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Always as a little kid I just had to be the fastest.
That sort of shapes you for the future.
I guess I have a philosophy of if you've got a bottle of more than you can chew, then chew like hell.
Because you are challenging the laws of physics to a large degree.
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Melbourne and the city's love of sport. Welcome back. What does the paying public
think about Melbourne's Grand Prix? Sam Newman has been out there amongst the
punters sampling their opinions. Now do you think we're interviewing you because
you look great or just because we want to pick your brain about racing? I'm not
sure actually. Big screens. The big screens. We haven't got them in front of us like the
Fargeo stand is. The Fargeo? Yeah something like that. You are a practicing idiot you know that?
Thanks a lot. So why have you got the Ferrari colors on? I like red. You like red? Oh god
strike me. Was that you or are they the cars? Are they? You're interested in car
racing are you? Yes. Who? I love it. The Ferrari team. Yeah for him and for the hands.
How could you stuff Alan Jones up? Say Alan Jones. Jones. Jones. Jones. Jonesy. A true
supporter sticks with their team to the end. And is your dad Yasser Arafat
coming over or is he staying back to sort out different matters? He's staying
back. You follow the petrol. You follow the petrol and that's it. Go down to the
local service station and sniff a couple of pumps sir. Have you been to Adelaide
ever? Yes I have actually. I went to the Grand Finale. 200,000 they got there. How many
do you think they'll get here in Melbourne? Quite a few more I would say. I
reckon you'll attract 50,000 in your own right. I hope so. It's exciting isn't it?
It's great. It's a good day out. You're not David Coulthard's brother are you? No. You've got those
big wide jaws like he has. Oh no no no relation to Coulthard. Hear that? Hey. It stopped hasn't it?
The noise stopped hasn't it? They just let us out for the day so we're just taking the most
of our one day a month. Well go and get a good position see if you can drive people mad
by waving that flag in front of them. Adelaide? Melbourne. We're on a different
wavelength but isn't that always the case when you speak to the police? Only Sam
Newman could get away with anything like that. Anybody else would be walking away
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Love it. Now if you want to hear a Grand Prix broadcast which with the work stick
around this afternoon when Murray Walker serves it all up with his call of the
Australian Grand Prix. Here's the sort of action you'll see as Jordan driver
Rubens Barrichello takes us for a spin around the circuit.
We are about 300 just on the 100 meters board. Back to the second gear. Right and
left a very quick corner now. You were about fifth already there. Six and back to
seventh you know until the next corner that is a very tight one. Very long
braking. Second gear. Try to put the throttle as soon as you can. Second gear
you're holding on. Left and then second third and fourth through the corner five
where is very very quick. Have to you know be very gentle with the car. There's
several bumps now. Back to seven gear. Corner number six and then the long long
corner just beside the lake. So you go back to sixth gear about 290. Back again
to second gear. Right left you know is all about right and left and this this
one is particular is very important because then you have this long straight
where you put seventh back again and reach 208 kilometers. Back to fourth the
quickest corner in the track you know just using a little bit of the brakes
but keeping fourth gear. Fifth, sixth, back to seventh and 209 kilometers. Braking
a hundred meters. Second gear and then third and fourth and and then this is
the very quick corner where you have to be careful because the you know the the
escape is not so so big. Back to second gear. The slowest corner on the track
75 kilometers an hour. That's a corner make we make in third gear so we
fasten up now with seven through the checkered flag.
It's an interesting track. Jackie I had a spin around it the other day and it's
just a joy but I think one of the great tragedies about Grand Prix driving is
that in most other sports some the spectators can get some bit of an idea
of what it's all about by going for a ride but Formula One there's just that
one seat and nobody's ever going to experience it unless they're a driver.
No and it's one of the most stimulating things you could ever do in the world I
mean it's the ultimate challenge is to be able to get to the limit of the car's
ability while getting yourself to the absolute limit of your ability and it's
a very narrow margin when something goes wrong. If you slide a
golf ball into the bunker it's no big deal but if you get it wrong in a Formula
One racing car it can be very painful. Jackie could these fellows drive a lot
better and a lot more comfort if those cockpits weren't so claustrophobic.
