Radio check, Gary. Radio check. Loud and clear, Nico. Seven and a half minutes.

Okay Nico, it's five minutes till we go. Just do what you want on start-brake balance.

OK, Nico. So, hard tyres. Lawson, hard. And then Bottas, Colapinto, Perez, Zhou, Ocon, hard. So, in terms of people close to us, Lawson behind on hard. Everyone else, medium. Two and a half minutes till we go. When we fire up, you can turn the limiter on and keep the limiter until the line and then back to mode RS for the race start.

Two minutes till we go. Two minutes.

Clutch drop on target, Nico.

Add one burnout if you can.

Good luck. Good start.

Safety car, safety car, stay out, stay out, just get plus positive on delta time. Excellent job, Nico.

So, Tsunoda is out and looks like also Albon.

And we will stay out.

Okay, that's one time by. It's double yellow 1-2-3 and also watch for debris. 1-2-3. Stay right towards turn 1. And safety car has the leader going into turn 1.

Quite a lot of small debris all around here. I will report it.

Is that Gasly behind me? That's correct. Gasly, then Lawson behind you.

OK, so Kevin's P7, your P8. P9 Gasly, P10 Lawson. Lawson's on hard. And then Stroll, Alonso on medium. And then P13 Perez is on hard. And then a bunch more cars at the back on hard.

Okay, that's two times past the line. Safety car has leader Verstappen going.

Still double yellow and possibly still debris.

OK, Nico, mode W. Mode W. And keep on working on those tyres.

Okay, good job on tyres, they're coming up.

Nico, on the restart you can use mode RS but then go back to push before turn 1.

They still have not recovered Albon's car, so that's the delay. Still double yellow. One, two, three.

There's a vehicle on track on the left between 3 and 4.

OK, the track is now clear. Safety car is in one with Verstappen.

OK, Nico, safety car in this lap. Use mode RS, then back to push.

OK, the safety car is leaving Verstappen now. Verstappen's in 11.

Okay, Verstappen has slowed the pack in 12 safety cars away from Verstappen.

Safety cars in pit entry.

DRS enabled.

We suggest brake balance half percent rearward.

Front brakes. I don't feel too happy. We always talk at the same time. Front is not good, but the rear also. Struggling. Find good rhythm.

Copy that, Nico. Just more lift and coast at 12 for front brakes.

We're looking if we can find anything to help Nico. Just for info, Lawson is struggling on the hard.

We suggest shape 3. Shape 3.

I don't know, maybe too much air balance.

Struggling on the exits of the three. It's messy.

Copy that, Nico.

More lift in coast turn 4.

I'm not much help here now. There's a lot of bit going on understeer, but at the same time stability entry and exit. Feels very warm.

Nico, we suggest shape 4, EB4. That will stabilise entry a little.

OK, Nico, you're opening the gap to Gasly now. He's doing 23.6 without DRS. There's some debris at turn 5 exit, so don't run wide on turn 5 exit this lap.

Good job, Nico. Gasly, 23.9.

Okay, you're now doing same lap time as Kevin, 23.3. Gasly, 23.6. Opening the gap behind. Good job.

I can't read the balance. It's a mix between oversteer and understeer. I don't know what I want for the next one. OK, copy that. For now we just have 0.3 off and then we can talk again.

It's like low speed, there's quite a lot of understeer. But then high speed and exits are quite oversteery.

Okay, you can start to push the tools a little bit for the low speed, if you want to try them. Stability doesn't really allow that.

Yeah, copy that.

So, Nico, we'll take more flap off to stabilise the car and then you'll be able to use the tools more for the low speed mid-corner understeer. So we'll take more off for now.

OK, Nico. Safety car and VSC windows are open. Gasly still doing 23.3. Kevin 23.1.

Lap time deg is on target, so that's all good. Gasly, 23.7.

OK, this is very good now. Same lap time as Kevin and Gasly, 23.8.

Tires don't feel so good. I feel like they take a step.

Copy that, Nico.

We suggest diff 21. The deg is still good. There's all those hard start in cars that we would be behind if we box now, just for info.

Copy. Yeah, let's not do that.

How does it look to you? More oversteer or understeer? Well, we see the understeer increasing now.

It was two oversteer before. We had rear left graining. That's cleared. Kevin has some front graining difficulty.

But like understeer in 12 is huge now.

Just a bit worried on the hard. Usually more understeer. Copy. Gasly just boxed and we are thinking about the hard right now too. Let's use it now.

There is not more to use. That's it.

Copy that. We'll take 0.3 off for the hard and you can use 2 understeer.

Box now, Nico, box now. Copy.

OK, Nico, standard outlap. Gasly, four behind. He just pit on the hard. Zhou ahead is on hard. You'll be much quicker than him. Mode push, mode push.

We took off 0.25 aerobalance, so think about tools for understeer.

Okay, Kevin boxed. He'll come out ahead. Be close on pit exit because he had a slow stop.

