He's so elated again, down and turn three.
Well, that was just a little loss of concentration.
I think that was probably looking down at his dash
and just double checking that time and running just a little deep into the corner.
Fellas, he was the first guy under one thirty one
and he was the first one under one thirty.
So he's gone back and planned his strategy very well.
And AJ, you had the feeling this is what he was about.
Well, at this point in time,
as he is one point four seconds quicker than anybody else on this.
That is phenomenal.
So Johnny Herbert, winner of two Grand Prix's in 1995
in the cyber with his new B10 Petrunas engine.
Herbert, again, a personal best improvement.
One thirty one, one nine seven.
So the team that I consider to be the sleeper of the year
is coming away in seventh and eighth place.
Well, there you have it.
There he's in the garage.
He's keeping an eye on the proceedings.
He may or may not go out.
If I was him, I probably wouldn't bother with that much time up his sleeve.
But he's being kept up to speed is exactly what's going on up there.
He will know second by millisecond who's out there and what they're doing.
Well, I tell you what, if we get a qualifying session
like this 45 minute practice session we've been watching,
it is going to be sensational.
We've also now got Herbert's teammate, Lorini following Herbert into eighth place.
Now, here's the other shoe marker.
Ralph Schumacher has gone back and had all the stones removed from the car.
They've cleaned it up, put fresh rubber on it currently in 12th spot.
And Ralph Schumacher looks very, very purposeful.
Comes across the start finish line and he is behind teammate
our brother, Michael, in seventh place.
Oh, and Ralph, you're just too anxious.
You're trying that fraction too hard.
But I have to say, I love to see it.
Oh, he's a trier, isn't he?
He's come into Grand Prix racing with a big bang over the weekend.
Well, that is interesting.
As I look at that, Michael Schumacher, six, Ralph Schumacher, seven.
So, I mean, I mean, first Grand Prix official practice for him.
Here we go. Look at this coming in a little bit too deep,
bit of understeer, too much lock on the car.
It's not responding and it's just understeered or pushed off onto the grass.
But he managed to keep it all together and get back onto the black stuff.
Now, have a look at where he is now.
Ralph Schumacher, seventh spot on the grid at the moment.
And guess what? Kerry was driving when he was in a Jordan.
Exactly. It's unbelievable.
You know, Eddie Jordan is an amazing guy.
He's had just about everybody in the Formula One field drive
for his team in one formula or another.
He's now got the younger Schumacher brother.
And I have to say, what we're seeing right now from Ralph Schumacher is impressive.
Over the start, Fittie Stein, Ralph Schumacher will have a look for an improvement in time.
Currently lying in seventh first spot.
This was a grid, one minute left of time.
So not much time for the guns to start coming out.
And he's having a go as well, I can tell you, because this is only one minute to go.
This is quite possibly his last lap.
And he just flicked a couple of the white cones as he came through that quick right left hand of before.
So he's on a bit of a mission.
I haven't seen a young driver who rings the neck of a Formula One car
quite the way Ralph has been doing.
He is almost contemptuous of those Peugeot horsepower he has under his right foot.
The throttle isn't a switch, it's off and on.
And flying.
Billner, 128.
There you go.
He's gone.
Ralph Schumacher, second spin of the session.
Back in those stones, that kitty letter.
But Jack Billner off camera has added further salt to the wood.
One minute, 28.594.
1.432 seconds ahead of teammate Prince.
Lonely starters, Ralph Schumacher does it again, second spin 18.
Yeah, and once again, with a modern Formula One car, loose of going into the corner.
It's almost like if they've got too much rear brake wound onto that car.
I think what the problem was for Ralph, he was hard on the brakes.
The front of the car is marginally down.
That tends to shift the downforce, the center of pressure forward.
And then he just grabbed the wheel and just pulled that mother so hard,
the car had no choice but to spin.
They might have to get a stonemason in this team.
Well, you see, the thing is, it's all very well and good being exciting
and throwing in the odd one or two laps.
But John, as you know, you've got to do it consistently.
And have a look, is that Berger off?
Berger, Gerhard Berger again, and spinning this time in the Venetian Renault.
End of the session, of course, now.
Whoa.
Perhaps a little frustration coming out towards the end of the session.
Some of them not being as quick as they think they ought to be.
Oh, look at that major lock-up coming in.
The Austrian really had to get off the brakes to get steering control.
That seemed very strange, John.
That seemed strange because, I mean, he seemed like he had washed a lot of speed off
and literally lost it from the apex out.
Well, I think he was just off throttle all the way.
Well, the scene is set now for a fantastic qualifying session
a little later on this afternoon.
And, of course, you'll see a live exclusive here on Nine's Wine Weller Sports.
Nicely done, Darrell, and that's the top six in the practice session four.
Vilner, Frenzen, Kultard, Irvine, Hakkinen and Schumacher.
Your thoughts there, AJ.
Young Schumacher, you've got to say at least he's having a real shot at it.
And I guess Eddie Jordan will be sitting back and saying,
well, he's making a few mistakes, but I've got a driver who wants to take it to the limit.
Oh, absolutely.
It's far better to have that situation going on than one that's back there and not...
I mean, I'd rather have a driver that's out there driving 10 tenths
and putting in a major go and making the odd mistake
rather than being midfield or down the back, for sure.
Vilner virtually crash tackled the field then, didn't he?
Well, I mean, he just blitzed them. He blew them all away psychologically.
I mean, he is doing it easy. He has done this morning and yesterday.
He's pieced the circuit together, he's put it all together
and then right towards the closing stages he said,
right, I'll just go out there and have a go now.
He went out there and went 0.7 of a second quicker than anybody,
put the car into the garage, thought, no, I'll just go and have another go.
Went out there and was now 1.4 seconds quicker than anybody.
Unbelievable.
A very, very bright young man.
I mean, his intellect, he's a great thinker.
He plays the mind game very, very well and he's got the packages so fast.
And he keeps on taunting people by saying,
the car should be allowed to go faster and they're too obsessed with safety.
Well, I mean, I was in the Williams pit last night at about 7.38 o'clock.
He was still there doing a debrief with his engineers.
I was talking to Patrick. He said, these cars are so complicated now.
There's so many different areas where you can get speed out of them
that meetings now, and Frank said meetings, Alan, since you were here,
they're four or five.
You would have been long back in the hotel having dinner.
You know, they're there until 8 or 9 o'clock at night now,
just getting that tenths of seconds out of the cars.
That's what he does. He works with his engineers.
That's all very well and good being an intellect,
but also when he hops in the cockpit, he's got that aggression to get the job done.
Is he as obsessed, say, as Ayrton Senna?
Well, I think he does. He puts in the work.
I mean, obviously, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher
are the two people that we talk about when it comes to getting down
and working with the engineers and so forth,
but I think Villeneuve's right up there with him as well,
and he's also matching Schumacher for aggression.
Well, we might just have a look down that pit,
because, I mean, you just see how professional the Williams team is.
You look at their package and you go in there,
and truly it is the cleanest, neatest garage you could ever see, Alan.
Well, they bring their own overhead lighting systems.
You can see it's all white there.
That's all being packaged up in the radcons and brought.
They travel all around the world with them.
They have their own neon lights. They have their own little green and red lights.
If there's a red light above the car, it says, don't start it.
It's a certain message to the mechanic.
A green light says, yes, it's OK to start this one up or whatever.
I mean, it is just like a little village in there.
I'm sure that if you could get hold of a Williams shirt,
you could probably spend the weekend walking around,
and they wouldn't know whether you're meant to be there or not.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Back at Albert Park live, Grand Prix day. Gee, it's a terrific crowd. As we said, we've
had a 48 hour strike which is in progress right now, but people seem to have adjusted
very, very well. A lot of push bikes being hired all out over the place and they've greened
up the park, something tremendously when you consider the dry, hot weather that Melbourne's
had over the last couple of months. It really is a picture of the track. And as we count
down to this afternoon's final qualifying session, everywhere you look, Albert Park
is a hive of activity. But far and away the most critical area of operations is that strip
of bitumen and garage is known as Pit Lane. Down there sampling the atmosphere is Darrell
Eastlake. Yeah, thanks Ken. Well, a team for the pits
during the Grand Prix. It's an exciting place to be, let me tell you, and a very privileged
place to be. And James Allen, nice to have you in Australia. Your first time at Albert
Park for a Grand Prix. What do you think of it?
It's a beautiful circuit, Darrell. I mean, I travel the world, this place takes the biscuit.
There's no other Grand Prix circuit that matches this for the whole, the glitz, the quality
organisation. It's mind blowing. Exciting time for you. You're now part of the Murray
Walker team with ITV Television. You'll be bringing us the Grand Prix from all around
the world. You'll be working the pits right throughout the season.
Yeah, very much looking forward to it. A lot of the stuff that happens in the pits, the
people don't realise it, you know. I'm going to get right amongst it, mate. I'm going to
get right in there. I'm going to find out what's going on and hopefully the viewers will really
benefit. A to and from that says, mate, he's got some
potential. Now, Charles, you've worked the pits for many years here at the Grand Prix.
It is a volatile place. You've got to be careful. You've got to be thinking about what you're
doing. That's absolutely right, Darrell. It's frenetic
activity the whole time. There's a lot of noise. The teams, of course, are all doing
their job. The cars are coming in and out. And even though there are speed limits, let
me tell you, they really fly. You've got to keep your wits about you, but it's very, very
exciting. Well, there we go, Kenny. That's our team as
the cars come past. Back to you. Thank you, Darrell. The only man who can compete
in pit lane with the Formula One cars. That's why he's down there. Who will claim the honor
of pole position at the first Grand Prix of the season 97? We'll be back with all the
live action, the final qualifying in just a moment. South Australia has fought back strongly
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much on top. And we'll bring you further updates throughout the day. Enjoy the Grand Prix.
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just wonderful looking down pitch straight here at Albert Park, waiting for that qualifying
session which is going to sort out poll for tomorrow. Alan, just thinking about what this
means to the drivers. This is what happened before in practice. You get your good times,
but this is when it all comes down to the nitty gritty, doesn't it? This is it. What
happens now is where you are on the grid and where you are on the grid saves you a lot
of heartache in the race. If you can put yourself on pole position, particularly for a street
circuit, although this one has a lot of passing places more so than most, if you can obviously
put yourself up the front here for the start of the race, you're going to save yourself
a lot of work during the race. And everything is geared towards this, isn't it? There's
a different configuration that you set your car up for when you're coming to qualifying
as against when you actually get into the race tomorrow. Oh, well obviously, you know,
they're going out now with a much lighter fuel load. Everything is, sometimes they might
even put a slightly different aerodynamic situation on the car, one that gives a bit
more downforce, but during the race it may use a little bit more fuel. So the car is
definitely set up for this qualifying session. Okay, let's go to it right now. Here's Murray
Walker. And by the way, those who don't get within 107% of that pole position time can
apply for an exemption to the stewards. It's debatable whether they would get it, particularly
if it was the lowlers, because sadly, like the 40 Corsica's a couple of years ago, it
looks as though they are mobile she came to green Martin. Yes, I think it could be a problem
for them. Certainly in the early races, they've got it together very, very late there. But,
you know, a few years ago, Jordan came in and Sauber came into Formula One and set a
whole new benchmark of what can be achieved, even for a brand new team. So there are no
excuses at this level, I'm afraid. Let's quickly explain that diagram you've seen. This track
is split up into three sectors for the purpose of timekeeping. It's 3.27 miles long. Sector
One stops just before turn six. Sector Two just before turn 11. It is a 16 turn course.
And Villeneuve, incidentally, did a lap in 1.28.594. I've made it even better for him
earlier on by saying 1.25. My apologies to all the rest of them, and particularly Hans
Harald Frensen, who's got a massive psychological problem to overcome. Absolutely. Villeneuve
has been operating a strange sort of procedure this morning, and indeed yesterday too. He's
obviously had it completely under control, hasn't really put in particularly that many
fast laps. He's been on what looks like to be an extremely fast lap, and then just aborted
and gone in the pits. And that's the confidence of the man at the moment. He knows it was
a good lap, he knows exactly what the car was doing, didn't want to waste time completing
it. And then finally he showed his true colours, showed his hand just at the end of this morning's
session, and there'll be a few chins that dropped as he did that, 1.28 this morning.
None more so than Hans Harald Frensen, who's now got to either match that or he's going
to have a psychological problem. He could go out now and overdrive trying to do that.
Now today, after the second of the two free practice sessions, all the drivers had to
choose which of two compounds of tyre they were going to use. There are two tyre constructors
this year. One is Goodyear, that has nobly supported Formula One for so very long, and
they're being challenged in 1997 by the Japanese Bridgestone concern, and their best team thus
far is the Prost team, which was Ligier up to this year. And all the drivers have got
the availability of two compounds, but before the qualifying session they had to choose
one and stay with it. Now here is Jacques Villeneuve, he's got brand new tyres on, you
can see from the stickers that are still on it, not yet worn out. And there's tyre news
in the pits from James Allen. Well Murray, as you can imagine, trying to find out what
everybody's chosen is something akin to industrial espionage, but I can tell you that the Bridgestone
runners, Hill and Dinez, have opted for soft compound tyres, as have Panis and Nakano for
the Prost team. Baricello, however, has gone for the harder tyre, Magnussen for the Stewart
team has gone for soft. Now perhaps more interesting in the Goodyear runners, both Frentzen and
Villeneuve have gone for soft tyres, Hackeden and Coulthard have gone for soft tyres, Berger
and Alacey have gone for soft tyres, but Ralph Schumacher has gone for the hard. Ferrari being
very secretive, they won't show us, they're covering up their tyres right until the moment
that Schumacher goes out, so I really don't know what he's using, but they're saying
that the soft to hard difference is about 0.2 seconds, so anybody's guess what Ferrari's
going to do. Back to you Murray. I hope you can all remember that, but let me give you
the news now that Mika Hackeden at the moment is the fastest. Just four drivers have put
up times, Mika Hackeden is fastest, Ukiyoh Katayama, the Japanese driver in the Minardi
Hart, there he is, his second fastest, third fastest, sorry, Mika Hackeden in the McLaren
is second fastest, Katayama is third quickest and the 107% time at the moment, we'll keep
you in touch with it during development, is 137.9, long time to go. I'm not surprised
to see Villeneuve coming out early to have a run. The track temperature is at 32 degrees
already and it's climbing like a mountain face at the moment, that's going to hurt that
time. I think most of the runners will get out there now and get a time in the back.
The action is already beginning because while you watch Jacques Villeneuve, I can tell you
that David Koolfard has gone through the first sector, fastest of all, so it looks as though
he's on a really hot lap in the much improved 1997 McLaren Mercedes and his teammate Mika
Hackeden is in second position because now David Koolfard is fastest. Koolfard fastest,
Hackeden second, Katayama in third position and we've only had five minutes of the 60
minute qualifying session. There is David Koolfard, raised a bit of dust as he came
round the corner there and you can watch this McLaren and see how steady it is. Yes, the
car looked very good, he's aborted that lap in fact, he's coming into the pits, he's not
happy with it. Meanwhile Villeneuve is already on a hot lap, four tenths up on Koolfard on
the first section, a further three tenths up on the second section as he crosses the
finish line. Here he is coming towards the end of the lap and I think he's amazingly
going to be fastest with this run but the times do seem significantly slower than this
morning already, the air temperature's up, the track temperature's up, here he is coming
into the pit straight, working hard, this is going to be a fast time already. Fast indeed,
not as fast as he went this morning which was 128.6 but even so he is in provisional
pole position with some time to go with that time of one minute 30.5. Now he was first
under one minute 30 this morning, he then went under one minute 25, first of all the
runners, he's putting down a marker especially to Frensen because Villeneuve is red hot at
the psychological warfare between teammates and he's coming up behind one of the Jordan
Peugeots right now. Yes he's already three tenths down on this lap, I think these good
years that they've chosen, the soft ones are good for one, their first flying lap only
from what I saw this morning, he may even have bought this lap. It'll be interesting
to see whether they opt for four sets at a time with one flying lap on each set, remembering
because their outlaps and their inlaps still can towards their 12 laps. Half a second down,
there's really not a lot of point in carrying on, I think he'll either should cool them
or he'll come in the pits. He's coming up to turn 13 now, he turns in, he does about
75 miles an hour on the apex, accelerates up to about 135 or would do normally because
he's right off the boil now. Yeah he's obviously elected to save that set of tyres now, they've
got a heat cycle in them, they'll be useful for the race if he has to use them. They've
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morning's warm up and the race and that decision is cast in stone now with regard to the compound
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to use it in the race tomorrow so he's gambling on the weather. Well what it means right now
is he's got to work even harder this afternoon for a grid position if they're, I understand
that they're about three tenths slower so he's got to work extra hard but tomorrow afternoon
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Now that sounds bad. Martin Brungle, Damon's had all sorts of problems. Is the spare going
to be set up for him? Yes, he's had a bad morning. He hasn't had any track time worth
having. He just had one full tank run this morning before he had the problems. In theory
the cars should be identical. You should not be able to tell the difference between them.
In reality they'll be tiny differences. We are part of that car as we're driving it.
We feel everything and he will feel not at home. He'll feel slightly uncomfortable but
he's a professional. He'll put his head down, forget that aspect and just get on and drive
it but I don't think he's got much chance of embarrassing the front runners from the
position he's in at the moment. Michael Schumacher into the pits. Four laps
completed. He'll be putting on a new set of tyres for his second run and coming towards
us now you see Tony Jardine's tip for world champion of 1997, Gerhard Berger in the Benetton
Renault. There's something curious about the Benetton
performance this weekend. Gerhard just hasn't been anywhere near the pace despite dominating
the winter testing but being right at the sharp end of it. A lace has not been that
special either. Apparently Gerhard's had an electrical problem they can't find. I don't
understand that. They've had all weekend to find that. You can change anything and everything
and even now he's not putting in a particularly quick lap time and I just can't understand
where their performance has gone and obviously nor can they otherwise they would have done
something about it by now. Gerhard was only 11th fastest this morning,
2.8 seconds off the pace. His teammate Giorno Lacey was 12th fastest over 3 seconds off
the pace and we are now 12 minutes into the 60 minute session and it's still with three
laps completed. Jack Villeneuve I would think pretty smugly and certainly very happily sitting
in the pits in that top position a second faster than Gullpark.
After you've had a good morning's running like they did this morning it was nice and
cool. The cloud cover was good, the track was exceptionally fast. You go down in the
afternoon you give it absolute death. The car's really light, you've got brand new
tyres on you, you think you've driven the lap of your life. You have an instant readout
on your dashboard as you pass the start finish line and it gives you a time two seconds slower
than you did on a lazy lap this morning and you just can't believe it and you have to
ignore that and realise that everybody else is in the same position but you think you've
driven a better lap and the time is not there because you've lost a half a tenth on the
apex, a half a tenth under braking, you didn't quite get the traction on the way out of the
corner, the rear wheels were scrabbling for grip and if you add up all of the corners
and there's 16 of them around this circuit and then the resultant loss of straight line
speed from the poor exit, there's your two seconds.
Now here's a man to watch, out for the first time in qualifying in a Williams Renault is
Hintz Harold Frenson and conventional wisdom has it that he is as fast as Schumacher because
when he was in the Mercedes sports car team with Schumacher he was as fast as Michael
but since then his German countryman has become world champion twice and is used to being
at the top. Hintz Harold Frenson is not used to being in a race winning car but he's been
very, very quick here at Albert Park, in fact he was fastest yesterday and was very happy
about that but being fast on Friday is one thing, Saturday is the day that you have to
be quick. So we ride with Frenson round turn 11, he's doing about 170 miles an hour as
he approaches this point, now swinging right still doing about 165 miles an hour, past
the powerhouse in the background there's Albert Lake overhead and Frenson coming towards us
slows right down. Yes he was coming up behind Alola, he's having a good look in his mirrors
to make sure he doesn't spoil somebody else's lap, he'll probably not be so keen to not
spoil somebody else's lap by the end of this session but he's now trying to make himself
some space to get himself a good clean run but he needs to work out, he's a good 10 seconds
faster than that Alola and he's got to give it a lot of space and that's not always easy
to judge. The other problem is if you back off like that, that leaves a space in the
pit straight and that's a good opportunity for them to let somebody out in front of you
so it doesn't always work in your favour. One quarter time completed, 15 minutes, Villeneuve
fastest, Coulthard second, Michael Schumacher third, 1.3 seconds off the pace, Hackenon
is fourth, Olesi is fifth, Johnny Herbert in the salvo Petronas, there's a new word for
you, Petronas actually in Formula One speed means Ferrari, it's the V10 Ferrari engine
which has been rebadged Petronas after support from the Malaysian company. Herbert is sixth
but here are the people who have not yet qualified outside 107%, Sospiri in the Lola, Verstappen
in the Tyrrell, he's only done three laps, Rosset the Brazilian driver in the other Lola,
Mike Harrell-Frentzen who you are watching and Damon Hill who has only done one lap.
Now Frentzen's job this afternoon, he's just got to breathe easily, he's got to relax,
he's got to let his natural skills come out, he's got to stop thinking about Villeneuve
and he's one and a half seconds down already, he's trying too hard, he late shifted into
a corner, turned four earlier in this lap I saw and he lost a lot of time there but
it's still going away from him, he needs to just relax and let the car do the work and
that's going to be very difficult for him in this position with Villeneuve going so
well.
And he's into the third sector of this lap, his first sector was slow, his second sector
was slow, when I say slow I mean by Formula One standards and he comes across to complete
the lap.
Now this is the one that should really count, thanks Harrell-Frentzen goes into the chicane,
turns one and two as we watch Olivier Parnis in the Prost-Mugen Honda.
Now this is or has been so far at Albert Park the fastest Bridgestone Tired runner and
he was the man of course who won the Monaco Grand Prix last year.
This is a significant time, we're going to see now the best Bridgestone runner, let's
see how good the Bridgestones are.
Olivier's been flying from time to time, he has a nasty habit of not being able to deliver
at the critical time on a Saturday afternoon having been running well all weekend, again
possibly a bit of anxiety and a bit of over driving but let's see if he's matured over
the winter at all and see, now he's already gone wide in one and spoiled his line through
two but I'm looking forward to this lap time just to establish where the Bridgestones are.
The answer is that Olivier Parnis is in tenth position at the moment, just under three seconds
off the pace with Villeneuve fastest, Poulfard second, Michael Schumacher third and Hacken
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Back at Albert Park for the qualifying session for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix
down in the pits.
Here's Charles Stewart.
Okay, I guess many people are wondering what's been happening to the reigning world champion
David Hill.
He's been having a wretched day.
He had hydraulics problems this morning.
He only completed nine laps.
He was 22nd fastest out of 24 cars.
Now since then, he's had to get into his spare car and take that out, but he's not going
so well.
And if you want to add insult to injury, this morning when he got out of his car, he couldn't
leave it in neutral.
And they had to leave it in neutral.
It gives them luck.
And they find the team $5,000 as a result.
So this is not David Hill's day.
Well, Alan Jones, you said it might have been a torrid first few months, but you still don't
want to start off like this, do you?
No, it's not a good way.
I mean, they've got a heap of ground to make up.
They really have though.
They didn't have very bad off season testing.
They've gone into this first race.
They really are behind the eight ball and I really can't see them catching up to be
honest.
Okay, let's now join Darrell Eastlake down in the pits.
Yeah, thank you, Kenny.
You know, the body language coming out of the Williams pit is absolutely fantastic.
I mean, one comes in, one goes out.
Villeneuve's crew look very, very relaxed.
They don't seem to have too much stress and pain on their faces.
On the other hand, Frenzen's crew, very alert, very dedicated.
Suzy comes in, swarm the car.
It's amazing.
One garage, two attitudes.
