for a team they would have wanted to go to after that.
It wasn't so he was doing a bad job.
He was putting the cars on pole position
and winning Grand Prix's.
So
Well, thanks for watching.
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And, uh,
we're going to have something really, really
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with one of their
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Used to do something, uh, that, uh,
chicane incident at Monza might, uh,
rear its ugly head, I'm sure.
What, you're saying that Honda will give him the shaft?
Well, I'm not saying that in as many words.
I'm saying they've got a very good memory.
Eccleston sees it differently.
It's all about doing good business.
And Honda simply do it better
than anyone else, according to his rule book.
They know, they have an objective.
They've come in and they've done exactly what they want to do.
Which is good.
I'm sorry that a few other people don't do the same sort of job.
So you respect them totally?
Absolutely, 100%.
No complaints.
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The story of Honda
and how they go about business, and I must apologize
there was a slight technical hitch there
in the middle of that story, but I'm sure you got the
gist of just what Honda will do
to get in front and be winners.
And they're certainly very successful at that.
You know, there's not too long to go in this Grand Prix.
We have just a few minutes to go.
It will be the race of a lifetime.
It is a magic feeling down there
on the grid. There is the McLaren
team. They have their
cars fenced off, obviously
being so successful. Everybody
wants to get a shot of them. So they're the
only team that has a fence
or a little bit of a barrier around them.
The rest are allowed to wander around rather freely.
OK, we'll be back in just a moment
with the big one, the Grand Prix
for 1988.
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Torval and Dean.
Never before have two artists fired the imagination of so many across the world.
Wednesday 7.30, Channel 9 presents their most stunning and captivating performances.
The brilliance of these world champions.
Their grace and style.
Hosted by Liz Hayes, together with special guests Jane Torval and Christopher Dean.
From their earliest routines to their unforgettable triumphs.
The very best of Torval and Dean, Wednesday 7.30 on 9.
There's action, action in the air.
There's action, action in the air.
There's action, action in the air.
Listen you race fans out there, we're set to go.
You hear we're gonna have a party up here.
Yeah you crave some action, well pack your gear.
You gotta cash the show, you gotta make sure you're here.
You should catch up your stream, cause it's not your normal week.
God see these fellas ride, feel happy and alive.
It's alive, it's alive.
Feel the fire, be a brother, there's magic in the air.
Oh what's Torval and Dean, what hope can they have?
Race off this season, they got one more crack.
Glory, one more chance to show, they got the net.
Only one time it's here, cause that action time is here.
God see these fellas ride, feel happy and alive.
It's alive, it's alive.
You should catch up your stream, cause it's not your normal week.
God see these fellas ride, feel happy and alive.
It's alive, it's alive.
It's action, action, in the air.
It's been action, action, action already here at Adelaide.
There have been incidents all round the circuit.
Time and time again we've seen cars spinning off.
We've seen drivers in trouble.
Nelson Piquet started the ball rolling.
The world champion spinning off in his Lotus.
As he got away, he spun the car back into action.
And along came Philippe Streff, straight into the barriers.
Then it was Pierluigi Martini, the little Italian.
He gets his Menardi going again.
Filippo Alio arrives, jumps the curbs onto the gravel.
And then with him thinking about it, Michele Albaretto does exactly the same thing.
Misjudges the corner, goes straight into the gravel.
Then it was Eni Civa's turn.
With flames pouring from the turbo at the back of the car,
he motored serenely onwards, laying a trail of oil all round the circuit.
Not at all popular.
Pier Carlo Ginzani was the man we were watching next.
Look at that turbo cloud of smoke pouring out of the back of the Zakspeed.
It's Martini again.
He's done it a second time.
Not once but twice.
Pierluigi Martini rejoins the circuit.
But this was pure poetry.
Ayrton Senna putting up the fastest lap of the day to get pole position.
Beautiful driving.
1 minute 17.748 and he did it as the checkered flag came out.
And he knew that his teammate, Alain Prost, would not be able to do anything about it.
And so for the 13th time, this Brazilian, brilliant Brazilian,
was starting from pole position on the grid.
The top man of 1988.
One more races than anybody else.
World champion as the result of it.
And more pole positions than anyone else.
13 pole positions in one season.
And a record only beaten by Jim Clark, the great driver of the past, of 29 pole positions.
And now in pole position then is Ayrton Senna.
Next to him, his teammate, Alain Prost.
In third position on the grid is Nigel Mansell, the leading 3.5 litre engine driver in the Williams.
Gerhard Berger, last year's winner in the Ferrari, is in fourth place on the grid this year.
The reigning world champion, Nelson Piquet, in the Lotus Honda is fifth.
Riccardo Petresi, Nigel Mansell's teammate, is sixth.
Derek Warwick, the Englishman in the turbocharged Arrows, is seventh on the grid.
He's ahead of Alessandro Nanini in the Benetton.
In ninth place it is Ivan Capelli in the March.
Bootson is tenth, well down for him.
Alex Caffey, the little Italian, has brilliantly put the Dallara into eleventh place.
Ahead of his countryman, Michele Albarreto in the Ferrari.
Thirteenth, the Japanese driver, Satoru Nakajima.
Fourteenth is Martini, who's spun off in practice.
Let's hope he doesn't do it in the race.
Andrea Di Cesaris is fifteenth.
Stef is sixteenth.
Jonathan Palmer, who had a big off in this morning's half-hour practice, is in seventeenth place.
Chiva is eighteenth.
Mauricio Guiljimin from Brazil in the March is nineteenth.
And Stefano Modena, who made his Grand Prix debut here in Australia last year, is twentieth.
Salah, the Spaniard in the Monardi, is twentieth.
Bois first.
Stefano Johansson, the Swedish driver in the Ligier, is twenty-second.
His teammate, René Arnoux, is twenty-third.
Philippe Alliot from France, who also went off in practice, is twenty-fourth.
And there is the magnificent Adelaide Street Circuit.
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, like it in the world.
It beats Monaco. It beats Detroit.
It's fast. It's spectacular. But more than that, it is tremendously demanding.
This race is going to be one of the longest of the season.
Only Monaco and Detroit and Hungary get near it in terms of time.
And now, round we go with Satoru Nakajima, the Japanese driver.
This is the section where he goes into the S's after the straight.
And as he accelerates away, he is coming up to the right-hander at Wakefield Turn.
That's a second gear, seventy mile an hour corner.
Then up to the second gear, East Terrace Bend, which he's approaching at this very moment.
Now onto Flinders, third gear. Stays in third gear.
Now he's up into fourth gear, one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
Now he's at Market's Turn, on his way to Stag Turn with the famous pub on the left.
Now down Rundle Road towards Brewery Bend, Brown Brewery Bend.
This is the fastest part of the course.
The Brabham Straight building up to one hundred and eighty miles an hour in sixth gear.
Before standing on everything for Race Track Hairpin, second gear, seventy kilometers an hour.
Now the sweeping left-handed Paddock Turn.
The numbers, incidentally, are camera position numbers that you see on your screen.
And now coming down to Foster's Hairpin, second gear.
See Nakajima's hand as he goes down through the gears.
And now he has the pit straight in front of him and back into the S's again.
So you've just done a flying lap in the Lotus Honda with the Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima.
And you look at the grid.
Ayrton Senna. Well, is he going to make it his ninth Grand Prix victory of the season?
Well, this year I have absolutely no doubt that the Australian Grand Prix will be even better than it has been in the past
because there is no pressure on these drivers.
Senna doesn't have the pressure of the World Championship. He is world champion.
And with us we have, of course, another McLaren world champion of the past, James Hunt.
And certainly we had a fantastic battle in qualifying between the two McLaren drivers with Prost and Senna fighting it out.
The pole position was changing lap by lap through Friday's qualifying.
Prost came out just on top by pipping Senna on the last lap.
And Senna had gone quicker than him one lap earlier.
And we reversed the situation yesterday.
And with any luck, the race is set up for a big battle between the two McLaren drivers.
Ayrton Senna, of course, anxious and really keen to confirm his status as the new world champion
and meet teammate Alan Prost today.
And Alan Prost obviously wanting to finish the season on a high note.
He had a slow start to the season. Senna got away from him in the championship.
But he fought back absolutely brilliantly during the second half, made a real battle of it.
And certainly went out as handed over the crown, as it were, to Senna in the most dignified and worthy way.
We see the Arrows car.
There is the grid just getting started to clear the grid.
The engines running.
They'll set off as they go now.
Green flag away for a warm up lap.
This is only a parade lap, remember.
Senna, the pole man, will lead the field round.
And they use this to warm up their tires a little bit.
And then on the second half of the lap, Senna will slow the field down, let them bunch up.
So that when they arrive on the grid with engines running, he doesn't have to sit there too long.
He wants the whole field to arrive as near together as possible.
So that, of course, remember these Grand Prix cars don't have any fans for their radiators.
They depend on moving for their cooling.
So if a car is sitting still with the engine running, the temperatures are climbing.
And we've got Jeroen Broeun left on the grid.
Stefano Modena has failed to get started.
There he is being pushed down the grid.
And so that's a disaster for young Stefano Modena, who made his Formula One debut here last year and qualified very well in what's not the world's greatest car.
Now, Modena is away.
He is not allowed when he catches the field to overtake anybody.
So he will have to start from the back of the grid.
So Senna now slowing the field right down.
He wants them all to catch up, as I said, because the water temperature will climb as they sit on the grid for the front runners.
Also, they'll have the car already in first gear.
And you get a little bit of heating up from the clutch as you sit there.
The more the clutch collects heat, there's a bit of friction as it's dragging on the flywheel.
And that, of course, can be very critical.
In pole position for the 13th time this season, Ayrton Senna leads them round on the grid.
As you can see, Alain Prost is next to him on the staggered grid.
Third is Nigel Mansell and fourth Gerhard Berger.
In fifth position, it's Nelson Piquet, the reigning world champion, then in the Williams Riccardo Petresi.
Seventh is Derrick Warick and eighth is Nanini in the Benetton.
In ninth position, Capelli in the March.
Tenth, Bootson in the Benetton.
Eleventh is Caffi and twelfth is Albarreto.
Then Nakajima and Martini.
Di Cesaris and Streff.
Seventeenth, Jonathan Palmer in the Turrell.
Eighteenth, Eddie Cheever.
Gujumin is 19th in the March.
Modena, who's got away late, is 20th.
And there, 23rd, Alio. 24th, Alio.
And bringing up the last of the grid, Piercarlo Ginzani, who has just made it this year.
Modena, of course, will have to start from the back, as James has just said.
I hope he has the presence of mind to realize that and that he does not try to filter up to his 20th position.
I can tell you that he is not trying to do so.
I can look across the circuit and I can see the sensible young Italian cruising round at the back.
He's lost six places on the grid, but in a race as long as this and as demanding as this,
I don't think that will be too much of a problem for him at the back.
So, all set now for this 82-lap, 192-mile Australian Grand Prix,
which we expect to be a battle royal between that man, Alain Prost, and on his left, Wertense Nub.
A lovely start by Prost and by Nigel Mansell, who gets up alongside Ayrton Senna.
But Prost leads away first. It's Senna second. Up into third position has come Berger.
Fourth is Mansell. Fifth is Piquet. Sixth is Patrese. And in seventh place it is Thierry Bootsum.
So, they go round into the right-hander at Wakefield, up to Flinders, and it is Prost leading Senna second, Berger third.
Look for now by Nigel Mansell in the Williams. He is still ahead of Nelson Piquet.
Up to Markett's turn, the right-hander, which they're approaching now, then into Stagg Turn.
They're coming up to the part of the course now where the turbocharged McLaren-Hondas will be able to use their superior power.
And from their point of view, hopefully pull away. But the Ferrari of Berger is hanging on.
Now they are into the Brabham Strait. There is Berger in third position, coming towards us.
Prost and Senna. And Albarito has gone off the circuit. Albarito has crashed.
There is the Ferrari. Albarito out on lap one. Michele Albarito goes off.
Now tremendous start to the start. Prost just stretching a little bit of a lead over Senna. Berger really charging.
Tremendous combative first corner from Berger, because Mansell made a superb start off the secondary of the grid.
And I was expecting to see him in second place at the first corner. But Berger muscled his way past and is really charging in the Ferrari.
He's not really expected to be able to stay with the McLarens throughout the race.
He's making a mighty good jump at the moment. So Prost needs...
We have the situation that we were hoping for for a good race with Prost getting a good start.
Prost is really stretching out a little bit of a lead at the moment and looks to be very fired up.
Now, action replay of the start of the race. Now you see Mansell bursting through from the second row.
He gets alongside Senna. There was Berger heading for the inside for the first corner.
Now, back line. Alain Prost trying to get away, trying to build himself a little bit of a cushion.
He's absolutely at 11 tenths and this is really an exciting performance from Prost.
He is really throwing the car about, which is not normally his style.
And as you can see, Gerhard Berger is right up with Ante Senna at the end of the first lap.
Prost led Senna by 2.1 seconds. A lap time of 1 minute 27.56, which is absolutely terrific from a standing start.
So now the battle is joined. Gerhard Berger will have a major problem very soon.
He's not at all happy about the fuel consumption of the Ferrari. He will have to back off.
But meantime, he's pressing Senna hard. Piquet goes through in fourth position and Patrese is right behind him.
I saw a little gesticulation out of the cockpit from Senna as he went past his pit.
And Berger was having a look there and I get the feeling that Senna may have a problem with his car.
It looks to me and the speed with which Alan Prost, you see him going out of shot there,
the speed with which Prost is extending his lead also suggests that Senna isn't entirely happy.
Berger, as Murray said, is unlikely to be able to sustain this pace.
I expect he's using pretty much full boost with his turbo engine at the moment.
And that certainly will be getting him a deficit on his fuel.
And Berger, look, he's right alongside and he's having a go. Berger is up alongside Senna.
Oh dear. Two very experienced drivers and they nearly tangled.
The wheels were actually inside each other at one stage there.
Tremendous stuff, but Berger makes it through.
So Gerhard Berger, last year's winner, has bullied his way past Ayrton Senna on that, the third lap.
And the order is Alan Prost now leading by three and a half seconds from Gerhard Berger going through in second place.
And here's a replay of Berger taking Ayrton Senna.
Now watch him stay on the inside there as Senna and they interlock wheels.
Yes, it certainly was a case of bullying because Senna's not an easy man to bully.
