is around the 3.8 kilometer track and there'll be no shortage of fans flocking to the city of churches
for this historic race. Adelaide is a city with a conservative population
used to Sunday's peace being disturbed only by the ringing of church bells.
But this isn't just any Sabbath, this is Sunday, bloody beauty, Grand Prix Sunday.
Ian Chappell welcoming viewers around the world to the city of Adelaide, a city that's certainly
come alive this afternoon and there he is, the young Brazilian favorite for the race,
the man who's grabbed pole position Ayrton Senna. He's grabbed it six times already this season,
this is his seventh, he's going to be 10 times in the front row of the grid, that's pretty
impressive. Ayrton Senna, the man to beat with regards to everybody else right now,
but on the second fastest starting position, a man who's won the last two Grand Prix
and that's the Englishman Nigel Mansell, he's got to be hot. Keke Rosberg,
former world champion Keke Rosberg, the man who will be third off the grid here this afternoon
and the man to bring you all the action here in the Australian Grand Prix, Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Yes, Adelaide is alive in 30 degree heat on the finest street circuit in the world,
all is set for Australia's first ever world championship Grand Prix in front of a sellout
capacity crowd of well over 100,000 people.
The crowd is going to be very excited, they're going to be very excited, they're going to be very
excited, they're going to be very excited, they're going to be very excited, they're going to be very
excited, they're going to be very excited, they're going to be very excited.
And there's one of the men that they will be watching, most of all today, in third position on the grid,
that was Keke Rosberg. You are looking now at the unclothed car of world champion Alain Prost,
fourth on the grid but significantly second fastest in this morning's unofficial practice.
There's Willie Dungle on the right who is Nicky Lowder's personal doctor and Prost who's
certainly been overtired from all the promotional work he's done, he's in good shape.
But there's Michele Alberetto's Ferrari and Alberetto is much further up the grid than
he has been in the recent past.
He's in fifth position.
They've made a lot of changes to the Ferrari, new engines and revised suspension and it
seems to be paying off.
And as you see, the umbrellas are out because it really is hot here at Adelaide.
Over 30 degrees, that's going to affect all sorts of things and significantly there is
Mark Suhra, the Swiss driver, fighting to retain his place in the Brabham BMW team for
1986 and ahead of his teammate, double world champion Nelson Piquet on the grid.
That is Gerhard Berger's car, the Austrian driver who is also significantly ahead of
his teammate Thierry Bootsen in the Arrows BMW.
And the BMW cars have been suffering, if anything, from a surfeit of power here at Adelaide.
Patrick Thornbey who is carrying a camera on his car and we're going to be seeing,
I'm sure, some sensational pictures from that Renault and unhappily it is the last race
in which Thornbey will be driving for Renault who are retiring from Grand Prix racing after
the Australian Grand Prix.
Nelson Piquet, double world champion, Brabham BMW, last drive in this team because next
year he joins Williams and he's got a special reason therefore for winning his last Grand
Prix with the Brabham team.
Helio De Angelis, another man who's leaving his team at the end of this season going,
we all believe, to Brabham although it has yet to be officially announced.
De Angelis who's won two Grand Prix for the John Player special Lotus Renault team.
And back, a long way back on the grid as unhappily has been the case all too often recently,
the 1984, still the actual reigning champion, Nicky Lauda, three times the world champion.
This is his last Grand Prix drive unless he decides, as he has in the past, to come back
out of retirement.
An absolutely magnificent career.
And Alan Jones there, Australia's own, is in 19th place on the grid but did much better
in the warm-up this morning, 10th position.
He's driving the Beatrice Hart, an entirely new car with new team management, new mechanics,
new everything and that is this magnificent Adelaide Circuit or it is rather the Victoria
Park race course part of it.
It is the new section of the Adelaide Circuit which has been extended from the previous
streets on the east side of the city to make a 3.8 kilometre lap.
Ayrton Senna, his seventh pole position of the year.
Nigel Mansell has won the last two races.
Keke Rosberg, his team mate.
Alain Prost, fourth on the grid, world champion.
Michele Albreto has won two races for Ferrari.
Mark Surer has yet to win one and might just do it today.
Gerhard Berger in the Arrows.
Patrick Tormbe in the Renault, leaving the team this year.
Double world champion Nelson Piquet.
Elio Di Angelis, 11th in the Lotus.
Thierry Bootson, the Belgian in the Arrows.
Derek Warwick, his last drive for Renault.
Eddie Cheever in the Alfa Romeo and his team mate Riccardo Patrese.
Then Stefan Johansson, the Swedish driver in the Ferrari.
World champion Niki Lauda, the British driver Martin Brundle who has crashed twice in practice.
Frenchman Philippe Streff in the Ligier.
World champion Alan Jones.
Jacques Lafitte, the oldest driver in the race.
Piercarlo Ginzani in a Toleman.
Ivan Capelli who crashed in practice driving the Tyrrell.
Martini and then Theo Fabi, the Italian in the Toleman.
And last on the grid, Huub Rotengatter, the Dutch driver in the Orsella.
And he has had a lot of trouble in practice too.
So it's the usual scene.
The drivers have come out, they have completed their assembly lap.
They still have to do the warm-up lap.
That is the pole position man, the brilliant Ayrton Senna, who is in his seventh pole position
place of the year and there is one minute only to go.
And a word of congratulation and applause from everybody who is visiting Australia to
see their first Grand Prix, who has had the privilege of watching other Grand Prix through
the year.
This is a magnificent occasion, not only for Australia but for the world.
It's Australia's first Grand Prix and they have done it thus far magnificently in administration
terms, in organisation terms and in circuit terms.
And they are now ready to start the warm-up lap.
Yes I will strongly second that opinion Murray.
It I think is pretty much unanimously agreed that the Australians, at their first attempt,
have set an example to the rest of the world for organisation of a Grand Prix.
It's a beautiful circuit, it's a very very fine street circuit, the organisation has
been smooth at all times, everything has been done, the officials have been friendly and
away they go on their warm-up lap.
Now round this relatively tight twisty Adelaide circuit where they'll probably average just
over 100 miles an hour, away from the start line they go straight into a left right left
S that you see here and this could be quite crowded on the first lap.
I remind all our viewers that this is only the warm-up lap, they are led round by the
pole man who in this case is Ayrton Senna who dominated practice and qualifying and
they're into the twisty section of the circuit where they go through the square turns of
normal streets going right and left, it's very much squirted hard on the brakes, turn
right angles left or right and then all second gear stuff which is the slower tighter part
of this course.
Ayrton Senna of course leads the field round warming the tyres up, towards the end of the
lap he will slow it right down to bunch the field up behind him so because when he gets
to the grid the red light which is as it were under orders will not come on till all the
cars have stopped and he doesn't, well this is the view from Patrick Dombe's car as they're
going out onto the long straight on the circuit.
Now this is quite a long straight and they've been reaching over 300 kilometres per hour
here in practice.
This weaving about from side to side is to get heat into the tyres just to work the rubber
a bit.
There's Patrick doing it as well you see, this is normal practice because these big
racing tyres need to be at the right temperature to work their best and that is a tread temperature
of something like 200 degrees Fahrenheit and to do that they've got to put a bit of effort
into them.
So there is Dombe.
Lovely view of the back of the other cars, they're back now after the long fast part
of the circuit, they're coming round the back into the infield, round the race course and
then Senna just approaching the first gear half in that will take him onto the start,
finish straight and then he will slow it right up to bunch the field up so that he doesn't
overheat his engine.
Remember the cars need to move, there are no fans in racing cars, they need to move
to cool the radiators etc etc and the clutch of course he doesn't want to be sitting holding
down for too long.
82 laps, 193.5 miles, 310 kilometres, the circuit is in prime condition, the tarmac
is hot, the tyres are warm, the drivers are ready, we just wait for Huub Rotengatter who
is the last man to appear around the corner and then Derek Ongaro, the international race
starter who starts them all, will switch the lights to red and between four and seven seconds
as the Ferrari Testa Rossa comes into the picture the lights will go to green and the
Australian Grand Prix is go!
And it's a magnificent start for Nigel Mansell but Alan Jones is left on the grid, Alan Jones
has stalled his engine and has failed to start with the rest of the field and there he is
getting away but Nigel Mansell went through from second position on the grid and now Ayrton
Senna is right up with him, Keke Rosberg is third, Albarito is fourth and off goes one
of the Williams and it looks like Keke Rosberg to me but no it's Nigel Mansell's gone off,
Keke Rosberg is in the lead on the first lap, Senna is second, Albarito third, Prost then
Gerhard Berger in the arrows then Nelson Piquet so already on the very first lap one of the
likely winners Nigel Mansell who is now in about seventh position has lost his advantage
at the start, now they're coming up towards Stagg Turn and up towards the fastest part
of the course as they go down from Brewery Corner into the De Kettleville straight.
Well a very clean start, there was a certain amount of anticipation of possible trouble
through the first corner as it was such a tight corner so close to the grid but they
all got through and then we saw Ayrton Senna really try and take Mansell by surprise which
he succeeded in doing to the extent that it got a bit scrappy up front, he tried to dive
for the inside, Mansell went wide and the two of them both slowed down which allowed
Rosberg to go through into the lead so to complete the end of the first lap.
Rosberg leads Senna in third position it's Michele Albarito in the Ferrari which is something
we didn't expect to see, fourth is Prost, fifth is Berger, in sixth position it's Sura,
seventh is Patrick Tormbe, eighth is De Angelis, ninth is Piquet, tenth is Cheever, eleventh
is Bootson but although Rosberg and Senna are starting on this lap too out of 82 to
build up a small push I will tell you now that this race is likely to be decided in
the last 20 laps.
The big problem area here at Adelaide as we join Patrick Tormbe's car is brakes and Mansell
is coming into the pits, Mansell is into the pits as we join Patrick Tormbe and ahead of
him is Berger's arrows and going through on the inside there is one of the Brabhams.
That gives you a wonderful idea of just how crowded it gets at the start, you see the
oil splashing onto the lens from other cars just a bit there and of course the dust catches
up with it but that's a tremendous view but we're a little bit too far back, there is
Mansell on the right there having got off and even Tormbe managed to just about, he's
had to give in some space.
So they went side by side, they lost a bit of ground through there so back five.
And still it is Keke Rosberg leading, still it is Ayrton Senna in second place but Nigel
Mansell looks as though he's lost his chance of making it three in a row.
Rosberg leads Senna across the line to the completion and then it's Albreto Prost, Berger,
and Alcura.
Ayrton Senna will be very anxious to get past Rosberg as soon as possible but the Williams
Honda is very quick in a straight line and very powerful which makes it very difficult
to pass which was probably why Senna was keen to get the jump on Mansell on the first lap
when people tend to be taking things a little bit cautiously and get away because Senna really
has dominated practice and expects to go away from most people.
However Prost has, well as usual didn't qualify terribly well but his car was very good this
morning in race trim and there is Prost in fourth place behind the Scarlet Ferrari of
Michele Albreto and Prost will be working his way through the field carefully but watch
out for Prost later in the race.
Yes because I think Michele Albreto is starting to create a bit of a traffic jam, it's difficult
for Prost to get past him.
Berger is in fifth place and then Mark Surer in sixth position and you'll notice that the
Lotus of Ayrton Senna which is second and the Williams Honda of Keke Rosberg which is
leading is starting to ease away.
There is Nigel Mansell in the pits, he's blown it, he's lost his chance of winning the Australian
Grand Prix and therefore making it the hat trick of three wins in a row.
At his team mate Keke Rosberg could make it for Williams, Rosberg, Senna, Albreto, Prost,
Berger, Surer, Tombay, Elio de Angelis, Piquet, Cheever and Bootson is the order.
Yes Senna will know that Prost is not far behind him and that is Martin Brundle slowed
right down his Tyrrell, that looks like mechanical trouble and probably the end of the day's
work for Martin Brundle, Ken Tyrrell team unfortunately have had a pretty unhappy weekend
but Senna will be really keen because he knows that Albreto is a potential hold up for Prost.
The Ferrari is powerful and it's very difficult for Prost to pass and it will hold him up
so Senna would like that these first four look pretty evenly matched and there's plenty
of time not far behind them with Berger and Piquet right there.
Lap four, Keke Rosberg, Senna, Albreto, Prost, Berger.
Now in terms of British drivers, Derek Warwick is in 12th position, Martin Brundle is in
15th place, Nigel Mansell is into the pits but it's Rosberg, the man who now Mansell
has retired.
You saw the Englishman in the pits there, he's out of the race, hard luck for him but
his team mate Keke Rosberg now and Mansell's problem was gearbox, Mansell's problem was
the gearbox that brought him into the pits and now look Senna is right up with Keke Rosberg
who looks calmly into his mirrors and sees the Brazilian right behind him with Albreto
still third and in sight.
Yes, Senna's problem is that his superiority over Rosberg seems to be on the wrong parts
of the circuit, it's going out in just a moment when they go out onto the faster parts of
the circuit that opportunities to overtake present themselves, he can't pass in this
twisty bit unless he can force Rosberg into a mistake and Keke is pretty experienced,
he knows that he doesn't have to push it at this point because Senna can't do anything
about it, he needs to push it now when they're going towards the quicker part of the circuit,
they go through up to the quick right hander now and then onto the long straight but Senna's
dropped back a bit, he's not close enough there, he then will reel him in again when
they get into the twisty bit but this is the passing place and he's not in position.
Brakes are going to be the problem, the Williams team are very worried, this is Tombay again,
we're joining Patrick Tombay in the Renault and ahead of him you can see he's got one
of the Brabhams as he's threading past someone to go through, passing Nigel Mansell on the
right and now Tombay you can see a racing driver at work, watch his hands on the wheel,
watch his right hand disappear occasionally, that will be to change gear.
Yes you can see his instruments going up and down now, turbo boost pressure and going past
the pits now, first gear he was down to, up through the gearbox and then he'll be hard
on the brakes, knocking it down through the gearbox again for the S's, you can see just
how direct the steering is, what fairly small movements he requires, oh somebody's just
passed him.