Good stuff down here at Williams.
Good on you.
Thank you, Darrell.
Right now, let's go back to Murray Walker.
Let's hope you're right, Martin.
He's a darn nice chap and he really deserves success.
I remember in 1993, he made his first appearance as a McLaren driver in Portugal and even beat
the great Ayrton Senna to third position on the grid.
So we've now got 22 minutes completed and roughly twice that to go.
Yes, Hakenin's not going to improve on his fourth place, but Villeneuve will extend his
pole position margin.
He's in the middle of an extremely fast lap and this could be one to break their hearts
again in the pit lane.
He's coming towards the end of the lap now.
Don't break too late for this.
Beautifully done.
Turn 15, very smooth, into 16, fully committed.
The car's working beautifully.
Oh, that won't hurt him at all.
The lap time is going to be sensational.
And here we go.
29.369 and how do you answer that?
That is quite incredible because his previous time has been beaten by 1.1 seconds and it
means to say that Jack Villeneuve, with half his laps completed and six still to do, is
now an almost unbelievable 2.2 seconds faster than the next fastest man.
Kulfard is second, Schumacher is third, Hakenin is fourth and so on.
Frinson has got the biggest test of his life right now.
He's in seventh place, 3.3 seconds behind his team mate.
He's got to get his head into this now.
Maybe he should just get out of the car, have a look at Villeneuve's data, if it's available
to him and work out what he's got to do to get that Williams up on the front row with
Villeneuve.
So in a situation where the man you always have to beat first is your team mate and you're
watching Eddie Irvine in the Ferrari, here is the situation as far as teams go.
Jack Villeneuve obviously is quicker than Frinson who is seventh fastest at the moment.
Kulfard is faster than Hakenin, Kulfard is in second place.
Michael Schumacher obviously is the fastest Ferrari in third position.
Jona Lacey in fifth place is faster than Gerhard Berger who is in eighth place.
Johnny Herbert an excellent sixth at the moment, roughly half way through the session in the
Salva Petronas and his team mate Nicola Larrini is in 12th position.
Gerhard Berger as I said is second to Jona Lacey and Ralph Schumacher as he has done,
to my surprise I must admit, is faster here today than his team mate Giancarlo Fisichella.
Ralph Schumacher is in ninth position, Fisichella is in 14th position and Olivier Parnis of
course is considerably quicker than his Japanese team mate Shinji Nakano who is making his
Grand Prix debut here this year and Katiyama is faster than Jano Trulli who is also making
his Grand Prix debut up from Formula 3.
There have been two surprises of the weekend so far, the poor performance of the Benetons
are currently fifth and eighth position but three seconds off the pace but the excellent
performance of Johnny Herbert who is also 3.3 seconds off the pace but he's had virtually
no time in that new Salva Ferrari at all and it's just been flying the whole weekend,
they've had good straight line speed with the four Renault engine cars, the two Ferrari
engine cars, particularly the Salva have been right up at the top on the straight line speed
stage but of course it's how quickly you get back to the start finish line that really
matters but Johnny looks like he could be on for a top ten qualifying today without
trouble.
We're watching Nicola Larini in the Salva Petronas, how are the Stuart Fords going?
Answer, Rubens Barrichello is 14th but 4.7 seconds slower than Villeneuve and Jan Magnussen,
the Danish driver making his debut for the Stuart team is in 17th place and there are
four non-qualifiers at the moment, very sadly indeed Damon Hill is one of them, I do hope
that he is not going to, I do hope that he is going to qualify for his first Grand Prix
with Arrows, Vincenzo Sospiri is 12 seconds slower than Villeneuve, Josve Stappen has
only done three laps in the Tyrrell and he's nearly 14 seconds off the pace and Riccardo
Rosset similarly is 14.5 seconds off.
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Nobody said it was going to be easy.
It's really tough at the top, but we're trying to get there.
Mastercard Lola was formed just 15 weeks ago.
We built a team, we built a car, we got to Melbourne.
We're running it as best as we can do, but we need a lot more track time.
It's as simple as that.
We're going to find our way through the chassis,
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We're not doing it at the moment. We may not qualify.
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Can you pick them up? Can you pick the spirits up?
Yeah, the guys are tough. They've been working night and day.
We'll see.
This will be a bit of extra pain, but we'll be there.
It's not a problem. We can keep on. It's a racing team, you know.
Hope you get there, Stuart.
Thank you, Daryl. Right now, let's go back to qualifying here
as Murray Walker once again.
Which is, I have to say, strange.
Ferrari is always going to be winning next year.
That's what they said last year and we expected this new car,
which is very, very different to the 1996 one in chassis terms,
not in engine terms, to be a considerable improvement.
But you can see that Williams is very much the class of the field
in the hands of Villeneuve.
Anyway, Hans-Harold Frensen is still down in seventh position,
3.4 seconds slower than his team-mate.
He's got eight laps to do,
but he's only got about 30 minutes to do them in.
We're halfway through the session now.
Well, Schumacher managed to get up to second place
with that time of 1.31.4
and just to let you know just how well Villeneuve is doing,
that 2.1 seconds slower than first-place man.
Here is Ralph Schumacher.
Now, this man looks as though he's likely to be just as sensational
as his older brother was.
He's the youngest man in the field, 21 years old.
Obviously, he comes from Kurpen, in Germany, as his brother does.
And he's made his way to the front through Formula 3
and then he went to Japan last year
to race in the very demanding Formula 3000 series there
and he won it.
He's an extremely confident young man.
He is a confident young man. I was talking to him last night.
He was pretty pleased with himself.
He likes the car.
But actually, through today, his lack of maturity, if you like,
his lack of experience is beginning to show up.
He's been in every gravel trap there is, more or less, this morning.
It looks like he wanted to go to the beach all day.
He's trying too hard. He was over-driving the guy.
The back end is stepping out everywhere.
But his commitment to the corner and his driving style...
I was down on turn one on Friday, right on the apex of the corner.
And he was very, very impressive.
Obviously, he learned a lot from his brother.
Michael is his biggest fan, without a doubt.
So I'm sure he helps him quite a lot.
But this is the moment now.
It's 1.30 in qualifying.
And he's now just got to put that tidy lap together.
And so far, he hasn't done so.
We've heard about what Damon Hill's problem is
in the pit lane from Louise Goodman.
Let's find out what Pedro Diniz's problem is from James Allen.
Well, Murray, it's not Pedro's problem I've got an answer to,
but it is the Benetton problem.
I think it's an aerodynamic problem.
Gerhard Berger has an extra element just been added
to the right-hand side of his front wing,
indicating he needs more downforce on the right-hand side of the car
on the turn-in.
Meanwhile, Jean Alesi, for the second time today,
replaced the rear wing.
He's also added extra downforce on the right front side of the car.
Just under 27 minutes to go.
Here is the order.
Neal Neal, way, way, way out in front of everybody else.
Two seconds faster.
Michael Schumacher in the Ferraris on the front row of the grid at the moment.
Row two of the grid, David Coulthard in the McLaren
with his teammate, Mika Häckinen.
Row three, Johnny Herbert in the Sauber
and Jean Alesi in the Benetton.
Row four, Heinz-Herl Frensen needs to improve in the Williams
with Gerhard Berger in the second Benetton.
Row five, Ralph Schumacher that you have just seen
in the Jordan Peugeot with Eddie Irvine in the second Ferrari.
Olivier Parnis, the top Bridgestone runner
in the 11th position on the grid
with, just marginally behind him,
Nicola Lorini in the second Sauber Petronas,
followed by Fisikella, Katiyama, Nakano,
Barrichello, Trulli, Magnussen, Salo and Verstappen.
And we have three non-qualifiers so far.
Damon Hill has not qualified.
Sospiri has not qualified.
Rosset has not qualified.
And the latter two are way off the pace.
Damon Hill could well get in in that spare car.
Yes, I think Damon's got a chance of doing that.
He should get into the 32s or 33s and get into the race.
Pedro Diniz hasn't yet put any kind of time up on the board,
but that's him on the track now, as we can see.
And obviously, he's trying to warm his tyres up a little bit.
The car seems all over the place.
But I do believe it'll take two or three laps before those tyres
are at the 80 to 85 degrees centigrade operating temperature
where they work the best.
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Back at qualifying, Albert Park, the Australian Formula One Grand Prix.
Alan Jones, I would imagine the pressure on Heinz Karel Frenzen
would be enormous.
He's in the second Williams car and yet he's down in seventh spot.
Absolutely, Ken.
We're looking at him now.
I mean, it's one thing to be, you know, I mean, to be in seventh spot
and a Williams is not a real good rap.
But to be nearly three odd seconds or 3.4 seconds slower than your
teammate, the pressure really is on this guy now.
He's really going to have to get his mind around it and get out and
have a big go.
I guess you've got to ask, would Damon Hilden have done a better job?
Well, I've got to say at this point in time, I would have to say yes.
Frank Williams may be thinking the same thing.
Who knows?
Right now, here's Charles Stewart down the pits with more news on Damon.
Thanks, Ken.
Well, inconceivable as it may seem, Damon Hilden is struggling to qualify.
Now, he's just got out of his number one car, the car that he's been
having problems with, and he's getting into the spare car and is about to go
out again.
The time is running out for him.
Damon Hilden struggling to qualify.
Well, that's a shame, but as the gentleman said earlier on, it's a tough game we're in,
and only the really fittest and the fastest get through the top, and the ones,
of course, with the big budget.
Right now, it's a learning curve for Damon's team, but who knows?
Next couple of months, we might see it all turn around.
We hope so, for his sake anyway.
Let's go back to Murray Walker.
Well, meantime, Johnny Herbert in fifth position is on an excellent lap.
He's just gone through the first sector fastest of all for him.
He's pretty close to the time that matters in the second sector.
He's in fifth position at the present moment, and he's obviously, as you watch
Heinz-Harold Frensen, not on a pole position winning lap.
Johnny Herbert is obviously very happy indeed with not only the car...
Oh, no, he's not.
Look at that.
That's Johnny Herbert off the track.
So he's overdone it, and of course, that lap is completely destroyed.
That was his ninth lap, so the next lap is going to be his final challenge, and we now
have about 20 minutes of the session left.
Two-thirds gone, one-third to go.
Into the pit lane comes Heinz-Harold Frensen over the speed limit line,
followed by Johnny Herbert.
Now he's turning in here.
That's the kind of day that Heinz-Harold's having.
He wants to get in, get his car fixed, and he's been randomly called in to the weight,
the weigh bridge.
They will now check the car dimensionally, check the weight of the car,
including the driver, give him a docket, and send him on his way back to the pit.
The bad news about that is that your tyre pressures, your tyre temperatures drop,
your tyre pressures drop, and you lose a valuable piece of information.
Your mechanics are not allowed to attend the car while you're on the weigh bridge,
and so you can't reset the tyre pressures.
You lose that very, very vital piece of information, along with brake temperatures.
Here's Damon.
Yeah, this is it. Damon has got lots of laps because he has only done two laps
at the present moment, and he's got a fair amount of time.
He's got 20 minutes, but allowing for the time that you have to come in
and stop and change tyres.
But he's trying very hard indeed, as you can see,
and he's on the first sector of what looks like a quick lap.
Now, Damon has got all the skill that he's needed.
Is the car going to be all right?
The tyres don't look up to temperature at all.
He's having to hack through a wire in the wheel,
and he's fighting the back end of the car.
He outbraked himself into this corner, look, and ran wide.
I suspect the brakes are not that warm either.
The car's been sitting in the pits a long time.
We need minimum 600, preferably 750 degrees centigrade on those brakes,
and they'll come up through this lap.
I suspect his next lap or two will be faster,
but there'll be a large element of frustration in Damon now.
He's had a bad day.
He's steering non-qualification in the face,
and he's got to keep it calm and just get himself a lap time in,
and that's not coming on this lap, that's for sure.
Well, he's on his seventh lap now,
out of the 12 laps that they are allowed.
It's a very, very difficult time for Damon, of course,
on account of the fact that he is the reigning world champion.
He is used to the very best equipment
in the form of the Williams with the Renault engine.
He's gone to what is not in effect, but what is actually a new team.
It may be called Arrows, as the previous one was for 19 years,
with no success,
but it's a completely new team with new personnel,
a new factory location, a new engine in the Yamaha,
different cars in the Bridgestone.
The people that work there are all new to each other.
They've got to learn to pull together,
and they've got to learn to develop the Frank Dernie-designed car
and get that Yamaha engine right for the Arrows.
They've done virtually no performance testing.
It's all been reliability stuff. There have been some reliability problems.
I know from when I drove the car, I did 20 laps in that car the other day.
It is extremely lively on the steering wheel.
You can see that as Damon's having to work very, very hard.
He's got more grip this time round, though.
The tyres are up to temperature much better.
He's picking those white lines up, the yellow lines rather,
on the inside of the corners,
and he looks much more comfortable.
This will get him into the race if he finishes this lap, I feel.
He's got to beat, Mark, he's got to beat.
One minute, 35.625.
I say again, one minute, 35.625
to qualify for the Australian Grand Prix
that he won in the Williams-Renault last year.
And as I speak to you, Damon Hill takes the turn,
and he's got about 20 seconds left to finish this lap
and qualify for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix.
Tight up on the Arrows, good-looking motor car.
They've got 40 more horsepower from the Yamaha V10 engine
than it had last year,
and Damon is certainly making the maximum use of it at the present moment.
It's going to be touch and go whether this will get him in.
He's got a leeway of about six and a half seconds, yes.
I think it's... No, it's not.
He's not going to make it.
That's on that lap, that's for sure.
He must have lost a lot of time in the end of the lap.
He's six tenths of a second off the qualifying time at the present moment.
He's on his tenth lap out of the 12 that he's allowed.
So he's got to improve by rather more than half a second in this lap
just to get into the race tomorrow, which is a 58-lapper,
and he knows it.
You've heard from Martin that he's got a lap time indicator
on the dashboard of the car.
He'll know exactly what the situation is,
and with all his considerable experience, he's going to need it.
Well, that's for sure, and I'm not sure this lap's looking any better.
He may well be coming in for another set of tyres
to have a final go towards the end of the session.
He must still have a problem, because this morning he did 34s
with a lot of fuel on board.
So why he's back there in the late 36s, I do not know.
He needs to improve to, as Murray said,
below a 135.6 to get into this motor race,
and right now he's struggling.
Both the Arrows have yet to qualify.
Both the Lowlers have yet to qualify.
They've got 15 minutes to do so.
Damon Hill is going to have three laps left after this.
Denise has got eight laps left.
Salsperi has got six laps left.
Rossett has got five.
But frankly, I think as far as the Lowlers are concerned,
it is a purely academic exercise.
And sure enough, Damon Hill was unhappy with that lap,
so he comes into the pits.
It's going to be a desperately close thing for him to get in.
And now, with just under 15 minutes to go,
Villeneuve, who's only done six laps,
he's just sitting calmly and patiently in the garage,
waiting for somebody to challenge his time.
But to be honest, I think he could leave the garage,
get into his non-work clothes
and go back to the hotel,
because he's in tomorrow's race and from pole position.
But he's certainly not taking my advice.
James Robinson is on the left, one of the top Williams men,
and Jacques Villeneuve is ready to go again.
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and this is qualifying time.
And right now, the Jackie Stewart car is out there on the track.
We've just switched away from it for the moment,
but they're doing a bit of a struggle.
In fact, Magnuson is in 16th spot,
and Barrichello is probably the best of them at this particular point in time.
He's moved up the 10th, which is a good...
That's only happened in the last minute or so.
So Jackie will at last be smiling about his weekend here at Albert Park.
And there's Ralf Schumacher, who's really giving his car, the Jordan,
a lot of boot.
Here is Daryl Eastlake down in the pits with Mournues.
Thank you, Kenny. We're standing outside the Ferrari pit.
There's a great expectation here.
A lot of concern.
People working on engines,
and there's engineers walking around,
calming everybody down, saying,
just slow it down, do it right, do it properly.
In the meantime, Schumacher is just staring at the screen,
frustration written all over his face.
But expect some explosive action out of his shortly.
They've just put tyres on, a bit of fiddling still going on,
but the feeling is he's ready to come out and perhaps do some business.
Thank you, Daryl.
Well, we hope so, because right now,
Villeneuve looks very, very comfortable.
It's nice to see a bit of competition, isn't it?
OK, let's go back to our commentator, Murray Walker.
And now here is David Coulthard in the red nosed McLaren for comic relief.
And you can tell his car by the red mirrors,
and Nicker Hackenham has got silver, silver mirrors.
And David locks up the left front, pushing very hard indeed,
coming through to complete the lap.
His first sector was the fastest he had done.
He will have lost just a little bit of time.
He needs to beat 131.4, and he fails to do so.
In fact, that was nearly a full second slower
than his own previous fastest time.
He's third quickest,
and he's out-speeding his teammate, Nicker Hackenham.
Yes, he made a couple of mistakes in the second half of that lap,
which seemed to be heavily punished around this circuit
for getting out of shape.
It's slippery on the outside, with marbles, as we call it,
a lot of dirt and old pieces of rubber that flick off the tyres.
There he is, out-braking himself, running wide.
Now he's on the wrong line for turn 16.
The tyres are dirty, and he's going to lose even more time.
He'll come onto the pit straight, 5k's down, let's say,
so he'll lose time all the way down the pit straight.
You can never recover that potential speed
if you don't catapult into the straight.
But here he is.
The car seemed very, very consistent this morning.
We saw some in-car stuff from David.
He had to do very little work at the steering wheel,
which suggested to me that that McLaren
will be extremely fast in tomorrow's race.
If they fill the second row as they are at the moment,
they're in contention.
Is Damon Hill going to be in contention?
He is just going out for what is going to be his last run.
He's got less than 10 minutes.
In fact, he's got about nine, just under nine minutes
to improve his time.
And if you want to make a note of the time that he has got to beat,
it is still 1.35.625.
The same thing will apply to Pedro Diniz.
Hill has done nine laps. He's got three left.
And David Coulthard comes into the pit lane in the McLaren.
And there is Damon. Now, he's on his outlap at the moment.
It's the next one that's got to get him into the Australian Grand Prix.
That's right. He has three laps left,
but that's an outlap, a flying lap and an inlap.
So this is it.
I'm not actually sure he's... No, that's the first lap,
as it correctly says.
He hasn't got into that lap yet, but I hope he can get through.
That's why he's pushing so hard.
He needs temperature in those tyres.
Before he starts, his one final chance to get into this motor race.
And I don't know how he's going to take this
if, as the reigning world champion, he doesn't qualify.
That will be a tragedy for us all.
Well, there is a situation now where Damon has gone, at the moment,
from a gigantic high after Japan last year
and through the winter as the world champion
to the biggest possible low, possibly, we hope not,
of not even being in the race that he won so triumphantly last year.
Well, thankfully, it looks as though he's got a clear track
as he goes into the chicane.
Turn one, turn two, and the time to beat, 135.625.
On to turn three.
Now he starts to make the approach to the Lakeside Drive,
running alongside Albert Park Lake.
From here, he's getting faster and faster,
building up to, as he goes past the sports stadium,
building up to a speed of 170 miles an hour.
And his first sector time was 30.
It's the fastest he's ever done.
It's the fastest Damon's ever done.
He was 6 tenths up on his previous best at that point.
That's what he needs to get in the race.
I hope that Lola didn't slow him down.
He's much more aggressive on this lap.
He's got some tyre temperature.
He's got a bit of confidence in this strange setup he has on the car,
due to lack of track time this morning.
Damon, you need everything you've got to get this car in the race.
Coming up to sector two when he goes round turn 11,
we'll see his time come up, and it's faster than he's ever been before.
So if he can keep the pace up for this third and last sector,
having been fastest of all of his times in the first two,
he's going to be in the Australian Grand Prix.
And this is the situation that Damon absolutely loves, a challenge.
We've seen him time after time in the Williams,
doing this for pole position.
Here in Australia, he's doing it to get into the race.
Now, we're going to know in just a few seconds,
because over the line goes Damon Hill, and is he in?
Yes, I think he's in.
Yes, Damon Hill is in by two tenths of a second.
He's still six seconds off the pace,
but relief of reliefs for Damon Hill.
His image is undimmed,
and the Arrows team will be pretty happy too.
Yeah, but his old sparring partner Villeneuve could spoil his day yet.
And if he goes out on his last set of tyres,
if Villeneuve does go out and does an incredible lap time,
that two tenths margin that Damon has, of course,
there will be a new calculation of 107% on a new pole position,
and it could pop Damon out of the race.
Villeneuve is going to go for it.
And how ironic it would be
if the man that Damon just beat in the Australian Grand Prix last year,
his then-teammate Jack Villeneuve,
was the man who put him out of starting in the Australian Grand Prix this year.
Well, you've heard what the situation is from Martin.
If Villeneuve goes two tenths quicker than he did, Damon will be out.
Villeneuve braked way too late, locked his front wheel, ran wide.
He's done it again now. He's trying too hard.
He has nothing to lose, in reality. He has absolutely nothing to lose.
Why not go out and give it one?
And that's exactly what he's doing, but it's not getting him anywhere
apart from running wide.
It then hurt him badly into two.
Badly into two, look, on the grass.
Got on the power, even though he was on the grass.
Had to correct the oversteer.
He's off the gas, where he should be flat out on the gas.
And I don't think this lap will be faster. Let's see.
Why should he even bother? He's two seconds ahead of everybody else.
Because he's a racing driver. He wants to be even faster than him.
Good answer. So, now...
with just under four minutes to go
of the qualifying session for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix,
you're watching the man who is certainly going to be starting in pole position
because no-one much as other are going to be able to get near him.
It shows you just how much faster this man can be.
Despite those two mistakes, he's only two tenths of a second
off of his pole position lap.
So, if he does something a bit special towards the end,
it may still be as quick,
but I don't think it'll be quick enough to throw Damon off.
29.1 would do it.
And he's just failed to do it.
And there is Nicola Larini,
parked alongside the wall in the Salba Petronas
as we come into the closing minutes of the qualifying session.
The closing three minutes, to be exact.
Gerhard Berger out of the Benetton.
He's been having aerodynamic problems, we believe,
getting this car up to pace, which he hasn't done.
Dylnerv still carries on. He's going into another lap.
He's done nine now, so he's still got three laps left.
Remember, he put up that incredible time of his
in just six laps,
and he was able to spend the majority of the qualifying period
just sitting in the garage studying for it.
There you go. Look, 20 cars on the track.
That's the usual way just towards the end.
Everybody saves up their best set-up,
their biggest effort, their best tyres.
And going out, Senna used to be the absolute master of this,
going out and timing his entry into the last lap to a few seconds.
And thereafter, we know, 65 times he managed to put it on pole.
Yeah, and two men are going particularly well on their last lap.
It's Rubens Barrichello in the Stewart
and Ralph Schumacher in the Jordan.
And the race, the session, has been stopped.
Yes, Larini, I think Larini's been eating some concrete
with his motorcar, and he spun off.
And there's some debris on the racetrack.
I don't think Larini's car's ended up in a particularly dangerous situation.
If this is why they've indeed stopped the session, I believe it is.
But the debris and the number of cars on the track,
I think this is a sensible decision.
That could well, with two minutes to go,
they could well say, that's it, chaps, no more qualifying today.
Very likely to, I think, because if you look at it logically,
in a situation where a lap is taking off the order of one and a half minutes,
it means that coming out on cold tyres,
there's no way they could do two laps in that time.
They would need one lap to get the tyres up to heat,
and the second lap would only be about 30 seconds duration
before the chequered flag came out.
Well, curiously, Damon Hill appears to have slipped off the computer screen.
And now he's moved on to the other page.
He's done a 34.8. So...
Top 20!
Yeah, he went faster on that next lap.
