on the second row.
Karen's two truariets are two waves.
Under the grid,
and really, it's very humid.
The heat is quite oppressive here today at Hockenheim.
It's going to be
debilitating for the drivers,
but the saving grace for them is that this circuit isn't particularly hard physically.
They will lose a lot of heat
because the temperature will be very high indeed,
and the humidity makes them sweat a great deal.
A tremendous turnout here for the German Grand Prix.
We've had so many exciting races in our three Grand Prix.
It's been tremendous battles with lots of drama and entertainment,
and that has brought an absolutely packed season here.
There's hardly a seat empty through these massive grandstands
that do the whole of the infield.
And now, because this is the tight twisty section,
the otherwise very fast Hockenheim circuit,
all of them come in amongst the grandstands
and then out along down the long straights on the back part of the circuit
where they are connected.
Or rather, the speed is broken up by chicanes.
So, Gerhard Berger leads the two for us.
Around the last corner, onto the pit straight,
Tenner will be slowing down his McLaren to try and let the field bunch up.
He's set for too long with water temperature climbing.
There's no fans, of course, in these racing cars.
They depend on moving.
And, of course, the car and gear, the clutch can build up heat
if it's just touching the flywheel.
So the old man always wants to sit for as short a time as possible
before the red light comes on.
Let me quickly tell you that in this morning's warm-up,
Ethan Sennner was fastest as he was in practice yesterday.
Michael Mansell was second fastest with the Ferrari in race trim,
only one tenth of a second slower.
Berger was the fastest, Prost was fourth.
So it's the two Ferraris and the two McLarens.
And you see the McLarens with Sennner on the right-hand side of your picture
in pole position, followed by the two Ferraris.
Then the tenth on the grid is Nelson Piquet,
and he's very much a dark horse for this race.
He's on the rear tires, all the rest are on softer seas.
And that's it, the German drop.
Sennner sprints away. Berger is behind him, and there is a collision,
and it is Piro who has got the lead, and Philippe Allio.
And Allio did exactly the same thing last year.
Yes, and Stefano has got away very slowly.
Big bumping in the midfield there.
A lot of panic to get those cars good, and now back to the main.
Approaching the first regain.
They're out of the stadium, out of the first straight,
and this is a chance to sort them out.
Two McLarens in the lead, followed by two Ferraris.
They've gone off in grid formation, and two Williamses.
So the first three races have all gone away in formation.
And I can tell you that Piro's car is still wedged up against the car.
On the start and finish straight, it's conceivable that they'll have to stop
this race because there are still three course cars.
Philippe Allio has got away, but meantime, as you can see,
Sennner leading Berger, Prost is in third position.
He's in fourth position.
The yellow flags are waving, and Piro's car is still stuck there.
Well, they do have to stop the race for this.
They can get the field, there's plenty of room to get the field passed for one lap.
The car is only just a bit of a barrier,
and really they should be able to remove that pretty easily.
Anyway, back to Sennner.
Coming down straight into the stadium for the first time.
Sennner leads Berger, Prost leads Mansell.
And we've got tremendous yellow flag waving.
We're watching this across from opposite the pits.
Well, this is frankly ridiculous.
There are still three silver touring cars on the grid.
They're hastily reversing out.
Piro's car is still sticking out into the course.
You'll see the flag marshals.
There is Piro's car, and it is Sennner leading.
Berger in second, Prost third, Mansell fourth,
Patrese fifth, Bootson sixth, Piquet seventh, Lanini.
Jordan Alessi is in ninth position,
and that marshal with the flag is really taking his life in his hands.
And Emanuele Piro seems to be in real trouble.
He's still in the car.
Yes, I hadn't realized Piro was stuck in the car.
It didn't look like a particularly heavy accident.
Here we see the start again, and there is the contact right...
Wheel goes up, wheels up.
That was Piro's car going over another car,
and they tangled together.
Now let's just see.
Piro went in backwards, it would appear,
and he hit fairly hard, but he can't get out.
But maybe the impact just knocked him out.
Yes, well, he's still in the car,
and the three-course cars are still there
while the leaders are on the second lap.
You can see Piro being lifted out.
It may be that he's just been winded.
The German Grand Prix is not his lucky race,
because when he was driving for Benetton last year,
he was in fourth position.
Went off at the Sachs curve.
Sennner leads.
Berger second, a gap now between them and Prost and Mansell.
Then it's still Riccardo Patrese in fifth place,
Bootsen sixth, Nelson Piquet in sight of all of them
in seventh position.
Yes, and Mansell looking, starting to press Alain Prost.
You may feel that you want to get by
if the McLaren start to get away at all.
And in fact, the McLaren team that have been having
some trouble with their chassis feel
we're a lot more confident today
about having sorted their problems out.
And certainly they looked good in the warm-up,
because although Nigel Mansell split the McLarens
in the warm-up this morning,
he was in the spare car for doing that time.
And it probably wasn't set with full tanks,
and it may also have had yesterday's qualifying engine in,
because rather strangely,
Ferrari after doing it using it for qualifying
immediately started to change the engines,
and it seemed odd, rather like they hadn't got a race engine in
and were getting it ready.
Piro is still in the car.
There is less than a second between Gerhard Berger
in the second McLaren and Alain Prost in the first Ferrari.
They are second and third.
Three chicanes on this course.
The first one is slower than the second,
and the second is slower than the third.
But the first one is approached,
and they're approaching it now
as the fastest part of the course,
well over 200 miles an hour,
as they slow down and go through the gears.
It's a second gear entry, third gear exit,
Senna, Berger, and behind them it's Prost, Mansell,
third, fourth, Butresi, Bootson, fifth, sixth,
so the symmetry is still preserved.
Two McLarens, two Ferraris, two Williams.
Seventh is Piquet.
Then his teammate, Nanini, in eighth position.
Ninth is Alessi, the Frenchman in the Tyrrell.
Tenth is Capelli in the Leighton House.
Eleventh is Suzuki.
Twelfth is Bernard. Derrick Warwick is thirteenth,
and Berger is having a look to see
if he can poise himself to get past Ayrton Senna.
These two drivers are equal in status in the McLaren team,
and Berger, of course, has yet to win for McLaren.
Yes, and we can report that
Emanuele Pirro is out of the car,
and they've moved him over the barrier to an ambulance.
Oh, they're moving him now on a stretcher.
So we will report any news that we get of his condition,
and in the meantime we hope that he's all right.
It didn't look too big a shock,
but we'll keep our fingers crossed.
As Cross now has closed the gap just a little bit to Berger
and looks to be holding on to the two McLarens.
I'm sure that he will not be in any hurry
to attack the McLarens as yet.
His interest mainly will be in keeping up comfortably
and looking after his tyres in the early part of the race.
The top teams are hoping,
but they were going to play it by ear as usual.
They're hoping that they'll be able to look after the tyres
the whole distance on one set.
But Frost, who is probably the best man in the business
for knowing just how to look after his tyres
and get the very best out of them,
because preserving them now,
losing, giving away a little bit of speed now,
can make a great deal of difference in the last third of the race.
And because remember, the car is much, much heavier now than later,
and therefore if you push it too hard on the tyres,
the damage is proportionately much greater
at this stage of the race.
So, two McLarens, everything very symmetrical,
except that there's a Benetton up.
Joyd and...
Joyd, the Benetton is up with, as you saw, in sixth position.
Nelson Piquet is there.
And so here is Senna.
He's coming down towards the stadium now,
with Berger tight up behind him.
Cross third, Mansell fourth.
Patrese fifth, Piquet up to sixth,
Manini up to sixth.
And then Futsun gone.
There he is.
Thierry Futsun must have spun,
because he is down in tenth position.
The Belgians.
So now they are coming through to complete lap four
in this 45-lap race.
So just about 1.11 distance.
And I'll give you the gap now
between Senna leading and Mansell, who is fourth,
two seconds.
Then is Patrese.
Piquet in the Benetton and Nanini in the Benetton
and Riccardo Patrese, who is fifth.
Now there's the first ball.
They're approaching the first chicane now
at well over 200 miles an hour.
And as you can see, Nelson Piquet is...
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And that looks big. That looks big.
