Radio check, Eric. Radio check. Radio check, Eric. Radio check.

Radio check, Gary? Loud and clear, Nico, sorry. Loud and clear, Nico, sorry. It is six minutes till we go. What was that, wrong button or what? No, I just had some other talking and I didn't have your volume high enough. The other people heard you, so it's fine.

Okay Nico, so four and a half to go. You can see what we have for brake balance, see if you're happy with that.

Okay, Nico, two and a half minutes till we go. Cars ahead on soft is Alonso, Stroll, and then behind, Albon and Kevin, soft, okay? And then in the back, Perez, Russell, Gasly on hard. Everyone else on medium. Okay, just over two minutes till we go. When we fire up, you'll put the pit limiter on, keep it to the line, and then when you come around for the start, remember mode RS.

Two burnouts, Nico. Two burnouts.

Mode push. Mode push.

I had dogshit at the start. Fuck's sake. Yeah, understood, Nico.

DRS enabled.

Box now, Nico, box now.

Copy.

Remember, hold brake pressure mode RS. We're taking off point 2 for this long stint.

Okay, reset func. He'll catch the pack no problem, so just bring the tyre in nicely. Member mode push.

I think now I've got to push. Copy, the pack is 16 ahead.

Up to Albon is in the pit window already.

Everyone stayed out, Nico. Gap is like 14.5 to Gasly.

Gap ahead is 12 and tyres looking good.

So you're in the pit window of everyone up to Alonso. Alonso and Stroll are managing heavily as expected. Gap ahead is 11.

Just watched traction turn one. Gasly's doing 126s.

Gap ahead is nine and people may start pitting soon. Everyone's in your pit window.

Okay, first cars are starting to box. They'll be coming out behind you.

Who is that? Verstappen? No, Albon and Kevin are boxing. They should be like 10 seconds behind.

Albon, Kevin and Ocon boxed.

OK, first car behind is Albon, 6 behind on Newhart.

And Gasly 7 ahead is doing 125.5.

Looks like Alonso is boxing this lap. He'll be 12th behind.

OK, so...

Okay, you're good on lift and coast. Car behind is now Alonso. He just pitted. He's on a medium.

Gasly 6 ahead, Alonso 4 behind.

So P8 Tsunoda is 10 seconds ahead. So they're all still in your pit window. Alonso is still 4 behind.

Gasly ahead is doing 25.5.

Just watch the initial throttle tip-in out of turn 1. Bottas is 10 ahead, still in your safety car window. Same lap time.

Good job. Tyres are looking good. Gasly doing 25.2. Bottas 25.0.

Alonso behind is doing 25. He's managing a gap.

Gasly must have made a mistake that lap. He did 26.4. Gap is 3.6.

What's behind Alonso? What's going on? They're all held up behind him. Alonso's managing the pace. He has Albon, Kevin, Ricciardo all behind on hards.

Gasly is on hard, right? Correct, Gasly is on race start hard.

Lifting coast is dropped off. Just increase it a bit more.

Bottas P9 and Russell P10, you're still inside their safety car window. They're doing low 25s.

How's the balance, Nico?

Stroll passed. Sabor. Sabor re-eliminated. In front, so still flapped down.

Maybe another half percent down or something at this stop. Exits are quite limited. Yeah, copy that. Stroll boxed. He came out behind Kevin.

Increase lift in coast turn 4 and turn 6. That will help rear surface temps, which are high.

Okay, Bottas is boxed. He'll be about 10 seconds behind. So that puts Russell still inside his safety car window in P8.

Some info behind would be nice. Yeah, copy. Alonso is just holding the gap at four seconds. He's doing 25.5.

We think this is Alonso's pace. He's got Albon close behind him.

Lifting coast is good.

Gasly 25.7, Alonso 25.8 with Albon and Stroll close behind him. Stroll's on newer tyre but he's stuck behind Albon.

Okay, Stroll is maybe overtaking Albon.

Oh, fuck, Gary. Come on, not in the braking.

It's good for him if he overtakes. How is that relevant for me now?

Yeah, copy that Nico, sorry.

Yeah, no worries.

Alonso has picked up the pace. How are the tyres holding up? Not amazing.

Because I think we pushed quite hard early on.

Copy that, Nico. We think that the surfaces are going to recover. They're coming back.

Diff 22.

Sock 7. Sock 7.

What's the plan?

Need to go a bit longer on this one, Nico, for the next stint. Copy.

Gap behind. Two seconds to Albon on similar life hard.

Albon's doing 25.8.

Obviously, I'm a bit vulnerable. We need to take some risks. Let's not risk losing more track position. I'll have to suck it up and manage the next bit.

All understood, Nico.

Albon, 26.0.

Use it all up now, Nico.

Sock 6. Sock 6.

Box now, Nico. Box now. We'll be racing Ricciardo at the exit. Minus 0.7. Understood. Minus 0.7.