And he didn't want to take that lying down.
He was prepared to fight for the corner, even though he was on the outside.
And look at Berger go. He's a tremendously talented driver, very, very determined, very quick.
He's been a bit miserable this season because the Ferrari hasn't,
his wheels hasn't given him the vehicle that he needed to do the job in consistent with his enormous ability.
But he's certainly getting the best out of it now.
Race order, lap four, Alan Prost leading by five and a half seconds.
The little Frenchman is setting out to demonstrate that he may have lost the World Championship,
but he is most certainly going to win the last race of the year.
And he certainly will if he goes on like this. He is extending his lead over Ayrton Senna all the time.
And Senna, of course, now in third position.
Alan Prost passed his lap so far, one minute twenty four point one eight.
He is the only person below one minute twenty five so far.
And Senna's last lap was done in one minute twenty seven.
Prost crosses the line. Gerhard Berger, I'm looking down the track for him.
There he is going through four point eight seconds.
Gerhard Berger has gained a bit. Senna is two and a half seconds behind Berger.
Fourth position in his Pico. Now there is the flying Ferrari.
I think that Gerhard Berger has either been sandbagging over his fuel consumption
or he is just going to make an absolutely terrific race out of it by forcing Prost.
Yes, I think that Ferrari tactic, they want to have a really good showing here.
And I think Berger is just going to say to hell with the fuel, take the consequences and be damned
and just go for it and just set the fastest lap of the race.
He is actually catching Prost. He is pulling well away from Senna.
And Senna's performance at the moment does look to me as if he has got a problem.
And that little signal he made to his pit as he went past the lap before last
makes me think he may have some sort of minor handling problem.
And you are watching by far the fastest man on the course.
The brilliant Gerhard Berger is now really winding things up.
He has just gone round in one minute twenty three point oh eight.
And that is nearly a full second faster than Alain Prost.
The gap is coming down. It was four point eight seconds last lap.
It was five point five of the lap before. Now we'll see what it is
as Prost goes through to complete his fourth lap.
And the gap is down to four point one seconds.
So Berger is catching the Frenchman at the rate of something like seven tenths of a second a lap.
Prost leading. Berger second. Senna third.
Piquet is still in fourth position as they go streaming through.
Patrese is fifth. Mansell is sixth. Cappelli is seventh.
Nanini is eighth. Warwick is ninth and Cathy is tenth.
Yes and let's just hope that Berger isn't throwing fuel away
and that he's running in race trim because if he is he's catching Prost
and we could have a real battle on our hands.
Now now let's savor this as Alain Prost goes down.
Brabham Street round racetrack hairpin into paddock turn which he will be in in a moment
because he's approaching the racetrack hairpin now.
And you can see the first four in the shot together.
Prost, Berger, Senna, Piquet, McLaren, Ferrari, McLaren, Lotus and Ayrton Senna.
There he is. He's driving a better race here already than he has done for a long time.
There is Patrese, Mansell, Cappelli, Bootson, Warwick and Alain Prost coming through to complete the lap.
Now I'll give you the gap. I remind you that it was four point one seconds.
Prost crosses the line now. Five laps completed.
Berger is going across. He's much closer. It's three point six seconds.
So before very much longer, we're going to have the marvelous sight of the double world champion.
There he is. Alain Prost, the Frenchman in the McLaren Honda which has proved virtually unbeatable this year.
Being caught by and having a terrific scrap with the one car you're going to see in just a second.
There it is. Gerhard Berger who knocked a wing off in practice.
Last lap so far, one hundred and one point eight miles an hour, one hundred and sixty three point eight kmh.
And it's round the market's turn up to stag turn.
Third gear about seventy miles an hour which they're approaching now.
Then the hammer goes down as Berger goes up from into fourth gear at about one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
He's approaching Brewery Bend now. He can see Prost in front of him and he can see in his mirrors behind him the third place man Ayrton Senna.
It's Prost Berger Senna, PK for Tracy Mansell.
Yes, in fact, whatever problem Senna might have, it can't be too serious because he's now found a new lease of life and speeded up and is laughing as quickly as Berger,
which means that he is also catching Alain Prost at the moment.
There's the Ferrari and there is the McLaren.
Gap. This is the race at the front and the gap is three point two seconds.
Only a tenth Senna goes through, still in third position.
PK now is being reeled in by Patrese who is in fifth place, pulling away from Mansell sixth and Ivan Capelli is on his way.
The man that I for one have been expecting to do very well here at Adelaide, who was not at all good in practice,
has made up two places from ninth to seventh.
Yes, and certainly the atmospheric cars are now beginning to show their teeth behind the leading turbos.
Because remember, of course, that the Atmo cars don't have a fuel limitation as do the turbos.
So they actually start the race quite noticeably heavier than the turbo cars.
But of course, as they use the fuel, then that weight disadvantage is quietly whittled away.
And eventually, of course, they have a lower weight limit and they become lighter.
And they are now beginning to lap in the low 23 seconds. That's Patrese and Mansell.
Capelli are beginning to threaten. They're certainly not losing ground to the leading turbos now.
Capelli is actually lapping over a second slower than the turbos at the front at the moment.
It's a long way to go in this race. And as James was saying, the weight of the fuel and the consumption of the 3.5 liter cars will tell.
And it's 2.7 seconds now between Prost, the leader there, of this, the ninth lap, and Berger in second place.
And Berger has again gone round faster than anybody else.
122.012. A marvelous scrap at the front.
And behind the Ferrari there is still Ayrton Senna. Senna is about three, five seconds ahead of Piquet, who is in fourth position.
Piquet is 1.6 seconds ahead of Patrese, who is fifth. And Patrese is the same amount ahead of Mansell, who is sixth.
So it is a McLaren leading and Berger in second place and Senna in third.
David. Oh my God. David, it's time. Oh my God.
David, just give me to the hospital. It'll be all right. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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Well I must admit I was a bit skeptical at first but I thought I'll give it a burl on the old FB Holden.
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We're back at the Grand Prix in Adelaide. In first place still Alan Frost. Second Gerhard Berger.
Third place the defending or reigning world champion after this race will be Senna.
Then Piquet is up in fifth position for Tracy. Then Nigel Mansell.
The only car out at this time is Al Baretto who crashed on the first lap.
He walked away from the car. He's alright and we'll now go back to Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Sincerely hope that he's not but I'm afraid the reality of the situation is that I must surmise that he is.
Because I don't think he could possibly sustain this pace if he was using a level amount of power and fuel consumption to average through the race.
Riding up the curve Berger is still absolutely on the limit and getting closer and closer all the time.
And the heat of the battle for the lead you see Senna there in the background and they're beginning to drop Senna.
Senna's dropping back slowly gently. He's seven and a half seconds behind Berger.
Eleven laps into this 82 lap Australian Grand Prix and there has only been one retirement thus far.
And it is the significant one of the unfortunate Michele Al Baretto who has now driven the whole of his last race for Ferrari.
But Gerhard Berger hasn't. Watch the way he goes. Now let's see what the gap is.
Cross crosses the line. Berger crosses the line. 1.2 seconds.
Ever closer to Gerhard Berger's eye line is getting the gearbox of Alain Prost Ferrari.
He will be able to read the small prints on Prost's helmet before very much longer.
Round Wakefield turn. Round East Terrace bend up to Flinders.
Up through the gearbox into fourth. Fifth. About 130 miles an hour at this point.
Markets turn again. The people of the veranda of the pub and stag turn are going to get a real eyeful soon.
And it's going to be the eyeful of Gerhard Berger riding on the rear of Alain Prost Ferrari.
Senna is still third. Piquet is still fourth. Turbo cars first, second, third and fourth.
Patrese and Mansell fifth and sixth. Seventh and eighth. Capelli and Nannini.
Warwick is ninth. Caffey is tenth. Bujdan is eleventh and Streff is twelfth.
Yes and surprisingly Patrese is actually beginning to get away from Nigel Mansell a little bit.
He's pulled some three seconds on his team mate.
And in fact Capelli and Nannini are pretty much stuck behind Mansell.
They're all in close company and I think they're probably trying to look for a way past.
Where is Ayrton Senna? I hear you asking yourselves. Answer.
Seven and a half seconds behind Berger and Berger is now 1.2 seconds.
The gap has steadied. By the way a magnificent race by Alex Caffey.
The little Italian in the Dallara. He is in tenth place and he is staving off Thierry Bootson in the Veneton.
Riccagli-Aberto that's terrible luck. Half a lap and what happened?
I had an accident with Alex Caffey in the second corner.
Because you were so far back you were stuck in the traffic.
Yeah when you start so far from the first line it's quite normal to have this contact in the first corner.
So bad luck this year.
So what happened? It was impossible to avoid. He came into you.
Yeah the car is in really bad condition I tell you.
Never mind. Okay thank you Michaela.
Yes the Modena didn't quite catch it right on the brakes.
It looked to me as if he just gave the wall a bit of a nudge there.
So that's probably the end of Modena's race. Now Berger the closest he's been yet.
Berger working his way into a position to attack Frost for the lead.
Certainly Berger's car very quick on the straight when he's using it.
And just seeing that Stefano Modena didn't do any damage in that.
At least he's got going again so Stefano Modena is back in the race.
We'll come back to you on how healthy he is.
And of course Gerhard Berger has never left it.
My goodness this gritty Austrian is going for it.
Keeps himself in trim with ice hockey in the winter.
He needs good reflexes for this and he's got good reflexes for the Grand Prix 2.
Watch the Ferrari now edging up onto the gearbox of the McLaren.
And if Berger decides to give it a touch more boost going down Brabham Street.
Which they are approaching now as they go down Rundle Road on the way to Brewery Bend.
He could be right up with the Ferrari as they come out to Foster's hairpin.
The slowest corner on the course and Berger's going for it.
Berger's going through on the inside and a Ferrari leads the Australian Grand Prix on lap 14.
Now is Berger just saying I don't care how much fuel he uses I'm going to be in front when I retire.
Or have Ferrari got the fuel consumption problem linked.
Or here's a replay see the way he just drove straight out from behind Prost.
Yes he did the right thing there he sold him a bit of a dummy.
He made as if to tuck in behind Prost going into the corner.
And then nicked out at the last minute and a lovely clean overtaking manoeuvre.
Tremendous driving by Gerhard Berger who really seems to be keyed up right to the limit.
You can almost feel the confidence coming out of the cockpit of the Ferrari.
And there's no doubt that Gerhard Berger is having a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon.
Allegedly the man with the slowest heartbeat in Grand Prix racing.
He always looks incredibly cool and laid back.
And he will be really enjoying this but he is not relaxing one iota.
Modena by the way has spun again and I think he's in real trouble in the Eurobrunn.
But now Gerhard Berger is almost a second ahead of Prost.
McLaren's a second and third.
Don't forget that Alboretto is out of the race.
It's still the turbocharged Lotus Honda of Piquet in fourth place.
Then the two 3.5 litre Williams of Patrazia Mansell in the points fifth and sixth.
Yes Nelson Piquet having his best race in quite a long time.
He's seemed to have got everything gathered up.
He's in a very strong fourth place at the moment.
Some six seconds behind Erwin Senna.
Because he really has had a bit of a disastrous season Nelson Piquet.
And his mood has rather reflected it.
But let's hope he's able to go out with a good finish and cheer himself up.
And come back all refreshed and trying hard next year.
Thierry Bootson that is.
Thierry Bootson going off in the Benetton.
And Bootson was in eleventh place.
So now race order on lap 15 out of 82.
There is the leader Gerhard Berger.
Prost is now 1.3 seconds behind him.
Senna is in third place six seconds behind Prost.
Piquet is fourth seven seconds behind Senna.
Patrese is fifth one second and less as you see a replay of Bootson.
And Brewery Ben seems to be the place that's catching everybody out.
You see Modena go off there.
Bootson then spinning.
But he managed to get away without hitting anything.
And Modena in fact spun twice there.
So one wonders if maybe there's a little bit of oil there.
A little bit slippery on the entrance for some reason.
So Berger in the lead but he's backed off his pace just a little bit.
He and Prost are not going quite as quickly as they were when Berger was on the charge to catch and pass Alain Prost.
Berger now lapping over a second slower than he was at the height of the charge.
So maybe having gained the lead he's come back on his turbo boost and is now he was prepared maybe to invest some of his fuel to get into the lead.
And it looks like he's now come back and is on the old economy run.
Still got the fastest lap of the race for Gerhard Berger.
He went round on lap eight one minute 22.012.
He's got his rhythm now.
He can see Prost in his mirrors of course.
He's getting his pit signals both through his earphones on the radio and from the pit board that you just saw.
And the Austrian is well on the way and Jonathan Palmer is pulling out of the race on the main straight on lap 17.
So it looks like retirements at the moment are Alba Retto, Modena.
I haven't seen him go past recently.
Ferrari and Jonathan Palmer out of the race there.
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I'd like to make another point about drinking and driving.
Grand Prix drivers have amazing control in all kinds of situations.
But they know not to mix drinking and driving.
Like Nigel Mansell.
Oh no, Mansell's tyre, but he's controlling it brilliantly.
That was pretty frightening, Peter.
But drinking and driving is even more dangerous.
The two just don't mix.
Take it from Nigel Mansell, please.
Think before you drink.
We're back at the Australian Grand Prix here in Adelaide.
Berger still in front with Cross, Senna, Piquet, Patrese, Mansell in that order.
The Hot Pace has been taking its toll.
We've had spin-outs from Modena, a couple of spins by him.
We've had a spin-out by Terry Bootson.
We've certainly been having...
And there's a spin-out and an excursion by Nanini.
I don't know whether he's kept the engine running.
He's looking both ways to see what's coming.
The yellow flags must be out to warn the other drivers.
So Nanini is...and he's kept his engine running.
Very important in this temperature to keep the turbo engine running,
because it may never start.
So we're back, live action here, of course, and back to Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Berger's extended his lead a little bit, but Cross has still got him very much in his sights.
Berger crosses the line.
Cross now 2.4 seconds behind.
And Senna only four seconds behind them.
Don't forget what I was saying earlier on about this being a race of attrition.
It's only been running half an hour or so.
There's still nearly one and a half hours to go.
Fuel may yet prove to be a problem for Berger.
Prost may yet prove to be being the canny man,
just keeping Berger in sight and keeping his own fuel reading on the right side.
Don't forget, too, that there's a lot of cars going to drop out of this race already.
