Author: Murray Walker

The faster he goes, the quicker he’ll get to the pits; the slower he goes, the longer it will take.

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Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

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We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

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Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

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Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

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And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

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Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

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Frentzen is taking… er… reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

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That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

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Let’s stop the startwatch.

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You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one.

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The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

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There are four different cars filling the first four places.

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And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte.

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Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

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Mansell knows exactly where he (Ayrton Senna) is because he can see him in his earphones.

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Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

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And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn’t surprising as this is an all Escort race.

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Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

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This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been.

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The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.

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