Used to the adrenaline pumping through them the way that it would be now but few of them would be not used to it
Bad choice of words to me. I've seen the heart sort of start again. Never mind. Okay. Let's have a look at a lineup
Tracy Caro 60 minutes. She has the pole position terrific now
Shelly Tardis Smith not far behind of the endurance swimmer
Tony Collette the actress there very fast the other day and
I was quite impressed with the way she looked around Brenda Webb is also pretty quick now
The first six cars were told their times haven't been much Brad between them
So we should have a pretty competitive race John Harvey's had a bit of a chat to me and he says that they're all very close
So it should be great
Nikki Buckley of course from solo the century was the real fast runner here in the early part of the week
But Tracy Cara reeled her in during official qualifying and of course, it's a marvelous lineup this year
I think probably the best mixture of talent we've had they've come from stage and screen
From the world of journalism and they're all pretty competitive
So I wear plucker his plucker still on the circuit somewhere as they cares plucker or is it no no
I'm not sure he's come around yet. I'll park us still there. He's gonna start from the pits
He's gonna have to start from the pits. Well, that's a bit tough plucker, but
Trev's pretty confident that he'll work his way through the field Darrell. So we'll just have to see how he goes
I guess I always thought plucker was it was a boy duck? I'm quite sure
He's a boy duck
Tracy cura she's
Here we go almost ready for a start. So watch him get off the line all standard cars here now
So you've really got to do
Everything right to make the difference away. They go green lights Tracy cura gets away pretty well
Shelly Taylor Smith keeps the power down. I think Tracy will win the race to the first corner though. It's very close very tight
But Tracy looks just have a nose in front very messy start there Darrell
They both were hedging a little bit so it'll be see if they get black flag for that
Let's hope they all get through this first corner through the first chicane
It's pretty tight stuff through here and the all adrenaline is all going
And Marcia Marcia Heinz stalled on the grid there goes plucker pluckers out of the circuit
Oh plucker a lot of work to do Marcia Heinz stalled. Well, I'm not a good way to start Darrell
Fortunately, though. She didn't have any problems got the car restarted and she's in and away now
All right, Tracy cura now is doing pretty well. She's out in front Shelly Taylor Smith is riding behind her
It's a pretty competitive field now
They look very slow because you used to seeing the former ones in the group eyes
But in fact you're going as hard as you can drive them yet. You'd be surprised if you're in there
She's interesting looks weird wonderful lines going on here
but they're all jostling around trying to get the right position to have their car and
impressing on
Back midfield now as you can see these beautiful Holden's and they are lovely cars these
Fantastic little vehicle and you know, the girls fall in love with them as soon as they drive them
Well Tracy Kuro's doing terrific job because she's just built a little bit of a buffer
Shelly Taylor Smith needs to get a little bit closer under brakes at the end of the straight
And what I said is about right all these cars are exactly the same as close as the manufacturer can do that
So you really have to make the right lines and the right braking areas and all of those sort of things
Which you're told where you can break by the experts
But if you if you get a little bit sort of flustered, that's where you lose your time
That's true here. We have a bit of an out breaking maneuver here and they get a bit of an idea
we walk them around and John Harvey showed them where they can pass and where to be a little bit aggressive and
You know, I think we'll end up they're closing up a little bit at the front Catherine Harvey car 27 doing a terrific job
Australian netball team gee wish she's having a big guy Katherine
the first couple of starting to build a little bit of a gap here, which is what we saw last year Darrell when it turned
into such a sensational race and they've got a little bit of a gap but
You know that they just need to get a little bit closer at the front. Well, Michelle Filkey won it last year in dramatic style
it was just a great race and this is shaping up the same way because
You can see they're both of the the lead cars not far separates them now
Shelley Taylor I know she's a very determined competitor
She's swum the greatest borders in the world to victory and she'd love to win this but Tracy's a pretty competitive young lady, too
So if I can just come together look at this, what's the lines as they come through here?
Pretty interesting other they're all over the place, but I noticed Brenda Webb's not quite using enough of the circuit in third place
She needs to start, you know running from the middle of the circuit to the outside on on each corner
You can see a car there. She's not using all the track and unfortunately slowing it down a little bit
these two have gotten away and
Shelley Taylor has closed up a little bit and looks like it's going to be on
Yeah, well, it's a good dice to back into third fourth and fifth. They're pretty well bunched up there
We'll bring you up to date with who's
Leading in the top six. We know Tracy and Shelley Taylor Smith. That's her going through there
She has made up quite a bit of ground as I said this lady's playing herself in the Tracy Carr is doing some terrific job
I mean she's let him off the line and to get around
Tracy's not going to be an easy job
There's a battle for third fourth and fifth Tracy starting to drive a little defensively which I think is a mistake at this point in time
They've only done a lap and a half and you need to press on the problem is when you get out in front
It's a bit hard. You've got no one to judge your brake markers off
You've got no one to watch and see, you know where they're turning in and it becomes a little intimidating
You tend to slow down a little bit. Of course, the Shelley Taylor Smith was running in second
She can run up on that car in front of her use that as a braking marker and
slightly catch up
Well, there you go as they come down in this straight again
Going reasonably reasonably quickly here at the end of the straight the Shelley Taylor Smith ducks in underneath Tracy Carr
Tries very hard now that oh, there's a bit of push and shove back there
Plenty of action there Darrell looks like
Car 27 is it
Bit hard to tell. It is 27. That's Captain Harvey as I was saying
She's really forcing away to the dark blue car. Great driver from Captain
She's got the play back on the grid and really muscle away into the into the top runners now
There she is in the dark blue car with the pink strip. Yep. She's in third and she's she's pressing on she's oh
Here we go. There's a move by Shelley Taylor Smith
Shelley Taylor Smith up the inside says I'll have a go here and gets it together too
Marvelous job there. Shelley Taylor Smith takes the lead from Tracy Carr
Now there's plenty of time left now
It's her time to lead try and judge the corners get the apexes and Tracy of course will be you know a little bit devastated
Now she's gonna and then she has another go here
Oh, there's a better touch. She's gone
Bango
Shelley Taylor Smith out of action hits the wall big time and now drives into the kitty litter
So I reckon that's it but oh what a shame because she really did fight to get through and lead the race out of contention now
Well, she was a fair whack. She'll be very disappointed. Here we go
She turns in Tracy's down the inside a little bit of contact some opposite lock. Oh no, here comes a wall bang
Hit pretty hard as you can see now came right across the track and very lucky that nobody else got involved in that accident
And we're straight into the kitty litter
So Tracy Carr now back out in front but a bit of competition starting to loom
Katrin Harvey's doing well
That's put Brenda Webb back in the second place and
Tracy will be a little bit shook. They'll shake her up a little bit and she'll be you know wondering what's going on and trying to get
Composure and press on again, which you probably have gathered all that up by now
But it's let this group of three cars close right up on her
So it's Carr Harvey Webb Fowler Collet and Harris now. That's the the lineup for you. I'm not sure where Plucker is
I think he's out of contention Plucker
He really did have a bit of a problem back further
Brenda Webb actress and singer of course has done a terrific job here to get to where she is
Well Trevor Trevor Marmalade, I mean what's happening with Plucker? We know he had to start from the pitch
He did the tire change but that's really worked for you
Well, look, we're pretty happy that we've been checking the onboard telemetry and the car seems to be handling well
And from what I can hear from the two-way radio, he's playing cop killer by body count
So I think we could take that as a positive sign
Is he having much to say?
Well, I've been trying to get in radio contact, but there's been no response
So that's a little bit of a cause for concern at the moment Darryl
And the other cause of concern is that we've gambled on the fuel
We've only gone with ten bucks worth and we had to fill it up yesterday because the odds are even system
So hopefully the guys will be on our side
Yeah, they put ten bucks in
Well, I only had ten bucks on me Darryl
They're rationing here. What can you do?
Okay, we'll come back to you a little later on
Car number six, Tracy Carro
Gee, we're just starting to get a little bit sideways now
They're getting used to it now
Well, they're starting to press on
They're all feeling comfortable
The adrenaline's died down a bit
They're driving into the corners a bit too hard and getting some understeer
Tracy's gone back to her defensive driving line and of course that's making them bunch up
Good move around the outside here
Yeah, that's good
That's Brenda Webb, the actress singer
She's coming up now to Katherine Harvey from the Australian netball team in the dark blue car
Tracy Carro is still out in front in the red car and she's virtually led all the way to the straight
When Shelly Taylor-Smith did get around her, unfortunately then had the accident
Two laps to go, bit of time now, they're bunching up
Another mover comes in, Ali Fowler, Laura the Ladder
That's a bit of huff and puff up the middle
And the pedals are starting to get bent
Darryl, which one of these are you going to earn after this event?
Looks like the one I drove, excellent
What's happening here is we're getting a little bit of a bunching effect
Because Tracy's tending to drive just a touch too defensively
And fortunately for the rest of the field they've all closed up
There's first and second, nice shot down from the chopper as you see the lines are taking
And they look pretty good, these two girls
Very nice lines, they're using as much of the track as they need to
Nice apex there, back out to the edge of the track
Bit of a passing move going on here
Catherine Harby, she's very aggressive
Nikki Buckley, we're riding with Nikki, the reason I watch Sunil essentially
Look at that face, how would you forget the face and the lips getting bent
Look at the look on her face, it's great of her
She sort of needs some gum there, doesn't she?
Looking a little tense, she's in eighth position and was the favourite to win this
Actually she looks very relaxed, like she's enjoying it
Bit different to yesterday when she was a little bit apprehensive when she went out there
Yeah I think so, driving the rain skater a bit, has a little look in the rear view mirror
There's Nikki Buckley, now you can see Sunil, right I'll change gear, look in the mirror again
Doing a very polite job
Here we have a bit of a...
Here we go, look at this, 27, Catherine Harby gets through
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, they all come together
Oh the girls doing plenty of banging here on the straights of Adelaide
Oh look at the car, car one, Tony Collette
Do you mind?
Straight to the pedal-meters
Wow
What's this again?
Tracy got out of shape, Catherine Harby tried to gather it together
Whacko, they're all involved now
They'll remember this for a while
Well there's only a couple laps to go and they're all starting to get desperate
They're pushing the cars into the corner so far, braking so late, they're getting understeer coming out
And that's where we have the cars running off the edge of the circuit
You're not wrong, they're going each and every way but Catherine Harby kept the pressure on
That's what I liked about her, she really did apply a lot of pressure and kept it on Tracy
Tracy buckled up the pressure then, final lap now
It's true she did and Catherine's come good at the right end of the race, there are only a lap to go
Tracy left a bit between her teeth
You just saw the camera get a nice little shake up, that was from Samantha Riley, the world champion swimmer
Samantha's putting in a big final lap and have a look at this, straight over the ripples
Don't worry about the corner
And our camera's been worked over, the cars have been worked over, Catherine Harby terrific job
Ah, they're going all over the place here
Tony Collette is that again, she's in everything isn't she?
I can't believe car seven, Melinda Gainsford, have a look at car seven
It won't make the final lap, there's bits hanging off it everywhere
Well they're certainly not giving it in Charlie Darryl, I mean it's a...
Look at car one, have a look at car one
And you like to be the dealer that owns that car
He'd be very excited wouldn't he?
He'd be very impressed, look at it coming down here, there's bits hanging off it everywhere
City hall
That looks like Ken Suckins, ah!
Oh, he's released the car park, I think he drives it the same way
Oh dear me, so exciting
We can be sure she's having a go there Darryl, and there's plenty of action happening behind her as well
Muriel's wedding, wow that's got her revved up
She's having a big go, got the witch cream wipe, there's a go, everything's on
And look at her smile, she's having a great time
He's having a terrific time, got everything working, well except the car
The thing with these cars is if you have a bit of a moment like they did
Here we go, bit understeer, bang!
Another one into the wall
Well the Holden dealers of Australia have a bit of work to do to get it right
Samantha Roddy was going very quickly as I said she was cutting away through the pack
Well she's just finished on the blocks, the tyre blocks this time
Another, oh big tap up the backside
It was, no!
