PR Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington My brake pedal’s quite soft. A little long.

PR Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK, copy that Lewis. No more brake-throttle overlap to warm the brakes, just normal stops.

PR Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel And cool the car, Sebastian.

PR Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel No additional procedeure. Just back of the grid, P1, P0.

PR Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK, there will be no bite points at the back of the grid. Just go to P1 for ten seconds, then P0 please.

PR Felipe Massa Rob Smedley The KERS is not working, too much gripping.

PR Rob Smedley Felipe Massa Yeah, we know this. We’ll have a look and see what we do for the real start. We obviously will have a better idea once we’re on the grid as well.

PR Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK mate, so cooling the car down now please.

PR Nico Hulkenberg Marco Schupbach Someone needs to clean my visor on the outside. It’s a bit dirty here. I need a clean.

PR Nico Rosberg Tony Ross I’m just not sure if stopping early is the way to go now with these temperatures, you know? Maybe a lot of people are going to go into [distorted] by the end of the race. [Distorted]

PR Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Affirm Nico. I think the best thing would be to go to around lap 15 and let you know. As it is at the moment we’ll see how the degredation is in the first stint, but my tendancy is to agree with you. Let’s look after those. Nico, come to the car but I;d still say we do as we discussed. On the opening laps it’s important to be aggressive but after that looking after the tyres.

PR Dave Robson Jenson Button Jenson as you’d expect track temperature is rising, obviously not one o-clock yet and already it’s 37 degrees and on the way up so I think we can expect over the next hour or so it’s going to get well above 40. So I think the plan should work quite well.

PR ? Giedo van der Garde We don’t do the clutch scrub on the grid. So we just do the launch. And it should be now toggle up, mixture one, KERS one and the clutch should be set eight and [distorted] the pit limiter just before the start. [Distorted]. The after 18 and after 19 rolling bite point find. So we do the two rolling bite point find after 18 and 19. [Distorted].

PR Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington You guys have prepared the tyres differently, right? I’m hoping the race will be different because the track’s completely different to the rest of the weekend. The rears are going to be a killer today. Don’t be surprised if it’s a two-stop. Jock, what do you think I should do with the differential?

PR Jock Clear Lewis Hamilton I’m happy with the settings you’ve got at the moment, Lewis, which is…

PR Lewis Hamilton Jock Clear What about the trouble we had through turn four? Was a little bit oversteery through there.

PR Jock Clear Lewis Hamilton A little oversteery through five, six and seven, yeah?

PR Lewis Hamilton Jock Clear The second two laps or more oversteer. Six was fine, seven was oversteery. Five was oversteery.

PR Jock Clear Lewis Hamilton Affirm. In which case, can we go to diff init seven?���?�

PR Lewis Hamilton Jock Clear Also turn 19.

PR Jock Clear Lewis Hamilton Yeah, so diff init eight, please. Diff init eight. That will give you a much more consistent front through three, four, five, six, seven and nineteen. I’m happy with the others but, as I say, just looking at – so limiter on, please, limiter on soon as you start – looking at dialling in as much understeer as you can live with, really.

FL Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Work these brakes. All gears are now learnt.

FL ? Sebastian Vettel And clutch eight. Clutch eight when you can. Remember, no part throttle.

FL ? Heikki Kovalainen OK, we need to keep cooling the car, please.

FL ? Sebastian Vettel Feedback on start. Hold throttle during clutch slip. All systems are good, so remember your procedures. It will be two – two – bite point learn, and one and a half burnout. Remember, use brakes. Good clutch prep, so straight to your box. Focus on KERS at the start and KERS eight when you stop. So that’s two bite point.

FL Simon Rennie Mark Webber This is a red start. React to the beep quickly.

1 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Cancel RS.

1 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Just be careful with that right-front brake. A little bit cool.

1 Adrian Sutil Brad Joyce Sutil crashed out on the straight after contact with Maldonado, bringing out the Safety Car.

I’m off. I retire on the straight.

1 Mark Temple Sergio Perez There is a Safety Car. Safety Car. We are staying out.

2 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So the right-front brake is just a little bit cool, so just keep working the fronts. No need for throttle/brake overlap, just some big stops will do it.

2 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Sebastian, the incident is braking for turn 12., on the left-hand side of the track. The track itself is clear. There will be some service vehicles there.

2 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Remember, stay right to avoid debris one the pit – on the back straight.