I'm determined to finish telling you that brakes are critical in this race and that
is Martini, Pierluigi Martini who has traditionally gone off again and finished his race pretty
early, he looks as though he's trying to get a push start but the problem is going to be
brakes, the Williams team are very worried about the ability of their cars to finish,
this is undoubtedly the toughest course in Grand Prix racing on brakes, even bearing
in mind that there is the 300 kilometres an hour Brabham straight to slow them down and
now you can see that on lap six in this 82 lap race Rossberg with Senna, Albreto still
pretty close to them in third position, going through and taking Martin Brundle who is limping
back to the pits, Keke Rossberg 126.9, the fastest lap so far.
Apparently I've just heard there is some discussion amongst the race organisers about whether
Elio D'Angeles departed the grid from exactly the right position, however that's all we
know is that there's discussion, all we know at the moment, we'll obviously keep you posted,
there may be some sort of penalty for D'Angeles if he got on in the wrong position.
Now this is where Senna has closed right up again but Senna needs to be this close in
about four or five corners time when they go onto the straight and even then I doubt
whether he can actually pass the Williams Honda because the Williams Honda is very quick
in a straight line.
Senna is using carbon fibre brakes which are unlikely to last as long as the steel brakes
that Keke Rossberg is using, that could give the Finn an advantage later on in the race
but it's not giving him an advantage at the moment, Senna's straying right with him,
third is still Albreto, fourth is still Prost, fifth is still Berger, Mark Surer is in sixth
position and I will tell you that any cheever has come into the pits where he is now with
Martin Brundle.
Now you see just how much Senna falls back on the straight, he's closed enough again
under braking but he's too far down behind to make a braking manoeuvre and he really
would like to get past Rossberg soon because then he'll be able to nurse his brakes more,
they know that they're in brake trouble and they're not going to be able to get everything
out of their brakes for the whole race, that is Brundle I think.
Yes Martin Brundle and now Senna is just as close to Rossberg as he has ever been, Albreto
is still in touch in third position, Prost is still within sight and easily so of Albreto,
Prost in fourth place, the world champion, Gerhard Berger is fifth, Mark Surer is sixth,
the Angelus is seventh, Torbe is eighth, Piquet is ninth, Bootsen is tenth, Warwick is eleventh,
Johansson is in twelfth position and Niki Lauda, the 1984 world champion is only in
thirteenth position and Alan Jones is in seventeenth place, into the pits comes Jacques Lafitte,
the Frenchman in the Ligier on his Pirelli tyres, he's obviously got a major problem
and it looks to me as though he's getting out, he's shaking his head sadly, as usual
they're changing the tyres, off comes the left front and Berger has got no rev counter,
we know that, Gerhard Berger who is in fifth place has lost his rev counter, Eddie Cheever
has engine problems, is still Rossberg, Senna, Albreto, Berger, Prost and then Surer.
There's a turn up, Berger's got past Prost but one of the things that must be heartening
particularly for the vast Italian community here in Australia, particularly in Melbourne,
is that Ferrari are having one of their best races for quite a long time, Albreto is keeping
well in touch, he is falling back slightly to the two leaders but by no means it's bad
and Ferrari have found a little bit of form here which they really lost at the French
Grand Prix this year halfway through the season so it's been, it's a very heartening thing
to see Ferrari doing so well here.
But it's equally heartening to see the way Gerhard Berger, the Austrian in his arrows
with the powerful BMW engine is going, he's not only got past Alain Prost up to fourth
position but as you can see he is right on the tail of Michele Albreto, a double Grand
Prix winner of 1985, the Austrian who drove in the touring car race here yesterday in a
BMW and was unceremoniously bundled into the gravel and the concrete barriers, really knows
this course now, he's having a lot of problems, the engine power on the BMW is so substantial
that he's getting wheel spin, he's hitting the rev limiter and in the warm up this morning
he actually broke the clean-up chamber, so terrific with the pressures but he seems to
have got it under control now, Prost is fighting back and they're both coming up to, it looks
like Lafitte back in the race in the Ligier.
Martin Brundle's problem was ignition, Martin Brundle ignition, so Mansell is out, Brundle
is out, Pier Luigi Martini is out and Lissi's got restarted, Lafitte has been into the pits
and rejoined the race and now on lap nine out of 82 it's still Keke Rosberg leading
with Senna about three car lengths behind him, then there's about a three second gap,
Albreto third, Berger fourth, Prost fifth, Sura sixth, the Antil is seventh, then there
is another gap before the eighth man comes through, it's Piquet and Torbe is taking
him to take eighth position and Bootson is in tenth position.
Fast, furious and very hot, the turbo's running at some 1200 degrees and Keke Rosberg making
the most of the fact that the Honda concern in Japan have been working on these one and
a half litre 1500cc V6 turbocharged engines not only to make them more powerful but to
improve their fuel efficiency and their longevity and now Rosberg on this long straight eases
away from Senna and may be building a cushion.
Well Senna's very aggressive tactics on the first lap he now really has justified, it
means that he's given it a lot of thought, he tried to jump Mansell, he succeeded in
doing that but he lost a bit of time and that let Rosberg through and he's now showing us
why he did go that aggressive and take a risk because he wanted to be in front because he
is being held up by Rosberg when you're following another car, you're driving through the hole
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Live in Adelaide this is the Grand Prix of Australia, Keke Rosberg, Ayrton Senna, Alan
Prost has just taken third position from Alberto Berger and De Angelis, back to Murray Walker
and James Hunt.
Brakes and everything else, it's a tough hard circuit, I'm beginning to show on the cars,
as ever the cool racemanship of Alan Prost is showing, the little Frenchman, the world's
best, he's been a world champion up into third place, up into fourth place is Sura, I've
been tipping Sura to do very well in this race, he's been getting better and better
as he has mastered the power of the BMW and the handling of the Brabham and it's a tricky
combination to master, Nelson Piquet has been supremely good at it thus far and now we have
into the pits Patrick Tormbe has gone into the pits and Tormbe was well up and it's a
Ferrari there.
Yes there seems to be tyre trouble, Alberto has been in, Tormbe is in for tyres so they're
hurting their tyres, yes Murray I quite agree with you Sura has gone very much better here
than for a long time but there is nothing like the threat of the sack to make people
deliver but unfortunately a racing driver should be able to go without the threat of
the sack, he should still be giving his best, it does put a question mark over Sura's mental
approach, he's showing he's got the ability.
We've just had a flash from race control that Elio de Angelis is about to be shown the black
flag, he's in fifth position, he's going to be shown the black flag which will almost
certainly mean disqualification for starting in the wrong grid position, Elio de Angelis
was supposed to start tenth on the grid, I didn't physically check where he was, I took
it for granted he would be in the right place, apparently he wasn't and he's going to be
black flagged and the last time that that happened was at Silverstone and a furious
Elio de Angelis got out of his car after having had a heated conversation with Robert Langford
of the RAC and stalked away from it and left it in the middle of the pit lane, let's hope
he doesn't do that this time.
So we are on lap 14 out of 82, it's still kicking, there is de Angelis, now let's watch
and see what happens, Elio de Angelis should be seeing the black flag, I'm watching de
Angelis go round with one eye on the monitor and the other, and this is difficult, watching
the flag marshals at the start to see that black flag and the number 11 go out.
So de Angelis coming up towards the end of the lap and Alan Jones is storming for Australia,
Alan is up into 9th position now, it looks as though the Beatrice and the Hart have really
got it all together, but now de Angelis is on his way down to De Ketterville straight
and we'll see whether he comes in.
There's tremendous stuff going on down the field a little bit from Alan Jones because
they were planning to run pretty low boost on their engine, there's Prost in 3rd place
and Schurer hounding him, he's not even getting away from Mark Schurer, he is at the moment
some 14 seconds behind Keke Rosberg, we'll have a look to see if that gap is changing,
there is Rosberg.
So the Beatrice team decided to go for a finish today and run very conservative boost on the
engine so Jones, who we haven't yet had much of a look at, must be really throwing the
car around, he looked very fired up this morning in the warm up and was really being very competitive.
And there's the check, the black flag to Elio de Angelis, he's just gone past, the black
flag has gone out with his number 11 and he must now come into the pits on the next lap
if he obeys orders and if he doesn't he's going to be in trouble, the discipline here
in Australia is good, Rosberg leads lap 15 and he's building up a cushion, there is Alan
Jones who is in 8th position now, the Australia with all the psyching up and driving in front
of your home crowd in your own country is making the best of the improved handling of
the Beatrice, the fact that the engine is going, he has regrettably had a lot of engine
problems with the 4 cylinder hot turbo in practice and was not in the best of humours
about it before but hopefully he won't be too unhappy now and not only is Sir Jones
charging through the field but the old veteran Nicky Lowder in his last Grand Prix is doing
the same thing, he is 7th, lap 15, Rosberg leads Senna 2nd, Prost 3rd, Sura 4th, the
Angelis was 5th but is now into the pits so up to 5th position will come Piquet which
means both the Brabhams are in the top 6, behind Piquet Nicky Lowder and then behind
Nicky Lowder is Alan Jones, Rosberg and you've seen I'm sure as Rosberg lacks Pierluigi
Martini the young Italian in the Minardi, you've seen that Rosberg is easing away from
Ayrton Senna, there's now a 5 second gap, there is Senna in 2nd position, Prost behind
him in 3rd place but not in sight of the Brazilian yet. Yes and look at Senna's right front tyre,
it looks a little bit marked and I have a feeling that Senna might be in a little bit
of a tyre trouble, it looks like he may have a blister, look at the middle of the tread
on the right front tyre, it should be shiny right the way across and it's not. So Senna,
that would explain why Senna was climbing all over the back of Rosberg for a bit and
then started to drop back, he's got a little bit of a problem with his tyres and Alan Jones
is in fact catching Nicky Lowder so he must be very pleased indeed, this is far away the
best showing and I'm not sure that Rosberg's tyres look that healthy to me when we get
a close look at him and his right hand side tyres look to be a little bit grainy. It certainly
seems that there's been unexpected amount of tyre trouble already in this race. 5.5 seconds
between the race leader and there is Nelson Piquet out of the Australian Grand Prix, Nelson
Piquet has finished his last race for Brabham on foot and Rosberg that you're looking at
leads Senna by 5.5 seconds now, Prost in 3rd place, Siura 4th, the Angelus will be coming
into the pits which will put Lowder up to 5th position and Alan Jones into the World
Championship points for the first time since he retired. There is Alan Jones starting another
lap and I'm waiting now to see Elio de Angelus, the black flag is still being readied for
him in case he missed it on the previous lap but Siura goes through, the Angelus now in
5th position, Lowder is 6th, Jones is 7th but that's still allowing for de Angelus being
in 5th place but into the pits now comes Pier Carlo Ginzani, the Italian in the Tallman
for a new set of Pirelli tyres, the pneumatic hammers go for it, the wheels and tyres go
on, the jack is away and that was a very good pit stop by the Tallman team. Ginzani sprints
out of the pits and on lap 17 with a long way to go it is still Keke Rosberg, he's
got a 5.5 second cushion now over Senna and look at this, Tambay with one of the Ligiers
in front of him, French driver in the Renault chasing a French driver in the Ligier and
the French driver is either Jacques Lafitte or Philippe Streffa, straight past him goes
Tambay, Tambay now has got ahead of him, he's passed it was Philippe Streffa and now Tambay
is catching Albarito in the Ferrari. That was a marvellous view of an overtake, of an
out breaking manoeuvre, Tambay was closing on him on the straight, got himself into position,
went for the inside and jumped him. There they are of course looking at them from the
inside, now back inside Patrick's car and he is chasing Albarito now I think, trying
to recognise that back view because the lens has got a little bit dirty but the technical
problem has been much improved at Brands Hatch, the last time it was used it is Albarito in
front of him, oh he went a bit wide, now that was a mistake from Tambay, he didn't make
the apex of the corner, he would have lost a little bit of grip in a little bit of time
but he is going quite well. Further up the field Alan Prost is keeping the gap almost
exactly the same all the time with Keke Rosberg so they are lapping it very similar times
but he is some 14 seconds behind him so he is going to have to start eating into that
a bit, they are holding each other. And all the time Keke Rosberg that you are looking
at on lap 19 is easing away from Senna, the gap is now 6.5 seconds and unless something
happens to the Finn's Williams Honda it looks as though he has built up enough of a cushion,
particularly bearing in mind the fact that we are worried about whether or not Senna's
carbon brakes will go the distance but now Sura with the disappearance of his team mate
Nelson Piquet is charging, he is up to third position, you look at Rosberg who is leading
in the Williams Honda, you know that Senna is some 6.5 seconds behind him, I will tell
you that Mark Sura in the Brabham BMW is ahead of Prost who therefore goes down to fourth
position and I haven't seen Elio de Angelis at all, he is either having a fit of sulk
and hiding round the back of the circuit somewhere or has broken down because they are still
waiting to show him the chequered flag but I suspect he is just quietly bumbling round
to avoid walking back to the heat, the pits in this 30 degree heat. There is Lauda well
up into the points now. Yes, Sura going so well under the front of the sack is past Prost
and the pair of them are catching Ayrton Senna. Ayrton Senna has just gone past the pits
in second position and I have got a stopwatch running on Mark Sura who is in third place
and note this, the gap between Senna second and Sura third is 8 seconds and it was some
9 seconds so Sura in third place is catching the man you are looking at and there is De
Angelis into the pits. Yes, he has been a naughty boy because he has been 4 laps he
has stayed out there with ignoring the black flag and I strongly suspect he is heaping
a little bit of trouble on his own head so there may be a big naughty boy affair for
De Angelis and I do sympathise with him. Out of the car he gets, now I don't know whether
that is problems or because he just decides I have had enough, that is it, finish, out.