Yes there is an argument that the cockpits have got too small and the
ergonomics are not good enough. If you really want the best environment to work
on you wouldn't be a draftsman on your knees trying to work a pencil for
example they would give you a proper board to do it at the right height.
Racing cars have become quite claustrophobic in their working area.
And only a job for jockeys. Men of average height I would rather say. With
all the leading cars carrying on board cameras you'll experience the ride of
your life when the fuel blasts off the grid in just under half an hour here at
the Australian Grand Prix live on Wide World of Sports.
And in comes Verstappen there. Verstappen coming into the pits.
Oh and fuel that's the first time we've had a fuel splash. Oh my goodness me.
They're everyone's number one team. You two are fantastic. But there's a stalemate in the
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Melbourne has put on its best face for the Grand Prix. The Melbourne Grand Prix from
Albert Park and it's not too far away. You see some of the cars out on the track. Just
doing a little bit of a warm up before they come around the pit straight again. The expectations
of a terrific race are all there. And one man who must be taking pride in this fabulous
scene here at Albert Park is former Melbourne boy and 1980 world champion Alan Jones. Jonesy,
you're talking about the pride yesterday but now this is when it all matters, when it all
comes together. It does and really now this is the fruition of it all. This is the combination
of all the hard work and effort that the people involved, this is what it's all about. It's
fantastic. Jonesy, we had a photograph a little earlier on with you standing beside your dad's
Maserati and it's amazing. I don't know how old you were, probably ten. Five, I think.
Maybe five, ten, twelve, whatever. But the same characteristics, the stance and everything
is still there. It's amazing you see that and you haven't aged a bit, son. Thank you,
Ken. Jackie was only saying that the other day. He was talking mentally. I was too young
to see that picture. Of course you were, Jackie. You're okay, old fella? With every Grand Prix
off season comes a range of technological advances and safety developments. Our team
has the word on innovations making their debut this year in Melbourne. Well Patrick Head,
quite a few changes from last year's car to this year's car. Tell us about some of them.
The most visible ones, Alan, are the pits alongside the driver's head, the high sides
on the cockpit which is for protecting the driver in side impact and also for intrusion
of debris in an accident from the outside. Also we've been limited on rear wing areas
around the rear wheel where we cannot run aerodynamic devices but the aerodynamicists
have done their usual efforts and got back most of the, it's been lost because of the
regulation changes. Patrick, it still looks like I wouldn't fit in one though. Well, you
and I are both a bit on the chunky side, Alan, so yeah, it's mostly for small drivers I'd
say. And they're also fairly fit too, aren't they? Yes, driving the car is a pretty physical
exercise so they have to be quite fit. Patrick, in terms of lap speeds on the average circuit,
have you gained back what you've lost or are you still behind? Pretty much gained what
we've lost, yeah. So the status grows back to where it was? Yeah, I think the lap times
will probably be a little bit faster this year than they were last year. Okay, so you're
talking about fit, healthy, good looking drivers. Barry, what do you think? Thanks a lot, AJ.
That's the first nice thing you said to me in 20 years. You obviously want to borrow
a few, Bob. Anyway, with all the new safety regulations and that, you see this bit around
here, this is to stop the thing that happened to Mika Hakenum where he sort of banged his
head but it just makes you so claustrophobic. This thing in the back of me here, you can
imagine on acceleration your helmet goes back and bangs there. Go into a chicane, you bang
your head on either side and it just feels like you're in a shoebox with old cut in the
top of it. If I get the old steering wheel off, if you have a look down here, look, the
wheel, okay, it's not touching my legs but when I take the wheel off, look at how close
my knees are apart. You know, it's about an inch there and I've got legs like a sparrow,
you know, so it's, you just feel so, it's an eerie feeling. You feel really tired, tired
in, you know, but at the end of the day, AJ, you ain't got no problems there because it
will take about nine years at Jenny Craig before you get anywhere near this thing. And
he's a good mate of yours.
Yeah, you know what I mean? Do what, John?
It is, I mean, I look at that and it is claustrophobic and you've seen the advances just in the short
of time that you've been out of Formula One. I mean, you have to be a midget.