Remember mode RS, hold brake pressure, racing Ricciardo at exit.

Ricciardo on new hard pitted last lap.

Reset funk.

Okay, Albon pitted 2. Ricardo, tyre is one lap older. Albon, same tyre as you behind.

OK, Nico, 14 to go at the line.

Last stint was 27 laps on the hard and the lifting coast is very powerful for surface jumps. I've got a tear-up in the rear right brake duct area.

Copy that. Brake temps are OK for now. We'll monitor everything.

Are we in the Aston Speed window?

No, we're about two seconds outside. They're doing 24s.

Last lap, Stroll 24.4.

Stroll 24.8. You're almost inside his pit window.

Zhou has 27 laps on the tarmac.

Kevin just boxed. He's 10 behind.

Stroll going 24.6. He's under control, Perez.

You're right on Stroll's pit window now.

Albon's doing 24.4. You're opening that gap behind him.

Alonso boxing. He'll be two seconds ahead. He'll be going on to a hard.

So, Stroll's inside your window now, just inside. He may box next lap, so he might be just alongside or behind you.

Stroll stayed out, still inside the window.

Looks like they're keeping Stroll out to hold up Tsunoda for Alonso's benefit.

You could use right toggle turn 13.

Press oil pump button. So we're racing Alonso and Ricciardo ahead to the end.

So cars who still have to pit are Stroll and Tsunoda and Bottas. Bottas is ahead of Alonso, so they will all have to be out behind you.

So, Stroll's still doing 24.4. He's about two seconds inside your pit window still.

Ricciardo has caught Bottas, so they're doing mid 25s now. Albon behind doing 24.3.

Still inside stroll pit window. He's doing 24.6.

Bottas' tyres, 28 laps old.

We think Bottas is boxing.

We think Stroll will be boxing. He's going to be close at pit exit.

Stroll came out behind Albon.

Okay, everyone's boxed. 24 to go at the line, currently P12.

So Stroll has a very new heart. Obviously he's close behind Albon. We'll see how he gets on.

Mode F2 for performance.

OK, Nico, 22 to go. P13. Obviously we need some help ahead, but let's get this tyre to the end and that will give us a chance.

How's the tyre, Nico?

Okay, for us the tyres are looking very good, Nico, so we can push more at 4 and 11. Ricardo 23.6 and Kevin 23.5.

OK, good lap. Kevin 5 behind doing 23.8.

We will start to have blues in three or four laps.

Stroll overtook Ricciardo. Ricciardo 8 ahead.

Brake balance 0.5% rearward.

Leader Norris is four behind, so he'd be a blue in around two laps.

Norris 2.2 behind blue. Next lap, Ricciardo 23.6.

Blue flag Norris. Blue flag Norris.

Piastri 2.5 behind. He'll be a blue next lap.

Blue flag, Piastri.

So 10 laps to go, Nico. The next blues are about 10 seconds behind, so it'll be near the end.

Tyres are looking healthy. Overheating is coming down.

Yeah, but the grip is not coming back.

Yeah, copy that. 8 to go at the line.

What's the gap to Albon and Kevin behind? Five seconds to Albon and he's got two blues coming.

Kevin's 12th behind because of blues.

Albon is doing mid 24 when he doesn't have a blue.

And same for Ricciardo, mid 24s. So we have Hamilton 5 behind, he'll be a blue, and then Leclerc 8 behind, he'll be blue.

Press oil pump button when you can.

You can try Funk 4 for turn 2. Hamilton 3 behind. He'll be a blue in two laps.

Blue flag Hamilton. Blue flag Hamilton.

Albon is 10 behind. You have Leclerc 2.5. He'll be a blue next lap.

It's Leclerc, Verstappen, Sainz all coming together. They're one and a half seconds apart.

And Albon is 9 behind, 10 behind.

Blue flag for Leclerc and then Verstappen's 1.5 behind him.

OK, then after Verstappen is Sainz, you're still OK on Albon. So, blue flag for Verstappen.

And then after Verstappen is with Sainz 1.5 behind him.

That's Sainz and then 6 second gap to Albon. Blue flag Sainz.

OK, Albon 6 behind, Kevin 9 behind, all OK.

Three laps to go.

2 to go. Albon 4 behind doing 25.0.

Diff 22.

Starting last lap, Albon 4 behind 25.0.

Checkered flag, Nico. Press in button.

Looked tough out there. We didn't have the pace today, so we'll get more for next time. P1 Piastri, 2 Norris, 3 Hamilton, 4 Leclerc, 5 Verstappen, 6 Sainz, 7 Perez, 8 Russell, 9 Tsunoda, 10 Stroll, 11 Alonso, 12 Ricciardo, your P13 and Kevin's P15.

Yeah, I guess we kind of lost the bet at the start already, but like you say, the pace was obviously been more difficult with the long stints, but...

Didn't look like we had enough.

Yeah, copy that. Get on to the next one where we can use our drag.