Session is going great.

Piastri has a similar outlap to you, used tyre, Alonso opening now, Tsunoda 9 seconds back and Carlos 14 seconds back.

Tsunoda in 2.

Carlos in 6th, Bearman in 14th.

Radio check, make it clear.

Copy. Alright, Carlos in 4, Bearman in 12.

B-Bal offset three.

Looks like a stronger tailwind through 7 and 8 currently. Bearman in 6, Hadjar 14.

Trying to lean on it through 8-9-10.

Bearman in 4. Hadjar in 12.

Switch to go out. Bearman still four back. Hadjar still twelve back.

Good for DRS. Bearman in 2.

Okay, Hadjar in 8, and there's a gap behind him, but I think we'll be okay to open where we are.

Piastri ahead. He's three ahead about to open. He may get backed up here. Gap reset one second. Hadjar in four.

Asset mode 2, mode 2, go DAP, go DAP, mode 2.

Build your gap. Build your gap to Carlos. You've got Verstappen opening now, five seconds, and George opening, six seconds.

Remind me on the brake bias, am I okay?

I'm entirely sure what the two Mercedes are doing, that's 6 ahead and 13 ahead.

Go switch to go in. Keep the speed up. Clear behind. Listen for the time back.

This is on exit turn 9, running P6.

Understeer. Luke, turn 9. That's mid-corner. Biggest limitation is creating the snap in turn 10.

Make them on the front lock. Keep the speed up on the way in. Let's head behind.

Whitebridge, Whitebridge.

OK, talk to me on flap there.

Checking, that's 4 tenths.

I think the balance was good, so it's just checking the circuit itself might be up 1.10.

That's good, I'll come back to you after driving.

Potential time going two and three minutes speed.

Lewis and Verstappen still, P6.

Alright, this will be a rapid. May need some feedback on the oil outlap instead, rather than the garage, just trying to make hay.

Yeah, check it at point four. Should try coming out of the turn.

If we can repeat.

Just reset brake balance and then set go-dart.

OK, we're all good on time. Thanks.

Okay, I need to build a gap SC2, so two Ferrari's on track and they're doing double calls.

...should be ahead of you. There are some, say, two Ferrari, two Merc, two McLaren on double cools, so they will be slower.

We need to build your gap. The last of them is two, just Antonelli and Norris on the start-finish line. The other two have gone through turn 1. The last of the cars on track. Build your gap in the pitlane, up to SC2.

I think we should be good. Antonelli crawling between the SC lines on track.

So he'll be between you and Carlos.

He may be on a slower lap there. Up to Antonelli at 4, 5, 6. No threat on track.

Oh no, time for a 30 second cross Alex, a 30 cross.

Upper head at 9 to Antonelli, 3 back to Lawson. Morning, thank you.

So push 7-8, Bortoleto.

Good to push you 7-8 and expect to get traffic towards the end of the lap.

You've got your gap here, I suggest, unless you're through.

OK, switch to go out.

Potential time gain to others, turn 2 and 3.

Gap ahead to Carlos at 8. No threat behind.

We'll back up into the last corner.

Four cars to open in front of you.

Alonso, 30 across.

Aim here for at least 7 to Carlos. So that's Norris and Carlos still to go. No threat behind them.

Four and a half. Five. Five and a half. Go push.

Closers to go in.

Minus one minus around the dash.

Okay, we're good. Currently P6.

Minus one, minus three on the dash.

Potential time gains. Exit 9, exit 12.

Minus one to minus around the dash.

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Just tell me when. Yeah, copy.

Carlos Leclerc doesn't seem to be keen. Everybody's bunching up.

We're all very close together.

Now behind the red ball.

Just watch your gaps to the other cars further downstream of you that will try and get out.

He's still behind the red point. Watch your gaps to him.

OK, you've got Ocon, Antonelli, George. 10 second gap at SC. Ocon opening now, Antonelli 11 back, George 15 back, Carlos 17 back.

Entering P5.

Up at 4. Airwind is stronger at 12. Antonelli at 2. Thanks Hulken, sick with you.

George in six, Carlos at 12. Terrible.

Georgian 4, B-Bal offset minus one hundred.

Georgian three, Carlos in eight, go out.

138.0, setback.

It should be out of the way, but the front of Carlos is three back.

Go three back, go push.