Albreto is out. Modena has spun off twice.
Larori is out of the race. Palmer is out.
Bootson has spun. Nanini has spun.
It's a tough, hard circuit here at Adelaide.
The drivers are changing up, changing down, braking, accelerating all the time.
There is absolutely no remission for them.
And now on the 20th lap, which is just under one quarter distance.
Three quarters of the race still to run.
Gerhard Berger is still two and a half seconds ahead of Prost,
who is four seconds ahead of Senna,
but two McLarens second and third.
And doesn't that make a change?
There is the pit signal, and in fourth position it is still Piquet.
But getting closer to Piquet all the time is Patrese in fifth place.
Getting closer to Patrese is Mansell in sixth position.
In seventh place, Capelli.
Warwick is eighth. Capelli is ninth.
Di Cisaris is tenth.
Streff is eleventh.
And Bootson, in spite of the spin, is twelfth.
And this is now developing into what would appear to be a very tactical race indeed
for the leading turbocharged cars.
Remember, of course, that they can adjust their boost,
which adjusts according to their fuel consumption.
And it would appear that the three leading drivers,
Berger, Prost and Senna, have got into a bit of a game of cat and mouse with each other
because they're varying their speed almost from lap to lap.
I have the advantage here of looking at the printout of their lap times each lap.
And there's no way that with the variation we're getting amongst them
that there's a little bit of a slide there on Prost on entry.
The back is a little bit loose as he turned in.
And Prost doesn't like the car to be handing loose at the back.
But they're certainly changing their power settings from lap to lap,
and that would be in response to their readout, of course.
They know at all times they can see what they've got there.
You see now 2.9 seconds behind Berger and 4.5 seconds ahead of Senna.
And as Gerhard Berger sets up a new faster slap at the front,
1 minute 21.9 seconds.
This is the last Grand Prix after years of dominance by the turbos for the turbos.
Are they going out at the top with a glorious victory?
There's still a long way to wait for that because now in fourth position
it's still a turbocharged car, that of Riccardo Petrezzi,
as you see Berger.
And as you can see, Berger is still the fastest on the circuit,
166.154 kmph, and that's 103 mph.
Prost second, then the second McLaren,
and there is now something like 9 seconds between Berger, the leader,
and Ayrton Senna in third position, and there is the Brazilian.
Yes, and behind Nelson Piquet there's now both Williams threatening.
Mansell has re-caught teammate Riccardo Petrezzi.
Petrezzi is still behind Piquet, trying to find a way round,
but as yet not looking very much as if he's going to because, of course,
of the power advantage that the turbo has when it gets onto the straights.
Berger still just inching away from Alain Prost up front,
and now 3.4 seconds clear.
Now there's Senna, who's back in third place,
nearly six seconds behind Prost,
and Senna has been further away than that.
Then he got the gap down to about four seconds,
and now as the leading pair heated up their battle,
Senna's dropped back a bit again.
The three cars I'm talking about, as I say that,
because Nelson Piquet in fourth position is only separated by 1.7 seconds
from Nigel Mansell, who is in sixth position.
So we've got a bunch of three cars at the front,
and there's the third of those three, Ayrton Senna in third position,
chasing his teammate there, Alain Prost second,
with Berger leading, as you see, Ginzana in third,
and then Nelson Piquet has got right behind him,
the two leading three and a half litre cars,
and there's Piquet going through, there is Patrese,
and that was Mansell, and here they are,
coming down the Brabham straight, fourth, fifth and sixth together.
Jonathan Palmer, you're not getting a lot of luck these days, what happened?
Well, they just came out of the hairpin here before the start-finish line straight,
and I think it must have torn a team-fighter from William Pidion,
who's lost all the drive through the transmission,
and of course that was terminal.
Boy, if you had a duck out of town, OK, thanks, Jonathan.
He'll be able to lead the two Williams' down the straight,
so he may well, just by holding his line, taking it steadily through the corners,
to ensure not to make any sort of mistake that would let them through,
he could fin them off for quite a long time.
Now we get to the twisty bit of the circuit,
and this is where the Williams will be able to reel in the gorgeous Honda.
Smart Thurman, Patrese's car just bottoming over the bumps,
and the circuit is really just to add to the driver's misery physically,
because it is very hard work, it's pretty bumpy.
Mansell twitching a bit.
And now we're starting to come to the faster part of the circuit,
and this is where Piquet, once they get out of the straight,
will be able to stretch the longer legs of the turbo Honda engine.
And you see, although the Williams cars can follow him round easily enough,
there really isn't a point on the circuit as yet that I've seen
where they look like standing any real chance of getting past Piquet
so long as he makes no errors.
There are a lot of lasts in this race, and you're looking at a couple of them now.
The last race for Nelson Piquet with a Honda engine,
and the last race for Nigel Mansell in a Williams before he joins Ferrari.
So Piquet fighting for that fourth place for Patrese,
and they're coming up to the S's now,
and the twisty bits at Wakefield turn, East Terrace bend, Flinders bend.
This is where the nimble Williams with its giant 3.5-litre engine
and no throttle lag could start to catch Nelson Piquet.
The best Piquet has done this season is two third places.
He will want to improve on that here, the last Grand Prix of 1988.
He's certainly responding to the pressure from behind
as Nelson has just put up his fastest lap of the race so far.
And Alessandro Nannini has gone into the pits.
Lap 25, Berger leading by three seconds,
Pross second still, and he is seven seconds ahead of Senna.
As you look at the battle for fourth place, Piquet, Patrese, Mansell,
Lotus, Williams, Williams going into the right-hander at racetrack hairpin.
Behind them it is Capelli, seventh.
Di Cesaris is in eighth position, and that's excellent.
The Italian in the real is up into eighth position after a good practice.
Thierry Bootson has recovered from his spin, is in ninth position.
Ahead of Derrick Warico is tenth.
Caffe is eleventh.
Streff is in twelfth position.
Then Nakajima is thirteenth.
Fourteenth is Pierluigi Martini.
Johansson is fifteenth.
Then Gujjimin Civa Nannini because of the spin has dropped to eighteenth.
Salah is nineteenth, and René Arnoux in the Ligier is twentieth,
and they are all still on the same lap.
With Gerhard Berger the fastest lap so far, one minute twenty-one point nine.
And the Victoria Park part of the circuit,
the horse racing part of the circuit.
They go in there, and that's Arnoux taking Berger.
Arnoux's done it yet again.
He's done it yet again, and into the lead goes Prost.
Where's Senna going up into second place?
René Arnoux, the man with the widest car of the course,
and the man who continually does this has taken the leader, Berger, out of the race.
And a man who has no business to be in Grand Prix racing with the standards of his driving,
and he's ruined the race for us.
We had a wonderful race on our hands, and look at it again, Berger is quite clearly lapping him.
He's coming down the inside. Arnoux takes not the blindest bit of notice,
takes the front corner off the Ferrari, and that really is a disaster
because we had a tremendous race on our hands, tremendous tactics going on up front,
and now Prost has been handed the lead.
Now the marshals now got the unpleasant task of removing those two stricken cars,
getting them off the track, and they're not quite so easy to handle when they've got all bitter and twisted suspension,
as you see there.
And what a terrible shame that René Arnoux, who really has had long enough in Grand Prix racing
to prove that he's got no business in it, that he can interfere and ruin the race for all of us.
Now Prost is going through the traffic there.
Well, that is René Arnoux's 130th Grand Prix, and it is the one that frankly brings him nothing but shame.
He has, as James says, completely destroyed what was showing every sign of being a magnificent race.
The question now is, is Alain Prost going to win for the seventh time this year,
or can Ayrton Senna catch him and make it his ninth Grand Prix victory?
It looks like now, even at this stage of the race, and we are on lap 26 out of 82,
like another McLaren 1-2, and that would be the 12th of the year.
Yes, very much so, because they've already got a big lead over Nelson Piquet,
who of course has now moved up to third place, courtesy of, yes, Senna is now some 19 seconds ahead of Piquet,
so there's no threat for the two McLarens behind, but there is some threat to Alain Prost,
who throughout this season has found lapping the back markers a lot more difficult than Ayrton Senna has managed to.
Prost is a lot more wary and a lot more cautious, and they're in amongst the traffic now.
They'll be lapping cars for the rest of the race, and throughout the season that has always worked to Senna's advantage.
Senna is closer to Prost than he was three or four laps ago.
He's only four and a half seconds behind him right now.
Now, there is one thing that might just be a joker in the packet,
and Senna that you are looking at now damaged his right wrist playing football in Bali
between the Japanese Grand Prix and coming here to Australia.
He's had that wrist quite heavily strapped up during practice, protesting that it really didn't bother him very much,
but that was in a situation where he was not having to drive a grueling two-hour race.
On the other hand, now he will know that Berger is out of the race.
Incidentally, Modena is not out of the race, despite the fact that he has spun twice.
I see him there in front of Senna, so he's very much in the running.
And Ayrton Senna, with the knowledge that he could still here in Adelaide achieve
that 13th win of the year, that 9th win of the year, sorry, 13 bowls, the 9th win of the year,
and that would add to his point score.
At the present moment, Ayrton Senna has 87 scoring points in the championship.
That is Ginzani, who has clearly spun again and is rejoining the circuit.
Now, Ayrton Senna, if he won this race, would be able to add more points.
He's got to drop a score, which would be a fourth place, three points,
so he could add six points to his already record score and finish up with an incredible 93 points.
But not if that man, Alain Prost, can stop him.
Prost leading the race, second in the championship, place one, plus four on Ayrton Senna,
or he was on the previous lap.
Prost goes across the line, followed by Ayrton Senna now.
The gap is increasing.
Alain Prost is now five seconds ahead of Ayrton Senna, who is in second place.
And as we have seen so many times this season, in fact, 14 times this season out of 15 races,
the McLarens are dominating the event.
Nelson Piquet now goes through.
And Nakajima is between Nelson Piquet.
He's been lapped. Satoru Nakajima is between Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Patrese and Mansell.
And will, I have no doubt, not be making it too easy for the two Williams cars to get ahead of him
with the knowledge that if they do so, they could close up on and pass his teammate.
Because Piquet is now in third position.
In fact, the order on lap 29 out of 82, Prost is leading Senna by five seconds.
Senna is leading Piquet in third place by 20 seconds.
Patrese is one second behind Piquet in fourth place.
Mansell is fifth, 1.7 seconds behind Patrese.
And Capelli, Ivan Capelli in the March Judd has slowly made his way up and up and up.
From ninth position to sixth he is in now.
He's in a point scoring position.
And I remind you that Ivan Capelli is the man who finished a magnificent second in Portugal
and actually for a few hundred yards led the Japanese Grand Prix,
the first time that a three and a half litre engine car had done so for four years.
And you're looking now at Piquet, Patrese and Mansell.
Yes, Piquet seems to be controlling that little battle pretty effectively from the front.
Using the turbo advantage very well indeed because really the two Williams's,
although I'm sure they could go a bit quicker if they could get past him,
they just don't seem to be able to get close enough to pose any real threat at the moment.
Now, if Ayrton Senna has got, if Nelson Piquet has got a fuel plus, he's alright.
But now Mansell, you can see, is getting very close to Riccardo Patrese.
Looking down on this magnificent Adelaide circuit with its flu-perfect facilities,
excellent road surface, magnificent organisation.
It really is a demonstration of the way to do it.
And Mansell exits the right-hander of Brewery Bend.
It looks to me just every bit as quick as Patrese.
But hats off to Riccardo Patrese.
He really has come alive in the last two or three races.
And Mansell in his last race for Williams will not want to be beaten by his team-mate.
And the fact that Mansell and Patrese are fighting each other for their fifth position
is giving Piquet the opportunity to ease out the gap between himself and the Italian.
Yes, and Mansell's starting to look impatient behind Riccardo Patrese.
And I would think that Mansell would like to be saying to Riccardo,
OK, you've had a go at trying to get past Piquet, let me pass and I'll see what I can do.
Alain Prost has lapped everybody up to the 16th place man at the moment,
and that is Alessandro Nanini.
It's not a happy race for the Benetton team.
They did not do all that well in practice by their standards.
Thierry Bootson starting 10th on the grid and Alessandro Nanini starting 8th.
And now Bootson is in 8th position.
And Nanini of course is well down on account of that very heavy spin that he had earlier on.
But still, the battle of the race at the moment is Piquet, Patrese, Mansell, third, fourth, fifth.
There is the Englishman and here are all three of them.
The leader, Alain Prost, goes through to complete his 32nd lap.
And the gap between him and Ayrton Senna now is 6.2 seconds.
Geha, that's terrible luck, what happened?
I break out one of the, I think it was Larari or Modena.
And I thought René Arnoux had seen me and I had some brake problems too because it was very hot.
So he turns in and I had no chance to brake anymore.
And he just over my front wheel.
So sad, OK, sorry Geha.
The gentleman and sportsman that he is, he controlled himself because he must have been absolutely shatteringly disappointed and angered by that stupidity from René Arnoux.
That lack of any apparent, he seems to be in a world of his own, taking no interest in the fact that he is being left by somebody who is leading the race.
So Prost, still looking very controlled.
Prost has just done his fastest lap of the race.
He's now broken the 1.22 barrier.
And he's 6 seconds, just over 6 seconds ahead of Ayrton Senna.
Prost's fastest lap, 1.21.9, compares with Berger's lap record last year with 4-bar boost, 1.20.4.
So Prost is 1.5 seconds off the lap record, but with at least 200 horsepower less than Berger had last year.
And Alain Prost is coming up now behind Nanini, who slows up and lets him through.
And that was the exact point where yesterday Nanini hit the wall very hard indeed.
And further down the field, we've got a tremendous battle raging for 9th place.
Derek Warwick holds 9th place, but climbing all over the back of him are Alex Capé and Philippe Streff.
So, Prost, a bit of traffic in front of him.
Alex Capé looks to me as though he's touring in to retire.
And that is a great pity, because this little Italian seems to get better and better race by race.
And Capé is retiring from 10th position on the 35th lap, as Ayrton Senna there continues to drive along,
rather than have any effect on the lead of his teammate Alain Prost.
Senna in 2nd position, and the gap between Senna 2nd and Prost 1st is 6.2 seconds.
So it's a demonstration race and a very effective demonstration.
There is Alex Capé, he is indeed out of the race, parked beside the wall.
Those blocks are put in position on what are basically everyday streets.
