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And half an hour we have live coverage of the Australian Grand Prix now though the 5 life science team look back at the Life and Work of Stephen Hawking who died recently this is a preview corded programs of Please don't text or call you can also download an extended version as a podcast from the find life website this week on 5 Live Science he was described as one of the greatest minds of our generation making great contributions to cosmology. Furthering the public understanding of science I'm raising awareness for the most in your own disease I'm Christmas with me is George mills and do join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of Professor Stephen Hawking who passed away on Wednesday March the 14th. And you hear me. As the no glorious time to me a lion and doing research and theoretical physics our picture of the universe has changed a great deal in the last 50 years and I'm happy if I have made a small contribution. I want to share my excitement and enthusiasm about this quest so remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. In your. Very difficult life may seem there it's always something you can do and succeed at. It matters at your door. Stephen Hawking's earliest work in the 1960 S. Coincided with a very exciting period in astronomy and cosmology and that was the time when evidence 1st began to emerge for black holes and the Big Bang Professor Lord Martin Reese is the Astronomer Royal He was also a contemporary of Stephen Hawking in Cambridge Welcome Martin what did he study when he 1st came to Cambridge What was the problem he set out to solve well I knew him from the time I started 2 years after him and he was very lucky as I was what to how to resume provisos president is Sharma and Denis Sharma had a good feel for what was important and he gave Stevenson good advice which was to go to London to hear lectures by Professor Roger Penrose who was developing new ideas divider Stanley black holes and Stephen took this idea and ran with it as it were and his early work was on applying Penrose's ideas to show that inside a black hole the so-called singularity developed where everything would go infinite and that was a signal for new physics and he also at that time got some new ideas about the nature of black holes because he and others showed that any black hole that exists in the universe would be described by of a standard equation and it is a very big idea and especially important because it was a time when people started to observe evidence for black holes objects which charm an entire galaxy even though they were no bigger than a star discovered in 1963 and it was realized later that they probably involve big black holes you said that at the center of a black hole is this concept of a singularity what's that and why was that such a breakthrough for Stephen Hawking to begin to get to grips with if you imagine something that is completely spherical and collapses then no one surprise that it goes to a point but the. The important result of Penrose and Hawking's work was that even if something collapses in an irregular way then once it gets past the point of no return it will actually form a singularity where things go in for that now of course that's is just what the theory says and when we have a singularity in physics that just means we have a signal that the physics we have is incomplete and something else comes in love the 1st indication that places existed in the universe where we would have to modify Einstein's theory and perhaps bring in quantum theory as well but the most important proof that black holes did behave in Einstein's way was only just a couple of years ago when gravitational waves were found this was a phenomenon where 2 black holes were spiraling together into one they emit ripples in space as it were grabbed his waves and this was a really strong confirmation of Einstein's theory and the black holes in the bag in a way that was consistent partly due to Stephen Hawking's work what did Stephen Hawking make of the like of experiments that detected gravitational waves did you talk to him about that was his reaction I should because this was an observation which could in principle have refuted one of his key ideas and it wasn't and he was happy that that was the nearest there's a strawman got to actually testing one of his K. Ideas Martin thank you very much that's a Martin Reece the Astronomer Royal in his early twenties Professor Hawking was diagnosed with a red neurological condition called Major nearing disease or an indie he was unusually young to have developed a condition which usually affects people in the sixty's and seventy's and is often fatal within a few Yes Yet despite his diagnosis Stephen Hawking managed to survive and cope with the disease to reach the age of 76 Jimmy insurance studies major nearing disease at the baber home Institute in Cambridge I'm King's College London welcome to the program so can you tell us what actually is made in your indices letting in disease is a destructive genetic disease of the brain and spinal cord it affects pretty. Only the motor nerves which is why it causes paralysis people are unable to breathe or to move to swallow so it's quite a debilitating disease and there's no cure at the moment do you have any idea what causes it in about 10 percent of cases there are genes that we know the cause the disease at the moment trying to work out how these genes actually cause damage to nerve cells in the other 90 percent it's not very clear what causes the disease these patients tend to be completely normal with no previous family history no previous ill health so what happens to mirror nerves are affected so what actually happens to someone with this condition so those nerves