So Alan Jones now into the pits, what a pity, he was in seventh place, Alan Jones within
a whisked eye shakes his head sadly, he must be absolutely dejected because it looks as
though he feels his race is finished. Yes, we saw some flames out of the back of the
car just now Murray when he was going around and it may be a blown turbo or something like
that I suggest. Of which he has had a few since he started to make his comeback at Monza
for the Italian Grand Prix and it seems from the rather leisurely atmosphere in the Beatrice
pit that all is lost. He is right opposite me as I talk to you and as you look at Keke
Rosberg I can tell you that the cover, the engine cover is off Alan Jones' Beatrice,
the mechanics are looking at the back of the car which tends to confirm I am sure what
James has just said, it is likely to be a turbo problem, not a hard engine problem but
a turbo problem. And so now lap 21 with 61 laps to go, Jones seems to be out, Elio DeAngelis
is out, Piquet is out, Albarreto has been into the pits, so has Lafitte, Martini has
spun off, Martin Prungle has stopped and Mansell stopped at the beginning of the race.
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live with Wide World of Sports at the Australian Grand Prix. We're in Adelaide. The order is
Keke Rosberg leading. Ayrton Senna is in second. Mark Sura from Switzerland third. Alan Frost,
the world champion elect is up to fourth position. Nicky Lowder is fifth. Michele Albreto has
dropped back in his Ferrari to sixth. We'll go back to Murray Walker and James Hunt. They've
got to cover their rear. The person who's leading things tends to slow people down.
And what it means is they're losing ground to Senna and Rosberg in front of them because
of course the pair of them fighting goes slower than if each of them were on their own going
flat out with only the speed to concentrate on. Because remember they're covering their
rears and there are tactics involved. Now the Drivers World Championship is settled.
When this race started the constructors hadn't been. And McLaren who are currently leading
by ten points from Ferrari are in a strong position because Alan Frost is fourth. His
team mate Nicky Lowder is fifth. And Albreto the leading Ferrari driver because Johansson
is twelfth. Albreto is in sixth position. So at the present moment McLaren are in the
position of adding five points to the championship level. Whereas Albreto for Ferrari is only
going to add one. And there is no doubt at the moment that McLaren having got their second
Drivers World Championship in two years with Frost and Lowder the man you're looking at
are well in the running to get their second Constructors Championship by beating Ferrari
again. But now on lap twenty four out of eighty two Keke Rosberg is leading Ayrton Senna and
you're looking at Ginzani in the pits. Rosberg leads Senna by nine and a half seconds. Mark
Surer is ten seconds behind Senna and he's about one second ahead of Frost. Nicky Lowder
is fifth seventeen seconds behind Frost. Albreto is sixth. Straf seven. Bootson eighth. Capelli
ninth. Warwick tenth. Berger eleventh and Johansson twelfth. Just looking at another
facet being a street circuit. This race is one hundred and ninety three and a half miles
and of course if it takes longer than two hours it will be stopped at two hours rather
than eighty two laps if they haven't been completed. Now at the present rate of progress
it's not going to make the eighty two laps. However bear in mind that Surer's right front
tyre doesn't look at its very best. Bear in mind of course that they go faster in the
second half of the race because they have less fuel on board. The cars get considerably
lighter and this battle for third is really raging. There goes the leader Keke Rosberg.
I'd like to have a look at his tyres. See if they're marking up. They look alright now.
It is possible to see with the naked eye if there is a tyre problem because the tread
marks visibly. They look pretty good now. Rosberg and he's in a happy position of having
a comfortable lead. Some nine, nearly ten seconds and that of course means he can look
after his tyres. He can drive the car carefully, not slide it about too much and at the current
pace we're going it's going to be absolute touch and go. We're going to complete eighty
two laps just about at two hours. And as you see Alain Prost there is ahead of Surer. He's
moved up into third position. The Frenchman, the world champion and the McLaren is in third
place now. Some nine seconds behind Ayrton Senna. So Williams leads, Lotus is second,
a McLaren is third, a Brabham is fourth, another McLaren is fifth and a Ferrari is sixth. Well
that's Surer. He didn't go into the pits that time. I think he is in a little bit of
tyre trouble and a new fastest lap from Rosberg but Surer is driving a little bit strangely
because having passed Prost he immediately slowed them down. Then just now he'd produced
fastest lap of the race. So I think maybe he's tired or something but he certainly would
appear to be driving rather inconsistently and that won't have pleased Prost being stuck
behind that but now he's passed it he'll be really keen to try and get away. He certainly
is. He seems to be pulling more and more daylight between them. And to show you how international
Grand Prix racing is as you look at Mark Surer in the Brabham BMW in fourth position. It
is a Finnish driver in the lead. It is a Brazilian second, a Frenchman third, a Swiss fourth,
an Austrian in fifth place and an Italian, Alboretto, in sixth position. How international
can you get? And it's all happening here at Adelaide in Australia. An absolutely magnificent
race and it looks as though Keke Rosberg is indeed on target to go out on top for Williams
by winning his second Grand Prix of the year. We've got so used to this ebullient Finn finishing
in winning only one Grand Prix of the year. Alan Jones into the pits yet again. He was
in 20th position when he pulled off but it looks as though his race is virtually over
and Ayrton Senna is still in second position but the gap is increasing all the time and
the gap between Senna in second place and Prost in third position, that's between the
Lotus and the McLaren is nine seconds and Prost is easing away from Surer. So I wouldn't
be at all surprised to see Surer coming soon to change his Pirelli tyres. I think you'll
find that the chase to Rosberg is now on for Prost. Prost having dealt with the Surer problem
I think you'll find is catching both Senna and Rosberg but it's early days yet we will
keep a close eye on that gap. This is Ayrton Senna that you can see and I'm going to put
a stopwatch on Keke Rosberg and check the gap between himself and Prost which was 19
and a half seconds and we'll see whether indeed the Frenchman Prost in third position is catching
the Finn Keke Rosberg in the lead and if so it's going to be a fascinating race. Derek
Warwick the Englishman is up to ninth position Keke Rosberg has just completed a lap there's
the man in second place and Prost we've just had a message that Prost is in trouble. Leo
what happened? My engine stall on the Wormat lap and according to the rules you cannot
make up position and I lost position and I make up position I mean I just get back my
position my starting grid position and unfortunately the rules say that you are disqualified but
it's amazing that they took them 18 laps to realize that so I mean I was risking quite
a bit to be penalized. But we'll have to take a check on that and lap times because Prost
with Lauda seemingly going pretty well he was going slow as he entered the lap but
whatever the problem was he seems to have overcome it and recovered but Alain Prost
certainly hasn't and now on lap 28 Keke Rosberg has got that secure lead of some 10 seconds
now over Ayrton Senna up to third has gone Mark Suhrer in fourth position now it was
Nicky Lauda and it still is. Well that will make Keke Rosberg very happy because Prost
actually had started to catch Rosberg pretty quickly in fact very quickly and was looking
a clear favorite to catch him so Rosberg will now and he would have known that Rosberg he
would have had his pit signals and he will now be able to breathe a sigh of relief because
that must have been his big worry the threat of Prost coming through from behind with that
wonderful handling McLaren chassis that is so durable but it's a very rare event for
a tag turbo to blow up however their second string is still out there Lauda is up to fourth
place but I don't think that Nicky is going to make much impression on leader Rosberg
or even on Ayrton Senna if none of them have mechanical trouble and Rosberg really now
looks very settled I think he's looking after everything and he's well on top of the situation
one of the things we haven't told you is that some of the drivers and certainly Keke Rosberg
there is in radio communication with his pits he can talk to the pit personnel and vice
versa and it is absolutely sure that they will have given him the heartening message
Prost out well you can see oil on the track then on the line and you could see just before
the end of the straight there's yellow and red striped flags which are oil flags and
that would undoubtedly have been from the blown engine in Prost's car as it blew but
Prost has put a bit of oil down on the circuit and that probably tells you what it's done
for the lap time Rosberg was lapping in the mid 25s and suddenly he's it's gone out over
one minute 28 so that starts to make our two hour all possibly come into force again.
On lap 30 out of we imagine 82 Keke Rosberg has lapped everybody up to the eighth man Derek
Warwick. It's Rosberg that you're looking at leading. It is Senna in second place but the gap
between Senna and Rosberg is only seven and a half seconds now. It's closed. It may have been because
Rosberg in lapping slower men was held up or it may be because Senna there in the yellow helmet
is charging but anyway the gap is closing. Sura is third, Lauda is fourth, Albarreto is fifth,
Streff is sixth, Bootson is seventh, Warwick is eighth and then Capelli in only his second real
brawl pre for Tyrrell is in a fine ninth position but has been lapped. Lafitte is 10th, Berger is
11th, Johansson is 12th, Farby is 13th, Rotengatter is 14th, Prost of course has retired as have Martini,
Ginzani's been into the pits, Patrese is out, Tormbe is out, Alan Jones is out, Piquet is out.
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You're looking at Wide World of Sports. This is the Grand Prix of Australia in Adelaide. It's live.
Keke Rosberg still leads. Ayrton Senna is still second. Mark Soura is in third. Nicky Louder is
up to fourth position. Alberto is into fifth position and Philipp Streff is in sixth position.
We're in lap 32 back to Murray Walker and James Hunt. So with Patrick Tombay out of the race it
will be Derek Warwick and I'm gonna it is Derek Warwick and ahead of Warwick is Bootson. Now Senna
is right with Rosberg. 1.72 seconds is the gap on lap 33. Now we're going to see a battle royal
because Rosberg will know that Senna is there. He will have had a signal. He may have even been
told on the radio and his problem is that he's got to get past Warwick which he's done. He's
then got to get ahead of the car in front of him which is Bootson and keep Senna back at the same time.
That wide slide there by Senna was a bit of an experience. He's pretty complete but it just
shows a terrifying prospect for the opposition that the best of Senna is still to come. He attacked
when he shouldn't have done then. Slid wide, lost a bit of time, done no harm of course but it was just
an unnecessary mistake and it was attacking at the wrong moment because he couldn't pass the
Renault at that particular point. However he's not only up to get past him he may be able to come
at them on the brakes here at the end of the straight. He's got one, he's got the arrows as well.
So Senna has cleared the problem. He now has only Rosberg to deal with in the immediate future.
Trecky Stewart who's forgotten more about Grand Prix racing than most of us know
said yesterday that in his opinion Ayrton Senna was about two years off his prime.
If that's so it's a pretty terrifying prospect for all the rest of them and the gap now which
is almost visual is one and three-quarter seconds. That's the man who's in second place, Senna.
Mark Schurer is still there but 28 seconds behind the leader in third position.
Niki Lauda is fourth, Albaretto is fifth, Streff is sixth and now the leader Keke Rosberg has
left everybody up to Philippe Streff who is in sixth position and that's a superb performance by
the Frenchman. That could be trouble for Senna, he's got a little bit of paper in the left hand
radiator, his left hand side of the car, the right hand side as we look. I saw a bit of paper
flapping around, it's disappeared for the moment. If it's gone into the pod and against the radiator
that could cause an overheating problem. So oh the big mistake from Senna, so and that certainly
would be what Jackie meant because in two years time he won't even do that. That will please
Rosberg because he's pushing very hard but the way he's caught Rosberg there isn't a hurry.
So bad tactics by Senna, here we see it again right up on the kerb and he could have damaged
the car because he really gave it a big bouncing over that kerb. Now it remains to be seen as to
whether Senna has got himself into trouble if he's damaged any of the suspension on the car
because they really aren't designed for that sort of fun and games. I think that Ayrton Senna has
got brake problems, we were expecting that. You can see the paper in the pod but I think that he's
going to overheat, that is absolutely for sure. That's what happened to Keke Rosberg at Detroit,
he had to come in and have the paper removed from the pod which was blocking the radiator
but still of course won the race. But I think Senna's got brake trouble, he's got a little bit
problems. I think that's why he overshot, I don't think it was a driver error, he's got these carbon
fibre disc brakes and they're less likely to last than the steel ones. Yes this is where radio
communication can help you if you've got it because in Senna's case there's a very very good chance
that he won't know that piece of paper in there. Now you get a feel for the acceleration of the
car as we look down on them and now boosting it up onto the main straight and getting up to 300
kilometres an hour which the helicopter can't even keep up with. I see him going away from the chopper.
However the problem is with that paper in the radiator there's no reason why Senna, he can't
see it from where he's sitting but he may see his temperature gauge going up so the pit can ask him
is your water temperature all right? If it's not all right they know the problem, they'll just give
him an in signal quick, come in they'll rip out the piece of paper very quick stop and he's on his
way again but they've got tyres ready for him there in the pits as well so they may just call
him in but they really don't want to call him in unless he's overheating. If that that that bit of
paper is only covering probably about 10 percent of the radiator area so it may not be enough to
cause overheating. And you talk about flash of the fastest lap there so we've now got a really
dramatic situation on lap 36 with 46 still to go if the race goes the full distance. Ayrton Senna
still the fastest man on the lap on the in the race 124.3 so his problem isn't slowing him and
now Rosberg has got Hube Rotengatter the Dutchman in the Ossala in front of him and Senna he's
starting to claw back the increased gap which resulted from his going off. It would seem that
his bumping over the kerb has not affected yet the suspension but might well do there might be
a fracture there which could cause a problem earlier or later on but anyway on lap 36 Rosberg
lead you can see how close to him Senna is. Sura is third, Lauda is fourth, Alboreto is fifth,
Streff is sixth those are all on the same lap. Seventh is Warwick he's been lapped,
Bootsum is eighth, Capelli is ninth, Lafitte is tenth, Berger is 11th, Johansson is 12th,
Farby is 13th and Rotengatter is 14th and then Martini of course who's 15th officially
his four laps are drifted out. Yes and that was a neat polite little bit of letting through by Hube
Rotengatter then he saw Senna coming as soon as he was in the way he stepped neatly out of line and
joined in again back onto the racing line. Into the pits comes Gerhard Berger there he is in no
it's Bootsum, it's Bootsum, very difficult to tell them at a quick glance from their home is
Thierry Bootsum into the pits eighth position so that's a it's bad luck for the Belgian.