Well, not basically, there are everyday streets in Adelaide during the rest of the year.
And now Mansell is in a challenging position for that 4th position which is held by Riccardo Petrezzi.
Now, Riccardo Petrezzi is a man who in the past has been accused of being unnecessarily obstructive,
who seemed to have overcome that habit, who in one or two occasions recently showed he got it again.
I wonder if he's going to defer to Mansell, knowing that he, Petrezzi, will be with Williams next year,
when they are using the Renault V10 engine, and that Mansell will not be his teammate any longer.
I suspect that not for one second will he defer.
Don't worry, leopards don't change their spots, I've always believed.
And I'm quite sure Mansell expects it to be very difficult to get past him.
He's now showing that he's certainly keen to do it, and Mansell seems to lose a little bit on the streets.
Now, René Arnoux, you just had a contre-tom with Gerhard Berger,
and everybody says that you are very difficult to pass.
Why, can you tell us what happened?
I am really sorry because I have another car in the back of my car,
and I turn in and I don't see Gerhard.
I am really sorry for Gerhard because he was first at this time,
and I don't know why.
I turn in because I don't see the Ferrari car.
So you didn't actually see him in your mirrors, but everybody says it's so difficult to pass René Arnoux.
It's really difficult to pass every driver, I think, in Cameroula,
but Gerhard won laps for me.
If you see some race before, when the leader of the race is in the back of my car, I...
Any sort of misunderstanding of having to lift just as you're coming out of a corner
will give the others the chance to get alongside.
Very well up front, Alain Prost has now put up the fastest lap of the race with a 21.7.
Piquet uses the power of the turbo to get past, and he gets a little bit of a breather.
That provides a little cushion before the two Williams's.
Philippe Alliot at the wheel. Incidentally, Yannick Dalmas, Philippe Alliot's teammate, is not here in Japan.
The unfortunate man has Legionnaire's disease, failed to drive in the Japanese Grand Prix
with what was thought to be an ear problem, turned out to be Legionnaire's disease.
His place in practice, and through past goes Patrese, so Patrese is now ahead of Alliot
and can take up the battle with Piquet.
And I was telling you about Dalmas, his place was taken during practice by Pierre-Audrey Raffanel,
the French Formula 3000 driver, who got off the plane on Thursday, only the day before practice began,
never having even sat in a Formula One car, did extremely well, but just failed to qualify for his first Grand Prix,
which certainly would have been a very tough one here at Adelaide, a nearly two-hour race.
So the order is resumed. Well, the order didn't change, but they were interrupted by Alliot,
and on lap 37, it is Prost leading by a comfortable seven seconds.
There he is from his teammate Ayrton Senna, then there is quite a long gap before, in third position,
the gap is 35 seconds, Piquet goes through with Patrese and Mansell, fourth and fifth, right behind him.
Capelli is in sixth position, and he is some 14 seconds behind Mansell.
Di Cesaris is out of the points in seventh place, Bootsen is eighth, Warwick is ninth,
tenth is Philippe Streff, eleventh is Martini, then in twelfth position is Stephane Johansen in the Ligier,
the only one left now that Arnoux has disgraced himself, and a Ligier hasn't been as high up in the field as that for a long time,
but Stephane Johansen has been lapped, Gougemin in the second march is in thirteenth place,
Civer is fourteenth, Nanini fifteenth, Salah sixteenth, Modena seventeenth, in spite of his double spin,
Philippe Alio is eighteenth, and Nakajima is nineteenth, as you see,
Eddie Cheever there, being caught by Nanini, and they are respectively in fourteenth and fifteenth places.
That's one of the Europarans, that's Modena that you're looking at now, the ex-Formula 3000 European champion.
Piquet, well Nelson Piquet at the present moment looks as though he might be on his way to his third, third place in 1988,
having finished in that position in Brazil and San Marino, and Piquet in terms of the championship is in sixth position,
so the four points that he would get would be very welcome, wouldn't make any difference I think,
although Michele Albreto, who is the man ahead of him in the championship in fifth position,
is of course out of this race and will not be scoring any points.
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We're back for more coverage of the Australian Grand Prix. Alan Frost is now leading as you know.
Ertusena is second, Piquet is third, Patrese is fourth, Nigel Manso still struggling with fifth, Ivan Capelli's got into the pits with sixth.
Now the car's out of the race. Albrecht is out, Larari is out, the Jonathan Palmer is out, Berger, Arnaud and Cathy.
The accidents involving Albrecht, Berger and Arnaud have brought no injuries at all.
There's been quite a few spins. We'll go straight back to Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Piquet goes through to complete the lap still in third position and Nigel Manso is being drawn away from by Riccardo Patrese.
When they start the next lap, it will be the 41st lap in this 82 lap and a half distance.
But I say again, this Australian Grand Prix of 1988 is far from finished.
Last year only eight drivers were classified as finishers.
It's a tremendously demanding circuit. There are at the present moment 19 drivers out of the 26 who started, effectively still running.
Because Albrecht is out, Larari is out, Palmer is out and so to our misery, our Berger, and not to our misery actually, René Arnaud who took Berger off in an absolutely outrageous move.
But Patrese has taken up the cudgels again. You can see now how close the Italian is to the Brazilian Nelson Piquet in the yellow Lotus Honda.
Incidentally, we have news today that Satoru Nakajima, the Japanese driver, has re-signed for Lotus in 1989.
Lotus will be using Judd Engine, so it's the same team next year for Lotus as it has been this year. This man, number one, three times world champion Nelson Piquet and his Japanese teammate Satoru Nakajima.
And the gap between Nelson Piquet in third position and Nigel Manso in fifth is one and a half seconds. It's amazingly consistent.
The fastest lap of the race is that of Ayrton Senna, one minute 21.668. That is exactly 1.2 seconds outside.
Gerhard Berger's 1987 lap record of one minute 20.4, a speed of 105.1 miles an hour.
And you're looking at Piquet on the left, third position. Patrese in the basically white Williams in fourth place. And Nigel Manso thundering along in the background.
Another item of news while you're watching this battle, third, fourth and fifth, is that Bernie Eppelstein, the head man of Fokker, has admitted that he has sold all the share capital of the FRABAM organization to Walter Brunn, the Swiss slot machine magnet, who is the money behind the Eurobrunn team.
And FRABAM will next year be racing with, it is understood, Judd Engines. Who the drivers will be, I have the faintest idea.
There we see on the caption a new fastest lap for Alain Prost. So the two McLaren drivers trading fastest laps as their fuel load lightens. And the gap now, eight and a half seconds for Prost to Senna. Senna lost a little bit in traffic over the last couple of laps.
And although Senna is fighting hard, it does look to me as, and making Prost work all the way, it does look to me as if Prost is pretty much in control today.
And in less than ten minutes, a very sad Gerhard Berger will be getting into a helicopter to leave for his home in Virgil in Austria at the end of an Australian Grand Prix, which he might well have won for the second year in succession.
We haven't heard any more about the rain. Hopefully it was just a few spots of rain. But we do know that Salah, the Spanish driver, has stopped. So that looks like another retirement here in Australia.
And believe me, there are going to be a lot more, because there is as much of this race still left to run, almost as has already been run.
That graphic gives you the relative positions of the first four men. And you can see that visually there is something now like half a lap between Prost, the leader, and the battle between Piquet and Patrese.
Which showed momentarily that Patrese was ahead of Piquet there, but I think that that was just the graphic. Because Alain Prost on lap 44 now out of 82 is building up his lead over this man, Ayrton Senna, all the time.
Senna, the very worthy world champion of 1988 with eight victories. And even if Prost wins this race, which he shows every sign of doing, Senna will still have won four races than Prost.
And that is the way the world champion should be decided, the man who gets the most points from winning the most races. But Prost is on his way at the moment to his seventh Grand Prix win.
He is nine seconds ahead of Ayrton Senna. And then it continues to be the battle between Piquet, Patrese, who is the leading three and a half litre car driver in fourth position, Mansell fifth, Capelli sixth.
Seventh is Di Cesaris, almost in the points as he has been once before this season. Thierry Bootson is eighth and catching Di Cesaris.
Ninth is Philippe Streppe and that's his best performance so far this year. The Frenchman in the AGS. Tenth is Derek Warwick. Eleventh is Martini.
Twelfth is still Johansson in eleventh position. It is Martini. Sorry. Twelfth is Johansson. Thirteenth is Gujumin. Fourteenth is Cheever. Fifteenth is Nanini.
Sixteenth place it is Modena. Modena. And here is Andrea Di Cesaris going on the inside of Capelli. Yes, he's been hounding Capelli for some laps now.
And so that means that Di Cesaris moves up into sixth place. One of his best races for quite a long time and he's got quite a lot of amends to make up after his rather ridiculous performance in Japan.
When he in the middle of the race slowed right down to remonstrate with a back marker he considered had done the dirty on him and drove them both to a virtual halt.
And meanwhile two people who were behind him nipped past and he lost two places that he never regained. So that was pretty much his comeuppance for that.
But in fairness to him on this day he's driving a very good race. Yes, it was the unfortunate Aguri Suzuki having his Grand Prix baptism who was crowded off the course by Di Cesaris.
But now hats off to the Italian actually as I said earlier on when he goes he goes jolly well. The trouble is he goes off too often in the process.
But he's looking strong at the moment. He had a fourth place in Detroit. The best place he had next to that was a ninth position in Canada.
And this is another last as you watch Piquet in third position on the in the yellow Lotus chased by Petrezzi.
The other last is that of Di Cesaris because it's his last race in the German Rial team before he joins Dallara.
And into the pits comes Nakajima. Now Nakajima was in 18th position. It's a tire stop. We didn't expect that actually.
The Goodyear technicians were pretty confident that unless the drivers scrubbed their tires through spinning, which of course is exactly what Nanini has done, they would all be able to go through nonstop.
So it's not a criticism of the tire. It's the misfortune of the driver to have lost it and probably flat spotted his tires.
Maurizio Gujumin chased by Nakajima who has just come out of the pits. They're both. There's Piquet catching Modena to lap the man who is in 16th place.
Stefano Modena 16th in the Eurobron and in this twisty section, unless Piquet can get through and he has, I was going to say this would get Petrezzi in fourth place and Mansell fifth position.
The opportunity to close up. Modena sticks his hand out of the cockpit to say, pass me on my right. Thank you, Stefano says Ricciardo. Thank you, Stefano says Nigel.
They both go third, four, fifth. Piquet, Petrezzi, Mansell. No change. No change in the front. Prost and Senna. Di Cesar is sixth. Capelli down to seventh.
Bootsen is still eighth, but eight seconds now behind Capelli and Capelli's probably got an overheating problem. I know that was worrying the March team potentially.
And another faster step for Alain Prost and his lead is now mounted into double figures over at Senna. Just under 11 seconds. 21.559 for Alain Prost.
There we see it on the caption. And he seems to be getting more and more on top in his private battle with Senna today.
If Alain Prost wins this race, which he's certainly showing every sign of doing, it would not only be his seventh Grand Prix victory of 1988, it would be.
And hello, there is Nakajima. They know very, very bent Lotus. So Satoru Nakajima, who went, I suspect that his trouble would have been cold tires and he hit Maurizio Gujumim.
So Nakajima came out of the pits on cold tires. What do you mean cold tires? What I mean is that the temperature would not be as high as it would be in racing conditions.
Here's a replay. So you see the Minardi spinning. You see that Nakajima had got nowhere to go and that Gujumim hit him.
So as the Japanese exits his car, I expect we'll be seeing that again later and we'll be able to give you a fuller description of what happened, that it was certainly one of the Minardi's.
I didn't spot which one, to be quite honest with you. Just a minute. It was Martini. Luigi Martini who spun. Here it is. There's Gujumim and Piquet.
There is Martini spinning in front of Johansson. So Martini spins. Johansson avoids it. Gujumim is hit by Nakajima and it's goodbye mum from the Japanese and the Swedish driver.
Johansson may yet regain. I didn't see how badly damaged his car was, but that's certainly Gujumim out.
And now we have Albreto out, Larari out, Palmer out, Berger out, Arnoux out, Sala out, Nakajima out and Gujumim out.
And I say again there are going to be more because the longer this race goes and although it is not as hot as it was yesterday when we had temperatures in the mid 90s, some 37 degrees centigrade,
it is still very, very warm out there. The cockpit temperatures will be very high indeed. And in this race, on this circuit, a race which is going to last nearly two hours and where the drivers are constantly changing direction, braking, accelerating, they get very, very tired indeed.
Senna over the line now. He has now completed 49 laps. He's now 11 seconds behind the indomitable Alain Prost.
There is Piquet in front of Ginzani who has been lapped in the Zakspeed. Piquet is making better use of the traffic, I must say, that Patrese and Mansell are able to because Piquet seems to be hitting it at just the right time.
Mansell attacking Patrese coming out of Foster's hairpin. Patrese in fourth place being pushed very hard indeed by Nigel Mansell. Two cars of equal specification and ability. Three and a half litre Williams-Jug.
Yes, and Mansell has every lap closed up very sharply at Foster's hairpin under braking and I think that's where he's going to have to line up his attack. His problem there though is that the entrance to the corner is very narrow and it shouldn't be too difficult for Patrese to defend his position unless Nigel can sell him a dummy.
And in case you're wondering what that bit of technical jargon means, it means that I'm pretending I'm going to go this way when in fact I bob round the other way. And Nigel's very capable of doing that.
Cheever then passing, coming out of the slipstream and going through in the arrows. And Patrese indulging in a little weaving there. Racetrack hairpin. That is a second gear corner. Now they're into the Victoria Park. That's the horse racing track on the left of the drivers. You can't see it.
They're going to go into the right hander at Foster's now. And Mansell is getting into a position. Now they've got Warwick, Cheever and Nanini. But now in front of Piquet who is followed by Patrese and Mansell. Warwick and Nanini and Cheever.
So the third, fourth and fifth cars that you're looking at. Piquet third, Patrese fourth, Mansell fifth are bearing down on three cars to lap them. And if there isn't a position change somewhere by the time they have done so, I would be rather surprised.
Now there is Warwick with Cheever behind him. Chased by Nanini. Warwick is in 12th place. Cheever is 13th. Nanini is 14th. They're about to be lapped by Nelson Piquet who is third. And Nanini takes Warwick. Tucks in behind Cheever.
