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00:00:00Nearly everyone displays an incredible amount of enthusiasm for their home country drivers and their beloved red Ferraris

00:00:07But there's another red car here today

00:00:09Making its debut in Formula One racing the Carl Haas owned be it's responsored Lola driven by former world champion Alan Jones

00:00:17Today live on ESPN one of the world's great sporting events the 56th Italian Grand Prix

00:00:25Buongiorno and welcome to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix

00:00:29This is one of the most famous and historic racing facilities in all the world

00:00:33Back in the 50s the Americans brought their front-engine roadster championship cars to compete here on the high banked oval

00:00:40Well that oval is no longer used what they will use today is a 3.6 mile road course

00:00:45Good afternoon everybody. I'm Bob Jenkins along with John Bisognano and John when you step into this facility. There's electricity in the air

00:00:51Well what's generating all that electricity is over

00:00:55300,000 Italians coming to this race to hopefully help generate a Ferrari victory and really you have to multiply that times two in Italy

00:01:02So it's like six hundred thousand people here

00:01:04They have some very large holes in the gates, and it's sort of a tradition to fill the stadium with as many people as possible

00:01:11Michele Alvarado one of the Ferrari drivers among those searching for a world championship. He did not qualify all that well

00:01:17Well after a lot of trying over the past two days

00:01:19He's only ended up seventh and the person that he's really scrapping for the title with Alain Prost is fifth

00:01:24So there's going to be good midfield racing and Anton Center right at the very front grabbing another pole position

00:01:30It's going to be a very spectacular day an exciting day for American Formula One fans

00:01:35The Carl Haas owned Beatrice Lola is in the field with Alan Jones driving right Alan Jones returning from retirement

00:01:42Coming back into Formula One

00:01:43They are not very happy with their qualifying position of 25

00:01:47But really at this point this is a victory for them to even be here only signing a Beatrice

00:01:52Contract a few months ago and here they are at their first Grand Prix carrying the American flag right into competition

00:01:58Should be an exciting race stay with us for the 56th Italian Grand Prix

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00:02:23We'll be back to check the starting lineup for today's Italian Grand Prix in just a moment

00:02:30It's on the pole for today's race

00:02:32He qualified faster than anyone else during the second qualifying session yesterday afternoon and John had an opportunity to talk with Ayrton

00:02:40Hey, I'll tell you had another pole position. Were you happy with the way the car was performing during qualifying?

00:02:47Well, I think it was good enough to be on pole

00:02:51But I have to say I never expected to be on pole here first because I never drove here before

00:02:57Second because you need all the power

00:03:00That you can have in qualifying and the maximum that we can have is not enough to compete against

00:03:06Another engines who are powerful more powerful

00:03:09But I think somehow we got a compromise that that at the end proved to be better

00:03:15Well, what about in the race you're a driver who doesn't like to compromise you like to lead what's your race strategy then

00:03:23Well, there is no strategy all depends on the car that I can have tomorrow between car engine tires

00:03:30if I can have a quick car, but reliable then we may have a chance, but

00:03:35It's very difficult to predict anything. You've led more laps this season than any other driver. In fact more than many drivers combined

00:03:43What what is the reliable reliability factor you're facing here in Monza

00:03:49Well so far we didn't have big problems with the right reliability

00:03:53Our biggest problem through the season has been reliability on the engines

00:03:58Lately, I finished the last race. I finished second third, so we may have gone, you know got through

00:04:04If that's the case, we may be in you know in a position to fight for the first three places tomorrow

00:04:10And fuel consumption is that a problem here in Monza, I don't think so

00:04:14I don't think here is a problem with a few it's more a problem with power and

00:04:19reliability

00:04:20Thank you, John. Stay tuned now. The Italian Grand Prix is just moments away

00:04:25Here this afternoon is not too bad. Although it is overcast. The temperature is 70 degrees

00:04:31We have an easterly wind at about five miles an hour

00:04:33But at times the flags across from us are standing completely still and there is about a 30% chance of rain

00:04:41During the course of the event you can see some of the drivers are getting a little bit of a headache

00:04:45They're getting a little bit of a headache. They're getting a little bit of a headache

00:04:48They're getting a little bit of a headache. They're getting a little bit of a headache

00:04:51During the course of the event you can see some of the drivers are in their cars

00:04:56In fact, all of them are in their cars getting ready for the start of the Italian Grand Prix

00:05:01So let's take a look at the points as we go into this 12th race of the Formula One season

00:05:07Alain Frost is on top of the point standings with a total of 56

00:05:12second in point

00:05:13Michele Alvareto the Italian driving the Ferrari with 53

00:05:17Third in point standings Elio D'Angeli with 30

00:05:21Tied for fourth place Stefan Johansson in the other Ferrari and Ayrton Senna in the Lotus

00:05:2817 drivers have scored this year in Formula One racing sixth in the standings KK Rosberg

00:05:33Seventh is Niki Lauda eighth Nelson Piquet ninth Patrick Tambay tenth Jacques Lafitte

00:05:39Followed by Thierry Booson, Nigel Mansell, Stephan Bellof, the late Stephan Bellof, Derek Warwick, Andrea de Cesaris

00:05:46Reni Arnoux and Mark Schur

00:05:50As far as

00:05:52Constructors points are concerned Ferrari is in the lead with a total of 75 McLaren second with 70 and Lotus with 49 points

00:06:00Well, the track that these drivers will be competing on here this afternoon is

00:06:053.6 miles in length

00:06:07There are five turns for right handers and one left hand turn and there are two

00:06:14Chicanes and one of the chicanes is here on the main straightaway. The other one is on the backstretch

00:06:21Now, let's look at the starting lineup for today's

00:06:2456

00:06:26Italian Grand Prix as

00:06:28Engines are fired and the drivers prepare for their warm-up laps on the pole in car number 12

00:06:35The Lotus Renault from Brazil Ayrton Senna qualifying at

00:06:39153 point three seven eight miles an hour

00:06:42Outside of the front row car number six the William Honda the driver from Finland KK Rothberg

00:06:48In the second row car number five the William Honda the driver from Great Britain Nigel Mansell

00:06:54Outside of row number two in the Bravo BMW car number seven Nelson Pique

00:07:12Inside

00:07:29In the fifth row car number eight Mark Shore from Switzerland the Brabham BMW outside of row number five car number 28 the other Ferrari

00:07:37Stefan Johansson the driver from Sweden in the sixth row will be Gerhardt Berger in car number 17 the Arrows

00:07:44BMW outside of row number six car number 16 Derek Warwick and the Renault the seventh row car number 22

00:07:51Riccardo Patrese from Italy in the Alfa Romeo

00:07:55outside of row number seven car number 18 the Barclays arrow BMW Terry Bootson the eighth row car number 19

00:08:02Teo Bobby in the Toleman heart

00:08:05Outside of row number eight will be car number one the defending world champion in the Marlboro McLaren

00:08:10Nicky Lauda the ninth row car number 23 the Alfa driven by Eddie Cheever from the United States

00:08:17Outside of row number nine will be car number three the Tyrrell Renault driven by Martin Brundle the tenth row Felice

00:08:23Strife making his second appearance in the Formula One race in car number 25 the Liget taking the place of

00:08:30The driver who lost the ride earlier this week that of course was Andrea de Cesaris

00:08:35Outside of row number 10 will be Jacques Lapid strife teammate in the other Liget the 11th row here Carlo

00:08:41Giussani in the Toleman car number 20 outside of row number 11 will be car number 24

00:08:47Uber off and goner in the Osella the 12th row here Luigi Martini in car number 29 outside of row number 12 will be the

00:08:55Grand Bandit driven by Kenny Atkinson car 10 the last row has Alan Jones the number 33

00:09:01Beatrice Lovahart making his debut in Formula One racing here this weekend in car number 33

00:09:0713 will be Felice Allio car number 9 the Skull Bandit ramp

00:09:11Those are the 26 starters and you can see the cars now are in the second chicane

00:09:16Which is in the backstretch headed for a straightaway, which will lead them to corner number five

00:09:21Which is referred to as the parabolic occur?

