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12:53:04

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

12:55:56

Just over four minutes, Nico.

12:57:46

OK, Nico, Perez P11 is on hard. Zhou and Sargeant in the back are on hard. Alonso is on soft. Gasly P15 is on soft. Everyone else medium. And just over two minutes till we go.

12:58:17

Okay, so two minutes when we fire up, you'll switch on the pit limiter and then keep the pit limiter until the line and then remember back to mode RS for the race start.

12:58:56

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13:00:28

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13:03:54

Bird push. Bird push. Yes! Come on!

13:05:18

DRS enabled. Good job.

13:08:01

You can try right toggle turn 14 if you need it.

13:10:27

DX2 will help turn 9. DX2.

13:11:02

Grip feels quite poor in front and rear. Copy.

13:13:31

Good job on tyres, Nico. All good.

13:16:49

Albon is going slow down to turn 16.

13:17:02

That's Albon slow ahead.

13:17:57

Balance is pretty neutral.

13:19:16

I think balance is good. More rear whips. Not sure about aero balance.

13:20:08

Okay, Tsunoda boxed, so now we can carry on. We'll just work on this balance, keep the tyre going. Good job.

13:20:22

So probably keep this air balance for next set then.

13:20:37

Nico, if there's any more pace left in the tyre, we can use it now. And understood on balance.

13:21:21

Box now, Nico. Box now.

13:21:34

We will be racing on exit and we want to stay ahead of Tsunoda.

13:21:52

Tsunoda will be very close. Use the tyre if needed.

13:22:13

Mode push, mode push. Frankly, I don't think we should have covered him very early.

13:22:28

Yeah, copy that. Let's work with it, see what we can make of it.

13:22:57

In front, the guy with the red. Yeah, Ricciardo, hard, two laps old.

13:23:17

Yeah, so same tyre as Tsunoda had Rick behind and Rick is one lap earlier.

13:24:36

E-B7, E-B7.

13:27:22

Very good job on tyres. We can go Diff 21. Ricardo is doing 22.3.

13:30:06

What's going on behind Ricciardo? It's Gasly on the same heap as earlier too, so we're racing them. We would have had to overtake them at the end.

13:31:28

So, getting the front right temp up is good. That'll get us to the end. You can probably push a little more turn 9 for more front right temp. You're doing a really good job.

13:32:49

Tsunoda has caught Sargeant. Sargeant is slow, but he started on a hard, so we'll see how Tsunoda gets around him or not. You're doing a good job against Rick behind.

13:33:55

F1, load F1, just to get us a little fuel margin.

13:37:03

Tyres still looking good.

13:38:19

Currently we're on track for P11. Kevin, Zhou and Sargeant haven't boxed yet. They're still out. But still, we're looking at P11 right now, unless someone goes out.

13:39:28

Very nice, Nico.

13:42:11

Press oil pump button. Zhou ahead of Tsunoda. Race start hard doing 1 minute 23.

13:42:29

Stroll is in P8. He's still on his race start tyre and you're just on the edge of his safety car window with this pace. It's good.

13:43:51

EB6. EB6. Ricardo is still stuck behind. Sorry, behind.

13:44:58

Tyre taps. That doesn't feel that easy.

13:45:15

Copy that, Nico. Tyre temps are looking very good. We see we're just going a little towards oversteer, so we'll start to close up tools.

13:46:36

We suggest EB5.

13:46:57

Just watch sliding turn 12 exit.

13:47:12

Sargeant boxed. Ricciardo 5 behind.

13:48:01

Zhou is slowing up a bit on his race start hard, so he'll probably box in two or three laps, maybe.

13:50:30

Still good laps. Stroll was right on the safety car window, so still looking good.

13:52:28

Grip feels shit. Back feels high.

13:52:43

Copy that, Nico.

13:52:54

I feel like I'm having to push to keep temps, but at the same time sliding. This is the only opportunity later. Might want to take that.

13:53:06

OK, understood.

13:53:32

So temps are looking healthy to the end, so just avoid extra sliding.

13:54:38

Perez will be boxing this lap. He'll be around three seconds behind when he comes out. Perez.