I guess that means that the... I hope he hasn't done 13 laps,
because he'd be thrown out anyway.
I think that's because the starting beam and the finishing beam
gives you that lap in hand.
You cross the line to go out.
You cross the line to go out,
and I think you probably get given one lap
as you leave the pits for the first time.
So, Damon did have one more lap, and he's gone even faster,
and he's in P20. He won't be particularly proud of that,
but it's better than watching the race.
So, here are the qualifiers for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix.
Jacques Villeneuve, pole position by a full two seconds.
Second is Schumacher.
Second row, Koolfard and Hacken and then the McLarens.
Third row, Herbert Sauber, Alacey Benetton.
Fourth row, Irvine Jordan and Heinz-Harold Frensen,
way down in eighth position in the second Williams.
Fifth row, Olivier Parnis in the Prost,
Gerhard Berger in the second Benetton.
Sixth row, Rubens Barrichello, excellent in the Stewart.
Ralph Schumacher in the second Jordan for his first Grand Prix.
Seventh row, Nicola Larini in the second Sauber.
Giancarlo Fisichella in the second Jordan.
Eighth row, Kata Yama, the Japanese driver in the Minardi,
with his countryman, Nakano, in the second Prost car.
Ninth row, Yano Trulli has made it
in his first Grand Prix in the Minardi.
And with him in 18th position on the grid,
Mikas Salo in the Tyrrell.
And the tenth row is Jan Magnussen in the second Stewart,
Damon Hill in the Arrows.
And the last qualifier is Jos van Stappen,
the Dutchman in the second Tyrrell.
Three drivers have failed to beat the 107% of pole time qualifying time.
And they are Pedro Diniz in the Arrows from Brazil,
Vincenzo Sospieri and Riccardo Rossi,
the Italian and the Brazilian respectively.
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it has to be a good thing.
But good luck to Lola in developing their car
to qualify for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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Back at Albert Park and we are going to have the continuation
of this qualifying session.
There's a couple of minutes left.
Of course, the cars came off the track
because of the debris that was out there as a result of a crash.
But there's about two minutes on, still remaining off qualifying.
And there's a couple of drivers out there who want to do a lot better.
And joining me right now, John Watson, former Grand Prix driver
and now commentator from England.
John, there are fellows there.
John, you're going to be a great driver.
John, there are fellows there who do believe
they can get something worthwhile out of this couple of minutes,
don't they?
Indeed, Ken. They've got two minutes to get the out lap
past the start-finish line.
Then they'll have one flying lap.
It only takes one flying lap to improve position.
And someone like Jan Magnussen, for example, in the Stuart Ford,
he wants to improve from his 19th position on the grid.
Teammate Barocello up in 11th place.
A fine performance from Barocello and the Stuart Ford team.
And of course, Michael Schumacher wants to have another go.
But in the meantime, Dara, what's the news down there in the pits?
Yeah, Keble, it's very important
because Michael Schumacher had timed his run to perfection.
He went out with just a couple of minutes to go
and he was very confident the car was right.
I did tell you through that session
that they were working on the car feverishly.
They put new shock absorbers into it
so he wasn't happy with the way it was handling.
And of course, the session was called off.
Now, John, you've probably been in this situation.
All of a sudden, he came in, he was so angry, he was so cranky
that he didn't get the chance.
Now, all of this back on pit lane.
He's got another chance.
They've feverishly been working on the car
right in front of us here now.
Schumacher has got dead set the race face on.
The eyes are as big as dinner plates.
And I reckon he's fired up ready to have a big one.
Now, it may be just the salvation he wanted.
Right now, John, it seems to me that there's Villeneuve
and then there's the rest.
It's real catch-up stuff, isn't it?
Over two seconds between Villeneuve and Schumacher,
first and second place.
But the trouble that Michael faces is not just this one lap.
The fact is there are three other cars ahead of him in the line.
He's got to get onto the circuit.
So he'll want to get past his teammate Eddie Irvine,
Magnussen in the Stuart Ford and somebody I can't see.
So really, for Schumacher, he must get past those other cars
before he commences his flying lap.
John, we very nearly had a very sad situation
in the fact that we were looking at Damon Hill,
the reigning world champion, not being able to qualify.
And also, I would imagine, just about unique in Formula One,
the numeral one wouldn't have featured in the Grand Prix,
which is almost unheard of.
Well, it would have been a disgrace and effect
if the world champion with number one in his car
didn't make the show.
And it is, I suppose, possible.
That could still be the situation, but very improbable.
Maybe a promoter's option with the world champion,
he gets a buy for every Grand Prix in his championship year,
is a solution.
Yes, well, as we said, thankfully,
he's qualified 20th at this particular point in time.
And keep your fingers crossed that he doesn't get shunted out
by a blistering lap by one of the other leading drivers.
Those of the Damon Hill fans would love to see him out there
racing this weekend, and there's plenty of them.
And you can see the car's getting ready.
As we said, this qualifying session will continue,
and there's only a couple of minutes left,
but it is vital for these fellows.
They've tuned themselves up for this last run,
for the pole positions for tomorrow's Grand Prix.
OK, now let's join Murray Walker once again.
And news from James Allen in the pits.
Murray, a most amazing thing, Villeneuve's mechanics
pushed his car out and started him up
and pushed his way in front of Frensen.
Now, both those two Williams cars are seventh or eighth in the queue,
so it's really debatable whether Frensen will get by before the time runs out.
Incredible gamesmanship between Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz-Harald Frensen.
Yeah, I think there's more than needle developing
between the Canadian and the German already.
There's going to be a very fraught atmosphere
in the Williams team this year
because Jacques Villeneuve is very, very hard indeed
and very, very tough on his teammate.
He was very tough on Damon Hill last year,
when Hill could have been regarded as the senior member,
but now Villeneuve is being even harder on Frensen,
who's more likely to crumble than Damon was.
This is where a Grand Prix driver becomes the ultimate pundit.
He will be looking at the three or four cars in front of him
and he works out who they are, how fast they're likely to be,
how helpful they're likely to be,
and he'd be desperately trying to catch them and pass them
before you get back to the start-finish line,
or he may think, I can't get enough of them,
I'll make some space behind me,
but then the guy behind you could try and sneak past you,
so there's a lot of toing and froing and gamesmanship going on.
As you can see, Schumacher there's made himself
a little bit of space, but I doubt he knows.
Now, here is the countdown to the checkered flag.
Schumacher is well away.
There are 16 seconds left
and Schumacher's ride height has been reduced.
You can see the spark striking off the bottom of the car.
Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Checkered flag is going out as I talk to you,
and there it is, and several drivers are on that quick lap.
Now, they've got to try to beat Jack Villeneuve's time of 1.29.369
if any of them want to take pole position.
And there's the man, the only man, in my opinion,
who's got the slightest chance of doing so,
Michael Schumacher, who drove very well in the Ferrari last year
before he had a brake problem and had to retire
from his first race for the Maranello team.
Hakenon has gone very...
Hakenon's gone fastest in this sector for him
and Alessi and Irvine.
Alessi has gone out then, and Frensen and Parnis.
There's a lot of drivers really flying and off the track,
but regains it goes Schumacher.
He kept his foot in. I don't think it'll cost him too dearly,
but he is catching some other cars.
But Villeneuve is even quicker.
Villeneuve has gone faster in both the first two sectors,
and this means that Damon Hill may be pushed out
of starting in the Australian Grand Prix.
Villeneuve is putting in an absolutely incredible lap,
and he's coming through to finish it pretty soon,
and his time is 1.29.369,
and he's likely to beat it.
So...
There is the answer coming up.
Villeneuve in the background.
This could change the pole position time,
and has it done so?
No, it has failed to do so by 0.3 seconds,
and that has quite literally saved Damon Hill's bacon.
If something did, there'd be a lot of sighs of relief
down in the Arrows Yamaha pit right now.
He must have got some traffic at the end of the lap
because his first two sections were faster.
Here is a sensation.
That man, Heinz-Harold Frensen, has pulled it out of the bag
with a very determined last lap
to move up onto the front row of the grid
with Jacques Villeneuve.
What an Australian Grand Prix we are going to see tomorrow,
because although Heinz-Harold Frensen
is 1.7 seconds off Villeneuve's time,
it means that his confidence will have been lifted,
and he'll be able to sit down and work with his race engineer
this evening, very hard indeed, on how to set up the car
to beat the... Oh, Panis spins!
Panis spins, and onto the grass.
That's exactly what you said was going to happen, Martin.
With regard to Panis, losing his head a little bit,
but congratulations to Heinz-Harold.
The pressure was on. He did get out of the car
and go away and think about it.
And in the most extreme circumstances,
with so many cars in front of him,
and the need to brake so late, turn in so hard,
but not make a mistake,
and I can't imagine anything more extreme.
He did the job, he got the job done,
even though he's a bit slower than Villeneuve.
Schumacher, now, he's not driving slowly like that
just because he's taking the time of day to look at the crowd.
Something has gone wrong with the Ferrari.
I suspect it could be out of gas, to be honest.
They run them pretty thin, and this is his in-lap anyway,
so it's fairly irrelevant.
So, in an incredible last two minutes,
we've seen two Williams cars make the front row of the grid.
We've seen Michael Schumacher push down to the second row,
now with David Kuhlfahrt.
Eddie Irvine is in fifth position on the grid
because he's gone faster than Mika Hakkinen.
So, both the Ferraris went faster than both the McLarens
in that brief two minutes.
Johnny Herbert has been pushed down from fifth to seventh,
but he can still be very proud about that.
Giorno Lacey on the fourth row of the grid
with Herbert in the Benetton, eighth position.
Olivier Parnis, the top Bridgestone tyre runner
in ninth position with Gerhard Berger
on the fifth row of the grid.
Rubens Barrichello is 11th,
and Ralf Schumacher goes down to 12th position
for his first Grand Prix in the Jordan.
Nicola Larini returns to Grand Prix racing
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just ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella's Jordan.
Katiyama is 15th, Nacarno, his countryman, is 16th.
Jarno Trulli in the Minardi is 17th on row nine
with Mikasalo's Tyrrell.
Jan Magnussen starts 19th for his first Grand Prix with Stuart.
Damon Hill has made it in 20th position,
5.4 seconds off the pace.
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is Joss Verstappen, 5.5 seconds behind Jacques Villeneuve.
And non-qualifiers Pedro Diniz Arrows,
Vincenzo Sospiri, Lola, and Ricardo Rosset, Lola.
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At the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, live from Albert Park, we've just had the final
qualifying session for pole position for tomorrow and of course it's Villeneuve on top, followed
by Heinz-Harold Frenzen and I've got to tell you, John Watson, never has there been a more
dramatic last two minutes of a qualifying session for a long, long time.
It really did shake up the top six and the top ten dramatically.
It certainly did.
I mean, for Frenzen, he had to go out, he had one lap to do the job and he did it.
He got onto the front for all the grid.
In reality, he wasn't going to be able to challenge his teammate for pole position,
but psychologically to be alongside him at the start of this year's Grand Prix gives
him an opportunity to take the lead into the first corner.
For Frenzen to do to Villeneuve what Villeneuve did to Hill last year.
I mean, Villeneuve is such a...
We're seeing so many aspects to this young man's career right now.
As I said to Alan Jones, he plays the mind games beautifully.
He's got a marvellous intellect.
Of course, he races real fast and he just sees himself as the number one guy and you
better...
I'm making the rules.
I'm the number one fellow here and you just got to follow me.
Well, if anyone didn't doubt that Villeneuve was the principal challenger for the championship
this year, I think this qualifying session, in fact all the running today, has confirmed
that Villeneuve is the man to beat.
If anybody gets a sense of the exhaust of his Renault engine, well, they'll be doing
very well.
And McLaren's coming along nicely?
Very pleased personally to see McLaren do so well.
I won their first Grand Prix at Silverstone in 81.
They've had a real three year drought and it's about time Ron Dennis got his team, kicked
it into gear and got back on the winners' podium.
Well, one man who's pretty happy right now.
We talked about the ulcers of owning and running a team and Jackie Stewart was a very tense
young man yesterday but now he's a little looser because he's got both his cars onto
the grid for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix.
Congratulations to you, Jackie.
Thank you, Ken.
We're pretty happy people down here.
I'm sorry there's a bit of noise going on.
Just right here is one of our cars.
But yeah, we're very happy.
Paul and I really had a big hug.
Okay.
The cars, the Barrichello, obviously impressed and you're crossing your fingers for Magnussen.
Well, what happened was it was pretty unhappy really that we had a situation where we had
Jan Magnussen clip him off a water pipe and we lost a lot of water and then from that
point on he had to come in and couldn't get out.
Then Barrichello had an unfortunate thing because he could have finished in the top
10.
But what happened there was that unfortunately somebody had a fairly big accident, left debris
on the track.
He couldn't avoid it, ran over it, did a lot of damage to underneath the car as well as
the barge board which is part of the aerodynamics.
So I think he could have finished in the top 10, Ken.
So we were really thrilled by that performance and really just to get two cars in in this
very first Grand Prix I can assure you there's a lot of good feeling down here.
Jackie, it's John Watson.
I just want to offer you my congratulations on a great debut for your team here in Melbourne
and other thanks for other things you've done this weekend.
Well, John, thank you.
We're very proud to have come in a year and four days from the car being first even putting
a line on a Hewlett-Packard computer, you know, just on a computer screen.
And here we are and we've got a car in 11th place right now and Jan would have been much
faster too, both of them in fact would have been quicker.
But there's no ifs and buts as you and I both know and you know we're satisfied.
Jackie, your thoughts on Villeneuve and the way he's run the qualifying session.
Really he's set amazing benchmarks, he's trying to go out.
Ken, I think it again is a mark of the man.
We've all I think whether it's John myself or Alan Jones or Murray Walker I think we've
all kind of chosen that Villeneuve is the man this year and should be the favourite
for the World Championship.
That's one thing.
I think Frensen has just confirmed that the Williams team are yet again the superior animal
in this business and to have first and second on the grid in the first event of the year
yet again is something quite remarkable.
I mean I have the highest respect for Frank and Patrick Head but that's an amazing performance.
So I think again both of those drivers are very fortunate to have cars of that quality
and again we've seen Schumacher in my opinion carry the Ferrari into the position that it
now sits at the beginning of this Australian Grand Prix and every penny that the man has
paid has been earned by him.
So anybody who says he's paid too much quite frankly if I had the money I would pay him.
Jackie if you had the money you would not pay anybody, you don't have to fib to us now.
Now listen have you got the tartan, have you got the kilt?
No I've got the tartan trousers on, I mean for God's sake it's all very matching, it's
Scottish blue socks, Scottish blue trousers, there's the socks, broke shoes of course because
that's what we normally use on the hill in Scotland and you know really we're very proud
of the way that all our teams come together.
It's been a fantastic introduction, I'm speaking to you as you know from our pit, I'm looking
across to an absolutely full grandstand, this place is full of excitement and of course
it's yet another first class Australian Grand Prix weekend.
And tomorrow your hopes, your expectations?
Well for us if we could just finish the race, keep in mind this is our first race ever and
we've got you know concerns about temperature of water, engine, brakes and everything like
that and I'm always pretty conservative about these things.
If we were to finish the race Ken that would be just a wonderful thing for us, just even
one car finishing.
If we could just get through the first corner, I'm always worried about the first corner,
even when I was sitting up with you in the booth there, I was always worried about the
first corner here and we're in a position quite vulnerable in that first corner at least
with Rubens Barrichello.
Jan Magnussen can hold back a wee bit and see what's going on if there's debris or if
there's people getting in the way but Rubens could right in the middle of it be.
So that's a concern to me if I'm really looking at my crystal ball.
Jackie an observation, talking to John about the fact that we may not have seen the numeral
one in that race had Damon Hill not qualified which would have been a real shame for Formula
One, as much as it would be for Damon.
Yes I think it would have been disappointing for the crowd, certainly disappointing for
his team and I think more than anything disappointing for Damon.
He's made his bed and he's sleeping in it and I'm sure he's looking at it as a progressive
program and I'm sure they will be better in the second and the third and as races go on.
His team are extremely professional and Damon himself is very committed, he's a very determined
man, I mean his father Graham was an enormously determined man, one of my best friends and
I don't think I can ever think of anybody in motor racing that had more determination
than Graham Hill.
I think you're going to see the same from Damon Hill, I think he's squeezed in this
time but I think he'll be glad to be in the race but he'll be disappointed.
Jackie thank you very much for your thoughts and best of luck for the weekend and if that
cap has a pup I'd like to own it.
So maybe you just...
Well I tell you what, for you Ken Sutcliffe I will get you a hunt, this is a racing Stuart
cap, I will get to you.
Now I hope you're able to understand John Watson all right up there, you just took years
to get my interpretation of English over, I just hope what is not going to be too much
for you.
Jackie you've just upset the RS Tootley by out qualifying the Jordan team, I'm sure
Eddie Jordan will be the first up there to congratulate you.
Well thanks very much John and it's good to hear from you up there.
Thank you very much Jackie, right now let's go to the voice of the V8s, Tarril Eastlake.
Yeah thank you Kenny, well of course just gone off the big thundering V8s are going
round Albert Park now on VIA warm up lap, joining me right at the moment is Craig Lounds,
we talk about the superstars of Formula One, this young man sitting behind me goes back
to Europe on the weekend at the end of the weekend and he is attempting to get into Formula
One, he will be the next Australian he hopes to be in Formula One.
But right now we're talking V8s and yesterday they really went crazy.
Thanks Tarril, yeah it's another beautiful day, of course they're gritting up now as
they finished the race yesterday which means our guys Greg is in third position and Peter
Brock is back in fifth so that's going well.
Now what happened yesterday, your two cars Brock was leading, you got a lot of pressure
of course from Murphy and all of a sudden they started to drop back, was it tyres?
Well I was speaking to Peter last night and yes they've made a bad tyre choice and unfortunately
they're going to have to put up with it but I think they've done some adjustment on the
cars and hopefully get some durability out of it.
Well were the Perkins cars so fast yesterday with Russell Engle and Larry Perkins, did
that surprise your people?
It did a little bit I think, I think the Bridgestone cars were hopefully going to get the durability
in the distance through the race and the Dunlop guys I said during yesterday's sell-a-cast
have done a lot of work and they're great tyres.
Alright well there's a great aerial shot of Albert Park the late but let's go through
the grid because remember they're gritting up as they finished yesterday, the two Castrol
cars one and two, Engle Perkins, then it's Murphy, drove well yesterday but the tyres
went off, Seton had a great drive, AJ he was in good form, Peter Brock led and got pushed
back, Johnson was a bit quiet yesterday, Crompton didn't see much from him, Noski, Larkham,
Ashby, Richards they'll all be there but midfield, Poole, Longhurst had a big prank with Wayne
Gardner, Finnegan and Spearden, then it's Tratt look at the size of this field, Palmer,
Russell, Conway, Faulkner, Walker and Ellery.
Now a lot of those cars yesterday got involved in some spins, got involved with some trouble
but nobody had the trouble that Wayne Gardner did, he was up on two wheels, thought he was
back on two wheels on a motorbike.
Now Bough, Johnny Bough who was involved in an accident and his car really badly damaged,
terrific job from both of these camps to get the cars back on the track, they'll start
from the rear of the grid, ten laps it's going to be a tough job.
Johnny Watson had your first look at the VHS today and you loved them.
Well I tell you Darryl there was some excitement that first corner watching Wayne Gardner go
back to the profession he began his motorsport career in, well he's got four wheels, he should
use all four because he'll find he'll make more progress when they're all on the ground.
Yeah he did get up in the air didn't he.
Alright and that's from Wayne's card, he's going to be a long, long way back on that
grid.
Kevin Swantz, another 500cc world champion, also having a drive and he went pretty well
yesterday.
He did, he went tremendously, he got around the circuit without any incidents and obviously
avoided the ones in front of him.
AJ, AJ, not carrying his usual sponsorship but was in a pretty good mood and you're just
pointing up to Glen Seaton.
Now Glen Seaton yesterday came good toward the end of that race.
He did, he's obviously got a tyre choice that's a little bit slightly harder than our team
and came very, very good towards the end of it.
And there's the man I talk about Swantz, he's practising his starts.
Well of course on a motorbike you've only got one wheel to give you the traction, on
a Mercedes VH you've got two but I bet you think it is still that one wheel.
Wearing that famous helmet that carried him to a world champion on a Suzuki and boy oh
boy wasn't he something else that's all Texan.
So great to see him still in Australia, great to see him driving race cars here.
There he is, Kevin Swantz, right down the pack of the pack but that won't worry him.
He'll just go out and enjoy it.
Now look at that, look at the city, look at the lake, look at the pit area, look at the
people in the grandstands, the corporate tents area, there's the main straight.
What about this place?
Isn't it a good looking race track?
I tell you it was a good looking race track before it was a race track.
I came here two years ago before the first Grand Prix was held.
I thought what a great place for a motor race.
They adopted the slogan.
There's Larry Perkins, Glenn Seaton, car 30 is out, he's gone into the paddock.
Well we just said how good he went late in the race.
He's had a problem, had a whip out of the race.
It's a shame that Robson have some sport because he was the best running Ford.
It's up to AJ now and Diggie Johnson.
Alright, the two Castrol cars out in front.
Watch for the starts.
Marks skated a blind of a start yesterday.
Here they go, racing, look at them diving up the holes.
The two Perkins cars come up and cover and it's the whole racing team.
Look at them coming into turn one.
Oh let's not have the problem we had last year.
Castrol, Castrol, HRT.
Oh no they've done it again.
And no, no, no, that's Ashley Green isn't it?
And Mark Larkham as well.
Mark Larkham, the Sony car.
Oh dear, Terry Finnegan.
Same thing happened yesterday.
All that drama into the first corner.
Difficult again, so many cars around, a narrow bit of track.
There you see the gap that's opened up between the front running cars.
Those have got trapped behind the car spinning at the tail end.
And Finnegan, and I think it was Larkham stuck in there, sand trap is in.
And Larkham, and Larkham, and Larkham, and Larkham, and Larkham, and Larkham, and Larkham, and
Larkham, there's a full 360.
Oh boy, oh boy, that was something else.
I tell you, he thinks he's Tom Cruise on a mission impossible.
It was a movie, not a reality.
Well, Castrol cars are showing some speed,
and Russell Engle hasn't, he's been good here.
He has, he's got out in front, he's had a great slingshot.
Oh, we've got a bit of a dice here in second and third, though,
but Russell is out in clean air.
Well, I tell you what, the Castrol cars in your car,
the HRT car, there's nothing left in it.
That's a drag race. Side by side they go,
and Murphy gets the corner.
Well, Real, Motor Racing, Peter Brock ahead of Larry Fakers.
Here's a re-part of the start. This is the first corner, John.
And you just watch what happens here on the left of screen.
Suddenly, one car gets tagged,
pushes himself across the track,
Neil Crompton bashes into it,
then on the grass, then all breaks loose.
Well, it is, and as I said, they're in a very, very diggily little situation there,
just on the edge of the sand trap, so it could be quite dangerous for the guys.
Well, there's certainly been some panel damage over the weekend,
but let's come back live because it's Russell Engel.
Won here yesterday, and have a look at him coming onto the straight.
Watch the mumbo of this thing now.
It's got the legs, the skirts are up, and it's dancing.
Indeed it is, and a lovely comfortable lead,
but look at that, Alan Jones.
Pop side alongside, makes some progress.
Alan Jones up the inside. Have a look at that.
He flashes past Dick Johnson now, comes up behind Larry Perkins,
and AJ's having a good day.
He is, when he's all fired up and the car's feeling good,
he's, you know, he can beat anybody,
and he's up there and he's progressing, he's driving behind Larry now.
