OK, 50 seconds.

And 35 seconds. Okay, mate, so a few sustainable laps in scenario 4. And then scenario 9 when you're ready. Happy to use DRS the whole time. Copy. So is Halfway in the fast lane? What do we do?

Stand by, please.

Yeah, we'll let him in. Yeah, that's fine.

Okay, Tsunoda car in front. We've got Hamilton at turn 12. He was the first car out.

Zhou, the car behind.

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Okay, Tsunoda has a big gap in front of him, shouldn't be much weight.

No traffic behind.

Okay, tight end still building. Start to push.

Happy to keep building, Esteban.

OK, light drops of rain possible from now.

Yeah, grip is not great at the moment, especially on kerbs.

And the ride is better than expected in turn 5 with the resurfacing. OK, copy that. Six seconds behind Hamilton on a push lap. Gap behind five seconds. Two cars to go in front. Should be OK here.

Pierre's best lap time 17.3. He has boxed for info with an issue.

Brake 3. Brake 3.

Watch for Piastri behind me.

We can keep pushing if you like. We're happy to keep pushing in scenario 9.

OK, mate. Tsunoda two seconds behind. Timed lap.

Gap behind Tsunoda. Four seconds to Piastri. Timed lap. Piastri, two and a half.

Gap behind Piastri. Five seconds to Verstappen. Time lap.

Verstappen, 4-0.

Verstappen at 2.5. Gap behind him at 5 seconds to Leclerc. Leclerc time lap.

Five seconds to Leclerc, who is pushing.

Behind Leclerc. Three seconds to Norris. Time lap.

Norris, four seconds timed, and then he's got another three and a half behind him. We're going to need to pick our gap probably after Norris.

Ricciardo to go in front as well. Only one car to go in front. Russell behind slow lap, so we're okay at the moment. Perez now, the car behind, pushing four seconds. We can go here.

Esteban, tyres are cold. We're happy to keep pushing, if you want.

Keep pushing if you can. We think it will help.

Engine hot, it says. Understood. I'll let you know if we need action. Keep going for now.

Keep pushing, keep pushing.

Habits keep pushing.

Ok mate, so traffic behind Hulkenberg, 5 seconds. He is on a slow lap. We're alright for traffic at the moment. So we are at the moment right on the edge with temperatures. We're happy to keep running as we are for the moment. Ideally we want that sort of 5 second gap in front. As long as we have that we're ok and we have that at the moment. Currently we're P17, car in front of us in P16, Russell is half a second quicker.

Okay mate, I'm happy to do about three more timed laps. I think that'll be good for us. We're not going to do any more sustainable running, so it's just, well, we don't need to do sustainable running, it's just whatever we need for tyre temps. Leclerc four seconds behind time lap. Suggest we go now.

Happy to do up to five time laps more. Five time laps more.

OK, Sven, how are we looking on this time? The front is bouncing in the air quite a bit.

And I got a bit of front locking into turn 5 as well with the front on the track, even if the ride is better.

I'm just going to have a look at timing for a couple of seconds, just bear with me. Happy to do one more time-lap after this. We might box early and get onto this medium. Few cars, the Mercs have done that now. So, standby. Clear of traffic behind. Four cars to go in front. Gap 8 seconds current.

Yeah, go to old tower.

Clear areas. Double press OK.

OK, that's OK. One more lap after this if you need it.

There was some engine hesitation at the beginning of the run. Yeah, copy that. It could be temperature related. I'll let you know if there's any action required. It should be okay for the next lap. Decent gap in front. Happy to go for one more lap.

I can make clear from traffic behind. Two tenths would get us up to P13.

Let's go one more lap clear of traffic behind and see what we get.

OK, so let's box now, please. I want to go on to the next set. Sainz, the car behind. Time lap now. Four and a half seconds.

Sainz, three seconds and he's got a six second gap behind him.

Car behind Russell. Five and a half seconds. Timed lap.

Russell, three and a half for time lap.

Okay, Russell three and a half behind and we are boxing now.

Ok mate, stopping in the box and switching off. I'll run you through the plan when we're back in the garage.

That's when I'll explain the plan. Very shortly.

Okay, so we might see Stroll at pit exit. He's starting a time-lap now, I believe. Just going into turn 1. The transmitter is oscillating quite a bit. Understood. I've got Magnussen going into turn 1 now, 5 seconds behind him. Next car back is Zhou. Timed lap, 4 seconds, and then there's plenty of space. Zhou, two and a half.

