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00:00:00Only 12th fastest in the warm-up, which is a good pointer for fourth, because in the warm-up half-hour earlier on today, the cars went out on full tanks and race rubber, not the very soft qualifying tyres, and it's significant that Reutemann was fastest, Piquet was second fastest, Alan Jones was third fastest, and the fastest turbo, that of Alain Cross, was fourth.

00:00:26Now there is the world championship position, as I was just talking about, with Carlos Reutemann, nine points for a win, don't forget, so Reutemann has just got a six-point lead over Nelson Piquet, and you get six points for second place, then Jacques Lafitte in third place.

00:00:42A big crowd, not as big as we've seen in the past, which is rather surprising, because the conditions could hardly be better.

00:00:49It's pretty good for the non-turbocharged cars, because Zandvoort is literally at sea level, so the turbos do not get the advantage that they get at altitude circuits, like Kyle Army in South Africa, and Seltveig in Austria.

00:01:06And also, the conditions are not too hot today, so that also benefits the normally aspirated engines.

00:01:14Well, with me now, as ever, the man who won the 1975 and 1976 Grand Prixs, and as you look at the map, and they go round on the warm-up lap, James Hunt.

00:01:25Well, there go the cars round the Tarzan corner, that's the second gear hairpin at the end of the main straight, they come into that at about 180 miles an hour, breakdown to slow hairpin, little right-hand flick there, they go through that third gear, and then down is the one called the Hunsrug, which is the slowest corner on the circuit, the left-hander, just coming out of the Hunsrug, and that's the sort of tight little complex round the back of the pits after the start-finish line.

00:01:49And now it opens out, these bends are all completely flat out, here, where you see Prost going away up the hill, over the brow, and then he gets on the brakes, the car goes light over the brow, and you see him coming into view now, down through a long sweeping right-hander, definitely the best corner on the circuit, difficult one, taking it about fourth gear, very quick, down a short straight now, they then go round left-hander, which is flat out, but they've got to get onto the brakes a bit for the new.

00:02:19New slow corner put in there, then back through the fast sweeping corners through the dunes, again, all flat out, and very quick indeed, they're up to about 165, 170 miles an hour, and they brake very hard as they come down to the new chicane that was put in, well, say, new, nearly 10 years ago, I think, to slow the cars down, again, to go through a right and then a left.

00:02:43Again, they take that in second gear, possibly, and then away they accelerate, well, they're not accelerating now, of course, because they're on their warming up lap, and they're coming towards the end of the lap, so the pole man Prost is bringing the field slowly in, so they bunch up, he doesn't have to wait too, the front markers don't have to wait too long for the back markers when they get on the grid.

00:03:02That's the final corner, you see the cars in now, fast sweeping right-hander, not quite flat out, depending on how well your car is set up, very difficult and very important, because that corner dominates your speed all the way down the straight,

00:03:16and if you do it wrong, you slow down the straight, and other cars can pass you, and obviously it hurts your lap time a lot, so that's a very, very important corner, that last one, onto the straight.

00:03:25Fields weaving about a little bit, just warming up their tires, get a bit of energy into the tires to bring the rubber up to working temperature, these big, bald racing tires get very soft and sticky when they're hot, but they're most difficult to drive on when they're cold, and, of course, have very much less grip.

00:03:43Coming up towards the start-finish line, so I'll hand you back to Murray Walker.

00:03:47And the British starter, Derek Ongaro, ready to activate the light from red to green, and it's very, very interesting to watch the turbocharged cars.

00:03:56I've said in the past, and I'll say again, that they are slower off the line, so watch carefully the car behind René Arnoux, who is on the left of your picture.

00:04:05Number one is the reigning world champion, Alan Jones, four fastest in practice.

00:04:09On his left and your right, tucked up underneath the rear wing of pole position man Alain Prost's turbocharged Renault, is Nelson Piquet.

00:04:19That's number five, the Brazilian, of course, who finished in first place here last year and is second in the world championship.

00:04:27There is the sign that the course is clear, the lights are red and green, and it's go for the gun score three.

00:04:33Crossed away well into the lead, Arnoux in second place, and that is Villeneuve, who has spun off at half-hand corner.

00:04:45And before he has even reached the first corner on the first lap, Gilles Villeneuve looks as though he's been punted off the course.

00:04:53The Renaults are in first and second position, with Prost leading Arnoux in second place, and then Jones and Piquet.

00:05:01Well, I didn't see exactly what happened there with Villeneuve, but Villeneuve made a very good start from well down the field.

00:05:08He's in about 10 foot, 10 to 12 place on the grid, and I think the starter threw the green very, very quickly for them.

00:05:14He's supposed to wait six seconds. That definitely wasn't six seconds after the red light goes on.

00:05:19And I think Villeneuve was ready, made a good start, and of course he was therefore moving before the others, moving faster,

00:05:24and obviously was fighting to find his way through, but hopefully we'll see a replay in a minute.

00:05:29Well, I don't know if the Renaults are operating to a race plan, but already Prost is pulling out the lead, Arnoux is definitely out.

00:05:36There is the replay.

00:05:38Yes, well, unfortunately, they cut that replay a little bit too late for us to see what actually happened.

00:05:42And they didn't slow it down, so hopefully we'll see another one a bit later, but back to the race right now.

00:05:49And we'll see whether Gilles Villeneuve comes through at the end of the first lap.

00:05:54And here is the end of the first lap with 71 to go, and it is Prost in the lead from Arnoux.

00:06:00And then it's Alan Jones in third position with Piquet fourth, and Jacques Lafitte as they go into the right-hander at Tarzan,

00:06:09which is where Andrea de Cesaris spun off in practice.

00:06:12And by the way, de Cesaris in the second of the two Marlborough MP4s is a non-starter,

00:06:18and his place has been taken by Michele Alvareto, who was 35th fastest in practice.

00:06:23Arnoux second then, Jones third, TK fourth, Lafitte fifth, Reutemann sixth,

00:06:28and there it was either Andretti or Giacomelli in the Alfa Romeo with a very bent and twisted front wing,

00:06:35which of course will badly upset the aerodynamics of the car, make the handling very difficult.

00:06:40But Prost looks as though he is already stamping his personality on the race,

00:06:46as in lap two he goes through the Marlborough Bacht, that's the new fast chicane,

00:06:52and then on his way down towards Panorama, which is where a lot of well-meaning graffiti

00:06:59had to be cleaned off the court before practice could begin on the first day,

00:07:04because it would have interfered with adherence, and it's still Prost-Renault on lap two,

00:07:11with our new Renault in second position on lap two,

00:07:15and we are now obviously looking down at a replay of the start,

00:07:18and you can see how the two Renault's accelerated away, and watch for Wielderberg.

00:07:24Yes, looking at that, Murray, I think it was the most unfortunate accident.

00:07:29Wielderberg was going quicker than those two cars, and he went to go between them,

00:07:33which seemed to be a reasonable thing to do, because there was a gap there when he started the manoeuvre,

00:07:37and the two of them just both moved together at the same time,

00:07:40and it did look to me like that was very much an accident.

00:07:44I couldn't see who the other two cars were, but I don't think that it was reasonable to expect

00:07:47that they could both see him at the right time beside them,

00:07:51so I think that's just an unfortunate accident in the way that they can happen at the start.

00:07:57Well, you saw that, one of the toolbox in the pits, I don't know which one it was,

00:08:01I'm frantically looking down pit lane now to see if I can identify,

00:08:04but I can't see the car number, so I don't know, and meantime, Pironi is in the pits,

00:08:10so it's a disastrous race for Ferrari already, with Villeneuve off on the first lap,

00:08:15Pironi in on the third lap, and Pross is still leading with Arnoux,

00:08:21and a bunch right up behind René Arnoux in second place,

00:08:26led by Alan Jones, the world champion, and the winners.

00:08:28Look at it, and it's Pico, it's still in fourth position,

00:08:31Jack Nafique, so it must have been Torme into the pits.

00:08:34Yes, well, it's, as usual, apart from the Renault's bump,

00:08:39we've got all the relevant people in the world championship pulling up,

00:08:43and Jones has pulled out behind Arnoux,

00:08:46and amazingly enough, he's got back to him down the straight,

00:08:49Jones is through it, Pico is having a go as well.

00:08:52But Pico can't quite do it, well, that is a turn up,

00:08:54that Jones in the Williams has managed to actually pass,

00:08:58as I said earlier, that corner on the straight is very critical,

00:09:01Jones is obviously quicker through it than Arnoux,

00:09:04but to do that is really most impressive for straight-line speed.

00:09:08So Jones is now in a very enviable position as far as PK and the fleet are concerned,

00:09:13because he's got, he's managed to deal with one of the turbos,

00:09:16he's pulling away a huge lead already,

00:09:17Arnoux's undoubtedly holding up the other cars behind him,

00:09:21who haven't got the same straight-line speed, there goes Pross,

00:09:24Jones will now, I'm quite sure, catch Pross pretty quickly,

00:09:27but it'll be interesting to see if he can do the same thing again

00:09:30and actually get past Pross in the same way that he passed Arnoux.

00:09:33That was, I was quite surprised to see him be able to come alongside

00:09:36and then hold it down the straight and actually, in fact, edge ahead.

00:09:41Well, now, listeners to Channel 9 in Australia will justifiably be all agog,

00:09:46because the world champions got ahead of Arnoux and PK,

00:09:50when PK was behind him, he's got ahead of Arnoux,

00:09:53and now, can he close the gap between himself and Alain Prost,

00:09:57the Frenchman who is leading as they go out of Panorama,

00:10:02and they are now on lap four, out of 72, across the line,

00:10:07and the gap between Prost and Alan Jones,

00:10:11with now PK coming up to take Arnoux.

00:10:14Now, this is very significant indeed,

00:10:16indeed, and Jacques Laffitte having a go on the inside of Tarzan.

00:10:20So, Arnoux then is down to fourth position behind his teammate,

00:10:25the leader, Prost, behind Alan Jones in second place,

00:10:29PK, the new third-place Le Mans that we're looking at now,

00:10:32who was, of course, very, very quick in practice.

00:10:36Nelson PK is the third-fastest in practice

00:10:39behind the two turbocharged Renaults.

00:10:41By the way, Nigel Mansell has disappeared out of the race this early.

00:10:47John Watson is in eighth position,

00:10:49behind Mario Andretti, who is seventh,

00:10:52Carlos Reutemann, who is sixth,

00:10:54Jett Napiet, who is fifth,

00:10:56Nelson Piquet, who is in fourth position,

00:10:59René Arnoux, who is third,

00:11:00and we are looking at the second-place man,

00:11:02Alan Jones, with the leader, Alain Prost,

00:11:04and the gap between Prost, the leader,

00:11:07and Alan Jones at the end of the previous lap,

00:11:11at the end of lap four,

00:11:12was 2.94 seconds,

00:11:15and we wait as PK is easing away

00:11:19just a foot at a time

00:11:21from René Arnoux, the first,

00:11:23the new fourth-place man,

00:11:25for Prost and Jones,

00:11:27and here they come.

00:11:282.94 seconds was the gap,

00:11:30and the gap now, as Alan Jones passes me,

00:11:33is 2.77 seconds.

00:11:44Hold on to that, there is Prost circulating now.

00:11:47Reasonably comfortable,

00:11:48Jones isn't catching him that quickly,

00:11:50but Prost will certainly have to work very hard

00:11:52to just maintain that,

00:11:54that small lead that he's got,

00:11:56let alone build it.

00:11:57Alan Jones won the Dutch Grand Prix in 1979,

00:12:03and he really, there's Derek Daly,

00:12:04and he's obviously out of the race, of course,

00:12:06I said he had come in,

00:12:07we didn't see him come in,

00:12:08but the march,

00:12:10the John McDonnell run march,

00:12:12came into the pits,

00:12:14and Prost has just gone par,

00:12:15completing the lap,

00:12:16and the gap is 2.93,

00:12:19it was, on the previous lap,

00:12:203.04 seconds,

00:12:22and before that, it was 2.94 seconds,

00:12:25so the gap is being maintained,

00:12:28I should think almost at the nearest inch between,

00:12:31from the leader,

00:12:32Jones, in second place,

00:12:34and Jones is at the corner now,

00:12:36where he made his disastrous mistake,

00:12:38just there, last year,

00:12:40when he put the car,

00:12:41about a foot too much to the right,

00:12:43rode up on the ridged concrete curbing,

00:12:46which lines parts of the circuit,

00:12:48dropped his right-hand skirt,

00:12:50between the front and rear wheels,

00:12:53into the dirt and the grass,

00:12:55ripped it off,

00:12:57and then had to come into the pits,

00:12:59to have that skirt replaced,

00:13:01and finally finished well down,

00:13:03in fact out of the points,

00:13:05and Alan Jones,

00:13:06in the world championship at the moment,

00:13:08is in 4th place,

00:13:10the man from Glenburn,

00:13:12in Victoria, Australia,

00:13:13and he really does need the points,

00:13:17he won at Long Beach,

00:13:19and then he was in 2nd place in Brazil,

00:13:23now that's the position after 5 laps,

00:13:26and you can see 2.8 seconds,

00:13:29is the gap,

00:13:30I don't know why they've got Alan Jones,

00:13:33in the lead in that situation,

00:13:35because Trump,

00:13:36goes partly now,

00:13:39and the gap is 2.74 seconds,

00:13:42the problem with Nigel Mansell,

00:13:44who is definitely out of the race,

00:13:47is that he blew his engine,

00:13:49and Derek Daly went out,

00:13:51with a broken rear suspension,

00:13:54so tough luck for Nigel Mansell,

00:13:57because he's now in a situation,

00:13:59where he's actually into his 2nd Grand Prix,

00:14:02on the Grand Prix rounds,

00:14:04last week in Austria,

00:14:06he had his 2nd Grand Prix,

00:14:07it's the same in Holland,

00:14:08and it's Andretti,

00:14:10with the very twisted front wing,

00:14:12as you can see there,

00:14:13behind Ricciardo Patrese,

00:14:16Patrese is in 9th position,

00:14:20and he has got past Mario Andretti,

00:14:24so Andretti is obviously being held up,

00:14:27and the positions at the moment,

00:14:29on lap 9,

00:14:30in the 72 lap,

00:14:31there is the leader,

00:14:32Alain Prost,

00:14:33there in 2nd place is Alan Jones,

00:14:35then in 3rd position is Nelson Piquet,

00:14:38in 4th position it is Jacques Lapite,

00:14:41in 5th position it is Rennie Arnoux,

00:14:436th is Carlos Reutemann in the point,

00:14:467th is number 7,

00:14:47John Watson,

00:14:498th is Elio De Angelis,

00:14:519th is Ricciardo Patrese,

00:14:52and 10th is Mario Andretti,

00:14:55and a lot of excitement,

00:14:57Nigel Mantle is down in the pits,

00:15:00I'm looking down at him,

00:15:01as Jones and Prost go through,

00:15:04chased by Piquet,

00:15:06and Lapite,

00:15:07and Reutemann,

00:15:08there is Reutemann,

00:15:10then he's passed,

00:15:12Rennie Arnoux,

00:15:13who must be in some sort of trouble,

00:15:15because now John Watson is challenging him,

00:15:18and John Watson was in 7th position,

00:15:20still is then,

00:15:21so right down the lap chart,

00:15:23is going the Renault of Rennie Arnoux.

