Radio check, Vance.

Seven minutes till we go and it is hot.

Track temp is stable now, but it'll stay very high most of the race. Just on the wind, on the laps to grid, it was like a tail into one, a tail into six, headwind into four. Not very much, but that's what we call it.

Six minutes till we go. Six minutes.

Three minutes till we go. Three minutes.

Okay, Lance, so Hadjar, Colapinto, Bearman are on soft, and then Nico Hulkenberg at the back is on soft.

Also Gasly, P10. So four cars in the vicinity ahead are on soft and then the last Hulkenberg is on soft.

Everyone else on medium.

Two minutes until we go, Lance. Two minutes.

Okay, we'll take a bite point sign. Bite point sign.

OK, Lance, make some space and then you do a little pushing and light weaving up to one and then make more space in one.

Lance, 200 meter lift and coast into 3. 200 meter lift and coast.

OK, and then again weaving along here and then a big lift in coast again into four two hundred metres.

250 meters, big lift and coast for temperature, Lance.

OK, then we'll make some space after four. Make some space here so you can weave a bit into six. Weave six seven. So Lance, the start was aborted. Start's aborted. So we go back to the grid and then switch off. So just cool the car from now.

So we're going back to the grid because Sainz didn't make it off the grid. So it'll be an important start. When you arrive on the grid, we'll switch off. The guys will meet you there.

So they're clearing Sainz's car from the grid with just a kick to go.

The guys will meet you there, Lance.

So we don't know how long yet, Lance. It'll be at least 10 minutes.

So, the formation lap.

The formation lap is about 10 minutes, Lance.

Okay, so ten minutes till we go, Lance. Sainz, they moved his car to the pitlane, but then his brakes are on fire, so I don't know if he's going to start the race. Anyway, it doesn't matter. He was behind us. So we'll do that formation lap again. We need big lifting coast just to keep the temps down so we can do burnouts for the start. So it'll be 250 metres lifting coast, 3, 4, and then before 9. Otherwise, the procedure was good. Good weaving.

Seven minutes till we go, Lance. Seven minutes.

We expect another formation lap and then a standing start, Lance, and then from the standing start it'll be a 70 lap race, 7-0.

Just over five minutes, Lance.

Four minutes, Lance. Four minutes.

Three minutes until we go last. Three minutes.

Two minutes till we go. Two minutes.

Lance, I need a driver default. It's driver default A, 57 OK. So that's driver default 5-7 OK.

And then once you're done there, Lance, that's good. Just watch Harry for the fire-up. Just over a minute till we go.

Once you've completed the initial bit of the start lengths, you can lift off just to save some energy from the battery.

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Okay, that's good, so make space.

And then you can make space in one, and then we'll have weaving up to turn three, but we need a 300 meter lifting post before it's 300 meters.

Okay, and then again we'll have weaving up to four and again three hundred metre lift. Three hundred metre lift.

Very big lift here, please. I'll come behind you.

Pull the car out of 8.

I'll cool the car from here, lift off from here, so we can get through.

Burnout, so the formation lap start, the one you just did, was target minus 10.

It'll be no bite point find, Lance. Just waiting on the burnouts. Remember the K-0 hold for burnouts and then back to run switch race. One burnout, Lance. One burnout. We'll have one big burnout.

Remember, K-0 hold. One big burnout.

Safety car, safety car. Slow the car. Get plus positive. Stay out, stay out. Plus positive on delta time.

Okay, so there's two cars off in turn three, so safety car and we stay out. Stay out.

You can go to run, switch, safety car, while trying to keep the tyre temp.

That's the first time by the safety car, line one. It's a double yellow in turn three, recovery vehicles on track and people.

Just keep your eye open for any debris around turn 1 and also turn 3.

Safety car in this lap. Safety car in this lap, Lance. So, safety cars with leader Norris going out of four.

Good job, Lance. Management, lifting posts good. Early energy available.

Very good job, left-hand coast. Good job.

Good job, Lance. Keep going. Prioritise exit of turn 3.

Very good. Lifting coast. Keep it up. Good job.

Strat 5. Strat 5 if you can.

Energy low, so K-0 is when you can...

Tire temps are past the peak now, so they're calming down. Doing okay, good job.

Traction, turn one, last bit of throttle is where you can help us, and a bit turn four.

Gentle last part of throttle out of turn nine.

K-0 into turn 9. K-0.

Lape energy only. You can see it's very low.

Good job, Lance. Good job. K-0.

Understood, Lance. Hang in there. You're doing a very good job.

Play zeroes when you can, Lance. Good job. Hang in there.

Russell will be a blue in two or three laps, so Hadjar will have that blue first.

Racing, but he'll be putting pressure on Heidfarer, so hang in there.

Russell is one second behind Hadjar.

Great job, Lance. Really good.

These cars around us now are two-stoppers. The left rear should be okay, life-wise, but yeah, let's see what you're saying. Let's see the balance.

OK, Lance, we're going to box this lap.

