Author: Murray Walker Page 2

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in.

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Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin… unless this is the action, which it is.

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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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Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

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That’s history; I say history because it happened in the past.

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…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

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The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

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Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

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

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Jenson Button is in the top ten… in eleventh position.

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I imagine the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable.

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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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Let’s stop the startwatch.

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

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Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s Lotus sounding rough?

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

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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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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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With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

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And there’s no damage to the car… except to the car itself.

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

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