Radio check, Gary. Radio check. Loud and clear, Nico. Seven minutes till we go. Seven.

Just, Mike, was the other car at 6 or 7 laps to grid?

OK, Nico. So, Albon is on hard, Ricardo is on hard, Norris, Zhou on hard, Gasly on hard, Ocon on hard. So the cars around us, P9, Albon on hard and Ricardo, P14 on hard. Lando, P15 on hard. OK, two minutes till we go. Two minutes. When we fire up, you'll turn the pit limiter on. Keep the pit limiter until the line. Remember mode RS for the start.

Remember, pit limits are on.

Small push, small push.

Stroll has a puncture.

DRS enabled.

Okay, good job, Nico. Let's look after the rears now. Let's watch the throttle pickup.

Car behind is Ricciardo. He's swapped. Everything is good, so let's just look after these rears.

Doing good on traction, just turn 6 and 7 are the worst, if you can help.

Moore, Lifting Coast, turn 1, turn 3, please.

You're doing a good job. Turn 7, turn 15. Still watch the pickup.

Good job, Nico. How are the tyres? Tyres are stable. It's OK.

Nico will swap on the pit straight.

We'll swap on pit straight. Copy.

Okay, good job. Let's focus on those rears, the last part of throttle especially.

Still doing good on plan A. Rear overheating is increasing. More lift and coast will help that.

Tsunoda is holding up a lot of cars behind. It's opening a nice gap. He's doing like 51s. This pace is excellent.

So far, Alonso and Colapinto have stopped. They're like 12 and 15 seconds behind. All OK.

Usage 10-16. Can't turn the car there.

Copy, we're checking turn 2, 7 and 15 are the only traction machines. Good job. Yeah, yeah, 60 here.

Understeer and oversteer increasing now.

Copy that. For next tyre we would add P5.

Let's use it all now. Let's use it now, please.

Front right opening up, yeah. A lot.

Copy that. Go not long now.

We're opening our gap. It's OK.

I will be adding 0.5 for the hard.

We will box this lap. We'll be close to Joe on exit.

Verstappen close behind.

Box now, Nico. Box now. Close to 0.

Mode push, mode push. Check func.

Good job, Nico. Gap is already two seconds behind.

Ricciardo is eight seconds ahead. Race start hard doing 51.3.

Tyre introduction looking good.

Hamilton on hard. Boxed three laps earlier than you. He's behind Oli. He has similar pace to you. He'll be catching us later, but similar pace.

Good job, Nico. You have Gasly inside safety car window now.

Gasly is on race start hard in P10.

Excellent, Nico. You've got Colapinto and Gasly. You're inside their safety car window. Good job.

33.0 laps to go.

Alonso, who's pitted already, he's doing 49.3. He's 10 seconds ahead. You're catching him, but we have margin to protect the rears, okay?

And we'll keep the lift and coast a little higher, please, for fuel.

Alonso 49.0, 9.5 ahead.

Alonso 49.1

Gasly, race start hard 49.6.

Great job, Nico. And you're catching Colopinto. Colopinto is suffering front right graining.

Brake balance plus half percent forward to help front tyre temp and turn 4 exit traction.

I can't hear you well in the straight.

Speed point, slower bit. Yeah, 4 traction.

Colopinto, 5 ahead, really struggling with front right.

24 to go at the line. Main concern is front tyre temp, but we need the lift in coast.

Alonso 7 ahead, 48.7.

We think Albon will box. He'll come out just ahead of you.

102 stop. He's going from hard to medium one stop.

23.0 to go. Albon stayed out, but he's got to take a medium to the end, so he's got a challenge.

Alonso, 48.6.

Albon could be this lap.

Albon stayed out.

Brake balance half percent forward if you think you can take it.

Alonso, 6 ahead, 48.9.

21 laps to go. Albon stayed out. Let's get this tyre to the end.

Traction 4 and 7.

Alonso has dropped off. He's 49.3.

Albon's boxing, he'll be close or one second behind, but focus on our race and our tyres.

We've got to get our tyres to the end.

Good job. Good job. Just protect the ears.

OK, you're P10, Alonso P8, everyone's going to the end.

Yes, Nico.

I know it's fucking slow. Don't worry about it.

Albon behind.

15 to go at the line. Let's get the tyre to the end.

All OK. Still P10. We're in P10. He's got to get to the end too. We've got to get our right rear to the end. The right rear is our biggest worry.

Colapinto is four seconds behind and he's slow and holding up people.

So not much pressure from behind, so look after the right rear.

Think about mode F1 and we need some lift and coast for fuel.

10, 12 to go at the line. Good job.

Press oil pump button. Pump button.

Hamilton is six behind. He's faster than Colapinto. If he gets around him, he'll be racing us with two laps to go.

Traction turn 4 and 7.

Hamilton is six behind.

So Hamilton's catching Colopinto, but he still has to get around him.

It's 8 to go at the line. Right rear wear is probably our limitation.

That is what it is. Just driving now. Thank you.

Colopinto picked up pace. He's 3.5 behind, doing 47.4.

Suggestion brake balance half percent rearward, head seven.

Colapinto, 47.5. Gap... No more. No more.

Puncture. I think I hit the wall in front of my puncture. Copy, go. Pressure is OK for now. I think it's stuck. What to do? I still have tyre pressure. Tyre pressure is OK.

Fuck!

Okay, mode push, mode push. The tyres are okay. I am on push. In button off.

Press in button. You've got it clicked. Unclick it. Yeah, it's not working.

Car is all okay. Two to go at the line.

Yellow turn 2. Yellow turn 2. Double yellow between 2 and 3. Signs crashed. Double yellow between 2 and 3. Stay to the right. Stay to the right.

It's a yellow. Shit, I hit something big. It's gonna be a red flag.

I hit something big with the front wing. OK, we're checking.

Man, how have they not, like... B-S-C, B-S-C. No way! Yeah, it's rubbish.

One lap to go at the line.

Starting last lap. Medical car is on track. It's double yellow where the crash was. Stay hard right.

Still double yellow. Stay to the right. Hard right.

Yeah, copy that, Nico.

Stay close to the delta time, Nico, in case someone has to stop in the pitlane. So get close to the delta time, please.

So get down to zero or closer to it. Bearman's five ahead.

Okay, B4 ahead. We're coming around to the checker.

I see you're coming down on delta time, that's good.

Checkered flag, Nico. Checkered flag.

And press in button.

Ok, sorry Nico. We'll see you back here. We'll get on our way to Singapore. You don't have to be sorry mate. I'm sorry. I let you guys down. I let us down today. And the irony is, one of the best races here.

Yeah, Nico, it's brutal. We're all in it together, man.