Oh no
You're not going to tap me, I'll come back and get you
Oh what a, this is a catfight, I can't believe it
I get the feeling she doesn't want anyone to pass her Darryl
What about that, you're not going to tap me, I'll tap you straight back
Have a look at this car, I don't believe it
Ha ha ha ha, it's just, it's going to fall apart before it gets to the flag
That's actually Nikki Buckley she's carving out there I think
I can't believe it though, hey don't tap me, I'll tap you back
Have a look, let's come back to the winner because it is Captain Harvey
She takes the checkered flag from Tracy Kiro from 16 minutes
And look at this, you're still not going to get past me, bits and all
Oh tremendous drive, oh fantastic drive
And listen to the crowd, they just love it Darryl
Ha ha ha ha, have a look at the car, very second hand
Well she got her money's worth today didn't she
Oh Tony Collette she's done a great job of the crowd of loving it
It's still going around pretty quick I'll tell you too
She hasn't backed off too much
Pluck a duck was the disappointment of the race but have a look at this
Here's the replay, but watch this from the first tap
And then watch what she does afterwards
Well here we go, she's actually moved back across
She doesn't want Nikki Buckley to get by and making every move she can
To put her into the concrete wall
Nikki Buckley, she's, what are you doing, get away
Ha ha ha, wonderful, oh look at this, it's still together
Alright so Catherine Harvey wins this race, she did a terrific job
Look at the car, not a scratch on it
Came from fifth, great drive, you know, a real thinking person's race
Tracy, sensational job, she led most laps
Just couldn't quite come through with it in the end
Well it was Catherine Harvey's pressure wasn't it, she kept the pressure on it
Then she took the dive up the inside, little tiny dent
That's where the contact was made, but she was a nice piece of driving
It was, I'd say Tracy might have been a little bit rattled by the accident with Shelley Taylor Smith
And probably dropped her off a game, a fraction there for a minute
Allowed Catherine to get by and she went on to win
Recapping now, Catherine Harvey from the Australian netball team takes it
Tracy Carrow from 60 Minutes, then we had Webb Collette who I just loved
She was fantastic and Nikki Buckley, I tell you what, no one gets past you easy
We'll take a break, come back plenty coming your way when we hit the streets of Antelope big time
Monday, it's tasteless, it's tacky, it's needlessly violent
It's hay hay by request
I can't keep a straight face
Proud of privileged onlookers, the mechanics, the team managers
And of course the cars and drivers fronting the grid
There's Michael Schumacher who's been into his pit twice and out again
So he's done several exploratory laps, contemplates things
Let's look back at how the build up for the grid happened on Friday and Saturday
Friday of course was dry, that's Nigel Mansell's car and Nigel was fastest
Just 18, one thousandth of a second, eighteen thousandth of a second
Think of that and how short a time period it is
Faster than Michael Schumacher with Hill third, Mika Hakkinen fourth in the McLaren Peugeot
And the two Jordans of Rubens Barrichello and his teammate Eddie Irvine fifth and sixth
Then yesterday of course we feared that the Australian Grand Prix was going to be marred by another Suzuka like situation
Japan last weekend when the rain hose piped out of the skies
And made an appalling situation out of the conditions
Of course because of that the times were much much slower
Some 16 seconds a lap slower and Michael Schumacher was fastest ahead of Damon Hill
But on account of those times being slower it was Friday's times that decided the grid
And it's those times that have resulted in the form up that you can see before you now
Two lines of cars, Damon Hill not yet in the car
Those cars lined up in a staggered formation for safety reasons
And that means to say that the man in pole position
And you can see the bottom left hand corner of your screen is Nigel Mansell's Williams Renault 10 cylinder engine
The man in pole position has a slight advantage over the man who is second on the grid
Because he has a car's length lead before the race even begins
And that car length lead can be absolutely critical
Adelaide is easier as Jonathan Palmer has already told us to pass on than many circuits
But there's only one real racing line no matter what a circuit is like
And if you get into the first corner first that's Rubens Barrichello the youngest driver in the race
The Brazilian countryman of Ayrton Senna who was his friend and mentor
There's only one racing line as I was saying and if you can get into the first corner first on that racing line
You can stand a very good chance of staying there because it's extraordinarily difficult for the man behind to pull out and get past
There's one major passing place at this circuit and that's the approach to the hairpin
But the clock is counting down now for the start of the Australian Grand Prix
Fasten your seatbelts then we'll be back in Adelaide very soon
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And the human race
And still they are there
Still the grid has to be cleared
Because there are still some 40 minutes to go
To the start of the race
And that's Eddie Irvine who created such a name for himself
At the Japanese Grand Prix last year
And again this year talked to Louise Goodman
Who is the Jordan Public Relations lady
And Mika Hakinen who's just been round the grid
And ceremonially shaking hands with all the drivers
This is the last Grand Prix of the year
The teams and the drivers have formed up
For their end of term lap
And Hakinen has said good luck to everybody
And you could be excused actually
For thinking that the cars that we're looking at now
Are only some 13 minutes away from starting a Grand Prix
They've got the tyres that are covered in the tyre warmers
Now these are really like electric blankets
That keep the tyres right up to their 90 degrees operating temperature
Ready for the start of the race
And here we've got the previous Grand Prix winners here
And last year the late Great Ayrton Senna
Won in spectacular form with 4 McLaren
92 Gerhard Berger and of course he's racing here today
Didn't have a very good morning
And Ayrton Senna again won in 1991
Nelson Piquet 1990
A great tradition of some great drivers winning the Australian Grand Prix
But we saw the tyre warmers on the cars
We also saw that the engine covers were off
That's to enable the mechanics to have a final good look around
Over the cars, make sure nothing's leaking
No wires are off, that everything's in good condition mechanically
The steering wheel was laying on top of
There we are, there's the engine cover off
On the Benetton car there
And you can see the engine
The Ford Z-TEC engine there tucked in the middle of it
Not the most powerful engine in Formula One
But certainly one of the most drivable
And around the streets of Adelaide
That's just the kind of thing that's helped Schumacher to that
Second on the grid position 16.197
In fact Schumacher trying so desperately hard
In qualifying on Friday to displace Mansell
And there's the man from pole position
That he made a very rare mistake
And clipped a kerb and went off pretty heavily
But the strength of the Grand Prix cars today
Together with the safety barriers
The tyre walls cushioning the impact
Meant that a new car had to be built for Schumacher
But he was absolutely without injury
But Nigel Mansell there, he really has been the star of qualifying
I think this has been quite a magnificent performance
From Mansell, he's been in IndyCar racing the last two years
This is the fourth Grand Prix he's done this year
The third of his autumn last three run
And he really has been the benchmark that we've been looking for
No one's been entirely sure just how quick Damon Hill has been this year
He hasn't had the benefit of being in a midfield team
Against some regular pace setters
And last year when he was team mate to Pross
No one knew quite how hard Pross was trying
We know how hard Mansell was trying though
And that was enough to put Mansell on pole position
Some six and a half tenths of a second ahead of a somewhat bemused Damon Hill
Yes, Nigel Mansell was having a cheery word with his friend Barry Sheen
Who will be doing Channel 9 commentary for us
Mika Hakkinen looking very worried as ever, the wrinkled brow
He's not worried, he's an astonishingly cheerful and phlegmatic chap
But when you put those very heavily padded racing helmets on
It crushes up all the flesh around the eyes
And makes Hakkinen in particular look as though he's not relishing the prospect ahead at all
And I'm sure he is because when I was talking to him, oh half an hour ago
He was saying that he was extremely optimistic that the McLaren Peugeot
The last year of the partnership of the French engine with the British team
Would enable them to finish extremely well in the Australian Grand Prix
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Be back soon for the 1994 Formula One Australian Grand Prix
Here of the street circuit, one of the very, very best in the world
Right now here is Murray Walker
Rubens Barrichello fifth on the grid and his teammate Eddie Irvine sixth
So that's the grid order, there is the crowd
Now as ever, strategy and tactics are going to be vital
Your view Jonathan Palmer
Yes indeed, and as we look at Damon Hill there
We've been through the last two days of a most incredibly highly charged atmosphere here
The pressure on Damon being one point behind Schumacher
And the pressure on Schumacher, there is Schumacher
Has been absolutely intense
Never has a World Championship been as close for ten years now
And for these two drivers the pressure has shown throughout the weekend
It has to be said
We had on Friday a fairly major accident for Michael Schumacher
When he was chasing Nigel Mansell's pole position time
He was quite unhurt but the car was damaged and had to be rebuilt with a new chassis
We've had a number of spins there for Damon Hill throughout the weekend
So the pressure telling and it's no great surprise
But strategy is going to be important and of course that relates to the pit stops for fuel and for tyres
And just to those who don't watch Grand Prix too often
This year refuelling is allowed and that means that one does not have to go
5 minutes to go
And you can see as we look down from the helicopter at this street circuit on the outskirts of the city of churches Adelaide Australia
That things are good
And that's a great mercy because no one wants to be in the way of the world
And that's a great mercy because no one wants the World Championship to be decided through somebody sliding off on a wet track
What are the prospects? Well it depends entirely on how Mansell gets away
There is absolutely no doubt about the fitness of the 41 year old Englishman
There is absolutely no doubt about his resolve to do well here today
But team tactics are bound to come into it because if Damon Hill is doing well the team will obviously want the Englishman
Who is one point behind Schumacher in the World Championship to finish ahead of Nigel Mansell
So the whole thing is really totally unpredictable
And passing could be in the pits rather than on the track
By which I mean tyre changes and fuel refuelling are going to be critical to the way this long race
81 laps, some 191 miles and some 2 hours develops
And you can see there the middle of your picture, the chicane which has been named after the great Ayrton Senna
It's been re-profiled, that is where Michael Schumacher went off and completely destroyed his Benetton
The team had a spare chassis, a spare carbon fibre tub with them
And all the elements, engine, gearbox and everything else that was needed to build up a new car
In which Schumacher practiced yesterday, pronounced it good
So he's had two cars to choose from and he's obviously chosen the one that in the warm up today
He decided would best suit his requirements this afternoon
Three minutes to go to the start of the Australian Grand Prix
And for the last Australian Grand Prix back in 1993 the cars had to all start with a full 220 litres of fuel on board
And run through without refuelling
That's all changed though for 1994, refuelling is allowed
And that means the teams can run less fuel in their cars and less fuel means less weight, means faster lapping
They can make up time on the circuit but then they're going to have the trade off
And that's coming into the pits for a recharge of fuel and fresh tyres at the same time
Now so far throughout the season the general norm has been two stops for most drivers and most teams
Dividing the race into three sprints and that's been the case for Damon Hill on virtually every race
But Benetton and Schumacher have been the exception
They've generally gone for three stops dividing the race into four
But I think for the first time really this year we're going to see some very tactical stopping
And from the picture that I've seen throughout the weekend so far
I think we're going to see Nigel Mansell there
We're looking at him at this very moment going for three stops
That's my guess, he was very quick in this morning's warm-up session
And indeed theoretically the best way to go here is for three stops
And that's because the pit lane is very short and you lose very little time or relatively little time in the pits though
For Michael Schumacher we're looking at him as we speak
And Michael Schumacher has normally made three stops
But it's my suspicion that we may see Benetton change the habit of a season and perhaps go for two
Because for Michael Schumacher the most important objective of this Grand Prix is not to win the Grand Prix
It is simply to beat Damon Hill
If Michael finishes ahead of Damon Hill then it means the championship isn't virtually the same vice versa
So I think we're going to see both Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher going for two stops
Which will mean the first stop roundabout lap 25 to lap 28
With probably Mansell going for a sprint, going for a charge
And that means that I suspect Mansell's first stop should be at lap 20
With his second stop at lap 40 and of course his third stop at lap 60
But I suspect they're going to be hitting traffic, hitting the back markers roundabout lap 17, lap 18
So I think that's when we'll see Mansell come in
I think we'll see that strategy enable Mansell to have a really hard charging start
And another hard charger is I think going to be Gianna Lacey
Absolutely, and the Ferraris I'm glad to say are very much on the pace
They were not on Friday but there is Lacey
He's starting down the grid unfortunately because when he qualified on Friday
The weather conditions were bad, he is only in 11th position and his teammate Gerhard Berger
In 8th position, his teammate Gerhard Berger is 11th
But with strategy probably being the name of the game
And you can see the heat haze coming off the tarmac there
That's a good sign, it means that the tyres are going to be good and warm
To provide maximum grip for this long and tiring race
Now it's a street circuit, it doesn't actually go into Adelaide
But they're on the parade lap now
And of course this is not the start of the race, this is just the final warm up lap
The lap when the drivers make sure that they've really got those tyres and brakes up to working temperature
The car's now coming away from the main start, finished straight, coming up
They will be doing 170mph at this point
They are now coming up in towards the Wakefield turns here
60mph on the corner, a sharp jab up to 100 on this section
Back down to 60, this is how it will be when the race itself starts
But Mansell at the moment I'm sure will be desperately concentrating on
Apart from warming up his tyres and engine and brakes
He'll be concentrating on making sure that he can try and get a good start
And that's something he has not done for the last two Grand Prix
On the other hand Michael Schumacher, we're riding with him now
He will be determined to try and capitalise on what he knows has been Mansell's weakness
And try and himself get into that first corner
But the first corner here, and this is in fact the main straight
This is where they're going to be doing nearly 190mph
The main Brabham straight with a very, very heavy braking area at the end of the straight
Coming right down to second gear and the weaving you'll see going on
Is a means of the drivers really working the tyres hard
Getting that heat into those tyres, bringing them up to some 90 degrees
And that is so important because whilst wheel spinning and using stabs of power
Can get the rear tyres up to temperature quite easily
The fronts are rather harder to get going
So what we really have to watch out for is a clean start
Because this first corner has been notoriously difficult
And virtually every Grand Prix we've had there have been incidents at some point down throughout the field
Time for the big one then, in sensational Adelaide, South Australia
And as they duck and dive and weave and twist and turn at the end of the Brabham straight
With their tyres building up to maximum temperature
We ride with Damon Hill, ahead of us is Michael Schumacher
That is Michael Schumacher, we're on his rear wing
Ahead of us is Nigel Mansell
Probably about to make one of the most important starts in his Grand Prix career
Albeit with a World Championship behind him and 13 wins
Now if Mansell could get into that first corner first
He can make things extremely difficult for Michael Schumacher
How is Damon Hill going to go?