So Nanini has moved up a place. Piquet is past Warwick. But still the two arrows, I was going to say are ahead of Patrese, they're not because Patrese takes Warwick. Now he's got Nanini who is about to lap.
Piquet is showing all his experience. The three times world champion Nelson Piquet who is in his 157th Grand Prix is showing all his experience. And look at the gap now that there is.
Just a bit greater than it was before as Piquet on the start and finish straight passes Eddie Cheever who tucks in behind the Lotus. Now Patrese has got to get past the arrows on the tricky bit of the circuit coming up to the right hander at Wakefield.
Trying to go through on the inside but Cheever shuts the door. Now the left hander at East Terrace Bend. The right hander of Flindon.
And Mansell closer yet again.
It does just appear to me that when they get out onto the straight for some reason Patrese just seems to have that little bit more power than Mansell. He just stretches the lead every time they get onto the quicker bits of circuit. Now we're turning onto the main straight.
And Mansell although he's behind in the slipstream there for getting the advantage of the hole in the air seems to drop back.
And once again the Australian Grand Prix has shown us as Mansell tries to take Patrese on the inside. Once again the Australian Grand Prix is showing us how tremendously competitive Grand Prix racing.
And what happens Patrese spins. That's it. Patrese has at last been forced by Nigel Mansell into making a mistake and I'm quite sure that that is what Nigel was trying to make happen all the time.
And Nigel Mansell goes up into fourth place. Can he do anything about Nelson Piquet?
Yes I quite agree with you Mario. That was just a relentless pressure from Mansell. Finally forced the error from Patrese. Here you are. You see Patrese just gets it a little bit wide on the entrance. He's not quite on the line. It's a bit slippery off line and the back just flips around on him.
Harmless spin but well harmless to the car and to Patrese but harmful to his position in the race.
But he has managed to regain the circuit. That's one of the good things about that kind of exit to a corner.
Prost goes through and Prost has now completed 53 laps. We have a new fourth place man and you are looking at him at this moment. It is Nigel Mansell. Senna is still 11 seconds behind Alain Prost.
There is the race leader who is on lap 54 in this 82 lap race demonstrating that his title of the professor. He has an alternative one of the terrorist because he is a man to be very worried about.
And Alain Prost is now well on his way to his seventh Grand Prix of win of 1988. Leading Ayrton Senna by 10.8 seconds and the interest is not so much between Prost and Senna as between Piquet in third place and Mansell in fourth position who is catching him.
Who is only 1.7 seconds behind as Prost goes on the inside of Warwick and that is what should have happened at that corner when Berger came through to pass Arnoux.
Yes indeed, a real shame for the race for our afternoon's entertainment because I'm sure there was a lot of battling to do between Berger and Prost had that battle been allowed to continue.
So Prost, through for another lap and really appearing very much to be controlling his gap to Senna. He got it up to 10 seconds and it's been hovering between 10 and 11 seconds for some time now.
He certainly looks quite comfortable. So Warwick in for tires but he's got a problem with working around the back of the car so I think he's probably got some sort of engine trouble.
Yes, Arrows have had an enormous amount of engine trouble during practice, especially actually Eddie Cheever rather than Derek Warwick.
But Warwick's place is slipping away and of course being in the pit as long as that is doing his chances in the race absolutely no good at all. He was in 16th position.
But now here is Prost, there is Senna and Prost has already lapped Thierry Bootson. Cheever is out of the race to join the retirees and now in this Australian Grand Prix in terms of effective runners there are just 16 of them left which means to say that 10 of them are out of the race.
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We're back here in Adelaide for the Grand Prix of Australia.
Fast and furious it is with Alan Frost still leading his team mate, Ayrton Senna. Nelson Piquet the defending world champion is third.
Patrese is fourth.
Mansell is fifth.
Di Cesaris is now sixth.
And that's the order. The cars out of this race.
There's been quite a few of them out so far and there they are.
Al Baretta's out.
Larone's out.
Palmer's out.
Berger.
Arnoux of course they came in contact.
Cathy and Salak went out.
Nakajima and Gugelman they had an accident.
And Eddie Cheever the young American born in Phoenix Arizona living in Monte Carlo he's out of the race as well.
That's ten cars in total.
Of course it has been an exciting Grand Prix.
The main issue of this Grand Prix so far and controversial it is is the incident that happened and here it is in replay.
Gerhard Berger came alongside the blue car of Arnoux.
He moved right over on him.
The car climbed upside there.
It could easily have gone upside down.
A classic accident.
Renny Arnoux known to be very difficult to pass.
Unfortunately doesn't use his rear view mirrors correctly.
Caused what I would say is a tragedy to this race in a way because it was building up to something absolutely wonderful.
And I think the Honda engine McClarence would have been having a tough job to keep up with Berger.
However that was not to be.
We'll go back to our commentary group here and that of course is Murray Walker and James Hunt.
James Hunt.
No frost despite the fact his lead is now 12.4 seconds over Ayrton Senna.
He's not letting up at all.
And as he goes into race track hairpin you probably just saw Ayrton Senna going round the right hand at a brewery bend.
So there is the full length of the Brabham Strait otherwise known as De Ketterville Terrace in Adelaide.
When the Australian Grand Prix is not being held.
And that represents in time just over 12 seconds lap 58.
Frost ahead of Capelli.
And the Italian who a lot of people thought might win including I must be honest myself.
Is in seventh place and has been lapped by Frost but not yet by Senna.
Frost through Senna through Nicky Lauda who is over here with Lauda Air.
He's just got Australia onto the roots of his Austrian airline which is doing very nicely.
Thank you.
And he's seeing his first Grand Prix for the whole of 1988.
Says it hasn't changed all that much.
Ayrton Senna second position.
And while you're looking at Senna we are looking for Mansell and Piquet.
And now Mansell there he is.
Look at this.
You could be seeing a change for third position any moment now.
Because Mansell is getting closer and closer and closer to Nelson Piquet.
This is the battle for third position.
And they're approaching the part of the course where the nimbleness of the Williams could help Mansell.
Yes and also the fact that there is a back marker in front of them and they're coming up to lap.
And that's where I think Nigel will be pinning his hopes.
Remember that these two had a coming together in the Japanese Grand Prix when Mansell was charging.
Came upon Piquet who had had several incidents and dramas already in the race.
And they had a right-o tangle and Nigel got launched right up in the air.
Now onto the straight but this is where Piquet could use the extra power of the Honda Turbo.
And Piquet would very much like to get a cut, get some breathing space through.
But Mansell's going through so Mansell's still chasing.
But not close enough to have a go at Prost's hairpin.
I don't think on this lap because that's where he got very close on the previous lap.
Under braking here.
And now Prost has again broken his previous fastest lap time.
It's now one minute, 21.2 seconds.
And that is only eight tenths of a second off Gerhard Berger's lap record last year.
And this is the excitement of the race.
We should also remember that Nigel Mansell with the three and a half litre Judd engine and unlimited fuel.
Will have absolutely no fuel problem at all.
He can force as hard as the engine will let him.
With the knowledge that he's got ample fuel to finish the race.
Whereas Nelson Piquet certainly can't. I know that the Honda engineers and technicians were worried about the ability of the McLarens and the Lotus cars.
To finish this race on the 150 litres of fuel that they are allowed.
If they were being forced.
Well Prost and Senna won't be having any problem.
But Piquet might well be.
The Lotus chassis does not handle as well as the McLaren chassis.
And for all I know and obviously I don't because I'm not in the cockpit.
Piquet may have been having to use boost on occasions where neither Prost nor Senna had to.
In which case in the closing stages of the race.
He may have to back off in which case too.
Nigel Mansell would be through up into third place.
To be on the podium for the third time in the three races that he would have finished.
However that is all hypothesis.
This is fact.
Piquet has completed another lap as has Mansell.
They are on their 61st.
Yes it looks very much to me as if Mansell is going to have to force a mistake out of Nelson Piquet.
Either that or Piquet is going to have to have some sort of a tangle with a back marker.
Or get held up by a back marker anyway.
Because quite frankly the nature of the circuit.
Means that the only places where Mansell would have a chance are preceded immediately by good long straights.
And the Lotus Honda can get away from the normally aspirated Williams.
And really Nigel is just going to have to keep pressuring away and try and get a mistake.
Derrick Worry the end of a terrible week for you. What happened?
Well the warm up this morning we had a misfire with the engine and we thought we cured it.
And at the start of the race I jumped in the spare car.
But that also had a problem.
So I got back to my race car and we just had a misfire for the whole race.
And eventually it kept cutting out and it was just a danger.
So I didn't want to cause an accident out there so I just parked it.
Okay thank you Derrick.
It is incidentally Andrea de Cesaris that Prost is catching to lap.
And Andrea de Cesaris is in sixth position.
Now I say I wonder if Senna has some sort of a problem.
God because with no disrespect to Prost I say again.
It surprises me that Ayrton is as far behind his team mate in an identical car.
In a race and on a circuit that I would have expected to suit him very well.
Particularly bearing in mind that there is no pressure on either of them for the World Championship.
That has been resolved.
Alain Prost has now gone through and completed his 62nd lap.
He therefore has 20 laps now to go between himself and his 7th Grand Prix victory of 1988.
There's Piquet. That's Mansell in fourth position.
And Piquet has eased out a little advantage over the Englishman.
So he would seem not to be worried about his fuel.
The thing is about a race in this stage.
Very often the drivers are grappling with a problem.
Like they have a clutch problem or they are missing gears or the tyres are going off.
All sorts of things.
For instance Gujumin in Japan had his water bottle in the cockpit break loose.
And it was interfering with the pedals.
And he was having to stamp on the water bottle in an effort to break it and let the water out.
So that he could operate the pedals without being encumbered.
Now we couldn't possibly have known that looking at the car from the outside.
All that we knew was that Gujumin wasn't going as fast as we would have expected him to.
But Nigel Mansell is certainly dropping back.
You can see that there is more than one and a half seconds between him and Nelson Piquet now.
As Prost goes through to complete yet another lap.
There is still just about half a lap on the circuit between Prost in the lead on his 64th lap.
And Nigel Mansell who has yet to come round and complete his 63rd.
But when Mansell went through last time.
The gap was about one and a half seconds between himself and Nelson Piquet in third position.
There is one of them, there is Capelli coming into the pits now.
Now where is Piquet and where is Nigel Mansell as Ivan Capelli who was in seventh position.
And will now lose it I think.
Goes into the pits for a tyre change.
Up go the mechanics hands.
Out goes Ivan Capelli for a reasonable but not exceptional stop.
And he is having trouble getting away.
Now there he is going into race track hairpin.
And this is the reason that he stopped very obviously.
Yes he is spinning.
I wouldn't have thought it.
Flat spotted tyres with a gentle half spin like that.
But anyway he bursts out of the pit lane.
You can see that there was rubber crumb on the exit of the pit lane.
And there will be a lot of that all round the circuit.
Colloquially known as marbles.
Because if you get on them you can spin out without any trouble at all.
And now Piquet and Manerprost is on lap 64.
82 lap race.
Senna is dropping further and further and further back.
Now the gap previously was 16 seconds.
And Senna is visibly going much much slower.
The gap is now 21 seconds.
Senna has got some sort of a problem.
Prost is pulling away too much and too fast and too often.
For Senna to be driving a car with no problem whatsoever.
And there was a spin there.
Which was just recovered and Andrea Di Cesaris has just missed it.
And that means to say that Piquet will be a lot closer to Senna.
The gap was 22 seconds.
And I'm still waiting for Piquet to come through.
Well here he is.
Piquet crosses the line as you look at Prost.
Piquet is well ahead of Nigel Mansell now.
So it would seem that the emphasis at the front of the race is changing.
From the ability of Red 5 Nigel Mansell in fourth place to catch Nelson Piquet.
To that of Nelson Piquet to catch Ayrton Senna in second place.
And now we see Alio there in his normally spectacular fashion.
Nearly got the thing stuck on its tummy on the kerb.
It's a very high kerb that.
I think he did a bit of damage to the underneath of the car.
I saw a few bits and pieces falling off it as he bounced it all over that kerb.
But he seemed to get going again.
Yes, Philippe Alio has had more offs this year than you can shake a stick at.
The Frenchman is very spectacular.
And there you see it again.
Right up on the kerb.
Dragging the under tray along.
That won't have done it any good at all.
Of course he had two absolutely gigantic crashes in Monaco and Mexico.
There is Nigel Mansell.
Yes and Senna is definitely going slower.
He's lapping some four seconds slower than he has been.
And he's lost nearly ten seconds in the last two laps to Alain Prost.
So Senna is obviously in some sort of trouble.
And that should fire Piquet up.
He will have got that message from his pit.
Probably on his radio.
You've also seen it on his pit board.
And he is currently 32.7 seconds behind Senna.
So we'll start watching that gap for you.
And that's Nanini.
Nanini stalled on the track.
He's obviously had a spin.
That's at Stag Turn, the entrance to Rundle Road and the run down to Brewery Bend.
Nanini's been doing a lot of this at this meeting.
He put the Benetton very firmly into the wall.
And he's obviously out of the race.
Look at the positioning of the right front wheel in relation to the wing.
So there is yet another retiree.
Nanini out on lap 66.
Having I imagine hit the wall.
I didn't see the whole of that spin.
But there are getting to be less and less as there were last year runners in the Australian Grand Prix.
The 16th and last race of the World Championship Series.
Dominated as ever by McLaren.
But only because Arnoux took Gerhard Berger out of the race.
When the Austrian had a magnificent lead on lap 25.
And completely destroyed the excitement of what was shaping up to be an absolutely magnificent race.
And Senna now, the gap between Senna and Piquet is also coming down.
I say also the gap between Prost and Senna is increasing and off spins Mansell.
So there is a retirement.
Nigel Mansell has again failed to finish in the Australian Grand Prix.
He failed in 1986.
He has given his leg a thump.
He didn't even compete in 1987 of course.
Thanks to going off in practice in Japan.
And it is a very sad finish to Nigel Mansell's career with Williams.
With whom he has won so many races.
Indeed every race that Nigel Mansell has won in his career has been with Williams.
And he is limping away now after 13 victories to finish his Williams career.
What a sad, sad conclusion.
But now his tyres look bad before you see.
And don't forget that he had been pushing Patrese.
Patrese went off and now moves up a place.
Yes he was, appeared to be in a little bit of tyre trouble.
Because he was losing ground to Nelson Piquet.
