:21Did you do it again this year?

01:17:23To be honest, I'm not sure, because I haven't done the last few tests since Barcelona.

01:17:31So there could well have been some different suspension, but I didn't ask the question.

01:17:35There's no need for me to know that.

01:17:37You don't go and try and hit barriers anyway.

01:17:39But clearly the built car was strong enough to go the distance for me.

01:17:42I don't know what Mika's problem was.

01:17:44Nonetheless, it's a great day for my side of the garage and for the whole West McLaren Mercedes team.

01:17:51You're now very firmly in second. You're 12 points behind Michael still, but 5 points ahead of Mika.

01:17:55And more importantly, you've seemed over the last few races to be gaining the upper hand.

01:17:59Do you feel you now have the psychological advantage over your teammate?

01:18:01And more importantly, do you think you now deserve to get the more focused attention that Mika got for the last two years when he established a lead?

01:18:08Well, first of all, Mika is a two-time world champion.

01:18:11So I think that must be a fair confidence boost to one's mind to have two world championships under your belt.

01:18:18But I've never been at all psyched by his achievement or Michael's or whoever it happens to be that I'm competing against.

01:18:23Because personally, I've just been working towards achieving my maximum and improving as a driver.

01:18:29I've always said that I still feel that I've got more to give.

01:18:32And I think that slowly as my confidence grows, I'm giving more and more all the time.

01:18:36So as that happens, I'll expect more from the team.

01:18:40Today, obviously, you know, there's no complaints. It's a great day for us.

01:18:45David, thank you.

01:18:46Rubens, many congratulations and a very hard-earned second place.

01:18:49But both of the starts were very bad for you. Was there a problem?

01:18:53Well, actually, the start wasn't too bad.

01:18:55I was just blocked with people in front. I had to brake.

01:18:59And, you know, Ralf made a really good start from the outside, so I had to back off.

01:19:05So I lost time with that.

01:19:07And fortunately, that was the story.

01:19:09I mean, I had such a bad qualify.

01:19:12I took the wrong decision for qualify.

01:19:14And then I was penalised with a bad start as well.

01:19:17And the race was catching up the whole time.

01:19:21I was conserving the tyres and fuel for much of the time.

01:19:25It was unlucky that we didn't do one more lap than Frentzen,

01:19:29because I would have caught him, because I think we were really faster than him.

01:19:34And, you know, he had maybe good tyres at the end.

01:19:38And, you know, I was just catching up again.

01:19:41I almost went into the bars before the tunnel.

01:19:46But I was pushing, pushing, pushing.

01:19:48At the end, Ross told me to back off because we had a problem.

01:19:51So we had to keep low revs.

01:19:54But, you know, apart from that, it was a good race, catching up the whole time,

01:19:58proving that qualify just went wrong.

01:20:02Rubens, thank you.

01:20:03Giancarlo, when I spoke to you on the grid a couple of hours ago,

01:20:05you told me there's no way you'd be on the podium.

01:20:08How do you feel?

01:20:10I was not optimistic, obviously.

01:20:13But now I am very pleased about the result.

01:20:17The target was to score some points.

01:20:20Obviously, my dream was to get on the podium.

01:20:24And now I am third. It's fantastic.

01:20:27We did a very good job, especially this morning in the warm-up.

01:20:32I found out a very good setup for the race.

01:20:36And there was very good balance, apart from the last 10 laps.

01:20:41No, I think when I did about 45, 46 laps, I had a puncture in my rear tyre.

01:20:50So I did my first pit stop 10 laps before the normal.

01:20:55And I lost 7, 8 seconds.

01:21:00But then, at the end, with the new tyres,

01:21:08well after the first pit stop, I was quite confident.

01:21:14There was good balance, and I was pushing very hard.

01:21:18I was quite quick, and I was catching Rubens.

01:21:23Thanks, Giancarlo. And back to David.

01:21:26We move on now to Canada, which has been a circuit

01:21:28which historically Ferrari have been very good at.

01:21:30In fact, McLaren have been very, very close.

01:21:32How do you feel going on there?

01:21:34I feel very positive going to Montreal.

01:21:37It's a track that I think I've particularly gone well at in the past,

01:21:40although I've broken down twice whilst leading that race.

01:21:44So hopefully luck is changing, and it's a good track for me personally.

01:21:49I expect it to be close with Ferrari again.

01:21:52It's going to be close all year, so stay tuned.

01:21:56A word from Rubens and Giancarlo in your own languages, please.

01:21:59Rubens.

01:22:00Well, I was obviously happy with the result.

01:22:26I don't think I'm happy with the results yet.

01:22:29It has to be something that we should go for,

01:22:32and I think it's something that we should set aside.

01:22:36There is a key point.

01:22:38I think the key point is that it's something that we should go for,

01:22:42and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:45and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:47and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:49and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:52and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:55and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:22:58and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:01and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:04and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:07and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:10and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:13and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:16and I think it's something that we should go for,

01:23:19and I think it's something that we should go for,

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