OK, so stop at pit L.

Standard Polo 8 on the green light.

Bottas, the car in front of you. Six seconds.

DRS enabled.

First cell of rain is growing. Could hit us in 25 minutes. Three seconds. Tell me, repeat. Repeat. First cell of rain, 25 minutes away.

Bottas at 2.8.

31.4 and mode 6. Mode 6.

Magnussen at 3.5.

Bottas at point 8 with DRS. Russell's lap 31.2, Hamilton 31.7, Max 32.2.

Gap to Magnussen for 3.2.

Could be a few spots at turn 15 in the next five minutes or so, but just a passing edge of a shower. Yeah, I got a little bit in the night.

The first cell is still 15 minutes away.

And leaders doing 31.7.

Less management in turn 9.

Magnussen at 1.7.

So, coming on a bit of a DRS train, Magnussen, Ocon, Daniel, Zhou.

Battery's full.

So no DRS from Magnussen.

Maybe five laps out from this first elevate.

Flap update when you can.

Yeah, I will go up. I will see if I can protect the front left.

Mode pink, 10. Mode pink, 10.

Strat red 11. Strat red 11. More energy.

OK, I'm quite raggy on this straight. So rain, two laps away, will last for about five minutes.

We'll then have a 10-minute window and then a bigger cell.

Reports of spots at turn 7.

Mode pink 8.

Rain is close. Keep me updated.

Gear is picking up instantly.

Maybe it's the hair, or just the turn 15 first. It's the hair, or just the turn 15 first. Or if you need it. Or if you need it.

Has picked up at turn 15.

Say a five-minute sell here and a five-minute window till the main lane.

There's a rain picking up at turn 15.

So the cells of rain have joined together. Yeah, picking up.

Be ready because it can be very difficult.

Yeah, we're ready. We're pimed.

It will get a little bit lighter, but then pick up properly. DRS disabled.

In sector 1 at Siguiente will be faster.

Thoughts on conditions?

Yeah, it's only 6.1 for inters.

Tyre 3. Tyre 4. Strat 1.5 in the pitlane.

Strat 11. Strat 11.

OK, so we've got five minutes of light weight and then it's going to pick up solid.

Mode 5. Mode 5.

Yeah, we need to make sure that we... we're not understeer.

Yeah, Licata at this stage.

Strat red 3. Strat red 3.

It's too dry, man. It's too fucking dry.

There's rain coming.

That's the way it has to look like.

So look after the front left. Front left priority.

Mode pink. 9. Mode pink. 9.

I think I'm just driving too slow. The rear is going off.

There's three minutes away. Three minutes.

OK, rain is picking up. Sector 3, rain is picking up. Here it comes.

So, rain in the pitlane.

We've got blues with noise behind. Noise coming through.

That is for Piastri.

That will be Hamilton.

Lewis for Russell.

Yeah, the data pre-fucked up.

So we've got Max at 1.8 and Sainz a second behind him, half a second behind him.

Max three. Sainz three.

Yeah, I don't have any grip.

He's going to come back to us. The tyre will recover. When the rain comes, he'll drop a bit of temp and come back to us.

So we've got this waiting for 20 minutes now. Waiting for 20 minutes.

Yeah, you're faster than the Civic runners. Piastri's last lap 49.7. He stayed out. Going to be closer than Norris, a pit out. Hamilton alongside.

OK, you're getting blues into that Hamilton 3. Blues for Hamilton.

They've got police here.

Max of 1.5.

Thanks, sir. One second.

Russell at four seconds, so no immediate blues. Head down.

Okay, blues to let Russell through.

Haha, I think we are too slow at this time.

Let's get a clean lap. We'll assess the sectors.

I'm in the inter is fucked. It's not really the wrong tyre, it's just that it's minimally damaged. Check complete.

OK, blues to lap Piastri 3. Blues to lap Piastri 3.

Thought some flap angle. There he is, there he is. There he is at me.

Okay, so box, strat 12 in the pitlane.

Got no flap adjust. Strat 12 in the pitlane.

Strat 8. Strat 8.

Okay, so Fernando's just behind us. Go to mode 5, mode 5. Strat 40.

Okay, so leaders are doing a 40.7, 40.5.

Go display 9, display yellow 9.

Okay, so zero on the dash is the happy spot.

At least we left the coast as we got into it.

13 minutes more of this lane. 13 minutes.

Mode 6. Mode 6.

So that was the fastest lap at the moment. I'd say we've got 12 minutes more of aid. Let's not cook them.

Yeah, I can't win.

Shall we overtake? Yeah, you can overtake.

Stroll doing 44.5 last time round.

OK, so the first car we're racing is Leclerc. 11 seconds in front. He's doing a 43.8.

What's my take? What's my take? 43.8.

Wait for another four or five laps. Then they will bite it up. Some will come out.

Stop raining on the main street. Copy.

OK, how are conditions? Ready for a slick, yeah?

And I'm good. Check my running flow.

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People are going for a seat now, no?

Yeah, it's quite... quite a few pincers.

Tyre, nice, tyre, nice.

Strat 12 in the pitlane.

Strat 8. Strat 8.

Strat 14. Strat 14.

OK, so Leclerc's at 21 seconds. He's on the soft tyre.

People that started on the soft initially struggled with graining.

Pace dropped off quickly after seven laps.

Leclerc was a second faster in sector 1, second faster in sector 3.

Blues for Fernando. Blues for Fernando. DRS enabled.

Strat red 8. Strat red 8.

OK, so leaders doing 30.1, backs 29.6.

Losses to Max are all high speed.

Engine 7, position 11. Engine 7, position 11, plus 9.

Max's last lap 29.4.

Losses turn 6 and turn 9 to turn 14.

Eight laps to go.

Six laps to go.

Mode 8, mode 8.

Box, Checo, box. Strat 12 in the pitlane.

OK, no-one's come out of the pitlane.

Blue's for Daniel here. Hamilton, Ocon, Max and Norris 3. All very nicely here.

So let all these guys through. Got Hamilton, Ocon, Max and Norris.

So, Max behind out of the way.

OK, Norris at two seconds.

Low is coming through. And then Ocon.

Do I have to pass this lap? Yeah, next time round. Go through on the final lap.

So we've got Piastri at two and a half seconds, and then there's a good gap behind Piastri. That's our window. Sorry, repeat. Piastri is two and a half seconds, then Piastri two, and then there's a good gap behind

Piastri's at one second.

Okay, so you've got 20 seconds now to Bottas behind.

So currently Max has the fastest lap. We may abort this effort late.

It's a bigger gap to Piastri if you've got the window here. Mode 1, mode 1 and recharge on. Mode 1, recharge on. 21 seconds to Bottas behind.

Strat 1. Strat 1. Recharge on.

And VTOL drop when you're ready.

What the fuck, I cannot stay enough from this.

OK, V-Charge up and fail 84.

It was worth taking the shot on that first inter. Hit the crossover. Just dried up enough after that.

It didn't work, the gamble. Something very odd with this soft.

I couldn't turn at all. I don't know what was going on.

Eh, we'll have a look. We'll have a look.

Sainz got the fastest lap at the end there.

OK, so into the pitlane.

Finishing order Lewis, Max, Norris, Piastri, Sainz, Hulkenberg, Stroll, Fernando, Albon, Tsunoda.

Go to P0 and drop out.