Certainly a big cloud of dust,
but if somebody just put four wheels on the grass,
they could make that, but in fact,
there's a course car whizzing down that direction
down the pit road.
In the meantime, the Piro incident,
the course is now completely clear
just before the start-finish line
where that accident happened.
As soon as they got Emanuele out of the car,
they were able to push it away.
It was on four wheels and get rid of it.
So there's no problem there.
And these, the top two teams,
the top four cars in the business
now beginning to stretch away a little bit.
And we still have to wait
to see if this is going to remain a four-car battle.
The McLarens would appear to be looking to edge away,
which would be consistent with the speed they showed
in the warm-up in race trim this morning.
The man to watch at the moment is not Senna,
nor Berger, nor Prost, nor Mansell even,
but Nelson Piquet, who is in sixth position
and now right off the tail of Riccardo Petresi.
So there are the leaders.
Ayrton Senna holding his position
in front of Gerhard Berger
as they come round the left-hander in the stadium.
Look across, and you may just see
the right of Piquet and Nannini right behind him.
They're both with Petresi, who is fifth.
Yes, and very right, Murray, to watch out for the Venetians
because the significant fact that may,
or the fact that may become significant in the race
is that they're on different tyres.
They're using a harder compound of Goodyear
to the four cars up front.
And in fact, most other cars in the race, they've gone,
which is a more conservative compound,
but in very hot weather and with fast corners,
although they get rather you really fast corners as such here,
but the long curve at the end works the tyre very hard,
even though it's flat out.
And a harder compound can often be,
turn out to give more grip as it lives better
at its real operating temperature.
And certainly the two Venetians are looking strong at the moment.
Lap six, and it's settling down into two bunches,
the two McLarens and the two Ferraris,
chased by Riccardo Petresi in fifth place.
And there's about two and a half seconds
behind Mansell fourth and Petresi fifth.
And the second bunch is Riccardo Petresi
with Nelson Piquet and Alessandro Nanini,
both in Venetians powered by the new Series Four
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at the British Grand Prix,
but now still on lap six, 45 lap race.
There's Alio going through the picture.
He's the man who came together with Pira
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and he's about to be lapped by the leaders.
And they are so close that if Philippe Alio,
who is not always the most cooperative Frenchman in the world
in terms of allowing people past, interrupts the flow,
then Berger, who is very quick on the course indeed.
In fact, until the last lap,
he was quicker than Senna on several of them,
not quick enough to get by.
Here is Senna coming through to complete the sixth lap now.
Watch Alio in front of them.
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Well, a ripper of a race so far after six laps.
Senna, Berger, Pross, Mansell, Petraezy and P.K.
Is the gamble of the Benetton tyres going to pay off?
Let's go back to Hockenheim and find out.
So, we've got Eligier to be lapped in the way.
And he won't be in the way through that chicane, which will please Senna.
He doesn't want interference from backmarkers at this stage of the race.
He's going to have interference in the form of Philippe Alliot as he comes into the stadium,
which of course is the slowest part of the corner.
And Senna's going to try and take Alliot and he doesn't succeed.
They are now into the stadium succession with about 100,000 Germans watching in these enormous grandstands.
Alliot slows down.
Let's Senna through.
Now Berger, but what about the Ferraris?
Senna's pulling away.
He's made it the most of his opportunity.
A spectacularly stupid piece of driving by Alliot because he's got nobody else to race against.
Why he didn't just stop and let the whole four pass instead of interfering with their race?
Because he's got no acts to grind.
He's got nothing to do with them and he ain't racing anybody himself.
And really, that was just stupid because he slowed right down.
He ruined Berger's corner.
In fact, nobody's hurt and it doesn't matter.
But if it had been in more important circumstances with people trying to change places in the race
and he had done that, that would have been really out of order.
It was just unnecessarily stupid.
Lap eight, you may be wondering if tyre changes are expected.
Officially, they are not going to be coming in.
But such is the heat and such is the pace and such will be the pressure that they may decide to do so.
But I say again, as James has already said, that the four lead cars are on a softer compound than the Benetton's
and that may work to the advantage of Piquet and Leading.
Yes, and I was watching in the background, everyone watching the leading four,
I could see Piquet really starting to press for Tracy.
And I think he's looking for a way round.
And the straight, as they come down to the stadium, is the quickest part of the circuit
where he's likely to make his move.
Race order, lap eight, Ayrton Senna leads, Gerhard Berger second, there is Senna.
Third is Prost, fourth is Mansell, fifth is Patrese, sixth right behind him is Piquet, then Nanini.
And watch for Piquet coming into the stadium this time.
He's well placed into that chicane.
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do if the producer stays on the leaders,
but I'll watch out of the window and see if I can tell you anything.
And I'm doing the same thing and the answer is he's still there.
And there's an increasing gap now between Nigel Mansell in fourth place
and Riccardo Patrese in fifth.
As Senna goes into the newly contoured last corner,
they widen the pit lane, move the wall out,
and they've had to recontour the last corner of the course and the first.
As they go through to complete lap eight, they're into lap nine now, 44 lap race.
You can see there's the leader, there is Berger, there are Prost and Mansell virtually together.
Now coming down to turn right around the newly contoured first corner
into the 210 mile an hour approach to chicane.
A chicane, number one.
Second gear, then third, accelerate out of it at about 120 miles an hour.
Look at Senna's car.
You'll see that they don't have a windscreen as such in this race.
They have a piece of curved plastic for aerodynamic reasons.
That just blows the air over the driver's head
because, of course, if your head is in the airstream,
you get a phenomenal buffeting in the car.
And their necks work hard enough without any help from the wind
with just the G-forces and the weight of the helmet,
which put a tremendous strain on the neck.
It's the part of the body that gets probably the worst,
bashing as Mansell now right behind Prost
and looking maybe to dip out of the tow to attack.
Prost's looking to cover, I think.
And behind them, Petrezzi, I think, is holding up both the Benetons,
and his straight-line speed would appear to be making life very difficult indeed
for Piquet and then, of course, Nanini to get past
because we know the Renault engine is very strong,
and Williams has been pretty quick in a straight line recently.
And still he stays in front.
That's Petrezzi I'm looking at, as you look at the leaders.
And it's a very high-speed stalemate at the moment at the front.
High-speed train, everybody right on the limit, but no action.
No, and the Ferrari chassis was, certainly, until this race,
as far as Mexico, France and Britain were concerned,
superior to the McLaren.
McLaren and Honda have done an enormous amount of work in the two weeks.
Now we're with Nelson Piquet, who is in sixth position.
Riccardo Petrezzi ahead.
They've just left the stadium section,
and that was a bit of film moving across the camera lens to keep it clean.
And now Nelson Piquet chasing Riccardo Petrezzi.
Petrezzi powered by the Renault V10 engine in his Williams,
and Piquet with the V8 Ford up to chicane one.
I'm very much hoping the director will stay with this all the way around
and into the stadium.
Piquet's a little bit too far behind to be picking up a good tow.
Come on, let's get back to Piquet.
Nope, and there are the leaders.
Ayrton Senna through second chicane at the far end of the circuit.
And somebody has just gone past us, sounding very rough indeed in a group of cars,
so we'll need to have another listen to see who that is.
Well, there is no doubt at all about the fact that the McLarens have got the edge at the moment.
You can see that neither Frost, who may just be biding his time,
and Mansell are maintaining the same sort of gap.
Senna's gone round in 1 minute 47.7,
Frost and Mansell just over 1 minute 48 seconds,
and you can see the heat haze which is boiling up from the circuit here.
Tremendously hot, tremendously demanding and debilitating for the drivers.
Don't worry about that flash of flame from the back of Nigel Mansell's Ferrari.
It was happening all through the practice period.
Frost's Ferrari, that was my apologies.
There is Nigel Mansell's Ferrari in fourth position,
and on lap 10, just under one quarter distance,
the race order is in the lead of course, Ayrton Senna,
and in second position Berger followed by Frost, Mansell,
Petrozzi, Piquet, Alessandro and then he is Senna.
The new fastest lap then for Ayrton Senna, just flipping the previous one,
which I think stood to Nigel Mansell in the race,
but still of course a long way from the lap record,
but then they've got a lot more fuel in, no doubt,
than when the lap record was established.
