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Welcome back to Melbourne for the 1st race at the 2800 Formula One world championship we have been given unprecedented access C.C.A. Just 5 minutes before the race start we're still on the bridge and as well we're going to hit the 5 and 4 bright stars were about 8 minutes away and I'm just saying there was Hamilton being strapped in as we speak to his cockpit types who will be sick just watching all night I'm setting out to be a pit reporter and we call a couple minutes speech tight so why not tell you so and what do you feel if point the crits pretty much always stay safe just do the car a few mechanics and engineers will really feel ahead of the season. I have a some butterflies which is a really good that's why we love the sport I guess and looking into the race and to see that with choreography and how's Lewis feeling this morning starting pole is good this is really in a good good spirits and good. Optimistic or no it's about having a solid road you look behind you you see 2 scarlet Ferrari's that you think if you were easy. I hope you don't worry it's enough that I will be a warrior all. Behind us I hope this goes OK Thank you good luck Titan Wolf I have to say Jack and there's a very different atmosphere on the grid at this point to the from so the frenetic mist of being on the creative when we were celebrities and here in Washington is all to people like to be here now it's just a couple of people in the media and hear them can extend engineers and the people at reading have to be here and there's a sense of kind of calm and. Steady and excitement of course because race is just about to begin but it's a really different great to the one that we normally get which is in the commentary box as I alluded to you wealthy film F one driver Jody and Palmer and Jack Nichols offer when one commentator and they say it is a race that really does the appetite for the season Yes absolutely especially with Hamilton poll but the Ferrari's in the Red Bulls right in there and it is it. Is always a great race in Melbourne even if even if the action isn't necessarily the best on some occasions it's still a wonderful place to be a wonderful St sec you when we started the season in Bahrain back in 2010 it was all just a bit. You know you were in the desert it's not really many fans you need some kind of vibrant atmosphere to start the season interesting is about the great difference is that Julian is there a different feeling when you 1st get to the grid you have to walk to the front to do interviews and then post out time actually you start to kind of get in the car Yeah it's completely different from and post to the anthem finishes and now the job is getting back into the car and now the focus just switches on what you've been practicing for all winter getting the start right focusing on what you to do it down a time one of course it all changes by that song the lights go out and cars are everywhere so you've got to have some some sort of plan in your mind and the tension. Builds the great clears and this is a time of high adrenaline the heart rate will be coming up even though they're not actually decide on a car it's a tricky 1st corner here quite a fast right hand when you're coming off the start is it better to be on the inside the outside or can you not decide it's all it's so tough to say and it really depends on where you started you start on the inside generally I tended to stick more towards the inside it's just you've got another gate more cars to get to the other side. The in such additionally would be a good place to start but we've seen so many times people going around the outside and taking advantage of the water truck of course if there's a collision then they tend to have Skittles towards the outside and you put yourself in more danger so really it's a free for all and it depends year on year and this is something the drivers try and learn you try and look at historic races you try and see which you know normally does the outside give you a bit more track position but the reality is the lights go out you do what comes instinctively and. How difficult is it to start these cars now what do you physically have to do you follow procedures you have. On a paddle and so it's just behind the steering wheel and then you're trying to pick out the right revs and then the lights go out and you try to drop the clutch to the point that you've been basically stopped by your engine is a. Bit of a guessing game. So that's just a clutch to get to the bike point otherwise you just light up the rear wheels or you can. Still does that have so is very very difficult it's very sensitive since so many times people getting a magnificent launch from the 2nd row the grid and taking the lead or. People making a real hash of it and dropping a lot of places. Here on pole position in 2016 and didn't get a very good get away at all and that was sort of the story of his season and that's what allowed Nico Rosberg to take that 1st victory of the year and go on to take the championship Hamilton also didn't win here last year I that with Sebastian Vettel taking victory although Hamilton of course. Went on to take the title we are just 4 minutes away now from the 3 minutes away I should say from the start of the . Beginning of this 20. Championship season you can hear all of the season here on B.B.C. Radio 5 Live an across the B.B.C. Sport website. For the 2 has. Kevin Magnussen and. Sort of towards the back of the midfield especially last year. Last year you would have had a very good winter and they've come out. And they've got a real chance of getting some some points and even maybe. They're not a 1000000 miles away so we have just got a couple of minutes to go now before the start of the. Down. Yeah delighted to say that red kindly give me access to that carriage they thrice and it's not something that happens all the time Betsy should be a really good insight into what happens within the team I'll be able to see a lab pit stops and they are 3rd down the order when it comes to pick sort of places Sadie's them for Ari and then Red Bull say I will give you all the information I can as we go through this race which we're expecting to be a one stop I expect yes indeed most of the front of the ultra soft compound of TAR before going around about 20 The only difference is that is Max a step in for the Daniel Ricardo in the 2 Red Bull drivers they are starting on a slightly different strategy and they're going to be on the super soft compound of TAR So we'll see what they could do to spice things up for them from Fernando Alonso downwards downwards it becomes a little bit of a different story because they have free choice coming into this race and now we see the drivers kind of psyching themselves up a little bit Daniel Ricardo wiggling is head around as he gets settled into the car how important is it to be comfy is a stupid question but then he. Kind of is really because. You know