OK, box now, Lance, box now. Small lift into 9 for temperature. Box now.

Tyre greens IR. Tyre greens IR.

Okay, Lance, 43 to go. No cars around us. Free air. So let's get this tyre to the end. You did everything you could there.

We'll bring that brake balance forward just to help the rears.

Just watch the traction. Watch the traction now that you're not under pressure.

So right now, Lance, the pack ahead is the two-stop pack, so we just try to stay inside their pit window and get this tyre to the end. So we'll see how we get on.

Strat 6. Strat 6. So Hadjar boxed. He's five ahead.

Hadjar ahead is on a hard to the end, same strategy as you, and you're both trying to stay in the pit window of the two stoppers, which we are in right now.

The limiting tyre end of race will be the rear left, so anything we can do on traction. Last bit of throttle, turn one. More lifting post, turn one, please.

OK, good job, Lance. The pack ahead, they're doing 11, so this pace is good.

Just to keep the rear left alive, we'll take 4-management turn 9 through the stint to the 4-management turn 9.

Colapinto is the first stopper, seven seconds ahead of Hadjar. He's doing 1.12s.

Good laps, Lance, good laps. He'll take a little more management turn nine. That's the hardest corner on the rear left.

Strat 11. Strat 11.

Leader Norris is seven seconds behind. He'll be blue in, say, five or six laps and then a bigger gap to Piastri.

We're catching Colapinto. Hadjar is spotted. We're catching him as well.

HPP on, HPP on. Car ahead is now Colapinto doing high 11s.

Bora lifting post, turn one. Watch traction, turn one.

11.8. We have no S4 behind. There'll be a blue in like three laps.

Colapinto has the blue behind now.

Okay, so we have Norris behind. He will be blue. He's the leader.

Still racing. Hadjar ahead. Same strategy. And then the two stoppers are starting to stop. So they're about 10 to 15 seconds behind us.

Blue flag, Norris. Blue flag, Norris.

It's just recovering from the racing. It's OK.

Strat 11 is just way more aggressive on recovering, Lance, so that's why it was recovering. It's all OK.

Blue flag Piastri. Bearman is four seconds behind Piastri.

Good job, Lance. Let's keep managing. Hulkenberg ahead. He's done his second stop. And Bearman behind has done his second stop.

Turn 9. Slow the car more on entry to protect the rear left. It is slower through the corner.

And then, Lance, I know it'll be hard to hold off the two stoppers. We'll just try and find the right balance between getting to the end and holding them off and then we'll make a choice if we have to.

3 and 4. So Bearman's two behind. He's probably a bit fast for us. So maybe we won't race him too hard and we'll see further back.

Turn nine, still slow the car more and less aggressive on throttle.

Gasly behind 2-stop. He's on a medium. He's already stopped. We are at a similar pace, so hopefully we can just try and stay ahead.

Good job, Lance. Gasly, one behind.

I'm just running out of space now.

Yeah, understood, Lance. We're looking at a way to try and race our way back into it towards the end, so just keep going for now. You're doing a very good job.

Procs now, Lance. Procs now. Procs now.

OK, Lance, 16 to go. So we will catch the guys ahead and try and race them back. It's just turn nine. We really got to take care in turn nine. The rear left will be the limit again. I'm not going to be using this camera. It's not me.

Twelve seconds to Tsunoda.

More brake pressure for turn 9 and gentler throttle.

Still think a little bit brake balance forward just to keep the rears going. Hamilton will be a blue in one and a half laps.

Hamilton behind doing 1.09, so he's not going to catch you that quickly.

Yeah, understood, understood. Nine and traction one and three already can focus.

Blue flag, Hamilton. Blue flag, Hamilton.

Tsunoda, Colapinto getting these blues and then they're doing like 1.11.

Last lap, Tsunoda, 1.11. He's about four ahead.

Colapinto is six ahead. He's doing 10.5s. You and Hamilton will catch him in a few laps.

Watch turn nine. Everywhere else is good.

8 to go to line. Colapinto 5 ahead. You and Hamilton are catching him.

Yeah, it's OK. He's going to have that blue for Hamilton too. He's going to come back to you.

Colapinto is on 24 lap old hard tyres.

Five laps to go.

OK, good job, Lance. Gasly's five ahead and he will get the proof from ahead.

Strat 10. Strat 10 now, please. Three laps to go.

Two laps to go, Lance. Two laps. Gasly ahead.

Starting last lap. Strat 9 now. Strat 9. Reduce energy out of 1 and 3.

Checkered flag, Lance. Checkered flag. Run switch warm-up.

Good job. And then we'll have HPP button off.

And finally MFB EU1 to position 12. EU1 position 12.

Okay, good job, Lance. Tough day out there. It was a lot of hard work for P14, but you just got unlucky when you got sucked back into all the group and made it really hard, but you did a good job. You just didn't have enough tyre health. One cent. Ten lakh. I don't know what you mean.

We fell back, we lost a few positions and then it made it very hard to kind of stay ahead.