Radio check, Gary. Radio check. Loud and clear, Nico. Eight minutes till we go. Eight minutes.

OK, Nico, so you can decide your start-brake balance.

Still four burnouts, right? That's what we want? That's correct, four burnouts. And it's five minutes till we go. Five minutes.

Three minutes till we go. When we fire up we'll put the pit limiter on and then keep the pit limiter until the line and then remember mode DRS when you come around for the start. I'm just waiting on tyres.

OK, Nico. Almost everyone's on medium. Kevin's on hard. Stroll, Tsunoda, Sargeant are on soft.

Stroll, Hamilton, Tsunoda, Sargeant on soft. OK. Just over two minutes till we go.

Mode push, mode push.

Ok, good job Nico. DRS enabled. Let's look after these tyres now.

OK, that's it. Do I love track?

Copy that, Nico. Reported.

Wheels are quite hard on the front. Copy that, Nico.

Fuck! Sabo's got to step down for us. Copy that.

Left-hand toggle earlier might help turn 8.

I think I have some front left braking already. Copy that, Nico.

We're under pressure.

Copy that. We suggest brake balance 1% rearward.

How much flap for the hard? We're thinking plus 0.3.

It's not that clear. The rear tyre also doesn't feel great. It's also struggling with traction. It's fairly well balanced, to be honest. Well, not well, but it is in balance, I'd say.

Copy that, Nico. We'll leave it at zero. Use the tyre now.

Box now, Nico! Box now! Fucking hell! Pitlane!

And I just second-guessed there. I was too late.

Mode push, Nico, and reset, Funk.

Bottas is going to box and be very close at pit exit.

Bottas, Boxing, it'll be side by side when he comes out.

So, Stroll's on new medium, Bottas behind on new hard.

Okay, looking good, Nico. We're bringing this tyre in okay. Just seven, if you can help a little bit. But you're doing good.

Turn 7, if you can go 5 kph slower, that will help.

Tyres are looking good. Nico Bottas is doing 42.1.

How's the tyre? How's the balance? The tyre is stable. Feels much more solid than the medium balance.

Copy that. Good job.

Bottas, 42.4.

You can think about shape 4.

We've talked to Kevin and then Piastri will be close on exit. Piastri ahead on exit.

Nico, Sainz is boxing. He'll come out 1.2 behind. We don't want to lose any race time with him. OK, got it.

Ok, good job Nico. You're doing good. Gap behind is 2.

Who is behind Bottas? Ocon is two behind Bottas.

And he's on same strategy.

How's the balance, Nico?

It's OK. I think the front set up a little bit.

Especially the low speed rotation and low speed traction.

OK, copy that.

We're okay to push a bit more in 8 in terms of sliding just to get some lap time.

So Bottas stopped at 11 and he's still not moving and it's yellow at 11.

So it's yellow on this straight going to 11 and yellow turn 11 for Bottas stopped off track.

Yellow, turn 11.

Are you going to be safety car? VSC.

So, good on delta time. Stay out, Nico, stay out.

Okay, just make sure we're getting close to zero on delta time.

Stroll has boxed. He'll be a ways behind. Ocon behind stayed out. Ocon's on the same tyre as you. We're racing him. He was four seconds back when it was green.

We suggest big adjuster forward. And then we'll reset it before restart.

So Nico, for the next tyre, same balance you think? Or add a little or remove a little? Yeah, that's tricky. High speed is a bit limited. Some of it. And low speed is front limited. There's no rotation. But, like turn 10 is quite on the nose. Final corner is very on the nose. So there's a big swing around the lap. So probably just stay as we are. Keep it consistent. Yeah, I think so. Keep it consistent. OK, so it's still yellow through here. Still VSC. We're just monitoring what everyone's doing.

It's double yellow there now, double yellow.

Okay, so let's make sure we're close to zero on delta time in case of any boxing.

We're just watching everything, Nico. I hope you are.

They are still struggling to get Bottas' car moving.

Safety car, safety car. Box now, Nico, box now.

Okay, just be close to zero at delta time.

I guess we have to do it. It's a long way but... Yeah, copy that.

So, box, yeah, you confirm? Confirm, box now, Nico, box now.

Mode RS for the pull-away.

Close to Sargeant.

That was very close. I could see.

Okay, we think you crossed first. Let's go mode slow. Just make sure you're positive on delta time. We think you crossed the line first, so we're just talking to race control. That's one time past the line, so we're still obeying the safety car delta time.

Still double yellow through 11. We're talking to race control. Safety car has the lead over Verstappen in 14.

So the people ahead who didn't box under this safety car is Sargeant, who is on a 15 lap medium.

