Formula-1 2001 R03 Brazilian Grand Prix

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00:00:00Brazilian Grand Prix live from Sao Paulo only on ITV. Your pit reporters are Louise Goodman and Ted Kravitz

00:00:07Murray Walker isn't with us. It's the first of five races that Murray is missing in his farewell season

00:00:12So alongside Martin Brundle in the commentary box a special welcome to James Allen

00:00:18Well, there's only one place in the world we could be today

00:00:21The crowd have been in here since 7 o'clock this morning banging their drums doing Mexican waves

00:00:27Shouting you name it. It's colorful. It's noisy and like the potent cocktail they serve here called caipirinha

00:00:33It's an assault on all your senses. The crowd's nerves have certainly been tested already

00:00:38Just before the race Rubens Barrichello the race car broke on his formation lap

00:00:43He had to run back to the pits and made it out just 30 seconds before the pit lane exit closed in the spare car

00:00:51Great deal of work going on on the grid on Rubens's car as we speak

00:00:55The mechanics will have to clear the grid shortly though. We've got three minutes and 40 seconds until we get going with this Brazilian Grand Prix, so

00:01:04What kind of race is in prospect?

00:01:06Well, the first thing you need to know is that just one tenth of a second separates second and sixth on the grid

00:01:12Yes, folks. It's that close

00:01:15The second thing is that it's Williams and not McLaren who are posing the biggest threat to Ferrari here today Ralph Schumacher

00:01:21Lining up alongside his brother just a few moments ago

00:01:24We saw Ralph and Michael shaking hands on the grid wishing each other luck tremendous amount of brotherly spirit between these two

00:01:31But they have had their run-ins in the past. I think back to Nürburgring in

00:01:361997 Ralph took Michael out at the start into the first corner by mistake as we

00:01:42Three minutes now until the formation lap he took him out by mistake

00:01:45And in fact that probably ended Michael's chances of winning the 97 World Championship

00:01:49Certainly put him on the back foot and gave the advantage to Villeneuve

00:01:53Ralph told a very amusing story yesterday when I caught up with him had a chat apparently when they used to cart race against each

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00:01:59Michael would specialize and getting very close up behind Ralph if he was leading and pulling off his exhaust pipe

00:02:05Deliberately just to put him out

00:02:08So will they put each other out into the first corner time will tell?

00:02:11But for sure it will not want that kind of embarrassment

00:02:15The manager of both of the two Schumacher brothers and what a wealthy man and what a

00:02:20Perceptive man. He certainly is we heard him say he thought that Michael was the favorite today

00:02:25That's certainly the way that most of us here in Sao Paolo at Interlagos in the paddock feel

00:02:30This race should be Michael's unless he has some kind of problem

00:02:33But it really is very very close indeed and you can see on the grid just how close it was in

00:02:38qualifying between p2 and p6 in particular

00:02:41But look the two Jordans are very close as well

00:02:43And then we have the Sauber's going very strongly as well in the top ten

00:02:48one Montoya worth watching out for we heard Mark Blundell in a build-up to the

00:02:52race saying he thought that Williams might try two stops with Montoya and

00:02:58Well, that would certainly be worth watching. It is possible to pass cars. Look at the sweat on Rubens Barrichello's face

00:03:03He really really will be pumped up and you'll be ready for this. Definitely. It'll certainly give him a charge

00:03:09Terribly disappointed he was yesterday to qualify a lowly sixth place a terrible understeer on that Ferrari

00:03:15Whereas Michael Schumacher sailed serenely on but after grabbing his seventh consecutive pole position yesterday

00:03:22Michael said quote this winning streak must end soon. Well, it's a pretty fatalistic words from Michael

00:03:28Will it end here today? Well on paper Martin, you would have to say only a problem would stop him

00:03:34Yes

00:03:34I thought he was tempting fate also in a press release yesterday saying and please have my little brother on the front row

00:03:39We know each other so well, we won't crash together and I think that's very much tempting fate, but clearly I

00:03:45every time I go on that grid it always

00:03:48Surprises me just how steep the hill is that they climb up

00:03:52Just after the start and this grid is in a in a dip in a bolt

00:03:55So you're either rolling downhill or rolling backwards if you're near at the front of the grid and it is a tricky start

00:04:01And you do tend to have a lot of problems and it's impossible for those two brothers to try to choreograph the first corner

00:04:08Especially with hacking and just behind them. It was an excellent gridwalk. You got very close to the tension on Rubens Barrichello

00:04:14What did it feel like down the grid?

00:04:15Well, it was amazingly tense

00:04:18I couldn't believe how calm Rubens was and then having to meet and greet people all at the same time

00:04:23I I mean this this is the day job looks like there's a problem down there for the Jaguar crew as well

00:04:29We are now just 10 seconds away from the green light

00:04:33So that will automatically be a penalty for which ever Jaguar that was I suspect it was Bertie's car and a problem then already

00:04:42The mechanics are now off the track. Of course, they're all they're all standing to the side, but I believe they've made an

00:04:48Irvine actually was on the outside lane and Irvine is the driver of the Jaguar team who's on the outside

00:04:53But anyway, they go off on their formation lap now into the first corner

00:04:58The deceded Oh soul and then the center s everybody's safely away from onto the formation lap

00:05:03I think nobody left behind you can see the mechanics the top of the screen just clearing the grid

00:05:07It's an amazing rush of color everyone sweating and dashing to get back to the pit lanes with all that very heavy fit equipment

00:05:14It's in the drivers hands now only they can decide what happens

00:05:18Mechanics will have a role to play in the pit stops. We might see two from some cars one from others

00:05:23I'll tell you a little later what my feelings on that are

00:05:26Everybody going away on the formation formation that Martin

00:05:30Try to bring your temperatures down a bit

00:05:32They get high sitting just those few seconds on the line

00:05:35And of course they get even higher when you finally get around it takes some 45 seconds for the grid

00:05:40To form up when they get around to the start finish line and a massive temperature there clearly

00:05:45There's only air cooling on them. There's no fans whatsoever

00:05:48so it's an important lap to get those temperatures as low as you can try to get some heat in the brakes and the

00:05:54Tires and generally prepare yourself for what is a pretty tricky start and it all narrows down into a funnel when you get into turn

00:06:02one and

00:06:03Really this track is so dirty around the outside there James. It often causes problems as we know

00:06:08I was interested to hear that

00:06:10Very interested to hear from Micah Hacken and that he thought it was going to rain today

00:06:14Certainly at the moment looking out across the racetrack

00:06:17We've got the city of Sao Paulo third biggest city in the world the largest city in South America bathed in shade

00:06:22We're in the sunshine here

00:06:24there are some clouds in the distance and we're getting word from the pit lane that indeed Eddie Irvine is being investigated by the race stewards, so

00:06:31The mechanics not leaving the grid quite on time and Irvine. He didn't really need any more problems, but he's got some

00:06:37It's quite a short lap here. We know the pole position was a 113.7

00:06:41So they're round and they were still hauling all of the equipment off the line the generators and spare wheels

00:06:47Etc, etc. So a bit touch-and-go here for the mechanics to get out of the way

00:06:52So they're forming up on the grid

00:06:53We heard Mark Blundell talking about the uphill start and you yourself are saying Martin how you get a bit of an idea of the

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00:07:00But the TV pictures don't really convey it and particularly the final corner up to the start finish a tremendous hill

00:07:05but everybody forming up on the grid now and

00:07:08Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralph have been sitting there for a good half a minute now the temperatures rising all the time

00:07:14You know the drill folks five lights go on then five lights go off and then we'll be rocking and rolling

00:07:20In Sao Paolo ready

00:07:26Great stop by Schumacher

00:07:30And hacking in a stall from p3

00:07:32Schumacher leads into the first corner great stop by Montoya as well

00:07:35And Ralph and David Coulthard to so those front five and hacking and still on the grid safety car

00:07:40They'll have to put the safety car out. I believe unless they can move that very very quickly

00:07:45They will put the safety car that that is a walled part of the track

00:07:57Ralph Schumacher fallen off the front row back down to fit and look the car is still on the grid

00:08:03They will have to put the safety car very very quickly. They need those double yellows waving

00:08:10Safety car is standing by we're told but no sign of a young the racetrack

00:08:14What a cracking start though by one Montoya in the Williams Ralph Schumacher has dropped down to fifth place and look at Michael

00:08:20Streaking away David Coulthard looking very racy in third place. Yano truly got away

00:08:25Well safety car deployed safety car deployed

00:08:28So James there the problem is the safety car cannot pick up the cars before they come over the start finish line

00:08:34There's the board. There's the wave yellows

00:08:36This is a very very difficult and dangerous situation

00:08:46Cannot pick them up until the pit lane exit and there it is

00:08:50So they will pass the danger zone before the safety car picks them up and they better be watching those flags

00:08:55And they are indeed all drivers slowing down very sensibly down the pit straight very critical situation

00:09:02They all have radios all the teams will be in radio contact with the drivers

00:09:05You can see how close it would have been. He's right on the racing line

00:09:09I think a hack in and I'm very surprised they've taken this long to move it

00:09:12It's over two minutes since he stole that car and normally you engage it into neutral and roll it back off the grid

00:09:18But obviously some kind of problem for hacking them with the gearbox couldn't get the thing into neutral

00:09:22So now we've got a period of consolidation here. I'll just clear this car off the track. It won't be very long

00:09:30Before the safety car comes in off the track

00:09:32In fact, it may be as little as one lap because we want to go racing here in into Lagos

00:09:37The McLaren now has been pushed off the racetrack and safety car will be coming straight in

00:09:43So it's going to be green flag more or less straight away

00:09:45You can see the lights will go out on the safety car and we'll be racing again and watch Montoya

00:09:50He's going to be right behind the Ferrari with Ted Kravitz. What can you tell us? Well James?

00:09:55I'm actually at the front of the McLaren garage

00:09:57Mika Hakkinen just having a word with engine boss Mario Illion as he came as he comes in

00:10:01I can tell you Ron Dennis and Norbert Haug were watching the same pictures you were watching and as soon as it happened

00:10:06They just put their hands to the heavens. They look absolutely gutted. Thank you, Ted. We're just looking to replay Martin

00:10:12Brilliant driving from all of the field. He was third on the grid. So brilliant driving from 19 other there

00:10:18He is waving his arms already. It was probably too late for the start to be

00:10:23Aborted and nobody nobody even touched that McLaren and that is a miracle that on the start or at the end of the first lap

00:10:31That could have been a mother and father of a shot. The yellow flag is waving

00:10:34you can see the other side of the blue bridge there, but

00:10:38Once that computer procedure started it and is really in the final throes of getting the cars away

00:10:48Michael Schumacher leading the way as they come up the long hills across the start finish line and look at one Montoya

00:10:55He's looking very racy indeed already trying to charge down the inside of Michael Schumacher

00:10:59This is what we were promised when Montoya came into Formula One a feisty aggressive racer

00:11:04And we've got it Montoya leads and into Lagos Michael Schumacher second David Coulthard third

00:11:10Fantastic. Well, there's a warning shot isn't there already for Michael Schumacher Montoya is well known to be very good and very aggressive in traffic

00:11:17Oh, and that's Barrichello. That's finished his afternoon off hasn't it. He's hit Ralf Schumacher up the back

00:11:23Rubens Barrichello trying to be a bit too aggressive

00:11:25Into late descent and what a dramatic start to this Brazilian Grand Prix

00:11:30Unbelievable incident from start to finish Rubens race car, of course packed up on the formation lap. Take us through it Martin

00:11:36Yeah, we'll look at Barrichello steaming in very late behind and just missed his breaking point really Ralph quite cautious

00:11:42That's the second time this year that somebody has run into the back of Ralph

00:11:46We saw her of course in we saw it with Villeneuve in Melbourne

00:11:51It just seems as if Barrichello was unsighted Ralph they're having to watch the Jordan the rear wing go

00:11:56So Ralph is out of the race. That's a one-hour job to fix that at least

00:12:00It's spotting with rain. We had there's a lot of debris down then at turn four already and

00:12:07Barrichello what an afternoon he's having an incredible time

00:12:09Of course, he'd set the fastest first sector time not surprisingly just before he did that

00:12:14He really had the bit between his teeth the local hero, but Montoya is still leading this motor race Michael Schumacher is second

00:12:20Gouffard third truly fourth Frentz and his fifth Villeneuve great effort from him at the start up to sixth place

00:12:26Heidfeld has gone from 10th to 7th

00:12:28Reichen and is right behind him his teammate in the Sauber Eddie Irvine who's under investigation for problems at the start is in ninth place

00:12:35Lacey has made a great move up at the 10th place. And of course, we've lost Ralph Schumacher

00:12:39We've lost Rubens Barrichello already. So Montoya leading and Hakanen, of course Hakanen stalling on the line

00:12:45He's got one point then from the first three races Mika Hakanen

00:12:49Take the spare car and restart this car Ralph has made it back to the pits, but

00:12:55That's a good one our job to fix that because the undertray the rear of the undertow be broken as well and

00:13:01Montoya now having a Schumacher closing up and well, what a sensational move that was from Montoya

00:13:06We all expect him to pull those kind of strokes, but the first chance he got in his Grand Prix career

00:13:12He sticks one up the inside of Michael Schumacher, but it's not all over yet because Michael Schumacher is a pretty feisty character

00:13:18Himself and he's right at the back of Montoya and you can see again the incident Barrichello running into the back around Schumacher

00:13:24That's almost inevitable really with all of that running back to the pits as calm as he looked