supply muscles that are important for swallowing speech breathing and for movement so all of those processes can suffer as a consequence and different people will have different symptoms so if it affects the muscles of the legs difficulty walking and muscles of the hands difficulty turning handles or turning keys for example and a pair facts about what muscles as we call it can cause problems speaking and swelling patients can often have problems thinking changes in their behavior and change and in their language as well all in general one of the most striking things about M.M.T. Is that patients can feel and they can see and they still have alum bladder function and you for some reason this was the motor never seem to die do we know what's killing. Yes very important question I mean one of the things that you might think about is the size of a moat and if you think of an individual who is maybe 2 meters tall a motive maybe in a meter in length it's one of the largest cells in the body they're promoting your own has to get from the brain down to the spinal cord and then from the spinal cord out to the big toe so that's a very big cell and you've got to somehow maintain your entire lifetime and that's not an easy thing to do. So if the cables within you that you need to be intact if they break That's it yeah I mean they can regenerate so if you were to sustain an injury to your arm for example nerves can grow back in the case of motion your disease they don't grow back quite so well. And you mentioned there's no cure is there any way to treat this so there's one drug that's being used in at the moment in the U.K. Called and most of our patients take that drug there are other drugs in development around the world that are licensed in other countries they have a relatively small effect on the disease progress so at the moment working very hard to try and develop therapies that are really effective and going to slow down the disease process in a more effective way and so Professor Hawking raise a lot of awareness for this disease and raising money as well what would you say is the picture for the future is it bleak Is there hope Oh yes it's definitely hopeful we have made incredible advances over the past 10 years or so when I 1st came into the research field as a trainee neurologist I we had 2 or 3 genes that we have over 50 genes that we know can cause major new into the so we have all these different pieces of the puzzle at the moment we're putting these pieces together to try and work out exactly how these mutations cause disease and that will tell us how to treat the disease Well I wish you luck with it thank you very much that's Dr demean St ran from the baber Ham Institute of Cambridge University and King's College London now despite his diagnosis and its grim prognosis which might have seen him survive for only a few more years as far as he knew at the time Professor Hawking nonetheless continued with his research and a lot of this was exploring the intricacies as we were hearing from arteries of black holes and how they worked We're joined now by cosmologist Andrew Ponson he's at University College London his other claim to fame is he wrote some of the append the C's to the latest edition of Stephen Hawking's very famous book A Brief History of Time but 1st Andrew welcome Why would black holes have been tempting or tantalizing as a problem for the young Stephen Hawking in the 1st place thanks well as we heard from Martin Reese earlier on he was particularly interested in black holes for a variety of reasons but I think once you start getting into them they remain tantalizing because they are the most extreme objects that we can really think of. 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You know they are the objects where gravity has gone slightly crazy to actually understand what makes them tick is I think something that many cosmologists would like to do and gravity is a very mysterious force actually it really doesn't behave in the way that the other forces that we know about behave and so understanding a black hole is about drilling down understanding gravity becomes a fantastic playground almost for theoretical ideas I like that analogy now one of the things that Stephen Hawking did do was to highlight some of the potential sort of energy balance issues concern with black holes but about that well a black hole has something like a surface area you can think of it is a sphere sitting in space and so you could go in principle you could measure the surface area of that sphere and he showed that if you take 2 black holes and throw them together then in the end you'll end up with a black hole whose total area that you end up with has got to be greater than the area of the 2 black holes that you started off with some so it's a sort of thing where you add 2 things together and you know that that total area can never go downwards sort of the national debt. Is it is a bit like national debt but in fact it's also a bit like something else we know about in physics and other physicists Jacob back and Stein pointed out that this is very much like what we call entropy entropy as a sort of measure of disorder in the universe and there's a very fundamental law in what we call thermodynamics which states that entropy also must always increase that is if you're summing all the entropy in the universe and the overall entropy of the universe increases in other words the universe is getting more and more and more messy as time goes on as Jacob Bekenstein pointed out actually that this is a very close connection and went as far as actually suggest. That perhaps that means that black holes themselves what we're seeing in terms of this ever increasing area is in fact another manifestation of that idea that entropy in the universe