2 Jenson Button Dave Robson Er, what’s the reason for the Safety Car?

2 Dave Robson Jenson Button I think you’re just coming up to the incident now. Sutil is in the wall.

2 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK, so let’s lay off the brakes just for a second – allow the calipers to cool a bit.

3 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Try to keep brakes cool though, do not brake too much. Caliper temperatures high.

3 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel For your reference the restart maps will be KERS eight and mix five.

3 Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo You’re working on front tyres very good. Keep doing like this.

3 Paul di Resta GianPiero Lambiase How are the tyres, GP?

3 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta Yeah, tyre pressures and temperatures are reasonable. Obviously you can do to maintain the temperature will be beneficial.

4 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So start picking up your tyre warming. Start picking up some tyre warming techniques.

4 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK mate. And a reminder, you can overtake at the restart from Safety Car line one, which is at pit entry. We do not expect it to be long until the Safety Car is in.

4 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Rehearse the restart in your mind. Safety car line one location.

4 Dave Robson Jenson Button As you come along the start-finish straight this time, I’d like you to stay to the left-hand side so we can take a good look at the car.

4 Dave Robson Jenson Button So there is some damage to the front wing.

4 Jenson Button Dave Robson It feels OK in turn two, I can push through turn two.

4 Dave Robson Jenson Button Yep, understood Jenson. Damage is relatively minor. Much less than the last race. So we’re going to stay out.

4 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta It would obviously be very good if we could clear Bottas. Very good for our strategy.

5 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So down one when you can. Temperatures, 13 front, 13 rear. All under control at the moment.

5 Gary Gannon Max Chilton So in now, Max. In now for a drive-through. Drive through pitlane, remember limiter. Pit now.

6 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Recovery seven, brake balance plus four.

6 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So rears are hotter than fronts. Come forward on brake balance.

6 Mark Temple Sergio Perez And Checo, please use some KERS for turn 11. Please use KERS before turn 11.

6 Gary Gannon Max Chilton Pic is 17 seconds ahead.

7 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Last lap 950, so that’s good. Have a think about KERS for defending against DRS.

7 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington The Red Bull’s pretty fast.

7 Simon Rennie Mark Webber DRS is now active.

7 Tim Wright Charles Pic Track slippery between turn three and five.

7 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg You have RFA [DRS].

7 Francesco Nenci Esteban Gutierrez Gutierrez has passed the Marussias and Caterhams following an early pit stop.

Very good Esteban. And now in front of you, Maldonado.

8 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne So behind you, Maldonado is falling away. Daniel on the last lap did a 45.8. So there is more pace in the runners ahead, but they are obviously on different tyres.

8 Pastor Maldonado Andrew Murdoch There is some vibration in the car.

8 Andrew Murdoch Pastor Maldonado OK Pastor, we’re just checking the data.

8 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi We need to come forward with the brake bias, Jules. The rear brakes are hot, we need to come forward with bias one percent.

9 Juan Pablo Ramirez Giedo van der Garde Use DRS.

9 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel And diff map five is available.

9 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington I feel like the fronts are overheating.

10 Francesco Nenci Esteban Gutierrez Unlock the diff with the toggle for 15, 16, 17 and 18 for front-left tyre energy.

10 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa Massa is lapping around half-a-second off Alonso’s pace.

OK, in turns four, five and six, Fernando stays in fifth gear. That’s the only difference in terms of lap time between you both. Second and third sectors very, very similar.

10 Gary Gannon Max Chilton Good lap. Point two slower than Jules in the middle sector. Watch for debris, three, four, five. Maldonado four seconds behind, he’s pitted already.

11 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So, pace is good. We want to target 45.0s. Did a 45.3 last lap.

11 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Grosjean, 44.1. Plus 3.8.

11 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Hamilton is degrading in front. Hamilton in P3 looks to be degrading.

11 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Your pace is good, Sebastian. Grosjean, 44.1. Hamilton, 44.6. Everything else, 45s.

11 Esteban Gutierrez Francesco Nenci I start to feel a bit some degredation.

12 Andrew Murdoch Pastor Maldonado OK, we need to make this tyre set last. Look after the tyres in turns 17 and 18.

12 Francesco Nenci Esteban Gutierrez What is the degredation, Esteban? Front or rear?

12 Esteban Gutierrez Francesco Nenci Front.

12 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Webber has DRS.