And probably a bit of over enthusiasm in his efforts to compensate for the lack of grip he was getting for the tyres.
And then finally he just asked too much of the rear.
Spun the car.
And basically threw away at least a fairly comfortable fourth place.
Race order then, lap 68.
It is Alain Prost, 30 seconds ahead of Ayrton Senna.
With Nelson Piquet in third position.
Riccardo Patrese up to fourth position.
Andrea Di Cesaris up to fifth position.
Thierry Bootson is now in sixth place.
Stefan Johansson is an incredible eighth.
I say incredible because of the performance of the Ligier in the rest of this year.
Capelli is ninth, Martini is tenth.
And that will be a very exciting situation for Stefan Johansson.
Because he's got very serious motivation for this race.
Because the Ligier need a seventh place in this race.
In order to get themselves into the top 20 teams or top 20 cars.
Thereby getting free travel on all the overseas races.
And because only the top 20 cars get their air brake paid.
The other teams have to front up the money themselves.
And that in a season is worth something like two million dollars.
So it's big money that Stefan Johansson is working for.
And he just needs to get up one more place.
And there will be mighty celebrations within the Ligier team.
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We're back in Adelaide for the Grand Prix.
You can see the leaderboard there.
Alan Kloss, the Frenchman, still leads here.
Over Ayrton Senna, his own teammate in the same team.
Then Nelson Piquet, a Brazilian just as Senna is, is in third place.
Ricardo Petrezzi after a spin has come up into fourth place again.
Fifth is De Cesaris who's had an incident filled weekend here.
He's been spinning out quite a lot.
And Terry Bootson, he spun this weekend and he had a spin today.
He's come up into sixth position.
We've got quite a lot of retirements involved in this race so far.
Here's a long list of them.
Albrecht O'Leary, Palmer, Berger, Arnaud, Caffey, Salah.
All of them are out.
Nakajima's out.
Guglum and they had a crash together.
Cheever, Nanini, Mansell, Modena and Guzzani.
All of them are out of this race after 70 laps.
The race certainly has been having lots of incidents involved.
Nigel Mansell was in fourth position, lost control completely.
The back end got loose and look at the impact.
Bang, in it goes.
The rear wing certainly shortens that car by quite a lot.
Nigel limped away but he's perfectly all right.
No injuries from today at all.
And there you see Nigel coming out.
I rather think he hit his leg getting out of the car actually
because they are so tight for space.
I don't think it was anything to do with the accident
because it was a rear end accident, not a front end accident.
So there we have it.
The race is still fast and furious.
Don't go away because Grand Prix in my experience,
the race is never over to the checkered flag.
What seems to be a foregone conclusion just now in my books
certainly is not the case.
Let's go back to our commentary team.
Murray Walker with James Hunt.
Berger and Alba Retta in Italy.
And what a famous victory that was.
There's the man who lost that victory, Ayrton Senna,
when controversially he came up to pass Jean-Louis Schleser
in the Williams at the Chicane
at the end of the straight after the Parabolica.
And here is some news that may yet transform this race.
On lap 72 out of the second half,
again as I look up into the sky and some darkening clouds,
we have the news that on the far side of the course
there have been what described as a few spots of rain.
That's what we heard before.
The few spots stopped, they didn't affect the surface,
they might this time.
Yes, the clouds look a bit high to be any real threat
or any threat of real rain, but of course getting little time
to get out of the way.
But of course getting little tiny spots,
if it's just to make the circuit damp,
it makes it very difficult for the drivers
because they can't see very easily just how wet it is.
Now the battle for second and third places
between Senna and Piquet.
Senna has responded, he seems to have found a little bit more speed again
and has certainly for the last lap
has been able to stabilise that gap and hold the difference.
Yes, the gap between Prost and Senna has come down from 34 to 30 seconds,
which may well be Alain Prost already starting to pace himself home to victory.
As you look at Riccardo Petrezzi in the Williams in fourth place,
still chasing Nelson Piquet.
Piquet is actually getting the gap between himself and Senna down,
so Senna's problem, whatever it is, is continuing.
It's 18 seconds now between Piquet and Senna,
but Senna is now lapping faster than Piquet.
122.1 for Senna, 122.5 for Piquet,
and Prost has slowed down and he's running one second a lap slower than Nelson Piquet,
who is, than Ayrton Senna, who is therefore the fastest man on the circuit.
There is Alain Prost, he is on his 74th lap.
And he's coming up now to lap Martini,
the little Italian who gave Minardi their first ever point in World Championship racing
when he made his comeback in the Detroit Grand Prix.
He moves over, sees Prost large in his mirrors,
lets the Frenchman through.
The McLaren laps Martini for the second time, I think,
and it's still Prost leading 30 seconds ahead of Senna.
Then Piquet, 18 seconds further back.
Petrezzi in fourth position,
de Cesaris in fifth place,
Thierry Bootson once again showing signs of bringing a Veneton home in the points.
And Bootson is actually catching Andrea de Cesaris for fifth position.
Thierry Bootson is on one of those famous end of race charges of his,
which have given him a record six third places in this 1988 Grand Prix season.
And Bootson will be going to the Williams team next year
with very high hopes after his achievements this year.
Back 74.
Now the gap between Senna and Piquet is the critical one at the moment.
Prost is well away now.
No problem for him, it would seem.
Yes, and whatever Senna's problem is,
he's certainly coping with it because he's responded to the threats.
Apparently he's lost second gear,
so that is what's been costing him the time,
and he's obviously taught himself,
but he's found a way to drive around it more effectively
because he's speeded up a bit
and he's certainly holding that gap to Nelson Piquet.
Piquet's about to come past, he comes past, I'll give you the gap.
And Bootson has a broken exhaust, Piquet goes past,
the gap has actually increased slightly in just over 19 seconds,
so Senna appears not to be under any real threat at the moment.
But here's Andrea de Cesaris in the real there,
he is in fifth place and notwithstanding the fact
that Thierry Bootson has a broken exhaust, which has happened before,
here is the Belgian, number 20 in the Benetton Ford,
catching Andrea de Cesaris and being caught
and about to be lapped by Ayrton Senna in second position.
Now you heard from James that Senna has broken second gear,
there are five corners on this circuit where second gear will be needed
and he's obviously going round them in third now.
De Cesaris, fifth, Bootson, sixth, and the car behind them, Senna is second.
Prost is on his 76th lap, six laps to go, including the one he's on.
As Senna exits, Prost's hairpin crosses the line,
32 seconds behind Alain Prost, gaining on the battle
between Bootson and de Cesaris for fifth position.
Out of the race has gone Alain, has gone Kulik Streff, the Frenchman.
And there are now only 11 cars left in this race,
last year only eight finished.
And that moves Johansson up to that magic seventh place.
So mighty huge will be the celebrations for the Ligier team
if he can hold that to the end of the race.
Here Carlo Ginzani's let's act speed doesn't look in any great shape
as Riccardo Petrezzi rockets past him.
And from the way that the Italian is straining in the cockpit
as though to urge the car on to no avail,
it's very obvious that he is about to retire from the Australian Grand Prix.
And all of a sudden we now have 10 cars left and falling.
Are we going to beat last year's record of eight as out comes the steering wheel,
followed from the exact speed by Pier Carlo Ginzani as Prost goes on.
Now Bootson seems to be missing.
Now, where, no, there he goes.
Bootson goes through right behind Andrea de Cesaris,
who is in fifth position.
There they are.
Now, those two are on their 74th lap
and Bootson is going for that fifth place.
Yes, you'll be suffering a minor power disadvantage there
with that broken exhaust.
And he certainly was able to lap on his own very quickly.
He caught de Cesaris,
but that could be a big handicap when it comes to finding a way past.
A little lack of power down the straights will certainly hurt him
when he comes to try and get alongside and outbreak him.
De Cesaris, like Arnoux, is a man who is famed for the difficulty of getting past.
He'll be more than conscious of the fact that Thierry Bootson is there
because he can see the very distinctively shaped Benetton large in his mirrors.
And as you watch them round the right-hander of racetrack hairpin,
with Bootson getting ever closer, it is still, of course,
past the leading Senna second, Piquet third, Patrese fourth.
This is the battle for fifth between de Cesaris and Thierry Bootson.
They exit Foster's hairpin, approach the finish line.
This is where Bootson gained on de Cesaris on the previous lap.
He will take some more out of the real this time.
But whatever happens, you've got to take your hat off to Adrian de Cesaris,
who has driven a fine race.
He qualified well in 15th position, and he's fought his way up from 15th to 5th.
All right, as a result, partly of retirements.
But nevertheless, he is on schedule for two World Championship points.
There's not much of this race left now.
Five laps, including the one that they are on, which is lap 78,
going round Markets Corner, Stag Corner.
That's it there.
These, don't forget, are all Adelaide City streets, specially shut for the occasion.
You can see the concrete walls that have been specially put in, debris fences.
Nothing has been left to chance, even electronic scoreboards around the circuit.
No spectators anywhere are better informed than the ones here in Australia.
There are 10 cars left running in the Australian Grand Prix,
with four laps to go at the end of this one,
and with Thierry Bootson pushing, Adrian de Cesaris in the white and blue,
3.5-litre Ford-powered Brial for 5th position.
Cross leading by 32 seconds, Senna, 21 seconds now ahead of Piquet,
and his 2nd place looks secure, in which case the McLaren, 1-2,
the 12th of 1988 looks secure.
Never before in the history of motor racing has one team
dominated a full 16-race Grand Prix season as McLaren have.
And Bootson goes through, and de Cesaris goes off,
so Thierry Bootson is up into 5th place,
and de Cesaris is seemingly out of the race, and that's no... what's happening?
It looked to me as if his engine just died on him,
or some sort of, certainly a mechanical problem, he didn't go off at all,
and it appeared to be pretty sudden.
Nine cars left? No, eight cars left, because tragically,
Stephanie O'Hanson, who had got up into that much desired 7th position,
which would have saved Guy Ligier some $2 million, is out of the race,
and that is a replay of Thierry Bootson moving up from 6th to 5th,
the man who has scored a record 6 third places in 1988.
And that retirement of Stephanie O'Hanson's was, I was going to say,
almost as tragic as that of Gerhard Berger, it wasn't actually,
it was tragic nevertheless, because poor Stefan has had an absolutely
appalling season, having driven for McLaren, having driven for Ferrari,
having driven for Spirit, having driven for Tyrrell,
and at the moment looks as though he is out of a drive,
although there are rumours that he will be with one of the new teams next year,
like for instance Mike Earle's Onyx team.
Prost. Now, last year's finishers record or lack of finishers record
has now been broken, because with three laps, including this,
the 80th to go, Ayrton Senna their second, Prost leading,
there are only seven cars left, and if any more fall out,
we are only just going to get enough people to take the World Championship
points places, nine points for a win down to 1.46 position.
It's going to be seven victories for Alain Prost,
who has dominated this race ever since.
The unfortunate Gerhard Berger was rudely removed from it by René Arnoux,
and at the moment it is a Honda-powered first, second and third,
because that is Nelson Piquet, there is Riccardo Petresi in fourth place,
this man, and Prost is leading, 32 seconds ahead of Senna,
who is about 19, 20 seconds ahead of Nelson Piquet,
and there is no likelihood of anybody in the first three
catching any of the men ahead of them,
and so unless there is a retirement,
you are now seeing the race winner, Alain Prost,
to make McLaren's double yet again.
He's on his 81st lap, he's about to start the last lap.
So let's think back very quickly as Prost approaches Foster's hairpin
for the last time but one, and remind ourselves
that for 25 spirited, superb laps,
this race was led by Gerhard Berger, who had fought his way to the front,
only for Alain Prost to take it over,
and now there is just this last lap between him and his 35th Grand Prix victory.
Yes, fine drive by Prost, well deserved,
he's been on top form all weekend, all through qualifying,
he certainly was dominant in this race over the new world champion
and his team mate Erton Senna,
but Gerhard Berger was the one who gave us all a very pleasant surprise
by catching and passing Prost to the early stages,
only to be taken off by René Arnoux when he was lapping him,
and in mitigation slightly for René Arnoux,
whose business it is to know when you're being lapped,
as it is of all drivers,
but Berger did take a pretty much of a flyer move at him,
because of course that was the only way he was going to beat Prost,
he was prepared to take risks,
but he wasn't fully alongside Arnoux,
but Arnoux of course just in a world of his own,
closed the door on him, and it was a huge disappointment
to everybody here in Adelaide, this huge crowd,
to have that battle removed from them so summarily.
So Prost on his way, and Senna comfortable in second place.
And just watch Glenn Dix, he has a checkered flag style
like no one else in the world,
which Alain Prost is about to see as he exits Bosters-Herbin
to win his 35th Braum Prix, second in the World Championship,
a magnificent victory which he is obviously very, very happy
and deservedly happy about,
and fittingly the last turbocharged Braum Prix
after a decade and more of these engines
is dominated by Honda engines.
Victory in the McLaren for Alain Prost,
second place there, Ayrton Senna in the McLaren-Honda,
and Nelson Piquet will be third to take his third third place of 1988,
and Honda-powered McLaren and Lotus cars
will therefore have finished first, second and third,
as Ayrton Senna drives very gently across the line.
There are the very happy Honda technicians with their flag.
Piquet takes the third place, and now Riccardo Patrese,
who made his debut for Williams last year in Australia
when he was released by Bernie Epistone from the Brabham team,
will come home in fourth place.
And it's a long gap before Patrese comes through,
and Alain Prost is meantime driving round on his victory lap,
savouring every second of it, no doubt.
And now I see Riccardo Patrese exiting the corner,
crossing the line to take fourth position,
and that's good news for Riccardo Patrese.
This is his 176th Braum Prix.
He has equaled the all-time record shared by Graham Hill and Jacques Lapite,
and in Brazil of 1989 Patrese will become the driver
with the most Grand Prix experience.
Crichton Brown on the left, Tim Wright on the right,
Richard West with the beard, and Andrea de Cesaris
being driven home by Thierry Bootsum.
And the results of the Australian Grand Prix were
that Alain Prost was the winner, Ayrton Senna in the McLaren second,
Nelson Piquet third, Honda Engines first, second and third,
Riccardo Patrese, the leading 3.5-litre driver in the Williams fourth place,
followed by Bootsum in the points again.
There he is taking de Cesaris home,
and Ivan Capelli sixth in the march in the points.