00:15:28Yes, I would think he has some sort of mechanical problem,

00:15:31impossible really to tell from here,

00:15:33but he seems to have been going steadily backwards,

00:15:35through the field,

00:15:37since the start of the race almost,

00:15:39and his teammate Alan Prost,

00:15:42seems to be going very healthily,

00:15:44so, but of course,

00:15:45I think they could have a different choice of tyres,

00:15:48I think, from what I understand now,

00:15:50with the competition with different tyre companies involved,

00:15:52the Renaults on their Michelin tyres,

00:15:54were a little bit marginal with their extra power,

00:15:56for running a soft compound,

00:15:58and it may be that they put Arnoux

00:16:00on the harder compound of tyre,

00:16:01to make sure that he lasted,

00:16:03which might be making him a little bit slower,

00:16:04but, as I say,

00:16:06without actually being down in the pits,

00:16:08and checking it out,

00:16:08it's really impossible to tell,

00:16:10and there's a good chance that they wouldn't even know there,

00:16:11if there is a mechanical problem of slowing him down.

00:16:15You are looking at the battle,

00:16:16between the yellow turbocharged Renault of Rennie Arnoux,

00:16:19in 6th position,

00:16:21and John Watson,

00:16:22in 7th place,

00:16:23and the gap is coming down,

00:16:26between Alan Jones,

00:16:27and the leader,

00:16:28Alain Prost,

00:16:29as we look at Jacques Lafitte,

00:16:31who is in 4th position,

00:16:33Carlos Reutemann,

00:16:34who is in 5th,

00:16:35and ahead of both of them,

00:16:36of course,

00:16:37Nelson Piquet,

00:16:383rd,

00:16:38Alan Jones,

00:16:392nd,

00:16:40and Alain Prost,

00:16:41the leader,

00:16:42with only 2.1 seconds,

00:16:45separating the young Frenchman,

00:16:4826-year-old Prost,

00:16:49from Saint-Chamond,

00:16:50in France,

00:16:51and 34-year-old Alan Jones,

00:16:53from Glenburn,

00:16:55in Victoria,

00:16:56in Australia.

00:16:56I just couldn't believe it.

00:17:07The fuel pressure was there,

00:17:10the ignition was on,

00:17:12and the engine just stopped,

00:17:13completely.

00:17:15How about the start,

00:17:17Nigel?

00:17:18Did you get a good start

00:17:19and get away well?

00:17:20Well, I got a reasonable start,

00:17:21but I had to sort of anchor up a bit,

00:17:23because there's flying cars

00:17:24on the left-hand side.

00:17:25So I made a good start,

00:17:27but then lost about one place.

00:17:29And, all right,

00:17:30so how are you feeling about Monza

00:17:32in two weeks' time?

00:17:33Well, I'm looking forward to Monza

00:17:35very much now.

00:17:36Obviously,

00:17:37I feel very,

00:17:38very bad about it today.

00:17:39I just can't believe my luck

00:17:40at the moment,

00:17:41because the car was a very,

00:17:42very good balance,

00:17:43and I was just sitting there nicely.

00:17:45Well, hang on, Nigel,

00:17:46your luck must turn,

00:17:47and everybody in Britain

00:17:49is behind you.

00:17:50And everybody in Australia

00:17:52will be behind number one.

00:17:54There he is,

00:17:55the world champion,

00:17:56Alan Jones,

00:17:57and that gap,

00:17:58which has come down

00:18:00from three seconds,

00:18:02then to 2.9 seconds,

00:18:03and then to 1.7 seconds,

00:18:06is down to what you can see visually

00:18:09with Alan Jones now having

00:18:12Alhanskos well

00:18:15and truly in his sight.

00:18:17The completed lap,

00:18:181.7 seconds,

00:18:20was the gap

00:18:22at the end of the previous lap,

00:18:24and the gap now

00:18:25is 1.5 seconds,

00:18:28and Nelson Kike

00:18:29in third position

00:18:31in the Brabham,

00:18:32the man who won here last year,

00:18:34don't forget,

00:18:35is not so very far

00:18:37behind Alan Jones.

00:18:38Both the Williams

00:18:40and the Brabham

00:18:40beautifully set up

00:18:42for this dashboard circuit.

00:18:44Yes, they seem

00:18:45pretty evenly matched,

00:18:46quite honestly,

00:18:47at the moment, Mario,

00:18:47the cars in the race.

00:18:49Jones has only been

00:18:50whittling away the Renault Z

00:18:51very slowly, really,

00:18:53and BK,

00:18:56his position

00:18:56hasn't really changed

00:18:58very much

00:18:59relative to Alan Frost

00:19:01since he got past

00:19:02Frost's teammate, Arno.

00:19:04So I think

00:19:06if we can just get the cars

00:19:07to do us a favour

00:19:08and punch up a bit,

00:19:09then we've got a really

00:19:11close race on our hands,

00:19:12because I don't think

00:19:12anybody's going to walk away,

00:19:13and I think

00:19:14Alan Jones and Alan Frost

00:19:17are sufficiently closely matched,

00:19:20and it's going to be

00:19:20quite a struggle for Jones

00:19:22to get by the Renault.

00:19:23lap 14 out of 72,

00:19:27and as we watch Frost,

00:19:29who is a very cool young customer,

00:19:32and he needs to be,

00:19:33with the thundering Alan Jones

00:19:35in his mirrors,

00:19:36the positions are

00:19:37Frost leading number one,

00:19:39Alan Jones,

00:19:40who is in second place.

00:19:41Nelson Piquet

00:19:42comes out of Vosuit

00:19:44to complete his 14th lap

00:19:47in third position,

00:19:48and there is only

00:19:501.6 seconds

00:19:51between Jones and Piquet.

00:19:53Fourth is

00:19:54Jack Napita de Torben,

00:19:55fifth is

00:19:56Jones' teammate

00:19:57Carlos Reutemann,

00:19:58sixth is

00:19:59John Watson

00:20:00in the point,

00:20:01seventh is

00:20:02René Arnoux,

00:20:02who is slipping back

00:20:03in the Renault

00:20:04all the time,

00:20:05eighth is

00:20:06Riccardo Patrese,

00:20:07ninth is

00:20:08Elio De Angelis

00:20:09in the

00:20:10job player special,

00:20:11Lotus,

00:20:11tenth is

00:20:12Hector Rebac,

00:20:13eleventh is

00:20:13Bruno Giacomelli,

00:20:15and twelfth is

00:20:15Jean-Pierre Jarié,

00:20:17and bringing up

00:20:19the rear,

00:20:20as it were,

00:20:21the last man

00:20:21still in the running,

00:20:22there's 18 cars

00:20:23still on the course

00:20:24with Andretti,

00:20:26Daly,

00:20:26Mansell,

00:20:27Pironi,

00:20:27and Torbay

00:20:29out of the running,

00:20:31and Gilles Villeneuve,

00:20:32of course,

00:20:33and there is

00:20:35the gap

00:20:35between

00:20:36Alice Jones

00:20:37and number one

00:20:38and the leader,

00:20:40Alain Prost,

00:20:41as they go

00:20:42into the right-hander

00:20:43at Vosuit,

00:20:45and they're coming

00:20:46down the straight

00:20:47soon

00:20:48to complete

00:20:49their fifth

00:20:50steep lap.

00:20:54Well,

00:20:54it's not going

00:20:55to need a stopwatch

00:20:56soon

00:20:56to separate them.

00:21:00Now,

00:21:00this is Vosuita,

00:21:01identified a bit

00:21:02early,

00:21:02they're into

00:21:03the top straight,

00:21:03and I see

00:21:04a tail-ender,

00:21:05it's Pironi

00:21:06in front of them,

00:21:07they're catching

00:21:08Didier Pironi,

00:21:09who is back

00:21:10in the race,

00:21:10but a long way

00:21:11down,

00:21:12of course,

00:21:12into Tarzan.

00:21:15This is where

00:21:15brakes are

00:21:16really needed,

00:21:18because they come

00:21:19from 175 miles an hour

00:21:21down to about

00:21:22110 in second gear

00:21:25for Tarzan,

00:21:26before they accelerate

00:21:27away to the

00:21:28Hugenholtz corner

00:21:29that they are at now.

00:21:31Prost,

00:21:32Jones,

00:21:33Alain Prost,

00:21:34the winner

00:21:35of the French draw

00:21:36three,

00:21:36second in Germany,

00:21:38but no less than

00:21:39eight did not finish

00:21:41situations in races,

00:21:43as a result of which

00:21:44he is only seventh

00:21:45in the World Championship

00:21:46with 19 points.

00:21:50Piquet's third,

00:21:51Latine's fourth,

00:21:52Reutemann fifth,

00:21:54Watson sixth,

00:21:55so the British Grand Prix

00:21:57winner John Watson

00:21:58is coming up

00:22:00through the field,

00:22:01the Marlborough MP4

00:22:03handling very well

00:22:04indeed in practice,

00:22:05and now I think

00:22:07it's going to be

00:22:08a case of Harry,

00:22:09Harry,

00:22:10Harry,

00:22:10Alain Prost

00:22:11every inch of the way

00:22:13by Alan Jones.

00:22:16Difficult to get past,

00:22:18because the Renaults

00:22:20handle much better

00:22:21than the turbocharged

00:22:22Ferraris,

00:22:23the Renaults

00:22:23turbocharged,

00:22:24of course,

00:22:25and there is

00:22:26a turbocharged

00:22:27Ferrari,

00:22:28that of Pironi,

00:22:29as Prost and Jones

00:22:31and Piquet

00:22:32just behind them

00:22:32in third position

00:22:33complete

00:22:35the 16th lap

00:22:36out of 72

00:22:37into Tarzan.

00:22:43Past Pironi,

00:22:45Pironi's moved over

00:22:46and let them both

00:22:47through.

00:22:48Now to Hugenholz,

00:22:49this is where

00:22:50Jones went off

00:22:51last year

00:22:51on the second lap

00:22:52at the point

00:22:53I established.

00:22:54Now,

00:22:54just there.

00:22:56Now up to the

00:22:57Rob Slotermacher

00:22:58fence,

00:22:59very quick indeed,

00:23:00175 miles an hour,

00:23:02and that's Riccardo

00:23:02Patrese seemingly

00:23:04out of the race

00:23:05again.

00:23:06He's had the most

00:23:06appalling luck

00:23:07this season.

00:23:08Patrese who led

00:23:09at Long Beach

00:23:10and is in ninth position

00:23:13in the World Championship.

00:23:14There is the gap

00:23:15as you look down

00:23:16on this very flat,

00:23:18very low-lying circuit,

00:23:20sea level at Sandport,

00:23:21between Prost

00:23:23in the Renault,

00:23:24knowing exactly

00:23:26what the situation

00:23:26is,

00:23:27Alan Jones

00:23:27in second place.

00:23:29Yes,

00:23:30it seems to be

00:23:30a bit of a difference

00:23:31between

00:23:31Alan Prost's car

00:23:34and his general

00:23:34performance

00:23:35from his teammate

00:23:36Bernie Arnoux

00:23:36because whereas

00:23:37now,

00:23:38at this point

00:23:39on the circuit,

00:23:39the corner

00:23:40onto the main

00:23:40straight,

00:23:41Jones could get

00:23:41right up behind

00:23:42Arnoux.

00:23:45Behind Prost here,

00:23:46he's not so close,

00:23:47he's not really

00:23:48in a position to attack.

00:23:49He won't pick up

00:23:50enough of a toe,

00:23:51enough of a slipstream.

00:23:52There is Patresi

00:23:55coming into the pit.

00:23:57A bit of a shame,

00:23:58that,

00:23:58because he was going

00:23:58very well in the race

00:23:59because he wasn't,

00:24:01as it were,

00:24:02on our leaderboard,

00:24:02but he was moving

00:24:03through the field

00:24:03quite nicely

00:24:04and he's got

00:24:05a pretty good car

00:24:05and he's been

00:24:06driving very well

00:24:06this year

00:24:07but he's been,

00:24:08as Barry said,

00:24:09in a pretty horrible

00:24:11season luck-wise

00:24:13with not many finishes.

00:24:22Well,

00:24:23is this going to be it?

00:24:24Is Jones going to take

00:24:25Prost off breaking

00:24:26as they come down

00:24:27to Tarzan?

00:24:27Last year,

00:24:28he drove right

00:24:29round the outside

00:24:30of a slower competitor

00:24:31and he's going to try

00:24:32and do it again.

00:24:33Alan Jones is going

00:24:35to try and drive

00:24:35right round the outside

00:24:37of Alain Prost

00:24:37and Prost moves

00:24:38across the front of him

00:24:39and just holds

00:24:40Alan Jones back.

00:24:41But all the time,

00:24:43Jones is getting

00:24:43closer and closer

00:24:44and he must wear

00:24:46Prost down.

00:24:48And that's Lapite,

00:24:49Jacques Lapite,

00:24:50fun off the course,

00:24:51the man who is

00:24:52in fourth position,

00:24:53the winner

00:24:54of the Austrian Grand Prix.

00:24:56Well,

00:24:57now the Dutch Grand Prix

00:24:58is literally

00:24:59hotting up

00:25:00and Lapite has

00:25:02given his best.

00:25:03He's out of the race

00:25:03and that means to say

00:25:05that up into

00:25:05fourth position

00:25:06will come

00:25:07Carlos Reutemann.

00:25:08OK,

00:25:09all that happened

00:25:09just a few seconds ago.