00:13:28I'm afraid it is just about impossible to really keep your head straight

00:13:32And well as you as you said James, he went through there. There's a speed trap

00:13:36there is a section time there and

00:13:39He was about half a second faster down to that fourth corner than anybody else

00:13:43I think Ruben's really unsighted and breaking way way too late and now look at Schumacher homing in on Montoya

00:13:49But we know that that BMW Williams

00:13:52Has easily been the fastest car down the straight

00:13:54Absolutely

00:13:55All weekend by some four to five kilometres per hour

00:13:57So Michael's got his hands full

00:13:59The man sitting pretty really is Coulthard

00:14:01Yeah Coulthard looking very good at the moment

00:14:03Just keeping a watching brief on the top two and as you say Martin that BMW engine revving to 18,000 rpm now the highest revving engine

00:14:11They're talking about well over 800 horsepower

00:14:13And BMW in only their second year of Formula One competition after a multi-year break going back to the mid-1980s

00:14:20What a fantastic package

00:14:21This is only their 20th Grand Prix start of their second time in Formula One and they're looking very strong indeed now

00:14:27They're running roughly the same sort of wing angles from what I could see down on the looking at the pictures on the grid

00:14:32It's going to be very difficult because that Williams is very

00:14:35Aerodynamically efficient in a straight line the air passes underneath it over the top of it. They've got some great modification

00:14:41on the car this weekend which have allowed

00:14:43Montoya and Ralf Schumacher to be so fast

00:14:45and Michael Schumacher has a

00:14:47Terrifically efficient race car too

00:14:49But he has not got the straight line speed

00:14:51How does he pass this mercurial

00:14:5325 year old Colombian

00:14:55A man who came over from America

00:14:57And absolutely extraordinary

00:14:59Performance already whatever happens now

00:15:01There's a good chance of points today for Montoya

00:15:03It's not just about going for glory

00:15:05He can really make his mark on Formula One today

00:15:07Back in and out

00:15:09And his team mate Ralf Schumacher out

00:15:11So Montoya leading

00:15:13By 4 tenths of a second from Michael Schumacher

00:15:15Coulthard still third

00:15:17Trulli fourth, Franssen fifth, Villeneuve sixth

00:15:19Heidfeld seventh, Räikkönen eighth

00:15:21Irvine ninth, Valaci tenth

00:15:23There's the confirmation of the

00:15:2510 second stop and go penalty for

00:15:27Eddie Irvine and a big lock up

00:15:29There into turn seven

00:15:31It's not a major problem

00:15:33He has a lock down the inside Michael Schumacher very close

00:15:35He lost momentum there Montoya

00:15:37He did lose a lot of momentum

00:15:39Michael certainly having a good look on this twisty section

00:15:41Yeah he'll never get through there though James

00:15:43Never in a month the Sundays

00:15:45But at least it's showing just how hard

00:15:47Montoya is having to fight to stay ahead

00:15:49And Michael too is giving it plenty

00:15:51And back end stepping up

00:15:53And this is the problem Michael's got

00:15:55Montoya is faster down the straight

00:15:57And here we go with a replay of that

00:15:59Very very brave first corner move there

00:16:01Michael of course is up for a championship

00:16:03He's got more to lose than Montoya

00:16:05And that was a real racers move

00:16:07Fantastic move by Juan Montoya

00:16:09We saw in America a couple of years ago

00:16:11He put an incredible move on

00:16:13Well he put lots of incredible moves on a lot of people

00:16:15Juan Montoya to win the IndyCar championship

00:16:17And he's done it again to the best driver in Formula 1

00:16:19He said he was going to do this

00:16:21And he's now leading on lap six

00:16:23Of this 71 lap Grand Prix

00:16:25As Eddie Irvine comes in to serve

00:16:27His 10 second stop and go penalty

00:16:29That's going to lose him about 32 seconds of race time

00:16:31And drop him way way down

00:16:33He was in 9th place

00:16:35He's going to be about 19th or 20th when he rejoins

00:16:39Yes and Irvine

00:16:41Just to remind you has been penalised

00:16:43Because his mechanics were still on the racetrack

00:16:4511 seconds before the

00:16:47Green light to go on the reconnaissance lap

00:16:49Before the start proper

00:16:51So a penalty

00:16:53That's one we've seen applied three times now

00:16:55And it's caught Eddie Irvine out

00:16:57Certainly very hot on it this season

00:16:59They don't want anyone getting hurt

00:17:01Mechanics on the grid

00:17:03We've seen it in the past

00:17:05People have been hit run into by other cars

00:17:07And Montoya then fastest first sector for him

00:17:09And remember how hard he was pushing yesterday

00:17:11And qualifying he flew off on his first flying lap

00:17:13He's pushing just as hard today

00:17:15And keeping it on the road

00:17:17It's lovely to see a non-McLaren or Ferrari

00:17:19Leading the early stages of a Grand Prix

00:17:21Truly led for one lap in Sepang

00:17:23With all of the carnage and chaos going on

00:17:25When it started to rain

00:17:27And several of the teams are expecting

00:17:29And that's 6th back to 5th

00:17:31We've just lost those pictures

00:17:33He's going for 5th place

00:17:35I think and he looks like he's made it

00:17:37But Frentzen fighting back as well

00:17:39And Frentzen retains that 5th place

00:17:41From Villeneuve but a terrific fight

00:17:43Indeed between those two

00:17:45There's great battles all the way through the field

00:17:47Those two having a great scrap

00:17:49Also having a fantastic scrap

00:17:51Are Heidfeld and Räikkönen

00:17:53Montoya then James a 17.7

00:17:55He's actually just edging away

00:17:57From the lead over Michael

00:17:59If you watch him at the end of the pit straight

00:18:01He's definitely pulling out several yards

00:18:03On the Ferrari

00:18:05So unless Montoya makes a mistake

00:18:07I don't see where Michael's going to pass

00:18:28So the pit is

00:18:31Where Michael seems to just get a little bit closer up

00:18:33To Montoya

00:18:35And he's pulling up the hill

00:18:37Where the engine power is all important

00:18:39Martin, this is where Montoya's able to just

00:18:41Give himself that breathing space

00:18:43And let's face it, the best place to pass it into Lagos

00:18:45Is into Turn 1 and you cannot do it

00:18:47Unless you've got the grunt to get you up the hill

00:18:49Well exactly where Montoya passed Michael of course

00:18:51I hope you're hearing us at home

00:18:53Because we've lost an awful lot of electricity, sound

00:18:55And pictures here

00:18:57Up in the commentary box

00:18:59But if you can hear us

00:19:01Then you're shaping up to see a great race

00:19:03Between new boy Montoya

00:19:05And Michael Schumacher

00:19:07We don't know what strategies they're on at the moment

00:19:09They're lapping in the 1.17s

00:19:11So it suggests they've got quite a lot of fuel on board

00:19:13Yeah I would say so

00:19:15Because the pace in qualifying was in the sort of low

00:19:171.14s, 3 tenths of a second

00:19:19For every 10 kilos of fuel you carry

00:19:21Now when you qualify

00:19:23You're looking at something like 80 or 90 kilos of fuel

00:19:25So that's 8 times 0.3

00:19:27That's about 2.4 seconds in total

00:19:29On top of what your qualifying pace was

00:19:31That looks like what we're talking about here

00:19:33For Montoya

00:19:35A huge lock up though for the Colombian

00:19:37It's early days yet

00:19:39That's a replay of the incident just before

00:19:41Where Michael was able just to get alongside

00:19:43Just to have his first proper look

00:19:45But it's pretty much the status quo at the front

00:19:47There's nothing to choose between the two of them

00:19:49And it's a very close race

00:19:51There's nothing to choose between the two of them

00:19:53And a bit further back

00:19:55Coulthard still sitting pretty comfortably

00:19:57Just 1.8 seconds behind

00:19:59Just biding his time in that McLaren

00:20:01It's not quite got the pace of the Ferrari

00:20:03So far throughout the weekend

00:20:05But you never know what could happen with those front two

00:20:07They're both pretty fiery

00:20:09Coulthard though popping in the fastest lap so far

00:20:11A 1.17.744

00:20:13Just 8 seconds behind him

00:20:15Is Jarno Culli in the first of the two Jordans

00:20:17They're running line astern

00:20:19Trying to fight off Fielder

00:20:21As Rubens walks dejectedly

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00:20:25Back into the pits

00:20:27And of course the crowd were all shouting Rubino

00:20:29Before they ever went anywhere near the starting grid

00:20:31But what a miserable afternoon for him

00:20:33And I have to say he seems to have had

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00:24:09Eddie Irvine, he's really having a terrible season, his second season with the Jaguar team.

00:24:14And only once has he been in the points here in Brazil, back in 1999,

00:24:19as Villeneuve comes coasting at the pit lane.

00:24:21He's got some kind of problem in the British-American Racing Honda.

00:24:24What's the story with Villeneuve? Let's take a look.

00:24:26Shaking his head as he came down the pit lane, slowly, even before the pit lane speed limiter,

00:24:32they're going to change the tires. That's an automatic procedure.

00:24:36The first thing they do is change all four wheels.

00:24:40And then he's away again now.

00:24:42So whether he picked up a puncture or what, I don't know,

00:24:44because quite clearly on lap 12, that is not a sensible place to be stopping.

00:24:49Yes, it certainly looked like he must have had some kind of fairly minor problem, like a puncture,

00:24:53because there was no real checking of the bodywork.

00:24:55What are we looking at here, then?

00:24:57An extreme close-up of car number 6, Montoya, pitching it into one of the corners.

00:25:01They do love their super slow-mos, these Brazilian directors.

00:25:03Well, those of you watching us back in England,

00:25:06we understand you've had a little bit of problem hearing us and seeing us.

00:25:09We're very sorry about that.

00:25:10The power supply here in Brazil apparently has not been all that it might be.

00:25:14But we're certainly with you now, and you're watching a cracking motor race here.

00:25:18There's very much a three-horse race at the front,

00:25:20between Juan Montoya from Colombia, Michael Schumacher from Germany,

00:25:24and David Coulthard from Scotland.

00:25:26And there's very little to choose between the three of them.

00:25:29Coulthard is the fastest man on the racetrack at the moment.

00:25:32And Schumacher, Montoya, it's very, very close indeed between them.

00:25:38So, Montoya leading Michael Schumacher.

00:25:40Coulthard third, Trulli fourth, Krensen fifth, and Panis in sixth place.

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00:28:08Lap 15, Interlagos, Brazil.

00:28:10Juan Montoya leads for BMW Williams,

00:28:13just 7 tenths of a second ahead of Michael Schumacher,

00:28:16as Enrique Bernaldi, one of the local drivers here from Curitiba in Brazil,

00:28:20comes into the pit lane in his Arrows.

00:28:22He was lying down in 16th place,

00:28:25and it's been an extremely eventful day here at Interlagos already.

00:28:30We've lost Rubens Barrichello, we've lost Mika Hakkinen,

00:28:32both very early on in the race.

00:28:34Ralf Schumacher was punted up the back by Rubens Barrichello,

00:28:37but he's back in the race having had his rear wing replaced.

00:28:39It's all go here in Sao Paulo,

00:28:42and Montoya keeping Michael Schumacher waiting,

00:28:45holding him behind, and Michael not making too much of an effort at the moment

00:28:48to try and get past him.

00:28:49Coulthard looking very good in third place ahead of Trulli in fourth.

00:28:52Well, we do think if Montoya hadn't have put the car in the wall

00:28:56early on in qualifying yesterday and having to move to the spare car,

00:28:59he could well have been on the front row of the grid.

00:29:01Michael may be sitting there quite comfortably

00:29:04and thinking Montoya will pit earlier than him.

00:29:07May have to go in for fuel earlier than him

00:29:09because Michael seems almost content now to keep that gap

00:29:12at about 7 tenths of a second,

00:29:14just about out of the dirty air

00:29:16behind a very untroubled Montoya.

00:29:20And Coulthard there just sitting, watching and waiting.

00:29:24I think you're absolutely right, Martin.

00:29:26It must be the case, judging by the pace

00:29:29that we've seen from Ferrari in these first three Grand Prixs

00:29:31and indeed Michael Schumacher's qualifying pace yesterday,

00:29:33the only driver to break underneath the 1 minute 14 barrier.

00:29:36He has got a faster race car than Juan Montoya

00:29:39and Montoya was able to get past him on the restart,

00:29:42not like Michael, to be caught napping,

00:29:44but he certainly was caught napping by Montoya.

00:29:46And perhaps, Martin, Montoya's experience from America

00:29:48where they often have safety cars

00:29:50and then they release them afterwards

00:29:52and he's got so much experience

00:29:54of restarting a motor race from behind a safety car

00:29:57that, of course, Michael has no real knowledge of Montoya.

00:29:59He hasn't built up a mental picture in his head yet

00:30:01of what kind of guy Montoya is,

00:30:03but I think today he'll have learned a bit more about him

00:30:05as we go on board with one of the two Saubers.

00:30:07He's got a good picture now of Montoya's mentality,

00:30:10that's for sure.

00:30:12And you're coming into Mergullo

00:30:14and he's fighting the car all the way through.

00:30:16The Sauber probably not working as well as we have seen it,

00:30:19although if that's Heidfeld, he's up in 7th place.

00:30:22It is indeed Heidfeld,

00:30:24so they're fighting the car out there this afternoon.

00:30:26Hot track temperatures.

00:30:28Many of the teams are expecting rain later on this afternoon.

00:30:32I think they were getting conflicting weather reports again,

00:30:35as they did in Sepang,

00:30:37and here we are back up then into Term 1

00:30:39and a bit of action going on ahead.

