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

Five minutes till we go. Five minutes.

OK, Nico. Everyone's medium except for, behind us, Stroll, hard, Colapinto, hard, Hamilton, hard, Lawson, hard, and Russell from pitlane, hard.

Okay, so two minutes till we go. When we fire up, you'll switch on the pit limiter.

Nico, add one burnout before turn 20.

Possible debris, turn 1.

DRS enabled.

Car behind is Stroll on a hard.

Safety car, safety car, get positive on delta time and stay out. Plus positive on delta time, stay out. Hamilton is stuck in the gravel at 19 exit.

So it's double yellow 19.

OK, double yellow, turn 19.

Okay, that's once passed, so we're still obeying the delta time, the leader, safety car has the leader in turn 2, leader Leclerc.

So, Nico, when we go back to racing, we only need 50 metres lift in coast for cooling. Otherwise, whatever you need for tyres, everything else is OK. Copy that. Felt pretty good, the car. I was following the air by saving a lot of tyre. Feels like I've got some pace. OK, good stuff. So, Alonso is on the medium and behind you, Stroll and Lawson are both on hards. Alonso is an used mate and he's not unused on you. It's a new medium. New medium.

Okay, there's a recovery vehicle on track, turn 19.

OK, Nico, that's twice passed, but we're all packed up anyway. So we don't need any lifting coast for cooling or brakes or anything, so just what you need for tyre health. Yep, got it.

Nico, we can go mode W, mode W now, which will just get some fuel.

OK, Nico, safety car in this lap. Safety car is still with leader Leclerc, going into 12. We can use mode RS and then you switch to push or F1 when you feel you can.

Let's do it out of turn one, so don't stay in mode RS too long. But you can use K1 when need.

Okay, the safety car is leaving the leader, so leader Leclerc in 14, safety car in 15.

You can go back to mode RS.

Leclerc go in 15. Safety car is in 18.

Okay, safety car is in the pit entry.

DRS enabled.

Nice Nico, Perez and Tsunoda ahead.

Oh, it's suddenly much worse this year. It's like the worst.

Copy that, Nico. We see it. Go SOC 7 for a couple laps. SOC 7 for now.

Nico, we have margin at 18 and 19. Turn 6 is the highest sliding corner.

How much would you say you're managing right now, Nico, time-wise?

Couple of tenths. Not too crazy much actually.

Copy that, Nico. Safety car window is open.

We're looking plan B, Nico. The car behind is lost. It's too much understeer at high speed now for sure.

Not sure if your front left is opening up a bit already. Doesn't look in the best condition. Copy that.

OK, we'll go SOC 6. SOC 6. Understood on balance. That FUNC 3 is available for that sector 1.

VSC window is open. So is this balance too much understeer? Do we need to add an extra amount for the next tyre? Yes, absolutely. B-Bal offset, probably more.

Copy that, Nico.

I'd say 1% more air balance.

Copy that on balance, Nico. We're still looking plan B. We need more saving in turn 17, please. That will help.

B is going to be very tough. Tyres are starting to go.

Copy that, Nico. Both axles or just front limitation? Both axles. So still do you want to put that much on for the next tyre?

Maybe half, like in the middle. 0.75 or something like that. Yeah, copy that.

Anyway, if it's the heart, you know, it's always more understeer. I think the heart can take 1%.

Your pace is still good, Nico, and we're not really under threat from behind. P6 Gasly is doing 41.5. Yeah, I see it. Copy.

Okay, use the tyres now. Nico, use what pace you have.

If we're not on a thread, it's no point boxing now. Because we're just going to lose out. Let's create that tyre delta now if we can. Yep, extend.

So yes, Nico, we'll just go as long as we can. So take this tyre as long as you can.

Nico, you can manage a little more in turn 4 and 17.18.

Pace is good. We have two track limits. One was turn 12 with Tsunoda, one in turn 19 a few laps ago.

Are you joking? With Tsunoda? He's racing, he's pushing me off. Got to argue that one. We have argued.

So I've got just one lap left, right? Fuck me.

Gary, one left. One more. And then you get the warning. Yeah, so you're fine.

Anyway, it's going really good, Nico. Your pace is the same as Perez. You're in a great situation.

What lap time is that? Gasly and Kevin going.

You've already overcut Gasly. He's doing 141 and Kevin's a bit stuck as well.

That's the kind of stuff we need to know, yeah? Yeah, copy that. So Kevin's 141 on the hard and he's behind Stroll.

So, Nico, the next car you're going to clear is Albon doing 1.42 and then after him Ocon doing 1.41.7, so you're going to clear a couple more cars. It's all going well.

