00:00In conditions very similar to Suzuka this afternoon, it's raining and it is raining hard as we approach round 15 of the Formula One World Championship in 2014.
00:12We have rain of course in qualifying in Australia. We have had rain intermittently disrupt sessions throughout the season, but we haven't had rainfall during a Grand Prix this season or at any stage since the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2012.
00:29That run is going to end this afternoon. 3.6 miles of Suzuka undulating and full of rivers across the track, puddles forming. It is raining hard across the circuit now and as we look down towards in the DRS zone, the first corner, well you can see just how gloomy it has got.
00:48A few moments ago we had the Japanese national anthem, May Your Rain Last Forever is 1011, a race that went on beyond four hours. That's not going to happen today unless they've got floodlights akin to Singapore.
01:02But away we go with the safety car leading then Nico Rosberg on pole and Lewis Hamilton on the front row away from the grid.
01:11And this is now the first lap of the Japanese Grand Prix. Two laps need to be completed by the race leader to start scoring points.
01:20And then over 40 laps to get into the 41st lap before you get full points. So between two laps is half points. So it's absolutely the right decision to start this behind the safety car.
01:32We saw Hamilton snaking his way, even at low speeding, within a four hour period, although darkness will stop that anyway.
01:40And that time has now started, so we're a minute into the two hours. But you need to be carrying a little bit of speed when you do that.
01:48And he's going to light it up. Bit of a puddle there. And round she goes. So it gets the wrong way and he is still stranded.
01:57Marcus Ericsson, as we watch the spin once more, is rolling, rolling, rolling back towards the track.
02:05I wonder if that engine is now stalled. We'll see. Once we get going, we can get going now as the safety car pulls away.
02:13Just how drop, pull away. So we've got an hour and 54 and a half minutes of race time left. It will be dark.
02:22Corners into the restart. It's, it's come to. With Alonzo.
02:28We've got an exciting blow of an effort.
02:55This is Lee Martin, he's ready to get going, and as they put the foot down, we can get going in a couple of seconds time.
03:04Rosberg, Hamilton, Bottas and Massa, the top four now, they can get going because there's the safety car line.
03:10And do you know what, Lewis Hamilton is sticking to Nico Rosberg as close as he possibly can.
03:15But down towards Turnbull we go now, and already Hamilton has to pull out from behind the rear wing of the Mercedes and Nico Rosberg
03:22to actually see where that corner is, and into the first turn we go as Jenson Button comes into the pit.
03:2880 kilometres an hour to his pit box yet, and Rosberg, his teammates, now through the final chicane, now through the final corner.
03:36Tyres are changed for Hamilton, there's Rosberg you can see on your screen.
03:41Hamilton now gets to the end of the pit lane, does he come out ahead of his teammates?
03:44So there'll be some harvesting going on there, it's almost like pulling the handbrake on, and that's how it felt on board, isn't it?
03:52For Hamilton, as he starts to harvest energy, he's gone over that little white line, but that wasn't it.
03:59He just started to turn the steering wheel, put some lateral force into the chassis, and now nobody's left front.
04:06That's remarkably red and high temperature for wet conditions.
04:11I just wonder as well there, Martin, that the dash display for Hamilton was chased, and let's just look here at Kvyat, getting past Esteban Gutierrez, sliding around a little bit as he moves.
04:26Keeps the car under control at high speed, and what is a much damper part of the circuit on that pit straight.
04:33And the DRS wide open, of course.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Big leather box in the rear wing.
04:38Dumped the Magnuson into turn one.
04:43Stand the stairs off.
04:44At least he was pointing the right way.
04:53Brought it.
04:55Yeah, the right front slope coming off, wasn't there, as much rather than going on, for some reason.
05:01Couldn't see if he was right on his blocks, or Daniel Ricciardo's the only non-Mercedes car to win a race this season, of course.
05:08And this is what Magnuson was facing, along with Ricciardo's.
05:13Magnuson getting past Ricciardo to un-lap himself.
05:16That's a great move if he's pulled that off without any contact.
05:21This is what it looked like from the Red Bull.
05:27It's going now 7.3 seconds.
05:29As you watch Magnuson for turn one again, it's all happening at turn one for Kevin Magnuson today.
05:35You know, they're overtaking, or they're going wide.
05:38What about Jean-Éric Verne?
05:43Bit of oversteer in the middle of turn one into two.
05:46Had to correct it.
05:48I like a bit of drifting in these parts.
05:52The asses.
05:56She's gone in too deep there.
05:58Yeah.
05:58He's actually found some gravel.
06:02That was odd.
06:03It was an odd mistake.
06:06Fortunately for him.
06:06That's what Mabee says, there's another car in there.
06:09Just began to think that there'd be more damage than the truck could have done, because Sutle didn't crash in the zone where...
06:16So, it looks to me...
06:17There's the ambulance just arriving now, Martin.
06:22That's exactly what I was talking about, isn't it?
06:23There was things on the racetrack and then other cars.
06:26During the course of today, here at Suzuka.
06:29So, it's Hamilton.
06:32How do you?
06:34What I can tell you is that I didn't hear anything on the radio from Jules when they asked him if he was okay.
06:40Thanks for Sergio Perez.
06:42Here comes to recover.
06:45Adrian Sousal's Sauber.
06:51In their confirmation of the race.
06:53The situation with the red flag, you get the count back to the previous lap.
06:57And there, Fernando Alonso.
06:59And the trophy for Lewis Hamilton, the second Japanese Grand Prix winner's trophy, this time at Suzuka.
07:11For Lewis Hamilton, to go with his win in 2,000 Rosberg.
07:16Sebastian Vettel then will pick up the third place trophy.
07:20Beating his teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, into fourth today.
