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George Russell
19:53:05
Radio check.
19:53:11
Copy.
19:55:05
Katsuo, I think the 55-56 turn 1 looked fine, didn't it, on these laps? Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, it looked good. And it's now five minutes to formation lap.
19:56:07
And you're okay with strap 14 just for the first half lap?
19:57:18
Three minutes.
19:57:21
So start tyres, everyone from P1 to P11 is on medium tyres. And hard start tyres are Lawson P12, Bottas P15, Colapinto P16 and Perez, Zhou, Ocon at the back of the grid.
19:57:41
Piastri? Piastri is on new medium.
19:58:18
Two minutes.
19:58:48
Ninety seconds. Fire up. Pit limiter on.
19:59:18
One minute.
19:59:32
Forty-five seconds.
19:59:47
Bite point find. 30 seconds.
20:00:02
Fifteen seconds.
20:00:40
My clutch was one percent shallow.
20:01:28
So, keep working those tyres. Doing a good job so far. Think about brake temperatures for turn 12.
20:01:50
Is that coasting from here?
20:02:16
There will be two burnouts starting at P19, Zhou. Final one, P12, Lawson.
20:03:06
And I see Strat 5.
20:03:16
So, set B-Bal.
20:03:35
That last car approached at the back of the grid.
20:04:22
Could be a safety car soon.
20:04:51
Safety car, safety car. Get the delta positive for staying out. Strat 1.
20:05:05
So, any debris will be on the left-hand side, braking for turn 1.
20:05:32
So, magic available for front tyres. So, it's a Tsunoda off exit of turn 1 and then we've got Albon parked up to the left-hand side between turns 3, turns 4.
20:05:50
So, recommend that we stay right to avoid any debris.
20:05:56
Understeer at straight or braking for turn 1?
20:06:05
There is some debris in the middle of the track.
20:06:38
So, front tyre temp is still cold. Anything more we can do on those would be useful.
20:08:06
And not sure if debris is still there at turn 1, so we'll just keep hard right again.
20:08:43
And expect that recovery vehicle to still be on track.
20:10:13
So we've still got more margin on the fronts to work on the brakes. Brake magic is available.
20:10:50
Recovery vehicle still on track.
20:12:47
So we've got marshals on track, so no weaving round them.
20:12:55
Turn one looks clean. Copy that. Recovery vehicle's just picked up Albon's car, but he's still on track.
20:13:22
So, doing a good job on tyres. Just keep doing what you're doing, you'll feel it most happens.
20:14:47
Okay, so we're starting to get clear track messages coming through now.
20:15:03
And currently we would be target plus 15. Safety car is in this lap. And at the restart we'll be strat 10 for more deployment.
20:16:00
And we can select Strat 10 now. Safety car lights are out. Verstappen is controlling the pace. Safety car turned 13.
20:16:12
Safety car 14.
20:16:16
Safety car now 16.
20:17:59
So, gap ahead 0.8, behind 0.7. Lewis has a 1.1 ahead of him.
20:18:43
DRS enabled.
20:19:19
Lewis does not have DRS. Plenty of scope to come up on your left. Oxidation. OK for now.
20:21:07
George, we will need to get these brakes under control.
20:21:45
So Lewis will have DRS.
20:22:09
So just keep working on those brakes. I can see they are slowly coming back down to us.
20:23:31
Green 3, position 2. Green 3, position 2. Brakes are still coming towards us.
20:24:44
Lewis doesn't have DRS but do be mindful of these brakes.
20:26:15
So, traction management looks great at the moment, George. Just sliding the rears a bit too much in the high speed. Scope to come up, diff high speed.
20:28:21
Okay, so target plus 15 is a long stint.
20:28:37
Verstappen has a ten second penalty.
20:28:53
And Lewis will have DRS.
20:29:23
So we do still need a bit more brake management, even in this clear air.
20:31:46
Sir, now target plus eight. Hulkenberg in that midfield doing 23.1, so he's struggling to pull the midfield back.
20:32:07
Brakes are under control now.
20:33:10
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20:33:30
Cars ahead look like they might be dropping a little bit. Verstappen, 22.3.
20:34:32
George, some potential debris exit turn 5, looks to be off circuit.
20:34:53
So Verstappen now has a 20 second penalty.
20:35:55
Sir George, currently target plus eight. We're very happy with the tyres. Happy to use a bit more if you think you can.
20:37:19
Thermal advantage by P5.
20:37:40
So, Verstappen currently doing 22.3.
20:37:59
George, we're happy to use the brakes a bit more if you need to for pace.
20:38:40
At green 3, position 1. Green 3, position 1.
20:39:22
George, from our metrics, we look like there's more scope to use the tyres here.
20:40:05
Verstappen last lap was a 22.3.
20:41:25
Verstappen, there was a 22.5, so this is good pace at the moment, George.
20:41:46
Still really happy with traction metrics.
20:42:49
Verstappen, 22.6. Just keep doing what you're doing.
20:44:08
So that's Verstappen in the pitlane.
20:44:31
Cat 2 check. Curb usage plan 3. My last two laps. I think it hasn't been enough.