00:25:11So we go back now

00:25:12to the live action

00:25:13and it's Prost,

00:25:15still in front of

00:25:16Alan Jones.

00:25:16and let's see

00:25:23if Prost is going

00:25:24to force him

00:25:25to go down

00:25:26the outside again.

00:25:29Lap 20

00:25:29and Jones is trying

00:25:31as you can see

00:25:32for yourselves.

00:25:32Down to Tarzan.

00:25:33Is that John Watson?

00:25:36It's an Alfa Romeo.

00:25:39It's Bruno Giacomelli

00:25:41out of the race.

00:25:42Bruno Giacomelli

00:25:43out,

00:25:43spun off somewhere.

00:25:44But the good news,

00:25:46the bad news rather,

00:25:47is that with

00:25:49Lapite and Reutemann,

00:25:50the bad news

00:25:51for Talbot

00:25:52and Williams

00:25:52aficionados

00:25:53out of the race

00:25:54and Alan Jones

00:25:55still challenging

00:25:56Prost for

00:25:57first place.

00:25:59The good news

00:26:00for British viewers

00:26:01is that John Watson

00:26:02is up into

00:26:03fourth place

00:26:04behind Nelson Pique.

00:26:05The bad news

00:26:06for Carlos Reutemann

00:26:07is that

00:26:08as we look down

00:26:10on Bruno Giacomelli's

00:26:12stricken Alfa Romeo,

00:26:13the bad news

00:26:15for Carlos Reutemann

00:26:17is that his

00:26:18six-point lead

00:26:19in the world championship

00:26:20is going to be

00:26:21badly affected

00:26:22because he is

00:26:23obviously going to get

00:26:24no points in this race

00:26:25whereas Nelson Pique,

00:26:27the man who is

00:26:28only six points

00:26:29behind him

00:26:29in the world championship

00:26:30in second place,

00:26:32is in third place

00:26:33in the race

00:26:33and we're looking

00:26:34at Salazar

00:26:35and Michele Alvareta

00:26:37and Slim Borgud

00:26:38and this could be

00:26:40very significant

00:26:42indeed

00:26:42because Prost and Jones

00:26:45now are closing up

00:26:46on and are about

00:26:47to lap

00:26:48these three cars

00:26:48which are spread

00:26:49across the circuit,

00:26:50Salazar and Alvareta

00:26:52and Borgud.

00:26:53Yes, absolutely

00:26:54there's a good chance

00:26:56that they won't see it

00:26:57because they appear

00:26:57to be extremely

00:26:58engrossed

00:26:58in their own battles

00:26:59none of them

00:27:01are particularly

00:27:01experienced drivers

00:27:03and if they don't see

00:27:04or realise

00:27:05that they've got

00:27:05the battle for the lead

00:27:06closing in on them

00:27:08and breathing down

00:27:09their necks

00:27:10then of course

00:27:11the disadvantage

00:27:12goes to Prost

00:27:14in that situation

00:27:15he is the leading car

00:27:17any messing about

00:27:18they get from

00:27:19the people in front

00:27:21can basically

00:27:22only hurt him

00:27:22because he's got

00:27:23the lead to lose

00:27:24whereas Jones

00:27:24might get held up

00:27:25but he can always

00:27:25catch it up again

00:27:26so Prost

00:27:28will now be feeling

00:27:28pretty nervous

00:27:29and very anxious

00:27:30to get past there

00:27:32and get himself

00:27:32between the back markers

00:27:33and Alan Jones.

