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00:00:00Lap record again. He's playing around at the front 7 to 18.3 second lead and just whenever he fancies it when he's getting bored
00:00:07He pops in a supersonic lap. So Michael well in control. Yeah, let's just remind ourselves what he's done this year victory in Australia
00:00:15Victory in Malaysia second place in Brazil
00:00:19He wasn't in the pipes of course at the San Marino Grand Prix, but then he came back and won the Spanish Grand Prix
00:00:26Second in Australia after having been beautifully beaten by David Coulthard and David Coulthard
00:00:32I said earlier on the only man at the beginning of this race who had scored points in every
00:00:38Grand Prix of
00:00:402001 is going to be struggling to maintain that record as into the pits comes a yas the staff and in the arrows from
00:00:48ninth position
00:00:50So the first scheduled stop of the afternoon then I would imagine this one this one is Murray and
00:00:56Looks like arrows are going for a two stopper or a certainly a very long second
00:01:00stint let's have a look and see how long they feel for and it's
00:01:06I thought this might be happening Martin because he was so conspicuous so much
00:01:11Conspicuously faster in the warm-up in comparison with his race place
00:01:15I mean he started 19th on the grid and he was eighth in the warm-up
00:01:20But whatever whatever there's a problem not a problem for Bernalde as far as keeping cool farm back
00:01:26Because yet again, this is the 44th lap out of 78 and still
00:01:33David Cooper
00:01:35Despite his horsepower advantage despite his superior experience
00:01:40Despite frankly his superior ability could do nothing about Bernalde and James Allen could tell us something
00:01:46Well, there's a glimmer of hope for him though Martin
00:01:49They're sorry Murray because we know that the arrows has the smallest fuel tank in Formula One
00:01:53And this is about as far as I reckon as they can actually go in this race
00:01:57So Bernalde will be coming in very shortly. I'm sure for fuel and that will allow Coulthard finally to pass him James
00:02:03Physic Keller then has gone off for a second time in Sandoval and clearly will not be getting away with it this time
00:02:09Serious amount of tow out on that front left look there Murray and Physic
00:02:13Finally outbraking himself into Sandoval and at this time connecting too hard with that barrier
00:02:18Yeah, it's taking that into a friendly garage and saying can you correct the steering for me would be a major problem Physic Keller
00:02:25Deserved better than that. He'd already done it once he'd probably weakened the suspension. He's lost it again at exactly the same place
00:02:33Interestingly Verstappen had just left the pit
00:02:35So whether whether Physic Keller was just wrong-footed by the arrows building up to speed or whether he just lost his concentration or whatever
00:02:42I don't know, but he actually lost the back end on the way into Sandoval unusually again
00:02:47And then finally slapped it with the front
00:02:50Well, I can tell you that the arrows team are now getting ready to bring on Rike Bernalde
00:02:55Who has been holding David Coulthard up for the half most of the race into the pit for he said your pit stop
00:03:02We've just seen Verstappen coming. You can see that
00:03:05Stuff still fluttering from the left auxiliary wheel and here is Bernalde
00:03:10So at last David Coulthard has got a clear track
00:03:15So he's ahead of Verstappen his next target has got to be Fernando Alonso
00:03:19He's lapping on the previous lap some seven tenths of a second faster, but then he was behind
00:03:26Bernalde so now he will really be able to get cracking and despite Bernalde having a yellow lollipop right in his field of vision
00:03:32He was still trying to drive away with the fuel rig still very much connected. So Bernalde a touch over eager there
00:03:40So Ferrari who I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again
00:03:45Ferrari who were in the wilderness for a long time and did so much under the leadership of Luca
00:03:52Di Montezemolo to regain their previous glory in Grand Prix racing the sort of glory that they'd had with Alberto
00:04:00Ascari with one one Manuel Fangio with double Ferrari world champion
00:04:06Vicky Lauda and others, but it's a slow long and painful job to rebuild a Grand Prix team as Jaguar
00:04:15discovering to their cost and Ferrari had first of all to recruit Michael Schumacher and
00:04:22Ross Brawn as a technical director Rory Byrne as
00:04:27designer and aerodynamics chief and John taught as team manager and then they all had to learn to work together and
00:04:36Let me not forget
00:04:38Martinelli the engine man. It is a great quartet at the top of Ferrari and they're getting their award now
00:04:46Constructors Championship in the year
00:04:481999 and
00:04:502000 the Drivers Championship for Michael Schumacher last year and the previous gap had gone right back to Jody Schechter in
00:04:581979 and now Michael Schumacher who started this race four points ahead of
00:05:03David Coulthard in the Drivers Contest if he finishes where he is now and he's on lap 47 out of
00:05:1078 so there's 31 laps to go and
00:05:13Michael Schumacher has failed to finish in races much closer to the finish than he is now
00:05:19But assuming he stays where he is now, of course, he's going to increase his championship lead over David Coulthard by 10 points
00:05:28Flying as David Coulthard
00:05:30Maybe he's going to have to work very hard to get up into the points
00:05:35He's 10th at the moment as you look at Eddie Irvine still 4th
00:05:39Schumacher is 7 seconds ahead of him Ralph Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve is 6 seconds behind him new lap record for David Coulthard
00:05:47Then a 120.2 and it just shows you the speed he had in the car this afternoon
00:05:52that is some four and a half seconds faster than he was able to lap tucked up behind the arrows and
00:05:59Now immediately homing in on ninth place man Fernando Alonso
00:06:03but he is
00:06:05Some half a minute behind Jenson Button who's a I just remember what a fantastic race
00:06:10David Coulthard drove in Brazil to win it his first victory of
00:06:15This year and then he went on to win again in Austria
00:06:19David has won a lot of races in the past. He's had a lot of pole positions in the past, but somehow
00:06:28It's going to be a surprising thing for you to hear from me
00:06:31But somehow he never he didn't quite seem to have it all together the way that he has this year. There has been some sort of
00:06:39Transformation and I think it's I think it's a mental thing a psychological thing an attitudinal thing
00:06:45Maybe David's got more belief in himself this year than he had last year
00:06:49But whatever that belief is going to have to pay off now as into the pits comes the Menardi past goes
00:06:56Jack Villeneuve in fifth position and David Coulthard has just done the fastest first sector that anybody has done
00:07:03He's showing now what he could have done. If only he had been able to get away first from pole position
00:07:10Yes, and he's passed Alonso in that last lap somewhere
00:07:13Amazingly it was it was some eight seconds faster than Alonso on the last lap
00:07:20So Alonso, I think getting out of the way because he was being lapped by Villeneuve and Coulthard just searing straight through and already on a
00:07:2820.6 second first sector DC now on the charge. We all wanted to see much earlier in this race
00:07:34Yeah, he's been lapped of course, which means to say
00:07:37Surprise surprise, he will have to do one lap less than the people ahead of him in the points because Michael Schumacher