you're in the car for an hour and a half you can't be having any any seat digging into you or any of this is all stuff they are winter so. They've got a real screw up over the winter that we got to look out for I think in the race especially the start Ricardo starts a he's slightly out of position and process in 50 he crashed in qualifying yesterday and he is a long way out of position obviously with his teammate Hamilton here to say he's starting so the grid is now clear just 20 Formula One cars and their drivers sitting on the tarmac in Albert Park under the bright blue sunshine 24 degrees the air temperature at the moment as we get ready to get going the 1st race of 2018 about to get under way because as the cars pull away all the information is out there on B.B.C. Radio 5 Live. It's time for the Australian Grand Prix. So so we've been doing it up and said to Paris in 12 strong to the best of the Williams 40 S. And in the Force India has crashed out of qualifying and had to change is give up some so as a result the Mercedes driver starts down in 50 on the grid and a Brendan Hartley in the taller all said the 1st of the South has a bucket areas in his team a shot behind him 18 in the back row of the grid say good but Williams guys late in the Toro Rosso the cars that are now at the fair this point away from the company boxes in the start finish line they're out on the other side of the night swinging their way through the bus left and right in 11 and 12 we've got former F one driver Jody Impala alongside me and commentary this season and about now getting into warming up the ties will make up the brakes that sort of thing exactly working like mad just to get as much thought to because you can even though they've been in the blankets that's always really made a lot of what you know as soon as you you the lights go out you're off that's where you need Picric straight away as close as you can because so many places can be won or lost a stone so a $58.00 I'm going to take about an hour and a half and then we'll be off to assure our love. Weekend breakfast after that on 5 live with Sam woke up but for the next couple of hours we will be. Focusing on the 1st full below one race of the 2018 season and the cars making their way now around the final corner and picking out their grid slots and all lining up to buy 2 before the run down towards the 1st corner the pit wall looking nervous and it's the $44.00 silver Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton that will line up on the pole position now the nerves really begin to rise ahead of the start of this season and this 1st run down to the 1st quarter as ever is crucial. degree rather a 13 Hamilton Cup was the inside track you know took to the side come could get past but I wasn't having to do it really hard but step one is lost out of his foot position it is now Kevin Magnussen who's gone past him by stepping down to 5th 6th place is the other half of arriving here a child in his seventy's Nico the back row cutter sites done a lot so 10. Hamilton just holding the lead of the race there yeah he did everything he had to do there the Ferrari's were so quick better what a great launch but got a bit sandwiched out on the outside into Turn one and then Hamilton defended well into Turn 3 So Ricardo is actually fending off color signs he's still in 8th place and Kevin Magnussen was again there passed much stuff and yet so no real movement only Magnus and getting past that was the only thing that has changed in the opening half but I should say because now they're making their way on the long straight down towards the right hander 13 of an unknown So he's now attacking Carlos signs trying to go around the outside the 2 Spaniards side by side it is 13 Alonso tries the outside line I thought he was going to put it off for a moment but signs just about how dark Yes super committed there on the outside they were 5050 coming into the corner longer carry so much speed but he just run a little bit why don't we astroturf science get misfits in and he kept the place end of that one of 58 Lewis Hamilton it leads the way across the line 1.2 seconds clear to me right going to their places Sebastien that pull another 7 tenths of a 2nd further back Kevin Magnussen is then in 4th place but has fifty's makes a step and in the Red Bull Run one grows one in 6 hokum bag Ricardo signs on alone so there's not 10 by name is banned on Perez all constructed box at the top 15 said but this is made up no place is so far Eriksson gasoline that clears a rock in the top 19 Brendan Hartley has been into the pits and change tires whether he also picked up damage on that 1st that will have to wait and see comes out of the pit lane now he's back to Stephens radio for a straight talk this. That's quite a punchy message from Xmas that his age is a good time to be behind the SAS No he's a massive loser in this 1st up he's lost just one place to Kevin Magnussen but his whole strategy depended on him having. And putting pressure on he's a different cup under talk compared to everyone else in the top 10 so he can't afford to get held up and that's what engineer is telling him now come on we've got to get past him because we want to get on the podium we. Losing time no misstep and dried 73 a wing of Kevin Magnussen dances to the inside coming to 13 but just to show it's no use to the Danish driver more than anything else it will be another couple of laps before the D.R.S. Is open the drag reduction system which I was them to open their rear wing and get a straight line speed if they're within a 2nd of the car in front as they come down to completely 2 has happened an extended his lead is remaining around about 1.2 seconds so right it is staying there all there abouts as we saw in that 3 of 58 his stuff is that he's very racy behind Magnus and he's really hated it is a voice of the engineer the D.R.S. Hasn't been open yet but as soon as it does on the next lap you can imagine he's going to be putting all sorts of pressure on Michael so behind them it's service to happen if it does I say we're mangrove join in sick but I don't say still yet to get past Carlos sites in their back over night position and in fact the McLaren driver has dropped off just a little from the back of sights as they come down now into the flick right at 16 accent racing out through 7 and a simple step and really really wide that amount of custom a little bit of time yeah I did a huge moment as well on the Astroturf is pushing so hard in the air when you're following it all so closely is the stuff that is at the moment is within half a 2nd about missing but you lose so much downforce the cars moving around you have to work so hard at the wheel and he's really hanging on to it but he's desperate to post Magnus Magnusson space as he isn't horrifying in these opening couple that he's 1.8 seconds off the back of the Ferrari's but I thought it would be further and for stuff it just I see huge tank stop at 3 turns up it's the