Lap times, as those of you who watch regularly will know,
come steadily down during the race,
which assuming that the tyres are staying consistent for the job,
because of course the car gets considerably lighter.
That's Rob Dennis, he comes from the corner of your scene,
the boss of the McLaren team talking into his headset,
probably just to communicate with the other team members in the pits,
because it's easier with a little noise to do it that way,
but he could be talking to the drivers,
but they do keep chaps during the race to a very much,
to a minimum, the drivers are, as you can imagine, fairly busy.
A little bit of a gap just over the lap between the McLaren's and the Ferrari's,
and Senna certainly put in his quickest lap
and the fastest lap of the race on the last lap,
so maybe McLaren's making a bid to get away.
Senna looks to be trying to stretch it.
Just a field of overall information,
Gerhard Poitek has just driven into the pit lane in his Monte Verde,
as we must now call them, because the Onyx name has been changed,
and now it was JJ Leto who's come in,
and now Boreto is doing the same thing,
and Piquet, we're with him again,
and he's going off, you can see, breaking hard,
going off at the chicane, up into the escape road,
and he will certainly have lost at least one place, maybe more.
Yes, and if you were looking then,
you would have seen that his right front wheel was locked,
he'd locked the front brake, loose braking effect,
and let's see what he has to do about regaining the circuit,
where he's gone up, he's overshot, he's into the tar,
he's into the funnel,
and Nelson Piquet will be losing a lot of time
to get back to the circuit from there,
and in fact he's come round, he's fallen behind into the gap
that was between Nanini and Bootson,
so he's only lost one place, but he's lost a fair bit on the road.
Lap 12, you look at the two leaders, Senna and Berger,
very much in command at the moment,
chased by Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, third and fourth,
for Tracy fifth, Nanini then is up into sixth place,
Piquet as James has said is down to seventh,
he's only lost one, eighth is Bootson, ninth is Capelli.
Yes, and I just looked at the race times,
and that little escapade, little bit of fun,
cost Piquet about eight and a half seconds,
and only one place, so no serious damage,
just so long as he didn't flat spot any of the tyres,
because of course if you're running at 190 miles an hour
and you lock your brakes up,
the wear you put on the tyre on one place makes it like that,
then perform like as if you were driving on a Thrupny pit,
or 20 pence P, which is made, I should say.
Now let us speculate, let us speculate, James,
Ayrton Senna has got a one and a half second lead,
as near as makes no difference, over Gerhard Berger,
and Berger is about the same distance ahead of Prost,
and you can see where Nigel Mansell is.
I wonder if Senna is well within his limits,
playing the race very coolly,
knowing that it's going to be very difficult for anybody
to get past him because of the buffeting they take.
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12 laps gone now.
Sennheberger, Pross, Bansal, Patrese, Nanini.
Shame they're about to PK going off.
Can he come back now into that top six?
A lot of interest in that.
Let's take you back to Germany.
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He's had all sorts of trouble during practice,
most of them petrol pumps.
He's broken four petrol pumps, and into the pits too comes David Brabham.
Australian viewers will be sorry to hear.
David Brabham, who was in 20th position,
and as you watch Pross and Bansal, third and fourth,
on lap 13 out of 45, here are the first 12.
Sennheberger leading by one and a half seconds.
Bansal is about two seconds now ahead of Alain Pross, third.
Bansal, fourth.
Patrese is in fifth position, hotly chased by Alessandro Nanini in sixth position.
And then behind Nanini, PK, seventh, Butson, eighth, Capelli, ninth,
but he's coming to the pits.
That means to say that Alessi will now move up to ninth,
Warwick to tenth, Suzuki to eleventh, and Eric Bernard to twelfth,
and we're with Nelson Piquet after his trip up the escape lane,
and he's now frantically trying to catch his teammate Alessandro Nanini,
who is a good way ahead of him now.
Yes, but at the same time, Nanini is stuck behind Patrese,
so that will help Piquet to catch them,
but in fact he has closed the gap a little bit in the couple of laps since that excursion.
He's now just under seven seconds behind Nanini,
so we'll keep you posted on that,
but it would have been more fun watching from Nelson's car
when he was trying to get past Patrese rather than watching the view,
which is quite nice, but it's rather similar
with all those trees and arco barrier around Hockenheim.
I'm sure the race is a bit more interesting.
And Senna, the master, that's Mauricio Guttemann on the inset in the pit lane in his Leighton House,
and Senna then well in command in the McLaren.
It's his 103rd draw frame.
He's already won 23 of them with this incredible pole position achievement record, 47,
which is 14 more than the great Jim Clark, who previously held the record,
and Senna comes through into the stadium section out of it now,
into the start-finish group to complete his complete lap.
Interesting situation developing with the two Ferraris behind,
because I get the feeling that Mansell, if he could get past Prost,
would go a little bit quicker and be able to chase the McLarens,
and I'm jolly certain that Mansell himself has got that feeling too,
and his commitment that he made when he announced his retirement to support Prost
and try to help him win the championship in every way,
if he really does mean that, which he may or may not,
and it's a question of what Prost believes,
if Prost believes that Mansell really does mean that,
it might be a clever thing for Prost to let Mansell get by and get amongst the McLarens
while Prost sits behind, takes it easy, looks after his tyres particularly
and his car in general, right, and lets Mansell push the McLarens
and then let Prost come later in the race, and even if he has to,
the right thing to be if he's trying to help make Prost world champion
would be if he's ahead of him when they get to the end of the race,
to slow down and let Prost pass him before they both cross the finish.
And Mansell, as you saw, has gone off on the chicane,
he looked to me as though he was still rolling,
and it also looks to me as though Prost is marginally closer to Gerhard Berger,
but there's a long gap now, is there going to be a new fourth place man coming through,
in which case it would be Riccardo Patrese, but Prost is started,
there's the blue flag waving in the background, and Mansell is touring,
Mansell is touring, Patrese goes through, Nanini is right behind Patrese,
and Nigel Mansell, I can't see anything wrong with the car,
he made us to be in a spin and he's getting his momentum back.
Here we are, now we can see again what happened to Mansell as he went wide over the kerb,
that's not very good for modern Formula One cars,
their under-trails are very much part of the aerodynamics,
and I would think he must have done some damage to the car,
Moore and Berger going into the pits, and there is Gerhard Berger into the pits,
and so of course is Mansell, and Prost, sorry Prost has come into the pits,
so tyre stops already for the leading runners, Mansell is now limping in behind,
and this looks like a poor stop by Ferrari, that left rear wheel was stuck,
and that was certainly more than 6.7 seconds, he lost time on Berger in a big way.
And you can see that Mansell is rolling into the pits,
and from his body language it looks to me like a retirement,
yes he's rolling straight into the pits, well this is as bad a German Grand Prix
for Nigel Mansell as the Phoenix, San Marino, Monaco, France and Britain Grand Prix
were, Nigel Mansell retires for the sixth time in nine races,
and Prost is still going, Mansell of course was very unhappy after Britain,
and he will be very unhappy now, there's Senna leading,
and there's going to be a new second place man, I've just got Weld Senna now,
and it should be Prost.
Well Prost was much slower out of the pits than Berger of course,
but yes Mansell I'm sure he would be unhappy, but he was unhappy with Ferrari remember Murray,
after Silverstone referring to the earlier retirements,
this of course has nothing to do with Ferrari, he's got himself to be unhappy with here,
and that's unfortunate because he's been having a good season in the cockpit,
he's been unlucky with the reliability of his Ferrari,
and it's always a terrible shame to throw it away when the car's doing everything right,
and I'm sure he'll be kicking himself for that,
and even sadder than that was yesterday Damon Hill in the 3000 race,
we watched Senna who's now got a clear and comfortable lead on his own,
Damon Hill, son of the Lake Graham Hill who's been doing so well in 3000,
as Mansell's car parked for the day,
he has led three 3000 races and had mechanical failure,
and then he was thrown away yesterday.