Yeah, so Johnson's not going to give it up now.
Look at Johnson, comes up at the two-forge now.
Jones, he moves across and just blocks that line.
That's from Johnson's point of view.
AJ up in front of him.
Here's the telemetry coming out of the car.
Well, it is good to see that it shows people at home what we actually go through.
He just up in third gear, he's accelerating at the fourth,
slightly of a break, under acceleration again,
and we're pushing 160kms and up here again.
It's tremendous, actually, for the guys at home to see what we go through.
Good stuff, John, isn't it?
I like that. The more of it, the better,
the more information you can give your audience.
They don't understand, really, when they see and screen just how fast
one of these cars is going.
The telemetry says at 191km per hour.
Larry locks up a wheel.
I can't believe how far Inglis built this lead into now.
It's Brock Perkins, Jones, Johnson and Oski.
Well, it's tremendous for Russell to get out of the clean air.
I managed to do it all through last year,
and it is far much easier when you're out in front in clean air like this
to lead a race than what it is for Peter and Larry to try and catch her.
Now, that's a big lead.
Indeed it is. The beauty for Russell Inglis,
he's driving at his own pace,
he's not having to worry about a car behind him or a car ahead of him,
so he has got the perfect situation to win again this afternoon.
I've got to say, I'm pretty surprised the Holland's
have had so much stick on the forks.
Well, the pre-season testing over Christmas,
Ford were aiming on there so good, and, you know, even Holden were.
So this is the true factor we get, racing the flag drops,
and it was sort of bullshit stuff, so this has happened.
We've heard so much about parity.
I mean, do you think it's a good thing in this class of racing?
Well, it is. It's good to see good racing, and this is it.
This is where you see it.
And, you know, it's great when you get it,
Alan Jones and Bowie up there,
just fighting it with General Motors and the Ford.
And Johnson doing a pretty good job at the moment.
I'll tell you what, Bowie has made up a lot of ground
because I see the second Ford not that far back.
Indeed, but really, the man who's doing the job here this afternoon
has now got over four seconds advantage on Peter Brock in second place.
Russell Engel, he's driving the wheels off this Holden.
I tell you what, he's done a great job.
Larry's done everything he can to try and keep in front.
Bowie's up to seventh, Gardner is up to tenth.
That's AJ you're looking at there, and look at this.
It's Holden, Holden, Ford and Ford.
Rail racing, two manufacturers battled on the racetrack,
and this is, to me, great racing.
This is quite interesting now.
We've got a battle here between Alan Jones and Dick Johnson.
Dick Johnson on the Dunlops and Alan Jones on the Bridgestone.
So it's got a good battle here.
We've got Larry Perkins stuck in the middle with also Dunlops,
and Peter Brock heading up the field on Bridgestone.
Well, obviously, the Dunlop people have done a lot of work since Cerco Bay
because we heard about the fact that the Dunlops were so bad last year
but, boy, oh, boy, they've been sensational there.
They are. They're at the start of the year tremendously.
Obviously, no-one really knew how much development they have done
and they have worked extensively here with Christmas,
and it is showing on the track.
Well, it was about six laps into the race that we began to see
that the Bridgestone tyre fell away,
and that's when the Dunlop tyre came really strong.
Greg, will that happen this afternoon?
Well, you never know. It's a different day.
The temperature might be a little bit slightly...
not slightly hotter than yesterday,
so we'll just have to wait and see.
Well, Peter Brock back in second.
There's the split 4.132 seconds,
so a long way and a lot of ground to make up,
but AJ and Johnson are having a good battle.
Those two forwards are pretty even,
but I'm amazed at how much speed the Castrol cars have shown
over the weekend. They've been terrific.
Now, Peter Brock, I bet he won the pole,
had a terrific start yesterday
and then had all sorts of problems with his tyres going off.
Cars running better today.
They are. It is very much the same as Formula 1.
You've got to do one lap to get pole position,
but you've got to do ten laps in a race.
So now it's the same scenario here.
Peter's got off to a good start, but Larry's right on him again.
We've talked about Peter Brock yesterday.
The fact that he's been around so long,
you know there'll be 20 touring car races
associated with the Grand Prix over the Adelaide period
and now the Melbourne period.
He has driven in every one of those races.
Well, as I said yesterday, the name Peter Brock,
the number 05, it's known around the world
and he's a great competitor.
And two of the toughest blokes rubbing shoulders here,
Larry Perkins, Peter Brock.
And look at Larry. He's like a driver's dog with a bone.
I tell you what, there's not much meat in the bone
because Peter Brock isn't going to give any chance at all.
Any chance that may come will maybe be because of tyres.
Two of the hardest guys in motor racing to get past.
Isn't this a good battle?
It is a very good battle, as I say.
It's a tyre battle. The same scenario as yesterday.
Peter got off to a good start.
Larry's sort of obviously had a slightly harder tyre
and now he's all over Peter,
as well as Dick is all over AJ.
So, Dunlops have obviously got a great tyre.
Just interesting that the fastest lap of the race
comes with Greg Murphy all the way down the field,
just fractions over two minutes.
Yeah, I must apologise.
I must say it was Murphy up further in the field,
running back from the pit, just glopping into here.
And I didn't realise it was Brockie
that was up there at the time.
So my mistake, I apologise for that.
Larry Perkins now losing a little bit of ground to Brock there.
Watch him under brake, though.
Perkins very, very hard under brakes
and usually closes up that gap.
But this is a good battle and it gives you a good idea
of just how even and just how even the speed is in these two cars.
Well, it is.
Pretty much everybody's saying they've got the X amount of horsepower
and this is where it really toes.
And, you know, everybody's got very, very similar horsepower.
And as you were talking about that quickest lap from Greg Murphy,
you'd be very, very disappointed with that spin early on.
And, you know, he'd be trying very hard to get back.
Yeah, pretty tough to get knocked back that far in a race of just 10 laps.
And Johnson and AJ still hard at it there.
And Larry starts to move around.
Now these cars are starting to slide around.
Indeed, Larry got his right foot well to the pedal, to the pedal,
to get around, to try to find a way around Brock.
But of course, any time you do that, you lose fractions.
This is where the real action is,
because Ingle at the moment is building a lead.
Johnny Bauer, terrific drive from him to come from so far back on the grid
to be, well, just chasing the leaders.
Look at Perkins now.
But AJ was the one, he got off track, slid wide into turn one.
What predicts Johnson to make position?
All right. While you watch the tourists out here at Alvin Park,
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Nice to have you company.
You're live from Albert Park watching the touring cars.
Now, what is England doing?
What's England doing?
He's still in front.
Who is second now?
Larry Perkins, Peter Brock, Johnson Jones and Bauer.
We're going to show you how late Leap and Larry
went past Peter Brock.
A beautiful move, this one.
He kept the pressure on with a big capital P.
And have a look at this as he slips past Peter Perfect.
If you want to see a textbook overtaking maneuver,
Larry Perkins, your man, the car on the left of screen,
that's how you get the job done.
We've been, Larry's been on the back of Peter's tail
for the last couple of laps now.
It was probably inevitable for this to happen.
And Larry's just packed down 50 spots and not much planning.
He's a great competitor, though.
I mean, so is Peter Brock.
But you can never shake Larry off, can you?
No, you can't.
You know he's going to come back at you.
Exactly.
He's just been hounding Peter and Peter lap after lap
and just trying to find his little moment.
Got it.
Well, here we are.
This is Kevin Swantz.
We talked about him being here in Australia racing Group A
five-liter cars and off the circuit.
And, oh, boy, that's like the old Swantz.
He had a wild ride.
Well, I tell you what, he rode a motorbike better
than he drives a car at the moment.
You tell him that.
Well, yeah, Swantz, he's had a terrific run.
That's his first mistake all weekend.
So he'll be a little bit done for this point.
Peter Brock now closes back up on Perkins.
But don't forget, these two fellows dominated yesterday.
Johnny Bowe, look at this up in the fifth spot.
What a drive from Johnny Bowe.
Oh, up into the kitty litter and just pulls up short.
Mike Conway in the Commodore.
Wow, the Cadillac productions.
Mike Caddy doesn't do that.
I tell you, that was a very high-speed ride.
The gravel trap did the job they're there to do.
Brought the car down to safety.
It did. It's tremendous, the safety around this circuit.
And if that wasn't there, obviously,
it would have been a very badly damaged car.
Gee, Johnny Bowe's an underrated driver,
I guess by a lot of people who are outside the sport.
But he is just a polished performer, isn't he?
To come up there to fifth place,
he was way, way back down the grid.
Well, he was. He had to start at the back of the field,
obviously, from yesterday's accident.
He's just been a real... He's always a real gutsy driver.
He's very, very hard and very, very fair.
What a start to the season for Larry Perkins.
One and two yesterday, they could do the same today.
I tell you what, Brock is coming back at him.
Having done all the hard work for Perkins to get past Brock,
all of a sudden, it's almost going to be reversed.
Johnny Cotto with a bit of a slide on the ride.
Has to spin and backs it up and whoa!
Pull it up there very quickly and get out of there.
Not a good spot to be.
No, definitely not. Not for someone to stand there for quite a long time.
It's definitely a vast corner coming onto that main straight.
You want to be getting out of there quick.
P. Brock down at the 05,
the most famous racing number in Australia now.
Larry Perkins, of course, designs and builds his own cars, engines.
He does all of the work and also supplies so many customer cars in this country.
I mean, it's a marvellous job he does.
Well, I thought Tom Walton sure was the man down here,
but I'm impressed to know that my old team mate has got a strong lock-out in touring car racing.
Starting to move around now, both cars.
They are. It's where we are.
Lap 8 is a long way in the race now and the tyres are probably just getting a little bit spongy now,
so both of them will be affected.
Larry getting away from Peter Brock.
We're not showing a Russell Eagle because he's way out in front.
He's done a terrific job, Brock.
Up under brakes this time now, so Brock's starting to put the pressure back.
Well, yes, Brock, he's probably had a lap or two just to recover,
just cool down and now he's replying the pressure back on what Larry did to him.
Engel, six and a half seconds in front, so the action is here.
Brock again tries to get a nice flow.
Dave's up for the inside cut, but keeping the rhythm, keeping the momentum.
Yeah, but Larry Perkins is now the one driving defensively.
Brock seems to have found grip that he appeared to have lost two laps earlier.
And in fact, maybe just because the ambient temperature this afternoon has been lower than on yesterday afternoon,
that's the reason we're seeing this give and take between these two tyre companies.
Well, exactly. The change in temperature may affect both of them.
We've got a bit of cloud cover now, so the temperature's changed during this race,
so maybe Peter, this cloud cover has helped Peter.
The Tourists are good around here, aren't they?
They're tremendous. They're a door-to-door handle, banging.
Unfortunately, this could be looking like Larry's starting to slide around a little bit more.
So Larry Perkins in some trouble on the rubber now,
starting to move around and Brock can see every move it makes.
Comes up and have a look at the two Johnson cars.
Johnny Bauer right up behind his boss.
Dick Johnson, they've both driven well, but Johnny Bauer's done a great job.
Dick Johnson's been ever so slightly catching these two and getting closer, and he's towing Johnny Bauer along.
Indeed, but Larry Perkins, I think, is in trouble.
He is all over the track. He's having to drive defensively,
and he's allowed the two Fords to curl up onto the back of Brock's two in the closing laps.
They're going to have a four-car battle going on for second place.
Larry is not one of those people that are easy to pass.
He's a person that you've got to find and pick up on because he won't let you go by.
Two laps to go of Dickie Johnson's crew.
What a job they've done to repair Johnny Bauer's car.
It was really knocked about yesterday.
It was, and this is a tremendous drive back from Bauer.
He liked to start at the back of the field to be up running fifth.
It's just tremendous, and he's actually right up there, and he couldn't even finish higher yet.
So he worked the wheel there too, really straying the big Ford around.
Well, I could see Dick Johnson on the downshifts.
He's throwing out a bit of soot under the exhaust.
Is he running on the limit? How many goes on those downshifts?
The crowd loved this.
I'll tell you what, all the Grand Prix mechanics, they come out and watch these V8s.
They love them, I tell you.
AJ goes down. If he doesn't get a good result, they give him plenty.
I'm sure, and Alan, there's no one more able to handle plenty than AJ.
Exactly. AJ, unfortunately, had a little bit of spin, but I think he's just on the back of this tail.
He could be closing up in the later stages here.
I'm good and Perkins right at it.
I tell you, we've talked about the horsepower, or nothing in this HRT.
Well, they said your cars were fast, your tyres were superior last year.
I'm not sure after two races here at Albert Park, it's been pretty even.
It has been, and as I said, Dunlop obviously doesn't work over Christmas.
You know, he can borrow a penis duck between a Dunlop sandwich here, so, you know, it is very interesting to see.
Johnny Bauer making a move on Vicky Johnson, letting the boss know that he's just there.
It's a little look.
Well, when you come from so far behind, you drive with everything to gain, nothing to lose.
Johnny Bauer, superb drive, having to start at the back of this field and make his way up into fifth place.
Now, I know Russell Engel's got a clear track, but by G, he's done a great job.
He's building on that lead every lap.
He is, he's just tremendous. He's obviously not making any mistakes.
He's driving the car nice and smooth.
As you can see there, he's got lights of light. He's getting through the track and just having a wonderful time.
Well, they're on the last lap now. Now, this, you know this, oh, look at this here now.
Let's have a look, a bit of traffic coming into play. No, it comes out all right.
I was talking about Russell Engel because you know of him through driving school in England.
And of course, you know a lot about Larry Perkins.
Indeed, I do. And Larry Perkins, of course, drove with me at travel with the Alfa Romeo engines.
And Andy McDonald and other things came back to Australia. There we are.
A little look at what happened, Darren, once again, turn three.
And once again, that gravel trap has certainly done the job.
And as you can see, just pulls it up there. No way you're going anywhere there.
Doesn't hit anything. Exactly.
If you remember back, the sand down last year when I ended up, well actually 95, I went up on the sand trap.
And it does pull you up very, very quickly.
Craig, while we've got a moment, all the best. Look at Larry up the inside.
He's got the wiper working. I'm not sure if I feel a little drop of rain or two because I saw the wiper work and as he bumped it.
But I've got to say, the whole of Australia is riding with you in Europe.
We really, really hope it works for you. I know that you're going to give it your best shot.
I'd love to go over there and, no, fly the Australian flag proud and high because that's what we want to do.
Okay, coming up now, almost running out of space, running out of corners, Larry Perkins and Russell Engel.
There'll be plenty of celebration tonight, I've said it, around the old airplane hangar.
Because when they build these things, Larry will pull out a few stubbies tonight, I reckon.
He'll even get the ute cleaned up.
He may do it. He does a tremendous job. He works on his own cars, builds his own cars and then he races in his own cars.
So he does a tremendous job.
Look at this. There's Johnny Bough looks and says, where can I go?
There's traffic all over the place. Engel's going to win it. He's only going to stay on the island.
But who's going to get second? I think he'll hang on. I think he's too hard a bike to get through.
But Brocky, ever, ever, the competitive driver's not going to throw it in yet.
No, but one corner remaining and really, I think Larry Perkins has done enough.
He's defended his second place and he's going to retain it coming across the line.
Russell Engel crosses the line and takes his second win of the weekend.
Larry Perkins, Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, Johnny Bough.
What a good showing from the Fords and the Holdens.
There's nothing much in it but the two Castrol cars so far the most dominating team.
Two out of two. Can't do better than that. Superb indeed from Larry and all the guys at the Castrol team.
Some work to do for the Holden racing team. I've got to say you looked a bit stunned. I've got to tell you that.
I am. It's, I suppose, a little bit disappointing for the guys to have all the success last year.
And no, I think they believed that they were going to go out there and do it again.
But unfortunately, they're playing second fiddle at the moment.
Well, here's a guy that started his career in open wheelers and he's had some success in England comeback.
And Larry gave him his chance at Bathurst. They won that race together.
Now he's gone back into touring cars. He's doing the reverse to you.
Exactly. And you know, Russell's been over in England and Europe and been driving very, very hard.
And having a lot of success with a minimal amount of budget.
You know, he's coming back to Australia, driving the big V8s and he's enjoying himself immensely.
I'll tell you what, the crowd have got right behind this youngster because they've given me a tremendous ovation right around the circuit.
I mean, two wins in two days, that's about as good as he's going to get it for a while.
Well, I tell you, it's thoroughly deserved because when young men like Russell Engel dedicate themselves to motorsport, they make sacrifices.
You're personally, socially just to get into a position to be in a winning car like this.
Two wins in two days, one more day to go. Can he make it three?
I tell you what, the guys are with him. They may remain.
All right. Let's recap the top six for you because Russell Engel, the man on camera there doing a terrific job getting a great ovation.
Larry Perkins, teammate, one and two. Peter Brock, another good drive.
Dickie Johnson, terrific. He just hung on there. The first of the Ford runners, Johnny Bouss, a perp from the back.
AJ had a bit of a moment, had a little bit of a lose, put him back to the top six.
So it's been another good show from the V8s and of course they'll be back tomorrow.
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And they're off and they've all jumped nicely down the straight.
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One shot clear of Nick Price, Steve Elkington waiting in the wings.
But it was the veterans who took centre stage early in the day, Ray Floyd and that other bear, Jack Nicklaus.
That's from 145 yards, Bubby with a seven iron.
Oh what a shot.
Certainly the other bear, not me. Duval moved to the outright lead after a birdie on 18.
Then Greg Norman produced this.
It led to a birdie and the halfway lead in the event is won on three occasions.
Beautiful shot.
Nice to be able to do that, Kim.
Yes, well I guess we can just dream about it. It's nice to see the Shark playing so very well.
OK, Charles Stewart is with the place getters in the V8s, the race we just saw, which was a beauty. Charles?
Larry and Russell, another one too. You guys are having a great weekend, aren't you?
I'll tell you what, I'm starting to get used to this.
I can do a little bit more. It feels bloody good. Sitting on the grip when there's no one in front of you feels real good.
Now what is the difference? Is it just the tyres or is it your superb driving and preparation?
No, look I think...
Legendary skill.
I've got a good teacher here. Look, we've just got a good package. The tyres are better obviously.
And we've made improvements over Christmas. Like Larry said in the press coverage yesterday, we didn't make any hoo-hahs about it.
Just went on, did a bit of development and bang, here we are.
Well Larry, what do you reckon tomorrow? Can you make it three in a row?
Well we never make predictions. We know we can't necessarily fulfil.
But we'll be trying. We tried today, we tried yesterday and so far it's come up well.
And my cash trial Commodore is absolutely spot on. And actually Russell's a bit better.
Well done, enjoy tomorrow. Thank you very much.
Larry and Russell, two men on the move. They just can't stop. Door stop there by Charles Stewart.
We'll be back at the Australian Grand Prix right after this.
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Welcome back to the Australian Grand Prix weekend.
Albert Park there and of course the lake.
And it's a fabulous picture.
We've got good weather and we're looking forward to that terrific race tomorrow.
These pictures coming to you from the Whitmans Lightship right over the top of Albert Park.
Bird's Eye view of the city on a glorious weekend for sport, motor sport in particular,
in the city of Melbourne, which seems to be getting all the big events as far as sport is concerned of late.
And the fact we've got our story on Sports Sunday.
Tomorrow with Jeff Kennett telling us why he's getting all these big events and how he secured them,
which will be very interesting.
Sports Sunday comes back tomorrow.
In the meantime, we've got the Formula Holden's out on the track and to call all the action once again,
the big fella, Daryl Eastlake.
Hey, Ken, what about that shot?
We're just looking out from the blimp there, the airship.
And you had little race boats there, little yachts sailing around the lake.
They're having a race.
And here's the Australian Formula Holden coming out of the blimp.
And here's the Australian Formula Holden cars coming around right beside of him.
That was quite amazing.
Looking down there, there's a sailboat race going on about 100 yards away from where the Formula Holden's are going.
This is a crazy place.
I love it.
Johnny Watson.
I think it is a great place.
You've got all sorts of activities here.
You've got this new sports arena going up behind the Grand Prix track.
And this, the Formula Holden, your premier single-seater race series in Australia.
It's really where all the future talent in motor racing, particularly if it wants to go to Formula One, should be directed from.
Well, we're just looking at the cars coming around the wind lap now.
We'll be going to a horse race very shortly.
And you're just watching these cars warm up.
So we'll come straight back to the car race.
But we will be going over.
There's the sailboats I talked about.
What a great picture that is.
Look, there's yachts there racing in the lake.
And here's the cars on the warm up lap.
It is. It's an amazing place.
We've got so many things going on all at one time.
It keeps the people entertained.
No doubt about that.
So here they come, the Formula Holden.
So this is a category you know a fair bit about because you came out of this category.
We'll talk about that as the race progresses.
And you're going to drive a similar category in England.
Row one is Jason Barguana.
Then that's Darren Pate sits beside him.
Adam Kaplan, Darren Edwards.
And there's a lot of Reynards here.
Kevin Weeks.
There's Bob Monogue.
Bobby Monogue's been around in this class for a while.
Taylor and Erwin.
There's a lot of cars here.
Probably the biggest field we've seen for some time.
It is. It's tremendous to get some of these young guys up the front.
Jason Barguana.
Darren Pate.
It's just it needs a lot of youth to come through and give the category a big lift.
OK.
We'll just come back to the motor racing shortly.
But right now we're going to Flemington.
We're still in Melbourne.
This is race five.
Your commentator, John Russell.
Yeah. Well, first of all, it's me, Darrell.
I'm going to tell you the top prices before we go down to John Russell for his call.
And this is the Roy Higgins quality, well named after the champion jockey.
Number one, Darkzar is showing at nine dollars on SuperTab.
Gossip's at seven fifty.
Magical Storm at nine dollars.
Roseby is favored in a wide betting race.
And I think he can win at six fifty.
Thirteen dollars for our Pompeii.
Twelve dollars for Sovereign Lira.
Eleven dollars exciting ranch.
Grey Alex ten dollars.
Fifteen Navajo Flash.
Thirty four dollars Grass Valley.
Twenty six bright spot.
Ten dollars Tipsy Maya.
And Shika at thirty four dollars.
Wee one hundred to one or one hundred and one dollars.
Crossroads at twenty one dollars.
On the flight at twenty six dollars.
Trelawney is a scratching and Veronial Boy.
The ruffy of the field at one hundred and twenty six dollars.
OK, they're just racing.
Here's John Russell.
Sovereign Lira got away well.
So did bright spot and Darkzar up in the prominent position as they come to the judge with a lap to go.
Roseby's deeper on the track and going very fast out wide looking for the lead of Nitschka.
Passing the judges box with a lap left to go now and Roseby and Nitschka together by a length and a half.
An advance of Sovereign Lira over on the inside of Darkzar.
Over on the rails next to his wheels.
The goerner of the straight being followed closely by our Pompeii.
Back along the inside Tipsy Maya.
A half length to bright spot.
A length and a half further back as gossips being followed by Omni Flight.
A length and a half.
Grey Alex on the outside of Veronial Boy.
They're closely attended by Cos Razor.
On the rails Grass Valley.
Three off the fence.
Magical storm.
A length and a half Navajo Flash.
And last of all this exciting ranch as they sweep along the back.
The riverside section of the track.
It's a Nitschka by Tulings to Roseby in the box.
A length and a half then Sovereign Lira being followed closely by Darkzar.
He's followed the heavy others in by Wee.
Back along the inside with our Pompeii.
A length for Tipsy Maya.
Bright spotters just in behind them.
Followed by gossips.
A length further back as Omni Flight being followed by Veronial Boy.
Magical storm over on the outside of Grey Alex.
He's got a long way back in the field.
Being followed by Grass Valley.
Cos Razor back behind them.
Exciting ranch is second last.