Meantime the remorseless super cool Kekki Rosberg with turbo flame stabbing from the rear of his
Williams goes on his way keeping ahead of the yellow helmeted Ayrton Senna in the black and
gold JPS Lotus Renault and the gap is 3.3 seconds it was down to about 1.4 when Ayrton was at his
closest. The Brazilian that you're looking at has had an incredible season he's won twice at Portugal
in Belgium he's had two second places two third places he's been on the front row of the grid
10 times but his record has been destroyed by the fact that he's had to retire nine times.
As a matter of interest Martin Brundle is back in the race Martin Brundle who disappeared so long
ago has restarted after having what looked like a fairly major rebuild in the pits and his teammate
Ivan Capelli the young Italian from Formula 3000 is in eighth place only one lap behind Rosberg
which is a real credit to the young Italian who's a star of tomorrow I feel sure. You're looking at
a star of today Mark Surer, Brabham BMW third place. Yes and Surer really has dropped back out
of contention for the lead where the battle between Rosberg and Senna rages up front he's over half a
minute behind that battle and is falling back into the clutches of Niki Lauda he's nine seconds
also in front of Lauda so Lauda has been well I think more accurate to say that Surer has
fallen back Lauda in fact is keeping up with the speed of Rosberg he's some 42 seconds behind
Rosberg at the moment but he's been between 40 and 42 for some 15 or 20 laps now so Lauda is on the
pace of the leaders but of course starting from that grid position he that was how he got so far back.
Just put yourself in the position of Surer he is driving at some 300 kilometers an hour down what
will look like to him a concrete tube with the barriers on either side the cars have got very
hard suspension so his spine will be hammered the noise will be terrific the heat will be enormous
the temperature of inside the cockpit can on really hot trays be as much as 150 degrees I'll
say that again 150 degrees and the sweat pours out of the drivers the weight loss is enormous
unless you are truly fit and have superb stamina you can be worn out long before the race finishes
and Rosberg is now coming up to lap Michele Albarreto in the Ferrari who is in fifth place
as Surer crosses the line in third position 36 seconds approximately behind Keke Rosberg the
leader so Surer again is going to have done better than his teammate Piquet not that that will worry
Piquet because Piquet has now finished with Brabham and he and his car designer the brilliantly gifted
Gordon Murray parted company on the nicest possible terms in South Africa when Gordon Murray
of South Africa himself said I will not be going to Australia because Gordon is working on a very
advanced new Brabham BMW to be driven by we know not whom but we think Elio de Angelis and AN
other and there's somebody hidden in the fire there I don't know who it is it's Martin Brundle's car
Martin Brundle's or is it no that's not that's an arrows from the look of it in which case it's
either Bootson or Berger we'll have to identify that later for you and we'll certainly be able
to do so on the lap chart but Martin Brundle is okay that was a misidentification for which I
apologize but it's certainly an arrows underneath the foam and another gold medal a 10 out of 10
for the organization here at Adelaide it's Bootson that is Thierry Bootson walking in
and heaven be praised he is obviously perfectly all right but is very much out of the race
Senna and Rosberg look at this we're back with the battle for the lead on lap 40 which is one lap
short of half distance now Senna is now confronted with the same problem that you had in the opening
laps when he was climbing on the back of Rosberg's car and trying to get past it but not really
looking at as if he was going to but he has a bit of a hope here because with Albaretto in front of
the pair of them he may just be able to hold Rosberg up enough to give Senna a chance to try
and jump him this is a it's always an opportunity to know but Albaretto experienced driving for two
years has pulled out of the way and he's pulled back in front of Senna and Senna won't be pleased
with that oh I'm Senna uncharacteristically for him that was no need for that to make the mistake
he he pushed hard you can see Albaretto wasn't going to be kind Senna was was scrappy on Friday
in qualifying and in fact um overdrove if i can use that term meaning that he tried too hard was
throwing the car around too much and didn't get the fastest practice time albeit only by a thousandth
of a second behind Rosberg but he was expected to he he was better yesterday in qualifying but
he's been uh uncharacteristically forceful in what after all is a long race and uh forceful tactics
in Grand Prix racing particularly on street circuits don't usually pay dividends so Senna's
driving has been a little bit scrappy but that's why Jackie says he's got another two years before
he's going to reach his peak and that is true he will these sort of I can't see these sort of
lumps of inexperience coming out in the future but he's learning he'll learn he'll learn from
this he'll be able to look at his race afterwards and see that his forcefulness was possibly
causing him trouble I think he'd be better off if he'd driven just more quietly and smoothly he
wouldn't be just as quick anyway all is well he's back on Rosberg's tail and Rosberg is
catching Nicky Louder to lap him
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Grand Prix while we were in commercial this happened it's a replay Ayrton Senna came up
behind Keke Rosberg suddenly Keke Rosberg break to go into the pits Ayrton Senna hit him with his
front wing destroyed his front wing Rosberg continued into the pitch and Ayrton Senna has
gone off the track he's gone off the track while this is live now this we're back live too it's
in front of the pits he's overshot the pit lane he's in trouble he's losing front wings this team
don't know what to do they're smiling as if to say what can we do about that his left hand front
wing is hanging off that was the replay that was him going almost into the fence how he avoided
that well I don't think even he had a lot to do with it it was just praying and getting round
keep in mind that he was leading this Grand Prix when that happened because Keke Rosberg had gone
into the pitch Ayrton Senna is having a day of error and one of and there is Mark Suruscar which
is coming to a stop he was in third position what a lot is happening back to Murray Walker and James
Hunt he must go for the pitch but I'm surprised I'm surprised that the that the really bad
thinking race that Senna is doing Mark Surer out of the Australia Grand Prix so let's take a cool
breath and reconsider what has happened in those superlative two laps Keke Rosberg is now catching
Ayrton Senna having been into the pits to get new tires and Senna in the stricken JPS Lotus is about
to lose the lead that he fought so hard to gain because he's got real handling trouble with no
front wing at all and Rosberg he's just going to drive past him superbly look at him Senna is
trying but not good enough and back into the lead on lap 44 goes Keke Rosberg who lost the
lead on lap 41 and into the pits comes Ayrton Senna now let's watch some excellent pit work
if only that chap would get out of the way boom so there we are Steve Hallam the race engineer
talking to Ayrton Senna and this young man is very very cool but look at the time he's losing
15 seconds 16 seconds 18 seconds coming up to 20 seconds this has lost the race I predict for
Ayrton Senna the new nose is on and let us hope that the wing is adjusted properly and not to
affect the downforce and now Nicky Lowder looks as though he is moving up he has he's moved up into
second place on lap 45 Rosberg leads Lowder is in second place and Senna is down to third well I
have to say that Senna brilliant though his driving has been has heaped all these troubles on his own
head he has I'm afraid driven this race with his heart and without any use of his brain and but
he's been sufficiently quick here that if everything is working well for him there is an outside chance
that he could still catch Rosberg I would expect him to be a good 40 seconds behind him but he
could still give him certainly a very good run for his money if he just keeps it really smooth
keeps it on the limit but keeps it smooth and cool which is what he has not done here it's quite out
of character for him to have driven like this but I'm sure he will learn a lot of lessons from this
race if he thinks about it properly afterwards and there's the man Keke Rosberg on new race
rubber new tires and as he disappears around the other side of the circuit Nicky Lowder is coming
through to start his 46th lap and the gap between Rosberg and Lowder is now nearly 30 seconds
so Keke Rosberg must be praying for no mechanical problems because that's about the only thing that
can stop him now a 30 second cushion with 36 laps to go is an enormous margin to an experienced
campaigner like the world champion of 1982 Keke Rosberg who really does look now as though he's
on his way to his second win of 1985 a magnificently high note to leave the Williams team and go to
McLaren and offer maximum opposition inside the team to his new teammate next year Alain Prost
and there's Nicky Lowder in second position now yes but Senna is not far behind him he lost less
time than I expect there is that and Senna so he's got Lowder very much in his sights and that is
Jacques Lafitte in front that Lowder failed to get past to lap then but Senna is catching him hand
over fist so Senna is somewhere there we have it 35 seconds or he wasn't started this lap behind
Rosberg and I think that it is feasible for Senna possibly to be able to haul that back in on Rosberg
another well done to the organizers at half distance the time taken was 59 minutes 28 seconds
so it looks as though we're going to do the full 82 laps to within about four seconds a quite
incredible achievement bearing in mind that the speeds had to be computed and
and Nicky Lowder now up behind is it Lafitte I'm sorry I think it's Streef actually it's Philippe
Streef the Frenchman and meantime with Streef holding up Lowder who's in second place behind
the leader Rosberg Ayrton Senna is visibly gaining on the Austrian
I should point out that Senna as I say he was heaping these problems on himself and his the
last decision which was not to go into the pits immediately once he knew he'd lost a front wing
and had already slid wide at several corners with a handling problem that alone by having to do
another lap with no front wings on plus the excursion would cost him somewhere between 10
and 15 seconds on the road so had he got in straight away he would have been he'd never
have been behind these two and also of course he would have been in much better range to take a
shot at Kekki Rosberg so Senna's relative inexperience has suddenly all come out at once
we haven't seen this side of him before now you know who the first three are Rosberg Lowder Senna
you can see Lowder and Senna in your picture now as they come through to complete their 47th lap
but in fourth place is Michele Alboreto fifth is Derek Warwick in the Renault and he hasn't been
up there for a long time and Senna has got ahead of Streff in sixth position in Chacla Feet in the
Ligier seventh is Capelli in the Tyrrell with a fine drive down to eighth goes Streff ninth is
Gerhard Berger tenth is Johansson in the Ferrari Roten Gatter three laps adrift is in left Mark
Cioro of course is out of the race but was four laps behind is four laps behind now and Ayrton
Senna is trying trying trying to catch three times world champion Nicky Lowder in his 171st
Grand Prix Lowder that is 25 wins behind him being chased by the man with two victories behind him
Ayrton Senna the weather continues as it shows every sign of going to be as we look across at
the Mount Lofty ranges to be superb glorious visibility magnificent heat the haze shimmering
off the circuit of parts and Keke Rosberg is on his way this is lap 49
yes looking at the way Senna is struggling to catch Lowder I think probably with all the
bumping and banging around that his car isn't quite in the same top form that it was before
and who can blame it
Senna remains to be seen we'll watch that gap if and when he can get past Lowder but he
that seems a big enough problem for him right now without worrying about Rosberg out ahead
Rosberg of course will know from his pit the gap the relative differences and will and is in a
happy position of being able to control the race from the front and three out of the top six are
in their last Grand Prix in one way or another Rosberg the leader is in his last Grand Prix for
Williams Lowder in the red and white McLaren is in his last Grand Prix before retirement Derek
Warwick in fifth position is in his last Grand Prix for Renault and we wonder whether he's going to
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we've been away we've had excitement Ayrton Senna came up behind Nicky Louder this is pre-recorded
just while we were in commercial he tucked in behind him on the main street he came alongside
him and he did him under braking so Ayrton Senna has climbed up the slippery ladder that he's been
on all day he's got himself back into second position Keke Rosberg still leads Ayrton Senna
is second Nicky Louder is third McKinley Albrechtor is fourth Derek Warwick is fifth and we'll go back
to Murray Walker and James Hunt I've got to come back it's a question of whether Senna can actually
catch him when Rosberg is trying that out so we will watch and wait and see
Mark Surer is out of the Australian Grand Prix so is Bootson so is Prost so is Tombay
and Jones Elio De Angelis who was black flagged Nelson Piquet Martini and Derek Warwick
is still in fifth position behind Albrechtor Warwick has been lapped Albrechtor hasn't and
you see the gap between Rosberg and Senna is a bit less than it was it was oh some 30 seconds and
I was hypothesizing that Rosberg would slow up a bit we don't know whether that gap reduction is
due to Rosberg slowing up or Senna crowding on the pace Derek Warwick is in sixth position my
apologies because Jacques Lafitte has got ahead of him to sixth place and Senna is really trying
now you can see having gone ahead of Lauda that he's pulling away I don't like the look of Senna's
rear tires I think the car's been oversteering a bit it looks a little bit looser than back and
it looks as if his rear tires have maybe grained up a little but let's hope not because it's going
to be exciting watching him chase Rosberg Lauda is still holding on very well behind him and in
fact both of them are catching Rosberg so I suspect yes that left rear tire that we're looking at now
you see the grain the tread should be shiny all the way across and his right rear however at the
moment he may be able to clean that tire up by looking after it because sometimes you can
once it's warmed down a little bit it will smooth up again the tire should be smooth not ripply that
that that dark darker effect where it isn't shiny is where it's rippling the rubber is