And then Ricciardo hasn't pitted. He's on like a 10 lap medium. So Ricciardo and Sargeant still will have to pit later. Stroll is the next car ahead of Sargeant. He's in the same situation as us. He just put on a hard.

Okay, Logan, anyway, box. Yeah, copy that. That's two times past the safety car line so you can catch the pack. The pack is Stroll, he's in turn 2.

OK, we suggest shape 3 for when we go again. Safety car is going into 9 with leader Verstappen. But it's still double yellow in 11.

Track clear, turn 11. Safety car has leader. Verstappen into 11.

So it'll be 31 laps to go into the line.

Ricciardo ahead. We'll have to box eventually. Stroll and Ocon, we're racing. Once Ricciardo boxes, you're in P10, so right now you're P11.

And everyone's on a hard that we're racing.

Cars behind Ocon and Hamilton as safety cars still with leader Verstappen.

Okay, safety car in this lap.

Cars ahead, Ricciardo, 12 lap medium, Stroll, New Hard, behind Ocon, New Hard, Hamilton, New Hard, and then Kevin is still on his second hard. Kevin has to stop again. Currently P11. Ricciardo ahead still has to stop. Leader is in 9. Safety car is in 9.

Okay, safety car is pulled away from the leader.

Remember to reset big adjuster and we'll use mode RS and then back to mode push.

Mode RS for the restart and then mode push into turn 1.

Bird push, bird push.

Safety car, safety car, stay out. Safety car plus positive on delta time and stay out, Nico. That was super weird. I think the Aston crashed into the Alfa Tauri. Very confusing. Yes, that is exactly what happened. And then also Tsunoda and Magnussen had an incident.

We'll have big adjuster forward. So Tsunoda stopped out of 6 and then Kevin has a puncture in his boxing. Stroll boxed, so he's just ahead of the leaders.

Ricciardo is still behind you on that medium.

Safety car has leader Verstappen in 6th.

Oh, Ricciardo just overtook me.

Okay, understood. We'll report it.

So obviously we reported it, Nico. Not sure what's going on there. In any case, Ricciardo will have to stop again. He's on medium and needs to stop again because he's only used two mediums. And ahead of him is Piastri on the same age hard as you and then behind you Hamilton, same age hard. Ocon, same age hard.

There is some part here between 14 and 15, some carbon part in the middle of the straight. Copy that, we'll report it.

So it's two times past the line, so no delta, but safety car has leader Verstappen.

So it is now a yellow for that debris that you reported.

Okay, that debris has been cleared.

We're still talking about the Ricciardo situation.

The debris is still there. Copy. We'll report it again.

So, we're still waiting for resolution on the Ricciardo thing, but if it doesn't get swapped back around, in any case, he has some damage and he has older mediums.

Check. Copy.

Press oil pump button.

Safety car in this lap. Don't go mode RS until after 14.

Brother, can we push, yeah?

Either way though, don't do it until after 14, just for energy.

Yeah, but if this time the restart happens early... Yeah, copy. Anyway, I need to be just in push. You can't overtake, obviously, before the finish line, right? That's correct.

Okay, so the safety car is going away from the leader Verstappen. You can reset big adjuster.

Good job, Nico.

OK, only 24 laps to go, Nico.

DRS enabled.

Nico, no lift in coast so we can get maximum tyre temp to get to the end.

Try to release the brake earlier for front locking turn 9.

I'm kind of rotating like this.

OK, copy that. Piastri ahead has some damage and you have closed up the gap a lot, as you see.

You could try shape 4 for turn 9, just a suggestion.

Okay, 15 to go, still P10. Ocon was doing 41.5 behind us.

It would be helpful if these guys had a bit more pace. Give some clean air.

Yeah, copy that. They're only quicker than you in 7-8. Everywhere else you're good, unfortunately.

Ocon is doing 41.4, same lap time.

Okay, we're up to P9 because Alonso pitted from a soft to a medium. Alonso is seven seconds behind on a medium. He will be trying to catch back up.

Ocon's doing 41.2. Alonso is 4 behind, so he's quite quick on his new medium. He's catching Ocon now.

Okay, it's Alonso 2 behind and he's doing 38s, 39s.

OK, 9 to go. Still P10. Ocon 2.5 behind.

Ocon, 41.3.

It's okay, Gary, I see it. I don't need the lap times, please.

Five to go.

Possible debris along this straight.

There is some debris between 13 and 14.

Starting last lap. Last lap.

Checkered flag, Nico. P10. Nice drive. Press in button.

Yeah, good job guys. Solid race. Not very spectacular, but a better one than none, right? Yeah, good clean job by you. Nice one.

Yeah, you're right. I think it was actually one of my cleanest laps ever. Let's get it better.