12 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa When you can, tell me about the tyres. We’ve completed 11 laps.

12 Felipe Massa Rob Smedley Is a similar situation as before.

13 Francesco Nenci Esteban Gutierrez Don’t forget the cars in front are on mediums, in front of Vergne. So they will have more potential than you, so they will be naturally quicker than us. But you’re still quicker than them.

13 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK Lewis, we do need to manage these tyres, we’ve still got some laps to do on them.

13 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington That’s what I’m doing, man. Let me focus.

13 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel And be ready line one. Track is clear.

14 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK, nice job mate. Toggle KERS.

14 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi Bianchi has pulled out of range of Van der Garde’s DRS.

Great job, Jules. Three tenths a lap quicker than Max, we’re slowly pulling away from the Caterhams. Great job. How are the tyres?

14 Jules Bianchi Paul Davison Feel good for the moment.

14 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi OK mate. Understood.

14 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Webber passed Hamilton for third on lap 13.

Traction was at 1,400 so we do need to manage them, otherwise we’re on a two-stop.

14 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington I’m trying to manage them, man. I’m trying to.

14 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Now Lewis, you’re doing a good job. Webber’s pace looks pretty quick. You’ve got Hulkenberg behind, four seconds. He was four tenths slower last lap. We just need to manage this position here.

15 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So tyre temperatures are under control. Ricciardo has lost RFA [DRS] so try to pass now if you can.

15 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg You’re closing on Hamilton. He’s told to manage his pace. You’re racing Hamilton in front.

15 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK mate we need to watch the front locking to look after the tyres.

15 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Gap to Webber ahead 2.5 seconds. Hulkenberg behind, 3.2.

15 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK, lifting off a little bit before in turn 17 just to save tyres.

16 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Good pace, Sebastian. Make sure you stay on top of your tyres.

16 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington I don’t have the grip, man.

16 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK, message understood. Information – Hulkenberg two tenths faster last lap.

17 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Vergne was the only driver to start the race on hard tyres and was planning to pit twice, but during the race Toro Rosso switched to a one-stop strategy.

Jev, are you OK for Plan C?

17 Jean-Eric Vergne Phil Charles I think the tyres are good, so why not?

17 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne OK, understood.

17 Mark Temple Sergio Perez And Checo, we are in the window. We are in the window, confirm.

17 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Good job so far. You’re closing on Hamilton, two tenths a lap.

18 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Gearbox eight, release five. Just to let you know, Gutierrez is 1.2 seconds behind you now. He has come a little bit closer.

18 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Three tenths faster than Hulkenberg, last lap. Gap is three seconds.

18 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Going as far as we can is more important than going as fast as we can. So go for the distance, not speed.

19 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK, Kovalainen in. It’s still a bit too early for us, so let’s see what pace you can do. You’ve got 2.7 seconds to Rosberg, so let’s see if you can close up that gap now.

19 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Your torque map around the lap is good. We like it. It’s good.

19 Mark Temple Sergio Perez And Checo, how are the tyres and balance?

19 Sergio Perez Mark Temple As expected. Very low deg(redation).

20 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So Nico, confirm front wing we’ll go for the target Hard tyre setting.

20 Nico Rosberg Tony Ross Affirm. Minus one percent.

20 Sergio Perez Mark Temple Overtaking is very difficult.

20 Mark Temple Sergio Perez OK, understood. The pack is still quite bunched up, behind, We’ll monitor it and decide on the strategy over the next ten laps.

20 Charles Pic Tim Wright The rear-left has started degrading.

20 Tim Wright Charles Pic OK, understood.

21 Dave Robson Jenson Button Box this lap.

21 Jenson Button Dave Robson I have picked up more understeer.

21 Dave Robson Jenson Button OK. Understood.

21 Gary Gannon Max Chilton Jules was point eight quicker last lap. Biggest loss, exit of nine. But he says he is pushing too hard to make the whole stint.

21 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa Button pitted, so push now. Need a big lap.

22 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK mate, this is good. Box at the end of this lap. We’re going to take off one degree for the hard.

22 Daniel Ricciardo Marco Matassa One or two steps up?

22 Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo Let’s do two steps. Two steps up.

23 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta Paul, box. Pit confirm. Empty KERS.

23 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Box. Box. Box. Boost to zero.

23 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Cars behind fourth-placed Hamilton are starting to pit including Perez and Di Resta from sixth and ninth respectively on lap 22.