00:27:36Well, I'd see what happens

00:27:37there is Prost

00:27:39past Salazar

00:27:41but Jones not

00:27:43now this is where

00:27:44Prost can break away

00:27:45if he can get past

00:27:46Borgoode

00:27:46the Swedish driver

00:27:48in the ATS

00:27:49and he has punched

00:27:50his way through

00:27:50and Jones has gone

00:27:51past Salazar

00:27:52Jones goes past

00:27:54Borgoode

00:27:54and they're both

00:27:55closing up now

00:27:56on Michele Alvaretto

00:27:58the young Italian

00:28:00Formula 2

00:28:01and Formula 1 driver

00:28:03who only got his

00:28:04place in this race

00:28:05thanks to the fact

00:28:07that Andrea de Cesaris

00:28:08was not able to start

00:28:10because there was

00:28:11not a spare

00:28:12Marlborough MP4

00:28:13for him to race in

00:28:14and they're coming

00:28:15down to Tarzan now

00:28:17on the 22nd lap

00:28:19out of this

00:28:2052 lap race

00:28:21and

00:28:23Cross knows

00:28:24of course

00:28:25that Alan Jones

00:28:25is there

00:28:26what's

00:28:27Michele Alvaretto's

00:28:29situation

00:28:29going to do

00:28:30to affect

00:28:31Prost and Jones

00:28:33with Piquet's

00:28:34third position

00:28:35on his way

00:28:36to four points

00:28:36and if Piquet

00:28:38finishes there

00:28:38the lead

00:28:39in the World Championship

00:28:40of Carlos Reutemann

00:28:41will be down to

00:28:42only two points

00:28:43with John Watson

00:28:45in fourth position

00:28:46but some five seconds

00:28:49behind Nelson Piquet

00:28:50and now

00:28:51Cross the leader

00:28:53Jones in second place

00:28:54are up with

00:28:55Alvaretto

00:28:56coming up to the

00:28:57Barbara Box

00:28:58the left and right

00:28:59new chicane

00:29:01and Jones challenges

00:29:02Alvaretto

00:29:08about to be

00:29:09left

00:29:09Cross the leader

00:29:10Jones in second place

00:29:11and this is lap 23

00:29:13well Alvaretto's

00:29:23not being very

00:29:23helpful at all

00:29:24but I think

00:29:24once they get

00:29:25onto the main

00:29:25straight

00:29:26Jones is very

00:29:28close indeed

00:29:29he can't do it

00:29:29there

00:29:30oh he has

00:29:31how amazing

00:29:32that was very

00:29:33cheeky indeed

00:29:34he sits inside

00:29:35the Renault

00:29:35fabulous opportunity

00:29:36for Jones

00:29:37but I fear

00:29:37the Renault

00:29:38might just be

00:29:39able to

00:29:39slip through

00:29:39his way up

00:29:40but it's a good

00:29:40time for Jones

00:29:41because he's

00:29:41got the tow

00:29:42from that

00:29:42Tyrell in front

00:29:43of them

00:29:43the brilliant

00:29:44piece of

00:29:45opportunism

00:29:45I understood

00:29:46and Cross

00:29:47is challenging

00:29:47again

00:29:48I think Cross

00:29:48got the inside

00:29:49he's done it

00:29:49terrific stuff

00:29:51Alain Cross

00:29:53is a very

00:29:54gutsy young man

00:29:55and he demonstrated

00:29:56his qualities

00:29:57there to

00:29:57perfection

00:29:58by fighting

00:29:59back immediately

00:30:00to probably

00:30:02the toughest

00:30:03and one of

00:30:03the most

00:30:04experienced

00:30:04men in

00:30:05world championship

00:30:06motor racing

00:30:06Alan Jones

00:30:07so momentarily

00:30:09a new

00:30:10race leader

00:30:11Alain Cross

00:30:12led from

00:30:13lap 1

00:30:14to lap 23

00:30:15and he's

00:30:16back in the lead

00:30:17again now

00:30:17he's on his

00:30:1824th lap

00:30:19but Alan Jones

00:30:20is not going to

00:30:21take that line

00:30:22down

00:30:23he needs the

00:30:24points as I have

00:30:25said before

00:30:25and he must

00:30:27because Alan

00:30:27has probably got

00:30:28the best brain

00:30:29in the racing

00:30:30business

00:30:31he's brought up

00:30:32in a racing

00:30:33atmosphere

00:30:33his father

00:30:34Stan Jones

00:30:35won the

00:30:36Australian

00:30:36draw 3

00:30:37and could have

00:30:38been a brilliant

00:30:38Formula 1 driver

00:30:40Alan Jones

00:30:41with 11 draw 3

00:30:43victories behind

00:30:44him

00:30:44to Alain

00:30:45Frost

00:30:45one win

00:30:46is now

00:30:48continuing to

00:30:49push the

00:30:49friction

00:30:50it is

00:31:05Cheever

00:31:05Frost

00:31:07the leader

00:31:07Reuterman

00:31:08second

00:31:09Cheever moves

00:31:10over

00:31:10Frost goes

00:31:11through

00:31:11Cheever

00:31:13will see

00:31:14Jones in his

00:31:14mirrors

00:31:15and should

00:31:15move over

00:31:16but it's

00:31:16given Frost

00:31:17the opportunity

00:31:18to get through

00:31:19the Marlborough

00:31:19box

00:31:19bends

00:31:20a bit quicker

00:31:21and you can

00:31:21see that he

00:31:22has pulled

00:31:22out of the

00:31:23lead

00:31:23and you can

00:31:23see that

00:31:24Jones is

00:31:24being held

00:31:25up

00:31:25but goes

00:31:27through

00:31:27Frost

00:31:37Jones

00:31:38Cheever

00:31:39left

00:31:40out now

00:31:41of the

00:31:42Boss

00:31:43Wheaton

00:31:43corner

00:31:44and in

00:31:46front of

00:31:47the

00:31:48leaders

00:31:48it is

00:31:50Jean-Pierre

00:31:51Gerrier

00:31:51and Mark

00:31:52Führer

00:31:53Gerrier

00:31:54is the

00:31:55Othello

00:31:55there's

00:31:56confirmation

00:31:56of the

00:31:56official

00:31:57position

00:31:57and you

00:31:58see that

00:31:59Jones is

00:31:59under a

00:32:00second

00:32:00behind

00:32:00Frost

00:32:01about

00:32:027 seconds

00:32:03a bit

00:32:04less than

00:32:047 seconds

00:32:05ahead of

00:32:05Piquet

00:32:06who is

00:32:07something

00:32:08like

00:32:0814 or

00:32:0915 seconds

00:32:10ahead of

00:32:11John

00:32:11Watson

00:32:11then there

00:32:12is

00:32:12Hector

00:32:13Rebac

00:32:13De Angelis

00:32:14in 7th place

00:32:15is

00:32:15Gerrier

00:32:15who is

00:32:16about to

00:32:17be

00:32:17lapped

00:32:18as is

00:32:19Sura

00:32:19so the

00:32:20leaders

00:32:20are right

00:32:21with

00:32:22the 7th

00:32:23and 8th

00:32:23placemen

00:32:24they've

00:32:24lapped

00:32:25everybody

00:32:25up to

00:32:268th

00:32:26place

00:32:27when they

00:32:27get past

00:32:28Eddie

00:32:29Chiever

00:32:30Chiever

00:32:30there's

00:32:33Prost

00:32:33they've

00:32:35passed

00:32:35Chiever

00:32:36now

00:32:36they

00:32:37are

00:32:37up to

00:32:38Mark

00:32:38Scherer

00:32:39who has

00:32:39got

00:32:39Gerrier

00:32:40in front

00:32:40of him

00:32:41Gerrier

00:32:427th

00:32:42Mark

00:32:42Scherer

00:32:438th

00:32:43Scherer

00:32:45the

00:32:46Swiss

00:32:46driver

00:32:46of

00:32:47the

00:32:47Theodore

00:32:48and

00:32:50Prost

00:32:50shows him

00:32:51his

00:32:52front wing

00:32:52but

00:32:53Scherer

00:32:53wishes to

00:32:54take no

00:32:54notice

00:32:55of it

00:32:55and proceeds

00:32:55to do

00:32:56exactly

00:32:56that

00:32:57because

00:32:58Scherer

00:32:59is

00:32:59concentrating

00:32:59on

00:33:00Gerrier

00:33:00Prost

00:33:01is

00:33:02concentrating

00:33:02on

00:33:03Scherer

00:33:03but

00:33:03he's

00:33:03also

00:33:04concentrating

00:33:04on

00:33:05Alan

00:33:05Jones

00:33:05and

00:33:05Jones

00:33:06is

00:33:06concentrating

00:33:06on

00:33:07Prost

00:33:07so

00:33:07there's

00:33:08a lot

00:33:08of

00:33:08mental

00:33:08activity

00:33:09going

00:33:09on

00:33:09just

00:33:09there

00:33:10at

00:33:10the

00:33:10moment

00:33:10as

00:33:10Prost

00:33:11comes

00:33:11out

00:33:12and

00:33:12passes

00:33:12Scherer

00:33:13as

00:33:13does

00:33:13Jones

00:33:14right

00:33:14behind

00:33:14him

00:33:15now

00:33:15they're

00:33:15going

00:33:15to

00:33:15try

00:33:16and

00:33:16get

00:33:16past

00:33:16Jaurier

00:33:17and

00:33:18Alain

00:33:19Prost

00:33:19does

00:33:25now

00:33:28Jaurier

00:33:29keeping

00:33:29in

00:33:30tight

00:33:30Jaurier

00:33:32made

00:33:32terrific

00:33:33comeback

00:33:34in

00:33:35draw

00:33:35free

00:33:36racing

00:33:36this

00:33:36year

00:33:37an

00:33:37enormously

00:33:38experienced

00:33:39driver

00:33:39who

00:33:40had

00:33:40been

00:33:41out

00:33:41of

00:33:41racing

00:33:42having

00:33:42driven

00:33:43for

00:33:43Shadow

00:33:43and

00:33:44ATS

00:33:44and

00:33:44March

00:33:45and

00:33:45Lotus

00:33:45and

00:33:46Tyrrell

00:33:47and

00:33:47Talbot

00:33:47but

00:33:48got

00:33:49another

00:33:49chance

00:33:50in

00:33:50the

00:33:50Ocella

00:33:50which

00:33:51Gabiani

00:33:52and

00:33:53Angel

00:33:54Guerra

00:33:54the

00:33:55Argentine

00:33:55driver

00:33:56had

00:33:56not

00:33:56succeeded

00:33:56in

00:33:57qualifying

00:33:57and

00:33:58Jaurier

00:33:58has

00:33:59done

00:33:59it

00:33:59race

00:33:59after

00:34:00race

00:34:00and

00:34:00is

00:34:00right

00:34:02back

00:34:02amongst

00:34:02the

00:34:02forefront

00:34:03of

00:34:03Grand Prix

00:34:03drivers

00:34:04Jones

00:34:06number

00:34:07one

00:34:08world

00:34:08champion

00:34:09last

00:34:1028

00:34:12out

00:34:12of

00:34:1372

00:34:14a

00:34:14190.2

00:34:16mile

00:34:17race

00:34:17distance

00:34:17Jones

00:34:22so

00:34:25on

00:34:26lap

00:34:2628

00:34:27out

00:34:27of

00:34:2872

00:34:28in

00:34:29the

00:34:29lead

00:34:30Alain

00:34:31Prost

00:34:31is

00:34:31holding

00:34:32that

00:34:32lead

00:34:32as

00:34:32he

00:34:32comes

00:34:33through

00:34:33to

00:34:33complete

00:34:33another

00:34:34lap

00:34:34ahead

00:34:34of

00:34:34the

00:34:34second

00:34:35placeman

00:34:35Alan

00:34:36Jones

00:34:36with

00:34:37Nelson

00:34:37Piquet

00:34:38behind

00:34:38them

00:34:39in

00:34:39third

00:34:39position

00:34:39John

00:34:40Watson

00:34:40fourth

00:34:41Hector

00:34:42back

00:34:42fifth

00:34:42and

00:34:43Elio

00:34:43De

00:34:43Angelis

00:34:44sixth

00:34:44but

00:34:45a

00:34:45long

00:34:46long

00:34:46part

00:34:47of

00:34:47the

00:34:47Dutch

00:34:47Grand

00:34:48Prix

00:34:48still

00:34:48to

00:34:48be

00:34:48run

00:34:49Belson

00:34:54Piquet

00:34:54we're

00:34:55looking

00:34:55at

00:34:55now

00:34:56he's

00:34:58closing

00:34:58up

00:34:58on

00:34:59Eddie

00:35:00Cheever

00:35:00in

00:35:01third

00:35:01position

00:35:02Piquet

00:35:03second

00:35:03in the

00:35:03world

00:35:04championship

00:35:04the

00:35:05winner

00:35:05at

00:35:06the

00:35:06Argentine

00:35:06Grand

00:35:07Prix

00:35:07and

00:35:07the

00:35:07San

00:35:08Marino

00:35:08Grand

00:35:09Prix

00:35:09in

00:35:09Italy

00:35:10then

00:35:11a

00:35:11bad

00:35:12run

00:35:12of

00:35:12luck

00:35:12at

00:35:12Belgium

00:35:13Monaco

00:35:13and

00:35:14Spain

00:35:14where

00:35:14he

00:35:15failed

00:35:15to

00:35:15finish

00:35:15third

00:35:16in

00:35:16France

00:35:16he

00:35:17went

00:35:17off

00:35:18in

00:35:18the

00:35:18British

00:35:19Grand

00:35:19Prix

00:35:20so

00:35:21he's

00:35:22got

00:35:22his

00:35:22points

00:35:23for

00:35:24his

00:35:24second

00:35:25place

00:35:25in

00:35:25the

00:35:25world

00:35:26championship

00:35:26is

00:35:2639

00:35:27points

00:35:28from

00:35:28comparatively

00:35:29few

00:35:29races

00:35:29and

00:35:30he

00:35:30did

00:35:30it

00:35:30with

00:35:30driving

00:35:31like

00:35:31that

00:35:31when

00:35:31he

00:35:32passed

00:35:32Eddie

00:35:33Cheever

00:35:33in

00:35:34the

00:35:34Tyrell

00:35:35but

00:35:36Nelson

00:35:37Piquet

00:35:38is

00:35:38now

00:35:38some

00:35:39eight

00:35:39nearly

00:35:40eight

00:35:40seconds

00:35:40behind

00:35:41Jones

00:35:42and

00:35:42Cross

00:35:42the

00:35:43Frenchman

00:35:44and

00:35:45the

00:35:45Australian

00:35:46are

00:35:46very

00:35:47very

00:35:47much

00:35:48making

00:35:48the

00:35:48running

00:35:48and

00:35:50told

00:35:50incidentally

00:35:52that the

00:35:52viewers in

00:35:54Australia of

00:35:55Channel 9

00:35:55are now having

00:35:56barbecue

00:35:57parties to watch

00:35:58the Grand Prix

00:35:59in which

00:36:00case

00:36:00they've

00:36:01got

00:36:01plenty

00:36:01to

00:36:01celebrate

00:36:02now

00:36:02with

00:36:02Alan

00:36:03Jones

00:36:03their

00:36:03man

00:36:04in

00:36:04a

00:36:04very

00:36:04strong

00:36:05second

00:36:05position

00:36:05and

00:36:06challenging

00:36:06cross

00:36:07as

00:36:07nevertheless

00:36:08we look at

00:36:09Cherie and

00:36:09Soura

00:36:10battling for

00:36:11eighth position

00:36:12and being

00:36:12closed up

00:36:13on by

00:36:14number

00:36:15five

00:36:15Nelson

00:36:16Piquet

00:36:17the 29

00:36:18year old

00:36:18driver from

00:36:19Brasilia

00:36:20though he lives

00:36:21in Monte Carlo

00:36:21at the present

00:36:22moment

00:36:22third position

00:36:23for Nelson

00:36:24Piquet

00:36:24at the moment

00:36:25four points

00:36:27in the world

00:36:27championship bag

00:36:28if he finishes

00:36:29in third place

00:36:30and as I said

00:36:31before

00:36:32that would

00:36:33close the gap

00:36:34between himself

00:36:35and Carlos

00:36:36Reutemann

00:36:37to only

00:36:38two points

00:36:39the world

00:36:40championship

00:36:41is getting

00:36:41more and more

00:36:42exciting

00:36:43as the series

00:36:45runs on

00:36:45there's only

00:36:46three races

00:36:47left after

00:36:47Holland

00:36:48the Italian

00:36:49Grand Prix

00:36:50at Monza

00:36:51in a fortnight's

00:36:51time

00:36:52then the

00:36:52Canadian

00:36:52Grand Prix

00:36:53and the last

00:36:55race of the

00:36:55series

00:36:56a new

00:36:56fixture

00:36:57at Las Vegas

00:36:58in California

00:36:59Mark Surer

00:37:01driving

00:37:01extremely well

00:37:03he started

00:37:04the season

00:37:05in the

00:37:05ensign

00:37:06finished

00:37:06fourth

00:37:07in Brazil

00:37:07in the

00:37:07wet race

00:37:08terrific

00:37:09charge

00:37:09and

00:37:11Surer

00:37:12now

00:37:12has just

00:37:12got

00:37:13Nelson

00:37:15Piquet

00:37:15there's

00:37:15the Brazilian

00:37:16behind him

00:37:17looks at

00:37:17his mirrors

00:37:17I

00:37:19guess

00:37:20he will

00:37:20obviously

00:37:21see that

00:37:21it is

00:37:22Nelson

00:37:23Piquet

00:37:24might move

00:37:25over

