Radio check, Alex. Yes, copy. Copy. Drinks OK now.

No, I think it's something else. Can I write a note down for the debrief? There we go. I think your channel's open. Yeah, I think that might be me.

Mechanics around you in terms of tyres. Perez on the hard, Alonso on the soft, Bottas behind you on the hard, everyone else medium. So Perez hard, Alonso soft.

Where is Stroll?

Stroll one behind you on the medium.

It's 30 seconds now.

Fifteen.

And five and after the launch it's go max, go max.

ECU annex. Grid launch was on target. Just wants to brake open up. Looking for four burnouts. Four.

Let's just go start protocol on.

NaviTex available. Three K on Perez. Go race when you can.

DRS enabled.

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So, lots of pit, it's soft after hard, so I'm not paying a lot of attention when you come after me.

Very easy. Zero fuck day for me.

What's this? Do you hear anything?

Okay, strong 0.9 back. I'd just like to increase management 1-2 for now, short term.

I can't, I'm so sorry, 1-0-2.

If you're comfortable, come up to mode 7, mode 7.

So, Alonso, hard warm-up at 9.10.

Just asking a little bit for this bike. It's quite good.

Radio is poor. Copy, copy on that.

Alex, we need to reset the orange toggle. We need to reset the orange toggle, please.

Go descent as well.

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OK, set mode 4, mode 4.

Clear up to exit.

I'm a bit thirsty, I'll have a pack there on the in-n-out.

Manage turn 11 on the outlap.

Go defend when you can, just to get some temp back up.

I don't really know where he floated, mate. I was in a really good place.

There's activity at the exit.

It's Piastri ahead, need mode 6 if I may can, bit low in the pack at the minute.

The world is terrible.

I think you may see Lawson pit exit this time around. These lead cars, Ferraris and McLarens, will start to put pressure on the cars that are racing. They may lose time as well. Lawson potentially pit exit this time around.

Give me an update on the tyre guys. How are they?

Alright, looks on plan for now. Go race, go race. Give me something! I've had the tyres. I've had the tyres.

Perez has started on the hard tyre and just opened up the front in the last lap.

I should manage more in turn 11 short term.

Alex, go to mode 7 for now if you can.

So it looks like Alonso managed for the first 6-7 laps and his deck looks good for now.

Hulkenberg has pitted. He should be ahead.

Okay, two seconds ahead of Hulkenberg.

So we need the management in 10, 11 and 3 and 4. Graining on the hard started after 13 or 14 laps.

What's going on up ahead? So you've got three cars ahead still to pit, so we're in that P12 on the road. Currently P15, three cars ahead that we've undercut. Magnussen potentially trying a one-stop. He's P8. Yeah, got it.

Switch change, green 11, position 7. Green 11, position 7.

HPP on.

So this is the train held up by Max and Alonso. He's got five lap hold of hard tyres. He'll be happy on shifts at the minute.

With the detection after the corner, the early overtake will give you a little bit of help.

A late overtake if you need to cover.

OK, nice work. It's looking good.

So, currently P9. Gap behind at 1.4.

There's currently Hulkenberg 0.8 back on, five lap pressure tyres.

Got late overtake to defend if you need. He's got half a second on tyres, he's 0.8 behind.

Feedback on balance when you can. From our side we can reduce that a bit, pretty cool. Copy.

So we think the front left grading will be less of an issue than the front right, so can reduce management 3-4.

Alex, I need a switch change. Blue 3, position 4. Blue 3, position 4. Critical.

You may lose some deployment, but in critical, blue 3, position 4.

Alex, we're managing a problem here. No overtakes for now. No overtakes.

Brainy, hope up.

Okay, we need a blue 1, position 2. Blue 1, position 2. And then mode 11. Yeah, I could see this.

Can we have one race without issues?

Yeah, we're struggling on temps. We're going to need back to mode 7 now.

Similar to Singapore, we're going to have to build a gap to this car ahead of our fight.

Yeah, if I'm overheating when I was about seven seconds behind Piastri, then this is not going to do shit. Yeah, we've had other issues. OK, I need to build a gap. I need to be in mode 7.

We're leaving box because I need to get Grady under control.

HPP off as well.

Still 28 laps to go. It's too early to go again.

Does this look great to clear up or what?

Speed back on the tyre plant if you need more. Run low speed, torque 13.

This problem may not go away. We're going to need to build a gap by another two seconds, I'm afraid. It works!

OK, I'll create it. Who's behind me? What's the position like? Four seconds back to Zhou.

Gap ahead of 4.0 to Hulkenberg.

You haven't answered me about the clearing up. Can you clear up or not?

Alex has got a terminal problem here. We need to retire the car.

Gap behind it is three.

Okay, box, box. Stop short of the box.

OK, sorry about that. It's going to come good one day, honestly.

Yep. OK. I think I was looking OK until that point. Weirdly, the front was actually going to get a bit better. I was struggling with front dig, but the diff is much more powerful than the torque.