also has to increase but equally the other I think the striking thing that now bears Stephen Hawking's name is the whole idea that black holes don't just draw stuff in they do give things off there is this Hawking radiation isn't there yet so this was Stephen Hawking's next big contribution really he took this idea of Jacob beckons times to black holes have entropy and he says well if that's true then they must be taking part in other processes in physics he suggested that if black holes possess entropy they must also be able to generate disordered particles of radiation so it was a very strange conclusion to come to so in essence then we got this material which is leaking out of a black hole for WANT to a better phrase this is slightly paradoxical because everyone thought black holes don't leak anything they're black for a reason this soaking up everything including light so what is the stuff that effectively is coming out and what sort of rate what sort of well here the famous thing about a black hole is supposed to be that it's black nothing can ever come out of a black hole including light this is an example of what we call a quantum correction that although in the sort of classical picture of physics a black hole would be completely black when you put in quantum mechanics you get a very very small correction to that picture and the kind of rate we're talking about stuff leaking back out of a black hole is incredibly slow the way I like to think about this is imagine the sun and I want you to imagine that the sun gets dimmer and dimmer and dimmer and dimmer until it's about as bright as a talk show that's her enormous factor if you had a black hole that was as massive as a sun It wouldn't be as dim as the top you'd have to keep going dimmer and dimmer and dimmer from there by the same factor again and that is the kind of level. Stuff that's leaking back out of a black hole so it's incredibly slow it will take many many times the age of the universe before a black hole actually appreciably shrinks to 2 leaking this material back out can we use that material though and information intrinsic to it to infer things about the black hole released it so it gives us an insight into what that black hole is doing and what is eating the honest answer to that question is we don't know at the moment it's something called the information paradox and it's a subject of active research and you ponce and thank you very much we're paying tribute to one of the greatest scientists of our time that Stephen Hawking Hawking scientific contributions remained of great interest to the world and this was demonstrated when the university library released his Ph D. Thesis online for free in fact it was so popular the website crashed I went to visit the Cambridge University Library to take a look at the thesis itself and find out more about the most downloaded Ph D. Of all time well I'm Dr Arthur Smith I am the deputy head of Scully communication at the University of Cambridge and this is Professor Hawking's Pearson if these properties are expanding universes it's actually I think his copy of his THE says well. Introduction The idea that the universe is expanding is of recent origin could just sit there here and read his Ph D. If we wanted Yeah I think you could probably get through the introduction but then by the time you get to a couple the other chapters you might struggle a bit O. On his some handwritten equations that I couldn't begin to comprehend know what I mean this is this is obviously predates a lot of computers so it's all types of typewriter and then a lot of the equations and then a lot of the symbols and notations are all done in his own hand if you have read it I've skimmed it. Is it possible to skim well. Maybe not I think there is there is certainly a lot of knowledge contained in this thesis and to get a full appreciation for it is probably going to take some people probably a lifetime for others including myself that's probably not long enough why do we have a copy of the thesis here I mean as part of all Ph D. Theses all students are asked to submit a copy of this he says so the university library has a copy of his thesis and we've held that copy ever since he submitted in 1906 so we did a lot of work in 2017 to get permission to do this and so we made it available in open access week which is happens every year which celebrates open access to research publications right and then so then a sort of the floodgates opened by SPEIGHT Yes yes the floodgates Well the dam burst I think is the better expression how many do we know in total who have read THIS HOUR Well I don't know how many people have read it and that is that's a lot of different question it's a more difficult question but we think about one to 2000000 people download pieces that's incredible and that's more than any other thesis Oh absolutely it's always almost more than the rest of all the items that we have in our open access repository combined we've seen downloads from I think every country on earth covering all spectrums I do feel quite privileged to be looking at it in this form with all these handwritten equations and cosmological solutions I suppose that's why people want to read it it sort of promises a glimpse into how the universe with it yeah I mean I think everyone's interested in where we've come from and where we're going in some sense and some of those answers will attempts at answers least or in this thesis and really sets the groundwork for what Professor Hawking's work was going to be for the rest of his life of any faith in it. And there is you know a picture that maybe there's a photograph in here of you know of the universe before it began with. Stress. No photos but still a very interesting read I'm sure that was Arthur Smith at Cambridge