OK, so straight out.

Okay, so we can keep our outlap pace up on this tyre. Looking for plus two on the dash.

Cars behind are Albon and Bottas. All on outlaps.

Almost all cars on the medium tyre at the moment.

Sorry, I'm looking for plus two on the dash on this tyre.

Four cars in close proximity behind. 10 second gap in front.

Okay, next four cars in front are all quite close together. Might be a little bit of waiting around at the end of the lap.

I'm going to have to add some tyre temperature in here.

Gate 2 to go in front. No traffic behind.

Offset gap front three, four, good to go.

Okay, so Albon just finishing a lap behind, so he'll be on a slow this time. Should be in sync with everyone around us at the moment.

Ok, I'll give you some driving advice shortly.

Okay, so clear traffic behind. So, how's the balance initially? Initially was okay. Okay, that's good. So, Pierre's first lap on the medium 44.6 for info, 44.6. He was the first car, so had no toes or anything. Places to improve. Biggest single loss through the lap is braking for turn 1. We can afford to push that a bit later. And then it's just, through the rest of the lap, little bits, minimum speed in most places. Turn 8 looks pretty good at the moment. Copy.

I think most braking zones we can just push another couple of metres as well. So let's just keep building up for now. All looking okay.

So we've got Leclerc behind on an outlap and everyone behind on slow lap, so all in phase.

So Pierre with his 44.6. For info, his P10 as it stands. Almost all cars on the medium. Norris and Leclerc on the soft at the moment. Hulkenberg and Zhou on the hard. Copy. Any big losses on the straight or no? Nothing stand out at the moment. No, not that can be explained with a bit of toe difference. So we're happy at the moment. Once we get a few more laps, we can have a closer look. Thanks for watching.

So, two cars to go in front. Albon behind is on a slow lap.

So, just Perez to go now. So, fast, slow, fast coming up. Recharge off and you're good to go.

Okay, so we'll go for another cool and one more push. Albon behind just finished the time lap once again.

A little bit of rear locking, turn 1. Yeah, copy that. We're just going to have a look and see what we can do with switches there to help.

We have been too much rotation the last two corners. Low speed. Understood. We'll see if we can get something to help there as well.

Okay, we think the white modifier for the last two corners and turn 1 should help. Sainz just coming past on a slow lap now. 20 second gap behind now, so no traffic.

Any ride issues, Esteban?

Not really, no.

How is high speed balance, please? Mid and high speed.

Understeer 8, 9. OK, 10. Understood. We've got Verstappen timed lap 5.5 behind. There's a big bunch of cars all at turn 10 now. 6 in total. Verstappen coming through now. Car behind him is Bottas, also on a push lap, 4 seconds. Bottas 3.5. 2.5, clear behind Bottas.

Ok mate, so six cars in front all waiting to start laps.

Have a think about POU 18.

Yeah, understood. That's not an in-session change for us. But let's keep it in mind and see where we are.

Okay, you could also consider the yellow modifier for turn 8 as well. Yellow turn 8. Yep. Okay mate, so white last two corners turn 1, yellow turn 8. We're going for one more push lap and then we'll be boxing.

If you want to put the white modifier on now, just to start the lap, you could do.

If we can push the front tyres the last chicane, please, that would be good. Get some temperature back in the surface.

Okay, so we are going to box this lap, Esteban. If we can have aero P3 after turn 4, please. Aero P3 after turn 4.

Car behind is Magnussen. He will be on a slow lap this time.

Okay, perfect. Thank you for that. If you can keep your pace up on the way in, it'll just help us with timing. Have a think about the balance limitations. Yeah, the balance is quite unstable at low speed. Turn 1, turn 18, car rotates itself at low speed. Also 14. And... A little bit more understeer at medium speed. Apart from that. Thank you.

The right seems okay. Okay, that's good.

Okay, we're happy with that. So we will box now. We'll have a look at a change.

Dispenser, we're going to box now. We'll do a pit. Dispenser, we're going to box now. We'll do a pit. Aero cruise? No, no more aero cruises. Aero cruise? No, no more aero cruises. So you can keep your pace up on the way in. No traffic behind. And you can practice the pit entry. Reminder about that bump on the right-hand side of the pit entry. Yeah.

Turning. No launch, no launch.

Gasman, we'll get you plugged in and just chat about what we're going to do to help this balance.

We need to open.

Chance, roughly.

OK, so straight out. Scott Leclerc exiting turn 1 now.

So 200kph down to 5. We've got Russell just going into turn 1 behind starting a time lap now. So we've got Russell 6 behind.

Russell, three behind. Two behind. Clear behind Russell. No other traffic.

Okay, Norris behind outlap. We will have Zhou coming through on a timed. He is about eight seconds behind at the moment.