00:37:25that was

00:37:26a flash

00:37:26of

00:37:26Jarrier

00:37:27number

00:37:2732

00:37:27that we

00:37:28saw

00:37:28and it

00:37:29looks to me

00:37:29as Jarrier

00:37:30is going

00:37:30much slower

00:37:31than he was

00:37:32before

00:37:32he is of course

00:37:33a long long

00:37:33way behind

00:37:34Surer now

00:37:35as Piquet

00:37:36goes through

00:37:36and lapsed

00:37:37Mark Surer

00:37:38and that

00:37:39means to say

00:37:39that Surer

00:37:40must be up

00:37:41into

00:37:41seventh position

00:37:43with Jarrier

00:37:44clearly out

00:37:45of the running

00:37:46and now

00:37:48Nelson

00:37:48Piquet

00:37:49having

00:37:49lost

00:37:50some

00:37:50time

00:37:51will be

00:37:52setting

00:37:52about

00:37:52closing

00:37:53the gap

00:37:53between

00:37:54himself

00:37:54and

00:37:54the race

00:37:55for

00:37:56leadership

00:37:56between

00:37:57Alan Jones

00:37:58in second

00:37:58place

00:37:59and

00:37:59Alain

00:38:00Frost

00:38:00the leader

00:38:01with

00:38:02John Watson

00:38:03still in

00:38:03fourth place

00:38:04and this

00:38:05is

00:38:05lap

00:38:0631

00:38:07that we're

00:38:08on

00:38:08so we're

00:38:09not yet

00:38:09up to

00:38:10half

00:38:10distance

00:38:10lap

00:38:1136

00:38:11the

00:38:12half

00:38:12distance

00:38:12lap

00:38:12John Watson

00:38:13in fourth

00:38:14place

00:38:14Hector

00:38:15Reback

00:38:15the second

00:38:16of the

00:38:17two

00:38:17Brabham

00:38:18cars

00:38:19with their

00:38:20Ford

00:38:20DSV

00:38:22engines

00:38:22in them

00:38:23in the

00:38:24top six

00:38:25and making

00:38:26up the

00:38:27world

00:38:27championship

00:38:28points

00:38:28scorers

00:38:29at the

00:38:29present

00:38:30moment

00:38:30in sixth

00:38:30position

00:38:31Elio

00:38:31De Angelis

00:38:32Surer

00:38:33seventh

00:38:33Eddie

00:38:34Cheever

00:38:34eighth

00:38:35Michele

00:38:36Alboreto

00:38:37who

00:38:37only got

00:38:38into the

00:38:39race

00:38:39as I said

00:38:39earlier

00:38:40on

00:38:40when

00:38:40De Cesaris

00:38:41had to

00:38:41be

00:38:42dropped

00:38:42is in

00:38:43ninth

00:38:43position

00:38:43Salazar

00:38:44the

00:38:45young

00:38:45Chilean

00:38:46driver

00:38:46who's

00:38:46making

00:38:47such a

00:38:47name

00:38:47for

00:38:47himself

00:38:48in

00:38:49a car

00:38:50which

00:38:50regrettably

00:38:50is not

00:38:51as good

00:38:51as the

00:38:52Williams

00:38:54and Renault

00:38:55and so on

00:38:55in tenth

00:38:56position

00:38:56who is

00:39:06going

00:39:06very

00:39:06much

00:39:07slower

00:39:07than we

00:39:08expected

00:39:08it to

00:39:09because

00:39:09Andretti

00:39:10with the

00:39:10appearance

00:39:11and he's

00:39:11now been

00:39:12lapped

00:39:12off

00:39:12by

00:39:13Alan

00:39:13Jones

00:39:14Andretti

00:39:15with the

00:39:15appearance

00:39:15of

00:39:16Gerard

00:39:16Ducar

00:39:17Rouge

00:39:17the

00:39:17ex

00:39:18Torbac

00:39:19team

00:39:19manager

00:39:19who was

00:39:20fired

00:39:21by Guy

00:39:21Ligier

00:39:22in the

00:39:23Alfa Romeo

00:39:24team

00:39:25as team

00:39:25manager

00:39:25now

00:39:26Ducar

00:39:26Rouge

00:39:27in only a

00:39:27fortnight

00:39:28has worked

00:39:28wonders

00:39:29with the

00:39:29Alfa Romeo

00:39:30and Mario

00:39:31Andretti

00:39:31was actually

00:39:33seventh fastest

00:39:34on the grid

00:39:34in practice

00:39:35which is considerably

00:39:36better than

00:39:37he's been able

00:39:37to do

00:39:38since Long

00:39:38Beach

00:39:39when he

00:39:40finished

00:39:41in fourth

00:39:41place

00:39:42so Alan

00:39:42Jones

00:39:43there

00:39:43some

00:39:432.2

00:39:44seconds

00:39:45now

00:39:45behind

00:39:46Alain

00:39:47Frost

00:39:47and we're

00:39:48getting pretty

00:39:49close to the

00:39:49half distance

00:39:50point

00:39:51Daly out of the

00:39:52race

00:39:52Lafitte out

00:39:53Reutemann

00:39:54out

00:39:54and several

00:39:56of the

00:39:56first six

00:39:58in the

00:39:58world

00:39:58championship

00:39:59are out

00:40:00of the

00:40:00race

00:40:00Reutemann

00:40:01is out

00:40:02Lafitte

00:40:03is out

00:40:03Villeneuve

00:40:04is out

00:40:05and

00:40:06Giacomelli

00:40:07is out

00:40:08of course

00:40:08as is

00:40:09René Arnoux

00:40:09Jean-Pierre

00:40:10Gerier

00:40:11Ricciardo

00:40:11Patrese

00:40:12Patrick

00:40:13Tombe

00:40:13but

00:40:14Mario

00:40:15Andretti

00:40:16is still

00:40:16on his

00:40:16way

00:40:16Well

00:40:21one

00:40:22shouldn't

00:40:22make

00:40:23forecasts

00:40:23because

00:40:24as I

00:40:24say

00:40:24only

00:40:25half

00:40:25the

00:40:26race

00:40:26less

00:40:26than

00:40:26half

00:40:27the

00:40:27race

00:40:27has

00:40:27been

00:40:27run

00:40:28but

00:40:29a

00:40:30little

00:40:30crystal

00:40:31ball

00:40:31gazing

00:40:32and

00:40:32hypothesis

00:40:33might

00:40:33be

00:40:33interesting

00:40:34at

00:40:34this

00:40:34stage

00:40:34of

00:40:35the

00:40:35race

00:40:35because

00:40:35if

00:40:36the

00:40:37race

00:40:37order

00:40:38was

00:40:38the

00:40:38end

00:40:39of

00:40:4072

00:40:40lap

00:40:40as

00:40:41is

00:40:41now

00:40:42and

00:40:42I'm

00:40:43willing

00:40:43to

00:40:43bet

00:40:43quite

00:40:43a lot

00:40:44of

00:40:44money

00:40:44that

00:40:44it

00:40:44won't

00:40:45be

00:40:45Carlos

00:40:46Reutemann

00:40:46would

00:40:47be

00:40:47leading

00:40:47Piquet

00:40:48by

00:40:48two

00:40:49points

00:40:50Piquet

00:40:51would

00:40:52be

00:40:52ten

00:40:52points

00:40:53ahead

00:40:53of

00:40:54Jacques

00:40:54Lafitte

00:40:55in

00:40:55third

00:40:55position

00:40:56Alan

00:40:56Jones

00:40:57would

00:40:57be

00:40:57only

00:40:58one

00:40:58point

00:40:58behind

00:40:59Lafitte

00:40:59and

00:41:00then

00:41:00it

00:41:00would

00:41:00be

00:41:00Cross

00:41:01and

00:41:01Watson

00:41:01but

00:41:02having

00:41:03said

00:41:03all

00:41:04that

00:41:04something

00:41:04will

00:41:05now

00:41:05happen

00:41:05to

00:41:05prove

00:41:06me

00:41:06totally

00:41:06wrong

00:41:07because

00:41:07with

00:41:09the

00:41:10race

00:41:10now

00:41:10on

00:41:11his

00:41:1135th

00:41:12lap

00:41:12and

00:41:13the

00:41:1336th

00:41:14lap

00:41:14being

00:41:14half

00:41:14distance

00:41:15there is

00:41:16rather

00:41:16more

00:41:17of the

00:41:17race

00:41:17to run

00:41:18than

00:41:19has

00:41:19already

00:41:19been

00:41:20held

00:41:20Cross

00:41:20leading

00:41:22Jones

00:41:23number

00:41:23one

00:41:23second

00:41:24Jones

00:41:26pressing

00:41:27very

00:41:27very hard

00:41:27indeed

00:41:28Cross

00:41:29by the

00:41:29way

00:41:30on

00:41:30Michelin

00:41:31tires

00:41:31and

00:41:32Alan

00:41:33Jones

00:41:33is

00:41:33on

00:41:34Goodyear

00:41:34and

00:41:35Goodyear

00:41:35have

00:41:36produced

00:41:36a new

00:41:36tire

00:41:37a new

00:41:3715-inch

00:41:38front

00:41:38tire

00:41:39for this

00:41:39race

00:41:40which

00:41:41seems to

00:41:42have done

00:41:42the

00:41:42Williams

00:41:43tires

00:41:43a lot

00:41:43of

00:41:43good

00:41:44across

00:41:44the line

00:41:45goes

00:41:45Cross

00:41:46and

00:41:46across

00:41:47the line

00:41:48now

00:41:49goes

00:41:49Alan

00:41:49Jones

00:41:50and

00:41:50the gap

00:41:50is

00:41:503.86

00:41:51seconds

00:41:52so

00:41:54Frost

00:41:54is

00:41:54increasing

00:41:55his lead

00:41:56and

00:41:56I

00:41:57do

00:41:57not

00:41:57believe

00:41:58it

00:41:58is

00:41:58because

00:41:59Alan

00:41:59Jones

00:42:00is

00:42:00having

00:42:00a

00:42:01breather

00:42:01he's

00:42:02dropping

00:42:02back

00:42:03too

00:42:03consistently

00:42:04for that

00:42:05to be

00:42:05the

00:42:06case

00:42:06but

00:42:07also

00:42:08we

00:42:08must

00:42:08remember

00:42:09that

00:42:09Frost

00:42:10was

00:42:10leading

00:42:10the

00:42:10Austrian

00:42:11Grand Prix

00:42:12when

00:42:13he

00:42:13had

00:42:14trouble

00:42:15trouble

00:42:15of a

00:42:16kind

00:42:16that

00:42:16we

00:42:16didn't

00:42:16expect

00:42:17a

00:42:17broken

00:42:17suspension

00:42:18but

00:42:18more

00:42:18of that

00:42:19later

00:42:19yes

00:42:21right

00:42:21what you're

00:42:21saying

00:42:22was

00:42:22quite

00:42:22right

00:42:22about

00:42:23Jones

00:42:23dropping

00:42:23back

00:42:24it's

00:42:24significant

00:42:24also

00:42:24that

00:42:25Nelson

00:42:26Piquet

00:42:26is

00:42:26dropping

00:42:27back

00:42:27proportionately

00:42:29fast

00:42:29to

00:42:29Alan

00:42:29Jones

00:42:30from

00:42:30Prost

00:42:31but

00:42:32talking

00:42:32of

00:42:32tires

00:42:33Piquet

00:42:33is

00:42:33on

00:42:33the

00:42:34same

00:42:34tires

00:42:34good

00:42:34years

00:42:35as

00:42:35Jones

00:42:36and

00:42:37it

00:42:37could

00:42:37be

00:42:37the

00:42:38change

00:42:39in

00:42:39form

00:42:39seems

00:42:39to

00:42:40me

00:42:40to

00:42:40be

00:42:40too

00:42:40subtle

00:42:41for

00:42:42it

00:42:43to

00:42:43be

00:42:43just

00:42:44simply

00:42:44the

00:42:44lightning

00:42:45of

00:42:45the

00:42:45fuel

00:42:45load

00:42:46as

00:42:46I

00:42:46suggested

00:42:49the

00:42:50Renault

00:42:50because

00:42:50it's

00:42:51been

00:42:51quite

00:42:51dramatic

00:42:51Jones

00:42:52from

00:42:52being

00:42:52definitely

00:42:53fast

00:42:54catching

00:42:55him

00:42:55up

00:42:55and

00:42:55climbing

00:42:56about

00:42:56all

00:42:56over

00:42:57him

00:42:57actually

00:42:57getting

00:42:57fired

00:42:58into

00:42:58the

00:42:58lead

00:42:58in front

00:42:59of

00:43:00him

00:43:00on

00:43:00one

00:43:00lap

00:43:00and

00:43:00then

00:43:00immediately

00:43:01losing

00:43:01it

00:43:02again

00:43:02in a

00:43:02very

00:43:02exciting

00:43:03lap

00:43:04when it

00:43:04all

00:43:04happened

00:43:04at once

00:43:05since

00:43:05then

00:43:06the

00:43:08good

00:43:08years

00:43:09on

00:43:09cars

00:43:09seem

00:43:09to

00:43:09have

00:43:10gone

00:43:10backwards

00:43:10relatively

00:43:11and

00:43:12it

00:43:13therefore

00:43:13makes

00:43:14me

00:43:14think

00:43:14that

00:43:15is

00:43:15the

00:43:15difference

00:43:15it

00:43:19good

00:43:21year

00:43:21runners

00:43:22have

00:43:22run

00:43:22a

00:43:22fairly

00:43:22soft

00:43:23compound

00:43:23a bit

00:43:24marginally

00:43:24and

00:43:25therefore

00:43:25they're

00:43:26struggling

00:43:26a little

00:43:27bit

00:43:27with

00:43:27wear

00:43:27as

00:43:27the

00:43:27tire

00:43:28wear

00:43:28gets

00:43:28on

00:43:28or

00:43:29of course

00:43:30alternatively

00:43:30it could

00:43:31be

00:43:31that

00:43:31the

00:43:33Michelin

00:43:33tires

00:43:34on

00:43:34the

00:43:34Renault

00:43:35are

00:43:35now

00:43:35coming

00:43:36good

00:43:36in

00:43:36the

00:43:36race

00:43:37especially

00:43:37make

00:43:37tires

00:43:38essentially

00:43:39very

00:43:39durable

00:43:39in

00:43:39the

00:43:39race

00:43:40and

00:43:40have

00:43:40problems

00:43:41very

00:43:42often

00:43:42with

00:43:42tires

00:43:43going

00:43:43on

00:43:43and

00:43:44it

00:43:44may

00:43:44be

00:43:44that

00:43:44they're

00:43:44just

00:43:44setting

00:43:45him

00:43:45really

00:43:46well

00:43:46I

00:43:49am

00:43:49sorry

00:43:49to say

00:43:50to

00:43:51Williams

00:43:51fans

00:43:52that

00:43:53Alan

00:43:53Jones

00:43:54must

00:43:54be

00:43:54in

00:43:54some

00:43:55sort

00:43:55of

00:43:55trouble

00:43:55not

00:43:56just

00:43:56because

00:43:57he

00:43:57is

00:43:57dropping

00:43:57back

00:43:58and

00:43:58increasing

00:43:59the

00:43:59gap

00:43:59between

00:43:59himself

00:44:00and

00:44:00Alain

00:44:01Cross

00:44:01the

00:44:01leader

00:44:02but

00:44:02because

00:44:03he

00:44:03himself

00:44:04is

00:44:04signaling

00:44:04to

00:44:05his

00:44:05pits

00:44:05as

00:44:05he

00:44:06goes

00:44:06by

00:44:06I

00:44:07had

00:44:07a

00:44:07good

00:44:07look

00:44:07while

00:44:08James

00:44:08was

00:44:08talking

00:44:09on

00:44:09that

00:44:10lap

00:44:10and

00:44:11Alan

00:44:12Jones

00:44:12was

00:44:12making

00:44:13some

00:44:13sort

00:44:13of

00:44:13mysterious

00:44:14signal

00:44:14to

00:44:15his

00:44:15pit

00:44:16people

00:44:16I

00:44:17couldn't

00:44:17decipher

00:44:18it

00:44:18myself

00:44:18there

00:44:19he

00:44:19is

00:44:19maybe

00:44:20we

00:44:20will

00:44:21get

00:44:21a

00:44:21look

00:44:21at

00:44:21him

00:44:21as

00:44:22he

00:44:22comes

00:44:22through

00:44:22and

00:44:23completes

00:44:23the

00:44:23lap

00:44:24meantime

00:44:24we're

00:44:25having

00:44:25a

00:44:25jolly

00:44:25good

00:44:26pier

00:44:27and

00:44:28it

00:44:28looks

00:44:28to

00:44:28me

00:44:28as

00:44:28he's

00:44:29actually

00:44:29a bit

00:44:29closer

00:44:30to

00:44:30Cross

00:44:30than

00:44:30he

00:44:31was

00:44:31it

00:44:31was

00:44:314.7

00:44:32seconds

00:44:33on

00:44:33the

00:44:33previous

00:44:33lap

00:44:34while

00:44:35he

00:44:35goes

00:44:35past

00:44:36it's

00:44:375

00:44:37seconds

00:44:385.04

00:44:39seconds

00:44:40so

00:44:41Cross

00:44:43is

00:44:43increasing

00:44:44his

00:44:44lead

00:44:45at

00:44:45the

00:44:45rate

00:44:45of

00:44:46half

00:44:47a

00:44:47second

00:44:47to

00:44:48a

00:44:48second

00:44:48a

00:44:49lap

00:44:49at

00:44:49the

00:44:49press

00:44:50moment

00:44:50not

00:44:50withstanding

00:44:51the

00:44:51fact

00:44:52that

00:44:52Jones

00:44:52is

00:44:52continuing

00:44:53to

00:44:53press

00:44:53very

00:44:54very

00:44:54hard

00:44:55indeed

00:44:55never

00:44:56give

00:44:56up

00:44:57and

00:44:58Jones

00:44:58concede

00:45:00metaphorically

00:45:026 points

00:45:03in front

00:45:04of him

00:45:04and those

00:45:056 points

00:45:06are going

00:45:06to really

00:45:06close up

00:45:07the world

00:45:07championship

00:45:08gap

00:45:08Jones

00:45:09in

00:45:10second