Two tenths faster than Hulkenberg last lap. It’s all starting to kick off now.

24 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK mate, people behind us are starting to stop. We also have a gap ahead and behind, so we are just waiting for traffic behind.

24 Mark Temple Sergio Perez We could be racing cars at the exit. Pit toggle up.

24 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Your pit window is now clear. So you’re one-tenth faster than Hulkenberg last lap. Gap is at 3.4 seconds. We want to maximise this stint while your laptimes are still good to give ourselves an easier time on the mediums.

24 Andrea Stella Fernando Alonso OK, Perez should go into traffic so now we try and close on Hulkenberg.

25 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta OK Paul, so Kovalainen pitted on Lap 17, we may expect him to go to the end, so he is probably pace managing.

25 Jonathan Eddollls Valtteri Bottas Push for a couple of laps. See if we can get a jump on Alonso. Then we need to save tyres.

25 Mark Temple Sergio Perez Gutierrez and Vergne are on 23-lap old tyres. If we can get ahead of them, we can get Alonso.

26 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel All these guys in front have stopped once already. So they’re not that slow. They’re doing mid-45s.

26 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Nico, front in for hard, I would keep.

26 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Perez behind you on new tyres, do not lose time with Perez behind you.

27 Mark Temple Sergio Perez Checo push now, we’re racing Alonso at the exit. Push.

27 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Box. Box. Box.

27 Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo Temperature is increasing, we need to catch more clean air on the straight.

28 Sebastian Vettel Guillaume Rocquelin Tyres have gone now. Think about what you want to do.

28 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Understood.

28 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So there are 29 laps remaining. Ricciardo is just outside of your RFA [DRS].

28 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta Di Resta passed Kovalainen on lap 29 after half-a-dozen laps behind the Lotus.

Paul, we need to pass Kovalainen for engine and brake cooling. Come on, you’ve got him.

28 Simon Rennie Mark Webber Box, Mark. Box.

28 Mark Webber Simon Rennie Copy that. Box.

29 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg No need to push like mad. No need to push like mad.

29 Mark Temple Sergio Perez OK Checo, 27 laps to go. Let’s make sure we make these tyres last til the end and we have good pace at the end. Let’s manage our pace and we can attack again at the end. The race is not over by any means.

30 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK. Grosjean has pitted, he will be plus four.

30 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi OK Jules, great job. We are now outside of Van der Garde’s DRS zone. We need to look after the rears, I will let you know if they start catching us again.

30 Jonathan Eddollls Valtteri Bottas Target that laptime, low 44s. We’ve got a good gap behind.

31 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington OK, you need to give me some feedback, man. About my tyres, temperatures. Do I need to push more? Less?

31 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So the front tyre temps are now dropping off the maximum line. So they’re now coming into the window, so they’re looking safe. Your pace is good. Target, 43.7.

31 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Don’t ask too much of your tyres. Remember, the two cars behind ran longer than you. The two cars behind had more range than you did.

31 Juan Pablo Ramirez Giedo van der Garde In Abu Dhabi Pic was told to let Van der Garde through after holding his team mate up. Here there was no change of order.

You cannot lose more ground to Bianchi because Charles is catching you behind.

31 Charles Pic Tim Wright I’m quicker than Giedo.

32 Tim Wright Charles Pic OK, understood. Push up to Giedo. You can be quicker out of 11 and 17 by not braking so late and making better exits.

32 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Good effort Nico. So close the gap to Di Resta, do the same to him.

32 Dave Robson Jenson Button Information – the first car to pit on the hards was Kovalainen, he’s 14 laps into his stint and starting to struggle. Di Resta has overtaken him and others are having a go, so I think this is a good plan.

33 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK, gap to Ricciardo now is around two and a half seconds. I think that’s OK, I think we sit at around two and a half seconds. Button’s sitting around two and a half seconds behind you too, so just maintain that.

33 Mark Temple Sergio Perez Tyres are fine. Let’s try and maintain a gap to Alonso so we can attack him at the end on better tyres. There may still be opportunites at the end.

34 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta Rosberg is in your DRS now.

34 Francesco Nenci Esteban Gutierrez So the pace is a bit quicker than our competition which is around [distorted]. They’re about 44. The problem is Bottas is quicker than you and will slow you down. But around a 44 is OK.