00:09:25Then on to the main straightaway

00:09:27Then on it's a long main straightaway in which the speed will reach close to 200 miles an hour John

00:09:33The electricity is here and it rivals only Indianapolis

00:09:37I believe as far as excitement prior to the start of this race the president of

00:09:43Italy is here president taxi and about

00:09:47300,000 race fans set the cheer on their drivers and their cars here this afternoon

00:09:52Absolutely, right Bob earlier. We were talking about how this is as electric as Indianapolis is and for sure the Italian fans

00:10:00All have one thing in mind

00:10:02They only want this electricity to help Ferrari up the grid and score an Italian victory here

00:10:07Nothing means more to them all year long football sports even secondary to motor racing here this weekend

00:10:14Every one of the

00:10:15300,000 plus Italians here and who knows how many through the gates and through the holes in the gate

00:10:20So all they have in mind is Ferrari victory

00:10:24the race will consist of

00:10:2651 laps around the three point six mile course that will make it a total of

00:10:33183 point eight miles now the cars are coming down the straightaway and lighting up for the start of the race

00:10:41Airton Senna is on the pole in the Lotus outside

00:10:45KK Rosberg then in row number two the other Williams ponders driven by Nigel Mansell

00:10:50and Nelson Piquet begins for us

00:10:52in the upper left hand side of the screen

00:10:54you will see the

00:10:56stop sign that will flash green

00:10:58and this Italian Grand Prix will be underway

00:11:10And there it is

00:11:26Two cars are unable to get going here on the main straightaway. Meanwhile, the cars are proceeding through the first

00:11:34Now one of the cars has failed to go and the starting line is underway the only one that did not start

00:11:41Would be one of the Toleman cars and I believe that is KO Bobby who was unable to go

00:11:47Meanwhile, the race is underway and KK Rosberg has jumped out into the lead

00:11:55It's actually Ghazani in the second hole and starting fairly well back in the pack but still both

00:12:01Atchison and Ghazani two of Hart's powered cars did not make it off the grid

00:12:05The Beatrice car got a very good start

00:12:08So as far as you see are coming off the cars hitting bottom because of the full fuel load

00:12:13They have 55 gallons of fuel in the cars right now, and they are slung very lightly

00:12:18So when it's that heavy you will see sparks. Nothing to really be alarmed at

00:12:23And you'll see that diminishing throughout the race

00:12:25There is Michele Alvareto

00:12:27And you can expect the Italian

00:12:30Television crews to focus in on the Ferraris because of course they are the home favorite

00:12:40You can see the cars bottoming out and throwing up sparks as they proceed down the back stretch and into

00:12:47Parabolica Curve

00:12:59A tremendous amount of noise here as the cars come down the straightaway

00:13:13We are underneath an overhang or an awning and the noise really reverberates as it comes up in here

00:13:22KK Rosberg is the leader

00:13:25And then the Lotus of Ayrton Senna

00:13:29Well in the past few races we have seen KK Rosberg jump out into a lead

00:13:34But in the last couple of races he has experienced mechanical problems and has fallen out early

00:13:39We'll see if that bad luck continues to plague the Williams Honda car driven by KK Rosberg

00:13:47It's been a good opening lap actually

00:13:50The chicane is normally a very tough place for a first lap

00:13:53And although there were a few cars going in the dirt no one really touched one another

00:13:57These F1 cars can go through the dirt as long as they are not bending suspension parts by touching one another

00:14:03It seems like a very safe and practical opening lap here

00:14:07And we have some good news for the American fans

00:14:10As Alan Jones in the Beatrice car that has been plagued by 5 blown engines this week

00:14:17Passed 6 cars on the opening lap and is now up into 18th position

00:14:30As you can see Alain Gros is making a move on Ayrton Senna

00:14:35Gros goes into 3rd and Ayrton Senna the pole sitter has dropped back to 4th place

00:14:53You know Bob there is an unusual point

00:14:55Ayrton Senna actually going backwards on a grid

00:14:59That's something we haven't seen yet this year

00:15:01He always keeps the wick very far turned up

00:15:03That means he plugs in plenty of turbo

00:15:05He does not like to follow

00:15:07Now when we were talking to him earlier

00:15:09He said that I am going to change my strategy this race

00:15:13And actually be a little bit more of a follower

00:15:15He hasn't finished hardly any Grand Prix

00:15:17And has led more than anyone else

00:15:19So Ayrton Senna definitely using a different race strategy here this weekend

00:15:23Well just as we mentioned the possibility of a good run by the Beatrice car driven by Alan Jones

00:15:29We are sorry to report that it is in the pit area already

00:15:32Now it's moving back out on to the racetrack

00:15:35So Alan Jones after passing 6 cars in the opening lap

00:15:39Makes a pit stop on lap number 2

00:15:41But is now back out there on the racetrack

00:15:43You're watching Alain Gros running in 3rd place

00:15:46Followed by the two bonuses

00:15:48Ayrton Senna and Elio D'Angeli

00:15:51There is the paraplegic curve

00:15:54And the leader continues to be

00:15:57A.K. Rushford, Nigel Mansell's car

00:16:00The motor is breaking up very badly

00:16:03As it comes down the straightaway

00:16:05We'll be back with more from the Italian Grand Prix

00:16:08Right after this message

00:16:17Bob Jenkins and John Bisognato

00:16:19Back in 4th second lead for the Italian Grand Prix

00:16:23You're watching here a battle for 4th position

00:16:26Involving the Lotuses

00:16:28Elio D'Angeli is in car number 11

00:16:31Has passed his teammate Ayrton Senna in number 12

00:16:34So Elio D'Angeli has moved up a spot

00:16:37And things are not going well here in the early going

00:16:40For our pole sitter Senna

00:16:43Well it's something that we're going to have to discover later on in the race