Well you do, well as Jackie says, a man of average height.
Hang on a second, this is getting very derogatory.
But they are genuine safety things. I mean, it's not just something that makes a car aesthetically
look rather attractive.
Oh no, I mean, they've certainly been done for a reason but I believe, and I was talking
to Jackie while we were looking at that, there is a little bit of a protest on, about the
Williams because some of the other teams, particularly I think Benetton, are saying
that it's a little bit lower than what it should be and Patrick said no, that he has
designed it in the true spirit of the regulations. And knowing Patrick, it will be legal.
Tongue in cheek. Our team has been talking to the drivers in the pits. Here's Barry
Sheen once again with pole sitter, Jack Villeneuve.
Jack it's not very long now to go before the start of your very, very first Grand Prix.
How do you feel?
Well, I feel good. I'm excited. We've been working hard since September to get in there
and part of the job was qualifying yesterday and that's all we're done with. Now there's
the big one that's left, which is the race itself. Is there anything that is a mystery
to you in the race? You understand what I mean?
Yeah, yeah. The start for sure. Even if I've done a lot of them in Formula 3 and from Atlantix,
it's going to be different with that amount of horsepower. And getting into the first
turn with the new side regulations on the car, which makes you lose a lot of your peripheral
vision and mirror view as well. So it might be a little bit of a mayhem there, but if
we get through that, then it should be the same as I've done in IndyCar.
How about as a fighter?
Pretty good as a fighter.
You understand what I mean by that?
It should be fun. It looks very close. It seems competitive and that's what makes a
race fun. And for sure our car is running strong and seems fairly consistent, even if
we didn't manage to do the whole warm up because of a failure on the car, we're still confident
about it.
Well, he says there's no butterflies. Just down to business. Charles Stewart, then caught
up with Eddie Irvine.
Eddie, things seem to be going pretty well. Are you happy with the way the car's set up?
Yeah, it was fairly good this morning. But it's going to be a long, hard race. Now what
about that first corner? A lot of people are a bit concerned about that. Yeah, it tightens
up quite a lot. But there's plenty of room on the outside for people to go on the grass
and things. So maybe it won't be such a disaster zone.
Now the car, I guess, isn't really proven in this sort of event yet. What sort of concerns
do you have about reliability?
Well, just everything to be honest. The car came out very late. We haven't done a race
distance with it. But everything's coming together very quickly, as you've seen yesterday.
So you never know.
Now what if you're running with Michael? Will there be any team orders?
There is, you know. So you have to play a second fiddle?
Well, I don't know what the situation is. But I've got to do what Jean Todd tells me
to do. And that's all there is to it. I don't have a problem with that.
Very nice, Alain. Maybe we read something into it. Barry Sheen spoke to Damon Hill.
Damon, not very long to go now. How are you feeling? Quickest in the warm up?
I was very happy with the car and the warm up. So I'm more optimistic now for the race.
What about, we saw a bit of a drama with the Lacey coming into the pits. What's it going
to be like getting out of there?
Well they've got a concrete pit stop area. And it's like glass when you come in. It's
very slippery. And I actually came in and I came in quite slowly and I still locked
up and went straight on. So in the race it's going to be very difficult.
As far as race, race tactics and race tactics?
Race tactics.
Oh, that's what I'm trying to say.
Yeah, we're going to use race tactics all the way through.
Yeah, you're great Al.
I'm going to go this way.
So how do you feel? Come on, talk to me. Tell me, what are you going to do? Win?
Well the winning is the prime objective. But I think the point to make is the warm up.
The car feels great because it's nice and cool. Everything's great. The track's not
hot. When the sun comes out and there's a clear sky and it's going to be baking hot
by about 1.30, 2 o'clock. And things can change. But I've practised going into the first corner
here on the dirty line and there's a little bit of grit there so I should be alright.
So we've heard from the three top drivers as far as grit is concerned here at the Melbourne
Grand Prix, the Australian Grand Prix. And you can see the terrific crowd down on Pip
Lane. The drivers relaxing. Ribbons Barichello fellows. I mean, I've been watching pictures
off air here and Jean-Laisse is laughing and enjoying himself. They're very relaxed at
this particular point in time.
