Okay Alex, so everybody on medium tyres bar. Stroll P13, he's on the hard, as is Hamilton P17 and Lawson P19. So three hard runners. Stroll being the one closest to you. Everyone else medium.

Minus five from undergoing form.

Don't put that in, it won't take long to come up, braking into 12. You have a four second gap ahead.

Okay, good start. I was on target looking for two burnouts.

Before you stop, may pull toggle on.

Pressure's in front wing, OK. Just go and race when you can. Yeah, just check front wing. Yeah, pressure's OK for now. I'll aero pressures.

Possible debris turn one.

We saw no damage, yeah?

So far, yes. It's hard to tell with the cars ahead. If you get clear air ahead of you on the stroke, maybe we can get a better read.

Nürburgring, Verstappen, have you set your corner?

Suggest mid eight. Safety car window is closed. Eight. Safety car window is closed.

Turn down these shifts. OK, let's change flaps. We are going to box this lap. We are going to fit the same compound but change the front wing. That will give you an opportunity on flat if you need anything. It may be hard to tell. Potential damage on.

I will show you what to do there.

OK, if you want to. Yeah, it's just one position to work on. Hamilton's out, he's in mid-grapple. I'll just make sure of the wing. Boxing for the wing change should be a long stop, so they need to try the box.

So lock, stop, select neutral.

And then pull first on the orange light.

OK, straight out.

It's clear behind. I close the delta up to zero.

I can close it. Yeah, just need to be positive on the delta.

Currently plus fourteen.

HPP on when you can.

Thrust on the delta now.

Once the safety car goes past SC1, you can close up, but wait until you get that.

There's a recovery truck on the tracker around turn 90. Take caution.

The ship settings are green 10, position 3. Green 10, position 3.

Okay, that's twice past SC car. SC, the one-line thing. We are on the back of the grid already.

Safety car will be in this lap.

Car lengths from here, you're looking at plan B.

Yeah, that's why I don't understand.

HPP off.

Safety cars just approaching the pitlane.

Switchwise is just go race.

Plan B won't work. Not like this.

DRS enabled. We're looking at all options. Alex, we'll come back to you.

Okay, we're looking into possible floor damage from lap 1. Incident from behind. Once you're in the field for tyres, I'll be on a balance. Yeah, it feels like I'm about four turns too much. Roger.

Suggest push toggle for 20 if you need to stabilise.

HPP off.

If you can give me feedback on the pace, I'll offer a compromise at the floor in a minute.

There's not much more pace left.

With a few more laps running, still a pinion of four turns off our numbers. Difficult in traffic but potentially around two.

I'm going to have a look at turn 19, that's the worst corner.

So the rears on this tyre should start to come back to you in the next lap or two, as the tread goes.

Two laps ago it was track no-brakes, turn 12, first track.

Put the same tyre compound, give you more than three turns down.

Honestly, I'm confused. It's like it's understeering so much in some places as well. Weird.

Sixteen laps into this race and we don't know what the people are doing.

OK, so lap average is about two turns but we can see the increase in loss in the left-hand corner at 19.

That's Magnussen pitted onto the hard tyre two and a half back. Potentially Gasly will be pitting ahead and emerge around you.

Okay, Gasly, pitch your nose around you.

OK, we need a few more laps like this at the moment. Gap at 1.32 kmeg. If we can get anywhere near to Stroll to get DRS for the next few laps, that would help. Yep, I know.

0.6.

It's okay, stick with it.

So we think the damage is biased to one side of the floor. I plan to take out two turns overall for the damage adjustment. Unless you shout.

Potentially worth four turns in 19.

Tyre switch update when you can, seeing if we can try and get a bit of good tyre delta later on.

This pace is good.

If the low speeds start to get more front limited, you can reduce the mid to eight.

That's why we...

If you want me to stay out of everyone, just tell me.

That's correct, Alex. This is the best approach at the minute. Trying to get a delta at the end, but we're in the position we are. Yeah, but I don't know what we're doing. Like, I don't know what the plan is. Nothing.

Okay, plan is at least five more laps. Next tyre will be a hard tyre.

There's 28 laps to go and at the stop at the moment there's been no adjust. It's correct for the damage and the compound.

It's a long stint, so just wait for damage to be fixed.

HPP on when you can.

The car is coming back to me. It's just fucking around.

Yeah, copy. We're doing our best to try and salvage something after the incident at turn 1.

But if the tyres are coming back, then it's looking better. There's 27 laps to go. Total strike count at 2 now for info 2.

Where? For what? Where do you keep pushing me off?

Yeah, that's quite possible, but that's what we're working to on the board, I'm afraid.

Let's go mode 11 when you can.

Strat cam 1 now.

What? No, it's been corrected. One total, one total.

It's good pace. We'll extend as long as we can at the moment. Bottas within 1.3, Alonso behind him.

Keep pushing, Alex, keep pushing.

Box, box.

Okay, it's going to be a hard tyre.

You'll have a tyre violation on Zhou.

Be two seconds ahead, be over tyre advantage and we'll get past.

A bit too late on it.

Happy to open the tools up if you need.

19 laps to go.

Gap at six. About half a second on that quick cut.

At this pace you should be in range with Stroll with six laps to go. Expect red and blue flags for Leclerc in two laps and then four laps to Sainz.

Was it not better to have blocked a bit earlier and avoid these?

Well, you've got new tyres at the minute. Let's make the most of it.

Gap to Stroll just over four. Gap to Leclerc just over two.

Split flag, you're clear.

Happy to use push toggle for 19 if you need.

Gap mode 11.

Blue for Sainz, when you can.

Okay, nine laps to go, nine to go.

Let's go back to mode 7 for now. 8 laps to go.

That's another six tenths on Stroll.

Gap less than two. Four laps for a blue flag for Verstappen and Norris battling.

Suggest mid 7 for low speed if you need. Go mode 11 as well. Mode 11. Mid 7 if you need.

That's five laps to go.

Okay, just got a total strike count of two at the minute. That's just picked up from eight laps ago. Total two. The battle's busy behind 4.4 behind.

Three laps to go.

Mode 9. Exit 11. Early overtake on both laps. Two to go. Mode 9. Early overtake. Exit 11.

Okay, early overtake. Norris 1.7 back. Verstappen 4 back.

Start in the last lap. Blue flag for Norris. Gap between him. Three seconds to Verstappen.

Push and hold exit 11. Hold straight.

OK, check and flag.

You can leave it and go race for now.

Switch, change blue one position 12 and mode 14.

Well done, Alex. You're showing good resilience out there. Unfortunately, when someone hit you into turn one, that damaged the car and it was race over for you. Thank you for fighting through. The good news is the car's got pace, so we'll get it right in qualy and we've got a good chance the remaining of the year. Yeah, well, we need to fix the car. I don't think it's all that great. I don't think we are understanding it much with the re-locking, but well done to Franco. I think we're quicker than the midfield, most of them. Yeah, understood on that re-locking. We will get on top of it.

Parc fermé, well done.