00:16:46The cars of that type always try and do better later in the race

00:16:50Historically they've been doing extremely poorly

00:16:55In the opening part of the race

00:16:57But try and make up the laps as they come along

00:17:00The thing I'm watching is that we have our world champion

00:17:04Niki Lauda starting way back in 16th position

00:17:07And coming through the pack quite well

00:17:09So we're going to try and keep you updated on that particular scene

00:17:12Niki does not like to stay behind for any time whatsoever

00:17:17And Ayrton Senna may have some type of a problem

00:17:20He may not be just changing his racing logic

00:17:23He may have a problem that's causing him to slow slightly

00:17:27One thing he does not want to do

00:17:29Is let Elio D'Angeli by

00:17:31He may give up a few places to Lauda

00:17:35In the opening laps

00:17:37But right now there's an awful lot of contract negotiations

00:17:41Going on in the Lotus

00:17:44And it's very important that

00:17:46He still keeps challenging as the team leader for Lotus

00:17:50In the pit there you saw the Williams cars

00:17:52Of course with the Honda powered engine

00:17:54They've been having trouble here also

00:17:58Nigel Mansell

00:18:00Who was running in 2nd position

00:18:02Has made a pit stop

00:18:04Mansell is in the pit

00:18:06The lead held by

00:18:08KK Rosberg

00:18:10Also in the pit area

00:18:11And we saw a shot of it just a few minutes ago

00:18:13One of the Benetton cars

00:18:15Driven by Eddie Sieber

00:18:17From the United States

00:18:19There is Michele Alboreto

00:18:21And

00:18:23The number 7 car of

00:18:25Nelson Piquet

00:18:27Doing battle on the racetrack

00:18:29You know Bob

00:18:31We were talking about how many engine problems

00:18:33There have been this weekend

00:18:35There's been 16 hard engines

00:18:37Completely destroyed themselves

00:18:39That's the Ram team

00:18:41The Tolman team and the Beatrice

00:18:4316 engines gone

00:18:45In 2 qualifying sessions

00:18:47And 2 practice sessions

00:18:49An awful lot of hardware

00:18:51To try and rebuild for the next Grand Prix

00:18:53Where they're supposed to be running in only 4 days time

00:18:57Nigel Mansell has

00:18:59Pulled out of the pit area

00:19:01And back onto the racetrack

00:19:03In a very six-pounding engine

00:19:05He meant for a stop

00:19:07Back up there

00:19:13The crowd rises to its feet

00:19:19Good battle going on here

00:19:21Involving a Ferrari

00:19:23And a Brabham

00:19:25Of course that's not what the Italian fans

00:19:27Want to see at the moment

00:19:29They want to see Michele Alboreto

00:19:31Moving up from here

00:19:33And for him to have him

00:19:35Going backwards at this point

00:19:37In the race makes the Italians

00:19:39Extremely unhappy

00:19:41When he went past the Brabham fan

00:19:43Losing that position

00:19:45Every Italian here was hollering and cheering

00:19:47Trying to give him some sort of boost

00:19:49But obviously the Pirelli tires on the Brabham

00:19:51Are working very well

00:19:53The Brabham are breaking into these machines

00:19:55Also very well

00:19:57Their acceleration out of the corner

00:19:59Has been working all weekend long

00:20:01Extremely powerful here this afternoon

00:20:03Well there was a battle for

00:20:05Sixth position but it's opened up a little bit

00:20:07Now as Piquet has

00:20:09Sixth spot followed by

00:20:11This man and this car

00:20:13Michele Alboreto the Ferrari

00:20:15Second in point standings

00:20:17As we go into the Italian Grand Prix

00:20:21The advantage for the leader

00:20:23K.K. Rosberg

00:20:27Has opened up to about eighth second

00:20:29K.K. Rosberg with an eight second lead

00:20:31On Alain Prost

00:20:41There you saw the tremendous speed differential

00:20:43Between the giant power of McLaren

00:20:45And the vehicle's heart

00:20:47McLaren have been

00:20:49Showing an incredible

00:20:51Reliability on motors

00:20:53Alain Prost certainly looks like

00:20:55His motor is working well for him

00:20:57Prost has had

00:20:59No problems throughout qualifying

00:21:01He wanted to qualify a little bit better

00:21:03But the tag cannot be turned up

00:21:05Too high in qualifying first

00:21:11During the race you may see them qualifying

00:21:13A little bit more slowly than you would see

00:21:15But during the race that engine

00:21:17Is considered to be the number one power plant

00:21:19To have

00:21:21Alain Prost running in second spot

00:21:23Behind our leader K.K. Rosberg

00:21:25Who continues to set the pace here

00:21:27Third place belongs to

00:21:29Elio De Angelis

00:21:31Fourth is Ayrton Senna

00:21:33In fifth place

00:21:35Is Nelson Piquet

00:21:37And running sixth right now is

00:21:39Michele Alboreto

00:21:41In car number 27

00:21:43K.K. Rosberg is another gentleman

00:21:45Who's been leading several races

00:21:47This Grand Prix season but hasn't really been able

00:21:49To finish too many of them

00:21:51So Ayrton Senna and K.K. Rosberg

00:21:53Have been up front many times

00:21:55They have not been able

00:21:57To get a point

00:21:59And have the race result that you would hope

00:22:01That they could be able to achieve

00:22:03After such great qualifying effort

00:22:07You're watching live

00:22:09The Italian Grand Prix from Monza

00:22:11And we'll be back with more

00:22:13Back in Monza

00:22:15The Italian Grand Prix

00:22:17In eighth place

00:22:19Fifty-one laps

00:22:21Will make up this contest

00:22:23At the moment

00:22:25K.K. Rosberg is the leader

00:22:27With

00:22:29Alain Prost running in second position

00:22:31And in third is

00:22:33Elio De Angelis

00:22:35In fifth

00:22:37K.K. Rosberg

00:22:39In fourth

00:22:41Making his first move

00:22:43In the early stages of the race

00:22:45Is Niki Lauda

00:22:47In the number one

00:22:49He is right now in seventh

00:22:51But

00:22:53Niki Lauda started his race

00:22:55In 16th position

00:22:57But has that McLaren working

00:22:59So well

00:23:01There is a long road

00:23:03That he approaches

00:23:05Some slower cars on the racetrack

00:23:07As you mentioned

00:23:09Niki Lauda is doing a tremendous job

00:23:11Coming up through the grid

00:23:13We all expected that

00:23:15This is even a bit spectacular

00:23:19The way Prost is running

00:23:21These McLarens have to be

00:23:23Extremely well dialed in

00:23:25K.K. Rosberg certainly has

00:23:27A fairly good lead this early on

00:23:29But still

00:23:31Prost's McLaren tag

00:23:33Is certainly going to be

00:23:35The fastest passing person

00:23:37Every car on the brakes

00:23:39Time after time we've seen

00:23:41The McLarens having their

00:23:43Big on-track advantage

00:23:45Because of the engine reliability

00:23:47But as far as passing

00:23:49It's been on the brakes

00:23:51Into the pits comes

00:23:53The Benetton-sponsored Alfa Romeo

00:23:55By Riccardo Patrese

00:23:59Patrese of course being an Italian

00:24:01This is another sad point

00:24:03For this particular event

00:24:05And also a sad moment

00:24:07For the American fans

00:24:09The Carl Hasselhoff

00:24:11Is in the pit area

00:24:13And Alex Jones is out

00:24:15Of that car

00:24:17It's an early out for Alex Jones

00:24:19But of course this is the

00:24:21End of that car

00:24:23Much difficulty with the

00:24:25Engines this week

00:24:29Much better things next week

00:24:31As we go to Spa-Belgium

00:24:33For the delayed Belgium Grand Prix

00:24:35The one that was postponed

00:24:37Earlier this year because

00:24:39Of poor track conditions

00:24:41By the way we saw in the pit

00:24:43A few minutes ago had pulled back out

00:24:45Onto the racetrack

00:24:47Jones is very determined

00:24:49We were talking to him

00:24:51Earlier this weekend

00:24:53He was extremely pleased

00:24:55With the way the car was handling

00:24:57He said as far as coming to the first Grand Prix

00:24:59We're not running qualifying tires

00:25:01Or qualifying boots

00:25:05Terribly unreliable

00:25:07He said he would have been happy

00:25:09Just to have a clear warm up this morning

00:25:11And of course they lost another race

00:25:13Motor during the warm up

00:25:15We're watching the battle

00:25:17For 7th place

00:25:19And Mikaely Alvarado

00:25:21It looks like is standing a chance

00:25:23Of losing that spot to Niki Lauda

00:25:25Who has come on strong

00:25:27On the racetrack

00:25:29K.K. Rosberg

00:25:41K.K. has passed Nigel

00:25:43Let's put a lap on him

00:25:45Eric Horwich

00:25:47And Theo Fabi

00:25:49Have both come into the pit area

00:25:51Now we see this battle

00:25:53For 7th position really heating up

00:25:55As Niki Lauda

00:25:57Passes

00:26:037th position

00:26:05Goes Niki Lauda

00:26:07I'll tell you if K.K. Rosberg can maintain his lead

00:26:09He's going to have to

00:26:11He's going to have to even start stretching it out

00:26:13Further because seriously

00:26:15Lauda is lapping as quick as anyone else

00:26:17On this racetrack

00:26:19And he is just blowing off

00:26:21Everyone in front of him

00:26:25Has just passed Alvarado

00:26:31The McLarens have an advantage

00:26:33In every part of this track at the moment

00:26:35They're not using as much track as

00:26:37Tires and anything as the other teams

00:26:39You can see that they can

00:26:41Certainly take any line that they want

00:26:43With the Toleman slowing down

00:26:47Alonso is coming around

00:26:49Who's got her there in the Osella

00:26:51Alonso is running in 2nd position

00:26:53But the distance between

00:26:55Himself

00:26:59K.K. Rosberg now has stretched

00:27:01Out to almost 10 seconds

00:27:03They come out of corner number 5

00:27:09Alonso crossing the

00:27:11Line completing lap number

00:27:1312 of this race

00:27:15It's about a 10 second lead for

00:27:17K.K. Rosberg

00:27:23The Bonases

00:27:25Continue to run 3rd and 4th

00:27:27Here

00:27:29With DeAngelis in 3rd place

00:27:31And Senna in 4th

00:27:33With the Lauda

00:27:37But Lauda now is beginning to pull away

00:27:41And into the pit area

00:27:43Is Nelson Piquet for a quick stop

00:27:47Here he comes back out onto the racetrack

00:27:49But a costly stop for

00:27:51Nelson Piquet

00:27:55He was doing extremely well Bob

00:27:57It's too bad he had to make that

00:27:59Piquet to try and

00:28:01Make up that much time

00:28:07I didn't see them doing anything

00:28:09Else in the car but tires

00:28:11He was the fastest qualifier for Pirelli

00:28:13And there you have

00:28:15The race standings at the moment

00:28:17K.K. Rosberg first

00:28:19DeAngelis, correction Alonso

00:28:212nd Elliot DeAngelis 3rd

00:28:23Senna 4th, Lauda starting from 6th

00:28:25He's all the way up to 6th

00:28:291 point for the Ferraris

00:28:31In 6th place

00:28:33So those are the standings as we have completed

00:28:3513 laps

00:28:37We'll be right back with more action

00:28:39From the 56th Italian

00:28:43ESPN continues its coverage

00:28:45Of Formula 1 racing

00:28:47John and I will be at

00:28:53To cover the Grand Prix circuit

00:28:55And watch the tremendous points battle

00:28:57That is underway

00:29:01Has been newly repaved

00:29:03In fact the race was postponed earlier this year

00:29:05Because the track surface had not yet

00:29:07Stabilized but it's okay now

00:29:09And we'll be there a week from today

00:29:11For the Belgian Grand Prix

00:29:13We invite you to join us at 9.30

00:29:15On Sunday morning

00:29:17Pacific time

00:29:21Here at the Italian Grand Prix

00:29:23The leader is K.K. Rosberg

00:29:25And here he is

00:29:27Right behind him is his teammate Nigel Mansell

00:29:29But Mansell is a lap down

00:29:312nd spot belongs to Alonso

00:29:37Trailing Rosberg by about 10 seconds

00:29:39DeAngelis is 3rd followed by

00:29:41Senna, Lauda, Alboreto

00:29:43Johansen, Campe and Schur

00:29:45So the Ferraris are running

00:29:47Together on the race track

00:29:49At 6th and 7th position

00:29:51But have not moved up as quickly

00:29:53As they had hoped to do

00:29:55Or the Italian fans

00:30:07Gerhard Berger in one of the Aero's cars

00:30:09Has pulled into the pits and has shut off the engine

00:30:11And he is out of the race

00:30:13K.K. Rosberg certainly using

00:30:15Every bit of the circuit

00:30:17And a little bit more than

00:30:19The organizer had planned here

00:30:21Breaking very heavily

00:30:23Into the first chicane

00:30:25K.K. Rosberg

00:30:27You can see his teammate behind him

00:30:29But remember that Nigel Mansell

00:30:31Is a lap behind after a pit stop

00:30:33K.K. Rosberg accelerating

00:30:35Out of the first chicane

00:30:37Flat out, 4th gear

00:30:39Up into 5th around the right-hander

00:30:41Grande turn

00:30:43Then onto the back straightaway

00:30:47He missed the mark

00:30:49Out of the Nigel Mansell

00:30:51Car

00:30:55Still seeing a bit of

00:30:57Bottoming out at some portions

00:30:59On the race track

00:31:01As the fuel load gets lighter however

00:31:03We will see less and less of that

00:31:05We understand that

00:31:07Niki Lauda has moved up

00:31:09To 4th position now

00:31:11Dropping Ayrton Senna

00:31:13Back to 5th

00:31:15We continue to watch the leader

00:31:17K.K. Rosberg

00:31:19Now John, this is Senna's first time

00:31:21On this race track

00:31:23For a Grand Prix

00:31:25And we've noticed him dropping back

00:31:27Could he be confused?