00:07:44He's on his 49th lap now and it's conceivable that David Coulthard will finish this race
00:07:50it's not inconceivable, but he's going to finish it in the points because his next target is Jenson Button and
00:07:57David Coulthard's last lap was five seconds faster than that of Jenson Button
00:08:02So it's not going to take him all that long to reel in the Benetton
00:08:06Now you see Coulthard had to let Villeneuve through with the blue flags because he was tucked up behind Bernoulli now
00:08:11He's now he's catching Villeneuve again at some one and a half to two seconds per lap
00:08:16So Jacques, of course won't get the blue flag. He's a lap ahead of David
00:08:20So Coulthard's got a whole different set of problems now trying to pass cars that are a lap ahead of him
00:08:26That 49 race order Schumacher Barrichello gap 15.6 seconds
00:08:31Ralph Schumacher's making no impression on
00:08:35Barrichello, let alone his brother Michael, but he's still in third position
00:08:39potential podium place as
00:08:42Incomes Fernando Alonso that we saw pull over and the exit to Rascasse and let David Coulthard through
00:08:49In for his European Minardi pit stop boils up the tires sprints out very slow speed limit here
00:08:55That's Jack Carlo Fisichella the Benetton driver out of the race and Jenson Button
00:09:01His teammate is in eighth position
00:09:03Now Eddie Irvine is still fourth
00:09:06Jack Villeneuve in the B.A.R is still fifth and Irvine is actually lapping faster than the B.A.R
00:09:12John Alasi is in the points. So potentially with things as they are now
00:09:17We can envisage a situation where Jaguar get their first world championship points this season and
00:09:24Prost get their first world championship points or a point this season with a Lacey in sixth position and in both cases
00:09:31It will have been richly deserved. They all deserve to do well and
00:09:36Prost and Jaguar have been trying very very hard to correct the performance deficiency that they've had
00:09:43Another new lap record this time from Michael Schumacher 120.193
00:09:48And as I said, he's playing around in the front. They're just amusing himself
00:09:51He got a 16.7 second lead
00:09:53So Barrichello not letting him disappear completely Barrichello a further 15 seconds ahead of Ralph Schumacher the third-place man
00:10:01Really not much of a scrap going on until you get down to sick the Lacey in seventh just one second behind is
00:10:08Heinz-Hauert Frentzen. Yeah, this this race actually Martin does put me in mind of 1988
00:10:14It's in Senna's first season with the McLaren Honda team
00:10:18He's bitterness between himself and Alain Prost his teammate yet to develop but said
00:10:24Senna who's won more Monaco Grand Prix than anybody
00:10:28He's won six of them was leading that race
00:10:31But Prost kept up the pressure and he rattled Senna who lost
00:10:36Concentration because he had such a lead going into the tunnel. He crashed and he was out of the event
00:10:40I can't see that happening to Michael Schumacher though
00:10:43You never know and Michael then now what in the one minute 19
00:10:48Stunning one minute nineteen point seven seven. Oh, so he's decided that time he put on a bit of a show
00:10:54We've hardly seen him in the race. Have we know that that one in one minute nineteen
00:10:58Point seven is eight. Hello. That's the that's the other Jordan
00:11:02That is heights Harold Frentzen seventh position out of the race that moves button up to seventh and significantly
00:11:10David Coulthard up to eighth that means to say that David is in with a shout of getting a world championship point at least one I
00:11:19Wonder and apparently Villeneuve's let Coulthard through they're good mates and that's a good turn from him
00:11:23I wonder if Frentzen was having a go at a Lacey
00:11:26He was just a second behind remember or if Frentzen's dropped it in the tunnel
00:11:31You can still end up all the way down there if you get out of shape in the tunnel and slap there
00:11:35Hopefully we'll see a replay of that. That is Barrichello
00:11:38Then your second place man, so Coulthard suddenly as you say Murray does have a bit of a shot at a few point
00:11:47Starters orders in order of retirement Nick Hyde felt Salma Montoya Williams Panis
00:11:53Be a are Micah Hacken and McLaren de la Rosa Jaguar Bertie Frost
00:11:58Yeah, no trolley Jordan busy Keller in the Benetton
00:12:03Kimi Räikkönen is actually still running
00:12:0613th because we have just seen Heinz Harald Frentzen out of seventh place as a result of which the finish
00:12:12It's how the driver moves up a place. He's last he's 13th, but he's still running and the other 12 are
00:12:19Left 52 26 laps to go of this 2.1
00:12:25Race Schumacher Barrichello Ralph Schumacher the first three James Allen
00:12:30Well, it looks like might have worked out a little bit for Coulthard
00:12:32He's not had an awful lot of luck so far this afternoon
00:12:35But Jenson Button just made his pit stop and I do believe that David Coulthard is now up into seventh place
00:12:40Just a minute off the points and the Lacey now pouring into the pit lane just behind me
00:12:46He'll be back out in front of David Coulthard, but it's game on
00:12:49I reckon Coulthard can run about another four or five laps and we're expecting the Ferraris in around about the same sort of time
00:12:54Yeah
00:12:57Schumacher and Barrichello ought to be reliable watching John Lacey now quite a calm and deliberate pit stop left rear of
00:13:05Lacey's Michelin, they're absolutely
00:13:07Bold as a coop the one that came up no grooves left on it whatsoever
00:13:12That is I don't think they'll have any regulation problems on that. There's been an understanding on that situation
00:13:17So Lacey using his tires to the absolute full
00:13:21And
00:13:23Bad to see Frentzen have a shot
00:13:24he's lost it in the tunnel hasn't he because he's had his accident before he gets to the chicane, so
00:13:31Play coming up. That was a Lacey going through. He's down the bottom of the hill that Murray so in the cloud of dust
00:13:36So still didn't really see quite how and where he hit the barrier first, but I suspect he dropped it in the tunnel
00:13:43Well, if a Lacey finishes in the points, it will be enormous current encouragement for frost
00:13:48They've had a very torrid time since the four times world champion took over leadership of what was the leisure a team
00:13:56this year he's got Ferrari engines after having seasons with the unsuccessful Peugeot engine which
00:14:03Ironically is doing much better with arrows now in the form of Asia Tech engine
00:14:08it's been bought by Japanese consortium from Persia and so now the
00:14:13Frost which you are seeing being caught by Rubens Barrichello
00:14:18John a Lacey has a Ferrari engine although it's called an Acer after the sponsor and
00:14:25Alain Prost has got a fine team of people together a Lacey moves over and let Rubens Barrichello lap him
00:14:32So the first two have now left everybody up to fifth place the fifth place being Jack Villeneuve
00:14:38And the man that Alain Prost have recruited are Joanne Villardelle prior to be the team leader Henry Durand from
00:14:45McLaren to be the technical director John Walton to be the race director and it is starting slowly to pay off
00:14:52Tell you what these drivers are getting murdered on the North Circular and London. They're so polite
00:14:57I mean a Lacey pulled right off onto the dirty part of the track at Rascasse and
00:15:01That'll take him two laps to clean his tires up. He lost a bundle of time letting Barrichello through once again
00:15:08Seriously polite, but why don't you just let them blend past you on the pit straight?