Remember the Mika Hakkonen in the Peugeot
Which has got less power but a very determined driver behind the wheel
That's Hakkonen that we're on now
In front of us is Schumacher
You can see the red and white McLaren behind the Benetton
With the red tips on the front wing and on the nose cone
The final drivers, the last two on the grid
Are newcomer Jean-Denis Dela-Tras who is driving a LaRouche Ford
And Mimo Schiattarelli, the Simtek driver
The green flag, it's almost ready for go in Australia
Watch the lights!
Australia is go!
Mansell slides away where wins Hakkonen, Damon Hill on the left
Schumacher leads, Schumacher leads in the first corner
Damon Hill has gone ahead of Nigel Mansell as they go round
Are they all going to get through the chicane?
No, Christian Filippaoli goes over the kerb
But mercifully everybody is through the first complex of corners
And Michael Schumacher is leading and already putting away
As Mansell goes off the course and loses at least two places
Jona Lacey right up behind him, Mika Hakkonen has passed
There is Damon Hill, second Hakkonen is third
Barrichello is fourth and Nigel Mansell is down to fifth position
A misjudgment there
Now this is exactly what Michael Schumacher wants
He's got a clear track in front of him
He's got the nimble, powerful, perfectly balanced Benetton at his command
Behind him he can see his rival
This is a perfect scenario
Because the two world championship leaders are leading on the first lap
Mika Hakkonen is in third place
Barrichello is fourth, Mansell is fifth, Lacey is sixth
Irvine is seventh, Brunwell is seventh, eighth
Johnny Herbert is in ninth position
And the rest of them go round the De Ketterville hairpin
Leading up to Paddock Bend, the 140 mile an hour left-hander
And down towards the end of the first lap
And here is Michael Schumacher completing it
And the gap between Michael Schumacher at the end of lap one with 80 to go
And Damon Hill is already two seconds
With Hill two seconds ahead of Hakkonen
Hakkonen 1.5 seconds ahead of Barrichello
Mansell is still fifth, Lacey is sixth
Then it's Irvine, Brunwell, Herbert
Frensen is in tenth position
Followed by Gerhard Berger and Parnies 11th and 12th
The race is on
Indeed it is and a great start there
A nice clean start but a classic start from Michael Schumacher
We're looking at him now
Schumacher getting away with minimum wheel spin
Let's have a look, here we are on the right of the front Schumacher
Mansell gets too much wheel spin, has to lift off
Schumacher comes by, Hill has a look on the inside of Mansell
And in fact Hill very nearly comes through on the inside
In fact does come through on the inside now we see
But he was too tight, he lost a lot of ground there
That let Mansell close up
And we didn't sadly see what happened to Mansell
But it looked like through the Wakefield corners
He made a mistake and that's Mansell going by there
Barrichello, Mansell coming up the inside there
And Barrichello having another look round on the outside
He lost ground as Barrichello came up the inside
As Mansell came up the inside he braked a bit too late
And that meant Barrichello through
Now this is a big blow to Nigel Mansell
Because it was my belief that Mansell has got a light fuel load
And that should have enabled him to really go for it
And he needed to be right at the front and stay at the front to do that
And I think Mansell there made a mistake on those Wakefield corners on that one
He got wide
We're with Mansell now following Barrichello
We can probably see where he made that mistake
So this is the first corner, this is the Senna chicane
100 miles an hour up through the gears
Fourth gear, fifth gear, 100 to 70
Look at the sparks at the back of Barrichello, that's quite normal
Down to second gear, second gear 60 miles an hour
And this is where it happened
And up at the front there is sensation
Because Damon Hill is closing on Michael Schumacher
No doubt about that
As we ride with Nigel Mansell
Chasing Rubens Barrichello in the Jordan Heart
The young Brazilian, the man who took pole position in the Belgian Grand Prix
Is driving another superb race
They're coming up now towards the Markets Turn
That's the Markets on the left, down the long straight
And Schumacher leads, Damon Hill is in second position
The fastest lap is by Damon Hill, you saw the time
And that means that the Englishman has got the bit between his teeth now
He knows that the only man that he really needs to worry about in this race
Michael Schumacher is the man who is ahead of him
As they come out of the final hairpin
Now let's see what the gap is
As Schumacher crosses the line to start his third lap
Damon Hill is three tenths of a second behind him
And an enormous gap now building
Before Mika Hakkinen goes through in third position
When I say enormous, it's one and a half seconds
Barrichello goes through in fourth position
Because Nigel Mansell in going through on the inside of the Decaturville hairpin
Then did what Damon Hill did with Cross last year
He ran wide and enabled Barrichello to retake the place he had just lost
We're riding with Damon Hill
Now this is the approach to the Outer Brewery Bend as it is called
Now this is the fastest part of the course
Building up to 185 miles an hour
This is where the superior power of the Renault V10 engine should help Damon Hill
But it didn't help Cross against Senna with the Ford V8 engine last year
And it doesn't look to be helping Damon Hill very much this year
We're on lap four of the 81 lap Australian Grand Prix
Schumacher is now 1.8 seconds there he is ahead of Damon Hill
Hakkinen third, Barrichello fourth, Mansell fifth, the Lacey sixth, Irvine seventh
Martin Brunwell is in eighth position
And the fastest lap we have so far is that of Michael Schumacher
117.8
Now the big question for Damon Hill now that he's going to be trying to work out
Is how much fuel is Michael Schumacher running?
If Michael Schumacher is running through to his form throughout the year
That means he'll be running one quarter of a tank
He'll be making three stops and that means that he should be quicker
And if Damon Hill can keep up as he really is doing with Michael Schumacher at this stage
With Schumacher making his normal three stops
When I'm sure Damon will make two
That's good news for Damon Hill
But I suspected at the start of this race that Schumacher was going to run a conservative
A different strategy making just two stops
And that means that what we are seeing here is both these drivers, if I'm right
Working on the same fuel stop strategy
So it's a straight race between them
And certainly the fact that Schumacher seems to be unable to pull out more than about a tenth of a second
On Damon Hill a lap at the moment
Seems to substantiate the belief that these two drivers who have been pretty evenly matched all weekend so far
Are evenly matched now both on the same fuel strategy
In which case it will come down to what happens at the actual pit stop
When the four wheels and tires are changed
When probably about a hundred liters of fuel are pumped into the tank
Where when Schumacher approaching the center chicane
And he goes through that at about a hundred miles an hour
That's where he went off and completely destroyed his car
In practice he's coming up to the Wakefield Street right hander now
Third gear, now a little short dash up to East Terrace Bend
Then still in third gear another right hander
Then up East Terrace towards the market's turn
Lap six out of 81 Schumacher has got the race under control at the moment
And the German is enormously determined to become the first world champion that his country has ever produced
Well he's got the race under control to an extent
But he's not pulling away anything like as fast as we've seen happen in the...
Now here's the start from Hackenhans-McClaren
Let's have a look, off the line they go
The lights go green, now watch on the left there
There is Damon Hill, Nigel Mantle in the middle
Schumacher going for the outside
But Hill is on the inside, he's got the line for the center chicane
But he's too tight, he will lose speed on the exit
Mantle bottles up behind Hill
And now that's slowed all three of them up
Hackenham really right down on the revs there
You can hear the engine going
Now that's what gave Schumacher that break
And we're back with Schumacher now
But it's good news for Damon Hill because he's only losing
He's still within a tenth of a second
And you can see just how hard Schumacher's trying
This is a real race
Yes, and Damon Hill is actually gaining
He's on his seventh lap now
Out of the center chicane
Look back and you see no Mika Hackenham
So the two World Championship contenders are fighting it out for that point
And remember, Damon Hill has actually got to get two points ahead of Michael Schumacher
To win the championship
Now, the Benetton handling superbly as ever
Williams have worked very, very hard on this car at the beginning of the season
After a time when they had developed their superbly effective active suspension system
The passive suspension system, which is obligatory this year, was strange to them
And it took them a while to get the car right
They've certainly done that now
With Damon Hill and David Coulthard helping to develop the car
Before he drove in the team with Damon Hill
And the car handles now jolly nearly as well as the Benetton
The Benetton has got the advantage of a lighter V8 engine
Which probably makes it a slightly more nimble package
We're coming through to the end of another lap
Now let's see what the gap was
It was 1.48 seconds
Schumacher completes the lap
Damon Hill completes the lap
You can see that Hill visually has closed up on the Benetton
It's just one tenth of a second actually
1.3 seconds is the gap
Hakenon is now some 12 seconds, 13 seconds behind
And he's got Rubens Barrichello two and a half seconds behind him
So it's Benetton leading, Williams second, McLaren third, Jordan fourth
That's Mika Hakenon in third position
In fifth position is still Nigel Mansell
Who does not seem to be able to get past
And there he is, Nigel Mansell chasing Rubens Barrichello for fourth position
Yes and I'm very surprised Mansell has not found a way past the Jordan yet
Mansell must surely have 50 more horsepower with that Williams
And if we can run with these cars
They're coming down towards that corner now
Now this is a short blast up to 160 miles an hour before the Brewery corner
This leads onto the Main Straight
Here's where Mansell should be right with Barrichello
But he's not really close enough
But you'll see Mansell reeling Barrichello
Barrichello takes the midline
He won't I think block right on the inside
But Mansell really can't get close enough to have a go up the inside
Barrichello just gently moving across
But nothing wrong with that
So Mansell disappointingly back in fifth place still
But at the front really he'll right up with Schumacher
We're on lap seven
They've both got clear tracks in front of them
And I think they're going to stay that way for about another ten laps
Now if I'm right too about the fuel strategy
That's two stops
The first stop I think will be round about lap 25
That's the time when we should look out for it
Any earlier than that round about lap 17 or 18
And that will mean a three stop routine
This is the oldest driver in the race against the youngest driver in the race
The oldest Nigel Mansell
The youngest Rubens Barrichello
And once again it's a testimony to Brian Hart and his team of engineers at Harlow in Essex
Who produced this superb V10 engine
Which is propelling Rubens Barrichello's Jordan
Rubens Barrichello has already had a third position this year
He started in pole position in the Belgian Grand Prix
The youngest driver ever to do so
And just look at the way he's driving on this street circuit
Keeping back Nigel Mansell
We're on lap nine now
Schumacher is still one and a half seconds ahead of Hill
Hacken and is still third
Barrichello and Mansell fighting for the fourth
Alessi is in sixth position in the Ferrari
And it's very close between Mansell and Alessi
In fact there is the battle
In fourth position Barrichello
Fifth Mansell
Sixth in the red Ferrari
Jean Alessi who has come up from eighth on the grid
And bearing in mind how dominant Mansell has been in the Friday qualifying session
In this morning's warm up session
He has been by far and away the quickest man on the circuit this morning
And in the qualifying session he was at two hundredths ahead of Schumacher
I can't help wondering whether or not Mansell has actually damaged his car
With that first off that he had
We saw the front right up in the air
And when it came down I suspect there may be some damage
And that's why he's struggling to keep up
Let alone get by with Barrichello
With Alessi closing behind
And behind the top six with Alessi in sixth position
Martin Brunwell in the second
McLaren Peugeot is in eighth place
Mark Blundell in the Tyrrell Yamaha is twelfth
And frankly a disappointing Johnny Herbert
Who has not shone at all in practice
And seems, I'm sorry to say, to be joining the Joshua Staffan and JJ Leto club
In not being able to keep up with his team leader Michael Schumacher
Johnny Herbert is down in fifteenth position
And not lapping all that quickly compared with the people around him
But Damon Hill is doing so
By completing another lap now
