And Chuck Thibbs.

Radio check. Sorry, I only caught the end of your message there, Katsu. Sorry, yeah, I wasn't meant to be talking on your channel, but...

Five minutes to formation lap.

Three minutes to formation lap.

So, tyre-wise, everyone except for P19 Tsunoda, who's starting from pitlane, are starting on soft tyres. And new soft tyre starters are Piastri, Norris, P1, P2, and then P13 Lawson, P14 Bearman, and then all the way down to P18 Colapinto.

We have the last two cars off the grid.

Big sights at Colapinto.

Thank you, Dan.

Two minutes.

75 seconds. Fire up. Pit limiter on. One minute.

Forty-five seconds.

Light point to find. 25 seconds.

Fifteen seconds.

Just a reminder, you need that half second lift after the launch. Five.

So, clutch was one percent shallow.

Top tyres so far.

Lifting into turn 13. Posting on exit.

And we'll be two burnouts starting at the timing line. Final one. P11 Albon.

I see Strat 5.

Last car approaching the back of the grid.

Nice. Even left and right.

Pop it out of overbolt.

So, Leclerc ahead 0.3, Kimi behind 0.7 DRS enabled.

Gap in the circle ahead.

4.1 ahead of Leclerc.

So let's just get these arrears back under control. Plenty of play for one race to go.

If I can see you doing the management, just keep going at it. Just looking after these tyres is our opportunity. Still target minus four.

Yeah, we're happy with those oxidations, no problem.

So, I'm sure you can see it, those Ferraris coming back towards us now. They pushed early on. Just keep an eye on your tyre temps over the line.

Still target minus four.

Ferrari talking of swamping cars.

Overbalanced. 5.2. Braking.

So front has entered phase three. Just wait for the rear.

So target plus one.

So, rear in phase three now as well, George.

Verstappen on a new soft tyre.

And, George, we're seeing wind strength increase to 20 kph, same direction, into turn nine.

Let's just keep closing this gap down to Lewis.

OK, George, you know what you need to do. You wish to extend.

So, Leclerc ahead 21.5.

Verstappen just behind Kimi, so three seconds behind.

Verstappen car behind three seconds.

Let's put the gears off the VMs, if you're happy.

Leclerc also pitted, so both Ferraris off medium. Verstappen 1.8.

How are the tyres here, George?

I mean, I'm dropping, but I think it might turn off.

Yeah, copy. Happy with what you're doing there. It's all coming to us. We've got Verstappen at 1.2.

Gasly on exit. Should be ahead. Overtake is available. Gasly out for five seconds.

That was a bit loose, wasn't it?

Green 7, position 5. Just confirming that was 4 laps offset. Not sure if we got that.

So, Lewis was a 20.3 last lap, but just remember it's a lot of game here.

There'll be 43 laps remaining end of this one.

That last lap was a purple.

Just be careful of that sliding. Turn 13. Too high last lap.

So, George, a little bit of debris turn 1-2.

So, we're in phase two here now.

3, position 2.

So, George, currently our race is solely with Lewis here. Leclerc is 10 seconds ahead of Lewis at the moment.

I think you're going to have to go to the soft for the last bit, yeah? Affirm, yeah. Both of them have to go soft.

So, George, first tyre set was a balanced front-to-rear. Same way, front and rear.

So, tyres are into phase three now.

OK, George, let's start to close up this gap now.

This place is good, George. Opportunities if we close this gap a bit more.

So Colapinto is two and a half seconds ahead of Lewis. It will be blue flag.

Charles Leclerc in the pitlane.

Just had a lock of front left. Let's see how it progresses.

Simply keep it up. Copy.

So, stay strat 5. Reset diff entry, diff high speed.

Critical. Hadjar at two seconds.

Okay, so Lewis is inside our window now.

So we'll just vanish from here. You've got Colapinto, blue flags ahead at 1.6.

Currently 2.5, side-out window.

So just remember you've got 23 to go at the end of this lap.

Blue flags for Colapinto ahead.

Lewis 20.9, now seven seconds safe to him.

Tyres are entering phase two now, George.

Gap to Lewis, 13 seconds.

That was a very slow stop for Ferrari there.

Let me know when tyres have to go, like it's getting really woody now, because I'm not pushing as much.

So, George, yeah, the balance is moving slightly rearwards but it won't be too long until we can start pushing on these tyres again. Still phase two here.

So Leclerc ahead doing 19.3.

Piret delta.

So here's a one lap older medium tyre.

3. Pushing quite hard after that slow pitstop.

Angle B, I don't know if we're capping to him, so just you tell me what you need me to do. Still, nasty tyres currently. Yeah, that's fine at the moment.

6th and rear tyres are phase 2 now, George.

We, with these lap times at the moment, just need to see where Lewis stabilises.

I've spoken to Leclerc, not Lewis.

So 14 laps remaining to Leclerc. Four and a half seconds.

Lewis reporting, rear's going off already.

Leclerc, 19.8. He's got Bortoleto all over him.

We've got double yellow, turn 10.

Safety car, safety car, safety car, safety car. Strat 1 delta positive.

Cool. That's it. Copy.

Flap adjust. Are you out of balance? Is OK as we are. Copy.

That's double yellow here at turn 10.

Keep tight on your delta after you're through.

So, Verstappen on the hard tyre, everybody else, or most others, on the soft.

Safety car currently exit of turn 12.

OK, so we catch the safety car now.

Ten laps remaining.

Oh, grip. Stopping.

So they're training the car up to the weight now, turn 10.

At green nine, position nine.

So we're starting to get clear track messages coming through.

So, lapped cars may now overtake George.

So, stay on line, no weaving. Oscar's coming past.

They're just trying to keep pace with where they are.

Wind looks like it's died down, or similar to start of race now.

Why is the safety car not in? Just waiting for cars to come back round.

I don't think it'll be locked now, because those are all at turn 5.

So, safety car in this lap. There'll be six racing laps remaining.

Don't need me to tell you, but it's flat out to the end now.

Happy where we are on these tar temples.

It will be Strat 5 for the restart.

So, Piastri controlling the pace.

T-Strap 5. Safety car, turn 12.

Safety car 13.

I saw it, I saw it.

DRS enabled. Gap ahead of Verstappen 1.2.

Four laps remaining.

Good night, mate. See you at the Passif.

I will have DRS. Yeah, obviously, he's going to re-overtake me. It's not a last advantage.

One lap to go at the end of this one. Yeah, I've got damage.

Gap 0.9. We'll have DRS.

Nice driving. Good job, mate. Well done. Kept your head.

Came in with a P4. So we'll have green 1, position 12, strat 14, picking up rubber.

I have no idea what happened there. He just let me pass him and just drove into the side of me. Yeah, copy. So, yeah, Max has got a ten second penalty now.

Sorry about the first stint. Just again, no pace in the first stint. Shit, first two laps on my side.

Yeah, no worries. No good job managing tyres today. Did everything we asked of you.

Yeah, George, a tough one. Sorry for the call, but you were angry, and I had to.

Yeah, all good. Cheers.

What were the gaps to McLaren before the safety car?

Er, Piastri was 20...