Navajo Flash is the trailer as they go around the back.
Past the 1400.
Nitschka cutting them along by a couple of lengths in advance of Roseby.
Up on the inside of Sovereign Lira.
Two and a half lengths further back as Darkzar.
He's followed by Wee.
Then came our Pompeii.
A length further back as gossips going forward.
Followed by Bright Spot.
Tipsy Maya just in behind them.
They're followed by Veronial Boy on the inside of Omni Flight.
A length and a half to Magical Storm.
Well back at that point with Grey Alex who's a long way off the leader.
And they were being followed by Grass Valley who's over on the inside.
Cos Razor's well back.
Exciting ranch is second last.
Navajo Flash is last of all.
They're racing down the side of Nitschka by a half length.
Sovereign Lira moving up on the outside.
They're closely followed by Darkzar around the outside of Roseby.
Bright Spot is next to the head of the others.
Then moving forward is Wee followed by our Pompeii and Tipsy Maya coming to the picture.
Gossips back behind them.
They're followed by Veronial Boy.
Omni Flight.
Magical Storm's a long way back.
So is Grey Alex with Grass Valley.
Navajo Flash is second last at that point.
And last of all.
Exciting ranch with Cos Razor as they come around the home turn.
Sovereign Lira moved up on the outside to hit the front with 450 to go.
Nitschka fighting back along the inside.
Roseby now in the clear running on pretty well.
Followed by Bright Spot and coming down the outside.
Magical Storm from a long way back.
Sovereign Lira about to be tackled by Roseby who looks to be going very well.
Coming down to the 250 metre mark.
And Roseby on the outside has moved up to tackle Sovereign Lira who's fighting back.
Finishing on Darkzar and back behind them.
Gossips is running on well.
Roseby, Sovereign Lira won't give in.
It's Roseby on the outside.
Sovereign Lira is battling back tenaciously on the inside.
Roseby, Sovereign Lira.
Bobbing finish here.
Great go.
It's Roseby or Sovereign Lira in a tight one ahead of Darkzar third.
Followed next home by Gossips, then Nitschka.
Grassfellie followed further back in the field by Exciting Ranch.
And then came Bright Spot and out Pompey from Wee and Grey Alex.
Further back in the field.
Tipsy Meyer followed by Neverhoe Flash.
And they were followed next home by Omni Flight and Cos Razors.
A long way back and towards the tail of the field is Magical Storm.
Formula Holden's on now.
There's been plenty of action.
We'll show you the replay of the start, but let me tell you, it all happened off the line.
At the moment, it's Darren Pate.
Car 19 doing a great job.
Kevin Weeks.
Kevin Weeks and Mark Warner charging back.
We'll tell you the story as it unfolds.
But wow, off the line, it all happened.
And we'll show it to you.
You won't miss anything.
Here from Nines, Wyvolde Sports.
So here's the start.
Mark Warner in the yellow and green car.
That's Pate in the dark blue and white car.
Now, what's this, Kaplan in the red car?
This is the charge down to the first corner.
Yeah, big squeeze over to Pate to try and block him.
Then straight line into the corner.
But watch Kaplan.
He tries to go the long way around, but it's too fast.
So is Magwana.
Pate gets the advantage, takes the lead.
Those two on the grass lose stacks of time.
It's very disappointing.
Jason got a good start.
He managed to get in front of Pate and unfortunately just lost it on that turn.
Yeah, so that was the action off the line now.
Darren Pate's done a terrific job out in front of the blue and white cars.
Looks pretty much like a Williams.
Got the same sort of color scheme in that very distinctive helmet.
So he's, oh, and gets it a little sideways as he drifts it around too.
Car 99 in front, but behind him, Jason Magwana, who was sitting on pole,
has made up a lot of ground and is on the charge.
Indeed he is, and I think there's a real motor race going on behind our leader Pate.
So we'll wait and see.
Comes up to compete lap two.
Gap was over three and a half seconds.
And well, I think it's going to be closed on.
And it's Jason Magwana has come up into second.
What a drive.
He was back five or six.
He's gone past Winks in second place.
The chase is on.
He has.
He's recovered very well.
He's part of our mobile home race team now with the young line.
This is a good, good challenge for him.
He made a mistake and now he hopes now we'll see how good he can get.
You can catch up Darren Pate.
Well, we're going to see about character now because he started through pole.
You saw him get shuffled back.
He was a long, long way back and he's just passed car after car.
And shows a lot of his character as a racing driver.
He didn't give up.
Many.
Oh, and one has gone off, but he didn't give up.
He pushed and he's back up now into second place.
Fine drive after a very difficult start.
Kevin Winks back in the third place in that distinctive Turquoise colored car.
Jason Magwana.
Now, there was a big crash here yesterday.
Jason Bright is back in the race today.
That was on the start line.
He's now up in the fifth place.
I'll try and get a shot of Jason Bright for you, but he got really clobbered off the start line.
And that was a big shock.
It was. It was very disappointing.
I think Jason stole the car.
He was waving his arm furiously, but with a hussle and bustle at the start,
unfortunately some of the cars collected him along the way through.
Looking at number four, Bruce Williams in his Raynard.
He's down in sixth place.
I'm really rather lonely at this early stage of the race.
Eight laps to go.
Nobody ahead, nobody behind.
Well, this is a class now in Australia.
I'd like to get your opinion, John, because we have struggled in this country to come to terms
with a formula that can give our drivers a chance to show their skills and then go to Europe.
But we're always been in the middle road area.
We haven't had a Formula 2 as such in England as it used to be or Europe.
We haven't really had a Formula 3.
Formula 4 is here in this country a little bit different.
We run the Kent engines, not the Z-Tech engines.
So, I mean, our open-wheeler drivers really don't come to terms with the Europeans
until they can go and race their cars.
Your thoughts?
Well, the new Formula 3000 chassis that was introduced last year is a spec chassis,
spec tires, spec engine, in relative terms, much cheaper than, say, a Raynard chassis that you had to buy two years ago.
Now, the idea is great, and in principle it works.
But, of course, if you're going to change your formula and bring in 20 or 25 brand new Formula 3000 cars
with brand new racing engines, your capital costs are going to be high.
And I think that's your fundamental problem.
You can't support what you've got to the level that you need to do in the first place.
Well, Craig, you're going to have to drive Formula 3000.
I mean, these are similar cars, different, I know, in the ultimate set-up.
But, I mean, the grounding you had in these cars, I mean, did you find a lot of difference
when you went over and you raced the cars or you tested the cars in Europe?
Not necessarily difference in chassis, but overseas they run the V8 engine and, well...
Oh, big lose, big lose, big lose!
Oh, up on the grass!
What about the pull-up?
There'd be a hair in the wall there.
That'd be the difference.
That is my old car, old Sambo's.
Unfortunately, it caught the grass and had a spin, but luckily it hasn't collected the wall.
But, you know...
Making a test.
Yeah, exactly.
The difference is mainly they run a V8 over there, we run the Holden V6 here.
And it's probably more horsepower.
I think that these cars you're watching right at the moment have got about 350, 320 horsepower.
The Formula 3000's overseas got about 480, 450 horsepower.
So, yeah, necessarily just the differences in the engine.
Jason Bright, he's done very, very well overseas.
Yes, Jason Bright has been to America, run the Formula 2000, which is like a Formula 4 with wings and slicks.
Went extremely well.
The same thing, unfortunately, ran out of budget.
And now he's back in Australia racing again.
Mark Webber helped us out yesterday in the Formula formation.
Another man that's done very well in that, in the open wheeler classes over in England.
So, I mean, there's a lot of young talent like yourself ready to get over there and try and mix it up and make the big time.
Well, there is, there definitely is.
And Darren Pater's going tremendously.
He had a 3.5 second lead.
We'll just see what it is at the moment.
But Jason Varguana is giving chase.
He's opened up a little bit.
But, you know, there is Jason Bright right there.
He's back in Australia running in the Formula Holden.
So, you know, it's just a shame.
Now, this young bloke is up in the third place.
He's done a terrific job over in the United States.
He's getting good publicity over there.
And he's done extremely well.
He's got a lot of good class that he wasn't really prepared for, but took them on and has had a lot of success.
I think also that success has come from his overseas experiences.
You know, when you go abroad for the first time, it's a whole new world.
If you're good, you learn quickly and when you come back home, then you can illustrate just how much you've learned.
Jason Bright having had disappointment in yesterday's race, making up for it in third place.
Only 3.5 seconds behind Varguana, who isn't second.
Well, it's a long time since we've had an Australian sitting in a Formula One car.
I know some of the Brabhams have had a little foray in and out of there, but I mean on a
regular drive basis.
I think with the talent we've got, the young man sitting up in the commentary box with
us now, he's really going to give it a go, Craig Lowndes.
This young man has got either the choice of India or going to Europe, and Mark Webber
has already been talked about as maybe a test driver next year.
So, there is a chance Australia will have someone in Formula One.
Well, you know, I've been coming to Australia many years.
I love the place.
I think Melbourne is absolutely magnificent, a great place for a Grand Prix.
One thing is missing, and that is there is no Australian driver in a competitive, not
just in a Formula One car, competitive car.
Right, bring you up to date on the places here.
Darren Page still in front from Jason Barguana, and then it's Brian Dennis Weeks, William
Dixon, Edwards, Kaplan McLeod, and Ramsey.
They're the top ten.
We'll take a break, come back.
Home of the Holdens will still be running, and I hope you are running with us.
This week on Postcards, almond shaking and cracking in the Southern Vales, the search
for organic wine in the hills, Adelaide's Formula One pit stop, and I'll take a squiz
round Goola.
See you Sunday, 5.30 for Postcards.
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Welcome back.
Well, everything's started to happen now.
We're just a bit over three laps to go.
And I'll tell you now that Darren Pate's being reeled in by Jason Barguana.
And Pate has got a problem.
Jason Bright brake drive up into third place.
Weeks, Williams and Kaplan.
That's how they stand.
Remember Kaplan in the red car at the start really had a bad moment on the grass with
Jason Barguana.
So what a drive to get up to the second.
But we've noticed John Watson, Darren Pate's car is blowing some smoke.
Yes, only in a couple of corners.
And I think it's, oh, and Barguana in trouble.
He was too wide spun it.
Bright gets through.
Bright was pushing Barguana.
For the last couple of laps, the pressure told.
Now watch Bright because I guarantee you he is going to find his way very quickly up to
Darren Pate leading this race.
What about the driving?
What about that?
I've done a 360.
I'll go back.
I'll do another 360.
Get back a line.
He did a tremendous job to get out of way.
What's that?
Jason Bright.
And look, he's just had a lock up on the grass.
Just lost the grip and spun around.
He's quickly on the throttle again and almost got back on the race.
And that to me like his political vision didn't quite see the grass when it should have done.
He just drove on the grass.
Lost traction, paid the price.
He did indeed.
And he'd be kicking himself at the moment because he was catching Darren Pate.
Darren Pate looks like he's got a problem.
Looks like Kenny Sutton living in a car park at Channel 9 on a Friday night.
He drives like that.
Let me tell you.
All right, Pate now.
He's got plenty of pressure because Bright wouldn't.
Bright loves to win this.
There's that puff of smoke you can see.
Now that's been developing over the last couple of laps.
But Bright back from America.
This would be a big win for him.
It would be.
He had a disappointing race yesterday.
He stalled the car on the start line and unfortunately people collided with him.
And this is a great run back from him.
And hopefully in the next couple of laps he can really challenge Pate for the lead.
Now of course we talk about Jason Bright having a big win.
It's a certainly big win for Darren Pate too.
So he's going to try and hang on.
Nurse that car home.
And did he will.
And the last one.
And he's got a good start.
He's got a good start.
And of course we're on the eighth lap too after this.
It's going to be very tight indeed.
But Jason Bright's got the momentum.
Darren Pate's maybe in a more defensive frame of mind.
And the worst thing is to see the car in your mirrors that was small becoming larger.
Weak spin.
Look at this.
And he's got the momentum to go round and round and round and round.
And he does it again.
I love this stuff.
Just glatum.
Let's go.
Well he does.
And it looks like Darren Pate is not hanging around.
Jason Bright is still catching him.
But Pate looks like he's mobile really quick.
Well there's lunch running out here now.
Darren Pate would be the biggest win of his career I would think.
It would be.
Now you're looking at two different cars here.
You're looking at a Reynard 95 which Darren Pate is driving.
And I believe a 91 that Jason Bright is racing.
And he's got a good start.
And he's got a good start.
And he's got a good start.
And he's got a good start.
And he's got a good start.
And he's got a good start.
Jason Bright now.
Jason Bright tries to drive around the outside.
Has a look up on the brakes.
Darren Pate.
There he is.
There's the smoke. Hasn't probably got any worse though it's in the same part of the circuit mate.
So maybe he can hang on and not lose too much power. Traffic up in head I just noticed there.
Right now sort of comes back. Looks where he can have a run. This is where you've got to think about it.
This is right and you know, Pate's got to look out for traffic behind him and in front of him.
And Jason's just got to look out in front of him.
Right, right. Stalking the traffic's got to come into play.
Yeah I love these situations. For me Jason Bate is the man with the best opportunity.
But he's just got to use the track to his advantage.
Marguerite was able, Pate sorry, was able to use that car to his advantage.
But Bright is going to push him hard.
Did a nice job Darren Pate didn't he? Just made sure he took his racing line.
And he's entitled to do that. I mean he's got to take his line, just run his own race.
He knows that Bright's climbing all over the back of him. There's nothing he can do about that.
As long as he doesn't deliberately block he's entitled to move around.
Exactly. It's up to Jason Bright to find his way around.
And if Darren Pate can hold that line, maybe he might be the winner.
Jason Bright now up on the outside. He'll try and get a run up the inside here to get a nice smooth line out.
Closed us right up, puts the nose under the gearbox here. What a duel this is.
Started out a bit lazy this race. Then they had the big spins.
Now it's come back with a bang.
There's Darren Pate doing a terrific job in front holding out Jason Bright.
Bright has just dropped back that emerald's orbit in the hope of getting a run up onto the back
of Darren Pate's car. He may have a shot down the inside but he's too far behind to do it into this
first corner the last time.
On the last lap now and Darren Pate holding on with a sick motor car.
Jason Bright with a great drive that come from nowhere in the field to get up into second place.
And look at the pressure he's putting on Darren.
Darren Pate. Pate has a look in the mirror.
Bright goes round the outside, tries to get the run from there.
No sir, no sir. Can't do it there.
No he can't and obviously Jason Bright's got the better car of the two but Pate hasn't put a foot
wrong yet and it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Good stuff, two youngsters having a go.
This is what singer's hitter racing should be about.
But I have to say I'm impressed that Pate has defended.
He's defended fairly and he's defended well.
Pate now moving across and Bright's starting to get a little bit frustrated.
That liquid coming out of the car wouldn't be helping either because he's going back on the visor.
Exactly, I was just thinking that, just seeing that because for old Jason
is looking for clean air here, he's going really deep, he may have it.
Oh very tight but look at that, great pass. Jason Bright has done the business.
He went on the wrong side, he went the long way round.
But Darren Pate still not giving up but Bright to me has done it.
Great overtaking manoeuvre.
Wonderful move from Jason Bright, he planned that.
We talked about thinking about it, didn't he do just that?
He was, he was seeing right up behind Darren Pate and trying to find that move
that he could get up alongside him, just get his nose, he'll get the wing up over there and just push past.
But just credit to both these young men because they were in a very tight situation.
They both gave one another working room and that's intelligence in the race car.
Well Darren Pate, you've got to feel a little bit sorry for him because he did a terrific job out in front
but Jason Bright had to come from a long way back.
He stalked him, he planned the move and he pulled it off beautifully.
So Darren Pate I think will be denied here now is Jason Bright back from America.
One of the bright young stars of Australian motorsport.
And look at him pop in the air, he's wrapped Jason Bright.
Darren Pate I feel sorry for but that was one heck of a drive.
It was, it was for old Darren Pate, he was, he was out in clean air, he had a good run
and Jason Bright had to wheel him in and pass him.
And Jason Barguana too with a terrific run, we just saw him go over the line in third place.
Well Darren all I have to say is watching this battle, there is talent in Australia,
it needs to get to Europe.
Greg Lodge is going to go this year, there's two young men there that deserve the opportunity
to further their careers on the international arena.
What about that for a move, wasn't that well executed, no doubt about it.
It was, it was very very tight that right left hander and to credit to both of them as
John Watson has said that they didn't touch each other and they gave each other room.
All right there we are, there's your winner, terrific job from him.
Jason Bright, gee you'll be happy about that.
This is one race everybody loves to win at this meeting.
Darren Pate really feels sorry for him, terrific run up into second place.
Jason Barguana had all the bad luck you're going to have in a race
and still got into third place.
Williams Weeks Kaplan, that's how they finished.
All right we'll take a break, come back, hey don't you leave us Australia,
the sun shines out on the engines of Revan.
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Bush Rangers have taken first innings points thanks to a hard-hitting 73 by the talented
Ian Harvey, an outside chance to tour England this year but Victoria all out for 214,
a lead of 25 over South Australia.
Seiko was the man not out on 27, Harvey out for 73, Fleming out for two, the best of the Bowlers,
McIntyre easily the best of the SA Bowlers, four for 89,
well backed up by Brad Young two for 38, Wilson picked up three at the end
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The greatest show at international motorsports see Australia in the fast lane live from Melbourne.
The adrenaline pumping race chugs the world's best tomorrow morning from 10 o'clock. The
Columbus Australian Formula One Grand Prix on nine.
Back in 77 when everything was so tall.
I used to love the city with lots of great parks with the likes of Mark Webber and Craig
Lownes declaring their ambitions to make it all the way to Formula One. There is hope that one day
we'll see the Aussie flag flying again over the winners podium. Alan Jones and Sir Jack Brabham
are the only Australians to have won world championships. In fact it's 30 years ago since
Sir Jack won his third and final world drivers title. Today he's very much the senior statesman
of Formula One in this country. On the eve of this the first round of the 1997 championship
he shared some of his memories and insights with Daryl Eastlake.
Sir Jack Brabham was the Henry Ford of motor racing. He gave the talent dedicated to the sport
the chance to race open wheeler cars and along the way won three world driving championships,
numerous Formula Two crowns, sports car classics. On top of that he revolutionized both Formula One
and the American Indianapolis cars with a rear engine concept.
Brabham is also the only man ever to win both the world drivers crown and the prestigious
constructors title in the same year with a car bearing his own name. Sir Jack Brabham is an
Australian living treasure. I didn't set out to be a driver I was a mechanic to start with and
I had my own little engineering business in Pemshurst and Johnny Schomburg a friend of mine
married a girl around the corner from me and he'd been involved in medjits in America and of course
it wasn't long before we were involved in the medjits here and that was the first time I'd seen
racing cars really and anyway it didn't take long to get some enthusiasm there and it was helping
him for a while then we decided to build a car so we built the car and started racing it with Johnny
driving and me looking after it because it wasn't long before his wife stopped him from driving
and we're left with the car so I thought well the best thing I'd do is go and have a gal that
myself so Johnny took me down to Tempe mud flats and gave me a bit of a run in the car
and I came home from that never had so much fun in my life I thought this is great.
That fun was to last more than 50 years recently Sydney turned out in force to honor the man his
fellow racers named affectionately as Black Jack the tribute kicked off at the Sydney town hall
where once more the famous green and gold thoroughbred powered by the equally famous
Australian design repco engine filled the city's lunchtime crowds with a run from the town hall
down George street to the rocks stopping at the a&a hotel to the delight of race car lovers from all
over the world. It was great to drive the old car again of course and to drive down George street
unbelievable. They were here to rub shoulders with their sporting hero and to acknowledge the
enormity of this great man's motoring achievements. I think he's been an inspiration to everybody I
think everybody that goes overseas or went overseas and probably to a certain degree still does
I think he's still an inspiration to them. Sir Jack was I guess the pioneer for Australia to go
motor racing or motor play motorsport really overseas and leave the Australian shores and
I guess you know we all respect him from that point of view of having you know enough courage
to get up and go and do it off the shores here and now it's a common day occurrence but in those days
it things will be a lot more difficult than as they are now. Unbelievable when you look back on
what he had done with what the resources he had and achieved what he did with with such a
experimental idea that he had I mean the engine was just not a race engine yet they engineered
it into a chassis and made the whole package work. If you work for somebody like Jack you worked and
you uh you learned to when you got tired put your overalls in the vice so you didn't fall over
you learned very quickly what a vice was for. One man flew in from Japan just for the day
Mr Kanamoto first met Brabham in the role of mechanic back in the late 60s. Today he heads
the automotive giant the Honda Motor Company. I was invited to participate in this celebration
via videotape just a few weeks ago but because of my personal respect for my for him and a long time
friendship with Sir Jack I wanted to join the event in person not via tape so I'm here.
At the end of the day Sydney Harbour was the backdrop as two very close mates
relived those heady days. The only noticeable scar Sir Jack carries after half a lifetime of racing
is partial deafness a legacy of those screaming engines that sat just behind his crash helmet.
Few people outside the sport are aware of the Brabham influence in both Formula One and American
IndyCar. Jack Brabham was the man who took the engine from the front of the car and put it in the
back. And of course having the engine in the back was a terrific advantage too for a small car because
you had to have the weight over the rear wheels to put traction on the road and although it sounded
horrible having the engine in the back but it wasn't really out the back like the Porsches were
to start with it was mid-engine and because when we started with that it worked so well and we're
able to go out and beat cars like the Maserati and the Ferrari was unbelievable satisfaction I
can assure you. Good on you in part two of that tale after the break Jack Brabham reflects on the
glorious era of the 1960s in Formula One.
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We're in Melbourne for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix weekend and today Formula One is an
incredibly sophisticated and expensive business driven by enormous budgets and computer age
technology. But back in the 1960s when Jack Brabham was a younger man a racing career could go a long
way on a good set of spanners and a bit of driving ability. The three times world champ has been
reflecting on those times. In those days the European tracks were littered with dangerous
obstacles. The speeds frightening. The protection minimal. The cars fragile. The risks enormous.
That was a problem actually. We got to the stage where we went to so many funerals it was terrible.
Really depressing at times and in fact 1960 when I won the Belgian Grand Prix there was two drivers
killed in that one race. It takes a shine off winning I can assure you. In London the British
automobile racing club honors Jack with a dinner. Graham Hill and Jim Clark are among the personalities
present. Back in those days drivers actually liked each other. Once the cars were back in the
garages the Formula One circus socialized together. In Formula One there was a fantastic relationship
between all the drivers and we respected one another. We never ever put one another in an
endangered position while we're driving. We respected one another's driving capability etc.
And of course when the race was over we all get together and be socially combined together again.
Doesn't happen today. Just doesn't happen today. That was fantastic. That's the part I enjoyed most
about our Formula One racing was really the relationship we had between all the drivers.
Today the sport is riddled with high-powered politics, huge money as well as the on and off
track controversies. I couldn't wait to find out what the great man thinks of the sport in the 90s.
I go to a Formula One race today and I just look around the pits and I just see how much money is
involved there. I can't believe it. Now to give you some idea 1970 which was the last year that I
ran in Formula One. We run two cars for the year and we've done 12 races and our budget for the year
was 175 000 pounds. That wouldn't pay the catering bill today on these teams. It's incredible.
You think when you hear Schumacher getting paid 35 million dollars from Ferrari.
Unbelievable. It's just it's hard to believe. It really is. But when you look at Schumacher of
course he's by far the best driver out there today and I agree that he's worth more money than anybody
else. But that amount of money does stagger me. I just can't believe it. Would you like to drive
one of today's Formula One cars? Cars become too technical really. I can't imagine what it'd be
like driving one really. I'd like to drive one really just see what it's like but it can't be
the fun that we had driving our cars because they go around the circuit today as if they're on rails.