13:54:58

Perez will be on a new medium.

13:55:58

Okay, currently P9. Cars that are on new tyres behind is Perez, behind Rick, and then Stroll further back.

13:56:18

Stroll's on a new hard. He's eight seconds behind.

13:57:11

Ok, Perez behind. Let's take care of our tyres. Don't lose any tyre health.

13:58:44

OK, you're P10, 23 to go. Tsunoda struggling a bit more on tyres. Stroll 5 behind on new tyres.

13:59:04

And then Stroll obviously has to get around Rick, so we're looking good here.

14:00:25

We recommend right toggle for 14 instead of shape. Tsunoda used up his tyres a lot defending Perez. Perez is around now.

14:02:23

Stroll behind now.

14:04:15

Mode push, mode push. Good job. Just make sure we can get the tyres to the end. He's pretty quick.

14:06:25

It's unbelievable, turn 2-3, how a balance can swing 360 degrees in two seconds.

14:06:48

Yeah, copy that. It was a good effort anyway, Nico. Oil pump button when you can.

14:07:03

Who's the guy behind? Still Ricciardo, two behind, same pace.

14:07:17

So you're P11, you still need one car to go out, but also you're a little quicker than Tsunoda and then Stroll will catch him, so we'll see what happens there.

14:07:17

So you're P11, you still need one car to go out, but also you're a little quicker than Tsunoda and then Stroll will catch him, so we'll see what happens there.

14:07:52

Just watch the front locking turn 14 for the tyre health.

14:08:40

Blue for Verstappen is two or three laps away. Ricciardo will have it first, obviously. Ricciardo's doing 22.2.

14:09:45

Press oil pump button. Ricciardo is 1.3 behind.

14:11:28

Good lap. Ricciardo has the blue for Verstappen.

14:11:59

Tsunoda is 4.5 ahead.

14:12:29

Verstappen is 1.8 behind, so he'll be blue next lap.

14:12:46

Ricciardo is two seconds behind Verstappen. We have margin to push at 2 and 5.

14:13:07

Blue flag Verstappen. Blue flag Verstappen.

14:13:52

We will have two more blues, Norris and Leclerc. Ricardo has Norris blue now.

14:14:10

11 laps to go at the line. Tsunoda should have these blues too.

14:15:06

Blue flag Norris. Blue flag Norris.

14:15:19

Ricardo 2.3 behind. He's got Leclerc blue.

14:15:34

Leclerc 2.3 behind, he'll be a blue.

14:16:27

Blue flag Leclerc. Blue flag Leclerc.

14:16:43

OK, RIC 2.6 behind. Tsunoda getting blues now.

14:16:59

Okay, good job, Nico. We suggest diff 32 would help entries.

14:18:19

8 to go. We'll have one more blue for Piastri close to the end. Tsunoda is 6 ahead and he still has to have Leclerc blue.

14:20:17

Ricardo has the Piastri blue.

14:20:49

Piastri 1.7 will be blue next lap.

14:21:26

Blue flag Piastri. Blue flag Piastri.

14:22:11

5 to go at the line. Last lap was track limits. First one.

14:22:27

Track limits where? Which corner? Turn 17, the previous lap.

14:23:50

Press oil pump button. Ricardo will get a Sainz Blue next lap and for us the following lap.

14:25:15

Three to go. Tyres are good to the end. Push as you feel. Ricciardo will have Sainz blue soon.

14:26:18

Last lap. Track limits turn 17. That's second strike. You have Sainz 2.3 behind.

14:26:39

Two laps to go.

14:27:26

Blue flag Sainz. Blue flag Sainz.

14:28:03

Starting last lap.

14:28:20

Kevin behind, he overtook Rick.

14:29:25

Checkered flag, Nico. Checkered flag.

14:29:51

Good drive, Nico. Just missed it. P11, but you drove well.

14:29:57

This was P1 Verstappen, 2 Norris, 3 Leclerc, 4 Piastri, 5 Sainz, 6 Hamilton, 7 Russell, 8 Perez, 9 Stroll, 10 Tsunoda, and then UP11, Kevin 12, and then Rick.