20:44:52
Just give me an update on balance.
20:45:00
Where the balance is falling out now is good. We're obviously looking for tombs.
20:45:11
Tyres feel okay to extend a little bit.
20:45:21
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20:45:33
Yeah, copy that, George.
20:45:42
Turn 3 looks good.
20:46:56
So Lewis in the pitlane now. It won't be long.
20:47:38
Just think about each time lap.
20:47:52
So, box, box this lap.
20:48:01
Staying out, staying out.
20:48:18
George for next stint, I'm going for zero adjust. Minus point one.
20:48:32
Turn to balance. I need about 0.5, 0.6 off. Yeah, A-firm. Let's see what you've got in scope in terms of tools. Just keep pushing here.
20:49:38
So we've got Norris in the pitlane now and we're just slowly pulling out Lawson and Piastri whilst keeping an eye on Lewis.
20:50:38
Bonks, bonks.
20:51:16
So we're going to drop out with Lawson and Piastri. Reset your diff switches. It's outlap normal.
20:51:26
Got Lawson two seconds behind now.
20:51:35
Why have we done this? Surely we could have done one or two more laps more.
20:52:07
Let's just introduce these tyres.
20:53:29
Okay, so 38 laps to the end.
20:53:45
Take front wing. Something doesn't feel right.
20:53:49
Yeah, I went jacked up.
20:54:08
I had big vibrations when I pulled out from Piastri. Copy that.
20:54:35
Rotation.
20:55:02
Turn 10. The thing is not turn 9. The thing is not turning. Yeah, AFIRM, we're seeing asymmetry across the front wing.
20:55:14
Across the front wing.
20:55:22
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20:55:32
AFOBS left-hand side of the front wing looks to be down on load.
20:57:14
So we're just keeping an eye on pace to work out what we need to do here, George, but we're staying out for now.
20:57:23
Yeah, I can drive around it.
20:57:35
Copy that, thank you. Obviously, I don't know what the downforce territory is. I don't have tyres I can drive around.
20:58:15
And, George, there is more scope to come up on EB as that helps to rotate the car where you need to.
20:59:33
Just keep an eye on the front tyre temps. I feel they could be dropping out below abound. Affirm. So Sainz out there is doing 21.2, just for reference.
20:59:56
So 1 and 12 front temps are very low, so attack braking where you can.
21:01:54
Mark for a ride. Turn 10. Any rain on the forecast? Looks very grey.
21:02:18
So there is a rain in the distance, but not forecast to reach us at the moment, so I think there is more scope to be using those. Verstappen now, free air 21.1.
21:02:41
Lewis behind, also doing 21.1. Just loads of understeer in high speed.
21:05:03
So Verstappen is currently doing 21.5, so this is good pace. I've got a very small range up to the blazer. Copy.
21:06:23
Yeah, this is a very small range. I've got there a whole lap, a bit more into 12 maybe. Yeah, nothing heavy currently forecast here, George.
21:06:43
So Verstappen complaining no grip. 21.6 for him.
21:07:05
Yeah, we need to step off these tabs.
21:07:42
Extract 5. Extract 5.
21:09:03
And Sainz, our race leader, currently in 20.8. So these are really good lap times.
21:09:25
And we are still happy with brake oxidation.
21:11:21
Any concerns of green in through turn 9?
21:11:45
We are happy to lean on the front right at turn 9. Yeah, we're just sliding. Beat time. Sliding all the way through that corner.
21:12:09
Yeah, we don't think it's at risk of graining at the moment.
21:13:28
So, George, we are free to race here. Just make sure we give each other room.
21:14:25
I'm going to start the time once I collapse.
21:14:32
Negative.
21:14:49
We are still in a race with Verstappen too. He's doing 21.1, ten seconds behind Lewis.
21:15:48
Lewis will have DRS.
21:23:58
George, we'll need to do a half step on ACS fuel. Confirm you're happy.
21:24:16
Green 7, position 11.
21:25:19
15 laps remaining. 15 laps remaining.
21:28:01
I'm seeing front surface temps starting to drop here.
21:32:08
10 laps remaining.
21:33:00
Strat 13 available if you want it.
21:34:46
Eight laps remaining.
21:37:29
George, not so aggressive. End of straight manoeuvres, please.
21:38:51
So, five laps remaining. There's a potential debris turn 1-2-3.
21:39:12
Verstappen 11 seconds behind. He's doing 21.3.
21:39:33
And also potentially every 12.30.
21:40:54
So, debris still, middle of the road, turn 12.
21:41:33
Three laps remaining.
21:42:54
Strat 5.
21:44:15
Whoop-a-la.
21:45:39
Shame, real shame there, mate. It's a good pace today. Just sorry that we picked up that front wing damage. We have strap 14 and a green 1 position 12. Make sure you're picking up the rubber.
21:45:54
Yeah, copy that. First attempt felt good and don't really know how I picked up that damage. Don't know if you have any idea or not.
21:46:06
I would need to look and do a review afterwards. It's not entirely clear to us. But pace was very good up until then. It was a very strong race today.
21:47:12
So, keep coming around to the pitlane.