Well Ayrton Senna now has got a 15 and a half second lead over Riccardo Petrezzi in the Williams,
and if Senna stops four times and it's by no means certain that he will,
I know that the Goodyear technicians were recommending that they should not stop and didn't need to,
he would be could still regain the lead,
but Riccardo Petrezzi in second place,
Alessandro Nanini very close to Petrezzi, that's the battle at the present moment as you can see from the catch,
with the second Benetton in the top four, Nelson Piquet in fourth position,
Gerhard Berger in fifth position after his tyre stop,
Thierry Bootson sixth in the second Williams,
and now in the inset you can see the McLaren mechanics who are ready presumably for Ayrton Senna to come into the pits for a tyre stop,
Berger has already been in and gone out again,
and Senna as I say has got a 15 and a half second push which is a very comfortable one indeed.
Now we're soon going to know because Senna is in the stadium section,
he's going round the Sachs curve now,
then he goes round two more right handers,
the last of which is going to be into the start and finish straight,
but if he's coming in he's going to be coming in right now,
and Ayrton Senna is coming in for tyres,
now Gerhard Berger stopped,
I'm surprised there's going to be a new race leader,
Riccardo Petrezzi is going through,
but it's Nanini ahead of Petrezzi,
and now Ayrton Senna stops for tyres,
and Nanini is coming out of the last corner,
chased by Riccardo Petrezzi,
and Senna's going to get out a little bit late in front of them.
It's going to be a very tight run thing,
it's a race on two different circuits now,
and there goes Nanini,
and has he got the straight by speed,
but look what's happening behind Nanini,
we have Petrezzi, Piquet and Berger,
all breathing right down his neck,
and with the tyres stopped we've got a tremendous lead battle,
Senna has tucked right in,
there's Berger having a look,
Senna's alive, having trouble identifying the helmet,
it is Senna, so Senna has tucked in behind,
and he now of course remember is on fresh rubber,
and after about half a lap that should be a very healthy advantage,
as Berger bringing up the back of that queue,
Pistot cost him some eight seconds on Gerhard Berger,
so that was a bit of a disaster for Ferrari,
but by the end of this race it may all be forgotten,
I think that the way things are it won't be seriously significant for the result.
Look at them all together,
Alessandra Nanini leading Ayrton Senna second,
Riccardo Petrezzi third, Nelson Piquet fourth,
Gerhard Berger fifth position,
Thierry Bootson in sixth place,
what was a strung out German Grand Prix has suddenly tightened up on lap 18 out of 45,
and the Japanese Grand Prix winner of 1989,
Alessandra Nanini in the Benetton Ford leads in Germany.
Yes, the new tyres are working,
because the new fastest lap for Gerhard Berger,
some seven tenths of a second quicker than anybody had gone on the first set of rubber,
so in the infield now.
Senna's tyres will now be warmed up,
you will see that Nanini has stretched the lead a little bit,
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and he knows the circuit,
not only of course you have to get the tyres hot when you put on a fresh set,
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the car is behaving a little bit differently,
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Behind TK's burger, the first six, first five, there they are.
Now remember that the two Benetons are on the harder tires
and may not need to pit stop in the same way.
And the fact that I find significant is that the previous lap,
Nanini did his fastest lap of the race so far.
Now the harder compound will take longer to come into its own.
It's in the second half of the race that one would expect it,
if it's going to do well, to do well then.
And so, oops, that was Petrezzi ducking out of the line
to go into the pits, so Petrezzi into the pits for tires.
There he is.
And Nanini, meanwhile, has gone even quicker.
His times are coming down without having to stop for tires.
And he's actually stretched his lead a tiny bit over Senna.
So as we surmise the beginning of the program,
this may be the clever way to go,
depending on whether they can last without a stop.
Remember, if they're still not at half distance yet, quite,
so if the Benetons are going to stop,
they ought to be stopping very soon.
It's Piquet followed by Berger, who's at the back of that little leading group, R4.
Well, one of the Tyrrells has just come in
and undershot its pit, misjudged the distance,
and has had to accelerate onwards again.
And it was Jean Alessi who was in ninth position.
And so there is Piquet.
And the significant thing to me is that Senna has not yet got to grips
with Nanini, the leader.
And I say, nor has Berger got to grips with Piquet,
who is now in third position.
And we are riding with Nelson Piquet now,
as he goes through the chicane, accelerates up.
This is a 200-mile-an-hour picture that you're getting
with the two aerials in front of Piquet's head on the nose of the Benetton,
one of them to enable the engine to give messages
to the four technicians in the pit,
and the other to enable the pits to talk to Piquet.
There in the slow section of the circuit,
you'll just see Senna's McLaren.
It's back to you.
There it is, just disappearing out of the picture ahead of us.
And as they get onto the pit straight, you'll see again him
and also his teammate, Sander Nanini.
There they are.
The camera doesn't see very well on the long shots.
And once again, Nanini goes quicker.
He's got the last three laps.
Nanini has gone two-tenths quicker than the one before,
then a tenth quicker.
Senna is certainly not climbing all over the back of him at the moment.
Senna seems to be just hanging on.
The gap hasn't really changed significantly.
And he certainly doesn't look as if he's going to walk straight past
and remember that the softer tower may be going to go decline
and perform sooner than these hard B compounds that the Benetton's have got on.
Certainly Berger's early pace when he sets the fastest lap,
which he still stands, has gone away.
But of course that may be because he's got Piquet ahead of him.
He can't do anything about that.
Well, Senna has cut the gap from two seconds to 1.7 seconds to 1.4 seconds
in the last three laps.
And it's Nanini leading Senna, as you can see for yourselves,
with Piquet some three seconds behind Ayrton Senna in third position.
Fourth is Gerhard Berger with Piquet immediately in front of him.
Sixth is Bootson, sixth is Prost, seventh is Capelli, eighth is Patrese,
of course has been in for tires.
Ninth is Suzuki, tenth is Bernard, eleventh is Nakajima,
twelfth is Alessi who's been into the pits, fourteenth is Derek Warwick.
Martin Donnelly has long since disappeared off our lap charts.
I'm sorry, I don't know where he went out, but he is certainly out.
And the Marshall's running.
There's something happened on the infield there and it looked like a luscious.
I think it was an onyx, they're very similarly colored Murray.
Oh, a Monte Verde, I'm so sorry.
What used to be an onyx.
And he's stuck very much in the sand pit, there he is,
and that looks like all over for Gregor Foytek.
And what's more, that car is going to have to be moved from there,
and they're going to need some tow, I guess they've got a tow truck now,
the tow truck is now coming in to give it a grab and a tow.
In the meantime, Senna has now pared down that gap,
and in doing it he's set fastest lap of the race.
Senna, new fastest lap, 146.310, and right now on the tail of Nanini.
But with the story of the tires, I'm not so sure that even if Senna gets past,
he may not find that Nanini's got the better rubber right when we get towards the end of the race,
the B-Colpano tires, he would, I expect.
If he does get past, he'll pull away a little bit,
but I think there's a chance that the Benetons will then start to claw back.
Remember, Senna's tires at the moment are very fresh.
Behind, they're dropping back slowly, gently, the Piquet-Burger battle,
and Berger, I'm sure, who's very anxious to win a race from McLaren at the moment,
and certainly is beginning to look, certainly to threaten to do that,
he'll be very anxious to get past Piquet to get after these two.
And you can see how hard Ayrton Senna is trying.
He's closed the gap right down, two seconds to about two feet in places.
Whatever Alain Prost did doesn't seem to have been right.
He's in sixth position, but he is lapping slower than the two leaders that you see at the present moment,
and he's lapping slower than Gerhard Berger,
as Alessandro Nanini, chased by Ayrton Senna, comes through to complete lap 22 out of 45,
and that's one of the menades.
It's Martini there out of the race, Pier Luigi Martini out of the race.
So Nanini leads Ayrton Senna by about a car's length in places,
and Senna may just be biding his time.
It's very interesting to look at the comparative power of the Ford V8 and the Honda V10.
Yes, and looking at it says a lot for the Ford V8.
It certainly looks absolutely competitive, venison on the straight with the McLaren,
although just looking at them, which is not the way to assess how much downforce the car is running, I might add,
but it does look to me as if McLaren are running a little bit more wing than the Benetons,
which would of course mean that they are running a lower top speed potentially,
and running a bit more drag than the Benetons.