Gap behind six seconds to Russell correction time lap. Russell time lap four and a half.

Russell coming through now. Time lap.

Okay, clear from traffic behind. Gap behind 12 seconds. So we're going into this first lap without DRS. Happy to do two consecutive laps.

Four cars to go in front. Gap behind 11 seconds. No one pushing.

Fernando pushing eight seconds behind. Correction, Fernando slow lap. We're all right. Four seconds, five, good to go. No DRS.

Keep pushing. Use DRS from now.

Keep pushing us around, temp's still coming up.

And red flag, red flag. OK, we are boxing now.

The second gear is too short, guys. Hold the infield.

But yeah, we have an issue with that, the tyres coming in. Yeah, copy. Yeah, absolutely. We need to review that. I think a few cars looking at the times are in a similar state. So I think this is debris needing to be cleared. So it's going to be a quick turnaround. So we're going to stop on the marks, wrap the tyres back up and get ready to go again as soon as we can. No rain forecast now.

Okay, mate, so stop it on the mark, so I'm switching off.

Esteban, can you go back to P2 for me please? We'll go back to P2. We're just going to say ready to go.

Yes, man. Restart time one minute. One minute. And we are going to go recharge off now. Recharge off now. We can just start pushing straight away. Build that 10 back up.

Okay, so 40 seconds till the green light. Possible rain expected, light rain, three minutes before the end of the session. Yeah, let me know if you see something because Norris need an alarm. Yeah, absolutely. Keep us informed as best we can.

No wrists this session, mate, so it starts to get sketchy out there. We box. Copy.

15 seconds.

10 seconds.

OK, recharge off and happy to start building temperature.

Verstappen in front, Albon behind.

I have understeer at turn 5 and oversteer at turn 8.

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I hit something on the plank. Have a look. It was quite hard. Okay. I don't think it was a drain cover, but it felt like it. Understood. We'll review that now.

Okay, Esteban, we don't see anything at the moment, so happy to continue as is. Esteban, we'd like to close DRS manually earlier into turn 1, please. So manually close DRS earlier into turn 1. This is coming up.

Okay, mate, so we're good to push from now.

Let's push, let's keep pushing.

Okay mate, let's keep pushing. Close DRS early into turn 1 once again.

Keep pushing. Close DRS early.

Five laps from now.

Every lap. Yes mate, let's keep pushing. We're only going to get one slow lap. Four laps from now. So four laps to go. We can do one slow lap if needed for time.

Tyre temp's close to the window now. Let's make this one count.

Okay, two laps remaining. Slow lap now if needed.

OK, mates, this slow lap can't be too slow. Margin is almost zero for a slow lap. We've got Albon two seconds behind and then Sargeant just behind him. Watch for them, please. High fuel running.

Car is behind, both pushing.

If we can stay around the safety car delta time, we should be good to do another lap.

OK, rain expected right at the end of the session, so we're going to see if we can get one more lap here.

20 seconds margin currently.

Clear of traffic behind.

18 seconds margin.

Only two cars to go in front. Let's make that gap to Sargeant in front who's high fuel running before the start of this lap. 15 seconds margin. We've got time.

Zhou pushing through behind, about 8 seconds behind. Gap in front is good. 20 seconds to the flag. Let's go now.

Last lap. Let's push.

Okay, and that is the chequered flag.

Okay, mate. So we are going to the grid now to do a start. Yeah, traffic was very tough there. Certainly one of those instances has been noted. So we'll see what happens there. Copy. Okay, mate. So going to the grid. We will go to scenario 3, please. Scenario 3. Call the car on the way round. I'll let you know about burnouts shortly.

Yeah, the stability was not great on the crest, like exits, like turn 4 exits.

OK, that's interesting, OK. And I put full lock in the airpin. I seem to go more straight at the end. Like the front doesn't rotate. It gives up. OK, interesting. And exit of the airpin. The rear is too stiff so the car bounces.

Okay, that's all good info and stuff we should be able to help for later. Good feedback, thank you.

Okay, so we are doing two burnouts and a start on the left-hand side, please. We are going to push to pit entry as well, as best you can at least. No pitstop, though.

Push to pit entry.

The cut from second to third is massive at the moment.

It was in the session as well.

Box, box, no pitstop.

Okay, mate. Well done.