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00:00So Lance Stroll stays fastest and Franco Colopinto adds to the time so far and Alex Albon is next over the line
00:07in the low
00:08124s and just to repeat what Ted was saying
00:11five-place grid penalty for a new gearbox for both Alex Albon and for Franco Colopinto
00:16Yeah, and they've thrown so many gearboxes at the wall, haven't they? Unfortunately, it's biting them here
00:2116 crashes during the course of this season
00:2516 and
00:27Counting and guess what Franco Colopinto is the next to have a lap time deleted for going too wide at turn one
00:34Verstappen out of the final corner into the
00:37123s we go ten minutes to go and he's half a second clear of Yuki Sonoda
00:41Magnuson up into P3. He was three tenths quicker than Norris in the middle part of the lap
00:47Lando Norris
00:49Finishes his lap then behind Kevin Magnuson not by much but by enough
00:55I tell you those houses look really racy over a lap and Oscar Piastri that drops back behind Kevin Magnuson as well
01:02What sort of rocket fuel are they putting in the houses tonight?
01:05They've clearly changed the balance of the cars because it's every lost out that time for track limits at turn one
01:12Is it clear mate? We believe it's clear
01:16How I look because I don't think so
01:19I don't blame him. I don't blame him asking for that to be checked out, but
01:24That's clear it was it was a moment and you needed to freeze frame that yeah to find the moment
01:31That is the moment where Valtteri Bottas came out. He had to stop and then that caused the concertina effect for
01:38Yuki Sonoda and Liam Lawson behind him and then they all started queuing Joe Guan you pops up into 12th fastest
01:46with a time of a
01:481.238 above Colopinto and behind Alex Albon
01:52Fastest first sector goes to Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc Bottas goes quickest overall
01:57Russell now goes ninth fastest can Lewis Hamilton in his last qualifying for Mercedes knock out his former McLaren teammate
02:04Fernando Alonso in qualifying Hamilton crosses the line and it is p18 only he couldn't find the pace and
02:12Sadly for the man who has had five pole positions in the past here in Abu Dhabi
02:18His final start for Mercedes is going to bring him his lowest grid spots in any Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
02:25out
02:27Where did that pace go from he looked really fast through the free practice session set up big time guys
02:35Think where there's a bollard that's anywhere near the racing line, but wherever it was he's found it
02:41Nico Hulkenberg the driving too slowly has been noted by race control the bollard now goes
02:47Six and seven the chicane. Is there a fall out there? This is Kevin Magnuson
02:53Almost stopping on the track
02:55That's where he's knocked a bollard off to the track and Lewis would have then picked up that bollard as he came through
03:01So that's so I've lost a K mag trying to get out of the way flicks a bollard in the way
03:08And that would have then destroyed the aerodynamics on Lewis's car
03:13Yeah, and that explains then why he had no pace
03:17We might hear a bit more about that. Either way, it won't be enough to save Lewis Hamilton
03:21He is out of qualifying Jack doing in that Alpine car slowest for the second weekend running on his qualifying debut
03:28So he's got three corners to go to the end of the lap and it's looking like a handy lap indeed
03:34For Max Verstappen, isn't it? This last corner is so tricky
03:37It sort of tightens on you through the exit such a short run to the line and we're into the one minute
03:4422s now a 122
03:47998 it looks as if Red Bull might have worked their Friday night magic again. The target is clear this weekend
03:53Can he get three poles in a row?
03:56And make it three poles in a row for Mercedes-Benz for the first time since Brazil Qatar and Saudi in 2021
04:03Go second fastest long way back. Yeah a tense behind Wow
04:08Magnuson half seconds slower than he was in Cuba. So that's the kind of yeah, that's the kind of place we've been expecting
04:15A handful of opposite love wasn't it?