University Library now Professor Hawking undeniably made huge contributions to science but he's also done a lot for Public Understanding of Science Professor Gerry Gilmore who's a cosmologist himself and also a powerful proponent of public engagement with science is with us welcome Gerry So what would you say Hawking's contribution to the understanding of science was well the most important thing to note is that no one listening to this program doesn't already know who Stephen Hawking was he was arguably the most famous person on the planet working in such a satiric subjects that immediately breaks down the stereotype that scientists old white mean wearing white coats and normal people can't do anything like that so that was probably the most significant thing of all his book really took off so it raised the whole profile of people thinking big questions and about really really broad topics and that is enormously important because the biggest impact that we as scientists can have is not to answer the questions but to get real people in the real world asking questions themselves so they look around them and say why is it so how did that happen where did it come from and that not only stimulates young people to take up challenging careers you know we still get undergraduate educations every year saying I got stimulated by reading Stephen Hawking's book and sometimes they even have. The real thing is that if everybody starts questioning what they see there in we would not be in the silly situation where no one believes the experts who were fake news has marauding the world you can say well let me just stop and think and just encouraging that which he did spectacularly is fundamentally necessary for society and he deserves enormous respect and credit for his if it's I'm doing it and something I've noticed is that the best scientists in the world sometimes is completely unable to break down their work to something someone from another field might be able to understand so to have the skill to be able to break down such huge concepts that's quite incredible. You're right it is rather rare it's not as rare perhaps as some people think you know you keep having excellent people on this program who do a great job of it but nonetheless yet the some of the concepts are pretty intellectually challenging and particularly when you get to the really basic properties of nature general relativity quantum mechanics and so on but the fact that it is even possible to think about these things as what's really interesting kids can dream and I fondly remember the episode of The Simpsons Stephen Hawking appeared in he also appeared in Star Trek The Big Bang theory he lent his voice to a Pink Floyd track so what kind of effect do you think this would have had this this was the real key the fact that you get out of the narrow Nisha of the people we normally talk to out there there's a small subset of the community that listens to programs like this but then there's a whole huge world who only basically aware that other worlds exist and crossing those boundaries was something that his image took off the shears Paralympics ended with a tribute to Stephen Hawking Now that's a whole new world and a whole different community globally who can suddenly realize hey it's actually socially acceptable to think about things and ask questions being in a disco that sir Professor Gerry Gilmore thank you very much we're very lucky to have assembled some very fine minds here in the studio who have been helping us to reflect on the work and the life of Stephen Hawking could I ask you Martin Reese for any additional thoughts or your reflections when I 1st met Stephen Hawking 964 when he was just diagnosed with his disease and wasn't expected to live Borden 2 years and I'm astronomer used to large numbers a few hours large as the odds I'd have given then against him surviving another 50 plus years and mere survival would have been marvelous but in fact he did more than that he became the most famous scientist in the world an amazing achievement Also with us is Andrew Ponson What are your thoughts I think he really encapsulated a kind of freedom of thought and I think it. It sounds slightly strange to say this but even among theoretical physicists there's a there's a danger that people get stuck in a rut and work on one thing for their entire career something that Stephen Hawking showed very clearly is that it's possible to actually jump around and think about many different things and not be afraid of the traditional boundaries and moderate You can always judge a good scientist by how many big problems they leave behind unsolved for the next generation of Stephen Hawking of course and definitely in bottom ageing is he kept going many theoretical scientists lose momentum but he kept going and indeed his last paper written with a collaborator Thomas her dog is in press at the moment it's wonderful he's got this more than 50 years of sustained contributions despite all the odds now it's clear that Stephen Hawking has had a huge impact not just on the scientific community but across the world he supported science communication he supported the motor neuron disease cause he was a store supporter of the N.H.S. And used his popularity to raise awareness for both political and environmental problems many people took to social media this week to express their love and respect for Stephen Hawking So we're going to end the program by sharing some of them with a. Few months ago I was punched her in Stephen Hawking's chair trying to fix a loose connection that was stuck in him speaking I found it and I asked him if he had. No he replied that she would be greatly missed. When asked about his illness talking once responded It's a waste of time to be angry about my disability when asked