00:30:41That will be Frentzen and Pannis again.

00:30:45Frentzen and Pannis, the battle for 5th place.

00:30:47Some superb on-board shots there from the car of Nick Heidfeld

00:30:50as he follows that terrific scrap which has been raging now.

00:30:53Olivier Pannis really is going like a train.

00:30:55He started this race in 11th place on the grid

00:30:57and he's now up to 5th.

00:30:59That was Frentzen being passed, funnily enough,

00:31:01by a recovering Ralf Schumacher,

00:31:03so sorry again that we lost pictures and sound earlier on,

00:31:06but Ralf Schumacher, four laps down,

00:31:08and this is just a test session now for him,

00:31:10but he's steeping through the field

00:31:12and past Frentzen very easily.

00:31:14So, amazing drama here

00:31:16as we look at the car of Nick Heidfeld,

00:31:18and you really have to say the Saubers

00:31:20have been going superbly well this weekend.

00:31:22That car designed by Sergio Rinlund,

00:31:24the Argentinian designer,

00:31:25used to work many years for the Brabham team,

00:31:28and Rinlund mysteriously designing this car

00:31:31and then leaving the Sauber team

00:31:32before it was even launched back in February.

00:31:36And Steven Taylor now,

00:31:37the technical director of that Sauber team,

00:31:39an unknown guy came out of McLaren,

00:31:41but here's again Ralf Schumacher making that move

00:31:44and going past Frentzen,

00:31:46trying to presumably unlap himself.

00:31:48Yeah, he's two, four laps down on the race leaders,

00:31:51and he's trying to unlap himself.

00:31:52Yes, that's not for position,

00:31:53that's just Ralf really just getting on with it.

00:31:56Nothing else he can do other than drive his heart out.

00:31:58There's no chance,

00:31:59unless we have one of those very bizarre Grands Prix,

00:32:01and the start of this Grand Prix

00:32:03looks like it could well be that way.

00:32:05There's no chance of him getting a point today.

00:32:08Normally there's at least 10 or 11 finishers,

00:32:11and he's got to be at the back of them

00:32:13having lost so much time

00:32:14while they replace that rear wing.

00:32:16I just hope he doesn't have any suspension damage

00:32:18on that car that lets him down later on.

00:32:20But this is the sister car of Montoya,

00:32:22and still maintaining now a 0.9 second lead,

00:32:25just in the fastest first sector of anybody in this Grand Prix,

00:32:29and Michael can't do anything about it.

00:32:32So there's a huge crowd of Colombians have come down here.

00:32:35This is the closest Grand Prix to their home,

00:32:38of course, here in South America,

00:32:40and they've come out in their droves.

00:32:41They're right in front of us.

00:32:43We're just above the main stand opposite the pit lane,

00:32:45just up on the left of your picture at the moment,

00:32:47and a huge crowd is hacking in their talks to his team boss,

00:32:50Ron Dennis, and says,

00:32:51listen, I've got one point here in the championship.

00:32:53What are we going to do about it?

00:32:55Yeah, and clearly it was when he hooked first gear

00:32:57that the engine stalled.

00:32:59It wasn't the start.

00:33:00He didn't get into the start procedure.

00:33:01Miket already had his arms out of the cockpit

00:33:04before the start proper, as it were.

00:33:07So sometimes if you don't have quite enough revs on,

00:33:10you just hook that gear,

00:33:11the clutch is dragging slightly,

00:33:13the engine dies.

00:33:14These engines have very little inertia and momentum

00:33:16down at the low RPM.

00:33:18They're designed to work up at 17,500 RPM.

00:33:21Tiny, tiny flywheels.

00:33:23They are so easy to stall.

00:33:25So who is this man that all these Colombians

00:33:27have travelled all this distance to come and see?

00:33:29Well, he's 25 years old.

00:33:31It's his third Grand Prix start only.

00:33:34He was the test driver for the Williams team back in 1998

00:33:37when he also blitzed the Formula 3000 championship.

00:33:40He's a great favourite of Frank Williams

00:33:42and decided to take Ralf Schumacher

00:33:44instead of Montoya a couple of years ago

00:33:46when he was looking for someone to drive alongside Zanardi.

00:33:49And, well, he was a bit peaked,

00:33:51but he went off to America.

00:33:52He raced for Chip Ganassi over there in the Champ Car Series

00:33:55and he won the championship over there first time out

00:33:58and certainly put a lot of people's backs up,

00:34:00at least Michael Andretti, who was the kingpin over there.

00:34:03He put him into the wall fairly early on

00:34:05in his Champ Car experience.

00:34:07It was a marker to him and to everybody else.

00:34:09I'm here, I mean business,

00:34:11and you better pay attention.

00:34:12And here today at São Paulo,

00:34:14he's done the same thing to Michael Schumacher

00:34:16and he has had success here in Brazil.

00:34:19He won the Champ Car race at Rio

00:34:21and he's going very strongly indeed at the moment.

00:34:24I spoke to him, had a long chat with him on Friday

00:34:26and he said that he felt he was just beginning

00:34:28to get on top of these Formula 1 cars now.

00:34:30He said you need to be much more precise

00:34:32with the steering than you do with one of those big,

00:34:34those big heavy Champ Cars.

00:34:36And he said it's taken me time.

00:34:37I feel I am beginning to get there.

00:34:39Well, the proof, as they say, is in the eating.

00:34:41This is another replay then of this time.

00:34:46This was Pannis taking position from Frentzen.

00:34:50That's quite a lot earlier on in the race, actually.

00:34:52So Pannis has been in fifth for some time now.

00:34:54In fact, that's Pannis taking truly, I'm sorry.

00:34:57Pannis then passing truly for fourth place.

00:35:00Pannis, I'm sure, on a two-stop.

00:35:02Yeah, we saw him this morning going very quickly

00:35:04in the warm-up, Olivier Pannis.

00:35:07He was in seventh place, looking very strong indeed.

00:35:09And it seemed clear to me he was running

00:35:11with a lightish fuel load.

00:35:12So he's obviously trying to make up places.

00:35:14You can do that here in Brazil.

00:35:15You can attack.

00:35:16And he's up into fifth place at the moment.

00:35:18We're on lap 20 at the moment.

00:35:19He's going to have to stop.

00:35:20If he is on a two-stop strategy,

00:35:21he's going to have to make a stop sometime

00:35:23in the next three to five laps.

00:35:25And that will drop him down

00:35:26to somewhere around 13th or 14th.

00:35:28Still an awful lot to play.

00:35:29We're also waiting to see exactly what Montoya's going to do

00:35:32as he sets a new fastest lap in a 1.17.132.

00:35:35What's Michael going to do?

00:35:36What's his strategy going to be?

00:35:38At the moment, it's even Stevens at the front.

00:35:40Montoya, Schumacher-Coulthard, lap 21.

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00:38:25Lap 23 at Interlagos.

00:38:27You're watching the battle for 10th place

00:38:29between Verstappen, Berti and Fisichella.

00:38:31Montoya still leading the race

00:38:33ahead of Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard.

00:38:35Michael, though, has got a little bit closer.

00:38:37He's nine tenths of a second behind Montoya.

00:38:40Montoya must have made some kind of little slip

00:38:42or possibly outbraked himself into one of the corners there

00:38:44because Michael took half a second out of him that last lap

00:38:47as we look at Jenson Button.

00:38:50Yeah, that's Button being passed by Irvine.

00:38:52Irvine having that stop-and-go earlier on.

00:38:55So they're fighting for 17th and 18th place at the moment.

00:38:59Irvine now taking that 17th place.

00:39:01This is back with the squabble for 10th, 11th and 12th

00:39:04for Verstappen, Berti and Fisichella.

00:39:07Well, we must apologise to you back in the UK

00:39:09and around the world.

00:39:10We've had a few sound problems, we understand.

00:39:12Something to do with power.

00:39:13They're here at the Interlagos Circuit

00:39:15and we're very sorry about that.

00:39:17But we hope you're enjoying this Brazilian Grand Prix

00:39:19as much as Martin and I are

00:39:21because it really is all action throughout the field.

00:39:23And we're just entering now the interesting period

00:39:26when we start to think about pit strategy.

00:39:28And it's certainly going to be very interesting indeed.

00:39:30We expect Panis to be two-stop

00:39:32and we expect him in at some point soon.

00:39:34But what about the front runners and what about these guys?

00:39:37Yes, over here you either walk into sort of cabins and buildings

00:39:40that are, as we watch, the Prost of Alessi in the pits.

00:39:45But you're either walking into cabins that are fully electrified

00:39:49or there's no electricity whatsoever.

00:39:51But Alessi then in the first lap, 24,

00:39:54that will be a scheduled stop for Alessi.

00:39:56He clearly then on a two-stop.

00:39:58And we're just about in that zone now.

00:40:00It'll be interesting to see which of the front runners

00:40:02has to come in and have a look.

00:40:03And Berti then with a very, very good slipstream.

00:40:06That's not a long straight on the way into Turn 4

00:40:08and it's very slippery at the inside

00:40:10if you decide to have a big dive.

00:40:12Alessi then bang on target for a two-stopper,

00:40:15just as we predicted.

00:40:16But Olivier Panis is the man we've got our eye on,

00:40:18currently running in fourth place.

00:40:20Schumacher in the pit.

00:40:21Michael Schumacher in the pit.

00:40:24He then clearly is on a two-stopper too.

00:40:26So Montoya then has more fuel on board than Schumacher.

00:40:30Possibly, or this may be a tactic by Ross Brawn

00:40:32to just try and do something different.

00:40:34How long is the fuel hose on for?

00:40:379.6 seconds.

00:40:38Interesting. Well, very interesting.

00:40:40That's pretty much a two-stop strategy.

00:40:42It looks to me as though that is what Michael had in mind.

00:40:44And last year he did it.

00:40:46He stopped a little earlier last year.

00:40:48It was lap 20, but of course he made that mercurial start

00:40:50and was definitely keen to put as much space

00:40:52between himself and the McLarens as he could.

00:40:54This year he's unexpectedly found himself

00:40:56behind a Williams BMW.

00:40:58He might have in the back of his mind

00:40:59thought it could be his brother,

00:41:01but it's not his brother.

00:41:02It's one Montoya who was in front of him.

00:41:04And Montoya looking quite strong.

00:41:05How much fuel is in this Williams BMW car?

00:41:08That is the $10 million question

00:41:10here in Interlagos this afternoon

00:41:12as we see Gaston Mazzucani

00:41:14in the second of the two-cross

00:41:15coming in for his first scheduled fuel stop.

00:41:21Montoya then with a 2.9 second lead

00:41:24now over David Coulthard.

00:41:26We'll have to see where Michael Schumacher comes out.

00:41:28He'll be in the pack somewhere, no doubt about it.

00:41:30That's a reasonably long fuel for...

00:41:34That's going to be quite a long middle stint, I'd imagine.

00:41:36And Williams then shaping up to lap the Jaguar.

00:41:40Montoya lapping the Jaguar then of Eddie Irvine.

00:41:44I've got my chart here, Martin,

00:41:45which I normally do before the race.

00:41:47And I reckon that's 60 kilos of fuel

00:41:49that's gone into Michael's car.

00:41:50So that's good enough to give him about 31 laps.

00:41:55So he can do 31 laps on that fuel,

00:41:57give or take.

00:41:58About 60 kilos of fuel has gone in.

00:42:00Now, I just wonder in the back of my mind

00:42:02whether they're doing some sort of switch here

00:42:04to deliberately put Michael out of sequence with Montoya,

00:42:06perhaps to give Montoya a...

00:42:08I don't know, just to mess around with his head.

00:42:10No, I think they'll be looking at the traffic

00:42:12further down the field

00:42:13and they'll have worked out where Michael will feed back in

00:42:16and hope he has a bit of clear space and clear air then

00:42:19to pump his famous mid-race lap times in

00:42:23and leapfrog Montoya somewhere.

00:42:25But if Montoya's on a one-stopper,

00:42:27that's not going to work.

00:42:28Let's listen to his technique.

00:42:33Great caution through there.

00:42:34That is where he flew off the road yesterday.

00:42:38Very calm, isn't he?

00:42:39I mean, a little bit of oversteer.

00:42:40I noticed that several times when we've gone on board with Montoya.

00:42:43He applies the throttle very, very aggressively.

00:42:46I think that's still from the IndyCar days

00:42:48of a bit of turbo lag,

00:42:49but he gets away with it now.

00:42:52But he's been very, very aggressive on the throttle.

00:42:54Now he brakes about 90 metres before the corner

00:42:57and he's got to shed 130 miles an hour in that time.

00:43:00And off board now and he's screaming through Turn 3.

00:43:03So, David Coulthard now in second place.

00:43:05Mika Hakkinen out of the race

00:43:07and down in the McLaren garage is Ted Kravitz.

00:43:09As I can tell you, there were some surprised looks

00:43:11on the McLaren mechanics' faces

00:43:13when Michael came in for that stop.

00:43:15I'm pretty sure DC's just on the one-stopper.

00:43:17The whole of this pit is really willing David Coulthard on.

00:43:21He's equal second in the championship.

00:43:23And of course now with Rubens and Mika out,

00:43:25he's got a great opportunity to extend his points.

00:43:28And Montoya and the Schumacher battling his only helping Coulthard.

00:43:32Thank you for that, Ted.

00:43:33While you were talking there,

00:43:34we saw Michael Schumacher just making a move on the Jordans.

00:43:37And it looked pretty easy to me, Martin.

00:43:39Considering how much fuel, of course, Michael's got on board.