00:45:10place

00:45:10Piquet

00:45:11is

00:45:11still

00:45:11third

00:45:12Watson

00:45:13is

00:45:13now

00:45:13about

00:45:1415

00:45:14seconds

00:45:15behind

00:45:16Piquet

00:45:18Watson

00:45:18in

00:45:19fourth

00:45:19position

00:45:20in

00:45:21fifth

00:45:21position

00:45:22Hector

00:45:22Rebac

00:45:23in

00:45:23sixth

00:45:23place

00:45:24Elliot

00:45:24Angelis

00:45:25then

00:45:25in

00:45:26seventh

00:45:26place

00:45:27Mark

00:45:27Scherer

00:45:27eighth

00:45:28Eddie

00:45:29Cheever

00:45:29ninth

00:45:30Salazar

00:45:31who went

00:45:32out of

00:45:32the

00:45:32Austrian

00:45:33Grand Prix

00:45:33in

00:45:34tenth

00:45:34place

00:45:34so

00:45:34Salazar

00:45:35is

00:45:35higher

00:45:36up

00:45:36in

00:45:36a

00:45:36Grand

00:45:36Prix

00:45:37than

00:45:37he

00:45:37has

00:45:38ever

00:45:38been

00:45:38before

00:45:39in

00:45:39his

00:45:39first

00:45:40season

00:45:40of

00:45:41world

00:45:41championship

00:45:42Grand

00:45:42Prix

00:45:42racing

00:45:43a

00:45:43fine

00:45:44achievement

00:45:44and

00:45:44let us

00:45:44hope

00:45:45that

00:45:45he

00:45:45finishes

00:45:45this

00:45:46time

00:45:46and

00:45:46brings

00:45:47some

00:45:47luck

00:45:47to

00:45:50sign

00:45:50team

00:45:50out

00:45:51of

00:45:52the

00:45:52cross

00:45:53sweet

00:45:53corner

00:45:53again

00:45:54come

00:45:55Alain

00:45:55cross

00:45:55and

00:45:56here

00:45:56is

00:45:56second

00:45:57place

00:45:57Alan

00:45:57Jones

00:45:58chasing

00:45:58the

00:45:59Frenchman

00:45:59down

00:46:00to

00:46:00Tarzan

00:46:01with

00:46:02Nelson

00:46:03Piquet

00:46:03coming

00:46:04out

00:46:05of

00:46:05cross

00:46:06sweet

00:46:06chasing

00:46:07Mario

00:46:07Andretti

00:46:08who has

00:46:08long

00:46:09since

00:46:09been

00:46:09lapped

00:46:10by

00:46:10Alan

00:46:11Jones

00:46:11in

00:46:12fact

00:46:12Mario

00:46:13Andretti

00:46:14is

00:46:15four

00:46:15laps

00:46:16now

00:46:16behind

00:46:17the

00:46:17leaders

00:46:17and

00:46:18everybody

00:46:19up

00:46:19to

00:46:19sixth

00:46:20position

00:46:20that

00:46:21is

00:46:21to

00:46:21say

00:46:21Elliot

00:46:21Angelus

00:46:22has

00:46:23been

00:46:23lapped

00:46:23by

00:46:24both

00:46:25Alain

00:46:26cross

00:46:26the

00:46:26race

00:46:27leader

00:46:27Alan

00:46:28Jones

00:46:28in

00:46:28second

00:46:29place

00:46:29as

00:46:30Jones

00:46:30goes

00:46:30round

00:46:31and sky

00:46:32black

00:46:32that

00:46:32very

00:46:33fast

00:46:33right

00:46:34hander

00:46:34notches

00:46:35the gearbox

00:46:36up into

00:46:36fourth

00:46:37position

00:46:37now

00:46:38back

00:46:38into

00:46:38second

00:46:39for

00:46:39the

00:46:39left

00:46:39hand

00:46:40part

00:46:40of

00:46:40the

00:46:40Marlborough

00:46:41and

00:46:41now

00:46:43a way

00:46:43to

00:46:44complete

00:46:44another

00:46:44lap

00:46:45and

00:46:45that

00:46:45will

00:46:46be

00:46:46the

00:46:46end

00:46:46of

00:46:46lap

00:46:4639

00:46:47pretty lonely

00:47:07third place

00:47:07at the moment

00:47:08he's got

00:47:08that part

00:47:09of the

00:47:10circuit

00:47:10to himself

00:47:11Nelson

00:47:12Piquet

00:47:13challenging

00:47:14for points

00:47:15all the time

00:47:16he goes

00:47:16into the

00:47:17left

00:47:17hander

00:47:17at

00:47:18Hugenholz

00:47:19that's the

00:47:20car drift

00:47:20out

00:47:20but not

00:47:21too much

00:47:21there

00:47:22you can

00:47:23see

00:47:23the gaps

00:47:23Jones

00:47:246.3

00:47:25seconds

00:47:25behind

00:47:26cross

00:47:26then

00:47:27Piquet

00:47:28behind

00:47:29him

00:47:30John

00:47:30Watson

00:47:31is 15

00:47:31seconds

00:47:32behind

00:47:32Piquet

00:47:33in fourth

00:47:33place

00:47:34Hector

00:47:34Reback

00:47:35and

00:47:35Alio

00:47:36De Angelis

00:47:37is one

00:47:38ronda

00:47:39one lap

00:47:40short

00:47:40because he

00:47:41has been

00:47:42lapped by

00:47:42the race

00:47:43leader

00:47:43Nelson

00:47:43Piquet

00:47:44number

00:47:45five

00:47:46second in

00:47:48the world

00:47:48championship

00:47:49this year

00:47:50not the

00:47:58most

00:47:58reliable

00:47:59of races

00:48:00although

00:48:01some of

00:48:02the

00:48:02retirements

00:48:03Jacques

00:48:03Lafitte

00:48:04and

00:48:04Hector

00:48:06Carlos

00:48:07Reutemann

00:48:08who

00:48:08tangled

00:48:08of course

00:48:09has nothing

00:48:09to do

00:48:10with the

00:48:10motor cars

00:48:11the reliability

00:48:12of the

00:48:13engines

00:48:13the gearboxes

00:48:14or anything

00:48:14else

00:48:15for that

00:48:15matter

00:48:15but

00:48:16obviously

00:48:17quite a lot

00:48:18of car

00:48:18trouble

00:48:18for other

00:48:19competitors

00:48:19too

00:48:20as we

00:48:21look at

00:48:21Nelson

00:48:21Piquet

00:48:22going to

00:48:23Sargent

00:48:23now

00:48:23this is

00:48:23175 miles

00:48:25an hour

00:48:25for this

00:48:26point

00:48:26down

00:48:26through

00:48:27the

00:48:27gearbox

00:48:27right

00:48:28down

00:48:28into

00:48:29second

00:48:30gear

00:48:30very

00:48:31very

00:48:32tight

00:48:32bend

00:48:32it's

00:48:33one

00:48:33of

00:48:33these

00:48:33bends

00:48:33keeps

00:48:34on

00:48:34going

00:48:34on

00:48:35and

00:48:35then

00:48:36it's

00:48:36a

00:48:36way

00:48:36to

00:48:36scale

00:48:37up

00:48:37the

00:48:38left

00:48:39and

00:48:40right

00:48:40then

00:48:40down

00:48:41to

00:48:41Hugenholz

00:48:42the left

00:48:42hander

00:48:42and up

00:48:43through

00:48:43the gears

00:48:44second

00:48:44to third

00:48:45gear

00:48:45then up

00:48:46to fourth

00:48:46gear

00:48:47155 miles

00:48:48an hour

00:48:48down to

00:48:49the

00:48:49Rob

00:48:50Slotermacher

00:48:50bend

00:48:51round to

00:48:52the right

00:48:52hander

00:48:52and ski

00:48:53black

00:48:53which is

00:48:54where

00:48:54third

00:48:54placeman

00:48:55Nelson

00:48:55Piquet

00:48:56is now

00:48:56and

00:48:57Piquet

00:48:58is

00:48:5916

00:48:59seconds

00:49:00behind

00:49:01Alan

00:49:01Jones

00:49:02and

00:49:0316

00:49:04seconds

00:49:05ahead

00:49:06of

00:49:06John

00:49:06Watson

00:49:07so

00:49:07Piquet

00:49:08is

00:49:08certainly

00:49:09having

00:49:09to

00:49:09pace

00:49:10himself

00:49:10watch

00:49:11his

00:49:12lap

00:49:12forward

00:49:13signals

00:49:14as he

00:49:14completes

00:49:15each

00:49:15lap

00:49:15to tell

00:49:16him

00:49:16what

00:49:16the

00:49:16gap

00:49:17between

00:49:17himself

00:49:18and

00:49:18the

00:49:18man

00:49:18ahead

00:49:18of

00:49:19him

00:49:19Alan

00:49:19Jones

00:49:19is

00:49:20and

00:49:21he

00:49:22therefore

00:49:22hasn't

00:49:22got

00:49:22the

00:49:23stimulus

00:49:23of

00:49:23being

00:49:23very

00:49:24close

00:49:24to

00:49:24somebody

00:49:25to

00:49:25provide

00:49:25the

00:49:25challenge

00:49:26the

00:49:27the

00:49:27thing

00:49:29of

00:49:30the

00:49:31the

00:49:32that

00:49:34will

00:49:34to

00:49:34do

00:49:36you

00:49:37the

00:49:38the

00:49:39the

00:49:42the

00:49:43the

00:49:46the

00:49:50the

00:49:51the

00:49:53the

00:49:55lap 43 and if your heart skip a beat because the man in the picture is Alan Jones and you think

00:50:07he's in the lead I'm sorry to disappoint you he is not because Alain Prost is still up front

00:50:14notwithstanding the fact that that terrific tussle between himself and the world champion

00:50:20that we're looking at now was resolved at one point when Alain Jones scrambled by but Alain Prost with

00:50:28a flash of gallic fire just prodded the right-hand pedal a bit more and surged past Alain Jones on the

00:50:35run down to Tarzan and has now extended his lead Alain Jones has got something wrong with the car

00:50:42it may be that the tires are going off a bit but he's now eight seconds behind Alain Prost

00:50:48with Nelson Piquet behind him and a long way behind him some 16 seconds behind his third position

00:50:55then another 16 seconds back in his John Watson his fifth position is Hector Reback in the second of the

00:51:03two Parvalas Brabham in sixth place and he has been lapped by Alain Prost the race leader but not yet

00:51:10by Alain Jones is Elio De Angelis and with Jack Lafitte and Carlos Reutemann having gone out of the race

00:51:19when they tangled and pushed each other off the circuit the world championship position is going to be

00:51:25incredibly close at the end of this race if the positions remain as they are now I wonder if Alain Jones

00:51:33has got the same sort of problem as he has in America in Austria we don't know but there's plenty of time to find out

00:51:40and I tell you again Prost is leading from Jones Piquet is in third position Watson Reback and Agnes

00:51:47De Angelis we're on lap 44 it is a 72 lap race

00:52:1711th position in Germany back in the points in Austria and now he's got to try and do something about

00:52:27number 15 Alain Prost and Jones has got about 25 laps to do it but I don't think he can or I'm going to start

00:52:36watching very carefully the gap between number 15 Prost this man the 26 year old Frenchman and Alan Jones to see whether

00:52:45Alan is closing up it's Siegfried Sturr the Italian psychologist who gets involved in a bit of yoga before all the races begins

00:52:55who is ahead of Prost now the bearded Siegfried Sturr who notwithstanding his very Germanic name is Italian

00:53:07ex-Formula 3 champion of Italy did well in Formula 2 in a Tolman last year because Sturr won one of the Formula 2 championship races last year

00:53:19and you may pass on my right was the signal which he gave Prost and Prost has taken advantage of it

00:53:29and surged through enormous power that V6 one and a half litre Renault engine produces it is alleged about 540

00:53:41believe it or not great horsepower and here is Prost coming up to complete the lap and I'll give you the gap

00:53:47between himself and the second place man Alan Jones

00:53:53and there's the replay as he passes Sturr and the gap is 7.84 seconds

00:54:05and we're back live with Alan Frost on his way to his second Grand Prix victory

00:54:13third in the Argentine Grand Prix a brilliant first if he had to win a Grand Prix anywhere he would have wanted of course being very French

00:54:25he wanted to be a professional footballer but decided he would take up motor racing experience

00:54:31and if he wanted to win any race it was obviously going to be in France and he did jump that

00:54:35well just looking at this race now Murray it seems really a shame that the field has spread out a little bit

00:54:43the some sort of dominance that Alan Prost stands on it has really swallowed in

00:54:51something with Prost steering up earlier but the gap hasn't changed much in the last 3 or 4 laps

00:54:57or even 5 laps whether that's the fact that Prost has now established himself in 8 seconds

00:55:03or thereabouts over Alan Jones in 2nd place that is taking it easy

00:55:07or whether that little burst that he put on earlier relative certainly to Jones and Piquet

00:55:15whether that was some good ball for his car that's now gone

00:55:19let's hope in a way that it's a latter and that we can close that for a good race for the end

00:55:25there's Alan Jones just going round for Charles to have this

00:55:29he's had an absolutely marvellous year he's driven without doubt his best ever season

00:55:35it's just been a little bit unlucky not to not to have more points but of course that's the way it goes

00:55:39in major racing driving well and getting results for two very different things very often

00:55:43which is a sad thing about about sport but it's the nature of it with mechanical things involved as well

00:55:49and of course it means that your team therefore coming to a very important part and so does luck as well

00:55:57there's John Watson going in 4th place going very well indeed having another good race

00:56:03it was a bit of a disappointment for the Molder team in Austria after their

00:56:09win in Britain but the car definitely goes well on some part circuit and they're getting better and better all the time

00:56:17and it's nice to see the Molder team

00:56:21apparently at last re-emerging for their new management

00:56:25start at the beginning of the season definitely paying dividends and improving it so they continue to improve

00:56:31Watson certainly driving with a new confidence and aggression now that he's got certain reasonable machinery to play with

00:56:41John Watson of course the British Grand Prix winner fifth equal in the world championship

00:56:47and since the British Grand Prix he has finished sixth in Germany and sixth in Austria

00:56:53he was second in France and third in Spain

00:56:55so he's got a lot of very solid drives behind him in the points to give him that fifth equal championship position

00:57:03and driving what in my opinion is certainly the prettiest car in the world championship Formula 1 series at the moment

00:57:11the Marlborough MP4 designed by John Barnard

00:57:15and it's made out of carbon fibre in a unique and distinctive way and it showed its strength this car

00:57:23when at this point just there

00:57:25Andrew De Cesaris went off in practice yesterday at 130 miles an hour

00:57:31replay of John Watson

00:57:33and have a look at how little the suspension of these cars flexes now

00:57:37you can see the rockers hardly moving

00:57:41and that is because there is only about an inch of suspension movement on these Formula 1 cars now

00:57:45and indeed the tyres are one of the main suspension items

00:57:51because you look at the side of the car and you see it is essential to maintain the minimum ground clearance

00:57:57in order to get the maximum ground force and we're looking now you can see again a crossed car

00:58:03exactly the same situation applies

00:58:05exactly the same situation applies

00:58:07and I was saying and I'll very quickly finish that point

00:58:11that notwithstanding the fact that Andrew De Cesaris went straight into the armco