34 Mark Webber Simon Rennie Right tyre vibration is unbelieveable.

34 Simon Rennie Mark Webber Right Mark, understood. Keep pushing, you’re doing a good job.

34 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg After passing Di Resta

Good effort, Nico. Well done.

34 Sergio Perez Mark Temple Traffic. Traffic.

34 Mark Temple Sergio Perez Understood. He is getting blue flags.

35 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta So KERS to defend, Paul. RPM 2. Do not use KERS exit turn nine.

35 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel OK Sebastian, Mark is very close to Grosjean now. Grosjean is defending. Grosjean’s pace, 42.7.

35 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK, watch your front brake locking.

35 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton One tenth faster than Hulkenberg last lap.

35 Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo Recovery four, entry nine to attack.

36 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel OK Sebastian you have a slow queue of cars ahead. Two Caterhams, one Marussia.

36 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta Paul, we believe the tyre temperatures are a bit low. Tyre temps are low on this set. You may need to try and push them to generate some temperature.

36 Simon Rennie Mark Webber You will catch backmarkers in four laps.

37 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Earlier apex turn six for faster exit. Try that.

37 Mark Temple Sergio Perez OK Checo, last lap we lost three tenths to Alonso, but your lap before that was good, so let’s try and keep those up.

37 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa Twenty laps to go. Push on the back of Ricciardo now. Let’s push. I need you to push now and get on the back of him.

38 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So try an earlier apex in turn 20 for a better exit. Gap to Bottas below nine seconds. We’re currently half a second a lap quicker than him.

39 Andrew Murdoch Pastor Maldonado Still look after the fronts in turn 6.

39 Pastor Maldonado Andrew Murdoch Copy.

39 Andrea Stella Fernando Alonso Situazione stabile, apparte Perez, che gira come noi, apparte Perez, che gira come noi, non ci sono altri problemi dietro. The situation is stable, apart from Perez who?������s lapping like us, apart from Perez who?������s lapping like us, there aren?������t any other problems behind us.

39 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So traction very good – 200. Bottas has been told to drive to a pace which is currently a second a lap slower than you are.

39 Ayao Komatsu Romain Grosjean Use ‘overtake’ button on back straight.

40 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel And fail 36, fail. Three six fail.

41 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa OK, now it’s going to have to be qualifying. There are 18 laps to go. See what we can do.

41 Valtteri Bottas Jonathan Eddollls Are we OK with this energy?

41 Jonathan Eddollls Valtteri Bottas Energy is just on target.

41 Andrea Stella Fernando Alonso Fernando, facciamo solo un po?������ d?������attenzione al wheel spin, cerchiamo di controllare un po?������ di piu?������ il wheel spin, il resto ottimo. Fernando, lets pay attention to wheel spin, lets try and control our wheel spin a little more, the rest looks good.

41 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi Pace is good, mate. We’re pulling away from Van der Garde. Pic is falling back and they both have blue flags now. Good job.

42 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Fair enough. Remember, you stayed in phase one for a long time on the other tyres and they fell apart very quickly. You might not get much warning, but keep your tyres alive. And if there’s a Safety Car, you’ll want some rubber left.

42 GianPiero Lambiase Paul di Resta OK Paul, we absolutely must push every lap. Keep the temperature in the tyres.

43 Nico Rosberg Tony Ross Who’s in front of Bottas?

43 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Perez in front of Bottas, but 16 seconds.

43 Jenson Button Dave Robson Traffic, Chilton.

43 Dave Robson Jenson Button Understood. He has blues. He has blue flags.

44 Mark Slade Heikki Kovalainen OK Heikki. We think we’ve lost KERS. Try pressing the ‘OK’ button twice, please.

44 Heikki Kovalainen Mark Slade OK.

45 Rob Smedley Felipe Massa Less brake pressure if you can, turn 4. Fernando not braking at all there.

45 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne OK Jev, 11 laps to go. If you’re happy your tyres are still good, you can start to push more now.

46 Nico Hulkenberg Marco Schupbach What is the pace of Perez?

46 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Similar to us at the moment.

46 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Remember for you it’s all about no mistakes. Let’s focus on braking. Clean exits.

46 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Now Sebastian, these tyres are not bulletproof. We are measuring wear. You’re OK., but don’t abuse it.

46 Sebastian Vettel Guillaume Rocquelin I’m aware. Let me know when you think there’s something odd going on.

46 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel So far, it’s all linear and as predicted.