Certainly a race to remember, and Capelli there is bringing in Philippe Streff.
It's quite a pick-up act ending to the Australian Grand Prix.
There are stranded drivers all around the circuit
who are pretty anxious not to have to walk home.
Quite apart from anything else, they would get no peace at all
from autograph hunters, and they are very, very tired men.
Neil Trundle, the man who with Ron Dennis ran Rondale Racing,
John Connor, and Alain Prost out of the McLaren
while the marshals tried to start Capelli,
and Streff seems to have to decide that he's going to walk home after all.
There is the winner.
Alain Prost has done this so many times,
and that sadly is the Ferrari of Gerhard Berg.
So the World Championship ends as you have just seen.
A very easy victory.
Alain Prost and Senna congratulate his team-mates between them,
with Senna having won eight Grand Prix and Prost having won seven.
They have won every Grand Prix except one this year,
and that was of course the Italian Grand Prix.
So another marvellous victory there for the McLaren team.
That is their tenth first second this season in 16 races in Grand Prix,
which is a fabulous effort for them.
Today it was Alain Prost's turn.
He was the dominant figure once, of course,
Gerhard Berg was shafted out of here by the Frenchman Brénie Arnoux,
which was a shame because up until then it was a very, very close race.
But that's the way it goes.
You've done so unpredictable Grand Prix racing,
and as we see the thousands and thousands of spectators
stream into pit straight and into the pits themselves,
trying to get a closer look at the cars and the drivers,
trying to capture the atmosphere of the 88 Grand Prix,
part of the bicentennial year.
It's been a marvellous day.
The rain held off.
We'll probably get a shower later on tonight.
It was still very warm, not as trying as yesterday.
There we see a couple more of the drivers back into the pits.
This is Gerhard Berger.
That is a sorry, sorry tale.
The Ferrari was going so well.
He was leading after lap 26,
and then he got the shunt and was out of it,
and that was a real, real shame.
Darryl Eastlake is down in the pits amongst all those thousands there.
Darryl, I hope you've got a story for us.
Yeah, thanks, Campbell.
It's been a very quiet day in the pits today, really, with this race.
But, Alan, it's always a race of surprises,
and a few of the backmarkers doing very well.
Yeah, well, it always has a high rate of attrition, this circuit.
It's very difficult on brakes.
Not so bad on tyres,
but the Williams team were worried about their brakes.
I don't think that caused Nigel Mansell.
I believe he was very tired when he got out of the car,
but I refuse to believe it was fatigue.
Another great day for McLaren, obviously.
Another 1-2.
Their 15th victory out of 16 starts.
An all-time record.
But altogether, I think, not a bad...
Fabulous atmosphere, not a bad race for the end of an era.
Thanks, Alan.
Well, there it is, comments from the former world champion, Alan Jones.
Back to you, Ken.
OK, thank you, Darryl.
Well, it's the winners now on the podium.
Alan Prost, flanked by his teammate, Antin Senna, and Nelson Piquet.
The French national anthem is now being played,
which is rather ironic because Prost now lives in England,
but, of course, his heart is still there,
and he's still a Frenchman at heart.
Nelson Piquet, he's been there so many times before.
He had a good final race after a disappointing year.
The Professor.
It's a nice moment, supposedly, between two guys
who have little time for each other, I think,
when it comes down to the end of the day,
and they can admire each other's talents.
Good on you, Alan Prost.
A very, very popular winner here.
Just one of the real great champions,
and certainly a fan of Alan Prost is Jackie Stewart.
He believes that he is the finest driver in Grand Prix racing these days,
the smoothest, technically the best.
He sees Antin as something a little bit different,
obviously very, very talented, also a lot of time for Nelson Piquet.
It's the 35th career victory for Prost.
He is a great all-time little Grand Prix,
and now he's got the champagne bath, and everybody's involved.
And Bob Hawke has come in for a shower.
It had to happen.
If you turn up at victory celebrations like our Prime Minister does,
eventually somebody's going to get you.
And today he has been gone.
Unfortunately, our Prime Minister these days is a T totaler.
I don't know whether he got a teaspoonful of that on or not.
Well, there they are, the McLaren teammates.
Prost, Senna, and they'll be back again next year.
And they will be even more formidable,
according to Bernie Eggleston, the boss of Fokker.
He believes that Honda spend more money.
There's no doubt about that, but they also do it better.
They've got the perfect arrangement.
They've got motor cars out on the streets.
They've got the motorbikes, and they've got Formula One.
It is a complete package, and they do it so very well.
You can't dispute their ability.
In fact, Honda engines took the first three places here this afternoon,
so it's a real high note for them to finish up at.
Once again, the red Ferrari.
And one of those will be driven next year by Nigel Mansell,
who will join Gerhard Berger.
Michele Albreto, he's still looking for a ride.
In fact, he only got into the first lap,
and he dinged his car and he was put out.
It was a sad way for Michele to finish his Grand Prix season
with the Ferrari team.
Well, it's time to take a breath, pay a few bills,
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and right now to RAF Mirage jets,
RAAF Mirage jets flying over the circuit here today.
It's all part of the celebration.
The Mirage, of course, being phased out, taking place by the F-18 Hornets.
So let's just tune in now to what they're saying,
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Alright, now we've got Jackie Stewart, who's a very, very busy man,
one minute up here in the studio, next he's down in amongst the throng,
and he has Alan Prost to talk to.
Well, away from the throng, away from the champagne, Alan,
35 Grand Prix victories, a tremendous run for you today.
Any complications in your run?
The gearbox was a problem.
As usual, at the end of the season, the gearbox is a weak point in the McLaren chassis,
and from second to third was a big problem.
I had to change the gearbox this morning.
It was not perfect, but the car was running well, part of that.
The engine was OK, fuel consumption was OK, brakes also,
which was a problem this morning for me.
The only small problem I had is maybe 20 laps to go.
I hit something on the ground coming from other cars,
and I broke on the front skirt, and the car suddenly started to have a huge understeer in the fast corners,
but Ayrton had some problems, so I was OK.
Now you were able to win this race 105 World Championship points, and you're not World Champion?
Yes, it's amazing.
In two seasons, 84 and this one, I got 180 points, and not being World Champion.
Why? Sometimes some drivers are World Champion with 35 or 40 points,
but the main important thing at the moment is to win this race.
It's an historic race for me, because I won my 35 races with a turbo engine,
and today is the last race of the turbo engine,
so it's one step forward to the legend.
Well, that's a tremendous record, and well done to you. Congratulations.
Now to you, Ayrton, World Champion elect, you had troubles today.
A few ones, but I think Alan drove well, and it was a different race,
because no pressure, just trying to do your best, but without much pressure,
and I think he enjoyed much more this race than any other this year,
so did I, even with the problems.
Mainly it was a gearbox problem, and the engine was not running very well,
and the gearbox just got worse and worse to a point that the second gear is tripped,
and then first gear is well, and so I was struggling for the last few laps to keep going,
but I'm quite happy to have a first and second with McLaren in the last race of the year,
and as everybody knows, the last race of the turbo era, so it's a good result.
What about the wrist that was spoken so much about?
I noticed you wanted to shake hands with your left hand when you came in here right now.
Is it still troubling you, and was it a problem in the race?
It didn't help, but it wasn't really the problem.
As soon as the gearbox started to be a problem, then it was a problem,
because the gear was jumping out, I had to keep the hand on,
and it was kicking backwards, so it was bad then, but we made it.
We finished one and two, and that is what matters.
Many congratulations, and of course for winning the World Championship.
Now I'll move over to Nelson Piquet, who is in a hurry to get away, I might tell you,
because he's flying out tonight.
Nelson, you still must be very happy to have finished third
after what has been a very difficult season.
Yeah, it's not doubt. It was a very difficult season for me,
and it was a good result to finish.
And the car this season, was it any better here in Adelaide
than it has been during the season so far?
No, Honda improved the engine a lot after the Japan Grand Prix,
and we got a lot more horsepower, and it makes it easier to compete with another guy,
but the difference between our car and McLaren is still the same.
And that is mainly in the chassis, you would say?
No, mainly in the engine. Yeah, it is, of course.
OK, from three men who have had a hard and hot day,
and from Nelson Piquet, who is rushing to get away,
back up to you in the studio.
Thank you very much, Jack.
Of course, the first three place-getters here this afternoon at the 88 Grand Prix.
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Back live at the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide for 88.
And you see the flags of Ferrari, the Ferrari fans, as tradition demands,
flock around their heroes around the Ferrari camp.
This is the big trade off at the end of the year where they sell their T-shirts,
they sell their caps, they virtually sell whatever's going on.
There you see, of course, the crowd, the big crowd streaming out of the Adelaide circuit.
But there is a lot of people just the same staying around in Pit Alley
because it's a souvenir hunt on right now.
There you are.
The auction is taking place.
You can buy and sell just about anything except maybe the cars this afternoon.
And it seems to me there's always Ferrari who seem to be in the greatest demand.
Old tyres are sold off.
Bits of brake padding are sold off and traded.
T-shirts, of course.
Shirts are taken off people's backs and swapped and so on.
But it's a fair bit of horse trading going on.
And I seem to believe that the teams do the better out of it.
This is regarded as a bit of a bonus for them,
especially for the ones who aren't being paid the $6 million of say, Prost and Senna.
This is their little bit of a bonus at the end of the year that they can sell the shirts
and whatever else is left over that's going to be useless for next season.
The pictures have been marvellous here at the Grand Prix this year.
We've had some wonderful, wonderful shots.
There you are, sir. Cheaper, $85.
Why don't you take it right now?
It's a cash only. No bank card available. No credit cards accepted.
And Australian dollars, well, they're still worth a little bit.
And there you can see one of the Italian team members.
He's got the cash on hand and if you want to do business, he's willing to do it with you.
But as I said, wonderful scenes, thousands and thousands down in pit alley.
They don't disperse as quickly anywhere else, slowly rather, anywhere else,
except maybe at Monza and also at Monaco.
But here in Australia we hang on and hang on. It is a very special moment.
It is the last Grand Prix of the year, the last of 16.
And I'm joined once again by Jackie Stewart. You were down there.
You looked to have three fairly happy men.
Yes, they were very happy indeed. They were thrilled, as a matter of fact.
And still my pants are wet here because I was leaning against Alan Prost's overalls
and they are absolutely soaked through.
I mean, the perspiration is immense, but they are happy. That's the main thing.
OK, Jackie, we have Pat Lindsay down in the pits.
Mr. Treasurer, a very, very exciting occasion for you and a very different occasion.
How does it feel?
Well, I think it's one of the best organised races in the world.
And you've got world class drivers. It's a world class event.
And everything's world class, good to be at.
But Prime Minister Lookers, though, just for once, he got too close to the action.
That's right. That's right.
I think if they...as we...I've got to go back in the plane with him,
I'm sure the alcohol will be swafting around.
That's a novel experience for him, you know.
I hope he didn't swallow anything.
Oh, I know. I don't think he will have broken the pledge.
It's an extraordinary experience here because the people seem of Adelaide particularly
and Australia from all around the country, they really get together for this weekend.
Oh, I think great sporting events tend to bring people together.
They concentrate on the sport.
But these people are world class, tried and tested every, you know,
cup...many times a year.
So it's a very high class act and I think it's worth seeing.
It's good what's done here in Australia and done well.
Thank you very much. Back to you now, Ken.
OK, thank you very much, Patrick.
And Patrick there with the Federal Treasurer, the man who...
Well, I guess if he had centre and prostitute the country,
would fix up the country's deficit very, very smartly.
All right, let's now take a look at the Drivers' Championship points landing
after the end of the 88 season.
Ayrton Centre is the champion elect with McLaren on 90 points.
Alan Prost is on 87.
Gerhard Berger finished three on 41.
Fourth, Harry Budson and the Benetton, 31.
Kalei Alberetto who won't have a drive with Ferrari next year.
I'm not quite sure where Alberetto is moving on to,
but he is being replaced by Mansell.
He finished with 24 in fifth spot
and in sixth spot Nelson Piquet in the Lotus with 20 points.
All right, now the Manufacturers' Championships.
McLaren, well, just so easy.
I mean, it's a terrific result for them,
but they were so far in front of everybody else.
It's McLaren in 199, Ferrari 65, Benetton 46, Lotus 21,
March 20, Arrows 20 and Williams 20.
Right, well, don't you dare touch that dial
because we have plenty more coming up,
and I can tell you that we have something very, very special,
rather unique,
and I know Jackie Stewart is looking forward to seeing it.
Well, come on, get in.
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Grand Prix drivers have amazing control in all kinds of situations.
But they know not to mix drinking and driving, like Nigel Mansell.
Oh no, Mansell's tyre, but he's controlling it brilliantly.
That was pretty frightening, Peter,
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The two just don't mix.
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It was just four years ago that Australia hosted a round of the World Formula One Championship.
But this country has a Grand Prix tradition that goes back much further than that.
The Australian Grand Prix has been held since 1928.
It's one of the world's longest continually contested Grand Prix.
And we've seen the best in the world come and go in that time.
Jack Brabham, Bruce McLaren, Sterling Moss, Jackie Stewart, Nelson Piquet, Alan Pross.
They all raced in the Australian Grand Prix before the days when Adelaide came alive.
Let's look back at that era when names like Austin and Bugatti dominated the hearts and minds of those earliest petrolheads.
The year was 1928.
Australia, like the rest of the world, was locked in the grip of the Great Depression.
Stanley Bruce was Prime Minister.
Collingwood won the VFL Grand Final.
Stageman took out the Melbourne Cup.
A 20-year-old Donald Bradman played in his first of 52 test matches.
And Australians were in love with the motor car.
When it came to competition, though, the accent was on fun rather than performance.
The accent was on fun rather than performance.
Victoria's most fashionable holiday resort at the time was Phillip Island.
And it was to Phillip Island that the Victorian Light Car Club came to begin a Grand Prix tradition that has lasted 60 years.
No bridge to the island in those days, of course.
So the cars for the inaugural Grand Prix had to be painstakingly loaded and transported by ferry and barge.
So too the fans.
And thousands flocked to the island for the biggest weekend of motor racing in the nation's history.
A hodgepodge collection of 26 cars took to a dust-tracked tap-in with thousands of gallons of used motor oil.
The fastest of them would cover the 169 kilometres at an average of 89 kilometres per hour.