00:43:43We know he's just been in for a tankful.

00:43:44Of course, he is on fresh tyres,

00:43:46but we've seen a lot of cars pass the Jordans

00:43:49in a straight line this afternoon.

00:43:50They must be running a lot of wing and a lot of fuel.

00:43:53They could be fuelled up over 100 kilos

00:43:55to go a very, very long one-stopper.

00:43:58But Michael then immediately back up into fifth place.

00:44:01And BAR are getting ready for a pit stop.

00:44:03Is it going to be Olivier Pannis or is it going to be Jacques Villeneuve?

00:44:07We've seen Villeneuve in already,

00:44:08as we see here the Williams of Montoya

00:44:11lapping the Minardi into Turn 1.

00:44:14And we expected to see Pannis coming in.

00:44:17He is third at the moment.

00:44:18And of course, this has always been a great circuit for Olivier Pannis.

00:44:21He finished on the podium here back in 1997

00:44:24when he was racing for the Prost team.

00:44:25Put on a spectacular performance that day.

00:44:27On a one-stop strategy today.

00:44:29It looks like he's on a two.

00:44:30As we see again, Michael making the move.

00:44:32Yeah, easy for Michael.

00:44:33He had the line and just moved to the outside

00:44:36to put the Frighteners on Frentzen.

00:44:38But Michael already then the fastest man in the mid-sector.

00:44:41And this could be a 10, 12-lap storm

00:44:45for Michael to try to leapfrog Matt Williams.

00:44:47Looks like it.

00:44:48Here's the BAR in the pits.

00:44:49Which one is it?

00:44:51It looks like it's Pannis.

00:44:52It is indeed.

00:44:538.4.

00:44:54Bang on schedule.

00:44:55A little bit late indeed coming in on lap 28 for a two-stopper.

00:44:58But short-fuelled it.

00:44:59So he's obviously going to sprint now this next segment.

00:45:01And keep your eyes on Olivier Pannis, folks.

00:45:03Because there's an awful lot more to come from him.

00:45:05And in the battle, of course,

00:45:06a terrific battle raging between BAR and the Jordan team.

00:45:10Both powered by the Honda engines.

00:45:12Currently it's honours to BAR.

00:45:14They're looking pretty strong.

00:45:15Although that stop will have promoted Trulli now.

00:45:19So Trulli will be in front of the first of the BARs.

00:45:22But look at this slide.

00:45:23Big, big slide there from in turn 7.

00:45:26He hooked the right front on the kerb.

00:45:28And it tends to pluck the car in sometimes.

00:45:31And Montoya is still pushing hard.

00:45:33But I tell you what.

00:45:34If he goes to about lap 35 here, you know,

00:45:37that's going to shock an awful lot of people in the Formula 1 pit lane

00:45:40if that's on a one-stop fuel.

00:45:42And easily matching Michael Schumacher's pace.

00:45:45And Coulthard had a slow lap the last time around.

00:45:48I'm assuming that's Button coming in the pits

00:45:50for his first stop of the afternoon.

00:45:52I'm assuming Coulthard must have met some traffic

00:45:54because his pace down to turn 3 is back on schedule.

00:45:58Wretched afternoon once again for Jenson Button.

00:46:01Twice this weekend he's been bottom of the timesheets.

00:46:05And what a difference a year makes.

00:46:06Because, of course, 12 months ago

00:46:08he got his first World Championship point.

00:46:10There's a problem here on this stop.

00:46:12It's all over for Jenson Button.

00:46:14As I say, 12 months ago he outqualified Ralf Schumacher.

00:46:17Let's not forget.

00:46:18And got his first World Championship point.

00:46:20This man, though, took his Williams drive.

00:46:22Frank Williams decided to give Montoya his opportunity.

00:46:25Jenson made the switch to Benetton.

00:46:26It's certainly a learning year for him.

00:46:28It's going to be very, very hard work

00:46:30getting this radical new Renault engine up to speed.

00:46:34It's currently about 100 horsepower down on the benchmark engine,

00:46:37which is the BMW, the Mercedes and the Ferrari.

00:46:40And poor old Jenson.

00:46:41A miserable weekend comes to an end.

00:46:43Never got higher than 17th in this race.

00:46:45In fact, he never got higher than 17th

00:46:47in any session of this entire weekend.

00:46:49As the fuel's going down,

00:46:50another new fastest lap of the race then for Montoya.

00:46:53So no drop-off at all from those Michelin tyres.

00:46:56None whatsoever.

00:46:57Just burning the fuel around at 2.5, 3 litres per lap.

00:47:01Enabling just to edge the times down.

00:47:04A good, solid, consistent, professional drive for Montoya.

00:47:08And he looks well under control, doesn't he?

00:47:11Coulthard to his fastest lap of the race so far.

00:47:15Just a tenth of a second slower,

00:47:17but the lead now of Montoya is edged out to 4.2 seconds.

00:47:22Yes, Montoya looking very tidy,

00:47:24very controlled and pushing hard.

00:47:264.2 seconds up on Coulthard.

00:47:28Michael Schumacher, though, back up into third place,

00:47:3130 seconds behind.

00:47:32And, well, one man who's had an eventful afternoon today

00:47:35is Rubens Barrichello.

00:47:36And he's down well with Louise.

00:47:37He has indeed, James Rubens.

00:47:38Probably the biggest racing weekend of your year.

00:47:41It's all gone horribly wrong, hasn't it?

00:47:43Yeah, I mean, it's something that I've been asking myself

00:47:46the last minutes.

00:47:47I mean, why do those things happen?

00:47:49I mean, why?

00:47:50I mean, OK, you have to keep your smiling going.

00:47:53You have to think on the positive side.

00:47:55But in the question of ten minutes,

00:47:58I had probably everything going wrong.

00:48:01I mean, I had the car breaking down on a formation lap.

00:48:04I had to run up here.

00:48:06I had 30 seconds to go to the grid.

00:48:09When I get to the grid, I had to change more.

00:48:12It wasn't my car.

00:48:13I mean, the engineers and the mechanics did a fantastic job

00:48:16for me to feel at least at home.

00:48:18I mean, it wasn't perfect, but it was like that.

00:48:20And then, you know, I really brought my heartbeat

00:48:24from 200 to 80.

00:48:25I was feeling calm.

00:48:26And then on that straight, I was feeling calm on my right side.

00:48:29I knew something was going on in between Ralph

00:48:32and the guy in front.

00:48:33Maybe it was a Jordan.

00:48:34And then all of a sudden, what I saw was a car coming my way

00:48:39and breaking.

00:48:40That's, I mean, it took me so much by surprise.

00:48:43And that's the discussion we had on the briefing

00:48:46the other day.

00:48:47I mean, are you allowed to change so many lines in the course?

00:48:53So it's really bad.

00:48:54Thanks, Rubens.

00:48:55OK, Rubens is live.

00:48:56Well, I can see out of the window here, thunder, lightning,

00:49:00and it is clearly raining in the distance.

00:49:02Whether it's going to get close enough to this racetrack

00:49:04to interrupt this afternoon, I don't know.

00:49:06Certainly many of the teams are expecting it.

00:49:08And that's always a great yahoo, isn't it, when that happens?

00:49:11Well, of course, if it does start to rain,

00:49:13the man that's going to favour is Montoya

00:49:15because he hasn't stopped yet.

00:49:16He looks like he's building up to a stop.

00:49:17Michael, of course, has just been in, and he would be the loser.

00:49:20Let's just recap.

00:49:21Take a couple of seconds out here to just recap

00:49:23and remember exactly what's happened so far

00:49:25in this extraordinary Brazilian Grand Prix.

00:49:28Rubens Barrichello, his race car failed on the parade lap,

00:49:31and he had to run back and get into the spare car.

00:49:34He then smashed into the back of Ralf Schumacher

00:49:36right here at Lake Descent Corner on lap two.

00:49:39That brought out the safety car.

00:49:40It put Rubens out of the race, as we've just heard from Luis,

00:49:43and it put Ralf Schumacher into the pits to put a spare wing on.

00:49:46He's now back in the race, but he's not classified.

00:49:49He's way outside the top 17, four laps down.

00:49:53Juan Montoya then put an incredible move at the restart

00:49:56on Michael Schumacher, the race leader,

00:49:58and he took the lead as Ralf Schumacher takes...

00:50:01Well, he's unlapping himself, actually.

00:50:03It's very confusing watching that, Williams, unlapping itself,

00:50:06because it looks like passes for position.

00:50:07It's not, folks.

00:50:08He's just trying to unlap himself on the Jordan.

00:50:10But Montoya dived down the inside,

00:50:12a very bold move on Michael Schumacher.

00:50:14He took the lead, and he's looked very comfortable ever since.

00:50:17David Coulthard was comfortable in third place.

00:50:19Michael made a surprise pit stop on lap 25,

00:50:23and he's now in third place.

00:50:24So Montoya leads on lap 32 from Coulthard.

00:50:27Michael Schumacher, Trulli, Frentzen, and Heidfeld.

00:50:30Yes, but what's more significant here, James,

00:50:32is that Schumacher's four tenths of a second slower

00:50:35than Montoya and Coulthard.

00:50:37So if he wanted to put a spurt on in the mid sector of this race,

00:50:40it's not paying off at the moment,

00:50:42even though we know he fueled it quite heavily.

00:50:449.6 seconds worth of fuel is quite a lot.

00:50:47A long stint, but it's really not released him.

00:50:50He's not making any ground up.

00:50:52You would expect Montoya, of course, to be fast at this stage,

00:50:55as Rubens Barrichello has a quick word with the Ferrari Team Technical Director,

00:50:58Ross Braun, there, saying,

00:51:00well, listen, let's hope for better luck in San Marino in two weeks' time.

00:51:03A bitterly disappointed Rubens Barrichello.

00:51:06And you would expect Montoya to be quick at this stage,

00:51:08because he's very, very light on fuel now.

00:51:10He's probably down to his last ten kilos of fuel

00:51:12in that Williams BMW car.

00:51:14And Rubens waves to his adoring public.

00:51:17And, of course, Michael Schumacher, as we know,

00:51:19has got at least 60 kilos, or 50 kilos of fuel left in the car.

00:51:22So it is surprising to see exactly how this thing is shaping up.

00:51:26But the question mark, of course, also is,

00:51:28is this the race where Michelin finally prove they are the tyre to have?

00:51:32Because Montoya on the Michelins seems to have the measure of everybody else.

00:51:35News from the pit lane.

00:51:37It's just starting to spit with rain.

00:51:39And we can see the rain out in the distance.

00:51:42Just don't know if it's going to quite make the edge of the circuit.

00:51:45So we could be in for some excitement yet.

00:51:48No doubt about it.

00:51:49Coulthard maintaining that gap now behind Montoya to 4.4 seconds.

00:51:54And you're still watching the squabble there of Verstappen and Fisichella

00:51:58for what is now 9th and 10th place.

00:52:01Well, for those of you who enjoy this kind of tactical battle,

00:52:04you're certainly seeing a fantastic piece of driving,

00:52:07tactical driving today by Juan Montoya and by the Williams team.

00:52:11Sam Michael, of course, is the chief engineer there.

00:52:14He's the man calling the race strategies nowadays at Williams.

00:52:17He's one of the bright young things in the Formula 1 engineering world.

00:52:21He's tipped as being the next Adrian Newey, in fact.

00:52:24That's how highly he's thought of.

00:52:25Was top man at Jordan, but, of course, switched through the winter

00:52:29over to the Williams team.

00:52:30And I was talking to him this weekend, and he certainly is very, very bright lad.

00:52:34And he's got Montoya hooked up.

00:52:35It's working very, very well for him.

00:52:37And he seems to have outthawed even Ross Brawn at this stage.

00:52:41Rejoining the racetrack.

00:52:42We saw him parking up earlier on for what looked like a normal pit stop.

00:52:45Then they pulled it in the garage.

00:52:46They clearly fixed that.

00:52:48And Jenson Button, then, back on the racetrack.

00:52:51He's going to be some four or five laps down, I would guess.

00:52:56So, Juan Montoya leading.

00:52:58And we're just taking a look at a replay as Villeneuve, in 11th place,

00:53:03gets it a little bit wrong and takes to the grass.

00:53:05Having a miserable weekend this weekend.

00:53:07Jacques Villeneuve, 97 Formula 1 World Champion,

00:53:09won here that year at Interlagos, on his way to the World Championship.

00:53:13But this year, he really has been outpaced by his teammate, Olivia Pannis,

00:53:16who's been threatening to get on terms with Villeneuve.

00:53:19But this has been the race where he's done it.

00:53:20Yeah, Pannis has been a match for Villeneuve, no doubt about it.

00:53:23And we saw that kind of pace from Pannis when he was test driver

00:53:26for McLaren last year.

00:53:27But wondered if it would re-translate back into Grands Prix.

00:53:31And it certainly has done so for Villeneuve.

00:53:33The reason he's down in 11th place is he had an early pit stop

00:53:37for what looked like a puncture.

00:53:40Yes, indeed he did.

00:53:41And we understand from the pits that the rain is beginning to fall,

00:53:44just a little bit heavier now.

00:53:46And this, of course, is playing beautifully into the hands of Juan Montoya,

00:53:49because he's certainly into the one-stop pit window.

00:53:51He can come in any time now and fuel it to the finish.

00:53:54And, well, of course, it might stop raining,

00:53:56in which case being on any kind of wet tyres might not be the thing.

00:53:59But this is a very delicate time of the race.

00:54:01You don't want to blink first at this time of the race.

