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Three and a half minutes now, Nico, until start of formation lap.

Three minutes now.

Okay, Nico, so we just got the tyres of the competitors through. We have two cars starting on soft. That's Tsunoda in P12 and Lawson in P9. And then it's quite a mix of medium and hard starters for the rest of the cars.

There are four cars behind you, starting on hard. That's both Mercedes, Russell and Antonelli. And then Stroll and Colapinto from 18 and 19. Then Gabby, Gasly and Bearman behind are starting on medium.

And then in front of you there are four cars starting on hard. It's Sainz P11, Hamilton P7, Alonso P6, and Verstappen P4.

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We will go for three burnouts. Three burnouts.

One correction, Nico Tsunoda is the only car on soft. Lawson is actually on medium.

And last car is approaching his spot now.

And Gabi crashed in turn 8. Yep, Williams in front is managing already. He's taking it very easy.

And virtual safety car, virtual safety car.

End mode SC.

Who's guy in front, Sainz or Albon? That is...

That is Sainz in front, Sainz in front. And there's still a yellow in turn 8. We need to stay to the right in turn 8.

And only Bearman and Gabi took this BSC.

Both Bearman and Gabi at a hard end.

Who's behind me? Russell, Antonelli? Yeah, that's correct. First is Russell, then Antonelli. They're both on hard. And then behind that is Colapinto, Stroll and Tsunoda. They are all on hard as well. Tsunoda stopped on lap one.

Let's see, hold up here. There's nothing in the track.

The pace is actually quite low. They're banging a lot in front. Yeah, copy.

Piastri, lap time 19.7 last lap. Yep. Aero balance at the high speed. The tunnel is very fluid. It's close behind the car. Okay.

And your safety car window is open, Nico.

And there's a double yellow in turn 10. Double yellow turn 10.

Fuck, that racing wheel is doing something, eh?

Still double yellow in turn 10-11.

Are you moving under braking? Set 5.

So it's just that racing mode building a gap for us. Exactly, he's got a 10 second gap car in front now.

14.8 and then 15.0 on the hard. He caught the pack pretty quick.

Oh, shut up. Where's the info?

Well, I asked for one thing. Yeah, Nico, we're going to catch this pad naturally. We don't need to overstress these tyres. We're already catching up. Yeah, but maybe some people are covering it now.

We have undercut that entire pack all the way up to Lawson.

Do you want me to take some pace out or what? So Lawson is still opening a lap, opening a gap. I think Hadjar will take another free stop in front of Lawson.

And our main target is to make this set last until lap 55.

I'm a little bit stuck now, you know. I got this back.

And Hadjar almost has the pit window to Lawson. He is boxing this lap.

Yeah, not sure about somebody's feels.

Just a bit miss it here.

Yeah, copy Nico. We are discussing options.

So Lawson, Albon, Sainz, Russell and Antonelli still need to stop. We have undercut them. We have one stop advantage on them.

Yeah, but we lost two cars in front. Two cars in front.

Well, it's kind of pointless telling me that I'm just in traffic here. I could go a lot quicker with just boosting.

It looks like Sainz is starting to manage now.

Sainz is opening a gap for Albon.

Gabi is boxing for soft. He's boxing for soft. He's gonna try to catch this pack and then I'll have to go back to another set.

And Colapinto also stops here.

The car behind is Verstappen. He is the race leader.

It goes behind what's set.

The next race leader will be Norris. Two seconds. He has Bearman and Stroll in between you and him.

Car behind now is Norris.

And solid blues to Norris. Close behind still Stroll and Bearman, who we are racing.

Car behind still Stroll. Car behind him is Leclerc.

Sainz is still opening that gap to Albon. The gap between them is now 18 seconds.

Cars behind are Stroll, Bearman and then Gabi.

Hamilton is the last frontrunner coming through. He is currently three cars behind.

That was Hamilton and Sainz will open another pit gap to Albon in front.

Holy moly. I think we'll get right into this. This trap haunted me.

Yeah, I don't think doing anything else would have put us in a different spot, to be honest. Well, yeah, we were behind Sainz, actually. We've got a B-Pro as well.

My man is even worse than in the past.

It's just a coffee drive here.

We suggest you make four and brake balance plus one.

Sainz is still opening that gap to Albon. It's 16 seconds between them now.

Alonso retired. We are currently P14.

Nico, we might have some debris in our front left brake duct. The caliper is starting to get hot.

Albon swapped cars. Albon will now do the same thing that Sainz did and open up two stop gaps for Sainz. They are currently positioned 9 and 10 on track.

Now we are boxing for soft Nico and then we will take this set to the end.

So you are already ahead of Albon.

We have already been lapped twice by the race leaders, Norris and Leclerc. We have 28 laps remaining.

Piastri boxed. Car behind now is Verstappen.

I want a bit more open. OK.

OK. Copy. I think that's good. I think it's good. Understood.

And next car behind is Norris, four and a half.

And tyres are all okay, Nico. As I guess you can imagine, the only place is turn five, where that front right front locking is a bit on edge. Try some lift off.

It's a pushing race, right?

Yeah, those guys are pushing down to Hamilton in P5.

That's it. Let's call a pit turn but I'm coming.

Yeah, so Colapinto has already done two stops and he's on the medium tyre now. And car in front of him is Bearman. He has also already done two stops and he's also on the medium. So those...

Stopped. Yeah, but he's not going to stop again, is he? He will not stop again.

Neither of them have changed tyres and now we think Antonelli will play the same team game for Russell.

Then there's Tsunoda and Stroll that haven't stopped their second time, and Antonelli that hasn't stopped at all, so we should gain three positions.

And 20 laps remaining now, Nico. 20 laps.

So Antonelli's still opening that gap. He has a 13 second gap to wrestle in right now.

Russell will have to change tyres twice.

Cars behind are Hadjar and Ocon and we will get blue flags to them.

Hadjar and Ocon are P6 and P7.

And blue flags to Hadjar behind.

So, Russell's done his first stop. Antonelli's opening up the gap for the second. And Lawson is the car behind. We are taking blue flags to him now. And close behind Lawson is Hamilton.

Where's Tsunoda, actually, in all of this?

Yeah, Tsunoda is the first car stuck behind Antonelli.

He is currently 10 seconds in front of you.

Let me know if you want Tsunoda's lap times.

Correction, Nico. Five laps remaining now. Five laps remaining now.

And we have that brake caliper temperature rising again, Nico. I need to introduce some lift and coast.

And that's the chequered flag, Nico.

And mode end. And reminder for pickup.

And Norris won the race with Leclerc behind, then Piastri, Verstappen.

Hamilton, Hadjar P6, Ocon 7, Lawson P8, then the two Williams, Albon 9, Sainz 10, and then Russell 11.

So, made a difference regardless of what we did this race, Nico.

And reminder, full switch-off procedure, please, Nico.