Radio check, Nico.

Radio check, Nico. Yep, radio's good. Loud and clear. Six and a half minutes till we go.

Ben, could you just move that for one second? Ben, could you just lift that up, the blower? Cool. Put it down again, it's good.

OK, Nico. Everyone is on a medium, except for Hamilton is on a soft, and Ricciardo P16 is on a soft, and then the last three cars, Stroll, Bottas, Zhou, are all on hard, and then Kevin's on hard. OK, two minutes till we go. Two minutes. When we fire up, we'll put the pitlimiter on, you keep it until the line, and then remember, back to mode RS for the start.

DRS enabled.

Good job, Nico. Tyres good, lift and coast is good.

Is Alonso behind, right? Correct, Alonso.

Temps are all good at this lifting coast. Surface overheating on the rear is starting to increase.

Nico, Colapinto is in 9, Tsunoda 11, so they have a gap to us, so we'll try and extend a bit. Extend.

A bit too much flap now.

OK, understood. Stroll and Kevin are struggling a bit on hard, so go longer on this one if we can.

Brakes hot.

They are at the top of the working range. Increasing lift and coast will help.

Rear tyre temps have peaked. They're coming down now. The rear will get better.

It's all going well, Nico. We'll go as long as we can. Good job.

Nico, watch 13 traction, please.

Sainz and Albon have boxed already. We're just monitoring the gaps behind, but you're doing good.

How are the tyres, Nico? How are the tyres? Yeah, they're stable. It's OK.

All good from our side too. Leclerc is threatening Alonso now.

Safety car and VSC windows are open.

Nico, we still think the hard might be front limited, so we'll still add a bit on the hard.

It will have less overheating too.

How's the tyre, Nico? Still okay?

Yep, at this pace, this is the pace we can do. Not sure, but we need to drop some aerobalance.

Are we capping the people?

Albon retired, so we're not worried about the gaps behind right now.

This pace and deg is good and we're clearing the slow cars.

I think maybe just leave the aerobalance as it is. Don't pick up.

Copy that, Nico. Hard will be more front limited, so that's good. We'll leave it.

We're close to clearing Stroll on the race start hard, so that's good. Pace is good.

OK, Nico, watch the combined exit. Turn 8, turn 13.

Pace is very good and you have cleared Stroll now.

OK, Leclerc behind now.

OK, Nico. Alonso boxed. Yeah, he boxed. We're just monitoring. He's boxed.

Alonso is going to run into loose traffic.

OK. This is why rears are also struggling more and more. This is FYI. Yeah, copy that, we see it.

Alonso's in the group behind Kevin. Kevin's doing 40.5, so we will eventually clear Kevin if we can go a few more laps.

I was only going to lose like one or two seconds with Leclerc when he comes through.

Yeah, understood there. We'll still be able to clear Kevin, we hope.

All OK. All OK. Still opening a gap. And Mugon behind. Who's that? Colapinto. Similar pace.

Let's not get undercut by these guys. Copy that.

We're still zero on flap, Nico. Do you see data? Do you see what's going on? Yes, copy that.

But if we get gaping there, are you going to sit it out? No, we're good now. Box now, Nico, box now.

Okay, Colapinto boxed as well. Remember mode RS.

I just have Gasly to deal with.

Gasly close on exit. Gasly slow. Hold tyre.

Perez and Colapinto, new tyre behind.

Mode F1 when you can.

Come on!

Good job, Nico.

32.0 to go, Nico. Bring it home. Colapinto, I know what is going on with Perez's tyres. I need some stuff, man. Come on. Perez, new tyre, same as you. Hitted one lap earlier. Colapinto, same lap as you.

In the first stint you were quicker than Perez. Colapinto is still behind Gasly.

Fernando is behind us somewhere or what? Fernando eight ahead. He pitted like seven laps earlier than you.

You're quicker than Perez everywhere. He's only keeping up when he has DRS.

Your pace is good, you're quicker than Alonso.

Tyres looking good. You're quicker than Alonso and Sainz ahead.

Alonso is six ahead, Sainz nine ahead, so you're just closing up to them.

Currently P9, so Sainz and Alonso will be in play at the end of the race, so we'll just keep going like this.

Leclerc is boxing on the hard. Boxing on the hard, he'll close at the exit.

Brake balance half percent rearward. Tyres are looking good.

What's the delta and tyre age? Alonso and us? Alonso is five laps older. Five laps older.

Oh man, those shitty brakes we have. The medium pressure brakes.

Yeah, copy that, Nico. Still very good lap time. Alonso's doing 38.4.

Twenty-two laps to go at the line. Leclerc overtook Alonso. Alonso 4.2 ahead.

Brake balance half percent rearward.

Press oil pump button. Pump button.

Nico, the tyres are looking good at this pace. You're protecting them well. Perez may be picking up the pace. Alonso, 38.3, still closing on him.

I don't agree with the rearwards braking. What about all the medium brakes sliding the rear more?

Copy that, Nico. Go with your feeling. That was just for front locking. Go with your feeling.

You can see Perez has picked up his pace behind.

It's difficult in his wake now. Sorry, I can feel it.

Copy that. Perez has same complaint behind you.

The tyres are looking very good, Nico. Very good.

All temperatures are good, so lift and coast, just whatever you need for you.

Kevin is slow with the puncture. Kevin slow into 14.

8 to go at the line. P9. Good job.

Six to go. Perez will have the blue first.

Five to go at the line. Norris blue in one or two laps.

Four to go. Norris isn't catching that quickly.

Okay, Perez had the blue, so now Norris 2.7 behind leader. He'll be a blue next lap.

Brake balance half percent rearward if you want for front lock.

Blue flag Norris. Blue flag Norris. Perez three behind Norris.

Perez, three behind.

It will be one lap to go at the line.

Starting last lap, Perez 2 behind.

Checkered flag, Nico. Checkered flag. Charge on.

That's P9, Nico. Outstanding drive. Perfect drive.

Oh boy. I guess nobody said it was easy. Oh, fuck me. It was hard to bring that tyre home. Yeah, amazing Nico, you're pulling away from Perez. Great drive. No safety cars. Unbelievable.

It's a great job, man. P9.

Can you give me the ranking, please? Yeah, copy. Sorry about that. P1 Norris, 2 Verstappen, 3 Piastri, 4 Russell, 5 Leclerc, 6 Hamilton, 7 Sainz, 8 Alonso, 9 you, 10 Perez, and then Colapinto, Tsunoda, Ocon, Stroll, Zhou, Bottas, Gasly, Ricciardo, and Kevin retired, Albon retired. So, no points for Williams or Arpi.

But I guess, I don't know, the undercut from Alonso. Not ideal. Five laps in clean air is probably possible. Yeah, copy that. One safety car would have ruined it, but yeah. Anyway, your drive was perfect. Thank you.