rippling and that means that it's not giving the maximum possible free
pique by the way that went who went out quite a long time ago suddenly had his cockpit filled
with smoke and knowing the danger of fire in what is virtually a high-speed mobile petrol tanker
wisely stopped and his teammate Mark Seurer had his left tire go and in the process of trying to
do something about it the engine stopped and he couldn't get it going again and Lauda is definitely
catching Senna yes absolutely and I think that is because Senna is in trouble with his rear tires
and Rosberg is back in back in the pits yes keke Rosberg back in the pits this is amazing now let's
have a look and see what the problem is he's obviously concerned about tires right front off
left rear off all of them off he's got a very considerable lead of course 28 seconds and he
can still put on new tires and get out again but this is the second time that keke rosberg has been
in for tires and problem with one of the front wheels the left front is jammed on and Senna has
gone through so Senna is back in the lead but I tell you what Nicky Lauda is right behind Senna
and Lauda I suspect is the healthier of those two because he's not in touch I think Senna's
gonna have to come back in unless he can nurse them and Rosberg is probably in range to catch
them especially on a fresh set if he looks after them he's gonna he will know now Rosberg has
experienced he will know that he's got to bring these tires in gently because that's what Senna
didn't do and that's probably what he didn't do last time those rear tires on Senna's are being
a bother and Lauda whose tires look very nice and has taken it very steadily as he does is suddenly
with conservative application looking very much one of the a joint favorite to win this race if
not favorite well my problem is I want them all to win but wouldn't it be marvelous if Nicky Lauda
won the last Grand Prix of his career and he certainly could do it here he comes in the
McLaren that would certainly seal the Constructors Championship in the nicest possible way for the
McLaren team and wouldn't that be a perfect lesson for Ayrton Senna the old the widely old champion
showing him just what you can do with brains rather than brawn and because we know that Ayrton and
you can even see his car snaking on the straight these rear tires are definitely causing him
trouble and that will be a lovely lesson for Senna because Senna is definitely a future champion
and Nicky Lauda will just give him a nice last time out there is only 11.8 seconds between Ayrton
Senna in the lead and Keke Rosberg who is in third place on the 55th lap we are going to see an
absolutely superb closing lap situation between these three great drivers with Nicky Lauda now
right on the rear on the gearbox of Senna's car and he's in a good position to nip out of the
slipstream of the Lotus on the straight and get through into the lead in the last Grand Prix of
1985 here at Adelaide in a race has been full of excitement drama and interest and Lauda's in
in not quite the position now to go through but not far off him yes i think he made a tactical
error i think he should have dropped back a little bit as they came onto the straight and swung it in
much harder because he he does need to pass Senna soon because Rosberg when he brings these new new
set of tires in with only some 10 plus seconds there are 11 seconds in it Ros Lauda really
needs to get past Senna and get away because Senna will be holding him up now and Rosberg
will catch him too quickly Nicky Lauda of course hasn't been in for uh new tires he's he's a
wonderfully smooth driver is Nicky and if anybody can make a set of tires last the whole race it
will be him he may well be on the B compound which is which is harder than the C compound which is
the softest of all and that could give him the advantage and now he's certainly getting close to
being in a position to draft past Senna on the Brabham straight the longest and fastest straight
of any street circuit where they do over 300 kilometers 200 miles an hour it's this corner
he wants to be dropped back out of the pit there's Nelson Piquet in the pits now Lauda is a bit close
he wants to get a slingshot but he's better positioned than he was on the last lap but I
think he's going to be able to duck out here here he comes Senna's not responding not fighting back
because he knows that he's in tire trouble and Lauda looking supremely smooth of course the other
thing is that it can afford now to drive hard on his tires which the others can't because
they've got that much meat off them they don't have the same potential heat build up there we
now you see that the tread faces on Lauda's tires are nice and smooth there's no grading and compare
with the left rear of Ayrton Senna's although I think Senna's tires are cleaning up they look
better now than they did a few laps ago and it is possible to rescue a damaged tower if you're very
careful with it and I think that that is what Ayrton Senna's trying to do lap 57 and in his 171st
Grand Prix after not qualifying well being 16th on the starting grid Niki Lauda has shown all the
brilliance that we know and has driven through to the lead with 25 laps to go if the race goes the
full 82 lap distance as opposed to two hours and Lauda now coming up to the Ferrari in front of
him you can see how he's pulling away from Ayrton Senna who has clearly got a problem
and now that goes out and I can't see whether it's Johansen or Albarreto I think it must be it is
Albarreto that he's passing and Albarreto is in fourth position so now Lauda in the lead has lapped
everybody up to the third place man who is Keke Rosberg and I will give you the gap between
Lauda and Rosberg which was last time I took it before Rosberg's tires had warmed up 11.98 seconds
and it was actually Stefan Johansen that Lauda passed and not Albarreto now here's Lauda and
he's completing the lap now and the gap between Lauda and Senna is just about two seconds here
is Rosberg I see him as Stefan Johansen is caught by Senna and the gap now is 10.3 seconds Rosberg
is gaining Keke Rosberg in third position on his second set of new tires there he is is catching
the new race leader Niki Lauda that looks to me as if Rosberg did what others have failed to do
in this race he used his head then and even he the first time because he went out on a new set and
ruined them he had the intelligence and experience to come straight in and not soldier on and he
brought these ones in slowly now and now he's flying he waited for a few laps before he really
put his foot down and that could well win him the race he's not he's Lauda is well within his range
six cars on the first lap race leader Niki Lauda and off he goes Niki Lauda's lost it
and that and he's completely smashed the front of the car and he will reverse out because it
looks to me as though he hasn't damaged the left front suspension let's look at it again
and let's watch Ayrton Senna Lauda off up onto the curbing trying to avoid the concrete wall but he
smashed the left suspension Lauda is out well i don't know what happened there he may have just
knocked through it almost looked as if the car snapped out of control so quickly something may
have broken on it it did seem to snap and turn sharp left and there is Ayrton Senna and Rosberg
is in sight behind him now and Derek Warwick who had stood the chance of moving up a place has gone
out of the race as well it's all happening Adelaide is indeed alive because now Ayrton Senna is back
in the lead there is Derek Warwick out of his last race for Renault and we have the prospect now of
seeing Keke Rosberg catching Ayrton Senna and taking the lead Senna with a new nose on the Lotus
there is Stefan Johansson in the background you remember what the gap was 11 seconds you've just
seen it's 5.6 we're on lap 59 23 laps to go the closing stages of the Australian Grand Prix are
going to be something to see because look at Rosberg in the background behind Johansson the
gap is visibly closing Keke Rosberg the 36 year old Finn who lives in Ibiza flies his own jet
plane is immensely wealthy a great wheeler dealer is about to try and catch Senna and I think succeed
yes absolutely and there'll be no need for his bit to signal him gaps now he can see
Ayrton Senna he'd like a clear view of him say that without Johansson in the way
but I don't think he'll be too wide he knows he's going to dispense with the Ferrari probably when
they get back onto the straight at halfway round this current lap and then he'll have
clear air Senna still bouncing it over the kerbs but that wasn't too serious on the apex of the
corner so we'll look at his rear tires you see the right rear is all grained across it's all rippled
across and that is not a healthy rear tire at the moment and he's now under too much pressure
from Rosberg really to take the time to slow it down and try and clean them up
meantime let's think about the Constructors Championship both McLarens are out of the race
and therefore out of the points Albarito is in third place on four points his teammate
Johansson is still running albeit in 10th position but might still finish in the points
McLaren started this race 10 points ahead of Ferrari in the Constructors Championship
it could turn out to be a very close thing but not as close as it's getting in the race for the lead
on lap 60 out of 82 the gap is down to 3.9 seconds and less than that I suspect Senna goes over the
line looking into his mirror Rosberg goes over the line looking at Senna 3.5 seconds into the S's
goes the fin at some 140 Ks up to Wakefield turn chasing Senna 110 Ks second gear stay in second
gear go up to East Terrace bend the left hander at 110 Ks onto Flinders bend still in second at
110 accelerate up third gear fourth gear 150 Ks Senna still in front up to the market's turn the
right hander 150 Ks back to second for stack turn the right hander which they're approaching now
110 Ks up to third gear fourth gear fifth gear down Rundle Road 150 kilometers an hour third
gear into Brewery bend which they're approaching and through now down into the Tugettigl Terrace
in sixth gear or fifth if you've only got a five-speed gearbox 300 kilometers an hour
200 miles an hour brake hard for the racetrack hairpin first gear 100 Ks up to second to third
to fourth into the paddock turn which seems to go going on left left left forever then it strains
out a bit Rosberg there still in second place catching Senna fourth gear now 200 Ks down to
Mitsubishi corner the hairpin and the gap at the as they go through towards the end of the lap
with Senna frantically looking in his mirror again he's down to 2.3 seconds
and i'm just looking at Rosberg's tires and they look to be marking up a little bit the
rears but he's still catching Senna and certainly he's he's had the charge no they
look just getting a decent look you need to get the light right to see him but the right rear
has grained across half the tread it's not as bad as Senna's and i think Keke could afford to take
it easy for a little while he's got plenty of time left in this race he ought to clean those
tires up by taking it easy and then have a go i i think of course it's very easy to sit here
and hypothesize like that those two chaps are out there in the very heat of battle and it's a lot
more difficult to make cool decisions but Rosberg is lining up to attack Senna now he's called him
in pretty quickly and you're about to see a new leader i think on lap 62 Senna leading Rosberg
second Albarito third Lafitte fourth Streff fifth in sixth position and there he goes Senna it slows
and Rosberg goes through and Keke Rosberg again rightly leads the Australian Grand Prix
and i think Senna's race is over he's slowing right down he's blown it the turbo has gone
on Ayrton Senna's Renault engine into the pits it went at just the right point for him not to have
to walk home because i have little doubt that Ayrton Senna will be getting out of the car as
it goes up on the jacks on go the new tires Steve Hallam talks to Senna through the headphones
well this is strange because they're showing every sign of going on maybe the mechanics don't
realize what the situation is there a reflex of course would be to get the jacks under the car
off comes the top Senna's race is effectively finished they're having a look at the turbo
and i'm sure that they will decide that he is out and the threat to Keke Rosberg the immediate
threat is now removed and it really is a case of bringing the car home and Albarito is into the
pits it's all happening Albarito who was in third place before but it was in the position of becoming
second had he passed the pits where Senna was stationary is now into the pits stationary now
what's that going to mean it's going to mean that Keke Rosberg leads of course and it's going to
mean that Jacques Lafitte is up into second place that Philippe Streff his léger teammate is up to
third and sensational is that Ivan Capelli is going to go up to fourth place Gerhard Berger
up to fifth position and Stefan Johansson to sixth place so had Albarito not gone into the pits and
if he can still get out this could make things very very interesting in the Constructors
Championship that's 64. Well it looks very much now Keke Rosberg now enjoys
over a minute's lead of Jacques Lafitte so he can really stroke it home very gently to the line
which he undoubtedly will do as soon as he's established that Senna has definitely gone
and all he'll be doing is looking after the car and making sure he makes no mistakes being very
careful when overtaking back markers and that should be out but well they're still working
on Senna's car but I wouldn't think unless they can do something pretty quickly that he really
is going to be able to get out onto the circuit with any chance well if Senna is out this will
I reckon be his 10th retirement of the year and I have little doubt that if he hadn't had all those
retirements bearing in mind the fact that he was in a commanding position in every race when he
retired he would have been this year's world champion you're looking at Jacques Lafitte
who is now up into second place the oldest man in the race 41 year old Jacques Lafitte in the
ligier on Pirelli tyres is benefiting from the fact that Gerard Larousse and Michel Tétou
left Renault last year and have been patiently working on the ligier and have improved it to the
extent that Senna leaving the pits have improved the ligier to the extent that it is now very
often in a points position and it would be a superb drive for the golf loving Jacques Lafitte
who lives at Stoke Pogges in England by the way unusual for a Frenchman voluntarily to live in
England and he's in his 167th Grand Prix only Graham Hill and Nicky Lowder have driven in more
Grand Prix than he has and when you saw Senna rejoining it was in seventh position we're on
left 65 now Rosberg leading there's Senna and I noticed oh he's pointing to the left of his car
and that means past me on the left old chum while I drive over the curb here because I'm not
because I'm not looking where I'm going so away goes Ayrton Senna what do you think James?