00:15:13So now you are seeing the sole
00:15:17Sauber in the race that of Kimi Räikkönen that we saw
00:15:21Have a bit of a coming together with the barrier earlier on. He's right up behind Enrique
00:15:27Bernalde and Bernalde is in 11th place
00:15:31But Kimi Räikkönen and of course is several laps down Bernalde has been lapped twice
00:15:36Kimi Räikkönen has been lapped five times, but he's still running in 14th and last position through goes
00:15:43Michael Schumacher, he's on his 55th lap now what he must be saying to himself
00:15:49Of course is keep it smooth. Keep away from the barriers
00:15:53Be careful when you're passing people so that there's no possibility of being taken off
00:15:59Remember when Jasper Stappen this year took out Juan Pablo Montoya as
00:16:05The Colombian in the Williams was coming through to lap him and potentially
00:16:10Montoya lost a victory in Brazil Ferrari mechanics in the pit lane
00:16:15And so we wait and see which one's coming in this time around, but you know when Michael beat me here in 94
00:16:21he hit a patch of oil just near the end and had a
00:16:24Little rub with the barrier at Santa Barbara and got away with it and you you know
00:16:29It's never over until it's over
00:16:32Confirm that of course after his Spanish Grand Prix debacle that piece of ribbon or whatever it is
00:16:37That's hanging on the back of Michael's car has been there virtually since the first lap
00:16:42Yes, I'll probably sell it after the race
00:16:44This is the piece of ribbon that you saw hanging from the wing of Michael Schumacher's victorious Monaco Grand Prix Ferrari
00:16:51If he was victorious because we're on that 55 now 23 laps to go in comes Michael Schumacher
00:16:58Barrichello will take the lead 18 seconds behind him on in terms of track position
00:17:04But then he will have to come into you. There you go
00:17:07There you see Rubens Barrichello in the background as Michael Schumacher goes up to exit the pit lane
00:17:14Rubens Barrichello goes through to start another lap in the lead now
00:17:19So Ferrari still leads Ferrari still second, but the positions reversed. It's Rubens Rubino from
00:17:27Sao Paulo Brazil
00:17:28Leading Michael Schumacher from Kirpen in Germany
00:17:33still on
00:17:3616 World Championship points for the Constructors Contest
00:17:39Massively to extend their lead over McLaren who are still not in the points, but not far off it
00:17:45David Coulthard is some 28 seconds behind
00:17:49Sean Lacey has been into the pit
00:17:52So there may be a bit of adjustment there when we've got more updated information, but David
00:17:58Lapping extremely quickly knowing that there is a potential reward for him
00:18:03After all the misery that he's already suffered in this race not being able to get away
00:18:08Having to start last having to be bottled up behind Bernalde. Look at the tire wear there
00:18:14Michelin said when they were coming back to Formula One
00:18:17They might be protesting if tires were no longer
00:18:22Grooved to the all the tires have four grooves in them to reduce the amount of rubber on the track and thereby reduce the amount
00:18:30Of grip in order to slow the cars down
00:18:33The governing body is always worried that Grand Prix cars will be too fast for the circuits
00:18:39And if those tires become slicks, there's a danger that they'll go even quicker
00:18:44But that is not happening. Through goes new race leader Rubens Barrichello
00:18:50Michael Schumacher will be the next man through because he exited the pit lane just after his teammate had gone through
00:18:57But Rubino who won the German Grand Prix
00:19:01brilliantly last year at Hockenheim from 18th on the grid a
00:19:05Superlative performance could say that he has led at Monaco
00:19:10How long it's going to be before he has to come in remains to be seen
00:19:14There's not going to be very much difference between the time that Barrichello stayed out and the time that Schumacher stayed in
00:19:20Yes, Coulthard's charge. That's Villeneuve pitting then for a scheduled stop
00:19:24I would imagine Coulthard's charge has been halted slightly by
00:19:27Eddie Irvine because Irvine lacked Coulthard earlier in the race now Coulthard's Clara Bernalde as we said as I said before
00:19:34He's now charging
00:19:36Trying to pass people who are one lap ahead of him and that is well, that's that's the Minardi
00:19:43So that's a Fernando Alonso
00:19:46Rotten luck for Paul Stoddart and his team. Here's a replay of what happens as
00:19:53Alonso knowing that the game is up pulls off the circuit to park the
00:19:58Minardi his teammate Tasso Marquez is three laps down
00:20:02But he is still running 19 years old incidentally Alonso a very proud
00:20:08Spaniard you saw the Spanish colors on his helmet there as we now look at Ralph Schumacher in third position
00:20:15And Eddie Irvine is actually catching the Williams
00:20:18He's I don't know what's happened neither of them have been in for a pit stop, but Eddie has closed the gap down
00:20:24To three and a half seconds, it's not inconceivable
00:20:28Although there's some way to go that the Jaguar could not only be in the points but on the podium
00:20:34That would be a fantastic
00:20:36Encouragement is Ralph then and then Eddie Irvine just behind him and the recovering Coulthard
00:20:41Also, then behind there they go all three of them coming up the hill then so third place man Ralph Schumacher Eddie Irvine fourth
00:20:48Coulthard now a lap down in seventh position
00:20:51Irvine on a charge the gap down to just two point eight seconds Murray
00:20:55Yeah, and David Coulthard lapping one point eight seconds faster than John
00:21:01There's a big gap between them, but things are starting to get dramatic and interesting
00:21:06If there is any Irvine behind him David Coulthard
00:21:10And the Jack feel nervous left the pits. He's been in for that pit stop into the tunnel
00:21:16Ralph's Ralph's slow is Ralph's definitely losing some time on his pace
00:21:21And look that gap there was two point eight at the pit straight last time around look at it now
00:21:26It's just a few tens
00:21:29Yesterday I love this place
00:21:31I love Monaco it suits my kind of driving and of course he's done extremely well here in the past third in
00:21:391998 second in 99 fourth for Jaguar last year. He's fourth at the moment
00:21:44Because he's right up by the past he's passed Eddie Irvine is in a podium position for Jaguar
00:21:54We'll be having their fingers crossed as in comes Ralph Schumacher clearly with a problem
00:21:59But is it a terminal problem?