to go on with life and I haven't done badly Stephen Hawking's achievements a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity isn't done much only drew him to academic excellence he was well known for being willful yet his legacy in so many ways is unparalleled. And where we have 10 years that I still hang right. I regularly raised. On straight and never told a. Surprisingly I went all the time I was also mistaken Vermont's. That just in time I was led through the will to entrance things that happened. Completely quiet. The front. Few minutes later. An amazing man. I met stress a parent or guardian. With their own and. I've said this many times before but I have a defendant who wanted to go to university and wasn't sure. Stephen Hawking was a shining or. Inspired me not only to do an undergrad degree going to perish the level Thank you and our I mean. My name is Tassie Mohammed and I'm currently doing my Ph D. And despite that being in genetics and not. Even Hawking has been beyond inspiration or role model to me in my scientific career he advocated city and loved science which are crucial in something as grueling and mentally challenging as a Ph D. The world has lost a truly unthinkable genius and a beautiful mind may rest in eternal peace. And there we must leave it thank you to all of our guests who have celebrated with Stephen Hawking's life and work for Life Sciences back at the same time next week if you like to get in touch the e-mail address is 5 Live Science B.B.C. Doco dot U.K. Until then for me Chris Smith I'm from Georgia Mills goodbye. 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Well we've had a declaration of from New Zealand 148 overs is minimal for England's 2 initially to save this test in all clues New Zealand a clearing up 42748360 9 runs in front with Henry Nicholls 145 not I was a 2nd century for him England taking 5 wickets on the day so far so England just begun their 2nd innings with the US The sport is James Burford Australia's cricketers have admitted to cheating jeering their Test match against South Africa batsman Cameron Bancroft was caught by television cameras tampering with the ball with what looked to be yellow tape it's also emerged that Captain Steve Smith knew about the plan in advance here is Bancroft you know I was in the vicinity of the area when the leadership you know we're discussing it and look of be honest with you I was you know I was I was nervous about it because you know with the absence of you know hundreds of cameras around that's always the risk is and them you know are super for you to die in you know on the route of what's happening at all Roger Federer will be replaced as world number one by Rafael Nadal when the rankings are announced it's after the Swiss suffered a shock 2nd round defeat in the Miami open at the hands of the world number 175. Federer has also revealed he's definitely going to skip the clay court season including the 2nd grand slam of the year the French Open Britain's car lab and has also been knocked out of that Miami tournament elsewhere British golfer in Poulter has lost the chance to gain an automatic qualification spot at next month's Masters at Augusta after an emphatic defeat in the quarter finals of the World Match Play in Texas Poulter had been told by the media that he'd gained sufficient ranking points after reaching the quarter finals in Austin only then to discover he still needed to win another match you get a text message 10 minutes before you take off so we've made a mistake you know that was wrong you you're not in you need to go on when not that and it's. Any form of a fact you know it's a little disappointing. 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The weekend breakfast this morning starts around 8 o'clock but 1st it's time for 5 Live Formula One on the start of the 2018 championship live from Australia. For a. Long. Time champion looking to claim a 5th this season next is the final quarter drives. These provisional ball position is he going to back to it as he comes the timing yes 8 tenths of a 2nd for. Vettel. But to judge your rivals from last year head to toe again I bet you'll come to it Lewis Hamilton takes photos ation for the 1st race of 2018 by 7 tenths of a 2nd as I need that this one that I need just as. This now I never use such a nice that it really felt like one of the best that's I mean it was so on the edge everywhere and just. Almost. Hello and welcome to the 2018 Formula One world championship A We all remember when the sun is shining it's beautiful blue skies and I'm stupid in front of Lewis Hamilton a 4 TIMES Well the champion he's my Sadie's just sat there waiting for him it is a new season a slightly new time as well the race starts in 35 minutes for now 10 past the hour and a slightly new commentary team for you as well they see a jack nickel these back and we're delighted to say that former F one driver Julian Palmer joins him and guys in the commentary box you can feel the nervousness the excitement anticipation this is the moment everybody adores in Formula One But it's always the start of a new season that is the most exciting moments of the new season isn't it because you just don't know what is to come and I think it's pretty much the same here although Lewis Hamilton took pole position by those 7 tenths of a 2nd ahead of can be rocketing yesterday for Ari and Red Bull Joleon they're not out of this yet not in the slightest it was close even if the talking screen at the end of the end of the session looked like it was a Hamilton walk over it was far from the so right at the end he managed to put in a fantastic lap to clinch the pole position but we had both Ferrari's and both from the right with him all the way so hopefully they can take the challenge today. Angus crusts