Michael Schumacher seems to be holding the gap
At a steady one and a half seconds
They're coming through to complete lap ten
Already one eighth of the Australian Grand Prix has been completed
The one point five second gap
Where went Schumacher and he's got somebody slow in front of him
Now Schumacher won't be held up
It is the Frenchman Jean-Denis de la Traz
The, sorry, Swiss driver
I'll get his nationality right in a minute
And he is as predicted holding people up
Schumacher got past
Damon Hill was momentarily distracted
The gap has increased to one point six seven seconds
Just a tenth of a second
But Schumacher, who is tremendously fit
Is keeping up this terrific rhythm and speed
As he goes down the straight
Hackenon is dropping back
It's sixteen and a half seconds now
Between Hackenon in third place and Schumacher the leader
And I am absolutely delighted as I'm sure fans are all around the world
To see that the world championship is being fought out
By the two top men at the front of the Australian Grand Prix
Yes and they are well ahead of third place man Mika Hackenon
This must be Jean Alesi there
They are well ahead of Mika Hackenon
Who's now some nearly seventeen seconds behind after just ten laps
And it makes me wonder in fact whether or not Schumacher and Hill are not both
Going to run a three stop strategy
And that's why they are relatively so much quicker than Hackenon
Who after all in qualifying was only one tenth of a second away from Damon Hill there
Now if they are doing that then we shall find out in the next
About the next six or seven laps I think
That's when I would expect to see them coming in
But one thing I'm really pretty confident on
Is that Schumacher and Hill are running the same kind of routine there
Now the Ferrari, we're watching it now
The Ferrari really does have a horsepower advantage
Eight hundred and forty horsepower from its V12
And this should enable it to provide Alesi with a very good chance
Of blowing by Nigel Mansell
And particularly Barrichello on this main straight
Schumacher is still the fastest man on the track
Not only by virtue of the fact that he leads the Australian Grand Prix
But also because he has made the fastest lap of the race
Lap ten, we are on lap twelve now
Schumacher leads, Hill second
What a terrific performance by both of them
And you look down the straight and you see no other car
This is giving the lie without a doubt to the people who say
That man, Damon Hill, is not in the same class as previous world champions
He's hanging on to Michael Schumacher
Who is undoubtedly the class of the field in 1994
Completing another lap superbly
One point six seconds was the gap
They are now on lap thirteen out of eighty-one
There is Damon Hill and one point four seconds is the gap
So it's absolutely even-steven really
Hill is not carving into Schumacher's lead
I'm certainly not thinking that he's deliberately staying where he is
He obviously wants to be in the front
But as Jonathan has said
It's not until the race strategies in terms of who comes in when in the race
To take on more fuel and more tires becomes obvious
That we will know what is really going to happen
It's an exciting prospect
Yes, and you can see from Damon Hill's hands on the steering wheel
Just watching grapple with this car
This circuit is bumpy
The cars have to run lower than ever now
And the drivers have been complaining throughout the weekend
That they're always on the verge of spinning off
And the fact that they cannot drift the cars around
The moment they get slightly out of control, lose grip and start to skid
They're likely to spin
That's why we don't see Schumacher or Hill indulging in big sideways slides
As if they're really trying hard
But believe me, inside them the pressure that both of these drivers are withstanding tremendously is going on
Now Hill at the moment is probably about as close to Schumacher
As he's going to be able to get
Without losing aerodynamic efficiency from his car by following too closely
And what that means is that he will lose grip
Because the closer he gets from his gap now to Schumacher
The less effectively those wings will work and the less grip he will have
So he's really going to have to possibly even wait till the round of pit stops
Although it could be that traffic provides the opportunity for Hill to close up
And if Hill can get Schumacher leading onto this main straight
Then he'll be in good shape
Because the Williams is some 10 miles an hour faster than the Benetton on the main straight at the top end
Yes, and you can look ahead at Schumacher
Who's got a slower man in front of him that he's got to get past
And if he... it's another... it's Hideki Noda
The Japanese driver in the second of the two La Russes
His teammate has already been lapped
And if he doesn't move over and let Schumacher through
This is a golden opportunity for Damon Hill
But we're with Schumacher now and Hill goes through at the same time
And he's closer now than he's ever been
But he'll be mindful of the fact that that's where he spun last year at Damon Hill
At the Decaturville hairpin
But this is hardly a brawl-free strap
It is a sprint race strap
And we're going to have several of them during this race
Because remember they're coming in to change tires and take on more fuel
And you can almost read the writing on the rear wing of Michael Schumacher's Benetton Ford
From the forward-facing camera of Damon Hill's Williams-Renault
They're on lap 15 now
The gap is down to six-tenths of a second and it was 1.6
And on goes Mark Lundell
Mark Lundell has done it again
The Englishman in the Tyrrell Yamaha that we have seen spin off circuits so much this year
Did the same there
It's not too difficult to do of course because the drivers here today are on the razor's edge
Between staying on the track with adhesion and flying off it into the wall
And I wouldn't be at all surprised if we see Mark Lundell
Let's look at this, must be the Mark Lundell incident
He's coming into the very quick brewery corner, brakes too late, goes straight on and throws the car sideways
But look at those black lines
Those black lines means tire rubber worn off those tires
And that's going to mean that the car will vibrate because the tires are effectively D-shaped
And we've got Johnny Herbert's come into the pits in his Benetton there
It looks like a mechanical problem for Herbert
Certainly his performance has been rather lackluster and that hopefully has something to do with the car
It doesn't seem to be, it is certainly not fast enough to be simply a pit stop there
And indeed Mark Lundell has just gone out of the pit surely with a fresh set of tires on
But this for Herbert is more than just a tire stop
There is something I'm quite sure badly wrong with that Benetton car
Indeed it looks like he's out of the race
What a great shame there for Johnny Herbert
After a very promising qualifying in Suzuka just six tenths away from Schumacher
It looked as if there was at last a teammate capable of coming some way towards matching this absolute Maestro there
And you can see there the Ferrari cutting through the field
But now on lap 16 Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill keeping up the pace
Are pulling away from Vika Hakkonen as you watch
Nigel Mansell who has now got ahead of Rubens Barrichello
So Mansell is up in the fourth place and he's pulling away
Now you can see this is an indication of the fact as he closes up on Vika Hakkonen who is in third place
That once you get past the car if you're a faster driver who has been held up you can then streak away
Which is what Mansell is doing
He's leaving Barrichello who is now fifth
He's leaving Jean Alessi who is now sixth
And they are ahead of Eddie Irvine and in the pits is Christian Fittipaldi's footwork Ford
Exiting it after the first pit stop that I've seen
Christian Fittipaldi in then and now there is Hakkonen
Behind him is Mansell, behind him is Barrichello, behind Barrichello is Alessi
And they are third, fourth, fifth and sixth
What a scrap
Indeed and we're going to be seeing this is now with Jean Alessi there
He's got Rubens Barrichello just in front of him, he knows Mansell's gone by
He's going to be determined to get by himself
And certainly from the warm up times again I felt that Alessi was going to be running a three stop strategy
And he will want to try and get by the traffic to make best possible use of that
But ahead of Barrichello we're looking at a Peugeot versus Renault battle there
The V10 Peugeot in the back of Hakkonen's McLaren
He's been surprisingly slow at the moment
There's Mansell right behind him with a much more lengthy development program having got into the Renault V10
Now Alessi may be able to have a look inside of Hakkonen coming into Westfield
Ben's here on the right but no he's too far behind
It's going to be the main straight to provide the opportunity
And Mansell is now right on the rear wing of Mika Hakkonen
Just a bit back as they come out of the corner
Mansell has got the bit between his teeth up against the young Finnish charger Mika Hakkonen in the McLaren Peugeot
And because Nigel Mansell has got a much more powerful engine in the Renault
Van Hakkonen has in the Peugeot
And off slides the Eddie Irvine with smoke pouring up from the engine
I suspect something's locked up and that Eddie Irvine is out of the race
Yes he is, that's the second retirement of the day
Eddie Irvine
Yes and we saw the flames coming out of the engine cover of that Jordan there
Clearly an engine fire and I'm sure what happened there was that there was an engine problem
And it was that that caused Eddie Irvine to go off, not the other way round
So an engine problem fundamentally putting Eddie Irvine out of the race
But now here's Mansell, let's have a look, oh no, Eddie Irvine got on the curve there
That did look slightly odd there but certainly smoke coming from the engine
But maybe we shall certainly hear later on
And Olesi does indeed come in for his first pit stop
From sixth position in the Ferrari now we can see how long a pit stop is taking
It's a very short pit lane here, straight off the track, straight into the track
It's not a long drag in like it was at Suzuka
6.4 seconds for Jean Olesi
And Olesi when he came in was ahead of the seventh place man Frenzel
So he peaked well ahead so he should be out in front of the salvo
And looking at the pace again of Schumacher and Hill
They are pulling away 28 seconds from Hakena now
And this much surely looks towards running a three stop strategy for Hill and Schumacher
Which means that they too should be coming in in the next two or three laps
And there he is, Schumacher in
Schumacher into the pit lane now, what about Damon Hill?
Yes, they're coming in together, this is terrific excitement
Now it is down to the pit crews and usually Benetton are faster than Williams
Williams protested to me about that when I said so after Japan
But let's see now, there's Damon Hill and already Schumacher is out
Damon Hill comes out after him, well they came in together, they go out together
So I take it all back, the Williams team were just as quick as the Benetton team
We're now in two laps and 19.1, tyre change completed by the leaders
And of course the real difference this time from comparing a Williams tyre fuel stop with Benetton tyre fuel stop
Is that this time we can be pretty sure that they've both taken on the same amount of fuel
And that means the pit stop should be the same length
Whereas so often in the past we've seen Williams put on maybe 25 litres more fuel
Compared to the fuel that Schumacher would put on there making a three stop strategy
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A seasoned beef patty with lettuce, mayonnaise and a delicious teriyaki sauce
The Oriental Burger
You know I reckon we ought to come here more often
Never wondered why the world's great before
Burger, so it's V12 Ferrari against V12 Williams-Rena
And the Austrian has lost none of his skill
It was probably the bitterest blow for anybody
With the exception of Senna's relations when the Brazilian was so tragically killed at Imola
Because his team mate and great personal friend was Gerhard Burger
Who had already the previous day lost his Austrian friend Roland Ratzhemberger
And Gerhard Burger seriously considered leaving Grand Prix racing
But he went away and thought about it quietly a great deal
Decided that was his life
And neither Senna nor anybody else would want him to stop and he didn't
And he's recharged himself since then in a Ferrari which has been getting better and better race by race
But Nigel Mansell knowing exactly what the score is
Is increasing the gap between himself and the Ferrari
And on lap 44 out of 81 we are still astonishingly only just over half distance
In this 81 lap race and on lap 44 Nigel Mansell is 3.14 seconds ahead of Gerhard Burger
You're watching the man in third position, Mika Hakkinen in the McLaren Peugeot
Who is 10 seconds behind Burger
Fourth is Rubens Barrichello and in the pitch news from Mary Sheep
Yeah you've got to be heartbroken for Damon
I've just spoken to Damon and obviously he's absolutely heartbroken
When you see it on the replay you just make up your own minds what happened
It's just a disaster, it's just a shame that the race couldn't go on to the end
But I don't know, what's your opinion of it Murray?