fastest corner on the track the right hand the 7 and he scooped it up the ash didn't lose too much time but now you're right that this is pace is good but it is still just dropping off a little bit and for Stepan it's really really quick yet we're just getting another look at that moment from back to step on where the back end of the car was sliding sideways and he managed to correct it and continue on his way on across the line to start up for a 581.2 2nd still clear right in. And now misstep is very close to the back and magnificent is going to have a really good shot down the turn 3 guys got that they arrest now on this stuff has just become available yet on the rundown a super close in the 6 train presses the button video rests and here it comes that's $33.00. Percent just about holding on to the moment how hard are you going to defend this position if you can imagine this in it because. To Stephanie's past that over the course of the Grand Prix surely he will get past these not be able to hold it all for an hour and 20 minutes you know what I'll give it a go and I know Kevin Magnussen is one of the hardest races out ever stop and is rattling around all over the place behind him he's just got why I don't know sausage covered it for practice and this is full face we're talking about it's not you know if we're talking about $8910.00 maybe think about it and think the longer one more projects up front it's for a podium position so he's had a great start already qualified 55 percent but now he's full This is all the movements of a great race for him your I couldn't in 2nd place is just the fastest 1st sector fastest 1st 3rd of that of anyone injuring the race so far so that's progress for Reichen and only fractionally quicker than Lewis Hamilton though with Sebastian Vettel running in 3rd Magnussen in 4th still use any 3 tenths ahead of a Stafford as they came across the line last time grows on Holcomb back Ricardo science and a lot so completing the top 10 and then we have got Van Dorn Perez gone stroller boss asked the top 15 we're just getting a look at the start once more and it was better actually we got the best out of anyone he did in had no where to go he was on the outside his teammate was actually ahead of the right going to come into the corner but nowhere to go when he got there a step and also to great stuff in 4th place looked up the inside but again nowhere to go and Magnus and swept around the outside so they were all throwing themselves into someone I think was a massive lock up from Brendan Hartley I think that's why he has come into the pits because of that big lock up on the run down towards the 1st corner there actually we're just getting a replay it might have been Pierre Gaz Lee who. The big lock up no it was Hartley so that may have been the reason he decided to pick that right away the reason that was a monstrous lock up he had done the inside and cold saws cope brakes and when he got away with it no contact everyone very quick clean through the 1st few corners but it just vibrates like mad when you flat spot so that his strategy is it's really got out the window how did Kevin Magnussen get past the staff and then he just went to the outside that was so busy trying to get past so nasty a vessel that say he got caught out by Kevin Magnussen Now the other Red Bull of Daniel recut that was right on the back of the goal come back in the red arrow in their battle over 7th position he dived bombs coming down into 13 and down your account to send it through out the back tried to fight back coming into 14 to cause side by side in the to raise it around the outside and now hold that position up into 7th place that was the vintage Ricardo That was classic Ricardo they so deep on the brakes that she calmly slave to the hope of a sense it actually was so-so on the exit hope but came back up the inside it was recorded radio. Show by a nice job simple as that Jenny you're down in the Red Bull garridge was the reaction like that. Yes you can imagine it was a little riot if everybody very happy today will sit in the middle of the carriage looking at T.V. Screens almost like they were the school assembly. Sergeant thank. You both 7 to take their votes separate. Suspects from staff and asking whether there are any suggestions for what to do with the factory for him trying to get past Kevin Magnussen in full but yeah happy happy at Red Bull I imagine but maybe not with next step and circus or rock it is out of the race the Williams driver has pulled off a turn 13 it doesn't look as though there's any damage on the car looks as though he's driven straight down the escape road but will have to wait and see let's hear . Straight. OK so the brake brakes went on there is sort of smoke pouring from the rear of the car so perhaps a brake problem for the Williams seen there yes surprising to happen so early but seems like he didn't have a lot of breaks and he's gone straight on me he stopped the car on his own accord but you know warning time for a driver there when you've got some you know break there is Hamilton. Doing understate. How And then across the line there leading the Grand Prix and 6 of 581.9 seconds clear of Jimmy Reichen in 2nd position there it is Sebastian Vettel So Hamilton pulling away a little from the Ferrari's vine him Kevin Magnussen still holding on to for access to happen in 5th Still unable really to do anything about the house in front of him so as it settles down Atlanta is go to Kevin housing get an update on the cricket then a break on a suitable number 2 for a day night test a tricky 12 overs for England's 2nd innings 384-1331 behind the not appear stone and route already out I was to cook for only 2. Great thank you that came in and there will keep you updated with that of course the across the weekend. Marcus Erikson saying he lost that power steering that the hydraulic problem hurts and then he. Got on the on the stands already and are going to be 2nd retirement and costs are up and so we going again after the break yet so Sarah can Eriksson both out of the race for Williams and south respectively Lewis Hamilton still lead the way Reichen in 2nd Vettel 3rd Magnussen 4th a step and in 5th Groeschel Ricardo Holcomb backsides and also completing the top 10 now that report has started 15 and is now only up into 14th position he's got past Lance strolls. Next step and that his ties are getting really hot and those are the ties that the. That the team would sort of banked on with their doing something a little bit different and he's had another big slide coming out of turn 12 bigger than Bill. For I think the problem he's got is he's in the dirt Yeah he's not got the downforce he's out of the grip of the cars around him certainly the ones in front and the more he pushes the more he saw as every time we as we're seeing the shots of the stuff and he's brought sort of a running driver so it's not surprising the tires are getting hot and the hotter they get. The more they go sideways