If they get offline at all they fly off the circuit and press button to change gears.
We used to have to turn the wheel and change the gear. Today they just press buttons. That's
incredible. Won't be long before they won't even need the driver. So you're not impressed in other
words? No, not impressed no. But you would like to drive one? I would like to drive one just because
they must have fantastic road holding. Absolutely unbelievable road holding. I was quite amazed
watching you at Eastern Creek with the agility that you could get in and out of a Formula One car.
I mean it's something you've obviously never lost and you still love very much. I suppose like
riding a bike you know you don't forget do you? Not quite as quick. Yeah so no it was I like
getting back on the car and of course I've had several opportunities this year being the 30th
anniversary of our third world championship. Of all the drivers that you faced who was the
toughest competitor? Well I'd have to say Stirling Moss really because although I had the opportunity
to drive with Fangio on two or three occasions I wasn't in a position when I first got over there
to be competing with Fangio because I was just starting when Fangio finished. But then I did
have the opportunity to drive a lot with Stirling Moss and Stirling was a driver who I admire because
he never had an off day and he started the race with Stirling. He had a race on his hands till his
car broke. It's luckily for me because it did quite often because he was pretty hard on a motor car
really but while he was on the road he was a competitor. So Jack Brabham and his old rival
Stirling Moss just some of the loonies enjoying the weekend here at the Australian Formula One
Grand Prix. Up next a fortune in Ferraris racing at Albert Park.
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The Ferrari 3 double 5 challenge is an international series for seriously rich owners of one of the
world's finest road cars. Today these amateur drivers make their Australian debut with a full
field of 355s valued at more than 10 million dollars. And who else better to call this sort
of race than Daryl Eastlake. He's got one at home haven't you D? Of course I have.
Of course I have. I would love one of those. You know how I feel about Ferraris. But 10 million
bucks I'll tell you about four million dollars worth of damage yesterday. Quite a few bounced
off the walls. I'll bring you up today with who's in front. The Englishman's been very very fast in
car 15. Nigel Albond. He's from Great Britain and he's been very quick. Ryan Moore Australian
driver. You remember him in the two-liter cars just last season. Well he's up in the second place.
He went through Alex Lai-Tung Ming from Hong Kong who is in third place. And then it's Martin
back in fourth. Palmer the other Australian is well back. Now these cars are just beautiful to
look at and the sound of them around here is something else. It is. It's great doesn't it's
good to see. I mean there are two Weissies in the top four so we're holding up our own pretty good.
This is a series that goes right around the Pacific Rim even though this race is not part
of the series. It's a great job to get all of these cars out here to Australia.
It is and it's quite an expensive to get into really. All you need is about 500 grand for the
car a couple of airfares and you're there. You know I've had the pleasure of going around Eastern
Creek in one of these things with you and also a different Ferrari we tested just a couple of weeks
ago the 456 GT and I mean when you see them on the racetrack here having been around the racetrack
with you and they really do handle suburban. They are a sweet little car. They're a mid-engine car
as opposed to being a rear engine car. They have a very nice balance. They've got a great little
gearbox. They really are a pleasant little road car indeed and I would imagine they'd be quite a
lot of fun to race. And a lot of money if you bounce off the walls which plenty of people did.
This is Matthew Mart from Australia in the white Ferrari a driver I've honestly not heard too much
about. He's doing okay. He's doing very well indeed in fact because he's putting quite a bit of
pressure on the other Aussie that we've got there. Graham Moore and of course Graham's driven many
cars in many different categories over many years. He's driven two litre touring cars and now he
finds himself in a 355 but Matthew Martin is actually putting him under a bit of pressure.
He is too and he's gone past Alex Lai Chung Ming from Hong Kong who is doing pretty well up with
Graham Moore. So I'd say he'd had half a moment somewhere and Matthew Martin has gone through
in the white car and there he is now. He's closing up on Graham Moore. Moore had a second place and
a third place so far in the races here at Albert Park but by far the quickest driver is the man out
in front at the moment Nigel Albon from Great Britain. Well of course Alex Lai Chung Ming I
believe was the champion last year in this category or in the South Pacific Rim. So you know our two
boys are in front of him that's not too bad. Yeah Al Graham Moore as you said he's been around a
while. I can't say I've ever heard of Matthew Martin but he's doing a good job and everybody's
heard of him now and in the white Ferrari. See the brake lights going on there and there's a
massive crowd around here. I mean you really get to see from the shocks we're getting out of this
car because it's a little higher and it's a little wider than the Formula 1s just how many people
here at Albert Park. The tram strike really hasn't affected us too much. No I don't think so at all.
Look Martin making up a little bit under brakes there into the right hander. He's doing an
absolutely great job I would think. No I don't think so at all. People are out here in their
droves it's a wonderful venue. The circuit looks great. You know that the grass is green. We've
got the lake in the middle. We've got the Melbourne skyline and the backdrop there. The whole thing
just looks fabulous and it must present wonderfully to the rest of the world. Hey J they've got a thing
too. I mean you come to a Grand Prix meeting and you've seen the V8 Tourers. We're seeing cars that
we often see on the road. There's not a lot of them on the road but in Sydney or Melbourne you
would see cars like this particularly up in the Gold Coast where all you richy riches live. There's
a few of them up there but people come here to see a race like this. I mean it's an unusual event
and that's what makes this meeting so good. We see the old cars. We've seen Stirling Moss going
around the old Mercedes that sounds like a fair fighter. Oh yeah he just made up a, I thought he
was making up a ton of just a ton of brakes. He just maybe overdid it a bit and what he actually
made up he more than lost on the exit. That's I mean there's an old adage you know slow in fast
out. He actually went fast in and slow out. Alrighty so Alex Lee Chiu Meng has come back
again from Hong Kong. We'll take a break come back see how it works out with the Ferraris. Please stay with us.
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Welcome back to Ferrari still out of I'll tell you now the Englishman Nigel Albons doing well
but the Australian driver Matthew Marte was saying I hadn't heard of him. You're gonna
hear plenty about him from today on. He's just done some great things to go from fourth back
up in the second in the white car. He is in fact there's quite a little train there. We've
got Grant Super Pong's down there. It's just behind Alex Lee. Jung Mi and it's on.
Oh oh dear look at number 27. That's Tan Kim Wah from Malaysia.
Martin Matthew back with him in the white car coming back onto the main straight now.
Sorry a couple of microphone problems there but
Albin out in front. Now he's a good dice here. Matthew Marte again. Graham Moore.
Graham Moore on the outside gets on the grass and brings it round beautifully.
And Graham Moore and Matthew Marte apart from the Englishman have really been the stars.
They've had a fantastic dice and we're back with you now. We've had a couple of technical
problems while this has been on but Matthew Marte in the white car there. Now here comes
Alex Lee and Jung Ming again from Hong Kong and he's been all over the back of these three. At one
stage he was running second but he's right back up into the action now. Graham Moore's been
shuffle back. Matthew Marte in the only white Ferrari out there that we've seen so far. I mean
they do look good in red but we've got the yellow of course the factory colour and the white colour
of Matthew Marte. So these cars starting to bunch up behind Matthew Marte. He's got a little bit
space now to move. The Englishman way out in front. He's done a terrific job Nigel Albin and he's been
he's been the quickest driver right throughout the weekend. Well Matthew Marte this is the
brake that he needs. He can take his own lines now and brake on oh how's it go on the inside.
Oh dear this is actually not a bad dice for third place. Graham Moore coming under a lot of pressure
from Alex Lee. Well I'll tell you what this Alex Lee, Ching Ming he doesn't muck around. I mean
he's been he was running second then he walked back to fifth now he's back up into third again.
He'll have a go. Here we go this is quite a quick section down at the left hand a very brave move
on the inside there. Very important to get in there because it dictates. Oh here's it go that was for
sure. It's Kia from Malaysia. Remember this is the Pacific ring so drivers out of Thailand, Malaysia,
Hong Kong, Singapore and they're having their first look at a circuit like this. Oh what about the
lock up there. A few flatspots on the tyres. The old tyres starting to overheat a bit now. It'll be
pretty daunting for a lot of the drivers out of the Pacific area too. Oh there we go Alex Lee.
Yeah I would say now that these tyres are really starting to generate a bit of heat and they're
starting obviously to lose a lot of grip and you can see the result of that now they're losing them
all over the place. Well wearing the number one plate of course was the champion of the last season
Alex Lai, Ching Ming from Hong Kong. Big lose there. He has really been a goer though. Gee
was he's climbed all over the top of everybody. Here's a replay. He's still got the foot in it
though. Look look he's now got it looks like it's in reverse. Oh that wasn't bad he looked like he
selected reverse as you were spinning around to keep it the momentum going but then he's lost it.
All right so you've just seen the spin there but coming up next we're going to Rose Hill for
rate six and that's followed by the finish of the Ferrari stay stowaway. There's plenty of racing
having on four legs and four wheels.
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Welcome again to the wide world of sports but this time it's a different horsepower. We're at Rose Hill Gardens in Sydney for the running of the group one at Coolmore Classic. I've just got time to give you the total prices.
Number one Dashing Eagle is favorite showing at $3.70. The Sir Da Flash second favorite at $4.80. $10 Bionic Bess, 41 Love Dance, $9 for Amber into $8.50 as I speak. $16 Flight to Fantasy, 81 Misty Dawn, $10 Timeless Winds.
I like Shindig, she's at $9.50. Vigil at $34. Ken Bell $17. Hello Dal $34. Priceless Joy is into $12 and Precious Glitter at $101 or $101.
Okay they're behind the line, they're just about set and to call this group one race we've got a group one caller. John Tapp, here he is.
Thank you Ken, thanks my boy and they're just about set, your timing's spot on. The last one goes in, Love Dance and they're set and ready for the Coolmore Classic.
Start of Billy Dale, on to his stand and they're ready to run. Stand by for a start, Timeless Winds the inside, they're off.
Shindig might have got a squeeze and went back to the tail of the field, Bionic Bess is a bit tardy. Misty Dawn bounded out in front of Precious Glitter, assert of last jump smartly.
Timeless Winds is quickly poking up on the fence into a handy posse followed by Priceless Joy. Hello Dal is in that bun soon after the start, Amber trying to get across, she's three deep and can't do any better at the moment.
Followed by Vigil dashing eagle is back midfield on the inside of Love Dance followed by Flight to Fantasy, Ken Bell and Bionic Bess and Shindig is last at the 1000 mark on the first turn.
Misty Dawn is the leader by a length on assert of last, a length away, Timeless Winds followed by Precious Glitter. On the rail Priceless Joy on the inside of Hello Dal, Amber three deep at the 800 mark, a bit more than a length to Love Dance on the outside of dashing eagle and Vigil.
Followed by Bionic Bess, Flight to Fantasy, Wellback, Shindig and last of all is Ken Bell, 600 meters out as they near the turn. Misty Dawn the leader, assert of last second, Timeless Winds third followed by Precious Glitter three deep as Amber and then Priceless Joy on the fence followed by Hello Dal.
Further back is Love Dance and dashing eagle giving them a very big start, Bionic Bess and Shindig are a mile back. In the straight Misty Dawn running a heck of a race, assert of last is getting out after her now, his Timeless Winds down the outside and they're clear of Priceless Joy followed by Hello Dal.
Assert of last went to the lead, 100 meters out over Misty Dawn followed by Timeless Winds but assert of last sent hard to the line by Dias two good and wins the Coolmore. Hello Dal got up for second, a big go for third Misty Dawn, Ken Bell wide out, Timeless Winds, Flight to Fantasy close up, then dashing eagle followed by Priceless Joy, Vigil, Love Dance, Shindig, Amber, Wellback as Precious Glitter and Bionic Bess back with the tail-enders.
Another group one win to Gay Waterhouse 490 and 190 if you're back for Shane Dymount, assert of last goes past the lead of Misty Dawn, Timeless Winds can't do any better and then in the cerise out wide comes Hello Dal and then in the pink even further out is Ken Bell, outside of her is the favorite dashing eagle but the winner no doubt about her, assert of last first, I think Hello Dal's got up for second, very close for third, perhaps number Misty Dawn number seven has just held on.
For the minor placings, we'll flash the official result down the line certainly no doubt about the winner assert of last. Now it's back to Melbourne and the Grand Prix and Darryl Eastlake.
Yeah thank you Kenny from one lot of thoroughbreds to another lot of thoroughbreds and that's the Ferrari Challenge. The Englishman doing a terrific job here Nigel Albon from Great Britain he's led this race right from the beginning and he's led every race that he's driven around this terrific circuit.
It's a very technical circuit and these cars would be a bit of a handful in most of them. Matthew Mart the Australian the white car has done a terrific job to be in second place and we have seen Ross Palmer have a spin he's gone into the sand trap.
He is out of action he was the third Australian running. Yeah Nigel has been extremely smooth I've been watching him lap after lap the tyres are definitely overheating on these cars they're starting to move around more and more but Nigel has been extremely smooth he very really gets it out of shape.
Well I guess being an Englishman with a name like Nigel and a Ferrari he'd have to be leading wouldn't he. You'd have to be half a chance wouldn't you but Matthew Mart and Car 14 has done a great job.
Remember these drivers have come from Hong Kong Singapore from Japan Malaysia Thailand and it's been a terrific exercise to bring you know 10 million dollars worth of Ferraris out to Australia just to race at this meeting not part of the actual championship but they thought at least give the Australian punters the race goers the fans a chance to see so many three feet.
Three feet five fives in action it's been a terrific exercise that way they've sounded great around here. Well they sound good I mean I've yet to hear a bad sounding Ferrari quite frankly but they do I think Matthew Martins been extremely impressive he's obviously been doing lots of practicing out the back block somewhere because none of us up here have heard of him before but he's doing extremely well in this car.
Yeah Graeme always going well but Matthew Martins certainly got past him and that's the gap back from one to two I think the Englishman's backed off a little I mean if you hang one of these things on the wall and that's happened over the last two days there's been some fairly expensive panel beating repair bills done I'll tell you and it breaks your heart to see one of these beautiful motor cars with the side all stowed in with them hitting the wall but the Englishman hasn't put a wheel wrong he hasn't even looked like getting in trouble.
No he's been as I said before he's been extremely smooth and of course as the race progresses if you're smooth you'll slowly start to pull away because very start to it's very easy to start over driving the car when the tires do overheat and even though it looks spectacular and actually feels quicker it's much much slower.
Yes coming back onto the main straight now and he'll come across the line in just a moment he takes the flag so he'll be very happy with his performances in Australia one two three wins to the Ferrari driver of Nigel Albond from Great Britain Matthew Martins in car 14 over the line in second place the Australian it's a nice drive from him at one stage he was well back off the pace and he's really fooled his way back through a couple of long dices to get into second place so good drive there's the Englishman acknowledging the crowd he's obviously
had a fair bit to do with his class of racing he's enjoyed it and he's been very successful out here and I guess it'll be a nice thing to go home to Great Britain and say well I really dominated the Australian Grand Prix meeting.
Yes after a night over a nice cold gin and tonic or a sherry or something like that so he went out to Australia won the Ferrari challenge at the Melbourne Grand Prix and that's what it is it's it's you know that being silly about it is gentleman racing although I guess after when the when the green light comes on the gentleman aspect disappears out the window a bit.
The one thing I do though people often say and we've tested a lot of high performance cars during our Grand Prix coverage that a Ferrari costing so much money and having the thoroughbred tradition behind it I guess you know why aren't they so fast on a racetrack and when you put even one of these cars as good as they are on a racetrack they are not as quick as an absolute purpose built race car.
Well that's true to a certain degree but any road car is a compromise you have to compromise a little bit of handling for comfort you have to have things like air conditioning and electric windows I mean a race car is designed and built to do a specific job and that's it and obviously they are going to be quicker around a racetrack but for what these things do I mean you can drive them down the supermarket get the groceries or you can bring them here to Albert Park and have some good fun that's what it's all about.
Beautiful cars and very driven very well a few accidents over the future days that's expected because they're they're all competitive people and they want to do the best they can let's recap the top places for you because it was a pretty entertaining series of races as I said Nigel Albon definitely the best driver here no doubt about that he won three of those races.
We had Matthew Mart from Australia second place today in the white car terrific drive from him and then we had Super Fongs from Hong Kong, Graham Moore who got dropped back a bit, Shano from Japan and Tam Man from Malaysia so they are the results for your race three of the Ferrari 355 Challenge.
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Reluctantly crouched at the starting line engines pumping and thumping in time.
The green light flashes. The flags go up churning and burning.
They yearn for the cup. They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank fuel burning fast on an empty tank.
Reckless and wild they pour through the turns. Their prowess is potent and secretly stern.
As they speed through the finish the flags go down. The fans get up and they get out of town.
The arena is empty except for one man still driving and striving as fast as he can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up and long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns and thanking someone for who he still burns.
He's going the distance. He's going for speed.
She's all alone. All alone. All alone in her time of need.
Because he's racing and racing and plotting the course. He's fighting and fighting and riding on his horse.
He's going the distance.
All alone.
No trophy. No flowers. No flashbulbs. No line. He's haunted by something he cannot define.
Bowels shaking. Earthquakes of doubt and remorse. Assail him. Impale him with monster truck force.
In his mind he's still driving. Still making the grade.
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade. Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course.
He's fighting and fighting and riding on his horse.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up and long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's driving and driving and hugging the turns and thanking someone for whom he still burns.
Because he's going the distance. He's going for speed.
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Nice piece. Only a special breed of driver gets to occupy the cockpit of a Formula One racer.
But in this age of virtual reality and computer smarts, mere mortals such as our reporter Jeff Hutchison
can experience some of the thrills of Grand Prix racing.
This week the crowds have been clamouring not just to see the Flying Williams,
but to experience for themselves what it's like in a cockpit.
Simulators these days are able to replicate the speed, the danger, the split second timing it takes
to be a Formula One driver.
And if the internet is any guide, a few years from now professional racers will be making their money from the lounge room.
For all you would-be punters out there, I'd like to show you a new toy we've invented for playing at home.
This is the Hyper Stimulator.
It folds out, sits in front of your television set or your computer monitor in your lounge room
and you sit in this car and drive it for 100 laps at any race track in the world.
Six years ago John Crook began developing the Hyper Stimulator,
a way of replacing joystick and keyboard with cockpit and professional controls.
It simulates everything that a driver goes through except for G-force and physical abuse, long-term physical abuse.
But as far as car control, throttle control, ability to trail brake and just being able to set up a car,
wings, gear ratios, all that sort of thing, it is exactly the same as driving a real racing car.
And now in this Lilydale factory, strewn with carbon fibre and sketches of the future,
John and his team are working flat out, building dream cars that Formula One wannabes can really drive.
We've been laughed at, you know, and people have told us we've lost the plot
and of course that just inspires you to push on, you know, and prove them all wrong.
Sleeping on the lilo in the factory floor and some mornings having to wake up
and you couldn't afford milk so you'd pour water on your wheaties.
So there have been those days, you know, but we're there now.
When Mike Cullinan pranged his go-kart, nearly breaking his neck,
he promised his wife he'd start spending more nights at home in front of the steering wheel.
The good thing about racing, the simulation is if they are a bit too fast,
you can always turn their strength down and make them a little bit slower.
And I'm sure Damon Hill would like to be able to do that to the real Michael Shoemaker.
I suppose a lot of name drivers, guys like Craig Lowndes and Brad Jones,
have bought the cars to use themselves for training purposes
and that's reinforced my belief as an ex-driver that these are really a legitimate driving machine.
Simulator racing is pretty well unknown to the motor racing world at this stage,
but within three or four years it will become the biggest participant motor sport
or form of motor sport in the world.
I've had figures from our distributor in the UK talking one to two thousand units in the first year.
On the internet what they do is they set it up and have a Grand Prix
and you have to qualify for the Grand Prix and then you do the full race.
And we had an engineer from Germany out here last week and he just uses it on his little laptop,
but he does all the free practice, he uses all the telemetry like a race car, changes the setup
and he told me each Grand Prix takes him four hours.
So it's certainly something that people get right into.
Touring car driver Brad Jones is an addict,
although he balks at the prospect of driving on the internet for professional reasons of course.
I think you'd use a different name, but it's the closest thing you get to driving a race car
and I highly recommend it, it's a lot of fun.
It's like going to time zones, it's very nice if you win, you don't mind telling everyone who you are,
but if you get beaten by an eight year old you stagger out of the place pretty quickly.
You're going to make a quit out of this Steve?
It's a long way down the track, it's a long way down the track at this stage.
Yes.
So you can cater for the most deluded racenut?
Yeah, we cater for all racing types from the clubman type bloke to the guy that wants to spend a lot of money.
The clubman guy can come in and build his own unit,
but the man with money that wants the best of everything can have the best of everything.
We do carbon fibre interiors or carbon kevlar composites in fact,
wings, braided hoses, even a full six point safety harness,
so you're totally safe in your own home in this sort of vehicle.
What about the Brazilian girlfriend?
No, we don't supply Brazilian girlfriends.
They're right about you anyway.
Yes, Jeff Hutchinson in the realm of Formula One fantasy and Brazilian girls.
Alan, I mean I know that a lot of drivers, as Jeff pointed out there, are right into this,
and in fact Jacques Villeneuve, he gets into it in a big way
and he thinks it's very much a part of learning to drive and drive very well.
Well, it's funny you should mention that because when they offered Christian a test drive of the Audi out at Colder a couple of weeks ago...
This is your son.
Yeah, I said to him now, look, it's got a sequential gearbox and it shows you the gears up.
He said, that's all right.
He said, I've been doing a lot on the simulator and that's got a sequential gearbox.
I've got that down, Pat.
Really?
Yeah.
What I want to know is how much and when can we get one?
Well, I don't think they're inexpensive, but they're good fun.
OK, right now, let's go to Ken Callander for Race 7 at Flemington. Ken?
Yeah, thanks very much, Kenny.
And Race 7 at Flemington is the AV CUNY Stakes, three-year-old fillies of 1600 metres.
They're starting to go in the line. I'd better smarten up.
Number 1, Zaya from the Peter Hayes stable is showing at $9 or 8 to 1.
Dendry trained in Sydney by Bart Cummings, second up after a spell.
She's favourite, $3.10. I think she'll win. That's for a dollar investment.
Darrobe is at $8. Chevelle Place, consistent and in form at the moment, is showing at $5.
Akarana at $11.
Soraya, another Peter Hayes-trained runner, is at $10.
Tambor, another Sydney runner, trained by Clary Connors.
This young miss, she'll be running home strongly. She's showing at $5.50.
Prey for Rain, that's R-E-I-G-N, is at $9.
Regal Crown at $15.
Sea Gems at $41 and Priceless Jewel just a little longer at $51.
The fillies are taking their places in the barrier.
Let's swing down to Melbourne. There is Tambor about to take her position.
She races in blinkers and she's ridden today by Brett Preble.
Our caller for these Melbourne races is John Russell.
John will let you know where every horse is in the run.
And if you're looking for the horse that I've tipped, Dendry,
she races in dark blue with a pale blue V, pale blue sleeves and a pale blue cap.
So she races in the two blues.
I can't see her there at the moment.
Going forward there in the black and gold is Regal Crown.
Darren Gouchie has got the ride on her.
She's also got some green hoops on that black, you may have noticed.
I think that is Zaya there.
Getting attended to it is Zaya.
Zaya, trained by Peter Hayes, races in blinkers.
She'll be ridden by Alf Matthews.
She's won a lot of prize money.
She's been placed in some very good races and is up to 359,000,
actually, in prize money already.
This is a group two race, the CUNY Stakes, and is a very good class race.
