You can keep the car running, Guillaume. You can keep the car running neutral.

OK, copy that.

Ok, Liam, so the plan is to stay out, but you keep us posted on track condition and we'll let you down cross-overs. And reported from the safety car is turn 3, turn 5, where there is the most water.

OK. Copy that.

And let's go charge on to the safety car line and then charge off when you're out, please.

OK, you can go to P1. You can turn off the engine and I'll let you know when to go back. P1.

Copy and P1. Okay, we wait 30 seconds and then we'll go back to P2 to be ready.

Ok, back to P2 please, Liam. And I'll let you know when to start the engine. We are two minutes away.

What's the weather saying right now? Very difficult to say. We've got this radar hull around us. It's terrible. Spotters are on small reduction of rain. We were level 3 five minutes ago, now it's down to level 2. So it's going less rain at the moment from the spotters.

One minute and ten seconds away.

Engine start.

Okay, Liam, you keep us posted whether we stay out or we box quite early to go into that medium. Please confirm.

Copy. Enter. Comprehendiente.

Yeah, and I guess keep me updated with other stopping as well. Very much. 10 seconds to green.

DRS enabled.

On Liam, we have time to do a couple of tab laps on that tyre before we move to Inter. No problem if you want to stay out for a couple of laps. But we keep communicating.

OK, let's try to open a little more to Ocon. He's slowed.

And then you're good for charge of safety car line. I'm going to try to sink a few gears before turn 4. But no rush. You're good to go. Ocon 5.

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Albonneuil reporting it's not ready for winter. Albonneuil reporting. Yeah, it's not ready for winter. Copy. Let's get some laps together. We still have people at the pit exit. They will have to let you by. There will be another lap. Head down.

You're good to go back on track Liam.

Oh, we'll have cars coming.

OK, we have Leclerc coming now, then Russell 5.

And then a nine second gap to Sainz. Russell now. Six seconds to Sainz on that lap. You're good to go behind Russell. You're good to go.

OK, you're good to go. Charge off, charge off. Copy.

Sensitivity behind. Coming up.

Okay, we still have good time. It's very wet. Loud and clear. Loud and clear. Get into the rhythm, take it in steps.

We are very far from the crossover. Copy, very wait.

Alonso four behind. We're good to go.

Current in strat 6, strat 8 if you can. Two clicks up, strat 8 if you can. Reference is Ocon, 30.0. And we have two cars off in turn 12 as well. Difficult corner.

And if you are happy the tyres are better now, one click forward offsets. We are pre-locking now.

It's 210 sector 1, one second sector 2, currently P9.

Yeah, I'm going to have to make a gap to Russell now because he started literally right in front of me. 11 to Alonso behind. You can make a gap.

Alonso, 9 behind, keep the front brakes up and look after your rear tyres on that opening gap.

On main delta to Yuki is braking turn 1, braking turn 12. Please confirm still extreme conditions.

Still extreme. Copy that. Reference is Ocon, 29.9. Your lap time 32.0. Currently P10. You can open the gap more to 12 and we're good to go. Alonso, 8. Russell opening as well. Alonso, 7. Alonso, 6.

Ok, good job. Back into rhythm. Clean laps.

OK, I don't see pushing behind. I struggle so much with the brakes.

We'll be checking Alonso behind you now. Then Stroll, Piastri. All pushing. Get back in the rhythm. Stroll cooling down behind you.

We are aligned and brake balance across the cars aligned. Yeah, that's a dangerous re-entry if I've ever seen it.

And Liam, we can do one more time-lap and then we have to decide for Inters, all the drivers talking about it. We have Bottas pushing three behind.

At the moment we think we're gonna stay on these tyres. We'll keep an eye on others. Currently P13. Okay, Bottas went off behind you. Red flag, box, box. Red flag, box, box. Charge on.

Koffi, let's look into this brake because, man, I struggle so much with front locking. Understood. Everyone is going off on braking, but we are checking.

And just maybe brake for it, because I could have just braked way too late. Lug unclear.

And yes, it was too late in turn 1. Confirmed, brake too late.

In the end we will keep the same tyres because they are nice or not.

