Track: Indianapolis
Car: BAR 004
Engine: Honda V10
Car: BAR 004
Engine: Honda V10
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00:00What a great result, fourth place at Monza last time out, here we are riding with Olivier Panis down in 16th, we're back to that battle as he chases Eddie Irvine ahead of them Alan McNish in the Toyota
00:11and we have three major manufacturers represented here, Toyota, Ford and Honda all evenly matched.
00:18Well Panis is pretty quick down the straight there, we can see current speeds 339, top speed 346, so Olivier Panis battling with Eddie Irvine in the Jaguar
00:29can make up speed, the trouble that they've had in the earlier part of the season at BAR is that they get the top speed
00:35but they do not get the top speed as early in this trade as some of the competitors.
00:41218 miles per hour the maximum, but Michael Schumacher fastest overall.
00:48Now we're riding with Olivier Panis and let's just see whether there's any opportunity for him to find a way of getting ahead of Eddie Irvine.
00:58It's looking tricky at the moment, you have to say. It's through here, the next sort of section of corners, but you need to be quick.
01:05And Villeneuve, if he can keep it going, let's just take a look as we're riding with his teammate now Olivier Panis and Panis...
01:11Oh he had to back out of it. Panis actually had to live there on the main straight.
01:15I think because the Toyota went from left to right at the point when Panis was about to do the same,
01:21so McNish countered any anticipated move by Olivier Panis causing him to back out of it.
01:28Olivier Panis really trying to close up that gap to McNish.
01:35It almost looked like he was going to get past on the straight there, but it didn't quite come off.
01:39Meanwhile, it is Panis' teammate Jacques Villeneuve who's been on the move.
01:43He's up to fifth place ahead now of Kimi Räikkönen, but Panis frustrated in his attempts to get past the Toyota.
01:50And it will be of interest to see how quickly Villeneuve, there we see Anthony Davidson, he's the test driver for BAR Honda.
01:56Whether Jacques Villeneuve, now he's got clear of Kimi Räikkönen, can do anything to shun Rondon.
02:02He had Panis, Janu, truly in fourth place in the Renault has.
02:05The gap, as he came across the line, the last time was 4.9 seconds.
02:09He'll keep an eye on that one.
02:11Just ride with Panis for a moment.
02:12We've got a little bit of break-up on the picture.
02:26We do apologise for that, but hopefully we're getting some pretty amazing pictures anyway,
02:31as Olivier Panis now has the opportunity to get down the inside of McNish.
02:36Yes, the speed of the BAR down the straight, superior to that of Alan McNish.
02:39And McNish decides that, well, I blocked him on the previous lap.