Yes, some of the drivers relax easier than others. Barichello for example likes the idea
of getting away out of the sun on his own. He doesn't want anybody sitting with him.
There's Micah Salah doing exactly the same thing but he's relaxed enough not to ignore
a camera when he sees it. But he's certainly a little apprehensive. I don't think he's
built absolutely as tight as a drum, nervous-wise, but he is apprehensive. It's not a question
of just another Sunday.
The big race is just a few minutes away. We'll be back at Albert Park right after this.
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do you help them? Unrivaled Australian Entertainment online. I'm standing where it would be every
young drivers dream to be on pole position for the first race of the 96th World Championship.
Right here there'll be a man perhaps standing with a board to tell the driver that he'll
come up to this position. But there is a sensor in the ground that you can see down there.
And when every car runs up to that sensor and every car is in position. The staff to
the official starter of this Australian Grand Prix Charlie Whiting will then start this
new innovation for 96 a light system. Now we're looking up at the light system now.
They're all at red which means the race is about to start. But let me go through the
procedure. So once the cars are in position Charlie Whiting will set off the first set
of lights with five seconds to go. There will be one set illuminated with four seconds to
go two sets of lights will go on with three seconds to go. There will be three sets of
lights on two seconds to go. There'll be a set of four lights go on and finally a full
flush all five sets of lights will go on with one second to go. At that time when the full
flush is on anywhere between three seconds and eight seconds the lights will go out.
The moment the lights go out the race begins. This is a brand new innovation for the 1996
season considerably more complicated than has been the habit before. But it is considered
that it will be universal around the world. Australia is the first Grand Prix for this
to be attempted. Let's hope it works. Indeed we do hope it works. I'm just hoping that
fellows don't go back to old habits because it could be absolute mayhem at the start.
It could be. I think Alan and I are both agreeing that I would still love to see a green light.
The whole world understands when the traffic lights go to green that you can go. Somehow
or other the public identify with that as well. But let's wait. You never know what
the future holds. Well in Australia when the red light goes out and you go through the
intersection you're in trouble. You get booked. I mean it's just one of those things that
you're brought up and raised to. Red is stop green is go. What have we got Jackie? It looks
like we've got a little water being spilled there. It looks like water because it's steam
that's rising. Either somebody spilled something or there's a hose or a Jubilee clip come undone
because it certainly seems to be continuing. It just doesn't seem to be subsiding in any
way. I don't think it's oil smoke. It seems to be water. It may be a little I don't know
but it may have a little bit of dry ice or some coolant of some sort that they're blowing
through the radiator to he's giving me the thumbs up see so I must be right. No but he
may be blowing a little bit of coolant through that radiator perhaps. He in fact has got
plugged in to the computer there to get the electronic messages coming through and it
probably as Alan says it's right that's what they've just done. They've blown some of that
air through there and it's come up on his computer. Who's the most relaxed person you've
seen on the grid Jackie? Right now Mika Hakim sitting there and this can't be a peaceful
moment for him. He's trying to be peaceful but this is his first race since the terrible
accident he had in Adelaide. So there are emotions going through that man's head no
matter what a nice face he's putting on. The honor of singing the national anthem has fallen
to one of Melbourne's true talents of song and stage Deborah Byrne.
A very special Melbourne lady. I thank her for her contribution to the theatre and music
industry of Australia. Soon to be seen as the leading lady in Sunset Boulevard. With
her unique version of our national anthem please welcome Deborah Byrne.
Australians though let us rejoice for we are young and free. With golden soil and baleful
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In history's page let every stage have arms of Australia fair. In joyful strains let us
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start of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix from Albert Park in Melbourne. The first
Formula One Grand Prix of the season on a brand new track. The expectations are there
both for the new cars, the new drivers and of course the new facilities. And there is
just so many scenarios that you can look forward to in this particular afternoon of racing Jackie.
Well the man we were looking at there, Damon Hill, number five, is of course a man who
would love to win this. His mother's with him in the second row of the grid. You can
see the line up there. Eddie Irvine and Hakkinen very far up there.