46 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington Angry

Blue flags!

46 Tim Wright Charles Pic Let him past, Charles. Let Hamilton past.

47 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Release eight, Jev. Gutierrez behind you is also picking up his pace. He’s one second. Release seven, release seven, he’s within one second.

47 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Caution, throttle riding in turn 19. Tyre temperatures are all still good. You’ve still got good life yet. So ten laps remaining, gap to Bottas is three and a half seconds so just close that gap up to give yourself enough laps to pass.

47 Andrea Stella Fernando Alonso Alonso is given the gap between him and Hamilton in Italian.

1.1

47 Tim Wright Charles Pic Rain one for temperature.

48 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Release seven, release seven. Come on, Jev. Come on.

49 Jonathan Eddolls Valtteri Bottas Rosberg catching at half a second a lap. There’s ten laps to go, you’re racing him to the end.

49 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Grosjean, 41.3. Again, he’s got Mark all over him.

49 Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo Nine laps to go. What about tyre phase?

49 Daniel Ricciardo Marco Matassa I’ll survive. No more radio.

50 Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg Seven laps to go, seven. Perez same pace. Come on. Nico, come on.

50 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg So, seven laps remaining. Gap to Bottas, five seconds. Currently nine tenths a lap faster.

51 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK Lewis, so traction at 1,300. Target, 1,100. Alonso looks like he’s backed off, he may go for a push at the end. Let’s be ready. Look after these tyres.

51 Simon Rennie Mark Webber We think save all KERS, and use all the KERS turn 11. Even when you’re on DRS, keep using the KERS.

51 Andrew Murdoch Pastor Maldonado OK Pastor, six laps to go. Can you stay out? Can you make it to the end?

51 Pastor Maldonado Andrew Murdoch Copy, will stay out. Stay out.

52 Tim Wright Charles Pic Charles, box this lap for a drive-through penalty. You have a drive-through penalty. Box this lap, pit confirm.

52 Charles Pic Tim Wright Why I have a drive-through?

52 Tim Wright Charles Pic You have a drive-through for impeding Hamilton. Drive-through, watch the speed limit, watch the white line.

52 Simon Rennie Mark Webber We think you got closer then, mate. Do the same again. The same tactic. All the KERS, turn 11.

53 Paul Davison Jules Bianchi Should have no more blue flags to the end of the race.

53 Simon Rennie Mark Webber OK mate, if that’s not going to work, try using all of the KERS in the last corner to try something different.

53 Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Recovery three. Recovery three.

53 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel OK, traffic ahead. Maldonado. He’s got Chilton ahead of him, who’s got blues already. So Maldonado might be focusing on Chilton, not you.

54 Mark Webber Simon Rennie Trouble with the rears, mate. I’ve used a lot of tyre.

54 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Three tenths faster that lap to Alonso. Gap now at 2.9, three laps remaining.

54 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel The only one who can beat you today mate is yourself. Be careful.

55 Ayao Komatsu Romain Grosjean No ‘overtake’ button this time.

55 Mark Temple Sergio Perez Two laps to go, Checo. Let’s keep the pace up for the last couple of laps. Got an 11 second gap behind.

56 Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Last lap, Sebastian. Starting the last lap.

56 Dave Robson Jenson Button Great job Jenson. That is Pic in front of you. He’s traffic, he should have blue flags.

VL Christian Horner Sebastian Vettel Fantastic, Seb. Record-breaking in a season. Unbelievable. Brilliant drive! Brilli- say hello to those guys at turn one!

VL Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Good job, mate. Very tidy.

VL Sebastian Vettel Guillaume Rocquelin I’m speechless?���?� I’m speechless. We have to remember these days. There’s no guarantee that they will last forever. Enjoy them as long as they last. I love you guys. We have an incredible team spirit?���?� incredible. I’m so proud of you. I love you. YES! Shake ‘n’ bake!

VL Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Vettel does more doughnuts.

I thought you could write your name!

VL Christian Horner Sebastian Vettel Eight in a season, Seb. That’s a record in itself. The only one who’s won more than you in a row is Ascari?���?� but I guess you already knew that.

VL Romain Grosjean Ayao Komatsu Yee-ha boys! Good job, guys, good job. One was too quick, but the other is behind. Fantastic. Well done. Where did Heikki finish?

VL Ayao Komatsu Romain Grosjean Heikki is out of the points, unfortunately. He had to change nose, so out of points.