the hotter they get again and it's a real vicious circle so. He's back this is really stabilized in 4th place there Stephens take the on the holder of the 2 compounds but he's not able to make them last because. That was the sound of about 3 POTUS and he's up to 41 on the back of that open now but he's also not made a lot of progress in the Miss A No he is down in 14 place almost thinking about getting past just about on the day our ace is unable to get I think it was disabled because of Sirach in his Williams being stranded at the end of a D.R.S. Zone so that may be why the Stephens challenge sort of way down a little but that report says his challenge is waning a lot down in 40 places struggling to get past them and say he's of the city's power to force India Esteban on if they come up to 11 and 12 he might have a shot here though if he can stay close enough to that Force India through the quick right of 11 and 12 will now open the door and this is going to be the best chance he's had in a while battery box coming down into the right hander of 13 but he's a little too far away again the 1st he's got the Force India is quick in the straight line they've got the same engine is the safety and they've always been a slippery car and yet no drag and he's passed long stroll somewhere early on the race has been awful and then there is going to. Treatment So if you overtake the one place you feel banks especially. I want their ideas to engineer against banks to step in and this is all about using the the energy from the battery to try and it's like a boost basically to have extra speed on the straight and get. The best chance of passing but this is the chance of us as at the inside of Esteban oak on coming down to turn 3 and the Mercedes driver is up into 13th position up on a little bit wide in turmoil and compromises run down towards $103.00 am but as he was able to get the job done now move up into 13 position then he was Lewis Hamilton on that last lap set the fastest lap of the race so far to move 2.6 seconds clear of Kinnear I can about both of us now making a little progress he is the problem is he's now already a pistol behind Lewis Hamilton in just 9 laps so that shows the fields pretty sturdy he's found 2 places but the more he gets stuck behind these cars the more he just losing ground to other forces don't refund to Hamilton or for hours in this race but you know he still have aims of at least catching sort of grows on Ricardo Where is 7. Absolutely the best and of course the young Miss Avies driver part of the SES developmental program who if he has a good season on phone could be in with a shot of getting promoted. To actually see the next year as he was still a long way away from that says Kevin Magnussen comes down the start finish straight running in 4th place fast still under big pressure from access to the British to step in space itself one full $360.00 gets going again but he has lost 123 positions now by Nico combat and now Daniel recovered and is attacking right man grows on in their battle over what is now 5th position that has dried up in front of the Red Bull but I would want to little cut back there I thought I was going to be very Ricardo couldn't quite make it through the 1st step is chucked it away he has and he's under more pressure there is a run I've gone through and he's been fighting this rear end for so long with the retards getting hot and he's just go why does not sit on the entry to turn one is a really strange place to to lose the car but just a full $360.00 to be honest considering the spin he had he didn't lose so much ground but he has lost about 3 or 4 positions and that's going to do his toys no good and his whole race you know it was stuck behind Magnus and now he's got another 3 or 4 calls to try and pass well that is just a. The further back packs of staff and so he is now down into a position Jenny what was the reaction like down it down to Red Bull then why don't I ask you in a moment because then your condo is a bit too far away to attack Kevin Madden Frank Ocean at the moment although you never know with down Ricardo what was the reaction like in the Red Bull guy. By the way 3 knew he would be back to break he's having a hard time going to his right hand he was wrong to get back with them forwards backwards and forwards and all of a sudden he still restaffing tyo like just lays it out and then I thought that head was going to break but he sat next to Christine Horne of the team principal 19 men so he put full Red Bull before but I think to fan out a great tip really hard. That $1158.00 and I was in leading the way Reichen and 2nd Vettel 3rd Magnussen in 4th past 5th is the other half of Rome and grows on his doorstep and radio such a special hotel which took off so the Brits. Said That's that's very much. We've just got to play the game we're in now on a different strategy down in a place Yeah exactly and as an engineer would have watched Max just be so sideways for so long getting frustrated and now he's down to. Go through as well and you know it with every loser there's a winner and Haster up in 4th and 5th Magnus and now is has got a bit of breathing space and he's got his teammate Groeschel in fits so what a performance so far you have really impressive stuff from the American team who made their debut in Formula 12 years ago now in 2016 and got a point to finish here in Melbourne in their 1st ever race and at a pretty decent 1st season yes last year was a little bit more difficult but now being up in 4th and 5th is very impressive across the line comes Lewis Hamilton to lead the Grand Prix still his right in his radio. I don't doubt the cost I took it I was. Trying to close the gap to Hamilton is the message there to get me right in. He responds by setting the fastest lap of the race so far and a full 4 tenths quicker than Hamilton there as well so Vettel still right behind me where he's within 2 seconds so the whole top 3 within 5 seconds 4.3 separating them is far from 0 but we're a little bit stagnant at the moment Ferrari getting towards a pit stop phase in the next 5 to 10 laps and Ferrari know that to make this work they're going to have to be close to Hamilton to take advantage of any strategy options a little bit of clear track or a step up from the stage in the pit stop so it's just gone 630 in the U.K. Here on B.B.C. Radio 5 Live the opening groan Pretty of the season and it's Lewis Hamilton are leading the way 2 and a half seconds clear of Kim Iraq and in 2nd position there is Sebastiaan Bethel in the other Ferrari instance who has drivers of Magnusson and grow Johnny for the VIP positions Daniel Ricardo 6 having had to start the race in a position 7 this is a step in after spinning out of. A couple of laps ago science is nice but I'm go along so is completing the top 10 this is Jack Nichols with Joey a barber alongside me down in the pit lane in fact to be precise in the Red Bull garage is Jenny gal and now Joey and that kind of Max is got