And the winner that day was Captain Arthur Waite,
an Australian-born enthusiast living in England and working for his father-in-law, Herbert Austin,
the man who gave his name to the world-famous Austin car.
Arthur Waite, in fact, is still alive today.
He lives in Surrey in England and remembers that historic victory as if it was yesterday.
The race itself, I don't think one had any fears or frights.
I had an extraordinarily good and pleasant mechanic.
We had to have a mechanic, you know, in the race.
You couldn't drive singly.
And of course we had all the Austin fans and the Austin representatives there.
It really was a great thrill.
In 1929, back they came to Phillip Island, as they would for the next six Australian Grand Prix.
This year, they were the expected throng of tiny Austin Sevens,
alone lumbering Aston Martin and an assortment of Morris Miners, Triumphs and Singers.
But the stars this year would be the exotic French Bugattis.
Seven were entered and they filled four of the top five places.
The winner was victorious Arthur Turdick.
Although he would campaign his trusty Bugatti in the next six Grand Prix,
he would never again do better than seventh.
Turdick's brother Alex also made his mark on Australian Grand Prix history.
It was he who filmed these rare sequences.
In the 1930s, Sydney's Bill Thompson became the first triple Australian Grand Prix champion,
winning in 1930, 32 and 33.
In 1934, Grand Prix rookie Bob Lee Wright in the lone singer car in the field
upset the Bugattis and MGs.
Les Murphy and his MG P-Type took out the race in 1935,
the last time it was run on Phillip Island,
and in 1936 when it raced at South Australia's Victor Harbor.
In 1938, the Grand Prix moved to Bald Hills near Bathurst
to become known later as Mount Panorama.
A wealthy English amateur named Peter Whitehead.
The following year, it was back to South Australia
to a street circuit in the tiny town of Globethal
where Perth's Alan Tomlinson won in an MGTA.
After the war years, the Grand Prix resumed at Bathurst
where a Bondi garage proprietor named Bill Murray took out the 1947 race in an MGTC.
It would later become famous in the Red X trials of the 50s as gel-ignite Jack Murray.
In 1948, yet another venue for the Grand Prix, Point Hook Air Force Base in Victoria,
and by now the organizers were rotating the Grand Prix between states.
Post-war petrol rationing was at its most severe,
and several drivers rounded up passengers for the trip to the racetrack
so they could pool their petrol coupons.
25 cars entered, including the only three-wheel racer ever to contest the Australian Grand Prix,
the strange-looking Morgan.
But the winner in his first ever race on four wheels
was motorcycle champion Frank Pata Victoria in a BMW 3-8.
In 1949, the race was held at Leyburn in Queensland
on a circuit laid out on disused wartime bomber runways.
30,000 fans, the biggest crowd so far,
saw Sydney's John Crouch win in a French Delahaye.
1950, and the Grand Prix was the main event
at the annual Barossa Valley Vintage Festival in South Australia.
In the tiny wine-growing town of Nooriupta, they danced in the streets,
a sign of things to come in Adelaide 35 years later.
The main problem for race organizers was clearing the streets of revelers
as the start time approached.
The eventual winner in car number five, a 4-8 special, would be Doug Whiteford,
who became the second triple winner of the race when he repeated in 1952 and 53.
Here in Nooriupta, he averaged 116 kilometres per hour
over the 164-kilometre distance.
Second was Rupert Steelen in Alfa Romeo,
and third in car number 21 was Jim Gullin in a Ballot Oldsmobile.
In 1954 at Southport in Queensland, Lex Davison in a Jaguar
won the first of four Australian Grand Prix, a record that still stands today.
He went on to win in 1957, 58 and 61.
In 1955, a young unknown named Jack Brabham won the race
at Port Wakefield in South Australia in an unfashionable Cooper Bristol.
Brabham would win twice more in the 1960s.
In 1956, Melbourne's Olympic Games year,
another famous international name was added to the honour roll.
28 cars line up at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix,
and top drivers from Australia and overseas compete.
There's Sterling Moss, Britain's ace driver, being wheeled to his start
in his powerful Maserati number seven.
Moss, who's only 26, is already a worldwide figure in motor racing.
They roar away to a good start with Moss prominent
in this scratch race of 80 laps over 250 miles.
And look at them go, whizzing by at an average of 100 miles an hour.
It's not only a race of speed, it's a race of tactics
as the drivers roar around the circuit with death riding at their elbows.
Moss flashes around the circuit to reach a top of 160 miles an hour,
setting a new lap record.
Rolling stones may gather no moss, but this moss gathers all the honours
of Melbourne's Olympic Grand Prix.
As mentioned, 1957 and 58 belonged to Lex Davison in his distinctive red Ferrari,
winning at Cavisham in Western Australia, then at Bathurst the following year.
While 1959 saw his arch-rival Stan Jones achieve his dream
by finally winning his first and only Australian Grand Prix in a Maserati
at Longford in Tasmania.
It was a feat witnessed by his 12-year-old son Alan,
destined for even greater Grand Prix success two decades later.
In 1960, on an abandoned airstrip at Lowood in Queensland,
Canberra's Alex Mildren won the closest Grand Prix finish to date
when his Cooper Maserati just pipped the Aston Martin
three-times champ Lex Davison.
Then in 1961 at Malala in South Australia, Davison chalked up
Grand Prix victory number four in car number four, a Cooper climax.
Coopers also finished second with Bibb Stilwell in car number six,
third with David Mackay in car number 14,
and fourth with Bill Patterson in car number nine.
Davison would race in the next four Grand Prix, and although never finishing
closer than fourth, would always be remembered as a four-time winner of the race.
A feat never to be repeated in the 27 years that followed.
Seattleite was alive long ago, back in the 60s.
All right, more on the fascinating history of the Australian Grand Prix
when we return.
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We've been taking a look back at the history of the Australian Grand Prix,
one of the most hotly contested races in the world.
We pick up the story again in 1962. It was the beginning of a new era.
Gone were the pet cars and the enthusiastic amateurs.
Even in isolated Australia, the big boys had arrived.
Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren were the hot favourites in 1962 at Caversham in Western Australia.
Brabham crashed with ten laps to go, leaving the young New Zealander to record an easy victory.
At Warwick Farm in Sydney the following year, the twice World Formula One champion Brabham stayed on the track
to beat the best in the world, including next year's world champ John Sertes,
defending world champion Graham Hill and the New Zealander McLaren.
1964 at Sandown, Brabham made it Australian Grand Prix number three,
beating the 1967 world champ Denny Holm with Bruce McLaren third.
1965 at Longford in Tasmania, it was Brabham and McLaren again fighting it out,
leaving the likes of Phil Hill, Graham Hill and Jim Clark in their wake.
McLaren beat Brabham by just four seconds.
Lakeside in Queensland was the venue in 1966, the winner, the 1962 and 68 world champion Britain's Graham Hill.
Then at Warwick Farm in 1967, victory to Scotland's Jackie Stewart,
who would win the first of three world championships two years later.
Back to Sandown they went in 1968, where the legendary Jim Clark beat Chris Amon by just one tenth of a second.
Two months later at Hockenheim in West Germany, Clark would be killed in a Formula Two race.
Lakeside in Queensland in 1969 and the New Zealander Amon went one better, winning easily in his Ferrari.
At Warwick Farm the following year, Sydney's Frank Madditch in car number ten
started from pole position and shot straight to the lead.
Madditch was driving one of the seven Formula 5000 cars in the 26 Strong Field,
a formula that would dominate the Australian Grand Prix for the next ten years.
Madditch ended up beating Neil Allen by seven seconds,
with New Zealand's Graham Lawrence one second further back in his Formula One Ferrari.
In 1971, again at Warwick Farm, Madditch made it a double in a car of his own design.
Then in 1972 at Sandown Park, it was New Zealand's turn again.
Graham McCray in a leader Chevy, winning from future touring car stars,
Frank Gardner, John Harvey and Robbie Frantzavik.
In 1973 at Sandown, McCray also made it two in a row, winning in another Chevy.
The next two years, yet another double, this time to Sydney's Hyder Max Stewart,
who won at Oran Park in Surfers Paradise.
At Sandown in 1976, two-times champion Frank Madditch was no longer driving,
but his cars were still winning.
John Goss taking out the Grand Prix in a Madditch Repco, half a second ahead of Vern Schupen.
1977 at Oran Park, Warwick Brown was the winner.
Then at Sandown in 1978, Graham McCray won his third Australian Grand Prix.
And at Wanaroon Perth in 1979, it was John Walker in a Lola Chevrolet.
In 1980 at Calder, Australian Alan Jones, the newly crowned Formula One world champion,
shot to the lead in car 27, determined to emulate his father's great victory 21 years earlier.
But on lap six, the Italian Bruno Giacomelli tried to spoil the moment
when he bumped wheels with Jones and took the lead.
But Jones was not world champion for nothing and came right back at him.
Ah, and he's weaving going down the front straight, and Alan Jones is making him have to get through.
Alan Jones is trying to get round the outside, but he can't make it.
And he's gone through on the inside. Alan, what a lovely move.
Bruno Giacomelli, caught by surprise. Look at the reaction.
A little bit of history being made now that you're looking at.
Alan Jones being cheered by the crowd, the chequered flag being raised for him.
And Alan Jones wins the party's fifth Australian Grand Prix.
They're racing, and Jones wins the sunburn.
The 1981 Grand Prix, again at Calder Raceway, was a very different event.
Gone were the thundering five-liter V8s, in their place, the tiny, nimble Formula Pacific cars.
Alan Jones qualified second on the grid behind Brazilian Roberto Marino
as he tried to capture his second Grand Prix.
He looked certain to do just that until two laps from home when a failed gearbox put him off the track.
It was left to Marino and Nelson Piquet to fight it out to the finish.
And Roberto Marino will drive into Grand Prix history in Australia
as he wins the 46th National Panasonic Grand Prix at Calder.
Second place will go to the reigning world champion Nelson Piquet of Brazil,
and third place to Geoffrey Brabham of Australia.
1982 at Calder yet again, and Marino's hopes of repeating his 1981 success
were dashed when he stalled his Ralt RT4 at the start.
After that, it looked as though it would be a fight between Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost
until Piquet, too, had a bit of bad luck.
On the 27th lap, disaster when four cars collide,
including former world champion Nelson Piquet and Australian hope John Smith, who quickly recovers.
Piquet's race was run.
And so, Alain Prost and Car 15, soon to be the double world champion,
wins at his first attempt in Australia.
For the fourth year running, fact they came to Calder in 1983.
Melbourne's favourite Italian, Alfredo Costanzo, lost his chance on lap 25 with a smash differential.
Alain Jones, warming up for a return to Formula One the following year,
failed to last, spinning out when in second place and finally finishing fifth.
Roberto Marino took the opportunity to win his second Australian Grand Prix
ahead of Australia's John Smith and French Formula One ace Jacques Lafitte.
And it was Marino again in 1984, his farewell appearance at an Australian Grand Prix.
When the race became a round of the World Championship the following year,
Marino failed to make the transition to Formula One.
And the Australian Grand Prix is go!
MUSIC
1985 of course was the year Adelaide came alive.
It was Australia's first year on the Formula One World Championship circuit,
and more than 100,000 fans turned out to ensure a memorable debut.
And it was certainly that, as much for the failure of the favourites as anything.
Mansell was shunted out of the race on the very first lap by arch-rival Ayrton Senna.
Prost, with the World Championship already sewn up, went out on lap 26.
Niki Lauda in his last year of Formula One looked the winner until his brakes failed on lap 57.
And off he goes, Niki Lauda's lost it!
And he's completely smashed the front of the car, Lauda is out.
And it was the Williams of the Flying Finn Keke Rosberg that finally came through to take the chequered flag.
Keke Rosberg comes up to win and well organised the Australians, a truly marvellous race with lots of drama.
70 seconds behind, the two ligers of Lafitte and Streff literally climbed over each other in the race for second.
Lafitte winning that battle after Streff managed to cripple his own machine.
1986, and in one of the most open world championships in years,
Mansell, Prost and Piquet came to the race all with a chance of taking the title.
Few of us will forget how Mansell's bubble burst.
He may have been prepared to move over.
And look at that! And colossally that's Mansell! There is Nigel Mansell and the car absolutely shattered.
He's fighting for control but you can see what's happened. Mansell is out of the race now.
This could change and will change the world championship.
It was left to Piquet and Prost to battle it out.
Prost winning from the Brazilian and earning his second world championship.
And he takes the chequered flag. He wins the Australian Grand Prix. He wins the world championship of 1986.
Last year with the world title already sewn up by Nelson Piquet,
Adelaide would witness one of the few recent triumphs of the famous red Ferraris.
Austria's Gerhard Berger led virtually from the start.
And Berger is into it. Glenn Dix is out. There he is with the chequered flag.
Watch his technique and watch the technique of Gerhard Berger who inspired...
There's no bigger motor racing fan club in the world than the Ferrari followers.
And everyone seemed to be a club member in Adelaide that year.
And so today saw the running of Australia's Grand Prix number 53.
Now one of the biggest and most glamorous events on our sporting calendar.
It's come a long way in 60 years from the oil and dust of Phillip Island
to the disused aircraft runways of rural Queensland of Victoria
and finally to the front line of world championship racing on the streets of Adelaide.
Something an old man would never have dreamed possible.
Having won the first ever Australian Grand Prix,
did you ever imagine that 60 years later it would be one of the world's biggest motor racing events?
I have no idea.
If you'd have suggested it then I'd have said no, it's not on.
MUSIC
Nice piece there by Ken Sparks and Arthur Waite.
94 years of age, Jackie, I wonder if we'll have the pleasure of doing the same with you in the years to come.
I'd love to think about it. If I were still being able to keep my head together like that old gentleman does,
I'd be very happy 94. Isn't it wonderful nostalgia looking back at all those wonderful years
and such great names and what a history this race has and how proudly it's been continued.
And today we just saw the most beautifully put together and organised Grand Prix
that you could ever see and look behind you and see where it came from.
Really wonderful stuff and I think the beauty about seeing things like that is that you say,
oh yes I remember him and where's he and what's he doing now and all of a sudden the great memories
and the great names flood back. History really saps it away doesn't it?
I saw a lot of good friends there who I'd raced again and I wonder just how young Jackie Stewart
could have been in that shot that I saw in 1967. Good looking guy then.
Alright we've got more to come here on Wide World of Sports in Adelaide so don't go away.
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