Let's see what happens everybody just wants a good race I think and a good championship and the battle for 5 well titles is something that I think will be addressing a lot throughout the season because it's Vettel versus HAMILTON It's 2 amazing drivers going head to head for this 5th wealth title which is something that only 2 men have ever done before Fangio being one of them and Michael Schumacher the other Joleon how much prestigious is attached to those sorts of statistics Well this is in the history books of Formula One So Michael Schumacher 7 titles on rival fine Joe as well. You know this is to be on their own the 3rd most successful driver of all time so I think a lot of people are looking into this and thinking this is is a really important 5th title I think for Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel this is just another season I would of course like to win the title but is there a but whether it's number one up to 5 I think the aim is just to win the title at this stage. This in front of me live with how Alton has climbed into his silver arrow he's being strapped in at the moment he's climbed over this brand new Halo safety device which Jack it has caused a little bit of controversy coming into the season people not particularly happy with it but it's done now isn't it we should talk about the cars rather than the halo Yeah pretty much. Neither of us are huge fans of it but it's been brought in and that is where I think it will evolve over the course of the future to something a little bit less sort of hideous but I think it's here to stay we're just got to get used to it and hopefully the racing's good will forget all about this sort of style carbon fiber device that goes over the drivers it takes the money on coming a refund of. Jolene you talk about that you read for a raise they all being shown on you to play just to my right if I'm in the pit lane they have their own little ball team out how we take on the ground about him but I Well but maybe. The beach something like that is a very very physical place to be at the best of times I live with this 24 but it won't cause about to start a 2018 season that has been highly anticipated already and hopefully it'll it'll live up to that hype Yes that last year was a lot better in terms of competitiveness with Ferrari pick up their winning races winning there's nobody got me this season but we really want to title fight between a couple of teams to go down. And love the fact. That we've already spoken Pratham Gilchrist prior to the show but apparently there's been a wicked England cricket let's find out what's going on. The New Zealand declared 42748369 behind England at the start of their 2nd innings Alister already out called by the keeper of the bowling of Trent old friendly to England 61. Thank you very much and we will peak of course across and updated it with the cricket staff we see here we don't feel no see the best Formula one race of the season I've given myself the challenge of finding Peter Siddle will be great at some point because I've seen him already and I know that he is here I think discussed to manage to find him. They're open a 107 Grand Prix winners in the history of the sports the big question is Who will it be and not the new one they season and Jack what do you reckon will we get pretty winners will get new when it is Debbie Tom when. I have really thought about that I can't really see where they'd come from considering that the top 3 teams are all pretty much the same drivers of last year the only one would be if you got a crazy crazy race and sore a sore ass or or a ready to take victory a car I can't really see it happening I don't want to downplay it but I do think I'm just 6 drivers who are in contention for victories at every race. This is that this can be a crazy race we know what a strain it can be like 4 seasons in one day they say about Melbourne there's a there's not rain predicted to happen at the moment but you can never say never in this race sees a lot of cars going out sometimes the 1st race of the season maybe there's a mechanical issue something and look at Roman great on and Kevin Magnussen making up the 3rd row of the great with the Haas car maybe just maybe this could be the one. Yeah maybe. That's not that big You've done some stretches that you're tied with that's close quite a big stretch to put your body to putting your body on back the sort of fits you for the for the picturing why not why not let's go crazy let's go out there let us know you because you're crazy plan for this race online you know it could take off you could always get in touch of this by the way on social media at B.B.C. F one and you can follow along with all the proceedings only after the B.B.C. Sport website if you're totally wrong because the place to head to because you can pretty compliment your listening and an understanding of the race and maybe get involved as well as say you don't think they'll be anywhere disappointing and what do you reckon Joleon are we going to see any surprises today that we can see surprises I agree with Jack I don't see we're going to have a new winner this year but it is a day for the underdog always the 1st race of the season throws up some 11. Into the mix we've got Magnussen starting 5th grade one in 6 it was a great day for house yesterday and with bottles crashing out with Ricardo having a great job there is a chance out there for some big points for some of these less fancy teams so I think today there's a little bit of rust in a sometimes as well after months off over the winter this is going to be the 1st time they're back Bracy will to will with the lights going out and the tension building in the adrenaline as they go down to one so any rustiness we've seen it many times over the years that