Radio check.

You're very crackly, mate. Cat 2, radio check. Yep, you're loud and clear from the garage.

Yeah, roger. All good.

That's four minutes to formation lap.

Three minutes to formation lap.

OK, so start tyres. Talking about the cars below P10, the cars starting on soft tyres are Sargeant P14, Magnussen P15, and the cars on hard tyres are Perez P16 and Gasly P20 starting from pitlane. The other cars are on mediums.

Further up the field, Alonso and Stroll are starting on used soft tyres.

Two minutes.

90 seconds. Fire up. Limiter on.

One minute.

Forty-five seconds.

Byte point find. 30 seconds.

Fifteen seconds.

And clutch was on target.

B-Bal offset plus one.

B-Bal offset plus one.

Santa Ana, good job on the tyres. Santa Ana, good job on the tyres.

Now we'll be coasting from turn 11.

So, there will be one burnout, so there will be one burnout on the exit curb.

Last car approaching the grid.

Ocon ahead 0.3, Perez behind 0.5.

So DRS enabled at the end of this lap.

Sergeant, now car behind 2.4.

Ahead 0.6, behind 0.5.

Ocon ahead has DRS, Sargeant behind will have DRS.

I'm finished now mate.

Respectivo.

So Ocon has 0.6 ahead of him to Bottas.

Ocon will have DRS. Sir Hulkenberg has already pitted and moved on to the hard tyre, now in free air.

So a gap ahead of Ocon, still 0.7.

Will have DRS.

It was at 0.9 over the line that time.

Gap ahead is 0.8 ahead of Ocon.

Ocon will have DRS.

Gap ahead of Ocon now 0.6.

OK, so gap ahead to Valtteri. Now 1.3, got Hulkenberg who pitted on that hard in 24.2.

I'm happy to use the front a bit more at this moment, George.

Strat 11, gap ahead of Valtteri, 1.1.

So Bottas doesn't have DRS.

Strat 11.

I'm happy in this strat mode unless you need it.

Sir George, we do need that mode. Strat 11.

This is better for lap time, George.

So gap ahead of Valtteri 1.7.

I just can't get closer to keep grip.

And Perez are behind 0.8.

Think about more lifted coast at turn 12 to help with surface temperatures there.

Gauge Perez, point 8.

Gap to Perez, 0.8.

And we are currently target plus five.

Gap to Perez 1.1.

Gap to Perez. One second.

Okay, mate, so just keep doing what you're best at to build this gap to Perez now.

So Alonso at the head of that midfield attack that stopped early doing 25.6.

So, George, this is good pace here. Hulkenberg's going to start pushing those midfield cars back soon. He's doing 26.0.

And George, we can use front right tyre more in turn 4.

I have too much understeer at 5 when I do that.

Yeah, understood. Good message.

So Sainz has just pitted and come out behind Perez on the hard tyre.

George, we are target plus eight.

Carlos Leclerc, pit exit.

Sainz now car behind 1.8.

So don't lose time with Sainz here. We are racing Perez.

And Magnussen doing 25.6 is right on our pit window.

Tyres feel OK.

Pillar bench stabilised. Let's push Magnussen out the window then.

Gap ahead of Tsunoda, 1.9.

So a race situation update. We've got four cars right on our pit window at the moment.

Yeah, coming in with the new tyres, we should pass them easy. It's just the DRS straight we're concerned about.

George, currently for plan B.

I'm going to pass Tsunoda. Turn 5, A tyre.

Perez has dropped out behind Valtteri.

So box opposite Tsunoda. Box opposite Tsunoda.

26.0.

Can we even consider a one-stop?

I need you to just feed back on tyres.

I feel like I've stabilised. Yeah, copy that. Just give me feedback. Let me know how they feel.

I need to see how I feel for a few laps in clean air. Yeah, absolutely.

So Magnussen was a 25.6.

So Magnussen was 25.6, he's got Perez behind him.

So Perez has now overtaken.

Just feedback on tyres please, George. No, thank you, Carlos. In that case, I'm going to slide a bit more backwards currently.

The boys are off track.

Okay, I don't think I have a job now. Understood.

Yeah, everybody's gone.

So I box, box, box, box.

Maybe close with Magnussen on exit.

Now we can use overtake on exit.

Reset diff, entry diff, high speed.

What a load of understeer!

Yeah, understood. We added the planned flap to see what we can do on settings.

How much fresher are our tyres over Yuki?

So, five laps over Tsunoda, six laps over Perez.

So 1.9 ahead to Stroll.

Well, that's how we sort it. 25.8. 25.0 before that.

So we are target plus five.

I have a grip plus one. Over.

Afer, we are currently target plus five.

Perez, last lap, 22.2.

George, we advise a poor lifting coast turn 12 for better sector 3.

So, George, currently target plus seven.

Car with pace.

Perez seems quick considering I'm ahead of the tyres.

Perez doing 22.5.

So George Perez is pushing hard here just to keep you out of undercut range.

And wind speed is picked up by another 5 kph. Same direction.

Update on race picture.

So George, our race currently is only with Perez. He has a medium for the final stint. We have a hard.

Come on.

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

Yeah, understood. But right now we just need to close up to Perez.

So, we need to be within two seconds of Perez here.

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

So just keep me updated with those tyre updates, George.

I may have fluctuated a lot based on wind and cloud cover.

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Check front right for a bunch of gravel. That was a bit weird.

Looks OK. Looks OK. Data.

George needs strat 6.

Tyres are feeling good. Copy.

George will go pushing level 4.

Just give me a balance update.

Tyres are still feeling good. Happy to accept.

Perez, last lap, 21.6.

So we box-box this lap.

So, box, box.

So it will be 17 laps remaining.

So that's 17 laps to the end. You'll be in free air when you exit. How long do you reckon we'll be able to catch? We're doing a fast lap attempt.

So we're going to try and catch here. 10 seconds Perez.

So we can go strat 7, that's free.

So, targeting 20.9.

Just think about resetting. Diff entry, diff high speed.

Currently four cars to catch in the last couple of laps.

And blue 5, position 5.

So this place is looking good. Forecast to catch five laps from the end.

How is the pace compared to the front runners?

Currently they're doing 21.9s.

And Joe Carahead was doing 24.3.

I'm struggling a lot with this tyre now.

We're still 5-6 tenths quicker than Perez here.

So, just don't overdrive it. Do what you're doing.

Six laps remaining.

Five laps remaining. Current forecast to catch on the final lap.

And three laps remaining.

Potentially gravel, turn 13.

Strat 9. Two laps remaining.

So this is the final lap.

Okay, so we have green 1, position 12 and strap 14. Nice drive there today. P8 fastest lap as well.

Final order, Piastri, Norris, Lewis in 3rd, Leclerc in 4th, Verstappen in 5th, Sainz P6.

Yeah, good job on the podium. Obviously our damage was done yesterday, but at least we got some points on the board. And go for a better weekend next year.

Yeah, I copy that.

What was the race time gap to Piastri and Piastri to Lewis? Piastri to Lewis was 15 seconds.