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00:00Well, let's talk about Pierre Gasly first.
00:02We've already seen that floor scraping along,
00:05and they might need to adjust the ride height a touch on that one
00:09because he's... Oh, did something just fly off the car?
00:12Trying to get a big, long run in.
00:14What's the game plan here?
00:16It's Franklin Colapinto making his way...
00:18Whoa! And sliding nicely through the S's there.
00:23Fantastic.
00:24What's your plan for today?
00:27And the word I got... Two words I got back was set up.
00:30It's all about set up and giving the drivers confidence
00:33in the cars to take it to Sprint Qualify.
00:35I have to be careful not to drop my microphone into a car
00:38coming out of the pit lane exit
00:40because I'm actually right on top of them here.
00:41But you get a fantastic look right inside the cockpit.
00:45And that was Lewis getting a bit squirrelly there
00:48through the S's on the exit of the first turn.
00:51So that's... I think that's Valtteri in the state salvo.
00:58But another flurry of cars coming out.
01:01I've heard that if that was Checo,
01:03I was told that he may have got a new chassis,
01:06or not a new chassis, but he's changed his chassis.
01:10So it'll be interesting to see whether he thinks it's any better
01:12as I watch Carlos Sainz going right underneath me.
01:17Going right underneath me.
01:20The track, you can tell it's much darker than it used to be.
01:24On Saturday after qualifying as well,
01:26which is a terrific thrill for him and everyone here.
01:29Yeah, I really hope the weather holds up.
01:31Oh, man, there's a Ferrari dawdling.
01:33That's Carlos Sainz on the race line.
01:34So Sainz trying to get a gap with Leclerc in front,
01:37and Lewis ended up going past.
01:39A struggle to keep under control.
01:41I think we've seen this a little bit.
01:42Do you want to talk to me this week, Lecroft,
01:44or are you happy for me to keep going?
01:45Yeah, Carlos Sainz was definitely trying to build a gap,
01:47a jump south.
01:49And whether he'd been warned that Lewis Hamilton was coming or not,
01:53I'm not quite sure.
01:55And he was looking in his mirrors and probably felt
01:57that he was far enough over,
01:59but I get the feeling Lewis might disagree somewhat on that one.
02:04Let's have a look at Yuki Tsunoda before we come back to Porter.
02:06As at ten, and whenever he touched the grass,
02:08probably on the left, with the rear left tyre.
02:10Potentially.
02:11Because you sometimes see that,
02:13because your eye line is looking to the right, into the apex.
02:17No, just a bit of rear instability there.
02:21I was looking at it.
02:25Oh, dear.
02:26Yeah, so having a look at the lap time profile,
02:29if we like, last year, and as you've mentioned, Corinne,
02:32we do have the soft tyre for the majority still to come.
02:36Between P1, the end of P1, obviously we've got...
02:39Watch Lewis Hamilton here, by the way.
02:44This is heading towards Maguglielo and Jun Cao.
02:50And just finding that there's no room past Lando Norris there.
02:54He was about to start a lap himself.
02:57And that would have compromised Lewis's run,
02:59because you do need a good, clean run through Jun Cao.
03:03He's gone wide at Turn 4 anyway.
03:05But you do need a good, clean run through Jun Cao
03:07to get the speed up the hill and down the straight.
03:12I just wouldn't get the words out.
03:14We can practice.
03:15We've been practicing all week long on that one, to be honest.
03:18I thought you were going to say,
03:19where would Formula 1 be without numbers?
03:21Here's a number for George Russell.
03:23P1.
03:24P1 by some margin on the soft compound tyre.
03:27A 1.10.7.
03:29So a 1.10.7 was the fastest time in Q3 last year.
03:32Max Verstappen, we're only in FP1 here at the moment,
03:36but we're on to the soft tyres there with George Russell.
03:38Faster and closer to track every day.
03:42We're going to hear a lot of this, aren't we?
03:43We're going to hear bumpy track and overheating tyres,
03:46I predict, at the end of this session.
03:48Honestly, you know, coming as a complete rookie here from,
03:52you know, as Behrman is, it is a tough track.
03:54There's lots of subtle cambers.
03:56There's lots of just, you know, ways you need to attack the kerbs
04:00and ride the kerbs to just find a bit more rotation in the car.
04:04Piastri understeering wide a little bit at the first apex.
04:06That would have compromised his run for the right-hander
04:09and hence, I think, forced him off wide.
04:12My right elbow's getting caught on some duct tape.
04:19If that happened to me, I'd pull all the hair off.
04:21You start to get that movement, don't you, if it gets too hot.
04:24You just start to get some movement on the soft tyre.
04:27Yeah, I was just going to see if there was anything interesting
04:29that you wanted to talk through this, Corinne, but a lot of traffic.
04:32That is a struggle at the end of these sessions.
04:34That's often why people like Russell do the run a bit earlier on
04:37when the track is quiet.
04:39How much do you think we've got?
04:42It'll be one more lap when you cross the line.
04:47That has, I believe, had him over in the past
04:50with not having to learn on that soft tyre for this afternoon.
04:53You use it first time getting into SQ3 and it's a bit of a shock.
04:58Lando Norris goes fastest by a couple of tenths from George Russell.
05:03He did get a faster lap out of his second lap.
05:06There's not fully grip there on those final grid positions.
05:09Lewis Hamilton...
05:11That was one bumpy ride. Wow.
05:17Certainly looked like it.
05:18Lando Norris, his bumps might have been worth it a little bit more
05:38because he had the fastest time.
05:40By just under two tenths from George Russell, Oliver Behrman
05:42in the top three, deputising for Kevin Magnussen.
05:46For the sprints, definitely, and the Grand Prix, potentially.
05:50Gasly and Alonso Hülkenberg all making their way into the top ten.
05:54But Verstappen didn't do a full lap on the soft compound tyre,
05:58so his best lap was on the medium.
06:00Lewis Hamilton didn't put the softs on at all.
06:02Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda both getting their best laps on the mediums.
06:06They started the session on the softs,
06:07then went to the mediums towards the end.
06:09And Sergio Perez, down in 19th,
06:12changed his chassis, hasn't necessarily improved his fortunes.
06:15In the practice session, sprint qualifying to come next.
06:19And that's where it gets important.