So, QNH 50.14.

Yeah, copy. And please, what's your view at the moment going back out? Confirm same set? I think same set, yeah. I think same set. Agreed. Still extreme for us. Ok, so Yuki is P1 with a 29.1. We show you the data.

OK, you can turn off the engine. Restart in two minutes thirty. Copy, going to P1.

Both assists are on. It's raining really hard. You can go back to P2. Extreme is the right tyre.

OK, Liam, I'll repeat the reason. We've got a few laps in front of us. We don't have to overpush at the last one. Track conditions should get better and better with the cars running.

Three minutes thirty-five.

On Miami we expect this rain to last for just about one more minute and then to improve again.

Liam, no need to take any risk to start the session. I will try to maximise towards the end.

Copy. Engine start.

Forty seconds.

20 seconds. Not sure what's happening with the house. They may want to change tyres.

Five seconds.

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Okay, full charge off. You're good to go. You can back forward. Okay, I'll repeat the rhythm. We take it in steps.

Yeah, it's much greater than before. Low down clear. It will get better. Just take some margin to start.

You're currently P14 inside the Q2, so take some margin to start and then we put it together at the end.

But the rain intensity is very much reduced now. And it will stay low for the rest of this session.

It's not raining anymore in the pitlane. Not raining anymore.

We have four more times. 30 seconds margin, four more times.

OK, and people are starting to go green now. Albon 30.4. People going green now. Last lap was exit turn 2, braking turn 4.

Ok, Liam, we have time for two more laps. Two more laps. So we can do a mini cool down if you need on the rear. Otherwise, happy to keep pushing to get a lap together. I'll leave it to you if you need cool down for rear tyres. Currently P16.

Yeah, cool down. Copy, but keep a bit of pace. We need to keep track position. Hulkenberg behind you, pushing.

Keep working on front tyres. Close entry, deep entry, close it. We don't have a lot of margin, so don't drop too much, please. You're dropping too much. Next lap is last lap. Norris pushing 2.5. Norris pushing 1. We have 20 seconds margin to go again. Norris pushing behind you now.

Okay, and then you get going, please. One more lap available. Currently P16.

On Colapinto, P13, 31.2. Five tenths ahead. No one pushing behind.

So, braking point this one, this lap we're better.

Keep working on the front. Look after the rear. No one pushing behind.

Only we have one more push, one more push. Currently P16.

We overpushed a little bit at turn 4. Focus on exit.

If you can, mode 1 last time. Current in mode 3.

Turn and box. I'll keep you posted, Liam.

OK, Liam. We are safe. We are safe. Good effort. Yeah, let's figure this out. I don't know, man. No grip for me. I'm really struggling. Yeah, I understand. We need to understand. That's clear.

Did everybody stay on the same set?

50-50. Yuki did the same and managed to improve one second. So he didn't improve on his previous set, sorry. No, he didn't improve compared to his previous set. But he did a 29.7, one second faster than our lap. Yeah, yeah, OK. That's... Yeah, I don't know. For me, I just have no rear grip. Yeah, we check. We try to do as much as we can to help.

Box, box, box, box.

And people who went for the same tyre beat Yuki and improved Liam. So we'll check the tyre aspect.

We are going to remove aerobalance if you agree. We are going to remove aerobalance. Yeah, let's remove, let's remove.

You can keep the engine running. We are two minutes away. Okay, switch off the engine. Correction, key 1 please. Key 1. Okay, copy.

Can you go back to mode 3?

Yeah, copy. I think now it's becoming more of a push-pull-push kind of thing. Confirmed. Rather than doing consecutive. Likely push-pull-push confirmed.

Back to B2.

Our target is to work on the front tyres and be careful on the rear. Please confirm. Copy. We made the step on aero. And we don't expect more rain, so we might be close to Inter towards the end. We think sector 1 is close to Inter, sector 2 and 3 are not ready, but keep us posted.

Engine start, 30 seconds away.

I'm going to start and offset zero now. Is Yuki on the same on his lap?

Confirmed. Yuki was one small step forward. Offset 0 is good.

On turn 1 lines, only thing we can report is Yuki is a little bit tighter towards the apex of turn 1.