But certainly that Ford-powered Benetton looks very good on the straights.
Look, Senna's perfectly placed in the tow now, and yet he's not making any real progress.
He's right in the hole of the air.
It couldn't be better placed, and he can't, you know, suck up to the back of the Benetton,
and then momentum carry him past, which is the classic way of overtaking.
Now, this is the obvious point. He's going to have a go, I'm sure of it here.
No, and still he can't, and that is impressive, that the Benetton can hold the McLaren Honda on the straight.
Yes, the days when McLaren used to put a dredger bucket on the back of the car,
they had so much power from the Honda engine that they could have massive downforce,
and the others had to have smaller wings.
Now, there is Prost in sixth position. Those days are over.
And Prost now is right up with Bootsen in fifth position as Senna attacks again.
Yes, he's been, in fact, with all the excitement. We haven't been looking at Prost,
but he's been with Bootsen for a lap or two now,
and he will be keen to get past Bootsen and get stuck into chasing this leading car,
because Bootsen is now 11 seconds behind Berger, and that way if he's Prost one little bit,
he'll want to get to start working away at that gap.
Alessandro Nanini from Siena, the man who used to drive for the Minardi team
in the days when they had the disastrous Motori Odeani engine,
has really come good since he went to Venetone.
One in Japan, now he's staving off Ayrton Senna.
And as I was saying, the wings of the... Ah, that is a lapping.
And that was also a Monteverdi.
And oh, and a blow up, and there goes Piquet's engine.
So Nelson Piquet, most unfortunate out of it,
but certainly they can be pleased with the power that Cosworth have got for Ford out of this engine,
and Piquet just pulling out of the way quite rightly just to get off to the safe side.
And that Monteverdi we were looking at, I think it had an off because I saw dust.
Oh, that's rather fun, a bit of agricultural stuff from Piquet.
I can park neatly. And back to the leaders now.
Nini holding on extremely well,
had much help by the prodigious straight line speed of his Venetone Ford.
And if you look offline, look at the marbles, all the bits of rolled rubber,
that's what appears to be dust as Piquet just getting out of his car.
We'd rather see the race, please.
So Gerhard Berger goes up to third position.
Bad luck for Piquet, he has already won the German Grand Prix three times in his career,
for Brabham and for Williams, and really was in on the sporting chance of doing extremely well today.
Well, that's been snatched away from him,
and now Nini has got the hopes of Venetone and Ford resting on his very capable shoulders.
Yes, it occurs to me that the longer Senna stays stuck behind Nini,
which is how he'd view it, the more risk, the more likelihood of damaging his tires,
when I say damaging, I mean that in a rather gentle sense of the word,
in that when you're following close behind another car,
you're in the hole that it makes in the air,
and that's great on the straights because you go faster,
but when you get to the corners, the last thing you want is a hole in the air,
because your wings create the downforce which creates the grip.
Now, with less grip and less downforce following another car closely,
it slides about more, and that works the tires harder and tends to overheat them,
and remember that Senna's on the softer compound,
and he'll want to get by very soon so that his tires can have an easier time.
If he doesn't, he may well hurt his tires and not be able to mount a challenge later on.
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That's the replay of the shot of Prost going past Petraezy as we went into that break.
So the Professor now finally getting past Petraezy.
It'll be interesting to see now if he can mount a challenge.
Let's take you back now as we go through the top six,
the needing Senna, Berger, Prost, Bootson and Petraezy.
And so, it may well be that Senna is going to struggle,
because look at, just watch Nanini, he's actually opening the gap a little bit.
And remember I said three laps ago, two laps ago, that if he follows too closely,
he's going to overheat his tires and it's beginning to look.
I guess that may be the case now.
We'll see him across the line and we'll just see what lap times,
if Nanini's been able to sustain that pace.
So Nanini crosses the line and yes he has, pretty much.
The gap now one and a half seconds between Nanini and Senna,
with Berger just under five seconds back.
You see him in the background there, he comes down to the chicane.
And now Prost goes over the line and he has already pulled now three seconds
in a lap and a half on Tiri Bootson and we did expect that.
No significant move on Gerhard Berger ahead of him as yet.
Well, there are a lot of people, certainly the McLaren people,
who think that Nanini won the Japanese Grand Prix last year by default
when Ayrton Senna was of course disqualified.
There's certainly no question of him leading by default now.
He is ahead of Senna, he is staying ahead of Senna.
This is lap 27, he took the lead on lap 18 and he's holding it.
Berger third and Berger is lapping now within a tenth of a second
at exactly the same speed as Nanini and Senna.
Prost on the other hand is marginally slower than the three cars in front of him
but is up to four.
Kappelli's seventh, Suzuki eighth, Bernard ninth, Warwick tenth,
Alessi is eleventh and he is almost lapped.
Yes and I very much like the body language of Nanini's car through that chicane
as Murray was talking then we saw he was really throwing it about
and it looked like a very confident combination of car and driver.
It looks like he stretches the just a tiny bit
and I think Senna is now struggling to stay with him.
Nanini completes 27 laps and the new fastest lap of the race from Sandro Nanini
and exactly as it looked to me he's...
the body language from the car was very competent.
He chucked it through that last chicane then he's pulled away.
He's only edging away but there's no doubt
that Senna is now using everything he's got to keep up.
Now Alan Prost, we look at Alan Prost, he was 15 seconds behind Gerhard Berger
and he still is.
Prost and Berger, the gap is remaining very very constant at the moment.
With 15 seconds to make up, Prost is going to have to find a new burst of speed
in order to catch Berger.
Nanini's fastest lap so far is four tenths of a second outside
Nigel Mansell's 1987 turbocharged Williams Honda lap record.
A speed of about 143.8 miles an hour, that's Mansell's lap record
and Nanini obviously a bit slower than that.
Now they're coming up the usual problem of laughing people
and Nanini and Senna, who is famous for his bravery in diving into gaps
where certainly his teammate Prost last year was reluctant to do
and this might affect things, they are into the stadium section
and it is one of the arrows that is in front of them coming out of it now.
There is Nanini, race leader, and the arrows in front of them is going to be in the way very shortly.
Yes, and Mr. Mee Senna is closer to the staff, he's not taking it lying down, he's responded
and this is the time for him to respond, yes, he's got six tenths of a second off the gap there,
maybe a little mistake from the Nanini round the back, but you can't afford many of those
with Senna breathing down your neck and you can't afford back markers, that's Alex Caffey ahead of them,
well he's a pretty experienced driver and he's also Italian, which may or may not help the Nanini later.
It could be national friendliness, it could also be domestic national rivalry.
Senna definitely closing, definitely closer I can say, and mounting an attack,
and that's good tactical driving by Senna to get right onto him when he's got the chance
and the chance being the fact that there's a slower car ahead of them.
It's the old story that if the slower car does anything unexpected,
there's only one person who can come off badly of people following
and that's the one who's in front because he'll lose his place,
so it can only benefit the man behind and who in this case is Senna.
There's a little burger in the background, so they're not dropping him either,
he's holding on but he seems, the gap's very constant,
and he really seems unable to actually get on terms with the first two.
Well now this is the crucial moment, Alex Caffey about to be lapped by race leader Nanini
with Erton Senna right behind him, there is Gerhard Burger in third place,
he's still crossed fourth, Bootson fifth, Petrezzi sixth, Capelli seventh, Suzuki eighth,
they've made it to the section they come, now they have both got past, so no problem there.
Yes, courtesy of good gentlemanly driving, good alert driving by Caffey,
the exact antithesis of Alio's performance earlier into the same corner
when he's let one by and then started to barge in to join in the group of leaders
with whom he really had nothing to do.
So, the leaders over the line, still lapping at very high speed indeed,
Nanini has got over that one slow lap that he put in,
and looks for the moment to have gathered himself and at least gathered his poise up front,
and behind them Prost is over the line and not really making any progress in fourth place.