00:31:29Perhaps we should say

00:31:31Maybe

00:31:33Getting used to it

00:31:35Bob, I don't think he's confused

00:31:37He's qualified for pole position

00:31:39He obviously knows the circuit very well

00:31:41He learns his circuit very quickly

00:31:43He's only been with the Lotus team

00:31:45This one year but has had so many pole positions

00:31:47He proves that he certainly

00:31:49Learns the circuit

00:31:53I guess that he's actually changing

00:31:55His race strategy

00:31:57He must be getting tired

00:31:59Of going out there on pole positions

00:32:01He may be

00:32:0320, 40, 60% of the race

00:32:05Not having enough fuel left to finish

00:32:07Blowing up a motor

00:32:09Doing something maybe a little silly

00:32:11By overcooking it into the corners

00:32:13And causing a little bit of an accident

00:32:15To himself

00:32:17But he has been certainly driving this race

00:32:19In a much more calculated way

00:32:25And how well they all come around him

00:32:27When these two gentlemen are battling

00:32:29On the Lotus team

00:32:31They say there is no No. 1, No. 2 position

00:32:33But still every team has a No. 1 and No. 2 position

00:32:35And as you can see

00:32:37Nigel Mansell is trying very hard

00:32:39To get by

00:32:41Rossberg, his teammate

00:32:43This is a matter of pride

00:32:45To these drivers

00:32:47They certainly want to be No. 1

00:32:49Within their own race program

00:32:59No. 1

00:33:01No. 2

00:33:03No. 3

00:33:05No. 4

00:33:07No. 5

00:33:09No. 6

00:33:11No. 7

00:33:13No. 8

00:33:15No. 9

00:33:17No. 10

00:33:19No. 11

00:33:21No. 12

00:33:23No. 13

00:33:25No. 14

00:33:27No. 15

00:33:29No. 16

00:33:31No. 17

00:33:33No. 18

00:33:35No. 19

00:33:37No. 20

00:33:39No. 21

00:33:41No. 22

00:33:43No. 23

00:33:45No. 24

00:33:47No. 25

00:33:49No. 26

00:33:51No. 27

00:33:53No. 28

00:33:55No trouble whatsoever

00:33:57That's the third car he's passed

00:33:59Right in front of our viewing point here

00:34:01He has gone by both Ferrari

00:34:03And the Renault-powered car

00:34:05With absolutely no trouble whatsoever

00:34:09The question now becomes

00:34:11Can Mickey Lauda

00:34:13Catch up with

00:34:17Alain Roche

00:34:19His second position, his teammate

00:34:21And the leader

00:34:23And Lauda is about

00:34:2531 seconds

00:34:27Behind

00:34:33And we apologize for any audio problems

00:34:35That we may be having here in Boston

00:34:39It's very difficult for us

00:34:41Because the noise of these race engines

00:34:43Are very loud and

00:34:47Difficult for us to hear ourselves think, John

00:34:49It's too bad, Bob

00:34:51Because things like this

00:34:53Happen when we always

00:34:55Keep our microphones so dead

00:34:57I wish people could hear the brilliant things I say

00:34:59When our microphones go dead

00:35:01Everyone must agree that this is

00:35:03Almost a third-world broadcast

00:35:05Brazil and this one

00:35:07Have to be the most difficult

00:35:09Broadcast of the season

00:35:11And we do apologize for

00:35:13A lack of audio excellence

00:35:15Here in Italy

00:35:17But hopefully

00:35:19The racing action that you're watching

00:35:21Will make up for any difficulties

00:35:23We might be having

00:35:29McLaren running in second spot

00:35:31Car number two

00:35:33You know, Bob, it seems to me that

00:35:35Post is actually losing ground to Keke

00:35:37And I don't think

00:35:39Keke is pulling away

00:35:41So much as Post seems to be

00:35:43Slowing

00:35:45Behind him

00:35:47Closing up on him

00:35:49Post is certainly

00:35:51Slowing out of view

00:35:53There, as you can see relative

00:35:55To try and catch Keke

00:35:57But he also seems to be

00:35:59Getting to be caught

00:36:01From behind, so we'll have to watch

00:36:03That situation a little bit more carefully

00:36:0518 laps

00:36:07Are completed at the Italian

00:36:09Grand Prix

00:36:11And it will be

00:36:13Right back

00:36:27Formula One racing on ESPN

00:36:29The Italian Grand Prix

00:36:31Under way, I'm watching

00:36:33It's John Fisigando

00:36:35We are located

00:36:37Actually out of doors

00:36:39In a grandstand

00:36:41There's a huge roof over us

00:36:43And the tremendous noise

00:36:45That the race engines

00:36:47May come up here and reverberate

00:36:49And make our audio

00:36:51However, at this point

00:36:53In the race, the leader

00:36:55Is Keke Rosberg

00:36:57We're watching him right now

00:36:59Following him is his teammate

00:37:01Nigel Mansell

00:37:03A lap down

00:37:05Alain Prost is running second

00:37:07About 11 and a half seconds back

00:37:09Niki Lauda, who has come on

00:37:11From 16th starting position

00:37:13To be now 32 seconds

00:37:15Behind the leader

00:37:17Running in fourth and fifth place

00:37:19Are the two

00:37:21Lotuses, Elio De Angelis is

00:37:23Fourth, and Ayrton Senna, the pole sitter

00:37:25Is fifth

00:37:27Sixth and seventh

00:37:29Are the two Ferraris

00:37:31In sixth place, Michele Alboreto

00:37:33Seventh is Stefan Johansson

00:37:35Eighth place

00:37:37In ninth place

00:37:39Is Bruno

00:37:41Driven by Patrick Campe

00:37:43And in tenth position

00:37:45Is Nelson

00:37:47Making a stop for

00:37:49Tyres

00:37:55Fighting to get back up

00:37:57Toward the front

00:38:03Looking around this surface

00:38:05And in this crowd

00:38:09Certainly 300,000 people paid

00:38:11We know that, but as we said earlier

00:38:13There are several big holes in the gate

00:38:15And it's Italian tradition to actually

00:38:17Just jam this place packed for days

00:38:19The Italians waiting all year long

00:38:21This is their Indianapolis 500

00:38:23In many ways compared to

00:38:25The American race

00:38:27And the famous motor racing

00:38:29Event in Italy all year long

00:38:31Sit down in Timola

00:38:33Only 120 miles away from here

00:38:35Where the San Marino Grand Prix

00:38:37Is held, it does not have the traditional

00:38:39Atmosphere or the crowd

00:38:41That Lanza seems to pull in every year

00:38:43You know Bob, I've never seen these cars

00:38:45Throwing up the sparks

00:38:47Like I see them throwing them up here

00:38:49I cannot believe this is

00:38:51Impossible to do some damage

00:38:53To the bottom side of these cars

00:38:55When they were fully

00:38:57Downforce type cars

00:38:59With wind tunnels underneath them

00:39:01You could not run the cars

00:39:03That lower

00:39:05With these damages

00:39:07But even though the designers say

00:39:09That they have skid plates underneath

00:39:11The drivers must be taking

00:39:13A tremendous beating

00:39:15To come down fully on their suspension

00:39:17To the point where you see

00:39:19These sparks flying out like this

00:39:21There's an overlay of the longer circuit

00:39:23You have the position of the circuit

00:39:25This is not a good lead

00:39:27But still

00:39:29You have to be watching

00:39:31His rear view mirrors

00:39:33Alonso is an extremely calculated driver

00:39:35He certainly finished

00:39:37Every race

00:39:39And to finish it

00:39:41Is well in the points

00:39:43And in the last final races

00:39:45He has actually gained enough points

00:39:47To go ahead in the world championship

00:39:49He doesn't want to do anything foolish here

00:39:51He realizes what he did

00:39:53He's only sitting on one point

00:39:55And by his finishing

00:39:57In third second

00:39:59He will pick up six points

00:40:01Therefore putting five more points

00:40:03Between them

00:40:05He really has to go ahead

00:40:07And race as hard as he can

00:40:09And keeping his equipment

00:40:11His tires, his engine, his gear box

00:40:13Everything has to be maintained

00:40:15Throughout the entire race

00:40:17Alvarela has to have his

00:40:19Onboard computer totally switched on

00:40:21Here comes

00:40:23Zephan Johansson

00:40:27Zephan Johansson

00:40:29Goes by Michele Alvarela

00:40:31And therefore

00:40:33Knocking Michele down the point situation

00:40:35A little bit closer

00:40:39As you can see

00:40:41The leader K.K. Rochford

00:40:43Approaching some slower traffic now

00:40:45Rochford's got it right in front of Rochford now

00:40:47And one of the Liget cars also there

00:40:49Zephan Johansson is

00:40:51The subject of a little bit of debate

00:40:57And questions regarding next year

00:40:59Will he be back with the Ferrari team

00:41:01Or will he be signing with

00:41:03Another racing team

00:41:05We assume that that

00:41:07Question will be answered in the next few days

00:41:09Possibly

00:41:15Well Zephan Johansson was hoping

00:41:17To get another friendly phone call

00:41:19From Dr. Ferrari on this coming Tuesday

00:41:21But he said that he's not really that pleased

00:41:23With the way negotiations have been going

00:41:25He's not secure in the fact

00:41:27That he will be with them next year

00:41:29He's a fantastic young talent

00:41:31That has certainly come into the Ferrari team

00:41:33In the middle of this season

00:41:35And has held his own

00:41:39He is certainly one of the most deserving drivers

00:41:41In Formula 1

00:41:43And we would all like to see Ferrari go ahead

00:41:45And sign the contract with Zephan Johansson

00:42:15He has held 55 Grand Prix's

00:42:17At this particular circuit

00:42:19Since then, although many revisions

00:42:21And many improvements have been made

00:42:23In the racing service