some clear Eric just focus on his own job and the great thing for him is his teammate behind of the Hass this is a strategy. Really that could play out nicely for them because they can use Groeschel to try and protect Magnus his position a little bit Ricardo cannot undo the cuts and try to take advantage of it by this because he's got roach on their back him up a little bit so anyway we've had to stop in Troy for a long time to try and pass Magnussen getting all sideways and eventually losing it we've now got the Red Bull in the other house and that's Ricardo he's been within a 2nd explosion for a long time. Along with radio. Show for stuff spot is now a cover for society. Right which is hard on the students. Interesting conversation never seen along so and that is race engineer just asking for a little bit more energy and he's probably got a point I think it would when you're joy that you're in there for an hour and a half and we hear Ricardo is an engineer and the staff is engineer they say come on man you can do this we need to get this place and they're really really punchy with their radio messages and it gives you that little bit more motivation and hunger is a driver not you know pushing the whole time but it's nice to know you have the backing of the engineers and everyone in the garridge and when someone's a little bit quiet and you read then sort of sets a little bit of a tone I think for your race Mark Temple the race engineer for long term but it has to go the other way surely if you have a crazy driver on the radio you need to calm engineer in the characters as they have to sort of device but I don't so crazy driver it's true it depends a little bit to be honest on the driver and what he wants it's not like every drug works the same thing and each troika works with their engineer in a certain way and they will speak even before the race or before the season about what sort of thing they want but clearly a longer in one instance is once you get more far and it will puncture his engine. So that 14 of $58.00 we don't like you in a spin class or something to you with which you're allowed in the factory and you do not know you want to be left alone for the bulk of it but when your engine is telling you something you want to have a here a little bit of passion and a little bit of they need to be encouraging you and and giving you a bit more I think sometimes Sandy to Vacherie but that's coming through the right hander of turn 3 the Mercedes driver still behind said Joe Perry is his force in the air in their battle over 12 positions it spares in the pit course India that's holding that spot at the moment Hamilton leading the way were on that 14 of 58 so we'll wait and see when we are getting ready for the Pit Stop window how will. Responded to right can inspire says that for the race by him setting the fastest lap of the race and writing it now is trying to respond 2.6 seconds and you could take seconds I should say the gap between them and the moment they come up towards the quick left and right at 11 and 12 Magnussen 14 seconds away from the Ferrari's in front from Hamilton their more than 3 tenths clear of Reichen And so it's a game of cat and mouse at the moment again all 3 Hamilton to me Reichen at his best are better than the Ferrari's they're just over 5 seconds down the gap but they're looking after the tires coming out of the pit stop window now they're trying to extract a little bit more and it is this is starting to get towards the front window. That 15 or $58.00 in the Australian Grand Prix the opening Formula one race of the season here on B.B.C. Radio 5 Live $21.00 view over the course of the year and slowing and looking like they're out of the race there is a ghastly in the tower also going very very slowly and there's whispers of smoke coming from the rear of the car so perhaps a Honda problem for the team that have switched to Honduran engines for this year and let's hear what he's got to say. Thank you very much everything we did took off so we took off right the box. So tried to box come into a pit box is the message to a gas leak Fidelis like an engine problem there all is white smoke coming out the back which normally signal something's not right with the engine and homes aren't as well isn't it. Just. He's got no power so I will wait for confirmation. Promised with Honda and well the 1st of the Toro so here goes these races ending up 59 and bred in hard news was pretty much over because he had to come into the pits and make a stop at the end of the very 1st lap and was going to replay of guys then I was a big to go bang he got while he was wide coming out of turn 12 that wasn't relevant in the. But the engine went and it just suddenly let out a big plume of smoke and he managed to get about to the pits but is deafening looking like an engine failure a Taurus a Honda here. Someone's calculated Garcia one on Twitter that is his records radio show such as your critical moment. Critical moment then pull Kimmie right couldn't stop the push as much as you can he responded by setting the fastest 1st sector of any one but says someone has calculated that is 5 percent of that Honda or engines anticipated lifespan because they've got 3 for the whole season and we are 5 percent into a 3rd of the season someone's had that stuff stored up front and they have $100.00 lifespan starts and that way it's a shame because they've been looking actually good over the winter but 15 laps into the race and suddenly seeing smoke out of the back of a Honda is not unusual so it has to be said but it's a shame because they didn't know they're making progress So Lewis Hamilton leading the way that 16 a 58 in the. Australian Grand Prix probably about an hour or so this race still to go and Daniel Ricardo now is starting very racy the Australian in 6 position he can see Kevin Rudd and grow John sorry in the past right in front of him and then Kevin Magnussen in front of him so a full face is very much on the cards here for Ricardo getting a little adrift of the Ferrari's. Over it's over sure that bit of the corners. So much was happening debating there's so much oversteer in the middle of the corners Meanwhile Daniel Ricardo is right behind Grossman he's going to have a good chance now if he can get a good run through turn one down into the right hander of turn 3 the Australia might be able to have an opportunity maybe a little bit too far back I think this time the new Ricardo doesn't mind being a little bit too far back a lot of the time but the House has been quick and he's not going to be able to do it down this time it's a very little lock up from the front right he's clearly pushing this is if he wants to try and get by. Passes A Nice to be trying to get growth before the pit stop when. Shooting your slips just because I stopped just 27. Years Hamilton being encouraged to get into the one minute 27th his last that time was a woman at 28 point one and I was a response by setting the fastest middle