04:18He's a save of the day so far for Charlotte Claire. Oh, wow, I don't know how he kept that in 2014
04:31McLaren running a bit more downforce here than rebel. So on the straights
04:35I think rebel have the advantage through the corners
04:37McLaren had the advantage where you need that downforce the most seven tenths of a second off the pace Oscar Piazza
04:43Pierre Gasly is improving George Russell is has had a decent middle sector as well
04:48Gasly crosses the line goes third fastest. I said he was improving
04:52He's improved rather a lot there and you can see where these times Hulkenberg and Gasly
04:56Why Lando Norris has had to go out?
04:58He was second fastest George Russell goes sixth fastest Carlos Sainz's just set the fastest middle sector at the driver at risk zone
05:07Magnuson won't get another lap in Bottas has improved in the first sector Leclerc crosses the line goes quickest overall
05:13So Carlos Sainz has got it all to do now in the final sector Claire deleted the clear lack
05:2022980 deleted for Leclerc
05:22His turn one that is disastrous for Charlotte Claire as Carlos Sainz goes quickest Leclerc with a ten place grid penalty
05:30That means he's going to be bumped out of the box at the top ten
05:34He's gonna start last in this race tomorrow in a race Ferrari need to overhaul McLaren by
05:3921 points in that championship battle for the Constructors title not since China has Bottas been in q3
05:47Crosses the line. He's done it now. Well done Valtteri Bottas, of course with their grid drop for gearboxes
05:55Lap was deleted
06:01Yeah
06:05Turn one for Charlotte Claire and I'll open up the grid
06:10They'll apply the penalties, but this could be plum last for Charlotte Claire
06:15And let's have a look how far over the line
06:18That you can never tell from there. Oh, but look more than Sergio Perez. That's for sure. Here we go
06:26Yeah, there's there's a bit of blue
06:29Hulkenberg with a 23 for that's half second shy of what he did
06:34But it is on used tires half second shy of his best effort in q2 and Verstappen on those new soft tires is
06:42Absolutely flying here as George Russell crosses the line behind Nico Hulkenberg Oscar Piastri goes quickest overall in the first sector
06:50Middle sector though Verstappen has taken three tenths out of the rest of the field might have a bit more life
06:56And it's our tires. Oh dear and he's heading towards the wall and a great save
07:00He goes quickest Max Verstappen by half a second could have been even more next across the line Oscar Piastri
07:07He stays within track limits go second fastest. That's a good time on used tires from Oscar Piastri
07:13Isn't it just but that's gonna be deleted. So he's gone over the line at turn one
07:18Wow drivers are suffering tonight with these track limits Norris go second fastest for
07:251,000th of a second between himself and Max Verstappen the two drivers with the most poles between them in
07:312024 share the front row currently
07:36He did with his rear tires watch the front right now, you're right
07:40he kept his right front on the track didn't he the back end was way off as well as I was reading but
07:48Yes, he just keeps one tire on the racetrack, that's right
07:52We'll have a look at Oscar Piastri again, Zach Brown. Tell us about the conversations on the McLaren pit wall
07:57Do you think this was over or within?
08:01Reviewing it right now. Just ask for it to be reviewed because it looks very very very close
08:06Oh, guess what Zack good news for you. It's gonna be reinstated. Yep
08:12Yeah
08:13Norris is going well Gasly p4 as he crosses the line that has is sitting pretty as Oscar Piastri
08:21Next across the line. He goes pole by a
08:241,000 800ths of a second as Norris now goes quickest puts two tenths between himself and his teammate
08:31That's eight poles for the season for Lando Norris if he can hold on
08:36Two more to go George Russell back-to-back poles for the first time in his career. Can he make it three?
08:43No, he can't he's half a second down
08:45Can it be five poles and Abidjabi in a row for Max Verstappen as he comes out of the final corner crosses the line
08:53Doesn't improve starts fifth instead. It's McLaren the weekend
08:57They could become constructors champions for the first time since 98. They have locked out the front row
09:04Norris and Piastri Poland second
09:07tremendous
09:15You
09:45You