some 1st corner incidents and the cigars Magnusson Groeschel already to to pick up the pieces and get a good result. I have made my way to the front of the grid and found a man with that familiar red baseball cap on Mickey Lauder lovely to see him again by one of the not exactly possibly Sadie's newest Hamilton yesterday just tell me how good with his whole lap. There was extended group of the able to. Measure blues left their voice home they were bored with. Nicky do you think that will continue into the race have you got that much of a fan T.J. The Ferrari and Red Bull I don't know because they're very good we're going to see what I think Luis is good John is going to do you think he's seen as very special place in his career in his head at the moment. On going world champion broke Bruce Hiler more the river you want to go then use it maybe. It would be nice to see you wouldn't you see I mean not for your point of view but to see a good battle between the Ferrari's the Red Bulls and the Sadie's that's what F one wants a neat isn't it. I want the boy everybody you know the new is going to they're good Thanks Nicky we kind of wish you not a stray B. And make you proud if I could be very much I'm Jack I'm going to want to down the curtain see who else I can find hopefully I find someone really interesting for you Well let's hope so to get out of the 3 times world champion as it was a fairly decent. Starts so the cars now making their way around on their reconnaissance that out of the plane and around to line up on the great Sebastian Vettel just making his way around as well a little word on the strategy of today's race all of the front runners or most of the front runners are going to be having a starting on the ultra soft compound of Tire except for Red Bull who are going to be starting on the super soft compound of Tire so yeah Hamilton Reichen and Vettel were expecting them to go to around about lap 20 on the ultra softs and then make a pit stop on the softs to complete their $58.00 laps where is Max misstep and expecting him to go a little further a into something like lap 28 and so a slightly different strategy for the Red Bull team which could give them an A little bit of a chance of getting up and involved in that fight yeah it does but in the wild card in this race so they've gone for a different strategy it's technically a little bit slower in their own study on the slower toss so don't expect too much progress from the stuff in Ricardo early on but if the degradation comes up the tires are not last thing then other teams might have to make an extra pit stop and suddenly rep will come into play and then they're going to be really challenging for the wind hits so yet they've given themselves a bit of a different option compared to when else and I think no one really knows what's going to happen but it's going to be interesting to see how how they started this yes indeed he has drivers making their way around as well do you get in touch easing the hash tag B.B.C.'s one receiver gives up early for the F one race new season let's hope for a close race and plenty of battles let me agree with that unless the cliff joining us from. Good evening from Jamaica and feeling nervous about the start of the season there is always that does it just the start of a. Form race of the season when you're on the grid does that feel different when the others or by that point you're just in the zone I love it this is the this is the best moment I think the season you know even way to go all winter for it and the sun's out here we've got the atmosphere building and even these these reconnaissance laps you go out you get a 1st feel for it the cars are not at the track all day so since you finished your qualifying they've just been parked up in the in the carriage. So now you get the 1st feeling you jump out the car the job is right now I'll be speaking to their engineers and trying to make the final few tweaks and you can just feel the atmosphere building the fans are really in as an O.C. Hero that's not starting as hard as they would have liked but yeah it's the start of a new season generally And yeah I'm I'm really going to interrupt because I have Christian Holy Writ Oh we're just going for it and now I'm fighting with Mark Webber for him now he's given to us that's very kind of am I right I've managed to be something Christian lovely to see the sun shining in these the conditions that you can cross but with Red Bull today we're lucky to be a bit one of them is now to be honest with you but it's a beautiful day here in Melbourne hopefully we can get a good start we've got a different strategy to the cars around us where the target was starting on so over that can offer you know something a bit different than you were called Opus he picks up this 3 place grid penalty for going on to the Reds How hard has it been to kind of say OK let's forget about it you might not agree with it but you've got to get on with it. You know he went through the emotion on Friday evening going to how the system if he needed any extra motivation here it is homegrown free he certainly got it so. Yeah I mean he's really pumped up for this race by just saying they've got the way because next Stephens coming through and heading out on his way to the hill to the end what can he do you can you expect a podium here or a win what do you want not what you want but wanting to get a win is a long shot with a place and say they're showing by OK we can have a good race you know with a for a reason you know you know Max It always goes for you certainly Well thank you so much Christine good luck with the right so the Red Bull started in 4th place of next step and a place for Daniel Ricardo after not slowing down enough under the red flags on Friday was in it when the red