00:58:15separated only by a pile of tyres

00:58:17at over 130 miles an hour

00:58:19the carbon fibre tub of his Marlborough MP4

00:58:23absorbed all the punishment virtually unscathed

00:58:25and De Cesaris stepped out of the car without a scratch on him

00:58:29incredible

00:58:31Frost the leader

00:58:33and Frost is on his 51st lap

00:58:37in this 72 lap race

00:58:39and although he's got a comfortable cushion

00:58:41between himself and Alan Jones

00:58:43René Arnoux that is

00:58:45Frost team leader

00:58:47team mates rather

00:58:49I think they

00:58:51with Murray Claude Beaumont

00:58:53the Renault

00:58:55team PR

00:58:57lady in attendance

00:58:59and there is

00:59:01Arnoux's team mate

00:59:03and Arnoux's had a terrible season

00:59:05he's failed to finish in race after race

00:59:07and as Secret Star

00:59:09comes into the pits

00:59:11with a flapping tyre on the near side

00:59:13rear wheel

00:59:15he comes into the Arrows

00:59:17into the Renault Arrows pit position

00:59:19and you can see

00:59:21rope a really good pit stop at work now

00:59:23off comes the wheel

00:59:25and one of those mechanics is Dave Luckett

00:59:27the man who was

00:59:29trapped between Sturr's car

00:59:31and Matrizzi's car at Zolder

00:59:33and there's another puncture

00:59:35this is the

00:59:37ATS car

00:59:39of Slim Borgud

00:59:41and I wonder if that is significant

00:59:43that is an Avon tyre

00:59:45that is punctured on Borgud's car

00:59:47it's a Pirelli tyre

00:59:49that is punctured on the Arrows

00:59:51of Sturr

00:59:53who is now out of the pits

00:59:55but it looks as though the tyres

00:59:57are taking a lot of stick on the circuit

00:59:59yes I think

01:00:01it's a very abrasive surface

01:00:03that's absolutely correct

01:00:05we've got a bit of sand in it and things

01:00:07but that's John Watson

01:00:09stop

01:00:11John Watson in 4th position

01:00:13out of the race

01:00:14and I wonder why

01:00:15I'm trying to get a close look at the car

01:00:17the car

01:00:19the near side rear suspension

01:00:21looked a bit umpty to me

01:00:23but it may not have been that

01:00:25John of course was some 16 seconds behind

01:00:27Piquet in 3rd position

01:00:29and that means to say

01:00:31that with Watson out of the race

01:00:33with Borgud coming in

01:00:35and as I have said before

01:00:37it looks as though the car mortality

01:00:39is such that

01:00:41there are going to be remarkably few finishers

01:00:43in this Dutch Grand Prix

01:00:45and there's still a long way to go

01:00:47they were on lap 52

01:00:49there's another 20 laps to go

01:00:51and the Michelin tyres of Prost's car

01:00:55are taking just as much of a hammering of course

01:00:57as the Avons, the Pirellis and the Goodyears

01:01:00of the other competitors

01:01:02and I wonder how they're going to stand up to it

01:01:04they must be very worried in the Renault pits

01:01:07because they should have won several races this year

01:01:11well you could say should have

01:01:13if this had happened and if that hadn't

01:01:15they would have won more races

01:01:17but then so would Alan Jones

01:01:19and it's probably even Steven in the end

01:01:21but Prost went out of the Austrian Grand Prix

01:01:25the man that we're looking at now

01:01:27in the lead in Holland

01:01:29through no fault of his own

01:01:31and it would in a way be poetic justice

01:01:33if he came home first in this race

01:01:35the Austrian Grand Prix

01:01:36and he's showing every sign of doing just that

01:01:38because he is now 12 seconds ahead of Alan Jones

01:01:56Jones closing up on the fourth baseman

01:01:59Hector Riback

01:02:01the Mexican

01:02:03in Mexican construction

01:02:07very successful business of his own

01:02:09there's Nelson Piquet

01:02:11and we move from Riback and Piquet

01:02:19and Jones

01:02:21with Jones on his way to lap Riback

01:02:23who is in fourth place

01:02:25we move to Nelson Piquet

01:02:27in third position

01:02:28so the two Parmalat Brabhams are in third and fourth places

01:02:32in one race earlier on this year

01:02:35they were in first and second places

01:02:38in the Argentine

01:02:39because Hector Riback

01:02:40drove as he had never driven before or since

01:02:43and actually got up to second place

01:02:45behind his teammates

01:02:46there is his teammate

01:02:48two Grand Prix victories behind him

01:02:51this year

01:02:52Nelson Piquet

01:02:53six Grand Prix wins altogether

01:02:56second in last year's world championship

01:02:59and he won the race before last in Germany

01:03:03and finished third in Austria

01:03:04just two weekends ago

01:03:06surely a world champion of the future

01:03:09second last year

01:03:11second in this year's championship

01:03:14a very real chance of winning

01:03:16as he finishes this race only two points behind

01:03:19Carlos Reutemann

01:03:20who is of course out of the Dutch Grand Prix

01:03:25Mario Andretti in the Alfa Romeo is ahead of Nelson Piquet

01:03:31and really there are now only

01:03:35well in terms of really doing anything

01:03:39it's only a race between Prost, Jones and Piquet

01:03:45who have got 32 seconds between Prost and Piquet

01:03:49that we're looking at now

01:03:50who is in third position

01:03:51because as you have heard

01:03:53Rebac who is in fourth place

01:03:55The Angelis who is in fifth

01:03:57Shearer who is in sixth

01:03:59and Salazar who is in seventh place

01:04:01has all been lapped

01:04:02Salazar is still only one lap behind the race leader

01:04:07but then Albaretto who is eighth

01:04:09has been lapped twice

01:04:11and so on

01:04:12right down to Andretti who has been lapped

01:04:14four times in 11th place

01:04:16Yes it was a pity really

01:04:18the race I think lost

01:04:19apart from the concertina in going the other way

01:04:22whilst the early leaders crossed

01:04:24Joseph Piquet

01:04:25looked like they were closing up together

01:04:26there's Piquet

01:04:27in a very lonely third place

01:04:29the race lost a lot of character

01:04:31where of course Reutemann at the feet went out

01:04:35and it was an interesting situation

01:04:37because I thought it was very uncharacteristic of Reutemann

01:04:40who was trying to overtake the feet at the time

01:04:43he's come down the inside under braking

01:04:45and we saw that little shot of an action replay

01:04:47and er

01:04:49but we didn't see the whole thing

01:04:50so we don't really know what happened

01:04:52but what I do know is that Reutemann

01:04:54is a very defensive driver

01:04:55very careful

01:04:56very experienced

01:04:57and er

01:04:58he's leading the championship

01:04:59and his main concern now

01:05:01would be just to put

01:05:02pick up points

01:05:03or it should be

01:05:04unless of course the pressure's getting to him

01:05:05and he could see his closest rival

01:05:07in front of him

01:05:08and was beginning to panic a bit

01:05:09but er

01:05:10that's unlike

01:05:11unlike Carlos

01:05:12but er

01:05:13of course the circumstances of action

01:05:14we can only speculate on

01:05:15but one has to say

01:05:16that er

01:05:17if he was overtaken from behind

01:05:18he must have

01:05:19some contributory factor

01:05:20by the very fact

01:05:21that he was overtaken

01:05:22if er

01:05:23he may maintain

01:05:24that the feet moved over on him

01:05:25or something like that

01:05:26going into the corner

01:05:27but er

01:05:28certainly it would seem to me

01:05:29that it was er

01:05:30er

01:05:31very much

01:05:32if er

01:05:33if there was any

01:05:34element of perpetuosity

01:05:35in the er

01:05:36overtaking manoeuvre

01:05:37from Carlos Reutemann

01:05:38the fundamental

01:05:39er

01:05:40tactic of errors

01:05:41at this stage

01:05:42er

01:05:43of the championship

01:05:44he's got a little beat

01:05:45the other guy's been

01:05:46and slowed down

01:05:47or broke down

01:05:48during the race

01:05:49and er

01:05:50he certainly

01:05:51the last place he wants to be

01:05:52is back in his er

01:05:53caravan changing

01:05:55well er

01:05:56if I was er

01:05:57advising the producer

01:05:58and let me hate to say

01:05:59I am not

01:06:00what I would be saying

01:06:01to him now

01:06:02as we look at er

01:06:03Nelson Piquet

01:06:04and Alan Jones

01:06:05has been the quickest

01:06:06so far

01:06:07as you see

01:06:08it's 1 minute 21.83

01:06:09which is well off

01:06:11Rennie Arnoux's

01:06:12last year's

01:06:13lap record

01:06:141 minute 19.87

01:06:16and er

01:06:18as Piquet completes

01:06:19another lap

01:06:20I would be saying

01:06:21why not have a look

01:06:22at this terrific battle

01:06:23that is going on

01:06:25for sixth position

01:06:26which unfortunately

01:06:27we can't see

01:06:28between

01:06:29Marc Führer

01:06:30the Swiss driver

01:06:31in the Theodore

01:06:32and

01:06:33Elisio Salazar

01:06:34the Chilean

01:06:35in the

01:06:36Mo Nun

01:06:37and

01:06:38Nigel Bennett

01:06:39designed ensign

01:06:40because they are

01:06:41hammer and tongs

01:06:42at it

01:06:43for sixth position

01:06:44maybe we'll see

01:06:45a bit of it later

01:06:46we're concentrating

01:06:47for the moment

01:06:48on

01:06:49one of the

01:06:50very top men

01:06:51of

01:06:52Motor Racing

01:06:53World Championship

01:06:54Grand Prix

01:06:55who is rumoured

01:06:56and I emphasise

01:06:57and heavily underline

01:06:58the word rumour

01:07:00to be moving

01:07:01to the Marlborough team

01:07:02next year

01:07:03we were looking at

01:07:04Nelson Piquet

01:07:05now we look at

01:07:06the leader

01:07:07Alain Prost

01:07:09who has fought his way

01:07:10past

01:07:11and Salazar

01:07:12has got ahead

01:07:13of number 14

01:07:14Salazar

01:07:15that we just saw

01:07:17behind Alain Prost

01:07:19as Prost goes round

01:07:20Tarzan

01:07:21look for the next two

01:07:22you see the red

01:07:23and white

01:07:24ensign

01:07:25of

01:07:26Elisio Salazar

01:07:27ahead of

01:07:28the white

01:07:29Theodore

01:07:30of the Swiss driver

01:07:31Mark Fuhrer

01:07:32and Elisio Salazar

01:07:33as we watch

01:07:34the leader

01:07:35Alain Prost

01:07:36Salazar has moved up

01:07:38into a fine

01:07:39sixth position

01:07:40and into the

01:07:41world championship points

01:07:42on lap 59

01:07:44out of 72

01:07:46and Salazar

01:07:47I just caught

01:07:48a quick

01:07:49flash there

01:07:50has already pulled out

01:07:51two or three

01:07:52car length speed

01:07:53over

01:07:54Schürer

01:07:55and behind Schürer

01:07:56but

01:07:57several laps

01:07:58behind

01:07:59is Slim Borgud

01:08:00in the yellow

01:08:01ATS

01:08:02the leader

01:08:03Alain Prost

01:08:04is it going to be

01:08:05his second

01:08:06Grand Prix win

01:08:07he goes down

01:08:08into

01:08:09Voskuit

01:08:10there's Salazar

01:08:12here

01:08:13is

01:08:14Prost

01:08:23and

01:08:24I wonder

01:08:25if

01:08:26Mark Fuhrer

01:08:27is wryly

01:08:28thinking to himself

01:08:29Elisio Salazar

01:08:31took my seat

01:08:32in that car

01:08:33because he did

01:08:34as they thunder

01:08:36down the straight

01:08:37towards Tarzan

01:08:38behind Alain Prost

01:08:39the leader

01:08:40Mark Shearer

01:08:41who's seen

01:08:42in the end

01:08:43time

01:08:44was taken

01:08:45by

01:08:46Elisio Salazar

01:08:47has dropped

01:08:48down to

01:08:497th place

01:08:50Salazar

01:08:51in 6th position

01:08:522 laps now

01:08:53behind the leaders

01:08:54De Angelis

01:08:55in 5th position

01:08:56has been lapped

01:08:57Henker Riback

01:08:58in 4th place

01:08:59has been lapped

01:09:00Nelson Piquet

01:09:01is in 3rd position

01:09:03a long way

01:09:04behind Alan Jones

01:09:05who is increasingly

01:09:06dropping back

01:09:07behind Alan Prost

01:09:09that we

01:09:10look at now

01:09:11so

01:09:12Prost's problem

01:09:13is simply

01:09:14to keep going

01:09:15he can afford

01:09:16to lose

01:09:17quite a lot of time

01:09:18pace the car

01:09:20but

01:09:21not slow down

01:09:22so much

01:09:23that he loses

01:09:24his concentration

01:09:25which is a very dangerous

01:09:26thing to do

01:09:27and you can go off

01:09:28in a flash

01:09:29because

01:09:30because

01:09:31the cars are going

01:09:32very very quickly

01:09:33indeed

01:09:34there is

01:09:35Prost

01:09:42diminutive drivers

01:09:43they build very small cars

01:09:44at Renault

01:09:45because they have

01:09:46very small drivers

01:09:47for them

01:09:48Alan Prost

01:09:49and

01:09:50René Arnault

01:09:51are

01:09:52both slight of stature

01:09:53and Prost is completing

01:09:55now

01:09:56his

01:09:5760th lap

01:09:59and he goes

01:10:00across the line

01:10:01and I've got the stopwatch

01:10:02running

01:10:03to see how far

01:10:04Alain Prost is now

01:10:05ahead of

01:10:06Alain Jones

01:10:07ahead of

01:10:08Alain Jones

01:10:09and

01:10:10the answer is

01:10:117.25 seconds

01:10:13the gap has come down

01:10:14a bit

01:10:15but

01:10:16it could well be

01:10:17because

01:10:18Prost is taking things easy

01:10:19keeping away

01:10:20from the verges

01:10:22so as not to damage his tyres

01:10:23especially there

01:10:24which is

01:10:25as I have said before

01:10:26where Alain Jones

01:10:27went off so

01:10:28disastrously last year

01:10:29giving himself

01:10:30plenty of room

01:10:31perhaps

01:10:32changing up

01:10:33a fraction

01:10:34of a second

01:10:35earlier

01:10:36than he would

01:10:37normally do

01:10:38perhaps

01:10:39braking

01:10:40a fraction

01:10:41earlier

01:10:42than he would

01:10:43normally do

01:10:44giving the car

01:10:45the kindest

01:10:46easiest

01:10:47time possible

01:10:48knowing

01:10:49that he's still got

01:10:50a fair distance

01:10:51to go

01:10:52knowing that he's got

01:10:53a comfortable cushion

01:10:54knowing

01:10:55that

01:10:56if he can finish this race

01:10:57where he is

01:10:58it's going to be

01:10:59his second Grand Prix win

01:11:01of 1981

01:11:02making him very much

01:11:04the darling of France

01:11:05which he made himself

01:11:06also of course

01:11:07when he won

01:11:08the French Grand Prix

01:11:09and he's rather put

01:11:11René Arnoux's nose

01:11:12out of joint

01:11:13because

01:11:14René might well

01:11:16have regarded himself

01:11:17as being the Renault

01:11:19team leader

01:11:20when Jean-Pierre Jadoui

01:11:21went to Torben

01:11:22at the beginning of this year

01:11:24but in terms of sheer ability

01:11:28I'm afraid it's been crossed

01:11:30rather than Arnoux

01:11:31who has got the results

01:11:32this year

01:11:33and the gap between

01:11:48Prost and Jones

01:11:50is now up to

01:11:5114.9 seconds

01:11:55Jones is clearly nursing

01:11:57the motor car

01:11:58for some reason or another

01:11:59I cannot believe that

01:12:01Prost is that much superior

01:12:04or the Renault that much better

01:12:06than the Williams

01:12:07for him to be pulling away

01:12:09on sheer driving ability

01:12:11or car superiority

01:12:12as we watch Salazar

01:12:14now

01:12:15a good opportunity

01:12:16to have a good close look

01:12:18at the ensign

01:12:19the Mona Nigel Bennett

01:12:21ensign of

01:12:22Elisio Salazar

01:12:23who

01:12:25if he finishes where he is

01:12:27will

01:12:28must achieve