00:22:01I wonder if he's got a some kind of his head one of these I mean, he's a long ways 58 left 59 that James
00:22:09What can you tell us you think it's fuel? Yeah as he came past me?
00:22:11It was definitely the engine was cutting out and he was punching the steering wheel as if that would help
00:22:15I think they call it percussive maintenance
00:22:17But anyway, the rear tires came off they were completely slick as were the other ones, you know
00:22:21Just earlier on Martin, but definitely some form of engine problem could have been lacking fuel, but it sounded a bit more
00:22:25Uh, they're trying to get it started again. Now. The rear wheels are spinning
00:22:29It sounds unhealthy, but he may make it going. I don't know. Well, anyway, Ralph Schumacher retires from the
00:22:37Monaco Grand Prix
00:22:39it is his fifth retirement in seven races and
00:22:43Montoya, of course as long since out so not a race that Williams will want to remember and funnily enough
00:22:50They've only won here twice kick and Kiki Rosberg one one year and Williams have always had a bad time
00:22:57I'm gonna go by their very high standards
00:22:59Remember when Nigel Mansell retired Damon Hill, but now it's Michael Schumacher out on his own from rough
00:23:07from
00:23:08Not out on his own behind Rubens Barrichello still who leads of the race the gap between them 13 seconds
00:23:15But Michael Schumacher has stopped Rubens Barrichello has not stopped Eddie Irvine in a podium position for Jaguar third ahead of Villeneuve
00:23:23Alessi and now David Coulthard is in the points
00:23:27Yeah, Irvine doing a great job Barrichello doing a tidy job too to extend that lead Michael now
00:23:33Of course with more fuel on board at this stage of the race having made his stop
00:23:36but I think Rubens can go far enough fast enough to make a
00:23:42Complete pit stop advantage on Michael. So Michael still has the race under control
00:23:46But Rubens did a sterling job in this few laps of the race. Yeah, so when when Barrichello comes in
00:23:54Seconds for him to make his stop. Here we go. Here he goes
00:23:57Now the seconds ticking away look at the background if the producer lets us as the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher
00:24:05Will appear and go through to take the lead and it was just seven just under seven seconds
00:24:12Barrichello goes through and Michael Schumacher has not yet passed me now he does so and just takes the lead as
00:24:21Barrichello exits the pit lane the order has been restored to what it was before
00:24:27Michael Schumacher on lap 61 out of 78 retakes the lead in the Monaco Grand Prix
00:24:34With Rubens Barrichello in second place some 40
00:24:38seconds ahead of Eddie Irvine's Jaguar who is now in the pits now the gap between
00:24:45Irvine and Villeneuve was 33 seconds. So Louise
00:24:50Made his way back into the paddock now Heinz-Harald. We didn't actually see clearly what happened to you. So, can you tell us I
00:24:57Don't know what happened exactly, but don't form the apex onwards
00:25:00I understood off in a corner in the tunnel this right hander, which usually flat without a problem
00:25:06I don't know what I'd have my slide off must have been a nasty moment because that's a very high speed part of the track
00:25:12Yeah, I felt a little bit uncomfortable in this moment. I have to say I have to admit but
00:25:18Banged my head at a pretty hard there
00:25:21but it's it's
00:25:23Very difficult to understand right now unless we look at the data of the car what happened? Thanks very much
00:25:29Eddie Irvine has rejoined. That's just a replay of the Minardi of
00:25:35Yes, Marcus. They're just letting the leaders through
00:25:38So Eddie Irvine has had a successful pit stop and returns to third place in the race. We'll be back shortly
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00:28:01Lap 63 at Monaco 15 to go. What are the points positions?