Absolutely right that's exactly what he did to Senna's having a funny old day funny enough
he came out of Formula 3 into Grand Prix racing with a reputation for immense talent but some
rather hairy driving under pressure and we never saw that in Grand Prix racing but we've seen
about a season's dose of it all wrapped up into one race today because he really seems to
have taken semi-leave of his senses. Lap 65 and Rosberg is into the pits again
what a race this is Keke Rosberg the race leader are we going to see Jacques Lafitte go into the
lead what is Keke Rosberg doing to his tyres he must have some sort of shredder on the back of
the Williams? Well that's the first bad start the way he smoked lit them up and smoked them away
they're obviously proving a bit fragile the track problem as you see on a new track the conditions
change faster than on obviously a track that's well run in and we must be sympathetic to the
companies and everybody in that you can't anticipate fast changes in track conditions Senna
back in the pits but I think uh his day's work is really over he the car yes he's out of the car so
that's uh leaving the office and locking it up so Rosberg of course could afford the luxury of that
stop he's he's well in front he had plenty of time to get in and out and he's now well equipped with
nice new shoes on which should get him to the line because he won't even have to hurry there is Jacques
Lafitte we'll get a clock on it to tell you what the gap is in just a moment yes Jacques Lafitte
and uh they say of Jacques Lafitte these days he will drive as fast as the car will go and very
often the car won't go fast enough for this man who's won six Grands Prix in his career has had
an incredible 207 points he actually is a matter of interest jointly owns a golf course with his
fellow golf fanatic Alain Prost and there's nothing more than Jacques Lafitte likes when he's out of
the Grand Prix car than to have a round of golf or patiently sit on the riverbank fishing they may
see three unusual combinations but that's it Rosberg leads then then the two Ligiers what a
wonderful ending for the Ligier team but 45 seconds between Lafitte and Rosberg Ivan Capelli
in only his third Grand Prix is in fourth place Gerhard Berger a lap adrift Stephanie Johansson
the swedish driver of the italian Ferrari in sixth place on one point
and that's Becky Rosberg really stroking the about 850 brake horsepower is one and a half
liter 1500 cc honda engine will be producing and if Rosberg wins that means to say that
the Williams Honda team will have won the last three Grand Prix because Mansa won in South Africa
he won before that in Brands Hatch and it will make the fourth Grand Prix win for the Williams
team in the season they're currently in fourth position in the championship but the nine points
in fact the nine points that Rosberg should get could make them third equal in the Constructors
Championship with Lotus yes a tremendous return to form by the Williams team and
great credit to them they worked very very hard they got their they had trouble with their chassis
for a while then the Honda engine needed developing and all credit to the Honda engineers who've done
a fantastic amount of work the engine has been improved steadily during the season and to be
quite honest Nelson Piquet must be standing beside the track licking his lips for next year because
he has signed to drive as number one for the Williams team and he must be loving this
another team and driver that must be loving this is the gallant little italian Orsella team who
have tried so hard on a minimal budget to get something done and their dutch driver Hube
Rotengatter although he's three laps behind is now in seventh position only one position out of the
points look at that and Mansell's out Cheeva's out D'Angeles, Taumbe, Jones, Prost, Boots and
Sura, Lauda, Piquet, Warwick and Senna are all out of the race and there are only nine cars running
on lap 68 with 14 laps to go there is the number one on the road car number six on the
car itself Keke Rosberg that's the second man Jacques Lafitte who is 42 seconds behind Rosberg
Philippe Streff is 26 seconds behind his teammate Jacques Lafitte
Capelli is on the same lap as Keke Rosberg and he can be very very proud of that look at the
look at the full grandstands here at Adelaide as Rosberg goes left right through the S's up towards
the right-hander at Wakefield Turn the 90 degree bend which leads after a short squirt down to
another left-handed left-handed right-hand bend if you follow me and that's East Terrace Bend
then along to Flinders Bend another right-hander of 90 degrees that's where he is now
up onto East Terrace into the very fast and deceptive S which leads up to Market's Turn
by the Fruit and Produce Market actually we talk about Adelaide being a street circuit it is a road
natural road circuit but it doesn't actually go through streets in the sense of having buildings
on both sides of the course anywhere we're just going back to the question of whether we'll complete
the full distance for this race we got through half distancing just under the hour but with all
those pit stops and of course the fact that Rosberg has now been able to slow down he may be able to
get it down to 81 laps by getting or something like that it's a bit of a difficult one to calculate
but we're working on it but i would think that the two are all may well be in line to be invoked here
heaven knows how many million people as we watch Pierre Luigi Martini back in the race and now
ride with Keke Rosberg around the world are watching this telecast we know that a lot of
people in Australia are but it's the first time that the hundred thousand of them or so who are
actually watching this grand prix will have seen one on their homeland and i hope they're enjoying
it as much as all of us are it has been a tremendously interesting and dramatic race
and Rosberg still leads by now 43 seconds from Lafitte well my colleague Philip here has just
calculated it and it comes out at the present rate of progress they'll finish the 82 laps in 120.3
minutes which means that they will complete 82 laps you understand what i mean because when they
go past at 81 it won't be two hours i should maybe explain what the two hour rule is it was introduced
after 1972 i think it was montecarlo grand prix when Jean-Pierre Beltoise when grand prix's were
always 200 miles and it poured with rain and Jean-Pierre Beltoise won the race in about three
and a half hours but nobody ever noticed because the crowd who got soaked had all gone home by
then because everybody was so bored so they decided to make it that if a race was slow like on a street
circuit with rain that whatever happens a race would be stopped at the end of two hours and a good rule it's been
you're looking at Stefan Johansson with Philippe Streff snapping at the gearbox of the Ferrari in
his blue ligier, Swedish driver against a French driver and Philippe Streff is certainly proving
that Guy Ligier's decision to elbow Andrea de Cesares from the Ligier team on account of the
fact that the Italian was costing Frenchman Guy Lafitte an arm and a leg in terms of the money
he was having to spend on new chassis with Andrea de Cesares back at his old tricks of writing them
off was justified because Streff has driven extremely well since he joined the team
but Guy Ligier will be a very worried man because notwithstanding the fact that he's a Frenchman
a friend of Monsieur Mitterrand the prime minister has been told by Renault that he is not going to
get any Renault engines for his team next year unlike Lotus and Tyrrell who are Monsieur Mitterrand
I have been told is the president of France my apologies to him and so Ligier has got to go
looking for new engines we know that BMW having allocated their engine to Toleman and promised
them to Arrows provided certain requirements I understand are met are hardly likely to give
Ligier engines so we may possibly be seeing the heart engine in a Ligier next year but that is
all hypothesis what is not hypothesis however is the fact that we are now on lap 72 with 10 laps to
go if it goes the full distance and we think it will with Keke Rosberg there leading by a commanding
42 seconds Lafitte second Streff third both in Ligier's Capelli in the Tyrrell fourth
Bega in the Arrows fifth Johansson in the Ferrari is in the sixth position who Brödingatter is still
seventh Martini believe it or not is eighth and those are the only runners left in this race
Keke Rosberg has put up the fastest lap so far one minute 23.758 which is just about four seconds
off the pole position time put up by Ayrton Senna which is about par for the course and I'm quite
sure that the man who will be most unmoved by his victory if he has it will be Keke Rosberg who takes
every race the same be it a win or a retirement his attitude is some you win some you lose and
you must expect to do both if you're good enough and if I win I'm not going to be euphoric about
it and if I lose I'm not going to be too downcast about it an admirable attitude but then I suppose
when you're driving in your 98th Grand Prix you've seen just about everything that can happen to you
happen to you lap 72 and that's the uh arrows that we're looking at of Gerhard Berger chasing
Jack Lafitte although Berger is a lap adrift and Berger is another man who has made his mark on
Grand Prix racing this year and I'm sure we're going to hear a great deal more of comes from
Virgil in Innsbruck and this is only his 20th Grand Prix an ex-saloon racer and not so ex because
he was driving a BMW saloon Greg Siddell's Gould racing car in the touring car race here yesterday
and got elbowed off at the point that he's approaching now went straight into the gravel
that you'll see on the left shortly there it is so he's he's probably keeping a wary eye on that
as he follows the Frenchman Jack Lafitte in second place Jack is just a little bit closer
to Keke Rosberg than he was he's got the gap down to under 40 seconds now but I'm quite sure in my
mind that it is because Keke Rosberg knowing exactly what the situation is from his in car radio
and from his visual pit signals is just easing the pace a bit if you turn the boost down of course
it it relieves the internal stresses on the engine makes life easier for the motor and therefore if
there is any inherent weakness which certainly doesn't seem to be in the Honda makes it more
likely to last the full race distance and Keke hopefully shouldn't have any problem with tyres
he's been in what three times now is it what twice for a full set and once for some new rears
and the reason that he will have fitted rears is because going down the Brabham straight which
is very very bumpy they get an enormous amount of wheel spin particularly if the engine is going up
onto the rev limiter and the rear tyres are literally ground away yes that's right and we
saw also that he've grained up the rear tyres that was visible before he went in and of course
when the opposition finally managed to dissipate then Keke was able to have the luxury of getting
in there now Keke slowed it right down he's lapping some eight or nine seconds slower than
he was when he was really racing hard and that's perfectly sensible he only wants to win the race
he doesn't want to win it by a hero's margin and so there's Keke just cruising it around
we'll have a listen as he goes past to make sure his car is healthy he's coming down to the hairpin
before the pits he'll be past us in a minute
not nice healthy sounding engine
makes it look very easy doesn't he as any top man in any sport does but Keke's still riding the
curves which surprises me a bit and what a difference there is at this superb Adelaide
street circuit now compared with when these Grand Prix cars went out for the first time on Thursday
then there was so much dust on the surface that they were getting enormous wheel spin said it was
like driving on black ice but now after two and a half hours on the circuit on Thursday
that's Frank Williams in the headset and Frank Dernie in the white cap cap Keke Rosberg's race
engineer the Japanese Honda mechanics around Frank Williams the man who has risen from selling
second-hand racing cars to being an extremely wealthy man with an absolutely magnificent racing
car factory at Didcot in Berkshire in England and Frank for whom of course Alan Jones was the
world champion in 1980 and for whom people like Carlos Reutemann have driven Nigel Mansell Keke
Rosberg looking anxiously down the pit lane listening on his headset to see whether Rosberg
who crosses the line to complete another lap and that's his 75th gone and therefore six to go
including the one he is on has got any problems that he wants to communicate through the radio
Rosberg coming up now to catch and pass Martin Brundle the young Englishman in the Tyrrell
who was pushed off the course when another driver came out of the pit lane in practicing
and severely deranged the rear of his Tyrrell with its Rena engine and has been into the pits for
that was in practice and has come into the pits and Brundle is actually now too far back
to be qualified as a finisher in this race what's going to happen in the world championship if
the points and the positions remain as they are well of course nobody can beat Prost he's retired
from this race more's the pity but he retired as world champion Michele Alboreto will stay
in second position Keke Rosberg however will move up to third position ahead of Ayrton Senna
in fourth place Elio de Angelis will be in fifth position and Nigel Matzl will be in sixth place
and of course in the Constructors Championship McLaren will for the second year in succession
be the winners notwithstanding the fact that Stefan Johansson the second of these two cars
in the Ferrari is now in sixth position behind Gerhard Berger fifth, Ivan Capelli fourth,
Philippe Streff in third place, Jacques Mathit second and Keke Rosberg in the lead. McLaren will
have 90 points Ferrari will have 81 Lotus will have 71 and Williams will be third equal with
the Lotus team thanks to the fact that Rosberg has won now I'm counting chickens before they're
hatched because Rosberg hasn't won and there's been many a Grand Prix
when the winner in the there's Lafitte pointing ahead of him I wonder what that's all about
any clues James? No although he was going past his pit he might just have been signaling about
his front tires so he's too close to the finish so you can't guess I'm afraid. Well there's Lafitte
anyway he's got Stefan Johansson in front of him although Stefan is behind him he's in front of him
on the lap but he's behind him in the race and now Stefan Johansson is catching Gerhard Berger
that's what it's all about Gerhard Berger is fifth Johansson is sixth and Johansson is trying to
catch and get past the Austrian and it looks to me as though he's going to do it the two cars that
you're looking at in the front Berger is fifth in the Arrows BMW and the second in the Ferrari
W Johansson is sixth in the Ferrari but even if Johansson won this race it couldn't make any
difference to the positions and he's going through and taking Berger of Ferrari and McLaren in the
Constructors Championship he is not going through and taking Berger he is going through and taking
Berger and has done so so Stefan Johansson moves up into fifth position but and off goes Berger
that's for nothing and oh what a pity because he was going to get one point is that an experience
again i think it was lost concentration after the drama here we see again the battle Johansson was
a little bit cruel he really leant on him now you see Berger run wide there Johansson gets the tail
out but he keeps it all together and goes through and then i think Berger after that little bit of
excitement he would be very tired by now i remember very very tired but he kept his engine running
and he should be able to reverse out of that limp home possibly to keep his point
because he's got plenty of laps on Hugh Rottengatter in which case he will now here we go now he just
went wide because i don't think he had damaged his car before that so that i think he just
fell asleep and remember these drivers are very very tired by now this is very hard work and
but anyway with a bit of that Berger can back out and reclaim his point
i was trying to remember while James was talking when the last time that when was the last time
that we had a race go the full two hours in the dry we've had races last two hours but not the
full planned race distance because it was wet and the race was slowed down but to have a race go the
full two hours in the dry is pretty unusual and when you bear in mind that this course is not only
very tough on brakes extremely tough on brakes and on gearboxes but also of course very tough on
drivers particularly in this over 30 degrees heat here at Adelaide yes of course what has
slowed it right down now of course is the dissipation of all opposition to Rosberg
and he's lapping very slowly by his standards because he's got a huge lead and we've got some
we've got some four and a half minutes left before two hours to go and on that basis it's
going to stop at a couple of that short of these so it's up to us to keep our eyes on the flag
marshals at the start of there he is in his yellow blazer and his very smart black and gold cap
and the checkered flag already at the ready because kecky rosberg is on lap 79 out of 82
on his way to a historic victory historic for two reasons one this is the first ever world
championship formula one grand prix in australia the world championship is now truly worldwide
historic reason number two kecky rosberg is driving in his last grand prix for the williams team
having driven for them for the last four years this would be his fifth victory for williams
he's being followed by martin brandy looks as though it's going the full 82 laps at the present
moment we can't do we've got uh three laps to go we may we may or we're not it'll the two hours will
go probably in the middle of a lap and you may get around to complete
so we're coming up to three minutes to go
so
i mean rosberg can in fact control the situation if he's aware of it it's three minutes to go only
to the two hours so he will complete this lap and the next one which will make an 80
and if he complete the next one then he will go around to the 82
and don't think that it's all over bar the shouting i will remember when australia's greatest driver
three times world champion sir jack brabham was leading the monaco grand prix ahead of yoke and
rent in the lotus and sir jack was in his own brabham car he came up to the last corner on the
last lap he had a severe attack of brain fade he went off into the barriers and lost the race
with only about 200 yards to go well now kecky rosberg is on the 81st lap in this race with a
planned distance of 82 laps gerhard berger as he went past and down into the s's was clearly
missing his gears so let's hope he hasn't over revved the bmw but kecky rosberg may well be on
the last lap of the race now he's going to win if he is by 37 seconds and the liger of jack lafitte
and felipe streff are absolutely together for second place look at this now is streff going to
defer to the team leader jack lafitte i doubt it's end of term and the the feet's waving away no
streff is uh is showing full determination and the feet is telling him to slow down and streff
doesn't care well i sympathize a bit with streff but the feet shutting the door on him hard anyway
so these two are having what we hope is a nice friendly bit of rivalry