01:12:29one of his championships

01:12:30and that's the finish

01:12:31in the points

01:12:32he's in 6th position

01:12:3514th in Spain

01:12:37and

01:12:38in every other race

01:12:40this year

01:12:41he has either failed

01:12:42to qualify

01:12:43just a few of them

01:12:44but then he moved up

01:12:45into a situation

01:12:46where he very clearly

01:12:47became an obvious qualifier

01:12:49only to have trouble

01:12:50in race after race

01:12:51and to fail to finish

01:12:53this is

01:12:54his

01:12:55his

01:12:56fifth

01:12:57Grand Prix

01:12:58the man who entered racing

01:12:59there's Mark Kurer

01:13:01behind Kurer

01:13:02is Smith Borgut

01:13:03there is

01:13:04Jean Pierre

01:13:05Hector Rebac

01:13:08with Alan Jones

01:13:09in front of him

01:13:10and Alan Jones

01:13:11is now

01:13:12about to lap

01:13:13the fourth place

01:13:14now

01:13:15so the Dutch Grand Prix

01:13:16we must honestly say

01:13:17has become

01:13:18a bit professional

01:13:19but every time

01:13:20I have said that

01:13:21in the past

01:13:22something

01:13:23exciting has happened

01:13:24to change the situation

01:13:25altogether

01:13:26the situation at the moment

01:13:27being

01:13:28that

01:13:29on lap

01:13:3063

01:13:31out of

01:13:3272

01:13:33with therefore

01:13:34nine laps

01:13:35including the one

01:13:36they are on the go

01:13:37Alan

01:13:38Frost is leading

01:13:39Alan Jones

01:13:40by

01:13:4115

01:13:42seconds

01:13:43Nelson

01:13:44Piquet

01:13:45is 11 seconds

01:13:46in third place

01:13:47behind Alan Jones

01:13:48Hector Rebac

01:13:49in the second

01:13:50of the two

01:13:51Brabhams

01:13:52because the first

01:13:53of them is his team

01:13:54leader Nelson Piquet

01:13:55is in fourth place

01:13:56a lap

01:13:57behind the leaders

01:13:58Elio De Angelis

01:13:59in the John

01:14:00Clare Special

01:14:01Lotus

01:14:02is in fifth place

01:14:03a lap

01:14:04behind

01:14:05Elisio Salazar

01:14:06is sixth

01:14:07then

01:14:08is Sura

01:14:09seventh

01:14:10Alvaretto

01:14:11eighth

01:14:12Siegfried Sturr

01:14:13is in ninth position

01:14:14in spite of having to come

01:14:15into the pits

01:14:16to change that tyre

01:14:17Slim Borgut

01:14:18that we have seen

01:14:19is four laps

01:14:20behind the leaders

01:14:21but in tenth place

01:14:22Mario Andretti

01:14:24is on the same lap

01:14:25as Borgut

01:14:26and we're looking at Borgut

01:14:27now behind

01:14:28Mark Sura

01:14:29Andretti

01:14:30is in eleventh place

01:14:31John Watson

01:14:32is out of the race

01:14:34altogether

01:14:35Azar, Chiva,

01:14:36Gerier, Arnoux,

01:14:38Giacomelli,

01:14:39Lafitte, Reutemann,

01:14:40Patrese, Daly,

01:14:41Pironi,

01:14:42Mantle, Torbay

01:14:43and Villeneuve

01:14:44and we watched Alan Jones

01:14:48on his 63rd lap

01:14:52the gap between Jones and Piquet

01:14:55then is 9.25 seconds

01:14:57and that means that Piquet is gaining

01:15:00it was 16 seconds

01:15:02so Jones must be in trouble

01:15:06of a magnitude that is

01:15:08not just losing him time

01:15:10to Alain Cross the leader

01:15:13with 15 seconds

01:15:15between Prost and himself

01:15:16but to Nelson Piquet

01:15:17and this gaggle of cars

01:15:18in front of Jones

01:15:19isn't going to do him

01:15:20much good

01:15:21he passes Sura

01:15:28I don't think we have any evidence

01:15:29to worry on Judy Murray yet

01:15:32because Jones has really slowed down

01:15:34his gap to Prost

01:15:35is pretty constant

01:15:36although Piquet is creeping up

01:15:38I think the rate of progress

01:15:39would have to be faster

01:15:41but certainly we may get

01:15:42a bit of finish

01:15:43and if Jones is in trouble

01:15:44even that

01:15:46he's going to have to work hard

01:15:53there's Forgood

01:15:54the Swedish driver

01:15:56and out from behind

01:15:58in Slip Street

01:15:59comes the Brabham

01:16:00of Piquet

01:16:02of Hector Riback

01:16:03in fourth position

01:16:04nips through on the inside

01:16:05of Sarzan

01:16:06for good applied

01:16:07as he moves over

01:16:08and then

01:16:10closes up with his

01:16:11car's nose

01:16:12tucked under the rear aerofoil

01:16:14of Riback's car

01:16:15but not for long

01:16:16because the Mexican

01:16:17is getting away

01:16:18The Brabham is beautifully set up

01:16:20Riback in fourth position

01:16:22four positions and they are now on lap 65.

01:16:31Seven laps to go including this one and there's not so much left of this one.

01:16:35Reback fourth, Borgoode in tenth position

01:16:46and behind Borgoode is Alan Jones

01:16:48and of course there is Salazar who is sixth.

01:16:55So they're really spread out now because Salazar is just ahead of Reback on the circuit

01:17:03but he's a full lap but indeed two laps behind him in race distance and this race of attrition

01:17:12now seems to be in a situation where the drivers are very much in the groove,

01:17:17the cars are running reliably, the tyres are not giving trouble, they will know where they are.

01:17:22It would seem to me that no one could do very much about getting a place

01:17:28because Reback now is passing, that's Piquet, I'm sorry, passing Miqueli Alvareto.

01:17:35Nelson Piquet in third position and he's 20 seconds behind Alan Jones.

01:17:41Alvareto, the young Italian, is in seventh place but Alvareto is a full lap, no he's on the same lap as

01:17:53Elisio Salazar. Salazar sixth, De Angelis fifth, Reback fourth, Piquet third, Jones second and Cross the race leader.

01:18:03Nelson Piquet, the third place man in the Brabham.

01:18:21Nelson Piquet, the first place man in the Brabham.

01:18:25Nelson Piquet the third place man in the Brabham and he's got Elio De Angelis ahead of him

01:18:36Elio De Angelis who is in fifth place and he's already been lapped once

01:18:41Alain Prost is now on his 67th lap as is Alan Jones

01:18:49there is the Australian from Glenburn in Victoria his 93rd Grand Prix with such a

01:18:57wealth of experience behind him in Formula 3, Formula 2, Formula Atlantic

01:19:03he's now increased his interest because he's become an author and written

01:19:07probably the most controversial book about motor racing and his views on it

01:19:12has ever been in the history of racing and Alan Jones is a man with 11 Grand

01:19:21Prix victories behind him six of them last year and he's holding that second place

01:19:29quite easily there's a 16 second gap now it's back to between himself and Piquet so

01:19:38no problem or is there or is there I was reading that off a monitor but there is

01:19:48Piquet in the background on lap 67 Alan Jones in second place in trouble and there is

01:19:57Mario Andretti in real trouble Mario Andretti the American who was well down in

01:20:0311th position is clearly out of the race is he trapped in the cockpit or is he

01:20:09just taking his time in getting out of it but there's a battle developing for

01:20:13second place as we watch now Mario Andretti the world champion of 1978 who

01:20:20comes from Nazareth in Pennsylvania and it looks to me as though with Nelson Piquet

01:20:27lapping Elio De Angelis there is going to be a change of position for second place

01:20:33Alan Jones the Australian who needs to stay where he is he's going to lose second place

01:20:39to Nelson Piquet and I said needs to stay where he is because he will get six points for world

01:20:45championship second place if he can stay there now but Piquet has clawed his way up through the field

01:20:51you look at the broken Alfa Romeo of Mario Andretti who has just gone off the

01:21:21course and was trapped in the cockpit for some time he's just got out of it but I can't give

01:21:26you any more information on him than that at the moment but leading the race and

01:21:31leading very comfortably on lap 68 out of 72 continues to be this man Alain Frost but

01:21:40behind Frost and some 16 or seconds or so there's that fantastic battle and you see it change because

01:21:47Nelson Piquet at Karzans has nipped past Alan Jones the Gounty world champion Australian who has slipped down the third position now Jones has clearly been in some sort of trouble for a long long time and Nelson Piquet has been inexorably inching up on Jones

01:22:08and then it became more than inching up it became closing up quite visibly the gap came down to 15 seconds to 10 and then all of a sudden Nelson Piquet was right behind Alan Jones and look at it again a replay of Nelson Piquet on lap 69 taking second place at Tarzan from the world champion Alan Jones and that really transforms the world championship situation

01:22:36championship situation because Piquet is moving up from third to second has gained himself an extra two world championship points I'm doing some quick mental arithmetic while I'm talking to you and I reckon that if Piquet stays where he is now that is to say in second place until the end of the race he will be tying for the lead in the world championship with Carlos Reutemann who went out of the race much earlier on and this has been very much a Dutch

01:22:41Grand Prix of attrition

01:23:08because with the drivers on the 69th lap out of 72 and we look at Alan Jones closing up on Elio De Angelis Alan Jones now in third place and Elio De Angelis is in fifth position

01:23:22and there is Elisio Salazar, who's driven a wonderful race in sixth position.

01:23:29Salazar is the inside car number 14, and Piquet comes up behind Slim Borgut.

01:23:36Well, Alan Jones has been, as you write said, in trouble for some time

01:23:40and in a little bit of a deteriorating condition.

01:23:43We can't be sure what happened, although it did appear that he touched Eddie Cheever earlier in the race

01:23:48when he was lapping him and therefore may have damaged his suspension

01:23:51with some speculation that that may be the case, and if that is the case,

01:23:55then probably his tyres were going off, he's got a wheel a bit out of line,

01:23:58that damages the tyre, because he does seem to be fighting for grip rather badly.

01:24:02We're just looking at Mario Andrenovac, and I thought they had to carry him away there.

01:24:07He obviously put the damage to the car, which would be a heavy, heavy shot.

01:24:11Where is Alan Jones? I look back and Jones was not in sight,

01:24:16and Piquet has either pulled out a terrific lead over Jones,

01:24:20who was in third place all of a sudden, or Alan Jones is in real trouble.

01:24:25And if that is the case, that means to say Hector Rebac will come up into fourth position.

01:24:32And the leaders are now on their 71st lap out of 72.

01:24:38Elio de Angelis has gone through, and there is no sign of Alan Jones.

01:24:43So there he is, Alan Jones has slowed right down,

01:24:47and he's been passed left and right by much slower drivers,

01:24:51as we look at Alain Prost on his last lap of one.

01:24:55Yes, Alan Jones would have slowed right down,

01:24:56because he obviously can't race the quick guys,

01:24:58and he's got a whole lap on Hector Rebac in fourth place,

01:25:03and with a couple of laps together, there's no point in taking any risks,

01:25:05he just wants to finish the race, and he's doing the sensible thing,

01:25:08because particularly, if he's got damage suspension,

01:25:11he wants to give that the lightest possible load,

01:25:14because the last thing he wants to have, of course,

01:25:15is a suspension failure right at the end of the race.

01:25:20And having talked a lot about, and deservedly so,

01:25:23Elisio Salazar, there's a great scrap going on

01:25:27between him and Michele Alboreto for sixth place.

01:25:30But this is undoubtedly the man of the race.

01:25:35Alain Prost, 26 years old, from Saint-Cermontre,

01:25:39in only his 22nd Grand Prix,

01:25:42who is now crossing the line to start his 72nd and last lap

01:25:48in this Dutch Grand Prix,

01:25:50on his way to nine World Championship points

01:25:54at his second Grand Prix victory of the year,

01:25:56because he brilliantly won the two-part Grand Prix

01:26:00thanks to superb driving ability

01:26:03and some wonderful engagement

01:26:05by the Renault technicians

01:26:08who turned up the boost of it,

01:26:10put him on qualifying cars,

01:26:12and enabled him to win his own French Grand Prix.

01:26:15Then, second in Germany,

01:26:16and Michele Alboreto is out of the race,

01:26:19and it's a good thing it is more than 72 laps,

01:26:22because there are now only three drivers on the same lap.

01:26:28Prost, Piquet, and Jones, first, second, and third.

01:26:31Hector Rebac is in fourth position now,

01:26:34a lap behind.

01:26:36Elio de Angelis is in fifth place.

01:26:38Elisio Salazar, from Chile, in the end time,

01:26:42looks as though he is going to more than justify

01:26:45the faith of his Chilean countrymen

01:26:47in sponsoring him to race in the World Championship

01:26:50by finishing in sixth place

01:26:52as Prost passes Alboreto's car,

01:26:57tragic luck for the Italians,

01:26:59going out in sixth or seventh place

01:27:01on the very last lap of the Dutch Grand Prix,

01:27:05and that means to say that Secret Star

01:27:07will come up into seventh place,

01:27:09but the winner is Alain Prost.

01:27:13He's approaching the line now.

01:27:15He goes across the line

01:27:17and gets a tremendous cheer from the Renault team.

01:27:20He has won the Dutch Grand Prix of 1981

01:27:24at his second race,

01:27:26and the two-handed salute that we saw in France

01:27:30comes again from young Alain Prost,

01:27:33who now has 16 points in the World Championship

01:27:36and is passed on the run-down lap

01:27:39by the fourth-placeman, Hector Rebac,

01:27:43as Salazar finishes in sixth position.

01:27:47And both...

01:27:52The race, then, a win for Alain Prost

01:27:55with Pique second,

01:27:57Alan Jones in third position,

01:27:59Hector Rebac in fourth place,

01:28:01Elio de Angelis in fifth,

01:28:03and Elisio Salazar in sixth place,

01:28:06with only three competitors

01:28:08finishing the full race distance.

01:28:10The World Championship is more exciting than ever

01:28:13because now Carlos Reutemann and Nelson Pique

01:28:16are tying for first place with 45 points.

01:28:20In third position is Jacques Lafitte,

01:28:22only three points ahead of Alan Jones.

01:28:25In fifth position is Alain Prost

01:28:27after his second Grand Prix victory,

01:28:29and tying for sixth place,

01:28:32Gilles Villeneuve and John Watson.

01:28:35John Watson and Nigel Mansell,

01:28:38both out of the Dutch Grand Prix,

01:28:40and indeed, with only three competitors

01:28:44finishing the full race distance,

01:28:46it has been a disappointing race

01:28:48from the point of view of seeing so many drivers go out,

01:28:51but that takes nothing away

01:28:53from number 15, the winner, Alain Prost,

01:28:57from number 5, the second-placed man

01:28:59who is just behind Prost, Nelson Pique,

01:29:02or number 1, Alan Jones,

01:29:05finishing in third place.

01:29:07And as you can see from those World Championship positions,

01:29:11we go to the next Grand Prix at Monza in Italy

01:29:15in a fortnight's time

01:29:16with the World Championship excitement heightened even more

01:29:20because those six men are all still in

01:29:24with a chance of becoming the champion of 1981.

01:29:27And as you can see,

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