VL Romain Grosjean Ayao Komatsu And the other one?

VL Ayao Komatsu Romain Grosjean The other one finished P5. So Fernando P5, Massa’s out of points. Well done, Romain. What a drive. Great drive. Nice job.

VL Romain Grosjean Ayao Komatsu Yes! I cannot do more. Was under pressure every single lap.

VL Ayao Komatsu Romain Grosjean No, brilliant. Brilliant.

VL Simon Rennie Mark Webber Nice job today, mate. Obviously the first corner was tricky. Good job with Hamilton. Very tricky with Grosjean – you were obviously a lot quicker than him, but very difficult to overtake. But good job mate. Nice one.

VL Mark Webber Simon Rennie Thanks guys. Yep?���?� you can only race for maybe five laps or so on these tyres. We gave it a good crack, but he had track position. Was quick in the first sector.

VL Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK, great drive Lewis. Very well managed. So that’s P4.

VL Ross Brawn Lewis Hamilton Very well done, Lewis. That was a perfect drive, with the car we had today. Very well managed drive and exactly what we wanted. So well done.

VL Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington Great job this weekend, guys. Good points. It’s what we need.

VL Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Yeah, stirling job by you, Lewis.

VL Andrea Stella Fernando Alonso Great, great race. Your pace on the Hards was matching the quicker cars at the front. It was tight with the tyres at the end, but it worked out. Well done today.

VL Marco Schupbach Nico Hulkenberg OK, P6. good job, Nico.

VL Nico Hulkenberg Marco Schupbach Thank you. Again, towards the end there with light fuel, the car light, we get performance when before we were struggling.

VL Mark Temple Sergio Perez We finished P7. I think that’s a really good drive. I think yesterday, after an awesome qualifying, it was always going to be difficult to gain places and we didn’t quite have the pace to match Alonso and Hulkenberg. But I think you did a really solid job anyway, so well done. Great weekend.

VL Jonathan Eddolls Valtteri Bottas P8, Valtteri! That was a smash! Great job. Strong weekend.

VL Valtteri Bottas Jonathan Eddollls Yes! Yeah! Finally! (laughs)

VL Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Well done Nico.

VL Ross Brawn Nico Rosberg Well done Nico. We didn’t quite get it right in qualifying and paid the price, because the car wasn’t bad. But you prove a perfect race for what you had. Some important points, so thank you. Well done.

VL Nico Rosberg Tony Ross Thank you. Yeah, at least a good result against Ferrari.

VL Dave Robson Jenson Button OK, Jenson, great job. I know that’s not really what we race for, but that was a hard fought point and won by some extremely skillful and well paced driving, so great job.

VL Jenson Button Dave Robson Yeah, cheers mate. Cheers Dave.

VL Dave Robson Jenson Button So Jenson, I’m sure you’ve seen this as you came round but, surprise, surprise, Vettel won the race. Grosjean second, Webber picked up third. Followed by Hamilton, Alonso, Hulkenberg, Checo was seventh, Bottas, Rosberg and then ourselves in P10.

VL Jenson Button Dave Robson How far was Rosberg in front?

VL Dave Robson Jenson Button Yeah Jenson, Rosberg 18 seconds up the road. Just 18 seconds. Bottas very close to him. So I’d say we had the pace to race those guys, obviously we didn’t have the track position. We took that early pitstop trying to jump some cars and get you some clear air, which turned out to not work terribly well, but you obviously drove quite superbly from there. A few of the cars had to make a second stop from there which helped and some good overtaking there at the end, so really good job.

VL Jenson Button Dave Robson Yeah, cheers. It’d be nice to get it all together one weekend. Sorry about that guys. But Brazil – it’s going to happen. It’s going to be a great weekend.

VL Dave Robson Jenson Button Yep. Absolutely. I’m looking forward to it. It’s going to be?���?� it’ll be good.

VL Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo P11, Daniel. Thank you for the effort. How was your race?

VL Daniel Ricciardo Marco Matassa Yeah, just the last five laps, the tyres just hit a cliff. Couldn’t do anything more. I tried my best.

VL Marco Matassa Daniel Ricciardo Yeah, we saw that. Thank you for the effort, Daniel.

VL Phil Charles Jean-Eric Vergne Vergne was given a 20-second penalty for colliding with Gutierrez on the final lap.

OK Jev, really good effort today. Sorry you didn’t quite get points, P12. But good effort.