We'll have to take a rain check on that one Barry because we're watching a colossal scrap now
Between Mika Hakkinen in third, Barrichello fourth in the Jordan
And Martin Brundle who sides his way through the field
And is in fifth position in the second McLaren Peugeot
Now they're completing a lap, let's see what the gaps are
Here is Hakkinen completing the lap, he's now on his 46th lap
Into the centre bends, Barrichello is about three seconds behind him
And Martin Brundle is about three seconds behind Rubens Barrichello
So it's Williams, the sole remaining Williams, Nigel Mansell on ten World Championship points
Which would very heartily consolidate the Williams team's Constructors' Championship win
If he stays where he is
Gerhard Berger on six points in second place
Mika Hakkinen that we're looking at on four, four third position
With Rubens Barrichello, there he is just coming out of the right hander
That is the gap between third and fourth with Martin Brundle in the second McLaren fifth
And up into six points, into sixth position in the Ligier Renault
Comes the French newcomer to Grand Prix racing this year
Olivier Parnis followed by Fred St. Sepp and Mark Blundell in the Tyrrell Yamaha eighth
And there we just saw looking back down the main Brabham St was one of the battles now of the Australian Grand Prix
That's Hakkinen third, Barrichello three and a half seconds behind in fourth, Brundle three seconds behind that in fifth
Now this is a kind of battle that we've seen so often here in the Grand Prix season
Between Jordan with their Hart engines
In fact Jordan are going to be getting the Peugeot engines that McLaren have got now for next season
With Martin Brundle really going well, he had a great warm-up session this morning
He was fourth in the warm-up and closing that gap
Both these, in fact all the cars that we've got in the top five
That's Mansell Berger, Hakkinen, Barrichello and Brundle all have got one more pit stop to make
Yes and Gerhard Berger is rapidly closing on Nigel Mansell
He's just taken some six tenths of a second out of the Williams lead
Christian Fittipaldi goes into the right hander in tenth position
A full lap ahead of Gerhard Berger that we're riding with now
And the car ahead of the car ahead, if you follow me, is Nigel Mansell
This is the fastest part of the track, here's race leader Mansell
And Gerhard Berger is right on his tail almost
There's the gap, they go into and in turn
Now it was 1.9 seconds at the end of the 46th lap
It's going to be less than that at the end of the 47th which they're completing now
With Gerhard Berger having got clear of Christian Fittipaldi
And Mansell is coming up behind another slower runner, let's see who it is
It's one of the La Rousses and that is 47 laps
We're on lap 47 now with another 35 to go
And it's De La Traz, the French newcomer, 17th who's already been lapped three times
Who's just been passed by Mansell and is now blocking Gerhard Berger
Yes, De La Traz really here, having no business in a moment of one
And demonstrating it there, he's plain spending all of his modest effort frankly
Keeping the car on the road, he's holding up Gerhard Berger there
Who's now lost a second on Nigel Mansell in the La Rousse
And this is I'm afraid one of the problems of the Grand Prix season at the end of the year
We do get one or two drivers being taken by people who've got more money than talent
And that's one example of it
But Gerhard Berger really going strongly in the race here
He had a difficult time in qualifying, he qualified back in 11th place
But the Ferrari team changed their set up substantially for the second day, for Saturday
It turned out to be wet and they were very competitive in the wet
And now that increased competitiveness appearing to show itself with Berger
Really closing up at the moment on Mansell
And Mansell has been himself quite a revelation here this weekend
In the qualifying session and in this morning's warm up
And he really should be a lot quicker on the evidence we've seen than Gerhard Berger
So again one can't help wondering if he's got some kind of residual
Albeit small problem with the handling of his Williams following that first lap excursion
And here are the retirements from the Australian Grand Prix thus far
Johnny Herbert out, Irvine out, Morbidelli out, Noda is out, Katiyama is out, Schiattarelli is out
And so is Damon Hill of course and Michael Schumacher
Who by colliding with each other on the 36th lap
Ended the World Championship in Schumacher's favour in a way that neither of them would have wished
Just one point at the end of the year after 16 races with Schumacher
Effectively taking part in 12
And look at the crush here as he makes his way back to the pit lane
And embraces his mechanics
It can't be, in the background is Pat Simmons who has done so much too
He's being lifted up by Schumacher now
And in the background still is Jim Brett who is the Cosworth engineer
But has done so much to bring on the Ford V8 Cosworth engine which has powered the Venetton team
But without wishing to be unkind, don't think that Michael Schumacher will be as entitled to be
As overjoyed about winning the World Championship the way he has
As he would have been if he'd been able to make a clean fight of it right to the end
It was his mistake that took him off the circuit
Damon Hill slowed down, well clear of him
The German turned in on Hill and bent the Williams wishbone in such a way that it was unrepairable
And couldn't be changed in the time that would make any difference
But racing is racing, Formula One is Formula One
And Michael Schumacher is the World Champion of 1994
And back to the racing and Rubens Barrichello is the man who's flying at the moment
He's now close to within one and a half seconds of Mik Hakenon
We're not looking at him, there's Mansell and behind Mansell of course is Berger
But now having dropped back to 2.4 seconds
So it would be nice to see what's going on with Barrichello particularly as he gets closer
Although sadly Martin Brungle has dropped back to six seconds behind Barrichello
But ahead of Mansell on the track at least is Ferrari teammate of Berger's Jean Alesi
So I'm sure there will be a little bit of a concern as to if Mansell and Berger come up to La Palace
Or get close to him as to the level of cooperation that we might see from Mansell from Alesi
Well, night's a long time since Nigel Mansell won a Grand Prix
Of course he did not compete in 1993 and he's only competed in four races this year
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So he's missed the whole of the 93 season and the 94 in terms of victories
And the on-car camera that of Rubens Barrichello shows you exactly what the course is like from just above the ground
That is the market's turn
Now we're into Brewery Bend
That's the Jones Strait we're going down now
In fifth gear at 160 miles an hour
Named after Australian world champion of 1980 Alan Jones
Now three times world champion the Sir Jack Crabham Strait
185 miles an hour for Rubens Barrichello down into second gear for the De Ketterville hairpin for 40 miles an hour
So Nigel Mansell leading lap 51
I would expect Mansell to come in for his second and final pit stop within the next three laps
Round about three laps time, lap 54 is when it should well be
With I would think Gerhard Berger being a bit later, maybe three laps later for his second pit stop
Bear in mind that his first stop was that much later too
There is Rubens Barrichello again and currently back in fifth position
But there's one slight question mark and that's whether or not Berger is indeed going to have to come in for a second stop
And looking at his pace, looking at the length of fuel stop, I really cannot see that he can continue until the end
Past the hospitality boxes goes Barrichello
We're on lap 52, race order on lap 52
Mansell leads, Berger second, Hacken and Ferg
Williams leads, Ferrari leads, McLaren
In fourth position another McLaren
Martin Brunwell, are McLaren going to get both their cars home in the top six?
Rubens Barrichello that we were with is in fifth position
Here is race leader Nigel Mansell completing his 52nd lap into his 53rd
And behind Barrichello in sixth position is the Ligier Renault of Olivier Parnis
Heinz-Harold Frensen is seventh for Salva
Alessi is eighth for Ferrari
Ninth is Marc Landel who has been lapped
So the leader Nigel Mansell has lapped everybody up to Jona Lacey who is in eighth position
And Nigel Mansell is lapping about three tenths of a second faster than the Ferrari
So and into the pits comes the McLaren of Martin Brunwell from fourth position
He was leading Rubens Barrichello in fifth place by 12 seconds
So Barrichello should just go through, he's gone through
Rubens Barrichello has gone up into fourth place, Parnis has not gone through, he's just going through now
Martin Brunwell may join the track, yes he has
Martin Brunwell has just managed to rejoin the track in fifth position
Ahead of the Ligier Renault of Olivier Parnis
And Martin Brunwell must be desperately hoping and praying that he gets through this race without breaking down
He's done it nine times in the 15 races that have already been held
And in spite of that he's in eighth position in the World Championship with 12 points
And the Englishman with an enormous amount of experience because he has driven for so many Grand Prix
Now is De La Tras going to move over and let Martin through?
This is a mobile roadblock if ever I saw one
And there will be a lot of people already saying that the Swiss driver who's never done anything in any of the categories that he's driven in
And that means Formula Ford, Formula 3, Formula 3000 and touring cars should not have a licence
And that's the next man who will surely come into the pits, Mika Hakkinen there has yet to make his second stop
What's going to be critical for Mika is to make it a quick slick stop to get out ahead of Rubens Barrichello
Barrichello got to within two and a half seconds, we're riding now with Hakkinen
And fourth gear at this point, 120 miles an hour, down to third at about 80, punching up again
Acceleration is blinding on these cars, 160 miles an hour now
And down to fourth gear, flicking through 125 miles an hour, just kissing the kerb, down the main straight, 185 miles an hour
And it could well be at the end of this lap when Hakkinen will come in, they'll want to make sure that they get
And that's Mansell coming in
Yes, lap 54, Nigel Mansell comes in and Olesi has gone through
Now Gerhard Berger will be taking the lead and has done so
And Nigel Mansell rolls up to his pit and he's going to be starting this lap when he gets out, I should think
About 20 seconds behind Gerhard Berger, who's in the lead
Now Mika Hakkinen has still not gone through, Nigel Mansell is going to rejoin in second place and has done so
And the gap is 15.3 seconds
And there is the McLaren of Mika Hakkinen from third position
Rumored Barrichello has gone up to fourth, third position as Mika Hakkinen streams out of the pit lane
Martin Brunel has yet to go through but he's going to do so any second now
And the race order on lap 55, with Mansell having completed his second tyre stop
Is Berger leading the Englishman by some 16 seconds
Mika Hakkinen that you look at is still third, Barrichello is still fourth
Martin Brunel has just gone through in fifth position and Olivier Parnese is sixth, the head of Alessi is seventh
And only those seven drivers from Berger to Alessi, Ferrari to Ferrari are on the same lap
Just a glimpse there of Nigel Mansell I think taking a rip-off, oh there it is on the ground, he's just lifted behind him I think
The rip-off of these clear thin films of plastic that are in front of the main visor
And as and when they get covered with bits of oil and dirt on them
And that's Barrichello, a ten second penalty there for Rubens Barrichello
That means he'll need to come in and come back into the pits and have what we call a stop-go penalty
And that's going to lose him further time, already Hakkinen was out of the pits well before Barrichello even got around the hairpin before the pit lane
I'm just racking my brains to think why Barrichello may have had a ten second penalty
Well it's for speeding in the pit lane, that's it, he was accused of that before in a previous race
I remember Eddie Irvine was extremely distressed about the fact that he thought he'd lost a place to Hakkinen as a result of the Finnish driver going quicker in the pit lane than he should have done
There is a 75 mile an hour speed limit for obvious safety reasons and that's what has stopped Barrichello or rather slowed him down
And the next lap we need to see is when this man, Gerhard Berger, is going to pit, if he's going to pit
I'm sure he is and it may well be on this lap, if it's not this then it surely must be the next
And then when he comes out we've got to watch the gap between Mansell and Berger because it was a mere two seconds before
And that's the kind of gap that can be completely overcome, it's not this lap, Berger goes by, it must surely be the next lap
And two seconds as we were saying is the kind of gap that can be completely overcome by variation in pit stop technique
And the combination of putting in that 70-80 litres of fuel, changing all four tyres, all of that taking seven or eight seconds
There is a lot of room for mistakes to be made and that could well cause the lead to be lost for Mansell if Berger could make a quicker, slicker pit stop
But the one on Mansell's part didn't look bad, it has to be said
And you're watching Race Neither, Gerhard Berger and I give you the news that the Ferrari team are getting ready to receive somebody
It must be Gerhard Berger, the gap between himself and Nigel Mansell at the end of the previous lap was 19.5 seconds
With Mansell having made his final tyre stop and I believe that Berger will be coming in at the end of this lap
We'll know soon because he's down the Jack Brabham straight into the De Ketterville hairpin
He's got to go round the long left-handed paddock bend up to the slight right sweeper before the second gear Adelaide hairpin
Down to 45mph, is he going to turn in? Yes! Gerhard Berger comes into the pit
And this is where the lead in the Australian Grand Prix could change
You see the Ferrari is quite a long way down the pit lane and it's calling for Plue Perfect, worked now from the Ferrari team
They're very good at this, the seconds are ticking by, seven seconds plus whatever it took him to get in and get out
And I'm looking for Mansell, he's not yet gone through, there he is! Berger is back on the track
Mansell is now second still but closer, 4.7 seconds, the gap has been reduced by that amount and the battle is on
Just as we saw Schumacher and Hill battling for lap after lap for leadership in Australia and the World Championship since resolved in Schumacher's favour
Now we're watching a battle between the two veterans in the Australian Grand Prix, Gerhard Berger, there he is
Nigel Mansell, there he is, first and second and Mansell is going for it
So what we thought might happen in the pit stops really has happened and that's that Berger did his pit stop effectively quicker than Mansell did a few laps earlier
These two were separated by two seconds with Mansell ahead, now the tables are turned and Berger was out quicker
Now one of the reasons for that is in fact related to that late first stop from Berger because it meant that the Ferrari team had to put... and Mansell goes through!