00:42:25And the racing circuit

00:42:31Well, Monza is a driver's track

00:42:33The drivers like to come here and do well

00:42:35It has a great history

00:42:37You can see Mr. Nauta certainly using all the track there

00:42:39Coming out of the second chicane

00:42:41You can see how much further up on the curve

00:42:43The car is following him

00:42:45Mr. Nauta has announced his retirement

00:42:47But he certainly hasn't announced anyone

00:42:49That he's not going to try as hard as he can

00:42:51To do as well as possible during this major event

00:42:53This year

00:42:55A bit of competition

00:42:57Going on there between

00:42:59He has three pit stops

00:43:01And

00:43:03The Lotuses

00:43:05Alboreto still in 6th place

00:43:07Coming around the back marker

00:43:09Tolman

00:43:11Both Lotuses

00:43:13Seem to be going past our commentary booth

00:43:15Will possibly get by

00:43:17The Alfa Romeo Petrezzi

00:43:19Before the next chicane

00:43:21Out of your camera's view

00:43:25Well used

00:43:27On a Ferrari

00:43:29Everyone, even though Keke Rosberg

00:43:31Is leading the race, the main interest here

00:43:33Is how Ferrari is doing

00:43:35But unfortunately they are not doing

00:43:37As well as everyone hoped

00:43:39Expected and jumped about

00:43:41For the last 12 months

00:43:43And right now, Alboreto

00:43:45In the number 27 Ferrari

00:43:47Is in 6th spot

00:43:49And his teammate Johansson

00:43:51Is in 8th

00:43:53Felipe Aglio looks like a definite

00:43:55Retirement

00:43:57That's another hard powered car

00:43:59As we said earlier

00:44:01That's a hard powered car

00:44:03Between the three teams

00:44:05That lost 16 motors this weekend

00:44:09At around

00:44:11$55,000

00:44:13$60,000 a motor, that's an expensive

00:44:15Friday, Saturday and Sunday

00:44:21Now you can see Johansson

00:44:23Making a move

00:44:25On one of the Tolman cars

00:44:27Johansson

00:44:29Flaps the slower car

00:44:33In the Italian run

00:44:35325 laps have been completed

00:44:37Almost at the half way mark now

00:44:39The lead continues to be held

00:44:41By Keke Rosberg

00:44:43He has lasted the drop

00:44:45Of the green flag

00:44:47Alonso is running 9.5 seconds

00:44:49Behind and we'll be back with more

00:44:51Of our live coverage after this

00:45:03An interesting development here

00:45:07Niki Lauda

00:45:09Has come in for a pit stop

00:45:11Is back out on the race course

00:45:13However he did lose a lap

00:45:15To our leader Keke Rosberg

00:45:17Niki Lauda

00:45:19Started 16th in this race

00:45:21Has moved up to 3rd

00:45:23But had to come in for some fresh rubber

00:45:25I think you're going to see Lauda

00:45:27Going very quickly

00:45:29Fresh rubber when everyone else

00:45:31Is almost half way through

00:45:33This race event

00:45:35Lauda has no other problems

00:45:37With his car besides just a

00:45:39Tire change

00:45:41And he certainly hasn't managed

00:45:43To get on fresh rubber at this particular point

00:45:45But we're going to have to watch

00:45:47To see if there are any other

00:45:49Problems

00:45:51While we were away for that break

00:45:53We didn't see them working on the car

00:45:55Any other way

00:45:59We are told that there was

00:46:01Some damage

00:46:03To the front wing on that race car

00:46:05And they did change the nose

00:46:07Now we have Michele Alvareto

00:46:09In the Ferrari pit for a stop

00:46:11They go to work on that car

00:46:13Changing the tires on the

00:46:15Left side, Michele Alvareto

00:46:17It's going to be a quick stop

00:46:19Only 10.13 seconds

00:46:21And the Italian found that

00:46:23Here as Alvareto

00:46:25Pitches the accelerator and goes back

00:46:27Out onto the race course

00:46:29That was the fastest Ferrari pit stop

00:46:31I've ever seen

00:46:33They sometimes consider

00:46:35The car a pit stop

00:46:3710 seconds is an extremely fast pit stop

00:46:39Anywhere in Formula 1

00:46:41Or anywhere in motorsports

00:46:43They must be congratulated

00:46:45Again, this is their number one race

00:46:47They know that

00:46:53Our race leader snuck into the pit

00:46:55And is also out

00:46:57An extremely fast pit stop

00:46:59Michele Rosberg at fresh tires

00:47:01He goes back out on the racetrack

00:47:03So things are really beginning to happen here

00:47:05As pit stops are being made

00:47:07For fresh rubber

00:47:13Alvareto

00:47:15On the racetrack, a long approach

00:47:17Is being shown as the leader

00:47:19With Rosberg in second

00:47:21At the end of 28 laps

00:47:23There's the lotuses of

00:47:25DeAngelo and Senna

00:47:29The lotuses have been running very strong

00:47:31All year long, especially with the

00:47:33Six-cylinder Renault power car

00:47:35Here in Monza

00:47:37With the long straight

00:47:39The Renaults, I think, will continue to circulate

00:47:41But they both seem to

00:47:43Ride on top of the bumps in the handling

00:47:45Of the candid Alvareto

00:47:47And the Williams, certainly battling it out

00:47:49There, both on fresh rubber

00:47:51Here you see that

00:47:53Now, the car gets extremely unstable

00:47:55Just when the driver

00:47:57Decided to go ahead and give it a big flick

00:47:59And become on the inside

00:48:01And get that moment

00:48:03At the same time

00:48:05Certainly

00:48:07Again

00:48:13He did go ahead and get a hold

00:48:15Of things

00:48:17And went past the candid Alvareto

00:48:19Under braking with ease

00:48:27That wasn't very brave maneuver

00:48:29Earlier, maybe that is Nigel Mansell

00:48:31Sorry, it's not Keke Rosberg

00:48:33But Nigel Mansell is very determined

00:48:35To stay out on that racetrack

00:48:37And perform as well as he can

00:48:39That's a bit unusual, Nigel Mansell

00:48:41Is on well-used race tires

00:48:43Halfway through this race, these tires

00:48:45Can not be developed in Egypt

00:48:47There's brand new sets of rubber

00:48:49To be doing it, but it certainly wasn't displayed there

00:48:51That he's having

00:48:53Any tire trouble whatsoever

00:48:55If they did come in for tires, you would think

00:48:57That Nigel may be finally stopped here

00:48:59In the very, very future

00:49:03But the wheels do not seem set up

00:49:05For this performance

00:49:07It looks like they are set up

00:49:09But no chance of stopping the

00:49:11Immediate future

00:49:15Candid Alvareto is

00:49:17Driving remotely, not right now

00:49:21Let's go

00:49:23And Gilada and Alonso

00:49:25Are behind Alvareto

00:49:27And close to the leader

00:49:29Alonso in front of him

00:49:31And he is in front of him

00:49:33Alonso behind him

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00:51:57And he is in front of him

00:51:59And he is in front of him

00:52:01And he is in front of him

00:52:03And he is in front of him

00:52:05And he is in front of him

00:52:07And he is in front of him

00:52:09And he is in front of him

00:52:12alarms

00:52:16ESPN's Autowracing 85

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00:53:00We are at Monza, John Vizzignano and I,

00:53:02for the Italian Grand Prix that is being led right now

00:53:06by Alain Grosz.

00:53:09Grosz is the leader, followed by K.K. Rosberg, Ayrton Senna,

00:53:13Elio de Angelis, Stephane Johansen, Nelson Piquet,

00:53:18Marc Schur, in eighth position, Pele Alvaredo,

00:53:23and ninth is Zicky Lauda.

00:53:25And those are the two cars that we're focusing in on right now.

00:53:30Keep in mind that the Italian television

00:53:32are going to be focusing in on Ferrari all this weekend.

00:53:36They're local television here, television station here,

00:53:39covering the race all weekend long.

00:53:41Interviews with Alvaredo and Stephane Johansen,

00:53:44breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

00:53:46So the Ferrari team is certainly going

00:53:48to get the most television coverage, no matter

00:53:51how they're doing on the circuit.

00:53:52But right now, all of Italy would

00:53:54hope that this coverage would show them a little bit higher

00:53:58up in this field.

00:54:00Everyone in all of Italy is waiting.

00:54:03This event is well marked.

00:54:07And it's almost like a moratorium here.

00:54:09The Italian fans are sitting in front of us.

00:54:12And they really are a bit depressed,

00:54:14I would say, over the Ferrari situation going on.

00:54:17And Nelson, Zicky Lauda, certainly stalking

00:54:19Pele Alvaredo.

00:54:21You can see how far ahead Prost is.

00:54:23He has not had a tire change, as KK Rosberg has not

00:54:27had a tire change.

00:54:28So right now, both KK's pit and McLaren's pit

00:54:34have to be thinking about what sort of race strategy

00:54:36they're going to have here in the closing third

00:54:40of this Italian Grand Prix.

00:54:41Will they bring them in and risk trouble in the pit?

00:54:45Will they risk a tire not being able to be

00:54:48locked on as quickly as possible?

00:54:50Or will they leave them out there, even on rubber?

00:54:53That's certainly going to be slower.

00:54:54They have such a tremendous lead.

00:54:58For the front, it's between the two of them.

00:55:02KK Rosberg continues to close in on the leader, Prost.

00:55:07The interval now is down to less than 10 seconds.

00:55:11He has gained about four seconds in the last two laps.

00:55:14We'll continue to watch this interval between first

00:55:18and second as Alain Prost continues to lead here.