that's your problem jack i can almost hear felipe streff saying jack lafitte at the end of his
grand prix career felipe streff at the beginning of it and if felipe streff gets in front he may
incur the wrath of somebody but he should worry if in the process he enhances his reputation and
here is rosberg is this the last lap what it is the last lap now because he's on lap 82
yes and that's perfectly time because two hours is coming up it will be up and there we are and
what a battle now let's have a look at this again because jack lafitte is furious with streff he's
in he's angry with the new boy and he's hit him and streff is going to be out of the race he's
destroyed his suspension and that must be black mark for felipe streff because jack lafitte
clearly wasn't going to let him buy and felipe streff has really blotted his copy book
that means to say that guillegere is going to lose a lot of money because instead of having two
cars home and streff is going to try and go for it he's over the line into the last lap so he will
almost certainly qualify third because capelli is a lap behind streff who's manfully trying to get
the car home but what a silly maneuver because he could so easily have finished in style as kecky
rosberg is about to do because he's into the last stages of the last lap of the first australian
grand prix a race which has been full of interest incident drama and excitement since the lights
went to green yes a marvelous weekend for everybody as kecky rosberg comes up to win and well organized
the australians a truly marvelous race with lots of drama victory the fifth in his williams career
and his formula one career for kecky rosberg the second of the year stefan yohansson crosses the
line to finish in fifth position but lacked by kecky rosberg we wait now for jacques lafitte to
come in and here he is the frenchman is going to finish that's philippe streff i'm sorry we're
waiting for jacques lafitte as we see streff and his front wheel is about to come off i think
rosberg touring in and streff's only just going to make it without his front wheel coming right
and drift because he's got a real handling problem now to put it very mildly indeed the front wheel
look at that suspension on streff's car lafitte has meantime finished in second position and
streff is either going to come home in on three wheels or just fail to finish he's going now into
paddock turn well he can get the car home and i'm looking at the timing apparatus now to see how far
evan capelli is behind him too far to finish in third position and streff is amazingly going to
finish as martini goes past him to unlap himself but stress streff has got a most peculiarly designed
ligier now with the front wheels out of track out of line out of kilter but he's into the finishing
straight to finish third but having been unlapped by gehrhard burger so the australian grand prix
won by kecky rosberg there he is second jack lafitte third streff in the three wheel ligier
fourth evan capelli one lap short fifth stephen yohansson sixth gehrhard burger a truly exciting
dramatic interesting race and a wonderful one for kecky rosberg and not a very wonderful one phillips
for phillip streffer who will be shuffling back to the pits i hadn't seen gehrhard here actually
which is just as well for streff because monsieur ligier is an ex-french international rugby player
and to say that he is irascible is a masterpiece of understatement and streff would be very wise
to keep his crash helmet on if he's going to have an interview with gehrhard rosberg out of the car
there is stephen yohansson yes i'm not sure that um that the feat was that was not a lot to blame
for that because he really did carve he was blocking streff in a way that he really shouldn't
have done it rather depends on their team orders if they had no orders about holding position
if they had no orders then streff then then the feat would be in the wrong and streff would be
uh right to be miffed it just depends on what the instructions if any there were for the from the
team and if there weren't any then i think lafitte was a bit out of order out of order or no we'll
know later kecky rosberg just slicking his hair back there to look a little smart for the cameras
has won the australian grand prix from jacques lafitte ligier phillip streff ligier evan capelli
in the tirral a great drive that stephen yohansson in the ferrari fifth and gehrhard burger in the
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welcome back to adelaide live the australian grand prix the inaugural australian formula one grand prix proved even more dramatic even more exciting even more incident packed than we'd possibly imagine only 16 finished out of the
field that got underway here this afternoon and what a great win it was to kecky rosberg the 1982 world champ who never really looked like losing it after great battles he had towards the middle of the race there first with nicky louder then with center who drove such a wild race as jackie stewart kept telling me sitting next to me here he said i can't believe this young man he's driven around the track here in practice in qualifying with such discipline and such skill
during the week and then comes the big day and he just as james hunt said he let his heart overrule his brains and it was all on us to kecky rosberg there's the final result kecky rosberg the winner from jacques lafitte the veteran phillip streve third ivan capelli after that bad luck early in the week drove a great race today and stephen yohansson and gehrhard burger
and a very emotional moment in adelaide for us all because at the birth of this new racetrack we bid farewell to one of the legends of motor racing in fact the legend of motor racing nicky louder and nicky has joined us in the studio and i thank you for that nicky
i had a disappointing race today because i had a problem with my brakes about 10 laps before i went off and i had no brakes when i came to the end of the straight so i could only slow down against the wall we might have a look at that you certainly slowed down against the wall and maybe you could tell us what was happening at this stage the front brakes went i had no brakes i had to pump hard to get some sort of brakes and only the rear started to brake so then i hit the wall and that was the end of my race and at that stage you were just in front of ertens center
had you had any indication that perhaps your brakes were going to give you trouble no i had the problem for already 10 laps before i hit the wall and i was trying hard to stay in the lead because k.k. rosberg was coming from the back and i couldn't do anything so that was the end of my race well at that stage just before that happened how confident were you that you might in fact make that fairy tale come true for us and win your last race i think it would have been possible because i saved my tyres i was taking it very easy in the beginning to make sure that i was going to make it
so that i don't destroy especially my rear tyres and everything really worked very well what was it like when you climbed out of that car and you realized it was over shit that's what you think in that moment and it was my last race because as you know i retired today so i thought this is the end of my race and my career i mean you must feel do you have to pinch yourself to believe it's all over because whether you follow matter racing or not you're one of the legends of sport you know it's a difficult decision there's no question because if i think like today i took off in 16 positions
and took the lead and possibly could have won the race so i'm sometimes thinking i'm throwing away something but at the other hand i think you have to grow up one day and i think it's about time i do so and go and do some real work and work from eight to five like other people
nicky was the track here in adelaide all that you expected no i tell you it was really fantastic i've never thought that in adelaide it could be such a perfect race right in the beginning and a lot of other organizers in the world should come here and see how it was done because it was
absolutely perfect and now uh you get in the channel nine chopper and you fly home for dinner tomorrow night that's correct because i have to be on Tuesday morning already needs to do some work as i said from eight to five now so i have to rush home
well you've brought us all a great lesson not just encouraged but a lot of thrills and enjoyment and it was a privilege for us to see your race here and i hope whatever you do in the future now you've grown up that you enjoyed maybe just half as much as you enjoyed that fabulous career of yours
i will thank you very much thank you very much there he is the reigning world champion nicky louder or last year's world champion of course alain prostes has taken that title this year and nicky now bows out after a fantastic career there is the winner of the inaugural
mitzvah bushy australian formula one grand prix kecky rosberg who drove such a great race here this afternoon and uh he's flanked by the uh lisa teammates jack lafitte the veteran of the field at the age of 41 and philip streep
and i know that brian henderson my old mate there from the channel nine newsroom in sydney will be over the moon this afternoon because uh kecky rosberg's been a hero of his for many many years and today he really turned it on
um showed a tremendous amount of discipline and there it is the prime minister of australia mr bob hawke congratulating the winner of this inaugural australian grand prix who waves to the crowd
he's been a great favorite of the crowds for a long time kecky rosberg as i said a very aggressive driver today he showed that aggression and also showed a great deal of discipline um jacky stewart made the point to be during the race
he was in the pitch three times and jacky said it's very unusual for a man to uh go to the pitch three times during a grand prix and go on and win it and yet nicky ladder not only did that in one stage if you recall he had a bit of problem too he had a long pit stop about 24-25 seconds
had trouble getting a front wheel on s frank williams holding up his trophy won't he be a happy man this combination of japanese and british uh artistry really because the japanese look after the honda engine the uh englishman look after the williams chassis and didn't it hold up well today
williams has now of course won the last three grand prix too although niger mansell was an early casualty today nicky ladder carried on the tradition for the great matter racing company and they're holding up their trophies there now
the plaudits of a huge crowd here in adelaide who were absolutely thrilled by this dramatic exciting and incident packed australian formula one grand prix
and now the campaign will be presented at
keckie rosberg going to drive for mclaren next year and in fact we'll take over there from uh the man we just uh bad farewell to the great nicky ladder and uh won't uh keckie rosberg be delighted to go over there on a winning note
uh leaving williams and going to mclaren who really next year shape up as an almost unbeatable combination there it is the traditional uh shower to the crowd of french champagne
and won't they be uh appreciating that too because it's been a very warm day here in adelaide a day of uh marvelous excitement a spectacular day's racing
in which the williams team have continued uh their great trot and the ligier drivers really i don't think they would have possibly expected to come in as well as this 2-3 here live in adelaide we'll be back at the grand prix in just a moment
i'm keckie rosberg and stay online channel 9 and watch this
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welcome back uh live to adelaide where we've just seen the inaugural mitzvah bishi australian
formula one grand prix run and won and won decisively by the flying fin kecky rosberg the 1982
world champion who went out from the williams team on a fabulous note here this afternoon
as he goes across now to mclaren to take on the challenge again next year he'll be racing with
alain prost and what a team they're going to prove we're just standing by now waiting for
jackie stewart who is about to interview kecky rosberg the man who won today's race uh it's not
a actually it's usually quite difficult apparently to get these interviews as quickly as jackie's
getting him but of course uh when you got a three times uh former world champ and you got a man who
is as well known as jackie well you got a bit of a walk-up start um at the moment uh jackie may well
be down there to have a chat to the prime minister bob hawk because there's a lot of chat going on
in my earphones at the moment i'm not quite sure who he's going to be chatting to but one way or
another jackie's down there with with the knobs and he'll be with us very shortly and i must say
what a thrill it was just personally for me today to be able to sit here and uh have that first
interview for you with nicky louder i have never been i suppose a formula one nut but it as a
sportsman and a sports lover i've always been an enormous fan of that man nicky louder a man of
such enormous courage who today about out here in adelaide and he bowed out and he's flying
home now as he said to his wife marlene and his two sons and he's going to get a real job okay
ian chaplin is down there and he's with the prime minister mr bob hawk thanks mike mr prime minister
your first grand prix what are your impressions excitement and pride excitement at the the race
itself it's a great spectacle and pride at the uh the achievement uh for australia south australia
in particular i think the uh it's one of the most exciting things i've experienced in sport to go
around amongst all these top drivers and uh bernie eagleston the boss of the world circuit and to be
told by them all that uh what's been done here is as good as anything in the in the world that they've
they've had in the in the grand prix circuit and you know i think that just speaks volumes for
for australia what does this sort of sporting event do for australia do you think well it does
a number of things uh firstly it brings australia to the attention of hundreds of millions of people
via your great medium television and uh that in itself the exposure of australia is good
second thing is to you just listen to these fellows talk and they say they want to come back
here and when they're going around australia around the world singing australia's praises
that must do us good and uh i think they can see that we're capable of organizing as as well as
anyone in the world and they like what they see here the the people they talk about the friendliness
of our people the efficiency of our people they like our climate i think this will boost our stocks
tremendously it's great tribute to all those that were responsible for first of all conceiving this
project in and then the great organization and i think i can speak on behalf of all australians
and saying thanks to premier bannon thanks to industry thanks to everyone who's been associated
with this thank you very much for talking to us and i can tell you mike that the uh the prime minister
got some blood on his hands that of the winner keke rosberg back to you thanks ian and uh talking
of keke rosberg let's go straight to him he is with jackie stewart keke remarkably calm and
collected after what must have been a hard day's work well it was known in advance it was going to
be very hard and it sure was luckily at the end uh the good homework and still breaks paid off
and i could take it a little bit easier there wouldn't be much left anyway but then nobody else
had either so yeah i think it was a good calculated race apart from your driving the story mechanically
of the event was certainly breaks definitely yeah we knew that in advance we're very very surprised
about anybody starting the race on carbon because with our experience from practice there was just
no way you know and we're as experienced using carbon as anybody else drivers don't like steel
because it's hard work very difficult to drive we had to go steal and it paid off so that was
the choice of steel disc brakes against the carbon fiber disc brakes now seldom have we seen in modern
times keke a man win a grand prix having three times been in the pitch well every time i had
time on hand i knew what rear tires were grained there was no problem with tires but because of
the little grip that the surface was giving you uh because of the wheel spin the tires were
graining so every time i had time on hand i came in for a new one why not it makes my driving
safer it makes me makes my life easier now one big question we have to ask you the coming together
with erton senor it looked like for him it was a total surprise he was very close to you you were
at the right part of the racetrack to go into the pitch but what do you think went wrong erton today
seemed to be driving very well let's say more erratically than he normally does well he just
answered a question i saw that the part out of my rear wing was missing i didn't know that you
didn't know that he had come in contact with you at all no i didn't no so channel channel nine are
giving you news that's right the only thing he's touched is the is the wing end plate in the back
and he's cut a piece off from that and that's all paper basically you know so i didn't even feel
that i didn't know that i hate but he destroyed his front wing you know that was one of the reasons
he had a major problem i thought you were just going to refer to the thing with manzal and and
send on the first lap i was just about to correct you i say it wasn't me now you saw that no no i
it is a very difficult entry you know but then on the other hand he should have guessed if i'm going
slow he ain't me going slow through that kink i've got to be going in the pits i didn't know he hit
my wing well many congratulations to you number five grand prix victory you've broken your duck
your two grand prix victories in this year a great way to leave the team and you're going to join
mcclan next year kecky rosberg for channel nine for the australian grand prix audience that have
been here you've given us a lot of entertainment and you've got some blisters in your hands and
you're bloodied so safe a bit too close before well listen the very best of luck and many many
congratulations thanks jakey and there he is uh the winner of the inaugural australian formula
one grand prix kecky rosberg here in andelaid we'll be back with you for more in just a moment
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here and for those of you who can't wait to savor all those magic moments again all that drama and
all that excitement let's have a look at the highlights of this afternoon's inaugural formula
one australian grand prix and the australian grand prix is go
and it's a magnificent start for nigel mansell but alan jones is left on the grid alan jones
has stored his engine and has failed to start with the rest of the field and there he is getting away
but nigel mansell went through from second position on the grid and now ayrton senna is right up with
him kecky rossberg is third alberto is fourth and off goes one of the williams and he looks like
kecky rossberg to me but no it's nigel mansell's gone off kecky rossberg is in the lead on the first
lap senna is second alberto third prost then gerhard berger in the arrows then nelson pique
so already on the very first lap one of the likely winners nigel mansell who is now in