00:28:07Well, it is looking subject to reliability
00:28:11Like being a crushing one two four Ferrari as you watch the flying
00:28:17David Coulthard showing us what he could have done. If only he had got away well at the start
00:28:22Ferrari first and second and Eddie Irvine is still in that superb
00:28:29position
00:28:31As I said before Eddie Irvine with Ferrari and with Jaguar has had second third and fourth places at Monaco
00:28:39And it looks as though with luck and good fortune
00:28:43He's going to be able to make another third place Jacques Villeneuve fourth for BAR to give them points
00:28:49Jorna Lacey fifth for Prost and David Coulthard in six positions potentially with a world championship point
00:28:56He's lapping two and a half seconds faster than a Lacey
00:28:59But he's gonna need at least six or seven laps to catch the Prost
00:29:04Yeah, so to spoil that story though Maribel Lacey's already made his pit stop. So Coulthard
00:29:09amazingly on lap 64
00:29:11Still hasn't had to pit. So he's carrying a lot of fuel and once again
00:29:15it confirms that McLaren have a bigger fuel tank than Ferrari and
00:29:20It that'll pay dividends a little bit later on in the season
00:29:23Monza and Hockenheim and places like that
00:29:26But Coulthard's major headache really more is Jenson Button his buttons behind him 18 odd seconds
00:29:33But he has already stopped so Coulthard does have a chance of a point
00:29:36But I think any more than a point will rely on others falling off or breaking down
00:29:41Yeah, as ever with Monaco, it's going to be a case of who finishes
00:29:45We're not gonna know that for another 14 laps, including the one there
00:29:5014 2.1 mile laps as Kimi Räikkönen getting experience all the way in the Sauber
00:29:56He is last and there's 10 people left. He's been lapped five times Kimi Räikkönen of this
00:30:042.1 mile circuit
00:30:06Ten and a half miles ahead of him is Michael Schumacher leading the race and in walks Tarso Marquez the
00:30:14Brazilian Minardi driver who's already had three failures to finish this season
00:30:21He drove in champ car races in America last year and the year before he had driven as a protégé of Crichton Browns
00:30:29In Formula One before but he hasn't shown the promise this year that we thought he had
00:30:35Kimi Räikkönen rounds at the Rascasse now the gap between Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello
00:30:41And it'll stay that way to the end of the race provided that they both finish it
00:30:46I'm very careful about that caveat is just about 10 seconds
00:30:51Eddie Irvine is actually catching Rubens Barrichello in front of him
00:30:56But there's a 40 second gap between the two of them
00:31:00Irvine can finish in third position the flags will really be waving
00:31:05Country and everywhere else where Jaguar are powerful and still Kulthar doesn't have to come in the pit. So that's
00:31:1365 that's at least 66 he will be able to complete and I think now
00:31:17He will have the gap to Jenson Button that he needs to make that pit stop and retain his sixth place
00:31:23It'll be reasonably close depends how much time he makes on this and who knows when he's in lap is
00:31:29Verstappen
00:31:30Not threatening button behind and as I said Kulthar can't catch a Lacey in front
00:31:35But really the the crew are pretty well spread out the teams and drivers well spread out
00:31:40The only marginal scrap is Villeneuve just 6.6 seconds behind Irvine in third place
00:31:47But only lapping two tenths of a second faster indeed
00:31:50Eddie Irvine has just responded to the challenge by going two tenths of a second faster again than
00:31:56Jack Villeneuve and he's made his fastest lap of the race to reduce the gap
00:32:01Between himself and Rubens Barrichello to well under 40 seconds and 38 seconds to be exact. Look at David Kulthar
00:32:09reveling now
00:32:10Liberated psychologically as he flings the McLaren around the circuit flings it but being very careful indeed not to fling it into
00:32:19Anything he's just out of 120 point six compared with Michael Schumacher
00:32:24122 point three and he'll be in this lap. We saw the mechanics in the pill. Yes in the pit lane
00:32:29So James take it over. Well at this late stage of the race Martin, you need 22 seconds
00:32:34It's how much you lose to get back out on the pit lane and he was 23
00:32:38Seconds ahead of Jenson Button if any crew could pull this off
00:32:41It's a McLaren crew a great stop and is this going to get him a point and the amazing thing is and there you see
00:32:48the button
00:32:50David Kulthar is undoubtedly safe
00:32:53Jenson Button is not going to be able to get through in the time that it takes Jenson button to get round and he's done so
00:32:58So the thing that Martin was drawing our attention to has been saved
00:33:02There is button closing down on David Kulthar as the McLaren accelerates back again to race pace
00:33:08But the problem which potentially faced the David Kulthar has been avoided
00:33:14He's got to get that one world championship point
00:33:17We've seen the virtually impossible and so far off of which he so richly deserves. This is lap
00:33:2467 out of the 78 Schumacher leads Barrichello by 8.8 seconds
00:33:30The gap is coming down Eddie Irvine is still third and no longer catching Barrichello
00:33:36Who's putting on a bit of a charge Jack Villeneuve, however is still continuing to catch Eddie Irvine
00:33:43Lacey is still fifth potential point for frost David Kulthar. Will he get that one point?
00:33:50So the scrap to watch with anything Jenson's got the speed to come back at the McLaren now
00:33:55So the only real sort of drama to watch I think unless these guys start whacking the barrier that
00:34:02Then is Reichen and getting a bit out of shape in the last corner
00:34:05but the traction control would scoop that up just as he most needed it and
00:34:09he heads off into the pit straight one more time, but
00:34:12Can Villeneuve catch Irvine for that final podium place? We'll be back shortly to find out
00:35:12I
00:35:42Oh
00:36:12Oh
00:36:32To the closing laps of the
00:36:352001 Monaco Grand Prix as you look at Eddie Irvine's Jaguar, which is still in that superb
00:36:43well-deserved third position a
00:36:46potential podium place for the Irishman
00:36:48David Kulthar is shattering the lap record as in sixth position. He circulates this track faster and faster
00:36:56He's just gone round in one minute
00:36:5919.4, which is 2.1 seconds faster than the previous lap record held by Mika Hakkinen and it was put up in last year
00:37:07So that's how much quicker they are going this year
00:37:11Ruben's Barrichello is eight seconds behind the Michael Schumacher who seems to me to be pacing himself
00:37:17calmly and in his
00:37:20His experience way to yet another victory if it is it will be his
00:37:2648th Grand Prix in his
00:37:29150th year
00:37:31150th Grand Prix Eddie Irvine is 36 seconds behind Barrichello lapping faster
00:37:37But not fast enough to catch him Jack Villeneuve is closing on the Jaguar fifth place man and Lacey in the pits then for
00:37:44Another stop surprising so late in the race
00:37:47But a Lacey then your current fifth place man having to make a late stop now
00:37:53David Kulthar was 27 seconds behind a Lacey if he can get through before the cross leaves the pits
00:38:00It doesn't look to me as though he's going to it means he could get two points instead of one out goes a Lacey
00:38:05And Kulthar has passed me. He's a head. He's a head. David Kulthar is now on two points instead of one
00:38:13You may think that that's not all that exciting, but it really is as far as David Kulthar is concerned
00:38:18He started in pole position
00:38:21It was to start in pole position he couldn't get away he started last of these forties way up to fifth in the race
00:38:27This is another barnstorming Scottish drive
00:38:31Fabulous, but John a Lacey is still
00:38:35Potentially going to score cross first world championship point this year
00:38:40That could be worth as much as 11 or 12 million dollars to the team Murray just gets them
00:38:47Into the TV money for the following season that will be a crucial point
00:38:51And here's the moment when Kulthar takes fifth a Lacey coming out from that very late stop in the race
00:38:58Kulthar then will he slow down a bit now?