At the end of the pits comes Thierry Bootson, the Belgian in the Williams who was in fifth position,
but it's still Nanini up front chained, chased by Senna,
I'm sort of half looking at what you're looking at and half looking at Bootson,
because I want to see if there's going to be a change,
and Capelli has gone through, Ivan Capelli, the sensation of the French Grand Prix
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is now in the points in sixth position.
It's Nanini, Senna, Berger, Prost, Patrese and then Capelli.
Here is Alessandra Nanini and Senna.
Just imagine the heat in those cockpits.
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And now Gerhard Berger behind the two that you are looking at, well the one, Nanini and Senna,
and Gerhard Berger is bearing down on Alex Capelli to lap him.
The next man that should be lapped is Jean Alessi who is in eleventh position.
And so Nanini goes over the line and the gap between Nanini and Senna is 1.1 seconds,
and it was nine tenths of a second before,
so the gap is as near as makes no difference being maintained.
Here they come, Nanini, Senna, then it was Capelli.
Now they are round the first right-hander, they are on the way down this 210 mile an hour,
straight up to the first chicane.
Nothing in it as far as braking is concerned.
And the light and nimble Benetton is going extremely well to put it mildly.
Don't forget he is still on the same tires that he started with.
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That is, and starting to, if anything, to dictate anyway the race to Senna who is behind him.
In the meantime, of course, if the first four finish as they are at the moment,
but remember there is a very long way to go yet,
but should they do that with Senna in second place, Prost in fourth,
that would really concertina yet further the Senna-Prost battle for the championship up front
because that would give Senna just three points to gain on Prost's situation
and that would make life awfully close.
Yes, he would be leading the championship by just one point,
but we are now on lap 32.
13 laps still to go, including this one that they are on.
And Alessandro Nenini controlling things magnificently from the front.
It would seem visually anyway, we don't know what's going on in Senna's cockpit,
but it would seem that, try as he may, he can't do anything about Nenini.
Yes, the only time he's closed up in the last six or seven laps has been that one lap
on which Nenini, although we didn't see it, appeared to have made a mistake and lost about a second.
And Nenini is yet again edging away from him, and once more, as it was before that one mistake,
Senna, I think, is giving it, it prepares me, everything he's got just to hold on.
He is clinging on, but of course, as long as he can cling on within, say, a second and a half,
he of course is a major threat because Nenini has to keep pushing, pushing, pushing,
and he's right in position to pick up any mistake that Nenini makes.
Well, Nenini's well experienced, we don't expect him to make error,
but Senna has, with his reputation, has a psychological effect on other drivers.
They are, a lot of them are to some extent, to a greater or lesser extent, in awe of him,
and having him breathing down your neck somehow, it would appear,
for this generation of drivers, is worse than having some, a lesser mortal breathing down your neck.
Now, there's one of the great, Salah Prost, but today, having a quiet race,
perpetrated a little bit by a poor pit stop by the Ferrari team.
They were unfortunate, got a wheel stuck, and since his pit stop,
Prost has been playing a fairly low-key game, but still, of course,
working away at support from Mike's fourth place by three points,
and Prost, better than anyone, knows the value that those might have
when the day of reckoning at the end of the season.
Well, my mind goes back to last year's German Grand Prix,
as you look at Yvonne Capelli in the Leighton House car with its Judd V8 engine,
and he is in sixth position now in the points, and last year,
both Prost, who was driving for McLaren, of course, and Senna, had dreadful tyre stops.
Here is Nanini leading, and the result was that Prost was leading Senna
for, I think, two laps from the end, and then he had a gearbox problem, and Senna went through and won.
And Senna is as close to Nanini now as Prost was, as he was to Prost last year,
and again, as Nelson Piquet walks in with a can of mineral water in his hand,
and he must be absolutely drenched inside those overalls,
because it's tremendously hot here, and even hotter on the circuit, of course.
And there's the Monteverdi in front of Alessandro Nanini.
Again, it's going to be critical that, I think, it's Leighton who moves over,
and he does so, and they both go through.
And so, Nanini lacks him, and Senna lacks him,
and Berger is just going into the Sax curve, which is the left-hander before the end of the lap,
and Senna is actually much closer to Alessandro Nanini now than he has been for some time.
Very much so, helped by two things, the fact that Senna, once again,
had seen the back marker ahead and put in a superhuman effort,
because the previous lap was his fastest lap of the race so far,
and then, of course, Leto was a little minor interference,
but being a properly brought-up driver, he did exactly right.
His manners were impeccable, and he got out of their way.
But, of course, even having a car in front going quickly,
with the hole in the air that it makes slows you down a little bit, as it did to Nanini,
but battle is now adjoined, and this must surely be Senna's big effort.
It has to be now, because Senna is...
his tyres are not going to get better relative to Nanini's in the remains of the race,
and he's really pushing.
Nanini got a little bit more cleanly through that chicane,
and this is vital, because Senna is in perfect position to get the tow.
Now, we saw the McLaren struggle before.
Nanini is... was... no, and I think Senna's got it.
Senna's on the inside, and he won't let the corner go now,
and Ayrton Senna takes the lead, and that really surely was
the special genius of Ayrton Senna, the way the previous lap,
he started this overtaking manoeuvre, he saw Leto in front,
he drove an absolutely scorching lap, which was his fastest lap of the race,
to get right on the Nanini's tail at the moment they arrived at Leto,
and he kept pushing, because he knew it was his only chance,
because I really believe that without the back marker in front
and his tyres probably deteriorating faster than the Nanini's,
this was his chance.
Now, in clean air, he's got to build up a little bit of a cushion.
Yes, Senna superbly takes the lead, and now Nanini's problem is,
can he stave off Gerhard Berger, who is in third position,
Berger some seven seconds behind the Italian in the Venetone,
and in fourth place it is still Alain Prost,
who's not making up any time at all on Berger,
and then Smith Petraezi, sixth Capelli, and here's a replay of the passing manoeuvre.
Yes, and conventionally done, but very well done,
because we'd seen earlier the difficulty Senna had,
if he wasn't perfectly placed in the tow, he couldn't get there,
and at this point he's only getting alongside,
and then being Senna he just stays off the brakes,
he's the sort of man who will look at Nanini and just wait till Nanini brakes,
and irrespective of when that is almost,
he was maybe half an eye on the corner in case Nanini's just going to go suicidal
and not try and make the corner at all,
but he will watch you because he knows that whatever you do,
he'll be able to handle braking later.
And he's now one and a half seconds ahead of Nanini,
having got past the Italian,
he's putting in another superhuman effort to build a cushion
between himself and the Venetone board.
We're on lap 35 in this 45 lap race.
Ayrton Senna most certainly looks as though he has got it made
as he did in 1988 and in 1989,
and he's on his way to the hat trick at the present moment.
Well Nanini's slowed down a bit on that lap,
probably lost a bit of time with being fast,
of course, going down very slightly.
We'll see if he can respond,
because it's very important that Nanini should not let Senna get away.
I believe that Senna's tyres will be in a worse state than his at the end of the race.
Nanini really must try and push, push, push, and stay close to Senna,
because I think his tyres may yet deteriorate,
and at that point there's no reason why Nanini shouldn't.
He needs to be in a position to remount a challenge
in the closing five laps of the race.
In the meantime behind, Alan Cross is by no means chasing Gerhard Berger.
He's losing time to Berger, and in fact is going backwards to an extent,
and is now coming under threat from Riccardo Petrezzi,
who is only ten seconds behind him and going quicker.
So Cross fourth place, rather than attacking for third,
is now defending to try and stay in fourth.
Well, Ertens Senna on his way to win number 24 in his incredible career.
It looks as though he made the right decision to come in for a new set of tyres when he did so.
You can see the advantage that he's got over Alessandro Nanini now.
Lap 36, Berger third, Cross fourth, Petrezzi in fifth position,
and in sixth place, Ivan Capelli.
So there's no change there except for the fourth one of Senna.
Yes, but what I don't understand is the fact that Nanini,
who is now 2.1 seconds behind Senna in less than two laps,
and less than two laps when they crossed the line,
has slowed down by a second a lap from what he was doing before.
In fact, previous that was even slower than that.
Now, I can't believe that being passed by Senna has changed his car.
I can only surmise that Nanini has given up or is not giving it everything.