flag came out and sort of the number one rule really of slowing down when the red flags come out the if I said they were a little more lenient with him than they would have been normally. Still a 3 place good job at his home race and no Australian has even finished on the podium at their home brace for Stepan sorry Ricardo was on the podium here a couple of years ago but then subsequently was later disqualified so podium Riccardo possible today he's going to have a lot of work to do I mean it's a real long shot it's such a shame for him that is coming from his home race and already on Friday he knows he's getting that great job so he's starting 8th is like we said he's on the different strategy so it's possible but he's going to need to make some progress in their laps indeed So how will their own poll Reichen in 2nd for Ferrari 3rd for Sebastian Vettel in the other for Ari them to step in for the 2 has is of Magnusson and grows on in 5th and 6th then you go Holcomb Bergen 7th or and 8 for Ricardo in the Red Bull Knight will be Carlos science in the red arrow and Fernando Alonso will complete the top 10 Debbie tones this year that you may not have come across before is Charlotte who starting in 18th place for salvage the young Monegasques race and 19th place in the great segue a sort of the 3rd Russian driver to enter for me the one and he is driving for the Williams teen and he will be starting down in 19 position with here. As in the back of the Great for Tor also said the Dr is now making their way down towards the front of the grid for the national anthem and. Is that an irritation when you have to get out of the front of the grid and just stand there and you just want to be focused I like is the time for focus really you're there and you're just staring down to turn one uninterrupted view. Yes it's a bit of respect for the country that's hosting the Australia in this case and there's just another thing that adds to the tension adds to the atmosphere and then you clear your heading and get on with the race. The cars are all on the grid now in position we are. About 20 minutes away just under 20 minutes away from the start of the Australian Grand Prix the opening race of the season and you can hear every session and every race live across the B.B.C. Over the course of the year they're all on the B.B.C. Sport website and most will be on 5 Live or 5 large sports extra as well Lewis Hamilton about to start this race all propositions but don't poll now 6 of the last 7 Australian Grand Prix he just really clicks with this track does the specially in qualifying he does lose simpleton in qualifying Madrone any track is a force to be reckoned with but this one in particular he's really got a handle on but he's not one to many of them so this is the same race last year he was in pole position Vettel into the wind and both commuter I can in a Sebastian Vettel starting 2nd or 3rd they're going to be I mean to do the same again let's go down to Jenny who have you found. Well I have managed to find just the staff and he stood next to you to see if I can grab a quick question in can I not need to see him again start of a nice decent but they feel like to be a data format one driver on the grid at this point of a season. Well I'm fine you know I don't have to race of course a little nervous because Mark's racing but it's fine you know we all have to be I think that this season they're starting so we're happy what's next like in the off season if you're happy non-driver easy a waste. To get the bit to get back in the car oh you want to go back in the car yes if you go racing and starting in full place today how how comfortable you think you'll be with that behind you know directly behind the Ferrari I mean a lot depends on the stuff and then we will see what happened you know you cannot really know what's going to happen so wait and see do you get emotional when you're watching if it was a tree stand by the fast and be in the lead would you be a back up by going to our When he wins a raise of course you know I know what we have done for it and I think also what he is doing for. Of course it's good look at like thank you very much just the Stafford Lewis Hamilton just to my right walking down towards the front steps the great as we prepare for the national anthem to take place just before that now we should be. Playing ball with the Australian girls for a while Ramadan of course not really to go down here I guess the 1st time they have agreed to a brightly dressed in a residence sort of green outfits in a green baseball cap and to my left in a red baseball cap and Red are you barrel is can be right can he see dashes and makes his way to the front of the grades to you at the surface the formalities which will get weighed in just a minute. This I thank you Australia and the national them with the A Melbourne Symphony Orchestra the Dr is preparing and turning as they try to get ready for this new season of formula want to going to see if I can grab anyone on the way back but of course they don't you work on a study and I don't I'm not sure I'm going to be able to read him all the way about 3 blocks as we speak yes no he definitely doesn't want to talk. I see the Dr is applying parts me from my right I'm not so pink jacket she's always the way that things go sometimes it's a rat Let's take a quick break from the greatest things I've done to build up and get the latest B.B.C. News with Nick capital. This is B.B.C. . Mass and have been held across the US the protests involving hundreds of thousands of people Rogan eyes following the Florida school shooting in which 17 people were killed Martin Luther King's granddaughter you Lunda run a King spoke at the rally in Washington D.C. Was 1000. 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