No he doesn't because Gerhard Berger just manages to close the door in time, this is lap 58 and we're going to see a lot of that
because Nigel Mansell can see a draw-free victory in his return year to Formula One in front of him and Gerhard Berger can see a second win for Ferrari
There's a replay and you see the way Berger closed the door
Yes, very mature driving for both of these drivers here and this is very very interesting because we've seen in a way the young chargers of Schumacher and Hill
have their battle earlier on in the race with the consequences of that
We've now got two and in fact with Mansell the oldest driver in Formula One, with Berger one of the most experienced drivers in Formula One
still proving they're quick, but let's just hope they're proving they're mature as well as the race goes on
but I was just saying with Ferrari that as a result of that first pit stop being late for Ferrari they had to put in less fuel on that second pit stop
and that would have contributed and Rubens Barrichello coming in for his stop go, this must surely be it
and he will have to come to a complete stop and he will be then flanked away by the Marshall at the appropriate time
He was in fourth position, Martin Brunwell goes through, there he is in the background, you just saw him go through to the centre she came
So Barrichello has lost fourth position to Martin Brunwell as a result of the penalty of ten seconds for speeding in the pit lane
and Gerhard Berger and Nigel Mansell are fighting for victory in Australia
The World Championship may be over but on lap 59 out of 81 with a lot still to go, a lot of excitement with us
The race is far from over, we're with Mansell now, Berger is staying ahead
If Ferrari can win this race it would be a magnificent bonus for the Maranello concern
after all the work that they have methodically and painstakingly been putting into developing that V12 powered car in 1994
They've turned the team around entirely, there's a new president and Mika Häkkinen has got a penalty
Well that will be for the same reason I'm sure, speeding in the pit lane, it is
This is ironic because Barrichello had a ten second penalty for speeding in the pit lane
as a result of which Mika Häkkinen benefited and he's running third to Barrichello's fourth
and now exactly the opposite is happening, Häkkinen has got to come in for a ten second stop
we're watching the Finnish driver who is third but he won't be for very much long, oh he might be actually
because he is some 16 seconds ahead of now Martin Brunwell because the McLarens are third and fourth
and that I think is the best they have been this year yet but now into the pits comes Jean Alessi from sixth position
My goodness it's hard to keep up with this race, it's changing every lap of the distance
Berger leads, Mantel second, Häkkinen third, Brunwell fourth, Barrichello fifth, Parni sixth, Frensson seventh
and Mark Lundell eighth as after a long pit stop, Jean Alessi who was ninth exits
he'll still be there because Fittipaldi in tenth position is a long way behind the Frenchman
Well that will be a furious Jean Alessi there, he's making the last of his three stops
that should have been a mere six, 6.2 seconds, it was a lot longer
and this is going to mean that Alessi really is out of it in terms of the results I'm afraid today
but let's just consider these pit stops, these pit stop pit lane speeding infringements here
the speed limit in the pit lane is 80 kph, that's 50 miles an hour
a regulation introduced after the Minardi of Albaretto lost a wheel at a pit stop
and Mantel is actually right with Berger now
Yes Mantel is on a charge again, you can see the way these cars handle now
and who's got the superior speed, the Ferrari V12 engine has been remapped
to adjust the torque of the power, Mantel goes through and again Gerhard Berger says
oh no you don't Nigel, I've seen that one before, you didn't do it before
and you're not going to do it this time either
Now the important thing here for Berger is to keep it neat and tidy all the way around the lap
until he comes to the main straight on that Brabham straight once again
and he's got to keep it neat and tidy there it has to be said
but what he cannot afford to do is run wide anywhere
providing he does that Mantel will not be able to get by
The really crucial corner for Gerhard Berger is what's called Brewery Bend
it's that very quick 125 miles an hour flick before the main straight
that's what Berger needs to get right to ensure his speed is kept up through that
to ensure that Mantel cannot get a run on him and then drag alongside
and get alongside earlier up into that hairpin
Do you know what this reminds me of?
It reminds me of Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mantel at Monaco
except that at Monaco which Ayrton Senna won by a whisker from Nigel Mantel
the race with the battle for the lead was over a much shorter distance
than we're going to have the pleasure of watching now
because we're on lap 62, there are still 20 laps to go
including the one they're on where with Berger now
we might even see Nigel Mantel coming up alongside because this is where he attacks
and twice we saw Gerhard Berger glance across, look in his mirrors
he was doing that clearly to check where Mantel is
Berger's ahead, there's no problem now
but Berger does not want to drive dirty
Berger wants to keep to his normal line
he only wants to have to come across and close the door on the inside
and make it difficult for Mantel if Mantel's got a realistic chance
of being able to out break him and get by
now all the time that Mantel is a certain distance behind
Berger can happily continue to take his outside line
so that's what Berger was doing, he was watching behind
but let's just briefly go back to that pit stop speed limit
it should be 50mph and indeed there shouldn't be any excuse to actually infringe that
because these cars are all equipped with an electronic device that limits the speed
when the driver pushes a certain button to just 50mph to actually prevent this very thing
and occasionally you'll hear the cars misfiring coming out of the pit lane
and when they do that, and there is Hackenon coming in for his penalty
now let's look for Charlie Whiting, he'll be in a blue shirt and blue trousers, grey hair
he's the man that will operate the equipment which tells
there he is, you see, in the dark glasses
and the mechanics are bringing up the starter mechanism
just in case Mick and Hackenon stalls the McLaren
the seconds are ticking away, out he goes
and as Hackenon rejoins the track, he is still ahead of Brunwell
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welcome back to the Grand Prix of Australia
here while we were in commercial we had an incident involving Gerhard Berger
a race leader
he was going to a corner a little bit too rapidly and here we see slow motion
he got on the kerb there and he could not take the corner
so he wisely went straight down the escape road
letting Nigel Mansell, as you see him coming through there, on the right hand side the blue and white car
and that, I'm afraid, could be this race
because Nigel Mansell now leads this race comfortably
Gerhard Berger still hounding him for second place
but that was a mistake that Berger will live on
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second behind Mika Hakkinen at the moment is Rubens Barrichello. This is
actually the closest battle of the race although we've got Gerhard Berger
really gamely trying to catch Nigel Mansell once again and this is just the
kind of situation an old stage like Berger really relishes when things are
going well for him. It's a good day, the weather conditions are good and he's
going to be really having a charge and there'll be nothing more motivating for him
than seeing Nigel Mansell ahead and there's the battle that's Mika Hakkinen
there. Mika Hakkinen 0.6 of a second is not anymore that's definitely closer
ahead of Rubens Barrichello but Barrichello has obviously got to try and
get by Hakkinen and Hakkinen himself has taken half a second off the seven
second gap up to Martin Brando. So looking like a really good battle for
third place in the final 15 laps of the Australian Grand Prix. And hats off to
Rubens Barrichello the young Brazilian I said earlier on he's the youngest man in
the race of 22 years old this is only his 32nd Grand Prix and he's driven
absolutely superbly sixth in the World Championship at the moment and he's
demonstrated that he has real class. Rumours in the middle of the season that
McLaren were not only after him for next year but had signed him for next year
although that is far from certain at the present time but whatever Rubens
Barrichello in the Hart V10 powered McLaren and the destiny of the Hart
next year is unknown is closing up on Hakkinen. Once again there was a plume of
dark black dust coming from the right-hand front wheel of the McLaren as
Hakkinen brakes. No locking wheels this time it just shows you how hard the
brakes have to work they actually have a surface temperature of 1,000 degrees
when they're braking hard and this straight at the end of Adelaide
breaking down to that hairpin is probably one of the hardest braking
points of any circuit in the world and they've already been driving for an hour
and a half with 15 laps still to go and 10 tenths for most of them they haven't
had a second's relaxation in this race which is turning out to be an absolutely
brilliant climax to the 1994 year it's a great great pity but the championship
battle between Schumacher and Hill couldn't have continued and been
resolved on the track instead of in the wall but nevertheless a great battle for
the leadership now on lap 67 as Hakkinen comes up behind De La Traz again and the
Swiss driver moves over he's now believe it or not 10 laps behind that gives an
indication on lap 67 lap 68 he's 10 laps behind the leaders well Berger certainly
hanging on in there he's not losing much if anything to Nigel Mansell we've got
another 14 laps to go here and whilst we watch Mansell really trying a bit of a
slide there from Mansell with the Williams they've done some 67 laps this
really is a demanding circuit and the accuracy that the drivers have to
continuously maintain lap after lap is quite remarkable just look at the edge
of the tires of these two experts against the curves now in straight
lining the corners that's taking the racing line they will be using if
they're right on it every single inch of the circuit and trying to judge a gap of
just two to three inches away from these apex curves and that's a car spun there
not sure it was it might have been a Tyrol or Blundell and Blundell it is
indeed it looks actually damaged to me as well so it looks like Blundell is
actually out of the race we may be able to see more of that later but again look
at the precision of the way these drivers place the wheels of their cars
at up to 190 miles an hour and they're doing that lap after lap after lap it's
impossible to comprehend what it's like if you have actually done it yourself
and there's very few people in the world who have but when you think that they're
taking 4g forces on their bodies around some of the corners here which means
that their body weight is four times normal due to the sideways pressure as
they go around corners and there's that massive heat in the cockpit there's the
roaring 800 horsepower engine behind them there's the most incredible
acceleration forces and deceleration braking forces non-stop all the way
around the circuit is there up and down through the gears on and off the brakes
on and off the power lap 69 down the straight Mansel still leading Berger
still second Brundell still third McLaren Hacken and still fourth McLaren
Barrichello fifth Jordan Parni sixth Ligier, Frenz and seventh Salva and
Alisi eighth a lap adrift in the second Ferrari and more traffic once again that
is I think the Salva of Frenz that's ahead of Mansel there the Salva team not
having gone particularly well this weekend they have made the announcement
that they're going to be running the Ford engine the Z-TEC engine that
Bennetton have used this year but the last time we had some traffic it was
Berger that lost out Berger got unsighted by Alvarado got distracted hooked
the curb now let's just hope for Mansel's sake it's not going to happen to him
let's just hope too that Frenz is going to let these two battling drivers
through continue on with their own race because Frenz is back in seventh
place and he's some way 8.9 seconds behind Olivier Panis who is in sixth
one of the finds of the season heights Harold Frenz signed by the Salva team
after driving in Japanese Formula 3000 races and before that he was a Mercedes
Benz sports car driver he's driven extremely well in his first Grand Prix
season but he wants to get out of the way of Nigel Mansel Berger is going to
be right up behind him and Berger can see of course just as Nigel Mansel can
that he's got a golden opportunity and you can see the power of that Ilbo
built Mercedes Benz engine as Heinz Harold Frenz put his foot down
and through goes Nigel Mansel and to lap Heinz Harold Frenz again Gerhard Berger
does not get through so that's an advantage for Nigel because now between
the two cars is the Salva of Heinz Harold
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in third position Brando and as Jonathan has just told you it's a close run thing
between Martin Brundle and his teammate Mika Hakkinen for third position and
it's getting closer all the way because hacking is now within three seconds of
Randall but it's interesting here with the two Ferrari drivers because a Lacey
of course made a later pit stop it was a long pit stop but he will have fresher
tires on they'll both be having the same amounts of fuel because they're running
to the end of the race now so in theory with his fresher tires a Lacey could be
able to run quicker than Berg but I suspect that a Lacey knowing he's back
in eighth place with little chance of doing a lot about it may well be happy
to let Berger continue without obstruction and to help him in his chase
of Nigel Mansell ahead now four and a half seconds behind there there are only
nine laps to run and that's looking like a tall order for Keir Harberger to try
and pull back and a lot of this gap has been precipitated by following Frenzane
for just too long when Frenzane would not let him by 120,000 Australians and
other nationalities are here to see this race on top of the 210,000 who have
already been here for the previous day Mika Hakkinen closing up visibly now on
Martin Brungle ahead and again the level of determination demonstrated by
Hakkinen was shown with those blooms of black smoke coming out of the right hand
front wheel under braking for the hairpin have a look if you can next time
around if we're on it but it's it really is absolutely fascinating watching that
go on meantime it really does look as though Nigel Mansell having scored 32
pole positions with the one that he scored here yesterday on Friday is going
to have his 31st Grand Prix win but there is still a way to go and with a
disconsolate Damon Hill is Barry Sheen. Damon, as far as we were concerned it
looked like you had it really under control. Well I pushed him very hard all
the way I was a terrific race and all I can say is that it's over now and it's a
bit of an empty feeling but I think I gave him a good run for his money and
he certainly was feeling the pressure because he ended up falling off the road
Well that's it you couldn't really do any more than that could you? No and I
saw the opportunity I thought I've got to go here and that it didn't happen. So
in other words you'd say that's sport that's racing? I'm afraid so that is that