Excellent, Nico.

Update of Gasly. Okay, Gasly's doing 22.5 and he's still two seconds behind Zhou. Next ahead is Ocon, four ahead on 30 laps old hard, doing 23s.

Okay, good lap. We're getting inside Lawson's safety car pit window. Lawson's doing 1.23. Ocon's doing 1.23, so we're catching the people we need to.

OK, and Gasly behind. He got around Zhou. He's three behind. I'm not sure about his pace. We'll see what he's in free air.

Good job. Next one is Bottas. Four ahead on hard.

Now Bottas three ahead. He's on 34 lap old hards doing 23.3.

Gasly is four behind. He's doing 22.5.

You can try FUNC 3 for the high speed understeer.

Good job, Nico.

OK, Nico. Management is good. Lifting coast level. We need that for brakes, what we were doing before, so that's good. You're well inside Lawson's safety car window. All OK there.

Nico, you could go to DX4 if F3 was too much. The next hardrunner is Colapinto, 4 ahead, doing 23.2.

Press oil pump button. So Piastri boxed. He'll be coming out on a hard like 10 seconds behind.

So Piastri will be coming through later, but we'll see what kind of pace he has then.

Okay, that's Colapinto. 40 lap old hards. We suggest P6 to help stabilise low speed.

Okay, good job Nico, you're P8 now.

OK, Nico, 28 laps to go. There's no more hard runners to overtake, so we are where we are. Piastri behind is quicker, but he's still like 10 behind. We'll see what kind of progress he makes.

What is Kevin using on the tools and the TV and stuff?

Kevin is E-B4, shape 3, head 7.

And diff is same and he is braking balance half percent forward.

Kevin, lap time is 21.6 and then Piastri is six behind. He's doing 21.0.

Have the other hard starters already pitted? Yeah, everyone else hard is clear. No more hard starters to pass. So have they pitted? It's a different question.

Lawson has pitted. Colapinto, Ocon, they're still going.

Lawson is 18 behind, stuck behind Stroll.

So 25 laps to go. Piastri is the only car that will interact with. Piastri 5 behind, 21-0.

And we have no concerns at all on hard tyre life.

Colapinto boxed. It's Piastri behind. He's 7.5 behind now.

Lifting coast is good. Still need it for brakes.

Nico, we suggest P7, EB6. The only loss to Kevin is turn 1.

Piastri, five behind, he's doing a 20.8.

Nineteen laps to go. Only loss to Kevin is for apex speed. Piastri, three behind, doing 20.5.

So Piastri 1.4 behind, no other threats, so he is 4th position.

Who is kind of behind us, next car behind, that we're racing or would race against? Gasly is 12 behind Piastri. Gasly 12 behind Piastri.

Gasly, 12 behind.

So it's 15 to go. Gasly doing 21.5. He's 11 behind on same lap old, 28 lap old hard.

Okay, currently P9. Gasly's doing 21.4, 12 behind.

Nico on tyres. There's just too much slip on 3 exit, so try to pull back braking of one and focus on protecting the exit in 3.

It's just not happy. It's not working at all.

Copy that, Nico. Still matching pace with Gasly.

Okay, so 11 laps to go. We might have leader Sainz right at the end for a blue. We'll see how his pace is.

K10 to go. Gasly still 13 behind. Same lap time.

And wind is increasing.

Nico, press oil pump button. Pump button.

OK, Nico, seven or eight more laps depending on Sainz. He'll probably catch us right at the end.

Gasly, 16 behind. Leader, Sainz, 6 behind.

Nico, we can reduce lift in coast 4 and 12 to keep tyre temp.

Stay left in turn 2. Exit for possible debris.

Sainz four behind. He'll be a blue in two or three laps.

Possible debris turn 12.

Yeah, it's okay. It's off the racing line, so not bad the debris. Copy that, Nico. We'll report.

Sainz leader 2.5 behind. Probably blue next lap. No other threats. Gasly is 18 behind.

Okay, so it's two to go, but when Sainz goes past this, it'll be one to go. Sainz 2.5 behind.

Blue flag signs and then you will be the checker.

Still debris, middle of track, turn 12.

Checkered flag, Nico. Checkered flag. Charge on. And that's P9. Good job, man.

Looks like Kevin is going to make it, right? Yes, Kevin is going to hold on for P7. Awesome job, team. Nice weekend. Very, very good feeling, but I don't know. Feeling wise, we need to have a deep look, because we just didn't have the pace. Yeah, we agree, Nico. It's been the same struggle all weekend, so I think we'll work on some car stuff for next week. Just couldn't quite get what you wanted out of it. So, very good to get the P9.

Just a reminder that Norris will be stopping at turn 13 and we continue into the pitlane like normal.

That's Kevin confirmed in P7, so double points again.

Congrats team. Awesome job. You deserve it. Well done. Yeah, awesome.