sector of anyone so far so looking like it could be the fastest lap of the race so fascinating battle between Hamilton and Reichen and up at the front separated by 3 seconds at the moment and in the 4th 5th and 6th battle between Magnus and grow General Ricardo is bring nicely as well. To me or I can diminish that in the 20 seven's or not last lap so how will this responded with a one minute 27.7 so comfortably inside that and it looks like he's just able to respond every time the Ferrari of communal I couldn't present some sort of challenge drop the pace a little bit we got a massive lock up that's Magnussen just kept it on the track that was the 2nd last going to turn 50 a huge lock up the left front maybe got a little bit hot but he's managed to actually not lose too much time for that yeah across the line they come and it is still back to certain point no point 9 seconds in front of Roman corrosion Now then and Ricardo running in 6th place said own little it's too far away but these 3 cars all crawling up towards one another the 2 grey and silver cash machines in for the 5th with that. Blue and Red Red Bull closing in behind of Dan Your a car though it is home grown break but how much on that last lap pulled out 2 tenths again over I couldn't so 3.3 seconds now the gap between Hamilton and right in 1st and 2nd Easy is looking fairly comfortable Hamilton I think at the moment is I think is all within his control at the moment I'm in the guts not huge He's clearly not got a lot of pace in the pocket but he's just able to manage it every time or I couldn't manage it but in a good luck I want and can respond and this battle for 56 this is close now Magnus is clearly feeling a bit of heat that big lock up on. loss that groeschel momentarily got with india arrest is could be rockin to be box it's for ari getting ready jenny yes that they are be soft gallo banded per any time and said come out and down the pit playing tran bush i stepped speed limits the ferrari if here i think it here kelly any is on the ultra soft the range from 3 arabic squeal is they sed some time is guy want in a nice easy clean pick start from the ferrari t so out of the pits comes to me right could into a nice but if clear et and he is resuming in 3rd position now a last time i remember rock'n him being in front of bestial in a groan praying the for a reason mysteriously changed position chairing the pit stops his hamill's is radio show folks books box pox and now mercedes responding to for ariz pitstop because you'll 1st lap outs on a new set of ties you going to be quicker than the guy who hasn't made a pit stop yet it's up at the front so that is why you sort of leave it to or you try and undercut the driver in front and that's why a say he's a going to be responding in hamilton responds with the fast his 1st sector of the race so far but yeah weather will see ferrari switching their positions whether betel come out of bert of reichen of will have to wait and see is they is hamilton continues to push and now the most eighty's guys are making their way out into the pit lane and howells and will be coming in now or hits on the brakes and and into the pit lane he's got a long way to go there before he guess the you jenny yes they're rice it the other ngs and the pick straight they have them when the rent full carriage pulled in past the ferrari mechanic been up all day to tired to to lie right i think that was is slime stop jack about 3 seconds so not too bad it's all famines in the fast as you see is about to it he comes out comfortably in front then off kidney reich couldn't But interestingly that it's interesting that in fact his Magnussen are a bit of pressure here from Groeschel No he's a little bit further back their interest thing that they haven't decided to put Sebastian Vettel you know well this is what they can do there in the luxury for our of being 2nd and 3rd clearly that they have not quite got the pace of Hamilton but right there they were just waiting until they could clear Kevin Magnussen So Kevin Rudd has managed to make his pit stop come out still in 3rd and ahead of Magnusson and that group of 4 but what they were able to do now is to let Vettel go along and split the strategies which gives him a sort of 2 pronged attack so later on the race Sebastian Vettel be a much better tires and maybe he'll have a chance to attack for the win later that 20 a 58 then Vettel leads but has yet to stop Hamilton 2nd then has stopped right in 3rd and has made a pit stop as well and in 4th and 5th it's magnificent and grows on the 2 has drivers who have yet to stop Ricardo in sich a Red Bull in fact zennie House in Iraq and in in the whole field have made it stop Ricardo in 67 a staff and a 9 for science 10th for a long so and the frustration for Ricardo is that the O.P.'s thing to do would be to pit and try and undercut the Hass drivers in front of him which they could probably do reasonably straightforwardly but the way that they chose to run their ties in qualifying means that their whole strategy hinges on staying out longer in this 1st half of the race because they're on a slightly harder tire compound it does for their strategies out the window because there's 2 houses in front so that was the strategy to win the race now they need a strategy to at least finish 4th because the top 3 there are a pit stop ahead and they are there up the road from the Red Bull so the stuff that was the name man he's had that spin turn one he's still down in 8 and not really challenging Holcomb Burge either ahead so it's really up to Ricardo to take the fight to to the TO has cars but. The point is if he makes a pit stop now he's just going to drop into the traffic and he's going to drop it's actually bought us 3 parts us he's still down to 13 but he's going to drop in behind that group and he's not real to make any real. Yes and I suppose some more of the take. Both of us as you say running in the 13th still unable to get past said Perez about 23 seconds is the is the time that you lose when you make a pit stop so you're right if Ricardo Pitts now it come out right in the middle of all of that Sebastian Vettel still lapping there on his Oprah soft tires on his last lap you get a woman a $28.00 compared to Reichen in this woman and 28.8 on his last lap survival's pace is still quite good yet and he's almost talk about the is 2 steps softer than both Hamilton and right on their own the softies on the ultrasound is on a very huge set of ultra soft now but that's his personal best one for the race 120.2 So battle now he's going to get his head down maybe he's been saving his toys whilst you couldn't make much progress on his to me earlier he's got to get his head down to see what he can do. Something out of you start struggle because that shelter for good opportunity want to thank you. But. Well that's Daniel Ricardo on the radio saying if he gets an opportunity he wants to take it Red Bull are getting ready in the pits now and that will be for