that's motor racing I'm afraid that going into the last race with one point
deficit to Michael is always going to be unfortunately putting you in the position
where you've got everything to lose what I had you know I couldn't win in that
sort of situation and I think I would want to say that everyone in the Williams team deserves some sort of medal this year because we've been through a hell of a tough time and to be here at least in the last race fighting to win the championship and looking very
strong looking competitive the Renault engine was strong and the whole team
was terrific and I'd just like to say thanks to all of them this year and
we'll come back next year. Great thanks a lot
An understandably gutted Damon Hill very generously conceding defeat but at the
same time not uttering a word of criticism about Michael Schumacher and a
lot of people will be doing just that after this race we're on lap 75 now and
you can see the gap between Nigel Mansell red two leading Gerhard Berger
number 28 there he is in the Ferrari still with his teammate
Jean Olesi a lap behind him Olesi in seventh position and Nigel Mansell is
calmly at the present moment maintaining the gap at 2.9 just under three seconds
with seven laps to go including the one they're on this is going to be an epoch
making and historic Australian Grand Prix if they finish the way they are
now and John Olesi is having a look inside Gerhard Berger but I think not
with the intention of moving past his teammate because Olesi knows that the
last thing on earth that Gerhard Berger wants is a Ferrari between himself his
Ferrari and the Williams Renault of Nigel Mansell so Olesi is riding
shotgun going through now to complete that 75 into another six laps to go
Berger second Brundle third Hacken and fourth there's only two and a half
seconds between the two McLarens fifth is Barrichello sixth is Parnes seventh is
Olesi and eighth is Frentzen. Yes casting back there to that remarkably
composed Damon Hill I'm sure that he's in for many many nights of mulling over
whether or not he should have lunged for that gap up the inside of Michael
Schumacher on not this corner this was where Schumacher went off that's where
he hit the wall on the right Damon had a lunge for the inside on the on the apex
there Schumacher closed the door and it has to be said if Damon hadn't gone for
that gap then he probably would have been well well he would have been world
champion was I suspect that Schumacher had damaged his car but Damon was not
necessarily to know that and that presented itself with an ideal
opportunity to capitalize on Schumacher's mistake and go for the inside and
although perhaps in the circumstances he might have known that Schumacher would
be that desperate that he closed the door even in a virtually impossible
situation all this of course will heighten the controversy about who is
going to drive for Williams in 1995 with three contenders for two seats Damon
Hill second in the world championship of 1994 Nigel Mansell the world champion of
1992 who looks as though he's about to have his 31st Grand Prix victory and
newcomer David Coulthard who this year has proved to be very quick indeed but
now Nigel is on lap 77 lap 77 78 79 80 and 81 five laps to go between Nigel
Mansell on his return to Grand Prix racing this is his fourth race in the
year really his return to Grand Prix racing in France can hardly count
because well as he went to be second on the grid to Damon Hill that was the
seventh race of the season in July and he was really just punctuating his
second season of Indy racing came back to a very strange beast the Williams
Renault Formula One car in comparison with his Lola Ford Indy car and he
didn't come back really until the European Grand Prix at Arethe and at
that time Nigel said to me I hope that nobody is going to judge me on my
return to Formula One by what I do at Arethe because it's a very different
animal even from the one I drove in France for instance it had the 10
millimeter skid block the wooden plank in quotes underneath the car which
changes the ride height and reduces downforce Nigel had to learn that car
all over again he drove brilliantly in Japan and now look how well he's going
in the last Grand Prix of the year and you'll notice I'm not saying anything
positive because I've said that too often in the past and had something go
wrong but we're now on lap 78 Nigel Mansell is leading Gerhard Berger who
has actually gone half a second faster in the previous lap but it really does
look as though Nigel Mansell and that's off goes the McLaren and that is Mika
Hakkinen so he's slid right out of the race you can see the top of the chassis
is off exposing the master cylinders for the suspension and that was just a
straight slide off it seemed to me and that means of course now with Brungle in
third position up to fourth position will go Rubens Barrichello to fifth with
Gopanis to sixth and Latt will go Jean Alessi it does look as though the two
Ferraris are going to be in the top six there's a replay that's what happened he
lost it on the right spun into the wall on the left and hopefully although it
was a very very heavy impact here's a replay and it's on the approach to
Brewery Ben Staggton yes this is where coming down now down the main Brabham
straight into the hairpin this is where we were seeing that dust come out of his
right hand wheel he breaks hard loses control the car spins the left-hand side
gets damaged very seriously I have to say that is not on the state by Mika
Hakkinen I don't think fundamentally although because the real problem I'm
sure was a brake problem with that McLaren car the only thing one might
have said that is he could have anticipated here we go the car he breaks
the rear locks up the car spins around bounces over the curbs bang into the
armco the very very strong carbon-fibre central survival cell tub doing its job
with the seat belts there a great shame for Mika Hakkinen because he really was
driving extraordinarily well he retired from last year's race with brake
problems and he looks like he's done so with the consequences of brake problems
here and Hakkinen a driver who certainly uses them very hard but then it's up to
the team to really make sure the brakes can do the job Nigel Baird so coming up
behind Olivier Parnis fifth position in the Ligier Renault they've got the same
type of engine he goes through Gerhard Berger does Gerhard Berger get through
ahead of the Frenchman who is in fifth position the answer is no that's a help
to Nigel Mansell Parnis will be pressing as hard as he can and with
Hakkinen out of the race as lap 79 is about to be completed with Nigel Mansell
starting the penultimate lap of the 1994 Australian Grand Prix ahead of Gerhard
Berger by the distance that you can see it's Berger Mansell Brunwell Barry
Kello Parnis Alacey and that's just the kind of brake Mansell wanted Parnis there I think
Mansell's looking pretty safe in a race that's been quite extraordinary an early
great start from Schumacher saw him lead a very hard charging Damon Hill but a
mistake ultimately one of the very few he's made in fact the only mistake he's
made in a race all year from a driving point of view putting Schumacher
effectively out of the race must have damaged his car and then Schumacher
ruthlessly closed the door but at the end of the day Schumacher's world champion I
do believe he's the very best driver out there it has to be said but it would have
been much better to have ended the season on that with that result in a
more favorable circumstance with Damon Hill really proving once again that he
really does have the ability to perform when it really counts he did so in Japan
and he's done so again here maybe he shouldn't have lunged to the inside at
that point recognizing that Schumacher should have had a limping car but really
who knows the door was there and it may have been the only opportunity but what
a great win for Nigel Mansell this is likely to be the Britain coming back
with the with his three autumn races really proving throughout the weekend
that he's got a tremendous amount of pace and Gerhard Berger also proving
that there is there is little expect little substitute for experience and
maturity with pace combined and Lacey pushing him hard there and McLaren
having a good result great result third place a win for Senna last year and
hopefully a third for Martin Brungle at the end of 1994. Thank heavens you said
likely to be Jonathan because many a Grand Prix has been lost on the last lap
on which Nigel Mansell is now looking good for his 31st Grand Prix victory
having won for Williams having won for Ferrari having come back to Grand Prix
racing to drive in four of the 16 World Championship races this year and it
looks as though he's going to finish the last one as in a victorious position
because he's well down the lap now turning in and down the long long
straight less than half a lap to go now between this the checkered flag and his
31st win I rode away from the circuit with him yesterday after he had confirmed
pole position in the wet conditions he took it in the dry on Friday and he said
to me laughingly I bet that made a few people think didn't it who said I was
too old well it certainly did this will make them think even more because Nigel
Mansell is almost home and dry to win the 1994 Australian Grand Prix and Nigel
Mansell wins in Australia
fantastic Gerhard Berger second in the Ferrari and Nigel there it is the master
is back what is this going to mean for 1995 well Gerhard Berger finishes second
in Australia Martin Brundle has yet to come home he's on his last lap there are
only going to be four finishes of the full 81 lap race distance and that is
Martin Brundle who's had a second place this year he's had a fourth, a fifth, a sixth
and now he's almost completed it because he's third the only position he hasn't
finished in the top six is first and McLaren and Peugeot can be very happy
with the termination of their partnership because theirs is one of the
many chassis engine combinations that finish here in Australia today victory
for Mansell just two and a half seconds ahead of Gerhard Berger Williams-Renault
wins Ferrari second and the Maranello concern will not be at all unhappy
about that the McLaren concern with Martin Brundle take third position
Rubens Barrichello is fourth and the last man to go the full distance as Nigel
says there we are folks I knew I could do it a lot of you thought I could do it
and I have proved it and the great showman of Formula One the man to whom
something always seems to be happening that's the Isle of Man police that you
can see on his left sleeve because Nigel was a special constable in the Isle of
Man to which he has now returned to live and he's now on his rundown lap a
wonderful winner in Australia yes Nigel seems to have done extremely well after
the odd mistake at the Australian Grand Prix weekend he managed to take pole
position after spinning albeit because he found the track obstructed in
qualifying but another great recovery from that and in the race here today he
had that first lap off that was quite dramatic but Mansell with characteristic
dogged determination proving once again that he is fit enough he is up to the
task and he really does have a combination of pace maturity and sheer
determination that is still virtually unrivaled in Formula One maybe he will
be saying to Frank Williams this evening now then can we discuss 1995 we don't
know of course that there isn't already Nigel Mansell's name on a Williams
contract for 1995 with contention about whether Damon Hill is in fact going to
drive for the team next year because he's a pretty unsatisfied chap at the
moment obviously was when I was talking to him a couple of days ago about this
very subject but now Nigel turns into the garage his car will go into the Park
Fairmay for technical check and knowing the Williams team who are perfectly good
but making sure that their car is legal and will not be any problem there and
it's it's a good spread you saw there the situation with Damon Hill just
missing out by that one World Championship point after a very very
gritty season which brought him six wins Nigel Mansell on the left Gerhard
Berger on the right
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welcome back to Adelaide Gerhard Berger there with Nigel Mansell two great old
mates and Martin Brungle there from McLaren who got third spot here in the
Adelaide GP but Nigel very very happy with what's happened here I guess he'd
be very very disappointed though but Damon Hill but for the moment this is
his moment it was a terrific race he had a an ordinary start but made his way
through the back of his there's the traditional limp and he comes out and
boy does this fellow know how to work up a crowd he plays to them tremendously
well and they do like him off goes a glove into the crowd and there's just
thousands and thousands down there on pitch straight waiting for the
formalities but he's been around he's done it all he's been a world
champion both at IndyCar and in Formula One and he's come back 39 years of age
and he's won the Adelaide Grand Prix and tried to do it in 86 the world
championship with that famous blown tire was his nemesis today he's had
disappointment and success and I'm talking about bitter disappointment for
the Williams team at the same time success for Frank Williams by winning
the GP but losing the world championship by that near point look at that crowd
terrific crowd that stayed around there's plenty more for them to see and
enjoy and savor as they throng down pitch straight and there is Nigel
Gerhard Berger and Martin Dondel
Nigel Mansell champion here at the Adelaide Grand Prix and a terrific
heavy race by him in the end there's a good old battle between him the old
protagonist Gerhard Berger finally had his way and came away with the trophy
tenth Adelaide Grand Prix so that's something to remember for Nigel the
oldest driver in the race man with a wealth of experience really does love
coming here to Adelaide has got family living here so it's a place he knows
well likes the golf courses likes the people in return they like him too and
that's the same way with Gerhard Berger also a very very popular figure here in
Adelaide but we have seen a race of mixed fortunes the race that was probably
bittersweet and you think about what happened around about lap 32 with Damon
Hill and Michael Schumacher
on this day Nigel just likes everybody he's been very very relaxed ever since
coming to Adelaide he's enjoyed the crowds and been very very good with the
media here had Berger always cooperative and as I said a popular
figure here and is well followed by many Ferrari fans a real pro and like Nigel
been around for a long long time
sometimes you think that Nigel is the host for this Grand Prix the way he
seems to stage manage everything that's going on but he knows how to give his
sponsors the very very best value and we're just about to see the traditional
champagne spray nobody is so particular officials wearing ties and jackets but
in this case it's just the three the three drivers but Nigel getting more
Moe on his about his entire career wonderful crowd just to sell out here
today it's been just one of the most successful GPs that Adelaide has ever
stays and so fitting on the 10th anniversary to just to see so many people
turn up for the championship decided between Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher
Schumacher making it by just that one point it was interesting to see that
when it became very obvious that Schumacher had won that the Benetton
team the mechanics they gave a finger salute to the Williams mechanics so