00:54:03No, but they really hope, if it's going to rain,

00:54:05both Montoya and Coulthard need it to rain in the next three or four laps,

00:54:09otherwise they will be making two stops.

00:54:11But as we well know, James, tricky conditions,

00:54:14changeable rainy conditions is Michael Schumacher territory.

00:54:18He's currently 32.8 seconds behind Montoya,

00:54:23because he's on a two-stop strategy.

00:54:25He's had the first of those pit stops.

00:54:27They've both got to pit one more time, of course.

00:54:29So Michael, 32 seconds out of bed.

00:54:31He's got some work to do, has Michael Schumacher.

00:54:33He said before this race,

00:54:36my winning streak must come to an end.

00:54:38It must sooner or later.

00:54:39That is just the way the world works.

00:54:41And, of course, he was tempting fate a little bit.

00:54:44But is this going to be the weekend

00:54:45where not only does his winning streak come to an end,

00:54:48but Juan Montoya's winning streak begins,

00:54:51because this young 25-year-old Colombian

00:54:53has certainly shaken the Formula One establishment

00:54:56to its core with this performance here today.

00:54:59Incredible pace, incredible aggression.

00:55:01And we now know he had a lot of fuel on board

00:55:04when he fought Michael Schumacher,

00:55:06who did not have a lot of fuel on board at the time.

00:55:08Yeah, good point.

00:55:09I mean, he outbraked Michael, didn't he, with that move?

00:55:12And as the pace car released him,

00:55:15he was more ready than anybody else.

00:55:17And he outbraked him with now,

00:55:18we know, another 20, 25 kilos of gas on board.

00:55:22So from 190 miles an hour,

00:55:2425 kilos makes a big difference

00:55:26when you're trying to slow a car down,

00:55:27especially if the tyres are a bit cool.

00:55:29Although, of course, the safety car was out

00:55:31only for effectively two laps of this race,

00:55:35while they cleared Hakkinen's car

00:55:36off of the start-finish line

00:55:38after he stalled whilst engaging first gear.

00:55:41And that is Michael losing time there behind the Prost.

00:55:45Well, they're starting to put their raincoats on

00:55:47in the grandstands in front of us.

00:55:49Some of them have got Colombian flags

00:55:51painted on the back of them.

00:55:52There are wet tyres ready,

00:55:54there are intermediate tyres ready

00:55:55in the pits for the drivers

00:55:57who are going to make their pit stops.

00:55:58It's a very, very nervous, intense time.

00:56:00You don't want to jump too soon,

00:56:02make the wrong decision.

00:56:03When it rains here,

00:56:04it tends to absolutely dump on the track

00:56:06huge amounts of water,

00:56:07but not for necessarily an awfully long time.

00:56:10A little bit like what we saw in Malaysia.

00:56:12Of course, you've got such high track temperatures

00:56:14that it soon burns off, doesn't it?

00:56:16We've got a temperature in air

00:56:17and track temperature out there at the moment

00:56:18of 27 centigrade,

00:56:20so 62% humidity,

00:56:23and the pressure is dropping.

00:56:25926 millibars,

00:56:26we've got a bit of altitude here anyway,

00:56:28but all the signs are

00:56:30that it could well rain,

00:56:32and Michael there...

00:56:34Well, Mick Aikinen told you on the grid

00:56:35he thought it was going to rain.

00:56:36He didn't know that he wouldn't be in the race

00:56:38at the time,

00:56:39but he certainly said he thought it was going to rain,

00:56:40and it looks like it might.

00:56:41For the second Grand Prix in succession,

00:56:43we're heading towards some uncertain times

00:56:45and some uncertain weather,

00:56:47and who is it going to win,

00:56:48play out for?

00:56:49Is it going to play out for Montoya,

00:56:50Coulthard,

00:56:51or Michael Schumacher?

00:56:52As we look at Sauber,

00:56:54Kimi Räikkönen.

00:56:55Yeah, Räikkönen in the pits

00:56:56from 8th place.

00:56:58Another very solid drive from him.

00:57:00Seemed to be an awful long time

00:57:01getting away there,

00:57:02and clearly a one-stopper.

00:57:04That's about right

00:57:05for the amount of fuel to go in,

00:57:06but seemed to be late getting away.

00:57:08But he was on slicks, Martin.

00:57:09Did you see that?

00:57:10He noticed he was on the slick tyre,

00:57:11which is very brave.

00:57:12Well, he couldn't do anything else at this time.

00:57:14There's no water on the track.

00:57:15No option, James.

00:57:16Wet tyres on that track,

00:57:17and you'll be two or three laps...

00:57:18Oh!

00:57:19And that's...

00:57:20It's Montoya!

00:57:21Montoya's out of the motor race!

00:57:22Unbelievable!

00:57:23He's been rammed from behind

00:57:25by one of the back markers.

00:57:26It's the Arrows.

00:57:27It's absolutely incredible.

00:57:29It's Josper Stappen

00:57:30has taken one Montoya

00:57:32out of this motor race.

00:57:33I think it's Montoya, is it?

00:57:34Yes, it is.

00:57:35Oh, my good Lord!

00:57:37What drama here in Sao Paolo.

00:57:39In front of us,

00:57:40they're almost crying.

00:57:41The Colombians,

00:57:42they thought they were going to see

00:57:43a debut Grand Prix win,

00:57:44and you are in big, big trouble

00:57:46from the big Colombian man

00:57:47when he catches up with you.

00:57:49And that was a nasty incident.

00:57:50It's lucky the Arrows didn't fly

00:57:52and start rolling over there.

00:57:54Luckily, the wheel ties

00:57:55keeping his wheel in place there.

00:57:57And let's watch it.

00:57:59He moves out of the way for Montoya,

00:58:01lets Montoya through,

00:58:02and then just runs straight

00:58:03into the back of him.

00:58:04Almost like he got sucked

00:58:06into the braking zone

00:58:07and just misread

00:58:08the whole situation.

00:58:10Wow!

00:58:11What an absolutely incredible development

00:58:13here at Interlagos.

00:58:15One Montoya on his way,

00:58:17looking very strong indeed.

00:58:18And Josper Stappen,

00:58:19having let him come through,

00:58:21has made an absolutely dreadful,

00:58:23dreadful mistake.

00:58:24And he walks away

00:58:25looking very sheepish.

00:58:26Stappen ran over my head there

00:58:28back in 1994,

00:58:29when he got together with Irvine

00:58:31and had a big incident

00:58:33at Turn 4 there.

00:58:35And managing to drive through

00:58:37my cockpit on his way.

00:58:38But that's your new race leader then,

00:58:40David Coulthard.

00:58:41And again,

00:58:42lots of debris and rubbish on the track.

00:58:44You always get a lot of litter over there.

00:58:46There's a big grandstand

00:58:47full of people.

00:58:48And I think just the swirl

00:58:49around this bowl

00:58:50of the air movement,

00:58:51there's always a lot of litter

00:58:53and rubbish

00:58:54and a big bolt of lightning

00:58:56about five miles in the distance

00:58:58just striking the ground here

00:59:00in San Paolo.

00:59:01Speaking of striking the ground,

00:59:02I've no doubt the mechanics down at Williams

00:59:04are doing just that.

00:59:05What's happening, Ted?

00:59:06Yeah, it's terrible.

00:59:07Patrick Head walked off the pit wall

00:59:09with a face like the thunder

00:59:10that we think is about to come,

00:59:12as the McLaren mechanics

00:59:13just take to their pit box.

00:59:14Williams smelt blood.

00:59:15They really smelt their first win

00:59:17since Jack Villeneuve won

00:59:18at the Nürburgring in 1997.

00:59:20And it's been cruelly

00:59:21taken away from them.

00:59:22Thank you, Ted.

00:59:23And look, Heidfeld there

00:59:24trying to get out of the pit stop

00:59:26and the refueler

00:59:27could not get the nozzle out.

00:59:29So, a disastrous pit stop there

00:59:31for Heidfeld,

00:59:32who was in seventh place.

00:59:33But he had something like

00:59:3422 seconds advantage

00:59:36on Fisichella behind him.

00:59:37And here comes Coulthard.

00:59:38Yep, Coulthard into the pit lane now.

00:59:40This is your race leader.

00:59:41Lap 39.

00:59:42He'll fuel it to go to the finish,

00:59:44almost certainly.

00:59:45But the key question is,

00:59:46can he get out in front

00:59:47of Michael Schumacher,

00:59:48who at the end of this lap

00:59:49was 30.3 seconds behind him.

00:59:51And that is almost exactly

00:59:52what you need to make one stop.

00:59:54It's got to be very, very close.

00:59:58A lot of fuel got to go in.

01:00:009.8. Is he going to do it?

01:00:02Down the pit straight.

01:00:03We're looking for Michael Schumacher.

01:00:04Here comes Schumacher.

01:00:05And Schumacher is...

01:00:06No, he's not going to do it.

01:00:07It looks like Coulthard's

01:00:08going to retain the lead.

01:00:09It's a very slow pit exit.

01:00:11I think Coulthard

01:00:12should just stay ahead.

01:00:13He should have two or three

01:00:14seconds in hand.

01:00:15There he is.

01:00:16There he is, yes.

01:00:17He's got to build up to speed.

01:00:18You run around the inside

01:00:19of Turn 3 here.

01:00:20And now David up to speed.

01:00:22And Michael will just

01:00:24pop out behind him.

01:00:25Just working up.

01:00:26But of course,

01:00:27Coulthard, if it doesn't rain,

01:00:28Coulthard does not have to stop

01:00:30again in this race.

01:00:31Michael Schumacher,

01:00:32we're pretty sure, has.

01:00:33Yes, he definitely has to stop again,

01:00:35Martin.

01:00:36No question about that.

01:00:37And this is an incredible

01:00:38turnaround from what we expected

01:00:40in this Brazilian Grand Prix.

01:00:41I can't remember ever seeing

01:00:42a dull Brazilian Grand Prix.

01:00:44It's the kind of place

01:00:45where things happen.

01:00:46And they're certainly

01:00:47happening here today.

01:00:48Coulthard leads on lap 40

01:00:49from Michael Schumacher,

01:00:50Trulli in third,

01:00:51and Frentzen in fourth.

01:00:52Coulthard with a very fat car now.

01:00:54You would expect

01:00:55Michael Schumacher

01:00:56to be able to haul him in

01:00:57quite easily in this phase

01:00:59of the Grand Prix.

01:01:00A lot of understeer there.

01:01:01David struggling to get the car

01:01:03there through turns 7 and 8.

01:01:05A new set of tyres.

01:01:06They're a while before

01:01:07the whole carcass and tread

01:01:09comes up to the operating

01:01:10temperature that you want.

01:01:12And that's why Michael Schumacher

01:01:13can home in on him

01:01:14as they head up

01:01:15towards the start-finish line.

01:01:16But you have to say,

01:01:17the Ferrari,

01:01:18although Michael was on pole,

01:01:19it was a Michael lap.

01:01:21Barrichello was down

01:01:22in 6th place on the grid.

01:01:23The Ferrari has not had

01:01:24anything like the advantage

01:01:26that it showed

01:01:27at the first two Grand Prixs.

01:01:28And we've clearly seen

01:01:29that this afternoon.

01:01:30Coulthard, really,

01:01:31the car bucking around there.

01:01:32What happens is,

01:01:33stick 80, 90 kilos of fuel

01:01:35on board,

01:01:36and the ride height,

01:01:37the rear ride height,

01:01:38it goes down quite a lot.

01:01:39It's 20% of the weight of the car.

01:01:42And then you start

01:01:43hitting the ground hard

01:01:44in those first few laps.

01:01:45And you have to be

01:01:46a little bit weary.

01:01:47It's not a wedding you're at, folks.

01:01:48That's just litter

01:01:49coming out of the grandstands.

01:01:50They've been here

01:01:51since 7 o'clock this morning.

01:01:52They've been going crazy

01:01:53in the sun.

01:01:54They've been eating their crisps

01:01:55and they're now throwing

01:01:56the packets onto the racetrack.

01:01:57And it's quite a dramatic sight.

01:01:58Let's hope none of those

01:01:59go into the radiators

01:02:00of any of these cars

01:02:01because they'll send

01:02:02the temperatures

01:02:03through the roof.

01:02:04But McLaren made some

01:02:05improvements to this car.

01:02:06They worked hard in testing

01:02:07in Barcelona last week.

01:02:08They came here

01:02:09with four different front wings.

01:02:11They've tried them all

01:02:12throughout the weekend.

01:02:13Adrian Newey,

01:02:14the chief designer,

01:02:15the head man

01:02:16in the technical department

01:02:17at McLaren,

01:02:18has been working

01:02:19night and day.

01:02:20He's not here

01:02:21this weekend.

01:02:22He's working so hard

01:02:23on trying to improve

01:02:24this McLaren.

01:02:25He's been flat out

01:02:26trying to just get

01:02:27the more front-end downforce

01:02:28to get this McLaren

01:02:29on terms of Ferrari.

01:02:30At the moment,

01:02:31it looks quite good

01:02:32for McLaren.

01:02:33Now, this is not

01:02:34such a high downforce circuit

01:02:35as some of them.

01:02:36And I think it's more

01:02:37in the zone

01:02:38where the McLaren

01:02:39has been working better anyway.

01:02:40They've been maxed out

01:02:41on their aero settings.

01:02:42I think this circuit

01:02:43definitely played

01:02:44into the McLaren zone.

01:02:45But, uh...

01:02:46Coulthard and...

01:02:47Coulthard and Michael Schumacher

01:02:48have had a few run-ins

01:02:49in the past.

