00:00Italian Grand Prix in 2015, the fastest race of the season, where last year Daniel Ricciardo registered a speed of 224 miles an hour, the fastest speed in the race, which is round 12 of 19 in this Formula 1 World Championship, and where Ferrari have brought some new toys to the party, and their toys that could spoil Mercedes' dominating season-long party for this afternoon at least.
00:28A real competitive grid, ahead of us we have 53 laps around this 3.6 mile circuit, two DRS zones, the potential for a real collision and carnage at the first chicane, maybe the second chicane as well, the sun is shining, the Italian Air Force have given us a great fly pass, Martin Brundle, there is nowhere else on this planet I would want to be at this moment in time.
00:50Look at that view in the park of Monza, the Royal Palace just down the road, the mountains in the back, we're up to the front on those yellow lines, they extend out to the side so they can see them better, of course that's a problem that Mata had back in Hungary, Mata's a little bit short of his yellow line here too.
01:07Well we're all ready to go, the green flag is being waved, we have 5 lights ahead of the driver, it's lights down and away we go it's the hospital for Timmy Riker, who's stolen on the grip and finally got going, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel picking up a turn up and they head towards the final chicane, Felipe Massa is ahead of Batsley Vossap and Nico Rothberg, Hamilton goes into the third chicane of the lead, Vettel behind him, then comes Massa and Vossap and Vossap and Vossap and Vettel going over the chicane,
01:37as well, but they lead the pack now to Hamilton, down through the curve of Grondé, a very
01:41slow moving, past to Albinado as he gives back places after running through that chicane,
01:46and under braking into the second chicane now, let's see if Ernie trouble behind Nico
01:51Holden, but almost into the back of Felipe Nasser.
01:54The grass and the tarmac of the first chicane, Martins, that may be damaged, as he did that,
01:59remember, two weeks ago, he hit the curve through those rooms, and of course, the 17G
02:03impact driver ever that forced him out of the race, what it is today, we just don't
02:07know, we're on board now with Kimi, some tyre management for a couple of laps to stay
02:11things easy, keep it calm out there, and then think about the race strategy from there on
02:16in. The worst thing for Ferrari, losing Raikkonen like that early on, is they could use strategy,
02:21for sure they're going to split their drivers, and bring one in early. Here we go, it's going
02:25to be a scourish chicane on Daniel, Ricciardo has to just yield someone, because Ricciardo
02:30had the line and had the advantage, and he didn't want any contact whatsoever.
02:34...helped Raikkonen after this awful, awful start for him.
02:38He was looking down, wasn't he? Well done for Valtteri Bottas not running into the back
02:42of his hello countryman there, and the rest of them come to that, but Bottas really had
02:46to react super quickly, but Raikkonen was looking down into the cockpit, and that's how slowly
02:52away he was, he dropped right to the back of the field.
02:54He's just gone through the second chicane with Kimi Raikkonen, but not the right way,
02:59he overtook Carlos Sainz, and I wonder if he's got to take that, and give that place
03:03back.
03:05He was busy pulling the gear lever, wasn't he? It's almost like he got out of the field,
03:12I'd like to see that again, actually, I was looking somewhere else, but hopefully we'll
03:15see that action again.
03:17Very swift work, as you mentioned, from Bottas, but also from Romain Grosjean behind him,
03:23and let's now see if we can pick up past the straight that Hamilton has got on Sebastian
03:27Fettel at the moment.
03:28Next we're driving from Hamilton, that was a 1 minute 28.5, the previous laps were 28.0,
03:3528.1, 28.1, 28.1, 28.1.
03:39Incredible consistency, nothing to bother him, he's absolutely in the group, in the zone,
03:47and there now is the greater than eight second lead he needs to have a bit of control over
03:53his strategy too against the rest.
03:55Here comes Max Verstappen, on Fernando Alonso again, he's still having a great old squad.
04:00Difficult, and then accelerating, here we go, so Kimi's very cautious, Kimi was super cautious,
04:08coming towards that line.
04:11And would have lost time as a result.
04:14Yeah.
04:18Well done, Roberto, Mary.
04:20Seconds behind Jensen Button, because of their different tyre strategies.
04:24He is closing on Button now, because Alonso's on the soft tyre and Button on the harder one,
04:29on the medium, but they're probably going to finish the race, I'd imagine.
04:33So we think P2 is still possible, we just need to close the gap, looking after the brakes,
04:44and then attack when his tyre's gone.
04:46Trouble is, Rosberg's size is seven laps older, as I mentioned earlier on.