OK, go switch to go in. Gust at tailwind at turn 8, that last lap. Looks like we're carrying a bit too much speed at turn 12 currently, but tailwind at 8. It's only P8. Yeah, I mean, the tyres are nowhere! Alright, let's get the speed up.

I'm just keeping the speed up on the way in. We'll be on the front foot.

OK, so, be on the front foot. Tyres going on now. Track either for us will be flat, Alex.

Behind the Astons.

You might need to push me back. I don't know if I'm going to make this.

OK, yep. You got Carlos to your right.

OK, filter cap. Exit.

Antonelli opening a lap now. George, last corner, then it's quiet behind him.

Don't start finish lap now. Quiet behind him. George on the push.

I've built our gap between 2 and 3.

We should put away a lot so four ahead.

On a pace of a step last 7 laps.

Canadiens have boarded the lap. Six ahead.

It's a push through 7 and 8, gap ahead at 4.

Verstappen in 7th, pushing. Verstappen in 7th.

Verstappen in 5. Hulkenberg in 12, both pushing.

No switch to go out. Just weaving, weaving where we can. Put Verstappen in 4.

Verstappen still fall back. A bit too weak at that point. Penelli, I'm not quite sure what he's going to do next round. Verstappen in 3.

This, uh, Antonelli will open. Verstappen, three seconds back. Push.

OK, there's Stroll on the move last corner, then Antonelli, then Hulkenberg pushing forward, Hulkenberg in 4. Gap ahead to Antonelli is fine. 3 back to Hulkenberg and go push.

This is go to end.

Currently P10 with a few still to go.

OK, just snug in. Always go minus one to minus three on the dash. Good!

What was that in turn 12?

Let's just focus on a clean outlap. I think we have more pace in the car, we just haven't had a very good outlap since Q2.

It felt like the wind maybe picked up in 6.12 with that lap. I don't know if that's true or not.

Yeah, I'll come back to you.

Brake balance minus one. And I go down.

Full forward, that's it. You're in the fast lane.

Good to leave it running.

Suggest trying to carry some throttle through turn one if you can.

Overlap.

That's a full left. Copy on that.

ERB is ahead of you, aren't scrubbed.

Going to be 20 seconds, so every car has at least one new set. But we'll just go there and do the best we can. It's a relatively small deck of ETAs. Let's make the most of it. It'll be green in five.

Benz on the pit wall.

The wind has picked up again.

Approach the gap. Slow to two ahead.

Just update me on outlap. Yeah, the wind has picked up as well. Gap ahead at 5.

Front right's OK. Front left needs a bit of work.

Oh, Tsunoda is eight ahead. He's a little bit slower in sector two, though. Seven ahead. It's a front left-hand priority. Tsunoda's still seven ahead.

Still set ahead to go switch to go out.

Wheeling with DRS is good.

No track behind Tsunoda, five and a half ahead.

Gap ahead at 7. Just go for it.

It's not bright. It's dusty. 6-8-12. That's pretty good.

This is going to be faulty.

Speed up on the way in.

Turn 8 to 9, that's... I don't really understand. Turn 9 exit.

I think I had a bit too much understeer. Yeah, OK. The understeer definitely doesn't help but there's definitely something on the rear.

Yeah, we'll see if we can do something with the throttles at 9 and potentially add to the lap.

Just half a turn.

We're allowed half a turn. Let's see what we can do on tools.

Alex de Overlee, yellow is the previous push, blue is the last.

Turn 12, good improvement this lap.

Good improvement at turn one, Alex. Still, if we can carry more mid-speed, that will help.

Brake strikes out.

I don't want to let that one out.

Go search to go out.

DRS on as well. Switcher should have 8-9. Maybe a little bit of in-speed at turn 1.

Cleared to open.

I've got a Ferrari 30 seconds back and the Mercedes just leaving the pitlane. There'll be a tow in it at the end of the lap. Slowly push.

Wait, circulate to previous lap.

This was a much worse tyre.

All right, let's go minus one, minus three on the dash, go switch, go in.

That's George pushing me.

Okay, that'll be P10, P10.

OK, yeah, I think that was the best we could have done. I think we made a better race car as well, so that's good.

Yeah, I think I did a good job to get into Q3, so nice job.

Well done Alex, I agree. I think that's where the car was this afternoon. Hopefully you'll pan out to be a better racecar tomorrow.