01:02:50It's normally

01:02:51Coulthard trying to pass

01:02:52Michael rather than

01:02:53the other way around,

01:02:54isn't it?

01:02:55But if Michael wants

01:02:56any chance of winning

01:02:57this race,

01:02:58he needs to leapfrog

01:02:59past the McLaren.

01:03:00Haven't seen any signs yet

01:03:01that he's easily got

01:03:02the speed to do that.

01:03:03Yes, Coulthard

01:03:04filling it,

01:03:05fueling it to the finish there.

01:03:06Well over 90 kilos

01:03:07will have gone into that car

01:03:08at the start.

01:03:09Ralf Schumacher

01:03:10pressing on in 15th place

01:03:11to set the fastest lap

01:03:12of the race there.

01:03:13Ralf Schumacher in a

01:03:14115.693.

01:03:15He's going like a rocket,

01:03:16but it's no good to him

01:03:17because he's four laps down.

01:03:18Just trying to prove a point.

01:03:19And that point, I think,

01:03:20is just what Montoya

01:03:21would have been able to do

01:03:22had he not been taken out

01:03:23of this race

01:03:24by Jos Verstappen.

01:03:25The two Jordans

01:03:26running line of stern.

01:03:27We haven't seen much

01:03:28of them this afternoon

01:03:29other than them being

01:03:30passed by other people.

01:03:31They're third and fourth,

01:03:32though.

01:03:33It's playing out for

01:03:34Eddie Jordan.

01:03:35Just celebrated

01:03:36his 53rd birthday

01:03:37a couple of days ago

01:03:38in fantastic style

01:03:39as one of the...

01:03:40Benetton comes in.

01:03:41Fisichella.

01:03:42But at the moment,

01:03:43Eddie Jordan's two cars

01:03:44are running third and fourth,

01:03:45looking reasonably comfortable.

01:03:46Panis is in fifth place.

01:03:47He's on a two-stopper.

01:03:48The two Jordans

01:03:49appear to be on a one-stopper.

01:03:50They've yet to make

01:03:51their stops, I believe.

01:03:52But it's...

01:03:53Well, actually,

01:03:54who's in the fifth

01:03:55there for VAR?

01:03:56Just behind that,

01:03:57Fisichella.

01:03:58It's Villeneuve.

01:03:59Villeneuve again.

01:04:00They've got problems

01:04:01with that car.

01:04:02There's a good scrap.

01:04:03That's a long stop there

01:04:04for Jacques Villeneuve.

01:04:05A good scrap

01:04:06shaping up.

01:04:07Panis in fifth.

01:04:08On a different strategy,

01:04:09but much faster

01:04:10than the two Jordans.

01:04:11And he's just six seconds

01:04:12behind them.

01:04:13One of the Jordans

01:04:14looks like he just came

01:04:15into pit lane.

01:04:16I can tell you

01:04:17it doesn't look

01:04:18as though the mechanics

01:04:19are ready for him.

01:04:20Yes, it's Frentzen.

01:04:21And I'm looking straight out

01:04:22and they were not ready,

01:04:23but they've rushed out

01:04:24all of a sudden.

01:04:25Still taking the blankets

01:04:26off the tyres

01:04:27down there at Jordan.

01:04:28So Frentzen then

01:04:29in for his,

01:04:30what should be

01:04:31his one and only stop

01:04:32of the afternoon,

01:04:33assuming that the rain

01:04:34we can see in the distance

01:04:35doesn't make it

01:04:36to the area

01:04:37of the racetrack.

01:04:38And there's the man

01:04:39with the starter.

01:04:40That's just in case

01:04:41Frentzen stalls the engine.

01:04:42So that's a

01:04:43precautionary thing.

01:04:44Good stop

01:04:45by the Jordan team.

01:04:46Anything under 11 seconds

01:04:47for a one-stop fuel load

01:04:48is pretty good around here.

01:04:49Frentzen back into the race.

01:04:50Was fourth.

01:04:51He'll have dropped down

01:04:52behind Panis now.

01:04:53So Panis gets back

01:04:54up to fourth place.

01:04:55But he will rejoin

01:04:56in front of Heidfeld.

01:04:57So Frentzen

01:04:58down into fifth place.

01:04:59Kulthard leading

01:05:00on lap 43

01:05:01from Michael Schumacher,

01:05:02Trulli, Panis,

01:05:03Frentzen, Heidfeld,

01:05:04Rijkaard,

01:05:05still in seventh place

01:05:06waiting to pick any points up

01:05:07if anybody should drop out.

01:05:08He's only one second

01:05:09behind his teammate

01:05:10Heidfeld

01:05:11having a super race here.

01:05:12The young

01:05:1321-year-old

01:05:14Finnish rookie

01:05:15has only his

01:05:1627th car race ever.

01:05:17And once again

01:05:18he's really on it.

01:05:19Irvine up into eighth

01:05:20despite having

01:05:21a stop-and-go penalty

01:05:22earlier in the race.

01:05:23Alessi ninth

01:05:24and Fisikela tenth

01:05:25for Benetton.

01:05:26So next man to stop

01:05:27must be Jarno Trulli

01:05:28anytime soon.

01:05:29The current

01:05:30third-place man

01:05:31and we believe

01:05:32he's going to be

01:05:33in for his

01:05:34one and only stop

01:05:35from third place.

01:05:36Jarno Trulli

01:05:37the young

01:05:38Italian driver

01:05:39has been very disappointed

01:05:40with his form so far

01:05:41but he's been running

01:05:42very strongly

01:05:43this weekend.

01:05:44He's beginning

01:05:45to turn it round.

01:05:46Let's watch his stop

01:05:47see what happens.

01:05:4822 men

01:05:49working on that car.

01:05:50Pretty routine

01:05:51it looks to me.

01:05:52Lots of revs

01:05:53and they can't get

01:05:54the revs to come off.

01:05:55They can't get

01:05:56the revs to come off.

01:05:57They can't get

01:05:58the revs to come off.

01:05:59They can't get

01:06:00the revs to come off.

01:06:01They can't get

01:06:02the revs to come off.

01:06:03Yes, the fuel hose

01:06:04won't come off

01:06:05and Trulli lost

01:06:06a couple of seconds there.

01:06:07That will have cost him dearly

01:06:08and the most incredible

01:06:09bolt of lightning

01:06:10a vertical bolt of lightning

01:06:12just to the right

01:06:13out of our commentary position

01:06:14over the city of Sao Paulo.

01:06:15So, lap 44

01:06:17Coulthard leading

01:06:18from Schumacher

01:06:19Pannis

01:06:20Trulli is fourth

01:06:21Frentzen fifth

01:06:22and Mick Heidfeld

01:06:23is in sixth place.

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01:19:4018 laps to go here in this amazing 2001 Brazilian Grand Prix.

01:19:58They call Michael Schumacher the rainmeister, but at the moment he's struggling.

01:20:01And this is Turn 6, Ferradura, Michael getting in too deep, bouncing across the gravel trap,

01:20:06heading for the tyre barrier, but just pulls it around and anytime soon, this is another

01:20:12shot of it, it's a big gravel trap there luckily for him, gets back on the racetrack, and anytime

01:20:16soon you're going to see the Jaguar of Eddie Irvine pointing, and that's Irvine off for

01:20:21yet another time actually, that's a different spin from Irvine, he very nearly collected

01:20:25Michael Schumacher, and this is a Williams of Ralf Schumacher, who's recently just pitted,

01:20:31so everybody going off in 6th and 7th.

01:20:35Brilliant sunshine on the pit straight, lots of water on the racetrack, it must be Brazil,

01:20:40it's a crazy situation.

01:20:41David Coulthard leading on lap 54 from Michael Schumacher now, by 15 seconds following that

01:20:46off-piste excursion by the Ferrari, the reigning championship leader at the moment.

01:20:51Franssen is 3rd, his teammate Trolley is 4th, Nick Heidfeld going strongly for Sauber in

01:20:555th, Alessi looking to get Prost's first points of a 2001 championship, and their first points

01:21:00since 1998.

01:21:01Look at Michael's car control though, well, or absence of it.

01:21:03Yeah, that was a different, yet another overhead angle of that Turn 6 incident, so Michael

01:21:09losing 2 seconds a lap as well actually to Coulthard, Coulthard driving beautifully up

01:21:14front, hoping not pushing too hard in these conditions, but remember, these Inters, Michael

01:21:19went for 30-odd laps on quite a dry track in Sepang, the last Grand Prix, they tend

01:21:24to hang on very well, and I don't see anybody in these remaining 17 laps having to come

01:21:30in and change for slicks, if they chose the Inters, if they chose the full wets, they

01:21:35might be struggling.

01:21:36Coulthard and Schumacher matched for pace, identical lap times the last time through,

01:21:40give or take a thousandth of a second, but Michael 17 seconds behind his adversary, and

01:21:45this race, Martin, would mean a lot to Coulthard, he'd go clearly P2 in the championship, he'd

01:21:50have 16 points, Hakkinen of course still only one championship point, and once again

01:21:55Coulthard having the strongest start to the season, and putting down his credentials to

01:21:59win, to be the point man for McLaren, can he go on and do it, do you think, to be the

01:22:03main advocate?

01:22:04He struggled in qualifying, but he's driven beautifully now for all three of the races,

01:22:08he's not home yet of course, he was actually 2 seconds quicker than Michael on that previous

01:22:12lap, and he really looks like he's got the car underneath him, and as you say, that would

01:22:17put him 19 points ahead of Hakkinen after just three races, which could well play into

01:22:22his hands nicely, but Michael still looking strong, even if he finishes second today of

01:22:26course.

01:22:27Michael looking very strong for the championship, but of course we've seen over the last few

01:22:29years, Coulthard saying over the winter, I want to go for it, I want to be the man who

01:22:33goes for the championship, you can see his car control, it's absolutely fantastic, David

01:22:37Coulthard, he was very strong in the rain at Silverstone a couple of years ago, very

01:22:41very good indeed, made a pass on Michael Schumacher in the wet, he's done it again here today,

01:22:46and well, he's got 16 laps to go, and you're making a face Martin.

01:22:51He's pushing too hard, he's having moments everywhere, he's 18.9 seconds ahead as you

01:22:56say, and he doesn't need to be pushing this hard, but of course, you know, if the track

01:23:00does dry out, he still could have a drag race to the end with Michael Schumacher, but David

01:23:05appears confident, appears to be under control, he's calm, every so often he just gets the

01:23:10tail in, wagging, but Coulthard apparently on his way, and then the car just hooks up

01:23:16and flies through the final part of the lap.

01:23:19Well turned 30 last Tuesday, David Coulthard, so he's now classed as one of the more mature

01:23:24Grand Prix drivers, although anyone who's spent an evening with him would certainly

01:23:27contest that.

01:23:28Never won here in Brazil, but has been a front row starter here the last three years, this

01:23:33year of course it wasn't such a pretty story for him in qualifying, he was down in fifth

01:23:36place, but he looked good from the start, and he's looking very good now in these treacherous

01:23:40conditions, as Matsukane has yet another incident, and it's been an incident packed race, but

01:23:45particularly for Matsukane, he's been all over the place, they're just giving a bit

01:23:49of icing sugar to that car.

01:23:51I wonder if he had an engine failure coming down the pit straight, because that's going

01:23:54to give a few headaches if he did, if there's any oil on the racetrack, but Schumacher's

01:23:59going into that corner now, and appears to have normal levels of grip.

01:24:03Yeah, Schumacher faster on that last lap than David Coulthard, just taking a second

01:24:06back off the Scotsman, and well, as you say, Martin, Coulthard really looking at Livia

01:24:12Panis there in the foreground, Panis has slipped down into sixth place, which has popped Lacey

01:24:17out of the points now, so it doesn't look as though the Prost is going to get a point

01:24:20just at this race, but everybody except Trolley has been lapped, so they've lapped the entire

01:24:26field up to Trolley, that's fourth place.

01:24:29Yes, Panis very unlucky during that stop for tyres, he had to queue up for probably half

01:24:34a minute while they were sorting something out on Villeneuve's car, so Panis was on a

01:24:38strong run, splitting the Jordans earlier on, two Jordans then, still running very strongly

01:24:42in third and fourth together, and who have we got here?

01:24:47That has got to be Raikkonen out of ninth place, so Kimi Raikkonen out of the race,

01:24:53we don't know whether it's a mechanical failure or whether he simply dropped it somewhere,

01:24:57but well into the green fields there, I suspect he spun off somewhere.

01:25:01Gone ten races now, since he last won a Grand Prix, David Coulthard, is this going to be

01:25:06the end of that losing streak?

01:25:08And a big, big moment for Raikkonen.

01:25:11That's the problem around here, James, it's just, you know, the race pattern is just such

01:25:15a mess, and you go off onto what should be a little grassy slide, and the next thing

01:25:18is you're heading into a rollover situation, but Raikkonen then lost it in Turn 5, normally

01:25:24a very easy corner, and Michael very late on the brakes, he's got to get on with it,

01:25:28of course, he is lapping there, yes, he's lapping Panis, so Panis down in sixth place

01:25:37being lapped by Michael Schumacher, and Schumacher's got to now regroup and start attacking Coulthard,

01:25:42he's now 16.7 seconds down, so pulling back, as you say, about a second a lap.