00:55:22Nine cars on the lead lap.

00:55:24The ninth car is Zicky Lauda in number one,

00:55:27who has been in for a pit stop.

00:55:31We understand that one of the Lotus's,

00:55:34one who is behind, Elio De Angelis,

00:55:37may be losing some oil.

00:55:39He has dropped from third to fourth.

00:55:42Senna has moved into third.

00:55:44And the word is that Elio De Angelis Lauda may be losing,

00:55:47Lotus may be losing some oil.

00:55:49We'll keep our eye on that situation also.

00:55:53So I have to correct myself.

00:55:54KK Rosberg did, of course, stop the tires.

00:55:57Nigel Mansell had spilled out there on his race rubber.

00:56:03But really not in contention at this particular point.

00:56:07KK Rosberg is looking at those nine points,

00:56:12thinking of the world champion.

00:56:13A Frenchman has never won the world championship.

00:56:17All the great French drivers in the history of Formula One

00:56:20have never, ever been able to grasp the championship.

00:56:24That really shows what a difficult thing

00:56:26it is to do with KK Rosberg in the pits for a second time.

00:56:30No one knew where he was going.

00:56:32See Ron Dennis plugging himself in there to the headset.

00:56:36Tires not even up on Jack.

00:56:38It looks like it could be terminal for Nicky

00:56:42Lauda in the pits.

00:56:45Certainly not much activity down there.

00:56:49As we go back to the circuit, Kaylee Alvareto,

00:56:54certainly glad to see Lauda coming in.

00:56:57Lauda, of course, with all kinds of difficulties

00:56:59throughout this year, finishing a race.

00:57:02He has only finished three Grands Prix's this year.

00:57:09He was fourth in San Marino.

00:57:11He was fifth in Germany.

00:57:13And of course, he won the most recent Formula One race,

00:57:16the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

00:57:18However, Lauda's car is being pushed back

00:57:22into the garage area.

00:57:24And Nicky Lauda will be a DNF here at Mosa.

00:57:29Well, Nicky Lauda wants to certainly end his Formula One

00:57:33career as a winner.

00:57:34Like he showed, he certainly can be in Holland,

00:57:38dominating that race, going on to victory.

00:57:41And as you say, they have had a terrible year

00:57:45as far as reliability.

00:57:47It's quite amazing that one car, namely a long post,

00:57:51can be so dependable, when Nicky Lauda,

00:57:55with the exact same equipment, can have one of his longest,

00:57:59say, unsuccessful seasons ever.

00:58:02Benetton car in the pits.

00:58:05He's got a great deal of excitement

00:58:07going around the Alfa Romeo there.

00:58:10So it looks like there's a little bit more of a problem

00:58:13than just a tire change.

00:58:15Trazee has been in and out of the pits all afternoon.

00:58:20And it looks like he could be visiting the pit area

00:58:26for a very long time here, as problems

00:58:28continue to plague that Alfa.

00:58:33Well, the interval now between first and second

00:58:36is down to a little over five seconds.

00:58:39A.K.

00:58:39Rothsberg closing in on the leader.

00:58:42Now, Rothsberg.

00:58:45There is Rothsberg in the number six Williams Honda.

00:58:50Rothsberg took the lead at the top of the green flag

00:58:53and held it until he made a pit stop.

00:58:57There you can see the interval.

00:58:58Rothsberg going into the corner, and now

00:59:00Rothsberg going into the corner.

00:59:04Rothsberg held the lead until he made the pit stop.

00:59:07And at that time, Rothsberg took over the lead.

00:59:10However, Rothsberg swinging wide, coming out of Parabolica,

00:59:17trying desperately to catch the leader along the road.

00:59:24One thing, Bob, as the retirements begin to build up,

00:59:28we are actually being able to hear one another a little bit

00:59:32better.

00:59:32There's two cars circling around here.

00:59:34If we have a few more retirements,

00:59:35we may be able to improve the audio quality

00:59:39of this particular broadcast.

00:59:41We do apologize to our fans watching us in the States.

00:59:44It has been extremely difficult here.

00:59:46And everyone around us is certainly

00:59:48having the same trouble.

00:59:50And we will be back with more of our live coverage

00:59:52of the Italian Grand Prix after these messages.

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01:00:41Bob Diggins and John Bisognato back at the Italian Grand Prix.

01:00:44And there you can see how close it is.

01:00:46The lead car is Michele Alboreto.

01:00:48He is not among the leaders.

01:00:51However, right behind him, one and two,

01:00:54Alain Prost and K.K. Rosberg.

01:00:56Rosberg, after stopping for the tires,

01:01:00was about 13 seconds behind Alain Prost.

01:01:04But now he is right up on Alain's back bumper.

01:01:08And it appears that he may be ready to make a bid for the lead.

01:01:12We watch them as they go down the back stretch here.

01:01:15Now Rosberg dives to the inside.

01:01:17And Rosberg goes in the lead.

01:01:19K.K. Rosberg retakes the top spot from Alain Prost.

01:01:24Well, you saw that Prost really didn't even try and block him

01:01:27in any way whatsoever.

01:01:28It's absolutely a technical positioning on the tires.

01:01:34Prost knows that K.K. has been into the pits.

01:01:40He knows that he's three-quarters of the way through this event

01:01:43on the tires that he started with.

01:01:45And he didn't try and stop Prost coming by in any way whatsoever.

01:01:51So K.K. Rosberg goes back into the lead.

01:01:56While we were away for that last commercial,

01:01:59Stefan Johansson also made a pit stop in the other Ferrari

01:02:03and has dropped a lap down.

01:02:05There are seven cars that are on the lead lap.

01:02:08They include Streich, Rosberg, and Prost.

01:02:13Ayrton Senna is third, followed by Nelson Piquet,

01:02:17Elio de Angelis, Mark Schur, and Alvareto.

01:02:21Eighth is Johansson.

01:02:22Ninth is Jacques Lafitte.

01:02:23And tenth is Mark Brundle.

01:02:25Eleventh, Patrick Tompe.

01:02:27Twelfth, Jerry Bootsen.

01:02:29Thirteenth, Philippe Schreier.

01:02:32And fourteenth is Nigel Mansell, two laps down.

01:02:36Mansell, fourteenth, two laps down.

01:02:38Dale Bobby is fifteenth, four laps down.

01:02:45The defending champion of this race,

01:02:47Niki Lauda, has retired from competition.

01:02:50Now John, Prost appears to be dropping back

01:02:56and perhaps we could say that Rosberg is pulling ahead.

01:02:59Well, Rosberg is going to continue to pull ahead.

01:03:01Even the Ferrari there, who does have a new set of tires,

01:03:04could not even begin to hold off the man from Finland.

01:03:10The few Finnish flags that we've seen here this weekend

01:03:13are all waving at the moment.

01:03:15You have to realize, to drive from Finland to Italy

01:03:19would be like driving from Alaska to Daytona.

01:03:22But still, there is a very good contingent of Finlanders,

01:03:26or Finns, here all the way in Monza.

01:03:29There was even a good contingent of them all the way down in Portugal.

01:03:32Which is even a further drive for these people

01:03:35who follow Keke all over the world.

01:03:37Of course, Finland has not had a great number of international sports stars

01:03:41and Keke Rosberg is the number one sporting person

01:03:46in not only Finland, but what they call the sporting country.

01:03:53Rosberg back in the lead.

01:03:55Alonso Prost drops to second.

01:03:57Now Prost is a former winner here at Monza.

01:04:00Nelson Piquet, who right now is running in fourth place,

01:04:06is running very close to the third place car of Ayrton Senna,

01:04:11is also a former winner of the Italian Grand Prix.

01:04:14There you can see Piquet.

01:04:18Ayrton Senna, Piquet has moved it to third position.

01:04:22They very nearly touched one another right in the middle of the straightaway.

01:04:27Piquet has had some bad luck as far as getting blown off the road

01:04:31in the middle of straightaways in Monte Carlo.

01:04:33If you remember, he was parked off the road

01:04:37by an Alfa Romeo car driven by Patrese.

01:04:41I'm sure that was a very tight moment for both those people.

01:04:45Unfortunately, all those came together right in front of the pit.

01:04:49Just touching wheels would have been disastrous for both of them

01:04:52at well over 165 miles an hour coming out of Parabolica there.

01:04:59Nelson Piquet into third position.

01:05:01Actually, Nelson is a two-time winner of the Italian Grand Prix.

01:05:05He has won once on this racetrack,

01:05:08and the Italian Grand Prix in 1980 was held at Nibala.

01:05:11They did not run here at Monza,

01:05:14but that has been the only year since 1950

01:05:17that there has not been a Grand Prix, a Formula One race here at Monza.

01:05:21Of course, Nibala now has its own Grand Prix.

01:05:25The Grand Prix of San Marino, which is a little tiny municipality

01:05:28with a great pizza restaurant up in the mountains.

01:05:31It's one of those fairytale-type places that you dream about,

01:05:34and when you get there, you're not disappointed.

01:05:36The reason that it is called the San Marino Grand Prix

01:05:39is that there is a rule that the European countries can only have one Grand Prix each.

01:05:45So, of course, Italy can certainly support more than one Grand Prix championship event a year.

01:05:51So the way they got around having two Grand Prix in Italy

01:05:54is called one San Marino.

01:05:56Of course, that's a principality, therefore not part of Italy.