And this is terribly, terribly unprofessional driving because Senna needs to be pushed.
And Nanini can certainly do it because if he can do 46.1 before Senna passed him,
surely he can do 46.1 now with non-deteriorating type of car and a lighter fuel load.
So Nanini really should get his finger out.
There's Mike Kranifos in the inset and he's the head man of the worldwide Ford competition in power.
Probably feeling a little disappointed that his man who led so well for so long is now down in second place.
Gerhard Berger is, as James said, closing up slightly on Nanini.
The gap between Nanini second and Berger third is just over six seconds.
Frost in fourth place for Tracy Fifth, Capelli Sixth still in the points.
Then Bootson, then Eric Bernard, and Derek Warwick has moved up to ninth place in the Lotus.
Tenth, Alessi, eleventh, Caffey, and in 12th position, Larini.
Well, I'll tell you, shouldn't be so rude to Nanini.
He was clearly listening because he speeded up a little bit on that last lap.
So good boy. Because really we want to see a close and exciting race.
But having said that, so has Senna. Senna has again now put in his fastest lap of the race.
The gap has opened a bit, but Nanini at least has responded and would appear now to be attempting to stem the tide.
McLaren Honda leads. Benetton Ford second. McLaren Honda in third position.
The Ferrari of Alain Frost is fourth. Riccardo for Tracy Fifth. And that's one of the Lola's pulling out of the race.
It looked like Eric Bernard to me with his hand up in the air.
He was in eighth position. That means to say Derek Warwick moves up a place.
And if a couple more fall out, Derek Warwick will finish in the points.
There's a lot of speculation, incidentally, about the future of the Lotus team here at Toggenheim
with rumors that it has been bought or is going to be bought by a consortium headed up by ex Lotus team manager Peter Collins.
But meantime, there is Eric Bernard sadly touring into the pits.
Well, he's not touring into the pits. He's just pulling off the course.
And now the leaders, the leader in fact there at Senna is on his 37th lap.
He's four seconds now ahead of Nanini who's got a major problem and the problem is called Gerhard Berger.
And the second McLaren Honda is getting bigger and bigger in the mirrors of the second place man Alessandro Nanini.
And Berger is lapping nearly one second faster than Berger with Frost still in fourth place and not offering any challenge to the Austrian.
Yes, Frost is really falling away and Petrezzi who we mentioned a moment ago and now looking from Derek Warwick's Lotus.
And they really had a struggle this weekend but his work is way up to eighth place.
But really the Lotus, the low tie of Derek and Martin Donnelly have been a great disappointment.
The chassis seems to behave in a particularly unpleasant fashion here.
They had trouble qualifying, they couldn't keep their tires together and it's a sad sight.
The engine is pretty good. The drivers are all willing and eager and good and trying hard as we look at Senna.
And it may be that Nanini who slowed down again is finally having a bit of wear trouble with the tires.
Remember of course everybody else has had a fresh set and he on the harder compound hasn't.
But he's still able to produce a 0.46 and he's going to have to mind his B's and Q's because Berger is as Murray said closing up.
Hard behind, Frost is now into a defensive mode to keep Petrezzi at bay.
Petrezzi in fifth place, only 70 seconds behind Frost.
Now is Senna going to be able to get past Warwick? Incidentally the gap between Berger and his chaser is dead.
And there is Warwick, now you'll see Ayrton Senna come past in a minute.
There he goes. What a pity we didn't have a look at the on-car camera because there he goes.
Ayrton Senna laughing, Derek Warwick in the Lotus who is in eighth position.
So race order now as you travel with the eighth man and watch the leader Ayrton Senna pulling away.
It's Senna leading Nanini by four seconds.
Berger is in third position.
Frost is fourth, Petrezzi is fifth.
Capelli is still in the points for the second race out of three.
Thierry Bootsen is seventh.
Derek Warwick is in eighth place.
Alessi is ninth. Caffe is in tenth position.
Eleventh is Larini.
Twelfth is Bernard.
And thirteenth is his Larousse Lola teammate, Aguri Suzuki.
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So leading now with Nene Verga, Prosper, Trezzi and Capelli now in the sixth spot as we take you back to Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Again on Alessandro Nanini in the Benetton 4. There he is in the green car at the rate of one second a lap.
We have the real prospect of yet another McLaren first and second.
That's a Lacey. There is Berger.
Well, Senna won in Phoenix. Gerhard Berger has yet to win a Grand Prix.
Senna won in Monaco, of course, as he did in Canada and has been beaten in the last three Grand Prix by 1989 World Champion Alain Prost this year driving for Ferrari.
So Ayrton Senna has gone past Nicola Larini in the Ligier.
His team-mates Philippe Allier, who was involved in that coming together with Emanuele Pirro.
The start has long since disappeared. And there are, as I talked to you, 13 out of the 26 drivers left in the race.
Senna, Nanini, Berger, Prost, fourth for Tracy, fifth, Boots and sixth. Capelli is in seventh position.
Derrick Warwick is still eighth. Lacey is ninth. Derrick Warwick has been lapped, of course.
Caffey is tenth in the Arrows. Larini is eleventh in the Ligier. 12th is Eric Bernard in the LaRouche Lola and 13th his team-mate as we ride with Derrick Warwick.
Yes, and again, good anticipation by Derrick Warwick, who saw Nanini coming, realized he was battling for the lead.
And Nanini, I'm sure, was mighty grateful for that because with Berger chasing hard and closing him down,
he certainly didn't want to have to sit through the stadium section because if he hadn't let him by then,
he could have held him up for another five or six corners. And that would have been a very serious delay for Nanini.
And just over four seconds now between Nanini and Berger.
This means, I think, that Nanini should be able to hold on five laps to go.
And that, of course, meant because Berger not only has to catch him, but then he has the bigger problem of passing him.
And they're running rapidly out of laps. In the meantime, Senna is moving away pretty comfortably now.
At six, over six seconds to Nanini, and I'm sure Nanini's concern is no longer with Senna at all and is purely with Berger's progress.
But I think Nanini, probably now his B compound tires are getting a little bit tired,
but they look to be consistent enough still for him to be able to hang on.
It's going to be a very close run thing for second place though. Ayrton Senna there has well and truly broken Alessandro Nanini.
Probably, as James said, because going the whole race distance on one set of Goodyear Bs has proved to be too much for Nanini.
But he's driven an absolutely superb race. He's got the prospect of six points at the present moment to add to the seven that he's already got.
He's only in ninth position in the World Championship. Ayrton Senna going round the Sachs curve and into the right-hander before the final right-hander.
And that is Alessi. And he looks to me to be in trouble the way he's being passed by people, well he obviously is.
Alain Prost absolutely rocketing past him. And Alessi looks to me as though he's coming back to the pits to retire as Ayrton Senna goes into lap 42.
Philippe Alio incidentally has now officially been disqualified for presumably he has been judged to be the guilty party of what happened at the start.
And there was a push start involved that disqualified him most certainly.
But that's of academic interest for everybody except the unfortunate EG team who here in Germany have had to pre-qualify for the first time.
Having lost out on the first half of the season to the La Rousse Loa team.
And Ayrton Senna is now seven seconds ahead of Nanini who is four seconds ahead of Berger who is 31 seconds ahead of Prost who is four seconds ahead of Patrese.
Yes, Patrese has certainly got Prost in visual contact now. He's got him well in view.
And Prost has responded and is fending off that position without an apparent problem.
Likewise, Nanini seems to be comfortable ahead of Berger and really it looks very much as if stalemate, despite the fact the gaps have been moving around,
stalemate seems to me to have been reached and now it will be mainly a matter of running out the last four laps or so with no drama or fuss.
If there's no mechanical bother I think it'll be difficult for anybody to really mount any challenges despite the fact that the first four cars are in relatively close order.
Well, sad news for the Leighton House team because now as you heard earlier on Thierry Bootson is in sixth place.
Capelli has gone down to seventh place and therefore out of the World Championship points.
Senna on his way now. He's on lap 43. He's only got two laps to go at the end of this.
8.4 miles after this lap. At number 36 there is JJ Leito, the Finnish driver, the protégé of ex-World Champion Keke Rosberg who is here.