there's it's a fair bit of there's a fair bit of aggro going on between those
two right now here is Martin
well Nigel Mansell and welcome back congratulations on your first Grand
Prix victory for a little over two years on your return to Formula One but today
perhaps more than anybody after your experiences here eight years ago with
that famous tire blower you will know exactly how Damon Hill must be feeling
today yeah but you know I've got to say first of all what a fantastic job he's
done I mean he bought the championship alive he won those races which he had to
and I don't know the outcome of it obviously he's lost a championship but
I'll tell you what I'm for one very proud and the whole country should be
is done fabulous well you certainly proved a point yourself this afternoon
and with this victory he surely indicated your desire to be back in
Formula One full-time how are the experiences today and also perhaps a
thought for the future how well I mean I think Gerhard summed it up on the podium
but I can't repeat what he said I just said we are all three the first three
together under 20 years
he called me an old bastard
getting back to the race for a second the Constructors Championship also
clinched today with your victory must be a great Philip for the team after a very
very difficult year a very difficult year indeed and obviously very
disappointing for the team for Damon especially but when there's a loser
there's a winner and I have to say congratulations to Michael he's done a
fantastic job all year many congratulations Michael thanks can we go
now turning to you Michael world champion the first German world champion
in the championships 45 year history but I'm sure that there are a lot of people
including yourself who would not have wished to have seen the championship
decided in this way certainly I mean it was a very great battle between me and
Damon in in the stage of the race tough race I have to say and he has done a
really good job during that race we both haven't done mistakes and it was really
really I would say thrilling for you at the outside I have to say that I did
make some comments this year that about about Damon that I didn't have that kind
of respect that I maybe had about somebody else but I have to admit that I
was wrong because what he has done in the last two races in particular and he
must have done even before has been a proper and fantastic job and as it has
been a great rival and I must say sorry for for what I maybe said but I'd like
to congratulate him for all his good jobs he has done so far but nevertheless
the feeling about the championship winning the championship which I nearly
won earlier this year and then got banned for a couple of races and couldn't
continue lost a lot of points where I thought now it's gonna be very very
tough and difficult to to make this championship up again just now sitting
here and won it it's it's it's a dream it's it's the emotions in me I mean
Nigel can talk about this as well you can't really bring it bring it outside I
mean I just just have them here and can't express them it will get better
it will get better I must I must really as well say that our team has this year
done a really really good job they with the package we had available we really
squeezed down 100% there was nothing left as you saw it got more and more
difficult towards the end of the season but they have done a really really good
job and I'd like to thank to these peoples but I have something special to
say about this whole season the season has been started quite well I would say
in Brazil even I either it was a good race and then we came up to Imola and
what there what happened there is it's just a when I talked about nightmare in
the before then I have to say it's it's in the other direction and all of us know
what kind of feelings we had to make about dance about this particular fight
and but as well for Roland and as well for Kyle what happened in Monte Carlo
for me it was always clear that I not gonna win the championship and it's
Ayrton who is gonna win the championship but he hasn't been there
for the last races and I'd like to take this championship and give it to him
because he is the driver who should have earned it he had the best car he was the
best driver and that's my feelings about him it was difficult at the time to to
show my feelings because I'm not somebody who likes to show the feelings
to out to the outside but I always thought about it and it's it's the right
time now to to give something which I which I achieved which he should have
achieved to give it to him thank you well Gerhard race this excitement and
drama first I want to say congratulations to my club well done very
good to say Michael did a brilliant job all the year not many mistakes and I
think you really deserve it I'm sorry about Damon I think Damon as
Michael say short and especially the last two races that he also is able to
do a great job yours is able to win the championship and it's always like this
one has to win it and one blues it but he gonna have still time to win it and
he gonna do it the race after day was very hard for myself because I had to
start in 11 position and I was stuck in traffic in the beginning it was very very
difficult but suddenly I find myself under good conditions behind natural we
had a good fight unfortunately the mistake I touched the curb and then went
off I was very very lucky and then I was very upset with Franzen because he
didn't look into the mirror I spent two laps behind him and I think so I was
really surprised that he is not able to look into the mirrors it's very
disappointed in this you know in a fighting situation like we was but
happen and then I not really had any chance anymore to to fight natural but
I'm happy like this it's because I before the race I didn't think that I
gonna be second and he did a great job I think cannot be possible 50 years to
be still pushing like this and he didn't have any mistake and he was really great
driving congratulations thanks nicely said by those three drivers there and
Michael Schumacher particularly emotional as you would imagine there's
the crowd down pitch straight they just don't want to leave and why should they
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one more year to go and it's going to be a lot of people to see the GP sorry to
see the GP move from this terrific venue we will be back in Adelaide in just a
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back in Adelaide and Murray Walker joins me what a race it was an absolute
thriller and then all of a sudden it sort of nosedive for a while and then we
had of course the confrontation between burger and a man so in the end but I
guess a lot of people are going to dissect that that crash so many many
times and I don't think it becomes any clearer of just who's absolutely at
fault but I guess everyone's gonna have an opinion well it's always terribly
easy can to sit outside the car and pontificate and criticize about what's
happening inside the car when you've never actually done it yourself and
you've certainly never actually done it at about a hundred miles an hour it
looked to me and it looks I think to a lot of people as though Schumacher
moved over on hill when he shouldn't have done but let's have a look here
we're riding with Schumacher's car now he goes in you see he loses it goes up
onto the grass so he's history there it bounces off the concrete curb tries to
turn back again and turn into the corner meantime hill is coming up behind him
now there are people who will say Schumacher should have been looking in
his mirrors on the other hand he must have been rather occupied about where he
was going forwards never mind out about who was coming up behind him I think one
honestly has to say that it was a racing accident but if there was blame
marginally it was with Schumacher certainly not with Damon Hill because he
had slowed right down he was trying to go through you can see Schumacher coming
off the wall here Damon sees the Benetton in front of him slows down
Schumacher starts to accelerate away turn in by now Damon is absolutely
committed his left wheel hits the side pod of Schumacher's car his Schumacher's
wheel rides up over Damon's front wheel and that's it the end of the championship
school of thought my goal on the lines Murray by saying seeing Damon seeing
that Michael was wounded from that first encounter with the wall would he have not
I mean hindsight it's a wonderful thing stand back and sort of say I'll just see
how wounded he is because obviously he's going to have something wrong after
that sort of an impact we all know what should happen and what the other
bloke should have done the fact is that neither you nor I were in the cockpit
and and you could tell if it television is an incredible thing because it
enables us all to sit in the cockpit be with the drivers look at the car that's
coming and slows it down yeah that's right but you're not actually there and
and they're thinking of split seconds all the time Maria when you look back at
the year you've got to say that with the suspensions that Michael had and the way
he does drive in real terms you've got to say well he was the best driver of
the year not necessarily the best driver always wins of course but in this case
he was the best driver all year yes yes he was Ken absolutely no doubt about
that and he richly deserved the championship the real sadness of the
season is going to be in my opinion that no matter who had won the championship
Schumacher or Hill neither of them were going to get the satisfaction that
previous champions like Mansel Hill and Senna would have got because of all the
contention that there's been I mean there are still going to be people who
say well Schumacher should have won because the Benetton team weren't legal
for the first eight races were they there are still going to be people who
say Hill if he had won should have won because Schumacher lost 36 points from
four races so it's been an inconclusive season which hasn't been decided over
60 or Schumacher won because Ayrton Senna was not there exactly well Schumacher
himself has said very generously if Ayrton Senna had been here none of us
would have seen which way he went Damon Hill coming into this GP voice
dissatisfaction at why things were happening for him at Williams will he be
with Williams next year in light of the criticism these leveled at Frank is
there any you're feeling in the camp towards Damon I don't know whether he's
going to be there next year I mean Nigel Manser wasn't exactly flavor of the
month when he parted company with Williams in 1992 these things happen to
the supercharged atmosphere they're very ambitious egotistical men they're earning
a gigantic amount of money the stakes are high I would think they that will
settle down but I wouldn't like to I wouldn't like at this point to say
whether the Williams team is going to be Mansel and Hill or Mansel and Coulthard
or Hill and Coulthard Frank Williams has got a very strong position and three
very able and determined contenders for the two seats next year well let's take
a look at McLaren we know what happened with with we watched the Ferrari today
of burger but McLaren have been threatening maybe to come back to that
dominant position they once held two or three years back and they are put I'm
believed to be caught in Coulthard and maybe a couple of other top drivers yes
there is as ever at this time of the season a heck of a lot going on behind
closed doors that we don't really know about we can we can start rumors I mean I
could start a rumor that Heinz-Harold Frensen is going to be driving for
McLaren next year and he might be you never know you never know but McLaren
seemed to be coming back now I mean they had all those years with McLaren with
Honda dominant engine and then thanks to Senna's wizardry they they won with the
Ford engine where a lot of people wouldn't have expected them to this year
they've had their third engine in three successive seasons with Peugeot next
year they're going to Mercedes with so it's a fourth engine in four seasons but
that will be a tremendously strong combination with all the clout of
Stuttgart and the money engineering expertise behind McLaren and whoever
gets those McLaren seats and I think it could well be Hacken and and Bruntal the
the youth of Hacken and and the experience of Bruntal is a very good
racer as he showed us today will be in a very strong position all right Mario
thank you very much for having a look at that and some nations and not spreading
any rumors we will be back we've got plenty more to come from Adelaide right
after this break
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back in Adelaide let's now review the action from the very start of that race
our vantage point is a camera mounted in the car of Christian Fittipaldi near the
rear of the grid
Christian Fittipaldi and the arrows taking us for a ride around the Adelaide
circuit and a man is going to take us a ride right around the world here is he
Maurice for a sports update good Ken thank you good afternoon everybody
let's have a look at Sheffield Shield cricket first up Victoria is resisting
the Queensland push for an outright win at the Gabba the Vicks in their second
innings of five for 243 that's an overall lead of 237 runs Brad Hodge has
top-scored there with 116 meantime in Perth South Australia struck trouble as
it chases first innings points against Western Australia in reply to the home
teams 254 the South Aussies are 6 for 129 at lunch Greg Blewett the only
batsman to show any form and not out on 57 and on day two of the ashes to a
match in Newcastle New South Wales skipper Mark Taylor has hammered an
unbeaten century the Blues are 2 for 255 in reply to England's first innings of
328 resuming on 9 for 318 the English first innings was quickly finished by
Brad McNamara the Blues test combination of Taylor and Slater then set about the
chase Taylor in particular finding touch however there were some anxious moments
much to the displeasure of Phil De Freitas De Freitas did get some of his
own back drawing the edge from Slater it was little joy though for the tourists
as Taylor continued to plunder the attack on the way to his century an
ominous sign with the opening test of the ashes series in less than a
fortnight now to golf and New South Walshman Rob Willis is holding a one
shot lead late in the final round of the Victorian Open Willis is 8 under par
through 12 holes American Patrick Burke is the immediate challenger a minus 7
South Australian amateur Gary Simpson at one stage grabbed the share of the lead
Simpson provided one of the shots of the day out of the bunker at the third he
since had his problems however slipping back to four under in Japan Australians
Roger McKay and Craig Perry have dropped out of contention with one round to play
at the Teheo Masters the pair both cut at third round 75s McKay's 5 under par
and Perry minus 4 the amazing jumbo Ozaki leads the field by three shots on
13 under and in the World Cup in Puerto Rico the American team of Fred couples
and Davis love look to be cruising to victory the pair is a whopping 34 under
par after the third round that's nine shots clear of second place to Zimbabwe
Australia Steve Elkington and Mike Clayton the 14th a distant 25 shots off
the pace in tennis world number one Pete Sampras has broken a four-month drought
to reach his first final since Wimbledon he's beaten Jared Palmer in straight
sets in the semis of the European Community Championships in Belgium
Sampras will play Magnus Larsen in the final after the Swedes easy win against
France's Olivier de la Torre meanwhile Anki Huber has reached the final of the