01:05:59And the Italians do not support that event like they do here,

01:06:03but still you'll have, certainly, 150,000 people down in San Marino

01:06:08to open up the Formula One season.

01:06:11Forty-two laps, and that's the place.

01:06:14Forty-two completed, we have ten to go in the Italian Grand Prix.

01:06:18The lead is held by Rosberg.

01:06:20Prost is second, and we'll be right back.

01:06:34Welcome back to Monza, Italy, in the Italian Grand Prix.

01:06:42K.K. Rosberg from Finland is the leader,

01:06:47a long Prost seven seconds behind.

01:06:50Rosberg doing a tremendous job here this afternoon,

01:06:53coming back from the pit stop to retake the lead from Prost,

01:06:57and now stretching out to him at it.

01:07:00It's now a nine-second lead for Rosberg over Prost.

01:07:03Running third is Nelson Piquet,

01:07:06and Ayrton Senna, our pole sitter, is fourth.

01:07:09And John, a tremendous performance by the driver of the rabble car,

01:07:13Mark Schur, car number eight.

01:07:14He's now running in fifth spot.

01:07:16Mark Schur from Basel, Switzerland,

01:07:18again brought in in the middle of the season.

01:07:21He was actually signed up to do sports car racing all year long,

01:07:24had sort of walked away from Formula One

01:07:26after being released from the aeros team last season.

01:07:29Brought in by Bernie Eccleston to fill the number two seat,

01:07:32and would very much like to see Mark Schur do well here.

01:07:36Of course, this is when he's negotiating his contract for next season,

01:07:40and a result here could certainly help his discussions with Bernie Eccleston for next year.

01:07:55K.K. Rosberg coming up on Michele Alboreto.

01:08:00John, I think we'd be remiss if we did not mention the fact that we have a problem here.

01:08:08Michele Alboreto, K.K. Rosberg, was not coming up on Michele Alboreto.

01:08:12It's Spock coming out of Senna's car.

01:08:15Spock will certainly take over the lead here.

01:08:18They have the second clock on him,

01:08:19but there's going to be more sports to be done here than just tires.

01:08:24Well, there's Spock coming from the engine compartment of that race car,

01:08:27and the crew is beginning to take off the cowling around the engine.

01:08:32A tough break for K.K. Rosberg,

01:08:35who has been in this situation times before this year.

01:08:39Leading the race, by far the fastest race car on the track,

01:08:43and then all of a sudden something goes wrong.

01:08:46A long approach, but there he is.

01:08:48Now goes back into the lead.

01:08:52K.K. Rosberg continues to sit helplessly in the pit area.

01:08:57As the crew works on the car, meanwhile,

01:08:59Prost continuing at speed on the racetrack.

01:09:03An unbelievable development again for K.K. Rosberg.

01:09:08As we said earlier, Bob,

01:09:09Prost is the most calculating driver on the circuit,

01:09:12and he does calculate it to the point of,

01:09:14first you must finish the finish first.

01:09:17K.K. Rosberg certainly dominating the race

01:09:20as far as leading,

01:09:21being able to pass both under power and under braking,

01:09:25but not until the end of the race.

01:09:28He only made it to lap number 45 out of 51 laps here,

01:09:32so Prost, with his onboard computer,

01:09:35his own onboard computer, not the engine management system,

01:09:38has again kept everything working together,

01:09:41his teammates into the pits and out of this race.

01:09:44His comparison is circulating perfectly at the moment.

01:09:47As he comes by, he does get a bunch of hex signs

01:09:52from all the Italians in front of us.

01:09:54They're giving sort of rude, rude signs to him.

01:09:58We came by here and got hex signs from about 20,000 people.

01:10:03We'll have to see what sort of effect that has

01:10:05on the rest of his driving.

01:10:06Moving into second place now, Nelson Piquet in the Brava.

01:10:10We're watching him right now negotiate the 3.6 mile course

01:10:14here at Monza.

01:10:15Piquet in second.

01:10:17Ayrton Senna is going to be third now,

01:10:20and Senna is the second car behind Piquet.

01:10:25Alain Prost once again back into the lead.

01:10:29I was going to say, just as K.K. came in for the pit stop,

01:10:32I think we'll be remiss if we did not mention the fact

01:10:35that Formula 1 racing is a little poorer this weekend

01:10:38because of the untimely death last weekend of Stefan Velov.

01:10:43Velov killed in a world endurance race at Spa.

01:10:46He, of course, a regular Formula 1 competitor.

01:10:49More than terrible.

01:10:52And our thoughts and sympathies are with the family

01:10:59of Stefan Velov here this weekend.

01:11:03Stefan Velov will be greatly missed, that's for sure.

01:11:05He was a tremendous competitor and a fine young gentleman.

01:11:08Velov and I have known for the last six years.

01:11:11Stefan Velov certainly will be greatly missed,

01:11:14not only here at Monza,

01:11:16but for the next remainder of this season and seasons to come.

01:11:20We might also mention the ZAX Speed Team is not here this weekend

01:11:23in charge of an entry-contact race.

01:11:26Their driver is Jonathan Palmer.

01:11:28We'll be back with more live coverage

01:11:30of the Italian Grand Prix from Monza.

01:11:41We are back at Monza,

01:11:43and a sad situation for the Italian race fans.

01:11:47Michele Alboreto has come into the pit area

01:11:51and is out of the race.

01:11:53He was running at 5th spot in the number 27 Ferrari.

01:11:58However, the car has decisively stopped running on him.

01:12:02He slowly came into the pit area,

01:12:05and Alboreto is now out.

01:12:09And while it continues to be a rather poor day for the Ferrari team,

01:12:13the Brabham cars are looking very good.

01:12:16They are running 2nd and 4th at this time.

01:12:18Piquet is in 2nd and, sure, in 4th spot.

01:12:21The McLaren of Alain Frosch is the leader.

01:12:25And between Frosch and Senna,

01:12:29I should say after Piquet,

01:12:31the Lotus of Ayrton Senna running in 3rd spot.

01:12:35At the moment, the only hint of joy the Italians have left

01:12:40is Elio De Angelis with the John Flair special black and gold Lotus.

01:12:45We certainly hope to see an Italian on the winner's roster,

01:12:49and that would have to be one of the first three cars

01:12:52to finish the 56th Grand Prix of Italy here.

01:12:55But at the moment, the only bright hope for the Italian crowd

01:12:59is Elio De Angelis sitting in 6th.

01:13:01So it doesn't look like he, the Italians, are going to leave here

01:13:04with a great thrill of satisfaction

01:13:08for what they've been looking forward to all year long.

01:13:14There is the leader, Alain Frosch.

01:13:18There are only four cars on the lead lap at this time,

01:13:21Frosch, Piquet, Senna, and Schur.

01:13:24We mentioned that the Zakspeed team is not here this weekend

01:13:27and that Jonathan Palmer was injured at the spa last weekend.

01:13:30We understand that Christian Danner,

01:13:34who is a Formula 3000 regular competitor,

01:13:39will be driving the Zakspeed car next weekend at spa.

01:13:43Now, Bob, you can see now that Frosch has certainly physically

01:13:47flown down on the track. There's no mechanical problem,

01:13:50but he's just beginning to ease off a little bit.

01:13:52He knows that there's only a few laps left.

01:13:55He does not want to have any mechanical or driver failures

01:13:59at this particular point. He does not want to push himself

01:14:02or the car to a point of risking a comfortable lead.

01:14:07And those all-important nine points,

01:14:10as Pitts has told us, is out of the race.

01:14:13This would give him a very good lead into the World Championship,

01:14:18which is the first priority.

01:14:20I'm sure the McLaren pits are putting up an easy for him,

01:14:23letting him know how the competition is behind.

01:14:26But still, right now, Frosch has to be considering

01:14:31those nine points and finishing this race as a winner.

01:14:35There goes the second Williams, moving very slowly.

01:14:39Nigel Mansell.

01:14:41The smoke coming out of that Honda-powered car also.

01:14:45The Honda V6 turbocharged engine,

01:14:48certainly one of the most successful in qualifying,

01:14:50but has not been that reliable in the last several Grand Prix.

01:14:55Big hopes for Nigel as we went into this race,

01:14:58because he had qualified up front.

01:15:01As a matter of fact, he started this race in third position.

01:15:04However, by the second lap, and there he is in the pit area.

01:15:08By the second lap, it was very obvious that Mansell's engine

01:15:14was not performing correctly.

01:15:17And he came in, he seemed to get the problem corrected,

01:15:20but he is in the pit area once again.

01:15:22We are on the final lap of this race.

01:15:27And it looks like that Alain Frosch is going to walk off

01:15:31with another victory this year.

01:15:34This will be his fifth win of the year,

01:15:36should he take the checkered flag.

01:15:38And will, as you indicated, John,

01:15:41give him a substantial lead in the battle for the World Championship.

01:15:45He came in with 56 points and another nine,

01:15:50which gives him 65.

01:15:52And Michele Alvareto will fail to score any points here this afternoon

01:15:55because he is out of the race.

01:15:58Of course, there you saw Frosch just letting the Ferrari by very comfortably.

01:16:05The Chinese fans still cheering the Ferraris along,

01:16:08even though they are a lap down on this last lap.

01:16:11Raphael Hansen will bring his car to the finish line

01:16:19and actually unlap himself in the process,

01:16:21so there's a little bit of joy there, but not much.

01:16:24Alain Frosch coming into the final chicane.

01:16:30And even now the Liget behind is easily catching him.