OK, let's make sure we're not too close to Yuki on the camera, right? Yeah, Russell is going far.

Happy 4-charge-off.

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On Lyam, with timings, we have time for push-pull-push twice, to do a pit stop in the middle. We keep having a look.

And we have the two McLarens on inters, everyone else stays on the extreme.

B-Bal offset plus one hundred.

Very good middle sector, Liam. We can do one more lap with higher temperatures. We can do one more lap. We keep an eye on Inters.

Box, box, box, box for inter. Copy.

Box, box, box, box. It will be a double stack. Charge on.

Box, box, box, box. Copy.

Ok, Liam, if Yuki is not out of the way yet, he's got the engine.

OK, he's gone. Live pitstop for Inter on the first hotlap.

Tyre to inter please.

Reminder, work on tyres in your outlap.

Strat 6 when you can, currently in 8th. On charge of. Everyone boxing for winter.

We have five times available. Five times. We'll keep you posted on tyres.

We're looking for the good work on the tyres. We're looking for the step on the tyre to be on time. We're gonna go for two push in a row. Double yellow where you are. Double yellow is on 10. Russell went off.

I'm back in the rhythm. You can buy I'm back in the rhythm.

And every lap counts. Clean laps.

Liam, we will consider a cool-down next lap, not to destroy the tyres. What's your view on tyres? Or you want to do one more lap? I'll be happy to push one more if you want to. Double yellow turn 1.

Yeah, clip it off.

Okay, keep working on front tyres. Consider opening the entry, we have more understeer.

Red flag, box, box, box, box. Charge on.

Liam, how was the warm-up? It's tricky, but also, man, I just got no confidence on this tyre, so I don't think it's too bad. Train to P5.

Copy. I think when you said open up the entry, I went one step. Do you want another step? We can put more flaps if you agree. Understeer on enter.

Yeah, let's make a step on the left. Hold on to the warm-up please.

Warm up is OK. Copy, warm up OK.

Tyres are ready for lap 1. Copy.

Box, box. Copy.

We have enough time for a push-pull-push.

Liam, do you want a small step or a flop? A bit more than a small step for understeer. Track will only get better.

How was it for you? Let's do a decent step, yeah, let's do a decent step. The limitations for me are, it's tricky on the side to get on power because it's an inter, so I don't have any limitations on front.

Liam, to Yuki's lap, it was mainly still turn 1-2. Front limitation there for you.

Yes. OK, so we opened the entry, we put a bit more flap, so that should help you there. Braking point was aligned to Yuki. It was minimum speed turn 1 and minimum speed turn 2.

OK, good job on that, Liam.

Oh, we can go to P1. We have two minutes thirty.

Copy, P1.

Back to P2.

On Liam's heads up, there may be a small drizzle starting towards the end of this session.

One minute fifty.

Always need a fast start lap.

Under, we have a long queue behind you, as expected. We are just OK for three times. We'll have a look if we need a cool-down in the middle. And if we do a cool-down, we can't be too slow. We need to try to keep position. We have a discrepancy, make a gap. Yeah, it's just so you've got all the information.

And if you feel understeer, I'll be too open the switches, OK? But we've done some plot. Engine start, 40 seconds to go.

And it's better to avoid the upshift that Yuki did in turn 2. Happy with what you are doing in turn 2.

OK. I will try to keep bringing up the temperatures.

Ahead of you is Albon, behind you is Piastri.

On Liam, we'll do two push in a row considering tyre temperatures and we'll review for the third one. But let's keep pushing in a row for now. On every lap count. Head down. Charge off.

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OK, Liam, we are in a very good track position to manage tyres on near the last lap.

On the baseline is to push three times in a row. We are good on tyres for that.

Offset one click reward. Okay, Liam, to maximise the very last push lap, we can do a mini cooldown this lap to maximise crossing the line.

If you want to try to keep pushing, happy to do 3-0.

I think I'm going to go, mate.

Yuki Tsunoda this lap, right in front of me. Keep pushing, keep pushing. Possible yellow turn 1. Close this lap. Possible yellow turn 1.

