Alex, radio check. Yeah, copy. You have the volume better now? Yeah, that's good for me.

Okay, next, so everybody on medium. Perez, Zhou and Logan, they're on the hard. That's Zhou, P17. And then Gasly and Alonso on the soft.

That's Gasly P50.

Limiter on.

That's 30 seconds.

And 15.

And 5. Remember, go 4.

Okay, so we'd like to go slightly deeper. 2% deeper. Three burnouts. Your grid launch was effectively 4% shallow from the revised target.

DRS now enabled.

Copy on the tyre switch.

Alex, we can go mode 13 to make use of the anti.

Flip back on balance when you can.

Front and rear deck. A lot of overheating on the rear tyres. I'm braking.

Shift change to help will be green 10 position 2. Green 10 position 2 when you can.

6 laps in. Gasly behind on the soft. Should start to deck off a bit more now.

Box, box, box.

Turn straight down, watch your right line on exit.

I think I've got a problem. I'll try to start properly.

Understood. Check in. Front right.

Yeah, exact front right, copy.

It's all clear behind 20 second gap to Verstappen.

Gapto Verstappen at 12.

Strat mode 7. Mike and Gap to Verstappen at 7.

Okay, the group's coming with you now.

We're going to box. We're going to fit the medium. I go down 1-10. We went up on the hard. Group coming with you now. Hulkenberg, Tsunoda, Perez.

Probably going to be straight to blue flags for Gasly and Bottas.

There's a lot of grinding on the bottom of the floor, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's damage. Understood. I'll check. Sergio Bottas, blue flag. And Alonso two seconds behind him.

What am I doing? Should I create a gap or...?

Just stay behind Alonso, no worries.

Just hold this for now. I'll come back to you.

I have understeer with this car.

Floor is OK. Next floor is OK. It's about three and a half turns. Three and a half turns difference, so... I don't know if you did that with flour.

Pre-match flap for stint 1 on the same tyre. Understood.

Alex, go switch to go send for five laps. Go send for five laps.

Okay, next we're looking to split the remaining laps of 46 between this set and the first medium.

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What's the goal here in this race? Because I'm actually quicker than these people, but I can't really do anything. So we're just behind these cars. What are we trying to do?

Well, we don't have a hard tyre. That's damaged. We've got the stint 1 medium remaining.

Yeah, but that's not a great tyre.

If you think it's okay, maybe it's just a thermal side. Yeah, understood. We don't have too many options, I'm afraid.

Max, do you still think you're three turns underflapped or coming back to you? It's coming back to me, yeah. But I definitely have a lot more inside than the first sit, like a lot. So I don't know whether... I don't believe the knob is... I think there is damage or something. Understood.

Couldn't overtake you.

I guess we want Fernando to get through the other guys, but he's not quick enough.

That's a three second gap in front of Alonso there.

You're good for overtake.

As long as we can pull away, we're okay. Nice job.

So it's three seconds to Bottas. It's two back to Alonso. If we get backed up behind Bottas then we may well get blue again for Alonso.

Go, race, go, race.

Tyres have taken a big hit.

HPP on.

Okay, it's not getting any better. We have a 10 second stop and go penalty. We'll serve it this lap.

Full out. The wheel issue.

So it'll be a 10 second stop and go. Select neutral for a long stop.

And we cannot service the car, so it's just the penalty and then straight out.

Box, box.

OK, so select neutral and when you see the orange light, you can pull first.

And the launch is normal on the green.

Okay, I'll be three seconds back to Hamilton.

Hamilton alongside, then it's Verstappen, seven back.

What the shit, sir?

Right over...

That's Belou Verstappen. There's a six-second gap to Norris. What's the plan? Are we just going to eastward though, please?

I'm looking to take one more first, one more.

There's a four second gap back to Norris, eight second gap back to Leclerc, looking to take one more blue.

And to flap correct, this compound is plus two enough or you need more?

35 laps to go, 3-5.

Thanks for the energy reasons, we need an early overtake out of 18.

Okay, gap behind 2 to Norris, 5 to Leclerc. If we refit the medium, it's plus two, enough on the wing, do you think? No, just leave it!

The rear locking is insane.

That's blue for Norris.

OK, next we have a boxer's lap.

I don't know why we decided to brake ourselves at least a second and a half for a lap on a tyre. Yeah, understood.

Doesn't make any sense.

2nd gear pit launch, 2nd gear pit launch.

Am I one lap or two laps behind?

Currently 2. Magnussen closing in there as well.

Another early out of 18.

Gap behind at 2.2. 31 laps to go.

It just feels like we've put on another old self-sizer. Feels like the same grip as it just left.

I copy that, that's the eight laps from the first in.

I don't know if it helps Logan, but just run at a really low beaming and then just use a rotation to go up to 7, drop, and that's it. But the lower the beaming the better. Run it at 58%. Off into turn 25. Copy, thank you.

If you're struggling with understeer in turn 7, go wide. It's better.

Copy. I've taken that. Thank you.

OK, so that was Stroll 5 ahead, he's now pitted, as was Perez over 8 and 9.

Turn a window, 14 seconds, Hamilton ahead and 11 back to Tsunoda.

OK, next we'll go send for another three laps. Go send, three laps, try and maximise the learning what we've got at the moment.

Okay, so we're trying to understand a little bit more with the brakes. So we'll do one more lap like this.

And then from next lap you are free to adjust brake bias in any way you wish.

OK, back to go race, free to adjust brake bias. We'll keep an eye on temps and wet. See if we can learn anything.

The only car around you is Perez. He's eight seconds back. He'll be with you in about four laps, four or five laps.

Sorry, no concerns with brake temps or wear. Happy to continue to adjust if you're learning.

Suggest BMIC 2. BMIC 2.

If the underbrake front lock becomes an issue by going forwards, I suggest B-Mig2, but I leave it to you. Still 14 laps to go.

Perez with a 2.

Blue flag for Perez.

Okay, so we're showing about three and a half percent forwards or brake loss at the minute. If we could try and come back rearwards now, a bit of feel going back the other way.

My fronts are gone, so I can't really change my brakes too much. OK, understood.

Alex, will you understand any more with these brakes if we hit a new soft?

And now I think I know the direction we need to go in. But hey, we're into it.

Car exit is clear behind. We are going to retire the car and box this lap. Confirm. It's clear behind.

Steady on the way in. There will be a stop in box. And we're retiring the car. Switch off.

Alex, thank you for giving it everything today. Sorry we put you in that situation. I have to come back stronger than that. Hopefully there's some good learning and some things I've learnt as well.

Yeah, it was good to stay out there, kind of feel what the brakes are doing, but yeah.