01:16:33He is back way off, Bob,

01:16:35and we're going to see a checkered flag here for Alain Frosch.

01:16:39Frosch moves out of the final corner, comes on to the main straightaway.

01:16:43The checkered flag awaits him.

01:16:45There it is. Alain Frosch has won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

01:16:51Frosch takes the checkered flag and wins here this afternoon.

01:16:56Second place at this point is Delphine Piquet

01:17:00as Frosch slows down and salutes the thousands of race fans

01:17:05gathered all around this 3.6 mile course.

01:17:07There is Nelson Piquet in the Brabham.

01:17:10And he now is headed for Parabolica, the final corner on this racetrack.

01:17:17No lotus and dew there again.

01:17:20Nelson Piquet cruising to number seven.

01:17:25Raul Parabolica on the most challenging course in Formula One.

01:17:31And here he comes out of the corner.

01:17:34Nelson Piquet in the Brabham.

01:17:36Takes the checkered flag and finishes in second position.

01:17:39The Italian fans cheer him as he takes the checkered.

01:17:44And Ayrton Senna finishes in third position,

01:17:49but it was a close battle as he and Mark Schur

01:17:52came down nose to tail.

01:17:55Stefan Johansson on the last lap has climbed out of his car,

01:17:58unable to finish the race.

01:18:04And Johansson would like a ride to the pit area.

01:18:09L.A.O. DeAngelis giving Stefan a ride back.

01:18:11He stopped way out on the circuit.

01:18:14Interesting to see if that changes his position.

01:18:17He was fifth, L.A.O. sixth.

01:18:22But I believe those positions will stand as the race was over

01:18:25when the checkered flag came down for pros.

01:18:28DeAngelis finished in sixth, however, was a lap down

01:18:31when the checkered came out.

01:18:33And Stefan unlapped himself just on the final lap.

01:18:38So here comes Brose now into the pit area.

01:18:43Now, Bob, a scene that normally takes place here

01:18:45is the huge fans rushing onto the track.

01:18:49This year they have upped the security guards here maybe 100%.

01:18:54I don't see any spectators on the track.

01:18:56This is the first time in seven Monza Grands Prix

01:18:59that I've been here, and there has not been a flood of spectators

01:19:02immediately after the checkered flag.

01:19:04So let's see if the security holds.

01:19:06Well, the fans were rather reserved here today.

01:19:08They didn't have a whole lot to cheer about

01:19:10as far as the Ferraris are concerned.

01:19:12Michele Alvarado falling out late in the race,

01:19:15and Stefan Johansson having a problem on the last lap.

01:19:17However, he is shown as the fifth-place finisher.

01:19:20We'll be back with our closing comments from Monza after this message.

01:19:33Back at Monza, the Italian Grand Prix.

01:19:35The winner of the race is Alain Brose.

01:19:38And now the fans begin to come onto the racetrack

01:19:42as Brose has made his way to victory circle here.

01:19:47Finishing second was Nelson Piquet.

01:19:49Third was Senna. Fourth was Marc Schur.

01:19:51Fifth, Johansson, and sixth was Elio de Angelis.

01:19:55Then following de Angelis was Patrick Tambay, seventh.

01:19:58Martin Brundle was eighth.

01:20:00Brose in ninth. Philippe Streif was tenth, two laps down.

01:20:04Eleventh was Nigel Mansell, four laps down.

01:20:07Then Teo Fabi, also four laps down.

01:20:10And Michele Alvarado finishes in sixth lap down in 13th position.

01:20:18There you see the slow motion excellence of Alain Brose.

01:20:23Waving victory.

01:20:25And not too many Italians giving a friendly sign back to him, I'm sure.

01:20:29Not the most popular driver in Italy.

01:20:32Certainly, especially when he's in contention for the World Championship

01:20:36with Michele Alvarado of Ferrari.

01:20:38Well, it was a tremendous race as K.K. Rosberg led the first few laps

01:20:43then came in for a tire change.

01:20:45Brose took the lead.

01:20:47Rosberg battled back to retake the lead from Brose,

01:20:51but then Rosberg's car gave out.

01:20:54Brose went into the lead once again and held it.

01:20:58Alain has had a tremendous year so far.

01:21:01His worst finish in a Grand Prix has been third.

01:21:05Now, he has not finished two races because of crashes,

01:21:09but those that he has finished, his worst is the third position.

01:21:14And in the last four races, at Silverstone, he was first.

01:21:20At the German Grand Prix, he was second.

01:21:22He was the winner in Austria.

01:21:24He was second at the Dutch Grand Prix two weeks ago

01:21:27and now comes home a winner here in Monza this week.

01:21:30So it appears that perhaps Alain Brose is on his way to his World Championship.

01:21:36There were the final standings, and now we update the points for you.

01:21:40Alain Brose gets nine points for his win here today and now has 65.

01:21:46Alvarado does not gain a point and remains with 53.

01:21:51In third place in the points standings, Elio de Angelis,

01:21:54who did gain some points here this weekend, and is now 31.

01:21:58Ayrton Senna is fourth in points with 23,

01:22:02and Stefan Johansson is fifth in the points with 21.

01:22:07Sixth would be Nelson Piquet, who finished second here today.

01:22:11He has 19.

01:22:13Then K.K. Rosberg and Niki Lauda, Lauda with 14.

01:22:19Brose beginning to pull away in the battle for the World Championship.

01:22:23So we'll have more from Monza and the Italian Grand Prix,

01:22:27which has been won today by Alain Brose.

01:22:39Bob Jenkins and John Bisignano back at the Italian Grand Prix,

01:22:42and the fans have poured onto the racecourse,

01:22:45and there are the top three finishers.

01:22:48Alain Brose in the middle.

01:22:50On the left side of the screen is Nelson Piquet,

01:22:53and on the right is Ayrton Senna.

01:22:56Round number 12 of the Grand Prix season has been completed,

01:23:00and once again, Brose now has a 12-point lead

01:23:05in the battle for the World Championship over Michele Alvarado.

01:23:09Next race, next Sunday, Spa.

01:23:12John, what kind of a track is it? What can we expect?

01:23:15Well, it's a very fast track.

01:23:17The track conditions have been improved.

01:23:19That was proven by the endurance race that went on there last week

01:23:22with absolutely no troubles whatsoever.

01:23:25It's a place where Brose has done very well,

01:23:29although his qualifying for this particular race earlier this year,

01:23:34he actually did quite poorly.

01:23:36But it's a track that he likes.

01:23:38It's suited for McLarens, up and down hills.

01:23:40It's a fuel problem, fuel-sensitive circuit.

01:23:43It's going to be very close to the engine management systems on the tags.

01:23:47Howard McLarens will be working flat out there to keep things in order

01:23:51as Alain Brose throws a hat into the crowd.

01:23:54Huge Italian crown.

01:23:56But still, there's four races to go, 12 points,

01:24:00but you cannot believe the enthusiasm even being shown

01:24:04on a Ferrari-less winner's stand

01:24:08as the wreath of victory goes around

01:24:12a well-deserved victory by Alain Brose.

01:24:14As I was saying, four races to go.

01:24:16It's still only one championship, Bob.

01:24:18Well, the Italian fans now are cheering the top three finishers,

01:24:23and they are still waving their Ferrari flag.

01:24:26Enthusiasm even to the very end here at the Italian Grand Prix.

01:24:30And then thousands of race fans are still pouring into this area

01:24:34here in front of us, here in front of the main grandstand,

01:24:36beneath the winner's podium.

01:24:39Well, it certainly had a great feeling.

01:24:41It has been a discouraging afternoon for these Italian fans,

01:24:46but they're going to go up there and cheer the winner, Alain Brose.

01:24:49He certainly deserves the wreath going into the crowd.

01:24:53A lot of good memorabilia being tossed off the winner's podium.

01:24:58A great hand going up for Nelson Piquet.

01:25:01Of course, they think that he's a bit of a migrated Italian to Brazil.

01:25:07Pirelli tires doing very well with the second-place finish here via Piquet's gravel.

01:25:14Pirelli being an Italian company.

01:25:17And, Bob, this is what I was telling you about.

01:25:19Looking down on this thing, this does not happen at Indianapolis.

01:25:22No, it really doesn't.

01:25:23It's something that I have never seen at motorsports.

01:25:25And I'll tell you, my visit here to Monza has been one of the memorable moments

01:25:29of my racing career because I'm telling my age here,

01:25:33but I can remember very clearly when the Indianapolis cars came here to Monza

01:25:37to run the high banks back in the 50s with Jim Rasmussen, Jimmy Bryan,

01:25:42and Tony Fentonhausen driving the Novi.

01:25:45And to think that I was here to this very racetrack to see where they competed on

01:25:49was a big thrill.

01:25:51And the enthusiasm that I'm sure was there in the 1950s has not lessened any here in the 1980s.

01:25:58Well, the Italian Grand Prix has been brought to you by Dodge.

01:26:01And a totally new Dodge Lancer.

01:26:03The revolutionary new age of sedans.

01:26:08And by BFGoodrich, makers of high-performance TA radials.

01:26:13We make cars perform.

01:26:16The winner here at the Italian Grand Prix today was Alain Prost, finishing second,

01:26:22Nelson Pichet, Ayrton Senna was third, Mark Schur fourth,

01:26:26Stefan Johansson was fifth, and in sixth place was Elio D'Angeli.

01:26:31Join us next Sunday at 9.30am Eastern Time for the Belgian.

F1 1985 - Grand Prix of Italy

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