00:39:00He's got no chance of catching Villeneuve gonna be best part of a minute behind all of that time. He lost
00:39:06Crucially behind Bernal D at the beginning of the race, but normally just driving defensively
00:39:12Slowing them all down and but only back down in
00:39:15Ninth place now lapping some four seconds a lap slower than Kulthar. What a shame
00:39:20Kulthar didn't manage to get past him
00:39:23I guess my technique of having him off the road
00:39:25May have lost me a wheel or a nose and at least David with his patience
00:39:30Is now steering at two maybe very crucial World Championship points
00:39:35How are the runners and riders doing on lap 72 out of 78 Ferrari are doing famously?
00:39:41Thank you very much say the men from Maranello because they are first and second with six laps to go at the end of this
00:39:48one Schumacher leading
00:39:52Jaguar they must be having their fingers and everything else crossed because Eddie Irvine is still in a potential third
00:39:58Podium place his teammate Pedro de la Rosa has long since retired
00:40:04Jack Villeneuve is looking good for pre-world championship points for the B
00:40:10Team and
00:40:12Villeneuve has already scored points this season, but his teammate Pannis retired a long time ago
00:40:18David Kulthar of course two points in the offing Micah Hacken and long since disappeared and Jordan Lacey looks as though he's going to get
00:40:25That one point for Prost which Martin has told you is so vital to the team
00:40:30Jensen Button in seventh place, but going quite slowly now, so maybe buttons got a problem creeping in in these late stages
00:40:38A Lacey hanging on to that sixth place then
00:40:40But not in any kind of position to challenge him it seems and the remaining three are Jos Verstappen
00:40:46So both the arrows are still running in the top nine because Bernalde Verstappen's teammate is in the ninth place
00:40:54Kimi Räikkönen five laps down is the last runner in 10th place only four on the same lap
00:41:00Irvine's got a problem in the shape of Villeneuve now just
00:41:043.7 seconds behind we're just missing Villeneuve out of the picture each time as they cut away from
00:41:10From Eddie Irvine and the gap down to just three seconds now
00:41:14You'll see him and so launching an attack then but as you've said many times before Murray catching is one thing
00:41:20Passing is all together another but let's recap on quite a dramatic early stages of the race
00:41:27David Coulthard stalling on the dummy grid for whatever reason
00:41:30We don't know starting at the back Michael Schumacher making a textbook start no dramas at all in the first few corners
00:41:38Heidfeld tripping over and arrows and hitting the wall
00:41:41Halfway around that first lap and the race very much settled into a place Montoya the first to make a mistake
00:41:49Striking the barriers in the first part of the swimming pool dropping out of what was then
00:41:53Fifth place Ralph Schumacher retiring later on with we think some kind of engine problem
00:41:59Frentzen hitting the walls hydraulics failure for Ralph where we're hearing
00:42:03Frentzen hit the wall visit Keller hit the wall
00:42:05Yano truly caught fire and Mika Hakkinen with a car that was trying to turn right every time he hit the throttle pedal
00:42:12Just as he started to make a big big charge on Michael Schumacher
00:42:17Who was currently lying second at that time and just we were shaping up for a very exciting challenge
00:42:24Unfortunately, Mika Hakkinen's car failed him
00:42:26Well, keep your fingers crossed everybody, especially Wolfgang Reitzler who's probably watching this race the boss of Jaguar
00:42:33He's done so much to get the team up into Formula One and he's seen the potential now of his man
00:42:40Eddie Irvine getting the first podium for Jaguar ever
00:42:45But not if Jacques Villeneuve can do anything about it
00:42:48Although Eddie Irvine has just responded with a lap four tenths of a second faster than Jacques Villeneuve
00:42:54Which argues that he could be knowing exactly what the situation is
00:42:59Michael Schumacher is going through to complete his lap now
00:43:04That will take him into lap 74
00:43:08Five laps to go now for Michael Schumacher with Rubens Barrichello six and a half seconds behind him
00:43:16Yeah, we've hardly seen Michael all afternoon. We've barely said anything about him
00:43:20went off into the lead from what was then effectively pole position and
00:43:23He's just been cruising around when he had to put a couple of hot laps in and that's about it
00:43:28Hasn't made a mistake hasn't really had to push hard really been a cruisy afternoon for Michael
00:43:34We're about to see I suspect a Ferrari formation finish
00:43:37Yeah
00:43:37And it's the mark of a truly great driver if you could win at Monaco as Senna did six times as Graham Hill did five times
00:43:45As Schumacher has already done four times
00:43:48He was leading very convincingly last year when that cracked exhaust burnt through the carbon fiber
00:43:55Suspension systems and here is the battle for third Irvine and fourth the white
00:44:01B-a-r Honda of Jack Villeneuve and the gap is three seconds now
00:44:07So Villeneuve is continuing to cut into that lead of Eddie Irvine's as the Irishman turns into the Mirabeau corner
00:44:15Goes down to the slowest corner on the course the grand
00:44:19Hotel corner down to the Portier and then through the tunnel again now these two have not been
00:44:27So they will have to go the full race distance of 78 laps
00:44:31Michael Schumacher will soon be starting indeed. He's on his 76th lap now
00:44:36So seven laps 76 77 and 78. There's going to be no doubt about the winner and second place provided
00:44:44Schumacher and Barry Callow stay where they are
00:44:46but there could be a real doubt about who is going to be third the Jaguar of Eddie Irvine or the
00:44:53Of Jack Villeneuve the
00:44:551997 world champion and Villeneuve's on a stonking lap
00:44:59He's seven tenths of a second faster on this current lap than Eddie Irvine you're watching fifth place man
00:45:05David Coulthard who is a lap down and the three laps remain as you can see so Irvine over the line and
00:45:11The gap will be down to 2.3 seconds now then so just 2.3 seconds between Irvine third Villeneuve fourth
00:45:19But if Eddie could just keep it up he looks to be as though he's going to be all right
00:45:26But that Jaguar is then going to be 18 meters is the course width is it well if it is that's how wide the Jaguar is
00:45:33Going to be because Eddie Irvine will just be able to plant it on the fastest racing line
00:45:38Keep it there and say okay Jack
00:45:40The only way you're going to get past me is to push me off and the French Canadian is unlikely
00:45:45Deliberately to do that as Jenson Button drops down the hill past the hotel Metropole in
00:45:52Seventh position he has been lapped. He is 27 seconds behind John
00:45:58the positions look set but in
00:46:031970 was it Jack Brabham in his Brabham came down to the last corner
00:46:08It was the gasworks corner the Anthony node corner then now and he went off
00:46:14he allowed himself to be
00:46:17Distracted by Piers courage. He went off and
00:46:21Ripped yuppin rent came through and won the race brilliantly, so it's not over until it's over
