And we will merge. Follow the instruction. Behind Alpine. That's good. Yeah, you're good.

Put my back up. SC2, please? SC2.

Gasly ahead of you, Gasly ahead of you.

And the hard lap will be similar to what you did on soft in FP1.

Gasly, gap two, three.

First gap, Bearman, turn 26, bigger gap.

Bearman, turn 2. Stop pushing. Bearman, 24.

Five miles ahead of you to open.

Today we had seven. Four cars ahead to open. I'm at 23. I'm at 21.

Turn 22, you go out. Turn 22, you go out. Bearman at turn 13. Bearman.

M1 21. Two cars ahead to open. Lastly, five ahead. It will be clear from Bearman.

Gasly to open gap 5. Gasly next to open gap 5.

P5. Up 4. Gap 4. 5.

OK, close the lap. Watch out. Norris 4 behind opening. Single slope plus 10 on the dash. Maintain 4 drop here. Norris 5. Turn race is quiet. Norris 4. Alex was 31.2. Norris 3, 2, 1.

One with you. Fastest car, Verstappen, 29.9. Back on flap, please.

I'll be with Flap. Just check for a bit of a snap.

Copy, we'll have a look at turn 4 snap. He's at mid-corner of brake.

Pick-up, throttle pick-up, I'm high, still in a hold with the setup change. Copy. Rear slip exit progressive after 80% throttle. This is not wind-induced and that's clear behind.

As you are there, do you think you will want a step mechanical?

It was there at the default turning. Turn 4.

Compared to Alex, quicker everywhere, just turn 22, missing a bit.

Start pushing. Bearman. Gap 26. Forecast open head.

We have to watch out for Bearman, that's 11, and just Gasly to open hat, Gasly, 6.

OK, watch out, Norris opening behind gap three. Leo, like at turn one, plus 40 on the dash dropping rear. Norris three pushing. Watch out potentially Norris. Yellow turn one. Norris two. One.

One. With you. And Russell 8, pushing its clear turn 1. So you'll have Russell and Antonelli pushing. Russell 5, Antonelli.

Ford everywhere.

That's Hamilton pushing 11 and we just want to pick up pace after 22. So as far as you can know, we're at Hamilton pushing gap 7, 6.

Hamilton forward, Radamilton three, Radamilton is quiet, two, one.

Opening behind. We think the tyres might struggle to get another one. If we want to try, that's plus 50. Dropping, especially the rears. Sector 1, Verstappen, 3 pushing and 2.

Plan A, you will leave the box not open, on the 1 and watch out Leclerc. 3, Leclerc 2.

Thank you.

Watch out, Hulkenberg 6, pushing and 5.

5, 5 and 4. You can try out of sync 2 if you want on him. 3, 2.

Position and from the stop position, OK? Copy.

Okay, if you can put one burnout number, burnout button on to start.

So you go race and pushing. Go race and pushing. Clear ahead. Ahead 90 to Stroll.

Box, box. Remember, put all the weight on the acceleration.

I'll be with you up.

All the way. Box, box, box, box, watch out for white line.

So, last stop, single crew stop. Stay in gear. On marks, all brakes, watch the light. We're pushing flat out on exit as race condition.

I need to be go race.

Exit straight out. Verstappen is on counter-cycle, will be two seconds ahead. Apparent on medium consecutive. Pull away.

Try to turn a bit the gap. Verstappen turn 13 now. Open the gap. We're expecting low 34, he's in high 34.

11th time lap.

Verstappen 6.4 ahead. Last lap 34.7, 34.7.

I repackaging level 1.5.

Outback off too much because of Verstappen.

Avoid full throttle out of turn 4.

Tractor sliding for axle turn 9-10. Lyco still high, level 6.

Turn right, throttle, turn 13, right throttle, turn 13, Gasly, mid to I-34.

The level of rear overheating is crazy.

Verstappen, that's a quick approach, no? Yeah, he's not. He's a bit older tyres. I think two or three more laps.

Shut. Exit slip. Red flag. Red flag. Exit slip turn 2. 9-10. I'll be heading to 9-10.

Box, box, box, box. Tsunoda went off. Exit the last corner, so stay inside mid to exit last corner. There's debris on track. Pull to the left. Hit the wall on the outside. Turn 27.

I have taken a flap adjust, Christian.

No, I'm less flabby if anything, just to control the rear. The car is well balanced, it's just the rear overheating at this tarmac is crazy.

We try to go down to see if we can control that. How was the front end with the rear deck?

It was OK.

Parking brake on. Parking.

Let's do, I don't know, two turns down to see.

OK, remember, resumption in 5, 4, 3, watch out.

Three. Watch the light. Two. One. Straight up. No start. Don't make a gap.

The first gap will be just to take the flag, try to see if you can feel a bit the balance.

When you can, blue 8, position 9, before turn 22, please. Blue 8, position 9.

Pre-selection to medium. Targeting plus three on the rear, plus three on the rear. I will feel like Arthur Sector. OK.

Push turn 13, then we need new cooling.

New cooling now. No full load.

Alex, 3 behind. We should be doing the same than you, but other cars might still be pushing Lawson, Bearman, 6 behind.

To cool the car, otherwise Verstappen will cancel.

I'd please right-hand side.

Good on PU-10. One burnout, right-hand side, please.

The shop was on target.

The last stop, there's going to be no room to do a stop for you. He's going to be back in the pitlane, so just park yourself behind Alex. Keep the engine running. Keep the clutch for three seconds.

Correction, there will be a light stop with us, Alex, at Wade Bridge.

So, live stop. Leave the engine running on max all the brakes. When the pit stop is finished, pull the clutch for three seconds and then after, you're off.

How was it on these laps?

Well, the rear cooled down so much better, but it was just purely from the rear tyre being cooler. Nothing from ballast, really.

Do you think the dirty air from Verstappen, because we basically had two laps and then straight away into Verstappen, do you think that made a big difference for you? Not really. I think here what it gives you on the streets, it takes away the corners in terms of balance maybe a bit, but I think it's the biggest.