The two best fillies in Australia, Asserta Flash and Dashing Eagle,
both ran in the Coolmore Classic, which was on in Sydney 20 minutes ago,
which you saw live on the Wide World of Sports.
And, of course, that was won by Asserta Flash, the Zedda to filly.
There's Alf Matthews on top of Zaya now.
She's about to take a place.
I'd guess that she's probably the last one in.
That's the one we sent it on.
She's drawn the outside of the field.
So they're ready.
Let's go down to John Russell for the AV CUNY Stakes.
Set for a start.
Ready. Away they go.
Jump well, too, and first out Ackarana near the inside
from priceless Jewel who began well away quickly.
Also, pray for Raina.
Chevelle Place is going fast in behind them.
Regal Crowner, length further back as Sea Gems on the inside of Surya,
being followed by Dey Rabaill, length and a half.
Denendri settling third last, followed by Tambour,
and Zaya's dropped out to last.
1,250 metres left to go.
Surya went fast to take the lead by length.
Chevelle Place, a length further back as Regal Crowner,
running fourth over on the inside, priceless Jewel, a half length to Ackarana.
Two lengths to pray for Raina on the outside of Dey Rabaill.
A couple further back in the field in is Sea Gems,
and they were followed by Denendri.
Further back in the field, Zaya on the outside of Tambour,
as they come by the 1,000-metre mark in Surya,
out by length and a half in advance here of Regal Crowner,
length further back in third place as Chevelle Place,
being followed by Ackarana,
pray for Raina moving around the outside of priceless Jewel,
a length and a half Dey Rabaill,
and they were closely followed a bit further back in the field.
Then over on the outside by Denendri,
back behind them Sea Gems, Zaya second last and Tambour last of all,
as they come up towards the home turn.
Just over 600 metres left to go,
and Surya on the inside, a half length clear,
going up on its outside very fast.
There is Regal Crowner taking it on as they straighten up a length and a half further back,
Chevelle Place, and they are followed closely over on the outside by pray for Raina Ackarana.
Over on the inside is Dey Rabaill, priceless Jewel.
Denendri is a fair way back, but starting to wind up at well back as Tambour,
and Zaya near last as they come down with 250 to go.
Regal Crowner has kicked away about two lengths clear of Surya.
Denendri finishing very fast down the outside,
Chevelle Place behind them, and Dey Rabaill also coming home pretty well,
but Regal Crowner with a handy break, 100 metres left to go.
Denendri flying down the outside will be too late,
and Regal Crowner wins it from Denendri.
Surya is run third followed by Dey Rabaill.
In behind them then at the head of the others would be Tambour,
followed by Chevelle Place, Ackarana, pray for Raina.
Zaya is a long way back, followed by Sea Gems, and last time as priceless Jewel.
Well, it was Darren Gouchie shooting Regal Crown away.
She was round about $14, $15 on the tote,
and even this far from home it was obvious she was going to win.
You'll see Denendri in the two blues flashing up late down the outside
for Simon Marshall, but not quite quickly enough.
And Regal Crown gets the money.
Denendri gets there in time to run second,
and Surya in the gold colours just holds on to run third.
A good win to Regal Crown, a good run to Denendri.
It was only her second start after a let-up,
and the possibility is that she'll certainly improve on that.
OK, that was the second leg of the Daily Double in Melbourne.
It won't be long before we have another Group 1 race in Sydney,
this time the RANVAT stakes.
In the meantime, let's take a break
on today's edition of the Wide World of Sports.
On National My News...
Without public transport, getting there was none of the fun.
But Melbourne went anyway.
Qualifying day at the Grand Prix,
Rob Colvin reports live from the track.
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Back at Elbow Park for the Australian Grand Prix weekend,
and that's the view from the Whitman's light airship over the city of Melbourne.
And, of course, you can see the lake there and the track,
and we have been blessed with good weather today,
not too hot and certainly comfortable for the drivers,
and that's the way it's going to be tomorrow,
according to the latest forecast that we have.
This week, the Confederation of Motorsport Awards
gave a double honour to one young man, open-wheel star Mark Webber.
He was named Young Achiever and International Sportsman of the Year.
We've seen him take out Formula 4 and Holden titles in the past two Grand Prix.
But, as Mary Gehrin reports, his eyes are on a Formula 1 career.
Destiny stronger than any G-Force seems to be sweeping 20-year-old Mark Webber
through to his fate.
A fate he wishes is called F1.
His latest promotion to the F3 class is the classic F1 dress rehearsal.
There's not one guy who's racing in this F1 Championship this weekend
who didn't do British Formula 3,
so Formula 3 is very important to the team.
You've got to have results and timing, and I think we can do it.
He's certainly gone about it in the old-fashioned way,
doing the hard yards from karts as a kid in Queenbyen
to a brilliant debut season in Formula 4 last year,
working for the prestigious Duckams Van Diemen team,
winning the Formula 4 festival.
It's like there's no mercy at all.
There's a lot of dirty tactics on the side.
There's no mercy at all. There's a lot of dirty tactics on the circuit
in Formula 4 over here, and that's one of the things that,
when you move up later on, which will help you,
you have to do Formula 4 or Formula 3 or so on
to help your driving skills, help your race craft.
The race craft will pay off in F3, so will the newfound networking skills.
New boss Alan Docking is based near the Jordan F1 team,
and Webber will rub any available shoulder that passes his way.
He needs to because, despite his perfect pedigree,
he's still scratching for sponsors.
It's very difficult. You have to have a lot of contacts
and everything really going for you.
We've seen before we have David Brabham, who was an Australian,
and he had the famous father of Jack Brabham,
and still he couldn't get into the right situation that he wanted,
so it's very difficult.
But what I'm trying to do is get the right results
and try and make the right impact you have to do to get into Formula 1,
but you need a tremendous amount of financial support from your home country.
That's what happens with the other drivers,
so that's what we're trying to do, is to get other people
get involved with Yellow Pages to try and help get on the grid here at Melbourne.
A visit to Albert Park just before flying to London for his first testing session
was a reminder of Webber's ultimate goal.
It's definitely a big tease to have the guys in the F1 cars in Melbourne.
It's very impressive to watch them attack the track
and to see the people really enjoying it and busting to see they're heroes.
And you could be a hero who is kind of scarier as well?
Yeah, well, it could be very scary if I do make Formula 1.
Mark feels the pressure of that if.
He feels if he or his closest peer, Craig Lounds, doesn't make it,
neither do others who would follow.
It's very important because if Craig and I don't make it,
well, one of us don't make it in the next sort of three or four years,
it's going to be the same situation that we've had for the last sort of ten years.
But before then, Lounds and Webber must compete for the corporate dollar.
A race Lounds as touring car champion is winning,
with more than a million dollars reported sponsorship.
Webber is still searching to make up a minimum $650,000.
Value for money, says Webber, will be proven with race results.
What I've done now this year is my first year in the UK
and the last guy to win the Formula 4 festival was Russell Ingle.
And Russell spent a lot of time over there as well.
So I'm doing Formula 3 as well.
So I think that I'm doing the right class as Craig raced over here.
He's yet to have a good crack in Europe,
so it's going to be very interesting to see how he goes.
So maybe he's missed some vital steps we don't know.
We don't know until both of us maybe get the opportunity in Formula 1
to see who is the better one for Australia.
Or if not, why not both of us on the grid?
It's the end of the day, we're all competitors
and it would be great for Melbourne to have someone on the grid
because the crowds would be just huge.
You do wish him well, but you've heard the story so many times before, Alan.
It's like a broken record, Ken, unfortunately.
We do have an enormous amount of talent.
They're there, they're as good as anybody.
They just need a bit of corporate backing from this country,
some corporations with a bit of foresight to back them.
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What is the return?
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They get the exposure associated with winners.
I mean, is there a flow-on effect that you can actually see?
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Their business went, like, 300 or 400% with him,
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Well, it would be nice to see somebody from Australia,
a major corporation with a bit of money to spend,
put it into somebody like Mark Webber or Craig Lowndes.
You are watching Wide World of Sports on Qualifying Saturday
at the Australian Grand Prix. More in a moment.
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And there was one ARL game played this afternoon.
It was Wests and the Gold Coast.
There is the score.
Gold Coast over Wests, 24 points to 16.
There's one ARL fixture tonight at Leichhardt Over with Balmain hosting Manly and one Superleague
clash, Auckland playing the Hunter Mariners.
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New South Wales 2 for 71 in its second innings after dismissing West Australia for 2.28 in
its first innings.
The Blues still trail by 68 runs.
At Belle Reveauville in Hobart, Queensland's 3 for 135 in reply to Tasmania, 408.
And South Australia 1 for 40 in its second innings in the clash with Victoria that is
a lead of 15.
And still on cricket, Australian captain Mark Taylor has sustained a back injury while warming
up for the tour match with Border.
He may be in doubt for the next test.
There will be a full report from Andrew McKinlay in South Africa in tonight's National 9 News.
The Aussies are in a strong position heading into the second day.
Mark Waugh and Jason Gillespie the standouts.
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Dane will be off to Rosehill Gardens for the running of the RANVET stakes.
Earlier today the Todman Slipper Trial was run and won.
General Nadeem getting home ahead of Military Bell and Special Dane.
Earlier the Lee Friedman-trained Rose of Dane Hill took out the Riesling Slipper Trial for
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Their haul was confined to one fish.
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A 182.2 kilogram blue marlin caught with a 24 kilo tackle.
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A 182 kilogram marlin with a 24 kilo tackle on a five metre boat.
That's quite a fishy tale.
Nothing fishy about Ken Cowlinder.
He's out at Rosehill Gardens, Ken.
There sure is an end and thank you very much.
Here we go.
The prices on the Group 1, the RAN VET.
Number one, the Bandit, $9.50.
He's a Kiwi.
$5 DuPayne just over about $5.20.
Campaign Warrior, $31.
13 Sky Bow.
Iron Horse at $17.
Arcadia, $11.
Circles of Gold by Good Cheelook World, $6.50.
They're off in the RAN VET.
Slow to move as she was last week and she's back last in the early stages.
Circles of Gold bounced out in front of Arcadia, away smartly as Iron Horse, pushing through
into a handy spot as Mojave Dancer followed by Sky Bow between horses.
On the fence is the Bandit and further back DuPayne followed by Hula Flight.
Campaign Warrior back near the tail but is now starting to go forward three deep and
Arc's extend as last as they go past the $1,600 mark.
Into the back straight, Mojave Dancer, the leader, and got away by more than a length
to Iron Horse on the outside of Circles of Gold.
A length and a half then to Arcadia.
Now DuPayne is making a fast forward move followed by Campaign Warrior.
Further back the Bandit and then Sky Bow and Hula Flight and Arctic Scent on the outside
as last as they go to the $1,200 mark.
Mojave Dancer, the leader, by nearly a length to Iron Horse, a bit more than a length to
DuPayne who made a quick move mid-race to get up into a handy posse although he's dropped
back to the girth of Circles of Gold at the $1,000 mark.
But two to Arcadia on the inside of Campaign Warrior and then Sky Bow followed by Hula
Flight on the fence awkwardly placed followed by the Bandit and Arctic Scent as last of
all.
At the $800 meters mark in the Ranvet, Mojave Dancer led by about a length to Iron Horse.
Circles of Gold getting the run of the race third on the inside of DuPayne.
Two and a half then to Arcadia and Campaign Warrior.
Sky Bow is up three deep and under heavy pressure at the $600 mark followed by Hula Flight.
Over back is the Bandit and Arctic Scent as last as they near the turn.
Mojave Dancer first into the straight over Iron Horse and DuPayne on the outside is now
winding up followed by Circles of Gold.
Arcadia further out, Campaign Warrior and then Hula Flight and the Bandit as they come
down to the $200 where Iron Horse hit the front.
But Hula Flight sprinting quickly as raced up on the outside.
Hula Flight has grabbed the lead.
Iron Horse has gone.
The Bandit with the late charge.
Arcadia getting through on the rail.
Hula Flight and Arcadia on the fence and Hula Flight on the outside as they hit the line.
But Arcadia, Arcadia did best and won the Ranvet by about a short head to Hula Flight
and the Bandit.
Arctic Scent made up good ground followed by Circles of Gold, Campaign Warrior and then
DuPayne, Iron Horse and well back Sky Bow with Mojave Dancer weakening to run last in
the Ranvet stakes.
Well that was a great ride by Johnny Marshall along the fence on Arcadia.
Hula Flight was going to win for sure.
I don't think she quite sustained the run and this group one success goes to the John
Mori stable and John Marshall on Arcadia.
If you're back to Arcadia on the tote it's a nice dividend of $10 plus for the win and
$2.80 for the place.
No doubt Hula Flight will be second out in the centre of the track.
She was favourite and has only paid $1.30 for second and the Bandit, TAB number one, will
run third and pay $2.80.
That's the result.
I'm not waiting for the photo but I think you can take that as gospel that Arcadia has
beaten Hula Flight in the 1997 Ranvet Stakes.
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Back at Albert Park and this is an incident recorded just a few moments ago as the ladies
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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the continuation of our Grand Prix coverage.
Well as you're probably aware, Rob Kelvin's been in Melbourne this week, the lucky devil,
compiling special reports from the Grand Prix track for National 9 News.
Let's cross to Rob now for a more in-depth look behind the scenes.
Kim, thank you.
You know, one of the things we learned about Grand Prix over the 11 years in Adelaide is
that the only constant is change.
This week I've had the chance to talk to a number of Grand Prix identities about the
sport, starting with four-time world champion and new team owner, Alan Prost.
Alan, you have just only taken over the team, have you had a drive in the car?
Have you tried the car yet?
No.
You haven't tried it yet?
No, not yet.
You're not going to test drive yourself?
No, I mean, because it's, I have too much to do and also it's different responsibility
and I don't think I can do that.
You wouldn't like to test drive the car?
You know, you can drive the car, just for fun, but you cannot test the car for working,
you know, in the car, because it's a different mentality and a different approach and I don't
think you can do that.
It's not very responsible to do that for the team itself.
When you're talking long term, you're looking long term to next season, would you be looking
for an all French team?
No, I'm not.
Peugeot, French drivers?
No, I never look about a 100% French team.
That was some comments from the press, which is normal, because a lot of people are talking
about that.
I mean, the team is a French team, because it's based in France and we are going to have
a French engine next year, but it's not the objective to have a 100% French team at all.
But what about the time taken up as a team owner and director, as opposed to when he
was a driver?
Since I tried to make the deal, and especially in the last three or four weeks, I work 15
hours per day, even the weekend, but it's a difficult time for sure, the year, but it
takes more your time and more your brain, you know.
The other old Formula One name that's in a new capacity in Melbourne is the Stuart team,
set up by triple world champion Jackie Stuart and 31 year old son Paul.
I think there were certainly times when I thought it may not.
You know, it sort of varied, doing different points.
I'm talking about 96 now, when I just prayed it would actually happen, and I have to say
it was a great relief when I finally, when the plane landed in Melbourne, I thought,
my God, I never thought I would really be seeing this, and seeing this unpauled now
is terrific.
What's the personal highlight for you?
What are the hardest things to setting up a team that you think you've achieved?
I mean, there's numerous milestones, you know, from gathering the right team of people,
because like anything, it's a people business, and you've got to get the right people from
a technology perspective to build the right car.
Apart from that, once you design the car, so to speak, you then do your aerodynamic
testing.
You've got to make up the wind tunnel models.
You have the right people to make that.
So it's an accurate representation of what's been designed on the computer system, because
our car is totally designed on the computer, giving up the manufacturing side.
Then you've also got the same time setting a team up, you know, getting the banners laid
out, the boxes that you travel, all the kit that you travel in, all 18 tons of it that
we have down here this weekend.
It goes on and on.
The list is endless, and I think that there were numerous milestones, but probably the
biggest buildup for me was the actual launch on the 10th of December.
I think that was really the moment that I said, here it is, and it was for the world
to see what we had done in a year, and that was a very, very proud moment.
What are your realistic goals for this season?
Difficult to say, really.
We've got to see how we start off.
We're a new team, and we don't really know where we stand.
We hope we're going to deliver and do a decent job.
Although the team that we've got together are coming from a lot of experience in different
other Formula One teams, it's the first time that we work together as a group collectively,
and sometimes that causes problems in communication because somebody assumes that so-and-so was
doing this, somebody was doing that, they're not, or different people react in different
ways under pressure situations.
We've got to be realistic, you've got Williams, Ferrari, Benetton, McLaren, Jordan, five teams
right there, that's ten cars, that have a lot of experience, and for us to assume that
we can come in in our first year and out-qualify any of them is not realistic.
Beyond that, you have Turro, Ligier, Arrows with Damon Hill, Minardi, that's six cars.
So between 10th and 15th, putting it in that light, I think would be a success.
Is there any more pressure on you because you've gotten a famous name?
I think the benefits outweigh the negatives of it, if you like, so I'm not worried about
it.
Certainly if we don't do well, people will know about it because they want to know how
the Stewart 14 is doing.
But at the same time, they want to know for the right reasons.
They're hoping that we're going to do well, but they know that we've got a lot to learn,
so I think people will give us a bit of slack, certainly on our first race.
But I'm sure people will hope we can deliver and expect us to eventually.
And from one family to another, the shoe markers, Michael and now Ralph.
Ralph, have you got any idea how long you've wanted to be a Formula One driver?
I just started to be a Formula One driver.
But when did you first want to be?
When did I first want to be?
Well, I never really wanted to be a Formula One driver.
I just started with car.
When I did the car thing, I saw my brother was driving Formula 4, and I said, well, one
day maybe I can do the same.
And then I came to Formula 3, and then I came to Formula 3000, and then I was in Formula
One, so I never had really the aim, I would say.
Can you tell us the difference driving a Formula One Jordan compared to...
A gate-crasher.
You got a gate-crasher.
Compared to driving a Formula 3000 in Japan, Formula One, what's the difference?
Well, Formula Three, if you first of all sit in the Formula Three from the Formula Junior
or whatever, that is a real big step.
But then you come into a Formula 3000, and the world is broken onto you, really.
I mean, it's 550 horsepower and slightly slower than the Formula One.
But then the step from 3000 to Formula One isn't that big.
I said it a lot of times.
In Suzuka, we lost two and a half seconds to Williams, so it's really nothing compared
to other Formula One teams.
I mean, I'm always behind my brother, always been.
It's amazing how calm he is so far.
I've been in holidays with him the two days, and we hardly talked about this weekend.
We had other things to talk about.
But the pressure will come up to him once the thing will start.
And he has done very well over winter testing, so I expect him to do a very good job.
But don't forget, he's 21 years old, very little experience.
He will do his mistakes.
He will have his errors.
But I think that makes a racing driver becoming great, learning out of them and becoming better.
And the man who spotted the talent in both the shoemakers is Irish team owner Eddie
Jordan.
You know, I think it's a very long season, this racing business, and you've got to be
with this partner for a long time in very hard and difficult times.
And unless you're very comfortable about the talent of the person, then obviously it's
never going to work.
So really, none of those things are true.
We chose Ralph's shoemaker purely and absolutely because of his talent and his speed.
Your car looks gorgeous.
Will you tell us about the Viper on the front?
Oh, it was an idea.
Really, with Jordan, it's a bit of a mismatch in Formula One, so to speak.
We're not that particularly conservative.
It is a conservative sport, but we try not to be.
I think that's partly my upbringing in Ireland.
You know, we want to be in it for fun, but we want to be serious.
And this is a land.
We are serious.
And the Viper wants to point out that we have a base and we want to make sure that people
understand that we're coming forward this year.
Kim, we're all looking forward now to tomorrow's race.
And that's all from Melbourne for the moment.
Thanks Rob.
Working very hard, but having an absolute ball, I can assure you of that.
Now at five o'clock tonight, we present the Jackie Stewart special, which is a great insight
into one of the legends of Formula One racing.
In the meantime, though, let's take a look at the preparation involved by a Formula One
team in getting one of their magnificent machines onto the track.
G definitely.
Hello and welcome to this special edition of In the Pits.
Today we're going to look at one of the most requested stories ever from our motor racing
archives.
Renault's brilliant 438 seconds.
Ten victories, six of them won twos, fifteen pole positions.
In 1992 Williams Renault struck ten times and won the World Constructors Championship
hands down, beating McLaren Honda, its closest rival, by a total of 438 seconds.
Ten years of hard work to gain an advantage of little more than seven minutes.
The implications behind
The main weapons in the quest for seconds and tenths of a second are the chassis and the monocoque.
The Williams team's main area of expertise is to integrate engine, gearbox, cooling systems, fuel tank and driver cell into a package that's light, torsionally rigid and a key asset aerodynamically efficient.
The aerodynamicists objective is to reduce drag whilst generating as much downforce as possible. 70% of this downforce is generated by the front and rear wings.
With a good set up the Williams Renault will be two or three tenths quicker per lap.
During a Grand Prix such as that at Hockenheim that translates into a gain of around 16 seconds.
The floor which regulates the available grip also contributes towards aerodynamic efficiency. It has a honeycomb construction and several skins to make it as stiff as possible.
Paked in a vacuum the floor along with the monocoque and chassis constitutes the car's backbone, one of the Williams Renault's two main assets.
The other asset is the engine, the fruit of 15 years labours and all made possible by the enormous potential of Renault's research department.
Computer aided design is used at each stage of the engine's development.
Once a model has been made numerous geometric experiments are conducted on the combustion chamber. It's then subjected to wind tunnel testing and the database built up from these observations enables calculations to be made from which all the engine's ancillaries can be adapted.
Optimisation of weight and the need for great durability have driven the development of ever more sophisticated composite materials. Such research led to weight savings of 10% in 1992. Theoretically that's worth three seconds per lap at a circuit such as Monza.
In 1993 the combined human and technical resources of Renault and Aerospatial will be working to save a few hundred grams more and to gain a few more tenths of a second.
In Formula One as in any extreme environment state of the art techniques often feed off more traditional skills.
The Messier foundry has lent its expertise to Renault Sport and makes the cylinder blocks. Here well proven routines have their place in the technology of the future.
The cylinders and crank cases are machined at Meccacombe, a highly reputed firm in the automotive and aeronautic fields.
The precision of numeric checks conditions the quality of the whole engine. The first success of the engine, its ability to steal tenths of a second from its rivals, stems from the total reliability that results from the total compatibility of all its ancillaries.
In the final analysis though quality comes into its own in the hands of the engine tuners. The efforts of Renault Sport's 150 technicians are realized when the time comes to assemble the engine. After all the know-how and attention to detail comes the pleasure of perfect harmony. 700 horsepower released at over 14,000 revs per minute.
Another advantage is being able to simulate the racing circuits. It's a highly effective way of preparing for a race in order to be in top form from the very first practice session.
Fuel and lubricants also play their part in the quest for performance. In 1992, Elf developed more than 70 fuels with the result that the Renault engine's performance improved by 5% during the season. Put another way that's a benefit of around six tenths of a second at a circuit like Manicourt.
At Williams the single seat as constituent parts are manufactured including the gearbox, suspension arms and exhaust.
A team of 200 people works there.
It's here that the car is assembled and galvanized by its reactive suspension it comes to life in no time at all.
Thanks to this system the Williams Renault can expect to benefit by a whole second around a track such as Estoril.
During a Grand Prix a driver will make as many as 3,000 gear changes. With a semi-automatic transmission they'll save two or three tenths of a second per lap around a circuit like Monaco.
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The final stage of the car's evolution is the private testing that constitutes the link between the test bed and the Grand Prix.
Williams-Renault undertakes 25 test sessions every year in every European country and in all weathers.
In private testing, as in Grand Prix, telemetry equipment reigns supreme.
Developed by Magneti Marelli and governed by Bull Computers, it allows the engine to be analysed at a distance.