00:46:28But Michael Schumacher knows that as well as anybody as he goes into the tunnel for the 77th time
00:46:35That is Prince Albert of Monaco
00:46:37Here again as he has been all through his life to watch the Monaco Grand Prix
00:46:43For which his father his serene highness Prince Rainier has done so much and get here vines done enough
00:46:48he just put his fastest lap of the race in on a 20.6 1 minute 20.6 and
00:46:53Maintained the gap last time around so Irvine has done enough
00:46:57I think to get that very very well-deserved podium and I for one will be seriously happy for the Jaguar team as we
00:47:05Will and as Michael Schumacher exits the Rascasse into the Anthony node
00:47:11Corner to start his 78th and last lap of my land
00:47:15David Coulthard just clips the edge of the road
00:47:21The chicane, but he's perfectly all right there Michael Schumacher one lap to go
00:47:26I tell you just clip the edge of those remember the car runs about half an inch high off the ground only and
00:47:32You're sitting on the floor of it. I can tell it tears to your eyes one of those things and it trashes the underfloor
00:47:38That's probably 20 grams worth of carbon fiber just gone underneath that
00:47:42It looks a pretty simple incident outbraked himself at the chicanes and pushing very very hard
00:47:48But of course, he doesn't want to go across there if he can help it. You can sometimes be penalized
00:47:53Michael Schumacher's fifth Monaco win and his 48th career win coming up another glorious one
00:48:00Two for the Maranello concern of Ferrari and that will mean 16 constructors championship points
00:48:08Drivers championship points for Michael Schumacher who is allowing Rubens Barrichello
00:48:13And Schumacher looks in the mirrors to close right up on his rear wing
00:48:18It's going to be a formation finish as you predicted Martin
00:48:22Into the swimming pool and out of it for the last time Schumacher has only now got to go round to the Rascasse
00:48:28Which he is at first gear 20 miles an hour
00:48:32Coasted home Michael and around the Atteneo corner up comes Rubens Barrichello
00:48:38Schumacher wins in Monaco
00:48:40Barrichello is second right behind his team leader
00:48:4416 points for Ferrari, 10 for Michael Schumacher, 6 for Barrichello
00:48:49What about third place?
00:48:50Yeah, and that was the photo for all the albums at the end of the year the
00:48:54Show finish there from Ferrari one two over the line and Irvine then clearly is
00:48:59Comfortably going to take that final podium position and the James Allen was pointing out as the Stewart team
00:49:06They've had their first podium here now Jaguar
00:49:09That team morphed into Jaguar and their first podium then over the line in Monte Carlo Villeneuve fourth
00:49:15Well done Eddie Irvine. That is a brilliant drive
00:49:20He's had a lot of criticism this year and he has
00:49:23Struck to his last
00:49:33And the Monaco Grand Prix victory in the year
00:49:362001 goes to Ferrari and Schumacher with Barrichello and Ferrari in second place
00:49:42A lot of very happy people there including Jean Todt the team manager
00:49:46But not nearly as happy I'm sure as Jaguar
00:49:51First World Championship points this year first podium ever Eddie Irvine great drive
00:49:57And three points to B.A.R. and Jacques Villeneuve
00:50:01David Coulthard after a stomping drive from last to fifth position gets two points
00:50:08And Prost do indeed with John Alessi finishing in sixth place
00:50:13Get that one World Championship point which is going to get their tails very high indeed
00:50:21So Michael increases his lead in the World Championship
00:50:24Crucial two points then for David Coulthard strong drive from Barrichello the man you're looking at now
00:50:30But not strong enough to match this man the five times winner of this Grand Prix
00:50:36Coulthard then maintaining his record of scoring points in every Grand Prix this year
00:50:41Indeed he has yes second place in Brazil third place in Malaysia
00:50:46A brilliant win in Australia second place brilliant win in Brazil
00:50:51And then that second place again at Imola fifth in Spain
00:50:55A win in Austria and now another fifth place and that means to say that Michael Schumacher
00:51:00Has extended his World Championship lead over David Coulthard from four points to twelve
00:51:06Rubens Barrichello of course is still in third position as a result of that second place that he has had in the race
00:51:13In fourth place is still Ralf Schumacher and Heidfeld and is in fifth place
00:51:19But Jacques Villeneuve has now moved ahead of the German Heidfeld and his Sauber team
00:51:25To sixth in the Drivers' Championship
00:51:28So BAR and Jaguar and Prost have got a return and a reward at Monaco after all their efforts
00:51:36And Ferrari have shown that if you stick at it the way they have by appointing new people
00:51:42And continuing to improve the product you can become a Grand Prix and a championship winner
00:51:47But I can't help think that we were robbed of a great sporting event this afternoon with Hakanen's technical problems
00:51:53Whatever Coulthard's problems were on the start line because the pace of the McLarens when they were running was just sensational
00:52:00So it would have been a true head-to-head this afternoon and one I'm afraid we've been robbed of
00:52:05Yeah, let us remind ourselves that David Coulthard not only has those two World Championship points for fifth place
00:52:11But a terrific fastest lap, record lap at Monaco 119.4
00:52:16And he did it on his 68th lap, ten laps from the end when he had got past Bernaldi and everybody else
00:52:22Now there were some hard feelings between Barrichello and Michael Schumacher
00:52:28Not between Michael Schumacher and Barrichello in the past
00:52:32And Michael congratulates his old Ferrari teammate Eddie Irvine
00:52:37On having achieved a podium position for his new team
00:52:41New last year, Jaguar, and he's still there this year
00:52:45Eddie will, I'm quite sure, when he's talking in the interview room be very calm and dispassionate about it all
00:52:52He will say that this is what we were trying to do and we must continue to keep trying
00:52:57Very, very happy Ferrari team, very, very happy Michael Schumacher
00:53:01He's stopped by the Royal Box
00:53:04And that is Prince Rainier with the grey hair and the glasses
00:53:08Whether it's going to be him or his son Prince Albert that presents the prize, I do not know
00:53:12But now to confirm the caption that you're seeing
00:53:16Ferrari are 32, a massive 32 points ahead of McLaren
00:53:21As Michael Schumacher, cap on
00:53:25First it has on the side of the cap, Rubens Barrichello, cap off
00:53:30Bows to his serene Highness
00:53:33Prince Albert gives him his trophy
00:53:36And there's some very happy people, but as I said before
00:53:40None so happy as Jaguar or Eddie Irvine
00:53:44It's been a great drive
00:53:49Williams still third in the Constructors' Championship
00:53:52Jordan in fourth position
00:53:55But BAR have now moved ahead of Sauber
00:53:58So Craig Pollock's team is getting there
00:54:52So the strains of the Italian national anthem to honour Ferrari die away
00:54:57With the two men up there on the top step
00:55:00Does Michael Schumacher do that look? Is he doing that?