Max to step in as he makes his way into the pits let's just keep an eye out on down your car though because he's right behind the rear wing of Rome and grows on as they come down towards turn 3 I don't think he's quite going to be able to because he'd have to make the move so Jenny had that pit stop go for a step and. It was a lovely pit stop they're actually just doing around a $55.00 as they are going back inside $22.00 men come out they can't miss the car up which time so that was the superstar tire on the ultra switched on see the yellow star Tire and then they released him back out Vacherie Voss as with a bit of a. Half hearted is the appropriate word to use attempt on trying to get past a pair is down into Turn 3 there is that we as though he had it but there is it go down oh yeah it was barely known can. SCHIEFFER But I say look he will is getting frustrated clearly he's been behind Paris for more than 10 well 10 to 15 life he's been stuck behind the pink Force India but yeah it was a half hearted look they sort of went through side by side Peres sort of gave him the insight into the well if you know coming through the not just carry on ahead thanks buddy. In the big leverage they could have 11 and 12 they come in the battle for 11 and 12 positions. Down towards 13 and bought us still going not quite close enough again and big block up in a big mistake from Carlos science the driver is just thrown away a position coming down into Turn 9 bounce through the gravel trap and that is that out also through and the McLaren driver now into a position and Van Dorn's going to be right on collar such as tail as well so he's been dropping away actually stunts and he's now come in the pits just outside from lock up but US was. Such a pair as he's still attempting Meanwhile Kevin Magnussen has just made a pit stop we have to little bit slow coming out of the pit lane to me obviously he is going to be slower than the cars doing 185 miles an hour but it's just that belittle bit like humans got bogged down as he made his way out of the pit lane we'll have a look back at that see whether he has lost any time but he's now pitted and there's a car going very very slowly on that it is magnificent So he was going slowly out of the pits and it looks as though well a really good finishing result for Kevin Magnussen in the past is slipping away that Danish driver going very slowly indeed that has mechanics all shaking their head in the garage as they watch the Dane cruising around out there on the track unbelievably tough luck the Magnusson is again is a bit of smoke coming out of the back of it so similar to P I guess is a bit of white smoke coming out the back it looks like an engine problem. A suspension failure suspension failure that's a strange one The car looks to be pointing the right way but what if he was driving such a great race therefore position and looking reasonably comfortable off the ceiling with the stuff in early on maybe maybe did say engine failure it was all it was quite smoky is he was in the in the pits maybe it was the Danish accent it was I think it has all the hallmarks of an engine failure to me they call it like it was pointing the right way and 4 Corners certainly point the right way and yeah but a spoke up about is normally like I said the hallmarks of an engine failure but he's getting out the car and he will be so gutted because when you're doing the job in the car like that it's going to be as it was on for 2nd best ever result in Formula One he was on the podium here on his day in 2014 but apart from that this was a great drive from him so when when the car lets you down like that is is extremely gutsy So it's a massive vessel leads the way on that 24 of 58 but he has yet to make a pit stop Lewis Hamilton is in 2nd position and is and he's absolutely flying actually compared to keep your I can in when they came out of the pits the gap was about 3 seconds it's almost doubled to 5.7 seconds now so how awesome looking strong rocket in 3rd Groeschel now is provides a default position with Daniel Ricardo right behind him in the Red Bull. Red Bull work contemplating a pit stop we believe a couple of moments ago when they all went back into the pits Jenny. Thank you yes they did they came out they were just a mass did that pit stop but I wonder if they did when to what was happening ahead of them ideally starting on that stupid stuff this time around the ultra stuff they want to stand as long as they possibly can and this team is not this in have that problem I think that's when they came back in and decided Oh actually there might be something more in that day out and see what we can do. It doesn't change the race for Ricardo because he had the problem having 2 houses now he's just got the one and he can fight Groeschel in a straight fight that you know they're within a 2nd and this is the best so you know for the teams. A little bit of free air around the fish that we know which is where they are and growth was now in the pits . Immigration has now pitted and made his way back on to the 2nd set Ricardo now has clear air in that 4 position spots and Stepan's got past grows on as well service staff and emerges in front of Roman Groeschel that's good news for the Red Bull team is crucial because only as well here is proving crucial pulling over in the other half so both passes as soon as they leave the pit lane of ground to waltz and have their race over the Steiner the team principal has his head in his hands on the pit wall. Always an identical scenario to it's a given Magnussen unbelievable the team has been so competitive but now you have to wonder what is going on with these houses in the pits is the engine overheating as they come in stationary they will look at they were running fine there was no sign of anything grows on hold his head in his hands he cannot believe it he's distraught and in the space of 3 laps both passes have just come to a stop immediately after their pit stop it very very strange Well Roman grows up with with a half hour to wave to the crowd over the other side of the sulks his way around the barriers the man from Geneva. Is going to start to really is in turmoil on the on the pit wall the yellow flag out in that 1st sector that he's down your a condo is by himself in full position it also means that having yet to stop is Fernando Alonso in 5th and Stoffel Van Doren 6 and they may well pick now because the virtual safety car has been deployed so if McLaren A quick on this stuff will handle pace and he does pit so Van Doren coming into the pits and Miss Avies getting ready as well because battery but us is pitting 2 so the virtual safety car means basically the cars all have to run it effectively a pit lane speed limits are not quite like that but a certain speed that they're allowed to run at and so all the cars are going slowly on the track you lose less time in the pit lane I watch officer busted better because he had been fitted yet he still gets. Yes and he can