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00:00We saw that Hamilton had a very good second phase of the start.
00:04He got alongside Nicol, he had to have a go, had to try and go on the outside,
00:07but Nicol just got alongside him, and Nicol was all right to push him wide,
00:12and that allowed Vettel to go around the outside of Hamilton as well as to go up into second place.
00:17And you just have to feel a little bit for Hamilton here, because he's like,
00:20wow, almost got Rosberg on the start, and here I am now in third position.
00:25After that, we just had that small accident, not small accident, quite a big accident,
00:29and both Maruchas taking each other out, which was a little bit of disaster, so we had the safety car.
00:34Now let's just back to the start here, you can see from Vettel's point of view, Rosberg putting Hamilton wide,
00:38and Vettel doing a very good job just to go around the outside of Hamilton here and claim that position.
00:43Hamilton also did a good job here not making a mistake there, and making a mistake on,
00:46because he would have dirtied his right side of the tyres.
00:49And this is the accident then with the two Maruchas, Max Chilton just losing it on the way in,
00:54and Bianchi had nowhere to go.
00:56The safety car went in, obviously, as all systems go again.
01:00Hamilton actually didn't get a very good start on the restart, but it wasn't until the DRS zone is open.
01:06Once the DRS zone is open, then with the Mercedes advantage they have down the straight,
01:10easily made that overtaking move on Vettel to take second place.
01:14Sebastian, now you need to stay on top of your tyres, OK? Don't let that get to you.
01:22Good word, say for Vettel, because Vettel was, I think, trying to push hard to stay with the Mercedes, stay in the tow.
01:28But then he came into the pit stop, I think he used those tyres quite well.
01:32Then that started a whole chain reaction, Massa pitted here, a feel for Massa here.
01:36You know, he was right in the hut here, when this stop really dropped him down,
01:39he just had a big problem getting that left butt tyre off.
01:42And almost an unsafe release, but luckily no penalty for him.
01:45Here was Hamilton's stop, and straight after Hamilton pitted was Rosberg.
01:51No position changed, Rosberg still maintained first position ahead of Hamilton,
01:56although Hamilton, you know, they closed it down the gap a little bit,
02:00and at this stage, one-third of the distance through the race,
02:03it was still of Merck pulling away out in front, with Rosberg in front and Hamilton second.
02:12His final warning for cutting the last chicane.
02:15So Hamilton lost power at this point, and actually both cars did,
02:18and I really feel for Hamilton though, because he was driving so well,
02:20really pushing Nico very hard, and making some very good, genuine attempts to try and overtake.
02:25I really thought at this point in the race, that Hamilton would have got a chance of winning the race.
02:29And once it opens in their power, you can see both the Merck's coming back.
02:33You can see that Halkenberg had his first pit stop here, and only pit stop.
02:37They split the two strategies for him here.
02:39Halkenberg started on the soft tyre, then with the super soft,
02:42and Perez did do such a great job, he's another star for me.
02:45He started on the super soft tyre, made them last 35 laps,
02:49and was able to stay in front of everyone at this point.
02:52So the Merck's came in, and this is the point where Massa took the lead.
02:59Both Mercedes' came out behind Massa.
03:01Unfortunately, Massa had to have a stop, a second stop again, couldn't make the tyres last again.
03:06This is Hamilton having his brake failure, trying to come back at Rosberg after the pit stops.
03:10And I think, you know, this is where Halkenberg had a great failure.
03:14And Rosberg was...

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