01:25:47Yes, he's got 14 laps in which to do it, and a gap of 16.7 seconds behind, he's made the

01:25:53mistakes this afternoon, Michael Schumacher, this will not go down in his record books

01:25:57as one of his best races, we've got waved yellow flags for the various and sundry cars

01:26:01which are scattered around the fields here at Interlagos, Interlagos means between the

01:26:05lakes, there's been a lake on the racetrack today as well, and some have steered through

01:26:09it better than others, and certainly David Coulthard at the moment, the man with the

01:26:13credentials to claim to be the rainmaster here in Brazil, who's this then, this is Panis

01:26:18making a move on Alessi, that was the move for sixth place which took Panis up there

01:26:22into the points-paying position, of course he finished fourth in Australia and was disqualified

01:26:26or rather he was given a penalty which dropped him down to seventh place, Panis, so these

01:26:30would be his first championship points of the season, and his first championship points

01:26:34since coming back to Formula 1 after a one-year sabbatical as a McLaren tester.

01:26:38Yeah, it's very sweet of Panis and Alessi, they were waving at each other as Panis took

01:26:42away his sixth place.

01:26:44And Coulthard has just put a lap on Jarno Trulli into Turn 1, so David Coulthard going

01:26:49like a train here in Interlagos, putting a move on Trulli, there in a replay, I saw it

01:26:54out of the corner of my eye.

01:26:56And Coulthard then just sweeping out of the tow, gets the right line, there's plenty of

01:26:59grip up the inside, you see the back of that McLaren bouncing around on the bumps, quite

01:27:03stiffly sprung for whatever reason, when it's surprising that he's finding this much grip

01:27:07on the track, and now for sure the water level on the track is definitely intermediate zone

01:27:13and there should not be too many risks out there, but Coulthard last time lost another

01:27:188 tenths of a second to Schumacher, but if he can just keep this sort of pace up and

01:27:23keep this aggression through the backmarkers, he should be okay, but remember what happened

01:27:27to Montoya, minding his own business, and wiped out of the race by a backmarker.

01:27:32Yes, absolutely extraordinary, Josper Stapfer for those of you just joining us, the race

01:27:36leader one Montoya was going along very nicely, having thrown down a gauntlet to all and everybody

01:27:41in Formula 1, having passed Michael Schumacher very dramatically, and as you see Coulthard

01:27:45making progress, putting another lap on Ralf Schumacher, who was also clouted by a backmarker,

01:27:50but Verstappen pulling aside, and Montoya just slipping through, and then obviously

01:27:55Verstappen missed his brake pedal, smashed straight into the back of Montoya, and that

01:27:58was the end of the Colombians' race.

01:28:00So, lap 58, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:28:08sorry, Michael Schumacher in 2nd place, Frentzen 3rd, Trulli 4th, Heidfeld 5th, and Olivier

01:28:12Pannis in 6th place.

01:29:08So, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:29:13Olivier Pannis in 6th place, Trulli 4th, Heidfeld 5th, and Olivier Pannis in 6th place.

01:29:18So, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:29:23Olivier Pannis in 6th place, Trulli 4th, Heidfeld 5th, and Olivier Pannis in 6th place.

01:29:28So, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:29:34Olivier Pannis in 6th place, Trulli 4th, and Olivier Pannis in 6th place.

01:29:39So, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:29:44Olivier Pannis in 6th place, Trulli 4th, and Olivier Pannis in 6th place.

01:29:49So, we've got David Coulthard leading by 15.9 seconds, from Frentzen in 3rd place,

01:29:54Olivier Pannis in 6th place, Trulli 4th, and Olivier Pannis in 6th place.

01:30:29So, David Coulthard leading the race by 17.5 seconds, from Michael Schumacher.

01:30:34Frentzen is 3rd, and Martin, an incidente.

01:30:37Yes, Ralph going off in exactly the same place as Räikkönen had a couple of laps earlier.

01:30:41Stalls the car, but slides back onto the racetrack.

01:30:45They can't appear to move it out of the way too quickly.

01:30:47Working under waved yellows at the moment, to say.

01:30:50Marshall's on the racetrack.

01:30:52They had got a 4-wheel drive to it, and a tow rope,

01:30:55and I suspect they should clear it without the need for a safety car.

01:30:59But, it's in a very critical position.

01:31:01We've seen Kimi Räikkönen in the Sauber having a spin there.

01:31:04Obviously, there's something either gone down there,

01:31:06or there's a lot of water just on the racing line.

01:31:09It's a dangerous place, but it looks like, fingers crossed, they may well have cleared it.

01:31:12It's Coulthard, you can see him backing right off as he goes through the danger zone,

01:31:16those waved yellow flags.

01:31:17It looks like Ralph's car has been taken away,

01:31:19and Coulthard now, 19.4 seconds clear of Michael Schumacher,

01:31:23who has led this motor race himself.

01:31:25It's been all over the place here in Brazil.

01:31:27Montoya has led, Michael has led, DC, David Coulthard has led as well,

01:31:31and at the moment, he's got P1 on his pit board,

01:31:34and he's got 10 laps to go to try and claim his first race win for 10 Grands Prix,

01:31:39his first of the 2001 season,

01:31:41and a win which would certainly put him very strongly up there in the championship.

01:31:45Yes, Michael appearing now to slow down quite a lot.

01:31:48Don't know why, we haven't seen him for a while on our TV screens,

01:31:51but there he is now, just on cue.

01:31:54But Michael, no apparent problems, but just backing out of it.

01:31:58He was starting to home in on Coulthard at 8 tenths, one second per lap,

01:32:02got the gap down to 15.7.

01:32:04Coulthard picked up his pace,

01:32:06and suddenly Michael's now 19.4 behind last time around.

01:32:11Yes, it's not really been Michael Schumacher's afternoon here today.

01:32:15He's acknowledged as being the king of wet weather, they call him the rain master,

01:32:18but he's made two mistakes here today in the wet,

01:32:21and it's given the opportunity to David Coulthard.

01:32:23We thought Coulthard had blown it when he did an extra lap.

01:32:27As the rain started to fall, everybody dived into the pits,

01:32:30but Coulthard did that one extra lap, he lost about 25 seconds.

01:32:34The race seemed to have gone away from him,

01:32:36but then Michael made two mistakes,

01:32:38and all of a sudden Coulthard was right back in the hunt,

01:32:40and into Turn 1, the one that they've just gone through now.

01:32:43Coulthard made a move on Michael, either side of a back marker.

01:32:46It was pure drama, pure theatre, and it's given him the lead of the race.

01:32:50Well, they'll not need to come in for slicks.

01:32:52I'm sure slicks anytime soon would be faster,

01:32:55and Michael's struggling there to lap the Jordan,

01:32:58and could not make it down the straight to get past the Jordan,

01:33:01which is surprising, and he's not going to yield either,

01:33:04although he is being lapped at this stage.

01:33:07And now he yields. No, he doesn't.

01:33:09No, he's just going on to the wetter part of the track,

01:33:11one of the Jordans we know to be on full wet,

01:33:14but Michael just does not appear to have a lot of speed in that car.

01:33:18It's Trulli, and he's the one who's on the same intermediate tyres as Michael is.

01:33:22That's putting Trulli down. He already was a lap down in 5th place.

01:33:25So Coulthard from Michael Schumacher.

01:33:27Frentzen is 70 seconds behind those two,

01:33:29so they're the only two that can win this race.

01:33:32Frentzen 3rd, Heidfeld is 4th, going very strongly for Sauber,

01:33:36and 5th place Trulli, you've just seen him there being passed by Michael.

01:33:39Pan is 6th, Alessi 7th, Fisichella 8th, having a better day for Benetton.

01:33:43There'll be some smiles for that.

01:33:44And Coulthard moving on to the wet stuff down the straight,

01:33:47and then to start to cool those Intas.

01:33:48Now they're in the zone where they really should be on slicks,

01:33:51but it'll cost them 28 seconds to drop in for a set of slicks,

01:33:55and it just is not worth it.

01:33:57What they've got to do now is try to maintain those intermediate tyres.

01:34:00It'll be a softer rubber, and with the grooves in them,

01:34:03you generate an awful lot more surface temperature,

01:34:05and both anybody out there now on the Intas will be doing exactly the same thing.

01:34:10Yes, these intermediate tyres have gone through an awful lot of testing,

01:34:13and of course we should remember, Martin,

01:34:14that both David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher are on the same Bridgestone tyre,

01:34:18so there's no tyre war going on in this battle here.

01:34:21All of the top three, in fact all of the top six, are all using the Bridgestone tyre.

01:34:26Now I know from talking to the Ferrari people

01:34:28that they did a lot of work on these tyres in Italy in testing.

01:34:31They've got a facility at their test track to completely soak it

01:34:34with hoses and sprinklers and that kind of thing,

01:34:38and they can do whatever they want,

01:34:39and they found on a drying track these intermediate tyres will go on and on and on.

01:34:43We've got just eight laps left in this race.

01:34:45It should be okay, even if a dry line begins to completely appear,

01:34:49but as we just saw there, David Coulthard taking the opportunity

01:34:52to just cool them down, those tyres, to get onto the wet part of the track,

01:34:56give them a bit of what they like, which is water,

01:34:58and just preserve them a little bit more.

01:35:00Yes, 22.9 seconds was his lead last time around,

01:35:04and we haven't seen a mid-section time yet from Schumacher on this current lap.

01:35:09Over the line with a 27.5,

01:35:11and, well, I think he's just going to be screaming away now from Michael Schumacher.

01:35:15Has Schumacher got any kind of problem?

01:35:17Or has Schumacher said second place is good enough for me?

01:35:20It's not really his kind of language, that,

01:35:22but maybe that's what he's done here today, given the circumstances.

01:35:25We've got just seven laps of this Grand Prix left.

01:35:28But, Martin, let's just talk briefly about some of the other people.

01:35:30We haven't really mentioned so much today.

01:35:32There's some interesting points scorers, if things finish the way they are.

01:35:35Heinz-Harald Frentzen, once again,

01:35:37he's been a point scorer in both of the first two races so far this year,

01:35:41and he's been going very, very strongly in both of them.

01:35:45Finished fifth in Australia and fourth in Malaysia.

01:35:47So, once again, Jordan looking quite strong,

01:35:49because Jarno Trulli is in fifth place at the moment,

01:35:51so that'll be two more points for him.

01:35:53And Nick Heidfeld...

01:35:54Just as you're saying that, Frentzen's off the road.

01:35:56Mechanical failure then for Frentzen, our third-place man.

01:36:00That puts Heidfeld, who's passed Trulli, not seen on the cameras,

01:36:04but Heidfeld was up into fourth.

01:36:06Now will be third, because Trulli is on those full wets

01:36:10and lapping very, very slowly.

01:36:12So, all of a sudden, from being a dead third and fourth there for the Jordan team,

01:36:16he's beginning to fall apart.

01:36:18Just goes to show, you should never really talk about points-paying positions

01:36:21before the race finishes.

01:36:22Heinz-Harald Frentzen from third, then dropping out.

01:36:25A bitter blow for him, but Trulli up to fourth.

01:36:28And Heidfeld on the podium position with Sauber.

01:36:30Could you believe it?

01:36:31Ted Kravitz, what can you tell us?

01:36:32James, it's a fantastic atmosphere down here at McLaren.

01:36:35I'm actually surprised you're allowed in this pit at all.

01:36:38Whenever you're in the commentary box, DC has a storming race.

01:36:41Anyway, there are a lot of nervously confident faces here.

01:36:44Coulthard's got such a great opportunity to take the fight

01:36:46to Schumacher in the championship.

01:36:48They're all willing him on down here at McLaren.

01:36:50I'll bet they are.

01:36:52DC then through Turn 3.

01:36:54He's dropped his pace slightly, but still 22.8 seconds is his lead.

01:36:59We haven't seen much information on our screens.

01:37:01We've lost lots of electrics up here in the commentary box,

01:37:04and apologies once again for any sound or vision loss

01:37:08you had earlier on in this Grand Prix.

01:37:10I'm afraid a lot of electrical problems here at the Interlagos circuit,

01:37:15but no such problems so far for David Coulthard.

01:37:19No. Well, David Coulthard looking as though he might just shape up

01:37:24for his 11th career Grand Prix victory.

01:37:26The man who, certainly for the last two or three years,

01:37:28has been in the shadows of Mika Häkkinen at the McLaren team.

01:37:32Häkkinen has outqualified him every race so far this year.

01:37:35Coulthard has raced very strongly in both of the opening two Grands Prix,

01:37:39as he has again today, and he seems to be the man

01:37:41who's taking the fight now to Ferrari.

01:37:43He's got 21 seconds over Schumacher.

01:37:45This is a fight for 6th place between Jean Alési and Fizikala in the Benetton,

01:37:50and it was 2 tenths of a second last time around,

01:37:53and that's about exactly what it looks now,

01:37:55so I don't know exactly which tyres they're on.

01:37:58I'll try and have a look.

01:37:59Alési looks like he's on the full wet to me.

01:38:01Didn't get much of a look at the Benetton tucked up behind,

01:38:04but Jean Alési there, I'm sure the Benetton is on the intermediate,

01:38:08so that'll be a good one round the outside,

01:38:10and Jean should have the line into the next corner,

01:38:12but too much traction there.

01:38:14Benetton move into a point-scoring position.

01:38:17Who'd have thought it?

01:38:18After the terrible time they've had so far this weekend,

01:38:20both Fizikala and Jenson Button, his teammate,

01:38:23have struggled to even break into the top 17,

01:38:25let alone the point-scoring top 6 positions,

01:38:28and there'll be some disappointment also at Prost,

01:38:30as we see again just the way that Alési has ran a little bit wide,

01:38:33and Fizikala was able to nab that 6th place from him.