about seventh position has lost his advantage at the start there is nigel mansell in the pits
he's blown it he's lost his chance of winning the australian grand prix and therefore making
it the hat trick of three wins in a row and now we have into the pits patrick tolbe has gone into
the pits and tolbe was well up and it's a ferrari there yes there seems to be tower trouble that's
alberto has been in tolbe is in for tires so they're hurting their tires yes maria i quite agree with
you sir has gone very much better here than for a long time but there is nothing like the threat of
the sack to make people deliver but unfortunately a racing driver should be able to go without the
threat of the sack there is alan jones who is in eighth position now the australia with all the
psyching up of driving in front of your home crowd in your own country is making the best of the
improved handling of the beatrice the fact that the engine is going he has regrettably had a lot
of engine problems with the four-cylinder heart turbo in practice and was not in the best of
humors about it before but hopefully he won't be too unhappy now and not only is lauda char is sir
jones charging through the field but the old veteran nicky lauda in his last grand prix is
doing the same thing he is seventh there is nelson pique out of the australian grand prix
nelson pique has finished his last race for brabham on foot and there is the angeles into the pits
yes he's been a naughty boy because he's been four laps he stayed out there with ignoring the
black flag and i strongly suspect he's heaping a little bit of trouble on his own head so there
may be a big naughty boy affair for the angeles and i have to sympathize with him so alan jones
now into the pits what a pity he was in seventh place alan jones within a whisked eye shakes his
head sadly he must be absolutely dejected because it looks as though he feels his race is finished
and prost we've just had a message that prost is in trouble
leo what happened my engine stole on the on the warm-up lab and according to the rules you cannot
make a position and i lost position and i make up position i mean i just get back my position my
13 grid position and unfortunately the rules say that uh you are disqualified
oh the big mistake from senna so and uh that certainly would be what jackie meant because
in two years time he won't even do that that will please rosberg and there's somebody hidden in the
fire there i don't know who it is it's martin brundle's car martin brundle's or is it it's
bootsom that is tiara boots and walking in and heaven be praised he is obviously perfectly all
right but is very much out of the race ayrton senna came up behind kecky rosberg suddenly kecky
rosberg break to go into the pits ayrton senna hit him with his front wing destroyed his front wing
rosberg continued into the pitch and he has gone off the track he's gone off the track while this
is live now this we're back live too it's in front of the pits he's overshot the pit lane he's in
trouble he's losing front wings this team don't know what to do they're smiling as if to say what
can we do about that his left hand front wing is hanging off that was the replay that was him going
almost into the fence how he avoided that well i don't think even he had a lot to do with it
ayrton senna came up behind nicky lauda he tucked in behind him on the main street
he came alongside him and he did him under braking so ayrton senna has climbed up the slippery
ladder that he's been on all day he's got himself back into second position kecky rosberg still
leaves ayrton senna is second nicky lauda is third michelle albarreto is fourth eric warwick is fifth
here he comes senna's not responding not fighting back because he knows that he's in
tire trouble and lauda looking supremely smooth of course the other thing is lauda can afford now
to drive hard on his tires which the others can't because they've got that much meat off them
they don't have the same potential heat build up six cars on the first lap race leader nicky lauda
and off he goes nicky lauda's lost it and that and he's completely smashed the front of the car and
he will reverse out because it looks to me as though he hasn't damaged the left front suspension
let's look at it again and let's watch ayrton senna lauda off up onto the kerbing trying to
avoid the concrete wall but he's smashed the left suspension lauda is out and you're about to see a
new leader i think on lap 62 senna leading rosberg second albarreto third lafitte fourth streff fifth
in sixth position and there he goes senna it slows and rosberg goes through and kecky rosberg again
rightly leads the australian grand prix and i think senna's race is over he's slowing right down
he's blown it the turbo has gone on ayrton senna's renault engine and albarreto is into the pits
into the pits it's all happening albarreto who was in third place before but it was in the position
of becoming second had he passed the pits where senna was stationary is now into the pits stationary
now what's that going to mean it's going to mean that kecky rosberg leads of course and it's going
to mean that jack lafitte is up into second place and rosberg is into the pits again what a race
this is kecky rosberg the race leader are we going to see jack lafitte go into the lead what is kecky
rosberg doing to his tires he must have some sort of shredder on the back of the williams
but and off goes burger that's for nothing and oh what a pity jack lafitte is furious with streff
he's in he's angry with the new boy and he's hit him and streff is going to be out of the race he's
destroyed his suspension yes a marvelous weekend for everybody as kecky rosberg comes up to win
and well organized the australians a truly marvelous race with lots of drama so the australian
grand prix won by kecky rosberg there he is second jack lafitte third streff in the three-wheel
ligier fourth evan capelli one lap short fifth stephan yohansson sixth garhard burger
well kecky rosberg might be the happiest man in adelaide today but i'll tell you a man who
won't be far behind him is the premier of south australia john bannon last week his labor government
trailed by one percent in the polls he's pulled an election in the next few weeks i reckon after
today he's going to win that election by about the same margin as kecky rosberg won the grand prix
with mr bannon ian chappell premier of south australia john bannon a lot of money spent a lot
of hard work has it all been worthwhile oh certainly ian uh at this stage of proceedings
uh yeah we we just couldn't have anticipated it to be as good as it was we knew it was going to be
big we knew it was going to be good uh it took a bit of convincing in the early stages but when
we've got it all together and the results there it's absolutely fantastic not just for adelaide
in south australia but for the the nation as a whole how long do you think it's going to be
before south australia starts to reap the rewards of this international event well we started
already in fact we started in the run-up to it i mean if you look around the court the track here
the uh the concrete uh barriers all the stands and things like that now that all generated work we
we reckon something of the order of 700 or so jobs just in the lead-up but of course the the
tourist money spent over the period of the event is is just prodigious and uh people will now fan
out all over australia and we'll see the benefits i've never seen south australia like this uh having
lived here for 36 years do you think you're going to have to keep those sort of liquor laws i think
they might have got it got accustomed to them well you know we're always known as the city of the
arts the athens of the south and we've got a great arts festival coming up next year a lot of people
said how can you link that up with a with an event of this kind well we've proved you can and uh you
know yourself in this this is a city where everyone responds you know if the event's big enough the
whole community gets into it and that's why we could bring it off i think where other cities can't
what is it going to cost south australia this first grand prix well the the cost of actually
staging the event went up and up you know we started looking at say a capital cost of around
five million it's probably almost double that uh but of course as the as the cost went up so did
the income i i was looking at a bottom line of something like one and a half to two million
support for the event which in terms of international promotion and so on is is just
chicken feed as far as value to the state's concern in fact we'll do better than that
and we'll write our capital off quicker than we thought so as the series progresses and we've
got seven races in this series uh we'll come out well in the black by the end of them all right
congratulations on a marvelous event it was well worthwhile seeing thanks a lot okay give oh a very
happy premier of south australia john bannon yes you can say that again that he certainly looks
like the cat that got amongst the cream and good luck to him and good well done south australia
we'll be back with more from adelaide in just a moment i'm nicky larder stay with me watching
channel nine for the australian grand prix
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o'clock hour welcome back to adelaide a marvelous day here today a marvelous day right throughout
australia no doubt as you sat and watched our telecast here online and the glamour of formula
one racing it brought the ladies out here and their droves again and gail jarvis is down there
with some of the ladies to find out their reaction to today's great race mark i'm lucky enough to be
in the vip area yet again with some ladies who've actually watched the race from here
did you find it exciting yes i did very much despite what senator heen said that it was a
sport for little boys no i don't agree with him do you think it's a turn on for ladies to hear that
yeah i reckon what about you well it's a turn on when you get to sit in a grom in the formula one
car did you get to do that yes what does it feel like very uncomfortable because at the time the
steering wheel was on the seat is it a sexy sport for women do you think sexy well not with the seat
on the steering wheel what about you um yes and no yes and no why not no i don't know no yes yes
yes i'll agree okay do you think it's a sexy sport for women well as part of the of the mcmahon's
project team um i feel very proud as a south australian along with being a woman oh you've
lost your hat over the side um but the gentlemen have been very very polite and i disagree strongly
with what senator haines has said um i think she obviously hasn't been to a grand prix herself
to realize just how invigorating it is as a person to be with the roaring cars and the atmosphere
now do you think that the ladies have had some difficulty deciding what to wear to an event like
this there seems to be such a great uh difference of fashion opinion a hat is always necessary
i could tell i'm gonna sunburn no it's a hat that's all i think of a hat what about the women who
were trying to get around the pits in high heels tottering around there no no you sink into the
into the dust no good look at my feet i have a permanent sunburn we're all learning though
it's the first event so you've got to learn next year will be even better we've done very very well
this year next year will have to be even better okay well michael that's the word on fashion and
that's the word on how the ladies view grand prix racing back to you thank you gail and uh as that
lady said i do agree with her invigorating was the word she used jackie i haven't been invigorated
quite so much at a sporting event for a long long time well i have to tell you that i've been to an
awful lot of grand prix and i can't say that i've enjoyed one any better than i've enjoyed this one
here in adelaide it's been an amazingly good weekend of sport most of all it's been a safe
weekend and i think we must all thank the good lord for that because uh the incidents that we
have seen evolving without injury and at more than 300 kilometers an hour we have to be grateful for
that it was a safe race and it was a good race too and a very exciting race with a lot of good
stuff in there yeah what's a safe race as you say a lot of incidents today and i suppose if you talk
about whether the golf course won or the golfers won i guess this uh was this track we talked about
showed her claws again today yes i think it did upset a few people as james hunt and murray walker
has have observed i think ayrton senor's equilibrium was really upset he just never
got into his timing today he did things that we've never seen him do before he got untidy
and i didn't think he drove a particularly good race i'm sure he'll be going back tonight thinking
about that on the other hand kecky rosberg drove with amazing maturity he came into the pits three
times he didn't have to do that he did it as a safeguard and i think that's a real sign of
maturity so he did a very good race and fully deserved it the little liger coming together
the contra ton that the two teammates had i'm not sure i approve of that but these are the things
that do happen and someone just got slightly carried away with their emotions really well
it came together then it came apart yeah but i think more than anything else mike i have to
compliment channel nine because i work for quite a few channels around the world and i think the
the uh pictures that we've been seeing today the production and the way that it's been put together
the world feed i'm sure will be congratulating australia and channel nine's been responsible
for that i'm down here just for a honeymoon if you like i'm only here for a few days the work
that has been done has been amazing and to have it and its very first grand prix in adelaide i
really do congratulate the team it's been a big army of people that have been doing it but uh i
would just like to say as a as a visitor well done all right jackie thank you we'll be back
with more from adelaide in just a tick hello this is alan frost i hope you're watching the
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well the circus came to town and now jackie stewart they are folding up the tent well i think quite
a little bit this weekend we've made reference to mechanics we've made reference to the many hours
that they put in we're only now a few minutes after the end of this grand prix and if we look
down in front of the pit lane right now you'll see a few mechanics both of those cars failed to
finish in this grand prix in adelaide and now those drivers are stripping those cars to be
packed and put away these are not the fellows who are celebrating they've got nothing to celebrate
about one car crash the other one went out with mechanical failure now these fellows are going to
work well into the night stripping the cars boxing them and preparing them to go back back to europe
yes just another amazing scene for all of us who don't know much about formula one racing and as
soon as it's finished then mechanically bang over and away they go and this is the end of the year
for them you must remember the season's finished for those grand prix mechanics it's 1985 is past
and you know the racing people are very much looking towards the future they don't think about
the past the technology is going to be different next month never mind next year and that's the
way this circus runs and the man of course looking to the future is our own alan jones our former
world champ who was left on the grid at the start today but rocketed up into seventh position at one
stage before his engine blew it was a great performance from alan jones and he thrilled us
all and down there with alan now gail jarvis well gibbo i've got a disappointed but certainly not
dejected alan jones you had a bit of a bad luck there at the start it was a dreadful start i've
done some really good starts this year and i guess that that made up for them i gave it a heap of
revs and it seemed to grip okay and then it just died on me and i didn't grab the clutch quick
enough and uh the engine stalled so i had to wait for some guys to jump the uh the fence and push
start me for the australian driver on the first australian grand prix track it must have been a
bit humiliating for you yeah well uh i guess if you're going to do something like that you might
as well do it in your home grand prix well alan you made up a lot of time during the race though
you were doing quite well what happened after that yeah the car wasn't too bad it's better on
full tanks than what it is on empty tanks because it puts more weight to the front and
stops a lot of the understeer that we've got and i think we've got up to seventh and uh we're looking
okay but then um it was time for it to do its normal deal and blow up there are a lot of people
who say that you know you've still got quite a way to go that it's not an experienced team you've got
yet how do you think you will go well the team is very experienced and i think that when we get the
forward engines and we're heading off to nevada at the end of this month and we're going to do two
or three weeks of intensive testing with a new forward engine uh i'm really looking forward to
coming back here next year jackie stewart made a comment the other night that you don't look as
comfortable in that car as say you did in the williams car that's a pretty astute observation
i don't i'm not i'm sitting uh two four i'm too high in the car the new car i'm going to be sitting
lower and more comfortable this was a bit of a rush job and uh the new car i'll be sitting a
lot further back in it and i'm going to try and get it like the old williams and get a good forward
engine behind me and go for it well best of luck for the rest of the next year at least okay back
to you mark thank you gail and alan jane certainly did us proud today and we hope that 1986 uh that
beetress really starts to hum for him now let's have a look at the final six positions again
in this inaugural mitzvah bushy australian formula one grand prix the winner was
kecky rossberg from uh jack lefede and philippe streep and i suppose if you wanted to take a
cornella that would have paid a lot of money because not a cornella trifecta i should say
because the aligiers certainly did a lot better than we'd expected ivan capelli who had a pretty
crook start to the week finished on a high note came in fourth from stephaniel hansen and gearhard
burger who had trouble in the production cars yesterday and had rather more success today
in the big boys and uh jackie stewart i must say it's been a great thrill working with you i've
always been a fan of yours i think you know that and to work with you and interview nicky louder
today that made my just made my week well thank you very much michael i've enjoyed working with
you very much and as i said with the team i really compliment everybody concerned and i wish you
luck and continued success in channel nine in australia you're gonna be back next year aren't
you i hope but you're gonna have to ask me though we'll look forward to that jackie and from jackie
stewart and from murray walker and james hund and the countless hundreds of people who've worked so
hard to bring you this telecast right around australia right around the world we hope you've
enjoyed it and we'll see you next time round on white world of sports
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