In real time and on every lap, it controls over 30 parameters including fuel consumption, temperatures, engine speed and pressure.
After thousands of hours of effort and ever improving performances, the Williams-Renault is able to line up on the grid in a place it will henceforth make its own.
Whole position.
In 1992, with 10 wins and an advantage of 438 seconds over its closest rival, Renault seized the highly coveted World Constructors Championship title.
Unbelievable stuff. Great stuff, isn't it? That's motor racing at its very, very best.
We'll see you next time round on Nine's Wide World of Sport.
Now obviously that story was from a few seasons ago when Damon Hill was driving for the Williams team.
Of course this season he's driving for the Arrows team and as we saw earlier today he only just qualified for tomorrow's big race by less than a second.
So Damon Hill at the rear of the field, a position he's quite unfamiliar with.
Now to another former world champion in Jackie Stewart who this year, along with his son Paul, is the owner of the brand new Stewart Formula One team.
Let's take a look at the hard work involved to put their team together.
In November 1995, a new pattern was presented to the Tartan Council in Edinburgh.
Closely allied to such famous designs as Royal Stewart and Hunting Stewart, the new design was registered under an unusual name.
It's February 1997. The Stewart Ford team prepare to leave their UK headquarters.
Their destination will be Melbourne, Australia where they will compete in their first ever Formula One Grand Prix.
We've come a long way in a very short time because of the efforts of some incredible people and some really good focus with excellent partners.
In the nine seasons between 1965 and 1973, Jackie Stewart won 27 Grand Prix and three World Championships.
His speed in the car was matched by an acute awareness of both the commercial and safety aspects of the sport.
He was the first driver of a new era in Formula One.
In 1973, and at the height of his powers, Stewart retired.
There was to be no comeback. Instead, the Stewart family made their home near Lake Geneva in tax-friendly Switzerland.
Over the last two decades, Stewart has amassed a considerable fortune from his consultancy roles with various multinationals.
His success in business has almost overshadowed his reputation as a driver.
Stewart's 32-year relationship with the Ford Motor Company has led to his intimate involvement in the design and testing of their new models,
from the car, Mondeo and Jaguar, to light trucks in the United States.
It was that enduring relationship that led Ford to approach Stewart on their company jet after the Canadian Grand Prix of 1995.
They were not happy troopers about their involvement at that time in Formula One and said to me, what did I think they should do?
I said, well, you've got to go and do it properly. How do we do that? They said.
I said, maybe you may have to start with a whole new way of doing business, even with a new team.
And they said, well, would you be prepared or interested to take something of that kind on? I said, well, let me look at it.
What was proposed was a long-term commitment to a new Formula One team to be run by Jackie Stewart and his eldest son, Paul,
but with full factory support from the giant American car maker.
By late 95, the deal was finalized. The New Year saw press speculation at fever pitch.
The phone calls this morning and the faxes and the...
An announcement was imminent.
Starting in 1997, Stewart Grand Prix will be Ford's primary research and development team in the Formula One championship series.
Ford's commitment to an untested new team was unprecedented.
The deal would include supply of the Zetec RV10 engine and comprehensive technical support for five years.
The cost? An estimated £100 million.
Stewart Grand Prix was to be a development of a successful Formula Three and 3000 teams run by Paul Stewart Racing.
But many observers were surprised at Stewart's decision to step back into Formula One after a 23-year absence.
I don't know why I'm involved, really. I think more than anything else I'm involved because my son's involved,
because I would never have created Paul Stewart Racing had Paul not gone racing.
The natural thing was to go Formula One for everybody else, not for me. I'd been there. I'd done that. I'd even got the T-shirt.
So I have to blame Paul.
My fault. Well, I don't suppose he would have done it had I not been interested by motorsports.
But I certainly didn't drag him into it by the scruff of his neck. He came in willingly.
I had made a conscious decision to step away from racing as a driver at the end of 1993.
And hopefully that was going to allow me the opportunity with my father to take the racing team to a new dimension.
So any opportunity that was going to come along that was a good one, I was ready to embrace.
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Good afternoon, Stuart Grand Prix, Paul Stewart Racing.
The Stewards were faced with the monumental task of creating and financing
the new team from scratch in less than nine months.
The workload was to be split in a clearly defined manner.
I've been focused mainly on the build up of the team,
choosing the key individuals to come on board and build the team up effectively
and stay on top of the budgets and make sure that we deliver the car on time.
We were very fortunate when the team was launched, we got a lot of publicity
and I think that caused a little bit of a euphoria, a little bit of excitement
and said, boy, this is something that's heading in the right direction for the future
and when I was in Detroit and we'd just done the launch and everything was pretty well received,
I called up Rob Armstrong, our Commercial Director, I said, Rob, get in and out of motorsport this week
and we got a ride in and we got a lot of very highly, highly qualified applicants.
The first key signing was Technical Director Alan Jenkins,
a senior engineer who had worked closely with Alan Prost and with teams such as McLaren, Penske and Arrows.
That was very important to get the Technical Director and not to hire people,
senior designers and so on and then bring the Technical Director in.
So he was involved in the process of choosing the senior designers that came on board.
It was the chance to start something from scratch, really.
I think there was really nobody else here the first week,
so the first thing was to really get the drawing office established.
It was to be the first Formula One car ever to be entirely designed on a computer screen.
For Richard McKaych, an ex-Benetton composites designer, this was an unusual experience.
Everything has been done on CAD.
I think it would be hard for us to find a pencil in the place now.
And it has forced people to work together much more closely.
The modelling of the car, we can build complete areas of the car on the computer screen.
Individuals could model their ideas on the CAD,
we could then put them together with other aspects on the screen
and say, yeah, this is going to work, this is worth pursuing.
Total reliance on CAD wasn't the only unusual feature of Stewart's approach.
They also decided to follow the top two or three F1 teams
in building a costly half-size model for the wind tunnel.
Going 50% was a big decision for the company because there are larger costs involved.
It restricts which wind tunnels you can go to,
but you actually have to go through the same processes
and manufacture the carbon fibre components as you would do for the actual racing car.
So I would estimate purely the model, the cost of the model, I don't know, in excess of £200,000.
With the start-up budget wearing thin, fresh finance was urgently required.
My role as chairman was to find the financial resources to put a package of this scale together.
And we knew that we needed between 15 to 20 million dollars minimum per annum.
But the key to the success was to have partners who we could create incremental business for
and network successfully.
The whole business works like that. It's just an incredible networking experience.
And that's what my father's so good at because his networking could extend to all the planets.
It probably would.
It was a very, very good time.
You'd better check in now.
OK.
The chairman set himself a deadline to either raise the necessary finance within three months
or scrap the project.
The very fact that we're in California is not because we like the weather in California,
it's because it was the only wind tunnel that met the standards that we required for wind tunnel testing.
Anything underneath it?
It could be one of these.
The San Clemente wind tunnel is considered to be the most precise of its kind in the world
and has been used by a number of the better funded Formula One teams, notably Williams.
That's got a hole.
The facility with its rolling road allows for maximum speeds of up to 140 miles per hour.
That position's so...
Despite tunnel costs of 3,000 pounds per day,
ex-Williams aerodynamicist Egbal Hamdi commuted on a fortnightly basis to California
throughout the summer and will continue to do so for a further 18 months.
Aerodynamics is the prime factor that makes this car go well.
And if it is not going well, then it's my fault.
With promising results coming on stream from the Californian wind tunnel,
the first full-scale tub and ancillary components could now be constructed from carbon cloth and honeycomb.
Vacuum packed and baked in a pressurized oven,
composite carbon fibre components become lighter than aluminium and stronger than steel.
The construction of a single car will require around 100 composite components
at an estimated cost of 150,000 pounds.
During the summer, the team suffered a huge setback
when a sponsorship deal worth a potential 40 million pounds fell through.
They were going to be title sponsors.
Fantastic.
On the 16th of July, one of the biggest disappointments of my life commercially,
I got a very short fax to say that they were withdrawing their commitment.
And it was a real hit in the tummy because there had been a handshake involved.
But it was very difficult at that late date to go back and get a title sponsor.
And I don't expect you to answer the question. I'm just saying what I'm feeling.
I had no illusions that it was going to be a difficult time and an enormous challenge.
I didn't think it was going to be easy.
Nothing that I've ever done in my life that's been any good has been easy.
Somebody's got to do something at that end.
Here he comes, the chicken leg ready and Jackie Stewart wins the Monaco Grand Prix for Ken Tyrrell.
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The 1997 Australian Festival for Young People is about to take over Adelaide, an incredible program for young people aged 3 to 26, including All Right, Australia's largest literature festival for young people.
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The search for sponsors around the world had finally led back to London and the headquarters of HSBC, a major financial services institution.
After a tough presentation to the 22 Strong Board, Stuart had extracted a financial commitment worth some £25 million over five years.
And we expect it to deliver, of course.
And you, Paul.
At Cosworth, the development of the Zetec RV10 engine was ongoing.
A disappointing 96 season for the Sauber team had led to press speculation that the engine might be as much as 60 horsepower down on the competition.
Ford's director of European motorsport is philosophical.
I think to a certain degree, Ford and Cosworth are victims of their own success in the past.
And I think people imagine that producing a V10, it would be extremely successful out of the box.
And we're constantly looking at new ways in which we can achieve better power figures, better performance from the engine.
And again, I think there's a role that Ford can play in that, which we perhaps haven't played in the past.
Throughout the summer, the Formula One rumour mill had been in overdrive with the news that Damon Hill, the championship leader, would lose his drive with Williams for the 97 season.
For Stuart Ford, the possibility of signing the likely world champion was too good to miss.
I had known his father very well.
And he was really one of my best friends while I was his number two at BRM.
So I was kind of sorry in a few areas that Damon wasn't able to come with us.
The decision had to be based on what I felt was right, not on any emotional choice.
And having known the Stuarts for a long time, or rather the Stuarts having known me as a little boy even,
that really had no bearing or couldn't have a bearing on where I finally decided to go.
When he finally decided to go to the Arrows team, I was disappointed because I just think it would have been a kind of perfect match, really.
You know, if you're into Formula One, then somehow or other people tend to drift back.
And Jackie's done that. He's drifted back into Formula One and now he's going to be running his team.
And I wish him all the best, but I hope we whip his arse.
I wouldn't expect anything less of Damon to want to do just that.
Whether he's capable of doing it, of course, is an entirely different matter.
Having had the world champion joining a new team would have really set us up for potentially just too much pressure in our first year of racing.
But nonetheless, it was a good experience for us as a company to go through that exercise of saying, let's go for it.
And I think people knew what we were doing in the company.
And I think it got everyone's attention saying they're serious about the future, you know, they're not messing around.
Having failed to sign Hill, the team's next move was to sign a young Danish protégé of Paul Stewart Racing.
Well, I can't sign those things.
Jan Magnussen was always high on the list because we had come through the staircase of talent and we recognized to be such an outstanding driver.
Look happy with your acquisition. I'm very happy.
Right, can I tell you, you don't put your hands like this.
Oh, sorry, what do you want me to do?
No, that's better. No, I tell you, never do that.
Jan is a driver we always had in mind.
We were so impressed with him when he drove for us in 1994 in Formula 3 and won 15 out of 18 races that particular year, which is quite an outstanding record.
It's not often you see somebody coming along and racing, you think he could be really good, like a Schumacher, for example.
I don't think there would be as much pressure on me here as I would in a say a McLaren situation or a Jordan situation.
I think I can develop myself here in a much calmer way.
Oh, we need an engine to perform.
With Magnussen already signed, there was unfinished business to resolve.
The only other issue was Ford's thoughts as far as the name of the second driver was concerned.
Well, the three that are really on the market that are current drivers that would fit what we're looking for as an experienced driver that can help the team would be Martin Brundle, Jos Verstappen and Rubens Barrichello.
I don't think we could ever have hoped to get a driver of Ruben Barrichello's caliber when we launched the team at the beginning of the year.
Rubens Barrichello is 24, but he's been in racing for four years in Formula One, so he's very experienced with more than one F1 race car and more than one F1 engine.
When I first visited the factory, I felt very good.
I thought maybe if I go to a new place, I might go like for a new school, but it wasn't.
I almost knew everyone.
It was two or three new guys, but the rest was all people from the paddock working in there.
So I felt really good. I felt really, really excited about it.
Hand up onto this shoulder. That's it. Just step a little bit closer to him.
The Brazilian-Danish pairing of Barrichello and Magnussen would be one of the youngest on the F1 grid.
It's the most friendly partnership.
Here he comes, the checkered flag ready, and Jackie Stewart wins the PoloCo Grand Prix for Ken Tyrrell.
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The arrival of the first of three custom-made transporters was met with an intensive inspection.
The trailers will carry the three racing cars and extensive spares
and will be mobile workshops for the 26-man race crew.
At £250,000 each, not including the tractor unit, every last detail was examined.
Specialised manufacturer X-Trac supply gearboxes to the entire Formula One grid, bar Ferrari and Jordan.
The 450 parts made from purified steel, titanium and magnesium, this is one of the most vulnerable areas of the car.
Each box costs around £45,000 and it's likely that eight or nine will be used in a season.
Testing of the gearbox is critical.
In a typical race on the Monaco Street Circuit, a driver can expect to make up to 3,000 gear changes.
The financial team's next port of call was Malaysia,
where a sponsorship deal had been struck with the government's tourism programme.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed was hoping to put his country on the map.
As you know, Malaysia is not very well known because some people think Malaysia is in Africa,
because Malawi is in Africa, so Malaysia must be in Africa too.
With additional deals from Texaco and Sanyo agreed in principle,
Stuart Grand Prix were now in theory fully funded and on schedule.
Four days before the launch, and commercial director Rob Armstrong and his sponsorship team
were faced with potential disaster.
I put my cards on the table.
Now my reasoning behind that is that I think we are potentially risking someone back at the ranch,
in the senior management position, who they have to get authority from to do this deal,
saying, why are we spending that much money for that little space?
Let's forget this.
We had a terrible day.
We had two or three deals go completely sour.
And we no sooner tried to pick ourselves off the deck than we were just getting up onto our feet,
or at least on our hands and knees, and then we'd get another kick.
And I'm suggesting that we offer them in return for that money,
that's based on the cockpit side plus the front wing flaps.
We were expecting a last proposal to come from them financially,
to be a major player in the team, and suddenly they came up with something that was really very small.
And we were depending on it.
Would you accept?
I think we may well get a situation where they don't want to be on there for the launch.
When the first call came through, I thought, this can't be right.
You know, it's a bad dream.
But no, they said, listen, we're sorry.
We thought we were going to be able to do it.
We know you want an answer because we know you're launching.
After all, we've had our invitation.
We're coming along, but I'm sorry we're not going to do it for that amount of money.
The team's future was only secured after a marathon series of telephone discussions,
concluded at 4 a.m.
For 24 hours, the very existence of the team had hung in the balance.
The eve of the launch, and the team were racing to get SF1,
the first car ready for presentation to the world's press.
It was the latest in a long succession of sleepless nights.
By 5 a.m., the car was almost complete.
It was only then that the livery could be applied for the first time.
The unveiling in London was just six hours away.
At 7 a.m., the SF1 was finally delivered to the London hotel for the launch.
While frantic last-minute adjustments were made,
for Baricello and Magnussen, it was their first opportunity
to compare the new car with their previous drives at Jordan and McLaren.
What's the other one for?
Same thing, but if you spin.
Oh, I see. Interesting.
Some impromptu choreography was needed for the youngest member of the Stuart Club.
He's very pleased. Hands all over it.
Just ask the drivers, can Dylan come up?
I mean, we can do the whole family if you want.
It's just kind of fun having a little boy.
We've got to be careful not to lose the car.
If we're going to do that, we've got to do it at the back.
Everybody at the back, right?
Yeah.
Sure.
In a grueling nine months, the car had been conceived, designed and constructed.
It was left to Paul Stuart to announce it to the world's press.
And how this has come about, may I ask Paul now to come up
and tell you a little bit more before we unveil it.
Paul?
It has been a very tough year for us both.
From the bottom of my heart,
excuse me, from the bottom of my heart, I thank my father.
It's a tremendous opportunity.
It was a strange day, you know.
I was tired.
I'd been focused on that one day the whole year.
And knowing that we had to present to the world's media
something that people had been in some cases sneering at,
hoping or not hoping, but saying, oh, it's not going to work.
The project is underfinanced.
They haven't got sponsors, so on.
And other people hoping and saying, yeah, we know you're going to do it.
We know you're going to do it.
And to be standing up there in front of the world's media,
knowing, with my father and I, knowing that we had done it.
I mean, no one could say that, could laugh at us.
I knew that when we were on cover of that car with the tartan cover,
and it was there for everyone to see.
And it was an immensely proud moment.
The
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A week later, the SF-1 was due to make its maiden run away from prying eyes
at Ford's test track in Essex.
The shakedown test was the first opportunity for the engineers
to see if the 3,000 components that make up the SF-1 would work in unison.
It was left to the more experienced Rubens Barrichello
to take the wheel on the car's first ever run.
The track at Boreham is a far cry from the world's Grand Prix circuits.
The one mile strip of somewhat uneven tarmac usually serves as a proving ground
for light trucks.
Despite the basic nature of the test,
Barrichello was able to convey his first impressions of the car.
It goes in pretty fast in the box down there.
You have some throttle and it's going...
To no great surprise, the SF-1's debut was prematurely halted
by an electronic software glitch.
The car had covered less than 10 miles, but the test was judged a success.
Three, two, one.
For the 97th season, motorsports governing body, the FIA,
had introduced stringent new crash testing
to emphasize side impact protection for the driver.
The failure of the SF-1 crash test came as a bitter surprise
and disappointment to the team.
For Richard McKaynch and Colin McGrory,
it was back to the drawing board.
Bad day for the good guys.
With hasty repairs carried out to the side impact structure,
a wintry silverstone was the venue for the team's next testing session.
The morning was spent in preparing the car for its first run,
to be made by Barrichello.
The problems that cropped up were chiefly temperature-related.
The ultra-sensitive gearbox did not enjoy being run at sub-zero temperatures,
and sufficient heat could not be generated by the tires.
Nevertheless, Barrichello was at least able to experience some corners,
something that had not been encountered at Boreham.
For Magnussen, the waiting was over,
and he was able to take the wheel of the SF-1 for the first time.
But that didn't mean that he could indulge himself.
Driving on the abbreviated South Circuit,
FIA regulations insist that a speed limit of 120 km per hour
must be adhered to on the straight in front of the pits.
The infamous Silverstone Sid, a long-serving safety officer,
was on hand to enforce the rules.
20 laps were completed without incident.
For the entire team, there was good reason for optimism.
Since winning the 1994 Formula 3 title,
23-year-old Magnussen had briefly appeared in Formula 1,
IndyCar and international touring cars.
But this diversity led to concern over his lack of focus,
and specifically his fitness.
Jan Magnussen hadn't been really schooled in physical fitness to any extent.
He was well known for smoking the odd cigarette,
and he was known for a lifestyle that wasn't particularly gymnasium-focused,
let's call it that.
If he does not get fit and does not find himself able to complete
the full distance of a Grand Prix, giving it 100%, then he's in big trouble.
Formula 1 races anywhere from an hour and a half to close to two hours,
it really takes a lot out of you, and if you're not in shape,
there's no chance you'll make it.
He's focused now, and I don't think we're going to have a problem with Jan Magnussen.
You're going to have in your little period now probably more interviews
than anybody outside Schumacher or Daimler.
A racing driver is the mouthpiece in many occasions of the team,
so we send all of our drivers to public speaking courses
to try and assist them in projecting in the most positive way.
And tell you how you get in and how you get out of a speech.
The results of the side impact test had revealed that in a real crash scenario,
the shock would have punctured the fuel cell.
In the wake of this failure, Richard McCain had discovered
that a vital part of the chassis design had not been incorporated.
The side impact test was pretty catastrophic from a personal point of view.
I made a mistake on the chassis structure.
As soon as we realised what the mistake had been,
it was a couple of hours' work to instruct the workshop on the repair,
but it was a week's work for the guys down there.
A second side impact test was arranged.
So we're taking bets here.
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They heard what happened last time, they wouldn't give me your answer.
Three, two, one.
Three, two, one.
It did not look good.
For McInch, it was back to the drawing board again.
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Winter testing started in earnest in Spain,
with Stuart Ford's first sight of the competition.
For us to go to that first full-blown test with other teams present,
and take the car out the box and have it go out the track,
and expose ourselves, because you have to do that.
At some point, you have to say, here we are,
and be prepared to take the slack that you get if the car has a mechanical failure
in front of the pits, for example.
We're going to start the car, Jeff.
Yes, then.
The four days in Hereth would be the first of around 20 days
and 4,000 kilometers intensive testing at race speeds,
bringing the car up to a race-worthy condition in time for Melbourne.
We think there's a train well weak as we had before, Ruben.
So tell me, traction is quite good.
I mean, the first touch on the throttle, there is a slightly wheel-steering,
but the track is still a little bit of a water on the track.
Due to the extreme complexity of modern race car transmissions,
the behavior of the new gearbox was initially an unknown quantity.
We've got mail-bombs, it goes in that way, so you take out the mail-bomb and the decal.
But for all Formula One teams, dealing with temperamental high technology
is an inevitable part of pre-season testing.
I said somewhere that, you know, someone obviously asked me,
how do I think the new Euro Grand Prix team will go on?
And I said, well, I think blah, blah, blah, professional will do well.
I think the weak link on the moment for me will be the development of the engine,
because in my opinion last year it wasn't a very strong thing.
Anyway, it's in a Scottish paper, Colford Slams Stewart.
You know, that was the headline.
It's OK, we've got the cut.
I wasn't slamming it at all.
People just do it.
I fell asleep last night again with the book on.
I woke up at about 3 o'clock in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep.
I put the book on, fell asleep again, and every time I got to rewind it.
Astonishingly, the new SF1 was already on the pace.
On the new wet weather Bridgestones,
Baricello unofficially set the fastest time on the second day of testing at Harris.
But winter testing times are notoriously unreliable.
Jackie Stewart's new team have a long way to go
if they're to challenge Formula One's reigning champions.
He has chosen to climb a steep mountain.
It's rather like Calvary, there's all sorts of stops and problems on the way.
I'm sure he'll get there in the end, there's no doubt in my mind about that.
He'll have a number of technical problems to overcome.
He needs to be sure his engine's as good as anybody else's.
And paying for it all will tax him.
I know Jackie quite well, and I believe he will bring with his team
a new style, a higher level of presentation,
and a better or improved image across the board.
I believe, therefore, his arrival is a very positive and useful thing for Formula One.
The only time available for the third side impact test was 6 o'clock on a Saturday morning.
This time, the newly finished second chassis was to be the victim.
Three, two, one.
Much better.
Success and relief.
Not really, that's just perfect.
For the Stewart family, there was equally good news.
Boss and Bugsy had last tasted freedom in Geneva six months before.
Their release from quarantine was imminent.
With new teams, new drivers, and a fierce competition between rival tyre manufacturers,
the 97 Formula One season promises to be the most open in years.
On the eve of their departure for Australia, the Stewart-Ford team have indeed come a long way.
But they now face their stiffest challenge.
To be competitive in 17 Grand Prix on five continents, the rehearsals are over.
Their battle has just begun.
My own personal view is just that I do a lot every time I get in the car,
I get better and better during the season.
I've won almost everything in the past and I want to win in Formula One,
so I hope I can do that with the Stewart-Ford team.
There are going to be problems.
I hope that there are problems that we can handle.
But I've said all along that if we can qualify between 10th and 15th on the grid, we should be very proud.
You can have simulators, you can have dreams, you can have promises.
You're going to be on the grid when the red light goes off and let's see what happens.
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