01:38:36Yeah, Fizikala, I'm sure, will be on the intermediates there,

01:38:38because really, Jean should have been able to get into that corner first

01:38:44from that position, but just could not find the traction.

01:38:4719 races now Alési has gone since he last scored a point.

01:38:50This is his second season with the Prost team,

01:38:52and it's been pretty difficult for the last couple of years,

01:38:55but he was perhaps hoping he might get something there.

01:38:57Of course, he used to race for the Benetton team,

01:38:59so he'll be doubly sad about what's just happened.

01:39:01Five laps to go in this race.

01:39:03Yes, I stood in a group of ex-drivers last night

01:39:06with Marqui, Blundell, Berger, JJ Leto, all sorts,

01:39:11standing having a good old gas about the good old days,

01:39:14and Jean Alési walked up, and we said,

01:39:16John, when are you joining us?

01:39:17We're forming a new club of ex-drivers.

01:39:19We're going to have a master's tour soon, or something like that.

01:39:22And John said, can I please join you tonight?

01:39:24I've had enough.

01:39:25But he will certainly be very disappointed

01:39:28with losing that world championship point,

01:39:30if that's the way it stays.

01:39:32You and him could be the Statler and Waldorf of Formula 1,

01:39:34couldn't you?

01:39:35Leaning out of your box, making comments about the youngsters.

01:39:37So, this is the scrap on the track, though,

01:39:39between Panis and Trolley,

01:39:40and this is the battle for fourth place.

01:39:42Three world championship points at stake here,

01:39:44if you can come fourth.

01:39:46Only two points available for the fifth place man.

01:39:48Nothing in it between them.

01:39:49Panis looking strong.

01:39:50Yeah, Panis then.

01:39:53Let's see if we can see.

01:39:54I've got such a poor picture up here in the commentary box.

01:39:57I just cannot begin to see what tyres they're on.

01:39:59It's just all fuzzy from where we're sitting.

01:40:01I hope it's better for you at home.

01:40:03But at the moment, the Jordan has the upper hand.

01:40:06Trulli then, fourth place man.

01:40:08Panis, and we know Panis has got a lot of straight line speed.

01:40:11He popped past a Jordan early on,

01:40:13and two Jordans early on in the race.

01:40:14Exactly like that, down into turn one.

01:40:17More straight line speed,

01:40:18and a huge amount more confidence under braking.

01:40:21Panis then, up into the same fourth place

01:40:23that he finished in in Melbourne

01:40:25before they took it away from him

01:40:26for passing under the yellows.

01:40:28No yellow flags waving there.

01:40:29And look at the straight line speed advantage.

01:40:31Remember, these two cars have exactly the same engine.

01:40:35And if any Jordan thought he was having a bad day losing Frentzen,

01:40:38having the BAR Honda breeze past his car

01:40:42will not please him at all.

01:40:44David Coulthard, though,

01:40:45now just four laps away from victory.

01:40:47And we've hardly seen the man

01:40:49who's going to claim the final podium position

01:40:51if things stay the same.

01:40:53His name is Nick Heidfeld.

01:40:54He's 23 years old.

01:40:55He comes like Heinz-Auer Frentzen

01:40:57from Mönchengladbach in Germany.

01:40:59He was having a terrible time at Prost last year.

01:41:01Really got his head down.

01:41:02He's a protégé of the Mercedes and McLaren team.

01:41:05They farmed him out to Prost,

01:41:06and now they've farmed him out to Sauber.

01:41:08And he's running in third place in this race

01:41:10for the Sauber team.

01:41:13And he's had a terrific start to this 2001 championship.

01:41:16Fourth place in Australia.

01:41:18They've got very, very little experience

01:41:20in this racetrack, Sauber.

01:41:21But they've come here with one driver, Heidfeld,

01:41:23who's got one year's experience,

01:41:25and another driver, Räikkönen,

01:41:26who's never been here before.

01:41:27In fact, has only ever done two Grands Prix in his life.

01:41:29So they've done very well to get the setup right on that car.

01:41:32And Heidfeld looking very strong for a podium finish

01:41:34as we look at Michael Schumacher

01:41:36passing the back marker.

01:41:38And that is the European Minardi of Tarso Marquez.

01:41:41It's the great thing about Formula 1,

01:41:42it's so unpredictable.

01:41:43I mean, Michael just totally dominated

01:41:45those first two races.

01:41:46And here we see Heidfeld

01:41:48ducking up the inside of the Minardi.

01:41:51I think that's just a simple replay,

01:41:52nothing dramatic going on there.

01:41:54And a good overhead shot there of Coulthard

01:41:56gently, gently feeding the nose

01:41:59of that McLaren into Turn 10

01:42:01before heading down through Megolo.

01:42:03So, Martin, let me ask you,

01:42:04we've seen an awful lot of interesting performances today.

01:42:06Who's your man of the match?

01:42:08Who's your driver of the day?

01:42:09What have you liked?

01:42:10This is the third supremely mature drive

01:42:13of David Coulthard,

01:42:14but my man of the day has got to be Montoya, I think.

01:42:17His third ever Grand Prix.

01:42:19He led it with a lot of confidence

01:42:21and supreme driving.

01:42:23And he was on a one-stopper,

01:42:24so I'd give it to Montoya today.

01:42:26But this is a great run from David Coulthard.

01:42:29Montoya, the man of the match.

01:42:30Coulthard looking as though

01:42:31he's going to be the winner of the race.

01:42:33And this man is going to be the hero of Switzerland.

01:42:36Nick Heidfeld for the Swiss Sauber team,

01:42:38powered, of course, by the Ferrari engine,

01:42:40which won last year's World Championship.

01:42:42It's now a customer unit,

01:42:44sold to Sauber and to the Prost team.

01:42:46And Sauber are certainly making great use of it.

01:42:48It's only one step behind the engine

01:42:50in Michael Schumacher's car,

01:42:51and it's giving them a lot of power.

01:42:52They've got a good chassis.

01:42:53Heidfeld doing a terrific job.

01:42:55Coulthard just a lap and a half away from victory.

01:42:58Yep. Two, including this one, as you say.

01:43:01And I'll tell you what hurts at the end of these races.

01:43:03I mean, Coulthard, I know, is wearing a neck strap.

01:43:06The rain would have taken away a lot of the pain

01:43:08around this track with the less grip.

01:43:11But what hurts at the end of these races,

01:43:13where the track is so wet and you're hanging on,

01:43:15even in a straight line,

01:43:16are your jaws and your teeth.

01:43:18You clench your teeth so hard,

01:43:20just trying to wait for the next time

01:43:22the car gets out of shape at 150 miles an hour or so.

01:43:25But Coulthard happily on his way

01:43:28towards the end of this, the penultimate lap.

01:43:31So we've hardly had time to draw breath

01:43:34since this race started about an hour and a half ago.

01:43:37It's been incident-packed.

01:43:39Rubens Barrichello's car failed on the formation lap.

01:43:42He ran back, got into the spare,

01:43:44and then had a huge accident which put him out of the race.

01:43:46We've had safety cars.

01:43:47We've had Juan Montoya leading this race

01:43:49for well over 20 laps

01:43:51before he went to make a routine pass

01:43:53on a backmarker who let him through.

01:43:55And then he went straight up the back of him,

01:43:57taking Montoya out of the race.

01:43:59Michael Schumacher took the lead.

01:44:00Then we had rain.

01:44:02Michael looked as though he was in a very strong position.

01:44:05Coulthard didn't make the early stop for the wet tyres.

01:44:08It looked like it had cost him the race win.

01:44:10But then Michael made two very big mistakes on a wet track.

01:44:13Coulthard dived past him into Turn 1 to take the lead.

01:44:17It's been a feisty fighting drive

01:44:19from the young man from Twine Home in Scotland.

01:44:21He's got about a mile and a half to two miles left to go.

01:44:25He comes into Ferradura Corner for the last time.

01:44:28And that's the right-hander.

01:44:3050 miles an hour, third gear.

01:44:32All the thoughts now will be going through his head

01:44:34about his 11th Grand Prix victory,

01:44:36his first for 10 races.

01:44:38Normally Murray might say he could almost get out and push it home,

01:44:41but he certainly will not be able to do that at this racetrack.

01:44:44It's a massively steep hill.

01:44:46It doesn't look like it on your TV pictures

01:44:48as they come up to the end of the lap.

01:44:50But Coulthard, the engine sounds sweet enough, doesn't it?

01:44:53And no gearshift problems.

01:44:55Nothing hanging off it.

01:44:57All the time in the world, he can just cruise

01:44:59a cruisy outlap on the first morning of testing.

01:45:02Just pay attention.

01:45:04Don't make any silly mistakes.

01:45:06And David Coulthard surely now has this Grand Prix in his pocket.

01:45:10Coulthard then is going to take the ten points.

01:45:12A brilliant drive.

01:45:14David Coulthard then comes across the start-finish line

01:45:17and wins the Brazilian Grand Prix,

01:45:19his first victory in Brazil,

01:45:21his first win for ten Grand Prixs.

01:45:23And second place will be Michael Schumacher,

01:45:26who led this race

01:45:27and who thought probably he had it in the bag, but he didn't.

01:45:30Nick Heidfeld does indeed finish on the podium for Sauber.

01:45:33It's been an extraordinary afternoon here.

01:45:35We're waiting for Olivier Panis,

01:45:37who's going to be fourth for British American Racing,

01:45:39ahead of Jarno Culli, who will be fifth for Jordan.

01:45:42And Fisichella will get the final point for the Benetton team,

01:45:45which will give him an awful lot to smile about

01:45:47after a terrible, terrible first two Grand Prixs.

01:45:50But the winner of this race, and look how happy he is,

01:45:53David Coulthard of Great Britain,

01:45:55wins the Brazilian Grand Prix.

01:45:57Strong run then from young Heidfeld in third place there.

01:46:01So his first ever Grand Prix podium,

01:46:03and well-deserved too.

01:46:04That was tricky conditions today.

01:46:06Yes, very difficult driving conditions indeed.

01:46:08All of these men deserve a medal.

01:46:10And Panis finishing fourth there.

01:46:12You just saw going through your screens also Culli,

01:46:14waiting for Fisichella.

01:46:16He's a lap down.

01:46:17There he is crossing the line now.

01:46:19Giancarlo Fisichella,

01:46:21teammate to Jenson Button, of course,

01:46:23who has had a very trying time.

01:46:25Jenson finishes in tenth place, though.

01:46:28And Ted is down there with Ron Dennis.

01:46:31Ron Dennis, congratulations.

01:46:32You've finally done it.

01:46:33You've broken the Ferrari stranglehold on Formula 1.

01:46:37What stranglehold? I don't know what you're talking about.

01:46:40Six races in a row, Ron.

01:46:41You've done a brilliant job.

01:46:43Winning races is what we're here to do.

01:46:46We're just doing our job.

01:46:47And a fantastic drive from Coulthard.

01:46:49A word for you, Scott.

01:46:50Yes, great car.

01:46:52It was good.

01:46:53Very good.

01:46:54Congratulations, Ron.

01:46:55Brilliant job.

01:46:56Well, I've been down there many times

01:46:58over the last few years

01:46:59at the end of Grands Prix that have been won by McLaren.

01:47:01And I've seen the tears,

01:47:03the tears, would you believe it,

01:47:04in the eyes of Ron Dennis,

01:47:06the boss of that team.

01:47:07He's a man of steel,

01:47:08but he's got a heart,

01:47:09a very soft heart whenever there's a win.

01:47:11David Coulthard then comes in,

01:47:12the winner of this Brazilian Grand Prix.

01:47:15Come on!

01:47:20It's a brilliant drive, David.

01:47:24Thank you, Jeff.

01:47:45Thanks, man.

01:47:49No surprise there.

01:48:07The judge man you are!

01:48:09Happy birthday, Jack!

01:48:14Nick!

01:48:16Nick!

01:48:25Nick, do you have...

01:48:27Nick!

01:48:28Nick, do you have a...

01:48:34I'm sorry.

01:48:35You can do it!

01:48:36You can do it!

01:48:37You can do it!

01:48:40Whoops, sorry.

01:48:45Bye, bye.

01:48:52Fucking yes!

01:48:57Way good!

01:49:01Alright.

01:49:08Yeah, very good.

01:49:14There's a friend of mine.

01:49:26Lunch reached.

01:49:28Down here, what's the fault?

01:49:31Just too short.

01:49:32In what?

01:49:33In the front?

01:49:34Yeah.

01:49:37Huh?

01:49:38The car was heavy, like a piece of shit.

01:49:40It's not the amount of tyres we use.

01:49:48Anyway.

01:49:50I'll call you when it's in.

01:49:51Get it.

01:50:03Thank you.

01:50:10Thank you very much.

01:51:10Welcome to Demi Lovato.

01:51:33Welcome to Demi Lovato.

01:51:36The trophy presented to him by Mrs. Atlas,

01:51:39the mayor of the city of São Paulo.

01:51:48To the winning constructor,

01:51:50represented by team principal Ron Dennis,

01:51:53the investment manager Mercedes,

01:51:55the trophy presented by Mr. Gilson Cortez,

01:51:59managing director of Philip Morris Brazil.

01:52:10Mrs. Susie Wilson presents the trophy to Miguel Jimenez.

01:52:22And to the third place driver, Nick Heidelman.

01:52:24Welcome to the roster, Nick.

01:52:26The trophy presented by Mr. Paulo Escalione,

01:52:29president of the CBA.

01:52:39Ladies and gentlemen, the champagne!

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Formula-1 2001 R03 Brazilian Grand Prix

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