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00:00 Well, here he is, he's coming in, you can see the car scraping on the ground.
00:03 Of course, they had to watch that during the race.
00:05 They're limited on the amount of wear they can have on the skid plates.
00:08 And this is the final corner, which is actually, it's two numbers, but actually it's really one corner.
00:13 14, 14B really, isn't it?
00:15 Two apexes though, isn't it?
00:16 We're getting a replay of Lewis going through turn 12 there.
00:19 A shower of sparks from underneath the car.
00:22 But, unlike in previous years, the Mercedes, I think, has got better ride there.
00:28 If you watch the way that the car's running along the ground, but you watch their hands, and it's not moving.
00:33 So they've obviously built in a good amount of ride control.
00:37 Watch how the DRS opens there.
00:39 Quite nice, isn't it? Look at the top flap there.
00:41 They did that yesterday.
00:42 You know, they did their soft running yesterday on my fuel, when the track temperature was where it's going to be.
00:48 You know, the track temperature now is nearly 33 degrees.
00:51 At the time of the race last night, it was down to 23 degrees.
00:56 And we know that the Pirelli tyres, more than anything we've had before in F1, are extremely sensitive to temperature.
01:03 So actually...
01:04 And by weaving around and getting in front of the Ferrari...
01:07 The Ferrari is a bit faster to shoot from the pits.
01:09 He's off.
01:10 Upshift.
01:10 Having a look.
01:12 Talk about outlaps leaving the garage.
01:17 I'll just say, he's just gone fastest overall.
01:20 Kevin Magnusson, Q3, three times last year, all on street tracks.
01:24 He's just gone two and a half tenths quicker than Charles Leclerc.
01:27 Back to you.
01:27 So that Vauxhall Pirelli is just a smidge ahead of Magnusson.
01:32 But we can take a little pride of him.
01:34 Track evolution will come into play in this session too.
01:39 And the temperature is dropping, 32 degrees now.
01:42 Lance Stroll goes quickest by a tenth of a second from Kevin Magnusson.
01:46 I think this is a really good lap for George Russell though.
01:49 39.5 for the middle sector.
01:51 Fastest that we've had so far.
01:53 Is he about to go fastest?
01:54 Yes, he is.
01:55 By half a second from Lance Stroll.
01:58 We can watch Lando Norris once more.
02:00 It's time heading to Turn 13.
02:03 There's that snap that Karun Chan was talking about.
02:05 We can see it from a really nice angle here.
02:08 Whoa!
02:08 That is how Lando Norris looked at the kart track on Tuesday night
02:12 when he was racing against Alex Dalbon and George Russell.
02:15 Five years on from our feature when they first came into Formula 1.
02:20 Alonso so far has managed to keep the tyres in check.
02:23 Fastest of anybody in the first two sectors.
02:25 And he might pick up a distance between from George Russell
02:30 to come across the line.
02:32 DRS open there and he does go to the top of the lead lap.
02:35 Because he's gone out.
02:36 Still there, the head shift is really fast.
02:40 Yeah, copy.
02:41 Liam Lawson picking up reserve driver duties.
02:49 Once again for this season.
02:51 I don't think he'll be too long.
02:53 12 months maybe before we see Liam Lawson in Formula 1 full time
02:58 given what he did standing in for Ricciardo last season.
03:02 Oh, what was that?
03:05 It's like a cough.
03:06 Also, you can see the vibrations.
03:09 Yeah, good comparison now with Logan.
03:11 This is a replay of Dalbon.
03:13 Where was this?
03:14 Ah, that's the same...
03:16 13.
03:17 He was three seconds off his best time so far.
03:21 Max Verstappen has been doing extra laps
03:24 compared to his teammate Sergio Perez
03:26 on the hard compound tyre.
03:28 Perez complaining of an upshift problem.
03:30 Max was complaining of that yesterday.
03:32 There's vibrations everywhere.
03:37 And the DRS opens.
03:39 You get a little helping hand.
03:41 A little boost.
03:42 There's a maximum time which a driver cannot exceed.
03:46 Can't go slower than that maximum time
03:49 to stop them going unnecessarily slowly.
03:51 But what is new for this year
03:53 as Hamilton hops up there going into turn 10
03:55 and then runs very wide indeed.
03:57 What is new for this year
03:59 is that they've also put in the pit lane
04:02 as part of the driving unnecessarily slowly.
04:05 So if you remember last year
04:07 we had a couple of instances where drivers were holding others up.
04:10 You now cannot do that.
04:12 You will be referred to the stewards for their deliberation.
04:15 Great person to have as a driver coach.
04:17 And they've worked together since they...
04:19 Charles was a young driver in Formula 3
04:22 as part of the Ferrari Academy.
04:25 I mean, Damien, obviously you worked with Jock Backett-Williams.
04:28 Well, he taught Jack Villeneuve everything he knew.
04:31 Because he was Jack's engineer when I was racing in '97.
04:36 It's very interesting what they've done with this car.