00:55:03No, he's not. He's not. He's not.
00:55:06He's not. He's not. He's not.
00:55:09He's not. He's not. He's not.
00:55:12He's not. He's not. He's not.
00:55:15He's not. He's not. He's not.
00:55:18He's not. He's not.
00:55:21He's not. He's not.
00:55:24He's not. He's not.
00:55:27He's not.
00:55:30He's not.
00:55:38So, well, as you pointed out, Martin
00:55:41It could have been a more dramatic race
00:55:44If David Coulthard had got away well
00:55:47But it just wasn't to be
00:55:50Now David has extended his already dramatic lead over his team mate Mikko Häkkinen, double world champion, by a further two points.
00:55:58And the championship is not yet won by Michael Schumacher. Ten races to go, it's all to play for.
00:56:08Thank you Murray, thank you Martin. New contract for Michael Schumacher this week, 25 million pounds a year.
00:56:14Basic, cheap at half the price after what he's done here today.
00:56:18Don't go away, we'll be hearing from the top three. We hope David Coulthard will have a word with us as well.
00:56:23We'll be enjoying ourselves at the Grand Prix Ball and there is expert analysis from Tony Jardine and Mark Lundell.
00:56:29Meantime, ITV Sport is very much in the fast lane.
00:56:48Charles, Charles.
00:57:19Come on, come on.
00:57:29Now Watford at second.
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01:00:09Good, that was a good race. Very well done.
01:00:19To me, like a record.
01:00:41Everett, boys.
01:00:49Great race.
01:00:54When we go to race today, right?
01:00:56No, it doesn't. It takes about 40 seconds.
01:01:18I want to invite you to enjoy the rest of your time in Hamburg.
01:01:22Thank you very much for listening to us.
01:01:48Obviously, they did have some kind of problem with one car at least.
01:01:55The other car started normal.
01:01:59I have no idea.
01:02:00Speak to them and I don't want to really say anything to that.
01:02:03I think I should talk about my issue.
01:02:05It seems only the truly great win at Monaco many times.
01:02:08You've won five times.
01:02:09Other multiple winners have been Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost and Graham Hill.
01:02:12What's so special?
01:02:13What do you need to do around here to win?
01:02:15Finish the race, first of all.
01:02:17It's quite important because here it's very easy to do mistakes.
01:02:21It's a very hard circuit.
01:02:23Although it was an easy drive, it is still hard to some degree
01:02:27because we do still reasonable fast lap times.
01:02:32I don't know what is so special.
01:02:34I certainly love that circuit.
01:02:36I have always found it easier to find my setup,
01:02:42which is very important again here, to throw around the car through the corners.
01:02:48But you have to be lucky to some degree as well.
01:02:52What's the race easier this year with the traction control?
01:02:54I think gearbox is still as challenging as ever.
01:02:57Pretty challenging.
01:02:59Because you have the traction control, it means you go faster actually
01:03:03and that means it's physically to some degree harder.
01:03:07Michael, thank you.
01:03:08Rubens, you celebrated extending your Ferrari Contact with a superb second place,
01:03:12but it looked very straightforward from outside.
01:03:14Was it for you?
01:03:15Not at all.
01:03:16I mean, I had quite a lot of trouble since lap 10, 9, 10,
01:03:21because I started having cramp on my foot.
01:03:26Something happened to the pedals because they were vibrating quite a lot
01:03:30and actually Ross became a physiotherapist
01:03:33because I was telling him if he knew something that I could do inside of the car
01:03:38because it was really, really bad.
01:03:40It was a time I could hardly feel my right foot
01:03:45and he was saying, drink water, drink water,
01:03:48and at one stage he was gone.
01:03:50So I was having quite a lot of problems inside of the car actually.
01:03:54Rubens, thank you.
01:03:55Eddie, many congratulations to you.
01:03:57It's your first podium since leading Ferrari.
01:03:59It's Jaguar's first podium ever.
01:04:01You must be delighted for yourself and the team.
01:04:03Yeah, it's fantastic to get a podium and especially here, you know.
01:04:07To have two Ferraris and a Jaguar on the podium in Monaco is really what Formula One is about in a way.
01:04:13We've got to see if we can consistently get up here though.
01:04:15Monaco is a strange circuit and we've been quick here all weekend.
01:04:19Let's hope we can carry that speed into Canada.
01:04:22Not a totally uneventful race.
01:04:23I believe you hit the barrier.
01:04:24Were there no ill effects from that?
01:04:26I touched the barrier at the swimming pool,
01:04:29but it was on the inside wheel and I was pretty much sliding when I hit it.
01:04:33So it just made me slide a little bit more, but no ill effects at all.
01:04:37Thank you, Eddie.
01:04:38Michael, we go to the completely different circuit now at Canada, which is all about high speed.
01:04:42You've got a 12-point lead in the championship.
01:04:44What's the program between then and now for Ferrari?
01:04:47We will be testing next week Magna Coupe for three days.
01:04:51I think it's the last test we can do before the Magna Coupe race, if I'm right.
01:04:56It's not a particular test for Canada, obviously, but we know very well what we have to do for Canada.
01:05:04We're prepared for that and let's hope we can show again a one-two.
01:05:09Thank you very much, gentlemen. Well done.
01:05:11And now a word from Michael and Rubens in their own language, starting with Michael.