now come in and make a pit stop and it will cost him the same amount of time as it cost Hamilton and Roy couldn't so and eventually is only 11 seconds up the road from Lewis Hamilton so this is this is a chance if a Ferrari Yeah I think is too far but to be passing Hamilton I think I think he should be able to jump right in with his broad could and will be absolutely fuming if he does but then if he manages to even come out in 2nd week of record radio. The screw ups are. Not. So down your economy told this is good so that's the battle really pushing on his way into the pit lane where is the Ferrari driver going to emerge who looks up all 4 tires as he steps on the brakes down towards turn one Lewis Hamilton still coming through the final few corners I don't think he's got a bit of a chance here battle if there have a really quick clean pit stop the Ferrari guys lower the Jags Vettel heads towards pit lane exit Lewis Hamilton is coming down the stop pretty straight now and Vettel is going to have birch in the lead of the Australian Grand Prix as they come down to watch to watch and yes Vettel it is too easy in front of Lewis Hamilton behind a virtual safety car Ferrari of looked into the lead vehicle 1st Hamilton 2nd didn't see that one coming and there you see the benefit of a 2 cars in a fight instead of one Hamilton had earlier to cover up Reichen and then it was a stroke of luck you know the Hass the Ferrari engine maybe in the back of the House to stop us so they did it intentionally while I was. There has worked out wonderfully fears about Tibet and it was so close as well down to the safety car line that's where they could race and you know who was ahead at that point keeps the position under safe to go better won it by a matter of inches so that lock on the way in the perfect pit stop by the team and the slightly slow pace of how Milton has really Sebastian Vettel right in charge now so Vettel now leads the race on a brand new set of soft tires Hamilton's soft tires are about 8 or so old and we're just getting into the replay every man grows on the pitch. Stop then. I mean it is it was a fairly quick pit stop it sort of though he was waiting there for ages but that all the team knew as soon as he was heading out that something was wrong well they will have known the problem the Magnusson had in the 1st place so they'll know what they're looking out for and there's a front left tire man that is waving his hands frantically as the car goes so they know something's up in the cars been released and immediately the house mechanics are a wincing bear absolutely irate because they know the 2nd of their cars from a great position is out the race Wow So where are the 27 and 58 in this Grand Prix which seemed to be in the hands of Lewis Hamilton has taken a very dramatic turn and I think we're going to get some and I know a lot so winching here because he seemed to emerge in front of the Red Bull of Daniel Ricardo but then Ricardo went around the outside of him and was that under virtual safety car that something for the stewards to look into but Vettel leaves the Grand Prix Hamilton is in 2nd place 3rd is killing right in and 4th is Daniel Ricardo 5th there's an extra step in the Red Bull. Then along so is in 6th position so actually I think it was their 1st step in that along so I was doing battle with an it looks as though they've now swapped back places Welcome back 7 the band on a pot up tonight science in 10 minutes Perez construct Clare Hartley the 15 runners . Thatcher said the US thought something. Through which a tribute Lewis thanks so much thank you thank you thank you. Thank stick it to the doctor. So now the actual safety car has been deployed so they're struggling to get rid of that pass on the exit it looks as though it's still engage because the marshals are trying to push it but weren't getting anywhere so now it's a full on safety car which is going to close up the pack which is going. Bring the Red Bulls right behind me or I can in on then your tires and it's all about to get funky It really is now then Vettel is now a control Hamilton fuming as you would be had the race in the bag for the whole 1st half of it and then one virtual safety car is just handed it on a plate as best you better it's got a lot of work still to do but yeah and as you say the 2 has cars looking like they're going to get a great result they're now out the race and the 2 rep bills are back into where they should be which is 4th or 5th in the next cars in line so when your. Virtual safety car is deployed it's not like you hit the speed limiter and you just try to 50 miles an hour or there are a round the track you still have some sort of determination of your speed right so you could there have been times where Hamilton could have been going quicker or course or slower or do you mean is it just a whole lot that he's got to play that time and he could have been a bit quicker over the start finish straight or does it not really work that works you're falling in a lot of time Deltas so there's a lot of time that you can do but it is sort of possum on us the whole way round and the closer you stay to 0 if you're minus that you're going to quickly get a penalty so you need to be as close to 0 as you can be but obviously you want to be as close to 0 at the critical time which is the pit exit where you can actually lose a position so maybe Hamilton was a little bit lax and he was that say one second off what he could have possibly been Yeah and that's what he was he was he was concerned he was in the lead of the race but you say because no real exact means many saying why didn't you tell me they were in the pit yet if he knew that it was critical of better was in the pits he could have been absolutely maximizing is is that time bell today and it might have paid it was so close that the difference might of kept them in the lead in the race is so critical that sort of thing well so we're on $29.00 of $58.00 the safety car is deployed here in Melbourne and this is the 1st grand prix of the sea . Lewis Hamilton led the way from pole position and here is his team radio. Receiver. So we thought we were safe but the truck stopped. OK So that's their that's my savings basically saying. Well exactly what they said we thought we were safe but obviously something was there well they weren't safe and Vettel now leads the Grand Prix fascinating absolutely fascinating and that is just the difference of a virtual way to go best the element of luck and this circuit is known for it you know there's not a lot of runner when Magnussen managed it. Leave our colleagues on B.B.C. Radio 5 Live for today good morning it is Sunday the 25th of March and you're listening to B.B.C. Radio. A very warm welcome to you this morning. Here shortly after the 7 o'clock news with a healthy serving of music. To ease into your Sunday morning. Join us Sunday sequence where this morning in the program looks. 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