04:38 It's different, but it's employing the same concepts
04:44 but just refined.
04:46 And yet again another beautifully crafted being.
04:51 And Perez.
04:52 OK, 1.31.2 for Sergio Perez.
04:55 His first soft tyre run of this practice session.
04:59 39.1 is stuck for the middle sector.
05:02 Not massively quicker than Perez, is it?
05:06 But it's two tenths up on his teammate there,
05:08 which is a good two tenths to take into the final sector.
05:11 Even if you pushed a bit hard,
05:13 that's a bumper that you should be able to keep
05:16 on what is the shortest sector of this particular 3.36 mile lap.
05:21 The sapper crosses the line.
05:22 He's kept that two tenths bumper just under with a 1.31.0.
05:27 I'm happy with that. That's quite competitive.
05:29 I mean, between...
05:30 Lars Stroll, who's wrapped himself up in bubble wrap
05:32 and is not suffering the same 12 months on.
05:36 Yeah, his dad was very proud of his performance, wasn't he?
05:39 And he wasn't the only one.
05:41 It was a sensational drive from Lance here last year.
05:44 As his teammate goes quickest and the final sector,
05:48 22.6, Alonso sets the best time through that.
05:51 He's back at the top of the pile again,
05:53 and he's a tenth of a second up on Max Verstappen.
05:55 Here, though, they still will have stuff in the bag
05:58 for the main competition.
06:00 This is a replay of Lewis and what happens.
06:02 He gets a little bit of a lap.
06:03 Turn 4, he always goes way too wide.
06:04 Yeah, so the time stands,
06:06 but it won't do if that was qualifying.
06:08 Yeah, if it was qualifying,
06:09 Lewis Hamilton would have lost that lap.
06:12 And here, really important that you don't exceed track limits
06:15 because these tyres might not do you...
06:17 No.
06:18 ...two laps with a grip that, as a driver, you absolutely want.
06:22 If this were qualifying, Gasly would be out
06:25 and his teammate, Esteban Ocon, at the first time of asking,
06:28 and Daniel Ricciardo, but he is on a quicker lap currently.
06:31 This is Gasly going through Turn 4, Damon.
06:34 Oh, yes, okay.
06:36 So, that...
06:39 Oh, yeah.
06:40 No, that's over-rotated. Is that the word?
06:44 Well, it seems like he's slightly got on a curve in the middle sector.
06:47 I think it's... Yeah, that's just loss of rear grip.
06:51 Here we go.
06:52 Sainz faster than Alonso in the middle sector as he comes.
06:55 I'm looking out of our commentary box window.
06:57 See him charging into the final corner here.
07:00 I tell you what, this is a really important qualifying session tonight
07:03 for Carlos Sainz as well.
07:05 Being let go by Ferrari, he will want to be ahead of his teammates
07:09 and put as much distance between himself and his teammate as he possibly can
07:12 as he goes quickest overall, just to say,
07:15 "Look, you might be getting rid of me, but I can still do a magnificent job for this."
07:20 Can it be a Ferrari 1-2 at the end of FP3?
07:23 No, it's a Ferrari 1-4.
07:26 He ends up just under three tenths back on his teammate.
07:28 Yeah, he probably won't be happy with that lap,
07:30 and he'll have learned something, though, for the main event
07:33 when it finally comes around.
07:35 I mean, they are, you know, sometimes you feel that you'd rather make mistakes now
07:41 and try and find the limit.
07:42 Here we're going to see a replay of what happened, and where is he going?
07:45 He's taking a lot of kerb for starters,
07:50 and that's not going to give you the optimal grip, is it?
07:52 No, and he probably would lift as well, because it's, you know,
07:55 if you've got the center of the car running along a kerb top,
07:58 then you can't give it a full throttle.
08:01 ...but his best lap, number 132.1.
08:04 Nico Hülkenberg was trying to set another fast lap.
08:08 He struggled to see how to do that sport, as well.
08:11 But certainly, he's a...
08:13 Yeah, three below.
08:15 Which will not be a problem when we go into qualifying.
08:22 A lot of reds on that track dominance.
08:25 Two Spanish drivers at the top there, Sainz and Alonso.
08:31 Yeah, I was chatting with Carlos Sainz Sr.
08:34 and trying to gauge...
08:36 Well, first of all, congratulating him on his Dakar.
08:38 Yeah, we did yesterday.
08:39 And he was astonishing.
08:41 But some timings, then, for this practice three.
08:45 Carlos Sainz with a 1.30.8, with the fastest time.
08:48 Tenth and a half between himself and Fernando Alonso.
08:52 Max Verstappen just two and a half tenths back in fourth...
08:56 In third, I should say. And Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris and George Russell.
09:01 Six different constructors in the top six in those practice times.
09:06 It's all about qualifying the simulations, really, in that session.
09:09 Piastri, Perez, Hülkenberg with a fabulous lap.
09:12 And Lance Stroll completing the top ten.
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