Balance is getting more neutral again. Better.

You copy that on the balance? Yeah, copy that on the balance.

I'm not so sure we need that one percent. Yeah, Laura's going to pull it back. So Russell behind on race start hard doing 40.2. Don't lose any race time to him. He has a five second penalty at his stop.

So we've cleared Albon. Next car we'll clear is Stroll doing 42.

We still gap at the others? Yep.

They are medium and hard. So you've done Stroll already. Next is Ocon. Coming, Kevin and Gasly. Kevin and Gasly with tyre. Kevin is on the hard now. Gasly, you're clearing him, he's on the hard.

I'm going to lose 2-3 seconds with Russell, then he comes by.

Understood, Nico.

Yeah, use everything now, Nico. We're gonna try go for optimum race time then, not lose time with Russell.

Nico, we're going to add 0.2 to the next tyre. How much? 0.2, 0.2 percent. Fuck! These cones are not good. Is this B or which road?

Which strategy are we on?

We can do C, we can do C. It's looking good. So we'll box now, Nico, box now.

Box now will be racing slow. Ocon at the exit.

Heading 0.35.

So Ocon will be ahead on very old medium.

Situation behind me. Gasly 5 behind. He's on his hard. He did medium hard. Fire H. Nine laps. He's doing 41.5.

So yeah, we can take this all the way. It should be fine, Nico. You'll have the pace on Ocon here and then we'll get into getting to the end. Oh, easy dental now. Couple laps. Yeah, copy that.

Okay, Nico, so the deg is low, so it looks like lots of people will be trying one stop, so we're just working out how that's going to play out. Lawson Colapinto still on race start hard.

Okay, good job, Nico. 25 to go at the line. These tyres will make it no problem, so you can use them, okay? We need to close down on the guys who started on hard because they'll have a tyre advantage on the end when they put the medium on.

Good lap. This is a good pace.

Yeah, but I shouldn't overuse now if I don't have to. When Sergio came in on, I thought we overcut him, he said.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying. Kevin's doing 40.5. For sure Lawson and Colapinto will have newer mediums at the end coming up to us, so you do need some tyre for the end. So just find the right level for you.

Can you let me know what Kevin is doing? Yeah, copy. Talking about it right now.

So Kevin's laps are 15 laps old. Kevin's tyres, he's doing 40.2 to try to get to the end with this tyre, his tyre.

The other hard-starting car, Colapinto, is five seconds ahead, so when he pits he'll be well behind.

Do you want to play this? I'm starting to feel the aero effect. Yeah, as soon as we get in DRS.

Alright, it's kind of inefficient because I'm using a tyre now.

Kevin's boxing.

That's Colapinto three ahead. He's on the hard and he has to box too.

OK, Nico, so the people who are racing Colapinto 3 ahead on hard still has to stop. Lawson is 12 behind on 2 lap old medium. He's doing 39. We'll monitor his pace.

Okay, it's Colapinto, box 17 to go from here.

So Lawson still 12 behind Lawson doing at 39.2.

Ok, currently P8. Russell just boxed. He'll probably come out a little behind.

So, Russell four behind on new medium. When he gets to S8, he'll be much quicker.

He had to serve a five-second penalty. So still doing good compared to Lawson. Gap is still 11.5.

15 to go. We suggest EB7. Are we going to be lapped or not? No.

Press oil pump button. Oil pump button.

Loss in 11 behind.

Russell, 1.7 behind doing 37s, so when he comes, don't lose any race time with him.

Lawson doing 38.8. OK, Gary, just stop it for a moment.

Good job. Gap behind is 10.

And Nico, we had a third track limit, so we cannot have any more track limits. You're good. Gap is 9.5.

Where was it?

It was turn 9, lap 40.

Eleven to go. Gap 9.8.

10 to go. Gap 9.8.

Gap 9.5. OK. No more until it's really getting close.

Copy that.

Starting last lap.

Gap behind. Seven seconds.

Checkered flag, Nico. Checkered flag. P8. Awesome drive.

Seven and a half seconds ahead of Lawson at the end. Four seconds behind Perez. Brilliant. P8. Well done, cowboy. Good waking up from yesterday. Good job, team. Thank you very much. Nice one-stop, Nico. Maximized it. We'll have charge on, please. Charge on.

Can you give me the top ten, please? Sure. P1 Leclerc, P2 Sainz, P3 Verstappen, 4th Norris, 5th Piastri, 6th Russell, 7th Perez, you're 8th, Lawson 9, Colapinto 10, Kevin finished 11. You were 3.8 behind Perez and 7.6 ahead of Lawson.