Look at the bodywork of the Monteverdi of JJ Leito's car. The engine cover flapping in the wind there and he'll probably have to come in and have that replaced.
Although it's so close to the end of the race that it's hardly worth bothering.
Lap 43 then for Ayrton Senna, race leader with a 7.6 second gap now between himself and Alessandro Nanini who looks at the moment secure for second position and six points because Gerhard Berger is still four seconds behind him.
Cross-bord for Tracy Fifth, Bootson sixth, Capelli seventh.
Yes and the big gap between Berger and Prost of course puts it into a separate race.
And for Tracy, looks to me to have decided just because he's the one who slowed down the gaps now moved out to nearly six seconds from four was the closest that Riccardo and Tracy got.
And he looks to have given up the chase driving just to finish and pick up his two points.
And because in fact he chased hard for several laps and I'm sure that's right. Prost doesn't have any trouble. Berger now with the V8 in front.
Again Berger really doesn't look like catching Nanini now so he won't be too worried and he has a huge lead over Prost.
Three and a half seconds between Nanini in second place and Berger there.
And there is Alain Prost. Well one has to say because it's true that the Ferrari's have been well and truly beaten by McLaren here in Germany.
They may have won as they did in Mexico and in France and in Britain with the same driver Alain Prost.
But McLaren have risen brilliantly to the challenge as have their engine suppliers Honda.
McLaren have been working very hard on the chassis making alterations and to the aerodynamics.
Honda have been working very hard on the engine. This is since the British Grand Prix.
The results have come together to produce what looks like being a resounding and crushing victory in the German Grand Prix.
Because there is only one lap to go after this one for Ayrton Senna and McLaren.
And that is Ivan Capelli in the background who has just been lapped.
He's in seventh position. He's been lapped by Ayrton Senna who's still got this commanding seven and a half second lead with only one lap to go at the end of this one.
There's the Leighton House. You can see the heat haze shimmering up from the circuit and the drivers are going to be more.
There's Nannini second. Now there's the Ligier of Larini and he still has not been passed by Gerhard Berger.
Berger goes. No he doesn't. And of course all the time this is making it virtually now making it virtually impossible for Gerhard Berger to get that second position.
Larini is trying very hard indeed. You saw his left front tyre lock up. Ayrton Senna goes through to complete lap 44 and start his last lap.
And over the line as he's approaching it Nannini now. Gerhard Berger in third position.
And the gap between Nannini second and Berger third with one lap to go is just under five seconds.
Yes and as Berger Senna now goes round his last lap. Well mistakes he may have made.
Throw it away at the British Grand Prix. Threaten enough mistakes this season like in Brazil in the first race to throw away what ought to be a big lead in the championship.
But today Senna drove absolutely magnificently. Not a foot wrong. His tactics were perfect particularly when following Nannini.
It was noticeable to me that both times there was a back marker looming ahead of them.
He must have been intelligently looking after his tyres when there was no chance to overtake. Each time a back marker was looming up he put in a really quick lap before they got there to get right on the tail.
That took him into the lead. His tactics were good. He really used his head and of course his genius enabled him to get so close.
It was a problem to pass the Benetton but he was man enough. He got really tight up his tail and used all his skills to pass and then drive off to a relatively easy win.
Nannini a great second place. Marvellous race from him. Berger very strong in the Alamogarra and of course coming in solidly in fourth place.
This bad pit stop by Ferrari cost him battle really for the lead and he'll be very happy or relatively happy with three points for fourth place so long as he can get it round to the line.
So great drive by Ayrton Senna this time.
Back to the last corner. Out of the last corner. Gerhard Berger the crowd at Ayrton Senna the crowd rises and he waves his victorious salute because he has now avenged a three times defeat.
Nannini finishes in second place with a very rough sounding engine and the gap between Nannini and Berger was two seconds and there is no doubt in my mind that had the German Grand Prix been 46 laps rather than 45
it would have been a McLaren Honda first and second but it didn't so it wasn't and Ayrton Senna is the victor to make it his fourth Grand Prix win of 1990.
Here is Alam Prost and in winning in Germany Ayrton Senna moves back into the lead of the World Championship that he lost in Britain.
Ferrari only having one car finish and this is it Prost finishes fourth. Bootson not far behind him in fifth position. Sorry Patrese not far behind him in fifth position and in sixth place his teammate Thierry Bootson with Capelli seventh and Derek Warwick in eighth position.
And the World Championship now is led by Ayrton Senna and that's Prost's Ferrari reversing up the pit lane. I imagine he might even have run out of fuel but Senna now leads the World Championship as he did before Britain by four points from Alam Prost.
With Gerhard Berger still in third position in fourth position now Piquet and Bootson are tying and in sixth position Alessi and Mansell are tying. Ayrton Senna talking to Gerhard Berger first and third in Germany.
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Television's craziest. Back on the job. Thursday from 730 on Channel 9. The big crowd over in Hockenheim now gathering around for the presentation. There he is the man of the moment at the center with teammate Gerhard Berger making their way up to the winner's podium. Great race for McLaren will be updating you with all the results out of the Suzuka eight hour motorcycle race out of Japan.
So stay with us for that. A lot of Australians competing there. Here's the Nini coming up now. Fine second place from him tonight. Let's give you the recap of the results now. Center for McLaren taking nine points for the fine win tonight. Nini in second place for Benetton with six points. Berger for McLaren with four.
Prosper Ferrari with three. For Tracy with a Williams two points tonight and Boots and his teammate also taking a championship point. The drivers' championship. Very very important now. Ayrton Center regaining the lead tonight with this win on 48 points.
Closely followed by Elaine Frost on 44 points. Berger is on 29 PK 18. Boots and also on 18 and on 13. Mansell, Elise and the Nini instructors championship. Well McLaren Honda now on 77 points. Ferrari on 57 disappointing again tonight from them.
Benetton Ford good result for them on 31 points. The Williams team with the Renault engines on 30. Tyrell and the Cosworth engine on 14 and Leighton House for the Judd engines on six points.
There we go now the man of the moment, Ayrton Center. Simply brilliant tonight. One wonders if the Nini did have some tire problems toward the end. He did go right through on one set of tires.
The softer compound has been mentioned right throughout the race but a great drive from the Brazilian Ayrton Center. Took his 47th pole position to lead this race. Dived in for tires. 40s way back.
Berger of course was 30s teammate split only by the Benetton of the Nini and he was a very very happy boy when he won that race at Suzuka. We were there for that.
And gee I don't think I've ever seen a driver so happy in a long long time. Okay talking about Suzuka in Japan. The 8 hour motorcycle endurance race was held today.
Let's recap the results of that for you. Eddie Lawson and the Japanese rider Tyra won the race with 205 laps. A great performance. Congratulations to Lawson and Tyra for that performance.
And as you can see the Japanese rider is really dominating right through down into the six pots all the pairings for you. Now for the Australians we'll recap that for you.
Mick Dewan actually led the race with Wayne Gardner for the first hour and they had a 28 second lead and then unfortunately he, Dewan handed the bike over to Gardner who crashed.
They fought their way back to third after four hours and then ran out of petrol. The other Aussies, Roy Leslie on the Ducati crashed after three hours. Mike Dawson and Robb Filles running for the Kawasaki team.
Dawson crashed whilst in fifth place and has a suspected broken wrist. Malcolm Campbell, he retired in the fifth hour with mechanical problems. Peter Goddard in the fifth hour also retired with mechanical and engine problems.
And Scott Dewan, the brother of Michael Dewan who was riding with Matthew Blair were the only Australians to finish and they were in 18th position on 196 laps.
So not a good day for the Australians at Suzuka and once again Gardner and Dewan after doing so much great work each year have failed to finish in the money in that particular race.
Okay, talking about motorcycles, let's now update you on the next big race. That's next Sunday night live from Donington, the British Grand Prix. The only one of course that our friend Baza, Barry Sheena has never won.
He'll join me for that and that's on the fifth of August so check your local guides for that.
The next Formula One race and we'll have AJ, the Jones boy back for that one, is the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix and that's Sunday the 12th of August. Check your local guides for times on that.
And that should be a great race too. So there you are.
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