We have issue with GPS.

Possible yellow, yellow turn 1-2.

Car on the wall. There's a car on the wall. Copy that.

Red flag. OK, talk to me, talk to me. Charge on. Tell me. You're P4. Yes!

How was the warm-up, Liam? How was the warm-up? Terrifying, but it's OK. It's ready for lap 1, but you have to push the outlap and I had over too close, so I couldn't. Copy, but you think we need where we are for the second push?

Repeat, sorry? Yeah, we are for the second push. Copy that.

We have no GPS. Box, box.

Box, Box, watch your brake lights. We have no GPS working. Copy that.

Stop in front of the garage and switch off.

So let's do offset minus two, but we stay in the wet shape.

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OK, Liam. You can go to P1 at 2 minutes 45.

So same again, every lap counts and we will go for two pushes in a row to start with and we keep an eye on pitstops.

OK. Copy.

Back to P2.

And 7 again on the outlap.

We expect this small drizzle for the next five minutes.

One minute ten.

Engine start and McLaren is talking about staying out, considering the rain intensity.

OK, copy. From where I see it, it's quite light. Loud and clear. We'll have a look at the conditions. We'll think about it if we want to fit a new set.

Green in five seconds.

OK, we push in third lap. On T40 it's two push in a row to start. So, first push will be a big lap. Take some margin for the first push.

B-Bal offset plus one hundred.

B-Bal offset plus one hundred.

OK, there we go for a build. Push and keep being proactive with your switches if you need to open pit entry or add some EB.

So every lap counts, so that's two pushes in a row. Two pushes in a row.

Ocon, 26.3.

Previous session, your lap time was 25.6.

On 2 push-in and rock confirm. Tyres should be better.

Norris, 25.6.

We're happy with tyres to push one more lap. Happy with tyres to keep pushing one more lap. Braking turn 1, main limitation previous lap.

Charge on and box.

Did that lap not count? No, it didn't count.

So, we are B8.

Yuki did 26.6. He managed to do a good cross times. Yeah, I backed off the first one. I'm sure I was across the line, but it's alright. The red flag was out before that. We have time, you have not. We fit a new set, we go again. Copy.

What's the weather doing? Stable. It's level 0 to level 1. Very light drizzle. We're going to have a few minutes to move that car.

Box, box, box, box.

What will the plan be now? Sunbite.

Ok Liam, we have time for five total and we will not go at the green, not to lose temperature. It works better for Yuki.

Yeah, copy that. So, I guess the weather radar is not very...

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We are good on timings for the plan.

Charge off. Okay, Yuki's slowing down ahead.

Albon is reporting better track conditions than before. We keep an eye out on the lap.

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B-Bal offset plus one hundred.

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Okay, tyres are looking better. Tyres are better than previous one. We'll keep you posted on second push.

OK Liam, let's do a little bit of recharge and then we'll go 2-0. Keep the recharge up.

Close the entry one step, look a bit more instable.

Red flag. Box, box. Do we have time? Yes. Box, box.

Box, box, watch your bridge lights. Copy.

Mate, this shit's on the track at 74 from Yuki. Copy.

Is he OK, Alex? Is it Alex? It's Alex. Yes, he's OK. He's OK.

A bit checked, but it's OK.

Fast outlap. We try to be close to zero on the line.

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Ocon sector 1, eyes out on your previous lap.

Our tyres are looking in a very good place. You have done a very good job of this. Our Norris is four tenths faster than your previous sector one.

Ok, tyres are good. One push.

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Sorry, I've got to fuck up.

Copy that, Liam. Ciao, John. We'll keep you posted.

All right, Liam. P5. On the Yuki P3. Just a couple of turns ahead. Yeah, copy. I nearly lost the car at turn 4. Good job, guys. Really good job. Sorry about that. That's OK. We jumped the Williams, which is good. We're in a good place for a little today.

What a tricky one, but we got there.

It was 4 tenths in turn 4. No problem. It's still a good effort. It was the first time in the world for a long time. So you should still be pleased with yourself.

Box, box, stop at the bridge.

All right, Liam. P0, please. P0.

Thank you for watching.

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