Zhou, four seconds time to lap.

Zhou 2. Clear behind Zhou. No other traffic.

Next two cars in front, Perez and Tsunoda on slow laps.

Happy for you to push in front of her.

So weaving down to 18.

Push that turn pump. Tsunoda's going slow in front, let's get past him.

Okay, I just found the white modifier ready to start the lap. Close modifier if you need it for one as well. Recharge off and go.

OK, recharge on. That is P6. That lap, very good.

Okay, mate, so let's go for a cool-up.

Just nice and steady on this cool-up. Cars behind are all on slow laps, I believe. We might have Bottas pushing, I'll let you know. Norris behind five seconds. He's probably going to box this time. He's just finished a time-lap. We do have Bottas pushing coming through, so just watch for the two cars behind keeping their pace up, please. Two to come through.

Next car back, Magnussen, six seconds timed. So Magnussen four, clear behind Magnussen.

Remind me about brake 5 to start the lap. I'm losing socks for some reason now. We need full load, Esteban, so we're going to need some full throttle to charge the battery.

Let's go past Pierre. Let's charge the battery up. I think, Esteban, if we're down on the next push lap, I want to box at the end, save some time and look at the high fuel. Yeah, copy. Save some full throttle, help charge the battery.

Only 10 cars out on track and two of them have just left the pitlane, so...

Can we go diff exit 1 please? Diff exit 1. We're in 2 at the moment.

Pierre is boxing for a flap adjust for info. OK, so we need full throttle to charge the battery. We're going to push one more time. If we're down at the end of the lap and you don't need the last chicane, I suggest we box.

OK, brake 3.

Brake 3, white modifier on. Let's go for one more push.

Okay, mate, let's box now. Piastri, high fuel, six seconds behind. Box now. We'll do a practice pitstop.

Piastri, 5 behind, time lap. Box now, practice pitstop.

Turn in. And no launch, no launch.

OK, mate, so we'll get some comments when you're plugged in. Still P7 at the moment.

Two minutes on the start if you can.

Only 12 cars on the track quite clear out there at the moment.

Okay mate, we're pushing from now.

We should get nine time laps.

OK, I'll give you some update on lap times when I can.

8. More laps.

Okay, 20 second gap behind if needed.

Who's in front? So Albon in front, you're lapping a little quicker than him at the moment, then Leclerc.

OK, six more laps. Six more.

I broke at braking and lost all the potential on it.

On the hard brakes, turn 5, turn 1, turn 18. OK mate, we'll have a look and report back.

Okay, advise going forwards on brake bias to 1% on the dash. Just help look after those rears a bit better.

You can keep going forward if you want to help protect those rears as well.

You can also use the white modifier 1-80.

The wheels are going away completely like the previous race.

Okay, mate. Understood.

OK, let's go brake 1. Brake 1. I'll try and help you use that.

Brake 1. Brake 1, yeah, on the switch. Brake 1.

Okay, so there's four laps remaining. Okay, four laps.

OK, so we have three laps remaining. Let's try and keep going if we can.

If this becomes undrivable, Esteban, we can stop onto the soft tyre. Time, time.

OK mate, let's go 25 metres, lift and coast into 18 please. 25 metres, lift and coast into 18.

Two more laps.

And SOC 10 when you can please, SOC 10.

And last lap, last lap.

Okay, that's the checkered flag. So we can cool the car. We're going to the grid at this point. Got a couple of switch changes to do. Can we do fail B-0-1? Okay, please. Fail B-0-1. Okay.

And finally, PU3, position 3, please. PU3, position 3.

OK, perfect. Good with switches. OK, so we're going to the grid. We're going to do a start on the right-hand side. I'll let you know about burnouts when we get there.

After the start we will push to pit entry and we'll do a pitstop with you and then push you through the box and do a pitstop with Pierre who's behind.

It looks like we'll do three burnouts on the grid as well. Three burnouts. Copy.

Drop deeper than what Pierre did.

We're just having a chat about a target. I'll let you know in a second.

Just give me a plus-minus compared to P1. I know it was P1 high fuel.

Okay, so the target is minus four compared to P1 and it should be set like that. Probably better off dropping a little deeper than too shallow. Your start for the end of the pitlane was four percent too light for info. Three burnout start on the right.

Okay, so box now, practice pitstop.

Okay, no launch and switch off in the box and we'll push you through.

Okay, very good. I'll get a couple of comments when you're plugged in. A few interesting takeaways from that, I think. Yeah.

I guess the drop was still too light, right? It was, yeah. Yeah, it's the gloves. I will change for the race. Just hold fire on that, there's a few checks we want to make, make sure everything's where it should be as well, so let's not be too hasty.

I'm pretty confident.